Part Two…

Seven days earlier.

"Wake up Jade, we need to be leaving soon."

After their adventure in Tevinter and Tifea's abduction, Anders asked Jade and Fenris to go out to the closest city in order to find bandages for Tifea's injuries. With Tifea still injured and Anders being the only healer, Fenris and Jade were supposed to leave earlier in the day, but for one of the two adventurers wasn't really a morning person.

"…gerrr," *yawn* *blink* "why does it have to be so early?" asked Jade sleepily.

"It's so that no one important will see us. Aren't you hiding from the Chantry as well?"

Jade was still rubbing her eyes and once she stopped she smiled and realized his point, "Oh yeah, I'm also in trouble with those guys because I'm in cahoots with the man who blew up a Chantry. Now I remember. I guess it is best that we leave now." All of a sudden Jade took Fenris's arm and ran in the direction of the city. "Let's get this done quickly shall we?"

Fenris only looked to her with annoyance and groaned.

"Look at this."

"You must be messing with me. How is this even possible."

"Doesn't matter. It is possible! And do you know how much people would pay if—"

*smash*

"Tie um boys."

"You've got this all wrong sweet heart!"

And with the invading crew throwing the first punch, the brawl between the two crews within a black room in the Blue Diamond pub began. Isabela's team, the invading crew, arose as victors.

With the opposite crew dead on the ground, Isabela ordered her men to hide the bodies, of course keeping Tifea's advice in mind. And after leaving no trace of her presence, Isabela picked up the map left by her associates.

"Perfect." She grinned. "Here Shawn!" yelled Isabela as she tossed the map to one of her crew men. "Make copies, not too accurate but accurate enough so that people won't question it. A lot of people would pay a fortune to find something like this. But we want to be the first to find it remember that."

"Of course, Captain."

"So we're here, in Ostwick, now where to search for those bandages."

"I can only assume to look in an Inn first. Maybe you could ask someone to direct us to the closest medical area."

"That's an idea Fenris, but why don't you ask?"

"You should know, by now, that I'm not the best at asking for things."

Figuring from Fenris's appearance, Jade realized he had a point. "Yeah… maybe I should do the talking."

So the two began walking around Ostwick, looking for the closest Inn they could find. Instead they come across something or someone that was a little more likely to be found.

"Shawn, what is this!"

"Told you it was too accurate Mat!" Shawn then punched the guy next him, in the middle of the crowed street.

"How the hell are you going to punch me if you made the map! I just gave you ideas!" as the pirate spoke his fist was hurdling towards Shawn's face.

"Would you two stop it! Or at least take it back to the ship!" Turning around she saw that the two hadn't hear a word she said. Still fighting on the ground Isabela walk up to the pirates and flips up her daggers to their necks, suddenly the fighting stops as she glares at her men. "I said stop this stupidity right now, or take it back to the ship."

"Yes Captain," said the two simultaneously.

"Good." She flipped her daggers back to the sheaths on her back still glaring down at her men, "now what am I supposed to do with this map? I can't sell it, someone else could find—"

"Isabela?" whispered Jade as she looked around to see where the yelling was coming from.

Fenris rolled his eyes already aware of Isabela's presence, her voice was unmistakable.

"Jade?" wondered Isabela as she turned to see who spoke, "Jade is that you." Running up to the two the pirate hugs Jade, with the map still in hand. "I didn't expect you to be here." Turning her gaze towards Fenris she grinned, "Nor you, Fenris."

"Hi, Isabela."

"I see that you're not with Tifea anymore," she whispered as she inched closer to him, "or is Jade your new associate?"

"No," stated Fenris slightly pushed Isabela away, "she's a… friend and we're—"

"Awww, and here I thought you were getting to be a little bit more… exciting. Well at least you're out of that mansion."

Noticing the paper in the pirate's hand Jade became curious, "Hey what's that map for?"

"Oh this," Isabela directed her attention back to Jade. "Oh I found something that's going to be worth a bundle, and…" catching herself Isabela smirked. "I'm selling it."

Still irritated with one another the two crewmen realized that their upcoming prize would fix everything.

"Captin we should head back to the ship," said Mat now back to his feet.

"Oh you two head back and hold down the ship for me."

The elf raised an eyebrow, "You finally got a ship?"

"Of course Fenris. What's a captain without her ship?" grinned Isabela. "Any ways," the pirate wrapped her arms around the shoulders of the two adventurers, "let's go discuss this little treasure that I've found, you two aren't busy are you?—"

"Ahh…"

"Yes we are," stated Fenris as he released himself from Isabela's grip, "We need to find bandages for Tifea soon so—"

"Oh is that all? I'll help you find some," stated Isabela as she walked past the two, "come with me and after we get your bandages we can talk about my map."

A little curious Fenris agreed and followed Isabela, while Jade stood in the crowd still confused as to what just happened. "Wait! What did you just agree too? Fenris!"

"Are they back yet?"

"Relax Tifea, it might take them a while to get what they need and come back."

As Anders was taking care of Tifea she could only wonder what was taking them so long. Everything still hurt from her encounter, and stay, with Danarius. At this point any kind of pain killer would do, even to make her feel slightly better.

Even though Anders was her pain killer he couldn't allow her body to relax too much or she might fall into a slight coma, due to blood loss.

"Tifea, you know this has happened twice now. You're lucky that he didn't poison you again."

"Anders…"

"I'm just making a suggestion," Anders was now setting up the campfire waiting for the sun to set. "Don't you think being around him is kind of dangerous? At all?"

"Anders. You blew up the Chantry—"

"Gezz…" The mage rolled his eyes, "Tifea that was one—"

"That was still a huge thing…" whispered Tifea as she lay still, "I do appreciate what you're doing for me, but I'm not getting rid of Fenris."

Anders whispered to himself as he walked back into the tent, "How long is everyone going to hold that over me?"

"Heh, until you do something so amazing that we forget." Tifea then closed her eyes to relax her body a bit, "thanks for staying with us Anders, you and Jade."

"No problem Tifea,"smiled Anders.

A couple more hours passed until sunset arrived, and with it came Jade and Fenris with the supplies Anders needed to help Tifea. But as Anders saw them coming out of the forest he noticed that a third person was tagging along.

"So what else did you guys bring back?"

"Isabela," stated Jade.

"You even have the renegade mage with you," Isabela chuckled to herself, "Oh wait or is this just Justice?"

"Isabela," Jade turned to glare at the pirate, "after what happened in Kirkwall Justice has become dormant. He doesn't pop up any more." She then continued her walk back to camp, "Not unless he's needed," she whispered.

Let's hope that doesn't happen any time soon. Fenris finally got to Anders and handed him the supplies, "here, after you heal Tifea we'll hear about Isabela's… map."

"What map," questioned Anders as he scowled at Isabela.

"This map, Justice," she smiled as she held up her precisely copied map.

"Okay." The mage diverted his attention back to Fenris, "Well Fenris, I observed that some of Tifea's injuries might have been infected so I need to make an antidote to heal them. In that time you can speak with her but once I finish I will need you to leave."

"Very well."

"Wait what happened to Hawk?" asked Isabela as she strolled over to the two.

"Umm…"

"She was injured," stated Jade as she add more wood to the fire, "in a recent fight, that's how we all met." She then turned her gaze towards Isabela, "Tifea was severely injured in a battle, Fenris was surrounded, and Anders and I just so happen to be nearby and decided to help them out."

Without Isabela noticing, Fenris actually smiled a bit at Jade, thanking her for the assistance.

"Aww, poor Hawk. Well then," she returned her stare back at the two men, "I'll just have to tell the three of you about it then?" This is perfect, these three will think this is just a piece of rubbish and not have a second thought about following it. But if they do follow it, I can accompany them and get some of the shares! It's a win win yes!

Once that was decided, Anders left to make the antidote for Tifea's infections, Jade started catching up with Isabela, and Fenris went to go speak with Tifea. Once inside the tent he saw that Tifea was still half asleep, her bandages looked like they needed to be rewrapped but it was probably due to the fact they needed to be replaced since this morning.

The elf whispered as he moved closer, "How are you feeling?"

"Well… no better than yesterday and no worse either… so…"

"At least it's not worse," uttered Fenris as he stroked Tifea's hair, simply making her smile.

"What took you two so long anyway? Why does it take twelve hours to get healing supplies?"

Fenris smiled to see that Tifea still had her sense of humor. Sitting next to her he began to explain.

"Well, for one it was a long walk to Ostwick and back, but I can't say that we didn't get…" the elf looked away, "distracted."

"Distracted by what?"

"Isabela was there, she showed us were to get the supplies, but she kept pestering us about this map she found."

What's Isabela doing here? "What map?"

"I'm not sure yet, we decided not look or think about it until we got the supplies that Anders needed to heal you."

"Thanks Fenris— Wait… does that mean she's here?"

"Yes, Tifea."

"Okay…I guess."

"What?"

"Nothing…"

Anders then entered the tent and asked Fenris to leave, so that he could administer the medicine. Once gone, Anders initiated setting little bottles of liquid on the floor, then he took out several squares of cloth.

"This is going to sting a bit, so just relax ok. I'll use some of my magic to lessen the pain."

"Alright."

"Haha! So you finally have a crew? I thought that would have been a long ways away from where you were when I met you."

"Just because you helped me with my 'ship wreck' problem doesn't mean I'll take that statement lightly."

"What about the other things I helped you with? Like when that slave ship that 'accidently' landed on the wrong port." Counting out the occurrences on her fingers, Jade continued, "and when I helped you help some slaves escape."

"Haha, well that was kind of a big job, I guess I can let you slip for that."

Fenris just listened to their conversation, but didn't bother to join. He sat and waiting outside of Tifea's tent, hoping that Anders would finish soon.

"Fenris!" exclaimed Isabela, "Even away from Kirkwall you isolate yourself way too much."

"How did you even meet them Isabela?"

"Well Jade," beamed the pirate as she folded her arms, "I helped Tifea, Fenris and Anders stop some crazy stuff happening in Kirkwall."

"Interesting, that's close to where I found Anders again."

"Again?" questioned Fenris.

"Of course again. We met before in Ferelden, but we had different agendas so we said that if we were really meant to be together we'd see each other again."

"And ya did," grinned Isabela, "lucky you."

I guess you could say that, thought Fenris.

"Done," emerging from the tent Anders walked to the center of the three, "Tifea's going to be resting for the remainder of the night so I guess she won't be hearing about this map that Isabela's been telling us about."

"Darnn! Well, three out of four isn't bad," she then knelt on the ground near the fire, "now everyone once you see this map I'm sure you'll understand my interest in it." Once the three gathered around her Isabela set the map in the dirt and opened it.

"I don't get it," Jade stated examining the map.

Disappointed Fenris stood, "Isabela, there's just a bunch of 'X's everywhere."

"Unless they're all places where treasure could be buried," added Anders, "I don't see the point of this map."

Isabela rolled her eyes, "you all have no imagination! This map doesn't just show 'X's, it shows the locations of sightings of where a city was located. The exact same city."

"What?" question Fenris.

"But that would mean that the city moved," Jade then motioned her fingers between two X's, " and judging from this map, it's moved and incredible distance."

"Isabela, cities don't move," stated Anders. "And even if they did it would take an incredible amount of magic or something to move it from continent to continent—"

"Exactly!" shouted Isabela, "do you know, how much people would pay for something like that? How valuable and helpful it would be for a city to get out of the path of ba war with another because they figured out how to jump to another continent?"

"You're not supposing to look for this city are you?" asked Fenris as he stared at Isabela. "How in the world would you find it?"

"How do you even know it's the same city?" questioned Jade.

Perfect! "Well, I guess you guys do have a point," stated Isabela and she rolled the map back up, "Here take it then, I know my crew won't be needing it, just keep it safe for me, I don't want anyone else getting a hold of that junk without paying me for it first." She then handed the map to Anders.

"Then why don't you rip it up?" questioned Jade.

"Because then someone could piece it back together."

"Burn it?"

"Oh, you should know why." The pirate winked at Jade, "Didn't you restore those fake papers for me?"

"Oh yeah."

"Then why don't you just sell it yourself?" asked Fenris.

"Because, Fenris dear, you three have proven to me that it isn't sellable. I'm not going to waste my time selling something that I can't even give to people I already know."

"I guess that makes sense," uttered Anders, "Very well then, we'll keep it and show it to Tifea, maybe she'll know what to do with it."

"Thanks, you guys," Isabela then glanced at the moon, "I believe it's time for me to take my leave."

"But it's dark out."

"Dear dear Jade. Don't you know that the moon controls the waters and if he controls the oceans then I must control it." Isabela then turned to leave and snickered, "at least if I want to be a good pirate that is." She then waved back to her friends, "until we meet again my friends."

"How are you two feeling?"

"We're doing just fine Julia."

"I wish I could have drowned that mage for all the trouble he's caused us."

Julia smiled and laughed, Airamyth and Luna have finally returned to her from the Elemental Plane, she was just glad they were safe and healthy.

"I hope those two are alright."

"What two?" asked Luna

"Well," Julia stopped her walk and looked towards the ground, "after you two were hurt I went to warn Fenris and Tifea of Danarius's presence.

"Why?"

While Airamyth appeared worried, Luna clutched her staff in anger "What did that monster do to them?!"

"Relax Luna, Danarius was once Fenris's master and… he wants Fenris back, so I warned the two to watch out for him." Julia then appeared to be sad, almost reminiscent, her elementals noticed her sudden change in mood.

Julia has been around for a long time, and though she's traveled with Airamyth and Luna for majority of that time, the two elementals could tell that Julia longed for the company of… others.

"My Lady," began Airamyth "why don't we go find them and see how their doing."

"Yes," holding her staff and hands behind her back, Luna calmed down, "Um, maybe you'll feel a little better if you saw for sure that your friends were ok."

There was a long pause, and during this time even the moon became covered with clouds. Julia then walked over to a nearby tree and slumped to the ground.

Exhaling she peered at her elementals "I miss Syl'viran guys… I miss my home."

The two elementals were surprised by her statement. Julia has not once brought up Syl'viran since they left the country of Neverwinter.

"It was my home, I mean, I'm glad that I helped defend it, and so many others and all but… When I went to Kirkwall and saw Tifea's group and how she saw Kirkwall as her home, I couldn't… but then I saw how the elves in this land were living." Now, with irritation in her voice, Julia grasped a dirt rock from the ground. "The humans and not just the humans, everyone here treat's us like dirt, it's wrong, and …" The claric's head fell as the thoughts race through her mind, but once her mind was calm once more she glanced at the moon, "and I don't want to believe it's affected all of Neverwinter. Or what if it's affected some of the people of Syl'viran?"

"Julia!"

"Julia you know no elf in Syl'viran, NONE, would just let themselves fall victim to how the people in this land treat their kind."

"Whether they were in Toril, or Thedas!"

"But what if it did!" Julia stood and glared at her two closest friends, "It's been centuries since I've seen my home! How don't I know that, that hasn't happened?"

"Do you really believe Master Kaz would let that happen?" asked Airamyth.

Going from anger to anguish, Julia sat back down on the ground while Airamyth glided to her side.

"You should meditate my Lady."

"Yes," agreed Luna, "please go meditate, clear your mind for a bit."

The elementals helped Julia up and escorted her to a body of water. Freezing a path way with each step, Julia walked to the center of the lake. Upon summoning the energies around her she summoned the elements of fire, water, earth and air to circle her body, encasing her in a sphere of elements, as she sat and hovered over the waters. There she slept and meditated for the rest of the night.

How would I know if Master Kaz wouldn't let that happen… I mean it's not like I've seen him fight before… If I did find my home…if I ever find it… would he… would he even remember me?