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and
Maj.  As hard as he tried to stay awake, Kaj slowly drifted
off to sleep.
     
    Kaj suddenly woke, but to his
surprise, the shuttle was empty.  Maj and the others were
gone.  Standing up, Kaj looked out the window, seeing that the
shuttle was still moving.  He then headed into the pilot's
room, empty.   Who was driving the
shuttle? he thought.
     
    Kaj watched as the shuttle's speed
increased drastically.  In front of the shuttle a large hole
was present.  Kaj sat in the pilot's seat, pressing random
buttons and pulling on levers.  None of that seemed to have
helped.
     
    Racing off into the hole the
shuttle went.  Kaj watched in horror as everything turned
dark.  As the shuttle neared the bottom, Kaj knew that he
wouldn't feel a thing.  The shuttle was feet away from the
bottom.  Kaj shut his eyes.  As it was just about to make
impact, Kaj found himself in a foreign area.  He opened his
eyes.
     
    Kaj was sitting on a bench
outside, but not in the desert terrain that he was used to.
 Tall, green trees towered over Kaj.  He stood up from
the bench, looking up at the beautiful trees as the wind shuffled
their leaves.  Not knowing he was barefoot, Kaj stepped onto
the soft grass which tickled his feet.  He looked around to
see if anybody else was present.
     
    "Hello," he said, cupping his
hands around his mouth.  "Anybody here?"  He walked
around a little bit more, trying to see if he was near a house or
structure.  It was as if his whole planet suddenly gained new
life, turning its deserts into green lands.
     
    "Hello there son," a deep voice
from behind Kaj blurted out.  He quickly spun himself around,
staring at two shadowy figures.  They both walked
simultaneously together towards him.  The dark shadow that
fell over the both of them slowly disappeared.
     
    The two adult Daj stood in front
of Kaj, one male and one female.  They were both wearing long
white robes.  The male Daj had short black hair while the
female had long blonde hair.
     
    "We got worried you were lost,"
the male Daj said to Kaj.  "Come, we were just heading home."
 The two Daj approached Kaj, each grabbing his arm.  They
all walked towards their home together, with Kaj being smothered in
the middle.
     
    Kaj struggled to get free of their
grasp, but couldn't.  He wiggled and squirmed, dragging his
feet on the ground to slow them down.
     
    "Ahh, here we are," the male Daj
said as they both stopped in front of a small cottage.  With a
straw roof and thick bark for the walls, they proceeded to go
inside.  "Wait a second champ.  You stay out here.
 We'll be right back."  The two Daj released Kaj as they
headed inside the cottage.
     
    "What's going on?" Kaj asked
himself.  He then found it strange as his voice didn't sound
like his own.  "What the ..."  Kaj ran over to a puddle
of water.  Expecting to see his normal teenage self, he saw a
very young version of himself.  He moved his hands around,
touching his face to make sure that it was him he was staring at in
the puddle of water.  "I don't understand."
     
    Kaj looked around.  The area
he was in seemed very familiar to him, he just didn't remember why.
 He walked around the cottage, inspecting the
outside.
     
    "Why does this seem so
familiar?"
     
    As he walked around back to the
front of the cottage, the beautiful blue sky that stood above him
started to turn red, like blood.  The tall green trees
suddenly shrunk down and browned, the leaves shriveling up.  A
gust of wind blew past Kaj, messing his hair.  Kaj swooped his
hair down fixing it.
     
    "Are you ok son," two voices
simultaneously said.  Kaj lifted his head back up, facing two
skeletal versions of the Daj he just met.  "We love you Kaj,"
they both said again, reaching their arms out at Kaj.
     
    As frightened as Kaj was, he awoke
from the nightmare.  He looked around to see that everybody
was sound asleep.  After witnessing his nightmare, Kaj didn't
want to go back to sleep.
     
    Maj woke