Chapter 18 Code: The ring.
Ruthlessly tossing and turning, Jeremy stared at the ceiling of the tent. He turned to see Aelita sleeping so peacefully, He couldnt fall asleep, and he was remotely afraid of the woods. But even though he was he couldnt stand it, He silently slipped out of the tent, and decided to go for a walk. He walked around the campsite for a while and found him self some where, he didnt really recognise. He then knew that he was by the Hemitage. He walked over to the arch of the door and looked from there, he noticed a couple tapes with all cases, but there was one of them that did not, just a blank tape. He vkneeled down and slipped it out causing dust to fly out. He coughed a bit then turned his attention to the tape again. He dusted the front off. Aelita. He looked at it for a while and decided "What the hey, Ill watch it tommorow." He walked back to camp. He walked up to a tree and looked around. "Hey, there is the camp." He walked over and slid back in side the tent. Reaching for his bag, he noticed his laptop was on. He opened it and saw that a tower was activated, "No thats impossible." He thought to him self, he looked over to Aelita she was in a fetal position. He held her hand, Some thing wasnt right, there was no pulse. He panicked. And everythingmotionles went not a sound was made he was going blury and all the sudden blacked out. He opened his eyes, screaming. No body was there. Then the tent un-zipped and Odd and Aelita came rushing in. "Whaths wong instin?" Odd screamed with Marshmellows stuffed in his mouth. He looked down and saw that he still had the tape.
"It was just a bad dream thats all." Jeremy lied.
Oh, was it about Herve or Nicolas or sissy coming back from the dead to mulest Your darling Aelita?" Odd flickered his eyelashes like a girl.
(Jeremy hid the tape.) "No." Jeremy said.
"Well then come on out it is like 10:00. We are cooking some of Jamies mac and cheeze!" Odd said smiling.
"How, we are out side." Jeremy said Scientifically.
"Over the fire of course." Odd said with a grin.
Jeremy streched and yawned. He looked over at Aelita, who was stareing at the tape mindlessly.
"hey, Aelita, whats the matter?" Jeremy asked.
She remained in a daze.
"HEY AELITA! JEREMY IS IN LOVE WITH A SQUIRELL!" Odd screamed at aelita.
She snapped out of it. "What?"
"Whats the matter, are you ok?" Jeremy asked.
Um, where did you," "never mind." Aelita said.
"Ok, come on I am going to die of starvation! Odd said to the love birds."
They turned the glares to Odd. They both took pillows and smacked him.
"Hey, Thats cheating, you caught me by surprize thata time!"
They all gather around the camp fire telling jokes.
"So, Ulrich, stop holding out on us, What is your over all grade pouint average?"
"73 for the term, and you?"
"75, I beat you, I Odd said with his mouth full of food.
"Hey, Aelita, Whats your grade point average?"
"96.3"
Odd and Ulrich dropped their jaws in amazement.
"Oh, and what did you get Jeremy?" Odd asked.
"109"
They both just looked at him, "that means you got perfect grades in all of your classes."
"Ya, well, if you asked me, I could have hacked into the schools network and gave you all better grades." Jeremy said un-amazed.
"Is that what you did?" Ulrich asked.
"No, I didnt, I just studied most of the year, and with all of the return trips to the past you should have gotten atleast an 80 on your tests, now isnt that right.?"
"eiiiiiiiiii" Odd smiled.
The moment was ruined because Aelita got up and ran behind a tree.
"Whats with her?" Jamie asked in amazement. "My cooking isnt that bad."
Jeremy walked back over to her and she was just getting up from vomitting.
"Ha! I knew there was something wrong with you!" Jeremy said.
"Why didnt you tell me you didnt feel good?" Jeremy asked.
"I didnt think that it was something to get worked up about." Aelita said holding her stomach.
"Well mabey, we should head back to school," Jeremy said putting his hand on her back.
"No, I dont want to mess all of the fun, I will be fi\
Jeremy cut her off with saying, "No we can leave the others here they wont mind if we leave for a while." Jeremy said.
"Can you bring the tape with you?" Aelita asked in a low voice.
"How did you\
"Just bring it, please." Aelita inturupted him.
"Ok, I will." Jeremy said in an unsure tone.
Jeremy grabbed the bag and they went to his room.
"He madeher comfortable and he got a Thermommiter and stuck it in her mouth while he stuck the tape in the VCR.
He sat at the end of the bed and took the thermometer from her and checked the tempurature.
"What!" "The thermometer says 92.7 for a body tempurature!"
"So, what is so bad about that?" Aelita asked.
"Aelita, your body tempurature is four degrees below the average tempurature!" Jeremy said.
"We have to get you warm." Jeremy said.
"What do you sugest?" Aelita asked.
"Well, you could take a really hot bath, but the only problem is that the school only has showers."
Jeremy thought for a while and said, I got it," I will gather as many blankets as I can and tomorrow, we can get you to my house, its only about a mile or two, we can take the bus there."
(The tape started by itself.)
They turned there attention to the Tv.
Un-earthly screeching started to come from the TV in a high pitched tune.
Showed Aelita sitting in a chair, from the looks of a white room.
Two men were sitting in chairs and asking questions, while Aelita was hooked up to a whole bunch of wires.
Man 1: "Aelita, why do you hurt people?"
Aelita: "..."
Man 1: "Aelita?"
Aelita: "I do, and I am sorry, but It wont stop."
Man 2: "How did you make theses drawings?" (The man hld up a clear photo with horses on it.)
Aelita: "I dont."
Man 1: "How do you make these pictures?"
Aelita: I dont, they just are..."
Aelita: "Can I see my mommy?"
Man 2: "We cant let you see her until we find out whats wrong with you."
(Aelita gets up tears away the wires and shut the lights off.)
(Men are screaming and making gurggle noises.)
(Light turns back on.)
Aelita in the tape is gone and the men are chopped up into tiny peices and On the wall, it says:
IT WILL NEVER STOP. written in blood.
(The tape stops.)
Jeremy and Aelita lay there on the bed, staring at the fuzified TV.
Jeremy looks over at Aelita and sees her bleeding tears of blood.
He grabs a tissue and wiped the blood off of her face.
"What was that?" Jeremy asked in suspense.
She grabbed Jeremy by the shoulders and pulled him in for a kiss.
He followed, until he felt something dagging into his back drawing blood.
"Ouch! what was that for?" He asked pulling away from her.
She opened her mouth to say something, but she fainted on his lap.
He propped her back to the bed, and covered up with her, falling asleep in eachothers arms.
(SOOOOOOO ADORIBLE!)
Aelita awoke, feeling better, and finding her self snuggling with Jeremy. His shirt was off and she blushed noticing her hand stroking it.
She pulled back a bit and forgot that they watched the tape.
Jeremy woke up and pulled her closer, and said "Wow, you look so peaceful, when you sleep.
She blushed and stoked his hair. "Well, you want to take your tempurature?" Jeremy asked hopefully.
"Yes," She smiled reaching for the Thermometer.
He stuck it back in her mouth and pulled it,
"Yes!" Jeremy said with Joy.
"What?" Aelita asked, still stroking his chest.
"Your tempurature is all back to normal." Jeremy said.
They both yawned and streched then both went back to bed, but Xana is not done yet.
Review, do you Reviewers want Jeremy and Aelita to wake up in Xanas Dungeon, or Aelita go psyco and kill Principle Delmas, You decide, tootles. Jill Belpois.
