Chapter One

Dreams of death

Disclaimer: I do not own Ghost Hunt no matter what T.T. I wish I owned Yasu and Gene!

It was hot. Way to hot to be real. Flames rolled up from the floor cornering her to the side of the room. She backed closer to the side trying as hard as she could to get away from the flames of heat. Sweat was pouring down her brow making it harder and harder for her to concentrate. The fire continued to grow sending flames directly up to her face and spreading across the Japanese style house. They flared when they caught on an emerald rug that was in the center of the room. The flames reached up and made contact with her face. Pain. She screamed. But no matter what she did the agony did not leave her side.

'Gene!' Mai screamed 'Help me!'

She couldn't breath. Her eyes weld up with tears that she knew had not only been created by her emotion, but by the smoke itself. The smoke around her seemed to burn her from the inside. The pain in her lung intensified, and she sunk to the floor, crying.

'Naru' she sobbed 'Help me please!'

If at all possible it got hotter.' I don't want to die! Please!'

And somehow she knew she wasn't going to get out of this alive.

She felt one bright last flash of pain before suddenly she was nowhere near any heat. It was actually quite cold. She was in a black world with white floating lights.

'What the hell?' Mai thought 'I could have sworn…'

She glanced around the place. For an instant, she could have sworn she saw Gene's face.

Gene?

As quickly as she appeared she was sucked down under water. A faint image of a woman stood above her, as she started to drown in the black, murky water. Again she started to choke. 'I can't breath!'

She tried to swim back up but something was pulling down on her legs. Looking down, a rope had been attached to her ankle with a rock connected to it, weighing her down.

She tried frantically to pull the rope of her ankles, but to no avail. Water filled her lungs as she struggled to breathe.

'I don't want to die!' she screamed

Just as she thought it as over, the vision changed.

She sat in the forest breathing heavily. Her ankle caught under a tree root. A woman stood above her a gleaming knife in her hands. Her face was darkened by the trees, so her face seemed more malicious than it should have been. She had long black hair that reached the middle of her back. Her face was covered in freckles and she had pale grey eyes. She would have been beautiful if she had not been about to kill Mai. 'You're going to die.' She said calmly, as if she were reiterating her thoughts. 'And I'm the one who is going to kill you.'

Mai screamed and yanked her foot as hard as she could from the tree root. It broke free with a snap. She jumped to her feet and dashed as far as she could. Looking back the knife the woman had held was now in the ground the same placed that her head had been moments before. Mai froze. She tried to move her body and it ignored all her commands. 'Move' she screamed in her head, for she could not move her mouth to make the words.

The woman grinned murderously. 'Can't move can you? Of course you can't. I've placed a spell in this forest. No woman can move unless I give her permission. Every female under the age of thirty will die by my hands. You all are the same. Lying cheating wenches.' She snarled

'THEN WHY?! YOU'RE FEMALE TOO!' Mai screamed in her thoughts back at her.

The woman looked dazed for a minute as if he had heard Mai . Many emotions crossed her face.

Finally it set back into a smile. 'To bad you're going to die' she grinned ruefully 'or I would have taken the time to explain why I'm doing this. Unfortunately I must get rid of Hotaru before she blabs to the rest of your 'friends''

Mai didn't know who Hotaru was, but she was pretty sure she knew who her 'friends' were. SPR. Mai gulped and frantically thought of a way to get away from this horrid woman. She squinted deep into the forest. She could see something in the distance. It sparkled and gleamed, begging to be seen. Taking a deep breath, she concentrated as hard as she could to break to spell the woman had over her soul. Surprisingly, it broke, and she sprinted as fast as she could toward the light. The closer she got, the bigger it got. The woman was enraged by now, no doubt furious that her spell had been broken and that her victim was getting away. Her screams of anger could have been heard from miles away.

The woman obviously did not exercise very often because Mai slowly gained distance and speed. The white light seamed to pulse with life and Mai grabbed onto it with a sense of relief.

Her stomach felt like it was pulled and she had the strange feeling like she was going to throw up. She closed her eyes fighting the urge to be sick and took a deep breath. After a few minutes she thought about that crazed woman but still refused to open her eyes. This last dream would most likely relate to a new case that they would be getting. She most especially remembered the woman's face and …. What was the name? Haruka?... No… Hikaru… No…Hotaru… 'Yes I think that was it'. She sighed.

She then thought about why Gene. Why was he not there? He normally had been in her dreams. There was a few in which he had not been. Like her dream at the Urado mansion. That had been a first person death dream. It had not been quite like this one. This one didn't feel like it was somebody else's memories. On the other hand neither did her first death dream. She sighed again.

She had been having this kind of dreams for months. This was the only dream that had seamed to relate to SPR.

Of course she had not told Naru or any of the other members of SPR. They would probably be worried about her for no reason because she could not do anything about her dreams. They weren't something she could control. The only one she could talk to them freely about was Gene.

Mai opened her eyes to a world of black and white lights and sighed but this time in relief. She slowly got her feet and waited for a few seconds until she saw a figure walk toward her. His Black hair and blue eyes glowing against the black distance.

"Gene!" Mai cried happily "Where were you?! I was scared to death. You normally get me out of those kind of dreams before they get to bad."

He smiled sadly and said "I tried, but unfortunately that last dream has to do something with your next case."

'Well what about the other dreams?"

He shrugged "They were all in one night. I can't separate the dreams and get you out of them especially sense the last one I can't get you out of and the others were first…" he trailed off leaving me to my own devices.

"Anyways you probably should wake up. Your alarm clock is going off and you need to get ready for work. Don't want to be late for your new case!"

Mai groaned "Whatever."

Then, Eugene Davis put his hand on her head and pushed her backward while his laugh echoed into the black abyss.

Beeeeep! Beeeeep! Beeeeep!

Mai groaned and rolled over to try to block the offending noise from her ears. She hit her hand over her little night table till the beeping stopped. Sighing, she got out of her bed and went to the bathroom that was in her room, and took a shower.

The inside of her bathroom was very simple. White walls with a white seat, and cream colored floor. Mai had yet to pick a theme she had wanted for her bathroom. She hadn't really had the time either.

Mai stepped out of the shower and put on a black skirt with a white tank top. After brushing her teeth and hair she headed back into her room and got her over the shoulder bag. She then proceeded to head to SPR.

Mai hadn't even noticed she was there till she subconsciously walked up the steps. She opened the door and put her bag on the coat rack. Looking up, she saw Lin and Naru sitting with a woman. She couldn't see her face but she had long black hair that reached to the middle of her back. Instantly, she thought of the woman in her dream. She shivered.

Shaking her head to rid the thought, she headed to the kitchen to prepare tea. Not knowing that Lin and Naru were watching her reaction to the woman with interest.

Not turning around to notice, Mai put the kettle on the stove and turned it on high. Waiting for the tea to boil Mai tried to remember all the details of the dream. When the kettle finally screeched, she headed back into the room with 4 cups of tea.

Walking into the room, she finally saw the face of the client as she was about to put her tea on the table.

It was her, from her dreams. The woman who had tried to kill her.

Mai froze and all the color drained from her face.

Mai shuddered and slowly set her tea on the table and walked back to SPR's side of the table. She sat down slowly, keeping her eyes on the client, as if she were afraid she would attack her right there. Lin and Naru studied her with interest, but said nothing. The client watched Mai with a confused expression and asked "May I ask who this young lady is?"

Mai flinched at the sound of her voice. She sent chills up Mai's spine.

"She is my assistant. Please continue stating your case."

Mai wasn't looking at him, so Naru snuck a look at her shaking form. She had gone deathly pale, her eyes were wide and she couldn't stop shaking. The back of his mind was worried for her, even if his current thoughts wouldn't admit it. He was going to refuse this case, but Mai was undoubtedly going to say that the family was in need of there assistance. Saving himself the trouble, he listed all the facts of the case that he had so far, in his mind. It was going to be dangerous, and probably life- threatening case.

This was going to be an interesting couple of days.

(AN: This is my first story so please be nice. My best friend DiamondInMyHeart is helping me create this story. She is a great help to me and I'm dedicating this fanfiction to her! I want to know how this is so please review! if you have any questions PM me.)