The Awakening

A/N: Thanks for all the reviews! I've successfully reached 32 non-negative reviews...knock on wood. Lol. I'm not going to babble. Here you go!

Helga: WAIT JUST A MINUTE!

What is it Helga?

Helga: Did you seriously just kill me off in the last chapter?! Nonetheless, by the Football Head?!

Well...

Arnold: Helga, I'm sure she had a perfectly good reason to. Just let her start the chapter.

Thank you Arnold. :)

Helga: OH FINE... But this better be good. I'm going to miss an episode of Wrestlemania for this.

Arnold: Whatever you say, Helga.

Okay, remember when I said I wouldn't babble? Well apparently Helga wanted to start a conversation. Oh well, that's Helga for ya!

Helga: Hey I-

ONTO THE DISCLAIMER!

Disclaimer- I don't own Hey Arnold! CRAIG, NICK, SNEE-OSH AND VIACOM do.

Helga: We're not finished with this conversation yet!

-Helga sits back down in the seat beside Arnold-

Well, enjoy this chapter. It may be a while till the next. -whispers to crowd- Unless Helga decides to kill me first...

No recap, as I'm sure you all know what happened in the last chapter..

Helga: Yeah, I keeled ove-

-Arnold puts his hand over her mouth. Helga swoons like crazy in her mind-

...

Arnold's POV:

As I was sitting there, waiting for some kind of magical being to come out of the blue like they always have in this ridiculous dream and save the day, nothing happened. Was I bound to be stuck here forever? In this dark and terrifying place that caused me to do such harm to someone I cared about? No. I thought. There has to be a way out.

Then I looked at her face, as she lay there lifeless on the ground. It reminded me of the pain I had caused her. "I-I'm so...so..sorry Helga." I choked out between sobs, hugging her unmitigated form.

Nobody's POV:

What Arnold didn't know was the seemingly greenish tear that had slid down his cheek, and onto the departed girls chest, where he had hit her...in the heart.

Arnold's POV:

As I was mourning over the death of the girl lying in front of me, I slowly lifted my head to see a bright green light glowing in her chest. I stared at it, hoping that it may bring her back to life. Soon, it quickly sprouted out into a million green vines throughout the air all connected to her. Then, they formed into Helga's figure. I looked at the prepossessing sight in front of me, it was absolutely beautiful, she was beautiful.

All of a sudden, the figure wrapped around me for a moment then let go. She looked me in the eyes and wiped the tears that were forming in the corners of my eyes and on my cheeks. Then she spoke.

"Cry no more, my love God. For you have everything that you'll ever need in your life, right in front of you. But you must save them." She gestured to five green figures just like herself. They looked to be my Mother, Father, Grandma, My future self, and the future Helga. Suddenly, one popped into the lineup of figures, it was her. It was Helga. Not any other version of her, just plain Helga. She had a green glow around her, just like myself and she looked, alive? I looked to the ground where her once unconscious body lay, but it wasn't there. So that had to be her!

I was so overwhelmed that I ran as fast as I could to her and she did the same. "HELGA!" I yelled as we got closer.

"ARNOLD!" Her voice echoed through the air.

As we neared, I realized that she didn't disappear, like my parents and grandma had. So that being said, I noticed that she wasn't dead...she was alive.

I smiled happily, waiting until we finally came in contact with each other. We were so close until...BOOM! Everything turned into a bright and sickening green flash.

...

I opened my eyes cautiously, only to be greeted with the lightning from the skylight in my room. I got up and put a hand on my forehead, having and excruciating migraine from the events that had just taken place. I looked around. Everything looked real. As I registered my surroundings, realization had hit me like a ton of bricks. 'Wait...what?! I was just in the hospital!' I looked around once more. Everything seemed to be real. "I-I...since when did I get here?!" I exclaimed, only to be interrupted by the door opening to the entrance of my room...

Helga's POV:

I awoke in a tangle of pink covers. I sat up, feeling like I had been hit by a truck. 'Hmph, what else is new?' Then, I realized that I was no longer in the hospital. I was in a familiar place...I was 'in my own room! But wait just a darn freaking second. I was in the hospital not too long ago...what's going on here?' Suddenly my door flung open, revealing the object of my parents' affections...Ol-ga.

"Oh Baby Sister! I'm just so glad to know that you're all right!" She ran over to me, clasping me into a bone crushing hug.

"All right, all right! Stop slobbering all over me. I was only out for a couple of hours."

"On the contrary Helga! You have been sleeping for the past four days!" She squealed.

"Okay, would ya please quiet down a little?! Yeesh, I think you just made my headache one hundred times worse than it already was!" I yelled.

"I'm just so glad to know that you're all right!" She started to cry.

"Yeah, yeah. Just stop crowdin' me, all right! How'd I get here in the first place?"

"After I heard that you passed out in the hospital from Arnold's Grandpa, I decided to get a plane ticket and come down here to make sure that you were all right." She said, mascara running down her cheeks.

"Wait...did you say four days?!" I yelled alarmingly.

"Y-yes." She replied.

"What time is it?! I had to have missed too much school, and I certainly do not want to have to do too much make up work!"

"It's around 7:30 a.m. But Baby Sister, you just woke up from four days of sleep, not to mention that you said your head was hurting. You're more than welcome to stay home and res-" She stated.

I listened to her babble on as I was rushing around the room, looking for clothes and grabbing my bookbag. "No, no, no. I'm perfectly fine Olga! I've had plenty of rest! I'm going to school now!" I ran out the door, hoping to catch the bus so I wouldn't have to run to school because of the horrible pain in my head. But alas, the bus was leaving as I was running up the sidewalk. It was then that I realized the flash of lightning and the rumble of thunder that followed. "Perfect...just my freaking luck." I said, running down the sidewalk, ignoring the horrendous pain and pounding in my head.

Meanwhile, with Arnold's POV:

My Grandpa walked in as I was registering where I was.

"Holy cannoli, Shortman! I thought you were never going to wake up, again." He said as a matter of factly.

"Sorry Grandpa, I keep having this bizarre dream!"

"Yeah, I know." He said.

I looked to him alarmingly. "You do, how?"

"Because you keep yelling things in your sleep." He dead panned.

"L-Like what?"

"Oh, things like 'come back' and 'mom, dad, Helga!'" He imitated, obviously leaving out the Grandma exclamations, not wanting to bring her up again after what had happened to her four days ago.

"Oh...yeah.." There was an awkward silence between us. I looked over at the clock and realized it was 7:30 in the morning and decided that I should probably get to school knowing that I had missed three days of it. "Well, I'm going to get ready for school. I already missed three days, which means that I'll probably have a lot of make up work to deal with."

"OH, yes Shortman. Probably more than you think."

"W-what do you mean?" I questioned.

"Well, you've been passed out for four days." He said rubbing the back of his neck.

I groaned, falling back onto my bed.

"It's okay Shortman. You can take the day off if you want to. Who knows, maybe your friends will bring you the homework that ya missed." He said trying to cheer me up.

"Nah, it's fine, Grandpa. I'll go." I said, my voice being muffled from under my pillow.

"Okay, if you're not feeling well, you can always call me...but please don't. I'm exhausted from running back and forth from the hospital to that school of yours." He dead panned.

I perked up when he said 'hospital'.

"H-how's Grandma?" I asked very reluctantly, as not to upset him.

"Uhh...s-she was having a reaction to the medicine they were giving her Shortman...b-but, I'm sure she'll be alright." He tried to smile.

Arnold wasn't buying the facade mentally, but physically I returned the favor and got out of bed to get ready for the long day that awaited...and knowing that my Grandma most certainly was not alright, I could sense it somehow. I didn't know if it was the way grandpa stuttered and attempted to smile or if it was that crazy dream/ magical green eye destiny of mine. (A/N: ooohhhh...Arnold, finally wising up!) wait...Helga! I thought echoes scrambling in my head, until my Grandpa chimed in.

"Okay, well...speaking of your Grandma, I'm going to check on her." He said getting up, as I was sitting there with an eager looking face, pleading to go with him. "No, Shortman. You have too much work to make up. Don't want to end up like me when I made the decision to skip when I went to school with you, now do you?"

My head cast a downward position. "No, you're right...but I'll be there after school Grandpa. I promise." I said, putting a hand up to gesture my sincerities.

"Okay, then, and who knows maybe your cranky friend with the one eyebrow, would want to come too, eh?" He said eyeing me.

"Y-yeah...Helga.." Suddenly I gasped. "HELGA!" I yelled running down the stairs. "See you later Grandpa! I gotta go!" I said huffing and puffing out the door and down the sidewalk.

Grandpa's POV:

"Girl's gone straight to the kids head. Heh heh." He said, chuckling to himself.

Nobody's POV:

What he didn't just how much she really was in his head, obiously...

As they were both rounding the corner...you guessed it...they bumped into each other causing them to fly backwards.

Helga's POV:

This time, I felt no need to hold it back. "ARNOLD!" I yelled.

"HELGA! Y-you're alive!" He screamed, with tears of joy spilling from his eyes. "I'm so sorry Helga.." He said as we were now hugging each other.

"It's okay, Football head...I-I mean watch it! You could have destroyed me forever! Y'know sometimes you can be a real dope! I mean, it was only a stupid, ridiculous dream right?" I said hopeful...'and wow! I need to stop overheatin' my tiny mind. I've been more aggressive than usual... hmm...I wonder if it is because that older version of me isn't in my mind to control me anymore because she's locked away..or maybe I'm still just dellusional, as I always am. Nah! Well...back to the bullying facade.'

"Actually Helga, I think that it might be a vision." He said, looking serious.

"Ahahaha, that's real funny football head!" I said, having it not come out like I wanted it to. "Well, I think that it was just a useless and ridiculous dream." The Words were pouring out of my mouth on their own...and this time I wasn't the one doing it.

"HELGA.." He said in an affended tone, his face having a look of distraught.

I was personally afraid of what he was capable of doing, but my mouth said otherwise..." Whatever loser, see ya around." It said, then my legs started moving the the other way and I realized that I was no longer controlling my body, but another nature had possesed it. I was just some lonely girl stuck inside of a shell, a hard exterior.

"Fine" I could hear him say from behind.

'Arnold, please help...'

Arnold's POV:

As she walked away, glimpses of the dream flashed through my mind and I realized that I saved her life and that, that may not be her...nonetheless it still made me upset and not emotionally but angry...I realized that this was going to be a looong day...

A/N: Well, that was it for chapter nine. Enjoy! I'll tell post the next chapter when I have time.

Helga: What was that?!

Arnold: I have to agree with Helga on this one.

Okay...okay...it MIGHT make more sense in the next chapter.

Helga: NEXT CHAPTER?! I can't wait that long!

Arnold: Sure you can Helga! Just look on the brightside and things will speed up.

Helga: easy for you to say Football Head. You're the freaking star here.

Okay, well enough of that! See ya and remember to...Arnold would you do the honors?

Arnold: R&R this fantastic fic!

Thanks!

Helga: Hey-!

-Helga gets cut off by my name- (Helga, you're still my fav character! Luv ya!)

-Rosey