Hi everyone. (Yeah, I'm alive.) Sorry I haven't been around lately. I got pulled into some serious family problems that I had to deal with and it's not a very good situation. So, almost everyone should know my former goal was to complete all my stories.

I gave that up.

One of my friends who shares the same love for writing found out what I was doing and she hit me and told me to stop hurting myself. While trying to finish my stories plot bunnies and story bunnies kept popping up out of no where but I told myself I had to finish and it just kept getting worse until finally, I let it go. I had no idea I was going insane until I finally wrote this. (Afterwards I felt lots better.) So, yeah, I'm still going to update my stories as fast as I can, but I'm never stopping my idea flow again. (Seriously, never do that. It's painful.)

This story came from a dream and then waking up to see a water fountain in my ceiling. (It's amazing what you can see up there sometimes.) It hit me and my fingers itched to type, so I typed.

Anzu Mazaki and her adopted sisters, Mana and Kisara, want to live a pretty normal life. Have one high school, some friends they wouldn't be leaving suddenly in five or two months tops, and maybe, just maybe, a boyfriend but when you have a mother who likes to travel around the world searching for new discoveries it's hard to be normal. So when they go off to Egypt Anzu isn't really in the mood for adventure.

But then their mother discovers a fabled fountain said to take people to a different time where they are thought to be needed. For once, something has their attention, but when they go to prove that it's just a fountain with a weird doorway to no where they find out that the power of the fountain is all too real and it's done exactly what it's supposed to do. Send one back in time.

Hope you guys like it!

Disclaimer, I own nothing!

The Fountain of Time

Chapter 1

Egypt sucked.

Pretty place with all the sand that looked like gold and stuff but that was kind of it for her. Now if the sand were truly gold, then she wouldn't have had a problem coming here but that wasn't the case. Anzu Mazaki was a typical seventeen year old teenager, or, as typical as she could get. When you had a Mother who loved and lived to discover and had a thing of taking in things off the street one tended to have a rather odd, but eventful life.

Linda Mazaki was a single mom, divorced from Anzu's father who ran off never to be seen again. Long blond hair and pretty blue eyes, she looked to be the typical cheerleader with the exception of a huge brain and a legit fighting spirit. Anzu couldn't count the number of programs she went into with her mom over the years. Karate, sword play, boxing, self defense classes not to mention a few self taught lessons with a metal baseball bat, at first they were all kind of annoying but heck, when it came to bullies, it was a serious confidence booster to know that you could do fancy move, have them on their backs on the ground and be on your way to class.

Anzu had a few things in common with her mother. The blue eyes and sort of pale skin with a tall but feminine body frame with an excellent sized chest that went along well with her perfectly sculpted hips that weren't too big or too small. She had her father's brown hair, or so she was told anyway. Unlike her mother, who liked to keep her hair long, Anzu always had it shoulder length, long enough to protect her neck from the sun but short enough so it wouldn't case her to over heat.

"Scorpion!" a yell went up, making Anzu pause in her sketching as her sister's terrified but angry voice filled the air. Mana was actually a local that Linda had found on her last trip to Egypt ten years ago when Anzu was just seven. Mana was sixteen now but she still acted like an utter child, it was something that Anzu appreciated. How could you ever be sad around Mana for long?

Mana had dark brown hair and slipped past her shoulders, her skin a beautiful light golden-y milk chocolate. Her eyes were a pretty dark emerald green that always seemed to sparkle. She was on the short side but just a few more years and she would get close to being five foot five. Anzu watched as her sister ran to a tent and came back with a cast iron pan.

Oh dear.

She raised it over her head and rushed into her tent with a battle cry. Anzu continued to watch as her tent started to shake . . . a lot. "Die you evil thing!" she screamed as the sound of a heavy pan just kept hitting . . . stuff. A second later a small scorpion came scuttling out. Anzu could have sworn it looked panicked and terrified. It paused and turned to her. Anzu pointed with her pencil at the still thrashing tent.

"Do you really want to stick around?" she asked the creature. The scorpion seemed to understand her perfectly. It jumped, maybe, and scuttled off faster out into the desert, probably to warn his buddies to not go near the tents. A small giggle from behind alerted Anzu, and judging by how it sounded, it could only be her other sister, Kisara.

Anzu turned to look over her shoulder and grinned. Kisara was probably the exotic one in the family with very pale skin, pale bright blue eyes, and long white hair. The doctors explained she wasn't an albino, so it probably was just a combination of odd genes. It didn't matter how strange she looked, for a newly seventeen year old, she looked good. "How is it that nothing wants to hurt you here?" she laughed softly.

Anzu shrugged. "I think it's pretty simple. They all meet Mana first." Kisara laughed and sat Indian style beside her. "Any word from the dictator?"

"No, but I did hear about a strange commotion going on so she probably found something."

"I hope so. I know Mana feels at home here but seriously, it's hot." Anzu sniffed, glaring at the sand below her feet. Kisara sighed.

"I know, but Mom said we have to be here."

Anzu growled. "I love going on trips. Not many my age gets to go where I've gone but seriously, I need a freaking life outside of this one."

"What's this about life?" Mana asked, walking over to her other sisters to join them.

"Did you get the scorpion?"

"It'll never come back." Mana grinned. Anzu had to agree, it would never come back and that was for its safety.

"Anyway, we were discussing about actually having a home and one school to go to with some friends that you won't leave in a matter of four to five months." Anzu pointed out bitterly. Mana paused for a second as if in thought, and she probably was.

"It sounds really nice." She said softly. The fell silent, thinking about the would haves, could haves, and should haves of their lives when Linda Mazaki came rolling up in one of her special cart things.

"Girls!" she cried out, practically bouncing with energy. "You have to come see this!" she practically screamed. The teens scrambled to their feet and got onto the cart and held on for dear life as their mother drove them to her find. Anzu watched out into the distance, there, she could see the tipy top of one of the great pyramids.

Why couldn't they explore there?

"Here we are!" her mother squealed and put the cart in break before running off in a direction. The three girls ran after their mother, knowing that whatever it was it had to be something big. Anzu stopped when her mother spun around and held out her arms as if to try and encompass what she was showing them.

"A fountain?" Anzu asked in pure disbelief. This is what her mother was so excited about? A fountain?!

Linda caught the tone of her daughter's voice and tisked. "Not just any fountain, but the fabled Fountain of Time."

"I hope there's a story to it." Anzu said.

"Oh but of course there's one." Linda laughed. "Back when it was first built a strange person built and blessed the fountain. The people enjoyed its beauty as they had seen nothing like it before. But when it became the dry season the people discovered something strange, come here." She waved them over. Anzu walked to the edge and to her shock there was stairs going down to a doorway.

"No way!" Anzu gasped and rushed down with Kisara and Mana not far behind. Anzu decided that maybe she would finally have her adventure like those in the movies but when she came to the door way, nothing.

Nothing but a wall.

Anzu could sense her sisters' disappointment knowing they could sense her own. "What was this, a joke?"

"No, in fact, people started to disappear but came back and had a slightly awed look about them. When they told the others, they discovered in to be a gateway between times, it's said that the doorway takes you to where you're needed, but one day the traveling stopped when the fountain was empty."

"So it works with the power of water?" Mana asked.

"Yes. Oh dear, come on girls, night will be falling soon and we better get into out tents quick before we get too cold."

"Okay!" they all said in unison and walked up the small flight of stairs. As Anzu turned around to get one last look at the fountain she grinned. "Hey girls."

Kisara and Mana turned. "What's up Anzu?" Mana asked.

"Want to grab three buckets of water, throw it in and see if this magical doorway will open?" her brows rose as she grinned. Mana's eyes sparked to life while Kisara actually started doing her own evil grin.

"Why not. It's not like it'll hurt anything. After all, it was meant to hold water." Mana pointed out innocently. Kisara was obviously feeling naughty today.

"That's very true. Hmm, twenty minutes after lights out?" she suggested.

"We'll just slip in a few sleeping tablets in the soup tonight. Won't hurt them." Anzu grinned. Now this was what she called a mini adventure but it was better than having one compared to no adventure.

"Sounds like a plan."

~o~

Back at camp the girls made a very nice soup with the help of a few hunters supplying the meat. This was, as Kisara liked to call it, Beef Sleep Soup. The whole camp went in for seconds, thirds, and then fourths . . . Mana leaned close to Anzu with a sly grin on her face. "Looks like there will be a lot of sleepy heads in the morning."

"Indeed. Did you get rid of the proof?" she asked.

"Yep, they'll never find it."

As the camp drifted off to sleep, Anzu, Mana, and Kisara were all on edge, one bucket filled with water by their beds. When twenty minutes past they stayed for another ten before moving. They bundled up against the cold winds and turned on the desert cart and road off to the fountain, excitement buzzing between them.

When they came upon the ruined village Anzu turned off the cart, stashed the keys in a place only their mother knew of and grabbed the three buckets. "Ready to see if this so-called fountain of time is real?" Anzu asked.

Mana and Kisara nodded and together, they poured out all the water. Quickly, they rushed down the sandy stairs to the doorway the led nowhere. They waited, waited, and waited. Still nothing. Anzu laughed. "Total fake. I'd hate to go back to camp and say, 'sorry mom, the fountain of time doesn't work." They all laughed but something made them fall silent suddenly. It was quiet, no following footsteps or animal scuffles. Anzu got a bad feeling and her sisters must have felt the same as they all stepped back, clutching their hands tightly.

The door the led no where started to glow. "Anzu, what's going on?" Kisara gasped.

"Umm, maybe the door is legit." She said. A wind that started to suck them through the door finally scared them to let their voices go as they screamed into the night. "Don't let go guys!" Anzu screamed as she felt herself fall through the door. Together, they found themselves surrounded in sunlight and still at the bottom of the damned fountain.

Despite her shaky feet, Anzu stood up and slowly climbed the stairs. Day time, the ruins didn't seem to be ruin anymore, just an abandoned village that someone forgot. No one was there, walking around, heck, there wasn't even a damn chicken! "Anzu?"

"It's okay guys." She called to them. They rushed forward and paused, all in utter shock.

"Where are we?!" Mana squeaked, holding her sisters closer. Anzu felt a chill travel up and down, up and down her spine. She could see what they were seeing but she was most certainly not dreaming.

"I . . . I don't know." She whispered.

A time travel romance. (I actually find these stories fun to write and read.) So, tell me what you guys think please. I would really like to know! XP

Thank you for reading! :D Have a nice day or night!