Reika's Home - Tokyo, Japan

That night, Reika had another dream. Though, this one wasn't as vivid as the one she had had before. Reika was in a dark room, with a very small light source. She could make out a few objects around her, they seemed like lockers. It seems as though the source was coming from the ceiling. She started to walk, she didn't know where she was going but she just decided to walk. Reika kept her hand trailing the lockers, she felt assured somehow. The area around her started to fuzz a little, like a TV losing it's signal. Reika focused a bit harder, trying to keep her dream clear. It wasn't working, the area around her including the light source fuzzed even more. She started to realize that this dream might be one of the 'special' ones so she focused even harder. Her effort had been wasted, the light source had gone black. All around her, suddenly became total darkness. A lighting bolt symbol started to flare up then flicker right front of her, glimmering bright yellow. She reached for it, but it flickered away and her alarm had woken her. Reika sat up right for a moment then said, "Gee...why do I keep getting these weird dreams?" She rubbed her eyes, yawned and began her morning with a shower. Thinking.

Ayumi sat there in Social Studies class playing with her playing cards. Carefully trying to build a tower.

"Hey, put those away before you get in trouble." Reika warned Ayumi. "Shh, hold on. Lemme just put this on top..."

"Ms. Kato. You know what I feel about you playing with those cards during class." said Mr. Santeru.

"Ok ok, lemme put them away."

The teacher resumed his teaching, "The Battle of Bunker Hill..." He was interrupted when the room had suddenly became black. You could hear a bunch of girls screaming near the back of the room.

Mr. Santeru had a puzzled look on his face, he scratched his head then said, "Class, calm down now, let me go check with the other teachers to see what happened."

Ayumi pulled out her cards again and tried to build another tower with the very little light that came through the window. She wasn't bothered by Reika telling her to put the cards away again so she turned to asked her why. The moment she turned, she saw a face on Reika that looked like she had just seen a ghost.

"Reika? Are you OK?" she asked.

"This...this is...this is just like..." Reika trailed off.

"Just like what?" Ayumi started to worry a little.

"This is just like the dream I had."

Ayumi's eyes got big. "Oh no."

Mr. Santeru walked into the room. "It seems as though this problem is city-wide, the power company is working to fix this. We can't work in this light so head into the halls where there's some emergency lights. Your next class' teacher will give you further instructions."

The entire class went out into the hallway. Kaze cleared his throat and began to talk, "Ok, this is the first time that this has happened to our school. Your next class, err rather, special is lunch which is in one hour. You can go anywhere in this campus, without disturbing other classes. I know staying at school while it has no power is fun, but try to be safe, the hallways and most rooms will have the emergency lights on, they're not as bright, but they work." A bunch of boys yelled out, "Woohoo!" The girls rolled there eyes and decided to walk n' talk around the campus.

Ayumi and Reika started off walking to the south end of the school looking for their new friends they had made yesterday. "Wait, so you had a dream that this would happen?" asked Ayumi.

"Well, not exactly. But it was all dark and I saw this lighting sign thing in front of me." she said.

Ayumi put her finger on her lips and thought for a moment. "Well, this dream wasn't as clear as the other one, now was it?"

"Yea, my dreams are stating to become more difficult to make sense of now..." Reika looked at the ground.

"Really? How many of these...uhm, special dreams have you had?"

"I've had three, including the one I just told you." Reika said.

"Three? You've only told be two of them." Ayumi said while pulling one playing card from her pocket.

"Well, you know how we met those fresh-mans during lunch?"

Ayumi replied, "Yea..."

"I had a dream about meeting them too, it wasn't really clear, but I managed to figure it out."

"Hey! Are we having burritos for lunch?" Ayano jerked in.

"Ayano and her burritos, ya' can't seperate them." said Hiro.

"Ah hey guys!" said Ayumi.

Reika let out a soft "hello" and the four started to walk in the same direction. "This power-outage at school is kinda cool, eh?" Ayano asked.

Hiro said, "Kinda cool? Psh, this is awesome!"

Ayano looked at Reika and saw that her face wasn't in a happy mood. She questioned her, "Hey...did, did you have a dream again, Reika?"

Reika looked up from the floor. "Yea, how did you know?"

"Well, you have that stressed look on your face. I have to tell you something too."

"What?" Reika looked straight into Ayano's eyes.

"I've been having these dreams too. It creeps me out a bit."

"Woah! You guys must have super powers or something..." said Hiro. "This is like in one of those dramatic TV shows, where you guys find out that you have powers, and then you go seek answers by going on an adventure."

Ayano put her hand on Hiro's shoulders, "Hiro, you have quite the imagination."

Hiro swiped her hand off, "It's true! We must go on an adventure to find answers to this!"

Reika and Ayano rolled their eyes. Ayumi started to talk, "You know, Hiro might be right. I mean, you just don't have dreams that can predict the future. Well, you can, but not very often like this." Ayumi pulled at two cards from her pocket, she looked at them. They were a four of spades and a five of hearts.

"Hey! Reika!" Akiyo yelled from a distance. He came running from soccer practice. When he got to the group, he bent down and put his hands on his knees. "H-h-...hold on a second...lemme...c-catch my breath."

Reika asked, "Are you gonna be OK?"

"Yea..., I just wanted to tell you..." said Akiyo between breaths of air.

"Yea?" Reika asked.

Akiyo put one finger up, "I made the soccer team this year!

The four said, "Congrats!" in succession with excited faces and patted him on the back.

Akiyo fell from the weight of their hands and passed out on the ground. Hiro and Ayano pulled him up and started to walk him to the nurse's office. "We'll take care of him, you two go get your lunches and save me some burritos." said Ayano.

As they walked him away, Ayumi noticed the numbers on Akiyo's soccer jersey. "Hey, Reika. Look at the numbers on his jersey."

"Alright...uhm, fourty-five." said Reika a bit confused.

"Yea..." said Ayumi.

"What about them?" asked Reika.

Ayumi held up her two cards, "Look at the numbers on my cards."

Reika looked at the two playing cards and said, "A four of spades and a five of hearts...four and five...fourty-five. Hey, isn't that the number on his jersey?"