Ulrichs POV
Barely asleep in his bed Ulrich received a call, at first he couldn't find his phone lifting himself and searching his bed underneath the covers for his phone he found it his mother was calling him, he tensed up thinking of his report card, then got worried wondering why she was calling this late. His report card wasn't great but he was sure, but a lecture could wait till morning.
"Hello?" Ulrich whispered losing his voice slightly then clearing his throat.
"Ulrich dear, your awake! I'm so happy this is your mother."
-well duh- Ulrich though who else could it be why do parents do that? he smiled anyway he missed his mother.
" hey mom whats up?" he said back to the phone.
"Ulrich there is someone who would like to meet you" she said in a slightly shaky tone.
he could tell she was nervous and that made him nervous, so nervously he asked " well who is it?"
"do you" she was silent for a second"remember the man... In the park... Who gave you the red balloon?"
Ulrich paused for a moment of course he remembered. "Yea mom of course ."
There was a shuffle of the phone and Ulrich heard a males voice in the receiver.
"I want to meet you in the park, near your school around 6pm." The call was ended.
He stared at the phone for a second debating whether to call back or not. Then he started to remember, the details of the man with the red balloon.
** flashback**
An age 5 Ulrich ran through the park, his speed was something to be proud of for his age, his mother admired him from a distance. playing around the outskirts of the park, he notice someone watching, stopping a few feet away from the mysterious person he yelled.
" hey something wrong?" The person walked up to Ulrich, he noticed it was a man. He knelt to Ulrich's level with a smile on his as if he happy to see him and said "wanna race? 10 bucks says I could beat you"
" easiest 10 bucks I've ever made!" Ulrich smiled thinking of all the candy he'd buy, they picked a start point and took off. The man letting Ulrich get a head start. Ulrich was for sure he was going to win bending the curve, when he started to see the man catching up and gaining distance ahead of him. At the finish line was an out of breath and upset Ulrich that he didn't win 10bucks.
The man patting Ulrich on the back said to him " Its not all about winning Ulrich, its the sport." He smiled at him and reached in his pocket and gave Ulrich the 10 dollars. Ulrich gave him the biggest smile ever.
"You're something special you know that right?" The man said to Ulrich. They started to walk and talk, about everything sports, life, school. Somethings Ulrich didn't understand the more serious topics. But he listened and talked about starting school and how fun it was going to be.
Ulrich noticed balloons and ran to the guy selling them. They where big and were different shapes and sizes, the man was also selling ice cream as well Ulrich eyes caught the biggest balloon shaped like a dinosaur was red, and his favorite ice cream chocolate so asked for triple scoops.
"that will be 10 big ones young man." the balloon guy said.
Ulrich reached in his pocket but the stranger put a hand on Ulrich's shoulder and paid, Ulrich smiled and hugged him, he felt comfortable doing so, like it was natural.
the guy smiled and said " I love to see father and sons out having fun reminds me of mine!." The two blushed and Ulrich said " Thank you."
In the distance Ulrich heard his mother calling his name, he looked toward the guy and said
" you should come meet my mom she's really nice!"
"no, that's okay, I just wanted to see you" the man said with a warm smile, Ulrich frowned
"Well okay, but will I see you again?" He asked, he obviously upset that he was leaving.
"Oh you'll see me around kiddo, I'll always be watching over you. You're really something special." The man said.
Ulrich smiled his spirits were lifted knowing that this wasn't the last time he'd see him. He heard his mother calling him again and he turned to her, and ran to her when he looked back to tell his mother the man was gone, he told her the story and she knew exactly who he was talking about. She knew it had to be him, she just knew.
**NOW**
Ulrich didn't get much sleep that night, waking up before Odd. He was still tired but couldn't sleep the anxious feeling inside of him kept him up and mobile, he didn't know what to expect, who really was this guy? Why now, after all these years did he want to meet him? Why was he so anxious about the whole situation?
Jeremy called for an investigation on Lyoko after last night X.A.N.A activated a tower but a minute later he deactivated it, Ulrich lied claiming he had some school work to finish.
Deciding to take a walk around 4pm to clear his head a little, on his way he saw Sissi, she was sitting under a tree pouring water in her hand like she was trying to catch it. "weird" he thought, walking over he sat next to her. She looked at him and her expression looked blank he couldn't usually read her like an open book.
Sissi tried to get up and leave, "Sissi wait." Ulrich said suddenly, grabbing her arm. He couldn't just let her walk away, he never had a chance to talk to her. So much on his mind and Yumi wanting to be around more, which he didn't have a problem with , but his feelings for her, and in general have been more complicated.
"What is it Ulrich" she said impatiently.
"sorry I haven't checked up on you lately...how...are you? Feeling any better?"
Sissi snatched her arm back and adjusted herself "I'm fine Ulrich, now that is, it wouldn't make sense for me to complain about the problems before today its not like you can go back in time and fix it" she said in a nasty tone.
Ulrich sighed, Sissi saw the look on his face and wished she could take back what she said, he was only trying to be nice and she lashed out.
"Look Sissi, I'm sorry." Ulrich said trying to sound as sincere as possible. He meant it but wasn't great with apologies.
"Don't worry about it Ulrich." She said softly She slowly stood and started to walk away.
Ulrich got up as well and walked with her. "whats that suppose to mean." He asked his voice soft, she felt his words creep into her heart, the wall she was building started to break.
"Ulrich... I've only done nothing but be there for you and care about you, there isn't one thing you've asked of me and i haven't done. And all you've ever done was talk down to me treat me like crap especially in front of your friends.
I know I've done things too, but it only was to get back at you, I'm just bruised by your love, burned by your kiss this isn't love. This isn't the fairy tail i intended it to be."
Ulrich stood there, looking her in the eye, Yeah Sissi annoyed the heck out of him, or at least he thought she did, but when he thought about it he couldn't picture himself without her there. She's always been there always trying to pick him up when he was sad. Sometimes he wanted to alone but the fact that she tried, and she tried hard even after he pushed her away she'd come back. The fact that she took her time, even if he took forever to open up she'd always listen and she wouldn't forget.
He built these walls, to protect himself. From anyone, as soon as someone tried to get close he'd push them away, the closer they got the harder he' d fight and Sissi she'd just keep coming back.
"Ulrich do you want to know why I never gave up on you? I just refused to believe someone, who called me their princess and told me that he was going to protect me no matter what, would stop caring about me. I was afraid to let you go. I tried so hard to live out the fairy tail I thought up when we were kids. You don't know how...important those words meant to me when we were kids, but... Its time for me to grow up and let go all those childish things."
Ulrich stood there not saying anything Sissi couldn't read the expression on his face.
"So what do you want? For us to just stop talking to each other? ignore each other?"
Sissi held her breath being a female is so complicated she thought, its exactly what she wants but at the same time she couldn't want anything less her heart craves him.
"Yeah" she whispered and Sissi smiled, a forced smile and walked away from him. Feeling like she was leaving a huge part of herself behind, she continued to walk away.
**Sissi POV**
As soon as she got a good distance away from Ulrich she started to run, no real destination she just had to get what ever was building up inside of her out, she got to the park and ran.
Through trees and past bushes, She stopped at one tree that made her feel content with her loneliness and she felt concealed from the world.
She cried, she cough and cried and tried to dig everything out her soul she was feeling in every tear she wanted these feeling to be gone.
She heard a noise and looked back, with false hope that Ulrich followed her and ran after her but she knew he didn't...she knew he wouldn't..
"These are the days when I hate the world" she said to herself.
Little did she know a black smoke was following her surrounding her. Sissi started to choke as it got thicker she breathed it in inhaling it as she coughs and struggled for air. As she laid there her thoughts were on Ulrich. She saw a figure approach her, "Ulrich" she thought as she felt the warmth and the breath slip from her very body.
** Ulrich POV**
Ulrich made his way off campus at 5:45, walking slowly thinking about Sissi, wondering where she went. He got a worried sense when he thought about her, he couldn't help it.
"maybe i should of went after her" he thought to himself, God Ulrich your so stupid.
Arriving at the park he wasn't sure where to go, but he just walked until he someone caught his eye, seeing a man all alone smoking a cigarette, the man sucked the last bit until it was gone flicked the cigarette and looked at Ulrich as he exhaled the smoke. "My last one." he man said casually.
They looked at each other for a bit Ulrich looked at this man that stood in front of him and saw himself. He said the first thing that came to mind before a greeting, or an introduction.
"I've been..wanting to ask you this, since the last time I saw you." Ulrich said quietly.
"Ask anything" the man said simply
"You're my father, my real one at least, aren't you, at least... I think so."
"How'd you figure?" The man asked
"I believed it when I was a kid, you just had to be. I knew, it was like common sense, I knew he..couldn't be, and as the years gone by I guess I tricked myself into believe it was just a dream an lame excuse to get me by as a kid, because I had a shitty excuse for a dad."
The man nodded, "I am."
"Where you been?..." Ulrich said, as if it was just days since they last spoken.
The man didn't respond.
Feeling numb at first then more frustrated his voiced raised.
"Where were you, when everything was falling apart, you never stopped by, I was at that park everyday hoping to see you again! you never left me no messages you never sent me no letters. Where were you? Where were you?"
Ulrich eyes started to water up as the man came closer. He gave Ulrich a hug only his father could give him. And for the first time in years Ulrich cried.
"you've got to pick yourself up inside, this isn't going to be the first time your life falls apart, you're going to get scares. pull it together button up your shirt and pull down your sleeves and don't give up"
His father said to him as he looked Ulrich in the eye.
"My son, you are special a hand picked warrior since before you were born. You are the warrior that will bring your people to salvation, peace."
Ulrich didn't understand.
"I know this seems confusing in time it will be clear." his father said as he touched his son forehead. Pain struck Ulrich as he passed out.
** Ulrichs dream**
Ulrich was under water he could breath he saw something and swam toward it, a sunken ship.
He was invited inside by a creature who bleed from the lips, the creature spoke to him in an ancient language, that Ulrich understood.
He said "you're the one that I decree The one that can save us, and set us free You'll gained the power of a deity You have the strength to wake us from this sleep."
Ulrich nodded and the creatures pointed to something that was behind Ulrich. It whispered "limbus". He turned and it was something like a portal he looked at it and saw a figure running through a black and gray Forrest, it was no regular Forrest though, he could barely make out anything but the trees and they all looked dead and rotting, he got closer to the portal and could actually smell a foul figure ran until it started to slow down, peering down the figure struggled to move,like its feet were glued to the ground.
A huge spider like creature approached the figure slowly one of its legs reaching out towards it as if to kill.
Ulrich yelled "Noooooooo"
Ulrich felt himself being shaken awake. He woke up sweating and breathing hard, He looked around to see a concern eye hovering above him.
"Where am I?" Ulrich asked still breathing hard
Odd had a confused look on his face "Uh in our dorm room, you know the one we've been sharing for quite some time now" he laughed to himself at the end.
"How did I get in here? What time is it?" Ulrich eyes raced around the room to find the clock it was 1:02 am.
"well you were gone all day, Jeremy was pretty upset that you couldn't give us back up on Lyoko we've been trying to call you! Xana launched an attack but we don't know on what nothing happened around here and he put up a really good fight, for what I don't know."
Odd paused looking at the wall with a concerned look.
" But when I got back in the room around 11pm your were already here and sleeping, I figured the 'studying' really did a number on you." He finished looking Ulrich in the eye after making an emphasis on Studying.
Ulrich quickly looked away to quickly. Odd smiled a huge grin.
"So I was right you weren't studying, what were you doing? Were you with Sissi again? come to think of it I haven't seen her not once today"
Ulrich quickly shot back "You were on Lyoko all day ODD and I wasn't" He turned in his bed so he wouldn't have to face the prying Odd.
"Well I would at least seen her, at least once, and its okay you don't have to tell me but try to pick up your phone next time, there might be an lyoko emergency." Odd finished
"Goodnight Odd" Ulrich replied thinking about Sissi, wondering how he got back in his room, he pulled out his phone and looked through it. no new messages or missed called about Xana. That was weird he thought, Odd just said they were calling him all day.
His eyes feeling heaving, he thought about his dream trying not to fall back asleep, unfortunately he did.
**Kats POV**
Kat paced Sissi's room back and forth gathering the scent in the room she was worried. She wasn't suppose to be in there.
Risking one two many times going back to the same location. She paced back and forth till she accidentally bumped into Sissi dresser, the cup that was on it fell she caught it before it hit the ground but still the cup cracked a line creeping to the bottom.
She set the cup down quickly. "That's a sign of something bad" She said to herself and swiftly lept out the window into the night sky.
Thinking to herself " I cant even feel Sissi's Aura, I cant find her scent on anything but her room, something bad must of happened"
She said to herself and she reached her destination, she sat on the bed and looked at the Silvered hair man that stood waiting for her.
"cast a barrier around this place, I'm going to have to cast a search for her."
He nodded and said "I'm only going to make it big enough for this room we don't want to make this area and obvious missing area from them. you wont have a lot of room to work with but its better than nothing"
She thought to protest but he was right, a building gone missing would be something that would send off red alerts. When you cast a barrier the area becomes invisible, not from humans, they wont even know your there. but from potential threats.
She crossed her legs and began the process. after an hour of searching Kat began to feel hopeless. She should of found Sissi by now, It shouldn't of taken this long, Even if Sissi was being held captive in a basement she would of already found her by now.
Kat struggled to keep concentration, he nerves were getting the best of her she whispered, just a little bigger please.
The man nodded, stretching the barrier gradually.
Kat continued to search for another our but opened her eyes to a concerned face.
"something, must of happened. I cant find her, I should of been able to find her in MINUTES." tears swelled up to flow uncontrollably from her eyes.
DUN DUN DUN!
sorry about how long it took me to make this one i had writers block for a while and life happened, ugh, i'm upset i might never see this guy i had a crush on again :(. I hope I see him at least one time to attempt to get his number lolol okay Um Yeah review tell me if you like it.
Oh and BTW the next chapter I'm going to use this thing (power) of somewhat that I'm not really comfortable with giving its real name due to the fact that its a practice in witch craft and that makes me uneasy, so i'm just going to change the name, and some effects. Okay so i'm just letting you guys know. In Case things like that make you a little uncomfortable.