NOTE: This is the point at which some knowledge of TLOK 1 would be helpful. It doesn't matter if you haven't read it, but you may be a bit confused by all the OCs I'm about to introduce.
I'm not associated with PR SPD.

OH and yea! I have a request! I'm working on this story at the moment, without having finished the third... and the reason for this is, I haven't got any ideas . TLOK 3 is basically a series of oneshots about Zelda and Soara's childhood from Zelda's perspective, and I CAN'T THINK OF ANYTHING! So if you could inbox me or review with ideas of what I could do it would be much appreciated :D I will of course, give credit for various ideas. ANYWAY, on with the story...

I stood there alone, staring into the incubator, contemplating life. It had been a couple of days since our Uncles shocking revelation, and now our lives had changed forever. As far as the radioactive chemicals we had in our labs, Zelda's attitude had not changed, and so with a heavy heart I had paid for a professional to come and take them away. Well, that's what she thought. I was actually paying for professional storage, adamant that at some point, Zelda would change her mind. As far as Little Katherine went, she was to stay on at SPD Earth Station to be raised by the family. We had no idea how it was going to work, but we would find a way.

"Soara," I felt my uncle's hand on my shoulder. "I need to talk to you."

I twitched my ear slightly to indicate that I was listening.

"Now that a decision has been made about Little Katherine, don't you think it's time we started to think about burying Kat?" Felix asked, in his low and soothing voice.

"Burying?" I echoed the word. I'd never really thought about it. I don't think anyone had. We'd been too busy stressing over DNA tests and past lies. How selfish we had been. "I guess. She deserves that at least."

"Indeed." For a moment, neither of us spoke. "I was also wondering if you might accompany me somewhere. Into the forest?"

"The forest? Why?" Now this I could not quite wrap my head around.

"I have a confession." Felix begun. "Your mother and I always said we were the last of our kind. For a long while we believed this to be true. But a while ago, it came to our attention that a whole group of our species are in fact, very much alive, and living in the depths of Arbordale Forests."

"Doesn't that particular area have some law on it, so that nobody can go there?" I queried.

"Yes, and maybe it's just as well. There's also laws about endangered species of alien, and how they cannot be moved from the place they have chosen to settle. Therefore the tribe were not evicted, regardless of the status of those forests. Because of the laws you mentioned, nobody has been able to go on that forest to disturb them either," Felix mewed.

I was too shocked to react in a big way, but two questions sprung to my mind, "How did you find out? Did Kat know?"

"It showed up on some scans that Kat herself ran," Felix managed to answer both my questions in one sentence.

"So now you want to go and see them. How comes you never went before?" I was curious, despite myself.

"Kat wasn't keen to disturb their lifestyle by reintroducing herself. She knew that the new, modern her, would not be able to fit in, and she didn't want to contaminate their traditions with modern ways. She also was not keen on crossing her old life and her new one. I'm sure she told you, her life on Felle was not pleasant." Felix explained. I nodded. She had told me. "I never went by myself because... Well the timing just never seemed right. But now I... I've lost my sister and I feel the forest calling to me again. You don't have to come, but you might enjoy it."

I thought for a few seconds, "Do I have relatives out there?"

Felix held his hands up, "Nobody knows exactly who survived the Troobian attacks. But the tribe is about twenty strong by the look of the scan so, I'd say there's a good chance you may be related to at least one of them."

"Who COULD be there?"

"I genuinely cannot comment," Felix was looking edgy now.

"Why me?" I changed the topic of questions. "Why not Zelda?"

"Zelda is just like your mother. She has exactly the same personality. She is modern and she enjoys her lifestyle here. I feel you will probably be more open to it than she would be."

"Alright I'll come," I gave in. Felix looked relieved. "But you'll have to fill me in on the stuff I need to know okay?"

He did. During the car journey he told me all about what Felle had been like, the structure of the clan, and his and Kat's family. He told me even more than Kat had about it, and that is saying something. We passed through the city, into the outskirts of Newtech, and eventually into the countryside. He parked outside the gates of the forest, and got out of the car.

"I suppose you have the access code," I assumed, spying a gate with a passcode on it.

Felix grinned at me. "Nope!" I blinked, and in doing so, managed to miss the part where he hopped the fence. "Well come on then!" He called from the other side. "What are you waiting for?"

I had no choice but to follow, and we trudged up the forest footpath in silence.

Suddenly, without warning, the footpath ended and pure dense forest laid before me. I stopped abruptly, and expected Felix to do the same. But apparently a foot or two of shrubbery didn't bother my uncle; I put this down to him having lived on Felle, where, I had been told, the biome was dense rainforest. I hesitated a second or two before following him.

"Wait for-" my soft call was interrupted by a cold, harsh voice splitting the air.

"Who goes there?" It spat. My uncle stiffened and drew close to me. I looked around wildly, unable to work out where the voice had come from.

Then, suddenly, a tall woman jumped from the trees, and stood before us. She was taller than both Kat and Felix, and her long black hair flowed over her shoulders. Ice blue eyes met mine for a brief second, and although anger burned there, I could also see pain and weariness etched across her bony, chalk White face. Rags hung loosely from her body and she shivered slightly from the breeze. In her left hand she clutched a bow and a bag of arrows was slung over her shoulder.

"Xena?" Felix gasped. I looked back at this woman in awe. This was the Xena I had heard so many times about. The fearless leader of my mother and uncles clan. Their half sister. My aunt.

"Felix?" Xena sounded suspicious. "It can't be. You are without your sister. You were never without Katherine on Felle."

For a moment, Felix looked panicked. Then he relaxed as he remembered something, "Xena, sister. I can promise you it is me." He unzipped his coat, and pulled up his shirt, revealing dark tribal tattoos. "I have the markings to prove it." Xena relaxed instantly; Felix bowed his head and spoke briefly in a foreign language.

Xena nodded and replied in English, "I will take you... So where is my big sister?"

I looked warily at Felix but he replied with confidence, "Actually, it's partially Kat that I've come about. But I'd rather say what I have to say once only, and that means I will say it before the whole tribe." Xena looked visibly put out, so Felix changed the subject rather quickly, "I am not here alone. Xena this is Soara, Kat's daughter."

Xena's attention instantly switched to me. She studied me closely, "Yes, I can tell. You look like my sister. You have her face, and her hair."

"Mine is longer, and the curls are looser," I stated.

Xena appeared not to have heard me, "Come, follow me back to camp." In an instant she had shot off into the depths of the forest, Felix hot on her heels. I sighed, and began to run once again.

[A/N] As I said on TLOK 1, I did base Xena on Xena: Warrior Princess... As a little disclaimer, I'm not associated with that in any way either.