Well, I thank you all for being so loyal. I have some good news and some bad news. First the middle news: though I will continue this story until it has an ending, and I DO know what it is... I will be embarking on a journey to rewrite the story from the beginning. Everything will stay the same, but I will elaborate more on everything. If this is successful the earlier chapters will be as long and detailed as the later ones. It is your choice to, if I manage to do this, read the story through again, but the story line will remain the same. Of course that leads us into the bad news: for a little while now I have had something like writer's block in the chapter directly after this one... I am trying to extend the relationship between Jeremie and Aelita (as requested in a review), and I believe the chapter might have been finished, but I will not post it for a while. After this point there will be little to no more chapters posted until I have fought off the writer's block... (On the other hand another story, for another show, seems to be coming along nicely...) So thank you all for loving this story so much but I have to temporarily stop it for a while.
Thank you, and I may see you at the beginning again soon.

Ulrich:

I rushed in to see what was wrong with Yumi. I had heard her scream and knew that this meant that she had to be at least somewhat awake. I barely noticed the shadows escape through the door as I entered but I swore if they had hurt Yumi they would suffer for it...

When I got to Yumi she was still sleeping on the makeshift sleeping bag that we had made. Her eyes were closed but she looked anything but comfortable. She was tossing and turning; thrashing about wildly as though she were trying to fend something off. She was moving about so much that I couldn't get close enough to touch her without getting scratched, but I couldn't just sit back and watch Yumi hurt herself.

Quickly I lunged forward moving through her arms and shielding myself with myself. I reached my arms forward and gently placed them on her forehead and shoulder. She was burning up but it didn't feel like a fever; her skin looked redder as well. I knew that I had to do something to calm her down or she might hurt herself, or worse, kill herself.

Thinking fast I placed both hands against her face, holding her head still. Preying that this would work I readied a spell that I had just thought of. I focused my energy and myself into her mind. If I could make it there I might be able to help her fight what ever was attacking her...

Slowly I felt myself slipping, the light fading. Suddenly my eyes closed and my body dropped, but I was no longer in my body... I could see myself from outside, as though I were another person. Quickly I moved towards Yumi's forehead and entered her 'dream'...

Jeremie:

I was eating the food that I had prepared, talking to Aelita. We had been working on portable barriers, or shields. With these we could walk freely through the darkness around us without worrying about the shadows. That way when the time came we would not have to worry about the shadows while we fought Xanadu. We had also been working on making a type of armor out of the shells of megatanks. If we were able to melt the metal down we could probably do it easily enough... the problem was melting the metal. The final thing we had been working on was the lasers from the monsters. Most of them obviously had some kind of electronic part in them, if we could figure out what was necessary to make the lasers we could then use the knowledge to actually make the lasers.

So far we had managed to finish the portable barriers and a small version of the lasers. Neither of them had worked perfectly yet but they worked well enough. The main problem was that we needed a field test, but it wasn't like we were going to go looking for trouble... on this note we had begun listening to the military frequency on the radios that we had picked up.

"...Need help... enemy too strong... can't hold them back... by river..." and the signal ended.

What luck, well, not for them but for us. I looked over at Aelita and she nodded. We quickly got up and left the barrier. They had said by the river, and the military was entering from the north so we knew where they had to be. We quickly began running towards where they were ready for anything.

Odd:

Sam and I were looking up at the sky. We could see the stars because for some reason the clouds had parted. I was pointing out a particular star which seemed to be burning brighter than the others. As we watched a light emanated down through the parted clouds and was absorbed into the barrier. The barrier began to widen in all directions giving us more room within it.

"What do you think this means?" I asked Sam mystified.

"I don't know for sure..." She replied. "But I somehow doubt that that is a star."

"What should we do?" I asked.

"Check it out?" she replied.

"How?"

"Leave that to me." she said as two wings appeared on her back.

I felt an itching sensation and suddenly two wings sprouted on my back as well. I stretched them flexing the new muscles. With a few flaps of the wings Sam and I were able to lift off the ground and begin flying towards the light. As we flew I began to feel more and more comfortable with these new wings and was able to fly, really, without thinking about it.

I still couldn't quite see what it was but the light was getting closer. It was emanating many different colors all around it and I could see a distortion in the space just around it like the thing that steam makes... I felt compelled to reach the light and my hands began acting on their own, reaching for it. I quickly glanced over to Sam and saw the same in her. Suddenly we were at it our hands on the light itself. I could feel the warmth emanating from its smooth surface.

Suddenly I felt the wings disappear and we began falling back to the earth. I looked over at Sam and saw that she appeared to be asleep. Panicked now, but still holding onto the light, I began inching my way over to her as we fell. I reached out my free hand and grabbed one of hers. Pulling her close to me I held on and looked down at the far distant ground...

Somewhere in a military base:

"Doctor, I'm not sure how he is doing it but his body is almost fully healed. He simply has a few flesh wounds left, but nothing life threatening."

"That's impossible! This boy was nearly dead when the soldiers found him. How could he have healed so quickly?"

I heard the voices as I drifted into consciousness. There was a man and a woman talking next to me, but there were many others all around where I was. The voices sounded American but I could hear other languages as well.

I slowly opened my eyes and looked around. I was in a tent full of people, most of whom were talking, but two were standing over me. The man was wearing a white doctor suit and the woman was wearing a nurse's suit... They noticed that my eyes were opened and looked at me.

"Well, son, I see you are awake." The doctor said.

"Where am I?" I asked.

"You are in a military tent in Paris." The doctor said. "The entire city has been taken over by something... we don't know what though."

"What..." I asked still somewhat asleep. "Oh, wait-"

"There are some people who wanted to talk to you if... when you woke up, if you think you are up to it." The nurse said.

I looked around again and my memory began coming back to me. I had been hit, badly, but it shouldn't have gotten me this badly. I shouldn't have been knocked out...

"There is somewhere I need to be..." I said. "If you will excuse me."

"Now I can't let you do that, young man, you were near death in the middle of the city, and one of the only survivors that may be left." The doctor said. "You have to tell us what you know."

"Young man?" I asked shocked looking down at my body.

I was in my youth, once again. It must have been a reaction to being knocked out, and... If I was as badly wounded as they had said. Wait, if Yumi had used that much energy then...

"Crap. Look there really is somewhere I have to be. You should all get out of here, there is something going on that is far beyond your comprehension. If you don't leave now you may all die!"

"He must be delirious." The nurse said.

"I am not!" I said raising my hands and preparing a spell to get myself out of this place... but I was unable to summon my energy. My abilities had gone dormant once again.

The nurse pushed me down and injected me with something... my eyes became heavy and I began to fall asleep. The last thing I saw before going into a dreamless sleep was the children, each one being separated from the others, and two of them falling...

Unknown: Something about a cliff and the beginning of thepossible destruction of the real universe... But beyond that is within the black void of mystery.