The Light Within the Flame

Chapter 1

It was quiet within the manor home. It was dark outside, the stars hiding behind a cloudy sky. All of the servants where asleep knowing that they would be awake soon to see to their chores. Everything appeared to be peaceful, except for the 18-year-old girl lying asleep in her bed. To those looking from the outside she appeared restless. Lucy Heartfilia, was tossing and turning in her sleep. Which was strange because normally she slept like a log. Her parents, Jude and Layla Heartfilia, often jokingly stated that she could sleep through a meteor shower that's how deep of a sleeper she is.

"Wait...up," Lucy mumbled incoherently in her sleep.

***********Dream Sequence************

"Come on Lucy! Hurry up so we can get started on our adventure!" said the mysterious person with a head full of spiky pink hair.

"Aye Sir!" said the Cat.

"Come on Guys!!! You know it takes me time to figure out what to wear!" said Lucy as she was standing in front of her mirror, a guy that looked like a crab with scissors standing behind her fixing her hair.

"Sheesh Lucy! Whatya getting all dressed up for when you know it's just gonna get all dirty when we go play!" said the boy with pink hair.

"heheh we should leave her cuz she has that strange look on her face like she cant decide what she wants to wear...." Said the blue cat as he flew on white wings to wear the boy was standing.

The boy sigh, "You're right buddy shes gonna take forever lets go!" as he heading for the door to her room.

"Aye Sir!!" said the cat excitedly as he flew beside the boy. Lucy looked over to them and shook her head full of blonde hair. "Hey! Don't leave! I'm coming, I'm coming" exclaimed Lucy as she yelled after the pair who had just left.

"Wait up N...."

***************End of Sequence**************

Lucy awoke with a start. She was drenched in sweat and trying to get her eyes adjusted to the darkness in her bedroom. This was the third night in a row that she kept having similar dreams. She looked up at her ceiling as she tried desperately to remember the dreams. Every time she woke up her dream would slip right through her fingers almost like smoke. Lucy remembers seeing herself as a little girl, in a room that was different than the one she currently lived in. She remembers dreaming about a young boy with pink hair and wearing a white scarf around his neck. She also remembers this boy having a goofy smile on his face and constantly coming into her room uninvited. As Lucy keeps trying to remember the dream she recalls that the little boy having a small cat with him. The cat had the most adorable big eyes and had blue fur. His underbelly was white and he had white wings that he would use when he was tired of walking...which seemed like it happened all the time actually. The cat and the little boy were very close and she seemed like she was close to them in the dream.

Lucy sat up in bed as she kept thinking, trying to keep the dream alive in her memory before it slipped away. What did this mean? Who is this little boy and his cat? It isn't like it was strange that the cat was talking because even though she lived in a country where only certain people could use magic she was used to seeing weird animals who could talk.

Lucy took a deep breath and tried to concentrate, "Okay girl, what the hell is going on with you lately. Who is this boy you keep thinking of" she said to herself out loud if only to break the silence in her room. Lucy turned around and looked out her window to notice that the sun was going up.

"Oh well, I guess there is no point in trying to go back to sleep, its not like I can remember anything else anyway" said Lucy seemingly frustrated as she prepared to get out of bed having already forgotten the details of the dream.

"This is so frustrating!" Lucy yelled as she grabbed her head and shook it as if to clear away the cobwebs in her brain.

"Why can't I remember anything? and why do I keep dreaming the same things lately? This has been happening to me ever since I turned 18" Lucy said to herself, "That is it, I am going to get to the bottom of this one way or another. I need to know if I am going crazy of if this is some kind of past memory."

Lucy sighed and got up from her bed. Today will be the day she starts looking for answers. Lucy was not normally one for sensing things as she did not possess any magical abilities but she knew something was going on. Lucy had the strongest feeling that this was more than just a dream and she was determined to find out what it is....