I felt like I waited for hours the scene replaying over and over again in my brain. A part of me wanted to tell Jaymesh what happened, but he would blame me for it all.
"Hi..... Are you Emilia?" A nurse asked entering the room.
"Yes I am I replied.... Is Paul going to be okay?" I asked.
"He's going to be fine... nothing to worry about.... do you want to go see him?..." She asked.
"Can I?...." I asked.
"Yes you can... follow me" She smiled.
She held the door open for me and began making our way to him. "So is he awake?" I asked.
"Yes he is, he was asking for you.." She replied leading me down hall ways and corridors, "So... I just wanted to warn you.... that he does look in a really bad state, but it's nothing significant just some stitches and swelling that will heal in some time." She notified me leading me through more sets of doors, "He's just around this corner." She said leading me around the corner opening the door for me.
Entering inside I instantly saw Paul's face in front of me....."Emilia? You okay??!!!" He gently said to me.
"Huh?... what?..." I mumbled.
"Slowly... slowly.... you over exerted yourself ..." He gently cradled me.
Noticing I'm now back in Atlantis….. "The... door....." I struggled to communicate to him.
"It's okay..... The assailants have been incapacitated." He replied.
"Noooo..... Check...." I still struggled to speak.
"..... Hmm... Okay..." He replied gently lifting me up and placing me on the bed and began making his way to the door.
His hand began to curl, as fire started to manifest slowly growing to the size of a football, his right hand glowing blue making the door swing open.
He quickly leapt out of sight, the door closing behind him. I found myself relaxing, as my eyes closed and my vision darkened.
"It's okay….. You can go talk to him." A familiar voice spoke behind me.
Turning around I noticed it was the nurse holding the door open. And inside Paul was resting on the bed with an arm and leg cast. Is face so swollen it was almost unrecognizable.
"Paul?...." I said walking inside slowly.
"Hmmm?... Ohh hey Emilia." His face lit up with a smile, "I'm sorry for making you angry…" He replied.
"..." I didn't know how to reply.
Walking beside him, guilt washed over me seeing him in this condition, I began to cry again.....
"Don't cry…" He pleaded struggling to turn his head to me.
"..." I began to lay on the bed hugging him....."I love you….." I said sincerely burring my face into him.
His body jolted back a little in pain, "I love you to…." He whispered holding me tightly.
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".... Emilia?....." A familiar voice spoke out to me inside the darkness.
"I think she's still recovering" A different familiar voice spoke out.
"Hmmm.... is there really nothing we can do?" A third voice spoke out.
"I mean..... I can use something to wake her up if you want...." A fourth voice spoke out.
"Just let her rest....." The first voice spoke out.
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Slowly I felt the energy to wake up, slowly sitting myself up I took a good look at everything around me. It looks as if I'm still in Paul's room but no one was home. 'Hmmm.... how long was I out for?'.... The room looked completely empty. Slowly getting out of bed, I found my shoes on the side of the door. Putting them on I began making my way outside, the hallway completely void. The sun came shining through the windows, the warmth welcoming me back to reality 'was I out for the whole night?'.
I made my way down the stairwell checking for any students on each level.... there was absolutely no one to be seen.... 'AM I IN SOME MESSED UP FKIGN DREAM AGAIN?!'
Making my way outside knowing for certain that I'll see at least one soul out there. Thinking of ways to check if I'm dreaming, I decided to pinch myself, 'Yup that defiantly hurt.... but does that even work?..... Eventually making my way outside opening the double doors there was still no one anywhere. 'Seriously... I am in a bloody dream?' I sat down on the steps feeling defeated.
'Do I just wait for this stupid dream to be over?'... While trying to think of things to do. A faint roar of a crowd could be heard in the distant, too far for me to work out the exact location. Quickly running in the direction of the sound, it slowly became louder and louder. 'It's coming from the simulation building.'
Arriving at what seems to be the entrance, with both hands I grasped the door and swung the doors open, but they didn't budge. 'What the hell?' as I began to tug harder and harder trying to force the doors open, the sound of a massive crowd still roared from inside the building.
'OMG HOW CAN I BE SO DUMB?' As I quickly searched my bag for my school badge, giving it a quick click, "Hello?..." I frantically spoke into it.
"Heyyy you're finally awake!" I heard Scarlet scream out to me in happiness.
"Welcome back!" Ashley replied.
"Are you okay?.." Paul asked.
"Yeah I'm fine... where is everybody?" I asked.
"Ohhh it's the annual School demonstration! All A to S ranks demonstrate their powers to each and every student, it's a way to hype to the new students!" Ashley replied sounding super hyped.
"Where are you?... I'll come and get you." Paul said calmly.
"Umm... I'm at the doors I can't seem to open them." I replied.
"Stay there..." Paul answered as a red flash appeared beside me, looking through looking through the portal Scarlet, Paul and Ashley was seated in rows of empty chairs.
"COME IN!" Paul shouted to me, holding his hand out to grab me.
Grabbing his hand, he gently pulled me in, I entered in what I can best describe as an extremely large stadium, it was breath taking, hundreds of students all roaring in excitement! Suddenly Scarlet's familiar aura of fear set in, my body slowly edged away from her.
"Ohhh... Silly me." Paul said standing up and gently pulled me away.
At a safe enough distance my body returned to normal again, looking around there was a large circle of empty chairs, which I guess no one dared to sit in.
"Emilia!!! Are you feeling better?!" Paul asked with a smile.
"Yeah..... I feel a lot better!" I replied..... "By the way what happened?" I asked.
"Forget that I'll tell you later!" He smiled, "For now! Just watch the games!" He said pointing toward the centre. There was four students down there fighting another set of 5 creatures.
"..... Is Daisy and Jay okay?...." I asked distracting Paul from the event.
"Huh?.... Ohh yeah... they are..." He replied as a red portal opened behind him and with a flick of his hand Daisy and Jay came flying through.
They both looked at him in complete shock and silence..... "HEY GUYS!" I shouted happy to see them.
"Hey...." They replied quietly still staring at Paul.
"Are you guys okay?..." I asked desperate to find out what happened to them.
"Yeah we are good..." They hesitantly answered.
"Take a seat and enjoy the games!" He yelled at us pointing at some empty seats before walking back to sit with the others.
"It's good to see you're finally awake!" Daisy said as we began to sit down.
"Yeah you had us worried." Jay replied.
"So what's going on?!" I asked them.
"This is the Atlantis Welcoming Ceremony! It's an introduction of everything you can learn and study here!" Jay answered with excitement..... "So down there... is a prefect group, the unarmed one is what we call a monk, the one armed with a bow is what we call a ranger, the one armed with a giant axe is a fighter and the last one is a Wizard... you can tell because he's using objects instead of a wand to fire off spells!" Jay answered in excitement.
"Yes.... and they are fighting two ogres and three dire wolves." Daisy said looking on into the spectacle.
Concentrating harder in the action at the center of the ring, I noticed they were some of the prefects that accompanied when we went to the city.