Well, this chapter surprised me, going totally off my projects, but it sincerely got better than I first thought. Sorry any spelling error on last chapter, I forgot to pass a spellchecker on it before post. I still own nothing

Crystal kept her medallion and looked behind to see the children leaving the school. Mostly were young children, but Crystal spotted a group around her age.

So she saw Truffelio, going towards a woman, with platinum blonde hair and crystal blue eyes, dressed in a light blue, short, sleeveless dress and wearing blue and white boots.

"Hey, Truff!" Crystal waved, running towards the boy.

"Crys! What a surprise! Doing what around here?" He asked happily.

"Come to bring your book back." She handed him the book. "I suppose this is your nanny." She smiled at the woman.

"Wendy Parker." Penny offered her a hand that Crystal shook with a smile. "You should be Crystal, right?"

"How you know?" The girl asked surprised.

"I told her I was going to bring you here." Truffelio replied. "She helped me with the money for the bus."

"And who you think she is?" Crystal joked to the boy.

But Truffelio took it serious instead a joke and shrugged.

"In fact I don't know. It means you believe?"

"Of course no. If magic would exist and something would be cursed, it certainly would be this book." She crossed her arms, looking at him serious.

Truffelio put the book back on his school bag and sighed.

"I knew you would not believe so easy." He said.

But he smiled when saw her leaving her right hand at her chest with a hesitant look. He knew what she was hiding there, and it was exactly what was going to save them. The little of magic they needed.

"No way you'll convince me to believe game characters are alive and cursed to live in our world. Simply no way. Besides I think you're convincing Sara and Penelope."

"They aren't so important, not to break the curse at least. Found you in the book?" He asked.

"The baby?" She asked uncertainly.

"The crystal capsule was a portal, brought you here before us to protect you."

"Stop! Stop it now!" She yelled, eyes flashing angrily. "I'm not a game character! I'm a normal orphan girl! My parents, or are death or didn't wanted me! I never had a family, or friends, or at least a life! Have nothing of magic in my life, and neither you, nor this book will convince me other way!"

With that she ran away, trying to hold out the tears.

She stopped running at the city's square. Seeing the place empty, she sat down on a bench and just let the tears flow out.

That histories couldn't be true, just couldn't. Even with the so looked alike people, the name, the medallion, the games... It seemed most like someone was spying on her and wrote that book, like it was a kind of movie they were recording without tell her to she to act natural. But it would be so lucky of her, and how Crystal didn't believe in luck, she thought that was mostly like a street prank. Probably soon would come someone, show her the cameras and say she was in a tv show.

The worst wasn't the curse or the game characters being alive inside their games, it was asking her to believe after eighteen years she had a family, that didn't remember her and probably haven't grown up not even a bit, - Sara looked the same age as Clarion in the book - it was the worst. A family was all she even wished, but she wasn't so desperate to believe the first thing someone told her.

But letting all the madness aside and assuming it wasn't a prank, what would happen with her now? She haven't a home or money, would take a little because of the milkshake but she would get hungry soon and where she was going to sleep when the night fall over?

"Why are you crying, dear?"

Crystal froze. Just what she needed, someone to see her that way. She felt when the speaker, a man, was always she knew, sat down at her side.

"I'm fine." She muttered, trying to whip off the tears and calm her breath. "I just... fought with a friend." It wasn't all the truth, but technically wasn't a lie too, so it was perfect to her excuse.

"Oh, it's really bad." The man muttered sweetly. "Why you two fought?"

"He wanted to believe something that hurt me down." She muttered. For some strange reason, she was feeling safe and a little better with that strange at her side. Maybe all Crystal needed was someone to vent off her feelings and thoughts.

"Truffelio showed you the book too?" He asked.

"How you know I was talking about Truffelio and the book?" She asked surprised, but without dare to look at him.

"Back when he got that, he tried to convince a lot of people the histories in the book are real. His mother and nanny are the only reason everyone in this city don't believe he's crazy, but of course no one went so down like you did. What's really bothering you?"

She felt him gently running a hand through her blonde hair, but didn't felt it as a bad thing, for some strange reason, because she never trusted someone so easy.

"It's that the pieces match, but I still know it's a lie. You don't think so?"

"Kids need something to believe on, even an impossible one. You haven't?"

Crystal shook her head negatively.

"I never believed nothing that wasn't from this world." She told him.

"Maybe it's time to you to find it." He gently put a hand on her shoulder.

"Maybe I really should. But without the games it's hard." She muttered.

"Games, really?! We haven't this king of electronic games around here, but Truffelio's book is about the games." Crystal wasn't paying attention. "What's your favorite?"

But at the same time he asked the last part Crystal asked:

"Who he thinks you are?"

The two giggled when noticed that, an awkward silence fell between them, both expecting the other to answer first, what resulted i the two saying at the same time:

"Fix-It Felix Jr."

The two stared at each other, Crystal gasped and stood up.

"And you, who he thinks you are?" Felix - Crystal didn't knew his true name and wasn't going to ask - asked her.

"No one." She said quickly. "Nice to meet you but I have to go."

And with that she ran again, this time she was going to leave the city, even to foot, but she would get off there.

But instead reach the limits of the city, she got lost. This particular area looked so old, out-of-place, mostly like home to her. Crystal stopped running and began to walk calmly around.

This area was so silently and seemed so empty, mostly of the people living at there should be at work or sleeping or simply doing something locket at home. Or maybe it was just abandoned, since the only road that side of the city ended up in another part of the forest.

Alert to any movement around she began to walk towards the forest when a voice stopped her.

"Hey, girl! You can't go this way!"

She turned to see a pair of boys. The older one, the one who had called her, seemed around his fifteen or sixteen years, had spiky black hair and green eyes. He was wearing a white t-shirt and a blue biker's jacket, jeans and red and white sneakers.

The other seemed around Sara and Penelope's age, had blonde hair and blue eyes, wearing the same t-shirt and shoes of his older sidekick, but his jacket was yellow and his jeans a lighter shade of blue. He also had a belt with some tools.

"Why not?" She asked.

"The forest is dangerous, everyone is warned of it." The black-haired boy answered, crossing his arms.

"But I never saw you around. What's your name?"

"I'm Crystal Fixton, I arrived the city yesterday, I don't know around. And you two are?"

"I'm Jason Reed and this is my friend, Terry Cox."

"Hi!" Terry happily waved at her.

"Hello there!" Crystal waved back. "You two live here?"

"No. Just passed to see a friend, we were going back home right now. Are you lost?" Terry asked curiously.

"Trying to take my way out of the city, but yeah, I got lost."

Jason looked at Terry.

"T, ran back to Bert's house and wait there. I'll take the young lady outta here, so I pass to pick you up and we can go home."

"Right Jas, just beware to not be caught." Terry smiled. "It was a pleasure to meet you Crys." He smiled before running to a house near.

"So, accept a ride?" He asked friendly at Crystal, motioning a blue motorcycle parked at the beginning of the street.

"You're old enough to drive?" The girl raised an eyebrow at him.

"No." He smirked. "It's the fun of the thing. But if you prefer to stay here I would be happy to take Terry back home before my brother get crazy about me taking time to back."

"No, no. I want it. Even from a rebel. You at least know how to drive?"

"Of course I do. Why you think I was never gotten by the police?"

Jason climbed up the motorcycle and offered a hand to help the girl up. Crystal smiled happily and accepted it.

The drive to the limits of the city didn't took more than five minutes. Crystal was finally feeling her freedom really near when she saw a cat in the middle of the road. Jason also saw it and quick strayed from it, but doing it he near hit the road sign, but the boy was quick and tried to drive the motorcycle back, but he lost control and the motorcycle fell , sending the two flying towards the trees, Crystal hit her head on a rock and the last thing she saw was the black cat on the road.

Just a little game before I go, can you guess what game characters are Jason and Terry? I think this isn't so hard...