Tossing and turning on her bed, her covers growing tighter and tighter with each turn, Kat couldn't sleep. She was still very deeply disturbed from what she had heard from Zordon a few hours earlier. The whole gang had talked over it while they were eating supper at Rocky's house, Tommy had said he thought he knew who the child way but everyone was still unsure of if what Zordon had told them was true. With a final toss, Kat finally felt sleep come to her. Her eyelids closed slowly, within five minutes she was sound asleep. The dream that followed she wished she wouldn't of had, it was horrible and seemed real, almost too real to be a dream.
"Being single isn't all that bad sir." she heard a dark figure with long horns that swung back at a ninety degree angle at the tips on the tops of his head whose back was turned say. "Actually, it means more freedom."
"Yeah well for me being single is plain lonely right now." a large figure clouded in darkness sighed.
The figure that was clouded in darkness moved away, it seem to Kat that his head was held down. She could see that the figure in her dream was dragging his feet in a sad way. Everything and everyone else in the room that the clouded figure she could see clearly except for the being that the clouded figure was talking was either dressed in blood red robes or a uniform of solid black with gold and red buttons. The beings in the room were of monsterous origins; goats with sharply pointed spiraling horns and sharp teeth, lizardmen with spiked tails and long claws and some looked to be of a complete monsterous mess.
"Introducing her grace," she heard a loud booming man shout. "Helen of the planet Earth!"
Kat at first couldn't see the woman that the man had announced, but she did see that near all of the beings in the room had quieted and had turned briskly towards a pair of large stone doors that were barely open. When the light from the outside flowed through the room it fell squarely on the clouded being and she finally got a good look at the being who said that he was lonely. It was Master Vile, wearing a black robe with blood red trim and gold gloves. She could tell he was younger, he was missing his glasses and two of his side projection piercings were missing. He gave her the feeling that he was younger than when she had first encountered him near a year and three months before. Master Vile was the only one who hadn't turned his head to see who was coming in.
Suddenly her dream skipped focus, from Master Vile to the front of the room that the party was being held. She saw a throng of about five monsters milling around someone. It took her a little while before she finally saw a slim, petite, woman walk through a small hole that the monsters opened so she could walk into the room. Her long strawberry red hair shone brightly and her crystal clear blue eyes gave her an ancient look. The woman was wearing a two toned red gown, the top part pulling down exposing her petite breasts, the lower part of her gown came down barely to her knees, she was barefooted. The woman named Helen walked over to a table and sat down, she was followed closely by her monster gang. As soon as she sat down all of the monsters started bombarding her with questions.
"You see the beauty that walked in Vile?" the dark figure with the long horns that swung back said.
"No, too busy." Master Vile answered.
"I suggest you get unbusy and take a look." the figure said sternly. "she is gorgeous."
Master Vile, Kat could see, made a sound deep inside him before turning. When he saw the strawberry blonde haired woman his mouth dropped low. The pupils in his yellow eyes grow so small they almost became lost, scrambling quickly he got up and made his way across the room to where the monsters were around the woman, they were still asking her questions and she was trying her best to answer them the best she could. Kat saw that the woman was seated deeply in her chair, her back pressed up hard against the back and her knees shivered a few times.
"Alright break it up." Master Vile ordered. "Give the lady some breathing room."
Suddenly Kat's dream stopped at that point, her alarm clock went off and she was glad. She had a feeling that what she had dreamed was actually exactly what had happened those many hundreds of years ago. Pushing herself up, she saw that her bed was soaked with her sweat. Three streets over, Aisha was waking up after having a dream of her own. She, too, was waking to find her bed soaked from her sweat and her blankets thrown all over the place. The dream was still very vivid, very fresh, in her memory.
"Everytime I see you I see that you have an audience." Master Vile had said.
"Yes and everytime you show up my small audience disappears." the woman had growled at him.
"My apologies miss." Master Vile had apologized, he took his hand from behind him and held it out to the woman. In his hand was a bright red rose with thorns on the stem. The woman looked at it and rolled her eyes.
"This makes the seventeenth one you've given me." the woman sighed. "Thank you."
"My pleasure miss."
In her dream Master Vile had been dressed in a flowing solid black robe with a gold sash around his waist, he had been wearing several necklaces around his neck, most of which she couldn't see while a few she could. His gold gloved hands shook as the woman took the rose from him and he smiled maliciously at her. When she turned around and walked away Master Vile followed a step behind her.
"So what are your plans for tonight?" Master Vile asked.
"Stay far away from you." the woman replied, she sounded very annoyed.
"Seriously now," Master Vile laughed. "I have a place in mind that I think you would enjoy."
"You've asked me to go with you to that Bone Restaurant near the whole month I have been here," the woman said loudly, she turned around and looked hard at her follower. "the answer is still a no and I will further say that I will never attend a date with you."
Master Vile looked at the woman with deep offense, the woman obviously didn't notice because she turned around and practically ran from him. Aisha understood fully, she wouldn't let Master Vile near her much less court her either, she was completely repulsed by him and thought of him as extremely ugly. Aisha's dream had skipped to a span of several months then had stopped when her alarm clock had gone off. With each time her dream skipped she saw Master Vile pursuing the woman more and more and she saw that the more the woman was pursued the more she got annoyed. By the time her alarm clock had gone off the woman had turned around and had demanded that her pursuer stop chasing her or she'd get one of her more polite and respectable suitors to take care of him. She hadn't seen what had happened next, and she was glad she didn't know either.
"I swear if I have another one of those back in time dreams to where Master Vile is courting that girl I will hurl!" Aisha exclaimed.
"I'm glad I didn't have your dream," Kat said with a slight smile. "mine was just Master Vile seeing that woman and getting interested. Nothing else."
Looking across the table, Aisha scowled at her friend. She was not in the mood for games or teasing, what she had dreamed had had an impact on her. She had barely been able to take a shower and she was having a hard time eating. Pushing her plate forward, she stood up and walked out of the kitchen. She was near the stairs when the phone rang.
"Hello, Campbell residence." she heard her friend say. "Hi Tommy how are you this morning?"
Aisha stood in place, listening in. Kat was talking with Tommy on a serious note and she could hear the importance in Tommy's voice. It seemed, to her at least from where she was standing, that Tommy, too, had had a dream and that he wanted to speak to them about it. When she heard the phone being placed in its cradle she turned around, Kat was walking towards her with a deeply frowned face.
"Tommy wants us to come to his place." Kat said. "He had a dream too that he says offers a clue to who Master Vile's child is."
The food that he had cooked and prepared had gotten cold over an hour ago, he hadn't felt like eating when he had gotten up and he still didn't feel like eating now. Tommy's hair was a mess, all matted to one side and his shirt was untucked. Like Kat and Aisha he had had a dream but not like the ones that they had had. His was a bit morbid and scary. Looking out the window, he saw the yellow car that belonged to Kat pull up in the driveway. Sighing, he went to the door and opened it.
"Tommy..." Kat said in shock. "you look terrible."
"Thanks." Tommy replied, he was very tired.
Walking in a line, one behind the other, Tommy led them all to his living room. He knew he looked bad, he had dark circles under his eyes, his hair was a mess and he had just thrown on some clothes and hadn't bothered to fix himself to look presentable. He sat himself down in a red fabriced chair while his two friends sat across from him on the couch.
"What was the dream?" Aisha asked.
Tommy sat upright, his eyes lost their tired look and he pushed his hair back some. He wanted what he had dreamed out in the open so that he could get some closure and some sleep. He started at the beginning, when he had barely had his eyes closed and was sleeping.
The first thing he saw, he told them, was a woman with strawberry blonde hair lying in a cave. The woman had started screaming, blood flowed from her freely then all of a sudden her stomach had exploded out. The woman had barely had enough time to see her child, a female, slither from her womb before her eyes closed forever. His dream then had gone forward a bunch of years to where the child was in her teens and had been lying in the same cave. The teenager had had very shiny brown hair with silver tips and blue eyes the same color as her mother. When the teenager had woke up the next morning she had found a green colored egg lying two feet from her, her clothing was bloody and torn in many places. When Tommy was done telling his dream he was sweated and near tears.
"The scariest part," he said, swallowing hard. "was that not only did my dream seem so real, like I was literally there, but also I felt the pain that that woman went through and the fear that the second woman went through."
"Oh Tommy..." Kat sighed worriedly. "I'm glad you told us."
"We should tell Zordon." Aisha said.
"We should yes," Tommy added, yawning into his hand afterwards. "but first, let me get some sleep. I'm exhausted!"
