It took me until almost now to finish this whole chapter. The first part is a bit twisted because I couldn't find the right way to put my thoughts into words but I hope you get what's happening there. If any questions let me know in a review and I will be happy to answer. Enjoy the reading.
Chapter 7: He Returned
Odd's POV
This was going to be hard. I started scanning through some bottons. I already knew the comands of virtualization and sector five. I skipped those bottons and started searching careful with whatever I do. I know I can be a bit reckless sometimes but I don't think that could happen now. And hey, Jeremy used this keyboard every time he came and he never messed anything up... that I know of.
The programs of Yumi appeared. I looked at the structure. All codes and numbers I couldn't read. Great, just fine with my day. "This is just great," I mumbled to myself as I typed. "Everything seemed to simple before." Now it was totally the opposite.
I hit a few keys and a window appeared with Franz Hopper on the screen. It seemed to be a recording. I put on the earphone to listen and hit play but another screen appeared. "Identify yourself," a mechanical voice said.
"Uh, Odd?" I said, more like a question. The screen loaded and said 'HELLO ODD' and the video started.
Franz spoke from the supercomputer in the recording. "This is Franz Hopper. To whoever listens to this recording. You had to have permition of Lyoko. Must be a warrior, Aelita, if it is you I am honored but due to sircumstances I have to say that it might be anyone. I know that there is danger and that is why this program was started. Lyoko has chosen you as warrior. This is a recording I hope would have never been found or be in the need of usage but if it is playing now and you are listening you have to go to Lyoko. Further explinations will be done there. Go now to the scanner room."
A delayed self-virtualization process started. I scrambled out of the seat and headed to the scanner room. I didn't know what this meant but it sounded pretty cool and important. I got into a scanner and waited. A few seconds passed before the scanner closed. The process started and I was virtualized into Lyoko's Desert Sector.
There was a tower to my left. I looked around. The message said that further explinations would be given here. Until now I heard nothing. Was it all a trick? How would I get devitualized?
I walked to the tower and entered. It looked normal. "Hello?" I called. No reply. I shrugged and walked further. A screen appeared in front of me when I got to the center. It scared the heck out of me. I nearly jump out of the tower.
I walked back to the screen. There was a program running. I touched the screen with my claws. They were marked in the screen. 'ODD IDENTIFIED' the screen read. The screen closed and I was levitated up from the floor like if there was no gravity in the tower.
"Hey, what is going on here?" I said to no one. To my surprise there was a reply.
"Odd I have chosen you as my honored warrior," a voice said. I couldn't identify if it was male or female. It seemed both to me. The only thing I could identify right now was that I was on this tower and the screens on the walls started to circle around me and there were lights. I felt energy inside me but I couldn't break free from the program that was running this tower. "You have now the keys. I gave them to Aelita but you too will have them. I will now protect you and you will protect me. You will never die on Lyoko."
"Who are you?" I demanded.
"I am, young one, the spirit of Lyoko."
"Lyoko if just a virtual world in the supercomputer created by Franz Hopper."
"I have life," the voice said. "Just like you," it showed me the areas and how it was infected by Xana and got sick because of the virus and how it suffered all the times Xana tried to destroy the super computer.
"But you did die. When William first got into Xana's hands," I replied but I now noticed that my lips were not moving. Everything was happening within my mind.
The voice spoke again showing me images of what it was speaking about. "Before any of you were devirtualized I set some of me into each of you. I gave you all something to carry. I knew you would again come back to Lyoko. When you did I came out of each of you and united myself back together. Since then I have been watching every one of you. Yumi is strong, but impatient. Ulrich is very talented and accurate, but he lacks of will and has too much hate." I didn't believe what it said. Ulrich had strong will. "Oh, is that what you think? Have you not seen him every time he had to ride on your board? Seemed to chicken out. Aelita has always been strong minded, creative, and very stong in spirit, but she still lacks some experiance. William, I was not happy when he went under Xana's control. He is a good warrior now but he still has his fear to overcome. Jeremy, he barely comes to Lyoko. I think you all need him on the super computer to give outer help.
"That only leaves you. I see you. I have been watching over you." There were images of me everywhere. On school, on my dorm, on the campus. "You are stong, acurate, strong minded, strong willed, you do not fear, you never stop just because you are out of options. You always find a way to overcome. You always stay calm and know what to do. You are a fine fighter. I admire that. These are the reasons why I am installing into you the only key I did not provide Aelita with. The biggest one. The most important. The one that makes Lyoko a virtual world."
"What are you saying?" I asked.
"I have selected over the others to carry my greatest key. Installation complete," the voice seemed to be fading now. I was set down on the floor. "Lexia is on the move, go now. Run my warrior," it said. I looked around. The tower was back to normal. What had that all been about?
I ran out of the tower with my mind full of question marks. I ran as fast as I could, there was another tower not far from here. I already knew were I was. Now how would I get to the real world?
Yumi's POV
We got to the house of Yolanda. She opened the door and we filled into the front room. Korran looked arround. "Wow, this is huge," he said looking around the average house. "Where is Leiah?"
"I'm here," Leiah came into the room holding her child between her arms.
"Young lady, what are you doing out of bed?" Yolanda demanded.
Leiah smiled. "Sorry, I came for some food. I was hungry and then Xohan started crying so I had to feed him. Don't worry, the women in our planet are very very strong. We aren't that much affected by the birth as you say," she replied. She caughe sight of Korran and looked at him from head to toes. "Hey handsome, wow, you look better now with new clothes," she said. "Here, Xohan will like to have some time with his father," she passed her baby to Korran. The baby seemed to be lost within Korran's arms.
The baby was wearing blue pijamas and mittens. I smiled at how cute the baby looked. He looked pretty human to me. Korran smiled down at his child. "I'm going to look for work today. I just came to make a brief visit."
Leiah smiled. "Great, I can't wait for school though. And where will I leave Xohan while I'm in classes?" she asked the nurse.
Yolanda smiled. "Don't worry, I will speak with the principal about that. I will tell him that I would like to help. The baby will stay with me and you will come between some classes to feed him and then continue your studies so you don't have to carry him with you all the time."
"So you seem to have gone up one social level," Hunter said. He looked at the house. "Mine was smaller than this one."
"It was," Angelo agreed. "We just came to check you were okay. Korran spent the whole night hitting a boulder until it fell into the digital sea."
"Almost," Hunter corrected. "I had to pick it up and put it back into place," he said with a smirk.
Leiah studied Hunter and Angelo, "Who went shopping for these?"
"Aelita and I," I responded.
She smiled at me, "You two have really good tastes then. Thanks, it was about time they got dressed decently."
Korran lowered his head real down. Obviously offended. Leiah noticed him and stroke his cheeck. "Hey, I never said you were less handsome," she said with a smile. He smiled back at her and gave her a quick peck on the forehead. He was much taller than her.
"Uh, so we have to get things sorted out. When will you be up to fight on the virtual world?" Hunter asked.
"I will be fine by a week or two but now I'm worried about who will take care of Xohan while I'm away?"
Yolanda walked further into the house. I guess she went into the kitchen because she came with drinks after a few minutes. Leiah was now lying down with her head on the arm rest of the sofa and Korran next to her on the arm chair. She looked so young and he so... grown-up. Age meant nothing for love but still. You could have the entire city speaking about them.
Each of us took a drink and sat down to speak for a short while. We didn't have much time. It was just the nurse's lunch hour we had to speak with Leiah. We... that doesn't sound right coming from me. I barely smiled when they spoke with each other. I just mantained myself silent.
Odd's POV
I ran into a tower. I went to the edge and let myself fall into the depts of the tower's system. It took me to another one. The desert sector I noticed when I came out of that tower. The fire girl came out of the same tower. She seemed to be happy to see me. I began to step back away from her.
I shot a laser arrow but she moved her whip just on the right moment and deflected my laser arrow making it fly in another direction. "Man, you are tougher than William," I said.
"LARK," she called and a creature came out of the digital sea. It wasn't a mantha, it was a shark like creature but not like the ones in the net. This one shot lasers and was dark green with brown veins running arround it's eyes. It had eyes. Xana never gave them eyes.
The shark started shooting at me. His lasers came from his mouth. His eyes were blood shot red. It flew arround like if it had wings but it only had this dolphin-like tail and long fins. I ran anyway.
I searched the creature for any sign of targets but I couldn't find any. What if this creature really lived on the net? Good point Odd. I shot arrows at it and hit it in many different parts but it didn't die until one fell into its mouth. That was fast.
Meiah kept coming and stopped about ten metters away. The had this diabolical smile on her face. The same William had when under Xana's control. I got ready to shoot. She moved her whip in the air and it caught fire. She started to whip it my way. The flames sticking to the ground everywhere it touched.
"Shield," I said just in time to deflect on of her whips. Wish I had just the same luck with the next one. Of course I didn't. Her whip took hold of my neck. The whip didn't have flames anymore though, so she threw me off the edge into the digital sea.
"Ahh!" there was nothing I could do. The digital sea was just a few seconds under me. As I fell I tried to grip the air as if it would keep me from falling. Then I fell on a plataform. The same target of Lyoko. Then walls started growing and a tower was formed for me like a fortress. It was then when I noticed my claws were white and glowing. There was energy flowing from me but it seemed so small that I wouldn't have noticed it if I hadn't seen my claws. Then the question came like a big boulder. "WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING HERE?"
There had to be a way out of here. I walked out of the tower but regretted it inmediately. I was right not holding tight to one of these roots that connected the tower. I was just inches from the digital sea. I was shaking with fear of falling. I climbed back up and had to jump to go back into the tower. I was holding the edge of the plataform like the first time I had gone into a tower with Ulrich. I climbed up and looked arround. I'm trapped. Maybe I could contact Jeremy from here.
The screen came into view. I started looking into the system just to see if I could find his phone number or at least the phone to call Ulrich but not a chance. The tower was disconnected from the rest of the towers. Still it now made part of Lyoko itself so maybe this other program I found would be useful. The question now would be, "HOW THE HELL CAN I READ THESE PROGRAMS?"
Jeremy's POV
Ulrich William and I were in the cafeteria eating. More like we finished eating by now. We were laughing at some jokes William was doing. It was weird that Odd wasn't here. I had called him about six times but his phone seemed to be turned off. I already gave up anyway. Must be still mad at me for not making his program. I already had it thought out but I needed him to tell me if it was a good idea.
We dumped our trays and walked out the cafeteria. We walked towards the tress. I noticed something moving. I stopped and asked, "What's that?" I asked.
"What's what?" Willam said back.
"Just saw something down there," I said pointing at the depts where the passage to the factory was.
"Maybe nothing at all," Ulrich suggested.
"Maybe one of the tricks of Lexia," William said obviously annoyed about the fact it could be a prabability. We started running towards the passage but from all the thigs we thought it was, it was nothing like it.
At first there was nothing on sight. "See it was nothing," Ulrich said.
"You call this nothing?" a high pitch voice asked. We turned to see Odd dressed up like if on Lyoko. He was obviously energized into the real world using the energy of the supercomputer.
"Wow, how?" William asked.
"I activated a tower, dork," Odd replied obviously irritated.
I walked towards him. "Cool," I touched his arm.
"Hey what are you doing?" he demanded.
"I just wanted to know what it felt to touch a polimorphic specter," I said.
"Didn't you do that with William's Clone?" he asked.
"Not one that came straight with his Lyoko outfit," I said.
"Great, now please go to the factory, I'm stuck in a tower right about two or three meters from the digital sea," he said.
I frowened, "Ice sector?" I asked. It was the sector that was clostest to the digital sea.
"Desert," he corrected.
"Impossible," I pointed out. That was one of the highest sectors.
"I created a tower," he mumbled. I thought I had heard wrong so I said to him to say it again and he did. I hadn't heard wrong. "I will explain later. Now please. Help me," he said. We nodded and went to the factory. Ulrich took a metal bar when we got to the factory and stabbed Odd. "Urk," he disappeared.
"Now I'll go to Lyoko," Ulrich said. "William, might need your help here."
"I'll call Aelita," I said. She had gone to her dorm because she said she needed to do something and wasn't hungry. It was strange but I trusted her well.
"Aelita," I said into the spaker when she answered.
"Hey Jeremy," she said as I started the virtualization process. I told her the situation. "I'll be there as fast as I can," she hung up.
I looked at the big hologram of Lyoko and then back at the screen and spotted Odd. Ulrich and William still hadn't gotten to him. They were occupied fighting Meiah.
"Jeremy, where are the others?" Odd asked.
"Fighting Meiah," I said. "Aelita is on her way," I said when I saw the elevator open. I nodded at her and the doors again closed. I waited some seconds before I started the virtualization process. "Aelita, Odd is to your right on the tower," I directed her.
"I don't see any," she replied.
"That's because the tower is just a few meters above the digital sea," I said.
Aelita's POV
I ran to the edge and hit my star. My wings appeared just when I made my jump. I flew down to the tower and noticed it was just hovering over the digital sea. It was connected to nothing at all. It was impossible. The only tower I had seen like this one was the one on sector five and it was linked to the floor of sector five. It has always been a system.
I flew down and entered the tower. Odd was there. "Aelita, I'm so glad to see you," he said.
"Mind explaining?" I asked looking at the insides of the tower.
"Uh, later, now shoot me," he rushed saying.
"More like help you out of here. Meiah is up above us," I said and pulled him into my arms and flew out the tower. He was pretty heavy. Don't think that just because this is a virtual world things won't weight anything. At least her was very scrony and that made him weight less.
We got to the edge of the sector. I shot an energy field towards Meiah but she commanded one of her creatures towards it. The shark blew up. I knew it was going to be hard now.
William's POV
This was getting hard. Meiah was too strong. Guess Lexia is stronger than Xana as well. I had three crabs behind me. All of them white and silver. I decided it was time to level up defense.
"Tank!" I called and the round sphere fell with a 'thud' after it was virtualized. I sighed. I felt drained now. A tank took lots of energy. It was white, seems like everything I call is white and silver. It opened when I gave it the telepathical command and shot the wide wall towards Meiah. Her whip wasn't enough to deflect that kind of attack. She disappeared in purple smoke.
"Well that took care of it," Ulrich said.
"I'll bring you in," Jeremy informed.
"No," Aelita objected. She was looking in front of her as if she could see him there. "I want to go to sector five. Maybe there is something there about all of this."
"Okay, go to the edge of the sector," Jeremy agreed. The vehicles appeared but I didn't need one of those.
"Life sprint," I started my way down to the edge of the sector. The others were able to keep my same speed. Aelita could fly that fast enough with her wings but she went on the Overwing. "Shouldn't you let Yumi know?" I asked Jeremy.
"Good point," I'll give her a call. The code was typed because the transporter took us the next second.
Ulrich's POV
We got to sector five and as soon as the floor settled we started our run. There wasn't a count down to be worried about but we wanted to get this over with.
There weren't any creepers or manthas or skiphosoa to be worried about. The problem now is that this place is so silent it gives me goose bumps. And seriously, you can get those in a virtual world for as hard as it seems to be.
We got to the elevator and waited for it to pass. We jumped and it took us all the way into the Celestial Dome. Aelita didn't lose any time. She started looking through the information on the screen as fast as she could. She was the only one that could read that thing. I've always been bad with computers.
"Uh, guys," Odd said.
"What?" I asked him irritated because he had come to Lyoko all by himself without telling anyone. He pointed at the spot where the manthas hatched. Efectively there were manthas hatching.
"Creeper," William hissed and a creeper was virtualized behind him. He seemed to like his pets more than his blade.
"Aelita, manthas are hatching," Jeremy said to her. This didn't look any good. "How did Xana come back?"
"This time he's not taking me in," William hissed. He held his blade up with one hand. "Mantha," he called. A mantha was virtualized next to him. "Time to fight," he got on it and started towards the hatching manthas. I could fight them right from here.
"Lightning," I called and this time the lightning hit the hatching manthas directly but only one died. The others seemed to have some kind of barrier around them. This wouldn't be easy.
"No," Jeremy said from the super computer's controls. "The skiphosoa," he said. I then heard the creature's noise from somewhere in the Celestial Dome. Jeremy spoke again in a low voice, "He returned."
How was it? I want to know. I will soon start the next chapter. But I want to know how do you think my story's going so far. I've never writen a fanfic on Lyoko before so I was curious on wether you all are liking it or not. Please be honest if you review. Any advice is accepted to better te story.
