They regain their sight to see trees and flowers all around them. "Where are we?" asked concerned Raven. "I wish I knew the answer to that." Replied Pj as he completely confused himself. Amanda look around some more and then for no reason at all she hit everyone on the head. She then asked them, "Does that hurt?" "What the… what was that for," Josh yelled. "So then…" thought to herself for a second, "it is not a dream after all." "Of course not shorty," complained Tom. Amanda scratched her head for a second before she basted out, "The Book!" Everyone was already confused about how they got there and now Amanda made them more confused.
Toria came out to her questioning zone to say what was on her mind. "No, it can't be that of all things. We must be all dreaming and we are really unconscious." Amanda got a bit angry because Toria seem have no imagination what so ever. "First of all Toria, we can't all be unconscious and have the same dream! And I told you before that book sounded like Fushigi Yugi expect for the extra gods and priestesses." Amanda tried to calm down but it didn't work because then see got excited. "It would be so cool if we became one of the priestesses or even one of the warriors." Amanda tried to explain to them that this was not a dream but reality. Amanda looked around once more to see the beautiful tree filled with squirrels, birds, and other creatures. She also saw strange but beautiful flowers with different colors; purple, blue, red, yellow, orange, and other beautiful colors. Amanda thought to herself, "Wow, you can not see place as beautiful and so natural as this place anymore."
As she gazed at the beauty of the flowers, Nick called her back to the situation. "Amanda, Amanda! Hey, are you okay?" Nick's frown turn to the worst of shock, "Amanda, you're..." as he pointed to her to show her she was translucent. Right then and there they too were translucent. "What...what is happening to us?" Raven questioned. "I think we are going back home to our world!" Amanda shouted. "I hope so because this is too weird." complained Josh.
All of a sudden, Amanda glow change colors from clear white to blue like the sea. Amanda felt something tarring her from the inside, wanting to come free. She screamed in pain and asked for help but before Nick could reach her and hold her in her arms she vanished. Not too soon after Amanda vanished, they were blinded by strange colors of light. When they open their eyes, they focus on the area around them. They realized they were back in the library. Nick look around noticing someone was missing. "Amanda, Amanda, where are you?" called Nick. Lisa covered his mouth and told him to stay quiet. She removed her hand from his mouth and called for Amanda quietly but no one answer. She looked around the room but could not find her. Their only conclusion was that she was transported somewhere near the library. Lisa got worried about Amanda. Tom tried to calm Lisa down a bit. "She must be somewhere close by," look straight at Lisa, "so don't worry she will be fine where ever she is. I mean we are talking about Amanda the fighter here. She can project herself." He held Lisa in his arms for awhile and let her go. They started to leave the room one by one. Lisa was the last one out. When she was leaving, the book of eight gods closed itself and put itself back on the shelves. Lisa turn around, "What was that?" she questioned herself. "Hey Lisa, come on or we will be late to cram school!" announced Tom. As they left the library, Amanda was still in the book.
When Amanda regained conscious, she notice she was neither in the library nor the forest but in an unfamiliar city. She asked herself, "Where am I? Where is everyone?" As she wondered around the city, she gathered some information. She found out that she was in a city called Qu-Dong but what she did not find out was where her friends were.
Still wondering around the city, a strange looking man approach her asking if she was looking for someone. This man was wore a blue outfit that look like a dress, had short black hair, small brown eyes, and smelled like rum. She did reply with a yes to the man. The man smiled and then said, "I think I know where these friends of yours are, follow me." Amanda let him lead for into an ally. Amanda got some bad vibes from him and wondered if he was lying like most men did. As they got further into the ally, some men came out of the shadows. "Oh my, what a pretty girl she is." "Yes quite a beauty." "Look at her clothes! She might be a foreigner." "I heard they taste better." Amanda slowly back away, "What the… you bastard you trick me. I knew I shouldn't have trusted you." One of the men grad her arm, "Lets go have some fun, girly." "No, let me go you rashna!" She yelled as she punch him in the jam and kick the one next to him in the crotch. She started to run away but they surrounded her. Amanda fought some of them but they still knock her down to the ground.
Amanda tried to fight them back but they out number her. "Let me go now, you bunch of cowards." She screamed as they tried to take of her school vest. "Someone, help me!" she continued to screamed as she felt the tears coming slowly down her face. Just then a young boy appeared. Something was glowing on his forehead, some types of symbol. He stood there staring straight at them. "What are you buffoons doing to that girl?" "Get lost kid, she is our toy." Amanda struggle, "I am not your toy asshole!" The man hit her in the face telling her to shut up. The boy walk closer to them. The leader of the group sent his men after the kid. They tried to hit but the boy dodge them all. "What the hell?" one of the men yelled. The boy run up to him and hit him in the stomach and broke one of the guys' arms. As the guy screamed in pain, the boy moved closer to the leader. "I suggest you leave or I will beat you down like the dogs you are." The kid demanded. The men left running with their tails between their legs. As Amanda got up, she slowly fix her shirt and vest without her eyes leaving him. The young boy looked like he was in his late teens. He was taller than Amanda and was wearing a Chinese style shirt and pants. He also had long brown hair, with kind brown eyes.
He asked Amanda if she was okay with a kind sweet voice that Amanda trusted. "Oh yes I'm… okay but…. Who are you?" He just smiled and step closer to her. "That's good but you shouldn't be in this area. It is very dangerous." He looked around to check if it was safe again. "I asked who you are!" Amanda demanded to know. "Oh sorry, I am Zago Toma but please call me Zago." "So Zago is it, that's a bit weird. Oh sorry for being rude. I am…,"she stop in the middle of her sentence and thought to herself for awhile. "I can't give my real name to a stranger even though he saved me plus I hate my name. Oh I will change while am here yes that's good." She looked straight at him and bowed, "I am Cacyla Mikagi, pleased to meet and thank you for saving me." She finished her sentence but she was very tired so her voice sounded weak. "It is nice to meet you too, Ms. Cacyla." He replied with a kind smile. Amanda got a bit angry, "Hey, don't call me Ms. Cacyla! Just call me... me..." Just then she passed out. "Hey, hey," he asked," are you okay, hey?" He picked her up, thinking to himself, "I better take her to my place to rest for awhile." He started to head towards his place as fast as he could trying not to drop her.
When he got there, he laid her on his bed and put a wet cloth on her head. He wondered why she collapses. He started to stare at her clothes. He thought they were a bit strange and wondered where she got them and where she came from. As he left the room towards the kitchen, he questioned about her some more until he thought, "She can't be… No, that's not possible."
When he got to the kitchen, he started the fire then started to cut up the vegetables while he boiled the water. A few minutes later, Amanda woke up. "Ah, my head hurts," she just noticed that she was on a bed in a strange room. "What the… where am I? …" She looked around again, "Oh yeah, I got attack and that boy Zago saved me…And then it goes blank... mmm." She slowly got out of bed and walk out of the room. She smelled something cooking and followed the smell. When she got into want seems to be the kitchen, she saw Zago cooking some sort of soup. "Oh you're up! Do you feel better now?" he asked. She nodded, "Yes, thank you Zago." "No problem, Ms. Cacyla." "AH, please don't call me Ms. Cacyla okay! It makes me sound older than I really am. Just call me Cacyla no Ms just Cacyla." He just smile and replied with, "Okay, Cacyla, would you like some soup I made." Amanda blushed because his smile was so cute. "A... sure… yes please." "What is happening to me? Why is he so nice to me and why is he so cute?" Those words ran though her head as she continued to stare at him. She was in her own little world until Zago snap her out of it. "Cacyla, what is it? Is something wrong?" he asked with a cute confused face. Amanda blushed even more, "Oh it is nothing, nothing at all." She answered with a big smile on her face.
After three weeks, Zago showed Cacyla the whole city and told her which areas to stay away from. "Wow, this city is beautiful way more beautiful than the ones in my home world." Zago face went into shocked for a second, "Another world? Could she be the…" he thought.
"Oh look Zago, what is it? Is it a festival?" "Not really,"
"Oh then what is it?" Zago face got serious. He stared in the direction of the activity, "Our King is looking around for her again. You better head back to house as soon as possible." Zago snap. "Why Zago?" she asked because the whole time she knew Zago he never made that face before. "Just go, I will explain later. Just go now and hurry he must not see you." At that moment, she knew he saw scared of something so she run as fast as her legs could carry her. On the way back to his house, she scratched her wrists on something. She did not really notice it until she got to the house when her wrist started to hurt real badly. She did nothing to cover it, nothing to heal it. She just fell to her knees and watched it bleed. All that went through her mind was, "I'll let it continue to bleed. I don't care if it gets infected or anything. I don't care anymore, I just don't care. No one is going to save me, not Lisa, not Tom, not my family, and not even Nick. No one cares if I bleed and die." Such sad thoughts run though her mind as Zago was not there to stop her, yet.
Zago followed the little carriage that held the Emperor. He continued to follow it into the palace. He went up to the throne room where the Emperor was sitting. Zago walked up close to the Emperor and kneeled before him. "Well, well if it isn't Warrior Zago. What news do you being me this month?"
"I am sorry for reporting to you so late, your majesty. I believe I found the…the Priestess of Seiryuu."
"Good work, My Warrior. When can you bring her to me?"
"Soon your majesty, I think she needs at least three more days until she meets you, your majesty."
"Every well then just hurry. Now you may go."
"Yes, your majesty." As Zago left to head home, a strange appeared from the shadows.
Once he left the throne room, a middle age man step close to the Emperor whispering to him.
"Can we trust him, my lord?"
"Yes, Zago is very loyal to me."
"But is it really possible for the Priestess to exist?"
"Soon she and the other warriors will lead us to victory in our war."
"But Emperor," the man protested, "if she comes, does that not mean they will too come?"
"Yes, the other priestesses will come but," he laughed, "she will trust us for we will keep her happy. And even if she knew the other ones she will not disobey me." He continued to laugh which made the man unease.
"Well then, what is the reason you came here?" asked the Emperor. "Well I was here to tell you that your food and tea are ready for you now." "Oh thank you," he said as he got up and left the room.
On his way home, he thought to himself. "Did I do the right thing? I am not quite sure about this. Cacyla might hate me for this." He let out a big sigh. "Well she does think her friends betrayed her, but I want to wait two or three more days to make sure." When he got in front of the house, he noticed a red liquid on the ground. He got on one knee and examined it. "What the…What is …Blood...? Where did it… No!" He ran into the house to see that Cacyla was sitting in a puddle of blood in the living room. She was sitting there just staring at the wound on her wrists. Zago walk up to her and kneel before, looking at her wound, asking, "What happened?" She replied with, "I don't know, it just started bleeding when I got home." Zago went and got a wet cloth from the kitchen. He slowly clean the wound and banged it up. He asked if she was okay but all she did was nodded a yes. He sighed, "Well you better get washed up." "But what about…" "It is okay I will clean it up while you take a bath and make sure you don't get the bandages wet okay." He smiled so gently, she could not say no. She got up and headed for the bathroom the clean off the excess blood.
Not to long after she got into the tub, she heard a knock on the door. She jumped a bit when she heard Zago's voice. "Hey Cacyla, I am leaving you some clean clothes in front of the door here. I thought they might look good on you. I will be in the living room area if you need me." After he went away, Cacyla was red all over her face thinking to herself, "What did he say? He thought it would look good on me." She blushed even more. She felt her face heating up and put her hands on her face. "What the heck is wrong with me? Am I blushing? I am oh my god. No, no it must be the heat. I better get out off here before I..." Before she could finish her train of thought she fell on the floor when she was getting out. She got up on her knees and started rubbing her head.
The noise was so loud, Zago busted in the bathroom, "Cacyla what happen? What was that…?" He looked at her and blushed as red as a tomato. There she was rubbing her head and looking right at him naked. They were both so embarrass Cacyla screamed and Zago run out of the bathroom shouting the door behind. "I am sorry! I'm so sorry. I didn't mean I swear." Cacyla grab a towel to cover herself. She was completely embarrassed that she could die. Cacyla got up on her knees and crawled to the door. She slowly opened it and asked Zago for the clothes. He gave it to her with out looking at her. He went back to the living room and sat there in the corner staring at the wall for he was a shamed of what he did.
Amanda put on the outfit. It was a beautiful blue kimono. When she left the bathroom, she was a bit nervous to see Zago. She went into the living room to him staring at a wall. "A...h…Zago...hmm" she could talk right. He turned around to see her. Cacyla found her courage to say, "How…how do I look, Zago?" He just stared at her for a minute before he found his words. "You... look great and I am sorry about before." He got up and bowed before her to show he was sorry. "Oh no…it…it was not your fault." She looked down at her feet as Zago straighten up. "But thank you for worrying about me and thank you for this outfit it…its quite cute." "Don't worry yourself," he smiled, "but you do look quite…" He was interrupted by a girl how hugged him from behind. "Zago!" said the girl as she let go of him slowly.
