~Disclaimer - None of these AOS characters are mine and many of the things that are to come up are my own interpretation and if things offend anyone than I'm sorry but don't read~

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Prologue

Sinbad sat at the tiller and reflected on the last week, he couldn't believe how much had changed, Maeve was back and Bryn, Bryn was gone. ~*~*~*~*~*~* FLASHBACK~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

The crew arrived on an island, what one they didn't know because they had not been planning to. They had planned to just sail right past it, but when they had began to pass it Bryn burst from below in the cabins and began shouting.

"Stop, Sinbad you have to stop, we need to go to that island right now" she basically screamed pointing wildly at the island. Sinbad was rather confused and startled, Bryn had never acted like this before and it was really, well it was freaking him out.

"Bryn? Why do we need to go there?" asked Sinbad

"I don't but we have to, something is drawing me there and its not evil" she said walking slowly towards the rail of the ship "Its like something or someone is calling to me and oh Sinbad I don't know its like pounding my head to pieces but all I know is that we have to go there no matter what."

They landed on the island and Bryn lead them through a maze of trees and rock faces and bushes stopping every couple minutes to gather so herbs or plant. They climb and came to a rounded smooth rock face with a small trickle of water exiting it. Bryn told them to start a fire, while they did that she took many of the plants she had collected and ground them up together and added some dried mixture that she had made before. She then moved close to the fire and took a pinch of the mixture and sprinkled in around the fire, then dropped the bowl into the fire.

The fire then shot up in bright blue and purple and orange colours. She closed her eyes and golden light shot out of the fire focusing on the rock face and another golden beam shot from her eyes into the wall opening it, allowing Maeve and Dimdim to step out. While the crew greeted them Bryn had disappeared and no one new where she was. Dimdim and Maeve returned to the ship and Dimdim had returned to his home using magic leaving Maeve with the crew.

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Sinbad looked around and couldn't believe it she was gone, he had fought so much with her beside him. It wasn't that he wasn't glade to have Maeve back it's just that he had a connection with Bryn that he didn't have with anyone else, they had the bracelets. Bryn always knew when he needed to talk to someone but was too stubborn to come and ask to talk.

He looked at Maeve who was talking or at least it seemed she was talking to Dermott, everything was back to the way it was before but he wasn't sure if it was good. He was thrilled that Maeve was back and wondered if just perhaps they had a future together, but Bryn. When she was they were so close but Maeve Bryn, at least he no longer had to make a decision, he knew they both had feelings for him once but he didn't know who to pick, well now he didn't. Sinbad closed his eyes at let the sea breeze engulf his senses.

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Maeve stood of in the distance away from Sinbad, she was speaking to Dermott through mind speak and was trying to figure out her new position.

~How close was he with her Dermott? ~

~They were close, very close, but she was close to everyone on the ship ~

~Even you my brother? ~

~Yes she could talk to me and had a good heart so yeah I was close to her~

~It's not fair Dermott, it should have been me with him and the crew all this time not her, me. I wish that I had never been thrown over board ~

~But you had to go and learn with Master Dimdim, didn't you? ~

~ Yes but still.~

~Sister Bryn was needed here and you were needed else where, you have to think how lucky you really were and still are ~

~What do you mean? ~

~Unlike you Bryn has no memory or way to control her power, when you disappeared we knew where you were but Bryn could be anywhere and in real danger but even Master Dimdim can't find her, that can't be good can it? She may be dead for all we know~ ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Doubar, Rongar and Firouz stood together near the bow of the ship deep in conversation about the week's events.

"What I want t know is how Bryn knew what she was doing, she has no knowledge of how to use her magic and yet she was able to control it with such accuracy" said Firouz, Rongar nodded in agreement.

"Firouz the only thing I want to know is where the poor lass is now, who knows what kind of trouble she's in now, or, or if she's even still alive"

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