The last chapter was to show what has happened and brief you on what is yet to come. It was just like the first chapter, and will most likely be used again. I like to change chapters when changing people. Just wanted to let you know...
Mysterious Signs
Ulrich:
Yumi and I were still at the café. We had been here for a little over an hour already. Yumi had done her best to cheer me up, and for the most part she had succeeded. It still bothered me though, Sissi telling me about her dreams, and the fact that she remembered nearly dying. That has to freak someone out. If that was the case then I could understand why she always seemed grumpy. And I just couldn't get my mind off of the possibility that many of those times that she wanted to talk to me might have been because she wanted to tell me about the dreams…
"Ulrich, are you ok?" Yumi asked concerned. "You look pale."
Yumi's pleasant voice snapped me back to reality. I looked up from the plate that was in front of me. She was looking at me with a concerned expression on her face. Our eyes met and we both began to blush slightly. Every time I looked at Yumi my heart began to race. It was such a wonderful pleasant feeling; I knew that it was love.
"Yumi, what should I do?" I asked her. "Sissi is going to want to know what is going on, and if she figures it out herself we will be in for more trouble than it's worth."
She smiled and nodded. She understood what I meant, we couldn't allow anyone else to find out about Lyoko, at least not until we were sure they could keep the secret. I couldn't imagine what an adult would do if they found Lyoko. I didn't want to imagine what the police would do, or the military for that matter. I did know one thing though, if an adult found out about Lyoko they would take it away from us. If that happened we would loose Aelita, and I knew how Jeremie felt about that.
"Perhaps we should tell her." Yumi suggested. "Tell her at least enough for her to know what is going on. We could even lie about it."
"Are you saying that we should tell Sissi about Lyoko? Bring her into the gang? Yumi, that isn't like you."
"I know, I wasn't suggesting that much." She told me. "Just to tell her what she has a right to know."
"But that's just it; I don't know what she has the right to know…" I said feeling down again.
"Ulrich, I trust in you. I believe in you." Yumi said. "I know that when it comes to it you will be able to make the right decision."
I began to feel warm inside. I could feel my love for her springing up, mixed with pride that she believed in me. I felt the emotions swell up all the way to my face before I realized that they would make me blush. Suddenly I felt my cheeks become warm and I knew that I was blushing. I looked off to my side trying to hide the fact that I was blushing.
"Thank you Yumi, you know that means a lot to me." I said.
"Hey, Ulrich, remember that time on Lyoko? A few months ago, when the X.A.N.A. attack was aimed at the scanners and if we died we died for ever." Yumi asked. "Do you remember just before Aelita deactivated the tower?"
Now I knew that I was really blushing. I most certainly remembered. We had almost kissed then. It was one of, if not my most, precious memory.
"Yes, I remember, when we almost…" I trailed off.
"… Kissed?" Yumi finished blushing as much as I was.
We looked at each other, and our eyes met. Slowly Yumi and I began leaning forward towards each other our eyes closing and lips extending. This was it, we were finally about to kiss. Nothing could ruin the moment…
"Ah, ow, no, my head!" Yumi streaked in pain.
I opened my eyes and saw Yumi holding her head in pain. She looked as though she had a massive headache, or a migraine. I suddenly didn't know what to do; it was not as if I could magically stop the migraine. I looked around to see if I could get help but for some reason all of the people were frozen.
Now I began to panic, I didn't know what to do. There wasn't anyone moving except us. And since there was nothing that I could do and Yumi was the one in pain we were in trouble. All I could really do was pray that she would begin feeling better soon. Unfortunately preying wouldn't do much good right now.
"Get out. Get out of my head!" Yumi yelled.
So sorry, I didn't realize that you were telepathic, said a voice. There is that better?
I turned around and saw a dark shadow standing behind me. The shadow suddenly began to fade and disappeared. Then as suddenly as it was gone the people started to move again. I looked at Yumi and saw that she was feeling better, but had tears running down her eyes.
I quickly got up and went over to her. I put my arms around her and hugged her. I didn't know what was going on but I knew that now Yumi was the one who needed me. I told her that it was ok; what ever had hurt her was gone.
"What happened?" I asked.
"Something came and I heard voices, thousands of voices in my head. I tried to shut them out but I couldn't. It was terrible, Ulrich, I couldn't think, I couldn't breath."
"Well, what ever caused it is gone now…" I told her.
She looked around, and then she closed her eyes. She turned her head as though she were still looking with her eyes open. She suddenly put her hand up to her forehead. Then she opened her eyes.
"It's not gone. I can still feel it, not the voices, but it itself." She said to me. "And it's heading to the factory."
Ouch, a psychic migraine, that hurts, but what is this being, and what the heck does it want? Is it working with X.A.N.A. as was suggested before, or is it something new? Good question, luckily I know already... And soon enough you will too. Just stop complaining! (Not that you are...)