Sorry if you find grammar errors. I didn't have time to correct spelling and those things. I tried my best to make something good about this 'Odd dilema' so I gave my best shot on writing something. I didn't give that much details about it because one of the best things of reading is imagining what you read so I will let to your understanding a few details. I too, in this chapter, included a little surprise. Hope you enjoy it.


Chapter 8: Odd

Yumi's POV

My phone rang. It was Jeremy. When I answered he sounded frantic and scared and nervous. But the message was simple. For some reason I felt the same he did. "Xana returned," the words sank on me like cold daggers.

"Xana is on the move again," I said to the others.

"Should we go fight?" Korran asked.

"Yumi stay there for now. I'll give you a call if this gets serious," Jeremy said.

Serious? "This is serious, Jeremy. Xana returned," it took me all my own will to keep myself for yelling at him.

"He is weakened, he still needs more power. Only the return to the past would do that so for now I want you to stay where you all and if you see anything out of order you contact me," he replied.

"Fine," I hung up. Every eye was looking my way so I just explained.

"I'm going back to school now. Come," Yolanda said. Angelo and Hunter stood up.

"Can I stay here for the rest of the day? I don't want to leave Leiah all alone with Xohan," he said.

Leiah smiled, "Korran, you were going to get work today, you have already spent an hour here. Go with them. Xohan and I will be just fine here," she said.

I took a pen from the table next to me and a piece of paper. "This is my mumber if you need me," I said. "You know how to use the phone?" I asked.

She nodded, "Yolanda showed me this morning how to use it."

After that we walked out. Korran seemed worried but he trusted Leiah that much to leave her on her own. "She shouldn't be up," he said.

"That's why I told her to keep herself on the first floor," Yolanda said as we reached the car.


Ulrich's POV

The skiphosoa was just meters away now. There was a block shooting ice at it and a creeper. William had taken down the other two manthas. After he took them down he was ready to take down the monster in front of us.

"Aelita, leave it," Jeremy said.

"Not now, Jeremy. I already have delayed my reaserches too much," she replied at him as she kept looking through the data.

"Lightning," I said and hit the skiphosoa. It then started moving back. That was when William came in.

He gripped his blade with both hands and I was surprised to see the blade glowing. He made a swing, "Argh!" The cut came out of the blade as energy just like he had done other timed under Xana's hands. It cut the skiphosoa but it still wasn't enough to make it die. We were fine for now.

"A replika," Jeremy said.

"Oh no," Odd said.


Odd's POV

Just what we needed a replika. I started to think that this day couldn't get any worse. Without the Skid we were unable to do anything.

"Aelita, I need you to do something," Jeremy said.

"What?" she asked totally frustrated.

"Wait for me on the Celestial Dome," he said. At first I thought I hadn't heard right but when I saw the expressions of the others I knew he was not joking.

"I'll send you my mantha for protection," William spoke and got off of the mantha. The mantha started flying into sector five.

I sighed and sat down. I looked at my hands. I knew my claws were the reason I could do that tower. Then again it was that program that I was installed with. What was that voice? Who was it?

Aelita was still doing her work on the screen and there weren't monsters so I guessed that maybe it would be a good time to try out my ability now. I didn't have time to think about all this. I extended my hands into the front and started walking out of the plataform. I didn't fall. What was growing under me wouldn't let me. The glow in my claws had returned and I asked myself if I could master this ability? Or if it was okay if I had it? Or how I had it? More importantly, who gave it to me?


Jeremy's POV

I was tired not being able to do anything. The super computer controls could wait. I could control them from Lyoko anyway. I wouldn't go there if I had not programed that before hand. The delayed vitualization process was about to start. I got into the scanner room and walked into one. I won't say I didn't feel the fear when the scanner closed because it was a total lie. I knew well what were the dangers of this world and I knew Aelita knew them too but kept them shut towards the others.

I was virtualized into Sector five. I fell on my feet. I then looked at my outfit. A blue suit and a green cape with a golden belt. I touched my face to see that I didn't have glasses here on Lyoko and I could see everything clearly. I touched my face to see its form but then I caught my ears. Sharp, elven-like.

I saw a silver mantha on the doorway out of this part of Secotr five. I felt fear at first but I identified the mantha as William's. I ran towards it and jumped on it. The mantha started flying through the different rooms of the area. When we got to where the elevator should be the mantha just kept going up until the Celestial Dome.

When I got there I couldn't believe my eyes. Odd was thirty feet away walking on what seemed like the wires that cross through Lyoko and connect the towers with one another.


Aelita's POV

Odd was walking on these Lyoko vines. I couldn't believe he was creating them. Not even I could do that. Or maybe I could but never did.

Next to Ulrich a mantha appeared with an elf-like boy with blond hair. A smile crossed my face at the sight of Jeremy on Lyoko. His looks were what impressed me. He was wearing a blue suit and a green elven cloak. He had the same marks Odd had on his face only that Jeremy had them in blue and he didn't have glasses. His ears were sharp like mine and he had these gloves, they were a darker shade of blue. I niticed his golden belt and a dagger on the side when he jumped off the mantha.

"Odd would you mind explaining?" Jeremy demanded.

"Uh, okay," Odd gave in. He explained everything that had happened on the tower and how he got the program and the video of my father and how he now could make these vines and create a whole tower without any effort. I won't deny I felt a bit jealous but something about this wouldn't fit into my mind.

"So you are saying that this entity of Lyoko came by and gave you this gift for you to manage? A key?" Jeremy asked.

I then spoke, "Maybe Odd is right. This might be a key. You know Xana couldn't make replikas when he was trapped in Lyoko."

"He was trapped. He couldn't make a replika here in Lyoko. What would be the point?" Ulrich pointed out.

"Still, you never saw him messing up with the areas," I said.

"Tell that to this sector," Ulrich said.

I looked at the screen in front of me. "I'll keep looking for anything. Keep your eyes out for anything strange."

"Lets see, this vitual world if ovbiously strange," Ulrich said. I smiled at his coment.

"You understand me," I said and found just something that might be useful.

"There is a link from another computer to this one," I said.

"Mine?" Jeremy asked walking up to me. William got on his mantha and started circling around Odd.

I shook my head. "Another one, this one from... the Hermitage?" I was surprised. Then I remembered when I used to speak with Angelo. It was on the basement. But not the same one we went.

"We have to get out of Lyoko now," I said. "Energy field," I called. The pink energy ball was on my hand ready to be launched.

"No need, Aelita. I can devirtualize us from here," Jeremy said. He closed his eyes and I started to devitualize just like Ulrich and Odd.


William's POV

We were walking through the sewers when we found Yumi and the other aliens. I just kept my mouth shut. I still didn't believe them when they said that they were fighting with us not against but I wasn't going to go against them myself. I'll just let them prove themselves trustful or backstabbers.

Ulrich and Odd stayed with them to explain. I followed Aelita and Jeremy until we got to a stair case. We walked up into some part of the forest. There was this big abandoned house. Was this the Hermitage? I had ever been here before.

We ran into the abandoned house. It looked totally abandoned. Everything in here was a mess. We went down the stairs to the basement. There was nothing here.

"Aelita, remember the last time you cam down here?" Jeremy said to her.

"Don't remember me bad things Jeremy," she replied. "Now where was that door?" she started patting the walls and after a few minutes she pulled one of the pipes that looked like if it was connected to another one but it wasn't that way. "Bingo," she said. "My father new how to keep his stuff off limits. Lucky me I ever found one."

"How did you find this in the first place?" I asked her.

"I guess I must have tripped or something and accidentally found it. I don't have any memories of finding this. I only did," she said and walked in. She turned on the lights and it was a mad scientist lab. The walls were white and there was dust on everything and effectively as she had said in Lyoko, there was a supercomputer on the room. This one was connected to a server that was next to it.

"Awesome," Jeremy said. "Aelita, your father didn't lose his time," he started looking through the papers on the desk. I looked around at some models or something on the tables and then found a chart with all sorts of codes and stuff. I identified every currupted code as Xana's. For some reason I could read them. Guess my experiance of being under Xana's comand made me be able to have many things he had. It sounds creepy but until now I found them all useful.

"Jeremy, look at this," Aelita said from the computer. Jeremy went towards her but I stayed where I was. I was too entertained looking at all the different codes to go over there but I over heard what they said and that kind of caught my attention too. "It seems to be a blue print of sector five."

"And it seems there was another tower on sector five too. Right where the skid was supposed to be," Jeremy said.

"More like above it, this tower could only be accessed by the Celestial Dome," she said.

"There are Xana codes here that I can read but there are others that I don't think I recognize them," I said to them.

"You can read them?" Jeremy asked. I nodded. "What are they about?"

I started pointing. "Cube, mantha, creeper, megatank, crab, activating towers. The only things I cannot find here are the tarantulas, the Skiphosoa, the Kolosus and the energizing codes," I said.

"Tarantulas created when my father had this lab," Aelita said. "Maybe that's the reason."

"What can you tell me about these codes?" Jeremy pointed at the ones in another list.

"I have no idea. They seem similar but I cannot identify them as Xana's," I said.

"Might be Lexia's," Aelita suggested.

"Maynbe but then only Meiah could read them," I replied. She nodded knowing I was right.

Jeremy sat down on the chair and started typing on the computer. "Maybe there is something more here."

"I will look through the papers," Aelita said.

"I will study these codes, they seem to be from Xana but I can't be sure," I said. These were another set of codes that I know they have to do with Xana but what are they? I can't just go on and try them without knowing what they are.


Ulrich's POV

"Okay, so that's all you have to know," Yumi said.

We had been explaining to Korran everything he needed to know about measurements. He knew the basics of Math, that saved us lots of time. He didn't know what were square roots or anything else but just addition, substraction, multiplication and division. And he knew the numbers from one through a thousand but he never got to ten thousand so we said that maybe he didn't need that unless he was going to buy a house or something. Yumi said that it was better if we met in front of the school gates by seven in the morning to look for work then. She said today wasn't a good day since we were late.

I sighed and looked towards the screen. We were at the computer lab. Hunter and Angelo were in Lyoko with Odd. He was showing what he had got and they were too patrolling the areas. Angelo said he would stay near the core of Lyoko tonight so he could protect the core if someone attacked. Hunter said he would go back to Eonor tonight and then return on the morning. Korran said he would like some sleep for tomorrow so when Yumi said to Odd to come back from Lyoko and we went to the elevator Korran sat with his back against a wall and closed his eyes.

Odd was already on the scanners when the door opened. He ran towards us and I pushed the botton to go up to the surface.

Odd and I walked Yumi to her house. She waved at us and Odd started to speak about this new ability he had on Lyoko. He didn't seem to mind the fact that he got it from someone he doesn't even know. He was speaking about how he had tried it out with Angelo on the forest sector.

It wasn't until we got to the gates that I pinned him against the gate. "Listen, Odd, You just found out about this, thing that gave you the power to create towers and do these dumb stuff and it was all the same day Xana came back to Lyoko. Hasn't your mind thought this out?" I asked him.

He looked down. "I have been thinking about it but I just don't know," he said. "Its like if I had known who spoke to me for years. I felt this confidence on myself, trust on whoever was speaking to me. It was like, I can't explain it in words. I can only say that I somehow trust the voice that spoke to me and that I really believe there is this Spirit of Lyoko. Lyoko had life of its own," he said.

At this time I thought he was going nuts but then I came up with a good thing to say. "Tell me then, how can Lyoko have life?"

"Well," Odd started as if he had the answer straight from the dictionary. "You know that there are these cables on Lyoko that connect one tower with another?" I nodded. "Those waves that move when a tower is activated by Xana. Those electrical impulses that show through those digital wires guide Aelita to the tower. When Franz went to Lyoko with Aelita, the last thing he said to Aelita was to stay in the tower because the supercomputer would protect her. She lived in Lyoko for years and she was here when Jeremy found her. The supercomputer was turned off. Why didn't she fall into the digital sea? Lyoko kept her safe," Odd said. I thought of his words and realized I would get nowhere with him today.

I walked towards my dorm. Odd was a few steps behind me rambling about different events and how the towers were set up red when Aelita fell without memory when Lyoko got access to the keys. He said that Lyoko had almost died along with her because of her fate until this entity called Franz and he returned most of Aelita's memories for her to live. He too said that Franz wasn't Xana's prisoner and that Lyoko was keeping him safe.

As soon as we got to our dorm I plugged in my ear plugs that I used to sleep every night and kept on doing whatever I had. Odd didn't notice I had my ear plugs on and kept up his ramble.


I thought that since I said Jeremy would get to go to Lyoko I would put him into this chapter and it was just the intruduction of how he looks. (The reason he looks like that in my story is because I remembered the first episodes that Jeremy mentioned something about the supercomputer and desires so I thought that maybe because Jeremy loves Aelita he would want to be elf-like just like her). Jeremy will have a doog action part in the future chapters. My story won't be short but I won't take it as long as my other story.

Odd's problem will be better described through the story so if you have questions you could either ask or keep reading as I post. I hope it will be all cleared out in the few next chapters.