"Blah" - French/Lyoko Language
"Blah" - English
Revamped Rendition
Chapter One: A New Adventure
[June 25, 1995]
Aelita Hopper walked quickly to the point of nearly jogging. She could feel her auburn shoulder-length hair swishing around her shoulders. She climbed up the stairs to seventh floor.
I have to get there quickly! she thought. Just a few minutes ago, she had received a text message. She was needed on Lyoko to scout out a new area of a very little known sector.
Lyoko was a virtual world created by her father, Franz Hopper. Lyoko was made up of five sectors, four of them based on different environments and the fifth on a computer system.
She finally reached the tapestry of Barnabas the Barmy and paced in front of it three times. I need to get to Lyoko, she thought as she went. After the last time, she heard light movement in the stone. She stopped and stared as the large door formed before her.
Aelita turned the handle. Inside was a fairly lit room, the light streaming through the windows. In the very center of the room was a massive computer. A tall, metal tube with thick wires running from it to the computer stood a few feet away. The tube was open, revealing its yellow interior.
The redhead strode over to the computer and started typing. She put on the headset and spoke into it. "Jeremie, I'm here."
"That's great! The others are waiting for you on Lyoko in the Ice Sector."
"Okay. I'll be there in a minute."
She finished typing the commands. A few seconds later, she stepped into the tube, the scanner. The doors closed. She closed her eyes as the familiar waves of nothing washed over her.
And then she was floating. She dropped and landed, crouched, on an icy plain. The plain stretched out around her, icy mountains and bridges spread out. The sky was royal blue, and the virtual sea, several hundred feet below, was the same color.
Aelita smiled and glanced down at herself. She was wearing a cream colored loosely fitting and short-sleeved outfit with cream sleeves on her forearms, a maroon shirt with a pink stripe, a maroon and pink skirt, and maroon wraps on her feet and around her legs. On her left, pointed ear, there dangled a green earring. Beneath her eyes were pink markings. Her now pink hair was short, messy, and almost boyish. She hadn't been on Lyoko in weeks. She hadn't seen her friends in person in longer. She especially missed Jeremie…
"Hiya, Princess!" a high-pitched voice sounded. Aelita turned and saw three of her four friends: Odd, Ulrich, and Yumi.
Odd had blonde hair, all going into a single spike with a purple diamond in the center. He was wearing a purple, sleeveless jumpsuit with a yellow circle on his chest with a picture of a dog. He had yellow kneepads and yellow shoes. One his arms were purple gloves, and his hands were shaped like claws with four digits. A long, purple cat's tail moved behind him.
Ulrich was a brunette boy with messy hair. His appearance was very similar to a samurai's with his yellow tunic, black pants, and gray boots. He had a yellow headband. On his right hip hung a black sheath, which held his katana.
Yumi, the only girl asides from Aelita, had black hair. She wore a black and red tunic with a white floral pattern and a yellow sash with a red string around it. She had red shorts, black stockings, and white wraps on her lower legs and black boots. Some of her short black hair was pulled into a bun on top of her head, and she had white make-up with pink blush.
Aelita smiled. The five friends were together again. She knew that Jeremie wasn't there physically (or digitally), but he was in the real world watching over them.
"Hey, guys!" Aelita greeted, but soon, her smile vanished. Ulrich noticed.
"Aelita, what's wrong?"
She sighed. "You remember what I told you about the Tri-Wizard Tournament, right?" When the others nodded and Jeremie responded, she continued. "It finished yesterday, but it was terrible. The two champions from Hogwarts touched the cup at the same time. The maze, which was the trial, vanished. The champions didn't reappear, though. Everyone was panicking. Finally, about two hours later, they came back, but Cedric Diggory was dead. Only Harry Potter had made it."
There was silence for a moment. Aelita was hoping for some kind of sound, but there was nothing to break that deafening silence.
"I'm really sorry, Aelita," Jeremie finally said. It was obvious that she was gravely shaken. He longed to be with her at that moment. He desired to draw her into his arms. But he was stuck there staring at a computer screen. He was eager for the summer so he could see her again, his pink-haired beauty…
A sudden bleeping drew his thoughts away. Jeremie blushed, suddenly glad that no one could see him. The blush quickly faded though, as he investigated what the words told him. "I'm sorry, but we have trouble in Sector 5. XANA sent some monsters to this room there. That's weird. Why would there be so many monsters?"
"Whatever it is, it can't be good," Yumi decided.
"Right. Here come your vehicles."
Three wire frames appeared before the quartet. Colors appeared around them as they materialized. One of the shapes was a plain silver scooter. On the front was a scarlet circle. The bottom was a perfect circle with enough room to fit two. This was the Overwing.
The Overboard was different shades of purple and seemed like an overly large skateboard. On the bottom were some tiny jets. The whole board was like a patchwork of different pieces of purple metal.
The Overbike was similar to a motorcycle, asides from the fact that it had one enormous wheel and was dark green in color. It had a single exhaust pipe.
The quartet climbed onto their respective vehicles (expect for Aelita, who decided to ride with Yumi). Without a word, they started towards the end of the sector.
Aelita returned to her thoughts. She loved her new school, Hogwarts, but she still missed fighting XANA, as crazy as that thought was. Whenever she thought about XANA, she couldn't help but go to the fact that her father created it. She didn't know why, but she was determined to find out.
Still, Hogwarts confused her. After two years of attending there, she didn't know why she could use magic, or why she was even going to Hogwarts. Soon after she had received a letter announcing that she had been accepted there, she had decided to research other magical schools. Surely, Hogwarts wasn't the only one.
Sure enough, she had discovered that there was one in France, which was where she'd grown up: Beauxbatons Academy of Magic. But why wasn't she going there? She was French, and learning another language was difficult, especially with it being English. She was much better at things like maths and physics. She remembered her father teaching her when she was younger.
Hogwarts was helping her learn, none-the-less, which she loved. She supposed that was why she was sorted into Ravenclaw, the house of the wise and intelligent. She'd made several friends in her house, but she still missed her other friends.
"Guys, there's something wrong." Jeremie's voice broke through her thoughts.
"What is it, Einstein?" Odd asked. Einstein. Her Jeremie was definitely smart enough to be one.
"Either I'm going crazy, or something's going wrong."
"Jeremie, tell us," Yumi demanded.
"W-well, this can't be possible-"
"Just get on with it!" Ulrich said. His eyes were narrowed. It was obvious he was looking for monsters.
"The Scyphozoa's attacking."
In unison, Odd, Ulrich, and Yumi stopped their vehicles. They stared into the royal blue sky. "But, it can't be," Aelita said, a chill shooting down her spine. She remembered the Scyphozoa. Over the past year, XANA had been trying to steal her memories so that it could escape to the Internet. It finally succeeded just a couple of weeks ago. She still had nightmares about it. The only comforting thought was that her father had brought her back to life after XANA had drained her memories.
"Unfortunately, it is," Jeremie confirmed. "Ulrich and Odd, you two go to Sector 5 and find out what XANA wants there. Aelita and Yumi, the Scyphozoa is due west of your location. Good luck, guys.
Odd and Ulrich glanced at the girls for a second before turning and continuing to the edge of the sector. Aelita and Yumi took off in the opposite direction. It wasn't long before they found a platoon of monsters surrounding a floating jellyfish with a clear, bulbous head, long tentacles, and a person wrapped in those tentacles. They could see him well enough to know that he was a he, and he was glowing red.
There were five Bloks (block-shaped robots with a target on each side and orange, spindly legs), four Hornets, (sickly green creatures with six or seven sets of wings and a target on their foreheads), and a Krab. This monster was a dull red with four long, sharp-looking legs and a flat head and a target on top.
"We found him, Jeremie," Yumi said. She pulled a fan from her yellow sash and threw it at the Hornets. The fan glowed and sliced through two of the Hornets before it circled back to the girl. "But I may need more help!"
"Don't worry about it, Yumi," Jeremie assured. "Back up's right behind you."
Yumi glanced behind her. She was hoping Ulrich or Odd had decided to come back and help, but there was no one. "Are you sure your scanners aren't on the fritz?"
"Of course not. Aelita's your back up."
The girls looked at each other. Surely not? "Jeremie, what can I do?" Aelita asked.
"Just go down and see for yourself!"
"Okay."
Yumi landed the Overwing ten yards from the monsters and pulled her fans from her sash. She threw them both. One sliced a Blok in half, and the other caught the final two Hornets. All exploded into red zeros and ones.
Aelita stood in front of another Blok. What could she do? She figured that the most she could do was banish the ground beneath it, but she didn't want to do that until the most desperate time. That power took half of her life points.
The Blok twirled, one of the eyes of XANA facing her. The target shape glowed red. It was going to fire!
She raised her right hand in a futile attempt to block the laser. There was a sudden, unfamiliar noise. She looked at her hand. An orb of pink electricity appeared there. What was it? It flew from her hand and hit the Blok just before it fired. The pink electricity encompassed the Blok before it exploded.
This is my new power! Aelita thought. She smiled. She could finally take care of herself!
She charged two more orbs, one in each hand. She threw them at two more Bloks that had decided to creep up on her. They both hit their marks. This was amazing!
There were only two Bloks and the Krab left, not including the Scyphozoa. Yumi had the monsters occupied, so Aelita turned her attention to the jellyfish. She charged another orb, but just as she was about to fire it, the boy fell from the tentacles. The red aura disappeared as the Scyphozoa floated away.
"No!"
She dispelled the orb as she dashed to the boy's side. He groaned as he opened his eyes. They were both bright green. His jet-black hair was messy, and his fringe was slightly parted, revealing a scar shaped like a lightning bolt on his forehead.
Aelita gasped. Not him…
The boy stood and straightened his gray jacket and brushed frost off his jeans. A blue tee shirt peeked from underneath his jacket. For some reason, his ears were slightly pointed.
"Who are you? Where am I?" he asked. Aelita couldn't blame him. Her friends had felt the same way when they had first journeyed to Lyoko.
She heard Yumi gasp behind her. Aelita turned and watched her friend disappear. Only the Krab was left. She summoned another orb and caught the Krab on its leg. It fizzled and exploded.
"You'd better get out of there, Aelita," Jeremie said. The boy jumped.
"What was that?" he asked.
"This is the comm. link."
"Okay… Who are you?"
On Earth, Jeremie narrowed his eyes. Who was this guy? What was he doing on Lyoko? Maybe it was a trap. If it was, XANA already knew their names, but what if it was a hacker? "I'm Jeremie," he finally said.
"I'm Harry Potter."
Jeremie heard Aelita gasp. "Aelita, what's wrong?"
"You shouldn't be here," he heard her say.
"Well, here I am," Harry replied acidly.
"But what are you doing here?"
"You tell me!"
"Harry, calm down!"
This was a new voice, and it was speaking English. Jeremie arched an eyebrow. He only knew basic English, and the supercomputer wasn't translating it. That meant the person was on Earth in a different place. The language on Lyoko was data, so Jeremie heard it in French, which meant Harry was English. Okay, his head was starting to hurt.
"Who are you?" Jeremie asked the mystery person in French.
"I am Hermione Granger," she replied in perfect French.
"What's going on?" Yumi asked as she climbed the ladder from the scanner room. She stepped forwards and stood next to Jeremie.
"I don't know."
A/N: And here we go! The complete rewrite of The New Warriors! Something that I'm going to do is take the word count of the original chapters and compare it to the new chapters.
Original word count: 796
New word count: 2,277
There. I don't know about you, but I think that's completely different from the original. Also, notice how I changed Harry's Lyoko form. I seriously don't like how it was before.
Oh, and one of these days, I'm going to write Heartless instead of Monster and TARDIS instead of supercomputer.
Anyways, God Bless!
