Dance of the Eclipse
Chapter Two: Premonitions
"What happened? Did you have a nightmare too?" asked Mahiru as she and the others rushed into his room.
"Yeah, I had a nightmare…wait, what do you mean 'Did you have a nightmare too'? Who else had a nightmare?"
"The princess," said Misoka. "Is it possible there is a connection between your dreams?"
"What do you mean?" Mitsuru asked. "Damn it, Misoka! Spill!"
"You and the princess had nightmares on the same night, at the same time, on the night of a lunar eclipse. I sense something brewing. We have been warned."
"Yeah, but of what?" asked Nozomu. "What did you guys dream about?"
"It was cold," said Mahiru, shivering in remembrance. "Really cold. And there was no sun. It was so dark, there wasn't even a moon."
"The night of a new moon, then?" Misoka said. "When we have lost all our power?"
"But we have the princess now," said Nozomu. "She can grant us power on the night of a new moon."
"What if the princess was taken away?" Misoka said. "We need to double security around her."
"But what about Mitsuru's dream?" asked Mahiru.
"Yeah, Mitsuru, what did you dream?" Akira said.
"What did I dream? It was daytime. And the sun was so hot…so burning! And there was this disc in the sky, a little orange disc. It came hurtling at me!" Mitsuru started shaking.
"It's ok, Mitsuru!" Akira said.
"I don't get it," said Mahiru. "We dreamed about completely different things."
"An orange disc in the sky? A night of the new moon?" Misoka started pacing. "I don't like this."
"What? What's going to happen?" Nozomu said, worried. "Should I send Mr. Bat out?"
"We don't need Mr. Bat to tell us what's going on," said Misoka. And for once, Mitsuru agreed with him.
"Yeah," he growled. "Isn't it obvious? Mahiru's going to get kidnapped by our greatest foe."
"I don't understand," said Nozomu. "Me neither," Akira said.
"The orange disc in the sky represents Dawn's Venus," Misoka explained. "They're going to kidnap Mahiru…and there's nothing we can do to stop them."