Enter the Future

Chapter 1: The Dream

Note: Everything in Bold is Aletia's dreams. They are also Aletia's P.O.V.

Disclaimer: I do not own Xiaolin Showdown. Nor do I own any of the characters. The only character I own is Aletia McCulloch. Thank you for understanding.

The Morning after Chris, May, Raimundo and Aletia saved Zen from the evil clutches of Chase Young.

Everyone was up. Well, nearly everyone. Aletia was still asleep, while the others were training. It seemed to be going well, even though everyone wondered why she was still asleep. Of course, they let her sleep, thinking that they should wake her up later.

"Wind!" Rai cried. He used his wind against Kimiko, whom he was facing in a battle. Strong winds came. Kimiko was lucky to be still standing! She struggled, but these gales weren't going to stop her.

I'm walking along these strange hills. They feel familiar for an unknown reason. Strong winds continue to blow. And, strangely, I couldn't hear the Wind's thoughts. The wind was quite annoying, and cold, but I continued to walk along the invisible path on the hills. I soon saw a pile or rubble—it looked like it had once been a Bungalow. Once again, this looked familiar to me. Soon, I saw gravestones. Suddenly my surroundings changed...

"Fire!" Kimiko said, flames creating a path in front of her, right towards Raimundo. Soon, the inferno flames spread, destroying the tornados. Rai gritted through his teeth. And went to attack her with his 'Old Kung Fu'...

A pair of corpses replaced the Gravestones. They burned, making them unable to be seen. I fell backwards. Shockingly, I seemed to remember these as well as many others. The Bungalow looked better, but it was burning with great, massive flames. I tried to escape this dreadful inferno, but had no luck in doing so. The flames began to burn the flesh of my skin. The pain was over-whelming, yet my screams were silent...

May was battling Chris, and the tides were even, except that Chris is able to turn all of May's attacks into sludge practically. May swallowed hard. She was going to try it once more, and was probably going to fail miserably... But... it was going to buy her a little time, right? May back flipped from an upcoming attack from Chris. "Water!" she cried out, upside down, in the air. Waves of water came flying from the sky, heading straight for Chris...

The heat was agony, but I kept silent, still looking desperately for a way out. Nothing was able to grab my attention. Suddenly, waves of despair came hurdling towards me. I was surprised—and scared. There wasn't any water here except from the lake that I had passed earlier, and it wasn't big or deep enough to be able to do that. None the less, the water swallowed the fire, the two familiar corpses, the familiar bungalow and... Unfortunately, me. The waters drifted me from the place I had been before, making it disappear in a couple of minutes, which felt like an eternity. The waves threw me deeper and deeper within itself. My eyes stung, as I tried to swim out, but to no avail. I began to feel weak, and my eyes dropping slowly...

Chris smirked at May, and waited till the water was completely over her, like a wave you would normally find people surfing on. Chris adjusted her cap to show how calm she was to May, and punched an invisible dummy. Chris then punched the ground. "Earth!" she cried her fist and her element forcing the ground to create a barrier from the water. The water splashed onto the earth barrier, getting absorbed by it. "Nothing to worry 'bout." Chris said calmly, the ground pushing itself downwards. May wasn't there. Chris tilted her head, only to feel a kick in her back.

"You fell for the distraction!" May said cheerfully, back flipping before Chris grabbed her foot. She taunted Chris slightly by yawning. Chris smirked once more, and ran towards May. May grinned, and their battle continued.

I continued to fall deeper within the depths of this terror. Suddenly, my foot felt something hard. I opened my eyes wide, the stinging practically disappeared. I turned my head downwards. Earth. I had landed on something. The water pushed me into the land, as if wanting to crush my entire body. I pressed hard against the earth. So hard it began to break. The harder the waves pushed, the more the ground broke. Suddenly, the ground could take no more. It made a massive crack. All the water went in, making the crack wider. I fell with these waves, but they disappeared before my eyes. I kept bumping into the rocks as I fell. It felt like a mountain that wouldn't end. The scrapes and bruises I felt made blood trickle down my legs and arms. I finally screamed in agony. I fell further and further through this gap between the earths...

Zen was trying to teach Jill how to use her element, while the others did their own training. Jill was using her yoga to attack Zen, while he quickly dodged them all. "Jill, prepare to face... Darkness!" Zen said, darkness consumed them, and drained Jill's energy, not to mention scare the creeps out of her. She was scared of the dark, and shivered from the cold she was feeling.

"Zen! I don't like this..." she squealed, hugging herself. She wished her Clay was there. She would have hugged him for eternity, well, until Zen stopped his attack that is!

I continued to fall from this position. The pain I was feeling was too much to bare. I shut my eyes, preparing for the worst. Suddenly, the breeze I could feel as I fell vanished. I kept still, thinking my life would be all over. At last, I slowly opened my left eye, then my right. All I could see was darkness. I looked at my hand. Strange... I could see it perfectly. I stood on nothing, yet could feel nothing above my head, or around me. It was like I was in space, but only able to breath. I looked around aimlessly, like I had done with the fire. Still, I tried but ended the same way. Even though it could cause me to crush practically, I had hope. Maybe something would help me escape this...

"Jill, use light!" Zen yelled through the darkness. Inside it was a shivering Jill, who was practically scared to move. Zen continued to give her these instructions until she finally tried. She clasped her hands and swallowed hard.

"LIGHT!" Jill yelled. Light attacked her dark surroundings and she could see Zen, Chris, May, Raimundo, Kimiko and Clay. She dashed towards Clay, hugging him tightly. Clay smiled, blushing slightly, while Kimiko tried to stop herself from getting angry. She didn't understand why she was like this, but she certainly didn't want to hurt Jill, so she managed a weak smile.

I continued to drift afloat in this darkness, my eyes shut tightly, my fingers crossed tightly too. I felt nothing but myself, and I was thinking that my hope shall shatter any minute. I opened my eyes, and looked at my wounds from the fire. I could still feel my eyes stinging from the water. I had even more wounds from that fall that got me here in the first place. Now, I'm in this darkness. I felt as if I could hear screams, swords clashing upon each other, and much more. All these things were familiar to me drastically. Sometimes I might even see the occasional one. It was as if my memory was gone, and it came back in flashes. Maybe that's what happened in this place. Perhaps everything I'm remembering is going to be the last thing I may see of this place. I shut my eyes again, hugging myself tightly, rolling into a ball to keep me warm. I was ready to try and sleep. Darkness was everywhere, but I couldn't care less. I was tired. After all I'd suffered; it was hard not to think about the pain. All of a sudden, a bright light pressed against my eyelids. I tried to open them, but the moment I did, I shut them again. The light was to light. I put a hand above my eyes, making another attempt at opening my eyes. I did, and nearly fell backwards (if there was something to fall backwards on!) It looked like an image, but I wasn't sure. I stopped putting my hand over my eyes, and started to run that direction towards this light...

Everyone gathered with each other. "Hey, isn't Aletia meant to be up by now?" Clay asked. Everyone looked at him.

"I thought that too. Shall we wake her up now?" Raimundo said. Everyone agreed and headed that direction, when a Master Fung whom had lost his memory came rushing by smelling a flower the was below the feet.

"It smells nice!" he said, as if he were a child. Dojo came on all fours, sighing deeply.

"Sorry kids, but you know what he's like. C'mon Fung." he said, tugging at Master Fung's coat. He willingly followed, allowing the kids to continue walking to Aletia's room. When they got there, she was resting peacefully, looking as if she had fully rested.

"Aletia... Aletia wake up... Aletia. Aletia," Chris said, trying to wake Aletia up.

I got closer to the light. It turned out to be two ghost-like people. One was a man and the other a woman. The man's gloves looked exactly like mine, as did my necklace from the woman. I ran faster, trying to find out why they seemed as familiar to the corpses in the fire, and why the corpses looked familiar as well. I soon heard them saying something.

"Aletia... Aletia wake up... Aletia... Aletia..." These voices sounded like some people I knew, or had once. I wasn't that sure. I continued to run still. I had so many questions, yet so little time. Suddenly there voices broke into another voice I knew. It sounded younger than their voices before, so it must be a different person. Before I knew it, their light spread, engulfing the darkness. My eyes widened, as I felt my body feel lighter...

Aletia jumped forward slightly, panting a bit too. Chris, Raimundo and the others jumped back too. Aletia looked around, as if she was looking for someone. "Where they go?" she asked. She looked into Chris' eyes, and shook her head softly twice. "Must've been a dream." she muttered.

"Aletia! Wake up sleepy-head! Training's started and you've been sleeping for ages!" Rai added, smiling his 'trade-mark' smile. Aletia grinned as this, and pushed everyone out.

"Well then, I would like some privacy to get changed!" Aletia shut the door on all of them, grinning to herself. Unfortunately, a voice in her mind kept nagging her that she was trouble, and this dream had happened as a warning to your doom. Aletia put it at the back of her head, while a man was laughing as he saw all this through his orb...

O.K., it's my first fic. I would greatly appreciate it if you would R+R. Thanks!