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Déjà vu- Part 3

The sounds of the woods always seemed to amplify at night. Shadows were everywhere, casted by the willowy figures of trees. Aelita shivered slightly as she pulled her jacket closer to her before clinging on to Jeremy, not that the blonde really minded.

The Lyoko gang had been walking for about half an hour following Jeremy's direction. They had sneaked out of the hotel as soon as they were sure that Sitara and Sissi were asleep and after Jim had made his finally rounds. It was fairly easy to slip out of the hotel without any of the staff noticing though they had almost ran into Ms. Emeraldson, who was at the front desk.

"How much further do we have to go, Jeremy?" William asked.

"Getting scared?" Ulrich chuckled.

"Yeah, watch out for the giant spiders!" Odd laughed before he was hit on the head by Musa, Cascada, and William. "Ow!"

"Onii-san isn't afraid of anything," Musa said childishly crossing her arms.

"Okay, okay!" Odd said raising his hand up defensively.

Musa grinned, turning towards William who grinned back, Cascada watching the exchange.

"So how further do we have to go?" Yumi asked.

Jeremy looked down at the small hand held navigator he held in his hand. "According to this," he said, "we should be at the fork in the road right about…now!"

They came out of the woods to find themselves on a beaten trail that looked like it hadn't been used for years that split into two; one path going to the left that seemed to lead down to the village and the right seemed to go through a thicker part of woods.

"It's a good thing that it hasn't snowed too much," Cascada murmured looking at the earthen paths, "or else we wouldn't have been able to have found this so easily."

"It snows a lot here," Aelita said, sounding distant, "I think that why daddy picked this place to live."

"Hard to find and away from anyone who might question his work," Jeremy said.

"Shall we?" Musa asked holding her hand out to Aelita who nodded and took it. Musa turned to Cascada extending out her other hand but the plant A.I. disregarded it, walking ahead of the group. Musa looked downtrodden before Odd slipped his hand in hers. She grinned at the boy before they continued on their path.

They continued for about fifteen minuetes before Cascada, who was leading suddenly stopped. "Oh no," escaped her lips.

CODE TWILIGHT

Jim was lounging around in only his boxers and a t-shirt with a bag of munchies and a pack of beer, flipping through the T.V. when he heard a knock on his door. He grunted as he got up from his bed rubbing his back. "I hear ya, I hear ya," he grumbled as he made his way to the door. He opened it to see none other than Ken, Chris, and a wheat hair man about his nephews age with glasses. For some reason the man reminded Jim of Belpois.

"Hey Uncle Jim!" Chris waved before stepping in with the others without being invited. "Heard you were here so we decided to stop by," he said plopping down on the previously occupied bed.

"Good to see you again, Jimbo!" Ken chuckled shaking the P.E. teacher's hand. "Oh, this is our friend, Ozzy, " he said nodding over to the other man.

"Just because that girl, Utada,decided to call me that name everyone assumes that that is the name that I wanted to be introduced as," Ozzy sighed. "I don't even know why I'm here."

"Because if we hadn't dragged you out of your room you would have been doingwho knows what," Chris chuckled getting a little too comfy on the bed to Jim's disappointment.

"So you all are all staying at the hotel? Have you met with Utada and the others?" Jim asked snatching his beer away from Chris who didn't do well with alcohol.

"Yeah. We just had a rehersal with them," Ken sighed contently as he took his shoes off.

"Great. Now they're never going to leave," Jim thought to himself, sighing.

He looked towards Ozzy who was still standing by the door, unsure. "You just going to stand there?" he asked tossing the younger man a beer. Ozzy fumbled with the can before he safely caught it.

"Hey, Uncle Jim. You got any cards?" Chris asked.

"Yeah," Jim said rummaging through a bag and tossing his nephew a deck of cards. Ken took a table in the room and set it so it could seat four people.

"I hope you know poker fellas," Ken grinned, "because I don't go easy on anyone."

"Yeah, yeah, yeah," Chris waved him off before turning to Ozzy. "You in?"

"I haven't played before," the man admitted.

"Easy pickings," the other three men thought smirking.

CODE TWILIGHT

Part of the roof had fallen, creating an unwanted sun roof. Graffiti was sprayed along the inside and outside walls of the house. Trash was littered across the floor and nothing seemed recognizable.

Aelita carefully made her way through the piles of rubble. It pained her to see her former home looking like this. "The agents from Project Carthage must have done this," Cascada surmised.

"It seems unusual for them though," Musa said aloud as she picked up an old dusted book that was on the floor. "The agents were known for their throughness and ability to seem like they were never there."

"So you mean that whatever was here is gone now?" Jeremy sighed disheartedly.

"We won't know until we find out," Ulrich said.

"Where was your father's study, Aelita?" Yumi asked.

The pink hair girl looked around the room that she vaguely remembered to be the living room though it was hard to tell in its current state. She walked through the rubble stopping at a stairs. "It's up there…I think," she said.

"I'll go first," Musa said slowly making her way up the stairs. They squeaked with every stepped she took but they held strong. The others followed her and instead of Aelita leading the way, she did as if she already knew.

Hopper ran up the stairs with an unconscious figure in his arms. "Elena! Quick! Open the door to my study!" he shouted.

Musa shook her head. "What was that about?" she wondered to herself as they stopped in front of a door at the farthest end of the hall. She looked at the others who were nodding for her to open the door. She took a deep breath before opening the door.

It was really no surprise that the room was in the same disarray as the rest of the house. They stepped into the room, the same room that Hopper had spent hours in. Books were missing from the shelves and the ones that were left scattered along the floor along with dust, and rubble from the roof.

"Let's have a look around," Cascada said. The others agreed and they each went to separate parts of the room to see if they could find anything.

"What are we looking for?" Odd asked searching the book case.

"I don't know," Musa replied before something caught her eye.

It was a small wooden box with intricate designs decorating the top. The wolf A.I. guessed it was an original of Norse design. She couldn't help but to touch it, hand rubbing away the dust.

Hopper stood with the unconscious figure still in his arms in front of the bookcase. He opened the little box and-

"Musa? You okay?" Odd asked. "It looked like you were in a daze."

The wolf A.I. didn't answer. Instead, she opened the box but was disappointed to find nothing. She placed her hand inside the box in hopes to find something hidden along the bottom of it but found nothing.

"What's that?" Aelita asked coming up to her.

"A keepsake," she said handing the box to the pink hair girl. The second when they were exchanging the box, when both hands were both touching it, a spark seemed to come from the box and a low rumbling sound was heard.

"Where's that sound coming from?" Jeremy asked surprised. The room seemed to shake, dust falling from the ceiling.

"Odd!" Musa yelled pulling the boy away from the bookcase as the floor where he had stood dropped, and then…silence.

The gang all cautiously made their way to the bookshelf, peering down the whole that had appeared in the floor that was the beginning of a flight of stairs going down.

"So," Odd said breaking the silence. "We found a dark, old secret staircase. Who wants to go down first to check for bloodsucking aliens?" The looks he received meant that either he shut up or he would be the one going down to check.

"Who has the flashlight?" Cascada asked. William did, taking the device out of his coat pocket and shining it down the dark stairs. The stairs seemed to go down past the first level before it reached a platform where another set of stairs wound down.

"Everyone, stick together and don't touch anything," William instructed, saying the last part to Musa and Odd. William went down the stairs first followed by Cascada, Yumi, Ulrich, Aelita, Jeremy, Musa, and then Odd.

As soon as they had all stepped into the opening in the floor, it shut with a final clang. No turning back. A few lights flickered on above them but they provided very little light prompting William to keep the flashlight on.

"How long do you think these stairs go on for?" Ulrich asked.

"Hopper was a man known for his privacy," Cascada said. "Though he would have made something to make sure Aelita and mother were safe at all times he would have also made his lab so no unwanted sound came in or out."

"So in other words," Odd said, "these stairs go on and on."

"With every beginning there comes an end," Musa said. "That's what Hopper told me once."

"You know, I've been thinking," Aelita said. "I don't- I don't think-"

"You don't think that you were called Aelita Hopper?" Cascada said cutting in. Aelita nodded. "You're right. Hopper was mother's maiden name."

"The old man's real name was Waldo Franz Schaeffer," Musa said, "but when he took you away from here he changed his name to mother's maiden name.; for protection."

William snorted. "Like that did you any good."

Cascada frowned at the boy but continued, "Anyway, I guess after awhile it just stuck."

"Aelita Schaeffer," the pink hair girl said trying out the name.

"For some reason it doesn't have as much pizzazz as Aelita Hopper," Odd said.

"Either way, you'll probably still have to go as Aelita Stones for now, Odd's cousin and now Musa and Cascada's sister until we find your parents," Jeremy said.

"Hey, the steps are ending," William noted as they all finally got off the steps. It was then that flashlight decided to die out.

"I knew buying this from Hiroki would be a scam," Yumi murmured angrily.

"Where's the light switch?" Odd asked sounding a little nervous.

"Is the little kitty afraid of the dark," Ulrich teased.

"No!" the purple boy defended.

Musa shook her head. Honestly, she didn't understand what the others were fussing over. It wasn't that dark but then again her senses were more acute then theirs. "Jeremy," she said, "the light switch is to your left." The boy made a confused sound before the sound of his fumbling hand could be heard.

After a few minutes lights flooded the room slightly blinding them all for a few seconds before their eyes adjusted. They were all thinking the same thing but Odd was the only one who voiced it. "Man! This place makes the factory look like crap!"

"ODD!"

CODE TWILIGHT

"I can't belive this."

"He looked like such an easy target."

"And he wiped us clean. He tricked us"

"I'm sorry gentlemen," Ozzy said calmly gathering the cash he had earn from the poker game. "This really was my first time playing pocker, but watching you three play made it easy for me to pick up the rules."

"Man, it hasn't even been the first week of this trip and I already only have half of what I had," Jim said looking at his wallet.

"Maybe we should just call it a night," Chris suggested. "Besides, Della Robbia is already past out," he said nodding over to Ken who had been past out for the last thirty minutes.

"Damn," Jim sighed running a hand through his hair, "I thought he could hold his liquer."

"Um, Jim?" Ozzy said. "He didn't have any beer."

Morales sighed shaking his head. "What kind of army man is he? It's not even past midnight."

"Well I guess we should be going," Chris said getting up with Ozzy. Both men walked to the door, saying their goodbyes before they left.

Jim sighed turning to Ken. "You can wake up now." Ken opened an eye to make sure that the others had gone before sitting up.

"Ozzy is good," he said.

"Is that why you faked being knocked out?" Jim chuckled handing Ken a beer.

"Hey, I know when my battles are lost. I just make sure I get out of them with little to no casualties," Ken said taking a sip.

"Hm," Jim said, "I'm more of a go down with the ship type of guy."

"Is that why you almost got swept clean by a kid?" Ken laughed. Jim didn't respond. Instead he stared ahead of him, thinking. Ken sobered up when he saw the look on the other man's face. "Maybe we should ask him," Ken said, a serious look on his usually cheerful face.

Jim took a long sip of his beer before crushing the can in his hand. "I doubt he would accept."

Ken sighed, putting his arms behind his head before leaning back on the bed. "I guess you're right," he said closing his eyes, "I mean, I wouldn't either."

"You say that and yet, here we are," Jim sighed before turning to the other man. "Hey! Are you going to get off of my bed anytime soon?"

He was answered with snores.

Another update! I really don't like this chapter too much though. It's more of a filler if anything. I rewrote this so many times and yet I'm still not sastisfied. Whatever, next chapter should be better. Also, I don't support beer or anything I just thought that I could see Jim drinking beer rather than a juice box. So yeah, I'm against alchol but I want to make this story seem believable despite its certain aspects which make it unrealistic.

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