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This Isn't a Dream

Chapter 7: Search for my Friends

I looked around…stunned. Okay, maybe a couple of you guys are lost so let me fill you in. Kid and Guile pulled the treasure off that wall in Viper Manor and the wall closed in over them. They weren't in Luccia's room, in fact, nothing was, and now we have to find them.

Serge looked at me, "I thought you said they'd be here Savannah…" he said.

"They should be…I don't know why they aren't…" I replied, looking around the small 'lab'.

All the cages were empty, except for the one in the corner, which contained Pip. I opened it up and let him out.

"Hi, I'm Pip. What are you doing here?" asked Pip. (A/N: I have no clue how Pip talks, I haven't done that part in forever, so bear with me please)

"We need to find our friends, have you seen them?" answered Serge, a worried look in his cobalt eyes.

Pip had a weird look on his face for a minute, like he was thinking, then said. "I think so, not sure. Two strange creatures fell into that prison over there and Luccia took them away. But I'll help you look for them."

I smiled, "Thanks. One's blonde, wearing skimpy, red clothes. The other has long purple/silver hair and a golden mask over his eyes."

Pip nodded. "Okay! I think that was them!"

I expected the music to start playing and the words "Pip has joined your party!" to flash across the screen, then realized how stupid I sounded. I looked at Serge and smiled, "You ready to find our friends?"

He nodded and we left Luccia's lab thing and traveled back inside the manor, making sure not to step into any search lights. That would be bad…

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We got back into the castle and looked around. We were in the room with the giant spiraling dragon, the one where we had encountered Lynx and Karsh. I looked around. It was strange how the dragon wouldn't move at all. I went through the doors on the left now, since I hadn't gone through those at first. We explored a few rooms, luckily, not running into any creatures before it hit me!

"Pip, you said she moved them from the cell in her lab right?" I asked, and Serge caught on.

"So they must be in the cells in the basement, where we got these suits!" Serge replied, and I nodded.

Pip was confused but followed us as we took off towards the basement.

X

We got there in only about a minute and looked around. Sure enough, there was Kid and Guile, bickering over who got the treasure, in the first cell.

"Hey guys!" I said happily, and they both shut up and jumped up.

Kid rushed towards the door. "Get us tha bloody hell outta here." She said, and I laughed.

Serge smiled, obviously happy to see his friends again. He tried to open the cell door but found it locked. "It's locked," he stated dryly, obviously pissed off.

"Dammit!" Kid and I cursed at the same time. "Don't worry, we'll find the key…" I said, looking around downstairs.

Pip hurried towards me with something in his mouth. "Ith this de key," he said as well as he could. I removed the item from his mouth and found out that it was a key!

Serge pushed it into the lock and tried to turn it, but it wouldn't turn. "Maybe it goes to a different cell," I said, pulling the key out. I walked over to the second cell and pushed the key in, and it unlocked!

I walked into the cell with Pip; Serge deciding it was safer if he stayed outside in case we got looked in. I looked at the door that connected the first two cells together and noticed that it was locked too.

"Crap!" I said, falling to the ground and sitting on my rear. Serge looked at it from outside the cell. "Think we could break that door down. It looks kinda un-sturdy."

I nodded and stood up, then hacked away at it as fast as I could with my sword, but it didn't do much damage. Kid and Guile also began to fire at it with their weapons then Serge walked in the cell with me.

"Try elements," he said, and instructed Kid and Guile to move away from the door. They did and he aimed a Photon Ray at it. It creaked a little, but didn't fall. I fired an Aero Saucer at the door next, and it managed to knock a little of the bars off, but not enough to get them out.

Kid tried a Magma Bomb, and it made the bar really hot, which made them easier to shape, so Guile began hitting them with his cane/stick and bent a few bars out of shape. The whole was now big enough for them to crawl through.

But as soon as all four of us (A/N: yes Pip left. He had to get back to the lab before Luccia did) left the cell we heard a siren/like thing go off.

"Dammit! It's an alarm!" Guile said!

I sighed, "Great, just what we need!" I cursed to myself. Kid pulled out her dagger and raised it up.

Guards flocked down the stairs and towards us and we prepared ourselves for battle.

The first fleet went easily, with two attacks each. The second fleet was a little harder, but we defeated them without much damage.

Soon we were on the last six soldiers. Serge attacked first, killing one with just swipes of his Sea Swallow. He attacked another one with Dash and Slash, and wounded it.

Guile went next and finished off the wounded one with physical attacks. He attacked the next one with Ice Beam.

Kid was next. She attacked a healthy soldier with her dagger and killed it. Then attacked another healthy one with Fire Pillar.

I finished off the two wounded ones, one with my sword, the other with Bush Whacker.

Only one soldier was left, and Serge killed it

X

We snuck away and found a room that was empty. I locked the door behind us and we all sat down on the beds. I was tired.

"Sav, will ya tell us about ya story now?" asked Kid and I looked around and nodded.

I took a deep breath. "I come from a world far away from this one. Demi-humans and special powers don't exist there. Instead, we have gaming systems and games. One game I played was called Chrono Cross, and that's where we are right now."

I told them all about Play Stations and about Chrono Cross and how I was dragged into the game. Everyone was quiet for the longest time.

I looked over at Serge and saw how he stared at the ground, but before anyone could say anything we heard a voice outside our door.

"They are still in here? Then why are you talking to me? You should be looking for them!" a deep voice said. I immediately recognized the voice to belong to Lynx!

Kid jumped up off the bed next to me and darted towards the door. She unlocked it and threw it open, and Lynx was right outside, talking to General Viper.

"Time ta taste bloody revenge Lynx!" she said.

X

Oh great, we find Lynx and now Kid starts picking fights. How will I get home if I die in a game? Find out next chapter, when we battle with Lynx!

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