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Chapter one: Bad dreams

Bring, Bring went Jay's alarm clock.

Jay moaned in his sleep and rolled over under his smooth ivory comforter. He looked towards his alarm clock as it blasted its loud horn once more. He looked at the clock but all he saw was blurry numbers as his eyes half closed once more. He did not seem to have the strength to keep them open.

His alarm clock blasted again, the loud shrill sound echoing in Jay's perfect round ears. He tried to block out the sound once more. When that did not work he shoved his head under his pillow and groaned loudly as even that did not block out the loud annoying sound.

Jay just grunted and turned around in his bed. He slowly opened his sleep filled eyes and turned towards his window, expecting to see rays of golden sunshine. Instead he could see the faint colors of the sunrise blazing through his window. The colors reflected off the small mirror on the wall and sent rays of orange, yellow and pink light onto Jay's face. This in his opinion was not something good to wake up to. As much as he loved the sunrise, the bright, colorful lights burned against his tired eyes.

Sunrise? Jay thought sitting up properly and walking towards his window. I though I only went to sleep at sunrise?

Jay looked out of his window and saw the glowing city of New Olympia being bathed in the sunrise's brilliant colors. Curiously Jay walked over and sat on his bed. Tiredly he looked at his alarm clock.

The Clock read 5:30 am and he moaned even louder.

"Oh my god, that is two hours after I came back from the damn school!" he groaned and fell back into his bed.

He knew that he should be used to it by now. For the last 7 months strait he had been working almost non stop to find Cronus and his new lair. He obviously knew that Cronus had to switch lairs because Echo destroyed his last one.

But he had chosen a REALLY good place this time! Jay did not even know where to start looking! He had searched everywhere and gone to libraries and museums and the most outrageous of places just trying to take a lead on where he could be hiding. But so far he had found nothing, and his back breaking research had gone to waste.

He sighed and stretched his back and sore muscles that had remained tight all through the night. Jay had hoped that a good night's sleep would make his muscles relax more, but his two hours did no help to his back or the rest of his body.

He felt like sleeping for hours, and his body ached with agreement.

But even though he wanted to sleep in today he knew he shouldn't.

Well that's what I get for staying up all night researching. He thought. Truly it was his fault that he was always so tired. Although he would never admit it to any one of his friends.

For the last little while Jay's determination to get Cronus had reached its maximum and probably higher. For the last 7 months every night he had stayed in the dorm's basement, or at the library in the secret part of the school, gathering information about Cronus. And every time he came close to a breakthrough it would slip away from him.

So he got up and went to get dressed into his usual clothes, his striped yellow and purple sweater and blue jeans. He pulled them on quickly and silently, ignoring the large amount of pain in his back. He combed his messy short brown hair and slung his black belt around his waist. He yawned once more and walked towards the tightly closed door.

He was about to open the door when he heard foot steps outside in the hall.

"Wonder who else would be up this early in the morning" Jay said, explaining his thoughts out loud.

He waited until the sound of the light footsteps were almost gone and opened the door moments after. He quickly looked around the corner of his cedar tree door frame.

He did not see exactly who it was had passed his room. But he could only hear the sounds of the person's shoes hitting the ground as they made their way to the dimly lit staircase that led to the roof of their brownstone apartment. He did however see a little bit of the persons long beautiful red and orange hair disappearing around the corner.

Why would Theresa be up? Jay wondered.

He quietly decided to make his way up to the roof.

He silently waited until she was completely out of sight before he walked down the hallway, tip toeing quietly behind her.

He was some what worried about Theresa. He knew it was not like Theresa to be up this early in the morning.

Also, she had been acting really strange for the past few days. For every time he passed by her in the hallway, which was not very often anyways, she would just look down and mummer a hello.

She was sad and depressed and Jay could tell. He hated seeing her like this; he hated seeing her in any sort of pain.

Jay sighed as he continued to walk down the dark hallway. She is my weakness; she is the one person I would do anything for. Jay thought as he made even lighter footsteps as she paused for a moment.

One day I will tell her how much I like her. Jay thought as he made his way down the hall following Theresa's every step until she finally walked up the stairs and onto the brightly colored roof top. One day when Cronus is not there to use her against me, or harm her in anyway.

Theresa's Dream:

She was in a long dark hallway in a pitch black cave. Most of her surroundings were invisible to her. But she could tell she was in a cave. She looked around her frail body and moved around blindly in the darkness. She gasped as she heard the squealing of mice as her light fingers bumped into them.

She felt their pitter patter of feet as they ran into their small holes in the walls to hide from her and was very surprised. So far, Theresa had six dreams like this one, and in every single one she had never been able to touch something before. But when she first began having these dreams, all she could do was hear things being said. She could not speak, see or feel. Now though she was able to walk in her dreams and hear things, and more recently feel things.

What am I doing here? Theresa thought. Usually I just end up in a forest when I am dreaming; I have never been in this cave before.

"I told you to get the kids! Go out there and get the KIDS!" someone screamed from down the black hallway.

"But sire, I-," whimpered a crooked male voice.

"Don't give me any excuses!" the voice yelled once more. "Don't you get it? If I don't kill those puny mortals I will NEVER be able to rule the world!"

"Cronus!" Theresa whispered in fright as she recognized the dark, slimy voice of her worst enemy. She looked around her to see if Cronus was anywhere near her, but she heard a groan of pain coming from down the dark hallway where the light was. He obviously was not as close as she thought he was.

"What the heck is he doing here, wherever here is?" she muttered once more, her eyes narrowing at the dim light at the end of the hallway.

Better call for backup, she thought reaching hurriedly for her PMR.

"God where is it?" she growled in frustration as she continued to search through her pocket only to find it empty. She looked quickly through her other pocket and sighed inwardly.

Where is it? She wondered once more as she searched the ground. Did I drop it or something?

She spent the next few seconds searching the floor before she finally realized that her PMR was not with her. She sighed and took a deep, calming breath as she felt a large amount of panic well up inside her.

Well guess I'll have to go in alone, Theresa said. But she rolled her eyes as soon as she finished her comment once more. How could she call for back up? This was a dream. Not real life. Her friends were still back in her room sleeping. And she was to. This was just a figment of imagination. Or at least she thought so.

She started running to get closer to the end of the hallway hearing words escape the two villain's mouths but not exactly hearing what they were saying.

Slowly but surly she came to the end and slowly opened the black door that stood there. Inside there were two men, Cronus and some other man she never saw before. The other man was dressed in a completely black suit that was ripped and torn in many places.

But Cronus was not in his best shape ever either. For some reason, when Theresa first looked at him, for the first time in the last 7 months, she noticed something different about him. One, there was about 6x more wrinkles on his face then there was last time they saw each other, two, there was more white hair on his head then black, and three, his eyes did not look as dangerous as before.

Theresa had to put her hands over her mouth to stop herself from gasping. Cronus was ageing! He was the god of time! He was not supposed to grow old! And he is weak, could that be why he has not been attacking as much as before?

But she took a sharp intake of breath as she saw Cronus raise both of his scythes high into the air and bring it down on the young man once more.

The man screamed in pain and fell to the floor once more.

"You are worthless!" Cronus hissed knelling down in front of the young man once more and raising his bloody head up so they were eye to eye. "I have no further use for you!" he spat before he grabbed the boy by his hair and pulled him so his neck was stretched before him.

Theresa closed her eyes tightly and looked away as she heard the man scream in pain. She allowed a strangled cry to escape her throat as she thought about the young dead man. She would not be heard anyway, so she allowed her feelings to run free. She allowed her tears to run down her cheeks once more and heard Cronus snicker as she heard a loud thump.

"Throw him into the forest." He demanded loudly and Theresa opened her eyes and saw seven giants pound into the room and gaze at the bloody wreck on the floor. Two nodded and picked his dead body up and walked out of the room. The other seven looked at Cronus for directions.

"Bring in the assassin." He ordered the five remaining giants. "And hopefully his record is better then the last one you brought in."

The giants nodded and walked out of the room. Only seconds later another figure walked in freely with the giants trailing slowly behind them. When Theresa took a closer look at the giants she saw their bodies shaking. Plus, not one of the giants went closer then a meter towards the tall, manly figure.

Theresa turned her attention to the man who walked in. He was in a completely black suit just like the last man who came in. but he looked a few years older then the last one, making him look nineteen at least. Cold black eyes gazed at his evil lord and his pale brown hair covered half of his face. The man was exceptionally strong since Theresa could see his muscles through his black outfit.

The man knelt in front of Cronus, his forehead going no higher then the floor.

"Master?" he said quietly. "You requested my presence?"

Cronus nodded. "Your last assassin failed me, I need another one. I am ashamed of you, by your record I thought you would have many that would not fail me. Young Jacob was the fifth one I have had to kill in the last two months! I need you to get me another one."

The young man shook his head. "I am sorry my lord," he said looking up so his cold black eyes were meeting the blood red ones of his master. "That is all that I have with me. You have destroyed my entire team. The rest are back in England or are on a assignment somewhere."

Cronus sighed and ran a pale hand through his white and black hair. "Fine, you will do perfectly then." He said quietly gazing down at the boy. "Get up."

The young man obeyed silently and rose from his kneeling position. "What do you wish for me to do my lord?" he said quietly and obediently.

"Jay," Cronus said in a voice that told Theresa quite clearly he detested her leader, "Get me bait to get Jay. I need bait, you know that my plan will not work unless Jay is mine. Yes…" he said chuckling as evil thoughts filled his mind. "Find his weakness and explore it, he will do whatever I want if I hold something for ransom."

Theresa took a sharp intake of breath. What does he want with Jay? Theresa thought angrily, her fists clenching at the mere thought. Hasn't he hurt Jay enough already? He won't even sleep properly because of that MONSTER!

She looked back at the pair once more. The assassin smirked when he heard his master's evil words.

"What do you have in mind?" he asked.

Cronus just smiled his evil smile and said "It is not really what I want, it is who. I want you to look after his friends, study their movements, eating habits whatever you find useful. Just find me his weakness. I need to know his weakness." He paused, "And don't forget to kill. And kill anyone else who gets in your way. Make sure you are not seen by any of his friends, and do not harm them unless I tell you so. Clear?"

The man nodded and bowed once more. "Yes master." He said backing away from the evil man. "I swear it will be done."

End of dream

Theresa awoke crying out, her pillow soaking wet from all the sweat and crying.

"Oh thank goodness it was just a dream." She whispered painfully burying her face in her hands and pillow. She stayed there, gasping for air as she tried to take in what little she could remember of the dream.

She got up and looked at her alarm clock. She groaned out loud wishing that she could get back to sleep. The clock only said 5:30. She rubbed the sleep and sweat that had gathered around her eyes to make sure she had actually read the proper time. When the clock's numbers still stayed the same she sighed once more.

What a strange nightmare. Theresa thought. Who was that man? What do they want with Jay?

She reached out blindly for something on her bedside table.

"Almost there, HA GOT IT!" She said finally reaching what she was looking for. There clutched in her delicate hand was the most precious thing in her entire life.

It was the golden locket her mom and dad had got her for her twelfth birthday. It had pretty flower designs engraved in the background and had her name engraved there also. She remembered when her parents allowed her to open the small present. She had to smile as she remembered her own look of joy and amazement when she first gazed at it. She thought of it as the most beautiful thing in the entire world.

She slowly opened the locket and guess whose picture was in there. Once she opened the locket she met a picture of Jay and her.

t was weird how she got this picture because this was a picture about that awkward moment back in the sewers when they were looking for the minitor. She can't remember how exactly she got this picture, to be honest. All she knew was that at that very moment she realized that she might actually hold feelings for her strong and caring leader. She brang the locket close to her heart crying as she thought about the dream.

What is going to happen? She thought desperately,

End of chapter one hope you enjoyed it!

Spiritgirl of Japan