Also, I would like to state that I checked online and appearently someone had decided to advritize me at TVTome, I think that's spelledright... In any case, that part of the websight was shut down before I was able to look at it. Well, if anyone knows what it said I would like to know. I was just shocked and happy to see that someone did that.
Another also, between a few and many years ago I had been writing stories of my own, up until just before first grade. Most of the stories were never finished... Um... Don't worry this one will be... and most of the stories are not my best quality, but I was thinking of placing them on fictionweb, or whatever it's called, so that people can read and compare them when I finally do finish a GOOD one.
Tell me what you think. Thanks.
"Ah, delightful." the traveler said. "They have not only found your bodies, but they also knew what to do when I sent them the message. It seems that your X.A.N.A. is being compliant as well, he has activated a tower where your bodies are. Now all we have to do is get you there. That will be the trick, since I cannot leave Aricitopia yet."
"He is not our X.A.N.A." was my immediate reply.
"You misunderstand me. As I have said I have been in other Lyokian universes. I have met other X.A.N.A.s." he replied. "But there is still an immediate threat. We must get Odd."
"Odd? Where is he?" I asked.
The traveler pointed up. I looked but all I saw was the white sun. Then I realized what he meant. Odd was somehow in space! "But won't he die?" I asked and realized my own stupidity.
"Dear boy, you and he are already dead. Even though your bodies can be lost, and your very selves can be changed, you cannot die again. At least not in the way you mean." The traveler said with a laugh. "Now, shall we go and fetch him?"
I was still falling gently towards the planet but I was beginning to get the feeling of how big it really was. By now I was floating next to the white glowing thing that was in orbit around the planet and I was shocked to see how big it really was, and how fast I really was moving. Honestly, I had no idea the size of our sun, but this thing seemed to be a similar size. But it couldn't be a sun... no, it was white and not nearly as bright, I could look directly at it. On the other hand this was a vision, and there was no telling what I could and could not do in a vision.
As I stared at the sun I realized that there were millions of different sized balls of light floating around within it. So it wasn't a sun, at least not in the sense that ours was, but instead it must be some thing made up of the balls of light. I was passing close enough that a few of them jumped out close enough for me to reach. I grabbed one and held it in my hands. It was a small white ball that seemed to pulsate with light, and something else, though it what ever it was it wasn't visible. It felt invigorating to hold the ball, but also peaceful and calming. I didn't know what it was, and I may never know, but for now I was glad to have found it, and would keep it for as long as I could.
I was beginning to move faster now, or at least that was what it appeared. The 'sun' was far behind me, and the planet was looming bigger and bigger. Soon enough I would reach the atmosphere and, if I were real, burn up... but as I drew ever nearer something came closer to me. I could see a small speck coming up from the ground directly at me, not that I knew what it was, but I could tell that it was moving towards me.
We were moving at an incredible speed, the traveler just barely using his wings, and myself floating next to him. I could see what we were heading for. A small speck coming from the white sun was falling rapidly towards us. Or we were rapidly moving towards it, or both. I wasn't very sure, but in either case the speck was getting closer to us and soon we were able to see what it was. Honestly I already knew what it was, and I knew that the traveler did as well, but I simply couldn't believe it. Nothing could survive in space, and even though we were already 'dead', as the traveler had told me, the lack of oxygen and the zero degrease Kelvin temperature would make his body useless... so it really was a surprise to see him alert, moving, and looking quite comfortable. He was holding something white and glowing in his hands, but I couldn't tell what it was.
"About time you found me, I was getting board." Odd said in his usual carefree manor.
"Yeah, well..." I started.
"We were busy." The traveler said calmly.
"So Jeremie, who is this?" Odd asked me pointing at the traveler.
I began explaining who he was and how I had met him before, and what the situation was. He seemed amused while I told him and when I finished he said, "I knew that someday my humor would be the death of me..."
"What?" I asked.
"Just before we, uh, died, I was saying to myself, 'If I go into the scanner when there is an electrical storm around us then I bet my atoms will be placed in a universe other than Lyoko, wouldn't that be something to laugh at...'" he laughed but I failed to see how it was funny.
"It seems that you were partly right." The traveler replied. "But it wasn't the scanner that killed you, you weren't even near it."
"Yeah, but it was during an electrical storm, and I always said..." but the traveler cut him off.
"I am sure that it is very interesting, but your friends are looking for you in Lyoko now and it would be rude to keep them waiting. I'll see you off but I can't come with you." he said. "Oh, and I doubt that either of you will remember anything, but if you do, don't tell anyone else. I will be coming to meet you all, and fully undo the damage caused by... well, in effect, me. But that day has not come. Bye for now."
At that he raised both hands and pointed two fingers at us. A small light briefly appeared but I wasn't able to see any more before I suddenly felt a yanking pull on the center of my chest and I felt myself falling backwards. I suddenly stopped as though I had hit concrete from forty stories in the air and gasped for breath... then I opened my eyes.
Suddenly the scan found the activated tower and, at the same time, Aelita's face appeared on the monitor. "Found them." She said. "Now, lets get you two in here to get them."
Yumi and I made our way to the scanner room. As I passed by where I had found Odd lying on the ground I shuddered, but that had been before, now we were going to bring him and Jeremie back. All we had to do was get into Lyoko, and get them out. Simple, right? Well, I hoped so, or we would be in some trouble. We had already missed all of our classes after lunch, if we didn't show up that night people would begin to wonder...
I stepped into my scanner and Yumi into hers. Aelita started the virtualization sequence and within a few seconds I saw the ring of light move up around my body and then back down. Then, in one jumping moment, I felt myself floating lightly as though wind were blowing me up. Suddenly my vision changed and I felt myself dropping. I quickly caught myself as I always did just as I hit the ground of the Lyoko mountain region. I looked around me and saw that we were near a few towers that we had already deactivated, I also saw Aelita running towards us waving. Glancing over at Yumi I saw her in her virtual form of a geisha girl. I always found the character ironic, but at the same time she was incredibly beautiful, though I wasn't sure if it was her making the character look that way or the other way around...
"The tower is over there." Aelita said when she had reached us and pointed to a thing in the distance.
The tower was different from the others. It was larger, taller and wider, and the tubes coming out of it were more numerous and far bigger than normal towers. It was one of the ancient ones from when we first come into Lyoko. When X.A.N.A. had more control over our world. But that was supposed to be in the past. As a safety measure we had locked those towers in a space which was supposed to not be accessible to Lyoko.
As we neared the tower we realized what had been released onto Lyoko. Where there once had been empty space there now floated a gigantic platform, larger than any human city. On it were hundreds of towers similar to the one which we had been moving towards. I began to get the fear that I had been suppressing for a long time. Whom ever the designers of this virtual world had been, they had given it far to much control over our world. These towers literally gave X.A.N.A. godlike powers.
"It just suddenly appeared a few minutes ago." Aelita told us. "I don't know how. I thought we had deleted it for good."
Yumi and I looked at each other and nodded. It had appeared only moments after we had chosen yes on the computer display. The two had to be linked somehow. That was definitely where Odd and Jeremie were. All we had to do was go over there and get them. That wouldn't be to hard, right? We could do this easily right? I sighed, I could only hope that it would be easy, but there was no way of telling.
"Alright, lets go." I said and for good measure I drew my sward.
We began running, which in Lyoko is much different than on earth, here, even though we breathed heavily as we ran, we didn't ever really run out of breath. Because of this we never really had to stop, but we did, as humans do, stop eventually, to catch our virtual breath. This time though, we didn't really have to. This time we were so close to where we needed to get that the only reason we had to stop was to not fall off of the virtual cliff and into the virtual void. We looked on in awe at the virtual island. It was one of the most ancient parts of Lyoko, if not the most. It would have been considered a city if it were real; being separate from the mountain region it loomed up from the virtual void to an amazing height. The city dwarfed even Mount Everest in its height; even so some of the towers were looming far beyond what we could see from where we were. The amount of towers closely grouped together was baffling, but because we lived in a city the effect wasn't as impressive. What truly horrified me was the distance between us and the island. There was no way we could cross it because there were no bridges that lead to or from it. Even though we had originally started in that part of Lyoko, back when we called it Xanadu, we had only managed to make it over to this side when we met Aelita. None of us really knew how we had managed to get to this side, none of the tunnels between passage towers lead to that side of the gap.
"How are we going to get over there?" Yumi asked.
"We will fly." Aelita responded.
Yumi and I looked at her surprised. We all knew that none of the gang had the ability to fly, and only Aelita had the ability to manipulate the code of Lyoko and thus the surroundings. But to make a bridge from this side to that would be far to taking on her, it would ultimately end up destroying her. No, when she said 'We fly,' she meant something else, but what?
My question was answered very quickly but I didn't realize it at first. What I first noticed was the buzzing sound of four hornets. I quickly looked around to see where they were coming from and realized that they were rising up in front of us. I got ready to attack but Aelita held up her hand; surprised I waited. What I noticed first about the hornets was their size. They were bigger than hornets usually were. The mosquito like mouth and bee like stinger were gone, but the eight wings were still there flapping like mad. The next thing that I noticed was that they seemed to be wearing something that looked almost like a chair. I could see that Yumi, Aelita and I could easily fit on any one of them. The final thing that I noticed was that there were five of them.
"So, um, Aelita, how did you get a hold of these?" I asked.
"Well, I had never tried to get control of X.A.N.A.'s monsters before, not seriously anyway, and for some reason today I decided to try." Aelita told us. "As you can see it worked. Oh, and I found that I could manipulate their structure, but that's another matter. Come on." With that she climbed onto one of the modified hornets and got into the seat.
Yumi glanced at me as I glanced at her. We weren't really comfortable riding on something that we normally destroyed, but we had to get Jeremie and Odd and we had to do it fast. We climbed on and I found that it was very similar to riding a horse, except that the front of the horse was up higher than the back. The experience changed even more as we began flying out over the virtual abyss. I tried not to look down but I couldn't help it, slowly I inched my way over to one side of the creature and glanced downward. Suddenly, as the wind from both the creature's wings and from out movement pushed against me, I felt myself loose balance and begin to fall. I tried to grab hold of something but it was no use as I fell into nothingness. I could see the fog drawing nearer and the others fading into the distance. Suddenly I passed by the fog and! I blinked, I was still on the hornet, nothing had happened.
As we drew nearer to the most ancient part of Lyoko I suddenly began to feel different. I felt stronger, faster, lighter. Now I began to remember that in the ancient part of Lyoko I had been able to jump ten times higher than in the parts where we usually were. It was far different here, the coding of the virtual world made things happen that, even in Lyoko, weren't natural. Some of us believed that Lyoko was originally intended to be modeled off of a real world. Jeremie, of all people, had come up with that. This part of Lyoko certainly did look more realistic, as though it were modeled off of a real place. But the worst part about it, the most frightening, was the ghosts. Dark creatures that, even though they were weaker than X.A.N.A.'s normal monsters, still were able to become far more deadly than even X.A.N.A. himself. These things were able to leak into our world, and X.A.N.A. used them to take control of things.
We were close enough to land now, which was good because distortions in the hornets were beginning to form. They were disappearing beneath us. I began to hope and pray that this wouldn't end up being a one way trip... Quickly we jumped off and began making our way into the pits of this forbidden, forsaken island. We ran as quickly as we could, it was only a matter of time before X.A.N.A. figured out what we were doing, or he already had, and the longer we took the more likely it was that he would find the others before we did. If that happened... I wasn't prepared to think about that. So we ran, trusting in Aelita to know where she was going. At least until...
"Is that a light up ahead?" Yumi asked.
We looked up and saw a glowing multicolored orb floating in the air some meters ahead of us. It was emanating something that was also giving off light. I didn't know what it was, and I doubted that the others did.
"We need to hurry." Aelita said and began moving faster.
Deep within the most ancient part of Lyoko, the original world, two boys suddenly appeared. Their bodies, in the normal Lyokian attire, landed softly on the ground. They were completely undamaged but they were unconscious. Slowly they began to move as, first Jeremie and then Odd began to open their eyes and look around. They both knew the place they were in immediately, having both been there before it was supposedly lost, and they had both assumed that they would never have to be there again. Now, seeing that one of their worst nightmares had come true, they looked around for a way to escape it.
"So, this is where the traveler decided to place us." Jeremie mumbled to himself. "I should have knows that something like this would happen."
"Yeah, who would have ever thought we would have to come back here again." Odd said and then looked at Jeremie. "Oh, I had forgotten what you looked like in Lyoko. I'm not use to seeing you without your glasses."
Jeremie was wearing an earth brown cloak and was holding a staff in one hand and a book in the other. His hair was slightly longer than it usually was, and, of course, he was not wearing glasses. He raised the book and looked at it wearily. Slowly he shook his head and opened it to a page he seemed to know well. Text began appearing as he looked at the blank page and he read it as it appeared. Slowly he sighed and looked over at Odd.
"What's the matter?" Odd asked.
"For some reason I have always been more connected to Lyoko than the rest of you. I don't know why but something the traveler said is beginning to make sense." He moved over to Odd and showed him what was appearing on the book. Odd looked at it in shock but said nothing. "I really am connected to this universe more than you and the others are, because... I really am here."
"That's impossible." Odd said shocked. "You can't be here any more than any of the rest of us are."
"What about Aelita?"
"You know what I mean, Jeremie." Odd said, beginning to act more and more out of character. "This isn't funny. How could you really be here?"
Jeremie sighed again and looked Odd directly in the face. "I know that I am always acting as the genius of the group. I know that I am the practical one and I am not supposed to believe in impossible things... But look around us Odd, how much of this seems possible to you? Does it make sense that a being in a virtual world can somehow cross over into ours and take control of things? Not to mention taking control of completely inanimate objects with no electronics in them? None of this really seems possible, it isn't. Scientifically speaking none of this should exist, not even me..."
"You can't mean that?" Odd gasped. "Can you?"
"Odd, something that no one knows about me is that I can control some things... Like Yumi I am able to do things that no one else can. For instance ever since I can remember I have been having these dreams where I go into a kind of space and come back out in another universe. At first I thought that they were just dreams, but when just recently, I met the traveler for the first time I suddenly realized that they are real. Everywhere I went was real..."
"What are you saying?"
"I am saying that I can travel into other universes. I have been able to, not only when I am asleep but when I am awake as well. How do you think I met Aelita? Some online chat-room?"
"That's what you told us..." Odd said innocently.
Suddenly a shot was fired and a laser flew a few centimeters from Odds head. They both looked to where the shot had been fired from and saw a series of monsters moving at them quickly and firing at will. All of X.A.N.A.'s monsters were there, including the dark cloud and a few that they still didn't understand or have a name for. They looked at each other and nodded; the fight was on.
"Looks like the welcome is all out this time." Odd said, dropping back into his usual persona.
"Yeah, I guess X.A.N.A. decided to get rid of us before the others could find us." Jeremie replied. "But... That isn't going to happen."
Jeremie raised both hands above his head and the book flew open. He grasped the staff with both hands as the book flew in the air, its pages flipping madly. The end of Jeremie's staff began to glow a whitish blue light and he thrust it down on the ground beneath him. A bright light flew through the ground beneath him and Odd and a shock wave went through the air. As it neared the monsters they began to visibly be thrown back. Some of the smaller monsters began to vibrate violently as others began to burn. It was a massive and gruesome attack and the light from it rose above the tower nearest them.
When all of the monsters were gone Jeremie fell to the ground breathing heavily. Odd quickly moved over to him and checked to make sure he was all right. Jeremie looked up and pointed in the sky and quickly Odd pointed his wrist at what Jeremie was pointing at. The large object, which was actually five large objects, spread out and descended around them. As the neared they heard voices. When they looked to see who it was they were pleasantly surprised to see three human shapes running to them who could only be Ulrich, Yumi and Aelita. Odd got up to great them but Jeremie grabbed his arm and pointed. When Odd looked where he was pointing he saw a ghostly figure floating in the air. When he looked closer he realized that it was the traveler, but he looked much older...
As the others reached the two and stood looking at them, first at Odd and then at Jeremie, who was still pointing, they began to realize that something must be wrong and looked up as well. Shocked they each drew a weapon, except Aelita who didn't have one.
"Who the hell are you?" Ulrich demanded.
Now Ulrich, that's no way to talk to someone who just saved you and your friends lives. The ancient traveler said in a calm voice. I have only come to finish the job. I mean this, of course, in the best of ways. There is no reason for you to all remember what has happened in recent times. I have reset your world, as best I can from here, and at this time, but I now need to reset your minds. When I am done, only one of you will remember any of this, and that will only seem like a 'dream'.
The traveler waived his hands and one by one the children dropped into a sleep...