Vanellope asked one of the guards to take her to Dragon's Hunters. She really didin't knew what exactly she was searching for, but she was. She suddenly found herself at the same cliff where she had meet the gang the night before.
She noticed some footsteps, various pairs of them. She was really on the right way.
Vanellope followed them to a border of a swamp, so she stopped.
She got afraid to enter there, but if they had continued by and she was going to ask help, she should go. Things couldn't be getting worst right now.
Ten more minutes and she, already tired and dirty, she found an wooden hut. Behind it had a beautiful garden that not combined with the swamp around. The group was sat down there in wooden chairs around a simple round table.
Vanellope couldn't help but thought they seemed like a bunch of kinights, like in a book James had read to her some days ago and she couldn't remember the name right now.
But there was an empty chair and Vanellope wondered to who. The nine of them were there. Clarion, Sticky, Gloyd, Felix, Ralph, Turbo, the Kopas and Roxas, who was missing?
"You're sure Rox?" She heard Clarion asking.
"I'm worried, it was four hours ago." The boy said, crossing his arms and leting out a deep sad sigh.
"Maybe she was still trying to locate us." Gloyd suggested.
"She knows it's impossible. I don't know what happened and what we can do."
"Why we not ask Vanellope?" Clarion asked, surprising the girl.
"And you think she will tell?" Roxas asked.
"Well, she has to have a motive to follow us here, risking her life." The redhead pointed.
Hearing that Vanellope gulped but walked to where they could see her.
"Vanellope!" Sticky exclaimed. "What are you doin' here?"
Vanellope took a deep breath, she knew what she had to say, how she had to act, Clarion had teach her, but she was so nervous facing Clarion.
"I came in peace. I just want to talk." She said firmly.
"I'm perfectly sure you will be fair with me."
"And what makes you think this way?"
"I just know."
Vanellope's firm tone got them on surprise.
"All right. Why are you here?"
"I need help, and no one else believe me."
"Just tell us." Felix asked. "Don't need to be afraid. Clarion can seems rough but she's very sweet inside."
It was hard to believe, but the Clarion that Vanellope knew was just that way.
And Vanellope told them all the history, without hidde any deatil, about their lifes in her dimension and what she passed there.
Nobody interrupted her, Clarion seemed like a statue, the others once again exchanged looks but said nothing.
As Vanellope finished she waited, she was sure they would not believe her too, but a whole minute minute passed before Clarion pronounced herself.
"Well, it's an interesting history. So you're from a total diferent historyline than us? It explains a lot." Clarion smiled for the first time and for the first time Vanellope saw on her the Clarion she knew very well.
"You believe me?!" Vanellope asked surprised.
"We shouldn't?" Gloyd asked suspicious.
"No. I mean, I'm saying the truth, but why you do while the others didn't?"
"You know why are we pirates, Vanellope?" Sticky asked, Vanellope just denyed. "Because we're different. When all we knew was destroyed, the others created new rules to adapt to their new lifes, we created our own rules and followed our own patche."
"Vanellope was one of us, but King Candy did something and turned her in a kind of virus." Ralph explained.
"Lucky what King Candy did erased her memory, so he know nothing about us." Gloyd said.
"But how dangerous this virus can be?" Vanellope aske worried.
"Alone, not even a bit." Clarion replied, "But you can see what happened to this Arcade."
"It was her?!"
"And a bunch on Cy-Bugs." One of the Kopas added.
"But of course is King Candy who's behind all this." Raxas crossed his arms angry. "And talking about King Candy..."
"Rox, just go home. If you're alone tomorrow morning come relate us and we will see what we will do."
"Tahnk you Clar. You know how it means a lot to me."
"Yeah, I know. And you, Vanellope, can spend the night with us, tomorrow we will see what we will do to or with you."
"Thank you Clar. It means a lot to me too."
While it, in the normal world...
James entered his lab and got surprised to see Clarion at there, most specifically in his computer. She was so busy she not even noticed him.
"What are you doing?" He tried to sound angry, but he just couldn't pretend something he wasn't.
Clarion not replied and continued working.
"You gave Vanellope something, didn't you? It's why she not woke up. What are you doing?"
"Something is wrong Jay. That red lines on her wirst... I searched and found nothing, but they were the same as the lines on that strange thing you was studying, but red instead blue."
"And..."
"I still don't know, but something happened. You can't remember anything?"
"Well, Vanellope came here before the incident and she said she hurt her hand but I saw nothing."
"I will keep searching, while it Vanellope need to be out of way."