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-A Blessing From The Sky-

Chapter One: First To Come

A twenty-year-old woman with long sandy blond hair is studying for a quarterly exam in her apartment. Her name is Hitomi Kanzaki. Just your normal college student working hard to have some kind of trophy and a good life? No.
Hitomi is not your normal girl. She is a person that is gifted with the sight of time. Why? It is because she can see visions of the past, present and future. Seeing that she has these visions, she became associated with tarot cards. The visions can also be called premonitions as well as a hunch.

As you all know, tarot cards are cards of the future or cards of wisdom. They can answer a lot of questions. The only drawback is that sometimes, the cards talk in riddles and it's usually hard to understand. Sometimes, they are not meant to be understood. She uses them in order to answer her questions about her visions.

Every so often, her visions frighten her but because she'd been having them for a year now, she had gotten used to them. Yet, every now and then, when she awakens from one of her visions, she sees that she is covered by sweat and tears. Something she didn't want others to see for it portrayed weakness.

She has mysterious green eyes that can almost see through you soul. However, they always seem to hold a tint of sadness in them. Well, who wouldn't when your family had been killed in a car accident just a year ago?

It all started at her apartment when her parents called. They had asked her if she had wanted to come with them to watch a movie. She politely declined because she still had some studying to do and that the exams weren't far away.
Hours later, she had received a phone call. She immediately went to the hospital. She waited for almost two hours when the doctor came out of the emergency room.

Hitomi walked back to her apartment while the words that the doctor spoke repeated in her mind.

"I'm very sorry. We couldn't save them. Too much blood loss, serious burns, broken bones."

That year had been torture for Hitomi. What was worse is that her visions also started in that year. She was close to going insane but pulled through because of her strong will to live.
Since then, Hitomi had forever been a loner. She refused to let others see her emotions. She had become the top of the class and the best of the runners but at the same time, she became cold and distant. She never let's others get close to her. Her reason was because they wouldn't and didn't understand.

It was easier for her to be like that. Having the knowledge that people weren't close to her comforted her a little. It was because she was afraid of being betrayed. She figured, if you don't get close to people, they won't get close to you and thus, you wouldn't be hurt no matter what. She was afraid of people hating her. That was one of the things she despised about herself. She was too self-conscious. She often wonders what other people think of her. That was why it was easier for her to know that people knew her as a loner. It was better than being friendly and not knowing what people think about you.

Hitomi closed the book that she had been reading. It signaled the end of her studying time and that she will come out top again. She looked at her clock. It read 11 PM. She stood up and walked to her bed. After a few moments, she fell asleep dreaming of nothing but darkness.

"What? A vision?" Hitomi asked herself in the darkness. Suddenly, the darkness of her dream was interrupted by screams of pain. The darkness then shifted to that of heating flames. One by one, bodies started appearing. Houses were burning. She found herself standing in the middle of a place that was being destroyed.

She looked around and saw a little girl with black hair crying over two corpses. Must be her parents, she thought.

She went nearer the girl and reached out to touch her shoulder but her hand went right through her. She froze and tried to sort out what had happened. Before she could think of a logical explanation, the sound of clashing metals filled the air. She looked at the direction where the sound was coming from.

Her eyes widened at what she saw. There standing in the middle of a field, were two giant robots shaped like humans fighting each other. One was blood red while the other was heavenly white. Their swords continued to hit each other until they formed an X-mark. Suddenly, the red giant turned its head towards her. She heard a word and then maniacal laughter filled the air.

That's when she awoke from her vision. Her face was covered with sweat and her breathing was in gasps. Slowly, her breathing became normal again. She looked at her clock, which read 4 AM.

She couldn't understand the word but she felt that it was something frightening. But what shocked her was that, the little girl didn't see her while the red giant did. It was the same vision but two at the same time.

'Great', she thought.

She got up from her bed and went straight to the bathroom to do her morning necessities. After about one hour, she came out wearing a black mini skirt, a green top that showed her curves, and long black boots. To finish the outfit, she put on a black jacket that showed coldness. She put her hair in a ponytail and went out the apartment.

As she was walking, she remembered her vision. Never before had she had a vision that powerful. Usually, she would just have a very strange dream and certainly not a nightmare. That vision was something that she needed to take seriously and figure out before it was too late to do anything about it.

Okay, please review and tell me what you think. Also, do you want this to be a happy ending or sad? That question had been going through my head for some time now and who better to ask then the readers themselves?