Hello again everyone and welcome to the latest segment of "T.T.S.", sorry for the wait beside my internet acting up I've been working on this for the past five days, nad I must say this is much better than what I first had. this my christmas special to everyone here. and now it's time to Relax, Read, and Review.

Disclaimer: I don't own code lyoko, that belongs to moonscape

I do however own every part of this story.

Tale of the Ten Swords

Chapter 3

: Outside of the tower:

All around, Xana's monsters waited for what was in store. Two sprites were inside of the tower and they were to be terminated.

There was a couple of soft 'thuds' near the center of the army. They parted ways to let the megatanks through. Of all of Xana's creations, the megatanks were the only ones who could actually harm the way towers. After approaching the tower, they moved into triangle formation in front of the tower, they opened their casing and begun charging their lasers. When they reached full power the released their walls of energy on the ice coated tower.

At first the attacks seemed to be making little affect against the ice surrounding the tower. The megatanks ceased their attacks and pulled back a bit, making way for a swarm of Hornets to swoop in, spraying the wall of ice with their acid. After a few seconds the megatanks moved back into position and reinitiated their assault on the tower. Thanks to the acid, they're blasts were getting much closer to the tower walls.

Just as they were about to deliver the final bow to the frozen shield, ripples appeared as a lone figure exited the tower. The hum of every laser filled the air as every one of them prepared to attack. The sprite continued walking forward undisturbed by the many weapons pointed at him.

For a moment there was silence, until one lone kankerlat charge and fire a shot. The next few seconds were filled with the sound of every other laser and cannon aimed and fired. When the volley ended, the shockwave from the explosion resulting from it was strong enough to knock over a blok and knock one of the krabes back. When the smoke and dust begun to clear, the silhouette of the sprite could be scene. He was still walking forward at an even pace as if the wave of attack meant nothing to him.

The sprite continued walking toward them; he was dressed in a hooded, emerald green cloak that went all the way to his feet. He wore metal plates extended from his shoulders, his torso, and down his back, as well as his forearms. His shoes were pointed jade boots that went all the way up to his knees. In his hand was a rune staff with a crystal embedded in the top (for those of you who still haven't figure it out, Jeremy looks like an emerald green version of the Dark Magician).

Each monster stood still trying to decipher what had happened. The same little kankerlat charged another bolt and let it fly. This time the shot few alone as all 'eyes' were on it and the sprite. This time they would all see what stopped the earlier assault. They laser bolt flew straight and true and careened head on into the sprite's force field. It was projected about a foot away from the sprite. When the laser connected, the jewel on the staff glowed slightly as it repelled the bolt. The sprite didn't falter in the slightest as he continued walking to his unknown destination

There was a buzzing sound in the air as a squadron of hornets and manta flew in and prepared to strike. When both were in range of their target, they struck. The manta released their floating mines as they tried a carpet sweep. The hornets, being smaller and faster, weaved in and out of the mines till they were in range. When they were, the sprayed the sprite with their acid, completely coating it and the surrounding area. The resulting explosion, being so close as well as the number of explosives, wiped out those that were too close. The attacking manta as well as the hornets were caught in the center of the blast and therefore did not survive. And still, the sprite walked on. Tension swept through the ranks as they were close to exhausting their options. The three megatanks form before rolled in and open their casings and charged their cannons. When they reached their peaks they let loose in a final attempt to delete the sprite. Just like with the laser bolt their beams made contact with the forced that had been stopping all their attacks thus far.

The sprite faltered, the blasts were stopping him. The rest of the monster looking on hoping as much as they could that this would be the end. They were wrong, the sprite suddenly became 'aware' of what was hindering him form walking. Noticing the three megatanks, he gave a mental nudge at each one. They sensed this and tried to close their casings to ward off the incoming strike but the front two didn't make it in time, Jeremy's mental blast made contact with their crest on their cannons just as the casing finished closing. The force of it sent those two megatanks flying back into the ranks just as they were about to explode. Both megatanks acting like tossed hand grenades took out a nice chuck out of Xana's army. The third megatank managed to shut itself in before it was struck by the attack. However it was hit with more force than the others as it was sent flying over the entire army, the plateau, and into the digital sea. A tower of light shone confirming its deletion, and just like that, Jeremy continued walking onward. The rest of the so called army just step aside, allowing him through. There was nothing they could possibly do to harm Jeremy when he reached the center the ranks closed in on him. Ignoring the rest of the monsters, Jeremy raised his head and his voice to the lyokian sky

"XANA, I know your listening, come out and face me." He called, his voice as harsh and as cold as the ice in the sector they stood in.

Down from the lyokian sky came a disembodied voice, sounding as if it were coming from everywhere and yet nowhere at the same time, answered in kind;

"Foolish Jeremy, very foolish indeed."

As he spoke, a wire frame began to materialize just above a krabe. A few seconds later XANA landed on top of the krabe, fully materialized. When he landed XANA's back was to Jeremy. While his back was turned, Jeremy got a good look at the twin curve blades on his back. When he turned around Jeremy couldn't help but swallow as he took in XANA's armor. He wore black boots with spikes coming out of the knee-caps. On his breast plate were two rows of spikes going up from the center of his chest to over his shoulders were the met in his shoulder blades. Hanging from his neck was a blood red ruby embedded in his armor. His helmet itself had four spikes as well, two coming from where the eyebrows would be and the last to protruding from the "cheeks". His helmet covered everything but his eyes, which were (at the risk of sounding cliché) blood red, and his "nose and mouth". To top it all off, he wore steel-plated gauntlets with spiked knuckles. On his back was a long two-sided cape, the inside was just as red as his eyes, whiles the outside was jet black (if you want more help trying to figure out what he looks like, look up the YU-GI-OH card, "Dark Blade").

"Did you truly believe that you could stop me, now that I have the keys to Lyoko?" he taunted, his voice taunting the young mage.

"N-noo," Jeremy started, he stopped for a moment to collect himself before continued,

"I just wanted to get your attention." Jeremy called up to the virus, "I came to make a request."

"If that is true, then why is Odd hiding over there by the tower, on top of the ice wall, if I'm not mistaken?" XANA asked smugly

: Odd pov:

Damn, how the hell did he know I was here Odd thought to himself as he slowly pulled himself up and out of the crevice in the ice wall. The crevice itself was just a missing section in the ice wall that one could squeeze themselves into. It was the perfect sniper position; the tower was almost directly in front of it hiding the spot from view with its mist. They came across it during one mission to this tower, they were being chased by a couple of krabes and dove inside for cover. A creeper was hidden there waiting for them, each of us lasted long enough to make it to the tower, however once the entered the walls, Yumi was devertualize and Aelita took a hit and we were forced to retreat for a bit, then Ulrich led the shots away from them, getting himself devertualize in the process, but Odd managed to nail the creeper with an arrow. Then he got Aelita to tower and the stopped Xana's attack.

Now he was coming out of the crevice and climbing on top of the ice wall before taking a running leap and landing on top of a manta before bouncing off from krabe to krabe finally landing a few feet behind Jeremy.

"There, now that we're all here, what was this request you wanted."

"That you use the Scyphozoa to drain my memory as well."

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