Dream Catcher

Chapter 1

Dreams and nightmares are two things in Mokuba's life that he couldn't escape from. The dreams weren't that bad, some of them were very strange like most dreams were, however, the nightmares are the ones he couldn't stand. Every night he was haunted by these nightmares and they only got worse after the whole Pegasus kidnapping fiasco. Seto knew about Mokuba's nightmares more than anyone. He would hear him screaming in the middle of the night and always would run to his rescue like a good big brother does. As the days passed by, Mokuba looked so drained. The nightmares kept him up of all hours in the night. Seto had offered counseling for the child, but Mokuba simply denied, saying he would be fine. Mokuba had lived ten years in this evil world and already experienced more pain than the average grown man. The death of his parents, the abuse from his step- father, at least three different kidnappings so far. How much more was this world going to do to him? What could this little boy have done so wrong in his precious young life that he deserved to be hurt this way? It was only natural that he would be damaged in some way right?

Mokuba stirred in his sleep, everything was darkness until he saw a bright light beaming towards him. The next thing he saw was a beautiful woman floating above him as he lay in bed. Her long ebony hair floated all around her body, as if she was swimming. "Mokuba," The beautiful woman quietly chanted fromabove him. She was beautiful, her eyes could pierce the coldest soul. They were icy blue and deep like the ocean. Mokuba could get lost in her eyes forever.She wore a long dark blue dress with lace all around the bottom and a sparkling white belt around her waist.

"Who are you," Mokuba whispered. "Is this real?" Mokuba stared into her beautiful big eyes with wonder. He could only open his eyes just a slit no matter how hard he tried to open them fully.

The thin woman smiled and closed her eyes. "It is a secret, my child. In time you will know. Until then think of me as your guardian angel. I'm here to chase your nightmares away, I'm here to calm your beating heart. I have watched you over the years and I have seen all your pain. I warn you, there is more pain to come. Greater pain than ever before."

"Wait! Don't go!" Mokuba yelled as he watched her slowly drift away. "What's going to happen to me!?" Mokuba reached his small hand out to grab her by the hem of her dress; but she vanished just before he could touch her.

Mokuba's eyes snapped opened and he quickly sat up in his bed. He placed his shaking hand over his quickly beating heart. "Was that even real, should I tell Seto?"

A quick glance was made to his nearby baby blue alarm clock and it read 5AM. Mokuba stepped out of his bed and into his bathroom. Maybe splashing his face with some cold water would help him snap out of it. Mokuba turned the silver knob and watched the icy cold water stream out from the faucet then cupped his little hands around the cold water. After he splashed his tired face with a couple hand fulls of cold water he reached for his fluffy purple towel by the marble topped sink and patted his face dry.

"I feel like I'm going insane, every night I dream; but I never had a dream like this. It felt so real."Mokuba thought while he stared at his reflection in his bathroom mirror.

"Please, be careful!" Mokuba jumped at the sound of the voice. He turned and looked all around him but to his dismay he didn't find anyone. In fear, Mokuba sprinted out of his bathroom and down the hall, his eyes were shut and he could feel the hot tears start to rim around his eyes already. "Nii-sa UH!" Mokuba ran into something tall and twice his size. With a loud grunt Mokuba flew backwards and hit the hard floor. "Mokuba!" Seto spoke in surprise. "Are you alright?" Seto asked while he walked over to his little brother and helped him stand up. He noticed the tears falling from his eyes. "Are you hurt, wasthe fall bad?" Seto looked worriedly in Mokuba's tear stained face. Mokuba hiccupped and buried his face into Seto's stomach "I-I h-heard a voice," Mokuba managed to say between his tears.

Seto placed his hands on the top of his shoulders. "Another nightmare?"

Mokuba nodded his head and wrapped his arms tighter around his Nii-sama's waist.

"I saw a woman and she told me more pain was going to happen to me, more than I ever experienced before! I heard her tell me to be careful when I was washing my face in the bathroom, but I wasn't asleep when I heard her!" Mokuba blurted out.

Seto took in a deep breath and closed his eyes, he pushed Mokuba away from his waist but kept his large hands on his shoulders while he knelt down to be at his height. "It was only your imagination there isn't a woma- Seto stopped mid-sentence when he noticed a stream of blood running from Mokuba's nose. He must have smashed it on his steel belt buckle. "Let's go get you cleaned up, we need to be at Kaiba Corp early today kid." Seto smiled.

To Be Continued…