Author's Note : Well I am back! Gosh, its about time too! Well this chapter will introduce the new characters and hopefully get the plot moving along a bit more. So without further ado, let's get this show on the road.

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Chapter Two - Aftermaths of Dreams

Sam lifted her head from her pillow, feeling around on the table next to her bed for her glasses. She slipped them on and in a second the room came in clearer. She got up from her bed and walked over to her mirror. She looked hard at the reflection but nothing was different. She had the same chin length reddish brown hair with the gold highlights, and the same soft grey eyes. Her skin was the same old pale color as it always had been. Her mother often told her to go out into the sunshine more, and she simply responded

"I go out enough, besides, I don't tan mom, I burn."

This was true, as far as she could remember, other than her feet one summer when she was seven, she never really got a decent tan. Sighing, she walked back over to her nightstand table and picked up her phone and dialed Leah's number.

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Leah had woken up shortly before her friend had, and had promptly pulled out her purple candle which she used for magic, lighted it, and got out her taroh cards. Her short dark red hair continually fell in her eyes, till finally she relented and clipped it back with a barrette. She was just about to begin to work her magic, when her phone rang. Quickly and steathily she snatched off its receiver and whispered

"Hello?"

"Leah, its me, Sam."

"Sam? What are you doing up?" the red head asked, crossing her legs, and pulling a pillow close to her chest.

"I had this weird dream..."

"Eh, go figure, me too. I was just about to use the taroh cards to see if it meant anything in particular."

"Oh, alright, sorry, I'll call you back later tomorrow then?"

"Sure, oh and by the way Sam, what was the dream."

"Well it was really weird, it started out in a labrotory, sort of like the one in Dracula's Castle in Van Helsing. There was this pile of dust...no wait... it was ashes on the floor and the syringe that had the werewolf cure in it, it still had a drop of the antidote and it fell on the ashes and then...Boom! They reformed and Dracula was standing there. And then I was in the town, Vaseria, and the same happened to Marishka's ashes, and then I watched it happen to Verona and Aleera's too. And well I don't...Leah, Leah? Are you still there?"

During their conversation Leah had dropped the phone from shock as she heard the details of the dream coming from her friend.

"Leah?"

Shaking herself out of her daze, the fifteen year old Wiccan snatched up her phone and said

"Yeah I'm still here, and I got something really freaky to tell you."

"This doesn't involve something that will totally gross me out does it?"

"No, maybe scare you, but not gross you out."

"Ok then, shoot."

"I had the exact same dream, detail for detail."

Now it was Sam's turn to be shocked. But she kept her composure and said

"Look Leah, I gotta go, but you know what, I'm going to call the others, and you call Alex."

"Ok...wait, why?"

"Just a hunch, and ask them if they've had any freaky dreams lately. Oh and tell me how your weird card thingy goes!"

"It is not a weird card thingy it is called fortune telling."

"Yeah right, sorry. Ok bye!"

"Bye!"

After quietly hanging up her phone, Leah turned back to her cards and said

"Alright, lets see what you guys can show me."

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Across town in a small apartment bedroom, Crystal Sawyer wasn't having much luck getting to sleep either. She had woken up a half hour ago from her strange dream, and being unable to go back to sleep, she pulled out her notepad and pencil, and started to sketch out the labrotory from her dream. She was halfway done when her family's telephone rang. She quickly slipped out of her bedroom, snatched it off the receiver, and then tiptoed back to her room. She pressed the talk button and whispered

"Hello?"

"Crystal?"

"Yeah, is that you Sam?"

"Yeah."

"Good, for a second I thought it was some pervert."

"Ooookkk! Anyway Crystal I called to ask you something, what did you dream about tonight?"

"What did I dream about? Is this some kind of a joke Sam?"

"No it isn't, just answer me please."

So Crystal related her dream to Sam. There was stunned silence and then Sam chanting

"No way, no possible way!"

"Sam?" Crystal asked after a minute or so of this.

"Umm, Crystal, if I tell you this, you promise you won't laugh ok?"

"Ok."

"would you believe it if I said Leah and I also had that same dream?"

Crystal nearly dropped her phone from shock and said

"What! Are you serious!"

"Affirmative."

"Oh my God, that is like so not cool! What do you think it means?"

"No clue, but I'm going to check with the others and see if they had anything similar to ours. See you tomorrow?"

"Definately, after this!"

"Good bye Crystal."

"Bye Sam."

After she hung up the phone Crystal sat down on her bed, staring hard at the picture, waiting for it to give her an answer. But if the picture had one, it had no intention of giving it to her.

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Across town, in his Uncle's spare bedroom, Kelsey, the Exchange Student from Canada, lay awake, a pen in hand, a piece of paper in the other. Since he'd met Sam online, the two had been pratically inseperable. And after he was allowed to spend the school year with his Uncle in the States, he was even more excited. He was just now working on a piece of music that he had dedicated to Sam. As he sat chewing on the end of his pen, the phone rang. He walked over, picked it up and said

"Hello?"

"Kelsey, it's me."

"Sam? What's going on, are you alright?"

"Yeah, but I really need to ask you something ok?"

"Alright?"

"What did you dream about tonight, and be serious."

"Well I'd like to say I dreamt of you."

"Kelsey..."

"But that wasn't the case."

And so Kelsey went on into a vivid description of the dream he had had that night. When he'd finished his girlfriend said

"Congratulations Kelsey, you are the fourth person who has had that dream tonight."

"What?"

"Yep, me, Crystal, and Leah all had the exact same dream. And before you ask, Leah's doing some magic to see if she can decipher its meaning."

"Alright, well I'd best be getting some sleep. See you tomorrow sweetheart."

"See ya tomorrow hun!"

Kelsey hung up the phone, but he didn't go back to his bed. Instead he sat on his window seat and gazed out into the summer night, his replaying the events of that night over and over.

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Leah had been good on her word and as soon as Sam hung up she dialed her boyfriend's number.

Alexander, or Alex as he was called by Sam, Crystal and Leah, or Xander by Kelsey and Hervok, was sitting on his bed, throwing some ping pong balls into his empty waste basket. When his phone rang, he snatched it quickly and said

"Hello?"

"Hey babe, it's me."

"Leah?"

"Yours truly."

"Hey baby how you been?"

"Fine."

"So what are you doing up?"

"Nightmare, but I really need to ask you something, and would you please answer it truthfully for me?"

"Sure baby, anything."

"Did you have any dreams tonight that were, I don't know, freaky?"

"Well you know I usually don't dream, but tonight, well I'll behonest with you because you're my girl. Tonight was way different."

When he went on to describe his dream, Leah responded

"Well that makes three of us."

"Three of us?"

"Sam and me also had that exact same dream, exact detail."

"Damn!" was all that came out of her boyfriend's mouth. There was a moment of silence and then,

"Look, Alex, sweetie, I gotta go. See you tomorrow?"

"You bet baby."

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Hervok Vorra usually didn't let dreams unnerve him. This one however was a different story. At thirty-six years old, he still couldn't believe his own weakness at a simple illusion of his subconcious mind. Smoothing back his black hair, he walked out of the bedroom of his modest flat and entered the kitchen, where he pulled out a bottle of milk. He poured some into a pan, and stirred in some Karo Syrup and vanilla. He put it on the stove to heat and sat down at his table with a mug in his hand when his telephone rang. He rose slowly and snatched it off the receiver.

"Hello?"

"Hervok, it's me."

"Sam? What are you doing up?"
"Nightmare, but you gotta tell me something."

"What?"

"What did you dream about tonight?"

"What did I dream about?"

"Yeah."

So Hervok humored her and told her his dream. But when he expected to hear the punchline, none came. After a few moments of silence, Sam said,

"Hervok, you're not going to believe this."

"Ha! Try me kid I've seen a lot of strange things in my lifetime."

"Really? Does that include more than one person having the same dream?"

"What?"

"The dream Hervok, Leah, Crystal, Kelsey and me, and I'm pretty sure Alex, all had that exact same dream, detail for detail! So now, tell me, how's that for strange?"

"Well you know it could be that you lot also ate a load of junkfood and watched 'Van Helsing' about three times in a row today."

"Maybe so, but if that was the case, I'd expect us the dreams would vary. Like say I was dancing in that ballroom of Dracula's naked? Or Leah was dancing with a werewolf, or Alex was flirting with Marishka. Not where we all see the four of them all come back from their so called 'permanent' deaths!"

"Alright calm down kid, let's say we all call a major meeting tomorrow and try and soryt this thing out."

"Alright, that's just what I was about to suggest to you."

"Ok then, well see ya around kid."

"See ya."

As soon as he hung up the phone, Hervok walked over to the window and said

"He's back, is he really back?"

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As soon as Hervok broke the connection she dialed Leah's number again and waited for the voice of her best friend.

"Hello?"

"Hi it's me again."

"Oh hey Sam."

"Look I just called finished calling the others."

"And..."

"Everyone had the same dream."

"Dang, now that's something that doesn't happen everyday."

"You're telling me. I take it Alex's response was also positive?"

"You got it girl."

"Well its getting late, I'd better try to get back to sleep."

"Yeah, and I'll try and finish my card reading."

"Well see ya tomorrow. Same place?"

"You got it."

As soon as Sam hung up her phone, she walked over to the window and stared out at the starry sky. Then she sighed and walked over to her bed, and slid under the covers and fell into a thankfully, dreamless sleep.

Author's Note : Well that's done, also I wanted to put a scene with Leah and her cards, but I didn't know how that works, considering how I am Catholic and she's the Wiccan. Anyway Read and Review. And speaking of reviews, why don't I thank all the nice folks who reviewed for chapter one?

HughJackmanFan : Why are you gulping, did I scare you or something? Sorry. And yes I shall write more.

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Thanks to all who reviewed. And without further ado, goodbye and happy reading!

Signed,

Fortune Zyne.