Code Xana Episode 133: Hunger
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 Moonscoop.
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 1-132
Naia is in Africa. She has a monkey in her hands. "I'm sorry but the hunger is driving me crazy!" She bites its head off and drinks its blood. Sita's blood had made her stronger but the hunger for blood was unstoppable. She tried to fight it but even on Lyoko she couldn't ignore it.
Two days later Naia was suffering from bloodlust. She had drunk the blood of animals but it wasn't enough. She knew she needed human blood but to kill a human… She wanted to avoid it.
The next day Naia snapped. She activates a Tower and goes to Earth. Before she didn't need the power from a Tower to kill a monkey or rat but now she was going for something bigger. She goes to Africa again. There were still some African Tribes that had been left alone by the rest of the world much like the tribes in South America.
Sanne's Jpocket beeps. "She's attacking."
"Frak." Krieger and Sanne were… together. "I hate her."
"I'm surprised she'd gone this long without attacking." Sanne waits for Krieger to get off of her before getting off the bed and picking her Jpocket up. "Ice Sector. Not that large a barrier I wonder what she is planning."
"We need to call the others." Krieger finds his pants and pulls his Jcell out to call the others.
Naia flies over Africa and sees a village of straw huts. She lands near it and observes it. She sees a small child playing with a ball. "Come here." She sparks with energy as her bloodlust grows. She smiles as her fangs grow. Her eyes turn red. "Mine!" She lunges for the child.
"Aaaa!" It screams and turns to run but Naia is too fast. She lands on it and crushes its spine.
"I can smell it," She opens her mouth and lowers it ripping the back of the neck out. Blood comes out and she buries her face into the warm liquid.
Three villagers see Naia and call for help. Several more come over with spears. Naia sees them coming towards her.
"More!" She roars like a demon as she lunges at the villagers. Two throw spears but they bounce off harmlessly. She slashes one of them across the throat. Another one thrusts a spear at her but she grabs it. "You are nothing to me!" She pulls it out of the villagers hand and attacks them. She grabs the villager by the back of his head and pulls back. She raises the spear and shoves it straight through his open mouth, his body, and into the ground. "Stay put." Naia sparks with more energy as she attacks the rest of the villagers.
The Warriors make it to the Factory easily. Dante and Skitz are waiting for them. "What's the attack?"
"I don't know. Were any of you attacked?" All shake their heads no. "Then Naia is up to something." Sanne is nervous. "The barrier around the Tower isn't very large either."
"No it isn't. She wants us on Lyoko." The Lyoko Warriors are nervous but have to go to Lyoko.
In Africa Naia has slaughtered the villagers. She rips the head off of one and turns the body upside down drinking the blood pouring out of it. "What have I done?" She throws the body away. She is covered in blood. Blood is smeared across her face. It is in her hair drying in the heat of the African sun. "I don't hunger anymore. But how long will it be before I need more blood?" She sparks with energy. "It doesn't matter. I can do anything I want!" She turns into a black mist and disappears from Africa.
The Lyoko Warriors go to Lyoko and see the activated Tower. They didn't even need the Over vehicles. "No monsters." Dante gets his wand out.
"Spoke too soon." Sanne sees a black mist. It doesn't form into a monster it forms into Naia.
"Hello Warriors!" Naia smiles evilly. "You have no idea what I have done. It would horrify you to know."
"Naia, stop this." Dante lowers his wand. "We don't want to fight you."
"That's too bad. I'll kill you all like I killed those villagers."
"What? What villagers?"
"I don't know what they were called. Somewhere in Africa. I ripped their hearts out. I tore throats out with my teeth." Naia raises a fist and squeezes it. Energy sparks around it. "I drank gallons of blood before my thirst was gone. But how long before I need more?"
"No, Naia, you have to be lying." Sanne is getting scared. She tries to focus on her energy. In this world it wasn't as strong but she could feel it. She just had to try harder to bring it out.
"I'm not. I was actually disgusted by what I did then I realized why should I be? I am all powerful. I am even stronger now! I used the blood of that ungrateful Vampire to make myself even stronger!" Naia laughs evilly.
"We, Naia I won't forgive you." Dante raises his wand.
"I don't need your forgiveness. I've killed Ark. I've killed animals. And now I've killed dozens of humans. I'll kill you all soon. Even you Dante." Naia stares at him sending chills into him.
"We won't let you kill anyone Naia!" Sanne focuses on her energy more. "I have been trying to find a way to save you but if you start to kill people I will have no choice but to kill you!"
"You can do nothing to me."
"I will destroy you." Sanne feels her energy spark.
"Super Leap!" Krieger leaps out in front of Sanne and attacks Naia. Naia dodges his sword and tries to strike him back but he blocks with his shield.
"Stealth." Mira disappears.
"Alakazam!" Dante fires a laser beam at Naia. She sparks with energy and creates a shield.
"Die Naia!" Skitz fires an arrow and Naia catches it.
"Pretty impressive lets see if you can catch this." Zen throws an orb at Naia who dodges it.
"All of you versus me? How unfair don't you think? I'll have to even the odds." Naia sparks and splits apart. "Much better." The two Naia's attack.
"Scattershot!" Sanne fires and six energy beams come out of her mouth. The first Naia dodges them.
"Alakazam!" Dante fires and misses the second Naia.
"You shall fall before me and beg me for death before I rip your frakking head off!" Second Naia attacks Barack.
"Aaaa!" Barack is destroyed but the invisible Mira takes her chance and attacks the Second Naia from behind. She shoves her Kodachi into Second Naia's back.
"Got her." Zen throws another orb at the Second Naia. Second Naia sparks with energy, turns into a black mist, and goes back to the First Naia.
"That was fun. But you know what? There is nothing you can do to stop me. Unless you kill me I will continue to kill, continue to feed. And who knows maybe I will create more Vampires. They will worship me and follow me. I won't need to use my Lyoko powers to take over the world I will use my new powers given to me by that Vampire!" Naia sparks with energy and sends an energy bolt at Dante destroying him. She fires one at Krieger who uses his shield to block it.
"Super Leap!" Krieger lunges at Naia leading with his shield. Naia fires an energy bolt and stops Krieger in mid leap. He crash lands on the Sector but puts his shield up to block another energy bolt. Naia fires another energy bolt at Zen and hits her sending her back to Earth then goes back to Krieger.
"You will die Krieger. I have decided I don't need any of you or want any of you. I will use my powers as a Vampire to create an army of super beings. I will kill you, that tramp, Dante, all of you."
"Frak you Naia." Naia turns and sees Sanne enter the activated Tower.
"There is no need for me to worry. I am immortal. I could very well wait for you all to die of old age." Naia turns into a black mist and goes to Sector 5 as the Tower is deactivated.
The group is on Earth having a meeting in the Control Room. "What do we do?" Mira is sitting on the floor with Barack holding her.
"I don't know." Krieger squeezes Sanne's hand in his.
"I do." Sanne sighs. "She's killed people. If Xana, or Naia, ever killed anyone we said we would call our parents."
"Then the fight for us is over?" Skitz is nervous. She wasn't the only Skitz on Earth after the worlds had merged. How would they explain that?
"No. I, we don't have to tell all of them. I think if we tell Jim he won't freak out on us."
"But he won't be much help." Dante is more nervous then the others. He was Xana's son to the parents. They would not know him as the Lyoko Warrior and friend that he was.
"Odd."
"What's odd?"
"No, Odd. He loved being on Lyoko."
"But how do we get him out here? Won't the others wonder why he came out here?" Barack's question gets the others thinking.
"Um, say he's uh, looking for my brother?" The rest turn to Skitz.
"But he's dead."
"My dad doesn't know that. We can have him tell anyone that he is looking for Ark and stuff."
"Anyone else?" Sanne shakes her head.
"I don't think anyone else would stay calm."
"My Mom?"
"Odd will be enough. If they both came over it might mess things up for your parents. One of them needs to stay home and work and stuff."
"Um, ok, yeah I guess." Skitz gets more nervous. "I can't call him I'm supposed to be home, am home."
"I know. I'll do it after I get Jim and stuff ok?"
"Right now?" Sanne nods. "Want us to wait here?"
"Yes. I'll be back with Jim." Sanne gets on the elevator and leaves the Factory to look for her grandfather.
Naia is watching. "Gah that was great!" She sparks with energy. "Slaughtering those villagers was fun but no one heard about it. Frak that I want to go big!" She turns into a black mist and doesn't use enough energy to need a Tower.
Sanne calls Jim and convinces him to meet her in the woods. "Jim?"
"Sanne what are you up to?"
"Jim, what I'm about to tell you might make you a little mad but you have to promise not to tell anyone."
"What is it? If it's about you and Krieger you need to tell your mother."
"No not us. It is a lot bigger than that." Sanne sighs. She had to do this. "Um, all your stories about Xana, um, yeah."
"What about them?"
"I know they were lies. It was much worse then you and the others ever said they were."
"What? Sanne that's not, how would you, no."
"We found the Super Computer."
"No, no, Sanne, no." Jim falls to his knees. "Please tell me you didn't turn it back on."
"We did, and released Dante."
"Dante?"
"What we named his son."
"No, you released Xana."
"Well, yes and no. Dante is not Xana. Xana left Dante. Dante is a Lyoko Warrior and a friend."
"No, this is a lie, a joke. This isn't funny Sanne."
"I know it isn't. Ark didn't run away and Sora didn't die from natural causes."
"Wait, Sora, no."
"Yes. She was killed by Xana. But we got revenge and killed him."
"Then what's going on?"
"His evil lived and possessed a girl named Naia. She got Ark to join her."
"So Ark is corrupted with this girl?"
"No, she killed him."
"Oh gods, no. Ark he, he can't be."
"I'm sorry Jim. Please come with me to the Factory."
"I, I have to tell the others."
"No please don't Jim. We've been trying to keep you and the others out of this. You fought Xana before and beat him. We finally killed him but his evil still lives on. We need help but we won't ruin everyone's life."
"Just mine?"
"And Odd's. I'm sorry grandpa. If we had known what the attacks were really like we never would have turned the Super Computer on."
"But, no, this has to be a nightmare."
"It is a nightmare but it's real." Sanne goes over to Jim and hugs him. "I'm so sorry." Jim starts to cry.
"Its over, we did it. Why did you let him out?"
"We wanted to save Dante. He wasn't evil. He was a teenage boy trapped on Lyoko. He reminded me of my mother."
"But Sora, and Ark, they're gone."
"I know but we, we'll stop Naia. She's snapped and started killing people. Will you please help us?"
"But, how have you gone this long without a return?"
"We've done returns. I found a way to make you and the others affected by it. If you tell anyone else or say you don't want to be a part of this I'll launch a return. If you want to go back to being happy, being safe, and not a target I'll make it that way."
"No I have to protect you. You're like a daughter to me. If, if you know the truth then you know I'm not really your grandfather or Aelita's mother."
"You are my grandfather. Not by blood but that doesn't mean much does it?" Sanne hugs Jim tightly. She felt horrible. She had just shattered Jim's world. He had his happy go lucky free world broken by her. But this was her choice. She needed to stop Naia and that meant getting help.
"I see you more as a daughter. I wasn't there when Aelita was little but you, I was there. I got to see you grow up. I got to take care of you when Aelita and Jeremie went on business trips. I got to be a father."
"I love you grandpa." Sanne feels her eyes swell with tears.
Naia sees a subway station filled with people. She activates a Tower. "I am ripper, I am slaughter, I am destruction!" Naia forms energy swords around her hands as she flies down towards the subway station. "Die! All of you will die! Either at my hand or by throwing yourself on the tracks!" Naia slashes a person across the throat cutting their head off.
People run away screaming. Three of them fall onto the tracks. One touches the third rail and is electrified to death. Naia slashes more and more people. Blood starts to flow like a river down the sloped platform to a drain. "Haha! Run! Make this more fun for me!" Naia hears the sound of a train coming. "Let's see how many it takes to stop a train!" She sparks with energy and forms a shield. She uses it to push more people onto the tracks. Several touch the third rail but many don't as she pushes more and more onto the track.
The engineer sees the mass of people on the tracks and pulls the emergency break but he was too late. "Aaaa!" He screams as blood splashes against the windshield. The subway trains wheels jam on the bodies and jump the tracks. It slams into one wall then into the other.
"This is great! Frak you! I'll play with you like the insignificant pawns that you are!" Naia sends out several energy bolts striking people down.
Sanne and Jim are hugging each other still when Sanne hears her Jpocket beep. "She's attacking already?" She pulls away from Jim and checks her Jpocket. "Desert Sector."
"When was the last time this person attacked?"
"About half an hour ago. This is bad." Sanne puts her Jpocket away and runs for the sewer entrance. Jim runs after her knowing he was about to enter the nightmare.
"Run!" Naia chases after a woman. The woman runs screaming and in her panic runs right into a pull door. Naia laughs hysterically before killing the woman. "I should have done this a long time ago!" She continues her attack as the police arrive.
Sanne and Jim make it to the Factory. They swing down and run to the elevator. Sanne pushes the button and they go down to the Control Room.
"Whoa." Jim sees all the people. "Zen?" He looks around. "Skitz!?"
"Calm down Jim there is a long and very complicated explanation. But we don't have time we have to get to Lyoko." Sanne waits for the others to get on and pushes the button again.
"Ok, this will be different." Dante searches through an older file. The Original Lyoko Warriors programs were in it. He finds Jim's and brings it up. "Transfer Jim, Transfer Sanne, Transfer Krieger, Scanner Jim, Scanner Sanne, Scanner Krieger, and virtualization." They land on Lyoko in the Desert Sector.
"Wow, what, what happened?" Jim looks around and sees the changes brought to Lyoko by the virus.
"Another long and complicated story."
"Transfer Mira, Transfer Skitz, Transfer Zen, Scanner Mira, Scanner Skitz, Scanner Zen, and virtualization." They land next to the others.
"Wow, cool." Skitz and the others check out Jim's program as Dante sends Barack and the Over vehicles.
When Dante lands on Lyoko he runs over to the Overwing. "We have to go west." He leaps on it.
"Um, we need the boots and stuff." Sanne was on the Overbike with Krieger already. Barack and Mira were on the Overwing. Zen, Jim, and Skitz weren't all going to fit on the Overwing with Dante.
"I forgot about them, sorry."
"Wait, maybe, give me a second." Sanne closes her eyes and focuses on her energy. If she could bring out her wings then she could fly. But it was hard to bring them out not being in danger or the middle of combat.
Naia is tossing police cars around like toys. "Is this the best you have? I want to have more fun!" She flies down and slashes a police officer across the chest. Blood sprays onto her face and she licks some of the blood off.
"Fire!" Several officers fire automatic weapons at Naia. She waves her hand creating an energy shield blocking the bullets.
"You'll have to do better then that!" Naia attacks the officers. Laughing demonically as she continues slaughtering them.
Sanne and the others were going to the activated Tower. She had brought her wings out but was struggling. She had to focus on her energy as she flew to keep her wings.
"There it is." Krieger with Skitz on the back of the Overbike see the activated Tower. "With all of us we should be able to beat her easily."
"I hope so." Jim is nervous. He had forgotten what it was like to be on Lyoko. He had forgotten what it was like to be himself on Lyoko. He had power and strength unlike any other. He could pick a Mega Tank up. It would be like being able to lift and toss a car on Earth.
Naia flies to the tallest building in the city, the New Trade Center. Built on Ground Zero it was the most impressive sight on the east coast of the United States of America. A tall blue spire with a bright white light surrounded by a red ring of lights visible from the moon when the sun was set. "If I remember correctly the original sight had two buildings. Let's do that." Naia sparks with energy and sends it down the center of the building. It sparks and the building shakes. People inside panic as she splits the building in half. "That was fun!" Naia's eyes are pure black. Her veins show through her skin and show the black blood. She was going insane. Having tasted human blood had released the inner power of Sita's blood but with the corruption from Xana's evil it drove Naia insane.
As they get close to the activated Tower the ground shakes. "What was that?" Jim looks around and thinks he sees a mountain move. But it couldn't be…
"Degameath!" Krieger gets his sword and shield out.
"Degawhat?" Jim is stunned by the sight of Degameath.
"Degameath."
"Degawho?" Krieger shakes his head.
"Degameath."
"Oh, well, wow." Jim watches as the Degameath reaches its full height. "That's amazing."
"It's impossible to kill." Dante gets his wand out. "We can only slow it down." Dante worries as Naia doesn't appear.
"I'll do my best." Jim tries to prepare himself for his first fight on Lyoko in more than twenty years.
Naia finished splitting the building. "Amazing what I can do when I put my mind to it." She sparks with more energy. "Degameath will destroy them so I can play more." Naia flies down into the city and starts randomly blowing up cars in the street.
The Degameath swings at Barack and Mira. They dodge his fist and it slams into the Sector creating a crater. "Wow that thing is powerful."
"It's more powerful then anything on Lyoko. I don't even think Naia could destroy it if she hadn't been the one to create it." Barack and Mira move away.
"Well we'll see just how strong it is." Jim jumps off of the Overwing and lands on the Sector below. He runs over to the Degameath as it swings at Sanne. "Over here you big chucklehead!" It turns and sees Jim. It raises its right foot and goes to stomp on Jim.
"Watch out!" Krieger sees the foot come down.
"Got it!" Jim braced himself and blocked the foot. The Sector breaks around him as the weight of the Degameath tries to crush him.
"Wow." Sanne smiles. The Degameath was immobile for now. "Dante get to the Tower!" Dante turns the Overwing and drives it towards the activated Tower.
"Aaaa!" Jim screams as he pushes back at Degameath. The Degameath loses its balance and falls backwards.
Dante is able to make it into the activated Tower.
Naia feels Dante enter the Tower. "Very well. I've had my fun for today." Naia wipes some blood off her face with her hand. She licks the blood off as Dante deactivates the Tower.
"Tower deactivated." The screens fall around him. "We'll need a return. If Naia attacked this quickly it was to do something horrible." Dante launches a return.
Sanne forgot to include Jim and so has to tell him all over again about Xana, Naia, Dante, Lyoko, and what was going on. "You mean those deaths in New York City were this Nia person?"
"Naia, and yes. Please grandpa we need your help."
"We need to call the others now and," Sanne stops him.
"No, only you, and Odd."
"Why?"
"We frakked up ok? But, we, we don't want to ruin your lives. We've fought for a long time. But now things are getting out of control. We don't want to ruin everyone's life."
"But it's ok to ruin mine and Odd's?"
"You are close and um, Odd can come out saying he's looking for Ark."
"And where's Ark now?"
"Oh um, he um, joined Naia then she um, she killed him."
"Ark is dead and you just now tell us?"
"It wasn't that long ago and um, we, we thought maybe, I'm sorry."
"Tell Odd that." Jim hardens. He was almost ready to cry but hearing about Ark he got tough. He had to stop this Naia person. "I'll help and I hope Odd will to. But you have to know once this is over we will tell the others and you, I don't know. You will be punished and, I don't know." Ark's death was hard on Jim. He had to ignore it or he would be consumed.
Two days later Odd was in Paris wondering why Jim had been so urgent on the phone. "Jim!" Odd runs over and hugs him. "What's going on man?"
"We need to talk." Jim is stone faced.
"Wow did someone die?" Odd smiles making a joke having no idea how soon he would be broken.
Jim takes Odd to the Factory. "What are we doing here?"
"There are some people waiting for you." Jim leads Odd across the bridge and into the Factory.
They take the elevator down to the Control Room. When the elevator doors open Odd's jaw drops.
"Hi Odd." Sanne takes the lead.
"But, no." Odd looks at the faces. Most he recognizes. "Xana!" Odd backs away and runs into Jim.
"No I am Dante. Xana created me but I am nothing like him." Dante steps out and raises his hands to show he was not a threat.
"But, who, Skitz!" Odd's head nearly snaps off his neck as he turns it. "What are you doing here? You're supposed to be at home!"
"I am at home, and here."
"It's a long and complicated story." Jim puts a hand on Odd's shoulder. "Sanne, tell him."
"I, Odd, I'm sorry." Sanne goes over and hugs Odd then let's go.
"You released Xana? What the frak were you thinking?"
"Well, we did, but he's dead."
"But, then, what are you doing?"
"Fighting Naia."
"Who?"
"A friend of ours who was possessed by Xana's evil after we killed him."
"But, then, what happened?"
"We'll tell you later. What I have to tell you will hurt but um, you might want to sit down."
"Quit stalling Sanne." Jim stares at Sanne.
"I'm sorry." Sanne closes her eyes, takes a deep breath. "Ark's dead."
"What?" Odd is sure he heard wrong.
"Ark was killed by Naia. He's dead."
"No, no…" Odd falls to his knees and buries his face into his hands as he cries.
A/N And so Odd and Jim are in the group. What will happen next? Wait for the next update!