I finished the next chapter early - Here you go!

Thanks to:

patattack - I'm glad you like the story. Thanks for your review.

Avatarcatz2323 - Yeah, Lenne knows XANA. Not personally or anything, but she's had experiences with him.

Axel - Thanks for the review.

ILoveReadingAndWriting - Yup, Lenne knows XANA

The Konfessionist - Yeah, I wanted to try something different with a character. I'm not blind, so It's a little difficult to write, but I'm trying my best. It's not as big a relationship as most people would believe, but XANA does not like her at all.

crazychick16 - Thanks for the review.

azure blue espeon - Thanks for the review.


Chapter Three

Teddygozilla Part Three


LENNE'S POV


All I heard was silence. I heard their sharp breaths and the sounds of the animals and nature around us, but to me…it was silent up until Odd spoke.

"How…do you know about XANA?" he questioned, voice low despite the obvious shock I heard. I felt my face heat up and a couple of tears escaped my eyes.

"My…my father…" I spat out, "…was the assistant of some engineers and computer scientists who worked on some program. It was about a world called 'Lyoko' or something. I can't remember all of it since it was when I was fairly young, but I do remember that my uncle used to work with them as well. After about a year I found out about XANA and that was when my uncle left to work with NASA. XANA knew I knew about him so he found ways to attack me. My father only encouraged it because he thought it would be good 'discipline' for a worthless daughter. A few years ago, XANA possessed my father and ended up throwing me down the stairs. I suffered a head wound…and I ended up becoming blind." I explained.

Nobody interrupted me while I was talking, but from my left I heard a sharp intake of breath.

"So…XANA's the reason you're blind?" I heard Odd ask in an angry voice. He came over to me and I looked to where his voice came from. I nodded slowly, still remembering the effects becoming blind had on me.

"I can help, though. Right before I came here, I trained in martial arts with a master who taught blind pupils. I was good with a wooden staff, a shakujo, and a chain whip. Although I can't see, I can still fight using my other senses." I wanted to help. It was just up to them to tell me whether or not I would be useful.

"…Odd, you can't go to Lyoko alone." Jeremy said, reiterating the fact that Odd wanted to go to that strange place alone. He seemed to be thinking about something from what I could gather from the tone of his voice.

"What what do you suggest? There have been two accidents, we can't leave the school unguarded, and even going back in time during an accident and it's all over." Odd said, desperation in his voice.

"Odd is right, but so are you Jeremy…Lenne, go with Odd and help him in whatever way you can. I'll stay." Ulrich said, completely surprising me. "If I find any clue's I'll pass them onto you." He said, patting us each on the shoulder. "Go on and say hi to you-know-who for me."

The three of us – Jeremy, Odd, and I, parted ways with Ulrich and Odd grabbed my hand. we started to run. It was like before I was blind except for the fact that I had to keep my ears open for any obstacles. Although I was swathed in darkness, I kept my eyes open and I kept out of the way as Odd and Jeremy opened a door leading down. I was quick, but careful, going down the stairs, keeping one of my hands on the walls on my way down. I stumbled a few times, but Odd and Jeremy were there to help me. I swore that I would be able to do this without help in the future.

The sound of running water hit my ears and I could smell dank water. It made my nose wrinkle, but I was surprised when my feet hit metal. Echoing steps floated up to my ears. Odd stopped me for a few seconds before the sound of wheels on the metal and concrete reached my ears.

"Odd?"

"Just hold on, Lenne." He said, but it wasn't in the context that I originally thought he meant. He led me over to a skateboard. He balanced it for me and told me to get up behind him. I yelped a bit and wrapped my arm around his waist and he laughed before taking off down the sewer tunnel. He pushed us faster and I enjoyed the feeling of the wind in my hair. We skated for a bit before coming to a stop and he led me to a ladder.

"Don't worry. You go up first and I'll catch you if you slip." He said, patting my shoulder. I did fairly well despite my disability. I only slipped twice. When we reached the top, Odd took my hand and we ran into a metal building. Without warning, he grabbed me around the waist and jumped off of a platform. We hit some sort of rope and I grabbed onto it via his instructions and then we made our way to some sort o elevator – or at least what I thought was an elevator.

Jeremy got off at one point, telling me that he would have to register me in the computer…but I had a feeling that I had already been registered. Uncle Jack did something like that to me when I was little, but I didn't understand what it was at that time.

Odd and I were silent on the way down. Soon, we would be on Lyoko.

"Lenne, for some reason it says that you're already registered in the program." Jeremy said over some sort of intercom. I didn't know if he could hear me, but I nodded.

"My Uncle Jack did something like that when I was little. I didn't know what he was doing then, but it was right before he went to go work with NASA." I explained. Odd grunted, obviously still not happy that my family worked with XANA in the past.

"Okay, here you go." Odd helped me into one of the scanners.

"Transfer Odd. Transfer Lenne." Jeremy said over the intercom. "Scanner." He said after the scanner started to emit some sort of energy. My hair started to flutter around me. "Virtualization." And we were virtualized. It felt no different than a flutter of air, but apparently we were virtualized in the air. I fell on my behind, but my head snapped up when I heard Odd gasp.

"You're a fox!" he exclaimed and I felt my cheeks heat up. He said I was a fox…what did that mean?

"Thank you?" I questioned and he burst out laughing. I smiled. His laugh was nice.

"No, I mean you're a real fox. Check your ears." He said and I reached up to touch my ears…which weren't there. I reached up further and noticed my hair was bound in a cloth covered bun. Up a little further and I reached two soft and pointed ears on the top of my head. I gasped, touching them and pulling them. It was so weird!

"Do I have a matching tail?" I questioned. I didn't even know why I did because soon after, a soft thing swished behind me. It was a long fox tail.

"Um…do you think you can describe what I'm wearing? Colors and such?" I asked while I was feeling my new clothing. What I gathered was that I was wearing a long Chinese style dress with a slit on either side that reached my knees. I was also wearing pinchy flat shoes.

"No prob." He said with a smile in his voice. "Your dress is a dark forest green and it looks like you have a whip on your side. There's a staff on your back. The sash around your waist is like a minty green color." He said "And so is the cloth in your hair." He said, patting my head.

I reached down by my side and gasped when I felt a chain whip. I then felt behind my head and my fingers touched a wooden staff. I smiled – I could use the staff as a walking stick. I withdrew the staff from its holster and put it in front of me, tapping it on the virtual ground like I did with my walking stick. Then, I twirled it around my arms and over my head, showing Odd that I was comfortable with it despite the fact that I couldn't see it. I could feel it and that was all that mattered.

"This way. I see Aelita." Odd said. I followed his voice, but who was Aelita?

"It it's under XANA's control, it'll become much madder." Aelita said to the air. Well, at least I supposed she was talking to air unless she was talking to someone else. "It'll go for anyone, especially its mortal enemy…like you." She said.

"Huh?" I heard Jeremy's voice question. So she was walking to Jeremy. I should have guessed since he was on a super computer. After a few minutes I introduced myself to the one named Aelita.

"Hi…I'm Lenne." I said, holding my hand out for her to take. I tried to look where she had last been speaking, but it was kind of hard. She could have moved since then. Finally, I felt a small hand take my own and shake it up and down.

"I'm Aelita. It's nice to meet you." She said in a quiet voice. I smiled at her, letting it know that it was ok, but this time I didn't ask Odd what she looked like. It would have been embarrassing to do it right in front of her.

"Ok, let's go look for the tower." I said. I heard a little bit of shuffling next to me and Odd's voice filled my ears.

"It shouldn't be too far away." he said, grabbing my shoulder and tugging me in the right direction. Oh, darn! I forgot to ask him what his Lyoko outfit was! I suppose I'll ask him later.

"It won't be down there anyway." He continued as he and Aelita looked at something. Once again I sort of felt left out. They were looking at something that I couldn't, but I can't complain. Why complain about something that you couldn't help or fix?

"What about the neighboring platforms?" Aelita suggested.

"Too late," Odd said as I heard shuffling from behind us. "The welcoming committee has arrive."

It was time to prove myself. I closed my useless eyes and concentrated. Before anyone could move, I had unleashed my chain whip. In a flash I had whipped it out and the sound of dematerializing programs hit my ears.

"Yes!" I exclaimed, happy. I could feel my fox ears twitching in happiness as my whip came back to me. With a flick of the wrist, it was curled up and my chain whip was back by my side. "How was that?" I questioned before I was swept off my feet by Odd.

"That was amazing!" he exclaimed, "You kick butt!" he continued.


3rd PERSON POV


Ulrich was worried about Yumi. The giant tracks left behind from the XANA possessed teddy led in her direction. Overturned cars littered the street as Ulrich ran towards her house.

"Answer! C'mon, answer!" he exclaimed as he tried to call her. The phone that belonged to Yumi was in her room, but the raven haired teenager was bathing in her Japanese styled bathroom. She couldn't hear the phone.


LENNE'S POV


I screamed as Odd abruptly dropped me. He jumped out of the way as more of those little buggers came to play. I was angry so I snapped out my whip and destroyed two more of them. Odd was doing some sort of gymnastics maneuvers while Aelita screamed. I heard her taking cover over near some of the rocks my staff had helped me find.

"Odd, what are you doing?" I heard Jeremy ask. A laser sound came towards me and I spun my staff in front of me, glad that I had the weapon to block the laser beam.

"Laser Arrow!" I heard Odd shout and one of the enemies went down. I then heard him grunt and I turned in his direction, missing the fact that I was being shot at as well. We were both hit.

"Odd, Lenne, watch out." Jeremy said, "You've each lost ten life points." Holy…we have life points? What was this, a video game?

"Okay…no more playing around." I murmured to myself as I listened to the things attack Odd. When they were distracted by Odd's dodging, I flipped in front of them. I had counted the steps before and knew there was a small ledge there for Odd to hide under.

"Take this!" I shouted, twirling the staff in front of me to deflect their laser blasts right back at them. I couldn't see where they were exactly, but by the sound of it they were being destroyed.

"Odd! Lenne! It looks like we don't have any choice." Aelita said. Odd made this weird sound – it was like he was uncomfortable with something. I used my staff to help me over the outcropping of the rocks and into Odd's arms, which made me blush a bit. I wasn't expecting him to catch me as I jumped. He grabbed my hand and I replaced my staff, running after him.

"Please be careful! We're going down a spiral with no sides – if you fall into the virtual sea below us…you'll devirtulize forever!" Odd exclaimed after we started to run. I nodded and followed, trusting Odd to help.


3rd PERSON POV


Ulrich finally made it to Yumi's house. He was out of breath, but he pushed the doorbell repeatedly. At first Yumi didn't hear the bell, but she got out of the bath and dried off with a towel. As the doorbell rang yet another time, she made her way down the stairs in a black midriff tank top, black and light purple arm warmers, a black miniskirt, red and black thigh-high socks, and her normal black combat boots.

"Ulrich!" she exclaimed in surprise, "Watch it, will you?" she questioned as the brunette teenager barged into her house.

"I'm sorry," he said quickly, "are your parents home?"

"No, they went out." Yumi said as she shook her head.

"Okay, come on. We can't stay here." Ulrich said, grabbing his friend's arm and dragging her out of the house.

"Hey!" she exclaimed, ripping her arm out of his grasp. "Would you mind explaining?" she demanded before her eyes snapped open wide. She heard the heavy footsteps of some creature before Ulrich grabbed her hand again.

"We don't have enough time." he said, pulling her along. "Come on!" and they ran away from Yumi's house before the bear got there.