Natsume's P.O.V:
I woke up with a blanket over me, next to Mikan, my heart pounded; Persona was gone he was no where to be see, nor was Luna.
The cat mask I was supposedly meant to be wearing wasn't on me. Mikan's mask was gone too,
I saw a fire a few meters away from me there was also a table with plates of food that had been covered with a teacloth. Underneath me was a mattress and there was another one for Mikan.
We were still in the northern woods! I saw Mai, she no longer had her mask either, she must have brought all of this stuff. I felt guilt surge through me. I know Mai would have taken us back, would have sent for help with her Alice but some thing or should I say some one had stopped her and I knew it.
I saw on her wrists 3 control bracelets, 3 rings, her star earrings with an extra control piece just above her piercing on her left ear. She had a limiting mark and some weird necklace on.
She was awake as I saw some thing wet roll down her arm, I pretended to be asleep as I heard her murmur,
"That idiot Persona should have known that the training he wanted me to do was to push me to the limits, make Natsume forget every thing to renew some contract of theirs, should have known that Natsume was the one who practically brought me here. Should have known that Mikan would be the one to humiliate me, I fought my Alice for their sake, nearly killed my self getting their masks off, returned his memory brought them all this for nothing."
I snapped my eyes open, to see that Mai curled up in a bundle next to me, I suddenly saw Ruka approaching from behind Mai. "What in the world happened Natsume, I've been worried sick!" dam now Mai would know that I'd heard every word.
I explained every thing in front of Mai including what I'd heard her say, Hotaru appeared out of the shadows, and she had her baka gun in hand.
Mai had disappeared by now some how she'd disappeared out of my sight, 10 minuets after Mikan awoke and we ate our dinner.
Narumi along side his best friend and Jinno-sense all appeared. Mikan and I had recovered but not Mai, they all looked grim, they knew not what to do, Mai had told them where we were but at the same time was fighting the electric wall to escape the academy!
"Mina, we need your help, we've tried every thing, we were told every thing but Mai refuses to listen to us. She's created an incredibly strong barrier, but she'd trying to self destroy he self with her Alice at the same time with her Alice and its working, a bit like Leo tried to."
I gasped and started running, I couldn't listen to the rest, the idiot, the absolute idiot just cause she harmed us in training and it go a bit out of hand doesn't mean she has to push it this far.
Mikan grabbed my hand and ran along side me, I realised why Mai was so similar to me, our past, our present, our future at the beginning we both only wanted to escape, to have power to help others, to have some one more understanding. She reminded me of my sister's best friend who moved village along time ago.
We saw where Mai had created her barrier, she'd already blown half the wall in, "Mai, STOP!" shouted Mikan, she didn't hear.
"Mai did you have a best friend called Aoi when you were 5 before moving to the edge of Tokyo?" Mai stopped and spun towards me.
"Aoi, y-yes but what would you care? Is it cause she has the same Alice as you?" she screamed in my face whilst attacking the barrier with her Alice.
I didn't believe that Mai would do some thing like this because I knew Mai from the age of 3. "Mai you didn't create this did you, not with out persona, I know it because I'm Aoi's brother, he's done some thing to you, and I know it!"
The barrier didn't break but she ran towards the edge of the barrier that separated me from her, I'd finally found a trust worthy childhood friend of my sister's.
Mikan stole Mai's Alice, as Mai weakly thudded on the barrier getting weaker and weaker determined to stand beside me and Mikan.
"the teachers, I hate them all, they're not teachers they're evil, they're planning on using us, Persona said so, he said that he was to get rid of Mikan, he said if I told I would die, I created this cause he told me it was a way out, I'M TRAPPED IN HELL!" she screamed being reduced to tears.
Mikan was trying her best to use Mai's ability to break the barrier as I kept Mai occupied.
"NO! Don't trust him, yes this school is dangerous but I promise Mikan, Narumi and I will get you out and if any one refuses I'll burn them!"
Mai was getting bruised and hurt, just as she was about kill her self from the last electric shock Mikan broke the barrier and Mai fell strait into Narumi who ran to catch her.
End of Natsume's P.OV