CHAPTER 2
THE GUARDIAN KARONE
(TWO WEEKS LATER)
Yumi Ishiyama was standing near her household, waiting for someone that she hadn't seen in nearly three years. Her brother Jin, who was once part of the Lyoko Warriors but lost his faith in himself after he nearly killed his sister while XANA, the evil computer program took control over him. Yumi knew that Jin would come back if and when she asked him to. So he knew it was time when Yumi texted him and told him that they needed help and that one of their other friends had been taken by XANA like he had been.
'XANA you will pay.' thought Yumi. Though they got William back, he wouldn't step foot near the scanners after they told him what had happened.
"What do you mean?" asked William
"William you nearly killed us every time we went to Lyoko." said Aelita
"Whoa."
Even since then William couldn't go near a scanner but Yumi hoped that when Jin got there and the Guardians were complete again William would get the confidence he needed to got back to Lyoko.
"Hey Sis." said a voice behind Yumi making her jump.
"Jin you never quit do you?" Yumi said happily hugging her brother.
"Nope." said Jin "So where's William?"
"At the school." said Yumi
"Then let's go." said Jin and the two started to walk toward the school and the other Guardians. "By the way what's the deal with you and Ulrich?"
"We're together… actually we're engaged."
"Really?"
"Yeah."
"That's great Yumi. I'm glad you finally got together sis. He's good for you."
"Yeah I think so too." said YUmi as they walked down path that led past the Hermitage
"So tell me what happened with William."
"Well it was like this…"
As Yumi told her brother what was going on Aelita Odd Ulrich Ami Nakita Zhane and Jeremy were standing by the forest when Jeremy saw William. Jeremy, who knew what it was like attacking his friends, also knew that William was a Guardian, thanks to Yumi and Ulrich finally explaining after the message appeared in the computer two weeks ago. He also knew that XANA would try to get rid of him so that the Guardians would be weakened when Xanafar decided to fight them. however they soon realized that XANA was becoming too strong for just the five of them and without help on Lyoko they couldn't do anything to stop XANA. Jeremy knew that they had been lucky so far but they needed William. Unfortunately William wanted nothing to do with Lyoko.
It was thanks to Yumi that they had help on the outside as well. Shortly after William had been taken over Yumi met up with two old friends and guardians who were known as Alina and Natsumi or Samaya and Nakita but even though they had seven warriors Yumi knew that XANA was even stronger than before so she knew that they would need help. So she called her brother Jin in Japan and asked him to come back and help. Jin told her about his friend Aira or Ami and she said to bring her. So he sent her ahead of him.
"Jeremy…" started Aelita "we need William back."
"I know Aelita. We're working on it." said Jeremy
"Hey Jeremy?" William called as he walked up to him
"Yeah William?"
"Can I talk to you?" asked William "alone?"
"Sure." said Jeremy and the two walked away from the others and to a more secluded spot.
"So what's up?" asked Jeremy
"I want to help again." said William "Jeremy I want to go back to Lyoko."
"Okay. But why now? After all this time?"
"Aelita told me about XANA taking over you and her, and just now I met Jin, Yumi's brother and he told me about his mishap with XANA."
"Really Jin's back?"
"Yeah."
"I guess Yumi thought we needed help too. That's why she called Jin and then explained about what she was and what Aira was."
"I guess so. Anyway is it okay with you if I came back?"
"Yeah. It's actually a good thing because we could really use your help."
"Great. Let's go." said William and they walked back to the others."
Ulrich had known what William was going to ask Jeremy because Yumi told him about her plan but asked him not to say anything. So they were surprised when Jeremy told them what William said, except for Ulrich. Suddenly they heard a scream and they all ran to where they had heard it. But what they saw shocked them. The girl that had screamed was Yumi, sort of. She had the same looks as Yumi but not the same hair color. Aelita asked Ulrich if Yumi had dyed her hair but William, who had just saw her and her brother, said that it wasn't possible that he had just saw her and that she hadn't gone home.
"Then how do you explain the fact that she looks exactly like her?" asked Odd
"I don't know Odd." said William
"I do." said a voice familiar to Jeremy Odd Aelita Ulrich Ami and Nakita. It was the voice of Jin Yumi's twin brother.
"Hey Jin good to see you." said Ulrich
"You too Ulrich." said Jin "Aelita. Wow when Yumi told me that You were finally here I didn't know what… any way it's nice to see you guys again."
"Anyway you said that you knew who she was." said William as they looked down at the girl but she was gone. "Wait where did she go?"
"Back to Lyoko." said Yumi from behind her brother
"What?!"
"Jeremy how much do you guys remember about the Guardians?" asked Jin
"Not a lot. Why?"
"Because that girl was my past Guardian self, Karone." Yumi said to her shocked friends.
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