A/N: For those who may get confused about the speaking (Even I do at times) I will put this up at the start of every chapter…

"Normal speaking, in Japanese" 'Telepathy speaking'

"Normal speaking in English" 'Dream scenes'

Chapter Nine

The Astro Plane

(Mai Provo)

Just great, this is just so freaking grate! As if I did not have enough problems to deal with without this ESP bull. I mean I already have an underground organization after me and my sister since the day we left that hell hole, I mean is god bored up in heaven or what the hell! Don't we have enough to deal with, and yes when I get mad or stress I start to yell at myself, but don't judge me! We all have our strange qualities. Naru, Gene and the others had finished explaining their findings to Mel and me an hour ago and ever since then I had been ranting and raving about this and my poor sister had no escape from it, I even felt bad for a little wile but she was the only one who could stand me long enough to do this, trust me, I know what people say behind my back, not that I really cared.

Lying in bed I continued to complain wile I stared up at the roof of my bed room talking to Mel who was in her room next door. 'MAI! Shut up, I really can't take much more, and besides at least this time we have people to help us'I had a hard time believing that now. Ever since I saw the inside of the SPR building with its labs and computer rooms as impressed as I was SPR was now giving me a darker view in their intentions. 'Are they helping us or turning us into lab rats?' there was silence for a moment on Mel's end for a moment and then 'We need their help with this Mai, I don't want to have these powers and not know how to control them' As much as I hated to admit it she was right, we did need their help. I hated having to ask others for favors, the less you owe someone the less likelihood of someone using that favor to stab you in the back for it.

'Yep sure whatever, I am going to bed, we have our first case tomorrow and we need to be up a five because the house is out of the city or so said the black clad pain in the ass' The last thing I heard before I feel into darkness Mel's soft laughter.

I seemed to be on some kind of invisible solid; blackness surrounded me as soft lights seemed to be floating from the emptiness below. 'What is this place?' 'It's the Astro Plane, a place where only people like you and I can go' I spun around quickly to find a smiling Gene walking towards me. He seemed to be walking on a solid surface but I could not see it. 'So you really do have ESP, ASOME! Now I can actually take to someone about this and have them understand what I am trying to say. You have no Idea how many times I have tried to explain this strange place to my brother only to have him not fully understand'

I stood there gasping at him unable to quit understand. 'What do you mean 'Astro Plane' exactly?' Gene stopped in front of me, his smile still in place. 'I call it the 'Dram World' It's kind of like the starting point for us, from here we can gather information that may help us with a case. We can look at an area and see how many spirits are in a curtain area, we can look into ghost memories and view it as a spectator or as the actual person. If we do it as the actual person then we experience their thoughts and feelings like they were our own. At times we may even see visions of the past or maybe even the future"'

I finally managed to clear my head enough to think about what he was telling me. 'Ok but what are all these lights' 'Spirits. This also where a spirit goes when they have not crossed over but is not in the living world' that sent alarm bells ringing in my head. 'These are SPIRITS!' I panicked; this only caused him to laugh loudly the sound echoing around us. 'Mai we are nothing more than ghost to them' I eased a little bit then. 'So why am I here, I mean we are not even on a case?' Gene's expression turned slightly guilty. 'I called you here' When I did not say anything he continued. 'When my brother said that you could do this too I wanted to make sure myself so I sort of reached out to you and tugged you here with me, pulse I thought you could get to know this place a little bit before even weirder and stranger things start happening.' I looked around slowly. 'This place gets weirder? I'm a bit scared to find out'

I was not lying but Gene's smile only got larger, my expression must have been something extremely funny. 'Don't worry you will get used to it' I did not think that would happen. Gene took my hand and started pulling me forward though I did not see why because it all looked like one big black mass with floating lights everywhere. Things started dissolved and shimmer, it scared me, and I wanted it to stop. My grip on Genes hand tightened. He stopped and looked at me, his expression turned worried.

'Mai it's OK, I am just showing you something. I am going to show you what it's like to be in a memory. This is what happens every time the scenery comes in' Everything stopped moving and the Davis's backyard came into focuses but it was different, the grass was dead and the leaves where shades of red, yellow and orange. I looked around confused, I also felt weird, like I was not really solid. Like I was made of vapor, like I was not really there. Gene was smiling again.

'This is one of my memories from when I was five, I should be running out the door with Naru right about now' No soon had he said that did the door burst open. Two little boys, mini Gene's, one was wearing a blue shirt and black jeans the other was wearing a green shirt and blue jeans. They were running as fast as their little legs would carry them, racing each other to a tree before climbing up to the lowest branch and swinging their little legs back and forth wile laughing.

The image made me smile. I knew, I did not know how but I knew Naru was on the left closest to the trunk and Gene was on the right. Gene grabbed my hand and led me towards the two little boys. As we got closer the boys voices became clearer.

'Hay Noll, how is it you can do the things you do, you know with the moving things without touching them.' To my supreme shock young Gene was speaking Japanese. I looked at Gene next to me and just stared. 'I and Noll were adopted by the Davis family just months before so we knew very little English, we are of Japanese heritage, and neither of us remembers our birth parents. Naru does not want to find out who they are, he says that Martin and Luella are our mother and farther now. I know what he means and I know that he does not want to offend them but still I wonder what they are like, if I look like them, even a little bit.'

His expression turned a little sad as he looked towards the two boys still talking. 'When I was little, about three I went up to the caretaker at our orphanage and I remember asking 'Do you why my mama and papa left me and brother here?' She just looked down at me and said 'I don't know this sweet child but I do remember when your mother came to us there was a big storm you, your brother and her were all crying. But what I remember the best is you all had the same beautiful ocean blue eyes' Gene closed his eyes. He seemed to be thinking of something important to him, something that gave him a bitter sweet feel. 'Some nights when I can't sleep and Oliver has closed his mind I like to imagine what she looked like, farther too. I like to imagine that they only gave us up because they had no choice., that they missed use and regretted having to leave' His eyes suddenly opened and he looked down at me, his warm smile back in place.

He moved his hand to my face and wiped away the single tear I did not even know had fallen from my eye. 'But it's not all bad, I still have my brother and I was adopted by two people who loved me and Oliver like we were related by blood' I smiled sadly at him. 'Sometimes you don't need blood relation to make a family sometimes that just makes your bound stronger' He smiled sadly back at me then looked back at the younger image of his brother and himself.

The silence was thick in the air, it made me nervous. 'So this is a memory?' I started conversation again. 'Ya, I started out with something simple, non scary or dangerous just so you can get the feel of it undrapes' His expression changed again. 'I don't want to freak you out Mai but this place can be very dangerous and the thing you experience here can scare you, in the wore of the dreams your physical body can be harmed but that is only in the presence of either a really powerful spirit or curse, and I will be here for you as well. I have been doing this for the last eleven years' I nodded again more strongly now. I was not sure it was out of my determination not to seem weak or his effort to reassure me but I felt stronger now than when I first arrived.

Gene and I sat on the grass for the rest of the night or day or whatever time it was and watched as young Gene and Naru ran from tree to tree playing a game; I think it was tag. It was so surreally not only having two Genes in the same space but also seeing what Naru was like as child. It was weird seeing him running around and laughing, just like any normal kid when I know what he is like now. I just always assumed he was always the emotionless cold face man. My inner thoughts must have slipped from normal make of fake looks because Gene started speaking.

'My brother was not always cold; he only started to be like that when we were twelve. People had already seen both his and my high intelligence so when he had to be; such as in a meeting he turned professional. He did not completely emotionless because he wanted to too but because he had to, for the safety of the rest of us' My face twisted in confusion; he says that.

'Naru has very powerful PK. Me and him are like a positive and negative charge in a battery, we even each other out but by the time he was thirteen even my help was not enough. Every time he showed strong feelings a small amount of his power would brake and something would more or brake. One time he had laughed louder than he had ever allowed himself to when we were in my room mucking around. Every window in the room broke, one particular large piece had sliced my thigh and I lost a lot of blood, I spent a week in hospital. I think that's when he decided to cut off his emotions completely' It was easy to see that this memory was a source of pain for him. That little piece of information gave me my first look at who Oliver Davis really is.

I was not sure how long we sat there; it could have been hours or mere minutes but suddenly there was a ringing in my ears. Was that my alarm clock? 'Time to wake up Mai. I will see you at breakfast' The world around me and Gene started to fade.

I awoke with a start. I was back in my room lying perfectly flat on my back. I did not have time to get my bearings before someone started knocking on my door. 'Mai? Are you awake?' It was Eugene. I bolted out of my bed sprinted across the room and yanked the door open so hard it nearly fell off its hinges. Gene was standing in front of my door and even at this ungodly hour he still had a hint of a smile on his face. I did not know how to react. Did that all just happen or did all the stress from yesterday finally catch up with me and made me have some weirdo dream. I was so confused I did not even care that I was wide awake at five in the morning or that I probably look like a absolute mess right in front of him and his blue jeans green shirt and neat black hair; how long was I laying in bed for? "Oh good you woke up, for a second there I thought you were still stuck in the Astro Plane" My eye's went wide. So that did happen.

Eugene continued; smile still in place. "I am under orders from my brother to train you at least five times a week so you and I will be spending a lot of time together there and besides I think you will have the hang of that part of your power in no time" He turned to leave then stopped and looked back at me. "By the way it's already fifteen past so if you don't want to get in trouble with Naru you might want to hurry it up" Then continued walking. I cussed under my breath and slammed the door.

In exactly forty-three minutes I was dressed, feed and at the door only to be greeted with a glare from Naru. "Everyone is already in the van. Are you always this slow" I glared right back at him. "You know for someone so smart and handsome you are a real jerk" He just smirked. "So you think I am handsome" It was not a question, more of a statement. That just pissed me off even more. "Yes, I think you are. That is until you open that big mouth of yours" I stormed past him and towards the van where everyone was waiting for me. Today was going to be so much fun. Not!

A/N: It has been sooo long since I last up dated and I must say I am very happy about it. Year eleven take's up so much more of my time then I THOUGHT. Though I suppose that is what I get for choosing Biology, Psychology and Nutrition for my subject with Math and English. Anyway this is more of a filler then an actual chapter, the next one is the first case, this time I am sure of it, so any ideas are always welcomed. Read and Review people. They make me happy. Pointers always welcomed as much as a pat on the back.

Peace to everyone!