New Friend and the Adventure starts

A/N: New OC will be introduced in this chapter as well as the main dream part of the story will be in here.

Disclaimer: Sunmay doesn't own Cardfight Vanguard, just the OCs

Mara's P.O.V

I said bye to everyone and left Foo Fighter's HQ on my bike. When I left I got out my map and checklist to see where I have to go to next.

"Um lets see", I lifted up my checklist, "I did that, when here, delivered that, stopped by here to speak, gave a message here, played here, and did a game there. Now I have to go to this store called the 'Card Capital'."

'Strange name.' I thought while getting on my bike to go to the next stop. As I was biking I stopped at the park for a drink because I forgot to bring some water. When I looked for a drinking fountain I couldn't find one.

"Man, where is a drinking fountain when you need one," I said to no one in particular.

"Do you need help?" someone asked me

I was too exhausted to worry who was and replied, "Yes, do you know where the drinking fountain is?"

"Yeah, just over there," said the stranger. I thanked the stranger and went to the drinking fountain, but when I got there the same stranger stopped me.

"Hey! Why did you stop me! I am so thirsty!" I yelled to the stranger and started to flail.

"I did it because that drinking fountain is getting fixed because of a stupid prank some high schoolers did for fun", the stranger replied and held me close to him, which made me flail more, "Dang it! Will stop moving around! I am trying to save your sorry a**!"

I gasped and started to tear up. I asked the stranger a few questions, "Who are you? Why is the drinking fountain broken? Can you let go of me because you are choking me. How old are you? Are you a pedo? If you are, my guardian told me if I meet a pedo I should kick them. Finally, how come you are being nice to a stranger, stranger?"

It felt like forever, but after awhile I felt the grip around me loosen. I wiggled a bit and got out of the strangers grip and got a look at the stranger. The stranger was a guy who had orange hair that is poofy a bit, I couldn't see his eyes because of the bangs there. He wore a black vest hoodie over a long white shirt. He also wore blue jeans and black sneakers with yellow spots on them. When he looked up I saw beautiful emerald eyes behind blue spectacles.

"-mato,"

"Huh? Could you repeat that please?"

"*sigh* My name is Howard Sumato. The reason why I stopped you is because some high schoolers from my school though it would be funny to do a 'joke' and break some fountains. Luckily I stopped them from destroying all of them. And to your other questions, no I'm not pedo, I'm 15 almost 16 years old. Why would your guardian say that to you and I am being nice because it is part of my nature, to be nice to everyone for the first time and so on, depending if they are good or bad."

After Howard was done I looked up with a spark in my eyes "Your name, your name means smart in Japanese. Right?"

After what seems like hours, which was actually moments Howard answered my question with a nervous look. "Um yeah. How did you know about that?"

"I don't know. Maybe because we are in Japan and that we speak Japanese here," I said in a somewhat I know everything tone.

"Huh?" Howard looked shocked and something else I can't see. "No I mean how do you know what it means in english. Not how do you know Japanese."

"I-I'm not really sure. Instincts, auto-learned, just on action." I said 'Speaking of which how DO I know that?' I looked at my watch to check the time. 'Hm, I guess I should get going, but I am so thirsty still' I thought and cough a little.

"Ah, are you alright miss-,"

"Mara, Mara Brightheart. I'm 13 years old and I'm in middle school. I am doing a delivery right now, but I stopped by here for a drink of water," I told Howard that because I thought he might want to know who I am.

"Here", Howard held a drink in front of me, "No worries it isn't something bad. I thought you might want this because of well, you know."

I took the drink and took a sip, but I said thank you before that. It is the nice thing to do when someone you know gives you a drink. While I was drinking I notice it tasted like blueberries.

'Too bad I like strawberries and chocolate or oranges better' I thought after I drank half of the bottle. I gave the bottle back to Howard.

"You feel better now?" He asked while putting the bottle back into his bag.

"Yeah, a lot better", I said. I rummaged through my bag a little bit before pulling out a few booster pack of a popular card game, "Here. You can have these as a thank you,"

"No, you don't have to do that really," Howard said while trying to give back the booster packs.

"No really, you can have these. Like I said, this is my way of saying thank you", I said while giving the boosters back to him and our hands brushed against each other. 'Howard's hands are warm'

"Well thank you then Mara. I have to leave now okay? Bye, see you again soon?" Howard yelled while running somewhere.

"Y-yeah, bye and see you again soon." I yelled back to him. I watched him turn to the corner and then walked to my bike. "Off to the Card Capital now" I mumbled while biking to the new additional stop.

After biking past people and trees I finally reached the 'Card Capital'

'This is it? It is pretty average. This is much more different than I thought' I thought while parking my bike near the shop in an alley. I grabbed the packages and a letter for first time customers. Then I walked in to the card shop. When I got in I was greeted by a little cute cat. When I looked to my right I saw a high schooler with black hair in a 'V' like hairdo playing a card game against a long white haired pretty high school store keeper. The game looked like was in the middle and it was intense.

"CEO Amaterasu attacks your vanguard with a boost from Weather Girl Milk," said the white haired shop keeper.

"Dang it, I don't guard," Said the 'V' hair high schooler.

"Twin drive check. First, second. No trigger," said the white haired shopkeeper while drawing 2 cards and putting them into her hand.

'How do I know that the girl is the shopkeeper?' I questioned myself while putting the boxes on to the counter. 'Oh that's right. The letter says that the owner will have an apron on,'

"Damage trigger check," The 'V' haired high schooler said and put a card from his deck to the side with 5 other card on to the side while the shopkeeper has 2 cards.

"I end my turn," said the shopkeeper.

"My turn draw, Oh come on this isn't even funny. This is just bulls***," the highschooler said.

'Great another word that I must not say. woopie.' I thought in a deadpan thought. When I got a closer look at the card game I subconsciously got out my own playing card deck.

"Wow, it seems like fun." I said to no one in particular. I chose a card from my deck and placed it on one of the yellow circles of the 'V' haired highschooler.

"Hey what do you think you are doing jumping into our card game like that?" yelled the 'V' haired guy after I place card down.

"Ah!" I put the card back into my box, "Sorry, I thought it was a different card game. I didn't know you can't jump into the game like that," I replied while bowing down slightly. A few seconds pass and I was having a mental break down inside my head.

"Well don't do that again. But if it was my sweet Kourin then that would be fine. But still don't go and jump into a card game played by the great Morikawa" said 'the great Morikawa' with a huff.

"Just ignore him. He isn't really suppose to be here really. I'm Misaki by the way," said Misaki.

"Okay, that is what I was planning to do from the beginning. My name is Mara Brightheart by the way and I am here to give you those packages you ordered.," I said back to Misaki while pointing to the packages on the counter by the cat.

"Oh, thank you. You can explore for a while until Shin gets back from shopping. I can't really do anything but that for now," Misaki told you while moving the packages from the counter to somewhere else.

"Okay thank you Misaki," I looked around the front of the store and I stopped at a window near the entrance and saw a mother and daughter walking to somewhere happy.

'Mom why did you go?'

~*Memory*~

A girl crying on the street holding a woman's cold bloody hand, lying on the ground. People crowded around the woman and the girl, trying to see what happened. All around that chaos a delivery girl is up in the sky watching the scenes unfold around the little girl.

'Why did this happen? Why am I seeing this?' the Delivery girl thought.

Then police and an ambulance came and took the woman away from the girl.

"No! I want to go to mommy. Don't take her away!" the little girl yelled to the police.

'Mom. Why did you do it?'

A motorcycle, burnt, laid down on the street near the girl. A flower necklace covered in blood was near the motorcycle.

~*Vision*~

A deliverer sitting down near an orange haired teen, hugging him while crying out to the world. Then the orange haired teen got up and walked away from the crying girl and didn't look back.

"No! Don't leave! You can't we aren't done with the plan yet! Are you going to just abandon us? We are so close! Come here and -" the deliverer yelled to the shrinking figure.

~*Present*~

'Why am I seeing this? Isn't there anything I can do to change that outcome from being like back then?' I thought while looking around the room of the 'Card Capital'.

"Do you want a change?"

"Huh who said that?" I looked around the room some more looking for the owner of the voice. When I said that Misaki came out from somewhere and looked at me.

"Do you want to change the outcome into a better one?"

I looked around some more and stopped at a cabinet at the back of the store. I stared at it for awhile.

"Yes." I said out loud and my eyes got hazy.

"Then come here"

My body started to move on its own to the back of the store. I feel like I am in a daze.

"Hey! Where are you going?" I heard Misaki ask, but I ignored her and continued walking. When I stopped walking I was in front of a cabinet in the back of the store. I reached out my hand for the handle and turned it.

"Hey you can't open that. It has been locked for... awhile... now?" Misaki stopped talking to me and I couldn't hear Morikawa in the background anymore.

I snapped out of my daze and looked around the room for a bit. "Huh? How did I get back here? Wasn't I waiting for Misaki in the front of the store?" I stopped looking at my surroundings and looked at the empty open cabinet. Well almost empty because I found a card deck of a popular card game.

'I think these cards are like some of the booster cards I gave Howard earlier,' I thought while grabbed the deck of cards and walked to one of the tables in the store to open the deck of cards.

"Wow! these look so cool!" I exclaimed while looking through the cards, "Nice card illustrations, easy to understand format, and totally different from any card game I 've played before," I was starting to go into a fangirl mode. Out of the corner of my eye I saw Morikawa and Misaki look at each other and the at me. After looking at the cards and their effects I decided to ask for help on how to play this game. "Hey Misaki, do you know how to play this card game?"

Misaki walked over to me and took the deck away from me to look at the cards.

"Yeah I do and also Morikawa know how to play. But I am curious, where did you get these cards from?" Misaki asked.

"I found these cards from that cabinet over there," I said pointing to the cabinet in the back.

Misaki looked back at me, then the cards, then at me again and said "No really, where did you get that deck from, because I know that the cabinet back there has been locked for several years now.

*Silence*

I gave Misaki an are you kidding me look and she gave me a no kidding look back at me.

"WHHATTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!"

A/N: Cliffhanger. Review and thank you for all of the views.