Alright everybody, I KNOW your going to be pissed at me when I tell you this:

There is one more chapter I'm going to add! And the preview in the last chapter was in the next chapter!

NOTE TP AMAHERST

Oh, and I'm sorry Amaherst for doing that. I thought u ment I wasn't paying attention to any other characters, lol, so im SORRY!

If I don't get at least five reviews, you will NEVER know what happens too Odd

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"Your crazy," Ulrich said. "Did you happen to eat any old food lately? Or sniff some paint? Because it's really getting to your head."

"I'm not crazy, I haven't eaten anything since yesterday, and the smell of paint makes me sneeze. I'm telling you Ulrich, I saw her. And she was wearing the same white dress."

"You fainted, Odd."

"How do you know?"

Ulrich sighed. "Didn't Yumi talk to you?"

"Yeah, but it wasn't like I was high. I know what I saw, Ulrich."

Ulrich's light brown eyes flickered with something strange—belief. But then they hardened.

"The doctor said some things like this would happen," he said. "He said you could have some thoughts, some visions. You didn't see anything Odd. Just your mind."

Odd shook his head, and sighed. Then he made his way out of the dorm room. "I'm drawing," he said and left.

Ulrich's cell phone jingled.

"Hello?"

"Is Odd okay?"

"You here his crazy story on Aelita? Weird!"

"Not really. Come to the factory ASAP. Jeremie's got some facts."

Ulrich nodded and hung up.

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The warm damp smell of the factory made Yumi's heart feel heavy. She leaned up against the back of Jeremie's chair, thinking of all the times Aelita had been leaning over the key board, telling Jeremie all about Lyoko.

The elevator doors opened, reveling Ulrich. He steadily made his way across the room and stopped at the supercomputer.

"Tell me Odd isn't crazy," Ulrich said.

"He's not," Jeremie said. He stroked his chin and squinted his eyes, hard. He stared at the screen.

"Then why—"

"Aelita's still linked to Lyoko," Jeremie said slowly. "When she died, apparently, she can't go anywhere—like to heaven or hell, if there is one. She's stuck in between. But, because she is, she can make contact with people in this world which is what she did for Odd."

"But she's unlinked to XANA—"

"She may have been, Ulrich. But she is the key to Lyoko, and she will always be a part of it. Always."

"But XANA's gone."

"I didn't say she was linked to XANA. I said she was linked to Lyoko."

Yumi bit her thumb nail. This was something she had done since she was a little kid. Either it meant she was nervous or thinking hard. In this case, she was thinking hard.

"What if we deactivated Lyoko?" she asked.

Jeremie shook his head. "She would disappear, forever."

"But Jeremie, how can we unlink Aelita to the system?"

Jeremie shrugged. "I'm still trying to find out myself."

"Should we tell Odd?" Ulrich asked.

"No," Jeremie said. "That might make him feel worse."

"Don't you think we should tell him?" Yumi said angrily. "Tell him how Aelita really died and how he got a concussion."

"The doctor said if you tell him to fast, he's go crazy because he'd you know….be too overwhelmed."

Yumi shook her head. "We haven't told him anything. Maybe the truth is what he needs."

Yumi felt tears come to her eyes and brushed them away quickly. She then put on her brave slash angry face and stared at the two boys.

"He's scared," she said. And she turned and made her way back to the elevator.

"I think it's time Odd should know," Jeremie said.

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Odd's pencil slided across the page. He was starting out with odd shapes, seeing what he could make in the end.

"I need some alone time," he said to himself quietly and put down the pencil. Inez, the art teacher, let the students keep there projects inside the classroom at all times because they weren't aloud to keep paint in their dorms. Inez didn't mind, because she came in often to see how many people actually used the art room.

Odd made his was past the cemetery and into the woods. He was on his way to the pond, once more.

The sunlight drifted through the trees as he made his way down the path. He thought about Aelita more then he had this morning. It was as if the images were being forced into him mind.

The pond finally came into view.

Odd walked up to it and leaned down, smoothing his hand over the silky water. And image of Aelita in a casket seemed to push it's way into his thoughts.

He shook his head. "Get out of there," he said and rubbed his head.

Suddenly a sharp pain erupted in his head. "AHH!" Odd shouted and grabbed his head. It felt like it would split open at any moment.

"Urr…Uh…."

"Watch out!" someone shouted. Was it a boy or a girl? It sounded like both.

Images of Aelita filled Odd's head.

Something hard slammed into his skull, causing him to fall to the ground. And he lay there, motionless.

He stopped breathing.

And his heart stopped working.

Odd Della-Robbia was dead.

But then something happened. Between space and time, everything stopped. The wind didn't blow, water didn't move, and no human spoke.

The world, our universe, was still.

Something happened.

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