-1Well, I'm back. I've decided to put Code: Oblivion on hiatus for a while since I know I want to remake it, but I'm not sure how I want to do that just yet. So in the mean time, I've come up with another story. Again, it delves into my more creative side and takes a turn that few people have tried. What's funny is this story came about by listening to Linkin Park(Second favorite band). I won't forget about this one like I did for a few months with Xana's ReBirth(No, I'm not putting that on hiatus). I've actually toyed with this one quite a bit, and it uses my second OC, Xande. He will only be in this story, because his past is very different to Yami's. While he does……umm, I have a summary of his life in the prologue so you can read it there. Anyway, so not to draw this thing out, I'll start the story now.

Disclaimer: I don't own Code: Lyoko or anything affiliated with it. I do however own Xande, and the 2-3 other OC's I create(again, all OC's in this story will be native to this story).

Darkness of a Boy's Heart

Prologue Part 1-Fallen

Odd's POV

It all happened so fast that day. It started normal at first, of course. I woke up, did my normal routine, and had a nice large breakfast. But that's when things got strange. While we were on our way to class, Jeremie suddenly complained about a pain in his neck, back, and a major headache. So Aelita volunteered to take him to the infirmary. I'm not entirely sure of what happened during their trip, but what I do know is that our day just went from different to dangerous. See, on an almost daily basis, we fought an evil sentient, that's Jeremie's word for it, computer AI named Xana that went rouge. This is what went wrong.

See, about three months ago, Xana possessed our friend that we brought to Lyoko, the virtual world we fought Xana on, since we had needed more people on our team. And using William, he destroyed the Core of Lyoko. We had originally thought that Xana had won, until Aelita's father, Franz Hopper(creator of the supercomputer, Lyoko, and Xana himself) contacted us via the internet. He had survived the destruction of Lyoko! According to Jeremie, it contained blueprints to remake Sector 5 of Lyoko, which held the Core of Lyoko. But William was now permanently possessed by Xana. It was hard to fix that problem, but we did it. Eventually, all of Lyoko was recreated.

Then Jeremie and Aelita create the "Skidbladnir". The vehicle that would allow us to literally take the fight directly to Xana. And that lasted for about a month. That's were my story continues. Xana had managed to materialize William again, but with all of his Lyoko power intact. He attacked them on their way to the infirmary, and Jeremie was severely injured. We managed to get him to Lyoko, since the scanners seemed to heal most internal and external injuries. It worked, but the damage carried over to Lyoko. His life points were already at 65, and he was weakened. That's where all hell broke loose. Ulrich and I had gone to Lyoko with him, followed by Aelita and Yumi. While we tried to get to the Skidbladnir in Sector 5, it turned out that the William in the real world was a polymorphic clone. The real one was waiting for us. We managed to get into the Skid, but Ulrich was devirtualized and sent back to Earth. We traveled into the digital sea to go to the Lyoko Replika that Xana had created so that we could deactivate the tower that was there before anymore damage was done. I stupidly made a remark about wondering if things could get any worse. I kicked myself very hard later for saying that. Because it did.

When we got to the Replika, everything seemed fine. It wasn't. William had chased us in his ship there. Normally that wasn't a problem, cause he always did that. But what went wrong was after we deactivated the tower. We though we had defeated William for the time being. Wrong again, we were. William came out of nowhere and devirtualized both me and Yumi. That was the worst possible situation since there were also 5 tarantulas and 3 mantas(not including the Black Manta that William got around on). Aelita was strong, and resourceful. And Jeremie, while he couldn't fight well, could defend himself with the powers he had. Pure defense, he had made his new outfit. It helped, but in the end, his defense fell. It left Aelita and the weakened Jeremie to face the 8 monsters and William. I heard Jeremie wear at himself for not adding anything that could attack. William decided to go after Aelita first, though. The monsters just sat(in the Tarantula's cases, literally) there, as if waiting for something.

But this was the worst thing that happened. William had hit Aelita, while she was flying with the Angelic Wings Jeremie had programmed for her(yeah, they were in love, just like Ulrich and Yumi. I loved goading them about it), with the broad side of his zanbato. What made this bad is that she had to much momentum when she was hit. The blow threw her to the ground and she went tumbling. She ended up getting right to edge of the Replika's Forest sector. William, or rather, Xana, just wasn't happy with simple devirtualization, he wanted to get rid of her permanently. But he also wanted to get rid of Jeremie. So he almost literally killed to love birds with one stone. He kicked Aelita over the edge.

When someone falls into the digital sea, they get permanently virtualized. Only once has someone escaped that dang sea. Jeremie, now completely enraged, threw himself at William, carrying them both over the edge after Aelita. William tried to escape the fate that Aelita and Jeremie were doomed to have, but the Black Manta never made it in time. At the last second, Jeremie's falling body caught up with Aelita's, and from what we saw in the camera that Jeremie had made, the embraced each other right when the hit the sea. We permanently lost Jeremie, Aelita, and William all within a few seconds. And all because of that damn AI! Once we realized that we knew no one skilled enough with computers, we had to do what we feared we would have to do right when we realized that Jeremie and Aelita were gone. Yumi was crying by now, I was close to it, and Ulrich, who only cried over Yumi, was close to it as well. We ended up all turning off the super computer at once.

When we returned to school, everyone was wondering where we were and where Jeremie, Aelita, and William(the clone Jeremie had made) were. It seems that Xana was able to kill the tower that was holding him together. But when we got back up to the lab, we saw the "Activated Tower" for a second as Lyoko powered down. Jeremie had managed to connect the Replika to Lyoko's power source. So it shut down as well. It troubled us, but we had worse things to deal with then a mysterious tower. The cops interrogated us all about the trio's whereabouts. We didn't tell them, but we felt the need to at least tell Jeremie and William's parents. They almost killed Ulrich, but never said a word to anyone. I used to be a happy-go-lucky guy, but that day, my entire life was killed. All because of a dang computer AI! We split up completely soon after. Yumi and her family moved back to Japan to avoid the police, Ulrich's parents took him out of Kadic and moved him closer to home. As for me, I stayed in school and finished the best I could in memory of Jeremie and Aelita. I passed with almost a one hundred percent. We made graves near the factory that the super computer was stored in for the three. I visited them once a week. My life became monotone and boring. I stayed out of college, just because I just couldn't get into it after I left Kadic. I wanted to stay near the graves, to be sure nothing happened to them.

The police never found any bodies, and all charges were dropped completely. In the eyes of the public, Jeremie, Aelita, and William faded into history as an unsolved murder. I eventually bought the factory from the city, and kept anyone from demolishing it. I wish I could've brought them back, but I just wasn't good enough to use the super computer, so I never tried. To this day, I wish I could see them again, even if it was just one last time. But they were gone, forever, and nothing could bring them back. Not. One. Thing.

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Darkness of a Boy's Heart

Prologue Part 2- Boy with a Dark Past

(OC's POV)

I've often wondered why I'm here. Who my parents were. Where I came from. All I know about the subject of my past is that it's not a pretty one. I've never known my parents, not even an family members. I was taken care of in an orphanage for about 7 years before they kicked me out onto the streets of Beauvais, France. I had to fend for myself after that. I later found out why they kicked me out. They were sick of the publicity.

See, it was the strangest thing about my past. I knew my birthdate. And every year, on my birthday, I would disappear for three hours. Only ever three for some reason. But when I returned, I couldn't remember what happened during those three hours. After I could understand what people were saying, I found out why it was so strange. Every night, on my birthday, someone would turn up dead somewhere in the city. At first, people thought it merely coincidence. Because how could I ,a little child, kill a fully grown man?

After they started asking me questions about it, questions I could never answer nor did they find any evidence that it was me who killed on the night of every birthday I had, I sort-of withdrew into myself. Everyone talked, laughed, and mocked me behind my back. Adults, teens, children, it didn't matter who they were. They were always ready to mock me. And I knew it had something to do with my features.

I have naturally crimson hair, which everyone found weird. And my eyes sometimes changed colors. On my birthday, when I would wake up, they would be a bloody red color. But any other day, they were a deep purple. I found it strange, but I actually liked it. I eventually only spoke when absolutely necessary, for fear of yet more laughter directed towards me.

I wasn't lazy, no, I did what I was told. I had an abnormal ability to dash very well. It helped me out in many an occasion. But I had more strength then I should've had as well. But it wasn't too much more. But once they threw me out, I seemed to attract the worst kind of trouble, including the stinking Mafia! And I had no clue at the time. But another strange thing was by actual birthdate. The day I was found on the street near the orphanage. 3 teenagers went missing the day I was found. Normally, it would've been coincidence. But the three of them were part of a group of 6 teens. And they often disappeared, according to what I've researched. I sometimes wonder if they had something to do with my birth, but it didn't seem right.

So I went on being a natural loner. Until the day that I was attacked by a gang the day after my 15th birthday. I wasn't hurt badly because I was able to outrun them. But they had people all over the city, looking for me. Apparently they saw me kill one of their gang members. Another thing I had no recollection of the three hours.

So I decided that I had had enough of this city, it's glaring citizens, and gangs either trying to kill me or recruit me into them. I had little to my name, and one thing I had stolen from one of the gang members. It was an MP3 player that had nothing but songs by an older band called Linkin Park, and some songs by the SubDigitals. I spent a lot of time at the library both to recharge the thing and research more about those 3 teens. I found out that the other members of their group broke apart. But only one stayed near the site of where they supposedly disappeared near. I decided to go to the school they went to, just to find out if anyone there knew something of the event or of myself. I even looked for the owner of the factory that they had once gone too. I myself would bet that they went there a lot more often then everyone thought. But I never found him. He was often said to be at work or something. But right now, my main goal is to just try and fit in. Hopefully my reputation didn't follow me from my supposed birthplace. Because I kinda like it here……