The Hollow-Harper's Journey

Part 6

I found myself in Adam's room, again, with only Adam, Mira, and Kai. Vanessa was at a French class and Reeve was somewhere.

Together, we formed a plan to try to find out why I suddenly remembered about the virtual world. "We could go to The Hollow studio and search through files and computers." Mira suggested.

"What if that doesn't work?" Kai asked.

"I have an idea." Adam said. "I remember that everything is designed to look exactly as we remember them."

"So?" I asked.

"So, we could find a portal, or barrier, somewhere." Adam said. "No one had walked past the third hill that is surrounding this town, right?"

Mira's eyes grew wide. "Yeah!" she exclaimed. "We could break the barrier, which could alert Gustav, and we could talk to him!"

"We just need to hike three hills." Kai groaned.

The door opened, and Reeve and Vanessa were at the doorway. "What did we miss?" Reeve asked, seeing our excited faces.

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We were outside The Hollow studio. "How do we get inside?" I asked, spotting the security guard.

"Turn invisible, genius." Reeve said.

"I know that." I said, slapping his shoulder. "What about you guys?"

"Same way we got inside." Adam said. "Kai?"

Kai let a small flame appear on his finger, and sent it toward the dumpster, setting it on fire. The security guard groaned "Not again." and dialed a number on her phone.

While she was yelling on the phone with someone named Steve, we snuck by, and broke a window, crawling inside.

"Watch it!" Kai yelled as Reeve sent the glass shards back outside, almost hitting Kai in the head.

"Oops." Reeve said flatly.

"Let's go." Adam said. "Just watch out for the drones."

"Right." I said. "The drones with lasers that could kill you. Got it." I turned invisible so the drones wouldn't see me, and walked into a room.

Inside was papers and books everywhere, and burned furniture. "Looks like no one cleaned up from the last time we were here." Kai remarked, coming in after me.

"Where is everyone?" I asked.

Kai screamed "Ghost!", setting his hands aflame.

"It's me idiot." I said, rolling my eyes. "Answer me question."

"Oh." he chuckled sheepishly, putting out the flames, and said "They went to look through the other rooms."

I opened a drawer, and went through the files in it. "Can you turn back to normal?" Kai asked. "It's kind of freaking me out."

"You'll get used to it." I said, then pulled a file out of the drawer. The label had my name on it.

"What's that?" Kai asked. He walked forward to peek at the file, and stepped on my foot.

"OW!" I yelled, stepping away from him.

"Sorry."

I opened the file, and found a picture of myself, in real life form, wearing the exact clothes that I'm wearing right now. I flipped through the pages, and on it was information about my life, my age, and about my personality. What?

I gave the file to Kai, and flipped through the other files in the drawer until I found files about the others. "Freaky." Kai mumbled.

"Get the others here." I said.