Author's Note: Back to the main story, XANA's POV this time.
Chapter 6: The Demon's Pride
:XANA:
I growl to myself, all of my efforts to punish Otritzi for telling the newbies more than they should know failed. How was he that skilled? Two solid weeks of attacks and not a single success. Surely Otritzi had to be feeling fatigue. So why was he in Lyoko so much? The Kadic Defenders don't worry me, they don't even know the extent of the damage I could cause, but they are fairly efficient for humans...I may have underestimated them.
The little cat lady that is in the Kadic Defenders, I think her designation is Odd, there was something about her that makes me uneasy, not an easy feat for a human to do. I knew the Virtualization System was unhackable, it was something the Lyoko Keepers did, soon after I was originally robbed of my human form and body in Lyoko. I had always wondered how they took that particular file and made it a part of them. Since I can't come out of Lyoko...but I can go to every Lyoko System in the world. It still made me pissed that I couldn't take care of the thorn in my side that was the Defenders, without their influence I could easily capture and download all the files inside of a Keeper...specifically, Aelita.
A sudden thought came to me, if I were to find a way to isolate the Kadic System from every other system out there...no, impossible...the other Keepers would stop me the moment I did it, as isolated as they were they would communicate with her...not to mention Otritzi would find the firewall and force his way through it, he did every time I tried to block him from a location, how he does it I'll never know.
As much as I hate him, his power in Lyoko is astounding, I quickly had to respect him, no matter how little I wanted to. I sometimes wondered if he was an AI, he was inside of Lyoko almost constantly after all, but I know he was a human from Earth before becoming a Defender, I had devirtualized him and he came back two hours later, just how long the program takes to restart itself. I could not figure out how someone could start off with that much power, it had taken me almost a year after I fell into the void to even make my first Kankrelet, and at the time I had to be inside of it for it to stay alive, and it took me over a week to reform after they killed me, I hated it, and them for forcing me to experience it.
A being such as myself that had a taste of humanity, then had it ripped away by those damn Defenders was considered evil, yeah...whatever...I just want to be human again, is that too much to ask? Although I guess with how these Defenders work it may not be long...I gain power every time they use that time reversal function...maybe I'll eventually get enough power to recreate my human body here in Lyoko...I guess I'd be satisfied with that for a time.
I guess it's time to activate another tower, I can't let these fools rest for too long, they might find a way to delete me...and then I'd never be human again.
Author's Note: Sorry the chap's so short...I hope this little enlightenment about XANA's inner thoughts shed some light on the past of my XANA.