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Cheri was poking Emily in the ribs repetitidly. "Cheri stop poking her," Alles scolded.

"She's keeping me awake," Emily said.

"And it's fun."

"Stop poking her, we're moving again."

"Thank God," Emily said and started moving again. Her steps were still wobbeled and even in the now bright sun she kept almost falling asleep.

"Come on Emily, we're almost there," Alles supported.

"Thank god, are you sure that he won't be able to get into my mind there?"

"Pretty sure."

Ileria felt like such an idiot. *What did you expect?* she scolded herself as they walked. *Just be happy you found him.* She told herself this over and over again, but she was still pretty upset. And tired. She yawned, and was somewhat surprised when she felt Alles put his arm around her shoulders.

"Are you ok?" he asked her.

"Yeah, I'm fine. Hey, I just thought of something."

"What?"

"Are you sure that the protection stuff back home is still gonna work? I mean, it's been deserted for a long time now..."

"Yeah, but it's infinite magic. It's not going to stop working all of a sudden; i think we're safe."

"Whoa..." Cheri said from up in the front of hte group, where Alles and Ileria still couldn't see.

Alles ran up to Cheri. There it was. the Forest of Naught.

"Well guys," Alles said, "This is gonna get dangerous. The forest is riddled with ouzzles and beasts to prevent people from getting into the realm of elves. Are you ready?"

Emily swallowed hard, "I'm ready." She walked in ahead of Alles and Ileria following Cheri.

"She's not all that bright is she?"

"She's just tired," Alles defended.

Up ahead Emily realized she had no idea where she was going, and stopped. Alles and Ileria came up on them quick.

"Shall we lead the way?" Ileria asked, pulling her sword up out of midair. It had a red blade the seemed to shine with shades of orange.

"Yes, it's probably a good deal safer that way," Alles agreed. "As long as we remember the way."

"I'm pretty sure I do. That way, right?"

"yes, I believe so."

Emily followed Alles and Ileria doing her best to stay vertical. Why was she so tired? She had pulled all nighters before and not be tired at all the day.

You should sleep an evil voice rang through her head and she became even more tired. sleep Emily, sleep.

"No," she muttered. "I'm awake, i'm not asleep I'm awake."

You should be asleep though, sleep, sleep, sleep. The urge became too powerful, Emily closed her eyes and she fell asleep, crashing down onto the woods floor.

"Emily!" Alles shouted.

"Oh shit, what happened," Ileria ran over to Emily's limp body.

"She started muttering to herslef, then collapsed, she did," Cheri said defensively.

"we can't just wake her up, it won't do any good." Alles decided, his face twisted in deep thought.

"I'll carry her," Ileria offered. "If anything happens we can wake her up, and until then we'll let her sleep."

"Alright," Alles agreed.

She didn't meet him in her dream this time, she was in her apartment and he called her.

"Hello?" she said hesintantly.

"Hello my dear Emily," he replied, "you survived the day, congradulations, but don't make the mistake of thinking you can do that again."

"But-" he hung up. She turned around and a new face was sitting on her couch. "Ah!" she jumpped before realizing who it was, "Rick?"

"Hey Emily, hows it going?"

"Some psycopath is going to kill me, you?"

"Waiting for you in the elves realm."

"What?"

"You're dreaming, and I'm here to tell you that you're going to see me in the realm of the elves."

"How did you get there?"

"Hole in the fence," he teased.

"Seriously how?"

"I don't remember, all I remember is waking up and being there one day."

"Hey Alles, something's up with Emily's aura," Ileria pointed out suddenly.

"What do you mean?"

"Usually, when she's dreaming, her aura is black, for obvious reasons. Right now it's kind of...pink...and happy. I'm pretty sure that's a good thing, but at the same time it worries me."

"There's not much we can do," Alles replied. "Oh crap..."

"What?"

"Well, we've made it a good ways through the forest without anything bad happening..something's bound to jump out soon."

"Emily," Rick said, "next time you wake up you'll be able to make it to the realm of the elves without falling asleep."

"When am I going to wake up?"

"Whenever you want to, ready?"

"Not quite." Their hands locked and she leaned against him while he flipped through the channels.

"Emily you better wake up now, its kinda hard to keep the things away while I'm doing this too."

Emily sighed, "okay, wake me up."

He kissed her forehead and she opened her eyes, she saw the green leaves and knew she was awake.

"Okay you can put me down now," she said. Ileria set her down. "Well that was a much more pleasent dream," she said, now fully awake."

"What did you dream of?" Alles asked.

"An old friend, he's the reason we haven't run into any problems yet."

"He's a witch too?"

"Yeah he was my study buddy, which kind of morphed into my best friend, then my boy friend and then one day he just dissappeared, and it turns out that he ended up in the realm of the elves, we don't know how. He's waiting for us there."

"That is very...odd. Are you sure he can hold off the challanges of the forest for us while we travel?" asked Alles.

"Pretty positive, He's a very good witch." responed Emily.

"Well, that makes this easier," Ileria yawned a bit as she strolled calmly along.

"I was 'oping to bust a few heads though." said Cheri.

"Sorry Cheri, but I'm sure you'll get your chance eventually," Alles replied as they strolled along.

"This is kinda sad; here we are, in the middle of one of the most dangerous magical place on earth, and it's almost peaceful," Ileria noticed.

"Wow," Emily chimed in, sounding almost cheerful.

Yaola woke up in the cave and looked around.

"Oi!" she cried, sitting bolt upright. "Where'd everyone go? Did i miss something?"

She scratched her head and transformed into a wolf and sniffed the ground.

"This'll be hard..." Yaola said. "Then again, nothing's ever easy, i suppose."

She set off in persuit of her friends.

Alles contined down the trail. Still watching for something to go wrong. Even with someone holding back the danger he was still tense.

"Oh relax," said Ileria, "Emily said he's got it covered."

"You know as well as me that you cant walk through the forest with your guard down."

"Meh. We should be there soon."

Emily was now excited about opening the gate, if she couldn't open it she would get Rick to from the inside.

"Emily's aura is still pink," Ileria whispered.

"That might be something wrong," Alles suggested.

"Lets just take it as something good for now, what about this Rick guy? How do you suppose he got into the realm?"

"I don't know!" Emily said, "and I can hear you. How much longer Alles? He said not much longer."

"And he's right, we're almost there."