DISCLAIMER: unless something has changed, Tamora Pierce still owns Tortalland all of its people.

Veronica's view

When I opened my eyes, the place looked unfamiliar to me. Behind me was a forest. I looked around and saw everybody, then it hit me, weren't Daniel, Andrew, and Norman there too when IT happened? So would they have been brought here too? I walked over to where Christina was, at the foot of a hill. Because there was a hill was there, I expected a valley to be beyond it. Needless to say, I almost walked off of a cliff! There was a river down below. In the middle of the river was a rock, and on the rock was where Norman lay unconscious. Something started to rustle behind me, so I turned around and then looked down. Good, Christina is awake.

Christina's view

As I sat up, something caught my attention. There was a TIDAL WAVE coming right down the river. 'It will sweep us all into the river, then we're doomed for sure. It was funny in the movies because it was fake and it wouldn't matter if they died, this is real life, it actually matters here,' I thought in a partially scared voice. 'I wonder where the boys are at.' At this time, Trisha and Amy were still unconscious, and Veronica was sitting beside me. "Did they did they get brought here too?" I asked in reference to the boys.

Regular View

Someone in the forest snickered. "Whoever you are, show yourself!" Christina yelled.

Veronica's View

I stood and looked around, because for the most part I understood why Christina had yelled. 'I heard the laugh, but why bother. It's nothing to worry about, is it?'

Regular View

Almost immediately, as if in answer to Veronica's thought, she and Christina were grabbed from behind. Christina's captor quickly knocked her out with a shield to the head. Veronica was lashing out in all directions, not bothering to be polite about where she kicked. After about another minute of struggles, Veronica was finally subdued.

Norman's view

I was flowing through the vicious rapids when I awoke. I screamed, because all the pain I had previously received (from the tidal wave and landing on the rock), I felt all at once. 'It's as if it waited for me to wake.'

About five minutes later the current started to get faster and rougher. About 20 feet in front of me I saw the river end, no turns, it just ended. When I got to the edge, I realized it was a waterfall. 'Too late.' I thought. As I hit the surface of the lake, everything went dark.

Daniel's View

As I opened my eyes, I saw someone standing beside me, looking down at me. All I seemed to see were these strange blue eyes looking at me, but why?

It finally hit me; I'm alive! 'I'm not dead, that is so amazing.' I thought as I sat up.

Regular View

"Raoul," called Dom. "I found another boy, he seems to be okay from the look of things, and there's one out in the lake. Wolset!"

The man named Wolset stepped up, "Yes sir."

"Bring the boy that's out in the lake back to shore."

"Right away."

Dom started to talk to Raoul, "They all seem fine, but where are they from?"

Daniel approached Dom to ask, "Where are they, you know, the others?"

"What others?"

"The girls, the others." Daniel said starting to get slightly frustrated.

"I'm sorry," Dom was confused. "but we only found two others, two boys."

Daniel just walked away through all the soldiers. 'I can't lose them, not now.' He thought.

"Hey you," Dom yelled after him. "We have to take you to the palace."

Daniel started to walk back, "Who are you?"

"I am Domitan of Masbolle, Sergeant in the King's Own. That person over there is Sir Raoul of Goldenlake and Malorie's Peak, Commander of the Third Company of the King's Own."

"I'm Daniel, and the two other boys you found were Andrew and Norman."

"We need to get going." Dom stated while mounting his horse.

Andrew said to Daniel through the side of his mouth, "This is a waste of time, we need to find the girls."

Amy's View

'Man, I have a horrible headache. I need some advil.' When I reached for my pack, I noticed that my hands and feet were bound. I also noticed that I was tied to a pole, as was Trisha. "What happened?" I asked Trisha.

She was about to answer when the guard suddenly yelled, "Shut the hell up you two, I don't want any crap on my watch."

I noticed their guard didn't dress like the others. "Are you even from the same country as the rest of the people here?" I said.

Then he roared, "I SAID NO TALKING!"

I started to say, "You don't dress like them, but you certainly have their acc..." But my words were cut off because the guard was in front of me with a knife to my throat. Through clenched teeth he said, "No talking or I will slit your throat right now."

Trisha was scared by the sight of the knife, "P-ple-please d-d-do-don't do any-any-anything to her ple-please."

'Man, she must have a death wish.' I thought.

"Whhh-ere a-ar-are our-our ot-other f-f-friends?"

He started to laugh, "They are with the captain. He has a few, questions for them." He walked back to his post.

--------Captain's Tent--------

Christina's View

'The Captain is talking in Scanran, I'm almost sure of it.' I thought as I struggled with my bonds. Veronica was unsurely looking around until the captain started speaking to us.

"What did you say, I didn't understand." Veronica said.

The captain just shook his head and started walking forward.

--------Corus, the palace--------

The king was in his study, he had been there for days trying to figure something out, but he hadn't succeeded yet. There was a knock on the door.

"Come in." He droned.

A servant came in. "Your Majesty, Sir Raoul says he has news of grave importance."

"Tell him to come in." Jon answered.

"You're pretty morbid looking," Raoul said as he walked in. "It's dreary as hell in here, why don't you come outside. You look like you need some sun. Then we can talk."

"I can't, I'm working on something."

"Well set it aside," Raoul stated in a no-nonsense tone. "and I won't take no for an answer."

"Just hold on for a few minutes then." Jon said as he got up and walked to his bedroom.

About ten minutes later, they were outside by the lake (not the lake where the boys were found).

"So," Jon started casually. "What is the news that is of such grave importance?"

"Well," muttered Raoul as if unsure of how to present the predicament. "On our way back to Corus, we stopped to set up camp by a lake. When we stopped, we found three boys. They weren't dressed normally; It's as if they weren't even from Tortall. Then one of them started asking if we found 'the others'. I have no idea what he meant. If there are more of them wandering around, Mithros only knows where they could be by now."

"What if the Scanrans found them? I can only imagine what Maggur will do with them." Jon thought out loud, unsure about exactly what this meant. It was as if he was afraid of the answer that might come...

--------Scanran Camp; Captain's Tent--------

The Captain of the Scranran warriors sauntered over to where Veronica was tied up. "My, what a beauty we have here." He let his hand glide down her body, touching every curve.

In her stead, Christina screamed, "Get off of her you bastard!"

He seemed quite taken aback, "Maybe you will be more exciting then her." Immediately he turned around, stepping over to Christina. He put his arm around her, pulling himself close to her until their bodies were against each other.

"What the hell do you think you are doing!" she shouted incredulously. "Get your hands off of me you stupid son of a bitch."

The Captain put a silencing charm on Christina and Veronica. "I can't have your words distracting me now can I?" He told her in a low voice, almost in a purr. Just as he was leaning closer, a guard came in. They started speaking in Scanran, the Captain looked displeased.

Dismissing the guard, he turned around and said, "Well, it looks like we'll have to finish this some other time. Our Lord wants us in Hamrkeng. We will be leaving immediately."

'The sooner the better.' Christina thought.

A/N:

Nothing else worked: thank you for your review, I am thinking about rewriting the first chapter so things will be clearer and a lot less mary-sueish. But it will have to wait for a couple of days. Thanks for pointing those things out. I wasn't born with the gift of being observant. And I will put more people in the otherwise deserted school. Just in case you didn't read my bio again (I don't know why you would) but I updated it and it said that everyone is sixteen except for veronica who is 18. everyone else is just too lazy to drive themselves.

Enchanted night 84: thanks for your suggestions, and I am certainly welcoming criticism. I wasn't really paying attention to the grammatical errors. I will update the prologue soon, probably after I post the first chapter. I actually like the criticism, my teachers never were that straight forward. Thank you. I actually wrote this chapter when I wrote the last.

Lioness Fury: yes it is another one of those dropped into tortall stories, but all the ones I have read would never in a million years end up like this one, honestly. You will see what I mean probably in the next chapter, and others too. This is going in a totally different direction than the other stories.

Thanks to all the others who reviewed.

I don't know when, but I will let you know when we unhook the computer, because after that I will not be able to update for week or two. But when I get back I promise I will post a fewmore chapters. I know what's going to happen for at least 10 more chapters, I just have to write it out. I am trying to make it as non-marysueish as possible, but it proves to be a challenge since I already wrote the chapter. The next chapter won't be another mary sue, I'll make sure this time. The only reason Christina is the only one that knows anything about tortall is because she is the only one out of the seven that has actually read all the books. Please excuse this chapter because I am bad at writing in views.

Thanks for reading it. This chapter was a whole lot longer than the first. Please review, I want to know what you think of what has happened so far. I will not be updating until the 11. When I do update, I will post at least 5 or so chapters to make up for the time.