Emily read the archive about the voice stealing nighlock, but found nothing that could help her. It only told her things that she already knew, but nothing about how to defeat it. Her heart sank; she was devastated. In frustration, she threw the book across the room, not aware that someone was nearby.

She was silent as there was a knock at the bedroom door.

"Come in." Emily said.

The door opened and Mia walked inside, seeing that Emily was frustrated and the book of archives on the floor. She bent down to pick it up and shook her head.

"You know, mentor will be mad if this book gets damaged." Mia said.

Emily said nothing, only to lower her head in sadness. She didn't want to see her best friend to witness her about to cry. With her doing this, it only grew more concern.

Mia sat down next to Emily on the bed when she saw this. "Are you okay? You can talk to me about it."

"I'm fine." Emily muttered quietly.

Mia knew that this was a lie; she wasn't okay. Hiding in her room, reading the archives and throwing it out of frustration and now hiding her emotions; this was not the Emily she knew.

"You're not okay." Mia finally said, placing an arm around her shoulder. "I know you. It's not like you to hide your emotions like this. You can come to me for anything, you know that. I want to help you figure out a way to help Mike, but I can't help if you keep hiding how you really feel."

Not even a moment later, Emily looked up to her friend, with fresh tears running down her cheeks.

"You're right! I'm not okay! I can't find a way to help Mike! I looked through the archives and found nothing; just the things that I already know. I feel helpless that he has to write on a dry erase board, to have that green thing on his throat, and not knowing how he feels about this!" She cried. "I want to help him. I want to help him so bad! But I just feel like that there is nothing that I can do!"

Mia pulled Emily close to her so she can bury her head on her shoulder as she silently cried. She gently rubbed Emily's back. She then pulled pushed her away so she can look in her best friend's eyes.

"You're not helpless, Emily. You were just being strong for Mike. There is a way to defeat the nighlock and get his and the other people's voice back. The book isn't going to help us, we know that. But I know that with every nighlock we face, there is a way to defeat them. It isn't easy, but we get the job done. You just got to have faith and the confidence to help him." Mia said. "We'll find a way to defeat the nighlock before it's too late."

"I hope so." Emily replied. "I just miss him."

-Unspoken Dreams-

Not knowing how training was going to affect Mike, he was told to sit out. He couldn't help but watch the others train to hopefully defeat the nighlock. Not soon after, he watched the girls come out to join the guys. Emily stopped and turned to see Mike and offered him a smile. He smiled back and he watched her train. With nothing to do, he drew on his erase board, random things, but all he wrote was "I am bored" over and over again. Because he was indeed bored; but from time to time, he would look up to check up on his friends as they either practicing sword play or practicing symbols, or hand to hand combat.

But one thing came into his mind, he forgot his mission: to read the archives to see what was there to help him and his team. So he excused himself and went inside to find the book. To his surprise, it wasn't where it was supposed to be. So he looked everywhere for it, only to find it in Emily's room. Once he got the book, he went into the living room to read it. He found the chapter about the voice stealing nighlock and read the chapter from there.

Mike read the history, what the nighlock looked like, what its purpose was. But couldn't find anything as to how to defeat it; this frustrated him as it did Emily. He just slammed the book down on the table in anger. The feeling of helplessness rushed through him, breaking him down emotionally.

-Unspoken Dreams-

Kevin was worried about his best friend. He knew that he was suffering in silence; with no voice to express himself, all Mike was was silent. The dry erase board could only help him so much until he is able to really express how he felt. Emily feeling helpless had an effect on almost everyone. From what he was told, she was able to talk to Mia about everything.

He wanted to be sure. After practice, he walked inside, only to see Mike hiding in his shirt.

"Hiding in your turtle neck shirt is only going to stretch out the fabric more." Kevin said, hopefully to get Mike's face out of it.

Mike looked up at his friend and wrote something in his board. "I'm aware of that." Mike wrote as he a smile crept his face.

Kevin sat down next to him. "Are you okay?"

Mike then erased what he previously wrote to write again. It took a few moments, and then he showed it to his friend. "Is okay not finding a way to defeat a voice stealing nighlock?" Mike wrote, hoping that Kevin can sense a hint of sarcasm in his answer.

"I guess not." Kevin replied, getting Mike's sarcasm.

Grabbing a sheet of paper and a pen, Mike wrote something else. It took a few minutes to think of what he wanted to say.

"I'm trying to stay positive. I've been reading the archives about this nighlock and found nothing. Unless someone dreams up a way to defeat this guy, we're screwed. I just don't like dragging everyone through my problems. I've put Emily through a lot in a short time frame; I just don't want to have her go through this alone."

"She won't have to. We'll find a way to defeat this guy." Kevin replied.

Mike looked up to his friend and smiled, as if he knew that Kevin was right. Hope is the only thing that he's clinging onto at this time. Silence filled the air for a while until the others came back from training to check up on both boys.

"Mike?" Emily asked.

This made him look up at his girlfriend, with a smile on her face as well. He stood up and gave her a hug, not before she took his face and gave him a kiss. The others left them alone by getting out of their training outfits and figure out a way to defeat the nighlock.

A moment later, the kiss was broke free and Mike was also greeted by a hug and the four words that came out of her mouth.

"I love you, Mike." She said.

He looked down at Emily and gave her another kiss, letting her know that he loved her too and when this nighlock is defeated, he'll tell her how much he loves her.