Xana and Riya: The Hunt For Mizu
Chapter 3
As a new day began at Kadic and most of the team made their way to their classes things were beginning to happen within Lyoko, Xana had been sensing a strange signal coming from outside Lyoko, it seemed familiar like one he had once been aware of a long time ago.
Inside the factory Emily was doing her best to keep the old team from going to Lyoko, but the most of them wanted to go in and destroy it for the last time instead of letting it stay active.
Emily with all her trying managed to convince them to at least meet with the new group before they decided, really she hoped to buy time to allow the other to stop Mizu and free Xana before the others found out. The old group began to head back to Kadic following Emily's words while Emily sent a message to Riya and Grace warning them but not telling them who just why and when.
The new group made their plan they would enter Lyoko and prevent them from turning it off while Emily distracted them. Leaving Kadic as soon as their lessons were over a moving in the opposite way to the old group having Emily tell them where to go.
As the new group made their way to the factory, the old group did too, having spotted Emily texting and realising she was stalling them, the new group arrived long before the old group and prepared their defences. Xana waited in a tower the idea that if he remained hidden he'd be safe while everyone else waited for the impending battle.
"come out of Lyoko now" a voice shouted being heard by everyone
"no" Grace said
"we'll just devirtualize you if you don't" another voice said
"actually you won't, look" they heard Emily say pointing out that Grace had locked the control panel keeping any one but her from being able to devirtualize people.
The old group sighed and realised that this is probably what they would have done a while ago, so submitting to the other team they virutalized them selves ready for a fight against the new team.
Emily waited behind and unlocked the console by asking Grace, Emily would have no part in the fighting because it would not be fair she didn't want to destroy Lyoko and she couldn't fight her friends either.
Each person was virtualized one at a time giving the new team the chance to look at each one and with each one, all their fear grew. Each one that appeared looked familiar, they had to hold each other back to keep from attacking.
The first one was wearing armour and looked almost like Nerst, his swords were thinner and he seemed more open to a fair fight. As he landed on the ground he stretched having not been in Lyoko for a long time.
The second one appeared and once again looked like a former enemy but this time Miyu, landing hard on the ground she was helped up by the other, it seemed non of them could remember exactly how to land in Lyoko. She was wearing a strange suit that looked like futuristic Japanese clothing
The third looked like Dai except more cat like, the group noticed his appearance was more like Kelly's as he was cat like. He landed without difficulty; he then flipped and jumped around the area finally stopping when he saw the look he was getting.
The old and new groups introduced them selves to each other with the old group getting some strange looks as their names were revealed. Their names Ulrich Stern, Yumi Ishiyama and Odd Della Robia.
"so what are the rules" Ulrich asked wanting to get this over with quickly
"well new versus old I guess, but you guys have less than us" Riya said
Odd whispered something quietly to Yumi who then nodded in agreement, Riya had a suspicion it could have been about her but she wasn't sure.
"How about two versus one" Xana said appearing from behind the rest of the new group, shocking Ulrich, Yumi and Odd "six of us and three of you, one on one fighting with our team switching out between the two people" Xana added
"sounds fair" Ulrich said keeping the mono tone voice he had been keeping through out, "and we'll pick" Yumi said obviously with a plan in mind.
The groups split up with Odd facing Kelly and Andy, Yumi facing Grace and John while Ulrich faced Xana and Riya.
Each group went to a different zone while Emily monitored Lyoko keeping a careful eye out in case a tower was activated, she was worried about what would happen and even had an idea of who would be left facing who towards the end.
Odd began his battle with Kelly in the Mountain sector, Kelly told Andy to stay back and allow her to take the first round against Odd. Their styles were almost the same both flipped and dodge the same way both firing at the other neither could land a hit. Andy was going to use the terrain to make Odd stumble giving Kelly the chance she needed but he could tell she would not want that and would want a fair fight.
Yumi was actually having trouble against Grace and John, in the Forest sector, their double team attacks were good enough to keep her moving around and the fact she had to face a ground and air attack meant she could never attack one without leaving herself exposed to the other's attack.
Ulrich and Riya were attacking each other ferociously in the Ice Sector neither letting up, their swords were ringing out all around while Xana kept his distance ready to move in and help at a moments notice. Ulrich triplicated him self and tried to attack Riya but she quickly spun her swords around and took out the clones and turned to face Ulrich with her bow charged and ready to fire.
Odd kept moving around the Mountain Sector dodging Kelly who he had noticed was getting quicker and stronger but mostly more aggressive. Looking over Kelly's shoulder Odd noticed Andy was more and amore worried with each passing moments. Taking a moment where he was hidden from Kelly's view Odd used one of the few tricks that he had left and teleported to Andy's side making Andy jump as Odd suddenly appeared by his side.
"hi" Odd said to a still shocked Andy
"how did you do that" Andy asked amazed that Odd had just appeared
"it's a newer trick than any of my others but I need to know if Kelly has a certain ability" Odd asked hoping that he had been wrong in his guess
"if she keeps fighting she gets more aggressive and violent, she's probably in stage two now and is close to reaching stage three" Andy quickly explained which didn't help as Odd had figured this out
"have you ever seen her stage three form" Odd asked and watched Andy shake his head "well you're probably about to see it"
Kelly appeared on top of one of the trees nearby and looked extremely different from her normal self, her quills were growing all over completely covering her, both the quills and the small amounts of fur that could still be seen was blood red. Kelly let out a roar that terrified Andy it was the first time she had ever gone this far into stage three and he knew what would happen.
Kelly launched herself forward ripping away at parts of the mountain sector, as she was moving. Andy created a wall between her and him but she broke through and kept coming. As Kelly reached Andy, Emily put Odd's plan to work she devirtualized Kelly and Andy, Andy didn't want to see Kelly that way and Odd knew that Kelly's power would need to be refined to keep it from happening again. As the two were sent away, Odd began to head back to where they had started knowing that, that was just the first round the next ones were gonna be much more interesting.
Grace and John kept up with their attacks on Yumi moving quickly around her giving Yumi no time to concentrate and making her confused about who was where. Knowing that the amount of time that she would last against them was growing short Yumi decided that she had to take out one of them and leave the other to the rest of the team. Dodging a few more attacks Yumi concentrated on Grace, she knew that Grace was probably the main leader of the group and had planned the attack that was currently out doing her.
Yumi leapt up and span at Grace catching her off guard and knocking her to the floor, twirling her fans and keeping John off Yumi for a few seconds as she sent Grace back to the real world. John attacked Yumi who was too tired to keep fighting and began to send her back to the real world too. As Yumi was sent back she was sure that she spotted Aelita watching her from only a little distance away, she wanted to reach out and talk to her but it was too late.
Ulrich wasn't having as much trouble as the others were facing Riya was a challenge but to him it just seemed like a warm up, despite it being quite a while sine they were last in Lyoko Ulrich had been practicing a lot just in case. Keeping sword to sword with Riya was enough he just had to be careful since he had never fought someone that was close enough to be on par with him. Xana wanted to attack but Riya had given him an order to stay back and he wasn't going to break a promise, Xana could sense the other battles going on her could tell that Kelly and Andy were gone and that Grace had lost. Riya flipped backward landing at Xana's side and asked for an update on the others.
"Grace, Andy and Kelly lost their battles, Odd is sitting around and waiting, John is moving towards him" Xana said slightly impressed that he could pick up all of that
"okay lets switch out I'll go and attack Odd and tell John to head your way, that way when we get to the other we'll be a lot stronger, do you think you can hold Ulrich until John gets here" Riya asked slightly worried about Xana
Ulrich dashed quickly hoping to hit Xana and destroy him but was blocked by Xana's scythe followed by a few successive slashes that made Ulrich drop back "yeah I can hold him" Xana said
Riya rushed off informing John of the plan, while Xana began his battle. Ulrich was happy that he would finally get a chance against Xana and prepared to wipe him out before back up arrived.
While all of the fighting was going on Mizu was watching it intently waiting to start the next stage of his plan, next to him were Jeremy and William still held in the monstrous forms he had given them. Both of them had begun to evolve becoming stronger, William growled angrily watching Ulrich fight while Jeremy did the same about Odd. Mizu knew what they were thinking but he couldn't have them go now.
After all not everything was in place yet.
The third chapter ends with it being all mysterious and with more fights of the way and with cool plot lines to follow this will get interesting, so prepare for drama and action, and possibly comedy if I actually remember to write some, in the next chapter
New against Old, Battle of The Lyokians Pt 2
