Hello again! Sorry about the wait, it's not my fault. For anyone who read my new story a while ago, Dancing, it was forcibly taken down by the administration of Apparently, you're not allowed to post song lyrics on a story. Because of my 'infraction,' I wasn't allowed to post chapters/stories until today. I actually had this ready to go up last Saturday. Sorry to anyone who liked that story, but I don't want to risk putting it back up. I might get in even more trouble.

I'm sure you're all dying to know what's going to happen to Odd. So I'll get to the point. I have recently been banned from the computer (again) but now I am back on. I have already written out the last 4 chapters of this story, it has a total of 36. So I will only update as much as you people review. So it is totally up to you how soon you get to see the ending. Now that you have all finished reading my pointless babble for too long, I will tell you what happened to Odd!

(Ulrich P.O.V.)

Last time:

"Than that means we do it. Everyone cross your fingers." Macas says. He enters the code into the box. He hesitates pressing the return key.

"But what if…?" He stutters.

"Do it." I say. He hits the return key. A window pops up, it says PROCESSING…

"Everyone hold your breath and cross your fingers. If you believe in God, now is the time to pray." Macas says. I say a silent prayer.

Please God, I don't want Odd to die….

Now:

It pops up with another message: TRANSFER SUCCESSFUL-CHARACTER ON LYOKO.

Macas quickly pulls open the holomap of Lyoko, it shows one player not moving in the desert region.

"Let's go get him." I yell. Yumi, Macas, and I race down to the scanner room and Aelita scans us in. We land in the desert region and take off for the rock that Odd is by.

"Um, we have a problem." Aelita says.

"What's that?"

"Jeremie is next to Odd." I stop dead in my tracks. "Macas I'm giving you the overbike, it's the only one I have time for right now. It materializes in front of him and I take off.

"Woah, there's vehicles here?" I think I hear Macas say before he takes off.

I realize I still have my supersprint. I quickly grab Yumi and put her on my back. I race across the plateau, and quickly spot Odd laying against a rock. Macas is fighting against a strange figure I realize must be Jeremie. I drop Yumi off nearby and go super-supersprint. I'm there in a flash, I take out my sword and slash Jeremie across the arm. He backs away and begins to fire at me instead of Macas. I now know why Macas had such a hard time, he's releasing more lasers than three tarantulas at once. I get hit once and fall back. I race forward and hit him again on the other arm. Realizing he's wounded, he steps back. I lunge forward out of instinct to kill him, but he takes off running. A black board, similar to the overboard appears and he takes off; it's going faster than the overboard could. I sheath my blade.

Jeremie….

I barely even got a good look at him. All I could tell was that he looked like he was wearing body armor with shoulder pads. His eyes were pitch black. I turn around to see Odd on the ground, his eyes are open which shows me he's awake, but he's not saying anything.

"Odd? Odd answer me!" I reach down and prop him up. "Come on Odd, say something."

"S-something…." He smiles.

"Oh thank God your okay."

"What happened?"

"I'll explain later. Don't worry buddy, you'll be okay." Macas and Yumi arrive.

"Odd!" Yumi yells. She reaches down and hugs him. I'm sure he would have hugged back if he had the strength. Macas and I help him stand up, he seems to be somewhat okay.

"Okay Aelita, you can de-virtualize us." Macas says.

"Okay…." She says. I see Odd disappear into wireframe, then Macas and Yumi. "Sorry Ulrich, you'll have to wait for an open scanner."

"That's okay."

"Ulrich? Can I ask you something? Something personal?"

"Of course."

"Do you think I should love Odd instead of Jeremie?" My eyes widen.

"Aelita, that is totally up to you."

"I know… but ever since…."

"Ever since what?"

"Right before Odd went into the scanner, he said he loved me."

Woah. Wasn't expecting that.

"Aelita, do you love him?"

"I-I don't know."

"I can't tell you who you should love. Even you can't tell you who you should love. No one can control their emotions like that. If you love Odd, tell him. If you don't tell him anyway. He thinks he loves you and wants to know what you think."

"I know. But… I'm scared."

"Scared of what?"

"What Odd will say."

"Don't be. If you don't love him, say so. Odd won't be mad, he'll get over it. Trust me Aelita, you're not the first crush he's had."

"Thank you Ulrich…."

"Anytime Aelita."

"They're all back, I'm bringing you in now." I see myself transform into wireframe and my vision goes a blissful white. I open my eyes to see myself in a scanner, curled up on the floor. I stand up and stumble back over to the elevator. I steady myself against the wall and press the button. I'm usually not so tired, but the super-supersprint really takes the energy out of me. It stops at the control room and everyone else gets in. We ride to the top and I help Macas support Odd, who is unconscious. Aelita helps Macas carry Odd back to our dorm while I take Yumi home.

"Yumi, we have a problem." She looks at me with mild curiosity.

"What's that?"

"Odd has a crush on Aelita." Her eyes widen considerably.

"How do you know that?"

"It's doesn't really matter. But now Aelita is struggling with her feelings for him and Jeremie."

"So… who does she like? Odd or Jeremie?"

"I don't think even she knows. But I would take a guess at Jeremie. I think Odd just presented a new difficulty and she doesn't know how to cope. Before I was devirtualized, she asked me who I thought she should love."

"What did you say?"

"I basically said I don't have an opinion. I said she doesn't have much of a choice, she just has to go with what she feels. But I also don't think that was a good enough answer."

We arrive at her house and go inside. I want to check up on Hiroki really quick.

"Hey Honey, hello Ulrich." Mrs. Ishiyama says.

"Hey Mom." Yumi answers.

"Hi uh, Mom." I say. Mrs. Ishiyama (A/N: I'm going to start referring to her as Mom whenever I'm in Ulrich's pov. I doubt Ulrich's real mom will get into this story. Ever.) smiles at me and I smile back.

"Where's Hiroki? I have something for him." I say.

"He's upstairs in his room playing X-Box." I kiss Yumi on the cheek and run upstairs. I do indeed find Hiroki on the X-Box, playing Halo.

"Hey, how's it goin?" I ask him. He looks at me and smiles.

"Pretty good. Why are you here?" He asks me.

"I was just dropping Yumi off really quick. But I brought something for you."

"Oh cool, what is it?"

"Ah, it's not much. Just a little something I have. I really like it, I hope you will too." He looks at me strangely. I fish around in my pocket and pull it out. I show it to him. It's a small necklace, with a pendant on it. I hand it to him and he looks at it.

"Wow. It's so cool!" It's a small katana, with a silver blade and a dark brown handle. Fairly simple, but still elegant. It reminds me of my very own sword of Lyoko.

"I'm not exactly fond of my dad. He expected more out of me than I could handle. One day I got fed up and ran out of the house. I was wandering around the city and went into a local trinket shop. I saw this and loved it, so I bought it. Whenever my dad made me mad, I would think of this. I used to wear it, but the chain broke. I bought a new one and I'm giving it to you." He looks at me with genuine joy in his face.

"Oh thank you thank you thank you!" He yells and gives me a huge hug. I smile and ruffle his hair.

"No problem. Don't hesitate to ask if you ever need anything, okay? I'll always be here to help."

"Okay. Do you want to play me?" He asks nodding towards the game. I shrug my shoulders and pick up a controller. Unluckily for me, I haven't had much of a chance to play this game. Hiroki completely devastates me three times. He just killed my character again when I hear a clicking sound come from the doorway. I turn over and look to see Mom and Yumi standing there smiling. Yumi happened to have a camera with her.

"Ah, won't this make a great scrapbooking photo?" She says. "Ulrich and Hiroki playing video games."

"Yah, especially because I'm winning." I say and stand up. Hiroki starts laughing.

"I beat you four times!" He says.

"Ah come on. I let you win." I say and everyone laughs.

"Come on, I wanna make it five times!" He says.

"Sorry man, I've got to go back to my room. It's getting late." I say. I give Yumi another quick kiss on the cheek, and hear Hiroki's 'eeeew'.

"I'll see you tomorrow, okay Yumi?"

"Sure." I walk downstairs and outside. A short fifteen minute walk later, the old familiar walls of Kadic Academy come into view. I walk into my dorm to find Odd sleeping soundly. And amazingly, not snoring. He must be really exhausted. I quietly get undressed and crawl into bed.

"And God said to me, let Odd live. So I did." I was going to have Odd sacrifice himself for Macas, but he still has a part to play later in the story.

Since this story is ending soon, I want to know if you would like to have just a sequal or make it a trilogy. Review and tell me what you think. It will definitely not be any longer than three books, so don't ask for any more. Just say sequal or trilogy.

I am so nice, so I am going to give you a sneak preview of the next chapter: Reminiscing.

(Odd P.O.V.) "Uh… Odd? Can I uh, talk to you outside? Please?" Aelita asks me nervously. Ulrich puts his hand on her shoulder and gives her a reassuring look. Aelita nods and walks out the door with me. We walk over to the bench that we usually hang out at. I lean against the tree and Aelita sits down."So, what's on your mind?"
"What-what you said to me. Before you got into the scanner to save Macas."
"Oh." I say and kick myself mentally as I remember.
Flashback
"Just do it! We can't lose Macas, not if the prophecy is true!" I step into the scanner. The doors close behind me.
"Aelita, if this doesn't work, I want you to know that I think I love you." I hear her gasp, but say nothing more.
End Flashback
"I've been thinking a lot about what you said, and how… how I feel."
"Aelita…."
I'm not going to reveal what they say just yet. You're going to have to wait for the next chapter like a good fan. R&R please! I want 180 reviews before I will post the next chapter. That's not a lot, so just press that little button down in the corner. Thanks to everyone!