Chapter 4: Bad Dream

"Don't you just hate when you wake up in the morning and suddenly forget what you where dreaming?"

"We have to get out of here" –she was half unconscious.

"Come on, we are having a party tonight, it is about to start, we were just waiting for you" –the tall dark haired man said inviting them with his hands to come closer. Kaeli was holding her head with both hands mumbling something, and the crystal hunters just looked at her as if she was crazy.

Sakura helped her best friend to stand up, but they were both still confused. The sky, if it can be called that, was still dark, full of stars, like if they were in outer space, but for Kaeli it seemed gloomier than ever. It wasn't a magical place, neither did it looked beautiful anymore. She was scared, and scared to death as she rarely was.

Meiling, the girl with dark hair in buns, started to walk towards the man, and then Syaoran did the same with doubt and Eriol looked back only once before following them. Sakura, still supporting Kaeli, started to walk, and then the smaller girl decided she could walk on her own again, so she did.

Three more kids their age joined them, they introduced themselves to Kaeli and Sakura as Hyosuke Fuwa [17 years old], Kei and Ayaka Hara [both 15, they're twins], and walked along with them, they seemed to know what was going on.

The man started to guide them to the centre of the buildings, but in half-way Kaeli fell to her knees again, no one noticed because she was the last one, the one that had the feeling that they should get out of there immediately. And now she knew why.

It was her dream, the one she had told to her little sisters at the orphanage.

"...it seemed like outer space, I could see lots of stars all around the metallic platform. There were some buildings and a metallic bridge but all the lights were off, so I tried wandering a little, I came closer to one of the towers, I felt so cold there, I heard someone breathing, but couldn't see anyone, ignoring my fear I searched around and suddenly all of this illusions came to my head, there were lots of people on fire, and a big explosion at the back and there was this black-haired man walking among them when..."

The same black-haired man!! Still on her knees, her body bent down until her hands were on the cold metallic floor. All those visions she had in her dream, or what she tough was her dream, came back. There was fire everywhere, men trying to extinguish it, girls running, kids crying, a total chaos. Suddenly the fire began to calm down, but it was too late. Everyone was already dead! And the man with black hair and black suit was standing in the centre of the buildings with his face covered by darkness. He had caused the fire and burnt everyone alive with no mercy!!

"Noooooooooooo!!" –everyone turned to Kaeli not expecting what she was going to tell them –"He's going to burn us alive!!"

Instantly all of they looked at the man in black and saw how his face and hands started to go on fire. As if on cue, Eriol and Syaoran looked at each other and started to run back as they were at the head and thus closer to the man. The other crystal hunters caught it and started to run back too, but Sakura and Kaeli were paralyzed, with this last one still on her knees and hands. Ayaka and Kei, who were running on the right side, pulled Sakura's arm and made her turn around while they literally dragged her towards the bridge. Meiling, Hyosuke and Syaoran were almost behind them, but Kaeli was far to the left, and seeing that she wouldn't react, Eriol decided to go for her.

He thought it was going to be difficult to pull her because she was staring at the man with horror, and looking as immobile as an old rock and as heavy as a very big one. But to his surprise he practically lifted her in the air pulling her arm with only one hand. A fraction of second later, the man started to scream maniatically at her, and suddenly all the metallic buildings went on fire causing an explosion.

Kei was the first one to arrive at the elevator, he frantically pressed the down button as his green eyes saw the fire grow bigger and the explosion coming closer by every second. In the last second they all jumped in and the door closed with a loud click. Four or five seconds later they arrived to the basement, were fire was already making its way.

There were no walls on this floor. Only the floor, the ceiling and some pillars. It looked like it was hanging from the upper floor. Sakura and Kaeli arrived on the first floor, there were walls there.

"We can't go back Sakura-chan!!" –the pocket watch was hanging from her right wrist while her left hand was holding the artefact –"There are no walls on this floor"

Then Syaoran, who seemed to be the leader of the group of hunters, looked back at them and practically ordered them to follow him, so they did as told. On the other side of the 'parking lot' were two strange spaceships-things-like. But these were different from the one Kaeli took a while ago to get to the other platform. Both were black, and big, very big, with a large window covering the front and both sides. Strange structures surrounded the vehicles, strange and lethal, the kind of thing you don't want to run into.

Syaoran ordered Hyosuke to take the girls with him and to go to TR-9. Ayaka and Kei were on the Lancelot along with Hyosuke, who was already inside waiting for Kaeli and Sakura to jump in, but just as the latter was hoping in, the girl with pretty lilac eyes realized that her pocket watch was not there, her eyes examined all the way back to the elevator, and there it was, it must have been when she was telling her best friends that they couldn't go back.

As if followed by the devil, she ran all the way back, but the spaceships couldn't wait any longer because the fire was almost on them.

"Go now!!" –Syaoran's voice stated through the communicator installed in the Lancelot. Ayaka pushed some buttons and the door was blocked and sealed. Kei pushed the wheel forward and the Lancelot was out of sight in less than three seconds with a near-tears-Sakura aboard.

Meanwhile Eriol, once again and being the fastest, went to the rescue. Still two metres away from the her watch, Kaeli felt an hand pulling her arm. But to the blue eyed boy surprise she had enough strength to pull him along and grab her silver watch. Then she let herself to be pulled to the Firearm, where Syaoran and Meiling were waiting with the engines at top. As soon as they jumped in and the door closed, a big explosion sent them off, leaving only metallic buildings on fire behind.

"Is this safe? Does he know how to drive this?" –Kaeli had her arms wrapped around Eriol's right one and her eyes closed tight. It was obvious that she wasn't as scared as moments ago, but her body was trembling.

Eriol looked at her, with a strange look on his handsome face. Why in the hell was she holding to his arm??

"No" –he answered sarcastically, only causing her panic for a couple of minutes. But then her expression changed for completely to a very serene one.

"But it'll be ok, since you're here right?" –her eyes now were reflecting complete trust towards the boy.

"How come you trust so much a stranger? For what you know I could throw you right out of the spaceship if I wanted to"

"You're not a stranger, I know you already, I've dreamed of you before" –she smiled as she said this. Despite all his knowledge, Eriol didn't understand her answer. Just as the confused boy was about to ask her a beautiful wave of colours surrounded the Firearm making the girl release his arm and get all exited about what was outside. They had arrived to the TR, their base.