Chapter 13

Part 2: Blast From The Past

"Evil spans all time originating from the human mind. To counter God gave humans the heart. Those who use mind over heart ultimately become evil. Those who use heart over mind become to weak to be a warrior. The Dragonmaster must find the balance between heart and mind to succeed in his task."

-Book Of Trials

Kaname went over the events of the past few months over and over again in her head. Nothing added up, the men claimed to have been protecting her and her mother, but what could possibly happen to them if the soldiers guarding them had known they were guests not hostages, and the team that had come for them had seem like they were trying to rescue them, not arrest them.

Then was the way the treated her, like some sort of princess, but then when ever that day of the week came up they took her to see that, what Kaname thought, fake doctor, and the last thing she can remember is the mask being put over her face and she drifts off to sleep. When she wakes up there's some sort of computer and all the professor's in the room have huge smiles on her face.

However this past time had been different. Sure they went through the same procedure, they walked her to the room, the doctor re-assured her that everything was completely safe but she noticed a massive white board that was completely blank in the corner. Several professor looking people stood near it like they were waiting to write something. When she woke up the entire board was full and once again all the professors had huge grins on their face.

Kaname had tried to figure out just what was written on the board but it looked to be all mathematical formulas, and the only stuff that was written was super complex. All she could remember was, "Dragon Heart."

As much as she tried to place those too words it just didn't make sense. She knew that Zech had told her that her place was to help them develop an unlimited free energy source with some power she had, but she hadn't used it at all.

Her entire week consisted of some basic schooling in the Korean language, eating, being pampered, and walking around the complex. Zech hadn't brought up the free energy deal to Kaname since their first day, and he didn't seem to be the kind of person who would forget someone else's end of a bargain.

This made her assume that she had been doing some sort of work if not sub-consciously.

"Wait sub-consciously!"

Kaname ran over to her nightstand and removed the diary she had been keeping on what had happened. Sure enough without fail every week she had been put to sleep by the 'fake' doctor.

"I must be helping them someway during that sleeping session but how?"

A knock at her door startled her, "Ms. Konishi its time for your language lesson."

"Coming Mr. Akira!"

Kaname decided to keep her thoughts in the back of her mind hoping something would give her an idea as to what was going on.

Sion sat nervously with Jamie and Ruby in a highly decorated waiting room. Jamie smiled as Sion fought to keep himself from fidgeting, Ruby put her hand on Sion's knee to keep it from bouncing up and down.

"What's got you so worked up Mr. Dragonmaster?", Ruby had to put a little force on her hand to keep Sion's knee down.

"Please don't call me that here."

"Humm, why's that?"

Sion looked down at the ground, "This is a holy place, I'm Roman Catholic and I don't like reserving a title for myself here especially when I'm about to meet the pope."

A deep male voice nearly Sion made him jump, "So the Dragonmaster is Roman Catholic? Nall this is great news to my ears, come my son you title is welcome in this place, be proud of what God has given you."

Sion looked towards the source of the voice and was frozen in shock when he saw the pope standing right next to him.

"Humm this one doesn't say much, ahh Jamie you have come as well, and Ruby it's always a pleasure."

Jamie gave the pope a hug as did Ruby, "Now Nall I'm sure your all hungry from your trip, all of you should dine with me, we don't usually have lavish food here in the lords house but we shall make an exception for you all tonight, oh your pilot bring him too where is he?"

Nall smiled, "Actually the Dragonmaster was our pilot."

"A young man of many talents and responsibilities, come young man dine with us I'm sure you starved."

Sion still didn't move, if it wasn't for his chest rising and his eye's darting you'd think he was a standing corpse.

Nall whispered to the pope, "He hasn't gotten out in awhile, I'm sure you understand why. Sion's his name doesn't that ring a bell?"

The pope's eyes went big, "You are the young man that's plane obliterated in the ocean, Sion Nickson, correct?"

Sion finally found himself able to move his mouth, "Yes."

The pope then turned to Nall, "And you trusted him to fly you here?"

The whole room broke into laughter and Sion fell over. Pope John Paul smiled and waved them towards the exit.

"Alright as Nall has requested we have decorated a room like the 1st class cabin of the Titanic, you will all find clothing to change into that reflect the times. Everything is as it was on that ship. I will join you all there within the hour."

He then went over to Sion and helped him up, "And you young man need know that I am not God, far from it. I am a humble servant, and I wish for you to see me as just the same as you. You are responsible for stopping the evil that will come, and I lead the Roman Catholic church. Both are tremendous responsibilities, but I do not believe the entire world will die off if I mess up once."

Sion completely froze then the pope slapped him on the back, "Relax Sion there are many here to help you, and God will be with you. Now I give you a choice, we are both men with great responsibility and title to match. What do you wish me to call you Dragonmaster? Or Sion?"

"Sion, your holiness."

They all walked out of the room, the pope went to his private bed room for a few moments. Sion and the rest were directed to a changing and bathroom for them to wash. After a quick shower Sion joined Nall in the male dressing room to pick out some clothing. Some assistants walked in and helped the two make selections.

Nall actually looked normal in the older clothes. He had a freshly pressed tuxedo style attire, with a single eye piece. He carried his top hat in his hand preferring only to wear it once it became necessary.

Sion looked a bit more out of place. He wore a similar clad tuxedo design. He wore his hat and it made him look even more ridiculous. His blonde hair stuck out from around the hat and his bangs almost covered his eyes. The tails of the tux made the entire ensemble look old that coupled with the bleach white gloves, and box toed shoes.

"You know how much I hate dressing up right?"

Nall smiled, "What with all those fancy t-shirts and wife-beaters your always walking around with, and don't think I don't realize you try and make one pair of pants last a whole week."

Sion sighed, "So how long do I have to stay like this?"

"For today? Just through dinner."

"I can live with that."

"Excuse me sirs?", an male attendant appeared on the other side of the room.

"Yeah were ready."

Sion and Nall followed the attendant to a sitting area where the pope was already waiting.

"Well don't you two just look…old."

Sion still wasn't entirely comfortable around the pope, but he decided to warm up to the situation.

"And Sion it looks as if a young man discovered his great grandfathers clothes and decided to give them a try."

"It's not far from that your holiness."

"Sir is enough Sion, besides if this simulation is supposed to be realistic I do not believe the pope was on board the Titanic."

"True sir."

Nall and Sion took a seat on a couch opposite the pope and waited on the girls, "Women always take a long time to get ready."

"Why Nall back then it took endless amounts of time compared to now with all they had to put on. Can you imagine what it would be like for women in this day in age to wear a corset?"

"Heh my wife would have a fit if you made her wear one of those."

"Is that so?"

Nall gulped as he turned around. Jamie and Ruby were standing in the door way near a smiling female attendant.

Jamie had a lightly peach colored bell dress her hair had a matching colored bonnet like hat. Even dressed like she was she looked out of place with her hair hanging down instead of being up in some ornate like hairstyle, but to Sion she was still beautiful.

Ruby's dress was similar to Jamie's except it was bright red, a color Nall was sure she had chosen herself. It was also clear that they were wearing a corset when they sat because they couldn't bend forward.

"Still getting used to it honey?"

"Nall wearing this thing makes me very irritable so be nice", the look on her face spoke volumes.

"Well then now that we're all here lets start dinner, it took a lot of work to get this room the way it was on the ship in such short time."

"We appreciate it sir."

"After the rescue mission you staged to get our missionaries out of Iran last month we owe you."

"Oh come on that was nothing, sides this guy here's the one who pulled it off."

"Really Sion? We'll have to hear about all this over dinner please, come, come."

The group left for the main dining area.

Kaname found the classroom and her teacher Mr. Akira to be the most comfortable setting she found her self in while in the palace. She knew there were always guards outside her, and she knew everyone around her had ulterior motives for treating her so nice.

Mr. Akira was different though he genuinely wanted to teach Kaname Korean. He would constantly tell her of how she reminded him of his daughter back home in Japan. He spoke Japanese, it was his native tongue until he was taken to North Korea by DPRK Agents. He then learned Korean to survive, and was thrilled to be given the chance to tutor another Japanese girl like Kaname.

"Well Kaname your scores are very good however I feel its time we upped the amount of vocabulary your learning."

"But Mr. Akira I'm studying real hard, you want me to learn more in a shorter time, how?"

Mr. Akira moved over to his desk and took out a small tape player, "I've recorded this weeks vocabulary onto a tape, play it while your sleeping your brain will learn it subconsciously and you'll be able to learn it in no time at all."

"Sleep learning?...", Kaname thought back to the Wednesday afternoons down in the basement. Was that what they were doing, sleep learning? Had all that stuff that had been written on the board been drilled into her while the drugs made her sleep?

No that didn't make any sense. If that had been the case then she would have been able to actually remember what had been written on that board or at the very least been able to understand it somewhat.

"Mr. Akira I've got a question for you."

"Sure Kaname?"

"This sleep learning, is it possible to work backwards?"

"I'm not following Kaname."

"Like instead of me learning what's on the tape can people like mutter things that they know."

"I'm sure its possible, if you were put to sleep using hypnosis and were persuaded by some sort of mental trigger you could start talking about things you knew?"

"What about being put to sleep using something like anesthesia?"

"No because anesthesia works by putting your body functions to near zero so you would not be able to talk, however…"

"Humm?"

"Well when your coming out of hypnosis your in what they call the twilight stage where your mind can't really focus on anything and your easily persuaded to believe anything anyone says, and your answer almost anything."

"How long does that last?"

"Usually just about five to fifteen minutes, but certain drugs like powerful painkillers can prolong that effect for hours at a time, but its extremely dangerous."

Kaname suddenly realized that something must be going on down in that basement when she was asleep, and she suspected that somehow she had told those professors what was written up on that board. She quickly hatched up a plan to find out. Taking the mini tape recorder she thanked Mr. Akira and went back to her room.

"Wow this place is amazing, how long did it take you to put this up?"

"We've put the entire Vatican to work on this ever since we got your call earlier last night."

The room was lavishly decorated restraint had an over all red theme to the room. The tables were medium in size with a brilliant white silky table cloth covering them. The chairs had a dark looking wood finish and the sitting and back area of the chair was covered in padded red velvet. The floor was red with a small golden pattern that danced around in some areas. There were a few chess boards in larger sitting areas where passengers could have sat while waiting for there food and enjoyed a game of chess. Other small areas around the restraint included a small humidor where passengers could enjoy a cigar will waiting, that is if they could afford it.

"Well my friends what do you think of this place?"

The pope was still dressed in his papal garb but everyone else blended in oddly enough.

Only one of the tables was set, Sion gawked at the number of forks, spoons, and knives.

"Don't worry about it buddy, were gonna teach ya how to use them", Nall winked at Sion as he pulled out a seat for Ruby.

Sion followed suit as he pulled out Jamie's chair and slid it in for her. An attendant helped the pope sit as well as Sion and Nall.

A brief conversation took place before a salad was placed in front of each person.

"So which one do I use for this Nall?"

"Well the trick is to start from the outside and work your way in, so you use a fork to eat a salad right?"

"Yeah."

"So use the first fork on the outside."

Sion grabbed the fork and forced himself to eat some of the salad, Ruby leaned over and whispered in his ear.

"If you don't want to eat it inform the waiter you wouldn't like a salad and he'll take up the salad fork and the salad."

Sion waved over the attendant and informed him of his eating preferences, the waiter nodded and collected the salad and matching fork. Sion waited for everyone to finish eating before starting up the conversation.

"So how is this going to work?"

Nall placed his napkin in his lap and smiled, "Its simple really. Ismay assigned a man to take responsibility for the shield named Tom Ferris. All four of us will eat over at the first class a la carte restraint where we'll run into him hopefully. I'm going under disguise as Dr. Yates from Yale University, Ruby as my wife Mrs. Yates, and you two are Dale Richards and Katherine McDonnell, two of my students."

"And how do we get on the boat with that? Its not like we have contacts back in time to put that false documentation in place."

Jamie's question made Nall smile, "We're going to arrive in Southampton England on April 9th at 6:00 PM 1912. We'll get into the ticketing office on the dock and alter the manifest records to include us in a first class suite."

Sion then thought of the next obstacle, "How do we know if there's even an open suite."

Nall picked up a book from under his seat and laid it on the table. It was titled, "A complete history and record of the R.M.S. Titanic."

"This book has everything in it, including a manifest of all passengers on the boat, before we leave the boat we'll have to alter it back to the way it was."

Ruby spoke up, "That's the biggest problem. The entire time were on board the Titanic I know your going to be tempted to talk to famous people on the boat and possibly try to save people's lives, but the hard fact is we can't. Saving just one person or even mentioning the Titanic possibly being sinkable could completely alter the course of events of the future in ways we can't possibly imagine."

"Ruby's right, I know its going to be hard walking and talking to all these people but you have to remember not to mention future events or things that could even hint at the fact that were from the future. All equipment we're taking with us is minimal and what we do take has to come back with us, any thing left behind is almost as dangerous as Virgo having the Dragon Heart in their possession we have no idea how it could alter history."

The pope who had been sitting silent now voiced his concern, "How are we going to get you all back safely?"

Nall now became nervous, "If everything works smoothly we can set the machine to pull us out at April 14th at 11:30. Ten minutes before the Titanic actually hit the iceberg."

The pope wasn't entirely satisfied, "The machine's thousands of years old, what if it doesn't function properly?"

"We've got too much riding on this to let that get in our way. If we don't do this Virgo's already won."

A solemn silence over took the table before the pope decided to speak again this time with a smile on his face, "Well then I suppose it can't be helped."

The meal continued for another four courses, complete with tea and a biscuit at the end of dinner. The pope decided to go to bed knowing that tomorrow was going to be a full day. Nall motioned Sion and the others to the other side of the room where a large table was placed between two bright red sofas.

Nall and Sion sat on one sofa, Jamie and Ruby took the other. Nall laid out a large piece of paper that seemed to be the blue print of the Titanic.

"Alright lets go over this in detail. First there's a lot we can't predict because we have no way of getting any information on this mission that's completely up-to-date because were going back in time.", Jamie smiled a little at Nall's joke, Ruby just frowned at her husbands lack of humor.

"Anyways the good news is that because this was a huge historical event that has happened many years ago we do have some information that will help us. For instance we know that the Titanic strikes the iceberg at 11:40 on April 14th so we know we should try and get outta there before then. We also know that at 8:14 PM Tom Ferris enters the first class A La Carte restraint for dinner at a large private table which is where we'll meet him this gives us three hours to get the location of the object and take it. Then we'll get outta there before anything happens."

"So what's the plan?"
"First we'll make our way to the White Star Line Southampton ticketing office to change the ships registry to include our names in a first class cabin under our fake names. Since we get there at 6 PM we should reach the office by 6:45 and it should be dark enough to break in by 7:15 which gives us enough time to scout out the area for guards and police."

"What about blue prints for the office?"

"None available I'm afraid, that's why I'm doing this the night before the ship actually launches, we probably don't want to take more than an hour and I'm guessing fifteen minutes tops if we split up to find the registry and then quickly change it."

"Then?"

"We hang out at the docks till the Titanic arrives, since we don't have tickets we'll have to sneak on and take the new registry with us and replace it with the one currently on board. Then we get into our room settle down and explore the ship and go over the blueprints."

Sion thought for a second and then thought of another question, "So the dinner is going to be the biggest acting job, what do we have planed out on that?"

"Well Dr. Yates is a well known professor and researcher on mid-evil weaponry. We'll put up some sweet talk about how we were looking at some old weapons in the United Kingdom and we're heading back to the United States. After some idle chit-chat and you two just nodding and agreeing with everything I say I'm sure he'll bring up the shield, I'm planning on this happening all before 9:30. Afterwards I'm betting on him taking us to view the shield and then we'll know where it is, no one be expecting a first class passenger to steal an ancient artifact while on a ship stuck in the middle of the Atlantic. Then Sion and Jamie will steal the shield while Ruby changes the registry out with the original and I get everything together. Then we meet up and high tail it at 11:30 PM April 14th so that we get out before all the mess starts with the iceberg."

"Wait what if this machine does mess up? I mean can't it get us there and then not be able to bring us back?"

"Like I said before it's a risk we have to take. If the machine doesn't work we have to try and get off anyway we can, even if it risks changing the future we have to get back with this shield."

Jamie sighed, "Well I guess we have to do this, if we don't were screwed. At least if we do it we have a chance."

Sion sat back and tried to relax, but all he could do was look at the ceiling. He thought back to when he was little and was obsessed with the Titanic, he never dreamed he'd get to see it in real life, "Yeah your right."

They all headed off to bed so they could get an early start in the morning.

"Alright Ms. Konishi just is just like all the other times before. I'll just slip this mask over your head and you start counting backwards from ten, by the time you hit five you'll start to feel dizzy and slowly drift off to sleep."

"Alright."

The 'doctor' slipped the mask over Kaname's face and turned on the gas, Kaname slowly stuck her hand in her pocket and activated the mini-tape recorder by hitting the record button.

"There now I'll get to hear what's goin….ing….ooooo….nnnn…", She then fell asleep hoping to find out later when she awoke she'd learn the truth as to what was going on.

"See ya Caitlin take care."

"Bye guys!"

Caitlin waved good by to her friends as Jeff pulled away with Christy and Amy in his car. Caitlin walked over to her home and found her mom inside making dinner.

"Hey honey how are things going?"

"They could be better, but I had a lot of fun today, found out a lot about Sion."

Caitlin's mom walked over to her and hugged her, "I was afraid that going there would keep him on your mind."

"No mom its what I wanted. I enjoyed finding out more about him today, besides I've got some great friends to thank for it."

"I'm glad to hear that honey."

Caitlin walked over to the living room to catch some TV when her mom called out, "Oh sweetie I almost forgot you've got a message on the machine for you."

"Oh alright, weird figured they'd just call my cell phone."

Caitlin walked over to the machine and pressed the play button, "One message 2:30 PM, Hey Caitlin", It was Kyle's voice Caitlin frowned, "Kyle here, sorry if this is weird but I forgot to ask you for your phone number so I used the one you called my cell with and got your house"

"You didn't forget I didn't offer my number to you."

"Anyways I'm sorry about everything that happened during the flight and I was hoping that I could take you out to dinner here in North County to make up for it. Give me a call on my cell, you've got the number."

"End of messages press…"

Caitlin didn't even let the machine finish before she hit the delete button. She honestly wanted to beat the crap outta this guy. So she figured she'd just leave it be, he had a better chance of becoming Mr. GQ then getting a date with her.

Caitlin returned to the living room and sat on the couch. As if on cue her mom walked in with a tray with hot chocolate and sat it on the coffee table in front of them as she sat next to her daughter.

"So hun what's wrong. I can tell something's on your mind."

"It's just a bunch of little things piled on top of each other, nothing I can't handle."

Caitlin's mom smiled, "Well I hope you don't mind but I did listen to your message from Kyle. He doesn't understand your not ready to date again does he?"

"It's not just that, the guy was supposed to be one of Sion's friends. Instead of actually trying to help me out he keeps hitting on me its just too hard to put up with, and now he's calling to ask me out?"

"I understand honey, but I do have to ask you one thing."

"Mom I understand its been almost half a year now, I'm just not ready."

"I know honey, but just let me ask. Do you think he might be alive somewhere out there in the world?"

"Why you asking something like that mom", a small tear escaped through Caitlin's left eye. It didn't go unnoticed by her mother.

"Because when your father died I felt the same way. Even when I got that notice that Sgt. Jonathan Turner had been missing in action and presumed dead I always held onto hope that until an actual body turned up your father was alive somewhere, maybe with a lost memory, or unable to leave."

"Yes mom…its what's been causing all this trouble. In my heart I want to believe he's alive, but my mind keeps going all of the stuff I heard about, and what the news reporter told me and it keeps telling my heart its impossible for him to be alive."

Caitlin's mom hugged her daughter, "As long as your heart tells you to keep wishing for the impossible listen to it, I still do."

Caitlin wiped her tear away, "I will mom, I will."

Sion shivered when a cold chill suddenly went through his body. He couldn't place what had caused it but it caused him to day dream of his life back home. The last image he saw was Caitlin's crying face that he had left behind that day.

"Sion you there?"

Jamie's question brought Sion back to reality, "Yeah I'm here, what the heck it this place?"

Nall, Ruby, Jamie, and Sion were all dressed in common clothes for their arrival to Southampton in the year 1912. The clothes from last night that they would use once they boarded the Titanic would be packed in old style luggage that would accompany them.

An attendant approached them, "Please this way, we have a few things to take care of before the launch."

They were led down through a tunnel to a brightly lit workshop, "Here we are, please sit and I'll explain the equipment you'll be taking with you.

The group took a seat as the lights were dimmed to black and a projector lit up the wall behind him. Several pictures of odd looking devices filled the wall. The attendant took out a laser pointer and started to go through the devices.

"As you all know we can't risk any of this equipment being left behind so anything that isn't directly injected into your body has been equipped with a self-destruct device that will automatically activate at midnight on April 15th 1912 if it isn't brought back into the future. Now lets…"

Sion got concerned at the injected part, "Ok wait, injected?"

"Yes the radio you will use to communicate with is injected behind your ear. You'll be able to hear what ever is being said through stimulation of your ears bones; so no one will be able to hear it but you. You can also talk through it in a whisper and it will easily pick it up."

"Alright I guess I can deal with that."

Jamie poked Sion in the ribs, "You big baby."

"Now for the other equipment. First we have included in the ladies makeup mirror and the men's cufflinks a miniature, concentrated chemical that will instantly knockout who ever it touches for ten minutes. The device is simple to use, the men just flip open the black covering at the top of the cuff link, the ladies pull off the fake jewel on top of the mirror, then just touch the subject you wish to put to sleep. However you must be careful. Not only is it easy to knock your self out, but if you use this and put the person to sleep who was supposed to escape the Titanic but doesn't make it due to your interference then you could drastically alter history."

"Not cool", Nall was actually paying attention to someone else for once.

"The other equipment is fairly self explanatory, Lock pick set designed to pick the older style locks the Titanic uses. A small wire rigging device that can be used to reopen the water tight doors should you get trapped down below. Flashlight, two stealth suits for Sion and Jamie, oh by the way they'll disintegrate in salt water should you leave them behind, so don't get wet without anything on underneath. Also we've included some glow sticks to help you see underwater."

With the equipment explained the team went through with the injection of the radio system, something Sion didn't enjoy at all.

They then traveled further down the hallway, then down a series of twisting stairs. At the bottom a large wooden door, which was open, led into another room that was brightly lit. An odd looking machine was in the center, a control mechanism nearby where the pope and several attendants stood.

"Ah my friends, its wonderful to see you all awake so early. I can tell by the way Sion rubs near his ear Peter has already given you the radio devices."

"Yeah, just out of curiosity what does the Vatican need this type of equipment for."

"Ah Sion we have to have defense security for the Vatican, none of this equipment has been used offensively before, but lucky we were to have it in this time of need."

"So what's all this?"

"This is the Reversal Pandora device, it was sealed many years ago by Pope Benedict I. I have to break the seal with the fisherman's ring before it can be used. These attendants are known as the order of Pandora only five men beside me know about the Reversal Pandora device and are trained to operate the device should it ever be needed."

"Come on Sion we don't have time to waste", Nall pointed towards the center of the machine where there equipment in bags was already inside.

The group entered the machine which was pretty spacious. A stone looking wheel was mounted on one side of the room, Nall gave the pope the thumbs up. Then the pope's voice came through on a loud speaker.

"I Pope John Paul II declare The Reversal Pandora device unsealed with witness of my Fishermen's ring as proof of my papal title."

The control area flashed with light as the device became active. The pope cleared the way for the attendants.

"Ok the device is set to transport you to South Hampton England on the 9th at 6 PM and the target site is near the White Star Line ticket office, we'll get as close as we can to it. Confirm?"

"Confirmed South Hampton England April 9th, 6PM, White Star Line ticket office."

"Ok now your end point is set for the RMS titanic off the coast of the US on April 14th 11:30 confirm?"

Nall signed he hated acting like a machine, "Confirmed, end point April 14th 11:30 PM."

"Ok Nall final thing is that if the machine fails to function we've included a beacon in your equipment that you can use to call from a remote location and we'll use it to pull you back, but don't rely on it, it's as old as the machine is."

A warning siren came on and red lights filled the area. The stone looking circle glowed with a bluish hue. Then out of no where a wave of a water like substance spilled out of it, it then drew itself back in and formed a portal inside the ring. Nall started walking toward it and motioned the group to follow. He stopped short of entering the portal. The rest of the group slowly approached and stopped next to Nall.

"Just what the heck is this stuff?", Sion put his fingers near it but stopped short of actually touching it.

"It's the Reversal of Pandora's portal. On the other side of this is South Hampton England nearly one hundred years ago", Nall stared into the portal, just as aprenhious about approaching the portal as the rest of them.

"So Uncle Nall why aren't you as gung-ho as you usually are?"

Nall paused a minute to contemplate on whether or not to tell them the reasoning behind his fear, "This machine…its never been tested really."

Sion instantly withdrew his hand that was near the portal, Jamie stood in shock.

"We think it will work though, we've been able to prove it in theory."

Jamie smiled at her boyfriend and took his hand, "Well Uncle Nall I guess me and the Dragonmaster will have to go first since you're a scardy cat."

Jamie dragged Sion along with her into the portal, they disappeared 1900's era clothing and all.

Nall jaw dropped staring at the portal, Ruby then grabbed his hand and smiled, "We can't let her one up you like that can we?"

Nall then smiled, "No we can't."

"Watch that first step, it's a doozie", One of the attendants must have just learned the American joke.

Nall and Ruby walked through the portal, disappearing with the older style clothes they had on to join Sion and Jamie.

Colors seemed to swirl around them in a purplish hue. Sion kept a tight grip on Jamie's hand. He wanted to look at her to make sure she was alright but couldn't bring himself to do anything but continue to look forward. It felt like falling through a endless pit, wind rushing around him. He tried to shout at Jamie, but there was no sound, not even the sound of the wind reached his ears, he could feel it though.

Then out of nowhere a light, a small pinhole of light appeared before them. As they continued to fall it got bigger. Closer they came, and then sound reached Sion's ears like a piercing ringing noise in his head. Soon they were both enveloped by the light. Before Sion's eyes could refocus he could feel himself falling again, except this time he saw something familiar below him. About fifteen feet down was a pile of mattresses.

Both he and Jamie landed with a thump onto the waste pile. Ironically someone had decided to get rid of a bed that afternoon so it made for a softer landing.

"I guess we made it huh?"

"Hope so, this definetly looks like its an older place, oh my gosh Sion look."

Jamie pointed towards the docks where the huge R.M.S. Titanic was being pushed into port by tug boats.

"Wow, I never thought I would get to see this."

"Me either."

The two sat unmoving watching the titan ship in action. Something that they had learned in history class as one of the greatest tradgies at sea and most famous sea wreck of all time was right before their eyes, floating.

"Lookout below!"

Nall and Ruby came out of the portal and about the same spot landing on the mattress that Jamie and Sion stood on. Sion was able to catch Ruby, while Jamie jumped out of the way. Nall bounced off the mattress and landed in a pile of used lumber near by. He stood partially covered in wood chips.

Brushing himself off, "Well Jamie isn't that nice of you to just let your Uncle Nall fall into a pile of lumber."

"Oh Uncle Nall we both know your immortal, besides you hit the mattress first. You bounced into the lumber."

"Wait where's the trunk?"

Out of no where the truck popped out of yet another portal and came crashing down on all three that were still on the mattress. Sion with Ruby in tow jumped off the mattress Jamie followed suit.

"Well Jamie maybe I should be thanking you."

"Oh, Shut up."

Sion sat Ruby down with a thank you. Thanks to the clothing they wore they didn't stand out. Nall had on an older style dock workers hat, and Ruby had a handkerchief tied around her head so neither one stood out. Jamie and Sion were both dressed like lower class workers. Sion and Nall carried a rucksack on their backs with their equipment they needed for the ticketing office job, and left the trunk tucked under the trash where they had landed since the area was near both the dock and ticketing office.

"So what do we do first?"

"Well call each other by our usal names for now. For once Sion you don't have to worry about people picking you out form news reports."

"That's true."

They continued to walk towards the dock area, where the ticketing office should be located. Even though it was only 6PM it was already starting to get a little bit dark. No one looked their way, or even tried to eves drop on their conversation. Everyone seemed to just mind their own business and continue working.

Sion was still in awe, they were actually near the RMS Titanic, and they were going to board it. It was something they never imagined doing "Of course", Sion thought thinking to himself, "there's been a lot of things happening that seem impossible lately."

"Time to wake up Ms. Konishi, here let me help you up."

The doctor gently grabbed Kaname's hand and with the other he gently pushed on her back while pulling on her hand to lift her off the chair she had been in. When she tried to stand she wobbled, two guards quickly rushed to her side to help her keep her balance.

"Be careful Ms. Konishi, you were just under a sleep agent. No need to overdo it so quickly. The guards will help you to your room in a wheel chair."

Another guard approached Kaname with a wheelchair, but she waved him off.

"Thank you Doctor, but I'd like to try and walk it off if that's alright."

"Suit yourself Ms. Konishi, but I'll have to insist at least one guard accompanies you to your room in your state."

"If I must doctor."

The guard helped Kaname get up to her room and left her once she found her way to the bed. Kaname pretended to start going to bed and this caused the guard to leave the room. As soon as the door closed Kaname pulled the voice recorder out of the pocket of her robe and rewound the tape.

The device clicked off when the tape finished rewinding Kaname then quickly hit play.

"Is she asleep?"

"Yes lets begin, bring her vitals to the twilight state so we can begin, nurse bring me 50ml of the beta cycline fluid and a syringe."

Kaname then heard foot steps and a brief silence before the conversation started up again.

"Good now lets start."

"Kaname can you hear me?"

"Yes…"

Kaname was surprised. There was no doubt that was her voice she was hearing but she sounded different, like someone who had just woken up trying to mutter something.

"Kaname tell me now, we left off and the twenty seventh prophecy of the List of the Dragon. When shall we get to how we control the Dragon Heart?"

"That prophecies must go in order."

The doctor sighed, "Than shall we contine?"

Kaname herd herself mutter off some stuff she could bearly understand. At some points she was speaking in clear English, then she'd go off to describe some sort of medical plant, or math equation that made absoultly no sense to her what so ever.

After the tape ended Kaname relized her fears were confirmed. The people here were using some sort of sleep learning technique on her. However instead of her learning they were pulling information from her, what didn't make sense was Kaname didn't know anything that she had heard herself saying on the tape none of it made any sense.

All Kaname knew is that she had to get out of here, soon.

The ringing bell gave way to a hallway full of students eager to rush to their locker only to re-enter to another class room to hear yet another lecture, the less lucky to take a quiz or test.

Caitlin was still getting used to her schudle and the layout of the building, luckily her schudle corresponded for the most part with Amy's except for Anatomy which she had decided to take instead of a normal science.

Quickly grabbing her notebook Caitlin started the long walk to the Anatomy lab only to have Amy join her.

"Hey, don't you have French or something?"

Amy smiled, "Yeah, but its just one building above yours so I figured I'd walk with you for awhile."

Silence reigned for a few minutes before Amy finally decided to brush against the subject she had wanted to discuss with Caitlin, "You've been acting different today, something bothering you?"

"Yeah, Kyle."

"Woah hold on, you mean he's still trying to get you to date him?"

"Worse he looked up my home number and he's calling the house now, its almost like he's stalking me. Like I watched a movie with my mom after his message and I went online just before I went to bed to chat with you for awhile, but as soon as I got on he IM'd me. He got my screen name off the Facebook now I can't even get on AIM without him knowing."

"Why not just block him?"

"He's bound to have another screen name so he'd just complain about how I blocked him, and even if I did he's just start calling me again."

"You didn't put your cell number in your Facebook profile did you?"

"No, of course not."

"Well at least he won't have that. So what are you going to do?"

"I dunno, it looks like he won't take anything but a flat out rejection. Even then, I just don't know its sort of freeky, any normal guy woulda figured it out at least by the plane ride we took."

Amy's class building wasn't far off so they stopped walking for a second, "Alright look, next period we both have extended lunch, so we'll hit up bojangles or the mall and talk for awhile."

"Sure sounds good."

Amy went into her class leaving Caitlin alone with her thoughts to keep her company. At the moment they weren't exactly welcome company. Thoughts flooded her as to the possibilities exactly of Sion still being alive, then she compared her own unwillingness to give into reason as Kyle's. As ironic as it was reason proved that there was absolutely no way Sion was alive, the plane disintegrated before the pilots eyes into the ocean, at the same time she had a guy unwilling to give up on dating her no matter what she did.

"I guess its just too much for me to worry about right now."

"Well look who it is? Talking to yourself? Not a good idea, rumors spread like wildfire here and we don't want people thinking your off your rocker do we?"

Jeff gently put his hand on Caitlin's shoulder as she turned around, "Don't worry about things too much, they'll just get in your way. Sides we've got anatomy to worry about for the next hour or so, that should be enough on your mind."

Caitlin smiled, "True, lets go."

"Hey you! Don't forget your girlfriend!", Christy came running up to catch up with Jeff.

"Oh hey, sorry like I said I don't think about things too much, musta forgotten about ya for a second. Hey oww!"

That last comment had earned Jeff an swift kick to his shin. Christy grabbed Caitlin, "Let's leave him to worry about getting to class, come on we're gonna be late."

The three friends ran off to class, Jeff with a throbbing shin, Christy with a smile, and Caitlin finally letting go laughed at Jeff as she ran along with Christy to the class room.

The sign read, "White Star Line Ticketing and Booking Office South Hampton branch. Thankfully it was a small one story building that couldn't have more than a couple offices and possibly a place to store some files. Nall and Sion had scouted around the back while Ruby and Jamie walked around the front area keeping an eye out on the employees. From there best estimate there were only three left inside and it looked like they were busy getting files ready for the boarding that was to begin tomorrow morning.

"Sion two of them just left out of the front, there's still one office light on in the front near the box office area and we think he's wrapping it up."

The radio's worked perfectly, no one could hear what was going on and it only took a slight amount of pressure near the pressure point behind your ear and your connected to all of the team members, "Alright Jamie, Nall what time do we head in?"

"I'd like to wait till mid-night, lets find a small tavern to eat at while we wait."

"Oh boy alcohol!"

"Oh shut up Jamie you know tavern's around here a restraunts."

"Yeah, yeah Uncle Nall I know. Yeesh can't take a joke can ya?"

The four met up outside the front of the office and started walking in the direction of a small tavern where they could smell food.

"I wonder what kinda sanitation rating that place got?"
Jamie smiled, "I'm thinking at this day and age they didn't have that yet, remember the Jungle Book hasn't come out yet."

"Man don't remind me on that history, now I'm not even sure if I wanna eat."

Entering the bar it was obivious that it was after 5pm. There was tons of scruffy looking dock workers enjoying some brand of alcoholic beverage and on one far end of the tavern near the bar it looked like it was getting a little rowdy. The group steared clear of that area, and sat down at one of the tables. A rather large woman walked up to them.

"What can I get you?"

Nall spoke for the group, "I'm sorry mamm we're not from around here can you tell us what you have?"

"Well I can tell with that accent your American, the only thing you can probly take is the fish and chips. I'll go grab you some, that will be five pounds."

Nall took out the required money and handed to the waitress.

"I had to get some older money, that five pounds I just handed her cost about three hundred dollars American when I bought it from a collector, so enjoy your food."

The three laughed, and the food was brought. It wasn't bad but certainly wasn't worth three hundred bucks. As they were finishing their meal a large man approached the table and smiled when he saw Jamie.

"Well, well if we don't have a gem amongst us tonight lads. What is your name little lady?"

The man was obliviously drunk with the stench of alcohol reeking off his breath. His buddies came up to join him, Nall and Sion knew this might get messy, and worse they couldn't do much or risk altering history. Nall caught Sion's eye and he nodded his approval to the plan brewing in Sion's mind.

Sion concentrated on thoughts that would allow him to access to Dragon Soul inside of him. Slowly a blue glow formed in his hand, small but extremely bright. He kept his hand under the table to keep anyone from noticing it.

"Come on little missy, how about I buy you a brew?"

The man reached out to grab Jamie's hand but she quickly withdrew. Sion had to keep him self from thinking about injuring the man or he'd risk injuring everyone in the restraint. Finally Sion felt he had packed enough energy in the blue ball and he released it. Nall and Ruby quickly got up and made there way for the door, and as soon as Sion grabed Jamie's hand to lead her out the ball exploded filling the area near them with a bright blue light. No one elese really noticed it unless they had been looking in their direction. It blinded the men for a few seconds which was enough time for Sion the group to get away. When they were able to see again they looked around, but shrugged it off blaming it on the alcohol they went back to the bar to continue chat it up with the other ladies.

The group stopped running after they got outside so they wouldn't attract attention. It was now close to 8:30 and they decided it was time to get into the building.

Taking off the Rucksack behind a building Nall handed everyone what they needed to get the job done. Sion carried the lock pick set, all it contained was a flat head screw driver and a few picks, more than enough to get the job done.

After carefully checking to make sure the building was entirely empty they snuck around back and changed into fully black outfits to make sure they were hard to see. NVG equipment was way to risky to be using so simple flashlights were all they used. Entering through the back of the building Sion was suprized to see how complicated the lock was for the time period.

It was simple enough a tumbler lock, but these weren't supposed to be around till the mid 30's. Sion shrugged it off, the White Star Line had millions so they probly had connections to some of the newest and best things.

Sion inserted the small flat head screwdriver using it as a torque wrench and then inserted one of the wider curved picks into the locking mechisim. He felt just three pins, smiling as he relized the lock wasn't nearly as modern as he though he quickly raked the lock and then delt with the outer most pin that stubberonly decided to not drop. Within a few seconds the lock was picked and open. The door opened with a creeking noise, but no one was inside to care about it. Quickly Nall and Sion split off from Ruby and Jamie to check an office while the girls took the other. Moving to the front office near the box office area Nall and Sion split up to search the office space.

Quickly going through cabinates turned up nothing more than pamphlets to hand out to potiential passengers, pricing information, and other publicity stuff. Nall's search turned up the same things and a list of cargo which they didn't need.

"Sion get back here we've got it."

Jamie's voice quietly came through the radio and the guys quickly complied. Making sure everything was in place in the office as they had found it they moved to the back office.

It was lavisouly decorated so it had to be the person in charge of the building. Ruby had a file out on the desk and was going through it trying to find the first class passenger section. Everyone crowded around her.

"Here's one cabin 11A its huge and definitely first class. Lucky us."

Nall took out a small case and produced an odd looking pen. Shining the light on the document he turned a dial on one of the pen till the internal color wheel reflected an ink color similar to the one on the document and wrote their false names on it. Allowing for a few moments for the document to dry he then shut the folder and replaced in the desk drawer.

The group then exited the building and went back to where they had hid the large chest with their junk in it. Upon arrival Nall dragged the chest out and pulled a small bag out of it. Opening it, it pulled out into a gray like sheet then he pulled out some metal polls and before long he had a decent sized tent set up. With the aid of small portable heater that didn't emit any light they set up camp.

Laying on his sleeping back Sion turned to his girlfriends laying form and smiled, "So how's it feel to literally be almost a hundred years younger?"

Jamie smiled, "It feels like I'm in a dream."

Ami Konishi had always been a single parent as long as she could remember. Kaname's father has sucommed to cancer before Kaname was even born and Dr. Konishi struggled to raise the child at first but soon became a professional.

Now she was taking care of thirty plus children at the complex. Sure she had some help but it was still over whelming sometimes. Now on top of all that she was put in charge of the complex in Nall's absence. Dr. Konishi, dispite her love of the children, relished the brief vacation from all the fussing for a few evenings, but at the same time the burden of responsibility that came with her new temporary position was worse than her previous one.

"Dr. Konishi the recovery teams are reporting in."

"Patch them through."

The screen in the command center showed two of the team leaders faces, the third was only audio due to their location.

"Dr. Konishi we've recovered the helmet, it wasn't that hard the Cario musem turned it over to us since it was in storage and we had helped them out with the break in last year."

"Team Beta reporting successful recovery of the Dragon Armor from the London museum, they also turned it over for the role we had played in recovering the crown jewels."

"Good both of you we look forward to seeing you back here safely soon, Team Delta?"

"Yes Dr. Konishi, as you know the Sword of Althena was hidden by Nall in the lower bowls of the complex. We were able to find it pretty easily."

"Good report back immidently. I've been instructed to hold a dinner for you all upon team Alpha's return."

All the screen's went black as Dr. Konishi sat back in her chair. As an expert in nuclear armnents she had seen horrible as well as astonishing things that science could do. After the report she received from the Vatican she could not even fathom how a device could send a group, let alone a single person, back in time.
"I just hope they make it out alright."

It wasn't until recently that Kaname was allowed to walk outside the complex alone. Well alone was used loosely because up in guard towers around the entire complex guards armed with high powered rifles were constantly watching her. She knew if any one came to rescue her while she was out here they would easily be gunned down, and if she tried her self, well they'd rather see her dead than aiding their enemy wouldn't they?

Kaname knew she had to stop this some how. It made sense that what ever information she was giving the enemy that they were using it to make something horrible, other wise they wouldn't be so secretive about it. She was also sure that her mother was in good hands, Zech must have made up that news story somehow, and even if he didn't the promise to save her mother was an empty one.

The biggest question on Kaname's mind was exactly how was she to stop all this? Escape was impossible, and she couldn't try to resist giving them information because she was unconscious. Walking around she found a bench to sit on next to a lit window at the house. When she sat down she put her head in her arms and pulled her knees to her chest to keep warm. Then she herd Zech's voice, and what she thought was the doctors voice coming from the room she sat against.

"How much longer?", Kaname knew that was Zech from his impatient attitude.

"Well in theory we can proceede, we just need the girl to interact with the heart once to regestire what kind of energy flucation we need the machine to make. However there's a problem."

"Really doctor? You know how found of problems I am."

"I'm sorry Zech but the fact is that we can't entirely use the heart to its full capacity. The girl is merely the keeper of the book, she's the one in the legend that was endowed with the knowledge of both books incase they were destroyed. She can interact with the heart for the soul purpose of wishing, and only once. In other words she can only wish for things to happen, she can't make the heart take immediate action, only the Dragonmaster can do that it seems."

"Well then with this wishing power how long will it take to revive my master?"

"One year from the time the wish is made."

"One Year?"

"I'm sorry but unless you can find the Dragonmaster, brain wash him, and get him to willingly revive master Virgo your out of luck. Besides from the readings the girl gave us its written that he'll fight you so that's not an option. I'd sudjust starting right away, get the girl and I'll get the machine ready. And Zech?"

"Yeah?", Kaname could tell Zech was having a hard time keeping his temper in check. Obiviously not many people could talk to him the way the doctor was.

"Put a smile and cherry personality on. If the girl doesn't do this willingly then it won't work."

Kaname smiled, now she had a way to resist.

"Remember Zech, she has to make a wish, any wish. Once she does that I'll register the signature and have the machine depulicate it then the machine will wish for the revival of Master Virgo and we'll be in business one year from tonight."

Sion awoke to find that Nall and the rest had already gotten up and changed. They sat near the tent outside enjoying a meager breakfast. Their clothes were elegant but hidden by thick well worn dock workers coats. They would wear those till they got near the dock and then discard them.

Sion quickly slipped into his attire. The suit was something he had now gotten used to wearing, but that didn't mean he was comfortable in it. It was still itchy, and Sion found it sorta bulky to walk around in. However there wasn't any other way, and its well worth it to recover the shield, not to mention getting to go aboard the Titanic.

"Finally wake up sleepy head?"

"Yeah Jamie, I'm up and ready."

Sion walked out of the tent and joined the rest of the team for a short breakfast.

Nall handed Sion a plate, "Don't worry about getting full, we'll eat again on the ship."

Sion looked down at his plate. Just a few crackers and a packet of orange juice but it was better than nothing. The orange juice came in a clear plastic bag then dissolved in the ocean so there'd be nothing dated left behind.

After that the group checked their clothing, they hired a porter to carry the luggage and headed off to the boat. Nall handed them all fake identification for them to use to board the boat if it was needed.

As they approached the port Sion gazed up at the tremendous ship known as Titanic. He could see the steam coming from three of the smoke stacks as the boat got ready to leave port. The fourth stack sat with nothing coming out of it, it was just for decoration to make the ship appear even larger. Sion could barely see the other end of the boat from the front where he was walking near.

The 3rd class passengers made there way to the back of the ship where they were entering into the hull from multiple ramps, the second class went up and entered through the main deck at the back of the ship and then went down below. Sion followed Nall as he approached a lavishly decorated ramp, it was made of Oak and had intricate designs carved into it along with a red rug that started just before the ramp at the dock and then proceeded all the way up to the main deck.

The porter dropped the bag off with an official at the beginning of the ramp. He nodded as Nall approached him and asked for his ticket.

Smiling Nall pulled out four tickets for each of the people in his group, looking at the sheet the official looked puzzled.

"I'm sorry sir but there isn't a Dr. Yates party listed on my manifest sheet. Please allow me to check with my supervisor before you board, just one moment."

The man walked off, Sion got a little anxious.

"What's going on?"

"We only changed the master sheet, it would have been impossible to change them all last night. Most of these guys took there copies of the manifest home with them so they could get here without going to the office first. Don't worry the supervisor will have the master list that we worked on."

Within a few minutes the official returned, "Yes sir I'm sorry, seems you booked your tickets at the last minute and we hadn't updated ours lists, my supervisor instructed me to give you these vouchers for the a la carte restraint for a free lunch this afternoon after you get yourselves situated in your cabin."

Nall thanked the official, another porter came down the ramp and grabbed their luggage.

As Sion walked onto the ramp he had to hold Jamie's hand. This was unimaginable. He was walking up a ramp to board the R.M.S. Titanic, the ship that claimed hundreds of lives and sank on its first voyage, and he was about to board it.

He continued up the ramp lagging behind. Jamie was ahead of him leading him by the hand. Then they reached the end and in a split second Sion's foot touched the main deck of the Titanic. No one alive from his time for almost one hundred years had ever set foot on the Titanic.

They went inside the ship and then into the cabin area slightly below deck. Sion was amazed. He had gone to the Titanic exhibit that had come to his local museum in North County but they only had some small examples of like the hall way and some of the rooms. Sion saw actual people dressed in 1900 era clothing, some of the rooms doors were opened where you got a peek on the inside and the view was obsoultly amazing. He nearly slamed into the back of Jamie when they came to a halt outside of their room. When the porter opened the door Sion was speachless.

The interior of the room was red on the floor and the wall paper was as well. There was wood inlay along the walls and floor panels made of oak with carved spirals in them, they reached all the way up to the ceiling where in a large spiral patteren gathered together at the rooms main chandelier. There was even a fire place where the wood work had gold inlays, and this was just the main common room.

There were two other separate bed rooms. One had a single king size bed the other a queen. The master bathroom was pretty simple, but Sion guessed for the time it must have been lavish, espically to be on board a ocean liner. All the rooms had the same design theme with the red color and oak wood. Sion couldn't speak as he marveled the room, and the best part was they had three full days of doing nothing but exploring the ship, he started going through a mental check list of things he wanted to see in those three days and made a point to grab the Titanic book Nall had brought along one night to see what elese he may want to see.

"All right everyone lets get what we need unpacked and take advantage of this free meal."

Sion snapped out of his daydream state, "So what are we going to set up? Don't we have to be careful not to let anyone see any of our modern stuff."

"I left strict instructions for no one to enter our cabin to clean or otherwise."

"Well that's a relief, so lets take a look at some of the little goodies they left for us in this trunk shall we."

The group removed multiple sets of clothing for both Nall and Sion, and Jamie and Ruby. They placed these in a closet and then in the bottom started going through the equipment.

There was the lock pick set that had some basic picks and then also a set of skeleton keys. The stealth suits were packaged in a sealed tight vacuum plastic bag with a warning that the case and suit would desintragate when it came into contact with salt water. Under that was a box with a red sticker on it inside were the cuff links and makeup cases that contained the knock out device.

Under all that was another box with "To: Sion" written on it. Nall handed in to Sion who left it near his bed. Once the trunk was put away everyone check to see there clothing was situated right and straighted them selves up in the mirror before heading out. Nall locked the door behind them and they headed in the direction of the a la carte restaurant.

"So you think were going to actually pull this off without too much trouble?"

"I'm sure Nall's thought of everything needed to pull this off."

"Lucia? I wasn't sure if I'd be able to talk to you or not after the time travel deal."

Nall smiled, "Thought she talked to you already, she's been bugging me off and on ever since we made the warp."

Ruby put her hand on her forhead and sighed, "And she's been asking me about Jamie constantly."

"I resent that Ruby, I just wanted to learn more about her."

Jamie beamed, "Oh come on Aunt Ruby be nice to her."

"Fine, fine."

Nall turned to the group, "Now remember once we get in there we have to go by our assumed names, I'm Dr. Thomas Yates, Ruby you're my wife Mrs. Alison Yates. Jamie your Katie Holmes and Sion your Roger Smith, and Jamie take this."

Nall threw Jamie a small jewelry box she caught it and opened it. Her reaction was instant turning bright red, Nall smiled as he looked at Sion, "Roger, your Katie's fiancée."

"What?"

"Yep sorry, but people your guys age were getting married so we gotta blend in."

Jamie looked at Sion still completely red, all Sion could do was nod in agreement with Nall. Slowly Jamie slipped the diamond engagement ring onto her finger and the group proceeded into the restaurant.

Nall presented the waiter with the voucher that they had received when boarding the boat. Sion looked around and noticed a table that had drawn a large crowd, when he looked closer he noticed an older gentlemen in a captain's uniform.

"Woah it's Captain Smith", Sion nudged Jamie and she also was stunned to see the famous sea captain who had died on the Titanic a few feet from them chatting it up with some of the crowd. Soon though he made his exit to great more of the 1st class passengers and then to the bridge to get the ship out to sea.

"Sio…I mean Roger, I can't belive this place. I never imagined it look like this."

Sion had to force himself to remember the names Nall had given them, it wasn't easy using them, "Me either Katie, but we can't let it get to us we need to focus at the task at hand."

The group was seated at a nice table and given menus, Nall gawked at the prices realizing they would have to be eating every meal in this place.

Kaname made sure to be resting in her room when Zech came in. Straining he smiled and tried to suppress his temper, it was hard enough not to vent on someone after his conversation with the doctor earlier.

"I hope I'm not disturbing you Ms. Konishi."

Now it was time for Kaname to put on her acting mask, thankfully she was good at it, espically since her life was riding on it.

"No not at all, I was just resting a little."

"I'm happy to say were completely done with the sleep learning process and all that's left for you to do is interact with the Dragon Heart."

"And what exactly do I do to interact with it?"

"You simply place you hand on it, and make a wish, any wish you want. I was thinking perhaps you'd wish for your mother's safty for instance."

Now Kaname hit a delima. Although she wanted to resist she couldn't be sure if her mother was truly in danger or not. True Zech had showed her a news paper detailing her mothers condiction, but with all these highly educated people on the complex forging a fake newpaper article and pictures would be mere child play. Then on the other hand what if the article was true? It just wasn't something she was willing to risk.

"I'd love to help you but can I have one request?"

"Of course Ms. Konishi."

"I'd like to rest until the weeks end and think about my wish if that's alright?"

Zech looked like he would have killed Kaname right there and then on the spot if she wasn't cirtical to the project.

"That's a reasonable request, I don't see why not. If you don't mind would you join me for dinner. We're having a feast tonight to celebrate the completion of the project, we'll announce that you'll make the wish on Sunday to the team, they'll be overjoyed you've agreed to help us finish."

Kaname smiled. It didn't take a five year old to detect the anger Zech was suppressing from her request.

"I'll get a shower and put something nicer on and be down within the hour."

With that Zech left and Kaname relished in her small victory. Only now she had to make a decision. Would she risk her mother's safty, or allow them to start this "revival" deal and save her mothers life?

"I shouldn't have to be making these decisions at my age", Kaname laid down on the bed for a few seconds, then with a sigh lifted her self up and went to take a shower.

The group had just finished eating dinner. Ruby and Nall had returned to the cabin to go over some things. Sion and Jamie had opted to head out onto the deck to look at the night sky. Their older style clothes were still unconfrontable espically the heavier dress style they had to wear while outside.

"This is so annoying isn't it?"

"What ever do you mean Katie?"

Jamie nugged Sion in the ribs, "We're out of earshot, call me Jamie alright."

"Alright, alright Jamie. Just be careful we don't want to screw this up."

"You want me to keep calling you Roger?"

"It donesn't bother me, sides I don't even have to use your name. You know who I'm talking to right?"

"Of course I do."

"Well then we don't have a problem do we?"

Jamie left a quick kiss on her boyfriends lips and then walked over to the back railing of the ship. She put her arms out and yelled, "Look Roger I can fly!"

Sion held her at the hips and kept himself from laughing, "Well now I guess you can say your being original since the movie doesn't come out for another what sixty or seventy years right?"

Jamie smiled as Sion lowered her, "Well we may as well get back to the cabin, its cold out here and there's nothing to do really."

The couple went back to the cabin where they quickly showered, and then changed into some modern clothes to sleep in, after showering. The group was then faced with their next large delima.

"Wait a second there's only two beds?", Jamie was the first to relize their perdiciment.

Sion nearly slapped himself. He had noticed the lack of sleeping space when they had first boarded the boat but he was so into the fact they were on the actual Titanic he forgot to mention it to anyone.

Nall came up between the couple and put an arm around each of them, "Well Ruby and I both thought that'd you two could take the king bed. There's so much room if your on opposite sides that its just as if you were in two separate beds, Ruby and I will take the queen since we're not afraid of eachother."

And with that Ruby and Nall took the smaller bed room and left Sion and Jamie alone to have the larger bed. Both looked at eachother and blushed, Jamie was the first to speak.

"Uncle Nall's right its so big it'll be like sleeping in two different beds right?"

"Yeah, besides its not like we're afraid of eachother right?"

Jamie steped closer to Sion, "Right."

Sion then brushed Jamie's cheek with his right hand, "And its not like it's a bad thing for us to be in the same bed."

"Well then Mr. Nickson hold on."

Jamie then closed the distance and kissed Sion. They didn't stop as they made their way into the bed room in a make out frenzy. Sion had to keep him self from biting down on Jamie's toung when his head hit the brass bars at the head of the bed. After their makeout session calmed down after about ten minutes the couple decided to go to sleep.

"So do we need to sleep on opposite sides of the bed?"

Jamie smiled back at her boyfriend, "We've been together for a long time Sion, and your still afraid of sleeping next to me?"

Sion scooted next to Jamie in the center of the bed and kept himself pressed against her.

"Not at all."

As Caitlin sat doing her homework late at night she felt her cell phone vibrating in her pocket. She put down her pencil and took a look at the caller ID. The number wasn't stored in her phone, but she decided to answer it anyways.

"Hello?"

"Hey Caitlin, its Kyle. Please don't hang up."

Caitlin sighed, if it wasn't for his plea she would have done just that.

"I won't. What's on your mind Kyle?"

"A lot Caitlin. Look I'm really sorry about me try'n to get together with you. I know Sion meant a lot to you, believe it or not I was good friends with him. Not best friends mind you, we we're always competing to see who could get their license first, who could push the plane the fastest, who could do the best stunts. But I want you to know that me liking you has nothing to do with me trying to steal away something that ment so much to Sion."

As much as Caitlin wanted to end the conversation, something in her kept it going, "Oh?"

"I knew the guy, and I can see why you're so special to him. You're an amazing girl Caitlin, and that's why even though I got the hints that you sent me even before the plane trip that you wanted nothing to do with me, I still pursued you. Your worth it to me. Even though there is no rational thought with what you've been showing me that you'd ever go out with me, I can't let myself give up hope."

Caitlin's mind was flooded with thoughts of Sion still being alive, but somehow with what Kyle just said she wanted to continue the conversation no matter what.

"Kyle, how about I surprise you?"

"Huh? How?"

"I'll let you take me out. Just once, you choose the place and time, plan everything, and we'll continue this conversation later."

"Sure Friday night alright?"

"Sounds good, pick me up around 6:30. Need my address?"

"Yeah."

The two talked no more that five minutes after that. Caitlin went to sleep feeling somewhat relieved, and dreamed.

GD: Alright people now maybe you'll believe me when I tell you just how long this chapter really is…and the crazy thing is…its still not finished!

Nall: Its only because GD's a lazy ass

Ruby: Yea I mean he just sits around and does nothing

GD: I'M IN F'N COLLEGE YOU MORONS OF COURSE I'M BUSY ALWAYS STUDY'N!