lostmoonchild: Getting the disclaimer out of the way first: I don't own Code: Lyoko or any of the songs unless I say otherwise. I do own the characters who aren't part of Code: Lyoko. Now to put in another note: thanks for reviews and here's chapter nine... well, the first part of it anyway.
CHAPTER NINE
Almost two weeks later Morgan came back with some presents for everybody. "Okay, took me ages just to get your presents ready so back off." Morgan said handing everybody a box. "Jeremy, your present is also Aelita's present, took me twelve hours of searching through the attic just to find that damn box and a good three hours to translate everything. Has some stuff on anti-viruses."
"Will they work?" Jeremy asked.
"Honey, with all this crap and the information we got on the anti-virus, we can have the cure in two months tops."
Ulrich looked confused and asked, "But doesn't the virus wear out in a month?"
Morgan looked surprised and she said, "Oh fuck. Oh well, worry about that later. Got a present for XANA too but I'm saving that for later. In the mean time, check out presents."
"WOW!" "How'd you manage to get some of these?" "Kaji, what did you do?"
"What makes you think that I did anything wrong?" Morgan asked making an innocent face.
Yumi frowned and said, "I know you."
"Geez, can't even do anything nice."
"What did you do?"
Morgan sighed and fell dramatically so her head landed in Odd's lap. "Hey, handsome." Morgan said with a grin. "Did you miss me?"
"Yes. Now off my lap please. Not that I'm complaining any but..." Odd said with a grin.
They started laughing when Yumi took her boot off and lightly tossed it onto Morgan's stomach. "Hey! Dead person walked!" Morgan shouted putting a hand over her stomach. "You got a knife, Yumi-chan?"
"When did you get shot?" Yumi asked as Morgan rolled onto her stomach and pulled her shirt up over her stomach.
"Couple days ago." Morgan answered wincing as Yumi reopened the wound and dug out the bullet.
"I should be a surgeon specializing in bullet wounds." Yumi said pressing a cloth against Morgan's stomach.
A month later they sent XANA another virus which had more of an effect on him and no effect on Aelita. "Just one more month, Aelita. Then XANA's dead and you're free." Morgan said with a smile.
"I'll be looking forward to it." Aelita said smiling happily.
The next month...
Shadows filled the abandoned factory, sending a feeling of dread across the spines of those who dared to go near the building. The moonlight only added into the creepiness of the building. In one of the basements, the sounds of something humming could be heard. If there wasn't anybody in the factory before the humming started, there was now. The person inside was pure evil just waiting to be stopped... and now the person was bent on only one thing... revenge.
Two people and a virtual being worked patiently as they listened to the gentle music. Normally silence while they worked was good but tonight was a special and very important night. If everything went correctly, a new life would begin on Earth and five other lives would return to normal with the world never knowing of the battle that took place. Nobody in the world, except them.
"Just a couple more, Jer. Then it's done."
"Done. Testing..." Jeremy said as they watched the computer screen with wide eyes.
"Oh my God..." Morgan whispered before a happy smile spread across their faces
"IT WORKS!"
"So what's the big news?" Ulrich asked rubbing the sleep out of his eyes.
"yeah. What's the big idea?" Odd asked yawning.
"Odd, if you fall asleep then my big butt is going to be sitting on you." Morgan threatened before talking to Yumi again.
Jeremy cleared his throat and said, "Okay, for the past few month Morgan, Aelita, and I have been working on a special project and tonight, we are proud to announce that it's completed."
"Great. So what was the project?" Odd asked yawning again.
"Use your brain, Odd." Morgan said calmly. "What's the reason we can't shut XANA down without killing Aelita?"
They stared at the two teenagers in shock and Ulrich said looking amazed, "You two couldn't have... Did you?"
"We did." Jeremy said with a nod. "It wasn't easy but we managed to find it."
"We've already tested it on a strand of Aelita's computer code. Her code accepts it and XANA's virus was completely eliminated." Morgan said calmly. "All we have to do now is get rid of the virus and shut XANA down."
"Then what are you two waiting for? Let's get the anti-virus to Aelita!" Odd shouted.
----Yumi's POV----
I was happy that we had the anti-virus to the virus that bound Aelita to XANA but I was a little sad. After years of fighting against XANA, we didn't really know how to live a normal life. Everywhere we went, we would always see something that reminded us of fighting in Lyoko. We would all miss Lyoko, but not as much as Aelita.
None of us had figured out what her history was or how she got trapped in Lyoko but we all knew that her being on Earth would be a major adjustment. It would always be an adjustment, no matter what she did or where she went. But we'd help her adjust, that's what we always did. We'd save her and make her feel welcome whenever she came to visit. She went to Kadic for a while but stopped going because she didn't feel comfortable not knowing much about our ways and because of her always getting mixed up with Taliea (sp?) but then again, it took me ages just to get used to being mixed up with Kaji.
I looked at my cousin and saw sorrow in her eyes. I knew to the guys she looked happy but I was always able to see what she was really feeling. I knew deep in my heart that Lyoko was a safe place for her and that she wanted to keep at least a small part of Lyoko alive. "It won't happen, Kaji. He won't allow any parts to survive once Aelita is here." I said softly in Japanese.
"I know, Yumi-chan. But there's always my dreams, isn't there? Lyoko will survive in my dreams." Morgan answered calmly allowing Odd to spin around with her in his arms.
We walked down to the scanners and waited patiently as Aelita was materialized. "Welcome back." Ulrich said with a nod as he wrapped an arm around my waist, pulling me close to him.
When Aelita stepped out of the scanner and smiled warmly at us, we all yelled and cheered happy that the battle was finally overwith. "C'mon, everybody! Let's go party in my room! Horror, comedy, a few crappy romance, and whatever you can think of that falls into the rated R area!" Morgan shouted laughing. "What could be better? Movies, sodas, AND food!"
They started laughing as they headed walked down to the shut off/turn on switch (A/N I don't remember what it was called so don't blame me) otherwise known as XANA. "You alright, Aelita?" Yumi asked when Aelita stepped back looking afraid.
"He... just scares me." Aelita whispered. "What if the anti-virus doesn't work?"
"Aelita, I'll tell you a little secret." Morgan said as Jeremy walked up to XANA to shut him down. "I may have provided a majority of the information but Jeremy put something into the anti-virus that I never could have."
Aelita looked confused and asked, "What?"
Morgan smiled and said, "The most powerful anti-virus there ever was... he put in love."
Yumi nodded and said, "Aelita, we watched them work. Everything that Jeremy did, he did out of love for you. Morgan just did it because she wanted a challenge and was worried that XANA would kill an innocent person."
They watched as Jeremy shut XANA down for good before turning their attention to Aelita. Her eyes were wide in shock as she stared at her hands, shaking with slight fear. "It's alright, Aelita. Its over." Ulrich said putting a hand on Aelita's shoulder.
"I... I don't know what to say." Aelita whispered looking shocked. "I mean..."
"We know." Odd said as Jeremy walked back over to them.
"I'm not used to living a life... To being free from XANA..." Aelita whispered.
Morgan smiled and said, "That makes two of us, Aelita. I'm not used to being able to live or being free. We'll have to adjust."
Aelita smiled and nodded before allowing everybody to take her back to Kadic. "PARTY!" Odd shouted putting a CD on and turning the music up.
Morgan took some sodas and candy and other snacks out from under her bed and grinned at them. "Now what's a party without snacks?" Morgan asked grinning tossing some bags to them.
Yumi called her parents and told them that she'd be staying the night in Morgan's dorm and that she'd be home with a friend in the morning. "You're lucky I dont' have a roomie." Morgan said with a grin. "Except for the occassion I sleep in Odd and Ulrich's dorm because of Josh. Which reminds me, Aelita, if Josh comes near you trying to talk you into doing something with him, tell him to fuck off then tell us. We'll beat the hell out of him."
"Is he that bad?"
"Aelita, I had to turn my mattress over." Morgan answered. "And even after I did that I slept in Odd and Ulrich's room for a week then slept on the floor for the next two weeks."
"What was he doing in here?" Yumi asked.
"Nothing I'm going to admit anytime soon." Morgan muttered bitterly.
"If you and him.."
"EW GROSS! I'd sooner kill myself than let that bastard into my bed!" Morgan shouted in Japanese causing Yumi to crack up laughing.
Yumi grinned and said, "I knew you'd say that. Somehow I knew you'd say that."
"Damare, Ishiyama." Morgan cracked turning on the TV. "Okay, who wants what?"
"HORROR!" They shouted before turning the movie on.
"Oh yeah, I've been meaning to ask you two something." Jeremy said putting an arm around Aelita's waist and holding her close. "In Lyoko when XANA messed up the return to the past program... why did the screen only show one person instead of two?"
Both girls looked at each other and started talking in Japanese as if trying to decide whether to tell them or not. "Iie." Yumi said shaking her head.
"Later?" Morgan questioned.
"If HE shows up. Which, by the way, I hope HE doesn't." Yumi said.
Morgan grinned and said, "One of our attacks that we're still working on perfecting. Makes whoever we're fighting see one person instead of two so we don't have to worry about getting killed."
"That's impossible."
"You don't know our family very well, do you?" Morgan quesitoned still grinning. "Most of the people on our mothers' side of the family were called Wanderers because they travelled around a lot."
"That was, until grandma met grandpa." Yumi said with a sigh. "rest of it is history."
They watched movies until almost all of them were sound asleep. "It's going to happen, Yumi-chan. You can feel it too." Morgan whispered glancing at their friends.
"Shh. I'm still trying to get used to the fact that they're like us." Yumi muttered running her fingers through Ulrich's hair. "We swore..."
"We made that promise when we were little. Look at us, Kage, we're happy with them. HE won't take her away because Jeremy won't allow it."
"How do you know HE won't take us too along with her and leave the guys to suffer?"
"I don't. But HE won't try another world because if they're reborn and turn out to be smart, they'll figure it out."
Unknown to them, everybody in the room had woken up and were listening carefully. "I don't know... Kaji, evil's lurking in the shadows again. Just like before.."
"Before was different.."
"Before is just like this time. HE's still out there, Kaji, HE's still waiting. Because she's here... HE will try to take her back. Even if that means doing whatever is necessary."
They could hear one of them sigh and Odd felt Morgan's fingers in his hair. "What's Ulrich going to do? I mean, he thinks that his girlfriend is normal."
"Think about it for a minute, baka." Yumi said sounding frustraited. "They think that they're normal people."
"Technically a bit above normal seeing as they fought against an evil computer."
"Kaji! Pay attention for five minutes."
"I am."
They could hear Yumi sigh and Odd felt Morgan stop stroking his hair. "Kaji, you felt it too when Aelita arrived." Yumi said softly. "What does that tell you?"
Everything was silent for a few minutes before Morgan whispered, "I'm gonna be pissed if XANA was or is Shi."
"If he is or was, then we're all screwed and we'd better listen carefully for anything that's out of the ordinary."
"People dying mysterious deaths, building collapsing for no reason... sounds out of the ordinary." Morgan answerd with a yawn. "Now if you'll excuse me, Yumi-chan, I want to sleep."
Yumi sighed as her cousin nestled against Odd and watched as Odd put an arm over Morgan as if protecting her from the world. "Trapped in a world that was filled with monsters she kept some small hope that her lover would come for her again and would take her from the cruel world that Shi had created. The dancer and merchant, lovers forever, torn apart by Fate's cruel hands destined to be forever together again." Yumi whispered watching Jeremy and Aelita. Suddenly she looked out the window and saw the shadows lengthen a little before seeing a man walking out of the shadows. "Shi..." Yumi whispered looking slightly afraid.
The next morning everybody woke up wondering for a few minutes why they were all so happy and when they saw Aelita, they remembered and started laughing and cheering all over again. "I can't believe we did it!" Jeremy shouted spinning Aelita around.
"We were so close once and now... we've got the anti-virus and XANA's dead!" Aelita said happily.
They all laughed but sobered up when they heard screaming. They ran to the window and saw a man with spiky hair and claws throwing the students and faculty away from him and against whatever. "Stay here and hide and let innocent people get killed or go out there and make grandmother proud?" Morgan questioned.
"What do you think?" Yumi asked with a frown as she grabbed some weapons Morgan had hidden. "Fight like there's going to be no fricking tomorrow."
"And I'm loving the idea." Morgan said laughing as they ran outside, each of them carrying some kind of weapon.
They ran outside and nearly stepped back when they felt an energy wave wash over them. "Okay, Mr. Pain In Our Asses has come for a visit so we'd better show him what humans can do." Yumi said frowning as XANA looked at them with an evil smirk.
"Wait a minute! We're going to get killed!" Jeremy shouted.
"Six words, Jeremy: See you in the next life." Morgan said grinning. "Remember to save us, guys, or else I'm gonna be pissed."
"Wait, what's the plan? How are we going to fight against him?" Jeremy asked.
Yumi and Morgan held their hands up and they watched as a shadow and flame surrounded their fists. "This." Morgan said showing them her fist. "You all can do this too. If you feel something swell up inside of you, let it go."
Before they could say anything, they heard a sound that didn't sound human or like any animal they had ever heard of. This sound was something completely evil and suddenly they knew that the battle for survival had begun. Shouting their battle cries, the six teenagers took off running towards XANA, fear not even showing in their eyes.
Today, only one side would walk away alive and the other would be completely destroyed.
lostmoonchild: Okay, the next chapter will the the actual battle. Since the battle scene is kind of long, I put Chapter Nine into two seperate chapters (grins). I'm the evil authoress (jumps when brother shouts in her ear) and the evil big sister who is about to kill Wolf-Demon-Slayer... on second, thought, I've got to have somebody to torture (evil laughter the coughs). Okay, read and review the first part of Chapter Nine and the second part will most likely fall into the rated M catagory due to graphic scenes (turns on horror movie and watches carefully). Read and Review, as always flames are accepted.