The Story of WonderCraft..

Chapter 28

I flew over to Samuel's house. I knew for a fact he was over there, since I'd seen him heading in that direction.

"Samuel. Explain yourself, now."
"I- what on Earth are you talking about?"
"Don't you act so innocent! I know you've been in the panic room." I showed him the ripped out pages and note.
"Well, you caught me.." he shrugged. "Anything else?"

"I'll deal with you later." I rolled my eyes.
"Are you serious? He did that?"
"What did I honestly expect out of him? He's the same guy he was when this began, and will be."

"Maybe not, April. Maybe he'll change.. but the odds of that are a bit low. But not zero."
"I mean, you've got a point there."
"So, which memories aren't there?" Arnold asked me.

"I can't seem to find the memory where I found Luna, the one where he killed me, and the one where I was sick." I hadn't forgotten them entirely, but I didn't remember all the details.

"Wait.. didn't you say there was some paper in the barrel?" I nodded.
"I think I know where they are.. follow me." I followed him. It was still day outside, so we had some time.

And then, it started raining. I sighed, but kept going. This could be it.
"We can just do this some other time. You know, when it's not raining?"

"No, it's fine. Might as well get this over with, anyway." We reached the bunker. I started mining to the panic room.

"Here it is."
Arnold looked around in surprise. "I have to admit, this isn't too bad. Blast resistant, too." he saw the barrel and opened it.
"Is this it?"

"Yeah, I saw some paper in there. If it's still there.. maybe, just maybe.."
"It's there."
I grabbed the paper and took my book out. I flipped to the page where it was ripped out. Let's see..

After about 30 minutes, we'd put everything back together. By then, the sun was about to set. We packed our stuff and went home.
"Night." I went to sleep.

-Dream-

I saw myself, placing the TNT that blew up WonderTopia. No, no, not this again..

The scene changed. This wasn't in the election building's bottom floor. It was.. Zeus' Vault. I could still see me, with Noah, busting Samuel out. I activated the TNT.

-End of Dream-

"No! I don't want to remember! Stop it!" I said to myself. I'd had enough of this stupid Samuel voice making me seem like the bad guy.

"Ah, but you did all those things." it said in my head.
"I didn't!"
"You did, April. And you know it."

"I didn't! This is your fault, not mine! Enough making me the villain in this story or whatever of yours! Take the blame for once."

And I ran. I ran out of my house. I was done with this voice. I wanted to leave it behind. I wanted to leave everything behind.

I eventually stopped somewhere around the snowy forest. I could see someone with dragon wings in the distance. Dragon wings.. well, I never thought I'd see the day.
"Noah."

"Ah, hello, April." he said, somewhat cheerfully. "What've you lot been up to these days?"
"I don't know, thinking you were dead? And yet here you are, alive as day!"
"I- look, I can explain. Hear me out here."

"Fine. One last chance. Why did you do this? Why'd you fake being dead? Why?!"
"I wanted to.. cause chaos."
"Is that really it?" I said, looking at him suspiciously. "It can't be."
"Yeah, that's really it."
"I- I'll take your word for it."

I got out of there and went back to WonderTopia. It wasn't worth it. It wasn't worth forgetting everyone you'd known for years over a stupid voice in your head.
And then, I finally went back to sleep.