Chapter 23: Bittersweet
SO SORRY that it took sooo long to upload...things happened and I forgot about this unitl about a few...... peace out! and another KH and CL crossover chapter will on the way soon thanks for waiting my friends and enjoy this chapter
XANA had been quiet for about five days after the spider attack. The Lyoko warriors, Max, and Apollo were on the edge trying to find out what XANA is planning.
"Three days with the tower sweep on and we have found...absolutly nothing!" sighed Jeremy lounging in his chair.
"Maybe XANA finally figured out that we're too good to be beaten." smiled Odd playing cards with Yumi.
"We can never be too careful." replied Max stroking Kiwi.
"This waiting here to see if XANA is attacking is a bit too risky right now.....we already were caught off campus, and if it happens again..." dragged on Yumi laying down a full house in front of Odd.
"Your right, we need to get to class." sighed Jeremy.
"Jeremy.......are you sick? You never give up like this!" gasped Odd.
"I'm...fine?" said Jeremy.
"ITS A SPECTOR!!!" joked Odd waving his hands around.
"Okay then...........let's go back to campus." said Aelita pushing the button to the elevator.
Jeremy kept the computer on and filed into the elevator with everyone else and went up.
"I can't wait to get ready to start the boiling point lab today......" smiled Apollo.
"Speaking of boiling points...where's Mason?!?" asked Odd.
"Don't know....he didn't even call me." said Ulrich.
"Well we aren't sticking around here any longer, so we'll just have to find out. " said Jeremy closing his laptop which he used to activate the scan.
They ran back to campus and went to Mason's room, and to their shock Mason was still in his snoring!
"WAKE UPPP!" yelled Odd right into Mason"s ear.
Mason turned around. He was red and green like a christmas tree as well he was coughing hard, yet he still found the strength climb out of bed just to fall over himself.
"You look awful Mason." commented Yumi.
"Yeab...I nows..." coughed Mason with a stuffy nose.
"I'll call Yolanda..." said Aelita.
"Shwe alwedi nowds..." coughed Mason again.
"Oh then.........better get to class." said Aelita.
Mason started to laugh. Mason then showed Aelita the calender....It was teacher conference day.
"It's allwite........" chuckled Mason then starting to cough.
"Is there anything we can get you." said Ulrich rolling his eyes. He knew that when Mason gets sick he can act like an ass at times.
"Yap.....wome cwough sewup..." said Mason getting up.
Everyone left Mason's room and headed to breakfast
"Well.....this was a bummer...we can't do anything fun today." moaned Odd twirling his pancake around in syrup.
They saw Mason walk in and sit down. Mason had a plate in his hands and a scarf around his neck to make sure he didin't cough on anybody.
"We thought you were sick..." said Jeremy.
"I'm not sick...just coughwng and swore thwoat." sighed Mason eating some eggs.
"Mason...you were green..." smirked Yumi.
"So wab?" shot back Mason putting scrambled eggs in his mouth.
"He plays hard to get when he's sick..... because he hates staying in one place for too long." whispered Ulrich into Yumi's ear.
Yumi gave a small "oh" that Mason barely caught, and when he did he shot straight up.
"Whad aru scweming?" scowled Mason with his fork going between them.
"We aren't schemeing anything..." said Yumi playing innocent.
"Don't wie to me Wumi." warned Mason playing with his pocket watch.
"I'm not lying to you." claimed Yumi.
Mason actually bought it that time because he was sick and didn't want an arguement, so he just kept on eating. When he finished he threw is foam tray into the trash.
"Wuteva...im weaving" sighed Mason walking back to his room.
"Ever get the gesture that Mason........is lonely?" asked Aelita.
Everyone was silent as they knew that Aelita was right.....that Mason WAS lonely. They had never seen Mason really happy, and the though mad ethe others start thinking hard about Mason.
"What he needs is a good girlfriend!" smiled Odd.
Ulrich knew this was a touchy subject especially with Mason as stubborn as he was.........allthough he knew Mason liked Emily, as for he told him like a thousand times, he decided that the best course of action was to stay silent. For Ulrich the only question remained was that if Emily liked Mason back. But then Ulrich immediately rejected the idea of thinking about them together. Besides Mason was girl shy...shy as a clam to be more specific, so nothing would probably happen.......or even possibly happen.
"Have any ideas who he would like?" asked Aelita.
"Bad idea...Mason doesn't like other people butting into his personal life....." said Ulrich trying to steer the conversation.
Aelita caught the dirft and immediately changed the subject. "So what about you and Brynja Odd?" asked Aelita successfuly turning the subject into the other direction..
"We broke up....she started flirting with other guys....." sighed Odd.
"Ouch..." said Ulrich finishing breakfast.
"Oh well I'll just date another girl...life goes on...." sighed Odd gobbling down is french toast.
"Whatever Odd...." laughed Ulrich.
"That's how it always worked for me!" barked Odd.
"You kids need to leave before you get clean up duty!" interrupted Jim.
"Oh...sorry Jim." said Aelita leaving the dining hall.
Jim let out a satisfied grunt and he started to put up chairs. The Lyoko gang walked outside and sat down at their favorite bench. After a few mintues of silence they started to get bored.
"Soooooo..." said Max drumming his fingers on the bench.
"Anyone know where Rex went?" asked Odd.
"He left to go to an all boys school two days ago due to the incident with Mason." said Yumi knowing this because Rex was in one of her classes.
"I see....so Mason is safe now I guess you can say." guessed Odd.
"Safe? I guess you can say safe.....more like free...." said Ulrich.
"What do you mean free...Ulrich." questioned Yumi looking at Ulrich.
"Free from the pain in the ass as Mason said it." quoted Ulrich trying to hide his lie. He knew what Mason REALLY meant by this, but he was promised to keep it secret.
"We need to seize the day!" smiled Apollo with determineation while watching his fellow computer human play the PSP.
"How...we can't leave campus today...and there's nothing to do here." complained Odd.
"We can think of something." smiled Aelita.
Meanwhile Mason was in his room bored to death. He yawned and started to drum his fingers on his desk as he finished messing with a small figure Chamael gave him for Christmas. He gave it a stare and realized it was one of those Gundam thingies he always talked about.
"Damnmit Chamael...I hate these little things...." moaned Mason spinning it around.
He heard a knock on his door and to his surprise Emily came in.
"Yo." said Mason.
Emily looked around and didn't say anything to Mason such as a "hi" or "how are you" as she usually did.
"Can I Hewp you?" asked Mason.
Emily just kept looking around. Mason was a little concerned, and clapped his hands to get the curious girl's attention.
"YO!!" shouted Mason finally getting her attention. That split second her gaze met with the small robot on his desk. She let out a small squeal and ran over to it.
"You got one of these?" smiled Emily picking it up.
Mason was now more confused than happy to see her. He didn't even know what the thing was and why it made Emily get all excited about a 5-inch figure. Maybe a new girl trend?
"One of what?" asked Mason picking up the little mono-eyed robot.
"That's the MS-07B-3 Gouf Custom/MS-08TX Efreet Gundam fix figuration Zeonography model!" giggled Emily messing around with the small thing.
Mason had no idea what she just said, and realized that this was his chance to escape. He tried to sneak out of his room when he heard Emily behind him start talking.
"Where are you going when you are sick?" scorned Emily.
Mason though "damn" as he almost was out the door. He turned around to make Emily a compromise.
"Twell you what......you can pway with that........thing while I gwo twis way......" smiled Mason creeping out the door.
Mason got a smack on the head and was pushed on his bed, even though Mason let Emily push him down otherwise she wouldn't have been able to budge him.
"Odd told me to check on you every so often." smiled Emily.
Mason crossed his arms and sat indian style on the bed....his plan was foiled. He let out a sigh and fell over onto his bed to fall asleep. Emily went out of the room to come back with a soda.
"I might be here a while." sighed Emily.
The Lyoko warriors finally decided to go over to the still frozen pond to go play ice hockey. They were on one team, besides Max and Apollo, while some other students which included Jean Baptiste, Herb, and Nicolas. They had the puck first and were going straight at the Lyoko warriors. The Warriors (as they called themselves leaving out the Lyoko part) immediately swiped the puck from them and scored a goal.
"That was a cheap shot!" accused Herb.
"That was so a fair goal and you know it!" yelled Odd.
Herb and Odd started to bicker unitl both their team mates had to pull them back into the game. The "Warriors" had started out with the puck this time and were going straight towards the opponet's goal. They shot it at the goal, but was caught by the other team's goal keeper who tossed it back in. They skated over to the puck where Jean-Baptiste pushed Jeremy over to grab the puck and made a goal.
"Ow! My knee!" squealed Jeremy.
"Don't get in the way then." sneered Jean skating back.
Jermy's friends hurried over as fast as they could and helped Jeremy up. Aelita skated him over to the bench and sat him down.
"Thanks." sighed Jeremy taking out his laptop.
"You'll be okay right?" asked Aelita.
"Uh-huh...sure." said Jeremy typing some things in on his laptop.
Aelita let out a concerned groan and skated back to meet with the others. They huddled up to plan another strategy they called in Apollo due to Jeremy's incident, and Max kept playing the PSP Mason let him borrow.
"Allright if they want to play tough...then we'll give them tough!" barked Yumi loud enough for only her team mates could hear.
"We should start by going straight towards the tohers." smiled Odd.
"BREAK!" they all said at the same time.
"Y-Yumi.....don't get hurt...ok?" said Ulrich with a small smirk on his face.
Yumi gave a sincere smile back. "Promise."
They had started out with the puck again and were heading straight towards the goal. lrich swiftly gave the puck yo Yumi. Where she tried to hit it in only to be stopped by Jean Baptiste. Odd skated towards the puck only to be slipped by another player. THe battle for the hockey puck went on for about another hour. In the end the Warriors won!
"Whew....that was tiring." sighed Odd sliding onto the bench.
"The way Jean was playing you couldn't of won." smirked Ulrich with his arm around Yumi.
"We better check on Mason...to make sure he hasn't escaped....." smiled Odd starting to walk towards the building.
Apollo gave a smile and followed Odd. Soon the others slowly came and in a few minutes they saw Mason dead asleep on the bed.
I knew Emily you set him strait" though Odd with a smile.
Mason woke up. He looked a lot better from this morning but he still had the sniffles. He sat up and rubbed his eyes.
"Morning sleepy head." smiled Yumi.
"I feel a lot better now..." Mason said stretching his arms. He quickly flexed his muscles and then got on a clean shirt. He quickly got on his favorite Maroon shirt and then back around to his fellow warriors.
"So.......what are we going to do?" asked Mason stretching his long, powerful arms.
"It's 7 o' clock....the day is over....." laughed Apollo.
"WHAT!?!??!" yelled Mason.