-1Chapter 5: Darkness lives

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Rain beat down upon the thin glass windows as Yumi Ishiayama stirred form her sleep that morning. She was a bit sore but A large smile filled her healing face. She remembered the events of last night and couldn't help but to smile, it had been a long time since her and Ulrich...

"Ah forget Ulrich.."

She said to herself as she pulled herself from bed and quickly threw something on. as she left the room she glanced quickly at the bed, Jeremy wasn't there, she smiled hopeing that he hadn't loved then left her and walked into the kitchen. As she approached the kitchen she could hear the quick powerful keystrokes on a laptop that 15 years ago were common place and form the hallway she spied Jeremy sitting at the small round Kitchen table. He was typing like a man possessed staring at the screen with great intent Just like he always did, Back in the day anyway.

Yumi surveyed him for a moment his boot shod feet rested themselves on the table while jeans concealed his strong legs, the laptop rested just below his waist where he had a grey muscle t-shit tucked in.

"He didn't look that much different that he always use to." Yumi thought "except maybe for the while 6' 4" thing and the large muscular arms and maybe than fact he didn't wear glasses anymore. other than that he was the same old Jeremy. "oh yea and the bike and a couple of prison tattoos," ironically the largest one was that of a angle with a broken wing it resided on the majority of his upper back. and right shoulder

Yumi smiled "maybe he wasn't the same old Jeremy.

"hey whatcha doing?" she asked breaking the rhythmic pounding of the keys.

"Just a lil something." he replied smiling at her. "Pull up a chair, there's coffee on the burner, so if you want any..."

Yumi sighed as she got herself some coffee, a banana, couple of stale toaster pastries and pulled up a seat next to Jeremy. He was switching screened and typing so fast that at first Yumi and her hazy morning eyes couldn't keep up.

"Remember club ANAX?"

"Yea" Yumi paused.

"Well I have been digging up some dirt on it." he cracked a half smile not breaking stride on the keyboard. "Well it seems that Old friend XANA likes the night life." "You ever play scravel?" Jeremy asked her.

"Jeremy I don't really understand what Your silly intellectual games have to do with XANA coming back."

"Patience." Jeremy replied

He then pulled up a screen and highlighted the large sigh that said ANAX. Leaned over on Jeremy and stared blurry eyed at the neon sign.

If you take the Letters in ANAX and flip em, what do you get?" a look of excitement filled his face one that he had not had in years.

Maybe it was the coffee maybe it was the sex last night or maybe it was just plain out blind luck but somehow yumi's brain fired on all cylinders and.

"Duh...she smacked herself on the forehead as she finally understood. " ANAX reverse the letters and you get XANA.."

"But if that's the case, those places are all over Europe, and...and..." she exclaimed

"Yes I know." Jeremy calmly said "but it all started here In the city of lost angles 10 years ago. Best I can figure when I pulled the plug on XANA he was able to squeeze a small amount of himself onto the internet and various other servers and networks feeding off of their energies he was able to survive but unable to make manifest the power he once had on Lyoko.

"But what would he want with a chain of night clubs?" Yumi asked. I mean common they generate cash but XANA isn't into petty drug dealing and Ripping teens out of their money by condoning Underage drinking.

"Maybe not, but look at this." Jeremy said pulling up another screen. On it was a picture of a huge computer mainframe. " see each one of those clubs have one of these mainframes, its purpose is simple to mix store and play the techno beats that club ANAX is famous for but... they also, connect the club with the rest of the world Via the internet you know storing huge amounts of personal data such as Credit card numbers Id's criminal records and the like and most importantly Bits and pieces of XANA Himself.

"If that's the case?" Yumi exclaimed. " we might have the chance to destroy XANA once and for all!"

"Yes, Yumi I know and I might finally be able to take my revenge for Aelita..." and a fire filled his Cool blue eyes.

Little romance there just some random type plot dialogue. Hopefully it wasn't too boring ;) things outta pick up a little bit next chapter so bare with me. Icesythe