Recap

Mai nodded and looked to the girls one last time, " RHYTHM! MUSIC!"

The door opened just as the music was turned on ' Dream goes on'

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Chapter 9

Just as the music started Naru and the others got to the ice rink, that's when they saw something that shocked their eye's Mai was… sparkling, there was a pure aura that was surrounding her body. He couldn't believe it, he didn't think Mai would look this bright.

Mai began dancing, at first it was only slow movements to the music even the spirit was shocked, but he felt warm inside. Until he heard Rhythm, " HEY! I didn't say you could mix my dance moves in with it!" Mai just gave her tongue a stick out as Rhythm laughed but this still wasn't no laughing matter, she gave a few swirls, twirls and small jumps. She even began skating backwards.

Mai closed her eye's and held a hand to her heart, then did a left twirl and began to skate around in a circle, 'my heart… its energetic that I'm doing this again, my clothes … there singing to me… ' she then left of to a leap in the air just as Ayako, Monk and John got there. Sonota widened " She's gone into the first prism jump!"

As she jumped she twirled brightly, the room had light up in an orange way and fruits began to emerge, " FRESH FRUITS BASKET!" giving a wink she then landed to the ground giving off another twirl but she wasn't finished, as she kept on dancing pumping her fist into the air and giving her bum a shake, they was all completely amazed.

Mai's thought's now focused on Naru, 'he's been there for me all this time, even threw our little fights over the past 2 years, he's filled me up with so much love and grace… that I'm able to do this, that I'm able to dance again. I can… I can do it!'

One last time, she began skating around in a circle Sonota widened, " AIRA! YOUR NOT READY TO DO ANY NEW JUMPS YET!" she was about to run forward but someone caught her hand, turning around it was Naru, " No look, she's shining so brightly.." Sonota saw the star Aura go even higher as Mai jumped higher than before into the air giving a double twirl and a back flip. "T..that's a level 3 jump… no one's ever been able to do that!"

Mai's eye's snapped open again as the room was indulged into a bright white light, "HEART SPREAD WINGS!" the spirit stood backwards, in his mind this was Kei that was dancing in front of him, he knew that Kei never mastered anything after the level 2 jump or after the legendary Auroru Rising. Mai flew forward and held her hand out to the spirit, " Take my hand Jin, Kei is waiting for you…" Jin stepped back again, gritting his teeth together "No! you are Kei! You are!" he brought the knife upwards while she was still in the middle of her jump she couldn't dodge it, that's when a barrior stopped him. He widened, was this the power of a level 3 jump?

Naru looked to the 3 spiritualists in the room none of them had placed up that barrior, until Sonota widened, " OMI!" they turned to her, " I…its Omi, her mother" Ayako then widened, her sister was protecting Mai.

When she heard a voice ' Ayako, please, I can't keep this barrior up for much longer you have to cleanse him..'

Ayako's eye's filled up with Tears, she walked forward and took a deep breath, and began chanting her words to exorcise the spirit, with the feeling from Mai's jump, the words from Omi, and then there was Monk she felt him with her at her side, they was chanting together to help save Mai. It was dangerous yes especially with Mai being so close.

" Jin, you have to move on and be with Kei she is waiting for you in the next life, she forgives you for what you did, and she is sorry for what she did with the jump. Now, just like I learned to open your heart and go to her!" Jin looked at the girl that was in front oh him, and finally realised it wasn't Kei.

"W…who are you? An angel?" Mai shook her head and smiled to the man, " My name, is Aira Harune" It hit him, everything he gave a smile to the girl and nodded "thank you, not only you but to everyone here, now I can finally pass on, but you Aira, still have a lot of challenges to come, you may have mastered the level 3 jump but there is also another jump that will be even harder to master. Keep yourself pure and you can do it." With that Jin began to disappear and Mai landed finishing her jump.

As the music ended, Mai smiled to them, her family when her vision got blurred and she fell forward hitting the ice sideways, passing out letting darkness take over her. "MAI!" "AIRA!" was all shouted threw the stadium, Sonota was quickly calling an ambulance as the two girls got onto the ice and carried her off. Ayako quickly rushed over to the girl. She checked her pulse and vitals, and then just smiled, " Sonota… its ok, no need for an ambulance, all she needs is just plenty of rest."

With that Naru walked over and picked the girl up and then carried her out of the room going to the infirmary. Mai had made him proud she wanted to dance again and she did it. At the same time she was amazing at doing it.

A hand was gently placed on Ayako's shoulder she looked up and widened seeing that Omi Harune was still there, "S..sis?" she nodded "Ayako, please continue to keep looking after Aira with her finding you I can now fully rest in peace without any worries about her. She was always a handful" she couldn't help but chuckle " An that young man she's in love with. Make sure he treasures her. She's a special flower" Ayako nodded and the woman began to fade away. Everyone was happy Mai was dancing again! The spirit was gone! And Ayako finally found peace in her heart.

Later on that day everything with the SPR equipment had been packed up, everyone was sat around Mai's bed waiting for her to wake up. It had been at least 3 hours, the SPR gang was just chatting while Naru was reading and Lin was on his laptop, secretly messaging Madoka.

While the members of Pretty top was really worried about Mai's situation, " Are you sure she's going to be ok?" asked Rhythm she was holding the sleeping girls hand and Yasu smiled nodding, " its how she can get her energy back after going on a case, personally I don't even think this case can top that Urado one."

Ayako looked to Yasu and stood on his foot, " we all agreed never to mention that case ever again." she looked to Masako who was looking down at the mention of the case. Sonota raised her eye brow, "what happened on that case?"

They all explained it leaving the Pretty top members shocked and looked to Mai, " that's why we always tell Mai to be careful on cases, but if it wasn't for her, Masako would have been murdered. There had already been 2 deaths on the case with 2 other people. It was the first case we had where there was two loses… Mai suffered with the damage of the dreams she had. Its also when we found out she could astral project aswell." Monk added,

Mion smiled to the sleeping girl " she is always a trouble maker but she is really something in a way. This time we will not lose her again."

" And you never will…" they all looked to the bed seeing Mai had woken up, they all looked to her surprised but happy, " because… I'm not going anywhere again" Mai sat up as her stomach grumbled, they all laughed as she blushed. "MEAT! WE NEED TO GET YOU SOME MEAT!" Rhythm was about to run off when Mai shouted back

"AND VEG! you can't have just meat Rhythm." that caused the girl to lean against the wall giving off fake tears, they laughed as Rhythm went to go get the girl some food.

"So what will happen now Aira, will you continue to work with SPR or will you come back to do Prism shows?" this question caught everyones attention they all looked to Sonota. Mai looked down thinking she didn't know she had a choice in the matter she thought she could do both, " both… I'm not willing to give one up for the other, so both… it makes my heart happy, and my clothes.. I heard them sing again. When I was dancing, but also they sung higher when I was cleansing Jin."

The door to the room opened up again " GOOD! CAUSE! You need to start training again Aira! You, Rhythm and Mion are going to make a come back debut next week at the prism shopping mall!" Rubbing her hands in the presidents mine all that was going threw was ' money, money, and more money!'

They all dropped their mouths as the president walked away happy. Mai just leaned back and began laughing.

Another hour had gone past, and everyone was packed up ready to leave the studio. Mion, Sonota and Rhythm was stood at the studio's doors ready to see them off. " Well, I will see you all tomorrow" Mai spoke when Sonota gave a smile, " Aira do you live alone?" she gave a quick glance to Ayako as Mai nodded.

Sonota pushed Rhythm forward and winked, " I think it's time for this one to spread her wings and leave the nest right Rhythm?" The girl widened, " your kicking me out!" Sonota crossed her arms and turned to the side but smiled, " No, your always welcome Rhythm you to Aira but, if we let you live alone you'll just eat meat, it seems the only one that can control that food habit of yours is Aira."

Rhythm smiled and hugged Mai closely. " were going to be roomies?" Mai nodded and hugged her back " I guess so." Mion's eye's twitched as she walked forward, " I guess I can't leave them both on their own, there still kids in my eye's. nothing can be done about it…. " The two girls looked to Mion " Hey wait! I only have 1 extra bedroom!"

Mion and Rhythm looked to each other "YOUR ON THE COUCH!" Naru couldn't help but start laughing, this caused the SPR members to look at him weird, " Mai you sure your not going out with an alien from outer space? He's started to laugh!" Yasu said scarily Mai just walked forward and placed her lips against Naru's causing them both to blush but he willingly kissed her back with passion.

Mai soon parted and turned to them, " Mai, tonight I'm coming over… and you better have some damn good tea ready…" Mai widened, " YOU NARSISSIT TEA-LOVING JERK!" with that the whole gang left waving to Sonota,

The evening went pleasantly all three girls managed to get settled into the apartment, Mai was making dinner while Mion was in the shower and Rhythm was drooling over the smell of meat, " Is it ready yet?" Mai laughed and shook her head " be patient Rhythm. The longer it cooks the better it will taste." Rhythm smiled and looked around the apartment, it seemed like it still had a lonely feeling to it, they had tried to re-arrange it to get the feeling away but Rhythm wondered if it was actually coming from her friend instead.

" in any case I'm going to have to find away to juggle work with Prism shows…. Ah it was hard enough when we was back in school but I have a job where I don't leave till some times 8 pm" Rhythm widened, " we can't be having that, hmmm and you know what the president is like she could end up throwing us into a show at any time in between."

Mion walked out of the shower and went to the fridge getting out a bottle of water, " we could always do practice at your office Aira." Mai shook her head and smiled, "that won't do, when its in the work place Naru likes it peace and quite and I don't mind that so long as he doesn't call for his devil drink every two minutes." They laughed as Mai placed the meal on the table for the girls, before Rhythm could even snatch the meat Mai placed vegatables on her plate. " you need to eat this as well, if you don't no desert for you!"

The poor girl began crying as she began eating the vegatables. Mion as her eye's sparkled every time it tasted good.

Once dinner and desert was over, Mai was taking a shower while the two girls was arguing over what to watch on TV when the doorbell went. Mion stood up letting Rhythm choose some sort of love show. "Oh Naru right? You did mention you was coming over." Naru nodded and walked into the apartment, it was his first time ever stepping foot in the place. He was amazed on how it looked, " Aira's in the shower, you can sit in the living an wait, I'll go tell her you're here." with that she walked out of the living room and Naru made himself comfy, he looked over to Rhythm.

"don't look at me, I only know how to make Meat…" Naru just gave a rare smile to her and sat back soon enough Mai came out with 3 teas and a coffee, she was wearing some shorts, vest top and a towel around her neck. Placing the tray onto the table she handed Naru his first while the others took theirs.

"So why did you want to come over tonight?" Naru smiled, " well I was never expecting these two to move in with you so… I did have a movie planned." Mai snuggled up into his arms, the two girls decided to both go and share the spare bedroom. Taking a sip of her coffee he looked down and smiled. "your going to be up all night again" Mai shook her head " nah, you know me I'll always end finding a way to fall asleep." she fiddled about with her cup and then took a deep breath.

"Naru?" He looked down to her "Yes?" she looked up to him and smiled " thank you, you gave me the courage to dance again.. Without any regrets, when I did them jumps I thought about the emotions you gave me that night. They was so strong I couldn't stop myself." he placed his drink on the table and also placed hers down onto the table too and kissed her passionately. Wrapping her arms around his neck it got deeper until they had to make their way into the bedroom for further action that night.

Rhythm looked to Mion, " I hope… they use protection." Mion nodded " we can't have the leader of Mars leaving again because she got pregnant before our first show" but then they blinked " A BABY!"

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With the combined strength of Ayako, Mai was able to help cleanse the spirit and help him move on without any more regrets, so Mai is going back into the dancing idol world? Will things go well, what will happen in the next chapter?

Stay tuned for more!

~Cure Dream 90 over and out!