Prologue: Dream Trip
Boston, Massachusetts
March
"What do you mean we're going to Japan?" Yuri exclaims excitedly, as she sits with her parents and brother at the dinner table.
"Well, it's been several years since you and Erin have seen your Uncle Joseph," her mother, Helen, replies. "Besides, every summer you complain that you have nothing to do. Going to Joseph's is something to do."
"But, mom," Erin whines. "What about my camping trip with the guys? You've already said I could go."
"How about you go with your friends and I'll go to Uncle Joe's?" Yuri suggests. "I've been wanting to go there since he married Haruka and you've already said Erin could go on the trip."
"Sounds good to me," Kenji, her father, agrees.
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That night, a cool, forboding breeze blows through Yuri's open bedroom window as she tosses and turns in her bed. She thrashes as she dreams.
'Aerostar..'
'Where am I?' Yuri looks around carefully, noting the dark, damp fog. 'Am I dreaming? This feels so real.'
Suddenly, a dark, bulky shadow emerges out of the fog.
'Aerostar.. Find me..I need you..'
'Wha? Aerostar?' Yuri cautiously approaches the figure. 'Who are you? What is going on?'
'I am your missing half.' the figure's armored hand cups her cheek. Circling its arms around her in a bear hug, it restrains her arms. She struggles, pissed.
'What the f..?!?' she growls, but is cut off as a bright light engulfs them.
"What..?" Yuri sits up, the dream still fresh on her mind. She gets up and walks to the bathroom. What does the dream mean? And who was that in the armor?
And so this continued. Every night for the next two months, Yuri would have dreams about the Ronins, the new Warlords, and a mysterious armor that called out to her.
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