Well, here I am again in my newest CL story. It's kind of strange though, because I just finished my story yesterday. Oh well. So, Xavier is not dead, Wyatt is dead, Victria and Blake moved, Lanie transferred, and Yumi killed herself. What will happen to the heroes? Will they vanquish the evil Xavier, or will they fail on the way? Dun dun dun. Heh, I'll stop being annoying right (looks at watch)…about…NOW!

Now… I know that I wrote that Yumi never made it out of the coma, but I want to change that. We're just going to pretend that she did. You'll find out later why. Anyway, here's the story.

Ulrich sat there, numb like an ice cube. He stared ahead, even though the people around him cried like crazy. He was in the front row, with Odd, Jeremy, Aelita, and Lanie. Odd was looking at his feet, Jeremy had his head in his hands, Aelita was sobbing, and Lanie was sniffling. They all were in shock.

They had never, ever thought that this would have happened to any of them. But it was even worse that they knew that another one was dead, but it went unnoticed. They couldn't believe that Xana had succeeded in killing Wyatt, but it was even worse that he was the reason they were her. Yumi was dead.

Later after the little get together, Ulrich was standing against one of the tables. Dr. Lucas walked up to him, and nodded. He then placed a container on the table, and walked away. Ulrich looked over at it without even turning his head. It was a small silver heart. He picked it up and rattled it next to his ear. It made small jangling noises. Lifting in carefully, he opened it gingerly, and he looked inside.

Inside, he saw a small piece of paper, and a shiny bracelet with a ring around it. He picked it up. It was the promise ring he had given to her after the dance, and the bracelet he gave her to match it. Tears welled up in his eyes as he ran his fingers over it. He lifted it to his nose and inhaled the scent of her. It smelled like vanilla.

The piece of paper was a small picture of them together. Milly and Tamiya had taken it of them when Yumi was crown the Queen. But this was the one when they had been fighting. He was smiling slightly, but she looked really upset.

He remembered it all again. He couldn't believe how mean he was to her about what was happening, and how he never realized that Xavier was brainwashing her. He then slammed it shut after he put the things inside of it. Odd turned his head, and saw Ulrich storm out. He said good bye, and quickly followed.

Ulrich was kicking stone, a tree, anything he could find. Odd walked over to a really shaken best friend. "I didn't even get to say good-bye," he said. He slumped onto a bench. Odd sat next to him. He knew that there was nothing he could say to make Ulrich feel any better.

A while later, Ulrich got up without a word, and he walked away. Odd stared hard. Ulrich was slipping into a bottomless black hole, and he knew he wouldn't let his best friend do that to himself. Lanie looked down at him. She smiled sheepishly. He smiled, and placed his hand on the bench motioning for her to sit down. She sat down lightly.

"Odd, what's going to happen to all of us?" she said as she laid her head on his shoulder. "I mean, your friend died, ours died as well, all at the hands of Naxa and Xana. I'm scared now. Naxa may be dead, but it doesn't mean that Xana will cease to torment us."

Odd looked over at her. "I'm-I'm not sure. I know that we will defeat him though. All we have to do is band together. We will get through this somehow." He said stroking her hair. He kissed her forehead. She smiled.

A few weeks later, they got their first Xana call since the deaths. Aelita had been outside when everyone began to collapse. She quickly called Jeremy, but passed out before she managed to reach him. Odd, meanwhile, had been walking by, when he saw her fall. He quickly grabbed her and ran as fast as he could. They managed to defeat him without any problem. He had released knick out gas into the courtyard. (I know that this is really like Laughing Fit, but I couldn't think of anything else to put in this.)

Now, no one would linger around the factory after. It brought back too many good and bad memories. They would all go their separate ways. Aelita was so scared at night, so Lanie asked the principal if she could room with Aelita so she wouldn't become frightened. Lanie walked into the room after a little "outing" with Odd. She walked in and saw Aelita sitting on the ground by the closet whimpering. She had a white dress in her hands. It was the dress Yumi had bought her, but unfortunately, Lanie didn't know that.

"What's the matter? Why are you crying about some stupid dress?" Lanie said as she crouched down. Aelita looked up at her with the tears glistening on hr face. She dropped it, and ran out. Lanie groaned, and decided only one person would know how to handle this. She walked over to the boys' dorm and knocked on Jeremy's door.

"Lanie? What's wrong?" he said quietly. "Um…Aelita was on the ground crying over a white dress. Sound familiar?" she interrogated.

"Oh no, that was the dress Yumi bought for Aelita for the Christmas prom." Jeremy sighed.

"Oops," Lanie said to herself softly wishing she could take back what she said. She bit her lip, and Jeremy nodded grimly. She walked back to the hallway. She whipped her phone out, and dialed Aelita's number.

"Hello?" a soft, watery voice quietly whispered.

"Aelita? It's Lanie…where are you?" Lanie said furrowing her brow. She heard loud fwhip noises in the background.

"I'm in odd and Ulrich's room. What do you what?" she snapped.

"I really wanted to apologize for what I said. I didn't know…what the dress meant to you," she stumbled on her words.

"Okay. I have to go," Aelita said as she hung up quickly. Lanie sighed unhappily. This was going to be very, very, very long year.

The next day Ulrich was rummaging through his things looking for his other shoe. He then knocked over the silver heart box, and saw something small and white fall out. It was a folded up note. He gently unfolded it and began to read.

Okay, well that's it for chapter 1. So…if you want me to update quickly, I need something to update for. PLEASE UPDATE!