Disclaimer- I do not own the anime 'Ghost Hunt', I only own the characters I made up and the storyline.

Author's Note: I dedicate this chapter to the other FanFiction author Iloveanimex for all her support and encouraging for me to finally completing this FanFic.

-Chapter 1-

The Dream

Mai found herself standing in front of a large, Western style mansion. The front garden was filled with flowers of every colour, some Mai didn't recognise. There was an enormous cherry tree, laden with blossoms, in the middle of the driveway that led up to the house.

As she walked up to the huge double fronted oak doors she saw an eagle with red feathers glide through an open window on the second floor. Intrigued by it Mai went through the open doors and into the hall. She ran up the sweeping staircase, turning right, and hurried down the portrait lined corridor.

She came to a door with strange golden carvings on it. Mai knew this was the room where the eagle was. She slipped through it silently.

The room, was a large study. Bookcases covered two of the walls while the one with the door had more paintings. The two paintings portaged two different women.

The first was a middle-aged woman with chestnut brown hair that reached just blow her shoulders blades, flecked with grey. Her eyes were a brilliant, forest green and she wore an emerald coloured ball-gown, embroidered with silver thread. The backdrop was brown and a cat, its fur the same hue as the woman's hair, was sitting next to her. The lady was smiling with her lips and her eyes.

'She is truly happy.' Mai thought and she too, smiled.

Mai's eyes lingered on the cat for a moment then her eyes travelled to the next painting. The picture was of a beautiful girl in her early twenties. She had a tall, slim figure. Her dark golden hair, that was weaved with cherry blossoms, was put up into a flat bun. A small tiara, made of silver and diamonds was just visible above her hairline. Her eyes were the most stunning blue and her lips were naturally pink, unlike the first. The dress she wore was a long red puffy ball-gown that sweep the floor. In background here was a massive stair case, with the lady standing near the top. She wasn't looking at the artist, but had her head turned, looking out of the window on the left side, so you could only see half her face. A white bird was flying towards her, looking at her, with its beady black eye. The woman looked at it, almost longingly. There was something about her, and it was not just her pale skin (which was even paler than her boss's). She looked ill and...

'She seems so sad.' Was the thought that drifted though Mai's head. Then she noticed the emotion in her eyes. They seemed determined. But, it covered another, pain.

'I wonder what happened to her...' Mai wondered.

"No Skylock. I can't allow you to go out in your poor condition!" Said a voice that was not Mai's. The paintings were pushed out of her mind as she turned her head quickly towards the direction of the voice.

She gasped, it was the same woman from the first painting! There was no doubt about it. The woman had the same eye and hair colour. She was standing behind a large wooden desk that was in the middle of the room, her back facing the massive window. The woman had her hands placed on the desk, looking angrily across at the two black cloaked figures. Mai couldn't see their faces because they were concealed in the shadows of their cloak's hood.

"Julie is right. You shouldn't be going out at the moment." Said the first figure, a male, "The sprit won't be too happy about it either. I can go to Japan, maybe Kathy or Mary could come. But you really shou-"

"I have told you both already, Mary and Kate have found a brilliant spell that I can use. It will just drain me a little but I'll be FINE!" Said the woman behind the hood stubbornly.

"Ok, Skylock. I'll think about it..." Julie said in defeat as she turned her back to them and looked out the window, "You, Victoria, will become her protector from her ninetieth birthday onwards. And you Markus would be the same for the boy, correct?"

They both nodded and mumbled, "Yes."

Julie was silent for a moment then said, "On my orders, you will go out to Japan, find Shibuya Psychic Research and convince them to take our case."

"So we can kill two birds with one stone, right?" Asked the man, Markus.

"Exactly!" Julie answered turning around, "I have had enough with this entity. We won't tell them anything. We'll wait until we know we can trust them and tell them about-"

"Wait!" The woman said suddenly, whipping around and looking right in the corner where Mai was, "Someone is here!"

"What?" The other two said, also looking in the same direction, "Where?"

"A girl, in her late teens, brown hair and... has a very powerful aura..." The woman answered slowly.

Mai watched horrified as the woman came towards her, eyes closed, using a hand to navigate. Mai remembered what she had learned from her sprit guide. She tried to force herself to awaken. Then she felt something pulling her back, away from the scene. Just before she was engulfed in darkness she saw to gorgeous blue eyes looking right at her.