CHAPTER 3

THE RETURN OF

THE GUARDIANS

"Wait a minute what do you mean your past life guardian?" asked Jeremy

"Just that and I'm not the only one. Jin here has one as well."

"I do." Jin agreed. "His name is Taisho."

"I don't understand." said Aelita "How-"

"Do you guys remember that encoded message that we got?" asked Yumi

"Yeah I remember why?" asked Jeremy

"Well let's see if Jin here can read it." said Yumi

"Why would he be able to do that?" asked Odd.

"Because of Taisho." said Ulrich

"Wait you know about this?" asked Aelita

"Yes I too have a guardian." said Ulrich "His name is Koran. Yumi do you know if Xanafar is mobilizing?"

"Yeah that's one of the reasons I called Jin back here." said Yumi

"One of them?" asked William

"You were the other reason." said Yumi simply

"Oh."

"Okay then. Let's go." said Jin


As the Guardians moved toward the factory Sissi, who knew about Lyoko and the Guardians, saw that the two bullies that had had it for Jin since he first arrived at the academy were following them. Seeing this she tried to call Zhane's phone to tell them but two guys grabbed her from behind. She knew that they were cronies of Drake's so she knew that they were bright at all. Using the techniques that she learned from Ulrich and Yumi she was able to easily break their hold.

"You little…"

"Now do you really want to finish that sentence?" asked Sissi "All I have to do is call my father and you two will be expelled faster than you can blink."

"Sissi is everything alright?" asked Zhane walking back from the forest.

"Yeah where are the others?"

"At the house." said Zana while thinking about the hidden path that led to factory knowing that Sephia, Sissi's guardian would see it and so would Sissi. "Um Sissi you want to go to the infirmary and get your arm looked at?" Zhane asked looking at Sissi's left arm where a burse was coming.

But Sissi knew what Zhane was really thinking. Although the question was blunt Sissi knew that they would go to the boiler room and head to the factory. "Sure." she said while the two boys ran. They knew that Zhane had awesome fighting skills and all the fights that he had gotten in had all involved his friends.

Meanwhile XANA or Xanafar knew that Taisho Alina Koran and Zentos would try to make the other Guardians that fought in Lyoko regain their power and he couldn't let that happen. So he used his super computer and got rid of the message. But when Karone found out what he had done she contacted Yumi and told her.

'Understood.' thought Yumi just as Jeremy said he couldn't find the message

"That's not possible it was just there." said Aelita

"What about XANA?" asked Yumi

"What about him?" asked Jeremy

"Maybe he deleted the message to stop the four of us getting you to remember and gaining more power."

"That makes sense." said Jin as Zhane and Sissi walked out of the elevator.

"So I take it you ditched Drake and Clay?" Aelita asked her brother

"Yeah. So what's going on?" asked Zhane

"Well XANA got rid of the message." said Aelita

"Well most likely it will be in sector five." said Zhane

"Jeremy send myself Jin Ulrich and Zhane to Sector Five that way in case XANA attacks Aelita can deactivate the tower." said Yumi

"Good idea." said Jeremy "go to the scanners."

"Right. Ulrich Zhane Jin lets go."

"Right." the three Guardians that remembered agreed


But while the Guardians were going to Sector Five XANA knew that they would be shorthanded not expecting William to come as well. XANA didn't think the he would want to risk his friends. But what XANA didn't take into consideration was the fact that Link, William's Guardian self, would be giving him the strength and power that he needed to stop XANA from controlling him again.

"This is bad. XANA's launched an attack."

"That is bad we don't have the seven here and-" started Odd

"Odd what am I? Jeremy send us to Lyoko. And don't worry about the Scyphzoa. Leave it to me." William said

"Why does that sound familiar?" asked Aelita

"I was getting ready to ask the same thing." said Jeremy. "Alright Ami, Odd, Aelita William go to the scanners. Samaya, Nakita, Sissi you guys take care of the school."

"Right." the three said and left.

"Alright you guys get to the scanners." said Jeremy

"Right."

"Yumi? Can you hear me?"

"Loud and clear, Jeremy. What is it?"

"XANA's launched an attack. I'm sending Aelita Odd Ami and William, but you need to hurry. There's no telling how long they can hold of XANA."

"Don't worry Zentos almost has Alucurd Aira and Jerik freed."

"Who are they?" asked Jeremy

"You'll see soon." said Zhane. "Okay Karone your turn."

"Right." said Yumi as she stepped up to the interface, and moved the blocks that had come up and three people walked out.

"Yumi who is that?"

"Jeremy meet your Guardian life." Yumi said

"Oh now I remember, Karone you need to hurry Xanafar is close to wiping Aelita and Ami out. I assume William and Odd has Link and Kyo. Considering the way William started saying the he would take care of the Scyphzoa."

"Yeah Zentos freed them just before you called."

"Alright as soon as you're done head to the mountain sector. I'll program your vehicles just team up."

"Looks like things have changed a little since I was last here." said Jin

"Yeah Zhane did you find the message?" asked Yumi

"Yeah let's go help the others."

"Alright." said Yumi, but Xanafar wasn't going to let them go without a fight. Using his computer he created his creatures to stop the four Guardians from leaving. They were strange creatures and by far the strongest they had ever faced in Lyoko before. They had wings of a dragon and the body of a serpent.

"Looks like XANA's got new toys." said Jin from behind Yumi.

"Leave them to me." said Yumi as she leaped off the hover wing.


If Jeremy didn't know that Karone would stop Yumi from landing in the Digital Sea he would have thought that Yumi was nuts, but he knew Karone would never let anything happen to Yumi. It was just the way she was now. And he was right. Just before Yumi hit the sea her Dragon, Black Rose came flying in and caught her on its back.

"Alright time for some dragon hunting." said Yumi "Lets go Black Rose."

'Right.' said the Dragon through their link, something that only the Guardians that went to Lyoko could do and have.

Jeremy always thought that Yumi was the true leader even thought Xanafar was the leader of the Guardians until he betrayed the others and sealed their Dragons, the power of the Guardians, in the core of Lyoko. However one day when Yumi was there trying to get her brother back to normal she found were Karone and her dragon was and freed them, which led Karone and Yumi freeing everyone else. Now that Jeremy thought about it Jin had started acting weird after Yumi freed Taisho, Jin's Guardian, and he realized that it was Taisho that freed Jin from XANA's control.

But that was also the day when William came back and stopped going to Lyoko that Xanafar teamed up with XANA. And without William they were losing badly, until today. Thanks to Yumi the battle severely turned into their favor. Hopefully this time they could seal XANA and Xanafar away for good.

'Karone there are too many. There's no way I can clear them all out.'

"Alright Jeremy can you open a portal?"

"Yeah just a minute."and sure enough the portal was there and Yumi and Black Rose shot through it sealing it up with Black Rose's Black Rose Gale.

"Alright lets go help the others."

'Right.'

CHAPTER

END