Living Up To A Legend Chapter 16: Snow Day, a code lyoko fanfic

Yes, I know, I'm late. And there's a huge cliffie at the end of this chapter. So sue me.

Actually, please don't. Anyway this chapter's a really good one. By the end, you should see some sort of pattern to this story emerging.

Okay, I dedicate chapters to each 100th review (100th, 200th, etc.). I have a grand total of…

198 reviews. Just two more!

Anyway, on to the legal stuff.

I DON'T own Code Lyoko, but I DO own Kirsten and the children, and the plot, so don't steal anything!

Now, on to chapter 16!

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Chapter 16 – Snow Day

Early in the morning, John's cell phone could be heard ringing loudly. It nearly woke him up.

Nearly being the key word.

A hand reached out from underneath the blanket and groped around, finding the alarm clock on the nightstand.

"Mmm…stupid clock…Saturday…mmm…"

The hand tapped the snooze button out of habit, even though the alarm clock had been turned off the night before. The noise refused to stop, so he punched the alarm clock. When that had no effect, he reached for his cell phone and pulled it back under the blanket with his eyes still closed.

"Mmm…"

"Hey John, it's Dad."

"Hng…mmm?"

He heard chuckling on the other end. "Did I wake you up? Sorry. Anyway, we were thinking…well…just look outside."

He slowly pushed the covers off. He opened his eyes, and the sudden light from the window blinded him as he fell out of bed with a yell and a thump.

"John! Are you okay?"

He sighed as he got up, slowly opening his eyes and letting them get used to the light. "Yeah. The stupid sun blinded me and I fell out of bed…woah…" He trailed off.

He had reached the window and looked outside to see that the school was covered in a white blanked. He woke up instantly. "It snowed!" he yelled.

"Yeah, " Ulrich said. "Odd decided that we should go snowboarding, so I just called to let you know. We've already got everything, so we'll just come and pick you guys up in two hours. Go wake up the others and get ready!"

He grinned. "YES!"

They all piled into a huge van and drove for a few hours to reach the mountains. Everybody, even Jeremie and Aelita, had rented snowboards the other day. They all got out of the car and reached the lifts.

Kirsten quickly took charge. "Okay. Put your front foot in the binding and tighten the straps. Then use your back foot to push your way to the lift," she instructed.

Ulrich looked at her with a puzzled expression. "How do you know so much about snowboarding? You lived in California!"

Odd just smiled. "Ever heard of Lake Tahoe? They have awesome ski resorts there!"

They went down a few small hills, then split up. Odd, Kirsten, Eric, and Amy, having snowboarded many times before, went up to the top of a black diamond course. Everybody else went up a blue square. They reached the top, and Aelita looked down at the hill. Jeremie saw a bit of fear in her face, so he smiled and put an arm around her shoulders.

"Just imagine you're on the overboard," he said.

She nodded and took off down the slope. It immediately became apparent that she knew what she was doing, and everybody else followed her down. John also did well, since he had a lot of experience riding his "rock-board."

Eventually, Odd challenged Aelita to a race. She quickly agreed, and they went to the top of the mountain. They got off the lift and shivered at the cold wind. No nearby mountains were higher, so there was nothing to block the wind.

Kirsten immediately took off down the hill. She would decide who won in the event of a close finish. Everybody else finished getting ready as Odd and Aelita slid up to the edge of the flattened peak.

Ulrich smiled as he came up beside them. "We seem to be doing a lot of racing lately, first on Lyoko, now on a mountain. What's next?"

Odd rolled his eyes. "Just let us start."

"Fine. Ready? Set? GO!"

Odd and Aelita took off. They started neck-and-neck, one pulling slightly ahead, then falling back as the other pulled ahead. Everybody else followed closely behind them.

Odd pulled ahead, bent low to increase his speed. Aelita narrowed her eyes, then smirked as she got an idea. She realized that she didn't have much time, since the bottom of the course was close. She opened her mouth and sang a long, beautiful note. Twenty feet in front of Odd, a dark mist slowly appeared, coalescing into a snowdrift. Odd yelled as he hit it, going top speed. His board plowed into the drift and he felt himself suddenly stop. Powder flew up and lazily drifted back to the ground.

Aelita, on the other hand, flew up and off the snowdrift, spinning a 360 before landing cleanly on the other side. She passed Kirsten and slid to a stop. Odd got up and followed, pouting slightly. Everyone except Jeremie finished soon after him.

"Why is everybody always unfair to me?" Odd asked. "First Ulrich stabs me with his sword—"

"Only 'cause you shot me!" Ulrich shot back.

"Only 'cause you devirtualized my overboard!"

"Only 'cause you devirtualized my overbike!"

"Only 'cause you…you…you were winning!"

Yumi sighed. "This conversation sounds eerily familiar…" she muttered.

Odd rolled his eyes and continued. "Anyway, now Aelita cheats too by materializing a snowdrift!" He paused for a moment, then sighed. "Oh fine, even though you cheated, I'll let you win. After all, I've never seen you use your power before, and it was pretty cool!"

Aelita just smiled. Suddenly, a flash of blue went past the group and they heard a yell. Aelita rolled her eyes and sang another long note. There was a muffled "whoompf" as they turned around to see Jeremie's lower body sticking out of a newly-formed snowdrift. Everybody laughed at his position.

He pulled himself out, muttering darkly as he turned around. Suddenly, he froze, staring up at the top of the mountain with wide eyes. The others heard a rumbling behind them and turned to look, also freezing for a moment when they saw what Jeremie saw.

A black XANA symbol seemed to be scorched into the snow (if you can actually scorch snow) near the top of the mountain. There was a loud crack and a rumble as the snow flew out in all directions. The snow started a chain-reaction, which quickly made itself apparent.

"AVALANCHE!" they all cried.

They spun around and took off down the mountain on their snowboards, trying to outrun the avalanche that was quickly gaining on them.

Odd leaned down, trying to minimize wind resistance so he could go faster. They had to reach the bottom and get to safety! He looked behind him and saw the avalanche itself, no more than a hundred feet away. Broken tree-trunks and rocks were caught in it, churning with the snow. Finally, Odd gave up and concentrated. There was a flash of purple light, and he was suddenly holding his overboard. He loosened the straps on his bindings and jumped out of them, dropping the overboard and landing on it. He flew up into the sky, speeding along away from the avalanche, which was slowly dropping behind. The other adults followed his example, and soon Ulrich and Jeremie were riding the overbike and Yumi had picked up Aelita on the overwing.

Amy looked up from the ground in front of her to see "The Village," the large shopping center and food court at the entrance of the resort. She saw the miniscule people suddenly start to look up at the avalanche. She heard their yells from way up on the mountain, as they ran for their cars.

Unfortunately, many of them were scared stiff, and were frozen to the ground.

"Remember the fire!" Rena yelled from nearby. "Pull it in!"

Amy nodded as Rena took off with a jet of flame that incinerated her board. Everybody else was already in the air. Amy turned the snow in front of her to ice, so her board skidded quickly down the slope, slowly drawing ahead of the avalanche. She stopped quickly, and turned to face it. She looked behind her to see three flying vehicles, a firebolt, a beam of light, a floating rock, and a flying person make their way to the village to help the people get out of there. Dan had already disappeared into the shadows earlier.

She closed her eyes and threw her arms up to protect her face.

Then the avalanche hit her.

I know, it's a cliffie, but I'll try to update sooner than I did, maybe even sooner than you think. Of course, I'm routinely late, so it'll probably be later than you think, but…whatever…

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