lostmoonchild: Okay, thanks for the reviews... 34 reviews is pretty good seeing as i've only got technically 10 chapters up including the prologue. 11 including this chapter. Here's chapter ten. Can somebody do the disclaimer please?
Yumi: lostmoonchild doesn't own Code: Lyoko or any of the songs unless she says otherwise. The characters who aren't part of Code: Lyoko are hers so don't sue.
Odd: You should put in more clues as to what Morgan's past was. I mean, you're probably leaving the readers and the nice people who were nice enough to have reviewed in complete suspence.
lostmoonchild: Be quiet, Odd, before I get the nasty idea to make Sissy have a crush on you.
Odd: EW! I'll be quiet!
Ulrich: You wouldn't make Sissy fall in love with Odd.. would you?"
lostmoonchild (grinning): Now, Ulrich, would I be that mean? Hold on, don't answer that.
Yumi: ON WITH THE STORY!
Chapter Ten
"OW! NOT SO HARD!" A shirtless boy with blonde hair and glasses shouted in pain.
A girl with pink hair winced and said, "This is only hurting Jeremy more."
"Think of it this way and I'm speaking from personal experience here, babe, having an infection hurts like hell. Especially when you're getting shoved against a fricking wall with a broken beer bottle at your throat." Morgan muttered tightly wrapping Odd's chest.
A boy with brown hair raised an eyebrow and asked wincing, "How do you know?"
Morgan fell silent and she muttered after a minute, "Some bastard got drunk and stabbed me in the back.. Two weeks later the wound was infected and then the same bastard threw me against a wall and held a broken beer bottle against my throat just daring me to scream. Fortunately, I'm stupid but not stupid enough to accept THAT one dare..."
"I should hope not." Yumi muttered lightly putting some antibiotic cream on Ulrich's chest.
All three girls admitted -to themselves and to eachother when the guys weren't around- that their boyfriends were all excellent looking. They each felt grateful that they could have the opportunity to see their guys without shirts or in Jeremy's case since XANA managed to somehow claw his hip and thigh, Aelita felt proud and honored but a little embarrassed to see Jeremy without a pair of pants on. Only boxers. "Relax, Aelita. If you aren't comfortable with seeing Jeremy without pants on, just let Yumi or me do it." Morgan suggested having finished fixing her patient up and was currently working on her own injuries.
Aelita's blush deepened and she asked, "How can you and Yumi.."
"We work with idiots back home and believe me, Morgan has a habit of having a nice drink before working."
"Keeps me from killing the ones who's hands like to wander." Morgan answered with a grin.
Yumi rolled her eyes and finished patching Ulrich up before helping her cousin. "Nice, Ami, fractured arm." Yumi complimented.
"Did I die and go to heaven?" Odd asked opening one of his eyes. "Cause I can see my girlfriend without a shirt."
Morgan blushed furiously and said, "Shut up, Odd. Oh, by the way, you have a very nice ass."
"How would you know?" Odd asked suspeciously.
"I know my man's ass when I'm sitting on his ass to treat his wounds." Morgan shot back with a grin. "But I wouldn't mind seeing..."
"Get a room!" Ulrich and Yumi shouted.
Aelita looked confused but she decided to wait until later to ask what they meant. For now, she'd have to take care of Jeremy's injuries. "Hey, am I doing this right?" Aelita asked putting some antibiotic cream on Jeremy's injuries.
"Damn, she's able to do that WHILE Jeremy has his pants ON!" Yumi said looking amazed. "You'd better be paying attention to this, Kaze."
"Hell, I'll settle for seeing the full view." Morgan answered with a grin. "Seeing the censored version, that's no fun. A girl's gotta get some kind of thrill somehow."
Odd made a face and said something that sounded strangely like, "See if I attempt to give you a thrill later on."
"Our love life is between us, love."
Everybody rolled their eyes and finished fixing eachother up. "So is he gone?" Odd asked wincing.
"Yes, he's gone... He'll find a way to come back."
"Shut up, Ami. Don't curse out our luck."
"What luck? We get a heartless old bitch for a new grandmother, we're related to the world's biggest slut on Earth and unfortunately related to the biggest bastard to have ever come out of Hell itself." Morgan shot back as she laid down next to Odd. "Sorry, Yumi-chan, our luck died with grandmother."
"Don't say that." Yumi whispered.
Morgan shrugged and let Odd hold her as close as he could without hurting himself. "We're going to have to take Aelita to a store and get her some new clothes..." Ulrich said calmly. "Not meaning to sound like I'm checking your girlfriend out, Jeremy, but you can see her jugs among with a figure..."
"Alright, I get the idea. We're taking Aelita clothes shopping."
"Aelita, in my closet there's some clothes. You can borrow whatever you like but don't count on any of the clothes being pink." Morgan said calmly. "I'm like Yumi-chan, can't stand pink."
Aelita got up and looked through Morgan's closet, amazed at how many tops she had that was blue, green, black, red, purple, and surprisingly, yellow. "This yellow one is kinda cute.." Aelita said with a smile.
"You can have it if you like it that much. I only brought it along to shut a friend up."
"What's the writing say?" Jeremy asked.
A grin spead across Morgan's face and she said grinning even more, "I may be young but I've already made an impression... in people's beds."
Aelita looked confused and she asked, "Where'd you get this shirt?"
"From a friend." Morgan answered still grinning. "He knew that I only wear long sleeved shirts and tank tops but he decided to get me a short sleeved shirt... yellow none the less (A/N no offense to anybody who likes yellow but I needed a color that wasn't pink and I wasn't about to go with brown)."
Jeremy turned away and Ulrich watched Yumi while Aelita changed into clothes that weren't torn. "So what happened?" Odd asked not watching Aelita but instead choosing to watch Morgan.
"We kicked XANA's ass then kicked him to another world." Yumi stated simply sitting next to Odd. "You were unconcious and believe me, Ami was pissed."
"Quit calling me Ami!" Morgan shouted.
"Why do you hate your Japanese name so much?" Ulrich asked. "I mean, you just give glares or tell them to shut up. Why do you hate your name?"
Morgan frowned and said, "My parents named me Ami. I don't hate the name, I hate what the name means."
"What's it mean?"
"Friend."
They shrugged and Jeremy said, "That isn't so bad."
Morgan frowned and said, "It is when you're expected to be everybody's friend."
Yumi shook her head and sat back, watching the two argue. "Just wait until she gets home. She'll be in a perfect arguing state." Yumi complimented as both teenagers started using long terms against each other.
"Tell them to talk so we can understand!" Odd said with a pouting face.
"I'm not stupid enough to get in the middle of an argument." Yumi muttered before Morgan frowned at Jeremy. "Ami, no cussing out Jeremy."
"Wasn't going to." Morgan muttered. "And stop calling me Ami."
They started laughing and Odd gently kissed Morgan's neck trying to get her attention. "Odd, people are watching so we're gonna have to wait." Morgan said moving away from Odd and closing her eyes. "Now good night, I'm fucking tired."
"You're always tired." Yumi commented but her comment fell on deaf ears as Morgan fell sound asleep. "Don't take much to wear her out, does it?" Jeremy asked.
"She used up more energy than she's used to."
"But don't these powers come from Lyoko?" Aelita asked looking surprised.
Yumi shook her head and answered, "Iie, these powers," she paused long enough to form a black ball in her hand, "are ancient. Lyoko may have granted everybody their own powers while in that world, but these powers are real. Some say that they're gifts from the Kamis, but my mother's side of the family knows that centuries ago a Goddess known as the Dark Mother granted several people talents from her own blood. Some have died out but others live on."
"That's scientifically impossible." Jeremy said calmly.
"Not everything can be deturmined by science." Yumi stated. "You all can do this too, except you might have to try harder just to even form anything other than a shapeless mass."
"How can you and Morgan do it easily?" Aelita asked.
"We were trained as little kids and believe me, training in a pain in the ass."
"You're going to teach us, right?" Ulrich asked looking at the black ball in Yumi's hand with surprise.
"Yep, here's the first lesson." Yumi said throwing the ball at Ulrich, who caught it.
They stared in amazement as the ball turned from black into a yellow ball. "Whoa!" Ulrich shouted dropping a ball when he felt warmth spreading through his fingers.
Jeremy caught the ball and they stared in amazement as it turned into an dark blue. "Whoa, this is weird." Jeremy said inspecting the ball. "Lyoko couldn't have... but it could have..."
"Lyoko didn't do anything.'
"But how come we're stronger than.." Odd trailed off when Morgan nestled against him, tightly holding onto his arm as if afraid of something.
"She's mentally tired and our powers are all strong when we aren't mentally tired. She's exhausted so her powers aren't doing crap." Yumi added. "When she's not tired, then it's a good idea to stay away unless of course you're like Odd."
"Why me?" Odd asked looking confused.
Yumi carefully took the ball -which was now a pale yellow- from Aelita and tossed it to Odd. No sooner had the ball touched Odd's fingers, it turned icy blue. "Ice." Yumi stated simply.
All of a sudden, Morgan started crying and pleading, talking rapidly in Japanese. "'tousan, iie! 'Kaasan onegai!" Morgan begged tears rolling down her face.
"Kanashimi wa hoshi no kage ni, kanashimi wa tsuki no kage ni." Yumi whispered gently brushing her cousin's hair to the side.
"What's that mean?" Ulrich asked.
"Sadness lies in the shadow of the stars, sadness lies in the shadow of the moon." Yumi said softly still trying to calm her cousin down. "Ashita o aishiteru, Kaji."
"And that?" Aelita asked.
"Tomorrow I will still love you, Kaji."
A few weeks later, they were all healed up enough to actually go to the mall and -to Morgan's horror anyway- buy a few dresses and clothes. "Every girl has got to have at least ONE black dress in her closet." Yumi said. "For some stupid reason it's a rule."
"Why?" Aelita asked looking curious.
"Who knows?" Morgan grumbled unhappily attempting once more to pull out of Ulrich's grip. "Kage, tell your koi to let go! He's killing my arm."
"What's koi mean?" Ulrich asked still trying to figure out their language.
"Don't ask." Yumi muttered. "And Kaji, I'd have YOUR koi holding you except I'm afraid you two would go and make out somewhere."
"not a bad idea. Except I haven't even let Odd past first base yet."
"Liar."
They went to a clothing store and the guys just sat around while the girls looked for clothes that they all liked. "Ooh, he'll love this." Yumi said with a smile as she showed Aelita a pink shirt that said angel on it. "Actually, you are an angel so the shirt's just telling the truth."
Aelita smiled and took a few shirts and pants into the dressing room to try on. "And now for you..." Yumi said turning and advancing on her cousin.
Morgan's face paled as she attempted to run but was pulled back by her cousin. "You-Know-Who has altered Yumi-chan's brain!" Morgan shouted dramatically as Yumi dragged her into a dressing room.
A few hours later everybody had gone to their own parts of the mall to get whatever they needed. Jeremy and Aelita were walking around talking about whatever crossed their minds. "Hey, Aelita, remember when XANA used that polymorpher to make everybody in the group split up?" Jeremy asked nervously.
"Yes." Aelita answered wondering what was on his mind.
Jeremy gulped and he said, "Then you kissed me and left?"
Aelita blushed and nodded slowly. "Yes, I remember. You're a much better kisser than XANA. At least, I think so. You did kinda freeze up."
"Well, let me make that up to you." Jeremy said leaning towards Aelita and gently kissing her.
Aelita gasped softly at how soft his lips were and leaned into the kiss a little. They pulled away after a few minutes for some much needed air and Aelita nodded. "I was right. You ARE a much better kisser than XANA." Aelita said blushing.
"Good to know that I'm better than a now dead demonic computer." Jeremy said trying to hide a blush that was forming on his face.
"ABOUT FRICKING TIME!" Somebody shouted.
They spun around and saw their friends grinning at them. "God, we were actually beginning to think we'd have to set you two up with each other!" Both Japanese girls said looking pleased. "Trust us, neither of us is too good at that romance shit."
"So to be on the safe side and to get some pointers from somebody else other than Sissy, we ended up renting a few romance movies." Morgan said holding up a bag. "Except this is the shit that even I would watch. Lovers die in the end."
Aelita giggled and held onto Jeremy's arm as they left the mall. "So let's get... ODD! DON'T YOU DARE AIM FOR THAT AGAIN! THAT IS PRIVATE PROPERTY!" Morgan shouted blushing furiously.
"And yet you still don't slap him for touching." Yumi commented with a sigh. "How's that work?"
"Damare."
They started laughing as they walked to Yumi's house to celebrate a little their friends' relationship. During the little party -which Yumi's parents disagreed having at first- Ulrich grabbed Yumi's hand and pulled her outside. "Yumi, I wanted to tell you something." Ulrich said nervously.
"Ulrich Stern showing nervousness? I'm amazed." Yumi said lightly smiling at Ulrich. "I guess this counts as important?"
Ulrich nodded and said, "Uh, Yumi, for the longest time I've been thinking about something very important."
Yumi nodded and looked at him with calm eyes. "You aren't thinking about dating Sissy, are you?"
"Hell no! I'd sooner casterate myself." Ulrich said looking disgusted. "No, it deals with you."
"Me?"
"Yeah. Yumi, I don't know how to say this without sounding like a dumb shit but I've been having Morgan helping me for a while now..."
"Is something wrong?"
Ulrich looked even more nervous and he pressed his lips against Yumi's mouth. "I love you." Ulrich said pulling away quickly.
Both teenagers blushed as they stared at eachother and Ulrich halfway expected Yumi to slap him but looked surprised when she put her fingers up to her lips, shock clear on her face. "I love you too." Yumi whispered. "Aishiteru."
They came close to kissing again but stopped when Mr. Ishiyama shouted at them to get inside. "So close." Ulrich whispered.
"don't worry. With what I've got planned for games, we'll be able to kiss again knowing Ami's mind." Yumi said softly before they headed inside.
Ulrich smiled to himself and followed Yumi inside. "Ami, have something good for Yumi and me." Ulrich whispered softly.
lostmoonchild: Here's chapter ten. I wanted to clear something up since somebody who recently reviewed chapter two said that "Morgan" is an American name. I know that and I have an explination as to why she has an American name. Ami (Morgan) and her parents moved to America when Morgan was a little girl probably about eight or nine, I still haven't decided yet on how old she was. While in America, Morgan's parents decided to change their first names to something American and decided to keep their Japanese last name. For some reason (not sure entirely why yet) Morgan hates both her Japanese and American name so she'll use both names as a nickname. When she's in trouble, however, or somebody just wants to either irritate her or just get her attention, people will use her Japanese name. Secondly: I have no idea on what a "Mary Sue" is and give me some credit, I'm being honest. If anybody wants to tell me, I'd appreciate it. And FINALLY: read and review, flames or constructive critism as always are accepted. If you go to my profile and check out "God Help Whoever Touches Her" you'll see that chapter two of that storyis dedicated to my little brother since today is his birthday. Happy Birthday, little bro!