Ch. 3 Hellish dreams
Alright, ch. 3 is finally up and ready. So I ain't gonna keep you guys enjoy.
Later that night, back at Kadic, dinnertime was being held in the cafeteria. The one time of day when student meet, greet, and catch up with their friend to talk and relieve all the crap they dealt with during day. A time when you can just dish out all that went on at school.
"Man, what a day! Can't wait for bed.", said Ulrich.
"You said it.", Odd agreed.
Odd, Ulrich, and Aelita were headed for their usual table carrying dinner in their hands.
At the group's table, Jeremie was sitting there, with dinner and everything, still thinking about their latest adventure in Lyoko. "Why would X.A.N.A want to activate a tower and attack Aelita to only to deactivate it himself in the end? It doesn't make any sense?", he thought. Even he himself was starting to get a headache from all this.
"Hey, Einstein.", Odd greeted Jeremie as he sat down at the table. Jeremie looks up at his friend.
"Hey, guys.", he greeted back.
"What's the matter, Jeremie?", Aelita asked.
"Nothing. Just thinking."
"Your still thinking about what happened in Lyoko earlier. It's all in the past, Jeremie. Just relax.", said Aelita.
"I wish I can, but doesn't it bother any of you that what X.A.N.A did doesn't make any sense. I mean why would he get Aelita to access a tower. An activated tower. Plus, has anyone noticed that William hasn't' showed up at all. Usually he would be the one playing keep away with us while Aelita gets to a tower. Something's wrong."
The others were thought about it for a moment. All the pieces in this puzzle didn't fit. Activating a tower, getting Aelita to the tower and not get William? What was the point of this plan? Soon, the thought of it became too nerve racking for them. Mostly Odd. His mind was about explode from all this thinking. Ulrich and Aelita notice this and decide to stop thinking about it before the same think happens to them.
"Uh, Jeremie. Maybe we should stop thinking about it. You should do the same.", Aelita suggested as she looked at poor Odd.
"But what if X.A.N.A. is trying to..."
"Cool it there, Jer. You're really letting all of this get your head. Maybe we should eat and enjoy the night, alright?", asked Ulrich.
"I guess."
The others ate in silence since their brains were still strained about X.A.N.A. latest plans.
"Night, Aelita.", said Ulrich as he, Odd and Jeremie headed to the boys' side of the dorm building.
"Good night."
Aelita walked to girls' side and went to her room. She change into her night wear. She grabbed Mr. Puck and got into her bed fell asleep.
Aelita strange russeling sound, but ignors it and continues to sleep. A second russeling is heard. She cracks one eye open and falls back into a light slumber. The same noise comes back a thitd time,only louder. Aelita opens here eyes almost immediately. Her eyes were stilling blurry from her sleep. The russeling is head again. It sounded like a grass. Wait, grass? Aelita quickly sat up, eyes vision fully adjusted, only to find out she was in the forest. The girl looks up at the sky. Daytime. She feels the grass and soil underneath her feet and gentle breeze blowing on the side of her face.
"How did I get here? What time is it?", Aelita asked herself as she rose up and takes a look at her surroundings. She notices she was in her Lyoko wear. "Why am I wearing this? How did I get into this?"
The girl hears another russel, this time coming from a bush. "Who's there?"
A shadowy figure watches Aelita from another bush. Aelita senses this and turns around. By the time she could get a look at the figure, it vanished. She looks around her surrounding once more and on the corner of her eye, she saw a figure run across the bushes from one tree to another. Another figure catches her eye, another in the trees. She runs in the direction of the school. As she runs, she sees three shadowy figures run past her. She keeps running and running til she sees one of three figures standing in her path hiding under the shade of the trees. Aelita stops and runs to the left but is cut off by another. She turns the opposite direction only to find the third in her way. The girl trembles in fear as the three figures slowly step out from the shade into the the sunlight. The light reveals the three figures as Ulrich, Odd, and Yumi.
"Oh, it's just you guys. For a second there, I thought you were...", Aelita noticed something was wrong in this picture.
All three were dressed in their Lyoko clothing as well. Yumi and Ulrich had their weapons except Odd. Their heads were down with the looks of sadness. The kind of look that child has when he or she had done something they knew was wrong and regretted doing it. Though, it wasn't their clothing, withdrawn weapons, of the sad faces that stood out of place. No, it was something more obvious. A red sticky substance was splattered on their clothes and speckled their faces. It was even dripping from their weapons in small, thick droplets. The breeze came back and carried the scent of the substance. The scent of freshly shed blood.
"Ulrich, Yumi, Odd, why do you have blood on yourselves?", Aelita asked, but all three remained silent, frozen in their current state.
"We had to do what needed to be done. We had no choice.", said a familiar voice. Aelita turns around and sees none other than Jeremie.
"Jeremie, where did you come from? What's going on?"
"Go to the school and see for yourself."
Aelita hesitated for a moment. She turns her head to the right and sees the school grounds nearby.
"Well. What are you waiting for? Take a look.", Jeremie encouraged Aelita to seek the answers to her questions.
She takes up Jeremie's offer and slowly walks to the Kadic school grounds. She looks at her friends' blood covered faces. Her heart beated faster as she came to the edge of the forest. Once she exited the forest, she puts a hand on her forehead shielding her eyes from the sun's light. Her eyes adjusted to the light for a few seconds before they became fully adjusted. Then, she gasps in horror of what was she had witnessed: the school yard was splattered with blood. The blood of children and teachers of different ages. Bodies were scattered across the area, intact or with severed body parts. Oh, but children and teachers weren't the only ones. Among them, were special unit officers. The bodies of both these men and women laid there lifeless. Life everyone one else who weren't able to escape with there lives, their eyes were glazed, bodies pale and cold. It a was sickening sight. Aelita finally had enough.
The rest of the gang walked towards her. She turns around in disbelief. Tears flooded within her eyes. Got on her knees, and head down and begged, "Please tell me you didn't do this. Please tell me it was X.A.N.A.'s doing."
Jeremie looks at Aelita with a cold, empty, stare. Uncaring, unfeeling, unlike him. "Aelita, we didn't do this.", said Jeremie. Aelita looks up with sad hope. Though that hope didn't last long. Jeremie spoke again, "Ulrich, Yumi, Odd, and you did it. All for X.A.N.A.!"
A black mist appeared from behind Jeremie. The giant mist carried the the Lyoko eye meaning one thing, X.A.N.A.! She stood in fear in his very presence. X.A.N.A. wrapped a black mist tentacle around the boy genius. Aelita knew what it was planning to do.
"Jeremie, look out!", she called out.
The boy didn't answer and was pulled into the mist.
"Jerrreemiee!", Aelita called out his name, but no response.
A voice sinister as Satan's came from the living mist. It said to the girl, "It's true, child. If don't believe me, look at yourself."
She did just that. Aelita looks down at herself and to her horror, the blood of the innocent splattered on her clothing. Her lifts and looks at her hands. Sticky and covered in red. She looks back at the corpses. Out of the all the bodies on the ground, very few had large holes in the bodies. There was only thing that could of made those blast marks. Her energy spheres. As she got up, the world started spinning. X.A.N.A.'s once again filled the air. She closed her eyes and covered here ears with her blood covered hands. She the laughs got louder, her heart beat fastens, the world spins faster. She could couldn't take it anymore. It was too much, TOO MUCH!
Aelita screamed at the top of her lungs in sheer horror, pure insanity. She began to stumble. She fell on the ground with a small thud.
THUMP!
Aelita instantly gathers herself and finds that she was sitting on floor of her dorm. She was covered in cold sweat and face red. The girl looks at her surroundings. She was back in her room. She frantically checks her body. She was not in her Lyoko wear and there was no blood located on any part of her body.
"Oh, thank God. It was only a nightmare. A horrible nightmare.", Aelita sighs in relief as she realizes it was all in her in her head. Aelita takes a deep breathe, gets up and picks up Mr. Pück, and gets back in her bed.
Aelita tried to fall back to sleep, but couldn't. That nightmare gave her such a friend. Her friends turnered into emotionless murderers, aligned with X.A.N.A, the death of many young students, she couldn't get it out of her head. It seemed so real, yet it wasn't. Why would she dream such...such chaos? She finally had enough of this and became frustrated.
Aelita tried to convince herself, "Come on Aelita, it was only a dream and just a dream. None of this has happened and never will. Just relax and get some sleep. Everything will be okay." Unfortunately, she unable to sleep for the rest of the night due to her fear replaying images from her nightmare within her mind. A thought popped in the back of her mind, "Even if it was real, why would X.A.N.A want us to kill these people. Much less get us to do it?"
That thought was the very thing that freed her head from this nightmare and finally was able to fall asleep. Just peaceful, sleep.
A/N: I might revise the ending of ch.2 to make this story fit some. I said I MIGHT. I'm not changing the story. Stick around for ch.4.