Yeah, sorry about not updating for so long... I have been having Internet issues; I recently switched from Broadband to Dialup. It will take me longer to upload things now. I can't be on every day you know. On the other hand I will still be writing so I will upload as much as I have all at once.

Sudden Changes: A desperate Act

Ulrich:

(A few seconds before)

I was fighting against X.A.N.A.'s monsters; it almost felt as though I were fighting for my life. I was trying to get Odd out from within them, or at least distract them long enough for Yumi to be able to. I was using every thing that I could think of, hitting the X.A.N.A. mark and so forth, but nothing seemed to affect them.

I saw Odd lift up and move over to my friends and Sissi. I wondered how badly he would be hurt. It made me burn inside to think that we were so easily damaged in Lyoko now. I knew that it was all the traveler's fault for making Lyoko like this, and I hated him for that.

Suddenly I heard Yumi scream with rage. A block near me exploded sending blood everywhere. Another one did the same, and similar things were happening to the monsters all around me. They were all being horribly mutilated, and as I turned around I saw that it was Yumi doing this.

Yumi began levitating in the air; black flame erupting around her. The flame shot at the monsters and they began burning into black ashes. The flames also nearly hit me and I saw it get very close to the others. I knew that Yumi had become as enraged as the traveler had warned to not make her and because of that she had lost all control.

"She's lost control!" I heard Jeremie yell. "We have to do something or she will destroy everything, including us."

I felt like screaming back at him, "No duh, we can plainly see that! So what do you expect us to do about it?" but I kept my mouth shut.

"How do you expect we stop that?" Sissi asked for me.

Suddenly I got an idea. I believed that I could stop Yumi. If I could get close enough to her I could calm her down and she would regain control. It would be risky, and I would probably get hurt, but for Yumi, and the rest of us that was a chance I had to take.

"I'll do it!" I yelled above the roar of the fire.

"WHAT!" Sissi screeched. "Ulrich dear, you can't be serious, she'll kill you!"

"You have a better idea?" I yelled nearly screeching myself. "I'm the only one who can reach her now…"

Suddenly a very bright light appeared as the traveler rejoined the group. He put both of his hands together, cupping them around an imaginary ball. Light began moving towards the center of his hands; lights of fifteen different colors: red, light blue, dark blue, dark brown, leaf green, silver, very light blue (nearly white), yellow, white, black and a strange shade of green. The lights joined in the center of his hands and formed a ball. Suddenly the ball expanded towards me and separated around me hitting all of the monsters that were left.

"He's right." The traveler said. He straightened himself out and stood up strait. Suddenly a two pairs of wings appeared behind him, one bat like and one bird like. His hair extended back a ridiculous amount again and turned a shade of golden green like his wings. "Ulrich, listen to me. I warned you not to make her too angry. She has lost all control of her emotions and rage has consumed her. If you can't reach her all of Lyoko, and earth, will be destroyed. And if you can't reach her, and stop her, I will have to. Believe me, you don't want that…"

"I already said that I would do it," I said angrily at him. "You don't have to encourage me! Now, you started this, how do I reach her?"

"Open your heart and mind. You are all connected here. If you feel something then the one you direct it to will feel it as well."

"What the hell is that supposed to mean?" I raged at him knowing exactly what it meant.

"Watch your mouth, this is supposed to be PG…" he yelled at me. "You will understand in a moment…"

The traveler touched his right pointer and middle finger to his forehead and then pointed at me. A bright green light came out of his fingers and illuminated around me. I saw white flames erupt around me, much like the black ones around Yumi. Suddenly I felt an itching sensation on my back as two wings grew out of my back.

I knew what I had to do. I focused all of my feelings for Yumi around me and flew up to her using the wings that the traveler had given me. The flames around her had reached a four foot width around her and the air was beginning to move in funny ways. It was almost like certain areas around Yumi were mirrors. As I reached her the flames around me met the flames around her and they began to disappear. I barely noticed that everything, all of Lyoko, my friends, Sissi, and the traveler had vanished into a black and white void. All that I noticed right now was Yumi; all that I cared about now was Yumi…

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