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Ch. 4 Keeping The Secret
Amaya laid in bed that night. She's unpack her stuff tomorrow, when she wasn't so tired. She had a reason to be tired. She moved all her stuff into her dorm, gone into town to get some horse food, saved Yumi, and stayed up late with her new friends. Friends. A term she never thought she'd use. Shadow meowed from on top of her bookshelf. She smiled at him.
"Finally. I finally have friends. Real friends. People friends you dork," she said when Shadow meowed indignantly. "Friends I can talk to when something's wrong. And they could give me advice. And thank god I'm not the only girl." Shadow leapt down and landed on her bed next to her. He curled up at her face and looked at her.
"Just think, I'll have someone to talk to if I get a boyfriend. You know what Shadow, I'm starting to think this crazy thing called life is something worth sticking around for," she smiled at the cat and laughed lightly. "And to think I wanted to die just two days ago..." she said sadly, remembering how she felt the moment she saw her grandmother's dead body.
Flashback
Amaya ran into the house after four years. She was happy to be back, even if it meant seeing her step-grandfather again. She was only looking forward to seeing her grandmother. With a huge smile on her face, she ran into the house.
"Grandma! I'm home! It's me,-" she cut off, seeing the light flickering in the living room. "Amaya," she finished weekly. She cautiously walked into the living room and immediately wished she hadn't. On the floor, her grandmother was lying in a pool of crimson blood with her throat slit and multiple gashes on her head, which you could see clearly through her gray hair. Her eyes were still wide open in shock. The overhead light was busted and was flickering. She looked over to the sofa where her step-grandfather was passed out. A knife was held limply in his hand. A bloody knife.
Rage consumed her body as she clenched her hands into fists. Her first plan was to rip the knife out of his hands and stab the bastard until every available spot on his body was covered in stab wounds. Instead, she called the police. She gave them her address, and told them to get there on the double. After that, she ran away...
End Flashback
Amaya blinked back the tears that threatened to spilled from her emerald eyes. She stroked Shadow's soft fur as he purred, leaning in to her touch.
"You're lucky you didn't know your parents. It didn't hurt when they died. You don't even know where they are. It didn't hurt you when your family was destroyed..." she said. "G'night Shadow," she said. She turned out the light and crawled under the covers. Outside her door, Odd's heart went out to her. For all intensive purposes, she didn't have a family. Dead parents, dead grandmother, and soon-to-be dead step-grandfather.
Odd walked back into his room to find Ulrich sitting on his bed.
"What'd Yumi say?" Odd asked.
"Yumi said it was fine with her as long as Jeremie agrees. What did he say by the way?"
"According to Einstein, all systems are go," he said. Their faces split into grins.
"Sweet. More help in Lyoko. Good thing too 'cause Xana seems to be getting stronger," Ulrich said, laying back in bed.
"Yeah and from what she's told us, she's one hell of a fighter," Odd said. Ulrich nodded.
"When should we tell her?" he asked.
"I'll take her to the factory tomorrow. Be there with Yumi and Jeremie. You and Yumi should be in Lyoko. I'll take her in and explain everything. She might have a heart attack, but then again we almost did the first time we went to Lyoko," Odd said.
"Sounds good to me. See you in the morning," Ulrich said, turning out the lamp next to his bed.
"Night," Odd responded, turning out his own light and falling into a deep sleep.
----------The next day...
Amaya was unpacking her things the next day. The first thing she did was take out all of her CD's that totaled to about one hundred and fifty. She took her favorite CD by her favorite band, Three Days Grace, and stuck it in her CD player and cranked up the music.
At around 11:30 am, Odd knocked on her door. He heard loud music being played from inside. He slowly opened the door and peeked cautiously inside. Amaya was pretending to play the guitar on a ruler and shaking her head up and down to I Hate Everything About You causing her hair to fly around wildly.
"Um, Amaya?" Odd asked. No response. "AMAYA!" he said loudly. Amaya shook her hair out of her eyes and looked at him. She grinned and turned the volume down, throwing the ruler onto her bed.
"Hey Odd, how's it going?" she asked, running a hand through her hair.
"There's something me and the guys wanna show you," he said.
"Sure, what is it?" she said.
"Come with me," he said. Amaya shut off her radio and told Shadow that she'd be back later. He locked up her room and pocketed the key. Odd led her into the park and stopped at the manhole.
"A manhole?" she asked. Odd lifted it up and allowed her to climb down before him. When he got down there, Amaya was looking around the tunnels.
"A gutter... neat," she said.
"You know how to use one of these?" he asked, holding up a skateboard.
"Hell yeah! Who doesn't?" she said, taking the skateboard.
"Okay then, follow me," he said, throwing the skateboard down and riding down the tunnel. He turned around and saw Amaya following him, skateboarding like a pro. They stopped at the ladder and Odd climbed up before her. He grasped her hand and helped her up. He could have sworn he saw her blush but he couldn't tell as her hair fell into her face.
"Follow me," he said walking down the bridge. He turned around, smirked at her, and took off at a run. Amaya laughed and grinned.
"I don't think so!" she shouted, running after him. She caught up with him but she didn't see him stop.
"Holy shit!" she shouted as she fell. She grabbed onto the ledge to keep herself from falling.
"Hang on Amaya!" Odd shouted. He ran over to her but he was too late. Her hand disappeared. Odd's eyes widened and he peered over the edge, expecting to see her crumpled body. But she waved up at him.
"Are you okay?!" He called down to her. She smiled.
"Dandy as candy. Is this where I'm supposed to be?" she asked. Odd jumped on a rope and slid down.
"You're not hurt at all?" he asked. You'd think she'd have hurt her ankle or something. Amaya shook her head.
"Nope. I know how to jump from really high places and not kill myself," she said, dusting herself off. "Where's everyone else?"
"C'mon. I'll show you," he said, leading her to the elevator. They climbed into it and he pushed the big red button. The whole time, Amaya was gazing around the elevator.
"Where're we going?" she asked.
"You'll see," he grinned at her. The elevator came to a stop and the doors opened. Amaya gasped and looked around. There was a giant computer in the middle of everything and she was in awe. Jeremie spun his chair around and smiled at her.
"Hey Amaya. How'd you sleep?" he asked as if he wasn't at the controls of a super computer.
"Uhh... okay...What is this place?" she asked, walking over to Jeremie.
"This is the control room. Odd'll take you to the main part where they get to have all the fun," he said, grinning at Odd.
"You mean you don't get to have fun with them?" Amaya asked.
"I have plenty of fun right here," he said. He blushed when Odd did an imitation of Aelita behind Amaya. "Besides, I'm the only one who's smart enough to use this computer," he said.
"C'mon Amaya. I'll show you the scanners," he said, grabbing her wrist and pulling her back into the elevator.
"What scanners?" was all Jeremie heard before the doors closed.
"Odd, what's going on?" Amaya asked.
"Once we meet up with Yumi and Ulrich we'll all tell you," he said. The doors opened and Amaya's eyes widened. Three big cylinder like things stood before her.
"These are the scanners," he said. "All you do is get onto them and Einstein does the rest," he said. Amaya looked at the scanners skeptically. "I'll go first so you know what to do." Odd walked over to one of the scanners and climbed into one. He grinned and waved at her before the doors closed. Then, she heard a voice that she recognized as Jeremie's.
"Scanner Odd. Transfer Odd." Was all he said. The scanner doors opened again and Odd wasn't there. Amaya furrowed her brow.
"Odd, where are you?" she called, peering into the scanner.
"Amaya, it's okay. You can get in the scanner. It doesn't hurt," Jeremie said. Amaya stared at the scanner. Then, hesitantly, she climbed into the scanner. The gold doors closed.
"Scanner Amaya. Transfer Amaya." Jeremie's voice was dulled but she could still make out the words. The next thing she knew, she was floating and her hair was flying up around her. She closed her eyes and braced herself for the fall onto whatever. She felt a tingling sensation. The kind of feeling you get when your arm falls asleep. She felt it over her entire body and then it stopped. She landed in some kind of forest. She looked down at herself. She was dressed in all black. Most like her usual black clothes. Black cargo pants, black tee shirt, black hoodie, and black boots. She put her hands on her hips and discovered that she had a long sword, a Smith and Wesson six shot handgun, and shurikens (ninja stars). She pulled the long sword out of it's scabbard and looked at it. It was a solid steel long sword with a black band near the hilt. The sign of a sword master.
She wandered around just looking at her surroundings when she heard her name being called.
"Amaya! Over here!" Yumi called. She spun around to see Yumi, Odd, and Ulrich waving at her. She walked over to them.
"What is this place? And why do I have my weapons with me?" she asked.
"Well, you told us one of your secrets so we figured we'd tell you ours. Well, our biggest one at least. This is Lyoko," Odd said. They all sat down on the ground and Yumi, Ulrich, and Odd took turns telling her all about Lyoko and what they did there. Then, they told her about Xana and his plans to take over the world. At that point, Amaya stood up in outrage and began yelling to the skies that she would avenge her parents. Once she had settled back down, they began talking. Then, Aelita showed up.
"Hey guys. Jeremie told me you would be here and that you had a new friend. How do you do?" Aelita said.
"Aelita, this is Amaya. Amaya, this is our friend Aelita," Ulrich said. Amaya shook Aelita's hand.
"Nice to meet you. It's good you're all here really. I felt pulsations a while ago," she said.
"Pulsations?" asked Amaya, who was now both confused and in awe.
"Aelita feels pulsations when Xana attacks. Jeremie scans Lyoko to see if there's an activated tower. We kick monster butt, and Aelita deactivates the tower," Odd said. Amaya nodded and Yumi noticed all her weapons.
"Hey Jeremie, how come Amaya's got all these weapons?" she asked. The group heard Jeremie's voice.
"Because she knows so much about all sorts of fighting techniques. When the computer scanned her, it picked that up and gave her all these weapons and what she's wearing," he said.
"Neat..." Amaya said, pulling out her gun and twirling it on her finger.
"C'mon, I felt the pulsations down this way," Aelita said. The group took off with Aelita in the lead. They soon found the activated tower along with the welcoming committee. A big welcoming committee. A little too big and it caused suspicion to rise in Ulrich and the others. It consisted of five crabs, three blocks, and a megatank. Aelita sought refuge behind a large tree.
"Okay guys! Let's go!" Ulrich said, leaping on top of a block and running his sword through it. Amaya jumped into the fray along with everyone else. She pulled out a shuriken and threw it at a block. The crabs, who were not being battled, turned their attention to Amaya. They surrounded her and got ready to fire. Amaya closed her eyes and wished she was invisible. When she opened her eyes, the crabs were looking around like they had lost track of her. She looked down and saw that she was invisible.
Using this to her advantage, she pulled out her gun and began shooting the crabs. One of them got away, however. He went for Odd, who had his back turned and was fighting the megatank. She jumped on top of the crab and shoved her sword through it. It's beam was thrown off course and hit a tree. The tree fell near the megatank, causing it to roll away and right off the cliff. Amaya dropped her invisibility and wiped her brow with the back of her hand. Yumi and Ulrich, who were battling the remaining blocks, were having a hard time holding them off.
"It is me, or have they gotten smarter and stronger?" Ulrich asked through gritted teeth.
"I think they have," Yumi gasped out. She was short of breath when she threw her fan and it hit Odd in the shoulder.
"Yumi, you've only got ten life points left!" Jeremie shouted.
"Sorry Odd!" she shouted as a block took her remaining life points. Amaya watched in horror as Yumi disappeared.
"What happened to her?" She shouted to Odd.
"She's been devirtualized! She's back with Einstein now. C'mon, Ulrich needs our help!" he said, running to help Ulrich. Amaya ran after him.
Back in the control room...
In the control room, Aelita popped up on Jeremie's screen.
"Have you found out what Xana was planning this time?" she asked.
"Nope. Hang on, let me see," he said. He typed something and the news came on.
"Julie Chang here with you at Manson's Park. It seems that all over the things here have a mind of their own. Our firemen are trying to get down young Jimmy Plain," the news reporter said. They showed a bunch of firemen trying to calm down and free and sobbing seven year old boy. The screen went back to Aelita.
"Xana has given the stuff at our local park minds of their own. Swings are tying up kids, sandboxes are spitting sand into people's eyes, and the jungle gyms are trapping others. I wonder what he's trying to do," Jeremie said.
"Whatever it is he's trying to do, he's not going to get away with it. Yumi just got devirtualized and Odd, Ulrich, and Amaya are fighting the rest of the monsters," Aelita said.
In Lyoko...
Once the monsters were all cleared, Odd motioned for Aelita to come out.
"You're up Aelita," he said. Aelita walked over to them and smiled at Amaya.
"You're a great fighter. Thanks for all the help today," she said.
"Thanks. And no problem," she said, smiling back. Aelita ran to the tower, deactivated it, and they were returned to the past.
Odd knocked on her door. Amaya opened it and smiled.
"Morning Odd," she said. "Wanna come in?"
"Sure," he said, blushing as he did so. He turned his head and looked around her room to hide it. He looked up on the left wall, the one right next to his, and saw numerous weapons. Six swords, about fifteen guns, a bow and arrows, fencing swords, and other various weapons, including about fifty daggers.
"Wow..." he said, running his finger lightly over the black of one of the swords. When he looked at it, there was a nice cut and blood was already coming out of it.
"Damn, that thing's sharp," he said, sucking on his thumb. Amaya bit her lip and grinned. She reached in one of the boxes and pulled out a bandage. She wrapped it around his finger and offered him a lollypop.
"No, I don't want a lollypop you nut," he said, punching her lightly in the shoulder. "What'd you think of Lyoko?" he asked, dropping his voice in case someone was eavesdropping. Amaya fell back on her bed and grinned.
"It was amazing! Finally, a place I can go and fight to unleash pent up energy!" she said happily. Odd smiled, sitting down on the bed next to her.
"Glad you liked it. We spend more time there than we like though. Xana's always attacking. But you've gotta keep this a secret. No one else other than us know about Lyoko. Well, us and Xana at least," he said. Amaya nodded, stood up, and put her hand over her heart.
"I swear on pain of death that I'll keep it secret, or may I be chopped up into little pieces and served in beef soup," she said in an official tone. Odd laughed and pushed her over, causing her to fall onto the ground with a thump. Shadow meowed from on top of the bookcase, where he liked to sit. Odd patted his lap for Shadow to come down but before the cat could make a move, Amaya close-lined him. (A/N: I hate AN's but a close-line is when you take someone down by hugging their waist and knocking them to the ground. It's fun. When you get a running start, it's a lot easier ;))
"Ha-ha!" she said as he fell to the ground. "As long as someone's not holding a sword in front of them and has it pointing at you, that move is almost guaranteed to take down any opponent," she said, standing above him. She held out her hand and helped him to his feet. She looked at him and noticed he had a big ball of black fur in his hair.
"Hang on, you're got a clump of Shadow's fur in your hair," she said, picking it out and throwing it on the ground again.
"Thanks for that lovely fighting lesson and getting the cat's fur out of my hair," he said. Amaya grinned and faked a curtsey.
"At your service monsieur," she said with a fake French accent. They laughed and Amaya put in a mix CD. Marilyn Manson's song 'The Nobodies' began to play and Amaya and Odd sang along.
"Today I am dirty. Want to be pretty. Tomorrow, I know, I'm just dirt," they sang in unison.
"I didn't know you liked Marilyn Manson," Amaya said. "You didn't seem like the kind of guy who'd listen to him." Odd shrugged.
"I listen to a variety of songs as long as it's not that twangy country or oldies. I hate oldies," he said, shuddering.
"I know me too. It drives me nuts," she said, tugging at her hair. "But I listen to any song that I like. The only country singers I like are Shania Twain and Faith Hill. But they're not the twangy country. Any song I like, I listen to. The only country exception to that is Alan Jackson's song Where Were You When the World Stopped Turning," she said. The song on the CD player changed to What it is to Burn by Finch.
"I love this song. It's one of my favorite song in the whole world," Amaya said, twirling around with all the grace of a ballerina. She began humming along to the tune of the song.
"Like a bad star. I'm falling faster in to you. Cause you're the only, one who knows what it is to burn," she sang. Her voice was amazing. The voice of a thousand angels.
"You've got a great voice," he said. Amaya blushed and smiled.
"Thanks," she said.
"You should enter in the Talent Show. The tryouts are next Thursday and the actual Talent Show is in two months. You could really do well," he said. Amaya blushed even more.
"No, I.. I couldn't..." she said, half-heartedly shaking her head.
"You could and you will. C'mon, I'll even be your mentor!" he said.
"As tempting as it sounds, I think I'll pass," she said sitting down on her bed.
"C'mon, do it for me. Please? There's a cash prize for the winner of each category..." he said, waggling his eyebrows up and down. Amaya turned and looked at him, curiosity creeping on to her face.
"What are the categories?" she questioned. Odd grinned. He knew he had her now.
"Well, there's Best Singer, male and female, Best Poem, and a lot of other things like who can act with a ventriloquism dummy the best," he said. "A whole bunch of stuff." Amaya seemed to consider the fact.
"You really think I could win?" she asked.
"From the people I've heard last year, you'd knock 'em six feet under," he said, swinging his fist through the air. Amaya looked down at her feet, then back up at him with a smile.
"Oh, alright. I'll enter. Only 'cause you begged me to," she said.
"Alright!" he said, jumping into the air. He sat down on the bed next to her. "So, what song do you think you wanna sing?" he asked, jumping right into the situation.
"Hmm... a song that... shows a side of me that I would never usually show..." she said. "A song that tells about what I used to do and what I want to do..." she said, getting up and walking to the window. The light bulb above her head seemed to turn on. "You know that song Breakaway by Kelly Clarkson? I've got a feeling that's going to be the one I wanna sing..." she said. She walked to her CD player and skipped a few songs. "Here, listen." They listened to the song and when it was over, Odd smiled at her.
"Definitely your song," he said.
"You really think so?" Amaya asked. Odd nodded.
"You hungry?" she asked. Odd smiled.
"Always. Let's go," he said. The two of them walked out of the room and dow to the cafeteria for some lunch.
well there's chappie 4! is it obvious who Odd's going to end up with? yeah yeah yeah I know...•grins sheepishly• I can't help myself. ;) I like that song Breakaway by Kelly Clarkson. It's from the Princess Diaries 2. I studied the lyrics and figured that this song would fit her.. in a way. look up the lyrics for yourself and see what I mean. well anyway, hope you liked it! R/R!