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Ulrich POV

As I heard "Love Story" come on, I realized that this was my chance. I got Yumi to dance with me for the slow-dance. This is my chance, one shot. Now or never. Oh shut up and just do it you idiot…Am I seriously yelling at myself in my head? I shook the argument in my head away as we got to the dance floor. I wrapped my arms around Yumi's waist, to which she blushed, and she's wearing the make-up from her outfit that already made her look like she was bluffing, so she was REALLY blushing. Then she wrapped her arms around my neck, making me blush, but a little more noticeably. I pulled her closer to me, luckily my being in my Lyoko outfit made me tall enough to be eye-to-eye with her.

Jeremy POV

"Hey Aelita," getting the attention of the girl who's head was laying on my shoulder, which I will admit made me get a little red. "I think that tonight we may witness the ending of one of the greatest struggles in this school's history."

"What? What are you talking about?" She lifted her head and, with me pointing with my own head, got her to see Ulrich and Yumi dancing together. "Oh… I see." She said with her impish grin.

"Hey Jeremy!" Odd yelled to us as he and Sam passed us, "You see the two love birds?"

"That I do Odd, that I do."

"Think he'll tell her?"

"Definitely."

Yumi POV

I was ecstatic when Ulrich began dancing with me. I did blush when he pulled me closer to him than he normally would in such a situation.

OH MY GOD!!! He's gonna do it! He's going to say it! Don't get ahead of yourself Yumi, wait for him to actually begin talking before you make assumptions.

Ulrich POV

"Yumi…" I said getting her attention. She seemed excited but calm, very unlike her. "I wanted to…uh…I wanted to talk to you about something."

"Yes?" She inquired.

"Well, I know we've talked about this…subject, multiple times."

"Yeah?" she was pushing me on.

Just say it!!

"You've talked to me about it, and I've talked to you about it a couple times. No, thousands of times."

"Would you mind telling me what this subject is?" She seemed confused, but I knew her well enough to know that she was faking it.

"Can you stop interrupting?"

"Sorry."

"I've wanted to tell you this, but something always seems to get in the way or something happens. And I wanted to say…"

"A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-H-H-H-H-H-H-H-H-H!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Someone screamed from the middle of the dance floor. Everyone started moving towards the scream. Me and Yumi stayed where we were, our arms still around each other, but staring at the source of the scream.

"Well speak of the devil…" I grumbled to myself. Someone has a fright and this ruins my plan. Probably Sissi spilling something on her dress. Wait, that did sound like Sissi screaming. She was with William! Something may have happened.

I looked at Yumi; she looked at me with a fear that meant she probably had the same idea as me.

We began running for the source of the scream, which was the center of the dance floor, where Sissi probably chose to dance so everyone could see her. As we were running for the center, I saw Jeremy, Aelita, and Odd, pulling Sam with him, run in the same direction.

We reached the center of the gymnasium. The members of our group were by side, we were in the center ring and could see everything.

Sissi was on her butt 10 ft. from the center of the circle. But William was in the center and what was happening to him was what was horrifying.

William was on his knees and hands. He screaming at the top of his lungs and his eyes were closed in pain. But he was shaking like he was being electrocuted. As he was shaking, sparks were actually coming off of him, but the sparks then became small bolts of electricity that shot off of him and hit the closest thing. When it hit the floor it made a small explosion and if it hit someone, they went flying. Suddenly William was on his knees engulfed in electricity. We just stared at him in horror. The lightning coming off of him was pure black. Something was glowing on the back of his neck, something that was the color of lava, and the way William was screaming, it was probably as hot, and it was burning into the back of his neck.

Then it happened. William stiffened up and all the electricity moved back into his body. There was silence for a few seconds, but only a few. In an instant, the black lightning completely surrounded William and then shot into the air and hit the gym's ceiling. The lightning spread out along the ceiling until it was completely out of William. Then he collapsed and Sissi ran to him. Jeremy, Aelita, Odd, Yumi, and I stared at the ceiling, just like everyone else.

"But how…" Odd choked out.

The lightning was beginning to thin into lines.

"Dear God!" Jeremy said.

The lightning formed into three circles.

"It can't be…" Aelita whispered.

The circles moved into each other.

"We destroyed it…" Yumi said.

Three lines sprung out of the bottom, and one out of the top.

"He's back…" I said in a nearly inaudible voice.

X.A.N.A lives.