|Prologue|

It was raining.
She was crying. The salt from the tears, the wetness of the raindrops seeped into the gasping mouth.
She fell. Her gown was torn, her shoulder throbbing. In anguish, she couldn't go on anymore. Sitting there in the middle of nowhere, sobbing, she just sat. The raining was coming down, more harshly, blinding her more than the teardrops in her eyes.
Something golden caught her eye. She tried to blink the cloudiness of the teardrops away. More, more of the shimmering gold fell; swirling around her like a frenzy of tornados. Brushing her stringy hair from her face, she looked up. Nothing but the swaying pale green leaves of the weeping willow. Nothing but the fallen and continuously falling blossoms from the tree. Nothing, except for the golden bird that came swooping gracefully down from the mist of nothing and absolutely nowhere. Then following, came nine shadowed figures.

|Chapter Two|
The eerie tune stopped. As if on command, Darien did too.
He blinked. "Where am I?" Looking around, he found himself outside the school building. Looking down, he found himself a footstep away from the pool's peculiar blue glow.

Serena's mind could only comprehend one thing. Scream.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..." Then her mouth was filled with her blonde hair. Attempting to brush it from her mouth, Serena let go of the sandwich that was hung to for dear life.

Splat. (No, that was not Serena.)
Darien looked next to him. An inch away from his foot was a half-eaten sandwich. Looking up, he saw a girl falling in the air.
He blinked.
Darien looked up again. The girl was nearing the pool's waters.
Two feet left.
One foot.
Darien panicked. With a jump, he dove under the girl.

Splat. (No, that was not Darien.)
The student dropped his sandwich. He was playing hooky. "Should I tell?" He thought. He debated whether to tell a teacher about the unbelievable scene he had just witnessed and most likely have to explain why he was outside during school hours, or pick up his sandwich and be on his merry way. (Well, what do YOU think he'd do?)

The mind-boggling part of the scene was that Serena and Darien had disappeared. Not a trace was left of them. Not even a ripple in the pool's surface.

To Be Continued...