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Who We Are, The Hidden Meaning Continued

Yumi Again:

I was floating over a battle that appeared to be recorded at some point. I was watching my friends and myself fighting some monsters that I didn't recognize. It appeared that the battle had just started, and I really hadn't missed anything. We had just been ambushed coming into a field and the monsters had just begun attacking us.

I saw Ulrich; he looked older, even than he did now. He was wearing similar clothing as he had just been, but these were just slightly different. He was wearing a tunic, the tunic was mostly a light tan-ish white but it was lined with blue and green stripes. The sleeves were about three inches thicker than his wrists and thusly waved as he moved his hands. The collar of the tunic, which extended a little into his neck, was lined with gold and silver, a bar silver above the golden one. As I looked him over I realized that it wasn't really a tunic because it was over something, what I could see were slightly baggy pants that looked the same at the 'tunic'. The really odd thing was that there were things sticking off of it. Mostly cloth streamer like things, but there were some bead like things. Again, this was the style of the alien species that I had seen in the anime.

I looked over at myself and saw that I was wearing something similar, but it was more like a dress than Ulrich's, naturally. My 'dress' was fancy, but not in a way that looked uncomfortable, or even hard to move in. On the contrary, I seemed to be able to move in it quite well. It was mostly white, but it had a aqua green and a light red stripe running through and around it. And the other difference was that I had the bars switched. I also looked older than I had in this Lyoko.

I spotted Jeremie close by, he was dressed differently than Ulrich, and he had on more of a brown than a white. His cloths appeared to be more 'normal' than Ulrich's and mine, there wasn't much fancy about them, and they also appeared to be like work clothing. There also weren't any extras, and the bars around his neck were brass and silver. He was holding a book and what looked like a stave.

The next person that I spotted was Odd. He was again like a cat, but this time it was less of an outfit. His ears were like a cat's, and he had a tail, but other than that he had clothing more like Jeremie's than anything else. Though, they also looked more ragged than Jeremie's it was as if anyone who didn't look 'normal' was an outcast. His bars were double brass.

I kept looking and saw Aelita. Her clothing was completely different. She was not wearing a tunic like thing, but instead a fully fledged dress. It was not extremely large, and she was apparently able to move in it quite well, but it wasn't anything like what the rest of us were wearing. The colors were also off, it wasn't white at all, it had more of a dark blue to it. There was some brown in it, but only in a few areas. She also wasn't wearing the thin bars around her neck.

Looking at everyone took about ten seconds, and when I looked back at Ulrich he had his hands together kind of like the traveler did sometimes, but when he created the light it extended outward into a beam. The beam solidified and became a solid sward, not a samurai sward but a longer thicker sward. This one was very fancy and had jewels in it, it also had an aura of light around it.

I quickly looked over at myself and saw that I was also forming something. It was a ball that was pulsating with blue and green light. It was also spiraling and almost looked like a cloud. I suddenly broke it into two and shot one of them at one of the monsters.

The monster, which looked like a dog standing on its hind legs but hunched over. It was brownish white, and had very large claws. As the ball neared it the monster swung one of its claws and hit the ball. It exploded at the monster and nearly took off its claw. The monster looked surprised, but I was more so when the claw grew back.

I quickly looked over at Ulrich and saw that he was slashing through a similar monster, but this one was more of a spider with very bendable arms. The tentacle like arms were trying to grab at Ulrich and hold him still as a wasp like creature, which looked more like a wasp then the one's in the original Lyoko did, tried to sting him. Ulrich swung and cut off a few arms of the squid-like spider and the arms fell to the ground. Once on the ground they continued to move trying to do anything to him that they could.

I looked over at Jeremie and saw that he was holding the stave pointed at one of the monsters. It was a dog-like one similar to the one that I was fighting. As I watched the tip of the stave lit up and shot out an arrow of light that hit the monster square in the head. The monster reacted but didn't stop moving, at least not until it literally exploded into dust. Jeremie prepared another arrow and pointed it at another monster.

Aelita was doing a similar thing, but she was forming arrows out of thin air. She would pull back as though using a bow, a light would appear, and she would release it. The arrow would fly and, usually, hit its mark. The arrow, depending on the color, would either explode or stop the monster in a different way.

I looked for Odd and at first couldn't see him, but then I noticed a pile of monsters, the dog-like kind, moving on something. Suddenly I saw a few flashes of light and the monsters exploded outward as Odd came out having cut through them. He then ran to another one, his fingernails, or rather claws, extended.

I turned away just before he hit another one and looked back at myself. I was forming many balls of light and shooting them at various monsters. Again depending on the color the ball would either explode, burn, freeze, or something else. I was impressed with the level of power that I was showing.

I quickly looked over at Ulrich again, he was still fighting the squid-like spider but he had beaten most of it. He was now doing clean up and killing anything on the ground that still moved. He looked very preoccupied, and appeared to be saying something but I could not hear him.

I looked around the field, every one was finishing up the fight, and most of the monsters were dead, their bodies lying strewn along the ground. The only one of us who showed any sign of being in the battle was Ulrich who was covered in blood. He was walking over to me now, and I had a light blue ball in my hand.

Suddenly I noticed something moving in the near distance. It was a monster that I had not seen in the fight. It looked like a lizard with a two extra legs and wings. It had a black ball in its hand; I recognized the ball to be similar to the one's that I had been shooting at the monsters. As I watched, and to my utter horror, the lizard creature shot the ball directly at Ulrich.

I felt my insides turn. I was going to watch Ulrich die and there was nothing that I could do. This wasn't fare, this couldn't be happening. I couldn't just sit here and do nothing. I had to do something, I simply had to!

As I thought these things I felt my emotions swell up within me and as they did I felt myself grow heavier. Suddenly a ball of swirling darkness formed itself in front of me. I focused on the lizard monster and the ball shot out from me. As it passed by Ulrich it hit the other ball consuming it. The ball continued and hit the lizard and was absorbed into it. I watched to see what effect it would take, and as I did the lizard began to curl up in pain its eyes turning back. As it fell over it suddenly turned first to stone then to dust.

I felt relief flood over me. I had stopped the incident... but wait, how could I have stopped it unless... suddenly I felt the wind blowing against me. I looked around and realized that I had become real within the image. I was actually there now, and the others were looking at me.

There are only two more chapters left until the end. I'll see you all then and in the next one.