How would you like to live out every day in fear that something bad is going to happen, knowing that you and your friends are the only ones who can stop it? For Yumi, Ulrich, Odd, and Jeremie this was daily life. But when they met a mysterious man and went on one last adventure their lives were changed forever again. Now they live in a normal world with no deadly virus trying to kill them every day. But, how long will the peace last?

A New World

Introduction

Odd:

Lyoko was gone, or at least the factory was. No one knew what had come of Lyoko itself since the only way for us to connect to it was through the factory. And none of us knew what had happened to Aelita; she was not on earth with us and because we couldn't reach Lyoko we had no way of seeing if she was still there.

Every one seemed to blame the traveler; that is every one but Yumi and Jeremie. They kept insisting that he didn't seem like the kind of person to take everything from us. We all disagreed about what happened, and no one seemed to be able to let it go. It seemed as though Jeremie had become distant and depressed but he tried not to show it. Still every now and then he would get a look in his eyes, almost as though he were looking at something far off…

Yumi was a similar way, but she had Ulrich to be with. Now that X.A.N.A. was supposedly gone they had all the time in the world to be together. Sissi still seemed jealous but she kept her distance from that argument for a while. She knew that we were all going through a hard time right now and she knew not to interfere. On the other hand she had suddenly become a lot nicer to Nicolas and Herb.

I on the other hand was dealing with this as I did with everything else. I tried to joke it away. My natural good humor and outgoing personality kept me perked up even as the others seemed to be depressed and tired. I kept trying to lighten the moment by making a joke and it sometimes worked, but other times it failed miserably.

Slowly, it seemed, life began to get back to normal. Normal as in what it was before the others had known about Lyoko, and way before either Sissi or I had. The only difference was that Yumi and Ulrich began to 'date'. I also began to look for Sam once again. And this time I began to make some progress. I found her name in the phone book and managed to get an answering machine, but that was as far as I have gotten so far.

We began to focus on school and typical teenager troubles. It was actually nice to be able to relax for a while. With out the constant worry that X.A.N.A. would try to destroy the world we could finally focus on other things. My grades dramatically improved because I was studying with Jeremie. The others also began studying and getting help on things that they hadn't before.

But the real thing that finalized it was when Ulrich suddenly forgot what Lyoko was. Yumi had suddenly brought it up and Ulrich asked what it was. Of course when that happened everyone paused to think for a second then we all remembered and got very quiet. It felt as though none of us talked again for the rest of that day…

For every hero there is a villain, with out the villain the hero isn't a hero and the story dies. There has to be something to keep an audiences attention... Don't worry, I will manage.
Ulrich is going to take Yumi to a dance, but when he gets there he suddenly finds himself surrounded by events that haven't happened yet. What does this mean, and what is he being told? Find out in the next chapter: Things to Come: A Dream?