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Look Before You Seek

Chapter 10

"So, those blocks on legs are called Bloks?" Minnie asked Aelita that night, and Aelita nodded. Aelita had been trying to explain he basics of Lyoko to her, and she was starting to catch on.

"And there are other monsters, like Creepers and Hornets, but I haven't seen them yet." Again, Aelita nodded.

"Can you list them?" Asked Aelita, quizzically.

"Bloks, Creepers, Hornets, Krabes, Mantas, Megatanks, and Krank... Krank-somethings."

"Krankrelats," Aelita corrected her, trying not to laugh. "You missed one, though. Tarantulas. But, it was pretty good. Can you describe the monsters?"

"Well," Minnie said, slightly nervous. "Let's see. Well, The Bloks are giant blocks on legs that shoot from that weird symbol, the Megatanks are giant balls that open and these giant discs expand from them. Umm... the Creepers look kinda like a snake, except they have two legs and shoot from their mouths, And the Hornets are like some weird mosquito, and they shoot from their tails. The theres the Krankrelas, who are small and shoot from the red dot that could be like an eye, and the Krabes are like giant crabs, they are the biggest and strongest, and they shoot too. The Mantas are usually only found in sector five, but they can be found in other sectors, and they also shoot, but they fly too, making them slightly harder to kill. And there's the Tarantulas, who are like spiders with four legs, and they shoot from their legs. And I think that's it," Minnie said, feeling rather proud of herself.

"There's also one more monster," Aelita said, hesitantly. "But it doesn't attack you or any of the other, only me. It's called Scyphozoa, and it looks like a huge, transparent squid. It sucks the memories out of me."

"Oh, how horrid!" Minnie was shocked. "Why would it want to suck your memories away?"

"Because X.A.N.A. wants them. It's part of his master plan to escape from Lyoko and the supercomputer."

"Excuse me for asking, but who's X.A.N.A.?" Minnie had heard the others talking about it, but she was yet to know what it was.

"It was a program created by Franz Hopper, the man who created the supercomputer and Lyoko. He's also my father." Aelita paused to take a deep breath. "He virtualized me and himself into Lyoko to hide from people who were after him for creating X.A.N.A., but X.A.N.A. turned on him. He's still trapped somewhere in Lyoko, but he did help us to decode his diary, to help find a cure for the virus that X.A.N.A. gave me. X.A.N.A. is the one that activates towers to make attacks on earth to get to me, so that he can be free of the supercomputer." Minnie was nodding, trying to take it all in, but it was a lot of information to absorb in one night.

"Right, I think I got it now," She said, yawning. "I think I might go to sleep now. Good night."

"Goodnight,"Aelita said to Minnie as she turned the light off and climbed into bed.

Minnie had trouble sleeping that night from all the information that she had consumed all in one day.

Aelita had trouble sleeping, too, but not for the same reason. She was worried about the Yumi. Yumi was her best friend, and they were her only friends, and they had betrayed her. Aelita couldn't think of any way to put this right. They needed Yumi to help them fight in Lyoko, but maybe she thought that they had replaced her? Aelita shook her head at this thought. They could never replace Yumi, they needed her too much. But there was nothing Aelita could do for the moment, and she eventually feel asleep.

Unfortunately, it was a restless sleep, as she had a nightmare that she couldn't remember when she woke the next morning. She woken to her alarm bleeping at 7:30. She sat bolt upright in a cold sweat, her mouth open with terror. It took her a moment or two to remember where she was, then it took another moment or two to calm down enough to switch off her alarm. Her head was pounding, and she didn't feel like getting up.

She glanced over at Minnie's perfectly made bed, and realized that she must have gotten up early again. That's one strange girl. Aelita thought as she grabbed her clothes and headed for the showers.

Minnie was, once again, down in the woods, writing about everything she had learned the day before. She needed to write it down so that her head wouldn't explode. She didn't write it in a diary formate, but more of a dot point format, piecing the bit together, then writing a log about what she had learned, almost like writing an essay. She wrote in English, in case someone else picked it up and started reading it.

She wasn't down there for very long, just long enough to jot everything down, before rushing to the lunch room for breakfast. Today they were having eggs, which wasn't too bad, so long as you didn't think of where the eggs had come from. She took a seat next to Odd, who was already there, stuffing his face.

She didn't sit to close to him, as she had this thing about boys. People called it a phobia, but she said, "I don't like boy's so long as they don't like me!" Anyway, Odd was to busy eating to notice that she was there.

Minnie was finished by the time the others came into the Lunch room, looking very tired and slightly frazzled.

"I hate mornings," Aelita groaned, sitting down to eat. Ulrich mumbled something incomprehensible.

"Oh," Groaned Jeremie. "I was up all night working on an Anti-virus, but were still at square one! Franz Hoppers diary has helped a lot, but I don't know where to go from here!"

"It's okay, Jeremie," Aelita said, rubbing her eyes. "Take your time. Don't try and rush it."

"But we don't have that much time! What if X.A.N.A. attacks again, and he manages to steal your memory completely?"

"Jeremie, your making a scene!" Aelita hissed at him, and he didn't speak again.

"Well, see you guys later," Minnie said in a flat tone as she walked off.

"Bye," They all mumbled after her, except Odd, who was still stuffing his face, too busy to farewell Minnie.

Minnie was wondering around the corridors, lost in thought, when she accidentally bumped into someone.

"Hey," Yumi cried. "Watch were your going!" Minnie looked at Yumi, slightly frightened by her. Suddenly, Yumi realized who it was.

"Get lost, Minnie." Minnie started to hurry away. "And stay away from my friends too!" She shouted after her.

Of course, this was impossible, because they had classes together, and she shared her dorm with Aelita, so there really wasn't anyway to stay away from them.

Yumi stared witheringly after her, despising her for everything that she had caused.

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