Seragaki Household
Aoba wakes up from his dream and breathing real hard. He raises himself from his bed and walks over to his window.
"What was...that dream?," He asked himself staring at his own reflection.
"Mm...Aoba, is something wrong?," A drowsy voice from across the room asked.
It was Aoba's former allmate, now human Ren. When Ren started living with Aoba and Tae, he bunked in with Aoba in his room.
"Oh, hey. Did I disturb you Ren?," Aoba asked.
"No, you didn't," Ren replied as got out of bed and walked over to where Aoba stood. "Are you alright? You look a little pale."
Aoba didn't want to worry Ren, but he didn't want to lie to him either.
"Ren, remember back when Virus and Trip erased my memory and I was admitted to the hospital after that?," Aoba asked.
"Yes, I remember," Ren answered. "What about it?"
"Well...I had a dream about it," Aoba began explaining. "I was in the hospital and there were two figures in the room with me."
"Was is Virus and Trip?," Ren asked.
"No, it wasn't them. It was a man and he had a little girl with him," Aoba explained. "I couldn't make out their faces, but I noticed that the girl was wearing a Dreamcatcher."
"Dreamcatcher?," said Ren.
"That's what it looked like anyway," Aoba said.
Aoba then felt a sense of uneasiness and Ren noticed.
"Are you okay?," Ren asked.
"I don't know why, Ren," said Aoba, worriedly. "But I have this feeling that something bad is gonna happen."
Ren laid a comforting hand on Aoba's shoulder.
"I was just a dream, Aoba," He replied with a reassuring smile. "I'm sure there's nothing to worry about."
Aoba smiled back at Ren, glad on the fact that he had him, his Grandma, and his friends to back him up.
"Yeah, you're probably right. Thanks, Ren," Aoba said gratefully.
"Come on, let's go back to bed," Ren said. "Don't want to wake up exhausted for work tomorrow. Also, we're having our get together with everybody, right?"
"Haha, right," Aoba laughed as he and Ren laid back down to rest.
Little did they notice, that a strange black crow with glowing red eyes was watching them. The crow saw what it needed to see and flew off into the dark sky.
The strange animal then landed on the shoulder of it's unknown master and "whispered" it's report in his ear.
"So, you found him," The crow's master spoke with a raspy voice. "Nice, job my pet!"
His eyes glowed a deep golden yellow with excitement.
"Mokin, have you located him?," Another figure with a soft, gentleman like voice appears in the shadows.
"Oh, yeah!," The one addressed as Mokin replied. "So, why don't we just go ahead and snatch the kid? What do you say, Tokage?"
"Mokin! We must have patience!," The man called Tokage exclaimed as his eyes glowed a brilliant emerald green with his pupils slitted. "We shall go as we had planned tomorrow night. The Blessed One will be ours soon enough. Come, we must make preparations."
Tokage then started walking off with Mokin not far behind him.
"Okay, okay whatever," Mokin complained. "But I still don't see why we had to involve a couple of weirdos and their 'zombie' horde to get just one person."
"It's quite simple my dear, Mokin. Makes our job a lot easier," Tokage explained. "Besides, the couple of 'weirdos' we hired happen to know him very well...and they're dying to see him again."
Tokage chuckled to himself with an evil grin.
