Pairing four: Aelita x Ulrich

Claimer: I do own the plots of the stories I write down here.

Author's note: I'm doubting if this should stay T rated or let it go more to M for safety. What should I do?

Dedicated to: WeaponFanfic, thanks for your review.

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Summary: William did something not-nice and the group doesn't like that. Xana doesn't like it either.

Aelita's pov

"Aelita, how can you let him go away like that?!" Jeremie shouted, forgetting his laptop for a moment.

"Yeah, why don't you just give him a punch on his face?" Odd added, waving furiously with his fists.

"Girls usually don't punch," Yumi mentioned as she rolled her eyes at the mad guys.

"Seriously, Princess, that can't go unpunished," Ulrich added, in a rather calm mood though.

I giggled at all the reactions. They were flipping out for nothing at all really. William Dunbar had kissed me yesterday evening all of a sudden when I went for a walk in the park. But he was drunk! He apologised to me a lot, so I don't see a problem. He was a rather good kisser.

"Guys, it's no problem, really. He just wasn't himself and he said sorry. What more do you want?" I replied.

"His head?" Odd asked, hard to say if he was serious or not.

At that moment Jeremie's laptop beeped, pulling our attention. "Xana's attacking!"

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We were standing like 32 feet below the ground floor, in the familiar scanner room. Ulrich and Odd already took their places at the left and right scanner while Jeremie was preparing everything. Next, Jeremie's voice echoed through the room as the scanners closed. "Get ready. Transfer.. Ulrich. Transfer.. Odd. Scanner.. Ulrich. Scanner.. Odd. Virtualisation!" After that the doors opened again, releasing some steam, Yumi and I stepped in and a few moments later we landed in the forest sector of Lyoko.

"The activated tower should be dead ahead. I'll program your vehicles and then try to figure out what Xana's attack is," the genius informed us.

"Roger that," I answered him and jumped on the overwing together with Yumi to fly across the small plateaus. It didn't take long for us to reach the red tower. Xana seemed in the mood for some action today since it was guarded by a small army of monsters: two bloks and two Krabs.

"Go-go-it's-us-time?" Odd asked while he flew to the left. Ulrich confirmed it with a hand sign and went to the right while I stayed behind with Yumi. This fight should be over rather quickly since everyone was in such a good mood today.

One krab together with a blok spotted us and charged, firing laser shots as they did. Yumi grabbed both her fans and jumped off the vehicle, giving me the controls. While I drove on she used her fans as small shields to block the lasers as she kept running to distract them.

At that moment, Odd and Ulrich jumped out of nowhere, yelling "banzai!". They slapped hands in mid-air, crossed paths then finished off the two enemies with a stylish attack.

"Two down, two to go," Ulrich said. The remaining machines didn't agree, though, shooting multiple lasers at Yumi's back, causing her to shriek as she scattered into virtual pieces. The guys went all crazy after seeing this, Ulrich sprinted at them while Odd climbed quickly up a tree. The purple cat made a huge jump (together with a few back flips) and shot a random amount of projectiles at the vulnerable krab, destroying it.

However, before he hit the ground he got devirtualised by some well-aimed rings of fire by the last block. This one got hit by Ulrich's katana a microsecond after that.

I landed with the overwing, smiling at Ulrich and then ran towards the red tower, now unguarded. An unexpected visitor ruined my moment suddenly: the scyphozoa. It appeared out of nowhere and slammed at my back, trying to knock me out apparently. It hit me too hard though, pushing me off the plateau so I fell towards the mysterious digital sea…

Jeremie's voice shouted trough the air, calling my name in fear, but he couldn't do anything. Neither could Ulrich, but he tried anyway. He jumped after me, grabbing my hand as we were falling. "No way I'll leave you, Princess," he whispered to me, smiling.

The next moments were so incredible, I could barely believe what happened. We hugged in mid-air, knowing that the end was near. Ulrich, the person I admired that much in secret. He brushed his lips against mine, and I kissed back. I wrapped my arms around his neck in an instant, he grabbed my waist to hold my tight. He even slipped one hand under my shirt, making me groan. We kissed like forever, even though I knew it were only a couple of seconds.

Nobody ever knew why Ulrich did it. Nobody knew he had a crush on me, and I felt the same for him. Jeremie, Odd, William nor Yumi would ever know, since they had lost us. The digital sea was merciless. But I had the greatest time of my life before we fell in. Seven seconds of true love.

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