AN: This is an idea I've been tossing around whether or not I should do it, so here goes nothing. Anyway this is especially short for me as I usually have at least over 1000 words per chapter. Oh, well makes for a good nice attention grabbing opening, so please tell me what you think.

Taranee Cook yawned once again as she reread the chapter. This was probably her third or fourth time reading this particular chapter of her history textbook, but she had a test over the material in the morning and thanks to certain Guardian related business she was unable to get any studying done earlier. It was times like this that the beautiful Guardian of Fire regretted her title.

With a sigh of disdain the young maiden decided that it would be better to get some sleep so that she would have at least a little bit of energy to take the test. She quickly placed her glasses on the desk next to the bed and slipped quickly underneath the covers of her bed. She stared at her clock for a while as the bright red numbers shined out into her eyes revealing to her that the time was shortly after one in the morning. She then felt her eye lids close and sleep overtake her.

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Taranee was floating in a solid black world. Her skin was pure white and she was wearing her pajamas which were a bright red in color.

Are you the one to have been detected? A voice says in what Taranee could only assume is telepathy.

"Is someone there," Taranee asks while looking around for the strange mental voice.

I am here, and you are here. Those are the answers in which I can give.

"But who are you, and what did you mean by being detected." Taranee continues her questioning.

All will be revealed in time. All will be revealed with patience. All will be revealed.

"That's not good enough," Taranee says. She was starting to get a little annoyed by this voice. It was almost as if she was talking to the Oracle himself.

What is not good enough for you is good enough for the whole. All will be revealed.

"Are you a member of the council," the Fire Maiden asks continuing to wonder what is happening.

I am beyond the council. Beyond your Oracle. Beyond the powers of a heart. I am the one with the answers to be revealed.

"So what do you want from me," Taranee asks quickly.

That is enough questions for now. Until next we meet young Taranee Cook, Guardian of Fire chosen by the Oracle known as Himerish.

Suddenly, a brilliant flash of blue light encompassed the black space that the girl inhabited.

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The dark skinned female shot up from her bed in a flash. She was breathing a little erratically, but she didn't feel that afraid of the dream she just had, but instead was more confused. She then felt the cool breeze of air coming through the now open window.

"That's odd," Taranee says turning to the window but then snapping back to her alarm clock as it erratically fluctuated and seemed to be out of control as the red numbers constantly changed. It one say it was three fifteen one second than eighty thirteen the next. What was going on? This kind of thing wasn't logically possible. Then again sprouting wings and throwing fireballs isn't exactly possible either, but still.

She returned her attention to the window as the breeze became more violent. The curtains flew open on their own to reveal a small dot of light that quickly turned into a blasting and very bright beam of blue, and just like that she felt it. She couldn't move. Her entire body seemed to be paralyzed, and then she saw it.

The figure was hidden mostly by the light but she could make out that whoever it is was a tall person. She estimated that the figure stood at about eight feet tall as it walked over to her bed. She then saw the figure place one of its hands to the side of its head and began to speak though Taranee couldn't hear any of it. She couldn't hear at all come to think about it. She couldn't move and she couldn't hear. What was going on?

Sleep, a calm and gentle voice echoes in Taranee's mind and soon the dark skinned girl is lying on her back and is fast asleep.

"Raico here," the figure says as the blue light disappears to reveal the tall girl with gray colored skin and smoky colored hair. She appeared to wear some kind of advanced armor suit that was a light blue in color. She lifted up the visor to look at Taranee through her black almond shaped eyes. "Mission accomplished, and target acquired."

The girl then grins happily as she and Taranee's sleeping form vanish in a flash of white light.