Living Up To A Legend Chapter 10: Sparring, a code lyoko fanfic

I finally got around to updating! Yay! As for the riddle, only a few people got it! The rest of you took the question too literally! If the opposite of pro is con, then the opposite of progress is…

Congress!

Haha…funny…oh, whatever. Anyway, here's chapter 10. Now here's the disclaimer.

CODE LYOKO IS NOT MINE! I'm a fanfiction author. A FANfiction author, as in I'm a FAN of Code Lyoko, not the OWNER! Okay? Good.

YAY! I have more than 100 reviews! This chapter is dedicated to Bighoggi14, my 100th reviewer!

Anyway, here's the next chapter.

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Chapter 10 – Sparring

Ulrich smiled at Odd. "So, you want to fight a bit?"

Odd visibly cringed. "Um…no. Not when you use triplicate and supersprint. That's a deadly combination!"

Ulrich sighed. "Come on. First contact wins, okay? Just one hit."

Odd groaned. "Fine…just no devirtualizing me! I wanna stay here for a while! And please don't use your supersprint too much. I'd rather have a somewhat fair fight."

Yumi grinned. "Come on Odd, you can do it!"

Kirsten nodded. "Yeah, you can do it!"

Odd smiled. "Well, only for you, Kirsten."

Ulrich and Odd faced each other, with Yumi standing in the middle. She held a hand up in the air. "Ready?" They both nodded, and she dropped her hand and jumped out of the way.

Odd started by firing several laser arrows. Ulrich blocked them all and ran towards him, but was forced to stop and deflect more arrows. He took off in a flash of yellow light.

Odd sighed and waited. Suddenly, his vision went blurry and he saw Ulrich try to stab him from behind. He smiled as his vision went back to normal and he turned around, throwing his arms out in front of him and yelling "Shield!"

Ulrich found his sword blocked and grinned. He sprinted away behind a rock. Odd started to run over, and Ulrich sprinted out and headed for him again.

Ten minutes later, they still hadn't managed to hit each other. Odd finally got a lucky shot in, only to see Ulrich disappear. He felt a jolt, and turned around to see Ulrich standing behind him. He looked down to see that his back was sparking.

"Not fair! You triplicated!"

"I never agreed not to."

"Oh yeah? Well you can just…oh, whatever…"

Jeremie's voice came out of nowhere again. "Guys, I think I can help you out a bit with your training. How would you like to train with someone of equal skill?"

Odd raised an eyebrow. "What do you mean?"

"Well, I've been studying XANA's polymorphic clone from the whole kissing incident, and I might be able to recreate some clones of you guys to fight against. Just wait a moment…"

They stood there for a moment until several figures appeared. There were copies of Ulrich, Odd, Yumi, and Kirsten. They all had the same clothes, but with a dark-blue coloring.

Ulrich smiled. "This should be fun."

All of the adults began to duel with their clones. Eric and John were fighting, as well as the three girls. Ulrich and his clone were just two blurs, one yellow and the other blue, speeding around on the plateau. Yumi and her clone had realized that their fans were useless, since the other would just catch them, and were now staring at each other, glowing white, trying to knock each other down with telekinesis.

Odd and his clone were flipping all over the plateau, dodging arrows and climbing rocks. Kirsten and her clone were trading laser blasts. John and Eric kept shooting boulders and blasts of air at each other, creating earthquakes and small whirlwinds, and trying to get at each other with their weapons. Rena and Amy had shot blasts of fire and water at the same time, and were in a deadlock, trying to force the other's blast back with their own. Nina had started trying to get at the girls, but they found the strength to block her arrows with their sais and handclaws.

Finally, there was a huge clash of steel, and Ulrich's clone flew off the edge towards the digital void, but grabbed the edge at the last second. Ulrich sprinted up and stabbed the clone, devirtualizing it.

The kids, unable to hit each other, had stopped to watch as Odd silently snuck up behind his clone and got him with a few well-placed arrows. Kirsten finally managed to hit her clone quick enough so it didn't have time to heal the damage before it devirtualized. Yumi forced her clone back with a strong burst of telekinesis, and hurled both of her fans. The clone, still recovering, was hit and devirtualized.

They all sat down to rest as Kirsten healed the ones who had been hit once or twice.

Ulrich was the first to recover his breath. "Wow…good job Jeremie…this makes training really…really…difficult…phew!"

Odd panted. "Yeah…they're as good as us…almost…"

Unseen by the others, Jeremie smiled. "Yeah, they are. They won't stand up against XANA's monsters though. For some reason, they don't attack. So they won't be taking your job."

Odd smiled. "Good."

Eric sat at his desk in science class the next day, listening to Mrs. Hertz drone on about photosynthesis or something like that. He finally gave up on making sense of what she was saying, and started to doodle on a sheet of paper. He looked up at John, who was staring in the general direction of the teacher with glazed-looking eyes.

He looked down at his pencil, then at John's pencil, and got an idea. He squinted and stuffed his hands in his pockets to hide the yellow glow, and used small winds to lift up John's pencil and begin to write.

A few moments later, he let the pencil drop and looked at John. He still hadn't noticed. He sighed and picked up the pencil once again, bopping him on the nose.

John blinked and looked down at the pencil, then at the message on his desk. He smiled.

Having air powers is useful! I bet you can't send a message back!

He thought for a moment and smiled. He looked back at Eric and hid his hands. Eric's pencil lifted up and began to write.

Eric looked down, surprised, at the message.

Pencils have graphite! Ha!

He snickered silently. Mrs. Hertz, though nearly deaf, somehow heard this. She turned around and stared at Eric.

"Eric, you seem to find this lesson funny. Perhaps you can tell me how chloroplasts convert sunlight into energy?"

"Uh–"

He was interrupted by a loud beep as Mr. Dunbar's voice came over the P.A. system.

"Attention students and teachers: pardon this interruption, but I have an important announcement to make."

Yes, I know, it's a cliffie. At least it's not like the one in Code : Changes where Odd's life was in jeopardy. Anyway, please review this, okay?

Now, for the random quote:

"You're gonna live in a million-dollar house someday!" "Um…yeah…I live in California, so I already do…" –A crazy drunk guy on the BART (I think it stands for Bay Area Rapid Transit) train, and Kirstin.

Anyway, don't forget to review! Only your reviews keep my sanity at bay and allow me to write such a good story.