Starlight
I must warn you all: this story is coming to an end. But don't worry! This is the first in the Night Sky trilogy. Meaning there will be two more after this! It's the last chapter... This chapter will be shorter than most, sorry. Also, let's pretend the water at the bridge is about two feet below the actual bridge.
Claim: My OCs and the story plot.
Disclaim: CL.
+Horrified+
The boys- except Ulrich- were all drooling over Ms. Kitchen as she taught t he physics lesson. She needn't ask them to pay attention because they hung on every word. A couple of guys actually thought about hitting on her. A trip to the principle's office fixed that, of course. She was like a star- to be appreciated from afar, but not to be touched.
It had been two days since the incident with Ivy. Everyone was upset with each other. Ulrich and Audrey hadn't even glanced at each other, let alone spoke a word. Ivy had yet to wake up, and no one was allowed to visit her since she returned from the hospital. Her condition wasn't released either.
Alan and Audrey spent a lot of time prowling the prowling the grounds as cats. Scraps had grown miserably lonely but still slept on Ivy's bed. Ulrich hadn't spoken to Amber- he'd taken to avoiding her when Jeremie had told him just about every horrible thing he'd done since they met. Ulrich hadn't looked at Odd because everyone seemed to be playing the Blame Game, and he was targeted. Yumi was furious with Odd and Ulrich when she found out Ulrich's real reason for dating Audrey. Aelita and Jeremie spent most of their time in Jeremie's room or at the factory, trying to crack the password to destroying XANA. No one sat together at any meals anymore.
"Great! Just what we need!" Jeremie stated with frustration as his laptop beeped.
"Hello?" the voice on the other line said.
"Ulrich, XANA's activated a tower!"
"I'll be right over." Ulrich ran out of the room, but Ms. Kitchen was too busy explaining why the answer to the problem was 'A sub nn+1 over 4'. Whoever can tell me what that's from gets a talking Odd plushie!
Ulrich gathered his thoughts as he ran toward the manhole. Did Audrey still like him at all? Did they still have a chance? The two had made no talk of breaking up. After all, they weren't speaking at all. What if she moved on? After all, the same thing had happened to Ivy... but Ivy was still going toward Alan, he could tell. Was their relationship destined to be a mirror of Ivy and Alan's?
Ulrich froze for a split second when he saw what was happening on the bridge. XANA-fied Odd and regular Audrey were in the middle of a huge fist-fight.
"Audrey!" He muttered, dashing to help her. But he wasn't quick enough. Odd had a grasp on Audrey, and Ulrich watched, horrorstruck, as they toppled over the edge of the bridge.
+Confused+
"What's taking them so long, Jeremie?" Alan meowed, scratching open the eye of a crab. it exploded.
"I don't know!" Jeremie was exasperated. "None of them are picking up their cell phones!"
"What are we going to do?" Yumi wailed.
"Get bigger?" Alan asked tentatively.
"Get bigger?" Yumi repeated.
"Okay," he meowed, and he turned into a giant cat, at least twice as tall as the crabs. The monsters all took one look at him and fled for their lives.
"Whoa," Yumi commented.
"Aren't I awesome!?" Alan meowed playfully.
"Sure, yeah, now where's that tower, Jeremie?" William said impatiently.
"Um... it's right next to you!" Jeremie said, furrowing his brow. "Don't you see it?"
"What are you talking about?" Aelita cried. "There are no towers around here!"
"Yes, yes there is!"
"No, no there's not!' Yumi replied crossly.
"Jeremie, I don't see a tower," Alan mewed timidly.
"Well it should be right in front of you," Jeremie pulled his hair. "Where are they?!"
+Decisive+
Ulrich dove in. Audrey fought frantically, unable to breathe. Odd had her in his grasp, as though XANA wanted to kill two birds with one stone. He was sinking like a rock, and he held her arms behind her back tightly so she sank with him.
Audrey kicked and fought to no avail. The growing darkness looked so peaceful...
Ulrich reached them only moments after Audrey blacked out. The thing was that XANA hadn't anticipated that humans do tend to faint when they're near drowning, so Odd had also. Ulrich knew they were too heavy for him to bring to the surface. He had to bring them up one at a time. But what if one drowned while the other was being taken to the surface? He'd have to take the one with smaller lungs first.
Ulrich grabbed Odd's scrawny arms, sadly glancing at Audrey. I'll be right back, he silently promised as he swam to the surface.
+Rushed+
"Jeremie! They could be in danger!" Aelita said frantically. "What do we do? Where's the tower?"
"It should be five meters south of where you are."
Alan ran forward tentatively. Touching the air with his nose, he entered the tower.
"How-?" Yumi started.
"Our friend XANA has revenge up his sleeve. He made the tower invisible!" Jeremie said. Aelita ran inside and began the short journey to the top.
+Relief+
He looked around everywhere, but there was no sight of her, and the moonless sky wasn't helping. It was stupid! Why had he left her all alone, floating to the bottom of the ocean, while he rescued Odd? He loved her, and all Odd had done was get them into a fight that would leave a big fat scar on their relationship... unless that relationship ceased to exist because his drowning girlfriend was lost in the growing tides of water. His heart plummeted at the fact that she could be dead.
Are we too late? Did XANA succeed in killing his own daughter?
He sighed with relief when they were engulfed in the Return to the Past.
+Joy+
Audrey was sick of this. She hated fighting with Ulrich (even if he deserved it). She sighed. Maybe she should've allowed him to explain... what if what she'd seen was misunderstood? She could be fighting with-
"Whoa!" The beep her phone made signaling she had a text message startled her.
meet edj uv trak feeld plz
(for very weird people who can't read txt and IM:)
Meet at edge of track field please.
Only one person could've sent that. Audrey touched her blue cat necklace and turned into a cat.
"Where are you going, Audrey?" Scraps lifted his head.
"Meet my boyfriend. I'll catch you a mouse on the way back," she said.
"Thanks," he licked her ear half-heartedly in parting and she trotted down the hall to meet her boyfriend.
Ulrich was waiting for her on the familiar green blanket. She padded over and sat next to him quietly; he jumped when she turned into a human again.
"I hate it when you do that," Ulrich stated cautiously, blushing slightly.
"That's kind of the point," she said, looking up at the starry sky. There was no moon, just the small pinpricks of light that spattered like paint across a black easel.
"Um, it's a pretty night," he commented.
"Did you call me out here to waste my time?"
"No..."
"So- what?"
"Audrey, it was all an accident. She slipped out of my grasp before I could stop her... and..."
"That's better."
"What?"
"You're forgiven."
"O- oh," Ulrich timidly put an arm around her shoulders but she didn't hesitate to lay her head on his shoulder.
After a long pause, Audrey spoke. "Have you ever noticed that stars look like tiny specks of light that you could just reach up and touch, but then you try and you can't?"
"Yeah," he said.
They sat in silence for a while, just peaceful silence, when suddenly Audrey's phone rang. She sighed.
"Hello? What?! But... yes... we'll be right there!" She hung up and dragged Ulrich to sitting position.
"What's up?"
"Ivy woke up! They're going to let us see her!"
+Shock+
"Ivy!" Audrey burst into the room. This is what she saw:
Ivy was sitting up in bed, a large bandage on her head. She had a lost look on her face. Yumi and William were sitting side by side in a chair on one side. Alan sat alone on the other with his face buried in his arms and his shoulders shaking; he was crying. Aelita had a hand on her shoulder from where she stood next to Yumi. Odd was sitting on the bed next to her. Jeremie was seeking refuge behind his laptop. To sum it all up, everyone was looking depressed.
"Who died?" Audrey raised an eyebrow.
"Who... are you?" Ivy said, looking straight into Audrey's eyes.
OMG! WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN!!!??? You won't find out for a while because I said so. However, I'm the writer, I know all, so it's not as suspenseful for me. Oh, I forgot: this is THE END!!! Don't worry, just wait for the second in the Night Sky trilogy:
'Moonlight'
Starlight-Burst