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Anyway: I own nothing portrayed in the story other than my own character, Damon Okoyl, the Lyoko Nomad, grey bandanas, the letter 9 and all other things that are fun to look at when you are stoned. This chapter will tell a little about Damon's past, and have some good action.
Chapter Six
"Whoa," the Nomad said, clenching and unclenching his fist, flexing his arm muscles. He moved his arms out in a spread eagled position and looked down at his clothes.
"This is too crazy…" he thought, "I know these clothes…and that weapon!" he added, glancing behind him at the staff attached to his back, no holster, no holder keeping it in place, just a staff on his back, remaining completely still as if glued. He raised his hand to his back and closed his fingers over it.
The staff came away instantly and Damon brought it in front of him. In his one hand, he flipped it over the back of his wrist. Catching it again, he swung it in front of him, from his right side to his left, then back again, swinging it in a backhand motion. He brought it up close to his face and lifted his sunglasses, looking closely at it. Satisfied with its authenticity, he raised his arm and placed the staff on his back. Again, it stuck still.
"So…" he said. "I guess this is it. My dream world is a reality. I attacked my friends and I didn't even know it. No wonder they didn't want to trust me…" he thought out loud, as Aelita slowly approached him from behind. The Nomad remained still and silent, deep in thought.
"Why did you attack them?" Aelita asked hesitantly.
"I thought I was dreaming…I just figured since I never had any friends and since I was always alone in my dreams too…and then I met Odd and the others and saw them here. I thought it was normal for people to dream like that, you know?" he replied, his voice deep with shame.
"I see. But that doesn't really explain why you chose to attack them," Aelita replied in an understanding, but still slightly apprehensive tone.
"I didn't think it would actually do anything. I just thought I was dreaming, and I saw this as a chance to train and practice. I mean, I've seen this place so many times before, so when I saw new people here, I saw a chance to fight. How was I supposed to know they were my real friends?"
"I understand," Aelita said. "You didn't know they were really people and that Lyoko is a virtual world."
"Yeah." Damon nodded his head. "I had always assumed this was just a dream place. I thought everyone went to a place like this when they slept…but I guess it's just me." He paused a moment. "There is one thing that bothers me though…about the clothes Ulrich and the others were wearing."
"What do you mean?" asked Aelita.
"Well…I wasn't 100 truthful when I said I've always been alone here. Awhile ago, a really long time ago, maybe a year or so, I was never alone in here, and there were always people for me to fight. And they were dressed just like Odd and the others. Exactly like them," Damon explained. "But one day, they disappeared. Poof. Gone. Just like that, I was all alone. And then I saw Ulrich and the others dressed like them. I couldn't have known it was them. I just saw the clothes and reacted the way I always used to when I saw them. I attacked…" Damon's voice trailed off in to silence.
"Other people…in Lyoko?" Aelita asked, intrigued. "What were their names?"
"I don't know their real names, but they called each other code names," answered Damon. "I remember the female fighter, the one dressed like Yumi, was Commander Erynn Star Way, the leader of the group. The guy dressed like Odd was codenamed Rodri, and the guy in the samurai garb was called SamBlob. The one controlling the computer, doing what Jeremie does for everyone, virtualizing and devirtualizing, her nickname was Mewberries, and her assistant was called KaruriChi. They never said each others real name. I used to fight them everyday, and whenever I defeated them they just disappeared." The Nomad finished, his back still to Aelita.
"I see…and what if you didn't defeat them…?" Aelita asked, making sure to mentally note every point of information.
"I always defeated them. Always," the Nomad replied, a hint of cockiness in his voice.
"Okay...so in the hypothetical situation that you didn't defeat them, then what would you do, Damon?" Aelita tried again.
"I would go into a tower and either be healed or wake up from there," was the Nomad's response.
"I see…"Aelita mumbled, her voice trailing off. Suddenly, a question sprang to mind. "Damon," she said quickly. "How did you teleport away when you first fought Odd and Ulrich?"
"I can teleport once every time I come here, to get away from mortal danger. I never tested it, but I'm pretty sure that if I die here, I die for good," he answered solemnly.
"I see…" Aelita said once more, looking over the cliff they were standing at to the ground below. "Damon?" she asked, much more quietly this time.
"Hm?"
"I think we should go now," she replied. At the bottom of the cliff, she could see two swarms of hornets and a megatank approaching. "Some monsters are approaching. We should run," Aelita suggested.
"No way," the Nomad replied, stepping to the cliff and peering over. "This is gonna be too much fun." He turned back towards the virtual girl. "Don't worry Aelita, I'll protect you. That was the deal, right?" he added, grinning slightly.
"No Damon, it's too dangerous. I'd really rather just go to a tower and hide for now..."
"Oh, can't I go break just a couple of them? Please? Come on so much talking and stuff today. I'm restless!" he pleaded.
"Ohh, well I-" Aelita started.
"Yes!" Damon cut in, grabbing the staff from his back and diving over the cliff edge. "Woohoo!"
"Oh my goodness! Damon!" Aelita called, falling to her knees and leaning over the edge of the cliff, her arm outstretched as she watched Damon fall. The Nomad of Lyoko fell swiftly, his body pointed straight downwards and a wide smile on his face. The Hornets looked up and saw the Nomad falling toward them; they instinctively raised their lasers and pointed them up at the nomad, firing wildly. Excitement and adrenaline took over his body and Damon began swinging his staff, deflecting three of the lasers. The hornets began a flight up the side of the mountain firing lasers at the Nomad.
"Let's do it!" the Nomad shouted, now running down the side of the mountain. Hopping from side to side across the rocky face of the cliff, he swung his staff and destroyed two hornets. "Woohoo! Wooohoohoooo!" he whooped, as he fell ever faster from the great height, his voice full of joy.
"Wheeee-haha! Yeah!" he called running down, step by step on the cliff face, accelerating even faster. Jumping slightly and flipping over so that he fell feet first, Damon pushed his legs out to either side and split kicked two hornets, his feet landing right in the target weak point of the monsters. Not even stopping to watch them explode, he lifted his legs and flipped over backwards once more, resuming his vertical drop. A swarm of eight hornets gathered directly below the Nomad, firing their lasers frantically and trying to overwhelm him.
Damon held his staff by its center in front of him with both hands as his body began to spin rapidly. He spun faster and faster, deflecting the lasers to the side as the swarm flew straight up towards him firing. The swarm got closer and closer, not letting up as they drew together for a collision with the warrior. The Nomad blew straight through the swarm, leaving a large explosion as the spinning blur disappeared within it, only to reappear out of the bottom of it a few moments later. Damon kicked his feet against the cliff face and began to flip over, stopping his spinning and resuming a straight fall once more.
"Whoo…ok…no more doing that…too dizzy," he laughed, having fallen half the way down the cliff. The remainder of the swarm lined up directly below the Nomad, each one higher than the last, firing their beams parallel to him.
"That's kinda stupid," the boy muttered. "Line 'em up so I can knock 'em down. Time to finish them off and head back up."
Damon began running against the cliff face once more, tossing his staff up gently and slowing his run so that the staff fell in front of him. With the staff falling in front of him parallel to the wall, the pair of them accelerated towards the hornets, waiting for the right moment to strike.
In a split second, the Nomad jumped once more, turning his body and kicking the end of the staff down. He watched it ricochet against the cliff wall, just barely missing the first hornet, but destroying all the others one after the other, the resulting explosions following in a consecutive line. The staff ricocheted off of the final hornet and hit the cliff wall again, now spinning in circles. Damon slowed his fall by holding his arms and legs out and flattening his body, giving his staff time to catch up.
"Aww, I missed one!" he pouted. As the staff reached him, he kicked it back up once more and destroyed the final hornet.
"Got it!" he said triumphantly, now free-falling vertically. While only a quarter mile away from the ground, the staff shot down like an arrow past him. "Whuh-oh…Hey wait for me!" Damon called to the rogue weapon, sprinting down the cliff face as fast as he could after it.
His legs a blur, the Nomad slowly gained on the weapon, shooting closer and closer to the ground. "Nearly there….neaaaaarly there." he urged, stretching his hand for the staff. "Aaaannnnndd…gotcha!" he called, closing his hand over the end of the staff closest to him. Plowing both of his legs into the cliff face, he shot away from it with the staff held straight in front of him.
"Wow! That was the most fun I've had in a really long time!" Damon thought to himself, gliding down through the air. While he descended slowly to the ground, he failed to notice the megatank roll directly below him.
The tank split in two and fired its massive 360 degree attack directly up at the Nomad. With no where to go or dodge while he was in midair, Damon could only look down helplessly at the wall of laser fire rising to meet him. "…Whoops," he mumbled sheepishly. As the beam powered directly up towards him, the Nomad turned into a wire frame form and disappeared from the path of the tank's attack.
"What? He teleported!" Aelita exclaimed, after watching the entire event with awe from the ledge high above. "But, where did he go?" she asked out loud, looking around for him. A few seconds later, Damon appeared several feet in the air, a wire frame at first before becoming a solid mass.
"-Uaahh-!" was the only sound he could manage as he fell the short distance flat onto his face with a resounding thwack.
"Ow…" he grumbled, sitting up.
"Damon! Are you ok?" Aelita asked, crouching beside him and putting a hand on his shoulder.
"Yeah, yeah, I'm totally fine!" the warrior replied brusquely, standing up and dusting himself off. A few moments later, a loud rumble could be heard. The megatank was attacking the cliff, firing a beam that was causing the cliff side to crumble.
"Aaaaah!" Aelita cried, stumbling backwards off of the cliff. Damon dived off a moment later behind her. He flipped once, kicking off against the face of the cliff and shot towards her.
"I've got you, Aelita!" the Nomad called, grabbing a hold of her. Drawing his staff and stabbing it into the cliff, he stopped their fall, still holding onto Aelita with one arm.
"Oh…" Aelita panted. "Thanks, Damon."
"Anytime," the boy replied. Letting go of the staff, he held Aelita bridal style and dropped gently to the ground. Setting her down, he looked up at his precious weapon still lodged in the rock above.
"I'm sorry, Damon…I made you lose your weapon," Aelita said remorsefully. But Damon simply smiled at her.
"No, you didn't," he said knowingly, looking up at the staff. "RUROUSHA!" he called. At the word, the staff began to shake in the rock, finally dislodging itself and falling to the ground, sticking upright in it.
"Rurousha: a codeword to have the staff return to me." Damon explained. "I'm never unprepared," he added boastfully.
Behind him, the megatank rolled over once more and fired another beam. This time, it was Aelita's turn to spring into action. She tackled the Nomad back out of the way of the beam. He looked up at her, raising an eyebrow.
"Looks like it's your turn to save me, huh?" he said. Aelita smiled and laughed under her breath.
"Come on, angel. Time to go!" Damon said, sitting up and pulling Aelita into a run towards the nearest tower, the megatank behind them in hot pursuit.
Shot after shot, the megatank fired, only barely missing the two. Finally, the tank fired one more shot at the pair of them which went far wide of its target. Aelita slowed a little to catch her breath. Damon then saw an opportunity and capitalized on it.
Running alongside Aelita, panting slightly as well, he said to her, "Aelita, I promised you that I'd make sure you were safe right?"
"Right!" Aelita replied.
"Then what I'm about to do is for your own good!" he said, taking his staff from his back and stopping a short distance away from Aelita.
"What are you talking about!" she asked, running towards him. "What are you going to do?"
"I'm really sorry about thiiiiiis!" he called, swinging his body in a full circle with the staff. He swung, hitting Aelita in the back as hard as he could, causing her to go flying high and forward.
"Ooaaaah!" Aelita cried, flailing wildly in the air, flying against the wall of the tower and disappearing safely inside.
"Phew…" the Nomad breathed. "She's safe."
"Now, it's time to get rid of this big old bowling ball," he muttered, looking back towards the megatank. Damon jammed his staff into the ground and broke into a dead sprint towards the tank, which split open and charged another deadly beam.
"RUROUSHA!" he shouted suddenly. Instantly, the staff began to vibrate within the ground before breaking free, zooming towards the boy. When the megatank fired its beam, Damon dodged to the side, running around behind the tank seemingly confused as to how to beat it. A few moments, later the staff shot towards the Nomad, now hiding behind the megatank, hitting the target right in the centre instead and causing the tank to explode. The staff flipped upwards high into the air, the triumphant warrior caught it, placing it on his back and running back towards the tower. As he disappeared behind its wall, a bright flash of light followed his entry.
After a few moments, Aelita went flying out of the tower; the same way she had when she'd first took Damon in for healing.
"Wooooah-!" She flew a few feet from the tower, flailing her arms, before landing hard on her back with a thump. She staggered to her feet and entered the tower once more, only to find that it was now empty.
"Damon!" she called, looking around the lone platform of the tower's bottom floor. "Where are you?" No answer came from him or anyone else. The tower was empty.
"Nurse, have you any idea what's wrong with this young man?" the principal asked solemnly. The night had rolled away into day, and all efforts to rouse Damon had been in vain. Dorothy shook her head sadly. "I see," the principal continued. "It seems we have no choice but to call an ambulance to take him away for proper treatment. Jim, please call for assistance."
Jim nodded and picked up the phone, dialing the emergency hotline. "Hello? We need an ambulance at Kadic Acade-…" he trailed off, his eyes fixed on Damon. The young man yawned and then sat up, stretching his arms and neck.
"Mmmmmm….what a great night's sleep," he murmured, rubbing his eyes and looking around. "Whuh….what the…" he sputtered, looking around, his eyes wide with panic. "What the heck are you all doing in my room!"
End of Chapter 6
A.N. Ok, I squeezed this out in a DAY. Appreciate it; this is one day of GCSE revision I will NEVER get back. But I couldn't leave everyone hanging for this long. Don't expect any updates for a good long time, at the very least a month. Sorry if the quality of this chapter isn't as good as the rest, but GCSE's are GCSE's. When they're over, I'll have plenty of time to work hard on the fic. Peace.
Editor Commentary (new feature for this chapter) by Mewberries151: Testing…um…hello…yes, I'm Trikninja's editor for this fic…I honestly can't figure out what he needs me for though. XD He's a fantastic writer all on his own. I hope those of you from the CL boards at TV Tome and LyokoFreak found that small tribute the author added in their amusing and fun. I know I did:D Ph34r my 1337 J3r3m13-ness! ; pokes her Leet speech Trikninja's going to kill me for that…this is why I do not make a good editor. X) Anyways, I know I enjoyed this chapter and I hope you all did too. Show this author some love now and let him know you did. . Buh byes!