And heeeeeeeeeeerrrre it is! The LAST CHAPTER! It's a long one, five pages on Word, but I FINISHED it! thirty-seven pages! Review and I will love and adore you forever, and ever, and ever! Let me know what you think of the ending!
Lilly was dragged through the warehouse, not paying attention to where just trying to keep moving. If she stumbled or fell she was dragged along the rough floorboards till she gained her balance. Suddenly she was pushed down. In this room, half of the floor had fallen away leaving a chasm down to the basement three stories below. Lilly locked eyes with Lucifer and glared at him over her quaking heart.
She was so tired her body screamed for rest, she was covered in scrapes, bruises and a few deep cuts and her soul was as wounded as her body. Lucifer walked around her till he was facing her, his back to the open floor. Lilly scrambled up and faced him warily. He moved to the left and she moved to the right a wall, partly fallen in was now behind him.
"Beauty, you fool. You should have listened to Lord X.A.N.A." he grinned "but at least now I get to kill ya. That's something I've wanted to do for a long time." He drew a knife and licked the seven inch blade.
Lilly's eyes moved frantically over his shoulder, looking for anything to fight with or any way out…and she saw a shock of yellow hair and Odd's face staring at her through a gap in the wall!
Odd's bearings were lost, all he could do was move forward and hope he was going in the right direction. Then he heard footsteps. Cautiously he moved towards them. He came to a wall that had fallen in and he heard voiced on the other side.
Silently he climbed to a gap in the fallen woodworks and peered through. Lilly was thrown on the floor at the feet of a man, Odd resisted the urge to panic and tried to think reasonably. So he knelt on the pile of spongy wood and rusted metal and listened. "…at least now I get to kill ya. That's something I've wanted to do for a long time." The man drew a knife and Odd frantically looked around for something to do.
"Damn I wish this was Lyoko! At least I have powers there!" He realized all he could do was sit and wait for a chance to rush the man.
Lilly spied a rusted crowbar laying on the floor. She didn't know if she had hallucinated Odd, but if she hadn't she didn't know was he had planed. She lunged for the bar the same moment he lunged for her. She grasped if for a moment but he grabbed her ankle and swung her around, she let go as she flew a few feet and landed hard on her side, making her teeth rattle. She stretched her hand out and closed it over a fallen piece of plaster as big as her closed fist. She turned and threw it blindly, she heard a dull thud as it collided with the side of his head. He reeled for a moment and then came back at her. He grabbed her shoulder and threw her down again, almost exactly where she was before, again his back was to the hole.
He raised the knife, and advanced towards her his eyes gleaming in triumph. She refused to close her eyes, refused to let the tears fall. She wouldn't let this man see her cry.
She saw his arm tense to strike and then a flash of purple in the corner of her eye."Odd no!" she yelled, but Odd had already struck Lucifer, catching him off guard and pushing him sideways and back, with a cry Lucifer fell over the edge of the gap, and a few seconds later a cracking thud as he hit the cement basement floor below.
Lilly's eyes were wide as she looked at Odd, he swayed on the brink, straitened for a moment and then turned in her direction. It was then that Lilly saw the hilt of the knife protruding from Odd's side and the spreading dark stain.
Lilly groaned and sprang up. Odd swayed again, his eyes blurring and Lilly grabbed him around the waist. With his head resting on her shoulder she half dragged, half carried him away from the edge, using as much strength as she had left.
As slowly and gently as she could she tried to set him down, but it ended up more of her legs giving out and him landing half on her. She sat up, and pulled the knife out wincing, she placed her hand over the wound and pressed, she heard Odd moan and closed her eyes, tears leaking from under the lids. Please Lord, not him. She thought frantically. She felt a hand close over hers, the one that was pressed to Odd's wound. She opened her eyes and saw Odd's blue one's staring back into hers. She leaned forwards and brought her face close to his but couldn't find anything to say.
"Hey Lilly." said Odd, his voice slightly harsh.
"H-Hey Odd." She said "Wh-Why did you do that?" she asked suddenly, her voice cracking "Why didn't you stay hidden?" her tears began to fall and some landed on his face. He looked at her curiously
"Oh yeah," he answered sarcasm creeping into his voice "like I was going to just sit there." He gave a wry smile and she returned it. There hands, one over the other pressed the wound and Odd's blood was seeping through both their fingers.
"You…You didn't listen to X.A.N.A. then." Said Odd.
Lilly shook her head "I almost did. But I heard your voice."
Odd smiled "Then it worked. I wonder how?"
Lilly shook her head. "Odd I'm so scarred." She whispered
"Why?" he asked. She hugged him to her "You cant die Odd! Not because of me, not because of Lucifer!" Odd blinked his eyes, to make them stay in focus. He opened his mouth as if to speak and then lost conscience
Lilly opened her eyes and looked at Odd's face. He was pale, his cheeks slightly pinched. His blood stained both her hands, and the front of her shirt where she had held him. She felt the old anger growing. This was X.A.N.A.'s fault. All of it! She was so angry she was sick to her stomach. But this felt different. She started to feel a kind of electrical charge, her eye sight keened, she didn't feel tired anymore. She looked at her arms to see the hair standing up from static electricity.
Gently she laid Odd's head off of her lap. She stood up and yelled at the top of her lungs "X.A.N.A.!"
Ulrich dodged a blow from X.A.N.A. and Yumi again threw her fan. They were battered and bleeding. Ulrich ran to Yumi and stood with her but wasn't fast enough to dodge a blow from X.A.N.A. which sliced him deeply across the back.
He could faintly hear Jeremy screaming their names. He stumbled to Yumi and fell at her feet. She knelt and threw her fan at the same time. X.A.N.A. swiped the fan aside. Yumi wrapped her arms around Ulrich, feeling the warmness of his blood, something that shouldn't have been felt on Lyoko, he held her back as X.A.N.A. loomed over them. He raised a black, clawed hand and they wrapped their arms tighter about each other.
"X.A.N.A.!" The voice was so loud Ulrich and Yumi flinched X.A.N.A. drew back his claw and raised his head. Ulrich and Yumi followed his gaze to see a giant mass of blue white electricity. The mass changed form till it looked like an eagle.
It screamed and launched itself at X.A.N.A. He cried out and threw up his dark arm uselessly. The eagle, now as large as a truck, hit him full force, claws ripping at him to reveal a nothingness beneath the black. Talons and beak drove him back down into the hole in which he was anchored. And then he was gone.
Ulrich had lost conscience Yumi watched as the eagle, not really solid at all turned in her direction, she felt a strange electrical jolt as it's wings enfolded her and Jeremy's voice yelling "Return to the past noooow!"
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Lilly opened her eyes wide and gasped. She remembered everything! She looked around her and she was in the park, where she had been when the wasp stung her. But there was no wasp now.
She remembered Jeremy's voice saying something about the past. Was this what he meant? She glanced at her watch, one that read the time, and date. It read 7:30A.M. May 25th. The previous morning! She had gone back in time!
Suddenly an image flashed into her mind of Odd, with blood running between his fingers and staining his shirt. Where's Odd! She looked around her and saw she was actually very deep in the park.
She dropped her bag and began running down a path hoping it was the right one.
"Lilly!"
she stopped and listened
"Lilly!"
it came again, someone was calling her name. She turned in a circle
"Hello!" she yelled "I'm over here!" she heard footsteps and turned
"LILLY!" Odd was running down the path towards her. Just as she turned around Odd scooped her up, spun in a circle with her in his arms, lost his balance and fell backwards with Lilly landing on top of him.
She looked down at him, her eyes showing comic surprise and then burst out laughing! She rolled off of him, sat up, still laughing uncontrollably. Odd joined in, tears began to run down Lilly's cheeks.
Odd sat up, rubbed the back of his head sheepishly and Lilly threw her arms around his neck. Odd was surprised to say the least and blushed deeply for a moment
"You…have no idea how worried I was." said Lilly, her voice thick with a mixture of laughter and tears.
Odd held her back "Same here." He said. She pulled back and seemed to realize how close they were, color crept into her cheeks and before Odd could think different, put a hand on each side of her face and kissed her.
She kissed him back, feeling happiness bloom in her chest. When they pulled apart she smiled into his eyes. "Come on, I think we need to find the others." She nodded and hand in hand they went down the path.
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In Jeremy's room an hour later Lilly, Odd and Yumi were sitting on the unused bed while Ulrich sat with his back against it, Yumi had her hand resting lightly on his shoulder.
"So how long have you been fighting X.A.N.A.?" asked Lilly, her eyes were bright with excitement "About a year, do you think you can help us?" asked Jeremy.
Lilly smiled "I love a good fight, I'll help you."
"Not that you really had a choice, you already remembered it, but I don't know how." Said Yumi.
"Were you that shape that I saw on the screen, the one that appeared out of no where?" asked Jeremy.
Lilly colored "I don't know. I just remember yelling X.A.N.A.'s name hoping he'd come to me so I could kill him, and then opening my eyes and passing out. I don't know if I made it or not."
Jeremy nodded looking thought full. Yumi stood and stretched "I should head home, my parents will begin to wonder where I am." She said
"I'll walk you." Said Ulrich, with a wave they left. Odd looked at Lilly and they stood up. "We're heading to dinner. See you there Jer." said Odd.
Lilly and Odd left the dorm and walked slowly across the courtyard. Odd looked at Lilly, how could someone have changed so much in less than a day?
Her face was softer, not drawn in so many tense lines, her eyes were wiser, but softer too and she had laughed more than he had ever heard her before. She turned towards him, caught him staring and smiled. She slipped her hand into his.
"Lilly? Are you the same Lilly?" he asked.
She appeared to think about it "Yes and no, I have some closure now."
Odd hesitated and then asked "What about Ben?"
she sobered a bit "Ben's not really Ben anymore. I read in the paper that they found him and took him away this morning."
Odd nodded and moved close to her. "It'll be ok I think."Shesaid
"Oh, I know it will." he replied and together they entered the cafeteria.
An old man turned ninety-eight
He won the lottery and died the next day
It's a black fly in your Chardonnay
It's a death row pardon two minutes too late
And isn't it ironic...dontcha think
It's like rain on your wedding day
It's a free ride when you've already paid
It's the good advice that you just didn't take
Who would've thought...it figures
Mr. Play It Safe was afraid to fly
He packed his suitcase and kissed his kids goodbye
He waited his whole damn life to take that flight
And as the plane crashed down he thought
"Well isn't this nice..."
And isn't it ironic...dontcha think
It's like rain on your wedding day
It's a free ride when you've already paid
It's the good advice that you just didn't take
Who would've thought...it figures
Well life has a funny way of sneaking up on you
When you think everything's okay and everything's going right
And life has a funny way of helping you out when
You think everything's gone wrong and everything blows up
In your face
A traffic jam when you're already late
A no-smoking sign on your cigarette break
It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife
It's meeting the man of my dreams
And then meeting his beautiful wife
And isn't it ironic...dontcha think
A little too ironic...and yeah I really do think...
It's like rain on your wedding day
It's a free ride when you've already paid
It's the good advice that you just didn't take
Who would've thought...it figures
Life has a funny way of sneaking up on you
Life has a funny, funny way of helping you out
Helping you out
Soooooo What'da think? The lyrics at the end are from Alanis Morrisette and her song "Ironic" I thought they were fitting Remember the love and adore you thing nudgenudge hinthint!