Just a note: The story that I made a precursor to in earlier chapters is actually being written. I can not give an exact date on when it will be posted, but "The Lyoko Holy Lands" is in the works and will be posted eventually.
It will be completely original, and the only resemblance to the original Code: Lyoko will be the names and concept of two universes. There will also be some similarities in the characters (duh) but that should be fine...

The Teacher is not always the master. A teacher can know less about a subject and still teach it as well as if they had mastered it. This depends on the skill level of the teacher in teaching not on the skill level in the subject. And though this may not always be true it still can be.

Jeremie:

One strange occurrence does not make a pattern, but for some reason I felt the need to dig deeper into this. Before I went to bed I went online; I wanted to see if anything strange was in the news. If the media wasn't saying anything about it then it was either really big news or nothing to worry about. That would all depend on how they decided to not say anything.

I managed to find something, but I wasn't sure if it was a hoax or not. It was saying that some people had been seeing strange events where something impossible would happen for an instant but then it would be gone. There would be no physical evidence of the event ever occurring, but the person would still remember. Usually it only happened to one or two people but there was one instance where thirty people swear that they all had seen the same thing.

I pondered this new information for a moment. It could be that someone was trying to cover up something, but what could change physical reality enough to eliminate all evidence of something having happened? I couldn't think of anything so I decided to go to bed and talk with the others tomorrow. Maybe we would have better luck together.

I was in a large open space. It was not a field or anything but instead buildings had been leveled all around us. I could see the rubble all across the ground. Around me I saw my friends Aelita, Yumi, Ulrich, Odd, and Sam but there were three other people there as well. One of them was Sissi and the other two were a man and a woman. They looked almost exactly like one another, for some reason or another, just a few features difference.

I looked further ahead to see what we were all looking at and was horrified. The thing that was looking back at me was massive. It must have been thirty stories tall; it looked like a cross between a dog and a human but with more dog than human. Its fur color was a golden green and dark clouds of something were swirling around it. I felt anger and hatred against the thing and felt as though it were the most evil hateful thing alive. I knew then that we were all fighting against the monster and that we had to win, at all costs.

Suddenly it lifted one of its arms and a black cloud of something like smoke came flying out at us. The smoke shot in all directions around us just before it hit us and I realized that we were being protected by some kind of barrier. But when the smoke went into the ground wires and other electronic things lifted up and began attacking us from all sides.

I thought we were done for but then a sward materialized in Ulrich's hand. He began fighting against the metal monsters that were now attacking us. I looked around and saw that Odd was shooting something from his hands and hitting the monsters with explosive results. Yumi was holding her head and things were lifting off the ground and flying at the monsters. The others were also fighting in their own ways as well.

I looked around helplessly at my friends and the two strangers. It seemed that I was of no use. I could not do any of the things that they were doing, and the strangers looked as though all they could manage to do was stand. I felt completely useless, until I suddenly realized something. There were these words that we had been using, I could hear them clearly as though they were being spoken to me. I finally knew what they meant, what they were for.

I began saying the words but could not hear myself speak. Suddenly the others looked at me and I saw the understanding flood into them. They began singing with me and we all turned to the monster. It almost looked frightened as we continued the chant. I could see the life draining from it...

Jeremie, you shouldn't look too deeply into your future. One may not know what one will do or one will not do it. Every person who has seen exactly what they would have done to deal with something has ended up dying as a result. They always manage to mess something up... now, wake up and forget what you have seen.

I woke up. I felt completely refreshed, as though I had gotten the best sleep of my life. I couldn't remember what the dream was that I had just had, which was strange because I normally remember the dreams very clearly and log them on my computer. I had made such a habit of it that I actually opened the word processing program that I normally used and opened the file.

I looked blankly at the empty space and tried to remember the dream, but my mind was a blank and I couldn't remember anything. As I thought about it I couldn't even remember what I had been doing the night before. This was very strange because my memory was nearly perfect.

I wrote 'Can't remember' and got dressed. I went to breakfast and saw my friends. When I sat down with them and began eating my food I suddenly realized that they were looking concerned at me. I couldn't understand why, it wasn't as though anything was wrong...

"Jeremie, are you feeling ok?" Aelita asked; by her voice I knew that there must be something wrong.

"I'm fine. What are you all so worried about?" I asked.

"Well, normally you are the first one up and waiting for the rest of us." Ulrich said. "But today you almost missed breakfast."

"That's impossible," I said with a nervous laugh, but then I looked down at my watch. "What, this can't be. It can't be this late already."

It was, and I only had ten minutes left for breakfast. Normally I was up and ready with an hour and a half. Our breakfast was forty five minutes long, and that had to mean that I had been asleep an hour and twenty minutes longer than normally. This just didn't make sense; I never slept in.

"Well, I feel fine." I said. "The only thing that was really off this mourning was that I couldn't remember my dream."

The others looked at me blankly and I remembered that this was something I hadn't told them. I blushed and turned away nearly missing my mouth with the fork. I had just told them one of my deepest secrets. I just wouldn't mention it again...

I ate in silence until I was done and we got up to leave. When we went outside Sissi walked up to us. She looked annoyed and almost hurt. None of us knew why, we hadn't done anything to her recently.

"Why are you guys being so mean to me?" She asked. "What did I do?"

"How are we being mean to you?" Ulrich asked obviously confused.

"You aren't talking to me anymore. You are acting as if what happened in Lyoko never happened." She said.

We stared at her blankly. None of us knew what she was talking about. Unless one of the others knew about this 'Lyoko' they were all confused as I was.

"Don't you remember, three months ago?" Sissi asked. Suddenly she noticed Aelita. "Hey, when did you get back to earth?"

"Ok, now is that really necessary?" I asked annoyed.

"What? But..." she trailed off as a gentle breeze began to blow across the courtyard. "Oh, really? So that's what happened? Well why can I remember? Why should I? What about your part? ... Ok, fine." She said to the air and walked away.

"Do any of you know what that was about?" Odd asked.

"Nope, not a clue." Ulrich said.

"I'm just as confused as the rest of you." Yumi agreed.

The bell rang and we said goodbye to Yumi as she ran off to her class. We walked the rest of the way to ours. As we entered the class we instantly noticed that the new teacher was there. He was standing in front of the class hunched over slightly looking at the students almost with a sense of pride.

The man was somewhat tall, taller than most elderly people; he appeared to be nearly six feet tall. His face was warm and he was smiling a soft smile. He had extremely long white hair and a nearly equally long beard. His skin was surprisingly youthful for his apparent age; he only had a few wrinkles.

"Well, now that I see that everyone is here I can start class." He said in a warm voice, almost a chuckle. "Please forgive me; it has been a while since I last taught a class. If I make a mistake feel free to tell me immediately, I do ask that you raise your hands though."

He turned to the blackboard and began writing down a very large and long equation followed by some notes. The equation appeared to be something that we had not yet done, nor did I think that we would be doing it any time soon. The title of the notes was genetic engineering.

I raised my hand.

"Yes, Jeremie." The teacher asked before he even turned around.

I was shocked, not only had he not even looked to see that my hand was raised but he also knew my name already. This was something that I had not anticipated.

"Sir, the equation you have written on the board is a collage level equation." I said.

"Oh," he said, almost disappointed. "Sorry, I must have forgotten where I was for a second. I have taught at a college many times before so I thought... and by the way, my name is professor Giis."

He erased what he had on the board and turned around. He looked at the class with a warm smile. "Can any of you tell me where we were?"

Sissi raised her hand just before I did. "We were just finishing up with nano-technology and we hadn't started a new unit yet."

"Oh, but I thought this was a junior high class... well, if that's the case, what would you all like to learn?"

I heard a gasp rush through the room. I doubt that anyone had ever expected a teacher to ask us something like that. Quickly I raised my hand.

"Yes, Jeremie?"

"Didn't Ms. Hertz give you any notes?" I asked.

"No... she left somewhat, um, abruptly, and was unable to prepare anything for the school to give to a substitute. Because of this I don't know what she had intended on having you do next. So, what do you want to learn? If you need to you can discuss it, but we have to have a new unit."

The other students turned to face one another and began talking. I got up and walked over to my friends. This was very strange, the story we had heard yesterday might have even been true.

"Jeremie, you don't think?" Ulrich said as I walked up to them.

"I don't know yet. Something strange is going on, but we have no way of really knowing what."

"I agree," Aelita said as she stepped up next to me. "The story isn't very likely, but things seem to be leading to it being the truth."

"What," Odd said surprised. "You actually believe something that crazy?"

"Well… stranger things have happened." Came Sissi's voice. She had walked over to talk with us. "And I'm not exactly sure what is going on but I would believe anything right now."

We looked at her somewhat confused. I for one didn't know what she was talking about. First she came up to us and began talking about something called 'Lyoko' and now this. It was almost as though something was missing from my memory but Sissi still knew what it was.

"I'll be right back, I need to go talk to the teacher." She said and walked off.

"There is one way that we can figure this out," I said. "We could visit the lab that this all was supposed to take place."

"Yeah, I agree." Ulrich said. "That would be the best thing to do."

"Only if we don't get caught." Odd said. "I don't know, it might be fun, but after that stunt that we pulled three days ago it might just be too much..."

"Well, they won't expel us just for looking." Aelita said. "Anyway, I think we should do it."

So it was settled. We would talk to Yumi about it and then we would check the lab. If we noticed something wrong, something to suggest that this story was true. The only question then would be what to do about it. And to answer the question we would have to get there.

The children enter the locked room and find something... Interesting. They are forced into a fight without any knowledge of what they can do, or even who they are up against. If the children can hold their own they may make it out alive, otherwise...