River(main writer): Hello reader! First Dragonlance fanfic! Such a great series, and i know you agree since you are reading a fanfic on it :D. Anyway without further wasting your time by writing this little bit, the story begins!

Athala(co-writer and editor):We do not own Dragonlance or any Dragonlance characters. We wish we did, but we don't. Instead we own, Rose, Karis, and Elizabeth.

River: Woo-hoo for oc's! oh yea, onward to the story, enjoy!


The sun rose to a particularly sunny day. The waves of heat beat down on three companions who were very road weary. One, a kender, was basking in the glory of the sun, her topknot of blonde blowing in the wind. The other, a warrior wearing bright armor of silver and white, laughed at her companion as she rolled up her blankets. The last, a mage of the red robes, hid under a tree glaring at the sun.

"Rose, are you going to stand there or come with us?" The kender playfully pulled the mages sleeve.

Rose glanced down at the kender, then back at the sun, muttering something, only the warrior heard.

"Oh you," The warrior said to Rose, "Stop skulking over there, the sun wont bite."

"Don't underestimate the power of celestial objects, Karis," Rose whispered sarcastically.

"You mean the sun can bite?" The kender asked excitedly before running into the runs rays and looked up hopefully.

Sighing Karis clasped the kender's shoulder.

"Elizabeth, Rose was being sarcastic. The sun can't bite. Think about it, if the sun came down from the heavens it would burn us alive with its heat."

Elizabeth mulled this over then nodded sorrowfully, before noticing apples in a nearby tree and bouncing off to grab one for now and a few for later.

"Karis, we should head west, we can stock up on supplies at Dusken Peaks before going back to Daylily," Rose informed Karis solemnly.

Karis nodded. She looked at her childhood friend. Rose had changed from when they were kids. Rose's parents had been killed when she was 7, Rose would talk of her parents when asked but no one ventured too far. Karis's father had found her by her parent's corpses and brought her home on one of his military campaigns. Karis was younger than Rose, only 5 when her father brought home her home. Karis, who was thrilled at the idea of having an older sister, ran up to her and welcomed her wholeheartedly. Rose took to the family well; soon they forgot that Rose wasn't truly their daughter. Good-hearted, she saw the good in everything and kept Karis out of trouble. The two couldn't have looked more different; Rose, pale skinned, sleek black hair, and dark amethyst eyes; Karis, lightly tanned skin, wavy red-orange hair, and bright green eyes.

When his daughters came of age, Karis's father taught them swordsmanship. Since he had not had a son he pushed Karis into it and she took it well. Rose however was clumsy with the wooden sword unlike her stepsister. Rose, instead of physical powers, was better intellectually. Rose took to the white robes and her stepmother enrolled her in a magic school. Their village, being in the mountains, Rose had to travel to get to the school, but she did so with her stepfather and would make the journey twice a year. She still spent the summers with her family. Karis and Rose would then show off what they learned in the months they had parted. Their parents couldn't have been more proud. It was only a year and a half-ago when Rose left to the Tower of high sorcery. She came back changed, her personality was darker, and she became skittish like she was frightened of everyone. Her pale skin was marred from her jaw to her forehead, a deep cut had gone right through her right eye, turning her dark amethyst eye to a light lavender. Her white robes changed to red…

"Yoo-hoo! Karis! Come back!" Elizabeth jumped up and down and waved her hands in front of Karis's face.

Karis shook her head violently and looked at Elizabeth. Rose hid her laugh behind her sleeve.

"Who? What?" Karis said coming out of reminiscing.

"Who, what, what?" Elizabeth looked confused searching around for the 'who' and the 'what'.

"Never mind, we are heading west, so let's go," Karis said.

"Yay west!" Elizabeth leaped away.

"Idiot kender," Rose said under her breath.

"Eli, that's east!" Karis shouted.

"Uh, I knew that I was checking if you did," Elizabeth held a hurt expression, "Now let's go!"

Karis sighed as Elizabeth walked swinging her hoopak, a kender's favorite weapon, around in the air, the sling on the end making a buzzing noise as it made its circle. The two followed the overly cheerful kender. Karis wondered why she ever traveled with a kender. She only knew that Elizabeth had saved her from some mix-up and they had been friends since. Though the kender had always been a source of their troubles, Eli always managed to get out, if not just a little worse for wear.

As the sun started its slow decline, the three stopped for a little dinner. Making a small fire they sat their packs down and made a small camp.

Elizabeth had heard it first. The rustle of pacing and the groaning of boredom. She peeked through the bushes to see a lone draconian pacing about. She ran to Karis.

"Oh Karis, I found a draconian close by. He seems alone!" Elizabeth said gleefully anticipating a battle.

Karis followed Eli to the bushes. Rose came as well.

"He is awfully close to camp," Rose whispered. Karis had to agree. The three gathered together.

"Rose, paralyze him. Eli, knock him off his feet. I'll keep my sword on him and we can try to get some information from him," Karis looked for their agreements, Rose nodded and Elizabeth grinned from ear to ear and held her hoopak tightly. Rose stood up silently her hand reaching inside a pouch to grab some unseen object.

Elizabeth seeing Rose stand thought that meant that it was time to go. She burst out of the bush much to the draconians surprise. It drew its sword and swiped wildly. Eli slid to a stop in front of the draconians whose sword was poised to strike.

"Get down!" Karis yelled as she sent her sword sailing thru the air with the intention of impaling the draconion.

Elizabeth flung herself to the ground and scrambled away. The sword hit its mark, or at least the hilt did, hitting the lizard-man between the eyes.
He reeled backwards only to run forward shouting something in its crude language.

Its sword arched down on Karis and Rose. Rose stumbled back and Karis rolled expertly to the side. Throwing a stick at the draconian to turn its attention from Rose, it worked.

"A weapon?" Karis asked as the draconian closed in on her. Elizabeth looked around then looked to her hoopak. She tossed it to Karis who used it to whap the draconian across the face. It lost its balance and fell.

"My sword, perhaps?" Karis asked as she jumped on the draconians back, causing it to loss all its breath.

"I don't know where it is!" Elizabeth scampered around.

Rose chanted softly and the sword flew up from the ground where it fell and flew to Karis, who caught it and rightly stabbed the draconian that let out a shrill shout before turning to stone. Karis removed her sword before it was trapped.

"That could not have been worse!" Karis said exasperated.

"Oh, of course it can," Elizabeth said in a sing-song voice.

"How?"

Elizabeth pointed through the trees. Karis squinted to see what Eli was talking about. And she did. Draconians, a small group, were running towards them. Karis swore under her breath.

"Run!"

They ran through the forest. Jumping over rocks and fallen tree branches, the draconians crashing behind them. They could see the sun becoming brighter. Rose ran in front, followed by Elizabeth, then Karis, watching their pursuers. Karis saw Rose look back, her face glistening with sweat and her breath labored. She turned back around as she broke through the edge of the thick forest.

Karis heard her scream as well as another weaker shout.

"Raist!"


River: You have officially made it to the bottom! Thanks for reading the prologue, please review, we really appreciate reviews, makes us, by us i mean mostly me-

Athala: hey!

River: (ignores) want to continue writing this. Plus ppl usually throw in ideas in comments and those are truly helpful. So please review! and NO flames. But i dont mind if you CONSTRUCTIVELY tell us what we did wrong. Thanks!