I hope everyone is excited about this story. I am. This is getting fun. Soon things will be happening.

I don't own ElfQuest, just Kat.

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""""-Human speech.

Cutter looked over with a smile at his lifemate as she reentered the main room with Redlance.

"Where's Kat?" Cutter said as he put an arm around Leetah's waist.

Leetah smiled at Cutter as she said, "We have more than Kat's return to us to be excited about. Recognition."

"Kat?!" Cutter was surprised.

"Yes our Kat." Leetah said.

"Where is she and her lifemate to be? They should come and see us before they go off by themselves." Cutter made a move like he was going to find them when Leetah stopped him.

"Let them be. It maybe hard for her, the same way it'll be hard for Sunstream and Brill." Leetah said.

"Kat and a Wave Dancer? Oh." Cutter looked around to see who was missing from the new elves. He saw two guys and a girl. He knew that there was another guy and cause that was the one who was with Kat.

Kat stared up at the blue eyes that were looking down into her brown eyes. She laid a hand softly on his cheek. Spine blinked, freeing Kat from the staring contest they seemed to be having.

"Soul meets soul when eyes meets eyes." Kat mumbled the saying when two Recognition.

"I saw your soul. There's something I saw. You're different." Spine carried Kat over to the table where her cocoon had laid for a few seasons. He sat with her in his lap.

"I am different, very different. I'm a wolfrider who's not a true wolfrider. But neither am I a Sun Folk, Glider or Go Back. I came from a different world. I didn't think I had a soul name. But you found my name, you found me." Kat smiled at him but stopped when she saw the look on his face.

"A different world?" Spine asked.

"Yes." Kat drew out the word.

Spine gently lifted Kat from his lap and sat her next to him. Kat looked at him as he got to his feet. He didn't look at her for a moment.

"What's wrong?" Kat asked.

"I'm not sure." Spine still didn't look at her.

"Yes you do know. You are disgusted with what you see in me, don't you?" Kat could feel tears starting to form in the corner of her eyes.

"I…" Spine turned around as he started to talk. He held out his arms to her like he was going to hug her.

"No, no don't bother. I can see you don't truly want me." Kat got to her feet and pushed past Spine toward the door.

"Wait, I want to talk to you." Spine placed a hand on her shoulder.

"Berrybuzz!" Kat snapped as she brushed his hand away.

The little Preserver flew down at her friend's call. The little creature took a deep breath and spit some webbing at the taller elf.

Kat rushed from the room crying as Spine shouted behind her. Tears streamed from her eyes as she ran down the hallway toward the main room. She entered the room, not hearing the greetings from those who knew her. Kat was looking for a curtain someone.

"Nightfall!" Kat sobbed as she threw her arms around the red haired elf, the elf who took her into her den when she first had come to the World of Two Moons.

"Kat? Cub what's wrong?" Nightfall held the sobbing she-cub; she could feel the tears on her shoulder.

"He doesn't…want…me." Kat sobbed harder.

Leetah noticed that Nightfall was guiding Kat over toward a corner. Something was wrong, Leetah thought. She hurried over to the two.

"What happen?" Leetah asked.

"I'm not sure. Kat what's going on?" Nightfall asked Kat.

Kat didn't answer for she was crying so hard.

(Kat?) Leetah sent a sending that was open to Nightfall as well.

(He knows my soul name. My soul name that I thought I didn't have. He saw my soul. He asked about me and I told him that I was different from everyone, that I came from a different world he turned his back on me. He looked…) "disgusted." Kat sobbed out the last word. Her tears fell harder and faster than before.

(Leetah she Recognitized someone?) Nightfall sent to her close friend.

(Yes. Him.) Leetah pointed to Spine who had just come into the room. He was shielding his face with his arms from a winged creature who was spitting at him.

"Berrybuzz! Here!" Nightfall called out. The Preserver spit one more time at Spine than flew over to Nightfall, Leetah and Kat.

Kat raised a hand for Berrybuzz to land on. Berrybuzz rubbed it's head on Kat's thumb. Nightfall smiled at the little 'bug' who loved Kat.

"We should talk to him." Nightfall started to say when someone in the room gasped. Leetah and Nightfall turned to look where everyone was looking. Everyone was gaur thing around the door way.

Nightfall and Leetah dragged a sniffling Kat behind them as they shouldered their way to Cutter's side. Sea elves flashed past the door in a what looked like a huge surge of water. Before Kat had hurried into the room all the elves in the main room where sending to the other Wave Dancers, calling them back to the palace.

"What's happening?" Sunstream was hurrying down some stairs, Brill was right behind him.

"Hurry!" Redlance called.

The two lovers joined the others as they watched helpless Wave Dancers whoosh past repeatedly.

"Is that him out there?" Sunstream asked his new lifemate.

"Yes." Brill answered in a soft voice.

Everyone could see an elf with what looked like fish fins on his arms and legs not to mention his head. He was one the causing the Wave Dancers to go around and around the palace.

(Surge! Please! Our people want to come in!) Brill sent, but received no reply.

"Can nothing be done?" Brill turned to Sunstream.

"Oh course, look." He smiled and pointed. Brill turned.

Her gasp caused the other Wave Dancers that were standing there, Spine pulling web from his hair. They gapped with open mouths at the tall elf with long sliver locks of hair trailing down to her feet. She was clothed in nothing but her long hair.

"A High One!" Snakeskin breathed as he fell to his knees.

(As you were shown.) Timmain sent to the Sun Folk.

The Sun Folk knew what to do. The back wall of the palace, outside formed a net catching the Wave Dancers as the whooshed past. Soon the net melted back into the palace and dropped the dizzy Wave Dancers on the floor.

"Spine! Snakeskin! Thank the High Ones!" A young white hair she elf said.

"You have no idea how right you are!" Snakeskin said to her.

The elves turned back toward the door to see Surge swim toward the door. Cutter stood in the door way with his arms crossed.

"Who are you?" Surge asked with a snare.

"I'm chief of the Wolfriders, Cutter. Your tribe mates are a bit dizzy but safe. The Sun Folk and they are waiting for you to enter and welcome you in." Cutter smiled as he waved an arm.

Shuna chouse that moment to peak around a corner. Surge's fins flared out at the sight of her.

"Human! A human!" Surge shouted with fear and rage.

(Please come inside!) (It's safe.) (A High One is here.) Surge's tribe mates sent to him.

"It's so wonders in here." Brill said.

"Let him think on it." Cutter said holding up a hand.

"Hum…they listen to you do they?" Surge said right before he sent a water rope through the magical barrier and wrapped it around Cutter. Cutter was pulled out.

"He'll drown!" Leetah screamed.

(Zhantee, a bubble shield around Cutter! Hurry!) Skywise sent to the dead elf.

A bubble appeared around Cutter who was wiggling his way free from the water rope. Cutter made to swim back to the palace when he was hit from behind by a water ram. He was knocked out.

(If you want to save him, come back to me my Wave Dancers.) Surge sent as he carried Cutter away.

Soon the Wave Dancers and everyone in the palace sent their thoughts to Surge.

"There's only one way to save him. We will return to him." Brill said for the Wave Dancers.

"No! That's not happening, you have a cub coming and you're staying here where it's safe. Your tribe mates as well." Nightfall said to the tall brown hair elf.

"She's right beloved." Sunstream agreed.

Kat watched the two lovers with a wishful look on her face. She stole a quick glance at Spine and was shocked to see him staring back at her. There was something on his face that she couldn't read. Something inside her twisted and she gasped as she put a hand to her heart. Kat looked away before the feeling came again. But she could still feel something something even not looking at him.

Kat watched as Snakeskin left the palace to meet his father face on. Around and around the palace they went in their fight. No one knew who was going to win when Surge sent a water ram at the reefs.

"Oh no! Cutter!" Leetah and Skywise screamed.

Snakeskin was knocked back by a rock when he went to try to save Cutter. Surge rushed past him and into the caves. Everyone held their breath as the dust settled on the ocean floor. Someone emerged out of the dust. It looked like a misshaped elf. He had Cutter in his arms. Snakeskin took Cutter from him and rushed him toward the palace. Inside the Wave Dancers were sobbing for the death of their chief.

"Beloved." Leetah sighed a breath of relief when Cutter was passed through to her and Skywise.

A day later found some of the Wave Dancers swimming outside with a transformed Sunstream. Cutter was in the Scrolls of Color room with Snakeskin, talking. It seemed like everyone was with someone else, everyone but Kat. She was in a room up a long set of stairs. She had shut herself away in the room. Kat was on a crystal bed watching the Wave Dancers outside swim past. She didn't see Spine out there. For a moment she wondered where he was but than she tried to push him from her mind.

"Excuse me?" someone asked from the door way.

Kat felt her back stiffen. She turned slowly to see Spine standing in the doorway.

"What do you want?" She turned her back to him, again watching the sea outside.

"I.." Spine started to say. He shock his head, changed his mind of what he was going to say. Instead of saying anything he rushed toward the elf woman and wrapped his arms around her.

"Wha..." Kat was surprised.

"What I want is you." Spine whispered into her hair. "What I wanted to tell you was that I like what I saw for your soul. I see someone who is so beautiful and unlike anyone I've ever seen."

"I'm beautiful?" Kat whispered.

"Very. Please look at me." Spine said. Kat slowly turned around his arms. She had tears streaming down her face. "You have every right to be mad at me. I seemed upset at you for something I don't want to change about you. Please don't cry, beloved."

Kat stopped crying when he said beloved. She sighed when Spine laid his lips on her forehead.

"When I look at you I see someone who is close to being a High One. And I like what I see." Kat breathed as Spine softly kissed her neck.

Spine pulled Kat closer to him. He pulled her toward the bed in the middle of the room.

"Come beloved, come." Spine whispered.

"I'll follow. I'll go over with you." Kat smiled when Spine pulled her down on to the bed and wrapped a fur around them.

A little bit later they lay wrapped in each other's embrace. Kat sighed with content as Spine trawled a finger down her back. Kat looked at their hands that were linked. She kissed the back of his hand and snuggled closer to him.

"We've made a new life. I can feel it." Kat reached to her stomach with their joined hands and set them there.

(Mew, you are me and I am you. Are you happy) Spine sent.

(More than anything Tiki. I'm so happy you wanted me. I was unwanted in my old life.) Kat sighed.

(Unwanted? Who would not want such a beautiful being?) Spine kissed the back of her neck.

(You'd be surprised.) Kat giggled. She yawned.

"Sleep beloved. Sleep now." Spine pulled her closer as she fell into a deep and happy sleep.

Kat and Spine walked down a long set of stairs hand in hand. Kat tried not to blush when Redlance winked at her. She let Spine's hand go at the bottom of the stairs and run to hug Nightfall and Leetah. The two hugged her back each with a smile.

"Cub, you look happy." Cutter said giving her a one arm hug across the shoulders as well.

"I'm very happy Cutter." She smiled at Spine who was being hugged by his friends, "Very happy."

"Have you two talked about things?" Leetah asked.

"We have. I will return with you. I could never live here and be away from you guys but…at the same time its going to be hard to be away from him." Kat's face got a little sad look on it.

"We can always visit. And they can always visit us." Leetah said hugging the girl again.

"I know." Kat left them and went to Spine who was holding out a hand to her.

He introduced her to all the Wave Dancers. Everyone gave her a huge hug. For they knew that the child would be part Wave Dancer as well as…whatever she was.

Soon it was time for the palace to leave. Sunstream needed to take up his duties. Brill and Sunstream had a moment to themselves away from everyone. Kat and Spine did as well.

"You'll visit right?" Spine said cupping her face in his webbed hands.

"Of course. Soon though you'll have to visit me at the Holt." Kat smiled up at him. She was trying not to cry.

"Oh beloved, we'll still be together even though we're apart." Spine hugged Kat to his chest. She wrapped her arms around him.

"I know." She stepped back from him.

"Take care my little one." Spine laid a hand on Kat's stomach. "And you take care as well beloved."

"I will." Kat nodded.

Kat went and stood next to Nightfall as the Wave Dancers left the Crystal Palace. She waved a hand at Spine and Brill as tears streamed down her face. Soon the palace was a blur in the sky traveling back to the Holt. When the palace landed Kat walked out into a lush green forest.

"Welcome to Goodtree's Rest." Cutter said.

I'm finally home, Kat thought, home.

I'm not done with this story yet. Still need to find out if Kat's having a boy or a girl. At the one part in this story I was iffy on wanting to write it. Shade and Sweet Water.