Chapter 1: The New Path to Tower No. 1
In a virtual world called Lyoko, hidden in the depths of cyberspace, dwelled four warriors. They devoted their stay to the defense and protection of this sacred land, working together to try a nd stop the evil. This world was full of monsters, all controlled by one main source of evil energy. That energy was called X.A.N.A.. Each of the warriors lived in one of the four regions. The regions, Arctic, Mountain, Desert, and Forest, contained 40 towers altogether. Each tower was either pink, yellow, purple, or green, signaling which warrior had to deactivate it. X.A.N.A. would activate a tower to wreak havoc on earth or on the regions of Lyoko. His armies were usually small groups of the same monster. He occasionally threw in some variety of soldiers.
The Arctic region's grounds were a powder blue while the sky was a darker blue as if the night had fallen, yet you could still see as if it was the middle of the day. On Lyoko night never came, nor did day. Lyoko didn't have time or weather. It didn't even have hunger, thirst, the need to go to the bathroom, nothng like that. People could breathe the air and feel the texture of the ground, trees, etc. People never had to sleep, but they did feel tired after long battles, so they manage to fall asleep afterwards.
In the depths of the Arctic region, lived a warrior of pink hair and a hot pink tee-shirt with dark pink fish net down her arms. She sported pink pants with white stripes down either side of her legs and a lighter pink mini-skirt. She lived in a powder blue dome that was built into the ground. There were no doors, just a hole as an exit, and windows on either side of the one room house.
Aelita was in a slumber underneath of her hot pink sleeping bag when her alarm clock went off. Her eyes flicked open and she reached over and shut it off. After it had shut off, it gently blew apart into little square sheets and disappeared. She crawled out of the sleeping bag, stood up stretching and yawning.
"Anything going on Jeremie?" she asked, although no one was around her.
"Nothing right now Aelita. X.A.N.A.'s probably planning something at the moment." a voice from nowhere echoed through the room.
"Alright, what's Yumi up to?"
"She's in the desert region with Ulrich. Maybe you should go there."
"Alright I will." Aelita headed out the exit. She held out her left wrist in front of her as if to check a watch. Instead of a watch, she had a bracelet with a star on the top of it. She waved her right hand over the star and it lit up. Bright pink transparent wings game out of the back of her outfit where her shoulder blades were. She flapped them a couple times and took to the sky. She flew northeast toward the desert region.
Meanwhile in the Forest region with a grass green ground and a sky blue sky, another warrior that wore a one piece purple suit with long sleeves and long pants was just emerging from his dome, which was similar to the first warrior, Aelita's. Ontop of his head he had yellow hair that shot out at an angle forming a peak and a purple diamond on the front of his hair. He also had a tail coming off the back of his pants and cat paws. This warrior was aimlessly wandering around, weaving in and out of trees. He came across a path about two feet wide that he hadn't recognized. He decided to follow it to see where it lead to. He walked forward a few yards and it curved left, then abruptly right. He could see the path connect to a large circle platform with an inactive, yellow tower about 100 yards ahead.
"Ulrich's tower? I wonder if they've found any yet. I should let them know about this one." The warrior spoke to himself.
"Odd where are you?" Jeremie's voice came from above.
"I'm in the forest region, but I'm unsure where. I found this path I'd never come across before, so I took it. It lead me straight to a tower." Odd responded.
"You found a tower? That's great! Well according to my digital view, you're standing in mid-air."
"What are you talking about? Could your computer be wrong?"
"Not likely."
"Well is that platform about 100 yards ahead of me on your map, the one with Ulrich's tower?"
"Yeah. You should go to it, you know, to check the landscape and get the lay of the land."
"Ay ay boss. Here I go." Od took of at a four legged sprint. Ten yards... Twenty yards... Twenty-five yards. All of a sudden he felt himself fly back as if he ran into a forcefield. "Huh?" He reach out his hand and was zapped. "Hey!" He decided to turn around and go back. He pounced once and before he landed, he shot back once again. "Hey Jeremie, what gives?"
"I don't know Odd, that's unchartered territory. I'll look into it."
"Uhh, hurry up Jeremie, cause I have company." A black and white flying mana ray was hovering above. It had a perfectly circle eye on its back with three eyelashes coming of the bottom and one coming straight off the top of the eye. "X.A.N.A. ray headed this way."
The ray circled above Odd like a vulture. It stopped and faced him. Where it's mouth would've been, were two fangs. The fangs started to glow red. They shot a beam each, at an angle to where the beams met a few inches from the rays face. A ball of red energy was forming at the meeting.
"Any time now Jeremie." The ball shot from the monster and was headed straight for Odd. "Sorry Jeremie, I can't wait for you." Odd jumped as high as he could, outstretching his arm. He bent his wrist down and held his arm straight down toward the ground. As the beam was about to pass under him he shouted, "Laser Arrow!" he pressed the triangle on his right paw with his left hand.
Odd watched from above as the arrowhead collided with the red blur. It caused an atmospheric disturbance that shot Odd high up into the air above the explosion site. At this point he could see the top of the X.A.N.A. ray.
Once again he shouted, "Laser Arrow!" this time pressing the triangle three times. The ray looked up as he shouted, and the first arrowhead hit directly between the fangs. It threw its head back with a cry. The second arrowhead shot into his neck. It flung its head forward and down with yet another cry, leaving the X.A.N.A. symbol wide open. The third arrow zoomed in and pierced the pupil of the eye. The ray stiffened right up and started to slowly fall like a piece of paper.
Odd was falling back down toward the unchartered pathway where which he was trapped. As he landed on all fours, the monster exploded into thousands of little transparent X.A.N.A. symbols. The pathway that Odd had taken, copied the monster and shattered.
"Jeremieeeeeeeeee!" Odd squeezed his eyes shut while he was rapidly falling toward the digital sea. Odd felt him him a surface with a thud. "What?"
"There you go Odd." Jeremie's much appreciated voice called to him.
Odd opened his eyes and realized he was lying on his purple jet-powered hoverboard. "Whew, that was close. Thanks Jeremie." Odd took off on his board heading east.