Finally I'm updating, two chapters in under a week, must be some sort of record! lol Anywayz thanks for all the reviews I've got for this fic, you guys are great, don't know what this chapter will turn out like but I hope you all like and remember to review. This is for Yamato no tenshi, I would say thanks for updating but as you didn't. *mutters*

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Chapter 13

I lay there dazed, blinking a few times I tried to sit up but there were people all around me trying to move closer to me at the same time and closing the circle around me as they did. Then I heard it, that low, commanding voice, the one that made anyone who heard it pay attention right away.

"Get out of the way, she needs to breath you know."

And he was next to me. With one soft movement he'd picked me up and was walking with me in his arms to a nearby bench.

I looked at him, puzzled.

"Where'd the forest go, and, and the fireballs, there where these great fire balls all around me. Coming at me from every direction."

His fingers were at my lips ceasing my panicking.

He silenced me and laid me down on the bench, but I sat up immediately.

"Kari. She was in there too." I started to panic again, she'd disappeared when I'd started to run, what if one of those things had got her, what if she was hurt.

"Relax Sora, I'm okay." She said, stepping forward so I could see her. "Gennai turned it off the second he heard you screaming." I sighed in relief.

"It's not real, I told you that." Jamie stated looking half-annoyed and half-worried. "Then why the hell is she bleeding." Matt asked him, raising his voice slightly.

"Matt." I warned. "Look, I'm fine really, just a small scrape, nothing for you to worry about."

"On the contrary my dear child, there is plenty for us to worry about. As Jamie pointed out that was a simulation of an attack I encountered several years back, it was not meant to be real and should not have left you with any lasting injury." Gennai was back and had made his way through everyone to me and was currently examining they gash on my forehead.

I looked at Matt and then at Tai after Gennai's words. They were both looking puzzled. But it was when I turned to Izzy that I too began to feel the weight of what had just happened. He was glancing nervously at Gennai.

"Izzy, what's wrong?" I asked. He just smiled at me, a nervous sort of smile. "Nothing, Sora, sorry. Just a bit shook up. Not every day a simulation turns into real life." Talking rather fast, even for him.

And I noticed as he said this he shut the lid on his computer and shoved it hastily back into its bag. I was starting to agree with Gennai right now, there was definitely something to worry about, only I had no idea what it was and I was starting to wonder if I was ever going to be told why I was here, why Matt and I where here.

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We walked back to ours rooms. After the incident both groups had started to talk more freely among each other, discussing the previous events.

Matt and Tai insisted on walking next to me and holding me up as we made our way back to our rooms.

"Really, I'm fine!" I protested. But they wouldn't listen to me, as usual, so I sighed and went along with it, secretly thinking how nice it was that they both cared so much. With the added bonus that Matt's arm was round my waist.

We reached my room and Matt turned to me, I smiled up at him and said night, but walked into my room before anyone could become suspicious. It wasn't that I didn't want people to know I was dating him, I just liked it being our secret at the present moment. I fell asleep the second my head hit the pillow, as I suspected did Mimi, Kari, Yolie and Jessica.

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I woke the next morning to a quiet whispering sound in my ear.

I groaned and rolled over, lifting my arm over my head trying to brush whatever was making the noise away. My arm however seemed to stop in mid air. Attempting to pull back down into the warmth of the covers I discovered that I couldn't move it and sat up with a start trying to scramble off my bed.

"Sora, Sora, calm down, it's me." The voice whispered. My eyes shot open and as they did I stared straight into two huge, blue orbs.

"Matt!" I whispered, furiously. "Don't do that!" He grinned sheepishly at me.

"Fancy going for a walk?" He asked looking at me with his puppy-dog eyes.

I sighed. "Yes, okay, but next time, find another way to wake me up okay?" I started to get up and off the bed, trying not to make anymore noise, when I felt two strong arms lift me up once again and begin to carry me across the room.

"This isn't walking." I hissed, but he just grinned at me and carried on out the bedroom door.

When we got out into the hall I had already started to wriggle around in his arms. I hated being carried anywhere and he knew that, but he did in purposely to annoy me.

When we had put enough distance between the bedrooms and us I started to yell at him to put me down.

"You know I don't like being carried." I said in what I hoped was a stern tone of voice.

"And you know that's why I do it." He said laughing at my fresh attempts to get out of his arms. It was hopeless trying to get my own way like this, so I stopped moving altogether and fell limp in his arms.

He staggered under the new change in the weight and knocked his shin on a table that stood at the side of the long hallway. Trying to jump up and down on the spot and hold on to me at the same time proved too much for him, as I had planned.

Taking his moment of weakness to my advantage I jumped out of his arms and sprinted down the hall a few meters laughing my head off as I turned round to see him jumping up and down on one foot.

He looked up when he heard me laughing and with a mock frown he said "Oh you're going to pay for that."

I didn't really pay attention to where I was running, I just kept dodging walls and running through doorframes with Matt hot on my heels.

He finally caught up with me, well we'd only been running for about 30 seconds but I found it quite amusing that he was out of breath already.

"Not very fit are you?" I laughed as he wrestled me to the wall trying to pin me against it, but I was too quick for him this time. Ducking under his arm I got behind him before he could even turn around.

"Ah! No more now, you know I'm faster than you."

"Yeah and more of a dirty fighter." He stated rubbing his shin.

I grinned at him and he shook his head.

"We should probably go back, we'll be. hey, where are we? I've never seen this part of Gennai's home before."

I turned and looked round the room. It was true, I'd never seen this place before.

"Who knows, come on." I said, wanting to get back to breakfast before anyone realized we were missing, but he caught my arm before I could even get through the door.

"Look." He said urgently and pointed over to the corner of the room.

There sat a very odd looking computer, at least I thought it was a computer and there stood hundreds upon hundreds of books stacked high around its desk.

"It's a computer Matt." I said, "What's so interesting?"

"No, not that, look at what's on its screen and on all the books.

I turned my head and looked carefully at the screen of the computer, my eyes growing wide in surprise by what I saw and then I let them travel over the books that stood around it. All the covers showed the same markings.

"But, that, well it looks like."

"Yeah I know, but why is it here?"

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