: Missing :
Ch 1: Shadow
Aelita walks out into the courtyard and saw nobody. "Hello? Hello? Is
anyone out here?" she thinks to herself, I wonder where everyone is…
suddenly, as if on queue, everyone jumps out and says, "SURPRISE!"
Aelita drops her books as she jumps. She then noticed Jeremy, Yumi,
Ulrich, and Odd. "Happy Birthday Aelita!" Then Jeremy adds quietly,
"Its your second year of being here with us!" Then loudly, "Happy 15th
birthday!" Jeremy digs in his pocket and takes out something. Odd then
remarks, "Einstein here, got it all by himself just for you! Awww… how
cute!" Then Odd started making kissy faces but only Yumi, Ulrich,
Aelita and Jeremy noticed, none of the crowd. So Yumi kicked his shin.
"Ow! What did you do that for!" Yumi said, "Oh, Odd. Stop ruining her
day." Suddenly, a black shadow came out of the shadows and grabbed
Aelita. It pulled her into the bushes. Everyone but Odd, Yumi and Ulrich
ran. The group ran to the bushes, but couldn't find anything. Jeremy
about to break down in tears suddenly heard a branch break and looked
to see Ulrich running after Yumi, who was climbing a tree chasing after
the thing that had hold of Aelita. But as she was climbing as fast as she
could, a branch broke, and she grabbed on to another branch. She saw
the shadow put Aelita on the highest branch, and then start winding down
towards her. When it stopped at her, her hands were slipping, and Ulrich
was 6ft under her. "Ulrich!" the shadow lifted her hands off the tree,
then dropped her 21ft to the ground. Ulrich grabbed her hand, saving her
life, probably, but breaking her arm. She then shrieked in pain. She had
never broken anything in all the time in fighting Xanna, and now she
didn't know if she could even fight Xanna. "Ulrich, I think my arm's
broken, Ow!" She let a tear of pain come out, then she gave Ulrich her
other arm so he could pull her to a safe branch. Ulrich tells Jeremy to get
Jim, and Odd to get the nurse. When they come back, Jim, and the nurse
look at each other to the tree. "Yumi! What are you doing up there?"
Jim yells from below. Yumi looks at Ulrich and then says, "I... uhh... was
going to study this…uhh.. bird nest for a class project with Ulrich, but I
slipped and fell, Ulrich caught me, but on the way down I think I broke
my arm." Ulrich smiled at her, but she didn't notice. The nurse finally
spoke, "Jim. Go get a large ladder from your tool shed. And hurry. Get
the principal and her parents too." Jim nods and walks away mumbling
about why they should have let him chop all the tree's down and how this
would never happen. When Yumi's mother got there, she looked very
worried. Ulrich was on the ground telling Yumi's mom what happened,
then her mom said, "Please go up there and keep my Yumi, company. I
need to find out what we are going to do." Ulrich smiled and started
climbing the tree. Odd had left to make sure Jeremy was okay, because
after the shadow made Yumi fall, it took Aelita… somewhere. "Ulrich, I
thought you were talking to my mom…" Ulrich stopped her and said,
"Yea, I did. She told me to keep her Yumi company." He smiled then she
blushed. "So Yumi?" Yumi looked at him and answered, "Yea?" Ulrich
looked kind of sad. "What's wrong Ulrich?" He said, "Why did you climb
the tree like that?" She forced a laugh. "Ulrich. I'd do anything for my
friends. You know that. I just wish that branch didn't snap before I
reached Aelita." Ulrich just smiled at her. Suddenly, Ulrich's cell phone
rang. "Xanna attack." Ulrich heard through the phone. He asked
Jeremy, "How can we deactivate the tower without Aelita?" Jeremy got
silent. He heard Odd in the background making horrible jokes, then he
took the phone away from Jeremy. "Hey it's Odd. How's Yumi?" Ulrich
looked at Yumi and said, "She's okay, but she can't get out of this tree.
I'll stay with her, work on the Aelita problem." Then Ulrich hung up.
"Ulrich…" Suddenly the branch underneath Yumi and Ulrich started to
crack. Ulrich jumped to another branch then he quickly grabbed Yumi's
waist as her branch fell beneath her. Now the only thing holding her 21ft
off the ground was Ulrich's hands on her waist. "Ulrich! Don't let her
go!" Her mom yelled. She looked even more terrified than Yumi did.
Ulrich pulled and pulled but he couldn't pull her up. The black shadow
was back, it tried to make Ulrich loosen his grip, but every time it tried,
he tightened it. Finally it left, and he finally decided he HAD to pull her
up. He slowly climbed a branch always holding her up. Now he had
worked her up a branch and sat her down. Yumi was crying quietly the
whole time and Ulrich never knew it. He looked at her face and saw it
was red and puffy. He held the hand that was okay, for support then
asked, "Are you okay now?" Yumi nodded she was thinking, Oh my god!
He just saved my life twice today! He wants to know If I'm OKAY?
Suddenly she had an itch on her arm and moved to scratch it, when
"Owwww!" She apparently had a hurt wrist. Ulrich noticed her yell and
kissed her softly on the cheek and said, "I think you deserve that." Yumi
looked at him stunned and blushed. She looked away.
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(stuff kind of forgotten in the story: Jim's ladder did not reach 21ft off the ground so Yumi is stuck, and Jeremy was obviously sulking in the loss of Aelita)
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(Sorry it's so long, but I got really into it :) next one may be shorter... that is if there is a next one.)