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Credit once again goes to Katana Midori-Fading Shadow and Crystal Adept for giving me the new and improved plot. I put both of their ideas together, except I changed a few things in both of their ideas. Hope they don't mind. And now here is Chapter...uh...err...oh yeah, 3! Right? Anywhoos...I think this is the longest chapter so far! EEP!
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Okay,
Chapter 3!
Kidnapped
#revised version#
Last time…
XANA was furious at the fact that his plan to capture Aelita didn't work, and he caught some human that was half-cat instead. 'But maybe this could work out...'
"Fine," XANA said as calmly as he could. "If you won't tell me where she is, I'll just take you instead!"
Ulrich grew even more furious at this. "Not as long as we're here XANA!" Ulrich yelled at him as he charged the angered villain.
Now…
Ulrich charged recklessly at XANA with his sword raised, holding it tightly with both hands. 'We can't let him get away with this!'
XANA lazily eyed the raging swordsman. He calmly gripped the handle of his sword with his right hand and unsheathed his sword (remember, it's long) as Ulrich neared him.
"HIYA!" Ulrich yelled as he drew the sword over his head and brought it down as hard as he could.
XANA sighed as he casually raised the long sword to his left, and then swung it so quickly you could hear it whistle as it went through the air. He swung the sword with super-human strength and knocked Ulrich's sword out of his hands, as if it was nothing more than stick in a little kid's hands.
No longer with a weapon to protect him or attack with, Ulrich slowed to a stop, a look of surprised shock on his face. XANA swung his sword again, and the next thing Ulrich knew, he was devitalizing.
"ULRICH!" Yumi yelled as her best friend was devitalized. She narrowed her eyes angrily as she readied herself in a fighting stance.
'Whoa, he took out Ulrich with just one swing of his sword,' Jeremy thought. "That's amazing. Wait, it's also a bad thing. A very bad thing. This isn't good at all.'
'Now that he's taken care of, it's time to play a…friendly little game of hide-and-go-seek with Aelita,' XANA thought smugly as he sheathed his sword.
Yumi tensed when XANA turned toward her, and Aelita. Her eyes darted around, observing her surroundings, looking for a way out of this mess. She spotted a deactivated tower, not to far off. She whispered behind her fan to Aelita, so that XANA couldn't hear her,
"Aelita, when I close my fan, start running to that tower over there. Don't stop, no matter what happens. You should be safe from XANA in there. At least, I hope so."
"What if XANA attacks us while we're running?" Aelita asked, copying Yumi's whispering tone.
"I already told you; don't stop running, no matter what happens. When XANA is about to attack us, I'll distract him while you keep running. Let's hope that that buys you enough time to make it to the tower. Just run like you've never run before, and don't look back, no matter what you hear."
Aelita was silent for a moment, trying to think of any other way out of this mess. She sighed regretfully when she thought of none, and reluctantly agreed with Yumi. "Okay," she said.
Yumi's eyes went back to XANA, who was getting closer and closer. "Alright then, get ready..."
The Japanese girl waited about two more steps, and then quickly closed her fan, giving the signal. Aelita hurriedly got up, and started running toward the tower as fast as she could. Yumi soon followed her, staying behind her by a few paces.
"OH NO YOU DON'T!" XANA yelled as he started to chase after them.
Odd watched the scene from his cage, slightly amused. "What do ya know, XANA likes to play tag," he said.
Jeremie nearly fell off of his seat at this. "Odd, you're trapped in a cage, XANA can practically do anything he wants with you, and you can still make jokes!" Jeremie said, completely baffled.
"Hmm…yeah. So? Your point?" Odd replied, propping his arms up behind him and leaning on them.
"Odd, you are so strange," Jeremie said with a sigh.
Odd couldn't help but laugh. "Duh! Why do you think my name's Odd!"
Jeremie sighed again and rolled his eyes, and went back to seeing how Yumi and Aelita were doing.
The two girls were still running at a fast pace, an enraged XANA right behind them. Yumi stole a glace back at XANA. 'Oh great…' He was getting dangerously close to her and Aelita.
"Aelita, keep running!" Yumi yelled as she once again flicked her fan open with her right hand and stopped to turn and face XANA.
Aelita did nothing but nod her head while running and then kept on running.
"Do you really think you can defeat me all by yourself?" XANA questioned in a threatening way.
Yumi said nothing as she stood her ground, hoping to buy Aelita as much time as she could. After awhile, when she thought XANA was about to attack, she jumped in the air and threw her fan with all the strength she had. XANA quickly unsheathed his sword and batted the fan away as if it was no more than an annoying fly.
Yumi's eyes grew wide as she saw XANA pull back his sword, and then closed them as she saw it come near. As soon as she was hit, she was devitalized, just like Ulrich.
"Pathetic," XANA said, once again sheathing his sword.
Odd growled and sat up as he witnessed the scene. "If only I wasn't in this dammed cage, I'd show XANA a thing or two!" he declared, flexing his hand.
XANA quickly looked around him, rapidly becoming more and more angry when he saw no one except for the kid in the cage. "No…WHERE DID THAT GIRL GET TO!" XANA yelled in fury. His anger only increased as he saw the deactivated tower that was nearby.
"DAMN IT! SHE GOT AWAY!"
Odd couldn't help but laugh a bit at the enraged expression on XANA's face. "That just goes to show ya that even the...err...'best' plans can go wrong," he said.
"Odd, sometimes you just don't know when to be quiet." Jeremie said with a sigh. "You only made things worse."
"Oh. Well, in that case...oops."
"YOU!" XANA yelled, rounding on Odd, "This is all your fault! If you didn't move Aelita off of the mark, she would be in the cage! Not you! You're useless!"
"Now, now, let's not point fingers, that's not nice," Odd said, with a mock-hurt expression. "And I'm not useless."
Jeremie slapped his forehead. 'Does he even know how to keep his mouth shut?'
XANA was so angry, you could see him shaking. "YOU! SHUT THE HELL UP!"
"Did I also mention that you yell a lot?"
The black-clad man had finally had enough of this. Besides; plans can be changed. "You know what, I do have a use for you. You're coming with me."
And with a flash, they were gone.
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Okay! There's Chapter 3! Hope ya'll liked it! I had a bit of a fun time writing it! Okay, I would like to ask ya'll if, in your reviews, if you could rate my chapters, on a scale of 1-5, 1 being the lowest, 5 being the highest. And don't forget to please R&R my Zoids fic, which I'm not going to remove. Oh, yeah, and read the Inuyasha fic, 'Lingering Pasts.' It's a great fic! It's by my cuz! 'kay, ta for now!
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D.D.Z., signing off