More mysteries are reveled in this and the next few chapters. I hope you all enjoy them and don't kill me... Please.

The Towers

The Traveler

We were all standing in front of a tower which was about three meters tall, or about a hundred stories high. There were other towers near by, I could feel their presence, and if I really wanted to I could see them as well. This tower didn't hold any particular meaning, not now at least; it was just the easiest one to get to.

The Lyoko children were conversing amongst themselves. They seemed to be happy; they believed that they had nothing to worry about. I knew that they were wrong; they had X.A.N.A. to worry about. I had said that I would deal with it, but by that I had meant that I would create a way for them to finish X.A.N.A. off forever. It was a human who had caused this mess and it would be five young humans who would clean it up. I suppose it would be six if Sissi really decided to fully join the group.

What I had done so far, in helping the children get rid of X.A.N.A., was to change Lyoko into a version which I had visited many years ago. It was the Lyoko Holy Lands, the most powerful place in that particular universe. A similar creature had terrorized the Holy Lands, and similar children had defeated that X.A.N.A. I had decided to replicate the Holy Lands of that Lyoko to do a similar thing here.

"What's with the look?" Odd asked me suddenly.

"We should continue moving." I said. "This is neither the tower, nor is it safe here. We need to get to one of those…"

I pointed out behind the tower to the towers behind it. As the children looked and finally saw the many towers they gawked in disbelief. There were one hundred and thirty two towers in all, and this was just the mountain region. The other four regions were connected through a portal that four towers created somewhere in the center of the group. Luckily we would not have to use the portal this time.

"The tower we want is just one of those. We will know which one it is when we come to it. Now, hold on…" I said.

I placed out a little energy creating bubbles around all six of the children and moving them over the cliff that was in front of us. We slowly made our descent upon the towers as we moved toward the center. I knew an approximate location, X.A.N.A. had been able to trick the children into thinking that the wrong tower was the one that was activated, but that was because of the way that the Holy Lands had been built. I on the other hand had found out from the other group of children how to know which one it was.

As we flew over the towers the children looked down at them in amazement. It was far different than the Lyoko that they had become accustomed to, that and Sissi had never been here before. Most of the towers emanated a dim white, but some of them emanated blue, green, yellow, red, and some other colors. The one that we were looking for was pulsating black ripples in the space around it. To a normal person who did not know what they were looking for or how to find it, it would appear to be just another normal tower.

Suddenly I stopped, I had made a discovery and I didn't quite like it. I created three small balls of my energy, then slowly modifying them I twisted space and time around them making them appear almost mirror like, or more precisely like balls of liquid metal. Once I had finished making them I sent them off in different directions ahead of me. As I had expected two of them were forced into a different path and the third one, the center one, disappeared all together.

"I suggest that none of you ever attempt to replicate what I am about to do now, not here and most certainly not in your world." I said to the children behind me. "I also suggest that you all close your eyes and turn away covering your head and ears with as much of your body as you can…"

"Why, what are you about to do?" Ulrich asked.

"I am about to defy the rules of a universe and defy a 'god' of its will. I doubt that your human bodies will be able to survive this directly if you see and hear what I am about to do."

They obeyed me and covered themselves as much as they could. I then prepared myself for what I was about to do. I knew that this would not be easy, and I most certainly would not be able to do it in this form. I prepared to morph, changing into a more powerful form.

I betcha can guess what's gonna happen next can't ya? Well, you are either right, or mostly right. Course, you could be wrong as well I guess...