Dawn and her new sister Anne had a great time together. They played tag, skipped stones on the beach, and watching the clouds in the sky as they make out their shapes with their parents.

"Look! That cloud looks like a giraffe." Dawn pointed out to the cloud.

Then Anne pointed out to another cloud next to it. "And that one over there looks like an airplane."

"And can you see a huge mansion around there?" Dawn's father said. The girls tried to locate it but they couldn't locate it.

"We can't find it." Dawn said giving up the search.

"Try looking at it another way." Her mother reassured her while giving her advice.

Dawn looked up and did as she was told. She turned her head to the side and finally found the cloud they were looking for. "I see it!"

"You're right. There it is." Kari said as she and Lucky saw it as well.

Their father smiled as he shows them a travel guide of the Jocklin Mansion in California. "That's where we're going. On a great ship that will takes us across the ocean and we'll drive to California the rest of the way. We are moving there to live together, the four of us on the greatest place on Earth."

"Really, Dad?" Dawn said excitingly as he nodded.

"Are there any aliens like me?" Anne wondered.

His father showed him photos of different aliens such as a Tetramand, Apploplexian, and even a Splixson. "Of course. Loads of them and each one of them will be happy to see you."

Anne smiled as she looked at the photos with excitement.

"It's a wonderful place, girls. A place where dreams come true."

Suddenly the day became dark and stormy. Dawn and Anne realized that they are alone and their parents were gone. They got up and as the wind blow and thunder clapped, they saw a mysterious creature, made entirely out of clouds and darkness, charging towards them as it roared.

The Dark Dragon, as they called it, is a massive dragon that has a dark black body with dark purple wings, spikes, purple claws. Its tail has a sharp tip, and glowing yellow eyes.

The kids were petrified with fear as the Dragon came towards them. They closed their eyes hoping that it was all a nightmare as the scene turns black.

-Aunt Astrid and Aunt Mindy's House, England-

Dawn woke up from her nightmare, sweating and breathing heavily, as she held the travel guide her parents gave her. She was in her gray night gown and turned to the other side of her small old bed and saw Kari and Lucky waking up in an old ragged mattress on the floor.

Ever since her parents died from the Dragon, Dawn had no close relatives except for her two aunts Astrid and Mindy whom they barely knew. They became their legal guardians and were sent to live with them in their house on a hill.

The house was crooked, dusty, and grey and the area was barren, practically lifeless, barely shone sunlight in it, rocky and filthy. But the worst part is that the aunts themselves were mean, ugly, and selfish. They can't stand children and they have a deep hatred of aliens as well. When they first saw Anne, they were willing to take her to a workshop, but Dawn begged the aunts not to take her sister away, since she was a gift from her parents. The aunts then decided that she would stay on one condition: the girls will be their personal slaves by doing their work as well as behaving properly.

They hated that idea but sadly accepted the terms in order to avoid separation. Ever since then, they were miserable. If they don't do as they were told, the aunts would abuse them and the kids get beatings from them. They barely get any food and the room they slept in was cold and dirty, but they still kept their hopes up for one day to leave this place together.

"Another nightmare?" Anne asked worriedly as she watched Dawn panting.

"Yeah." Dawn answered sadly.

They suddenly heard someone coming upstairs and Dawn gasped as she hid the travel guide under her pillow. Suddenly the door opened and came in the aunts in an angry mood, like they always are.

There was Aunt Mindy, who is an obese woman wearing a fuchsia robe and a lavender bandana on her head, and Aunt Astrid who is a tall and slender woman wearing olive green pajamas while wearing a blue bandana on her head.

"Get up, you lazy little brats!" Aunt Mindy yelled out impatiently as her sister came in.

"You already wasted four minutes of daylight!"

"Look at them!" Mindy taunted the girls as they were staring with fear.

"Lollygagging in Dream Land, when there's so much work to do!" Astrid sneered.

"Weeds to pull, wood to chop, and lots of chores!"

"Work, Work, Work, WORK, WORK!" They chanted together to their slaves.

Dawn and Anne went outside for another miserable day of hard labor. The aunts make them work day and night and no breaks.

First they raked the leaves of the yard, then they polished their aunts' old rusty car, hang their laundry, dusted the picture frames, painted their chairs with tiny brushes, and even chopped the wood. Even with Anne's super strength, it still took a while to finish most of the chores.

As the kids worked, the aunts were enjoying their day sitting in the sun and drinking lemonade. They were in their best clothes with wigs on their heads. Both of them are vain, each singing praises of their imagined beauty while they are in fact repulsive.

"I look and smell, I do declare as lovely as a rose. Just feast your eyes upon my face." Mindy said as she praised herself at her mirror. "Observe my shapely nose, behold my heavenly silky locks, and if take off both my socks, you will see my dainty toes." She giggled.

Astrid rolled her eyes in annoyance especially when her sister placed her toes on the table. "But don't forget my dearest Mindy, how much your tummy shows."

Later, Vicky notices the kids not working as they sat at the bottom of the hill. Dawn and Anne were looking at the travel guide of California as Dawn watched the ocean shore from there. How she missed her old life, back when her parents were alive.

"Someday, Dawn, we'll be free from here and living in the Jocklin Mansion." Anne spoke to her.

"If only it was today." Dawn said sadly. "I'm sick of this! I want to go home."

"As long as were together, we will always be home." Anne comforted her younger sister as she hugged Dawn.

Suddenly the aunts appeared behind them as they shouted.

"You lazy girls!" Mindy shouted in anger as Dawn hid the guide behind her. "Who told you to stop working?"

"We finished the wood." Anne answered calmly. Astrid joined them and snatched the travel guide away from Dawn.

"A travel book?! How dare you two would even dream of leaving!" Astrid scolded them.

"This is the only home you'll ever have." Mindy said.

"No one else would tolerate a worthless couple of nothings like you!" Astrid taunted them which made Dawn frown while Anne comforted her.

"Where did you get this?" Mindy asked as she studied the guide given by her sister. "Where?!"

"Father gave it to me. He said we could go there one day." Dawn told them which made them angry.

"Stupid foolish man!" Astrid taunted as she poke Dawn down.

"Foolish man, always dreaming! That's what got him killed!" Mindy scolded them.

"And your mother!"

"Had his head in the clouds instead of looking where he was going!"

"He never even saw that Dragon coming!" Astrid reminded the girls of the dreaded monster that took their parents away from them.

"That Dragon!" Mindy snickered and laughed.

"And the beast will get you too, if you don't behave!" The aunts threaten them with beatings and the mysterious Dragon if they ever tried to leave, and Mindy then tears up the map.

"Now get these stupid dreams out of your tiny hollow heads, and GET BACK TO WORK!" The aunts demanded them.

Dawn and Anne were saddened as they watched the wind blowing away the map pieces away along with their hopes of leaving