Chapter 18: The Reception.
Disclaimer: I do not own Code Lyoko, Ulrich, Odd,Yumi, Aelita, Jeremie, or any of the other characters seen in Code Lyoko. I do however own Shinrai Flare, and Krista Flare.
Please look at Code : Changes and Living up to a Legend by Rycr . He is one of the best writers I have ever seen. Please look at my other friends story, called MidgardAwakening by Kairu Souseiki .
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almostinsane
Flipmymood-Secrets (Please read!)
Neo Agumi
BassDS
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Aelita Stones-16
Odd Della Robbia-16
Ulrich Stern-16
Jeremie Belpois-16
Yumi Ishiyama-17
Shinrai Flare-17
Krista Flare-16
Elisabeth "Sissi" Delmas-16
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(I am here right now to speak to the few people that read my story... NO I am not discontinuing it... I am going to finish this story, and work on the sequel, and poss two more stories involving Shinrai and Krista with the Lyoko gang. I am here to thank YELLOWCARDFMAFANS DemonDaughter almostinsane, Rycr, Neo Agumi, Bass DS, Kairu Souseiki. You all have been the best readers and writers that I could ever find, you have been with me from Day 1..This sounds cliche but I appreciate everything and all the reviews you have done for me, even Rycr's help. I don't care about the reviews, I just care about whoever reads it will like it. NOW ON WITH CHAPTER 18.. and maybe 19gos on and on through chaptersSeriously, 18 or 19 will be the last chapter before the sequel.)
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"We're following Ulrich, Jeremie," Aelita said with a small giggle, her eyes showing pure happiness as she had an arm wrapped around Jeremie's side, and her head on his shoulder. Jeremie smiled and slowly stopped the car behind Ulrich's at the stoplight.
"I love you soo much, my loving princess," Jeremie told her, turning for a second and placing his lips against hers softly.
"And I love you, my champion," Aelita replied, giggling in the kiss, now content in her life.
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"Ulrich, you do know they are following us to the school?" Yumi told him, leaning against the seat happily, she had already had reprimanded Ulrich twice because she caught him staring when he was supposed to drive.
"I know..." Ulrich replied with a small grin.
"Then please keep your eyes on the road, before you make poor Aelita and Jeremie crash." Yumi told him, smirking playfully.
"But..But..Alright.." Ulrich said, acting crestfallen, causing Yumi to laugh.
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"Odd...I love you.." Krista told him, sighing into his chest as he drove, Shinrai following behind. Odd smiled and wrapped an arm around her. His mind was filled with thoughts of life with his silverhaired wife as he smiled to her.
"Krista..I love you more than anything," Odd replied, shivering as he looked to her while the car was stopped behind Aelita's and Jeremie's car.
"I know..." She sighed contently as she felt the arm around her and nuzzled into his chest.
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"Sissi, love, how is your hand doing?" Shinrai asked as they began to move again, the school entrance coming into sight before chancing to look over and seeing his wife rubbing her knuckles. He pulled up behind Ulrich and Yumi's car and then sighed some.
"It just hurts some..." Sissi replied, kissing his cheek.
"I wonder why..Decking somebody with no body mass and just bones will hurt anyone's hand" Shinrai retorted to her, wincing some as she punched his shoulder with her other hand," Ow," Sissi smiled and blushed as Shinrai exited the vehicle and then opened the door and holding his hand out to Sissi. She took the hand and walked iwth him to where the other three couples waited and smiled to Aelita, Yumi, and Krista. Jeremie smirked to Shinrai, and then to Ulrich and Odd before seeing the other guests begin to arrive, even school students that were invited, came.
Jeremie smiled and kissed his wife's cheek softly and still blushed when her arms looped with his, the two leading the way as Yumi and Ulrich, Krista and Odd, and Shinrai and Sissi brought up the rear.(ANY butt comments on this, and I will destroy whoever makes it..)
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The reception had went off splendedly, even with the cutting of the very, very large cake, which Krista tripped Odd and made him fall into the side of, which got a laugh out of everybody. The parents, and Jim, were talking to each other while the four couples sat at a table, talking to each other. At least they were, until Jim stood up and walked to a microphone, calling attention.
"Um... Now is the time that I think all the adults have been waiting for...Besides an open bar later on," He chuckled some, bring a chuckle from alot of the adults," It is time for the brides and grooms for their first dance as a married couple!" People began to clap as the eight stood up and headed to the dance floor, Jeremie having a nervous look on his face, only to be reassured by Aelita's soft words.
"We'll be ok... Nothing can attack us now, and it is just dancing, like what we were doing a few nights ago.." She told him, seeing the other three waiting for the music to start. Jeremie smiled back to her and began to move slowly as the soft music began to play, Ulrich and Yumi following behind with Odd and Krista, and Sissi and Shinrai, the three couples looking like they had danced all their life. After a few seconds, the stagnant movement of Aelita's and Jeremie's became more flent and they moved with even more fluidity than the other three.
Smiles passed between everyone as the couples danced, and tears fell from most of the mother's faces, even Jim's face. Mr. Stern looked to his son and his wife and smiled warmly as the song began to end. Everyone in the hall began to clap and cheer as the young women curtsied and the young men bowed to everybody. Ulrich glanced at Jeremie, Odd, and Shinrai and nodded once. They each kissed their wives and then began to move up onto the stage where the band was and began speaking with them quickly. After a minute, Shinrai stepped up with a microphone, causing everyone to quiet down. He turned to face Ulrich, Odd, and Jeremie before nodding three times. Odd picked up the guitar and began to play a few low notes, while Ulrich moved to the keyboard and began to match the note while on it. Jeremie sat down at the drum set and began hitting the snare lightly.
(I made this song... Please ask if you wish to use it...)
I'd wander the world to see you,
I'd wonder what you had once knew.
When I looked in your eyes, my heart soared and flew,
I would go to any other place,
Just to se you lovely, smiling face.
The music began to pick up as Shinrai's deep base voice filled the hall, the sound of the keyboard, drums, and the guitar following the pitch that he sung.
"I love you" was all that I said,
As you lay in the hospital bed.
I reached my hand and rubbed your head,
Thanking god that you wern't dead.
My love,
My dove,
My everything,
You've shown me the way
To make my heart sing.
Tears began to form in Yumi's eyes as Ulrich joined his voice in with Shinrai's.
Your fingers touched me,
Your hand clutched me.
As my tears rolled down my cheek
I said "Your all that I needed,"
I screamed, begged and pleaded.
But then a smile began to peak.
Krista blushed and looked to Odd when he began to join in as well.
The beeping grew faster,
I screamed out "God, My master,"
"She is slowly drifting away,"
"He who did this is going to pay,"
Sissi gripped Aelita's hand and tears began to form while Shinrai fully sang, pouring his heart into the song.
The doctors shoo'ed me out of the room,
Pushing against me like a broom.
Thoughts began rushing through my mind,
I vowed a cure that I would find.
A loud gasp almost stopped them playing as they all looked to Aelita, whos face was almost as pink as her hair, Jeremie's singing voice almost as deep as Shinrai's.
My love,
My dove,
My everything,
You've shown me the way,
To make my heart sing.
We had found the cure,
And helped something pure,
To live on this world,
For good.
My love,
My dove,
My everything,
You've shown me the way,
To make my heart sing.
My love, Sissi...
My dove, Krista...
My everything, Yumi...
You've shown me the way, Aelita...
To make my heart sing...
They held the note as the music began to slow and fade.
"Aelita.."
"Krista..."
"Sissi..."
"Yumi..."
"We love you... We will never leave the women that completes our souls," The four young men said in complete unison.
The parents now began to clap, breaking the stunned looks of Aelita, Krista, Sissi, and Yumi. The girls ran up the stage and hugged them as everybody began to cheer louder, the original band beginning to play again.
"Jeremie... T..That was... Beautiful!" Aelita exclaimed, wrapping her arms around his neck.
"I agree!" Yumi said, pulling Ulrich into a deep kiss. Krista and Sissi grabbed Odd and Shinrai and pulled then close, hugging them tightly as they looked into their husband's eyes, not needing words. Everyone began dancing slowly as the brides and grooms slowly decended the stairs of the stage and joined them, the parents dancing respectively with each other now, except for Jim, who whispered to the four grooms and brides.
"I am proud of you kids... Good luck in life, well, at least to most of you... I am going to have to work under Mrs. Flare here," Jim told them with a grin, one of the few the group had ever seen him with.
"Thanks Jim..We appreciate all that you've done for us," Krista said, hugging the guardian that had first helped her off the bus with her brother a year before.
"No hard feelings for all the pranks we did to you?" Odd asked with a snicker, ducking under a grab by Jim.
"I guess not.. As long as you don't do any more..." Jim replied, patting him on the shoulder before turning to rejoin the parents,"Most of all, don't be fighting those things anymore,"
"Don't worry.. I think we are done with fighting that for a while, hopefully for good," Aelita told him, smiling warmly. Jim laughed and walked back over to the parents, obviously to tell them what the conversation was about.
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"Ok...Ok... The rest of the classes for the students will be suspended for the week... Now it is time for curfew to be in effect, everybody, back to their dorm rooms if your not an adult or not newlyweds!" Jim called through the microphone, before getting booed and jeered, and a few audable curse words by William. The students began to file out quickly, leaving only the parents, other guests, and the four newlywed couples standing in a now empty gym hall.
"We all have reservations for different hotels...Jeremie and I are taking a trip around the major places in the world in a week. What is air sickness?" Aelita asked shyly.
"I bet you won't have airsickness, not after traveling with Odd on an overboard. Give us all a call when you get back from your trip," Yumi told Aelita, giving both of them a hug before gripping Ulrich's hand.
"Yeah, call us, We won't be traveling around the world, I'm going to write my book, and Sissi is going to become a vice principal, poor children," Shinrai said, wincing as Siss punched his shoulder.
"Krista said something about moving to America for a while...Isn't that where you two are going, Ulrich?" Odd asked kissing Krista softly on the cheek.
"Thats where the music deal we got is at, the same with Yumi's modeling deal," Ulrich replied smiling to the seven.
"We are really going to be split up?" Yumi said, for the first time, tears of sadness in her eyes.
"We are still friends and family.. This is cliched, but we won't be fully split up..." Odd looked around before grinning devilishly," We'll always be in your hearts!" The other seven groaned at the sad attempt for a joke and began to laugh some.
"Odd... Never again shall you say those words..." Krista told him, almost in a philosopher way.
"I agree...Let's get on with our lives, no tears... Before poor Odd cries," Shinrai said with a small laugh, hugging everybody. They all nodded and began to walk out the door, waving once to the parents who were either smiling, crying, or whooping with joy(Jim).
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(OK ok ok, I know it is a cheesy chapter, not worthy of being this short wither for as long as I have been gone, next chapter will be the epilouge, and then give me about a week at most to begin the sequel, I garentee it will be better than this one, more action, more suspense.. and PRON! Just kidding.)