Chapter 1
"NO!"
Anna jolted upright from her futon, screaming. She gasped for air, beads of sweat sliding down her face.
She looked out the window to see it was still dark. The only source of light in the black night was the few beams of light cascading from the moon.
'That dream again,' she thought while wiping the sweat off her face with the sleeve of her shirt. Although she could only remember bits and pieces of her dream, she noticed she had the same nightmare during the past few nights.
Anna tried recalling her dream, remembering a scene where her hands and clothes were covered with blood. There were also heaps of dead bodies all over the ground. It was a nightmare itself alone... a majorly horrifying one.
'What is it? A vision?' she wondered, pondering over ways of why these scenes kept appearing. Her train of thoughts broke when she heard footsteps approaching her door.
"Anna?"
A gentle yet worried voice called out Anna's name. She immediately recognized the owner of the voice.
It was Yoh.
"Are you ok?"
...
"Yes, don't worry about me, go back to sleep," she replied, trying to not let any trace of fear mix with her voice.
"A-are you sure? Do you want me to stay with you?"
"You can... if you want to start training ten times harder starting tomorrow. You're strong Yoh, but not enough. I 'ought to give you more of my training..." Anna scowled, laying back down again.
"E-eh?! That's ok Anna! I-I'll go back to sleep, good night!" Yoh stuttered frantically. The sound of rushed footsteps faded away towards the other room where Yoh's friends were sleeping.
Yoh has to become stronger and be Shaman King. He promised that to Anna long ago. She didn't want him to worry about her because of a simple dream.
Yoh needs to focus.
He already got too distracted by his 'idiotic' friends, as Anna would put it.
Weariness soon began to take over as she soon began to sleep again, hoping she won't have the same dream once more.
...
Anna was woken up by a beam of sunlight shining towards her face from the window. Morning already. She rubbed her eyes only to feel tears and sweat. Oh when will the nightmare stop?
As she got up a wave of pain washed over her. Her head was throbbing and felt as if she was on a rollercoaster for the last several hours with a major fever. Not even a few seconds later, she was drunk with pain coursing through her head.
Anna grumbled in pain, heading towards the living room for breakfast after washing up, wearing her usual attire, a short black dress with her infamous blue rosary hanging from her neck.
As usual Ren and Horohoro was starting their day screaming names at each other. Manta, on the other hand, was trying to make them stop. Chocolove was cracking jokes to Pirika who was laughing way too much while Yoh was sighing from his poor comedy. Faust and Eliza were flirting to each other which made her headache even worse.
Anna coughed to get everyone's attention, queuing them to be quite.
"Anna! Do you feel alri-", Yoh tried to ask if she was alright only getting cut off by his fiancee.
"Where's breakfast Yoh?"
"Yes, I'll make it right now!", Yoh exclaimed running to the kitchen. As soon as she sat down everyone started to continue where they left off, breaking the supporting silence she needed. Anna tried to endure the headache but it seemed like it was getting worse each second. She gripped the table, hard enough to break the wood.
"Forget it.", she grumbled going to her room again. Perhaps one of her books had the answers to what she was looking for.
...
"Eh? Where's Anna?", Yoh asked holding plates full of eggs and rice.