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Chapter 6 : Lyoko

"Do you guys think we should tell Angel about Lyoko?" said Jeremie.

"Wouldn't it be dangerous if anyone other than us knew? It could put her life in grave danger. She could even get killed!" Yumi said.

"How do we know we can even trust her?" Ulrich said.

"Just like how we can trust each other. She's trustworthy Ulrich, give her a break will ya?" said a purple clad boy.

"Wait a minute. If we tell Angel, shouldn't we tell William too?" Yumi said, being the fairest of them all (A/N : no pun intended).

"I don't know about that, Angel showed some good mental strength when holding back to actually hurt Ulrich that bad." Odd said grinning looking at Ulrich's arm that was still bruised, but not too swollen, and he could move it without too much excruciating pain.

"Oh yeah, she totally held back while hitting me, that's why I have this huge bruise on my arm. " Ulrich put in sarcastically.

"Odd has somewhat of a point there. I think we can trust her. William, I don't know about. We barely even know him, after all, he got kicked out of his old school." Jeremie said.

"Yeah, for pasting up love letters on the wall!" said a slightly angered Yumi.

"Even if we tell both of them, it's going to be a huge burden on them. What if they can't handle it? What if they don't believe us and tell the police and show them the factory like Taelia did?" Ulrich said.

"Angel still doesn't seem like the person to do that. I don't know if this means anything at all, but she can't be all bad, after all she works at a shelter." Odd said, then suddenly regretting it.

"She does? The one a few blocks down from my house? I heard that some of them are in gangs! We need to get her to stop going, she could be in big trouble! I heard there's some kids that got in trouble with the police!" Said a very agitated Yumi.

"You probably have a point there, she said I wouldn't last for an hour there." Odd said.

"You guys back to the topic! Aelita, what do you think? Can we trust her?" Jeremie said.

"Yes Jeremie, we can trust her. If she was the girl from my vision, I don't think she's on XANA's side." Aelita said while smiling.

"Then it's settled, we'll tell Angel about Lyoko."

"Yup!'' They all chimed in happily except for Yumi who still said that William should be admitted into the group. They then all went out to find her.


(Angels POV)

In the car on the way to the hospital . . .

"But Aunty why do I have to go to the hospital?" I whined.

"You've been having bleeding noses nearly every day and you fainted a few times too. That is not what I call normal!" she said sternly. I knew it was the end of the conversation since she said it in such a firm voice. It was futile to argue, if I did, I would only waste my energy, but I did anyway.

"But I don't wanna go!"

"You're going and that's that" she said sternly.

When we got to the office we waited for about fifteen minutes until someone could see us. When we got there Aunty Ann told Dr. Mitchell of my 'condition'. He asked me if I had any allergies and if I had any family health problems. I could only answer with only one statement for the last question, 'I don't know, I was adopted.' and that was the end of that. We ran some test and at the end he took Aunty to the side and she starting crying and spazzing, and basically threw herself on me, hugging me, and saying everything would be alright. Since Aunty obviously wouldn't - or couldn't - tell me what's wrong, I turned to Dr. Mitchell.

"What's wrong? What happened?" I said while trying to calm Aunty down by telling her to wait outside for me. She didn't oblige.

"I'm sorry. You have a very acute stage of leukemia."

"Isn't there some cure, anything?" Aunty moaned.

"I wish there was, but there isn't. If we actually knew her kin we could've tested them to see if they have the same bone marrow as Angel does. With treatment, you could last from 3 years to the rest of your life, without it, you could only last two months tops."

"I understand, could you check to see if there is anyone willing to donate bone marrow with the same one as me, please?" I said with tears slowly creeping down my face, but, I had to be strong.

"We will do this but with all the other leukemia patients we serve it might be a few days or a few weeks. And I can't guarantee anything. We can give you some pills to help stop the bleeding nose's frequency and we can't do anything for your fainting ."

"Thank you Dr. Mitchell. We should be going now aunt." after I changed, and got the pills, we went strait home. Aunt crying the whole way. I was surprised we didn't crash or anything since she was in clear hysteria. We got home. Safe. Finally.

"Aunt, I'm going for a walk in the park and I won't be back till dinner, okay?"

"Yes honey. Be back for dinner okay? Bring back dinner too. Here's a $20 bill." obviously she was completely out of it and couldn't make dinner. Probably going to be in hysterics all week. Or month. Who really knows? I went to a store and bought a box with a thousand pieces of perfectly square (about 1½ inches in diameter) and colored origami paper. Then I bought a box big enough to fit 1000 cranes. Did you know according to the legend, if one can make a 1000 paper cranes, the god's will heal you and grant you any wish (A/N : I know, a lot like Sadako and the 1000 paper cranes, but too bad!)? Next, I climbed up the ladder and went up on top of my 'thinking mountain'. My mountain can't think mind you. I just use it to think! It's really quiet and serene there. I started to work on my cranes. I got through 10 when I heard Odd, Yumi, Ulrich, Jeremie, and Aelita yelling my name. I packed up, climbed down, secured the ladder again, and then went to see what was up.


(Odd's POV)

In the Park . . .

"Angel! Angel where are you! We want to tell you something!" We all yelled. After 15 minutes, we were desperate, we went to ask . . . Sissi. Since she's the only other person in school that Angel hangs with. We found out she was going to the doctors today but was probably back by now. I did not want to go to the shelter and ask. If what Yumi said was true, it wasn't such a hot place to hang out. After about 25 minutes of yelling (I swear, most of the school knew we were looking for her after this!) we spotted her coming toward us with a box in hand.

"We . . . Have . . . To . . . Show . . . You . . . Something." I panted because one, my voice hurt, and two, running around yelling is tiring work!

"So I've heard through the grapevine." she said with a smirk.

"Come, follow us. What's in the box?" I heard Yumi say. And we headed out to the factory.

"I'm starting to make 1000 paper cranes." Angel replied.

"I remember starting that. It took forever!" Yumi answered back.

"Really? Did you finish?"

"Amazingly, yes!"

That was basically the conversation all the way to the factory. We lead her toward the elevator and then Jeremie began his 'this is a secret, you can't tell anybody' speech.

"Angel, what we show you, you can't tell anyone about. Promise?" and held out his pinky. I swear, what a nerd he can be sometimes!

"Promise." she said and locked pinky's with his.

We finally got down to the factory Jeremie began his briefing on Lyoko.

"Lyoko is a virtual world that is parallel to Earth. Aelita is the soul inhabitant of Lyoko. She's an AI, or artificial intelligence, XANA is a super virus that can possess and take control of almost anything, except for us; he can only attack us indirectly. There are 5 regions; ice, desert, mountain, forest, and Carthage; the home of all information concerning Lyoko. We found some information pertaining to Franz Hopper who we think created Lyoko for some military training base, but their funds went down so they had to call off the project."

Einstein finally took his first breath in what seemed like minutes. Then I observed Angel who was looking at Jeremie intently, if she didn't believe us, then she didn't show it on her face. Then again she didn't show any emotion in her face except maybe a hint of curiosity.

"Ulrich, Yumi, and Odd, and Aelita, already have characters programmed on the supercomputer and I man it, I also programmed vehicles for them. Any questions."

"Yeah, I have one. Are you loco (crazy in Hawaiian . . . I think.)?"

"Yes. Any other questions for the crazed psychopath?" he said sarcastically.

"When can I program my character?" she said with a smile.


(Angel's POV)

I didn't exactly believe them, but I trusted them enough to just do as they say. So when I asked when I can program my character they were ecstatic. Jeremie helped me and we told the others that they would have to wait for me to go to Lyoko to be able to see my Lyokian form. We called it a day after that Odd, stopped me yet again, to probably ask another question.

"Hey, Angel, what did you go to the doctors for?" I was caught off guard, I couldn't tell him, how the heck did he find out? He'd only be worried, he probably wouldn't get a good night's sleep for a while, thus his grades dropping even lower. He must of noticed my face, because he made another comment.

"It's not like you're going to die right?" Oh how wrong he was, I made a laughed anyway, just so he would get off my case.

"C'mon lets catch up with the others!" I laughed. Suddenly I started clutching my head in pain and I was staggering. Unfortunately, I was really close to the edge of the lake . . . And I fell in.

Bang! Went a gun.

I screamed my five year old scream. I grabbed my rosary and put it around my neck and walked shakily to the door my hand shaking while trying to use the doorknob to open the door. The doorknob was looming over my head. I opened it to find the same lady that gave me the necklace, on the floor, on her back, eye's glazed over, and . . . blood pouring out of her head into a puddle on the floor. I started to cry a waterfall, my tears started to mix with the blood.

"Mommy? " I said in a tiny voice. I was shaking so much I couldn't stand anymore.

"MOMMY!" I screamed and then I heard creaking coming up the stairs . . .

I woke up. I was drenched in water.


(Ulrich's POV)

Back at the bridge . . .

Splash! We all turned to look where it came from. What we saw shocked us. I guess I should tell you, huh? It was Angel falling into the lake.

"Do you guy's think she's just going for a swim?" I said hopefully. Yumi looked at me like I was crazy.

"Do you think she jumped in for the heck of it?" Why the heck is she answering a question with a question at a time like this?

"Good point. Odd, what happened to Angel . . ." What we saw next we couldn't believe. Odd was jumping into the lake. From that I think we all just realized, she didn't jump in for the fun of it, something happened to her. Obviously Odd figured it out fast enough to think and try to play hero. We then saw Odd walking out of the lake, carrying Angel bridal style.

"It's happened again . . ." I heard him say in a distant, small voice and looked down at her with sympathy. "We need to get her back home." and with out another word he started half walking, half running to her house. He made it as far as the park before he stumbled and fell, he must have used most of his energy just to get Angel out of the water. Poor guy.

Suddenly a guy appeared out of nowhere. He was - as Geeniu (A/N : you'll find out in the chapter after the next one) called it - a haole (A/N : No offence to anybody who is one, it's just part of the story. In case some of you don't know a haole is a light skinned, blond person. We say this sometimes in Hawaii. Pronounced how-lee). He looked strong too, there was a small girl that was black, she had her hair in braids, and she was hiding behind the blond boy. There clothes were all dirty and tattered.

"What's wrong with Angel, Nat?" she said while looking up at the haole boy. With the obvious name of Nat.

"I don't know Adriana, but let's ask these people." he looked at us as if expecting an answer. Odd finally regained consciousness. Angel's still out of it.

"Who are you and what are you doing here?" Odd demanded when he saw the boy. I noticed the girl was scared and grabbed tighter to the boy's leg. He whispered something to her and she let go of his leg and ran over to Angel. Odd stopped her.

"I said what are you doing here, are you deaf or something?" Odd said repeating himself. I looked at Aelita and Jeremie, they were just watching in horror and kneeling over Angel. I decided to keep quiet.

"What did you do to Angel! Let go of Adriana!" I took another look at the girl, Odd was gripping her pretty tight, her arm looked like it was going to fall off and she was crying. I ran over and pried her arm away from Odd and led her to Angel. They looked like they were going to start fighting soon. Odd had a fist clenched, and Nat, I think he's called, has both hands clenched in a fist. Soon, they were all over each other fighting. After about 10 minutes, Angel regained consciousness.


(Angel's POV)

My vision's still in swirls. I slowly got up and heard yelling. I saw four heads over me. When my vision was better and I could see again. I found it was Yumi, Jeremie, Aelita, and Adriana.

"Hey, you guys." I said.

"Angel, your back!" Adriana cried and started to hug me. After I pried her off me I stood and saw Ulrich and asked him what the fight was about.

"It's between Odd and . . . Uh . . . - -" Adriana interrupted him. It's between "Purple boy and Nat. There fighting because of you. Again."

"Another fight because of me? This is getting old." I muttered under my breath so only Adriana could hear. She giggled. "Yeah, you keep gigling, wait till it happens to you!Ulrich, get Yumi. You guy's grab Odd, and I'll grab Nat." I said. OW! My head still hurts. Nat was about to kick Odd, but before he could, I grabbed his leg. He was shocked. Ulrich and Yumi both held Odd back.

"Stop." I said tiredly. "You need to learn that violence doesn't solve anything. You too Odd." I let go of his leg and to my surprise he threw a punch at Odd, but I was faster. I grabbed his fist, kicked him in the stomach, and twisted his arm back. Thankfully Odd was calmed down . . . or so I thought and he threw a punch, and since Nat was in front of me I didn't see it, but I heard it connect. Tired of this, I released Nat and kicked Odd in the gut which sent him to the ground. Then my whole world went black.

I woke up. I was in my bed with Odd, and Adriana there. I was surprised not to see Nat though.

"Nat's not here. He didn't want to cause anymore trouble to you. Oh yeah, Nat carried you all the way home." Odd sent a total death glare at her.

"Thanks you guys, but you should go. I don't want to get you guys into trouble . . . and Adriana, remind me to thank Nat when I'm feeling better. Odd, could you do me a favor?"

"Sure, anything."

"Take Adriana back to the shelter, just to make sure she doesn't get into any trouble." I glanced at Adriana, she looked like she was going to protest, "No complaining either."

They heeded my request and left. But before that Adriana nodded and Odd took a second glance back at me. Since I only have a few months to live I decided to start a present for each of them. I started to draw two rough sketches. One with Nat, Adriana, and I; the park as our background. The other with Yumi, Ulrich, Odd, Kiwi, Aelita, Jeremie, and I; the lake with a sunset as our background. I was going to give one to each of them. Colored, and framed too. Their going to love it.


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