lostmoonchild: I am SOOOOO sorry for taking so long to update but because everything's running around in what seems to be a million directions and the computer getting rid of the chapter… ugh! It's been confusing and seems to be a patience tester. Here's chapter five finally. Will somebody please do the disclaimer?
Odd: lostmoonchild does not own Code: Lyoko or any of the songs unless she says otherwise. The characters who aren't part of Code: Lyoko are hers, even the assholes.
lost moonchild: ODD! You're going to give everything away!
Odd: what? No, I'm not. You're just worried because if the readers find out… hmph!
Yumi: covers Odd's mouth Nevermind, Odd. Read and Review!
Chapter Five
Angry shouting.
Fear filled Morgan's heart as she looked around her surroundings and saw "Return to me salvation" on the wall written in blood. Her blood. The blood that she had spilt trying to send a secret message to anybody who dared to into her room.
"GET OUT HERE!" A man's voice shouted angrily.
Morgan stepped away from her door and sat down in a corner trying to keep herself from crying. She covered her ears and closed her eyes tightly as she heard her door swing open and screamed when somebody pulled her up by her hair.
Morgan woke up with a start when she felt somebody shake her a little. Still half asleep, she grabbed a knife she kept hidden under her pillow and swung. "Kaji!" Yumi shouted.
"Huh?" Morgan rubbed her eyes sleepily and saw that she had swung the knife at Odd who was now sitting on the floor with a confused look on his face. "Oh, shit. Sorry about that, Odd."
"Hey, no harm done." Odd said with a grin.
"Having a nightmare, Morgan?" Ulrich asked looking at the Japanese girl.
Morgan shrugged and got out of bed. "Guess you can call it a bad memory." Morgan answered calmly ignoring the fact that there were three boys in her room along with Yumi.
Jeremy blushed when Morgan took her shirt off and asked, "Aren't you going to send us out of the room?"
"You can leave if you want to while I change. Or you can either turn around or watch. Your choice." Morgan answered putting a sports bra on and throwing on a tank top.
"How'd you get those scars?" Ulrich asked.
"Fire."
"Some of those aren't from a fire."
"Accidents." Morgan answered hastily and she put on a pair of jeans before putting a long sleeved shirt over her tank top, covering her arms.
"Are you done?" Jeremy asked.
They had just realized that Jeremy turned away while Morgan got dressed. "Well, one of you is a gentleman." Morgan said running her fingers through her hair hastily.
"That's not brushing."
"Like I ever have time."
"Back home you don't. here you do." Yumi said with a frown watching was Morgan shoved some books into her backpack.
Morgan ignored Yumi's comments and said, "So what's on the agenda for today?"
"Not having to deal with XANA today hopefully." Jeremy said as they left Morgan's room.
Morgan locked the door behind them and yawned. "So how come you're tired?" Odd asked walking next to Morgan.
"Helping Jeremy and Aelita with the stupid anti-virus." Morgan answered still yawning. "We managed to get Aelita's original code before XANA infected her and then we started working on the code. I give it a few months before she's officially free."
Yumi rolled her eyes and Odd put an arm around Morgan's shoulders. "Hey, with three geniuses working on the anti-virus, it should be done soon enough." Odd said with a grin. I'm amazed she hasn't pulled away.
What in the living hell is wrong with me! I feel something strange… it's not bad but actually kind of nice. Is this safety? Morgan questioned before she crashed into somebody. "Sorry, I wasn't paying atten… oh fuck. Not YOU!" Morgan said when she noticed who she had crashed into. "Can't you stay in hell when you get shot in the chest?"
The boy smiled cruelly and asked, "Can't you die in a fire?"
"I'm still breathing, that answer your damn question?"
The four teenagers looked at the two arguing teens and saw hatred in both their eyes. "Your parents are pissed. Apparently they didn't want you running away this time. They told me that if you told anybody, you're dead and so is whoever you told?" The boy whispered coldly.
"My parents are dead to me." Morgan answered coldly glaring at the boy.
The boy smiled coldly and said, "Now, now. What would your little girl think or say if she heard her own mother talking like that to somebody? From her uncles and aunts, I can understand since the lot of you are," he paused to glance at Yumi, "delinquents. But seeing as you and your cousin are charming beauties, I'd have to say angel delinquents."
Yumi frowned and said, "You're asking for my foot up your ass."
"Anything from an angel."
"c'mon, guys, he's just trying to irritate." Morgan said glaring at the boy. "I swear it, if you come near me, you're dead."
"Who was that?" Ulrich asked as they walked to the cafeteria.
"An asshole from back in the States." Morgan answered coolly. "He and his gang thought it'd be amusing to see if somebody would be able to survive being locked in a closet during a fire and I got the honor of being the test subject."
"You kept the flames away from you." Yumi said in Japanese with a knowing look.
"Then when the school saw that I was in the building during the fire, I was the one that got kicked out. Simply for surviving even though all the evidence proves that there was no way that I could have started the fire and tied myself with duct tape." Morgan answered calmly.
They looked at the teenage girl and Odd said, "Geez. Life hasn't been good for you for a while, huh?"
"Life's never really been good to me. I can list all the times it's been good on one hand." Morgan answered calmly as they got their food and sat down at their usual table.
Sissy smiled and walked towards them and said, "Why, aren't you in a bad mood today."
"Not now, Sissy, seriously in breaking a person's nose if they piss me off mood." Morgan answered calmly poking at her breakfast a little before eating.
"I can understand. I mean, having that nice boy come around here and informing ME that your parents are actually alive. I mean, what kind of daughter doesn't care enough for her parents to even say that they're dead?" Sissy asked. "You should really tell the truth."
"First off, Sissy, it's none of your business. Second of all, you shouldn't be preaching me on telling the truth when you're a liar." Morgan answered not looking at Sissy. "Now go away. I'm about to throw up and I don't feel like wasting the remnants of last night's supper and this morning's breakfast on your shoes."
Sissy frowned and said, "I'd be careful if I were you, Kaze. Josh has powers only you can dream of."
Morgan laughed a little and said, "I don't need to dream of powers. A waste of time in my opinion seeing as I've got something better."
"And that would be what?" Sissy asked. "Your daughter?"
"How do you know?" Yumi asked looking at the snob.
Sissy smiled and said, "Josh has this little book that has every one of Morgan's dirty little secrets in."
"Go ahead. See how much I care." Morgan said standing up and heading outside.
Yumi glared at Sissy and stood up as tall as she could. "Kaji doesn't need to dream of power or be around anybody who claims to have power." Yumi said coolly. "There's an old legend that the Japanese people are descendants of the Kamis. But few are granted with the Kamis' gifts."
She turned and headed outside, closely followed by the boys. "She's not taking it seriously." Sissy said to the boy, Josh.
Josh frowned and said completely ignoring Herb and Nicholas, "I wouldn't worry. I've dealt with the slut once before, I know how to bend her enough to listen."
"Just remember, you have to get rid of that Yumi too."
Josh smiled and said, "Easy. You might as well consider them gone."
Outside the guys were watching as Yumi and Morgan practiced their martial arts. "What'd she mean about you having a daughter?" Ulrich asked. "And your parents being alive?"
Morgan kicked at Yumi's head and managed to block a punch. "It's called protection." Morgan answered jumping back before punching at Yumi. "Maybe if you take a look into the REAL world instead of choosing to turn away and believe in the sugar coated world that you live in, you'd see that there's such thing as a darker world."
"Don't be a pissed of bitch." Yumi said. "He just asked a couple questions."
"And I just answered them." Morgan answered blocking a kick. "There's such thing as a darker world, if you're not strong enough to survive in it then you'll fall."
"So you have a daughter why?" Jeremy asked.
"It's called taking in a baby that some woman abandoned in my damn car that everybody was convinced was going to die in a day." Morgan said landing on her back when Yumi managed to trip her. "Damn it, Yumi."
"You've seriously gotta learn not to drop your guard while you're talking about somebody you give a damn about." Yumi said helping her cousin up. "Feel better?"
"Hold on a sec." Morgan said tripping Yumi and putting a foot on her throat. "Now, I feel better."
When Morgan moved her foot away from her throat, Yumi got up and grinned. "Maybe you should go to your room and try to relax. I can feel your energy raising enough to start something on fire." Yumi said in Japanese.
Morgan nodded and said, "Alright. I'm heading to my room, don't disturb unless it's a XANA attack, somebody's killing Josh, or somebody's bleeding to death. With the Josh one, just tell me so I can watch him get killed."
They watched as she ran to her room before looking at Yumi. "Give her time." Yumi said with a shrug. "And for maybe an hour or so, plenty of space."
Morgan walked quickly to her room and felt somebody shove her against a wall. "Just like old times. Right?" Josh whispered coldly in her ear. "Except your parents aren't watching this time and there's no beer bottles around."
"What do you want?" Morgan asked coldly, wondering for a minute if she would get into trouble for burning Josh. There'd be no proof she did, only Josh's word against hers.
"You know exactly what I want." Josh hissed. "And you're being a total slut about it."
"It began with my ancestors and it shall end with this generation of my family." Morgan answered calmly. "The next generation, will have no traces that it ever existed. Only stories which they may or may not believe."
Josh turned Morgan so they were glaring at each other and said, "You'd best find a way to transfer it over to me. Your kid is pretty cute, Kaze, don't make me hurt her."
"Touch her and I'll kill you myself." Morgan whispered glaring at Josh with extreme hatred.
Josh frowned and said, "Have it your way. But just so you know, if you don't want what your parents have been doing to you and what they did to your brother all over the school, you'll do exactly as I say."
Not wanting to have all of her secrets exposed, Morgan glared at Josh and said, "Fine. But so help me I will kill you."
Josh smirked and said, "And the little wind angel has fallen from her pedestal and has hit the earth, breaking her wings so she cannot return."
Morgan pushed Josh away from her and quickly retreated into her room, locking the door behind her. She grabbed her cell phone and dialed a number. "Yumi-chan, Josh is blackmailing me." Morgan whispered a tear rolling down her face.
The next morning they had all met in Ulrich and Odd's room trying to figure out a way to get past Josh's blackmailing. "What does he want first of all?" Ulrich asked.
"To get inside my pants." Morgan answered calmly. "My parents almost let him except the only thing keeping him from getting into my pants was me hitting him with a glass beer bottle."
Odd smiled and put an arm around her, pulling her close to him. "Hey, we'll get you out of trouble." Odd said.
"Trouble follows me wherever I go." Morgan said pulling away. "I'm going to my room."
"So that's it. You'll just accept what's going on?" Jeremy asked.
Morgan stopped, her hand just centimeters away from the door handle. "I'm not meant for many things. If you all stay near me, you'll learn what those things are." Morgan answered opening the door and heading to her room.
Odd got up and left after Morgan, knocking on her door. "Go away, Odd!" Morgan shouted.
"Open up. I want to talk to you a minute." Odd said.
Morgan shivered and opened the door. "You have sixty seconds starting now." Morgan said calmly.
Odd walked into the room and said, "You shouldn't just bend over to what that bastard wants you to do."
"Why not? It's not like anybody besides Yumi cares." Morgan answered looking away.
"So that's it? You don't think anybody gives a damn?" Odd asked.
"Tell me who, Odd! Tell me who gives a fuck about a goddamn runaway? Tell me who gives a damn to somebody who's been screaming for so long that she can no longer scream!" Morgan shouted glaring at Odd.
A gasp escaped her lips as Odd grabbed her, pulling her close to him, and gently kissed her. "I give a damn and I most certainly give a fuck. I love you." Odd whispered looking at her with gentle eyes. "I heard you and I can still hear you. Something refuses to die."
It was as if something had been pulled from her memory. From a distance, she could barely hear somebody telling her that they cared and promising her a life without fear. "You can't care about me, Odd. You'll only get hurt." Morgan whispered breaking down and crying. "Please, Odd, I love you. You don't want to care about me. I don't think I'll be able to stand losing you."
Odd held the Japanese girl close and saw Yumi, Ulrich, and Jeremy watching in the doorway as Morgan cried her pain. Odd didn't see any sign that they were against what they saw, he only saw acceptance in their eyes. "She needs somebody who's shoulder she can cry on." Yumi said quietly when Morgan had cried herself to sleep.
Odd nodded in agreement and brushed a few stray hairs away from Morgan's face. "We should steal her journal back." Ulrich said. "I heard some kids complaining how Josh's music was so loud. I managed to get his room number."
"Jeremy and I will go with you, Ulrich. Odd, you stay here since Kaji obviously isn't going to let you go anytime soon." Yumi said. "We'll shut the door behind us so nobody sees."
Odd smiled gratefully and made himself comfortable, careful not to wake the sleeping girl. He smiled softly as he watched the sleeping girl shift slightly, wondering what terrible thing had happened to turn her away from all forms of comfort. "Don't worry. I promise I'll try to help you as much as I can just so you can be free again." Odd whispered softly stroking the Japanese girl's hair. "So you won't be afraid.
Yumi cringed inwardly as she pretended to flirt with Josh while Ulrich and Jeremy grabbed Morgan's journal. "So how exactly are you related to that slut?" Josh asked.
"First of all, she's not a slut." Yumi said kneeing Josh in the stomach when Jeremy and Ulrich nodded telling her that they got the journal. "Two, if you mess with her then you're messing with me. So I suggest if you want to keep the ability to reproduce, you'll stay away from us and our families."
Josh groaned and shouted, "Crazy bitch!"
"And proud of it." Yumi shot back as they walked back towards Morgan's room.
"You should have nailed him." Ulrich said.
"I don't hit the groin until the second offense." Yumi answered. "I'm surprised that you even suggested it, Ulrich, seeing as you and Jeremy got the same "equipment" as him."
"As far as I'm concerned, he's not a guy. Real men don't threaten women." Ulrich said.
Yumi smiled and put an arm around the two boys' necks. "That's why you two will end up getting married someday. Because you two know how to treat a lady." Yumi said with a grin as they walked into Morgan's room and saw the two teenagers asleep. "And if those two sleep in the same bed together naked, I can guarantee that neither of them will live very long once Jason finds out."
"I'm not asleep." Odd said opening one eye. "Did you get the journal back?"
"Yeah. Right here." Yumi said helping Odd move Morgan and set her on the bed before setting the journal next to the sleeping girl before whispering softly in Japanese, "Perhaps you will find the refuge you have been searching for in your dreams and in somebody's arms."
"Damare." Morgan murmured in her sleep.
Yumi smiled and said, "C'mon, guys, we should let her sleep."
The guys nodded and left the room, followed by Yumi. Odd smiled inwardly and nearly missed the warning look Yumi. "I'll turn my head when you two start dating, Odd." Yumi said looking at the teenage boy. "But if Jason comes around, I'll have to act like I had no idea."
Odd nodded in understanding and Ulrich gave him a strange look. "You and Morgan dating already, Odd?"
"Not officially." Odd answered.
Jeremy rolled his eyes and said, "Wait until my beloved Aelita gets here. Then we can shut XANA down for good and finally lead normal lives."
"Or as normal as it can possibly get for people who've been fighting against a demonic artificial intelligence." Odd said with a grin as they headed outside.
lostmoonchild: Okay! There's chapter five. Once again, I'm SOOOOOOOO sorry that it took so fricking long to update. I honestly thought that having chapter summaries around would help prevent it taking so long to update but I had to combine the personalities of a few assholes from my school in order to create Josh's character. As always, Read and Review. I'll get started on chapter six right away.