Cousin? Chapter 20: What Begins, Ends, a code lyoko fanfic

Chapter: 20 What Begins, Ends.

AN: This is it, the last chapter! WHooooooo! sniff

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Deep inside the supercomputer, an alarm went off. A figure stepped out from the foggy scanner. His evil laughter echoed throughout the whole factory.

Matthew met his friends at their normal spot, the bench, when his cell phone rang. "Oh, be right back." he said and walked off.

"Hello?" he asked. "Matthias, it's time for your little friends to meet their doom." said a shady voice. Matthews lips curled into an evil smile. "Alright, when and where?" asked Matthew.

"The forest and now." said the voice before hanging up. Matthew hung up and went back to his friends. "Hey, that was...Mrs. Hertz, she want's all of us in the forest, a picnic." Matthew lied while faking a smile.

Yumi and Ulrich smiled. "Food? I'm there!" said Odd as he helped Aelita up and they all went towards the forest. While entering, Matthew reached for his knife.

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They walked deep into the forest, they couldn't even hear or see the school anymore. "Matthew, where exactly is this place?" asked Jeremy while they dodged trees. "Not long now, not long..." said Matthew, more to himself.

They finally made it to a clearing in the forest. Matthew pretended to look confused. "Well, this is it, bu---" Matthew suddenly stopped talking and froze. "Matthew...?" asked Yumi.

Matthew sputtered blood from his mouth and fell forward onto his knees. There was a sword in his back, covered with blood. Yumi screamed and everyone was about to run when they noticed they were fenced in by a wooden wall ten feet away. "Tsk, Tsk, Now now Lyoko warriors." said adark voice as the figure emerged.

"Xana..." said Odd in disbelief. "Of course, now, before I kill you, lets share some secrets, what do you think, Matthias?" asked Xana devilishly. Matthew jumped up as if nothing had happened. "Oh, yes." said Matthew as he smiled a bloody smile.

"Okay, now, sit." said Xana simply, and chairs sprung up from the very earth. The Lyoko gang sat down. Two very fine chairs also sprang up and Matthew and Xana each sat in one.

"Now, now, where to start...hmm...oh, yes, I know. Aelita, Jeremy's been cheating on you with Claire. Did you know that?" asked Xana as a smile played across his face.

Aelita looked at Jeremy, who looked really guilty. "Well, if your condenmed to die, you might as well without sin." said Matthew intelligently. Jeremy looked at the ground thinking.

"Now, Ulrich, as you know, Matthew and Yumi have been having some fun, but, Odd, what have you been doing?" asked Xana as he looked at him.

Odd seemed to freeze. He mumbled something incoherent. "What, Odd, didn't catch that." said Matthew evily. "I said, I was sleeping with Sissi." Odd confessed.

Ulrich looked at him in utter disgust. "Okay, ew." said Matthew quite plainly.

"Alright enough of this." said Xana as the chairs disappeared. "Wait, if we're going to fight, it should be a fair fight, with weapons." said Jeremy.

"As you wish." said Xana and suddenly they had weapons. Ulrich had a katana and Yumi had some throwing stars. Jeremy had a machete and Odd had a crossbow while Aelita just hid somewhere.

It was a pretty big fighting space. "This isn't going to end well..." said Ulrich quietly.

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The gang split up and hid while Xana and Matthew hunted them down. Matthew caught Ulrich by surprise, but didn't hurt him. He slapped a hand over his mouth.

"Ulrich, I promise, I won't let anyone get hurt, any of you, I promise, and if you want to really kill Xana, shut down the supercomputer, I have the anti-virus, here." whispered Matthew as he slid the anti-virus into Ulrich's pocket.

"How'd you survive that sword thing?" asked Ulrich. "That sword was a fake." said Matthew simply before disappearing.

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Yumi and Ulrich met the others in the clearing again. They looked all around and didn't see anything. All of a sudden, Xana and Matthew were there as well.

Yumi threw her throwing star at Xana, just as he almost hit Ulrich with his sword. Unfortunately, it missed and distracted Ulrich. The sword had peirced through skin...

Yumi covered her eyes when the sword had struck. She began crying slightly. "Wait, Yumi, look." said Jeremy darkly. Yumi uncovered her eyes and put a hand over her mouth.

Matthew was in between Xana and Ulrich, with the sword plunged deep into his heart. He was crying and blood drickled down from one corner of his mouth.

Xana's eyes widened and he let go of the sword. The sword just stayed in place inside of Matthew. "But..." said Ulrich silently. "I..." Matthew coughed up a lot of blood.

"...promised..." he said before dropping to his knees. Yumi gasped and Ulrich backed away to her. Matthew looked up at his father, who had just plunged the sword into him just minutes ago, and said, his voice shaking, "...I want...you...to...just...stop...please..." his eyes drooped but he tried to remain on his knees.

"...just...stop..." cried Matthew as he fell face forward, at Xana's feet. Xana backed up a little and looked down at his son, the son he had just killed.

Although Xana's face was emotionless, they all felt his pain. Xana looked up at Ulrich with rage in his eyes. "You!" he said simply. "You made me kill him!" he screamed.

"Just stop!" echoed through Xana's mind again. He breathed in deeply. Xana then went over to his dead son and extracted the sword from him and turned him upwards, lying on his back. He kneeled down beside him. "...I never said this but...I love you son..." said Xana, a few tears dropping onto Matthew closed eyes.

Xana then turned into programs and disappeared into Lyoko. Unknown to everyone, Matthew shed one last tear.

A week after they had brought Matthew back to school, saying he had fell on a sharp branch, and after shutting down the supercomputer, the students of Kadic attended Matthew's funeral.

The casket was still open for the ceremony. Matthew had a pale face and was dressed in his blood red tuxedo. Everyone was crying as the preacher carried on.

"His death was a great loss, he was a dear friend, a great nephew, and a darling son, May he rest in peace, ahmen." "Ahmen." said everyone.

"Does any one have any words they'd like to give?" asked the pastor. Yumi got up and walked over to the tombstone. "I have a poem that I wrote, when he died."

"I guess this is the end,
The end of what we were…
You are gone,
And I'm left standing alone….
Alone in this world,
Without you…
So I will smile and say,
Goodbye my friend,
My friend that died today…."

Yumi looked up to the crowd with tears flowing her eyes. She sat back down as they closed the casket. Everyone payed their last respects and filed out of the graveyard.

As my friend,

you protected me,

helped me, cared for me,

and even cried for me,

when I'm hurt,

As your friend I

did the same for you,

as long as we were together,

even though we're apart,

we won't be alone,

as long as we have,

each other in our

Hearts...

AN: Sad isn't it? R/R I hope you like my poem, it's dedicated to Matthew, my real friend who died recently. I miss him everyday.