"Aida, I finally found her. Ginger's in that tree over there," Jaron pointed to a red haired green eyed girl sitting above us in a different tree then yesterday.

"Ginger we finally found you," I called from below her. "We didn't know you had moved to a entirely different tree far from the one we used yesterday."

"About time," She called down to me and all our friends from her perch. "You should have known that I moved to a different tree. My mom saw us in that other tree yesterday so we had to move."

I reach up and found a hold on a strong sturdy branch and pulled myself up quickly. Even in dresses we girls climbed easily and the boys didn't have to worry about us falling sense we never did. Life was heaven on earth in the forest we lived in. We had so much to live for now we had rebuilt our lives and some of us had fallen in love. We believed we were in a paradise, like an Eden, but like a paradises they come to abrupt, unhappy ending.

We finally found comfortable places to sit and talk like we always did in the trees everyday. We didn't have a care in the world now days. That is unless you count our lives as elven teenagers whose parent say it about time to stop climbing trees and leave childish stuff like it behind. I mean we are sixteen or seventeen and could care less what our parents say now days. We didn't want to change our ways at all. Being serious isn't much fun so we always wanted to just have fun.

I heard my name being called from the town but I didn't move from my position in the tree. We hardly ever answered our parents' calls now days. We were being rebellious like normal human teenagers did.

Suddenly we heard a very loud commotion coming from the city toward the tree we were sitting in. Wizards, not our best friends in the world, came running toward our tree holding their wands pointing toward us as best they could but the leaves and branches blocking most of us from their sight.

I looked at my friends expectantly. We all knew it was time for the drastic measures which we had planned and practiced for a situation like this long ago, sense Emerald had been destroyed. We climbed into the next tree. And moved pretty fast as elves have great balance. We had no trouble balancing ourselves on each branch dodging the spells being thrown at us. We soon had no more trees to move to. We were at the River of Hope near the Bridges of Dreams in the city. A place young lovers usually walked at night on a full moon. Jaron and I had walked there many times.

Jaron grabbed my waist and jumped into the river. We closed our eyes as we hit the water. We wondered if we were doing the right thing or committing suicide.

"They're crazy." Ginger said thinking we'd never resurface.

We then burst out of the water flowing down the river. Toward Azara and we hoped safety.

"Maybe not." Kilina jumped and also hit the water and resurfaced like us. Soon they all had jumped, after nearly getting hit by spells from the wizards chasing us.

We floated downstream to find our home in complete panic and chaos like the time Emerald was attacked. It was like a complete repeat except for this time we had no caves to run too. Jaron pulled me under when we saw that there was no safety in the city and fighting was useless we swam as far as we could from Azara without coming up for air until we were out of sight in the city. We swam for a while, until we heard a loud roar up stream.

"Jaron I think we are headed for The Falls of Azara." I said we stopped swimming just treading water to find out what to do. He swam over grabbed me around the waist and grabbed a ledge and we climbed out of the water on to the ledge for safety so we wouldn't be swept over the falls.

"Now what do we do?" I asked really not happy about our situation at the moment.

"We might have to…..JUMP!!!" He pulled me of the ledge as he jumped. I nearly hit my head on the ledge when he had pulled me off. I looked back to see what had made him jump and a spell hit the ledge were we had been only seconds before.

"We are dead now Jaron!" I said as the current got stronger pulling us toward the inevitable waterfall that we wanted to avoid in the first place but it was unavoidable.

He grabbed me so I wouldn't drift too far away from him and pulled me to him wrapping his arms around me. He held me tightly and protectively to him as we flowed toward the waterfall, "Then remember this one most important thing I have to say if we don't make it through this alive Princess, I love you Aida."

"I love you too Jaron," Then we were swept over the falls. Jaron held me as we fell. I closed my eyes tightly thinking we were going to die.

Miraculously we survived the falls and somehow got to shore alive though we were exhausted. Soon our friends came to the spot we had come to shore and climbed out of the river as well. We were all exhausted and spent but at least we were all still alive.

"We must head back to Azara." I said, "Tomorrow we can go back and see if we can find any other survivors."

"Aida, are you sure that's a good idea?" Jaron said. "It might not be safe to go back at all."

"We survived something like this when we were younger. I believe some escaped like last time." I sat down "It's the only thing I can think of right now that might as well help us now that we have to move and rebuilt our home once again." With that said I sat down against a big tree and fell asleep leaning against the tree. If I had known what was awaiting for us when we did return I wouldn't have chosen never to return.