"I don't see why we need to believe in this silly being at all in fact! We could just just mine in the Goddess Pond. There must be tons of offerings down there!" Regis exclaimed.

I gaped and I wasn't the only one. How could anyone disrespect the Harvest Goddess enough to mine, forage, and sell all of her offerings. I know how much she loved getting those and I couldn't stand to have people rifling through her personal belongings.

Sabrina came up from behind and shyly tapped her father."Dad? Could we just mine somewhere else instead? This place is sacred to the goddess, to everyone else and to me too..."

I knew how much she loved the church and how the magic of it would be gone without the pond. I knew there was still magic on the Mystic Islands but that was a different type of magic. The Witch Princess only used it for amusement but the goddess actually cared about what happened to us all.

I held my breath. If anyone could stop Regis it would be Sabrina. If she couldn't nobody could, she was the most important thing to him.

He sighed. "Alright Sabrina but-" She gave him a pleading look.

"Fine." and he walked away from the Goddess Pond, ending the meeting he had held.

I sighed, exhaling slowly as the stale breath exited my lungs and lay down in the damp green grass.

Some cool water splashing on me from the wind hitting the pond. I smiled softly. I felt utterly in my element and it wasn't going anywhere.

"Chelsea, You coming?" I looked up to see the pink haired Natalie calling to me as she left. I was supposed to go over to her house for dinner with her family. Natalie was my best friend she did have many flaws, one of which being impatient and crabby.

"Yes, I'll be there by six. Okay?"

"Yeah! Sure, see you then!"

I lay my head back down and breathed in the fresh spring air. I leaned my head to the pool and drifted into an immediate sleep.

I was walking to the church to greet Alisa and Nathan when I saw many nutcrackers with hard hats and pickaxes walking marching around the goddess pond. I ran over to see what was going on but Sabrina got there first. She ran in front of the pond with her arms out wide, protecting it where the soldiers were marching in two-by-two. I smiled in relief closing my eyes and putting a hand over my speeding heart. I opened my eyes only to have my smile slide off my face. The Nutcrackers weren't slowing down in any way. They ran her over and walked straight into the clear water and I watched horrified.

I sat up from the grass gasping for breath and huddled around myself. I crawled over to the pond and looked inside to see it's clear waters,nothing else . I relaxed myself and checked my watch. I still had thirty minutes. I walked shakily over to Kirk and asked to go back to Verdure Island. It was about a twenty minute boat ride so I still had time but I assumed it was better to be early than late so I headed over to Natalie's.

We ate our stir fried veggies quietly for a while until Natalie broke the silence. "So Regis isn't going to mine there is he?", She asked boldly with a triumphant smile.

"No, I don't think so." answered Felicia. There was another silence but this one much more awkward.

"I don't believe that." Taro spoke up firmly.

The third silence had come within about two minutes and everything would have gotten very tense had Natalie not boldly broken it. "Then what do you believe?", She asked crossing her arms.

Taro thought for a moment before replying. I do not know what I believe but I know it's not the that.", and he ended with that nodding his head.

I walked home, my head a jumble of thoughts. If Regis had been lying to anyone it would not be Sabrina. But then again Taro is almost never wrong about anything, hell he can even predict the weather, but no one's always right either.

I opened the door and pet my dog and cat absentmindedly before lying down in my bed.

I guess we'll just wait and see.