8: Oh, dear reader. It has everything to do with the Teen Titans. All will be explained eventually, just you wait and see.

Chapter 10

What's going on?

The bell for fourth period rang and all Odd's classmates hurried out of the room. Although he, Ulrich and Aelita took their time; Shyanne had gone with her cousin, but not before giving her boyfriend a soft peck.

"Ten euro, Sissi started the rumour." Ulrich mumbled to his best friend.

"Twenty." Odd said back before they left for their next class.

(I'm just gonna skip because I don't really feel like writing about the rest of the classes. 6th period = last period of the day)

The bell rang, signifying the end of classes for the day. Odd stood up and collected his things before walking over to his girlfriend, whose cousin had convinced her to sit with her, Nicholas and Herve yet again. Odd grabbed Shyanne's hand and led her away from the classroom and towards the dorms. Soon, the couple were walking through the hallways towards Raven and Aelita's shared room.

"Odd, Shyanne." The two turned around at the voice. Standing a few feet away from them was the man who'd spoken their names.

"Yes, Mr Chardin?" Odd asked. After a few seconds, Mr Chardin's face began to melt. Raven gasped in horror. The melting didn't stop, it continued over Mr Chardin's entire body. Underneath was a horribly grotesque . . . thing. There was no telling what it was. Its skin was maroon with scars, cuts and bruises. The most noticeable thing, though, was the sign of X.A.N.A on its forehead.

"Demon." Raven whispered in horror. Just after Raven said that, the thing roared. Odd grabbed Raven's wrist and they started running away from the thing. It pursued them, though. It kept terrific pace with them and was getting closer, and closer as they kept running. The thing roared again as its arm threw a ball of some kind of solid rock at the ceiling, some of it nearly fell on the two. Shyanne screamed. Odd reacted by running faster, and ultimately making Raven run faster too.

How the hell is no-one hearing this? Odd thought as he and Raven exited the dorms. He glanced behind him to see tears trailing down Raven's face and the thing that used to be his favourite teacher still chasing them. They kept running until they were in the woods, they only stopped when they reached the manhole. Odd panting hard.

"Odd . . . what WAS that thing?!" Raven asked between gasps for air. Odd looked up at her.

"I'm not sure, but I don't think we lost it," He said as he removed the manhole, "Come on, I know a safe place."

"We can't just leave! What do you think that, that . . . THING will do to Sissi?" Raven exclaimed as Odd texted someone.

"We've got it covered. We just really need to go. Now." He said, climbing down the manhole. Raven reluctantly following. When she was down there Odd grabbed a skate board.

"Can you skate?" Raven nodded and Odd passed her a board.

With Jeremy . . .

Jeremy, Ulrich and Aelita raced to the factory after Jeremy's computer alerted them of another activated Tower.

"Two in one day. Seriously? Can't X.A.N.A. give us a break for once?" Ulrich said when the three got to the elevator. Then Ulrich's phone started playing the song for text messages.

"It's Odd. He and Raven were chased by Mr Chardin, who melted, and now they're in the sewers. I'll text Yumi." Ulrich said as he did so. Ulrich and Aelita stopped off at the Virtualisation Station and Jeremy went on to the Super Computer.

With Yumi/Raven . . .

Yumi sat up in bed and grabbed her phone. She looked at the text and got ready to sneak out. She got into her usual clothes and snuck out through the sliding glass doors of her room. She sprinted to the park and to the open manhole

Goddamn it, Odd. You should know by now to shut it after you've gone through. She thought as she went down and closed the manhole herself. She grabbed a skate board and sped through the tunnel towards the second manhole. When she got to the edge she noticed that there were two skateboards there, not one.

Ulrich said that he, Jeremy and Aelita didn't go this way; that only Odd, and now I, did. So why's this here? Yumi shrugged it off as she climbed out of the sewer and ran to the elevator. She got there just in time to get in the elevator with both Odd and . . . Shyanne?

"Hey, what're you doing here?" Yumi asked the iridescent haired girl.

"Odd was walking me back to my room until we were stopped about halfway by Mr Chardin. The he just melted right then and there into this hideous creature and chased us." Raven said as the two girls leaned against the wall. Odd texted again.

"Jeremy knows we're here now. Shyanne, get off at the second stop, okay?" Raven nodded as the elevator stopped. Odd kissed her cheek before running into the room with Yumi, Raven was left to keep going up. When she the elevator stopped again she got off. She was now in a giant room with a huge computer and a holographic sphere.

"Hi, Raven." Jeremy said from where he was sitting and typing.

'Hey. What is all this?" Raven asked as she walked up behind the chair.

"It's the Super Computer. The holographic sphere shows the five sectors of Lyoko." Jeremy explained, "We don't really need to do a Time Reversal, since no-one's seen Chardin yet and it's really late. You can't tell anyone about this place, you know that right?" Raven nodded.

"What's with the cards?" Raven asked when she saw four of five cards flashing.

"Those are the avatars of Odd, Ulrich, Yumi and Aelita. We don't know who the fifth avatar belongs to." Jeremy explained while typing in co-ordinates. Just as he typed in the co-ordinates for the Forest Tower, which was the activated one, the fifth card starting glowing, not flashing like the others, but glowing. Jeremy pushed his glasses up his nose.

"That can't be right." He mumbled while bringing up security footage of the Scanner Room; no-one was there and the four tubes were closed, "Hmmm. Why is that happening?"

"Jeremy, is there a problem out there?" Yumi's voice asked.

"Possibly, the fifth card is glowing." Jeremy said into the microphone of his ear-piece.

"Is that bad?" Ulrich's voice asked.

"I'm not sure, it could be- um, guys you may wanna slow down your vehicles." Jeremy said after multiple enemies showed up around the Tower.

"What's wrong, Einstein?" Odd's voice asked.

"I don't think you'll be able to take on fifty monsters. Hold on, I can quickly upgrade your weaponry." Jeremy said typing.

"Where are they?" Raven asked, staring at the holographic sphere.

"The Forest Sector." Jeremy replied as he kept typing, "I'm upgrading your vehicles too."

"Is Raven with you?" Aelita's voice asked.

"Yeah, she is. I've explained a few things." Jeremy said as he opened a draw and grabbed another ear-piece and passed it to Raven, "She can talk to you now." He said as Raven put on the ear piece.

"Hey, Rae-Rae!" Odd yelled out.

"Hey Odd." Raven replied, still inspecting the holographic sphere. Jeremy kept typing for another minute or so.

"Okay, you're fully up-to-date. I think you'll be able to take 'em down now." The blonde said finally.

"Finally!" Yumi joked. After a few minutes Odd, Aelita, Ulrich and Yumi were fighting the swarm of monsters; while Jeremy was explaining the whole Lyoko thing to Raven.

And that's all for this chapter. Tune in for the next addition.