Code Xana Episode 47: Stone Soldiers
Author: James the Lesser/The Bunnyman
Disclaimer: I Do Not Own These Characters! Moonscoop Does! Actually, I own most of these characters, I made them up, but the place and the settings and the back round stuff is Moonscape.
Please read my episodes, 53-119 plus the OVA of Code Lyoko to know what is going on. Oh and Code Xana the Movie and Episode 1-46
"Sora I'm sorry!" Krieger and Sora were arguing in the gym. "It was part of the thing I do. I can't help when it happens and I can't tell you what it is."
"Well who was that new guy then? He got in pretty quick didn't he?"
"He, he's an old member but transferred a couple of weeks ago to here." Krieger was trying to think fast and not expose the group.
"Then why doesn't he come to school here?" Sora and Krieger had been training but right now the reason Krieger was pinned was so Sora could interrogate him. "Well?"
"I think he's home schooled. I, I don't really talk to him much, Sanne does."
"Sanne does huh? Do you even realize how jealous you sound when you said that?" Sora stares death at Krieger.
"I, uh, don't know what you're talking about. Sanne and I are just friends!" Krieger uses his strength and rolls out of the pin and pins Sora. "That's all we're going to be."
"Not if she has her way." Krieger's reaction tells Sora what she wanted, or didn't want, to know. "Oh that makes you happy huh? That she wants to be with you? Get off of me and don't you dare touch me again until you can finally say you love me or that we're breaking up!" Krieger stands up and tries to help Sora up but she refuses his help. "Why are men such pigs?!" Sora storms off for the girls' locker room leaving behind a confused Krieger. He didn't know what Sora was talking about. Sanne didn't like him as more then friends, did she? Was Sora seeing something that he wasn't? But the last time he even hinted at liking her… No, Sora had to be making things up. She had to be seeing things there was no way Sanne liked him as more then friends. Sanne was with Dante from what Krieger was seeing and hearing. Unless they were just really good friends like he and Sanne were, are…
"There's no way she likes me as more then friends. What could have changed? Maybe when Dante came back she realized something, no, Sora has to be seeing things that aren't there." Krieger waits for Sora to come out of the girls' locker room. "Sora wait you're seeing things that aren't there." Krieger stops her before she can leave the gym. "Sanne is just a friend, a close friend, but a friend. I've known her for years so you're probably just seeing that."
"You're so dense. I know Sanne likes you as more because she told me! I knew she did and I cornered her in the shower room before and she told me! She said she wasn't going to do anything to mess up what we have but you're doing a damn good job of it yourself!"
"Sora it must be a mistake the last time I tried to kiss Sanne she nearly bit my head off and wouldn't talk to me for a week!" Krieger would have said more but was smacked by Sora.
"And when was this!?"
"I, before we started dating." Krieger rubs his jaw where he was smacked. "I don't know what to do."
"You don't know what to do? Either tell me you love me and there will never be anything between you and Sanne or break up with me!" Sora has tears forming in her eyes. "Please?"
"I, I'm, I can't say either one. I, I like you, a lot. You're smart, fun, good looking. You obviously like me and I swear I like you but love? I, I'm only thirteen."
"You'll be fourteen in two weeks. I, I was going to, get you something but you know what? I, I, I'll give you a few hours but damn it I'm not going to follow you around hoping for a scrap of meat if you're just going to leave me and be with Sanne." Sora storms out of the gym trying not to cry.
"But that, she doesn't, but Sora said, I need to find Sanne." Krieger leaves the gym and looks for Sanne.
"Ok Dante, now you got it. Just tell your armies what you want them to do and defeat your enemy." Sanne was teaching Dante how to play a video game she had on her Jtop. "There you go, send your Blood Ravens in to crush those Eldar!" Sanne cheers him on when her door opens. "Oh hi Krieger, what's wrong?" Sanne could tell by the look on Krieger's face something was wrong. "Is Xana attacking? My Jpocket is on and running but if he took a Tower I…" Sanne is interrupted when Krieger grabs her by the wrist and pulls her out of her room. "Krieger what are you doing let go of my wrist!" Krieger doesn't and drags Sanne to the stairwell. He looks up and down them to make sure they were alone.
"I just got done arguing with Sora and she, she said something, about you." Krieger was nervous, scared, and happy all at once. "I, she said, she said you liked me as more then friends. Is, is that true?"
"Krieger I, I told her I wouldn't mess with you two." Sanne doesn't like where the conversation is going and wants to get away.
"So you do like me as more, Sora wasn't lying." Krieger hugs Sanne. "I'm so sorry, I, I didn't think, um, you would change like that." Krieger started dating Sora for several reasons. She was a good looking, smart, fun person. She wasn't part of the gang so he could escape from Xana when he was with her. And the person he liked a lot kept telling him no. But as much as he tried to love Sora he couldn't because there was someone else. "Sanne I, you know how I feel about you and now I know how you feel about me. Maybe we could, um, do something later."
"No Krieger. I'm not letting you two break up because of me!"
"It won't be because of you it will be because of me! I've never told Sora I loved her because I couldn't. I, I never gave up on you I just decided to give you room. When Dante was able to come back I thought that was it but, Sora, she said you told her that you liked me as more then friends. She's mad at me because I can't say I love her and she told me to either break up with her or lie. I don't want to lie, I can't tell her I love her, but us breaking up won't be your fault."
"Krieger I, I, I can't do this right now." Sanne tries to push Krieger off of her but he won't let her go. "Let me go!"
"Not until you tell me how you feel about me. If you could tell Sora that you liked me, liked like me, then you can tell me that." Krieger wasn't sure what to do. What if Sanne had changed her mind since Dante came back? Or changed her mind because he didn't see it and was with Sora?
"It's not that easy!" Sanne breaks Krieger's hug. "I, I'm so confused. I do like you Krieger but I don't want to be responsible for you and Sora breaking up. She's a nice person, she could have attacked me, told me to never talk to you again but she didn't." Sora had attacked Sanne but both had been undone by returns to the past.
"And that's why I tried to like her as much as I like you but I just can't. She's not you, she is a great person and I hope she finds someone ten times better than me but she isn't the one I love." Krieger hugs Sanne again. "Please Sanne tell me how you feel."
"I, I like you Krieger, as more then friends, I think." Sanne's mind had been confused ever since Dante was freed from Xana. She had spent a lot of time with him and knew Dante had a crush on her but when she told him about her feelings for Krieger he said it himself, that he knew she liked Krieger as more then friends. But as she spent more time with Dante, she was just too confused. "I, um, I know I like you as more but I, I don't think I'm ready for the things you are. For the things you do with Sora." Sanne blushes.
"I wasn't ready for the things I did with her. I, it's embarrassing to say but she was the one in control of the relationship." Krieger squeezes Sanne in his arms. "Sanne we can go slow, really slow, but I at least want to do this." Krieger closes his eyes and leans down to kiss Sanne when he feels something cold and rough on his shoulder. He turns around and sees a stone monster! "Sanne get away!" Krieger pushes Sanne away as the monster attacks. "Aaaa!" The monster bites Krieger on the arm. When it does the monster seems to shed the rock from its body and become flesh while Krieger turns into stone.
"No, what are you, this has to be Xana!"
"I am free, I am free!" The monster roars. "I can go anywhere now that I am free!"
"I'll kill you!" Sanne tries to attack the monster but it knocks her down.
"Silly girl now that I have bitten one of your kind I am free. I am of no danger to you or your friends. My brethren however are still out there looking for certain humans to bite to gain freedom. Freedom, the freedom to fly wherever I want!" The monster busts a hole in the wall and sees the outside. "This is incredible, I can finally fly!" The monster takes off in the air and uses its wings to fly away.
"No! Krieger!" Sanne kneels down next to Krieger who has been turned into a statue. "No, Krieger, no." Sanne starts to cry as she hugs the statue that was Krieger. "Xana did this. Damn it!" She had left her Jpocket in her room when Krieger grabbed her and pulled her out. "Krieger if we deactivate the Tower you'll be fixed ok? You'll be ok." Sanne runs to her room still crying and gets Dante.
"Sanne what's wrong?"
"Krieger, he was turned to stone. Xana's attacking." Sanne grabs her Jpocket from the nightstand it was on. "You couldn't hear it beep because of the game. Damn it if I hadn't turned the volume up you would have heard it and warned us!" Sanne grabs a speaker to her computer and beats it against her computer desk. "Stupid, stupid, stupid!"
"Sanne please calm down. Whatever Xana has done to Krieger we can fix it. You can call Skitz while I call Ark."
"Ok, ok, sorry." Sanne drops the broken speaker and gets her phone out of her pocket to call Skitz. Dante calls Ark who was with Mira and they head for the Factory. Krieger's body, statue, was left behind in the stairwell to be found by the next person going up them.
"I can't believe I did that!" Sora had gone for an angry walk around the campus and was going back to her room. "I might as well have pushed him into her arms! He actually sounded like he didn't know Sanne liked him as more then friends. Idiot! Saying that to him he'll probably break up just because I'm so stupid!" Sora runs up the stairs to go to her dorm room. Her eyes are filled with tears and she doesn't see something lying at the top of the stairs in front of the girls' dorm floor. "Aaaa!" She trips over something. "Ow, my shin, man that stings." Sora looks at what she tripped over. "What the heck is this?" She puts a hand on what appears to be a face. "Krieger?" She runs a hand over the face feeling how warm the stone was. "This is too creepy. It's like an exact copy of him, it even smells like him, and perfume? No, what is that other, Sanne!" Sora pounds a fist on the statue and hears a breaking noise. She had accidentally broken two fingers off. "Oh crap, this looks really expensive but, who, why is it here? Why would they make a statue of Krieger? Unless, maybe it has to do with that guy who nearly drowned me a couple days ago. Could it be part of that club he's in?" Sora never told Krieger about the weird man that nearly drowned her at the pool. She thought about it but Krieger would have just told her some excuse about his club and not being able to talk about it. "Wait, I have to call him." Sora gets her phone out and calls Krieger. She hears his ring tone. It is coming from the statue! "No freaking way. This, this has to be a joke. This can't really be Krieger. No, if it's Krieger then I, no, this can't be Krieger." Sora picks up the two broken fingers. "This can't be Krieger that's impossible." The fingers were still warm. She looks closely at one and sees a cut that was left yesterday by her when they were training. "It can't be Krieger, it can't be Krieger." She repeats this to herself trying to convince herself that this couldn't be real.
"Oh crap." Sanne and Dante had made it to the end of the sewer passage only to see two stone soldiers of Xana waiting for them. "They probably won't attack me."
"Maybe. Xana may have been after your body but my mother might not be due to her influence."
"I don't know, you would have influenced your father if a host could still influence him like before, right?" Sanne looks over at Dante and sees him blushing. "I'm not even going to ask." Xana wanted her body as a host but Dante had a crush on her, Sanne tries to keep it out of her head. She was confused by what happened with Krieger and her own feelings and Dante was just confusing things more for her. "We should wait though. They won't try to bite me so I can make a good distraction while the others get across the bridge." The two wait and soon Ark, Mira, and Skitz arrive.
"Where's Krieger?"
"He's down, for now." Sanne had told Dante what happened to Krieger but not the others. "We have two big problems." Sanne explains the stone monsters.
"Sound like gargoyles to me. There's an old church somewhere missing a couple of ugly statues." Ark laughs but stops when Sanne stares at him.
"If they bite you they will turn you into stone."
"Is that what happened Krieger?" Skitz was curious and this answered her questions. "Does that mean he's…" Sanne cuts Skitz off.
"No! We just have to deactivate the Tower and he'll be fine." Sanne looks up at the sewer cover. "Xana wants me on Lyoko so they won't go after me."
"Wait, what happened to the gargoyle that bit Krieger?" Ark was worried about his best friend and what was out there.
"He said he was free and flew off."
"So they won't stay? Why not let them bite us and then they'll fly away."
"Do you volunteer?" Sanne crosses her arms and stares at Ark.
"Well, I, you've gone with fewer, and actually you'll only be down one since we have twinkle fingers fighting with us now." Ark smiles at Dante.
"No we'll all go. Xana, Ms. Delmas, likes to act on Lyoko so we need as many as possible. She probably remembers how well our parents did against the monsters." Sanne climbs up the ladder and exits the sewer. "Come on guys hurry it up."
"We didn't want to climb behind you." Ark remembered what happened when Sanne was above him on a ladder and didn't want a repeat performance. They climb up and the two stone monsters see the Lyoko Warriors.
"Freedom, there is our freedom!" The two stone soldiers charge the Lyoko Warriors. They are slow being made of stone allowing the Lyoko Warriors to dodge the attacks.
"Run for the elevator!" Sanne and the other run down the bridge for the Factory entrance.
"No, our freedom!" The two stone warriors run after the Lyoko Warriors. The Lyoko Warriors jump and swing down to the Factory floor. Both stone monsters jump down after them and when they land craters are left in the Factory floor.
"Aaaa!" A chunk of Factory floor flies up and hits Ark in the leg. He falls and both stone monsters jump on him.
"No, Ark!" Skitz and Mira go to help Ark but are too late. Ark had been bitten and was turning into stone as one of the gargoyles became flesh.
"Get over here we have to deactivate the Tower!" Sanne and Dante had made it to the elevator but Mira and Skitz had stopped running.
"I am free, free to go where I want!" The gargoyle that had bit Ark flies away leaving one stone warrior behind.
"Die!" Skitz jumps on the back of the stone monster and punches it but does nothing. The stone monster reaches up and grabs Skitz pulling her off of his back. "Aaaa!" The stone monster bites Skitz and soon the rock falls from its skin as Skitz turns into stone. The gargoyle flies away having been freed from his stone cage.
"Ark, Skitz, damn it." Mira checks on Ark then Skitz. "They're warm. Uh, Sanne, are you sure that deactivating the Tower will work?"
"Yes!" It has to work. "Now that we're down three warriors Xana will have an easier time of getting me." Sanne was getting scared. Three of her friends had been bitten and turned to stone. Dante thought Ms. Delmas would influence Xana but Sanne was still worried that Xana wanted her body as a host. The Lyoko Warriors take the elevator down to the Control Room. "Ok, Forest Sector, I'll send the vehicles then us."
"Just send the Overbike and Overboard. I'll take the Overboard and you two can ride the Overbike." Mira wanted to ride the Overboard since lately she hadn't been able to. "Unless you think one of you should be on the Overwing just incase."
"No, Overbike is the fastest we don't need the Overwing to slow us down." Sanne sends the vehicles then sets up the auto transfer program. "Come on guys we have to hurry." Sanne runs back over to the elevator and they take it down to the Scanner Room. After stepping into the Scanners the Scanner doors close and they soon land on Lyoko in the Forest Sector. "North, we have to go north. Dante hang on I'm using the flight controls on the Overbike." Sanne wanted to deactivate the Tower as soon as possible. "Hang on!" Sanne takes off for the activated Tower and Mira follows on the Overboard.
"Oh crap, company." Mira sees two Dragons flying at them. "Do we fight them or do we run for the Tower?"
"Fight. If we stop them here they can't attack us when we get to the Tower." Sanne closes her eyes and starts to build energy.
"Sanne watch out!" Dante grabs the controls of the Overbike and swerves the Overbike out of a crash course with a tree.
"Dante get your wand out and fire at them. I can't take the time to charge a Scattershot." Dante listens to Sanne and gets his wand out. Sanne dodges in between trees as the Dragons catch up to them.
"I'm no good at flying monsters!" Mira was trying to block lasers with her Kodachis and dodge between trees at the same time.
"Well we aren't running so fight them!" Sanne turns the Overbike around and fires a regular beam. Dante starts firing energy orbs from his wand. Mira swings around a tree and slams into a Dragon with the Overboard.
"Aaaa!" Mira flies off the Overboard as the Dragon she hit falls into the Digital Sea. Mira uses her Koachis to cling to a tree. "Help!" Mira hangs on to her swords for dear life.
"Dante aim above it, when it flies down I'll fire at it." Dante fires energy orbs out of his wand above the Dragon and like Sanne planned it flies down. Sanne fires at it and destroys it.
"A little help here people!" Mira yells at the other two. "My swords are slipping!" Mira can feel them slowly moving out of the tree they were in. Sanne and Dante fly up to her.
"Uh, we don't have much room left. I can move forward a little so Dante can to but we're going to be a tight fit." Sanne moves forward on the Overbike as does Dante. Mira jumps on then pulls her swords out of the tree.
"Maybe we should go down to the paths instead of flying over the Digital Sea." Sanne flies down to the paths and deactivates the flying controls. "We're almost there right Dante?"
"Not to far now we should be able to see it if it weren't for the trees." Dante closes his eyes. "Xana's done something. There are more trees then before. He's trying to make it harder for us to see monsters. They will probably be hiding waiting for us." Dante looks around.
"He better send them soon since I see the Tower." Sanne revs the engine of the Overbike and charges forward for the Tower.
"Wait for it, wait for it, now!" Xana sends a bolt of energy and destroys the Overbike. "My son did you like being between two women?" Ms. Delmas flies down laughing. "Only three of you made it. Those stone soldiers did the job." The Schipizoa appears. "I want out of this body! It is disgusting, old, and useless!" Ms. Delmas sends the Schipizoa at Sanne.
"Scattershot!" Sanne fires and eight beams come out. Four hit the Schipizoa but Ms. Delmas keeps the Schipizoa from running away.
"I need more power." Dante fires energy orbs out of the wand. "Uh, Abra Cadabra?" Nothing. "Alakazam!" A beam of energy comes out and hits Ms. Delmas.
"That almost hurt! I'll punish you for that son!"
"I'm not your son. Xana used you as an incubator and nothing more." Dante fires another beam of energy at Ms. Delmas who deflects it with an energy shield.
"Get out of here Sanne!" Mira was fighting with the Schipizoa using her Kodachis to cut the tentacles. "Get to the Tower!"
"Right." Sanne runs for the Tower.
"Not so fast!" Ms. Delmas points her hand at Sanne.
"Bubble!" Sanne's bubble comes up and the energy bolt Ms. Delmas sent at her is blocked. The Bubble is destroyed so Sanne brings it up again to block the next energy bolt.
"Stop it Xana!" Dante charges energy into his wand then fires it at Ms. Delmas.
"Ouch! That did hurt!" Ms. Delmas attacks Dante and destroys him. Dante is sent back to Earth but his distraction worked. Sanne runs into the activated Tower and deactivates it.
"If deactivating the Tower is enough to heal them we don't need a return. I better go back and call them." Sanne sends herself and Mira back to Earth.
In the stairway of the dorm building at Kadic Academy Sora is amazed by what she sees. The statue changes into Krieger. "Krieger? I, what, how?"
"Sora?" Krieger is amazed to see Sora. Why would she sit next to him all this time? Krieger wasn't sure what happened and thought he just passed out.
"How Krieger? Was it part of your club? Is this what it is? You, you, how?"
"What happened?" Krieger sits up and looks around. "What the heck?" He sees two of his fingers are missing but it doesn't hurt or bleed. "That's not good."
"I'm so sorry Krieger. I, I accidentally broke them off when you were a statue." Sora opens her right hand and shows the two fingers. "I, I don't know what to do. I'm so sorry I, how?" Sora was still confused about what had happened to Krieger.
"It was Xana." Krieger can't believe that even after the fight he had with Sora she still cared about him. "I didn't, I can't, tell you because you will be in trouble." Krieger's phone rings and he sees it is Sanne. "Um, I'm kind of hurt and Sora saw me."
"Oh, crap. I was hoping not to do a return."
"So was I. Um, I, we don't have too if we let…" The white bubble cuts Krieger off in mid sentence.
"Whoa, oh crap." Krieger was back in the gym waiting for Sora to come out of the girls' locker room. Sora comes out of the girls' locker room and Krieger runs over to her. "Sora I'm sorry."
"Sorry? You're sorry? Don't touch me until you have an answer! Either you love me or you're breaking up with me!"
"I'm sorry I can't tell you I love you." Krieger looks away from Sora. "You're a great person and you deserve someone a lot better then me. You deserve someone who can love you and treat you better. I'm sorry."
"Bastard." Sora knees Krieger but misses her target and hits him in the thigh. "Go to Sanne, I know you want to. She'll take you, hmpf, maybe I should tell her about all the things we did together. See if she'll try to keep up." Sora storms out of the gym.
"Please don't." Krieger rubs his thigh glad Sora's anger made her aim bad. "I better go see Sanne." Krieger runs out of the gym and goes to the dorm building.
"There you are." Sanne was waiting for Krieger in the stairwell. "I, I just saw Sora." Sanne backed away wondering if Sora would attack her but Sora ignored her. "I, I guess you two still broke up."
"Yes." Krieger goes over to Sanne. "I, um, it's not your fault it's mine. I knew this would happen sooner or later but I didn't want to hurt Sora when we broke up. She's mad at me though and I deserve it. I, I went out with her because she was there"
"You only went out with her because she was there?"
"I, well, she is a nice person and um, I, I wanted to respect your decision that we'd be just friends. But then she said you did like me as more and I couldn't keep going out with her."
"I understand Krieger. I, I don't know what it is. No, I do know, now I know. When you were there I said no but when you weren't there I realized that I, I liked you, a lot. I always did but I was concerned about Xana and Dante and everything else. But then you were gone, I, you weren't there."
"What's different now?" Krieger puts his hands on Sanne's arms.
"I, well, Dante's free from Lyoko. And, I, Xana could be there for a long time and I don't want to lose you to someone else. You're my best friend, even better then Skitz and I, we could try to be more. I'm so sorry for how I treated you before."
"Like when you stopped talking to me because I tried to kiss you?"
"I, I, well, I'm sorry. I treated you like trash because I didn't want to admit…" Sanne is cut off when Krieger kisses her. "Wow." Krieger pulls back and smiles.
"Better then Xana?" Sanne laughs.
"Much better. I don't have to brush my teeth or use a gallon of mouthwash."
"Good." Krieger kisses Sanne again. "I, I um, love you, Sanne." Krieger blushes. He hadn't told another girl he loved them before.
"I, uh, love you to Krieger but maybe we should get out of the stairwell before someone sees us. Well, I need to get Dante since he's playing video games in my room. He should probably go back to Lyoko."
"Let him play, we, I, want to go on a date?"
"It's a Thursday though, we aren't allowed off campus."
"We aren't allowed off according to the rules. We can leave though, to do something like see a movie and stuff." Krieger is nervous. He was asking Sanne out on a date, a real date.
"I guess, sure, what do you want to see?" Krieger shrugs his shoulders getting Sanne to laugh. "Let's get something to eat first. I could use a real meal not that school crap."
"Ok but I want a shower first I just came from the gym."
"Ok, um, I'll go and tell Dante to stay in my room and stuff." The two teens go in different directions doing what they had to do before the first date.