Breaking the Habit

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Chapter Five: Clouded Dreams

Aelita was busy in the kitchen when she heard someone behind her, she spun around but there was no one there...

This stress is really getting to me... She thought sitting down and flicking on the tv, the remote wouldn't work. She raised a pink eyebrow and walked over to turn it on manually, as she walked over she felt a chill breeze and walked over to the window to close it. It was tightly locked.

Aelita turned back to the tv to come face to face with someone else, she jumped back from shock and landed on the sofa, carefully backing away she reached for the phone and punched in 999. "Hello? HELLO? HELP ME!" The phone wasn't working. "What... what do you want from me?" "I want your-" "Oh this is like something from a bad dream... wait a sec..." "Help me..." The figure reached out towards her.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Aelita shot up in bed and screamed, Yumi's eyes flickered open and sat up as Jeremie burst in through the door and ran over to Aelita, "Ssshhh, calm down." Aelita took in deep breaths, "What's wrong?" "It... it was just a nightmare..." She continued to take deep breaths, "Don't worry, it's all over now." Jeremie comforted here as if she was a child.

She got up out of bed, "Where are you going?" "To take a little walk. I need to calm my nerves..." She walked behind the changing screen and got changed into normal clothes. "Well it's late, no time for an un-accompanied girl. I'll come too." Jeremie ran to his room and got changed into normal clothes.

They left the house and took a small walk around the block, near the end they sat down on a bench a couple of blocks from Yumi's.

She shivered as it was beginning to enter winter. "Here." Jeremie handed her a cup of hot chocolate that he'd got out of the vending machine. "Thank you." "Aelita?" "Yes?" "You have quite a set of lungs on you." She laughed, "Is that a compliment?" "You bet. So..." He paused, "You ok from this dream now?" "Yeah, feeling much better thanks." She took a sip from her hot chocolate, "It was so scary. That person reaching out at me, begging for help..." "Oh?" "The dream. Nothing worked, the tv, the telephone... it all seemed so real though... and that person seemed really familiar."

"It's probably a suppressed memory of your friends or parents-" he cut himself off as he realised what he had just said, Aelita was very sensitive about not having any parents and a tear dropped from her eye, "I... I didn't mean it like that Aelita. I'm sorry." Aelita wiped it away, "I know, I wish I had parents, it seems that without them I'm not normal..." "Aelita, I think you do have parents." "You do? What makes you say that?" "Well when we beat Xana I did a backup check to see if he survived somehow. And while searching in the factory I found a room with a program unknown to me working." "So you think it could be my parents?" "I don't know but it has a similar structure to your programming." "It all reminds me of the fact that I'm a computer program and nothing more..." "Don't say that. You know that isn't true."

The two decided to go to the mysterious room that night, as they had nothing better to do, when they arrived Aelita was in for a surprise...

The room was circular in shape and was designed just like the insides of the towers, "This room, it's one of the towers..." "But how can that be?" Suddenly Aelita's body stiffened as she saw a button, everything in her screamed out to push the button. She walked forwards and punched it. Suddenly a light in the center flickered on and a hologram appeared, it was an image of a cloaked human, "Aelita? Aelita is that you?" The image banged on the holographic walls, "Yes, how do you know of me?" The image chuckled, "It has been years since we last heard from each other so I suppose I shouldn't be surprised you don't recognise me." It pulled back its cloak, it was a woman in her 40s. "I am-" She was cut out as a huge explosion from the room above them filled the room with noise.

"What was that?" Jeremie plugged in his laptop, "Another program revealed itself, it is almost Identical to Xana's. There is one small difference." "That would be?" "It's a more updated version. Probably more dangerous too. Wha? It's gone! The program just disappeared into virtual air!"

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