Pawn: Dream

Main Characters: Danny, Jazz

Genre: family

Flames reached into the sky like fingers to caress the blue canvas.

Screams of agony tear through the smoke-clouded city.

Buildings crumble and beams of red light rain down; more buildings were engulfed in flames.

A laugh, low and sinister, sounded above the panicked, agony-filled screams.

And then there was blood, blood speckled with green, and more screams.

One was filled with anguish, a heart-breaking wail that caused the heart to clench.

It began to rain; water poured from the sky in a steady downpour.

Danny woke up feeling confused and light-headed. He was lying on his bed and yet he couldn't begin to understand what he just saw. The last thing he remembered before his dream was stepping into the portal and accidentally turning it on.

The door to his room opened and Danny looked up as his sister walked into the room. "Are you all right?" she asked.

"Y…Yeah, I think so," Danny said. "What're you doing here?"

"Mom asked me to check up on you," Jazz said walking into the room and sitting down on Danny's bed. "You okay?"

Danny hesitated. "I just had a weird dream," he said.

Jazz looked curious. "Oh? What was it about?"

Danny should've figured his sister would want to know. She enjoyed psychology and Danny had a feeling she would want to psychoanalyze his dream. He decided that maybe his sister could help him understand his dream though so he explained what he saw to his sister.

Jazz pressed her lips together looking thoughtful. "Well, it could mean many things. A lot of what happened in your dream could symbolize something else," she said. "Hmm, the rain could symbolize distress or sadness. The screams are pretty self-explanatory and the flames and the red light could symbolize anger. The laughter, well, that's pretty self-explanatory too. The green-and-red blood, I don't know what that could symbolize. And yet, all of those things together just don't make sense."

Danny frowned. Of all people, he would've thought his sister could have figured out what his dream meant, if it meant anything. He shrugged at that last thought. "It was just a dream. It's probably nothing," he said.

"The fact that you can remember it so well suggests that it's not nothing, Danny," Jazz said. "I'll have to look it up but I'm pretty sure few people remember as many details about their dreams as you do.'

"So what? You think it's important?"

"I just said it's not nothing so it could be. I don't know." Now Jazz sounded confused before she shook her head. "I need to think about it some more. You should probably get some rest." She stood up and ruffled Danny's hair.

"Hey!" Danny protested and his sister chuckled before walking out of the room.

A/n what do you think?

Blaze: well, this is a Jazz/Danny sibling-bonding drabble

Darth: and ties in with another of the stories you're working on now but haven't posted

Blaze: that it does. In a way, this takes place before Pawn hence why that's part of the title though it's easily a side story on it's own. At least, I think so.

Darth: I liked it though

Blaze: yup so, once again, reviews are appreciated as always