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Chapter 6

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In Emi's dream world

Emi looked around the place. Fog was floating around in the air, making it nearly impossible to see anything. She could make out a few things, like trees, lots and lots of trees.

Emi tugged at a strand of her black hair and pressed her lips tightly together. This wasn't right. How did she get here? A minute ago, she was in the room with Sophie, who turns out, is a big talker. But how did she get here?

She heard footsteps behind her and turned around. What Emi saw made her let out a small surprised gasp. There stood her father, Thomas Casterwill.

"I'm dreaming." Emi thought, "I have to be dreaming. Dad's dead. I know he's dead." And just to prove her point, she pinched her arm. To her surprise, she could feel it.

She watched as her father step into the clearing she was in. Thomas's hand was up at his neck playing with a necklace around it. Emi quickly identified it as the necklace that she had given to him just before he left, on this same trip, the one where he died on.

"Is this where he died?" Emi asked herself softly, "They said he died in a forest, it looked like he had been burned to death." She looked around the forest. Yep, it was just as she had heard it being described.

Thomas slipped his hand into his jacket pocket and pulled out a photo. Emi could see what it was. The family photo he always had with him. The one where Emi's 7 year old self had started a water fight with her father and her mother joined in soon. The next door neighbors had seen them having a good time and took a picture of them, printed it out, and gave it to them the next day. Emi smiled to think about how they were all soaking wet afterwards.

"I'll be home soon, Emi." Thomas said, "I remember my promise to you. I hope this is only a small mission. I have much to tell you and much to show you. This power I have discovered may show you a new path. One other than the Casterwills have given you." Questions ran through Emi's head. What path? What had the Casterwills wanted for her? Why were they telling her father what his daughter could and couldn't do? But she didn't think much about that, though. She never had enough time.

An auger frost flew out from the forest and hit Thomas in the chest. He looked up at the forest, on full alert now. Emi saw the look of determination on his face, as if he wanted to take on anyone in his way, anyone stopping him from completing his goal. Emi knew that look. It was the same one she wore when she was younger. It was the one she saw on Dante's face when he fought Kelton.

As if he knew that Emi was thinking about him, Kelton stepped into the clearing. Thinking he probably could see her; she gasped and stepped into the forest. Thomas looked over Kelton in amazement.

"I knew it!" Thomas exclaimed, "They are in Japan." He gave a smile. Kelton sneered at him.

"But you, Casterwill, are not permitted here!" Kelton replied ever so casually. He raised his hand with another spell forming.

Emi furrowed her eyebrows. Why was her father not permitted here? And why was Kelton here anyway? How could he have been a traitor ever since her father's times with no one finding out? And what's wrong with her father being a Casterwill? Could it be that the Red Dragons dislike Casterwills? That would explain Seiko's question to Sophie, but why? The idea sounds ridiculous, Seiko let Sophie in Japan. Maybe it's not her father being a Casterwill but being the person he is that Kelton despises. Still the question remains, why?

Kelton shot the spell in his hand at Thomas. The red light hit him right in the chest, next to the heart. Emi gasped as she felt the same power hit her right in the same place, but when she looked around, she saw no one.