"Cut it out." Yumi mumbled in her sleep. Someone was jabbing her in the shoulder. She sat up and rubbed her eyes. She looked up to see who was the jabber. "Uggh." Yumi lay back down and pulled her blanket over her head. The jabber kept jabbing her in the back. "Mm! Mmmm mmmm mmm!" she said through her blanket.
"What?" Yumi's jabber said. He scratched his head and continued to poke her.
Yumi threw off her blanket, "I said, 'Od! Stop that now!" she yelled in his face. "Why are you poking me?"
"Shhhhhhhhh! Be quiet. The others are still asleep." Od said. He put his finger to his lips and pointed at Jeremy and Ulrick.
"Agh. Why did you have to wake me up. Why couldn't you have waken one of them up?" she asked.
"Well, Ulrick would have punched me if I were to wake him up, and Jeremy is snoring and talking about Aelita again. Hee-hee. It's kind of funny though." Od said, smiling as he glanced over at Jeremy, who was now drooling on his pillow.
Yumi sat up and stretched. She started walking to the bathroom, when she noticed Od was behind her.
"Hey! Want to put shaving cream on their faces?" he asked.
Yumi shook her head, "No, I would like to use the toilet in privacy though Od." She said as she glared at him.
Od backed up to his sleeping bag, "Ok. Sorry." He said as he sat down and pouted. Yumi changed, washed her face and brushed her hair. She saw one of her old bruises from Bill. They were almost all gone now. Some she couldn't see anymore. She was glad that it was just her mom and her now. When she walked out of the bathroom, she saw Od with a feathered pen. He was tickling Jeremy's nose with the feather end. Jeremy woke up with a snort.
"Damn you Od. Why do you have to do this this early in the morning? Can't I sleep?" he asked groggily. He laid back down and pulled his covers over his head. Od stuck the feather down the blanket to hit Jeremy's face. Jeremy jolted up and grabbed the feather.
"Hey! That's not mine! That's Ulrick's. You better not break it." Od shouted.
"I'm not going to break it." Jeremy snapped. "I just want you to stop putting it in my face! Why don't you do it to Ulrick then, if the pen belongs to him." He said as he threw it across the room.
Od went to go pick it up. "Ulrick will hit me. Don't know about you, but I sure don't want to get hit by him." Od said, pointing a finger at Ulrick, who was starting to awake from the noise. "And why do you have to be mean about it? That's probably the first time I heard you get that mad before." he said. "It's just a pen."
"Yah, a pen with an annoying feather on the end that you keep shoving in people's faces." Jeremy said. He walked to the bathroom with his clothes to change.
"And it's a pen that belongs to me." Yumi and Od turned around to see Ulrick sit up and rub his eyes. "What's with all the noise?" he asked.
"That would be Od. He was putting that feathered pen in Jeremy's face and waking him up." Yumi said, smiling.
"I was just bored. No one was awake." Od said back. They then heard scratching at the door.
"Oh great, that's the dog. I have to let him out to go let him out now." Ulrick groaned. He began to stand up when Od yelled.
"I'll do it!" Od shouted. He jumped up and ran out of the door, scooping up a frightened dog on his way.
Yumi and Ulrick laughed. Yumi sat by Ulrick and gave him a small kiss. "You don't look awake yet." She said, snickering at Ulrick's tired face.
"No, I'm not. I only woke up about three minutes ago." He said. He smiled at her. He leaned forward and kissed her also.
There was a crash in the bathroom. Yumi and Ulrick jumped up and ran to the bathroom. "Jeremy? Are you ok? What happened?" Ulrick asked through the door. There was no answer, but they could hear a struggle. "Jeremy, we're coming in!" Ulrick yelled as he turned the doorknob. It wouldn't open. "Jeremy!" Yumi and Ulrick started pounding on the door, and they tried to break it down. The door gave way and fell to the ground, just as another crash was heard. They burst into the bathroom, but Jeremy was nowhere to be seen. The bathroom was a mess. There wasn't one thing that wasn't broken, of that had fallen. Soaps and shampoos covered the ground, along with pieces of tile from the bathtub. The mirror had a huge crack in it, and water was shooting from the pipes beneath the sink.
"Oh! Ulrick!" Yumi gasped as she pointed to the soap covered floor. Ulrick kneeled down and examined the soap. There were footprints and smudges in the soap. Ulrick glanced up at Yumi, then back down at the ground. He saw Jeremy's footprints in the soap, along with some others he could not identify. "Do you know what these other prints from?" he asked Yumi.
Yumi kneeled beside Ulrick to look at the prints. "It looks like some kind of paw." She said slowly. Her face suddenly turned white. She looked at Ulrick. His face was white also. "Oh, Ulrick. It can't be. No, it can't. But, how would he?" she said. She couldn't get the words out of her mouth.
Ulrick wrapped his arms around her. "I'm sure he's fine. Yuki probably just put him in a cage like he did with you. We just have to go back in LYOKO and go to Yuki's house and get him out and then we can deal with Yuki." He said.
"But what if he didn't just put him in a cage? What if he hurts him? What if he does something terrible to Jeremy? I don't want to sound mean, but Jeremy can't protect himself for long. He doesn't even have a LYOKO character." Yumi said.
"Whoa. What happened here?" a voice behind them said. They turned around to see Od and the dog in the doorway. The dog ran into the bathroom and started licking up the soap. It then sneezed and shook his head from the taste and ran out of the bathroom. Od stepped in the room and looked around at the fallen heap of shower curtain in the tub. "What happened?" he asked Yumi and Ulrick.
"Yuki came and got Jeremy." Yumi said as she pointed to the paw prints in the soap. Od just stood in the middle of the room, unable to speak. He walked over to the bathtub and sat on the edge, his head in his hands. There was then a moan and Od jumped up, as Yumi and Ulrick did the same. Od peered into the bathtub and carefully lifted the shower curtain. Under it lay Jeremy!
"Jeremy!" they all yelled. Ulrick and Od helped him out of the bathtub and laid him on Ulrick's bed.
Jeremy slowly opened his eyes. He blinked and sat up, but fell back against the pillow with a groan. "Yuki." He murmured. He closed his eyes again and seemed to be asleep. But he then opened his eyes again. They grew wide with fright as he look past his three friends. "Yuki!" he shouted.
The others turned around just as Yuki jumped and pounced on Ulrick. He brought his head down towards Ulrick's ear. "How dare you bring her back. You will regret it." He whispered hoarsely into Ulrick's ear. Yumi grabbed a metal baseball bat while Od, the lamp. They both charged at Yuki at full speed. Yuki jump and landed on the bed. Jeremy tried to hit him, but Yuki hit him on the head and knocked him unconscious. Ulrick got to his feet, opened his closet door and grabbed a sword from the back. It was one that his father gave to him for one of his birthdays. He pulled it out of the sheath and ran at Yuki after tossing the sheath to the side.
Yuki turned and jumped behind Yumi. Yumi tried to kick him in the face, but he moved and grabbed her neck. He then squeezed lightly while grinning at Ulrick. Ulrick stopped dead in his tracks and lowered his sword as Yumi's face filled with pain. "Let her go Yuki." He said, avoiding Yumi's painful looking face. Od slowly came up behind Yuki, not being seen. Ulrick glanced over at him, then lowered his eyes so Yuki wouldn't know that Od was behind him, almost. Yumi struggled to loosen the grip around her throat. Yuki just squeezed tighter. Yumi gasped in a breath, and lowered her hands. Ulrick flinched as he saw this. Od raised the lamp and moved forward a couple for steps.
"Maybe I should let you know that I do happen to know you are behind me." Yuki then said. He gave a swish of his tail and knocked Od across the room. Ulrick took this time to charge at Yuki while he was turned away. Yuki then tightened his grip on Yumi's throat, making her cry out in pain. Ulrick again stopped short, just a few feet away from them both. He threw the sword and it drove into Yuki's shoulder, but alas, not the one with the hold on Yumi. Yuki screamed out. Then glared at Ulrick. "You…you." Yuki spun Yumi around and grabbed her arms to prevent her from trying to attack him. He looked at Ulrick with a smirk, then lowered his face and kissed Yumi, right on the lips.
"NOOOO! STOP IT! STOP IT NOW!" Ulrick yelled. Yumi tried as much as she could to force her face away from Yuki's. Yuki drew away from her as Yumi wiped her lips off as hard as she could. She suddenly went limp and fell to the ground. "My work here is done. Bye now." Yuki said as he vanished from sight.
Ulrick ran to Yumi, "Yumi. Yumi! Wake up Yumi. Od, she isn't waking. What do we do?" he said as Od came up beside them.
"I…I don't know. She doesn't look like she fainted. I don't know what happened." Od said.
To be continued…
Hahahahahahaha! sighs I have finished this chapter. looks around Isn't anyone happy for me? well, I am happy for myself. Bye all! Till my next chapter!