lostmoonchild: Okay, chapter six is now up. Life's been a real pain in the ass since my school is officially out to get me so it's been taking a while just to get around to updating the story. So here's chapter six.
Disclaimer: I don't own Code: Lyoko or any of the songs unless I say otherwise. I only own the characters who aren't part of Code: Lyoko so don't sue me.
Chapter Six
"The virus is making steady progress in weakening XANA." Aelita reported. "He hasn't activated any towers in a while."
"Was that the original design of that virus?" Jeremy asked looking at Morgan.
Morgan yawned and nodded tiredly. "Not really. It's supposed to destroy but since Aelita gets destroyed if XANA gets destroyed, had to reprogram it to weaken. Not destroy." Morgan answered still yawning.
"You look tired, Morgan. Perhaps you should go back to your dorm and get some sleep." Aelita said noticing how tired the Japanese girl was.
"It's alright, Aelita. I probably won't get much sleep now days because of Josh being around."
"What's so bad about him? Nobody's told me yet." Aelita said looking confused.
"He's an asshole."
"Jeremy?" Aelita asked making a confused face.
Jeremy looked over at Morgan and saw that she was concentrating on something as she typed away at her laptop. "He's not a good guy. Sort of like XANA except probably worse." Jeremy answered.
"XANA's an ass, Josh is a bastard." Morgan said not looking up from her screen. "Okay, Jer, just hook my computer up to yours and we'll all be able to see a basic idea on what it's going to do."
They hooked their computers together and they watched in fascination as a DNA stand appeared with small circles hook onto the strand. "Okay, pretend that the DNA stand with the circles attached to it is Aelita's code and the circles is XANA's virus," Morgan said typing a few things before hitting 'enter' causing some X's to appear and attach themselves to the circles, "and the X's is the anti-virus. Watch what the anti-virus does."
They watched as the X's pulled the circles away from the DNA stand and looked amazed when the circles got absorbed before the X's destroyed themselves leaving no trace of the virus. "Will the anti-virus really do that?" Jeremy asked looking amazed.
"It should. But just to be safe, I'd like to have a little more of the anti-virus running around in Aelita to destroy any parts of the virus that may still be in her even after materialization and XANA gets shut down." Morgan answered. "Aelita won't be able to feel it, even if there are any remnants of the virus left so it's perfectly safe."
Aelita smiled and said, "This is so exciting. Soon I'll be able to live in the Real World with all of you."
"Hey, princess, don't get your hopes up too much." Morgan said with a smile. "As you may have already noticed from your first trip on Earth, not everybody's nice."
Aelita looked at Morgan and could see an emotion in her eyes that she had never seen before. Sure the Japanese girl was smiling, but the smile didn't appear to be reaching her eyes. "I've gotta get going before somebody checks in my room and sees me not there." Morgan said shutting down her laptop and heading to her room.
"Jeremy? May I ask you a question?" Aelita asked.
"Sure."
"What was that emotion in Morgan's eyes when she smiled?" Aelita asked looking confused. "When she smiled, there was something in her eyes that didn't look right."
Jeremy thought for a minute and said, "Pain."
"Pain?" Aelita asked. "She didn't look injured."
"Some injuries are on the inside. Those types of injuries, are the ones that take the longest to heal." Jeremy explained.
"Do they ever heal?" Aelita asked.
"With time perhaps. But sometimes, some injuries refuse to heal."
Aelita didn't really understand what Jeremy was talking about but she simply shrugged trying to imagine what it'd be like having a wound that refused to heal. "I don't think I would like to have an injury that would not heal, Jeremy." Aelita admitted.
"Neither would I, Aelita. Neither would I." Jeremy admitted.
Morgan snuck outside the dorms not really feeling any regret about lying to Jeremy and Aelita. A smile spread across her lips as she saw Odd waiting for her. "You look tired." Odd said wrapping an arm around her waist.
"I was helping Jeremy and Aelita with the anti-virus.'" Morgan admitted quietly.
"You should get some sleep sometime. You might actually find that you'll be able to stay awake more." Odd added. "Kaji, I've noticed you're more tired."
"I don't want to sleep. Not while HE is here."
Odd held the Japanese girl close and gently kissed her. "I'll never understand you, Morgan Kaze." Odd muttered as they walked through the park. "But I'll sure try and I'll try to pull you out of whatever darkness you're trapped in."
You're gonna need one hell of a rope. Morgan thought holding onto Odd's hand tightly as they walked. "Is there a reason you wanted to see me tonight, Odd?" Morgan questioned.
"I wanted to learn a little about you." Odd answered. "I mean…"
Morgan blushed and said, "Well, I have a daughter…"
"What's her name?"
"She's like me. Has two names." Morgan said. "Her Japanese name is Amaya, which translates into "night rain" and her English name is Abby."
"What are your names?" Odd asked. "Morgan and Kaji?"
"Kaji is just a nickname that everybody calls me when they're either trying to get my attention or calm me down." Morgan answered looking at the ground. "My Japanese name is Ami. English name Morgan."
"Ami." Odd said trying the word. "What's it mean?"
"Friend."
Odd smiled and gently made Morgan look at him. "I like it." Odd whispered leaning forwards.
------Morgan's POV------
"I like it."
My heart pounded loudly in my chest as Odd leaned forward, looking ready to kiss me. My thoughts went back to the night when Odd quickly kissed me before he ran off. Would he do that this time? I didn't know, and I was almost afraid that he would.
A jolt shot through my body as Odd's lips gently touched mine. Something deep down told me that this was right and a voice whispered fire and ice softly in my ears. I was fire so was Odd ice?
Slowly, we pulled away and blushed a little. The warm night had shot up to hot before shooting down to cold before finally settling on somewhere in between. "That's weird." Odd said as we started walking again.
"What?"
"The temperature. IT just shot up before falling before finally settling on this temp." Odd answered.
I wouldn't admit it even if my mother's life depended on it, but I knew the reason why. I was fire, he was ice. We contradicted each other but in a strange way, evened the other out.
"So what were your parents like? I mean, you were pretending they were dead and all." Odd answered.
I felt my heart speed up in fear and I whispered, "I hate them just as they hate me."
"I doubt they hate you."
"You have no idea on how wrong you are, Odd. They stopped caring years ago." I whispered, my voice suddenly cold.
--------end POV-------
Odd jumped slightly at how cold Morgan's voice had turned and began seeing that whenever her parents were mentioned, she's always back off and keep quiet, quickly shooting glares at whoever brought up her parents. "Listen, if you don't want to talk about your parents then it's alright with me. I just want to get to know you a little." Odd said trying to calm the Japanese girl down.
"I just don't like talking about them." Morgan muttered. "So what about your parents? What are they like?"
"My mom's got a real sense of humor, just like me. Except her jokes are better." Odd said with a laugh. "My dad, well, he's the serious type that doesn't really like joking."
"They contradict each other."
"yeah."
"So why'd they send you here?"
"I wanted to come here. They were always fighting so I felt like I was going crazy and I wanted to get out of there before the fights got physical."
"Did he ever hit your mom or you?" Morgan asked.
"No, just stormed out of the house and got drunk." Odd answered stopping and looking at her. "We should get back to the school before somebody catches us."
Morgan nodded and held onto Odd's hand as they walked back to the school. "Good night, Odd." Morgan murmured as she quickly kissed Odd's cheek. "You're a good guy, one of the first ones who can keep their hands to themselves that I've met in a long time."
"Just wait until after the second month of us dating. Then my hands will wander a little." Odd answered.
"Fortunately for you and for me, you won't be getting past second base anytime soon." Morgan said opening the door to her room. "And there's no way you're getting to third or a homerun anytime soon. I'm not like that."
"That makes two of us." Odd answered with a grin.
Morgan blushed and smiled. "See you tomorrow, Odd." Morgan whispered.
"Yeah, see you tomorrow." Odd answered before heading back to his room only to find Ulrich wide awake.
"You went to see her, didn't you?" Ulrich asked watching as Odd changed into his pajamas.
"Ulrich, look at her. She's beautiful."
"She looks almost exactly like Yumi." Ulrich answered.
"Point being?" Odd asked.
Ulrich sighed and said, "Odd, Morgan is Yumi's cousin and Yumi is our friend. Don't you think it'd be weird dating your friend's cousin?"
"No." Odd said laying down and petting Kiwi. "I don't see any harm in it."
Ulrich shrugged and closed his eyes, quickly falling asleep. Odd yawned and fell asleep about ten minutes later.
A few hours later everybody in the dorms woke up to the smell of smoke. "Everybody out!" Jim shouted opening up the doors.
"Good job, slut. You just started another." Josh mocked as everybody hurried outside.
"I didn't start the first one and I didn't start this one." Morgan said coldly before turning her attention to the guys. "Do you think that it's XANA?"
"Yes. I was talking with Aelita when she said that XANA activated a tower so we'll have to get to Lyoko."
"Preferably not in a crisp." Ulrich said pointing to the wall of fire that was blocking the door.
Morgan walked to the front of the group and glared at the fire. The halls heated up even more as the fire that was blocking the door started backing away. "Even when the fire is started by a demonic computer bent on world domination, I can still control it." Morgan said with a grin as she concentrated on moving the fire away from the door. "Everybody get going, unless you want to be send back to your parents in a match box."
Everybody took off running towards the door except Josh. "FREAK!" Josh shouted shoving Morgan near some flames.
"Don't touch her!" Odd shouted an icy breeze suddenly appearing and chilling everybody except him.
Morgan smiled a little when Josh took off running through the door and said, "You know, Odd, fire and ice are supposed to be enemies but we're allies. That's screwed up."
They took off running and stopped suddenly when the ceiling began falling. "Oh shit." Odd swore grabbing cell phone. "Do you know if Jeremy and Ulrich made it out?"
Morgan sat down on the ground and closed her eyes, appearing as if she was trying to look through the fire with her eyes closed. "Yes, they just made it outside. Jeremy's arm is burned bad enough that if we didn't have the return to the past program, it would scar and would be sensitive to light, perhaps." Morgan whispered opening her eyes before standing up again. "Now let's go. There's still a way out."
They moved quickly through the fire as Odd called Jeremy and told him that they were trying to find a way out. "All the exits are blocked." Odd told Jeremy.
"Well, Yumi has a message for Morgan."
"I'll relay the message." Odd answered before saying, "Kaji, Yumi says to have some fun."
"Already doing that, babe!" Morgan said looking around as if trying to find something. "No use, XANA wrecking my fun."
She screamed when the roof fell in front of them and she retreated next to Odd. Tears started rolling down her face as she remembered the fire that killed her grandmother.
-------flashback--------
"Ami! Ami, where are you?" An old woman shouted looking through different rooms trying to keep from breathing in the smoke.
A small girl with large medium green eyes looked terrified as she found herself surrounded by flames. "Grandmother! Help me!" The little girl screamed tears rolling down her bruised face.
The old woman heard the child's screams and ran as fast as her burned legs could carry her into the room. "AMI! Where are you!" The old woman shouted.
"In the corner."
"Use it, Ami! Push the flames away from you!"
"I'm scared!"
"Use it! Do you want to see your loved ones again! Use it!"
The small child closed her eyes and imagined the flames being pushed away from her. The old woman screamed as the flames burned her flesh before moaning when she picked the young girl up. "Grandmother, you're hurt…"
"Don't worry. Just run as fast as you can and make sure you dodge the flames."
The little girl nodded and held onto her grandmother's burned hand, wincing when she felt the raw flesh, and walked as quickly as she could with her grandmother. When they got down to the lobby the old woman fell over barely breathing. "Gramma, wake up. We're almost outside!" The girl screamed tears rolling down her face as two firefighters came into the building. "We've got an old woman and a kid in here. Lets get them out."
The old woman never made it outside alive.
---------End Flashback-------
Odd held Morgan close to him as he felt the flame's heat get hotter as the fire got closer to them. "I love you…" Odd whispered before the flames froze.
Morgan sighed and rested her head on Odd's chest, whispering before they were surrounded in light and thrown back into the past, "I love you too."
Suddenly they found themselves an hour before Yumi had to leave. "Ugh, I'm gonna be sick eventually." Morgan muttered shaking her head.
They started laughing at the Japanese girl and Ulrich suggested that they train a little. "Go easy on him, Kaji. I know you." Yumi said watching as Morgan and Ulrich got into a defensive position.
"I'm not THAT bad." Ulrich said.
"I didn't say you were bad. I'm just concerned for your safety." Yumi answered with a grin.
They started laughing and after an hour Yumi still hadn't gone home. "I'm bored and need something to do since Hiro (AN is that Yumi's little brother's name?) is at a friend's house and my parents are going out tonight." Yumi said with a sigh.
They walked to the dorms and saw Josh talking with Sissy and her gang. "Listen, I didn't think that those two would be so stubborn. That slut used to be scared half to death but now she's acting like her parents…"
"Look what the cat dragged in." Sissy said with a smirk. "Ulrich dear, you should really dump those losers. Hanging out with them just looks bad on your reputation."
Yumi and Morgan started talking in Japanese before both cracked up laughing. "We'd best be grateful that they don't understand Nihongo(Japanese)."
"They're not Nihonjinron (Japanese people)." Morgan answered with a shrug. "We'll translate for our friends later."
Josh smirked and said, "Like I want to know what you two sluts are saying. You both are probably decendants of sluts. Every female in your family spread their legs for somebody all the time."
Yumi made a fist and punched Josh as hard as she could. "HOW COULD YOU DO THAT TO HIM!" Sissy shouted trying to make Josh's nose stop bleeding.
"Nobody in our family has ever been a slut." Yumi said calmly. "Your mother, Josh, was probably once a slut which resulted in having you."
Morgan put her hand up to her mouth to hide a smile that was forming across her face. She didn't like anybody dishonoring her family's honorable name and was pleased that Yumi was just as passionate about honoring their family's name. "How could you have put up with him over in the States?" Yumi asked looking disgusted.
"I fought back." Morgan muttered. "besides, it wasn't like Queen Bitch and King Bastard let me go anywhere besides home and school."
"Miss Ishiyama, come to my office tomorrow morning." The principal said. "The rest of you back to your rooms."
"Busted." Yumi muttered. "Make sure you translate what we said."
"Yeah, sure."
They watched as Yumi left the school before heading to their rooms. "We said that just being around Sissy would be social damage." Morgan said laughing as they headed to their rooms. "And it turns out that we're right."
lostmoonchild: Okay, that's over. How about two or more reviews for this chapter and then I'll update ASAP since I've already got chapter seven started? Does that sound fair? READ AND REVIEW or else I won't know if people still like the story and if I should continue it or just let it be like all the other stories I haven't posted... dead.