A/N: Thanks to the previous reviewers, I'll place a new chapter up and wait to see if I'm heard. I don't own Code Lyoko, but I do own the idea for Xana and this little 'quest,' and for any new characters that you see. This chapter will be in the POV of Ulrich.

Obscured Nemesis

Jeremy's voice could be heard over what I assumed to be an intercom. "Od, are you ready?"

"Bring it on!" Od responded.

"Alright. Scanner Umi," he began in his all to familiar voice when he talks to the computer, but I wasn't going to say anything. "Transfer Ulrich."

The machines all around us began to buzz, and a huge gust of wind began to blow from below us, it would have startled any normal person, but with what the others and me have been through lately, I wouldn't call us exactly normal. My light brown hair was forced high into what would normally have been the ceiling, but now was the sky of the virtual word, Lyoko.

The area that we had been teleported to was different from any of the others that we've gone to; it was cold, and... snowing? It doesn't snow in Lyoko; this made no sense. I looked around frantically to see if the others were all right. Phew, I thought, they seem to be all right, and just as startled as I was. And then there was a scream of shear pain and agony, one that couldn't be misunderstood, but it wasn't Relita.

"Wha-What was that?" Od said, startled.

"That's what's been happening here in Lyoko for a few hours now. Always, the same scream, the same pain and torture of the same person. I know there is an activated tower connected to it, but it's hard to locate, it seems to be... moving," Relita said from out of nowhere, or at least from behind the pile of snow none of us had seen before.

"Jeremy, can you find where the tower is at this moment?" I asked, looking slightly to the sky, but there was no answer. "Jeremy?"

"Um, this can't be good," Mr. Obvious Od pointed out.

"Sorry guys, I had a very odd, vision, I suppose you could call it. It was a loud scream that startled me. What happened on your end?" Jeremy said. Hmm, that's odd, he sounds scared and definitely shaky.

"Oh, nothing much," Od began. This can't be good, I thought, Od is explaining in his matter-of-fact voice again, but lucky enough, Umi finished for him.

"We also heard a scream, too; Relita thinks it has do something with the activated tower. Where is it right now, Jeremy?"

"What do you mean 'right now'?" Jeremy inquired.

"Jeremy, it seems to move along with the screams. And the screams are getting worse since they started about two hours ago," Relita answered.

"That's very different, let me see... Ah, here it is, the tower is 23 degrees to the north of you. Be careful, I have a bad feeling about this."

We began to engage in our long trek when another scream met us. As Relita had said, it was more painful than the last; we were all forced to cover our ears because of it. I was able to figure one thing out from this scream, the one enduring this pain, was female.

After the scream had subsided the sound of marching in the distance filled my ears. "It's Xana's guards," I hollered into the starless night sky. And low-and-behold, a small group of the square guards could be seen in the distance; the tower must be close by. "Umi and I will handle them, Od, you stay and protect Relita. Umi, let's go!"

"You guys be careful, we don't know what to expect yet. Keep as much as your hit points as possible, Xana might really show up this time," Jeremy said from the safeness of his computer.

I charged, knowing that Umi would be right next to me to protect my back. It took only a few minutes to reach the block formation goons, this made our surprise attack sensational. Before the fiends could even turn around more than half of them had been killed. The few that could turn around could get hardly any shots off at us, before they, too, were slain. We left the battle unscathed and returned back to Od, and Relita.

Another ear shattering scream filled the air when we met up with the other two. The pain the scream had echoed seemed to place the screamer unconscious for the time being.

"Jeremy, how close are we from the tower?" I asked. I don't know why, but I really wanted this 'quest' to end, nothing in this area seemed to be right from the snow to the screams, nothing felt right.

"It seems to have moved again, but this time, it's closer to you. Keep on going straight, then take your first left, you should see it. I'm getting odd readings from it, so be on your guard."

We all began at a dead run, everyone seemed as anxious as I was to finish this once and for all. Umi was to my right, Relita was behind and in between my and Umi, and Od was taking care of the rear.

We took our first left and stood face to face with the tallest tower I had ever seen. It was immense and very black, it was also pointed at the very top. The point made the tower seem to have a small pyramid at the very top. The massive object emitted an even bigger shadow. What was strange about this tower was that there were no guards closely defending it. Relita began to walk forward.

"Relita, don't. Something isn't right," I said, shaking my head.

"Like the tower's shadow for one," Umi said, looking up from where she crouched near the blanket of darkness. Od soon followed her and almost seemed to fall backwards. He looked very queasy as he hit the snow. I walked over to the two of them and looked down at the shadow. It wasn't black...it was red, like blood.

"It's...But...Whose?" was all I could manage to say.

Without any of us knowing, Relita had walked over and pointed to the top of the tower, "Hers, it's her blood." We all followed the pink haired young girl to see at the top of the tower stood two figures, one was an albino male, unharmed, and an albino female, she was bleeding, her wounds gaping.

"Well," said the male, in a harsh, emotionless voice, "our spectators are finally here," he turned to the unconscious girl beside him, the one who had been screaming earlier, "Xana."

A/N: I am very mean, yet another cliffhanger.