Lost Forever In a Tragedy

Chapter 1: So Many Unanswered Questions

It had been about two years since the terrible accident that took place in the factory on that gloomy day. Two years and three days to be exact. On that day, the 18th of December, the group of five friends lost one, and unfortunately, she wouldn't be returning.

The group had taken the loss hard and tried everything to get their beloved friend back. Some would say the one who cried the most was Ulrich Stern. He had loved that girl. And he, along with the other four, knew that someday, this tragedy would happen. But they didn't know when, and they definitely didn't expect it to happen to Yumi Ishiyama.

Just three days later than the accident with Yumi, the three boys lost all contact with the last girl in their group. This time Jeremie Belpois was the one in most agony. Of course the other two boys were astonished that just in three days, two of their best friends disappeared.

Jeremie sent the two boys to the strange world that would hold Yumi forever, and was the home to Aelita, their dear friend whom they had lost contact with. But they looked everywhere in her and the evil X.A.N.A's home called Lyoko, and still couldn't find her.

The days that followed these horrific events were dreadful and filled with tears. Odd Della Robia was perhaps the most secretive about his anguish from the loss of the girls. He was normally the funny, free-minded one of the group, and he didn't want his friends, Ulrich and Jeremie, to see him crying and unlike his usual self.

Besides, how was he supposed to comfort his two best friends when he was distressed himself?

They all had to live without Yumi and Aelita in their lives and it was devastating. They somehow had to tell Yumi's family, and the principal of their boarding school, that Yumi was forever gone and never to come back. For they all knew, that once someone falls into the digital void, they can never come back, unless they were materialized back.

But Jeremie didn't have the code for materialization, or he would have been able to materialize Aelita a long time ago, disconnect X.A.N.A, and this whole nightmare would never have happened.

But that was just a fantasy, a mere dream. All of these events really had happened and there were so many things they had to have answers to because of the now "missing" Yumi.

How would her parents react? And was Jeremie ready to shut down X.A.N.A? Had Aelita really disappeared? Will they ever see Yumi again? They should have known by now. It had been two years. But some of these questions would never be answered. Or, would a new discovery unravel all the answers?