Disclaimer: I do not own Code Lyoko or Zoey, Brooke, and Cassie. Code Lyoko belongs to some French guy and the other three belong to Hobolover. I do own Musa, Cascada, this story's plot, and anything else that wasn't in the show.
Of Earth, Wind, Fire, and Ice
Her eyes slowly opened as she was welcomed by the silence. She turned to the window seeing that night still reigned across the sky. Sitara stared at the vastness of the night's sky, watching as stars shine brightly for all to see.
The caramel eyed girl turned her gaze towards the other side of the room which held an unoccupied bed. Deangelo looked confused. She didn't remember seeing Musa at all today. She hoped her new friend was okay.
"Or maybe she just got tired of you and your inability to speak," she thought. "It would be quite boring to be friends with someone who was silent."
Sitara got up to her feet and picked up a bag she had placed near her bed. She carefully took out a small box before setting it on her bed and opening it. Wrapped within tissue paper was a beautiful red scarf that as she held it up towards the moonlight it sparkled with many different shades of red and gold. It had cost the girl a lot but it was perfect. She refolded the scarf and placed it lovingly back into the box, and the box back into the bag. Then she got up from bed and placed the box on the window sill, leaving the window opened slightly.
"Please come."
She went back to her bed, pulling the sheets up to her chin before returning to the land of sand and sleep.
A soft breeze blew, picking up a few flurries of snow from the ground and the trees and letting them whirl softly around in the air before falling down again. A shadow fell over the girl, blocking the moon's pale light from entering the room and just as quick as it had came, it left, taking the red scarf with it…
Cascada's P.O.V.
It's official. I'm going to take a very, very, VERY long shower when I get back to the hotel.
"Are you okay?" I looked up to see Lucas looking at me. My distaste for being in this present situation must have showed outwardly.
"I'm fine," I giggled. GIGGLED! If there is one thing I don't do, it's giggling. I clung on tighter to his arm, but Lucas didn't seem to care. Actually, I think it just further increased his over inflated ego. If it wasn't impertinent for him to be alive, well, you can probably guess where I'm going with this.
"So," Lucas said, casually draping an arm around me, "don't you think it's a little too loud in here?" I wasn't stupid and knew exactly where this was going, thankfully (or maybe not) this was part of the plan; to get Lucas away from the rest of the club goers.
"Sure," I said batting my lashes as I leaned in closer to him. "I really like quiet places. It allows me to be more…creative." And cue the rise in testosterones. Joy.
With a cocky "I-got-the-hot-chick" kind of grin he got up from the couch, offering me a hand. I took it and let him lead the way towards a hall guarded by two guards. I looked over my shoulder and gave Musa a nod before we entered the hall. The hall led towards a room and with a big grin, Lucas opened the door to reveal a cross between an office and…a something else that I rather not think about, but now I was sure that this room was sound proof. Though what I had in mind probably wasn't what the designer was thinking when the room was made, this was a big plus for the plan.
"Would you like something to drink?" Lucas asked.
"Not really," I said walking past him and examining a few sculptures. I felt a pair of arms wrap around my waist, pulling me against him. He moved my hair over to one side and-
"Ouch!" he cried pulling away, holding his hand.
"Is something wrong?" I asked innocently as small sparks of green electricity disappeared.
"No, no," he said shaking his hand. "Just a little shock. You and I must have a spark," he grinned. Kill me now.
"Maybe," I said walking towards him, putting a slight sway in my hips. I could see him hungrily take me in and it made me absolutely sick. Damn. I'm going to need a year long shower after this. "You know," I said placing my hand on his shoulder and walking around him, letting my hand drag along his chest and back as I walked in a circle around him. I felt him shiver and I felt even more disgusted though…maybe at myself. "I'm kind of weird."
"How?" he asked, a little too eager.
"I like to tie my hostages up."
"I'm your hostage?" he asked with a grin. "I guess I'm game."
"Good," I said opening up my purse and taking some rope out.
"You were prepared," Lucas chuckled as I began to tie the rope around him. "Try not to tie it too tight," he said, but I completely ignored him.
"There," I said stepping back.
"You tied these really tight," Lucas chuckled though it held a note of nervousness in it. "Mind letting them a little loose?"
"No, then you would be able to get away," I said.
"Come on," Lucas said sounding slightly frantic. "I don't want to do this anymore."
"Too bad," I said letting my hand glow with green electricity, watching as his eyes grew to the size of saucers. "I wasn't lying when I said you were my hostage."
When the Lyoko gang entered the room they weren't that surprised to see Cascada sitting atop a desk, legs crossed over the other as she filed her nails. Lucas McArnald was tied up, laying on his side in a fetal position, wimpering. They all turned their gaze, except for Odd who was still knocked out, onto the plant A.I.
"What?" she asked irritated. The others didn't respond as they entered the room closing the door behind them.
"Help!" Lucas yelled at them.
"No can do," Ulrich said leaning against the door imposingly.
"Who are you? What do you want?!" the red hair man asked sounding somewhat hysterical.
"Oh Lucas-kun," Musa pouted, "don't tell me you forgot about us," she said walking towards him before letting her eyes flash a neon blue. If the man wasn't nervous before he definitely was now.
"SOMEBODY HELP ME! SHE'S GOING TO KILL ME!" he screamed before Cascada shoved a rag in his mouth.
"Now he's definitely going to just give us what we want," Jeremy said sarcastically.
"I didn't see you coming up with any ideas, Four Eyes," Cascada retorted before kneeling down in front of the gagged and terrified man. She felt the man's eyes roam her body and she almost wanted to gouge his eyes out right on the spot but refrained…for now. "Now I'm going to remove the rag from your mouth and when I do you will not scream. Deal?" He nodded. She removed the gag.
The man worked his mouth around as if to get rid of the taste of the rag. Who knew where it had been. He turned his eyes towards the Lyoko gang calmly opening his mouth as to speak to them.
"HELP!! HOT COMPUTER CHICKS ARE ABOUT TO HAVE THEIR WAY WITH ME AND THEN KILL ME!" he screamed.
"BAKA HENTAI!" Musa yelled angrily slamming her foot down on the poor man's head knocking him out cold.
"You couldn't just stuff the rag back in his mouth?" Cascada asked raising an eyebrow.
The wolf A.I. merely shrugged. "You know you wanted to do it too," she said.
"You're right," the plant A.I. sighed.
"Now what are we going to do?" Aelita asked.
"Drink some bubbly!" Cascada grinned taking out a bottle of champagne from out behind the desk. She opened it, taking a swig out of it before it was wrenched out of her hand.
"Cascada!" William said frowning holding the bottle.
"William," the plant A.I. said holding her hand out. "Give me back the bottle."
"We already have one drunk, Cas, we don't need another one."
"Just give it back!" Hikaru growled reaching for the bottle. "My body has a fast metabolism and can easily break the alcohol down."
"That still doesn't mean you can drink yourself crazy!" William yelled. At that point the two were standing in front of each other, the rest of the Lyoko gang were quiet as they watched the couple.
"I'm not a child, William. I don't need someone to watch over me because I'm incompetent to hold my own feelings together!"
"That's the point! You don't show any feelings at all!"
The room was silent. It was like time had stopped. Cascada was the most shocked of all but she and William quickly got out of it. She walked the remaining few steps towards the shaggy hair boy silently.
"Cas," William said softly. "I d-didn't mean that. I-"
Crackle! Slap!
Dunbar fell onto his behind, holding his abused cheek as the electricity from Cascada's suspended hand died down. "I think you did," she said, her hair hiding her eyes before she calmly walked out the room.
Yumi watched as William got back up to his feet. "Are you okay, onii-san?" Musa asked rushing to him.
"Yeah," the boy responded softly.
Yumi squeezed Ulrich's shoulder and he nodded before she slipped through the door quietly in search for her friend.
Her hair softly blew in her face, forcing her to tuck the strands behind her ear as she sat with her legs drawn up to her on a nearby bus stop not too far from the club.
"You don't show any feelings at all!"
She wrapped her arms tighter around herself. She stared unseeingly in front of her. That too recent moment in time kept playing over and over again in her mind. Though William had been the one to have been slapped, the plant A.I. felt as if it were her who had been slapped.
"Congratulations, Cas," she smirked sadly to herself, "You won the Cold Hearted Bitch of a Girlfriend Award, you must feel so flattered."
"I wouldn't exactly say Cold Hearted," Yumi's voice startled her as the geisha warrior sat down next to her.
"But you still implied that I was a bitch of a girlfriend," Cascada thought eye twitching. "Are you trying to make me feel better or what?"
Yumi took in a deep breath before turning to the plant A.I. "Cas-"
"You agree with him don't you?" Hikaru asked cutting her off.
"Not entirely but-"
"But what?" Cascada yelled getting to her feet and facing the girl. "What is it about me that is so wrong? What is about me that he, that he h-hates?"
"William doesn't hate you," Yumi said frowning.
"Could have fooled me," Cascada muttered looking up. She thought she saw a shadow move on a rooftop above but shook her head as she turned back to Yumi. "If a boat was sinking and it had me, William, and Musa in it and William could only save one person he would pick Musa."
"Don't think like that Cas. Don't think like-"
"Like a pessimist? I'm sorry Yumi but it's hard for me to think any other way especially with how my life has been going."
"Maybe that's your problem."
"I don't have a problem."
"Weren't you just the one who was saying she did have one?" The green hair woman was quiet as she turned her head back up towards the night sky. Ishiyama sighed. "You can't keep running away, Cascada, when things get uncomfortable for you. Hey! Are you even listening to me?" the Japanese woman asked getting up angrily and walking over to her friend.
"Cas, listen," she said putting a hand on the girl's shoulder. The next thing the geisha warrior knew was that she was pushed against the wall. "What are you-" Yumi trailed off as she noticed the spot where they both stood. Large, glittering, pointy, shards of ice were embedded in the ground where they both had just been standing.
Without warning, Cascada put an arm underneath the other girl's legs and back before picking her up, bridal style.
"Hold on," was the only warning given before Yumi felt the world around her move in a blur.Cascada pushed all her energy into her legs as she moved down the strangely deserted streets, Yumi clutching onto her. "Where are they?" she wondered to herself as her green eyes scanned the rooftop above. She just barely dodged as she heard what she thought was a bell before the earth crumbled into a deep abyss where her feet had just been. As she landed back on the ground from her jump her foot slipped and both she and Yumi crashed down to the ground. "Ice?" the plant A.I. hissed as she looked down at the slippery surface. She quickly tried to pull herself back up to her feet but a sharp pain shot up from her ankle.
"Cascada? Are you okay?" Yumi asked.
"I twisted my ankle," the plant A.I. informed her as her eyes scanned the rooftops. She could see two figures running along the roofs towards them. She scanned the streets, her eyes landing on a motorcycle. "Help me get to that," she pointed out.
"What? Why?" Yumi asked confused.
"Just do it!"
Aelita bit her lip, watching as Musa examined William's cheek. "It should be okay," the wolf A.I. said reassuringly. "You'll just need to put some ice on it when we get back to the hotel." William nodded silent. Musa gave him a reassuring hug before pulling away quickly, nose turned up to towards the air as if sniffing something. "DUCK!" she yelled.
The rest of the gang barely had time to do what she said as three spinning projectiles came flying towards them, making an arch in the air before returning from where they came from.
"Looks like the kiddies snuck their way into the adult pool," they all turned around to see a woman with auburn colored hair pulled into a messy bun with the rest of her hair hanging down lounging on the couch. She wore a sleeveless turquoise dress that stopped just below her thighs with a red and gold knee length wrap tied around her waist. On her shoulder was a metal shoulder pad, over her eyes was a slim red visor, and her hands were dressed in finger less turquoise and gold gloves. She uninterestedly fingered a small dagger in her hands.
Another woman stood behind the couch wearing a black hooded dress that stopped below her knees with a pair of black pants and boots. A red belt hung around her hip and her hood was pulled up, covering her hair. The only part of her face that wasn't hidden by her hood was her eyes which instead, were also covered with a black visor. A bow was held ready in her hands though no arrow was placed in it.
The three spinning projectiles slowed down as they floated back to the woman who had spoken out reached hand. The three objects floated down to her hand unfolding to reveal three white sheets...of paper.
"Who are you?" Musa growled, her hands tingling with electricity. William and Ulrich had gotten into fight positions on either side of her while Aelita and Jeremy moved the still unconscious Odd and the now awake and squirming Lucas out of the way.
"That really is of no importance," the turquoise woman said. "We merely came here for information that that man possesses. Once we get what we want, he will no longer be of any use to us and he'll be…deleted."
"You're not touching him!" Utada said, eyes flashing blue.
"We were supposed to complete this objective with little opposition," the woman sighed wistfully before snapping her fingers. She disappeared as her companion raised her bow towards the gang. A flaming arrow appeared in it before she released sending the flame flying towards them.
"What do you plan on doing?" Yumi asked once she had helped Cascada over to the motorcycle.
"Getaway vehicle," the plant A.I. said getting on.
"But we don't have the keys," Yumi said.
"Don't need one," Hikaru smirked as she ran her electricity covered hand over the bike before it started to life. "Need a lift?" she asked. Yumi looked hesitant but as an ice dagger flew too close for comfort, she decided to hop on.
Cascada took off without warning, weaving in and out, avoiding the on coming attacks. "They're gaining on us!" Yumi yelled over the roar of the wind as she glanced at their pursuers.
"You've driven one of these before, right?" Cascada yelled.
"Only the over bike on Lyoko and that was once."
"Well here's more practice time," the plant A.I. said. Yumi horrifyingly understood what her friend was getting at and managed to grab onto the handles of the bike just before Cascada let go.
Some how, the plant A.I. managed to turn around in her seat, still keeping the bike balanced. She wrapped her hands around Yumi and created two spheres of electricity, one in each hand.
"Don't fry me," Yumi warned over her shoulder.
"Don't worry. If I did I would loose one of the few sane members of the group," Cascada smirked. She took the two spheres and focused on where her attackers were. She heard a bell before they ground began to rumble. Cascada threw one of the balls of electricity where she heard the bell sound come from as Yumi dodged the newly formed hole in the street. When Cascada looked back up at the rooftops she only saw one following them now. The plant A.I. looked over her shoulder to see where Yumi was taking them and saw an empty metal bridge up ahead. "Head towards the bridge, we'll be able to draw them out." Yumi nodded as she swerved the cycle towards their destination.
Lucas watched as the ones he figured out as Musa and William fight off the two mysterious women. The brunette male, Ulrich, was held against the wall by several throwing star shapped pieces of paper, trying to free himself and help his friends. "This has gone on for too long," he thought reaching into his pocket for his switchblade.
While the glasses wearing blonde and his female companion were too busy worrying for their friends, Lucas began to free himself from the ropes.
"Stop here," Cascada ordered before they drove onto the bridge. Yumi stopped the bike before the bridge. "Now get off."
"What?" Yumi asked incredulously.
"Just trust me, Ishiyama," the plant A.I. said annoyed.
"Fine," the Japanese girl said getting off, "be careful," she whispered.
"I will. Now hide in those bushes and don't come out until I say so okay?" Without waiting for a response, the green hair female drove onto the bridge, she turned the bike around to face the direction she came from, revving up the engines. She didn't have to wait long before the remaining figure that was following them appeared before her, only a few feet away. It was obvious that who ever they were, they were a female. They wore a black knee length dress with matching pants and boots and a blue belt around her waist. "Who are you and what do you want?" Cascada yelled.
"I'm afraid I can't tell you that, Rose." Cascada flinched slightly at the mention of her old name before a wicked smirk grew on her face.
"It seems you know my name, but I have yet to know yours," she said.
"Don't worry about that, you won't need to know it," the figure said before a long threatening looking ice spear appeared in her hands.
"And people call me the ice queen," Hikaru remarked.
"It can get annoying," the unknown girl replied before throwing the spear at Cascada. The plant A.I. retaliated with a spark of green electricity that turned the spear into harmless little pieces of ice that quickly melted. "Quick reflexes. Impressive, but I guess that's only to be expected from your division," the ice A.I. said.
"Division? What are you talking about?" Cascada yelled.
"Yet again, that is something that I'm sadly unable to tell you, but know this. I and my fellow comrades hold you and your division of the utmost highest respect. It's going to be a great honor to kill you."
"I don't think so, hon," Cascada said getting off the motorcycle. With one hand placed over the motor of the bike, she slowly took in its energy like Musa had done once before when fighting off a crowd of possessed shoppers. Though unlike Musa, Cascada was doing it at a slower pace than her sister had done, making her less susceptible to being overwhelmed by the foreign energy.
With the newly gained energy, Cascada slammed her hands down of the ground, watching as the sparks of electricity traveled through the metal frame of the bridge. "You know, it's simple science. Metal is a conductor of electricity and electricity is always looking for an opposite charge to move towards. You should know that it's not that difficult to change the charge of the electricity around us for beings such as ourselves." The air around them seemed to become thick and they could almost taste the electricity being pulled towards them.
"That would be a very strategic move but in your current form you wouldn't be able to survive the whiplash of the released energy," the ice A.I. said.
"I know that," Cascada smirked. "Which is why I'm using this as a distraction," she said before letting the motorcycle go as it sped away from her on its own, heading towards the ice A.I.
The unknown female seemed unnerved by the fast moving vehicle as she merely raised as hand, casting a thin sheet of ice to form on the ground and causing the bike to skid to its side, sliding past her. When she looked back towards Cascada, the plant A.I. was gone.
"Up here!" the green hair woman yelled just before she dropped down, both hands immersed in a green light.
The ice A.I. flew back, skidding to the ground hard from the impact of the attack. Cascada landed, wincing slightly when she put too much pressure on her ankle. Before she could even think about moving, a pillar of earth rose from the ground beneath the unconscious ice A.I. and raising her up to the top of the bridge where a similarly dressed girl stood. Cascada could only guess that it was the other person who was following them since their shoulder was singed with burnt marks.
The apparently earth A.I. picked up their fallen comrade from the pillar of earth before letting it sink back down and giving Cascada a respectful bow, which confused her to no end, before disappearing into the night.
"Things just keep on getting weirder," Cascada thought to herself sitting on the ground. "Oi, Yumi! Come out! Someone needs to help me hobble back to the club!"
Yeah, this chapter was going to be longer but I was afraid that would be too much and if I continued then you guys probably wouldn't get this until next weekend.
Um...Lucas is a perve... He kind of reminds me of Miroku from Inuyasha, you know, serious at one point and then asking you to bare his shoulder the next. Sadly he doesn't have a Sango unless you consider his platonic relationship with Musa and Cascada.
I was kind of cringing during some parts of this. You guys should know by now that fight scenes, though nessicary are torture for me. I can never think of the right words to say. Also, I'm not sure if I like the feather girl's power. Originally I was thinking of having her use paper as a weapon, like Konan from Naruto but I wasn't sure. Ugh...I may go back and change her powers later if I can think of anything. Any ideas from you guys would be nice except nothing dealing with time or mind control coughcoughbigspoilerforlatercoughcough...(Edit: I decided to go with paper manipulation but ideas are still appreciated)
The last part with Cascada and the electricity...don't trust Cas's explanation. It's been a while since I've had a lesson in electricity so somethings may be wrong.
I say this again, I really need to stop procrastinating. I'll spare you from the details since you probably have an idea of what I'm talking about.
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