DREAMING OF DRAGONS

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Chapter 1: Telepaths, Nightmares, Elves, and Dwarves.

ADVENTURERS WANTED. ALL INTERESTED MEET AT THE SIGN OF THE HAIRY
AARDVARK.

--That's what the sign on the billboard said. That and nothing more. Aurora stared at the sign in confusion. "The Sign of the Hairy Aardvark? What the heck is a Hairy Aardvark?"

--Soft laughter sounded behind the golden elf and she turned to see a most unusual dwarf. He was tall (for a dwarf) with bright red hair and beard. His skin had an odd reddish tint to it. He was wearing tall black boots and leather breeches and, well that was about it.

--She raised one eyebrow and stared at him. "I take it your new." He said when he had finished laughing. "Is it that obvious?" she replied. This set him off laughing again.

--The elven druid sighed as she waited for him to stop. This was why she was not too fond of dwarves. They always laughed at her.

"The Hairy Aardvark is our inn. It's right around the corner, that way." He pointed vaguely to the left.

"Well thanks, I guess." she shook her head and walked off. 'Dumb dwarves' she thought, annoyed.

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--C'run laughed softly as he watched Aurora walked off. There was a likely candidate and no mistake!

--She was a strong spellcaster: he had felt her aura all across the town at first, before she had thought to conceal it. Once she had done that, she had been hard to find.

"Ah lassie, young elf with that much power." he murmured as he watched her turn the corner, "A rare thing, a rare thing indeed; and much trouble it'll cause you" He too walked off, shaking his head.

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--Hiei sat bolt upright with a cry, almost falling out of his tree. Another nightmare. Of course, his whole life was a nightmare. This whole world was a nightmare. A nightmare within a nightmare, wrapped in another nightmare. Pathetic.

--He wiped cold sweat of his face and hands unto the black outfit he always wore. Nightmares were nothing knew to him, but he had been having the same one for weeks now. Falling, falling into blackness.

--This wouldn't be so strange except that Kurama was having these dreams to. Not only that, Maya and Cellest had been gone for over a week. The nightmares had started the day after they had left.

--Maybe this was a message of some kind, the thought suddenly occurred to him. Not so unusual. Maya could send urgent telepathic massages over long distances, but only to him.

--Cellest was a different story. The overly cheerful telepath took great pleasure in sending messages to anyone and everyone; whether they wanted them or not. This could be quite alarming at times, but amusing at others.

--She could be useful, though. On several occasions she had entered his subconscious while he slept. Subtly shifting his dreams, focusing them on the few good memories he had.

--She seemed to feel it was her personal responsibility to make sure no one suffered too much. The strain of it had shown in her eyes. Then she had taught Maya to enter his dreams.

--Maya had been the one who told him in the end. Otherwise he would never have known about her nighttime visits to everyone. Everyone except Kawabara. Kawabaka. That was more like it.

--He shook his head to clear his thoughts. This was not a good time to be drifting. He went off to find Kurama.

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Ok, so that was short. Wow, that was really short. I know that this is kind of confusing, but don't worry, it will make sense later. Maybe even as soon as the next chapter. Maybe.

Should there even be a next chapter? Is this so completely confusing and badly written that I should just take it off the net? Please, just press the pretty little button and review. ANYONE WHO REVIEWS GETS CANDY!!!!!!!!!

Oh, and in case you haven't noticed, C'run is the dwarf. And it's pronounced Corun, but C'run looks cool. At least I think so. And it's my authorverse!! So There!! dimension