Well, I have a bit more to go. I have already written another two or more chapters... Of course I have to get them proof read by my wonderful editor... but I will be sure to put them on as soon as that happens.

Sudden Changes: A Desperate Act Continued

Aelita:

Ulrich was volunteering to 'stop' Yumi from destroying everything. Yumi was completely consumed by black flames representing her own rage. The traveler was watching as everything went on. Jeremie and I were staring blankly not sure how to react to anything anymore, and the new girl, Sissi, was nearly foaming at the mouth so to speak.

The traveler had done something to Ulrich and he was now consumed by bright white flames and had wings. I could feel a sort of pulsation emanating from the two. From Ulrich I felt an overwhelming sensation of peace and love, and from Yumi I felt an overwhelming sensation of anger and hatred. As Ulrich moved closer to Yumi the emotions began to overlap and disappear as did the flames. Suddenly the two of them were no longer encircled with flames but instead two spheres and as the spheres collided they disappeared…

"What happened to them?" Jeremie demanded shocked.

"They canceled each other out…" said the traveler. "Jeremie, with your extensive knowledge of science I would think that you would know that two polar opposites would cancel each other out."

"That's not what I meant… Where did they go?" Jeremie tried again.

"Oh, right… The energy that they were emitting was far to overpowering, and this universe could not withstand it. They were transported to another universe until they resolve this issue." The traveler told us. "In the mean time, we need to deal with him."

We all turned out attention to Odd who was lying on the ground unconscious. He was still bleeding, and it didn't look like that was about to stop. I began to feel a little nocuous and faint.

"What do you mean, we? You started this; you should finish it and help Odd." Sissi said.

"Sissi." The traveler said as if he had just remembered something. "I seem to recall that Ulrich once said that you would make a good nurse… Perhaps your power is healing. Shall we find out?"

"Uh… What?" Sissi said blankly.

The traveler sighed. "That's right, the only one of you all who actually really knew that you had 'powers' was Yumi… Ok, Sissi, to heal a person place your dominant hand, which ever one you use for everything, over the wound and visualize, in your mind, the wound healing at a faster rate…"

"I… Uh, ok…" Sissi said and did as the traveler had suggested.

A bright pink light appeared below her hands as she placed them over Odd. The light extended outward and into Odd; spreading where ever he was wounded. His wounds illuminated with the same color and began to disappear. As his wounds disappeared Odd began to wake up.

"What happened?" Odd asked half asleep.

"You were attacked and wounded badly. Yumi lifted you out of the battle and Ulrich took your place." Jeremie told him. "Sissi just healed you…"

"Oh…" Odd said. "So did we beat them?"

"That isn't as easy to answer." The traveler told Odd. "Ulrich was unable to figure out how to destroy the monsters, but Yumi did. Unfortunately she lost control and began attacking everything. I finished what she had started but Yumi was unable to regain control herself."

"What happened? Is she ok?" Odd asked nearly fully awake again.

"Oh, she is fine. She and Ulrich are in another temporary space until she calms down. Mean while we need to get into that tower…"

"Don't you mean me?" I asked. "I am the only one who can enter the code."

The traveler turned and looked at me with a strange, somewhat angry, somewhat saddened look on his face. He landed and folded his wings and took a few steps closer to me.

"My dear Aelita, I am so sorry." He said still looking at me. "I forgot to tell you all the greatest reason that I am here."

"And that is?" Jeremie asked.

"Why, it's to free Aelita and eliminate the X.A.N.A. threat of course." He said as if it were obvious. "But as I said earlier I charge a price for my services, a fair price but it's there just the same."

"What is the price?" Jeremie said; I could hear the bitterness in his voice.

"Oh, nothing much… just something that you were going to throw away anyway. But the decision is yours, Aelita, and yours, Jeremie."

"Ours?" Jeremie and I asked at the same time.

"Yes, because what I am asking for currently belongs to the two of you."

"What is it? I don't really have anything…" I asked.

"We just happen to be within it…" the traveler told us. "All that I ask for my services is Lyoko and the factory that the super computer that X.A.N.A. is within."

"You want…" Jeremie started his jaw dropping.

"My home?" I finished for him.

"Well yes…" the traveler said beginning to pace. "But if you agree it won't be your home for much longer. And I don't require payment until you are thirty five. So really, you won't loose anything."

"Well, I suppose that we were going to shut Lyoko down anyway…" Jeremie said.

"And if I will be able to live on earth it will be worth it." Aelita said. "Besides we won't have to be able to give up Lyoko until we are thirty five, in twenty one years."

"That's right…" Jeremie said thinking. "Why then anyway?"

"All I can say about that is because of what your jobs will be when you are adults. If I told you any more I would ruining the 'end'." The traveler told us.

"Hey, I am still here you know." Sissi said. "What about me?"

The traveler turned and looked at her. He then began walking over to her calmly, yet still in an intimidating way. I don't know what it was but this feeling of utter respect emanated from him. It was almost as if something he held within himself was so great that it was impossible for him to not be awe inspiring.

"The service that I have done for you will cost you something different." He said to Sissi. "My fee for this is that you help me get a job in your father's school."

"What? Why?" Sissi asked.

"My reasons are my own, but you will find out soon enough." He told her. "I will be able to take care of almost everything, but I want you to encourage your father to allow hire me. And I don't care how, just do it."

"Ok, fine."

"I will also make a suggestion. Don't mention any of this to your current group of friends. In fact act as if nothing has happened at all. You don't want the extra attention drawn to you or them."

"Right."

The traveler turned to the tower and then looked back at me. He walked over to me again and flipped his right hand three times. A piece of paper and a pen appeared in his hand. He gave them to me and I looked at it. The paper appeared to be a contract of some sort.

"What is this?" I asked.

"It's the contract to make our deal legal. If you will read it over and sign on one of the two lines I will begin helping you with these problems. Jeremie will have to sign as well."

"Ok," I said. "Is that ok with you Jeremie?"

"Yes," he said hesitating for a moment. "But why only us? Why not Ulrich, Yumi and…"

"Me." Odd said. "Don't I have a say in this too?"

The traveler sighed and looked at Odd. He then sat down on the ground and thought for a second. When he appeared to have come to some decision he got back up and brushed himself off.

"No, only Jeremie and Aelita have legal rights to Lyoko." The traveler said at last. "The reason is that the man who created Xanadu is now, and has been for the past couple of years, dead. He lost all rights to the universe of Lyoko and those rights went to his closest relative, Aelita. She passed those rights on to her friend Jeremie when she met him and requested help with defeating X.A.N.A."

"So then the only living people who have legal rights to Lyoko are Jeremie and me?" I asked.

"That is correct. Now if you will sign the papers I will begin the second phase of eliminating X.A.N.A."

I read over the document and signed it. I then gave it to Jeremie and he read and signed it. Jeremie then gave to paper back to the traveler who, surprisingly enough, ripped it in two.

"What did you do that for?" Jeremie asked shocked.

"You will see." He told Jeremie and suddenly the parts of the paper that had been torn off grew back creating two copies. He then did it again creating a third. "There, one for each of us."

Just to inform you all I have written a 'romantic' chapter. I had gotten complaints in the past about doing something similar so I made it compleatly indipendent... You can skip over it if you must... And if you can't tell who it is with then I pitty you.