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"What the heck are you all doing in my room!"
The sun had risen on a new day at Kadic, and at the same time Damon Okoyl had finally risen from his long slumber, looking around the room, he was greeted by the shocked and still faces of Principal Delmas, Jim, and Yolande.
"Umm..I mean..good morning?" Damon asked, slightly perplexed as Jims completely confused face stared straight into his. "...There a reason I'm in here?" he added
"Damon, what happenned to you last night?" the principal asked sternly.
"Lets see..woke up..had breakfast...did a test, fell asleep, woke up here." Damon counted off, using his fingers. "Why, is it against school policy to sleep in class?" he asked, obviously knowing the answer to the question.
"I'll tell ya what's against school policy kid!" Jim replied, "Falling asleep in class and ignoring a wake up call from a former town crier and making him carry your heavy butt to the infirmary!"
"...You were a town crier?" Damon replied after a short silence.
"...I don't want to talk about it." Jim replied, turning away in a slight huff,
"Yolande..please give Damon a check over and then let him go on his way, he has classes to attend today." The principal cut over, frowning a little at Jims back as he turned to leave, stopping at the door, the principal paused and turned to Damon. "Oh and Damon?" he added, "Try to establish proper sleeping patterns my boy, sleeping from noon till morning the next day can't possibly be healthy for a boy your age."
"...Right" was the reply as Damon watched the principal head off, Jim marching behind as he let Yolande perform her checks. With a clean bill of health Damon jumped from the front door of the infirmary as he stretched his body out around him. "A crazy dream sure builds a crazy appetite", he mumbled to himself, heading off to the cafeteria. Damons walking was slow as he approached the building, the smell of food and the bustling racket of other students, shaking him from his thoughts. Pondering the reality of his dreams Damon meandered through the crowded tables, finding a clear one as he sat down with his tray. His eyes darted around the room lazily as he leant against his palm. staring up at the ceiling.
"That was one funky dream..." he thought, "Ice-World...no, it's Lyoko..I haven't been there in a year..why did I show up there again, why did my friends show up in my old opponents clothes...more importantly..what does this mean..the change of clothes, the increase in power from my bandana, is this real, or just my subconscious telling me I believe my bandana is special and makes me strong...this is such a brain bender..." he mused, a voice behind him calling him, calling him again, it went unanswered until an arm slapped onto his shoulder.
"Damon!" A familiar voice called as he turned to see Odd, Aelita, Yumi and Ulrich standing around him. "What the heck are you doing here?!" Odd asked, the others staring at him in pure disbelief. Damon was slowly becoming annoyed with the number of people staring at him like some kind of oddity as he turned back to his food.
"I'm eating breakfast, what does it look like? This isn't a public show by the way, it's french toast." he added, pointing at his tray. The others sat around him, trying not to stare as Damon stabbed quietly at his plate with a fork.
"Damon, why aren't you in Lyoko?" Jeremy asked, "Aelita told us as soon as we went to materialize her this morning for class, you ran into a tower and then vanished."
"Okay, so either this is some kind of wierd joke or it's all just been proven that it's not a dream, before we get to that however..." Damon said clearly, setting his cutlery down and looking straight at Yumi. "Bandana. Now." he demanded, frowning. "If last night wasn't a dream, it means you tried to destroy it in Lyoko, which means it's not safe around any of you, give it back." he added. Silence and stillness was his reply as Damon rose from his seat, glaring at everyone around the table.
"Just, wait a second would you Damon?" Jeremie replied, breaking the silence. "There's too much that Banda can tell us, it could be the complete answer to everything we need, the data in there could be anything, my theory is that it can either be the key to permanently freeing Aelita from Lyoko, or it could provide us with a way to enter Lyoko without having to go to the factory like you do, in any case, we can't let you have it back, and Yumi is going to hold onto it until we say you can take it back." at this remark, Damon slammed his fist into the table.
"I want it back and I want it now." Damon stated once more,glaring straight into Yumis face she stared down at the table, the force of his hand shaking the table, Odd remained silent, wanting to give his opinion, but knowing he would be shot down, having been silent for what he believed to be too long, Ulrich rose, staring across the table at Damon.
"Don't try to threaten us Damon, and don't try to bully us into getting that thing back, it's not going to work." He said, frowning,his face unblinking as he met Damon in a staring match.
"You talk big Ulrich, if I remember correctly last time we threw down you didn't stand a chance." Damon replied cooly, "I don't want to fight, I want whats mine, keeping something that doesn't belong to you, without permission, when I entrusted it to you, is wrong, but I don't have to tell you that, you all know it. Well, I'm pretty sure some of you do, the other one or two are too caught up in your own selfish plans to consider how other people are affected by them. Now give back my bandana, or I will take it. Are we clear?" Was Damons final reply, as he glanced around the table, his gaze lingering on Jeremie.
The entire cafeteria had fallen silent, all the students, previously unhushable and loud, had fallen deathy quiet,
Damon and Ulrich had squared off, both ready to move at a moments notice.
"STERN! YOKEL! What's going on here!" A deep voice boomed out, as all heads turned to the entrance to the cafeteria, the stocky gym teacher standing there with his hands at his sides. A few moments later Jim strode over to the table as both Ulrich and Damon sat back down, Damon moodily picking at his tray once more.
"Nothings going on Jim, we were just talking." Ulrich replied, not taking his eyes from Damon,
"It's Okoyl...my name is Okoyl, not YOKEL." Damon grumbled, raising an eyebrow and pushing his tray away as Jim grunted a little laugh and meandered off. As Damon scowled over the table at Ulrich. Aelita piped up.
"Yumi, may I have the bandana please?" Aelita asked,
"Sure.." Yumi replied, drawing it from her pocket and handing it over to Aelita underneath the table. Damons eyes darted across the table, having heard what Aelita said and seriously considering luncing and taking it by force.
"Aelita...? What are you doing?" Jeremie asked, somewhat angrily, Aelita smiled, closing her eyes as she smiled back at him, before looking over to Damon.
"Damon, do you understand why they want to keep the bandana?" Aelita asked politely.
"Something about materialising you, but you're already here so that reasons gone, hence me wanting my bandana back."
"Well, You're right that I am materialised, but if the supercomputer is shut down, I get shutdown, they want to hold onto it because they think it might be able to break my link and set me free." Aelita replied, her eyes showing her kind sincerity.
"Would have been nicer if someone had filled me in on that earlier. I still don't see how it's my problem." Damon replied curtly.
"You don't mean that, I know you don't," Aelita replied, smiling as she held up the cloth, Damon jumping from his seat as he lunged for it, only to have it snatched out of his view by Aelita, " I also know that you'd be willing to let us analyse your bandana as long as you get to hold onto it while we do."
"You seem to think you know an awful lot of stuff." Damon grumbled, standing tall over Aelitas seated form, his shadow casting over her entire body as he stared straight down at her. Remaining unbroken, Aelitas smile beamed back up at him with a nod and giggle.
"I do, it's one of those perks of having lived in a big computer." she replied happily, a moment of silence passed, Aelitas smiling face never breaking the gaze with Damons, the larger boy sighed, snapping his fingers and flicking his fingers toward the bandana, indicating he wanted it back.
"Fine, you can use it, with me present, until she's free, you don't get to hold onto it, you don't get to keep it overnight or any junk like that, it stays with me at all times, and if you want to analyse it, I have to be there to supervise. Now give it back. " Damon grumbled, snatching the Bandana and tying it securely around his elbow, finishing it with tying a knot twice around it to make it was extra secure.Aelita did little more then give a thumbs up to Jeremie and follow up with a happy little laugh as Damon sat back down at the table, folding his arms, "Okay, so lets this over and done with, what do we know so far and what theories to we have on fixing this."
The table had become somewhat shaken at Damons sudden change in attitude after having regained his possession, but they chose to shrug it off as they counted off what they knew at the time;
"To begin with, Aelita can materialise but if the supercomputer goes, she goes, we need to find a way to sever the link to Lyoko without killling her, allowing her to be free and us to shut down the computer and live our lives normally." Yumi began,
"Also, theres this evil program called Xana, who attacks us in the real world by activating towers," Odd added
"Like the one you got healed in last night." Aelita added,
"Right," Odd replied, "We stop the attacks by having Aelita get into the tower and deactivate it, saving the day, so we're kinda like superheroes, only without the capes!"
"Yeah..instead of capes you get cat ears." Ulrich smirked, "A xana attack can come in any shape or form, he can possess people, systems, anything he wants, so if we tell you a tower is activated, watch your back because you don't know who or what is coming after you, it could be anything from a rat to a-"
"Walking suit of samurai armour?" Odd inerjected, grinning wildly,
"Now what we know about you is scarce, you can apparently connect to Lyoko without needing to be virtualised, from what Aelita has told us, you're completely destructible in Lyoko, so we can assume that if you die there, you die for good. The bandana is the real enigma here, it gives you powers inside lyoko, though out here it's just a piece of tra-er..cloth." Jeremie stated, taking over, changing his tone as he saw Damons glare, we need to scan it, though I don't know if Aelita and I together can crack it."
"Right, well, lets split, it's time for Gym, thats the last class for today, I'll meet you at the entrance to the cafeteria and we can go scan it or whatever." Damon concluded, rising and putting his tray away as he turned to leave, "Don't be late." he added as he left, leaving the group still sitting around the table.
"If I'd known it would be that easy, I would've just given to him in the first place..." Yumi mutterred, still slightly shocked at Damons sudden willingness to help, "How did you know that would work Aelita? He could've just taken it by force."
Aelita smiled, nodding a little, "Yeah, he could have, but I feel like I've met him before, he doesn't hurt innocent people, besides, I got to know him a little bit last night...he protected me, even after he got the bandana back, he wasn't going to lay a finger on me from the beginning."
"Come on Odd, lets get going to Gym before Jim tears us apart on sight." Ulrich added before walking off,
"But I haven't had my second helping yet..." Odd groaned before following. A short run to the gymnasium and a clothing change, they were ready and waiting, lined up in front of Jim,doing his usual patrol back and forth across his imaginary troop of soliders. Unaware of Jims usual practices, Damon stood beside Ulrich and Odd, speaking out of turn as Jim delivered his daily speech;
"What took you two so long? Run headfirst into each other again?", he smirked as Ulrich narrowed his eyes, Odd ready and waiting with one of his witty comebacks.
"Well, it was something like that, see, we saw a picture of you somewhere, we werent prepared for it and it scared the heck out of us, we were halfway back to the dorms before we realised your face is much scarier in real life then a picture, so- we came back." he chuckled, Damon laughing along with him.
"To be the best you can be you need to have a firm understanding and basis of the three 'R's', yes thats right, the three R's. Thats Reading, Writing, and Responsibility," Jim rattled off, before noticing the laughing students, singling out Damon for being hte tallest, he marched over to them, "YOKEL! Something funny about the three R's?" he asked angrily, as Damons laughing face suddenly turned to an exasperated and tired one, as he shook his head, standing straight and staring forward. "Thats what I thought, in any case, since you disrupted my lesson, you can run for a lap around the gynmasium, now GO." Jim commanded.
"Call me Yokel...one more time..." Damon scowled, as he dashed around the gynmasium, keeping close to the walls as he jogged around the interior of the gym, getting back into line.
"Now that Mr comedian has finished, I want to examine the levels of focus, concentration and skill you've accumulated during my lessons, I'm pairing you off one at a time for a little one on one." Jim continued, picking up and tossing a basketball to Ulrich. "Stern, take our new arrival here and show him what Kadic's ace player is all about. Best of three baskets." Damon raised an eyebrow, still panting from his sprinted lap, but stepping forward.
"Check, " Ulrich said, passing the ball straight to Damons chest,
"Check, "Damon replied, catching the ball before it hit his chest and passing it back, Ulrich caught the ball in the same manner, passing the ball harder then before as it caught Damon in the stomach, winding him.
"Check?" Ulrich smirked, "Now we're even for that little headbutt comment.", he added, as Damon coughed, grabbing the ball and beginning to dribble.
"Is that right Mr Kadic ace?" Damon smiles, tilting her head ina cocky manner as he bounced the ball between his legs with each step forward, Ulrich lunged forward with a slap, knocking the ball out of Damons hand as he chased it, acquiring it and running to the basket for a lay-up.
"That IS right Yok-" Ulrich tried to taunt, but his lay up was blocked by Damons jump, clearly being taller gave him a clear advantage, and Damon knew how to use it. Both of them began chasing the ball, Damons longer reach allowing him to grasp and start dribbling, turnning his body to the side to create a barrier between Ulrich and the ball.
"You were about to call me Yokel weren't you?" Damon said, raising an eyebrow as he dashed past Ulrich, dropping a layup into the basket, "Thats one-nothing to me, honestly though Ulrich, you should be grateful I didn't hit you with the ball after that check, a forehead as big as yours is practically impossible to miss." Damon taunted, bounce passing the ball to Ulrich. This was the straw that broke the camels back as Ulrich's eyes opened in anger, he dashed with the ball, dribbling as fast as he could, gathering all of his strength into his legs Ulrich propelled himself from the ground as he slammed the ball into the hoop, hanging from the rim and swinging lightly amidst cheers and clapping from the rest of the group. Dropping to the ground, Ulrich kept his back to Damon, turning his head and smirking back at him. "Match point. Yokel." Ulrichs smirk was met with another from Damon as the match truly began. What followed for the next ten minutes was a semi professional level match, as Damon and Odd both used their advantages to try and score the final basket. Damons height and reach allowed him to cut off Ulrichs shots, but at the same time, Ulrichs higher level of experience and greater speed cut off Damons attack routes, the two were evenly matched, and there was no end in sight, the match coninued on until Jim had had enough, blowing his whistle, he called them back in. Both Ulrich and Damon were panting for air, hunched over and leaning on their knees for support.
"Good hustle out there...and uh...concentration, you three sure know your three R's..NEXT!" Jim called, sending the next two up for a match, Damon and Ulrich remained still as the class went on, still trying to catch their breath.
"Good..match..forehead..." Damon panted
"Yeah..you too...Yokel..." Was the reply from Ulrich, as the two touched fists and went back to join the rest of the somewhat uneventful class, the only entertaining part of it consisting of Herve trying to run through Odd, finding himself flat on his back while Odd remained upright. The whistle blew once more.
"Alright you guys, you're free for now, but don't let me catch any of you breaking curfew, be in bed, on time, and before lights out, is that clear!" he asked, to a resounding "YES SIR!" from his class, "Stern! Yokel! Good hustle today." Jim added as he turned to march off, barely taking three steps before something rather large and hard collided with his rear end, bouncing off and hitting the floor with several bumps. An orange basketball was now rolling away from the livid Jim, who was yelling for all the students who had already left and split up to come back and fess up. En route to the cafeteria, both Ulrich and Odd were still in hysterics.
"I can't believe- You hit Jim in the butt with a basketball!" Odd roared, leaning on Damons shoulder for support.
"Yeah that was pretty funny." Ulrich admitted, laughing, though obviously not as loud as Odd. Damon just shrugged as he continued on with them.
"I told him my name wasn't yokel...simple as that." Damon replied as he approached the cafeteria, Yumi, Jeremie and Aelita ready and waiting,
"Alright," Damon greeted, "Lets go do this then."
Authors note: After three years, yep, I'm back, didja miss me didja miss me huh huh huh? I bet you did, you did didn't you? D I'll be honest, I never lost my passion for this story, and no word of a lie, I cranked this out in one all nighter, I made it a littttle longer to make up for the delay, hopefully this summer we'll get some serious stuff out of the way, so keep it cool, if you're new, strap yourself in and enjoy, if old, I thank you for your continued support.
Keep it cool yo!
Triki