Yumi: Part 3

Odd continued struggling against Ulrich while the brunet just held him against the wall and laughed Xana's static laugh.

"Your friend can no longer hear you and once he can again he'll have lost the memories that contain his friendship with all of you in them. He'll be my warrior and one by one he'll kill all of you," the voice continued, electricity cackling at his fingertips.

Odd felt the jolts go through his body before he could do anything to stop them. The pain didn't last long before he passed out.

Odd sat up and looked around the room groggily. He didn't even remember coming in here, much less passing out on Ulrich's bed. After waking himself up a little bit more he looked at the time and realized one of two things. One, he'd been asleep since the day before and it was now five thirty in the morning. Two, that he had ten text messages from Jeremie, Aelita, and Yumi.

Sifting through the messages, all whose times ranged from seven to eleven last night, he realized that something bad had happened with Ulrich. It wasn't long before a new message popped up on his phone.

From: Yumi

To: Odd

Odd, I can't believe you're doing it now, too. It was bad enough when Ulrich wasn't answering our messages, but now we've lost him and you can't even be bothered to pick up your damn phone!

He typed a quick message back to Yumi, telling her to meet him in Jeremie's room in ten and then proceeded to quickly change clothes so that he was ready to go to class if he even went today.

It wasn't long before the four friends were sitting up in Jeremie's room, with Jeremie less likely to pay attention since he was sitting in front of his computer screen running various different programs and scenarios through his head.

"So what happened to you this afternoon, Odd? We texted you and you never responded," Aelita asked with a small yawn. She'd been sleeping on Jeremie's bed as the two geniuses had been up trying to find a way to find Ulrich's location.

"I don't know…. I remember leaving class, but nothing else until I woke up just recently. I do think that Ulrich left the room before I was even in there, though, because our room was way to untouched for someone to have been in there other than me," he explained, wracking his brain for the missing chunk of his memory.

"It's alright, Odd. It's just that Ulrich ran off into the forest and we searched the place up and down for him and then went to Lyoko and looked. He's nowhere to be found. Yumi automatically jumped to the conclusion that it was Xana, but Jeremie has a different theory," Aelita explained, shooting the blond a soft smile.

"We don't know what it was or why he ran off like that. All we know is that he's missing, Aelita. I didn't automatically jump to it being Xana," Yumi stated defensively, glaring at the pinkette.

"No fighting. We don't need even more separation in the group, Yumi. We need to stick together more than ever now. It's Saturday so we have half day of classes today. I'm going to skip and see if I can get the supercomputer to locate Ulrich's cell phone. For some reason my computer just isn't enough at the present moment. You guys are to meet me after classes let out at the Factory and I'll have hopefully figured something out by then," Jeremie said. He seemed to have realized the need for him to become a leader.

Odd nodded. He agreed about the arguing thing, but there was no way he was going to go to class. He wasn't going to let Ulrich suffer by himself. There was something going on, some reason that the brunet just left like that, and Odd was determined to find out why.

Odd ran into the forest, ditching Jim by ducking behind a bush. He sat there panting, watching for the older man to pop into the trees and search for him, but he let loose a sigh of relief when he didn't.

Okay, if I was Ulrich where would I go? Odd asked himself while scanning the area around him for any signs of the brunet.

Eventually he decided to just start walking and, even though he didn't find Ulrich, it worked. "William!"

William laid in front of him on the ground, propped up on a rock and was bleeding a bit from his forearm. His hair looked like it had been dragged through mud and then caked with leaves. His eyes squinted open a little bit and he tried to speak.

Odd tentatively approached William and looked over his injuries and then called Jeremie.

"Odd, aren't you in class?" the other blond answered.

"No, I skipped. Is there an activated tower or anything?" he asked, turning his gaze away from William's bloodied and dirty body.

"No. Why?"

"I just found William barely conscious here in the forest. He looked pretty beat up and he's bleeding. What should I do?"

"I have some medical supplies here. Do you think you can get him to the Factory?"

"Yeah, he looks like he's waking up a bit more now, so he'll probably be able to walk and here in a minute answer my questions."

"Alright, just be careful Odd. Xana's been behaving differently for the past few weeks and who knows what it has up its sleeves."

"I'm always careful, Einstein. One question though. Do viruses even have sleeves?"

"Odd, this isn't a good time for stupid questions."

"There's no such thing as stupid questions, Jer. Anyway, see ya when I get there," Odd said and hung up before he got a response.

"Odd?" William asked as he tried to push himself to a standing position with his bad arm and fell back with a gasp.

"Careful there, William. Your arms hurt pretty bad. Jeremie wants me to take you to the Factory. Do you think if I help you up you could walk?" Odd asked, moving closer and crouching down.

"Yeah, but do you know how I got here?" he asked, looking around.

"No idea," Odd replied, helping William get an arm over his shoulders and then to a standing position. "Well, I do sort of, but Jeremie's better with the theories and such, so I'll leave that to him."

"Odd, what happened? The last thing I remember is being on Lyoko with you guys…."

"Jeremie will explain it all when we get there."

A/N: Not too much to say here, really. =3 I'm shocked that I'm going to have more than three parts for Yumi, though. ^-^ I'm glad for it though.

If you're reading this, please review. I need more motivation. =3

~MoonlitxAngel