XANA's Olympics: the Drabbles

by The Real Snickie

It's a cruel, cruel game he plays, and he makes all the rules. This was all for the XL Olympics Daily Drabble Challenge, and I decided I wanted to keep this separate from my other unrelated drabbles. Shelved plans to turn it into a full-length story or even just the drabbles into animated shorts.

2. Start

Death is just a new beginning, or so they say.

For them, it was the start of many things. The search for a replacement on Lyoko. Counselling. XANA's new edge against them. Legal investigations. Police interrogations. Scary phonecalls from his father.

Ulrich's death had brought about many ordeals, and nothing would ever be the same again. No more awkward encounters, no more jealousy, no more protests against Kiwi's antics.

Most of all, no more best buddy. And returns to the past wouldn't return him to them.

It wasn't a beginning any of them had ever thought to have to face.