Dear Yume,

Hi, my name is Iyoneru Hirokazu Suzuoka. I'm fourteen years old (almost, my birthday is less than a month away!) and I live on the planet Tokei. Tokei is located in a Lunar System, which is fairly uncommon in the whole Universe. All the planets here revolve around a giant Moon and little stars revolve around our planets. We only have one, but most of the other planets have more than that. For example, Chibi has six stars going around. That's the planet closest to the Moon.

The only reason I'm mentioning this is because there is intelligient life out there somewhere in the Universe, and if this is ever found by beings from another planet I'd wish them to now that I came from elsewhere.

Some people might find it odd that I'm starting to record stuff so late on in the summer, so close to when I have to go back to school, but it makes perfect sense if you know a little more about me. I'm a part of the high nobility here on Tokei. It's incredibly boring, to be quite honest with you. All we do that's different from the rest of the population is that we have to go to these ultra dull social events with the rest of the stuck up upper class, and we aren't allowed really to socialize with lower classes. Isn't that stupid?

I go to boarding school for most of the year also because of this. Most of the people in my neighborhood go to the local school that's within walking distance, but not me. I have to ride a train to get to school, and once there I have to live in one of the dorms up until the next vacation. The first vacation doesn't come for a long time. School is only about two weeks away now. So, as you can see, I'll be stuck with a bunch of arrogant losers for a while. Not my idea of fun.

So, at least to me, my life is a bit on the dull side. And because of this I have never felt compelled to keep a record of my life before. It's not like I'll be forgotten if I don't, since everyone who is related to the royal family get's their names recorded on some holy rock, or something like that. That's a pretty weird way to keep track of relatives if you ask me.

But today, something strange happened to me. It was after dinner and I decided to go up to my room because I really had nothing better to do. So I went up to my room and I found this unfarmiliar book lying on my bed. It's title was 'The Neo' and it was grey and had a picture on the front of what looked like a buyoon* with wings. On the back there were pictures of crescent moons and some stars, too. It was sort of like a diary would be, with a clasp to keep it shut.

After I finished looking it all over, and I tried to open the clasp. At first it wouldn't budge at all, so I tried to get it open a little harder. It still wouldn't! Finally, after much tugging, it did. And it turned out it wasn't really a book after all. There were a bunch of long cards inside of it, and they had pictures on the front, and on the back was a design similar to the back of the book. I picked up the one on the top and saw it had a name, and it was in one of the ancient languages of Tokei, and it was the one that I had had to start learning last year in school. I'm not very good at it, but I managed to read this. It's name was Dimension.

That so far may sound a bit weird, but what happened next was a lot weirder. The cards began to sink through the back of the book and vanished! I didn't notice it at first, but when I did I tried to grab them to keep them from going away, but I could only manage to grab one. The book was completely empty now, and I really had no idea of what I should do.

I was contemplating that when this little creature came out of the book and began talking to me. The creature's name is Oshuro, and he's the Guardian Myth of the Neo. He looks like a little plush toy, but he's really some sort of magical animal. He has a really deep voice, and it turns out he had been asleep for the past three hundred years! He only woke up because he could tell that all the cards were gone, and he informed me that it was my job to find and capture all of them. I didn't understand this exactly at first, so he explained it all to me.

Apparently, these cards are actually the sealed forms of a horde of magical entities. There are fifty two of them, and that means I have to go find fifty of them before Tokei is safe once more. When they're free they wreak havoc wherever they go! Well, at least according to Oshuro. But some others are gentle cards and probably won't cause me much trouble when I end up finding them. They might even return to card form on their own.

In order for me to return them to card form, I have to disable them and use this wand-like object to re-seal them. Oshuro helped me make a contract with the book (that part probably sounds the weirdest ^.^) and then this little ring came out of it. He told me to grab onto it and yell 'yume' when I grabbed it. I did and it turned into the sealing rod, which is long and green and has a blue aahndo* on the top. To get the rod to revert to ring form, I have to yell 'akumu.' I'm not sure what either of these words means and neither does Oshuro. I named you after the word I need to use the rod. To seal off the cards I have to say, 'Your time of havoc should end! Return to your seal!' and then the name of the card. To use the cards I yell, 'I'm in a time of need! Please, Neo entitities, yume!' and then say what I want to card to do. Those phrases sound a little cheesey to me.

It's so strange to me. I don't really mind at all, which Oshuro said suprised him. I look at it as a way of making my life a little more interesting, and making my life mean more to the world. I count now, and not just as being related to some important people! Maybe tomorrow a card will actually show up. I hope so, because I ant to know what it's like to capture a card now.

Truly,
Iyoneru



* A buyoon is a tiger-like animal from Tokei. An aahndo is a butterfly-like animal from Tokei.