Da Da Da Da Da! I can't believe I haven't updated in months. Well don't worry, this chapter will be pretty long and it will be great! So now without further ado, on with the show!
Yura waited outside of her dorm room for Minxie to finish packing her clothes. Minxie's family was having a reunion at her house and the rest of the gang was going to walk her to the front gate. Ate the moment, Minxie was trying to force Kiwi into her bag.
"Come on Kiwi! She pleaded with the dog, who obviously wanted to stay. "Don't you want to go home?" At these words the dog finally obeyed and curled up inside the bag. Yura checked inside the room to see if she was done. What Yura found was a pile of bags.
"Minxie, you do know that you're only leaving for the weekend." She asked in disbelief. Minxie walked out of the room carrying five bags in her arms. "You've got enough stuff for a safari!" Yura noticed a bag in Minxie's path and tried to warn her but she couldn't see Yura over the bags in her arms.
"Trust me, when you're with my family, it is a safari." She replied with a laugh. A second later, Minxie tripped over the bag and fell, along with the luggage she had. "Okay, maybe I did over do it just a little bit." Yura laughed lightly and helped Minxie out of the bag pile.
Meanwhile, Ellie, Jerry, and Rick waited outside of the school for Yura and Minxie. Jerry was on her laptop, finishing her history project. Rick was playing with his hacky sack, and Ellie was staring up at the sky, daydreaming. Suddenly, Ellie had a vision. She saw a box inside a stuffy looking room, the box was dusty and it had a smiley face drawn on its side. Then she heard Minxie's voice.
"What's this?" Minxie said anxiously while she opened the box. Seconds later a bright smile appeared on her face. "I've got to show this to the gang!" That's where the vision ended. Ellie blinked a few times to regain her focus. The vision confused her, for it meant nothing at all. Jerry noticed her sister and gazed up from her laptop. She leaned over to Ellie so she could whisper in her ear.
"Was it a vision?" She asked with interest. Ellie nodded with a confused look on her face. "Is something bad going to happen?" Ellie didn't know how to answer the question. Even though this new vision was a harmless one, she still couldn't forget the vision of herself being electrocuted. Ellie didn't want to lie to her sister, but she didn't want to lie to her either.
"No, everything is fine." She replied with a weak smile. Meanwhile, Rick had lost his fifth time with his hacky sack. He was getting impatient while waiting for Yura and Minxie.
"Ugh! Those two are taking so long!" He yelled in frustration. "What are they doing, putting on makeup?"
"No, but if you want we could go back and take up more time doing that." Yura snapped from behind Rick. Minxie screamed with laughter as Rick jumped in surprise. "And for your information, we were late because of Minxie!" Yura glared at Rick but it wasn't held long for Minxie had jumped in between the two.
"Come on you two, be happy" She commanded happily. Minxie pulled the two together side by side and pulled their cheeks so they would smile. She stood back and looked the two over. "See, much better." Meanwhile, Ellie and Jerry watched the three from under the tree.
"Well, at least she got them to smile." Ellie said cheerfully. Jerry on the other hand looked concerned towards Minxie.
"It seems to me that Minxie is more worried and frustrated than the rest of us." She replied with a grimace. Ellie gazed at her questioningly. "She is always the one who cheers us up; I think that she is dreading what might happen to us when she leaves." Ellie laughed lightly to relieve the tension, though it didn't seem to work though.
"Well, she shouldn't have to worry." Ellie reassured. "She'll only be gone for three days." Suddenly, she remembered her visions and stopped talking. By this time Minxie had given up on Yura and Rick who we're giving each other the silent treatment. Well, it was mostly Yura who was being silent; Rick was just clearly giving "I'm sorry" faces.
"First my grandma bakes her famous French silk pie and then my dad, oh you would not believe what he does," Minxie explained to the gang while they waited for one of her family members to pick her up. "He and I do a comedy act and he totally doesn't follow the routine we made." As Minxie, Ellie, Jerry, and Rick laughed at her tales, Yura was staring out into space. She had no reason to laugh for she had no memories of a father to relate and laugh to. Yura never really knew her father so she had no memories to share friends. Through the years Yura had accepted that she had no real father. One thing she would never accept though was that Theo would one day become her stepfather.
Sure Theo was nice, good looking, and had a promising career as the assistant of a major company. Yet, Yura was sure he would never take the place as a father figure. As long as her mother loved him though, she would have to tolerate him.
It was only a month since Theo proposed to Yumi and their wedding would take place in late winter, which left Yura two months to put a stop to it. "If only I could find my mother's ex. Husband." She would say to herself. Sadly, her mother never spoke of her ex. She had also forbid Yura's grandparents from talking about him. The only thing Yura knew was that he and her mother went to school together. This is mostly why Yura had come to Kadic. Unfortunately, she had not found any other clues to his identity. If she could find him though, then maybe he could help stop the wedding.
The sound of a car horn brought Yura back from her thoughts. Everyone looked around and found a blue, American, Cadillac sitting in the parking lot. Ellie, Jerry, Rick, and Yura gazed at Minxie for an explanation. Minxie just smiled and ran towards the car. An old woman, about 65 or so, stepped out of the car with an even brighter smile on her face.
"Grandma!" Minxie exclaimed before lunging at the old woman. The woman caught her in mid leap and hugged her in a grip so tight that it probably would have crushed anyone other than Minxie. Minxie pushed herself out to the hug and turned to her friends. "Everyone, this is my grandma Jeana." Everyone waved at Jeana and she did the same. Jeana turned to Minxie and gave her a warm smile.
"Honey, do you have your things packed?" She asked in a warm voice. Minxie shook her head in a nod and pointed to the pile of luggage underneath the tree. "Good, now put them in the car so we can get a move on." Minxie rushed over to the pile and picked up almost every bag and loaded them into the Cadillac. She returned to get the last bag but stopped and ran over to the rest of the gang. She hugged each of them and handed Ellie a slip of paper with a phone number on it.
"Call me on my cell if anything happens while I'm gone. She insisted and Ellie nodded with an even weaker smile. Minxie finally ran back for the last bag, which contained Kiwi, and walked back over to the car. She stepped inside the car and Jeana followed suit. As the car backed out of the lot and drove towards the front gates of the school. As the car left, Minxies's hand stuck out of the window and waved one last goodbye to her friends.
Later that night, Ellie tossed and turned in her bed. She was dreaming about a strange land in which she was stuck in. Suddenly, there was a flash of red and the same eye symbol appeared in Ellie's mind. Ellie awoke but she did not know she was awake. She had no control over what she was doing, as if something was controlling her mind and body. Ellie made her way up, out of bed and headed towards the door. Jerry, sensing something was wrong, drowsily looked up from her pillow and saw her sister walking out of the room. Concerned, Jerry followed quietly behind her.
"Ellie, what are you doing?" She asked her sister. When Ellie didn't give a response Jerry became frightened and ran back to her room and grabbed her cell phone. Jerry quickly ran back into the hallway just in time to see Ellie heading down the stairs. She followed Ellie as she hastily dialed Rick and Yura's numbers.
Rick slept in his bed and was chewing on his pillow with drool flowing out his mouth. Suddenly, his phone started to ring violently. Rick jumped awake and starred down at his pillow with a scowl on his face.
"You aren't a marshmallow." He said sternly. He then remembered about the phone which was still ringing loudly. Rick stumbled over to the phone which sat on his dresser. He picked up his phone and held it up to his ear.
"Hello, oh hey Jerry." Rick said with a yawn. Suddenly, his face turned serious. "Something is wrong with Ellie?" He listened to Jerry's response. "Sure I'll call Yura, bye." Rick hung up the phone and dialed Yura's number. He waited for her to answer it. Finally, she did. "Yura, its Rick, something is happening to Ellie, meet me and Jerry in front of the school." He hung up the phone and ran out the door.
Ellie walked out of the school's front doors and headed down the path that led to the woods. No matter how hard she tried to control where her body went, she just couldn't seem to regain control. It was scaring her. Jerry, Rick, and Yura met up at the front of the school and started following Ellie towards the woods. The three remained silent as they stalked their friend. Finally they saw Ellie stop and bend over. Ellie had removed the top of a sewer mane cover and climbed down the ladder and disappeared from sight. The three followed suit and soon found themselves in a sewer that obviously hadn't been tended to in quite some time. They spotted Ellie walking down the line towards another ladder that led to the surface. The friends quickly followed and climbed up the ladder and out onto a bridge that led to a large factory.
"What is this?" Yura asked in a half yawn, half questioning voice. When no one answered she shrugged it off and ran towards the factory. When they approached three ropes they paused for a second, until Jerry spotted Ellie walking into an elevator and the doors closing in front of her. Jerry jumped onto the rope and slid down to the floor of the building and waited for Rick and Yura to do the same. Soon the three were inside the elevator and waited to see where it would go. Rick noticed a code panel and pointed it out to Jerry.
"How are we going to figure out the code for it to work?" He questioned with little hope in his tone. Jerry stepped in front of the code panel and looked at if closely. Seconds later, she punched in a few numbers and the elevator started to move down. "How did you know the code?"
"I looked for the number markers that were worn away the most from punching them in so much." She explained before going back to complete silence. The elevator seemed to take forever to get down to the floor that Ellie was on but when it did, they didn't like what they found.
Ellie was standing in front of a giant switch. She gazed at the switch dazedly before she reached her hand out and pulled the switch down. "X.a.n.a." She muttered dazedly under her breath. Suddenly, electricity shot out of the switch and surrounded Ellie. Ellie screamed and crashed on to the floor.
"Ellie!" Jerry, Rick, and Yura shouted as they ran towards their friend. Jerry held Ellie's head up. She was shocked to see that Ellie's forehead, arms and hands were covered in a red eye symbol. Much to Ellie's dismay, her vision had come true.
See, I told you that this chapter would be long. It was astounding, it was stupendous, and it took me about an hour to type all this so ya'll better enjoy it! What has happened to Ellie, will Minxie find out what happened, and will the gang finally enter Lyoko. These questions and more will be answered in the next, and hopefully quickly updated, chapter of The New Children of Lyoko. Until next time: Peace to the Middle East, Bathe the Whales, and Pay the hobos.