Hope

        "Whoa..." Davin said, astonished by their surrondings. When the three people walked through the door, they saw a bright version of Pandora Academy.  The dorm buildings, the main building, the yard, and even the town and park in the distance.
    Noah smirked. "So, his source of hope is the school. Pathetic."
        "Hey, Davin, it's you!" Elista cried, shocked. "And... is that me?"
        "It is! And look - there is Aoi, LiNa, Amber, and Emily! And over there are some of the others." Davin walked up to Lazlo, Remy, Aspen, and Kassie.
        "Those aren't your friends. They are just images that represent his hope." Noah cried after Davin. He shrugged. "Well, anyway, we should find the leader."
    Elista piped in. "Pandora will probably be in her office..."
        "Pandora isn't necessarily the leader," Noah responded.
        "She's not?"
        "Maybe not. Unless she is his main source of hope. It's probably a classmate he has a lot of trust in, or that Emily person or something." Elista flinched at that remark, but the uncaring boy just began to walk into the school building. He motioned to Davin, who was chatting with Simon's versions of his friends, and of Davin.
        "Are you coming, hero boy?" Davin looked at Noah, and then followed him and Elista inside. Elista thought for a moment.
        "How do you know the headmistress isn't his main source of hope? She took him in when no one else would..."
        "That's true." Noah stopped. "OK then, let's try Pandora." Elista walked to her office, to find it locked with no one inside.
        "There goes that idea," she said, before heading to the teachers lounge. On the way there, they saw Emily.
        "Let's try her in case she is the leader," Noah said.
        "Fine." Elista turned to Emily. "Emily, are you the leader here?"
        "Me? Oh, no. That's the Headmistress. But thanks for asking." She walked away.
    The three students went to the teachers lounge next, where indeed Pandora was talking to some of the teachers.                 "Headmistress Pandora? Can we talk to you?"
    Noah murmured in frusteration. "I told you, it isn't Pandora. It's the manifestation of whatever makes Simon hopeful. It's his emotion, not a person."
    Davin rolled his eyes. "Whatever."
    Pandora turned around and saw them. "Certainly I'll speak with you. In my office please." They all walked to her office, which looked very different from Pandora's real office. This office had photographs of Simon in certain times with certain people.
        "Noah, is it decorated with what makes Simon hopeful, instead of what is really in her office?" Elista asked.
        "Now you are catching on. Yes." Noah nodded.
    Davin looked around a bit, and then he asked, "Headmistress? Can you take us to the next place, Sadness?"
        "When I finish with this...."  She was trying to file an envelope that kept bouncing out of her hands. "Stupid envelope..."
        "Is corrupted!" Noah shouted out. Elista ran to the desk and found a stapler. The girl tossed it to Noah.
        "Here!"
    Noah grabbed it and stapled the corruption being, making it dissappear.
        "You know, you could have said thank you," Elista poked at him.
        "Well you could have just used your cracker instead of getting the stapler," Noah retorted. Elista humphed, while Davin tried to break up the 'fight'.
        "Let's go to Sadness now!" Davin shouted. "Although it doesn't sound like a place I want to visit...."
        "Oh, yes." She created a vortex. "In here students. Come back and visit sometime!"
    The three students jumped in, Davin first, then Noah, and lastly Elista. After a few moments, they were back in the infinate space of purple clouds with a chunk of concrete they were in before. This time the door said "Sadness".
        "I wonder what makes Simon sad..." Elista thought aloud.
        "That's obvious. His past probably." Noah said all-knowingly.
        "But there's only one way to find out," Davin said, hopping in. The two others followed him.