Em&Am

Amber sprang up in her bed, screaming and in a cold sweat. It was all a dream. None of it was real. It didn't happen. Everyone was alive. Her friends were alive. Emerald was alive. SHE was alive. Everything was fine. Amber was crying so much now that she couldn't see anything. She heard a knock on her door. She quickly wiped away her tears and got out of bed to answer it. When she opened the door, Emerald was standing there.

"Amber, are you ok? I heard you screaming! You look like you were crying!" Emerald said worriedly.

Amber didn't say anything, she just hugged the golden-haired boy, and stood there like that for a moment. Emerald tensed up at first up slowly hugged her back.

"Thank goodness you're okay. I really thought that something happened to you." Amber said quietly without breaking the hug.

"What are you talking about?" Emerald said, looking away, embarrassed.

Amber eventually let go of him. She tried her best to look at him, and forget about her dream that was still fresh in her mind. "Don't worry about it. I'm fine. It's nothing, just a nightmare." Amber told him, trying to look up at him. But she recalled having a nightmare like that before, and waking up screaming, the night before her brother was killed. She and Aqua had gone outside to try to cheer her up after the dream, and that's when he was killed, right in front of her, and she couldn't do a thing.

Amber went back inside to get ready for school. Emerald waited for her outside so they could walk to school together.

"Are you sure you're okay?" Emerald asked again.

"I told you already. Don't worry about it. Let's go or we'll be late for school."

Amber spent the trip to school thinking about her nightmare. Was it really like before? A premonition? It might have just been a coincidence.

Ms.Steel hardly ever takes attendance, but she occasionally does. She had taken attendance only one other time in the month since Amber started school. It hadn't really mattered to Amber before because she had thought that most of the time everyone was present. Today the teacher took attendance.

"So, Jaden isn't here today either?" Ms.Steel said with a sigh. "Anyone know what happened to him this time?"

Amber remembered from the last time she had taken attendance that it was the same name as before, the only person absent. There was also a desk in the middle of the classroom, now slowly becoming covered with dust. The seat had been empty, Amber had noticed, since her first day at the school. But the name seemed familiar for some reason, it had since she first heard it when the teacher was taking attendance for the first time, but she couldn't figure out why. Jaden. Jaden Tepika was the name on the nameplate on his desk.

After Ms.Steel's morning classes, they had PE, right before lunch. Of all of the classes they had in school, PE was probably one of Amber's favorites. Along with the stuff that normal schools do during PE, like exercises and sports, the also got to train and fight using their esper abilities. In just that month, Amber had found a lot more ways to use her electricity ability, and also got to learn more about how it worked, and it's extents and limits during the practice fights. Today, when she stepped out into the PE field, it seemed darker than usual. A large mass was blocking the sun. Lost in thought about her dream, Amber bumped into the large hill of green scaly flesh. Amber looked up, and jumped back in surprise. It was a dragon, Amber realized, and it looked exactly like the dragon from her dream. As she looked at it, its blood red eyes turned to her and stared back. She saw Scarlett and Silver run behind the dragon, attempting to attack it. Scarlett slashed at the dragon's tail. Purple blood oozed from the wound. Silver froze its arms, immobilizing it so it couldn't move of slash at anyone. The dragon opened its mouth to breath fire at Silver, but Amber ran towards it and blasted it with a wave of electric energy. Amber continued to hit the dragon with electricity. It wasn't long before the dragon was down.

As soon as the dragon fell, Scarlett ran up to Amber. "Yeah, we did it! We completely destroyed the dragon! I told you fire and lightning work well together." Scarlett yelled. After a moment, Silver walked up to them too, Scarlett continued. "You have to admit that was awesome."

"Calm down. Sure, we beat the dragon, but you don't have to be that excited. We've done that plenty of times." Silver said nonchalantly. He was the exact opposite of Scarlett's energy, Amber thought, but it was fun being around them together. Especially Silver, who almost seemed calming to her.

"Come on, you have to admit that was great. We finished in record time, even without Emerald." Scarlett countered. Where did Emerald go to anyway?

"It wasn't that great. And could you not be so excited for once? You're too loud. Your voice is annoying and it's hurting my ears."

"How dare you insult my wonderful voice!! You're really so annoying. Why are you always so emotionless, cuz. Do you even have a heart?!" Scarlett yelled, but Silver wasn't focusing on her anymore, but the huge shifting green mass behind her. Before Scarlett could even turn around, the dragon got up and opened its mouth.

"Watch out!" Silver cried a warning. Even with Amber's lightning fast reflexes, she didn't have time to react. She just stood there, petrified, as a pillar of white hot fire blasted towards Scarlett.