A/N hi again welcome all who are reading this. I would again like to thank some very dedicated reviewers like:

Purplelover! Again your support cheers me up and gets me in the mood to write another chapter!

Katherine! Aaww you make me blush! That is such a nice thing to say but you shouldn't say that about your self. Look at other people's work and make a style that fits you other people are bound to like it give it a go!

The leader – well if you have an accusation then please justify it. Give me reasons why I obviously don't watch code: lyoko or don't bother saying that again. And if you don't like it don't read it!

Now on with chapter 8! (Who would have thought I would have gotten this far?)

Chapter 8

The tower of esren

Last time on the right answer:

"That's easy. She had no form until we came" Ulrich said. Yumi looked at him strangely; he never was too good at computers. He shrugged "Jeremy told me! So why are we here" Ulrich finished turning to look at the old man.

"To begin your training." The man said with a smile. "I am esren!"

And now the next chapter!

Yumi's p.o.v. (haven't done one before so no flames if it is rubbish got it?)

There were a hundred questions bubbling to be asked but Yumi picked three of them.

"O.k. three questions; one why is the tower named after you? Two what training? Three when do we go home?"

The old man sighed "they are all good questions and I will answer them as best as I can. O.k. the tower is called esren because I built it from raw data and devertualised it for us all to live in" Ulrich looked puzzled Yumi smiled he always looked cutest when he was puzzled.

"Second the training you will receive. Well as you know X.a.n.a. has activated all of the towers but do you know what is happening in the real world?"

"No we don't" I said.

"Well X.a.n.a. has sent out hundreds of his monsters to wipe out as many humans as he can. Your training is how to fight like you do in lyoko but in real time. You will go home when you defeat ten of my best. I will give you a map and plan of the battle field and you will make a strategy."

Ulrich looked grumpy "who are we bunking with?"

"Well I taught of mixing you with the other students but you are special. You will bunk with each other, if you want."

"Yes!" we both said quickly I smiled at Ulrich and he smiled back at me.

Three hours later:

It was dark and Ulrich and I were in our beds.

"I can't sleep what about you?" Ulrich asked

"No I can't either." I admitted, I didn't want him worried about me.

"Here this might help." He pulled his mattress off his bed and laid it on the floor. He then sat on it and beckoned me onto it as well. I shyly got of my bed and sat next to him. He wrapped his blanked around me and I suddenly lost all control as his fingers brushed my back. I lent forwards and kissed him longer and harder that ever before. We slowly separated and lay down holding each other.

"Yes" I said "I think I can manage this"

"Me too" Ulrich agreed and we both laughed.

The next morning:

"Wake up!"

It was the old man shouting, again.

"Time to begin your training!"

"Oh god" Ulrich said, kissed me quickly then stood up waiting for the old man's orders.

"Here we go" I muttered and I saw a smile playing at Ulrich's lips.

"Your first task will give you the right to eat in the mornings" he explained to us. What! I thought. The right to eat! It was pretty easy though! All we had to do was demonstrate that we could both do some basic martial arts, then take some food from the cook. I still have a couple of bruises though from her kicks. It hurt like hell!

Day 2:

Today we went to lyoki. This was lyoko's sister world. Like lyoko only no X.a.n.a. and Esren controlled when and what monsters appeared. We had to show him what we could do. Luckily our own virtualised forms were downloaded off of lyoko without X.a.n.a. noticing Esren thought this was strange but apparently Jeremy and Aelita are keeping him very busy without us! Esren was impressed with out performance and gave us the battle field plans and a certain time when we could practice. We thanked him and moved on to lunch which is like a living hell. All of the other pupils say me and Ulrich are outsiders and throw things at us. Like a sock with a brick in it! We have to concentrate so hard on no hitting them that we generally don't eat much as we are dodging bricks and stones. We will prove them wrong though, and beat them all!

We trained at 3 o'clock with a rough plan Ulrich had put together. Esren had allowed us the same amount of novices to train with as there were people we must defeat. We trained hard and fought well (sorry for the cliché!) but all Esren said was that we needed more practice! Ah well.

Day 3:

Today was a turn for the better! We were in fighting practice in the real world when esren said he had 5 students from his top class to fight with us properly! We kicked butt! Me and Ulrich just used some of the monuveres we had used against X.a.n.a. in lyoko. After that one of them came up to us. I remembered her as the brown haired girl who hung around with esren when he was explaining to us about our "training". She came up and introduced herself as Kayla and said she was sorry for the remarks and things the other students had done to us. She said they were only jealous because usually it took years of careful training to become the favourites of esren.

"Favourites!" Ulrich exclaimed "he works us harder then we ever have and tortures us!"

"All in the name of your duty" said Kayla.

"What duty?" I asked

"The duty to protect the world whilst your friend Jeremy and Aelita and odd shut off the towers." Kayla answered looking like we were mad and should know this stuff

"well we never heard about that!" Ulrich said, he never liked surprises.

day 12:

Well today is the day! We have planned and strategise for the past week and have come up with a plan we think will work. We are standing in the battle field with hundreds of students watching us like hawks. Our opponent's just stepped through the entrance. Here we go! Our strategy was I would run like the defenceless girl until one chased after me whilst Ulrich distracted the rest, then I would knock him out. It worked on the first one then they split into two sections and went after both of us. Exactly as planned! We then ran towards each other and jumped pushing off each others feet and kicking one more enemy each! That left only seven more to beat! Then they became wary and all rushed at Ulrich seeing him as the biggest threat. Big mystique! I pulled out two hidden fans and threw them lyoko style at the two closest to Ulrich ten hid the fans again before anymore of our enemies saw them. Fortunately they didn't. That only left 5. Halfway there.

Next me and Ulrich used our double team method. We had a rope hidden up our sleeves and we ran at two of our enemies as if to tackle them then at the last moment Ulrich threw me the rope and we darted apart seriously winding them in the process. Now for the three left we had agreed that Ulrich would tackle them. He took out two rattans. These were deadly short bamboo sticks used in the dangerous martial art escremer. He swung the stick at the first knocking him to the ground where I proceeded to knock him out. Then the other two took out small daggers but before they could move Ulrich had knocked them away and with two quick swipes we had won the match! We had finished the training at esren! Master esren came down to congratulate us and presented us with Ulrich's katana and my proper fans. H also said that he had "downloaded" our powers into our minds and that it was time for us to depart.

Day 13:

The last day in esren! We just found out that we will have a horse each and that Kayla will come with us. We are leaving at dusk after our leavers feast! I think strangely I'll miss esren. But master esren told us that when the time is right we will find our way home to the tower.