Chapter 8: The Rumble
Ulrich still sat with Yumi in his arms. Thinking of all his possible choices.
I could go fight hin now! And get this whole thing over with and explained...no, I could get caught by any teacher on school campus and get kicked out. Then my parent's would yell at me. Or I could find him and slip him a note to meet me somewhere in the middled of the night to fight...yeah that'll work!
He snapped out of his dream and looked at Yumi who had fallen asleep.
He hugged her again and kissed her forehead.
"I'll see you later...hopefully" He said. He walked out of her room and shut the door carefully and jogged up to his room colliding into Odd on the way.
"Whoa what's the hurry?"
"I gotta find William!"
"Why? So you can blame him for something you didn't do?"
"No, so I can tell him off about what he did do! If you go up to Yumi's room you'll see what he did, she's asleep now but if you ask her who did this to her she'll tell you is was William"
His voice faded as he ran down the hall.
"Sure and next your going to tell me that monkeys can fly! Huh Ulrich?"
He looked back.
"Wow...he's creepy just disappearing like that"
Odd continued down the hall with a smile on his face while listening to his favorite song.
Ulrich who knew for certain where William was, had written a note and was on his way to the spot in the park where he was always at in the morning. He had attached the note to an arrow and he planned to shoot it too him. There he was. The monster dressed in black and blue sitting against the tree with a set of headphones around his ears.
"Well then here goes" He whispered.
He took the bow in his hands and put himself into a shooting position. He drew back the bow's string and took his aim, deciding where his mark would be. He decided on a small patch of dirt about two feet away from where William was sitting. He let go of the bow and the arrow sliced through the air.
Please work
The arrow which was aiming for the small patch of dirt stuck instead landed in the folds of his blue jeans that were on the ground.
He slowly undid his headphones and looked around. Ulrich cleverly hid behind a tree and William's attention went back to the arrow.
"Now what in the world is this?" He picked the arrow out of his jeans and unattached the note.
"And where did you come from my little friend" He said as he unfolded the note.
Meet me on the roof at 11:30 tonight. A Rumble is in order
William smirked. He knew who had sent him the note and he was pleased with his choice of option.
"Now fighting is something that I can do"
He said looking around the tree's once again.
"You hear that Ulrich! I know your out there! I'm going to kill you tonight! You hear there wont be anything left of you but a pool of blood!"
Ulrich stiffened and listened to his evil laugh. William who was satisfied went back to listening to his music reading the note again and again.
Ulrich ran from behind the tree and down the path straight back to the academy.
His friends with the exception of Yumi were crowded around a small bench near on campus.
"Hey guys!"
"Hi Ulrich...could I talk to you a sec?" Odd said
"Sure Odd"
They walked over from the rest of the group to a nearby tree.
"I'm sorry" He said.
"For what Odd? you didn't do anything"
"No I'm sorry I didn't believe you about what you said"
Ulrich cocked his eyebrow
"I went into Yumi's room to see if you were telling the truth. She told me everything that happened to her an that William was the one who was doing it to her. She also said that if you were going to see William tell him that she's dumping him...for Ulrich" He said smiling.
Ulrich gave a slight smile and walked back to the rest of the group who were more confused then ever.
"Well I would love to know what's going on!" Jeremy yelled.
"Well..."
His laptop began to vibrate.
"Hmmm" he said taking it out of it's case.
"Well looks like X.A.N.A couldn't wait for another attack! Come on everyone! To the factory"
"What about Yumi?"
"Shouldn't she come?" Jeremy said.
"I'll get her" Ulrich said and he ran back into the school.
"Come on everyone we need to go"
They ran and soon were at their passage in the park. Odd picked it up and slid it over while Jeremy and Aelita were looking out to make sure that noone was following them.
Odd climbed down followed by Aelita and Jermey.
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Ulrich ran down the halls of the academy and up the stairs to Yumi's room. He knocked on the door and waited for her to answer. She was dressed now in her normal black clothes.
"Hey Ulrich"She said sweetly.
"Hey I'm glad your on your feet again"
"Me too"
She looked at him with a smile that nearly melted him.
"So what are you doing here?"
"X.A.N.A is attacking! We were wondering if you wanna come?"
"Sure, a battle should take my mind off everything"
Ulrich smiled.
"Good we've got the old Yumi back!" She smiled. She blushed and ran out the door.
"Just try and keep up!" She said yelling back at him.
"Come back here!"
They raced each other the whole way down to the factory. Feeling the wind as the ran against it. They finally reached the factory. Yumi jumped off the ledge and slid down her rope and skidded across the floor and hit the big red button that called the elevator. Ulrich landed beside her.
"I won!"
"I know you did! You left me in the dust" He said pointing behind him. The elevator came from down below and they stepped in it.
Ulrich pulled out his cell phone.
"Jeremy it's Ulrich"
"Where are you guys?"
"In the elevator heading for the scanner room" He said.
"Okay Aelita and Odd are already in the ice sector heading toward the activated tower.
"Alright we'll be right there"
The elevator door opened to the scanners and they each stepped in one.
"Transfer Yumi...Transfer Ulrich...Scanner Yumi...scanner Ulrich...Virtualisation!"
They landed in the ice sector.
"Do you think we could get out vehicles?" Ulrich asked looking around.
"Sure"
The Overwing and Overbike appeared and they hopped on riding off.
"You're a little ways from Odd and Aelita but you should catch up in a second. Odd has taken care of any monsters that were there but X.A.N.A may have made more"
"I know"
They zoomed off.
Odd stood in one spot with Aelita. There path went three different ways.
"So which way should we go?"
"Lets wait for Ulrich and Yumi" She said sitting down on a piece of ice.
"Alright"
Ulrich and Yumi who were fast approaching where Odd and Aelita were sitting were quiet the whole time.
Odd saw two pecks in the sky approaching them.
"Well those are either new bigger flying monsters or those two are Ulrich and Yumi"
He put his hand to his forehead and looked more closely at them.
"Yep those are definably Yumi and Ulrich"
They all met in a circle.
"Well there's four paths and three of us!" Odd stated.
"I'll go with Aelita" Yumi said.
Aelita nodded and hopped on Yumi's Overwing and headed down a long winding path.
Odd jumped off the ice and headed down a path that seemed to have a big slide at that end.
Ulrich nodded his head in embarrassment and headed off to a path that went straight.
The path looked okay there wasn't any monster's and he stopped when he saw a straight wall that went up.
"Hmm how do I get out of this one? I gotta get up there"
He looked up at the ledge and saw a flash of pink.
"Aelita"
He backed up.
"Super Sprint" He yelled and he ran up the wall and ran along beside the girls.
"Hey girls"
"So I guess your path lead you here?"
He nodded.
"I'll scout ahead"
He said with a burst of yellow light...which headed one way then came back.
"The tower is up this way" He said running back. While he was running he was hit in the side with a yellow laser and threw off to the side hanging on the side of the ice path.
"Ulrich!" Yumi yelled
She pushed her vehicle on and hovered over Ulrich. She held out her hand and smiled.
"Thanks Yumi" Aelita was already running to the tower. Another being came along side them.
"Glad you could make it Odd" Ulrich said.
"Sorry I just saw something so I had to shoot it"
"You shot me you idiot!"
He chuckled.
"Sorry"
Aelita had reached the tower and waled in it. Floating to the top she placed her hand and put the code in.
"Tower deactivated"
Jeremy hit a button.
"Return to the past now!"
They went back to the bench.
"Well that was interesting" Ulrich said looking at the sky, then his watch.
It's already 9:43 there's not a lot of time left"
"Come on, dinner time!" Odd yelled while skipping across the campus.
"What kind of guys skips?" Yumi asked.
He stopped.
"I do!"
He continued skipping.
She shook her head and continued to the cafeteria with the others
The night had settled and the moon wasn't out. A new moon would make this difficult. His clocked showed 11:19.
"Better get going"
He quietly snuck out of his room and walked down the quiet halls of the school. The roof awaited him. He looked up the steps that lead to the roof. His watch said 11:27. He took it off, knowing that it could hurt him in his fight. He decided not to wear anything with buttons or a zipper making sure something wouldn't hurt him, He trudged up the steps and onto the roof. The cold air blowing pass him.
William was on the opposite side of the roof.
"I thought that you wouldn't come up here Ulrich" William said.
"No, I would have no matter what, I'm fighting for a good reason William, to protect Yumi, you really hurt her! Why did you do that?"
"I just wanted to have some fun and I wanted to ruin your life so I picked on the girl that you liked"
"But how did you know that I like Yumi?"
"She told me, she told me everything"
He gasped.
"There was one thing she didn't tell me though"
"What?"
"She never did tell me why you guys, your whole gang always disappears into the forest like that"
"She doesn't need to tell you about that!" Ulrich lunged in and threw a fist which William caught and threw him to the side.
"Don't expect yourself to beat me" He said running forward. Ulrich quickly got up and threw a kick at his ribs. Which landed with an impact that sent him flying back.
William got up.
"Your better than I thought Ulrich"
"Thanks"
Their eyes lowered and accepted their challenge. They both ran forward and stood in front of each other.
"Here goes nothing Ulrich"
William threw out his foot and slammed it into the side of Ukrich's face. Ulrich flew to the ground hitting his head on a small metal pipe.
"Oww"
He sat sitting himself up. William had already disappeared.
"Were did he go?"
Ulrich looked around.
A quick flash and a punch landed to his jaw. He was throw back again. He sat up panting. Blood ran from his mouth.
"Is that your best William?"
"No even close" They ran for each other again. William reached into his pocket and pulled out his knife opening it. He ran along side Ulrich and pulled the knife while he ran leaving Ulrich with a cut along his side. He grabbed his side and turned toward William. He ran at him again. He had no weapon though, he knew that William was going to play dirty and use his knife.
I just have to get it from him!
He faced William staring at the silver blade that was nor tainted with red.
He threw a roundhouse kick to William who was caught by surprise and fell back the knife flying away from him. It landed at Ulrich's feet.
I could do some real damage with this, but I want this fight to be fair, no weapons
He picked up the knife and looked at William.
"Go ahead Ulrich use it, there's nothing wrong with it" He said he's eyes on his knife.
Ulrich looked at the perfect blade once again before throwing it in the air and over the side of the building.
William watched his knife fall and stared at Ulrich coldly.
"Your going to wish you hadn't done that" He said getting up slowly. Ulrich was strong, especially his legs. He could feel he had a broken rib or two.
I just have to watch out for his legs
He smirked and ran toward Ulrich who just stood there. As William came close Ulrich stuck out his foot and tripped William. His faced skidded along the cement scratching his face up. Blood was flowing from scratches on his face. His eyes glazed over with evil. He looked up and Ulrich was already at the other side.
William is a good fighter and a ruthless one too. The only way I can win is to outsmart him. He isn't very smart.
William running towards Ulrich once again watched as Ulrich once again did nothing.
"If you thin I'll fall for the same thing again your wrong.
But Ulrich didn't stick out his foot. Instead as William neared his range he threw out his leg and threw a side kick to his stomach. William fell. Hitting the small medal pipe which with such force sent the medal pipe through his back.
He winced in pain as he hit the ground and the pipe had went through half of his body.
What's happening! This kid is beating me! I don't understand I'm older then him and I'm bigger then him! Why is he beating me?"
"You look surprised William, are you ready to give up yet?"
"No"
He slowly pulled himself off of the pipe and stood up. Blood covered his back and a large section of the roof now.
Ulrich looked at him surprised.
"Well if you must fight"
He held a fighting stance.
"I told you William when we started, that I was fighting for Yumi and I'm not going to give up, she's the one that is giving me the strength even if she's not here. But you, what are you fighting for?...nothing! Maybe if you had something worth fighting for then I'd be the one covered in blood!"
Ulrich yelled.
Maybe he's right, no he's not he's just trying to psych me out that's all!
"Your going down Ulrich"
"If you must fight then I will gladly fight"
Ulrich ran forward towards William. William's vison was blurred because of the lack of blood.
He thought her was running toward Ulrich but he was running towards another metal pipe. He threw a punch to it smashing his hand breaking his bones. He pulled back in pain and ran toward the edge of the building.
"Don't do it William!" Ulrich yelled.
"Why then you'll win"
"Jut because you'll lose doesn't mean you have to destroy yourself!"
He looked at Ulrich though his blurred vision.
"I can help you William, I can be your friend I don't have to be your enemy!"
William shook his no.
"No way!"
"Fine suit yourself"
Ulrich was face to face with him now. A gleam from his hand signaled to William that Ulrich had something in his hand. It went through him with such force that Ulrich hand came out the other side through the hole that was in his back. William fell back his eyes closed signaling he was done. He was still breathing though. Ulrich put the knife back in it's case and looked at his own hands. Covered in blood, but he didn't care because he had won.
"I told you that's Id win, because I was fighting for the one I love"
He walked away from the scene knowing that William wouldn't bother Yumi again.