Ch.28 "IN HER DREAMS."



'Oh, Mr. Chaikary. I'm so sorry. I didn't think you would be so upset by this,' Ange apologized in her head while she walked him out of the house after he had changed for work. She decided to take a stroll around the neighbourhood. She too, was upset, not for the same reason though. She knew more than what she told Kamari's dad. She knew exactly who Kamari's sister was. She also knew the family that took Uraina in. But, her head was telling her not to tell Mr. Chaikary, while her heart was rushing to tell Mr. Chaikary everything about his daughters. Overall, Ange felt that if she had told Mr. Chaikary the whole true, it would shatter his hopes of finding his daughter back and reuniting her with Kamari. She felt a headache coming on while her heart began aching. A dreadful feeling was upon Ange. She stopped in her tracks to the park just to try pulling herself together. Her sickness was getting worse. She looked around as the images in her head flashed by. She placed her hand over her forehead as she watched the world spinning around her in her head. 'Don't faint, Dawna; you mustn't,' she said to herself. However, her body didn't agree with her, and she fainted.

A crowd gathered around her body on the grass. While most of them were mumbling, one of them called for the paramedics. Luckily, Aurora and Matt were at the park. They found the crowd, and Aurora was curious to see what the matter was. He ran there, ahead of Matt, and made his way up to the front, and saw Ange's body laying on the grass.

"Dawna?!" Aurora called out in a concern tone. "Wake up!"

"What happened here?" Matt asked the crowd.

One of the bystanders answered, "She just fainted. Her pulse, and everything else is all right. We tried waking her, but she didn't respond."

"We called for help. They're on the way here," another bystander said.

"Dawna! Wake up! It's Aurora. Wake up! Come on! Wake up!"

"Let's get her onto the bench, Aurora," Matt said. And so they did. Aurora and Matt carefully placed her body lying on the bench. Then Aurora took off his jacket and covered her from the neck down in case she was cold.

"Mariana! No!" Ange screamed herself up, startling the crowd.

"Mariana? What's the matter, Dawna?" Aurora asked her.

"Aurora? What are you doing here? And it's Ange."

"Ange? So, this is Ange?"

"Matt?!"

"You know my name. Have we met before?"

"It was just a lucky guess. Help me, Aurora. I need to find Mariana."

"Why? Is something going to happen to her?" Aurora asked.

"No. I just had a horrible dream. And I just wanted to see her. Where is she?"

"She should be done with her volunteering at the school for today. We can pop by there to check on her if you want," Aurora suggested.

"Thanks," Ange said.

"If you don't mind, can I tag along?"

"I don't mind if Ange doesn't," Aurora commented and glanced at Ange.

"All right. We can take a taxi there," Ange said and Aurora suddenly realized something. "Aurora! Where are you going!?"

"I'll be back! Wait for me!" Aurora yelled as he ran towards the parking lot.

"Okay!" Ange shouted back.

Ten minutes later, Aurora returned smiling. "I just call for a cab. It'll be around the corner in five minutes. We just have to get to that corner before it leaves."

"I see," Matt said.

"All right then. Let's get moving. I don't want to get there and find out that she left already."

"Okay, before we go, what's the school's name?" Matt asked.

"Don't worry. I know it. It should be Odaiba Elementary."

Odaiba Elementary? That's where the others are, Matt thought.



"I thought you say you called a cab," Ange criticized. "That's a limousine."

"It was an understatement, I guess."

"Aurora," Ange uttered in a louder tone, almost angry. "We're not trying to go there in style."

"I know. But, have you ever tried travelling in a limousine before?" Aurora asked, but didn't wait for her reply. Instead, he added, "I knew you wouldn't approve, so I didn't tell you. But, can we still go by limo?"

"I guess so," Ange answered when she saw the driver opening the door for her.



"Where to, Sir?" the driver asked politely.

"To Odaiba Elementary please," Aurora stated and the driver stepped on it.



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Ange, Aurora and Matt arrived at Odaiba Elementary. They scattered in search of Kamari. While Aurora searched inside the building, Matt followed a worried Ange to the back of the school.

Ange and Matt glanced around, and found a young girl's body lying unconscious on the grass.

"Mariana!" Ange screamed in fright. Fears of Kamari's death filled Ange's head as she ran towards the body. Matt, seeing that they found Kamari, realized that he should go and inform Aurora of the body, and so he did, leaving Ange with Kamari.

"Mariana!" Ange kept on repeating she she rested Kamari body on her lap, "Wake up! This is not funny! You're scaring me. Wake up! Mariana."

After checking Kamari for pulse and breathing, Ange burst into tears. She never felt so unhappy in her life, besides when she lost her parents and her aunt. It was as though fate was taking away everyone that she becomes close with. And that was one of the reasons why she tried so hard to keep others from getting too close to her. But, fate always seemed to win, taking away her parents, then her aunt, and now a friend that she cared so deeply about."No. Ange, you must throw in the towel yet," Ange muttered to herself. Determined to save her friend, using her own healing powers, Ange tried to revive the dead.

However, nothing happened. Kamari's body still rested on her lap, lifeless. Ange didn't stop trying. She chanted a tiny spell to revive Kamari. Too bad, her powers were too weak and limit to grant such a big wish. Hugging Kamari, Ange continued to cry.

"Oh, Ange," a voice said from behind her.

Ange, still weeping, turned around and faced the figure that the soothing voice belonged to. "Oh, Aurora. We've come too late."

Aurora and Matt walked closer to Ange, ready to comfort her. "Don't worry, Ange, it's never too late. Let's get her to the hospital," Aurora tried to assure.

Ange, sobbing louder, screamed, "MARIANA!"



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When Aurora and Matt finally persuaded Ange to send Mariana to the nearest hospital that afternoon, Mr. Chaikary, Kamari's dad, was notified. Worried about his daughter's conditions, he rushed by her side. He sat in a chair beside the hospital bed in which Kamari's motionless body rested upon while Matt, Aurora and Ange watched through the window. 'Oh, Mariana. You have a pulse now, and you are still breathing, so why can't you wake up?' Ange pondered madly in her troubled head. Nothing else was on her mind besides Kamari's life. Well, practically almost nothing else besides the memories of how the mission of protecting the Digital World and the Digidestines' Real World all started out.



Author's Notes: So...any confusion yet??? lol, my friends, when I first attempted to explain the first part of the series for the story, they were so very confused... so, if you have any questions...comment on them on the reviews, and I'll try my best to explain by reviewing or mentioning the answers in the nearest future chapters possible. Next chapter or two is a bit longer, more complex and 'confusing'. By the way, thanks for all the reviews.

Disclaimer: don't own Digimon.