Hi! Sorry for the long wait! I'm back, and I have recently seen some episodes of CL, and I'm ready to write! I have the results of the polls!
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Since there is a tie, I will write a crossover! At the end I will have a list of the characters and another poll!! Thank you my reviewers, UlrichandYumi4Ever, who has encouraged me since I started, and renayumi04, who just put in their first review! Nice to know that there are new people reading this!! Now, enough chatting, on to the story!
Chapter Four: Lyoko and X.A.N.A.
"This is… Weird." The four teens stood in the middle of a winter wonderland, but with dark pits off the frozen ice that seemed to go down into nothingness. Ulrich, Yumi, and Odd fell hard on their bottoms when they entered Lyoko, but Natalie hovered gently over their heads. She glided past them, admiring the glistening ice and snow.
"But," she continued, touching a wall of ice, "It's not at all cold. I could get used to this."
"What is cold?" The group turned around and looked at the girl that had been in the computer, Aelita, big as life.
"Well, it's…" Natalie started, then stopped and thought.
"How would you describe cold?" Odd asked no one in particular. "Cold is just, cold."
"It's like a low temperature," Yumi explained.
"What is a temperature?"
"This is hopeless," Ulrich said, shaking his head. "You'd have to experience it to know."
"Oh, I understand."
"I have a question," Odd said, raising his hand. "Why do we have these weapons?"
"I am not entirely sure," Aelita said. "But come with me. I want to show you something." Aelita led the teens to a big white tower. Leading up to it was a long path of thin looking ice over a pit of nothingness. Once they had shakily crossed the thin bridge, they looked a strange hieroglyphics.
"This," Aelita said, "Is writing I found on towers like these. They are all over the many regions of Lyoko, and they all look the same. But I have been able to decipher it. It says;
"When Humans once again return to Lyoko, the Keeper must allow them in, and the Great God will once again reign over both worlds."
"I am the Keeper it speaks of, and you must be the Humans," Aelita said, turning to them.
"Okay, that's all figured out," Odd said, "but who is this Great God dude?" Suddenly, Natalie pushed past him and looked at the bottom of the tower.
"Hey, what's this?" She scraped dirt away from the bottom of the tower revealing more words. Aelita looked, too. She read the words, and her face paled.
"What's it say?" Ulrich and Yumi both asked. Aelita gulped, then read;
"Should this happen, the Humans must free the Keeper from her prison and kill the Great God once and for all, sealing it's evil in an unbreakable tomb and saving both worlds. If they don't succeed, they will perish."
Once she had read that, black roots erupted from the ground, covering the writing. Once they had stopped, words began to appear in them, like someone took their finger and smeared the roots to make letters;
Oh, my, you have found the words I have hidden. Naughty, naughty children. You must be punished.
Then, more black roots shot out of the ground, wrapping themselves around the land-bound teens. Luckily, the couldn't reach Natalie.
She tore four arrows out of her quiver and grabbed her bow, loaded it, and shot at the vines. They retreated, then began wrapping themselves around the small bridge, and broke it. Then, out of nowhere, came five giant black bowling balls. (guess what they are) on them were yellow eyes, or what looked like eyes. Once again, letters appeared on the tower.
YOU CANNOT DEFEAT ME!! I SHALL KILL THE KEEPER, THEN YOU CANNOT SHUT ME DOWN, FOR I AM X.A.N.A, THE GREAT GOD, RULER OF EARTH AND LYOKO! I WILL HAVE MY REVENGE!!
Then, the balls opened up, revealing an inside full of what looked like red silly putty and a metal rod with the eye in the middle. The eye began to glow red, and the teens heard Jeremy's voice yell, "HIT THE EYE!! HURRY!" Scared into action, Odd shot arrow heads into the eyes of two of the balls, Natalie stuck an arrow in another, Ulrich sliced it in two with a sword, and Yumi stuck her metal fan into the last.
"Now, Aelita, into the tower!"
"But-"
"Just walk into it!" Aelita did what Jeremy said, and saw the blue touch screen appear. Code? Appeared, and Jeremy said, "The code is 'Aelita'." Aelita put in the code, and Jeremy said, "Return to the past, now."
DG: I'm gonna leave ya hangin'! Not!!
The next thing Natalie, Odd, Ulrich, and Yumi knew, they where standing behind Jeremy, ready to choose their characters.
"Calm down, Aelita, it's okay."
"No, it is not!" The girl was again on the computer screen, looking out at them. She seemed close to tears.
"I let X.A.N.A. out, and I don't know what to do to out him back!"
"It's too late now," Jeremy said calmly. "The damage is done. Now, he can hack into any computer he wants to, and we have to stop him."
"What just happened?!" Yumi asked, frantic.
"I did a little more research on Lyoko while you guys were running around with Aelita. I hacked into it and found out what it was about. Then I found X.A.N.A., the prophecy, and how to stop him. I figured that Aelita was going to accidentally awaken him, so I paid special attention to the last part. I found out how to shut him down, temporarily and permanently. What I just did was temporary." Jeremy didn't look at them.
"Well, then, how do we do it permanently?" Ulrich asked.
"You have to shut down Lyoko. That means kill Aelita."
Ulrich muttered an 'Oh', then shut up.
"We'll have to keep him at bay until I can figure out a way to bring her here, to Earth, like the prophecy says."
"So, we'll have to save the Earth every time he comes up?" Odd asked.
"Yep," Jeremy said. "And we'll never be sure when he'll show up. Probably when something threatens lives. And," Jeremy turned to the whole group, "If there are any casualties, the first will more than likely be us." They all stared at him, blank.
"I am so sorry," Aelita's voice said, coming from the computer, "I caused all this." Jeremy turned back to the screen.
"It would have happened sooner or later, Aelita. Don't blame yourself. We've gotta go now. If anything looks out of place, you can contact me on my lap top, 'kay?"
"Alright, Jeremy." Then the computer turned off and they walked back to school, silent.
Later, when Odd and Ulrich went back inside their room, they looked at the clock. They had been at the ice cream parlor at ten. Their digital clock said 10:05.
How was that for a chapter? Oh, here's the next poll I promised, for the next story I'm going to write, the digimon/tamora pierce story! It's a character poll! Pick 4 of the characters listed. Next chapter will be a poll for digimon for the TP characters, 'kay? Here you go!
Tamora Pierce
A. Briar Moss (plant mage)
Age: 11
Briar lived on the streets in a gang until he was picked up by Niklaren Goldeye, a mage from Winding Circle Temple. His teacher is Rosethorn.
Trisana Chandler (weather mage)
Age: 11
A girl with a fiery temper and magic that was hard to control, she was passed from relative to relative among her family until she was taken to Winding Circle by her future teacher, Niklaren Goldeye.
C. Sandrilene fa Toren (thread magic)
Age: 11
Sandry is an out spoken noble whose parents died in a horrific epidemic. She was locked in a closet magicked to be unseeable until she was rescued by Niklaren. Her teacher is Lark.
D. Daja Kisubo (metal mage)
Age: 11
Daja's family was killed when their boat sank during a storm. She would have died, too, if Niklaren Goldeye hadn't found her. Her teacher is Frostpine.
Keladry
Age: 11
A girl raised in a place much like ancient Japan, she came back to her homeland wanting to become a lady knight.
Nealan
Age: 14
Kel's best friend. He's got magic in healing and a smart mouth.
Merric
Age: 11
A red headed boy with a short temper, but stands by his friends. One of Kel's other friends.
Alright, here's the thing for the Digimon characters. Everyone reading this, create a character with a digimon, from our timeline. I don't care if they have magical powers, so knock yourself out. Not literally, please. If there are more than four, I will pick four of them, and if there are less, I will make the rest. 'Kay? And I will notify who owns the characters when I write the story, so they are totally yours! Here's an example of one way to tell me your character.
Name: Alexis
Gender: Female
Hair color: Blonde
Eye color: Blue
Digimon(rookie-mega): Dragonmon, Nightmon, WarNightmon, MetalNightmon
Digimon Description: black dragon
Crest: Self-Sacrifice
Outfit: Baggy black jeans, black tank top, black leather jacket, black hair tie
Personality: Has few friends, but is loyal to the ones she has. Despises anyone that follows the crowd.
You may make up a crest for your character, like I did. And hair and eye color doesn't need to be natural. Be creative. Sense of style is optional, but I need an outfit.
Alright, that's all for now!