The girls walked out of Yumis room toward the center of where the staircases met. Yumi stood in the middle, holding on to the railing, while Kate was on her left and Aelita on her right. They looked down at the fathers and kids, smiling, as they all made echoing noises in the foray.
They finally realized the mothers standing at the top, and waved to them. They smiled and waved back.
"What about that sherbert, Yumi?" Aelita asked.
Yumi looked at her, smiled, and then nodded. She led them back down to the kitchen. The dads and kids watched as they left and they soon followed.
Yumi, Kate and Aelita were sitting in bar stools at a table while a butler made them strawberry sherbert in nice little neat piles in a crystal bowl. Ulrich, Odd, and Jeremie walked up to Yumi, Kate, and Aelita and pecked them on the lips, while their child was on their backs, holding on for dear life.
"New clothes?" Odd asked the ladies.
Kate and Aelita nodded while Yumi smiled.
"They wanted the royal treatment and I gave it to them." Yumi said.
"Its better than any other clothes ive worn, except pajamas, nothing can beat pajamas" Kate said proudly.
Yumi and Aelita laughed while the guys smiled.
The butler put the bowls in front of the girls and they began digging in with a spoon that was made out of pure silver.
"If you had ice cream here the whole time, why did you make us go out to eat it?" Odd asked Joshua.
He smiled "I like doing different things, that was just one of them" he said.
"But you are different. You're the son of a Princess and the son of a really good soccer player" Jeremie said, "Not many kids have those kind of parents"
"Yes, but usually he gets cooped up inside all day because of the paparazzi. Sometimes they don't know when to stop" Yumi said.
"But there weren't any of them at the park" Ulrich said.
"Non that you could see of" Yumi replied.
"Great, im gonna be on the front page of 'Japanese Times'" Odd said "I hope they got my good side"
"Shut up Odd. They're probably gonna print "Princess's Son and The Mysterious Man" Kate said.
"Or "Man Got Killed At Soccer by Princess's Son" Odd said sarcastically.
Ulrich stared daggers at him.
"I only won by a point" Joshua said defending his dad.
Yumi smiled.
"Did you get him a trainer?" Jeremie asked.
Yumi shook her head no.
"So it is genetics" Jeremie concluded.
Yumi rolled her eyes and continued eating her sherbert.
"What's really gonna happen when the newspaper comes out and we're on it?" Ulrich asked.
"Chaos" Joshua said. Yumi nodded.
"They'll be here trying to figure out who you guys are until they finally realize it. By the time tomorrow, they're going to realize that you are Joshua's father and your all here on my command" Yumi said.
"So… we did come here on your command but we didn't have to come, we came on our own free will" Aelita said.
"No, we had no idea what was going on. We were forced by our wife's" Jeremie said.
Yumi smiled "Imagine this Jer: You having to get up early in the morning to work. Coming home to a child who missed you the whole day. Your wife worrying about what you should have for dinner. Going to bed at night telling yourself "Its just another day" Yumi said sadly, the smile gone from her face. "I tried to make everything like that disappear. Try to make fear go away and to have the life that ive wanted since I was born. I was destined to have this life. Something I didn't want but had to for the better of my people. I ended up loving it but didn't when you guys weren't here. Seeing everyday a smile on Joshua's face knowing in my head "Its gonna kill him if he doesn't know his father" I brought you guys here so you wouldn't have to worry about anything but life itself. All that im worried about is how much time I will have left. Death is a powerful word and I don't like it" Yumi stopped there for a second and took a deep breath.
She glanced at all her friends in the room that looked at her concerned.
"I had the biggest feeling that you had all forgotten me. Kate and Aelita were reminded everyday of me since they called me from day one. You guys had ways of contacting me but you didn't chose to."
Joshua shivered for a second. He knew his mom was becoming sad.
"I lived three years taking care of a child, ruling a country, and dying inside to go back to what I had before. I would always keep Joshua and my title. I will always keep my country and my people. And I will never let go off the past" With that Yumi left the room with her sherbert still on the table half full.
"Great job, Jeremie" Kate said.
"Yea, I'd thought you'd like to find that someone who helped you getting me out of a computer" Aelita said a little annoyed.
"I am. Im grateful for that. Im glad that im here its just… wow. I didn't think of it like that" Jeremie said ashamed.
Joshua jumped down from Ulrich's back and ran out of the kitchen yelling, "I know where you are mommy, you cant hide from me!"
The others watched as he left.
Joshua ran up the stairs and stopped at the portrait of Yumi with her real mom and dad and brother and sister. He realized the black kimono with red stitching Yumi was wearing in the picture, the stitching turned blue all of a sudden. Then all of the women in the portraits that were wearing the same kimono's stitching all turned blue. He realized what he had to do. He ran to his room and opened his safe. Inside were a few gold coins, Japanese money, and a green necklace Yumi made. He put it on and ran to the portrait again. He lifted his hand and it began to glow green. Hefloated into the air and he lightly went around the trim of the portrait with his finger. He stood back on his feet and looked at the portrait for a second, and then it opened up to reveal a room inside.
He jumped in a closed the portrait behind him. Inside were numerous amounts of books in bookshelves and states of all the past 'Chosen Ones' were lined in a walkways form. Below his feet was a red carpet; on one of the walls was a desk, completely cleared. He continued to walk to where a fire was blazing in a fireplace in front of a burgundy couch, and two chairs. He slowly walked up to the chair on the left and looked at his mother sitting in it. She looked at him and then to the fire.
"I have no reason to explain my actions" she said to him.
He frowned. "Mommy, they weren't trying to hurt you" he said simply.
She looked back at him. She realized the necklace around his neck. She lifted up a hand and her son lifted into the air and onto her lap. She snapped her fingers and the necklace from around his neck appeared in her hand.
"I can see you still have this." Yumi said "The one your father used"
He nodded. "They didn't mean to hurt you" he repeated
"Then why did they?" she asked.
"He doesn't understand where you're coming from"
Yumi looked at the fire. The flames became blue and stayed like that. She realized what he meant.
"Do you think they're gonna realize we're in here?" Joshua asked.
Yumi nodded. "This is on the map, there is just no door to show how I got in here. But they will realize all the kimonos have magically gotten blue stitching instead of red. I mentioned the only portrait with me in it. They're smart, they can put two and two together." Yumi said.
Yumi got up and carried Joshua to the French doors in the room. She stood at the edge of the balcony with Joshua on the railing.
"You know what's under here, right?" Yumi asked.
He nodded "The kitchen"
Yumi nodded. "You know what to do" Joshua nodded.
Yumi put the necklace back around her son's head. His eyes began to glow green and he floated down to the lower level.
.: With the Others :.
"Does anyone know where they went?" Odd asked.
Kate pulled out the map to looked for anything that wouldn't be simple.
"There's the gardens but she wouldn't go somewhere that easy to be found." Kate responded. Aelita looked over her shoulder.
"There" she said pointing to a room well hidden.
"That cant be a room, its behind the portraits. There's no door" Kate said.
"Look!" Vanessa yelled pointing outside.
There was Joshua, eyes glowing green and floating from above. The doors opened up and he walked in slowly.
"Wait a minute… you cant have powers, only Yumi does and you're her son. You shouldn't have powers. The next should come when Yumi dies" Aelita said.
Joshua smiled. "Mommy did say you were smart, Aunt Aelita. But you are right, I don't not have the powers my mommy has." He necklace began to glow green. "It is this that gives me them" he said pointing to the necklace.
"Hey, that's the one I had" Ulrich realized
Joshua nodded "Mommy showed it to me one day. I kept it as a reminder of you and for me to get into the Sanctuary." Joshua said.
"Huh?" Odd asked.
"Follow me" he led them back to the hallway with the portraits.
"These are just portraits. Not a Sanctuary. Are you sure you know what you're doing, Joshua?" Odd asked.
"Odd, he's lived here his whole life. Im pretty sure he knows where… that's just a painting" Kate said.
Joshua stopped at the last Kin family portrait with Yumi in it
"I realized, but its not just a portrait" he toke his glowing finger and went around the trim again "It's a door"
The portrait opened and he entered. Everyone followed in. They looked at all of Yumi's past lives, how all of them were wearing the black and red kimono. The stitching was glowing blue as they walked past them. The saw the blue fire blazing and the chairs set around it.
They walked up quietly and stopped a couple of feet from the chairs.
Joshua stopped glowing but his necklace didn't. It lifted from his head and landed in Yumi outstretched hand.
"I know you meant no harm, Jeremie" Yumi said.
Joshua lifted into the air and landed on his mothers lap. She sat there messing with his hair, something she did all the time with Ulrich in the past.
"Im glad to be here Yumi, but I just wanted to know what was going on." Jeremie said calmly.
"I understand. You didn't like the fact that your wife was talking to someone that you didn't know on the phone constantly. Then after 3 years of talking to that same person, she decides to move to somewhere you didn't know. And then on your way here, you get blindfolded and know it's a surprise when they tell you one to many times. Then you arrive at my home, the place I grew up in and had to leave. You didn't know what was going on because I didn't want them to tell you. I told Kate and Aelita some things that I wanted to tell you guys personally. Like Joshua, he was a secret. The fact that I learned to do more things with my powers than I showed you before, that's another. I know what you guys were thinking the whole time. 'Why didn't I do something?' 'What should I eat?' 'How do I answer this?' I could hear them all. All your thoughts, all your dreams, everything that went through your head I heard. That was one way I talked to Kate and Aelita while you guys were traveling up here. That's the only reason Joshua is a good kid, cause he knows if he does something wrong, I would know. But he doesn't seem to care that his mom has mystical powers that no one else has and that his dad is just an ordinary person who is really good at soccer that I feel in love with. He just loves the people the way they are and I love him for that. I understand that you were scared Jeremie. Scared that something might go wrong and you couldn't do anything cause you didn't know. Scared that your family might get hurt and you couldn't see to stop any of it. I understand completely Jeremie. Something you guys don't know about me, is my complete past to know what really happened to me. You don't exactly understand my life, my duty, me. All you guys remember is the time we had in school and that's it." Yumi finished.
Jeremie looked down at his toes, ashamed that those were the exact thoughts he had him being scared. He didn't want to admit it then
"Im sorry Yumi" Jeremie said.
"Why are you down? You're here to not worry and now you are. Come on lets go have fun" Yumi said.
The doors to the balcony burst open with the sun shining through making the room brighter. The blue fire suddenly turned rainbow and made the room colorful. The statues and portraits of the 'Chosen Ones' kimono's blue stitching turned to multiple colors and flashed brightly.
Joshua smiled… he knew his mom was happy which made him happy too.
Yumi walked out over the balcony and stuck he hands over the edge. They glowed black and things from the kitchen started floating to the Sanctuary. Chips, soda (which was light carried to not blow in peoples faces), more ice cream and sherbert, and lastly CANDY!
They all landed on the desk and Yumi smiled at the little kids running up to it and attacking the candy. Even Odd ran.
Kate, Aelita, Jeremie, Ulrich and Yumi shook their heads as Odd attacked.
Yumi stuck her hands back over the edge andbowls, spoons, napkins, and cups came flying in
She pointed he finger at all the little lamps that were in the room and a lightning bolt came out formed a glowing ball in her hands. She closed her eyes and her hands and the ball started to glow black. When Yumi opened her eyes, they black vanished and the ball was turned into rainbow colors. She put her hands down and the lightning bolts went to the lamps and made it more colorful in the room.
Ulrich walked up to Yumi and put a hand around her waist "You really outdid yourself, Yumi" he said calmly. She smiled at him and kissed him lightly.
"There's just one more thing" she lifted her hand toward the portrait whole and it opened wide. Soon a stereo came floating in and landed next to Yumi and Ulrich. The portrait door closed. Yumi snapped her finger and the radio started playing "Mr. Brightside" by The Killers.
Ulrich smiled at Yumi. They looked at Joshua, who came up to them with a handful of candy offering them some.
Yumi stuck her hand over the candy and summoned one in particular.
She lifted it up to Ulrich, and he looked at it. It was a small Hershey Kiss.
Yumi looked at him as he stared at the kiss. He looked up at her a smiled. They both leaned in to share a passionate kiss.
"Aww come on, not while im around" they heard Joshua say. They looked at him and he was turned around, beginning to walk back over to the candy. They shrugged it off and went back to where they left off.
"Its like three years haven't even gone by" Kate said to Aelita. She nodded.
"That's good. The only difference now is Joshua. But they act like he's always been there" Aelita pointed out. This time Kate nodded
"We'll never really understand those two" Kate added.
"Yup" Aelita agreed.
"Odd, stop eating all the candy. You're supposed to be a good influence" Jeremie whispered into Odds ear.
Odd held up a piece of candy that Jeremie recognized easily. It was a pink, round piece of candy that helped him figured out how to materialize Aelita, but that was the day Yumi fell into the digital void and he used it on Yumi instead of Aelita (A/n: episode 6: Cruel Dilemma)
Jeremie took the piece of candy. Odd smiled deviously.
"You know you want it" he said. Jeremie smiled.
"Yes I do" he ate the candy "Move over Odd" and Jeremie and Odd both attacked the candy.
"Aren't you going to miss France?" Yumi asked Ulrich.
"If im here with you, then nope" Ulrich responded. Yumi smiled at him.
"I don't think we're going to get any candy over there. Odd and surprisingly Jeremie have attacked."
Yumi looked back out the window and stuck her hand out from behind her. Some candy came flying over and landed in her opened hand. She showed it to Ulrich who took a piece and started eating it.
"Hey! They've sneaked some candy!" Odd yelled from across the room.
"Oh no" Aelita and Kate said together.
"Get them!" Jeremie yelled. Vanessa, Alex, Joshua, Odd, and Jeremie went running up to Yumi and Ulrich and knocked them done to the ground.
Yumi raised a hand and the candy lifted into the air in a glowing black ball.
Odd went to grab it.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you" Joshua said.Everyone started to get up
"Yea Odd, you don't know what she's capable of now" Jeremie added.
Odd shrugged it off and reached for the candy. He laid one finger on the black orb and got shocked from head to toe.
He pulled back his finger. "That's the second time I fell for that!" he yelled aggravated
(A/n: he did that once in 'Just A Vision Closer' with a glowing blue ball that was all the electricity from Yumis dorm at Kadic. Not sure which chapter though)
"I warned you" Joshua said sniggering at Odd new look of being burnt.
The ball glowed blue "No you can touch it, but I wont let you" Yumi said.
"Oh yea" Odd said and tried to get the ball.
Yumi snapped her fingers and the ball vanished for a second. Odd looked at where it was, then Yumi snapped he fingers again and it appeared on the other side of the room.
Odd chased after it, and Yumi kept snapping. This entertained them for a good 15 minutes. Yumi was up on her feet now. She snapped one last time and the candy fell into her opened hand. Odd ran toward her but he crashed into Yumi's force field.
"Im not stupid Odd." Yumi said to him and then stuck out her tongue.
Joshua smiled and walked to where Odd stopped. She looked at him with a scared look on as she saw the evil smirk appear on her sons face.
Odd looked at both of them "I recognize that smile" Odd said as he looked at Joshua. Then he looked to Yumi "That was yours"
Joshua walked through the force field and took a piece of candy from his mother's hand.
Yumi smiled. Joshua lifted into Yumi's grip.
Everyone stood there dumbfounded. Odd tried to go through again but was rejected.
Odd looked at them bewilder "How did he do that?"
How did Joshua get into the force field? Why cant Odd get through? Why am i asking these questions? Find out in the next chapter but right now R&R
-Vic-
P.s: Im staying the night at someones house today 8/27 and i wont return till tomorrow around noon so the undate will be late... hope you dont mind