Code Lyoko: Revolutions and Evolutions

Chapter 41

AN: Thank you to all my readers and reviewers who have steadfastly continued to read my fic. I greatly appreciate your continued viewership and support. I am quite pleased with this chapter, and I hope you enjoy reading this as much as I did writing it. This chapter came after a few days of contemplation just on what themes I wanted to present. I didn't know the format of how to approach this correctly, but after prayer and constant work, I am satisfied with the results, and I hope this chapter answers some questions some readers have posed. Yes, this is a shorter chapter than my usual length. However, sometimes, there is simply no more to write.

Aelita was in the room. Just how big the place was, she was not sure. The only quality she felt she could be certain of was that she was underneath a massive dome. She didn't have any proof for this, but no less, this particular fact she was sure of. In many ways, Aelita felt enclosed, constricted, restricted, and yet she was not afraid. All around her was blackness, but it was calming. Looking around, Aelita began to wonder the dimension of the invisible dome. However, suddenly, there came a fiery reddish-gold light coming from the far portion of the doom. The light illuminated all manner of clouds flowing out from it. The sky itself was a magnificent blue that was both light and dark, equally as if the perfect balance between the morning and evening sunrise and sunset.

Aelita looked all around herself and found this was the case all around her. She was on very solid ground, yet there was no floor, only the illuminated rolling clouds underneath. Aelita began to run in one direction when suddenly she stopped of her own accord. Extending her hand, she could feel the barrier. It was solid, that was certain, but it had no quantifiable measure of texture, the only fact that she had of the wall was that of solidness and crystal clarity.

"Where am I?" She asked herself, and she turned back around, seeing nothing but the richly lit aspects of the sky. Rolling clouds, but it was as if she were just above them with the tops of the clouds barely cresting a certain point, and yet the cresting of the clouds should have been impossible, but it wasn't. The sun shined elegantly, not so much now in the broad spectrum of the horizon, but now it was higher. It shined above her, but it was now considerably smaller due to its distance with innumerous spangles of light shown forth from it.

Aelita looked upward, as she took an assessment of what was happening around her, she realized that her body was not that of her earthly body but her avatar from within Lyoko. Aelita looked at her hands and her arms. They were of the same style and composition as her avatar. Why was this? She looked up, and suddenly the clouds and the sun were gone. She was now within the desert region of Lyoko. She knew its look from anywhere. The expanse was vast and barren of simulated orange earth, the sky of the tell-tale orange-white hue that stretched on for a seeming eternity.

"Huh?" Aelita exclaimed as she was looking around herself confusedly.

At that moment, a deep sullen boom from the sky sounded followed by a cascading series of booms growing nearer and nearer. Suddenly whitish-pink lightning flashed forth, and rain began to poor all around Aelita. However, not one drop touched her flesh. However, the rain was powerful, entire solid sheets that obscured Aelita's vision; she could only see four inches in front of her. Aelita's eyes went wide in amazement as never before had the elements been in focus on Lyoko.

"Sister," Aelita heard the tell-tale voice of Syanna from behind. Aelita gently turned, and she saw Syanna; however, her form was different. It had no defining features, although the height was the same. Instead, what was before her was what could only be described as a shade.

"Why are you like this?" Aelita asked.

"What do you mean?" Syanna's voice came through the shade.