3 years later…

By this time I completely forgot that my dream had ever happened. I was walking down a sidewalk, towards my school. God, I couldn't wait for school to be over, most of my teachers are torture. The only few that aren't torture are jerks anyway. Maybe I was just unlucky.

One of my friends ran up to me. "Hey, Risa, guess what!" I looked at her curiously, she was obviously very excited.

"What?" I looked at her; thankfully I wasn't near late to school yet. My friend, Janice, was practically floating she was so excited!

"You know that dream you had a couple years ago?" Suddenly I remembered about it. My friend had an amazing memory for that kind of stuff. I nodded slightly, and she continued. "Well, the Saphira Libra, it was found! That weird scale you told me about…the one that we both decided never existed exists!" I looked at her, it was real? I sighed I will have to find it, after all.

"Well, I guess I will have to go look for it then," I said, then jogged up to my school, before I was late. "Maybe over the weekend, okay!" My friend ran after me, shouting, 'wait! One more thing!" but before she could say anything else I ran into the building, not wanting to be late.

I stared as the girl entered her school, not even bothering to ask her friend where exactly the Saphira Libra was. Sighing, I heard a voice behind me.

"It seems she has forgotten all about you, Hezraith," A young feminine voice was heard behind me. I scowled as I turned and saw a young female, with long, black hair.

"Seiane," I hissed, she was the most annoying women anyone would be able to think of. "What do you want now?"

"Oh, nothing, I just wanted to remind you that if it was me telling that girl about the Saphira Libra, it may not have ended up this way." Ha, like she could get that brunette to get the Saphira Libra better then I could. She had the worst record of people doing her tasks then anyone I know! Pretty much everybody just decides not to do it when Seiane explains it to them. She makes it sound like they have a choice. They all end up dying, anyway.

"Oh? Then explain. If I recall, you almost never get anybody to do a single task for you." I scoffed at her, making her lose her cool attitude for a second or two.

"You little"—Seiane paused, and then turned around, –"Worm." She started to walk away into the darkness that surrounded us. Yes, we live in darkness. Thankfully it was more then just the two of us. I would've committed suicide already if it was.

The bell rang. "Errring! Errring!" Finally, school was over today! Only a couple weeks left! Maybe I can just hold out that quest for a couple more weeks, when school is over.

"Hey, Risa," Janice called to me as she walked over. "Well? Are you going to look for it? The man's name who has it is Heesrath." I laughed.

"Don't you mean Hezraith?" I asked, although I wouldn't have asked so openly to her if she didn't know about my dream. Come to think of it, I really never want to go into detail about that dream again.

"Yeah, whatever," She replied, and then I realized with a sudden jolt that Hezraith had it! I could've gotten it during my dream! Then I realized something else that disturbed me. How did she know that Hezraith had it? I wondered. Come to think of it, I met her a couple of days after my dream. Could this be a trap made by Janice? Ugh, I hate that name, Janice. I know, I know, my last thought was kind of random.

I narrowed my eyes. "How do you know that Hezraith has it?" I asked, making her eyes give off a little nervousness, even though the rest of her body didn't betray her next lie.

"S-some weird guy t-told me…" Janice stammered, then said, "B-but that's not important…what is important is finding the Saphira Libra. We should go." She turned around before I could reply, and started walking, but to where, I had no idea. Sighing, I followed her, I had no choice, after all, it would be bad to show I was suspicious; maybe she really isn't working for Hezraith.

Good, good. She is coming. Hezraith was very smart to send that girl to Risa. The fool doesn't expect a thing. Or, if she does, she isn't following her instincts. I was smart to choose Hezraith after all, over Seiane. I had some doubts about him at first, but the way he does it, it's amazing he is the youngest one here, honestly.

"Sir?" A voice echoed into my throne room, and standing before me was Seine. The most annoying of all 7 of us, Hezraith, me, Seiane, Psinia, Filera, Ralinque, and Firno; I myself as the oldest; although, somebody is missing, they have been missing for centauries. I know because one of our rooms is empty.

"What now, Seiane?" The women cringed at my tone, but started to speak, a little bit more hesitantly then before. She knows very well I can kill her, with a single snap of my finger. She was witnessed me kill someone, just by making a fist, for that, to the person, felt like I was squeezing their heart. Ever since then Seiane was nervous about being around me, although, nobody else was.

"Sir…Tsuinami," She said, again. "Why have you entrusted that infantile Hezraith for this task, when he is so young? I should've been the one chosen to have it!" As her sentence progressed, her confidence rose. Her last statement was how she normally sounded, when she wasn't around me, that is.

"I entrusted it with him because he is younger, and thus should be allowed to prove himself," Yes, he is the youngest, but he has always been trusted since the first task he received. Much, much more trustworthy then Seiane, he was.

"But"—She began, but I lifted my hand into the air—they were all my 'pawns' like pieces in an elaborate chess game. Honestly, I never cared what happened to all of them. They were just useful, but not needed. –"I am sorry, sir," She mumbled, and left the room, obviously in a hurry not to die. I would kill her off someday, and she knew it.

"Where are we?" I asked Janice, but when I looked to where she was—or should've been, because I noticed that she was gone. We were in a damp, humid forest, but it wasn't it rain forest, I could tell. "Janice?" I shouted, but no answer. Maybe she really did send me into a trap. I was about to shout one more time, but before I could, Janice emerged from a couple of shrubs holding some berries! "Are you…sure those aren't poison?" I asked her.

"Of course not, I had a berry a little while back that looked just like this! Try it!" She urged me to take the berry and eat it, and I did take it, but before I ate it, I thought a little, to make sure I knew what I was doing. Would she really try to harm me? I have no other way to find out… I braced myself, and took a bite out of the berry. "See?" She asked me. "I told you it wasn't poison!" Before she could continue, I took more berries, they were actually very good! After eating a lot of them, she finally continued. "Worse. They knock you out. Then I can make you do whatever I tell you to, think of it as hypnosis. Since you ate so many berries, you probably are going to be knocked out soon. Once you are hypnotized, whenever you are about to snap out of it, I will just tell you to eat more berries," She stood up, and then finished with, "Have a nice nap." Right after she finished I fell to the ground, and felt as though I was sleeping.