"Everyone's dead?" I asked.
"Yes. Everyone's dead. My wife, Zoey, everyone.... forget Tulsa. Jared and yourself need to get to the Council. There's something special about you and the Council may be able to help," Dragon said.
"OK," I took a deep breath. "I kinda spazzed out on Jared. I need to go talk to him... and then we will have to get on the plane." Dragon nodded and I turned to walk out.
"Is there anything else?" Serah's voice stopped me. I looked back over my shoulder.
"Yes." I took a few more steps towards the door.
"Well?" Dragon's voice was tired. I looked back again.
"There are 2 more elements," I said. Then I turned and walked out of the room. I heard Serah and Dragon whispering as I left.
"Alex?" I heard a tentative voice ask. I looked up and saw Jared looking at me.
"I'm sorry Jared," I whispered. "I just got freaked out. I had a dream about something, and it was coming true as I dreamt it. Sorry I wigged out on you."
"It's OK," he smiled. He had his confidence back and straightened his shoulders. "So what happened?"
"I'll explain in the room," I said, looking around at all the people who were trying to discreetly eaves drop. He nodded with understanding. So we walked together back to the room, hand in hand. It felt good to walk with a friend. We were only friends -- come on, we were only in seventh grade. And we had known each other forever... how could we be anything else? We had everything in common. We had the same birthday, the same eyes, we each loved bombs... and we each had a secret we shared that no one else could know. And we were each Marked with Emerald tattoos.
I had had a gut feeling that I couldn't tell Serah or Dragon about the second dream. They might think I was crazy. But it was gone when it came to Jared.... of course I could trust him without worrying about him thinking I was crazy. Most other's would think we were crazy if we told him about our other secrets, too. So why not tell him? We stepped into my room, and I closed the door.
"Jared, I had a dream-like-vision thing," I said. He nodded for me to continue. He seemed to get a little pale, but I ignored it. "I had a dream about Zoey dying. And it's already come true." I filled him in on everything, watching him grow steadily paler. When I finished with the Nyx part, he was whiter than the ice outside.
"I had the same dream... with some slight moderations. I was closer to the ground, so I heard their names. Heath was the one in the bushes, and Stark was the one who ran to Zoey." I stared at Jared open mouthed for a little.
"I assume Nyx didn't call you Alex, though," I said. He shook his head.
"And I missed the big hug scene cause I was hidden behind a bush. I didn't see Zoey fall and die," he said. I nodded.
"We need to get on the plane," I said. "Maybe.... maybe we can find some way to help them when we get there."
"Yes. Let's go find Dragon and get to the plane," I nodded. We got up and made out way out of the room and got out into the hall. We walked back to where Dragon had been last and ran straight into him.
"Are we ready to go?" he looked tired and sad. Jared and I nodded. "Sleep along the way, Alexandryne. Maybe we can get more information. It could be very important."
"Jared had the same dream, but from a different direction," I said. "And I go by Alex." Dragon frowned, but nodded.
"Do you have free movement in these dreams?" he asked. Jared and I both nodded. It wasn't like those freaky things where you can't control where you go. I did have control and a sensible mind in that dream, like I was really there. "Good. Get close. We'll need to know what's going on."
"Alright. Where's the plane?" I asked.
"And I'm guessing out parents never showed up... did they?" Jared asked. Dragon shook his head.
"Corey said he'd get them to mail your stuff to Tulsa," Dragon said.
"Corey?" I asked.
"Your teacher," he answered.
"Oh," I nodded.
"The plane is on our private runway out back," he said. He started walking and we followed him. Left, right, left left, straight, right, right, U-turn, and right..... then we broke out of the door. We followed Dragon's amazingly long gait (geez, for a short guy he was fast) over to the fence. He went through a whole in the fence, and we followed him.... we ended up eventually on something like a big long flat road with a plane on it. It was a fairly small plane, only about 30 feet long. But it was large as far as personal planes go.
Dragon opened the hatch with a SQUEEEEEEAK and stepped into the plane. He flicked on the lights, revealing a lush interior with rugs so thick I couldn't see the toes of my shoes. There were large chairs that looked like they could recline all the way back, into beds. The only seatbelts were thin lap straps. I waded my way through the red rug to one of the seats. Jared took the one next to it.
"Who's driving?" I asked.
"Me," Dragon said calmly.
"You're a pilot?" Jared asked, his face incredulous. Dragon nodded.
"Sleep," he said. "We'll need all the information we can get. You two work together...." He walked into the pilot cock. The plane leapt to life, and we started rolling down the track. Faster, faster, and then we took off. And then I heard Jared snoring. And then...................... I don't know 'then' cause I fell asleep. With more dreams. Ugh.