Chapter 1 The Awakening

It was late spring afternoon when the sky suddenly grew dark with lightning flashed and the thunder began to troll.

A little girl who was about 3 years old were frightened on her bed. She was shaking from head to toe while closing both of her ears as the thunder rumbled in the background - shaking the windows with its huge impact. She was too afraid to go anywhere and chose to snuggle under her warm blanket, crying. All that she wanted was someone to be with her.

Once again, the lightning stroke the sky which followed by another thunder. Then, not long after that the hard rain started pouring down. Each drops hit the huge window with an unexplainable power, just like thousands of angry birds tried to break in.

This time she gave up.

Wrapped with a blanket from head to toe and teddy-bear in hand, she collected all her guts and decide to find her grandpa.

Still shaking and frightening, she was deciding to walk alone through the dark corridor. She remember precisely that her grandpa could possibly there, in his secret laboratory. But seeing the intense darkness in front of her made she instantly pulled back her own decision.

She was once afraid of thunder but darkness what she was afraid the most.

Only in the darkness, she could see them wandering around.

Thousand ball of lights which were floating up and down along the dark corridor in circular motion, gleaming in the darkness.

She did not know what it is exactly. But she recalled her guardian always mentioned them as "The Spirits."

Only by mention its name in her mind, it brought back stories which her grandpa told her before she went asleep last night.

She didn't remember what her grandpa's stories was about. She just remembered told her grandpa yesterday that she saw something scary who have no face enter her room in the midnight. A shadow. And the other day she just saw pale childrens played in the backyard.

Her grandpa just smiled, tapped her head gently and said 'do not be afraid' because it was in her blood. Her special ability to see the spirits.

Her grandpa also told her that there are only two kind of spirit, the wise and the lost. The wise spirit would whisper something about the future. But the lost ones would silently wait their victims to come closer, enchant them with sweet words before finally trap and drag them into the eternal darkness.

Now as she saw thousand balls of spirit, suddenly the air became colder and almost instantly her breathe was choked.

As if they realized of her presence, they started to whisper in disorderly manner.

She didn't understand of what they were saying. Even if she did, she didn't even want to know.

Felt lost. Hesistantly, she were now standing in the middle of the hall. Tears started to well at the corner of her eyes.

"Well, little miss Ga Eul what are you doing? You supposed to be in your room, right?"

She jumped in shock and dropped her teddy-bear as she heard a soft low voice spoke. The voice was belong to her guardian. He was a handsome, tall, black-haired guy wearing a white silk rob.

Although his rob was dusty as the result of long trip, he looked not tired at all. Even his lips formed a charming smile with sweet dimples carved on his cheek.

"Yijeongie, I-I..." she couldn't continue her words and was crying instead of speaking.

She felt relieved that somebody was finally found her so that she didn't have to pass the dark corridor alone by herself.

The guy chuckled then took her teddy-bear from the floor while he bent lower to kiss both of her cheek to stop her from crying then circled his hand around her waist to carry her up.

"I forgot that our little Ga Eul can't be left out all alone in this situation. Let's go to Grandpa then, shall we?"

"But the s-spirit..." she sobbed "I don't wanna hear what its saying anymore.. I'm afraid. I don't wanna see them."

"Just close your eyes and don't be afraid because I am here. I will not let them harm you." He whispered.

Then the girl ,as she was being dazzled by some power, started to feel sleepy. She rested her head on his broad shoulder and closed her eyes as they were walking through the darkness.

Somewhere far away from this place in a different time scheme. A girl was woken up.

'What a strange dream.' She wonders before she snuggles back to sleep.