Loren's worlds collide as they join together to fight against evil. Can she handle her two worlds clashing with each other and her friends from both meeting? Can she handle her love life in both times...?

Disclaimer: Anything that you recognize like Tortall, Alana, George, etc. don't be long to me but be long to Tamora Pierce!

There are some changes in this one so if you read it before I changed it you might what to re-read this chapter.

Prologue

The waves crashed against the side of the ship as Loren stood by the railing. The ocean was so beautiful, mysterious, and deadly all at the same time. She loved the sound and smells of the open ocean. Time and time again she thanked the gods that she had had the chance to travel with her father and brother any time they went to sea. She felt as if this was where she belonged, and anywhere else just felt like a vacation if you could call it that. Growing up in a sailing family with only her father, Loren had run away from home to the Shang and had become a Shang Warrior at the age of 15. She was the Shang Coyote. Every chance she got after a couple of years with the Shang she had joined her father and brother on their boat and had learned the ways of the ocean.

The waves had been crashing against the ship for sometime. They started when they were two days out of the harbor. Her father kept telling all the crew that it was nothing to worry about, but we could all see the storm looming off in the distance. She sent a worried glance to her brother that stood beside her, he too was worried and gave her a bleak smile and turned back to the crew members. That's the last time she ever saw her brother, at least alive.

Chapter One

Loren woke with a stir as the rain pounded on her window in her room. Looking at her clock on her bedside table it read, 4:36 a.m. Mumbling about the earliness of the morning, she still got out of bed. Her brother would be getting up soon to go to wrestling practice. 6:30 in the morning practices, and it took them 45 minutes to get to the school. It really sucked on her part because obviously only being 15, not having a car, living on a farm on the outskirts of a town in Kansas, the bus didn't go out that far, so she had to go with her brother. Loren walked down the hall to the living room and flipped on the TV to watch old Bugs Bunny cartoons...they were always on this early in the morning. Her brother, Kyle, walked into the living room from the kitchen.

"What are you doing up? Aren't you girls supposed to beauty sleep or sometin?" being a senior in high school, a star wrestler and a football jock, he took pride in annoying his book-smart, school-smart, dancer sister.

"Nope those are the girls who spend 50 dollars on a baby-t at American Eagle..." Loren retorted and went into the kitchen to get some breakfast. The usual around the house was Frosted Flakes. She poured herself a bowl and added milk, then walked back to the living room to watch TV. Her brother had taken her chair and made himself comfortable. She rolled her eyes and sat on the couch beside him.

"Get your homework done?" she asked. Her brother didn't even look at her when he replied.

"Do I ever?" He said sarcastically. "I have a page of Trig left and I have one more chapter to read. You're driving to school."

"Great." Loren looked at her watch, 4:45 a.m. "Guess I better get ready."

Kyle laughed. "Yep, wouldn't want you to look bad for school." Loren smiled and went to the kitchen to put her bowl away, then went to go take a shower and get ready.