Chapter 2

The Secret Room

Healer was running through a forest away from a bright light. She turned to see what it was, but it was too bright to see it. Just then a huge energy blast shot out from the light and headed straight towards Healer. Healer screamed, but before the attack could hit her a little girl jumped in front of her. Healer watched as the small girl in front of her fell to the ground screaming in pain. Healer bent down to see if the little girl was all right, but just as she did another blast emerged from the light. The little girl stood up and took the blast again. She screamed as she collapsed to the ground once more. Her silver hair was all tangled and messy. The light then moved on with an aurora of satisfaction all around it. Healer bent down and moved the little girls' hair from her face. Healer's eyes went wide; `This little girl looks so familiar.' Healer thought, but a piercing scream broke her thoughts. She looked up to hear a laughing and a woman with silver hair similar to
the little girl who had jumped in front of Healer. `Must be her mother.' Healer looked down to see the woman holding a small girl who was crying. Then there was a flash of light and screams could be heard from all around...

Healer woke up crying. `It's that dream again, it seems so familiar.' Healer thought with tears streaming down her face.

Fighter walked down the hall to go get a drink of water. She stopped in her tracks and heard something coming from down the hall. It almost sounded like a child was crying. She walked farther down the hall. She stopped at a door as she heard the crying get louder. Fighter turned and saw that the door was to Healers bedroom. Fighter walked through the door and saw Healer siting on her bed crying.

Fighter walked up to Healers bed. "What's wrong?" She asked.

Healer stopped crying and turned to see Fighter sitting on the bed next to her.

Fighter reached up and stroked Healers hair gently. She then put her arms around Healer and pulled her close to her.

Healer buried her face in Fighters arms and started crying again.

Fighter rubbed Healers back and sat with her.

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Later that day Healer was wandering around the palace looking for something to do. She came across a strange looking door.

`I've never seen this door before, I wonder what it leads to?' Healer tried hard to remember what the door lead to.

"Well I'll just go in and see." Healer said to herself as she pulled the door open.

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"Hey Maker, where's Healer?" Fighter asked as she walked into Makers room.

Maker looked up from her poetry book; "I haven't seen her all day. Why do you ask?"

"Well I was kind of worried about her because I heard her crying last night, but when I asked her what was wrong, she didn't say anything." Fighter replied.

"Why don't you try looking in her bedroom." Maker suggested.

"I already looked." Fighter said as she shook her head. "I also looked in the kitchen, living room, art room, music room, pool area, all the bathrooms are unoccupied, and I searched all outside, but she's not there either. I even tried Kakyuu's room." Fighter sighed as she sat down on Makers bed.

Maker was starting to look worried now too, "What about that one room?"

"What room?" Fighter asked shocked that she missed a room after searching for almost three hours.

"That one Princess Kakyuu told us not to go in until she got back. The one with the time machine, remember?" Maker asked with her eyes on Fighter.

"I remember, but why would Healer go in that room?" Fighter wondered.

"Well she could have accidentally wandered in there, or maybe she remembered something from the past. Or maybe she's curious to see what her future will be like or maybe she's not in there at all." Maker guessed.

"Well I think your right about the past and future thing. Because last night she woke up crying from a dream she had, so the dream could have been about her past of her future." Fighters eyes went wide, "So maybe she thought if she used the time machine she could see what her future would really be like or she could remember what her past was like."

"But how do we know how far back in the past or how far into the future she will go? And how do we know the machine really works? And how do we know that she's even in that room?" Maker asked.

"Well there's only one way to find out, lets go!" Fighter leaped off of Makers bed and ran down the hall.

"Wait for me!" Maker called after her as she shut her poetry book and took off after her friend.

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Healer stepped through the door and found herself in a small room with a machine in the corner of it.

The machine started to make a loud rumbling sound and a flash of light came straight towards Healer.

Healer dug her hand in her pocked and pulled out her Henshin Pin, but the machine was too strong, so she dropped her pin to the ground.

Healer screamed as the weird machine pulled her through a small opening.

The machine then went silent.

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A few minutes later Fighter and Maker found the room.

"Yeah she was in here, the door is open." Fighter whispered as her and Maker walked into the room.

"Hey what's that?" Maker pointed to a small object glinting on the floor near the machine.

"It's her Henshin Pin!" Fighter exclaimed.

Maker walked over to the time machine. The lights inside were blinking. "Oh yeah. This was definitely used."

"How far back did she go?" Fighter looked at Maker as she walked over to the time machine.

Maker looked around the time machine. "It doesn't say, but I don't think Healer wanted to go because why would she drop or leave without her pin? She must have accidentally upset something in the machine and her pin might have fell out of her pocket."

"So now what do we do?" Fighter looked at the pin in her hand. "Do you think she'll be OK?"

"I don't know if she will be OK, but I think we should call Kakyuu and see if she knows how to fix this." Maker turned and left the room to go get a phone.

Fighter followed her, "Good idea."