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Jordan's POV

I sat in my homeroom, bored out of my mind. Zane hadn't arrived yet and it was Monday morning, what could be worse? "Hello!" Gabriella bounced in front of me for a moment before sitting down. She drank the last bit of her coffee before tossing the cup into a nearby garbage can. Now I know what's worse, a hyper Gabriella on a Monday morning with no Zane.

"Hello. Did someone decide to do the school good by giving you a pick me up?" I asked.

She nodded, "Yeppers. My dad was making coffee and gave me some cause I was whining." She looked proud of that fact.

"So, what's up?" I asked when the conversation started to drag.

"Nothing much, hey, come to lunch with me, bring Zane too. We meet in the courtyard. I talk to you two," she told me, her voice low.

I quirked an eyebrow, "Okay, cryptic much?" I asked in jest. She just gave me a bored look before flipping her hair and standing and walking out of the room and to her own homeroom.

Zane came around a few minutes later and decided to tell me about the not so interesting things that he had to do over the weekend. I just listened and kept quiet, Oz had been all overprotective of me and if I even emitted a sniffle I was to go upstairs and take a nap. I spent most of my time in bed because of that.

"Gabe and her friends want to meet us during lunch, you wanna?" I asked him.

He looked at me and smirked, "Of course I do. Don't want to upset her, now do we? She can get downright scary if she's pissed. And we wouldn't want that, now would we?"

"We wouldn't want that," I repeated, wondering what Gabriella wanted with the two of us.

"Hey," Zane waved a hand in front of my face. "You zoned out on me for like the past five minutes." He gave me a goofy grin as I looked at him.

"Yeah," I said finally.

We talked for a few minutes when Tre sat down, "What's up you guys?" he asked as he pulled out a blank piece of paper to doodle on.

"Not much," Zane shrugged as he gave a wicked grin, "Jordy launched himself into little old lady land for a bit, but I brought him back."

I tossed a look Zane's way, but other wise ignored him. I was too busy trying to figure out why Gabriella needed to talk to me, and why she was so cryptic about it. I mean, it isn't that weird for girls and guys to talk. They do it all the time, in class a lot too.

The classes seemed to drag by, and I just wanted to get to lunch, I wanted to know what this was about. When the bell rang, I ran out of class, not even bothering to wait for Zane and down to the cafeteria. My curiosity was killing me.

By the time I had made it to the cafeteria, two teachers had caught me, but I was walking, and not out of breath, so it looked like I didn't really care about whatever Gabriella had to say. But I was fooling the outside world; I really wanted to know. I nearly started to jump around, but when I spotted Connor and Rich sitting at a picnic table, I thought better of it.

"What are you doing here?" Connor growled at me, his eyes dark.

I narrowed my own eyes as my hackles rose, I felt a growl rising in the back of my throat, but a voice that sounded suspiciously a lot like Oz's told me not to. "I was told to come here. It's a free country after all," I said, closing the subject.

"Here you are! You took off before I could even get out the door!" Zane said as bounded into the courtyard.

I glared at him, "Shut up," I whispered.

"Help, help! I'm being repressed!" he shouted before flopping to the ground.

I rolled my eyes, but sat down next to him anyway, waiting for Gabriella to show up. Maybe then I could finally get some answers. The sun shown down on us, giving the courtyard a sleepy feeling, what with the warm air and the shade from the trees. If I wasn't so anxious to know what Gabriella wanted, I would have been perfectly content with staying there for a long period of time.

"Good, you all showed up!" Gabriella said as she clapped her hands. Her two friends followed her, Serena and the new girl, AJ.

I saw Rich wave slightly to AJ, who waved back and I briefly wondered what was going on between the two. If there was anything that was kept hidden from the outside world. Gabriella's voice brought me back though, as did Zane's pulling of my arm.

"Come on you big lug! She wants to talk to us, at the bench, and let's go. I don't want to get any more grass stains on my pants. If I do, it'll bleed to my boxers, and I happen to like to keep those clean thank you very much!" Zane pulled harder on my arm and I allowed him to pull me toward the small group.

Zane's POV

After pulling Jordan over to the picnic table, I sat as far away as possible from Connor and Rich. I didn't know why they brought the four of us together, but if it had to do with making up, I wasn't going to be the one making the hugging and kissing movements.

"What's the deal with you bringing us here?" Connor asked, getting straight to the point. I felt Jordan bristle next to me. I was sure he wanted to ask that, but after a moment he calmed down, but I still saw the glares that he was shooting the other boy's way.

Gabriella looked at her two companions. It seemed as if she was mentally talking to her two companions. It seemed as if she was asking them something and they were replying, but they were silent, as if they were having the whole conversation mentally. Silently they all nodded and AJ stepped forward.

"Over the weekend," she started, "I messed around in the magic shop in town. The reason I did this was because the night before the three of us," she pointed to herself and then Gabriella and Serena, "experienced something. But back to the spell. It was a basic hidden truth spell. I asked to be shown the faces of other who had the same amount of power as us."

"And you guys showed up." Gabriella spoke up, "Or rather, she showed up, watching you.

Rich nodded; it seemed to make sense to him, while this whole thing sounded like Greek to me. "So that's why you showed up, and then you were gone. But I saw you on that shop later on."

AJ's cheeks flushed. "Yeah, that British guy found me, and interrupted me. Thanks for that by the way."

I watched all of them. What were they talking about? And why on earth were they talking about spells? Spells, that was a load of shit. There was no such thing as magic. Looking around, I saw that the other didn't seem to care at all that magic was make believe. Even Jordan didn't blink anymore than usual, and certainly didn't look confused, unless his look of confusion consisted of making googly eyes at Gabriella, mane he had it bad.

"There's no such thing as magic," I stated. The rest looked at me as if I was crazy, or had three heads, take your pick. "Well, there isn't," I tried to defend myself and my opinion to no avail.

Serena turned to me, tucking a piece of hair behind her ear. "That's what I though too, but it's real. And we all have something in common. Ever one who has been having dreams, raise your hand." Looking around as I raised my own hand, the rest did the same. "The basic idea is that you either start off human and turn into animal or start off as animal and turn into human. But you feel as if you have a sudden urgency to go somewhere, you just don't know where. Am I correct, or am I correct?" she asked. I nodded in response to her question, of which, I had the sneaking suspicion it was rhetorical.

We sat around the picnic table for the rest of lunch. By the end of our conversation I had picked up enough to realize that the seven of us had dreams that seemed to plague us at night. Although there was no violence, they just served to make us confused once we woke up.

That night I again thought about the conversation that we had, had earlier in the day. Would tonight be anything like that? Would tonight be shrouded in mystery? Only one thing would tell me, and that would be to fall asleep. As I fell into bed and closed my eyes, I wondered how I got drawn into this, how I became so special as to be a part of this.

Only time would tell. And with that thought still lingering in my mind, I fell asleep.

~*~ Dreamscape ~*~

I ran; I ran, and I ran until I could run no more. I shifted in and out of my human form; I was intent on getting on where I was going. The sense of belonging was the only thing that stopped me. As I shifted into human for the final time, I saw I was not the first, nor the last to arrive.

Gabriella and Jordan stood to my right, looking right for each other in some way. There was no sign of Connor or Serena, but Rich was there, talking to AJ on my left. They all had a regal look about them, that nobody could touch them. I guess I had that look too, after all, I was included in the group. Soon the missing people showed up and we stood around, waiting.

"Why are we here? Who brought us?" Gabriella finally yelled in frustration, voicing all of the questions that where weighing heavily on our minds.

"I did," a woman said from being. We all turned and saw a black haired woman who was neither old nor young, weak nor strong, ugly nor beautiful. "I brought you my children, to save the world as you know it."



Author's Note: Okay, first order of buisness, response sucks. Not that I hate it or anything, it's just that, two of my faithful reviewers dissapeared, poofed, whatever. Was it the shortness of the chapter, probably, that's why this is a bit longer, cause I felt really bad. Oh, and I included a couple of movie quotes, wanna take a crack at it? *wiggles eyebrows* As a warning note, the fic will be ending soon. Sorry for the lack of plot, it's just that, this fic was sorta a pig prolague to the next fic, which you have to check out. And can y'all review, please? I wanna reach 100 by the end of the story.