Sorry bout being a slow updater. I'm lazy! I have to say my new story really took off well. I recommend you read it if you haven't already. Anyway next chapter:

"We should get going." I said after a minute. "Jim is here an-" I started but ember cut me off,

"And it's only a matter of time before he finds us." She finished. "Now, you are sure about this, right?"

"As sure as possible anyway."

"Good enough." She said and grabbed my hand with her gloved one and yanked me away from the bathroom. Too bad, I really did have to go!

"Stay behind me. Walk fast, but not so fast that it looks like you're running away from something. Keep your head to the front and don't look around. Follow me, don't get lost and we should be okay." She explained. She let go of my hand and started walking away very fast. And jogged up behind her and followed as I was instructed. I didn't like this so far…

A few minutes later I began to relax. We were doing fine. No one looked at us. No one stopped us. And we were almost at the exit. Everything would be okay.

Or so I though. At the exact moment Ember reached the door a voice same from behind us.

"Raimundo there you are!" It was Kimiko.

"Don't look back." Ember commanded. Too late. I looked back. Kimiko, Clay, Omi, and Jim were all approaching us. And when they saw me they started running.

"You idiot!" Ember yelled and grabbed my hand again, jerked open the door, and started sprinting, pulling me along for the ride.

"Where we going?" I shouted as we weaved through cars and people. We were in parking lot going a million miles per hour.

"We have to get to the city! I booked a hotel room!"

"You booked a hotel room?" I asked as I narrowly avoided a car.

"Yes! But don't worry I've done this before, we won't get caught!" She let go of my hand and ran over to the exit gate. Ember grabbed her bag and started searching through it.

"What are you looking for?" I gasped for air as I caught up. She didn't answer. She kept looking until she pulled up two things I recognized. The changing chopsticks and the silver manta ray.

"This!" She answered. "Changing chopsticks!" The mini-manta-ray grew back to normal size and she thrust it in my hand.

"Um…Silver manta ray…?" I activated it, confused as to what to do. The wu grew into the familiar flying machine I'd seen many times.

"You know how to fly this thing?" Ember asked.

"Yeah," I nodded.

"Then fly us out of here!" We boarded the 'ray and I sat in the driver's seat. Un-sure of what to do.

"Hurry! They're coming!" Ember yelled. I turned to my left to see that Jim and my friends were running towards us.

"Okay!" I snapped back, grabbed the wheel, presses some buttons and we took off.

"You can't run away forever, Ember! I'll get you one day!" Jim shouted from below.

"Uh-huh right." She yelled back. Jim started to shout something else but we were already flying away at top speed. No one could see us or hurt us.

"Um so…Where to?" I asked after flying for a while.

"Just keep flying. I'll tell you when we reach it." Ember replied and kicked back in her seat. "Rai…"

"Yeah…"

"Thanks." She said after a pause.

"Erm, your welcome." I said. It didn't seem like much at first but then I realized something; Ember NEVER said thanks. This meant something…

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We reached the hotel and checked in. No one questioned us. Ember had signed in with the name Mary Smith, her real name. I guess it was common enough to use an alias.

"Oh Rai, there's something you should know." Ember said as we reached our room.

"Okay." I said and waited for the news.

"You see, I didn't really think you would say yes to being my partner…So the room…Well…It only has one bed."

Hehehehehehehehe. I couldn't resist limiting them to one bed. Aw come on! Don't gimme that look! Review and please check out my new story!