Now you shall see my character. I claim rights to it, and the word that is used with it. But other than that please enjoy as part of the mysterious signs are reviled.

Mysterious Signs Continued

Yumi:

I stepped out of the elevator, Ulrich followed me. The thing that I had sensed earlier was in here I could feel it. We were in the scanner room; the three scanners were looming up around us, a dull yellow light emanating out of each. We hadn't bothered to stop in the super-calculator room and turn on the lights but for some reason they already were.

I began looking around for the thing, I didn't know if I would be able to see it yet but I knew that I could sense it. I walked behind each of the scanners 'feeling' for it. I didn't exactly know what I would do when I found it, but I would decide that when I did. All I knew now was that I had to find it, and I knew it was in this room.

As I looked for it I suddenly got the creepy sensation that I was being watched. I knew that Ulrich was in the room with me but it wasn't him, he was walking behind me watching me. This feeling was much different; it was as if an intense stare was being directed my way, watching my every move.

Suddenly as I was moving around a scanner I saw a bright light appear from the center of the room, and then I heard a soft dull thud. Ulrich stepped out from behind the scanner, and I noticed we were next to the elevator. I wondered that had been Jeremie.

"Yumi," Ulrich said in a shocked frightened voice. "You need to see this."

I stepped out from behind the scanner to see what Ulrich was talking about and my jaw dropped. There was a man standing in the center of the room, right above the access valve to the super computer room. The man was dressed in the strangest outfit I had ever seen, and that included in Lyoko or television. He appeared to be wearing some sort of white jump suit or tights, but over that he had a full body cloak. He was also wearing a cape and a hood. The most shocking thing was that he was holding Odd in his arms.

"Odd," Ulrich said and began running to the man.

"Ulrich, wait." I said quickly. "This is that thing…"

"That isn't very nice…" said the man. "I did after all save your friends life."

"Who are you?" Ulrich yelled. "And what do you want with us?"

"Me? I am known as the traveler. I am now, and have for the past many years, been the only Aricitic traveler."

"What? Traveler? A-rik-i-tick? What do you mean?" Ulrich yelled. "And what did you do to Odd?"

The man laughed. He gently placed Odd on the ground and I noticed that Odd was dripping wet. Then the man stepped of to the side and landed on the floor. He took off his hood and I saw that he had long golden blond hair. He walked up to and stood in front of Ulrich.

"I did nothing to your friend other than save his life." The man said.

"LIER!" Ulrich yelled and swung at the man.

The man caught his arm and lifted him up off of the ground bringing Ulrich's face to his own. The man said in a very low tone, "I am not lying to you."

"Ulrich!" I yelled as soon as my senses came back to me.

I send a telekinetic wave at the man trying to loosen his grip, but just as it was about to reach him and knock Ulrich out of his hands it stopped and dissipated into thin air. The man turned his head to me; he had an angry look on his face.

"Yumi, I would advise you not to do that again…" he said.

"Put my friend down." I said in a stern voice.

"As you wish, I had no intention to hurt him in the first place." Said the man.

He gently lowered Ulrich to the floor and placed him on his feet. Ulrich backed up looking at the man with his mouth open. He rubbed his wrist where the man had been holding him.

"Ulrich, are you ok?" I asked moving quickly over to him.

"Yeah," Ulrich said sounding surprised. "That didn't hurt at all."

"Huh, where am I?" came Odd's familiar voice.

"I see your friend has awoken." Said the man.

"Hey, it's you…" Odd said getting up looking at the man. "So you really do exist."

"Ok, now I'm confused." Ulrich said. "Odd, what's going on?"

Odd took a deep breath and then grinned. "I was going into town to pick up my wheels for my skateboard, I got lost, found the river, fell in, was in the river for about half an hour." He said in one breath, and then continued, "I became delirious with the cold. Then I heard a voice above me, I had thought it to be in my mind and when I looked up and saw him (pointing at the man) I thought I was delusional. But he pulled me out of the river and the next thing I know we are here. I faint, and wake up again a few seconds later."

"Ok…" Ulrich said.

"Well, that doesn't explain who you are." I said to the man.

He began laughing. He looked at me, and I felt a twinge come on. I looked away for a moment.

"I am known as the traveler, the Aricitic traveler to be specific." He repeated. "And you mispronounced it, it's 'A-rick-A-tick.'"

"That still doesn't explain who you are." Ulrich said.

"My humble apologies, Ulrich, but I will explain that in a minute and thirty seconds." the man said. "You will only have to wait until then."

The man sat down on the floor putting his cloak and his cape around him. Suddenly a point of light appeared three feet in front of him. The point of light began rotating around him in a circular path, drawing a curved line as it went. Once the curve finished, and it became a full circle, an 'S' began drawing itself on the floor beneath the man. I suddenly realized that it was the symbol that Ulrich and I had seen when we were sitting at the bench earlier today.

When that symbol finished the man began rising into the air as did the symbol. He rose about three feet in the air. Once he was finished rising the symbol changed, many more symbols were added as the circle grew and divided into two, one on the inside and the second on the out. I recognized some of the symbols as Japanese, but others I did not know at all.

"What are you doing?" Ulrich asked.

"Please move," said the man to Odd who was standing very close to the edge of the circle.

Odd moved and the man and circle began to levitate backward over the access valve to the super computer room. He centered himself over it and waited with his eyes closed. The circle below him remained there glowing, emanating sixteen different colors.

"What are you doing?" Ulrich asked; I could hear the impatience in his voice. When the man still did not respond Ulrich raised his voice and his fist. "I'll ask you one more time, what are you doing?"

"Ulrich, I see you practice tai chi, isn't one of the practices, of nearly all forms of martial arts, patience?" said the man.

Ulrich was quiet after that. We all were as we just stared at the man bewildered by what he was doing. He was able to make himself unnoticeable, yet his presence was undeniable. I couldn't help myself from watching to see what he would do next.

"Guys, I'm here, you can get into the scanners now." Jeremie's voice made us all jump as it came down through the speakers.

"That won't be necessary, Jeremie, they do not need to go to Lyoko, yet…" said the man.

"What? Hey, who is this?" Jeremie asked.

"If you come down here, I am sure that you will recognize me." The man told Jeremie.

In case you don't know what word it was, just look at my author name, it's the second one. Anyways, the traveler, in this case, is my character. I claim rights to it, and I would appreciate if no one used it or the word without permission.