Well here I am again. I really want to PM all of you to say thanks but I've PMed you all I'm sure. If I haven't I'm so sorry. Maybe you guys don't mind since I give thanks to you all right here in my commentary. SO thanks again everyone! I'm trying hard to stop any mess ups such as in the last chapter I put Kathy had gone to Flute Fields too but she really didn't but I guess you guys figured that one out for yourselves.

Here's the next chapter! Hope you guys like it!


~Molly's POV~

"Hey Angel. I'm not taking up all the covers, am I?" I groggily muttered as I saw that my whole body was wrapped in my covers.

No response.

"Angela?" I turned to see Angela's side of the bed empty. I turned to look at the clock that now read 2 o' clock and gasped. Angela was never gone for more than at the most and hour!

I sprung from my bed and went to Angela's room to see if she was there but found her bed untouched.

'Where is she?' I started to panic.

I pulled on an old jacket that was too big for me over my light purple night shirt and ran outside. The cold of the Fall night chilled my bare legs since I only wore the long night shirt, but I endured it as I swept through the entire farm. I first checked the chicken coop.

"Angela!" I whispered urgently, as not to stir my ducks and chickens. She wasn't in the there so I trudged to the barn. Millie was the only one awake which was surprising.

"Hey girl. Have you seen Angela?" Millie stared at me and her eyes started to dilate.

"Millie?" I questioned. The heifer started to stomp her right front hoof on the ground at me menacingly. This was not like her, something was wrong. Before I could think of anything to do, Millie put her head down and begun to grunt with killer instinct. She then charged at me and my eyes widened in fear.

"HELP!" I screamed though it was a failed attempt seeing as how my house was located far from anyone hearing me. I quickly jumped out of the way but not without the cow kicking a hoof out at my bruised side. It wasn't that hard of an impact but it definitely was helping the healing process. I turned to Millie who was getting ready to charge again but before that happened, a flash of black came out of nowhere and ran Millie through. I watched in horror as Midnight rammed into Millie, sending the animal flying into the wall of the barn. Midnight snorted at the now lifeless Millie. I was shaking with fear when Midnight came over and nudged me with her snout. She definitely was my best cow friend. I stroked her coat and went over to Millie's body. I reached out to touch the animal's shiny coat but then, the body suddenly, a cloud of smoke burst from out of thin air. I covered my eyes and coughed horribly, my body felt horrible from the sickness and now the bruise, the cloud of smoke didn't help any. Upon opening my eyes I saw that Millie's body had disappeared and my eyes widened.

"What the-"

"MOOOO!" A loud moo came from behind the barn. I swiftly ran out and checked and there was a lively, and somewhat shaken, Millie. She stared at me with what could come close to fear. I rubbed my eyes. If the animal that just charged at me and almost tried to kill me was not Millie...then what was it? I examined Millie who only seemed to have a small injury on her back left hoof, so just to be sure I treated it and wrapped it so it wouldn't become infected. Midnight mooed happily at Millie, as if she had not just killed a mysterious look alike.

"This was...too weird..." I started to ponder on this incident but my brain was overly tired so it wasn't functioning correctly.

"The body just went 'poof', into thin air and-" That's went it hit me. I didn't dare to say it out loud but I'm sure that I knew exactly what caused this incident. I slid onto the floor of the barn in fear as I held myself.

'Bullet two...'

I shivered at my thought and looked warily around the barn. Millie and Midnight were now lying down, ready to fall back asleep. I was now generally alone at probably 2:30 after I had encountered another one of the rogue sprite's attempts to kill me. I was shaken, anybody would be. I knew I should have been worried for Angela, but something in my mind reassured me that she was okay. But something in my mind also told me that I was in danger. And I knew to listen to my mind when it told me to get the hell of the farm because as soon as I stood up, the light in the barn ominously started to flicker...and then go out. I couldn't stop myself as I burst out the barn and shut it close hard. My body violently shook with my silent sobs and my bottom lip started to quiver. I heard something shuffle behind the barn and my heart stopped.

'Something is here! RUN!' That was all my mind screamed at me and without any sort of hesitation I took off running in nothing but a night shirt and a jacket. I could feel my bare feet hitting the cold hard ground and the foliage tangling around my feet.

"ANGELA!" I called, distraught and scared.

"ANGELAAAAAAAAA! SOMEOOOOOOOONE!" My feet carried me far away from the farm. My eyes blinded by my tears but I kept running. Where I was heading...I had no idea.

I felt my feet slap hard on pavement and I heard the sound of water underneath me. I looked towards the water on the side of a bridge and I thought I saw eyes staring up at me. I let out a sharp high shriek and ran faster than my body could keep up with. I ran through leaves and grass and I tripped over a stray root which made me tumble to the ground. I fell forwards and Quickly looked up to see where I was...right in front of the entrance to Fugue Forest. I stared at the ever darkening door way to the actual forest. I felt an ominous presence from behind the door. I turned on my back and stared at the entrance. My heart rate sped up and I could feel my breathing become unsteady. Fear crept up my neck and I felt bumps slowly arise from my arms.

I breathed out forcefully because I was holding my breath apparently and as soon as my eyes adjusted some more I saw something that made me freeze from all movement. The door to Fugue Forest was slowly creeping open. Creaking with every movement, it was like I was in a horror movie. Something, a shadowy figure that I couldn't make out in any way, crept it's head slowly from behind the door. I wanted to scream but my throat felt sore and I could barely even open my mouth. Right as the showy head crept all the way from around the door I heard my name being called out.

"Molly! Hey! Molly!" I didn't take my eyes off the door and as I felt a hand grab my shoulder, I jumped.

"Molly, what are you doing out here this late!" Chase's voice came, softly and concerned. I turned slightly to see his violet eyes staring at me widely. The door to Fugue Forest then closed with a quick slam which caused Chase to look at it suspiciously. I looked at it too to see that the shadowy figure must have went back behind the door. I was frozen and tears still seemed to trickle down my face like a faucet.

"Molly, who was that?" I finally turned fully around to Chase who was kneeling beside me and holding my shoulders to help me sit up.

"I-I-I..." I shook my head slowly and fearfully either from what just happened or from Chase holding onto me and looking at me so intently. Probably both. The tears started to come faster and I just stared at Chase.

"I don't know..." I whispered with so much fear in my voice that I think it startled him.

~Chase's POV~

"This working schedule is getting way to hectic for me." I sighed as I trudged home from the bar. After the customers left Hayden needed me to help straighten the place up. One too many drunks (Kathy) had screwed the place up and since Kathy was a drunken mess that was already resting at her house I was forced to be the only one helping. Selena never helps so we don't even bother asking.

I rolled my neck, it was really stiff and sore. I walked past the small waterwheel that was near Molly's farm and I suddenly saw Molly running down the path. I noticed she was wearing nothing but a light purple night shirt and a very big jacket, no shoes or anything so her feet were getting cut up I'm sure. Then, I heard her screams.

"Angela! ANGELAAAAA! SOMEOOOOOOONE!" She screamed and her voice was noticeably shaking. Before I could call out to her, she clumsily ran towards Flute Fields. Don't ask me why, but my feet urged me to run after her, so I did. I followed her to the bridge to Flute Fields and she shrieked when she looked down at the water, she still didn't notice me though. She kept on running and she eventually ran into the entrance of Fugue Forest.

'Dammit! She's going to get lost if she just goes running aimlessly in there!' I picked up my pace and it wasn't long until I saw Molly lying on her back breathing as if she hadn't had any air in her lungs before. I called out to her but she didn't turn around. I was getting nervous.

I touched her shoulder gently and I could feel her tense up underneath my touch.

"Molly, what are you doing out here this late!" I asked her. She was shaking violently and when she turned to face me slightly I saw tears in her eyes. Suddenly, I heard a door creak and I looked up in time to see the door to Fugue Forest slam shut. I eyed the door and then knelt next beside Molly. Holding her up with my hands on her shoulders.

"Molly, who was that?" She finally turned to me and stuttered horribly. Tears started to fall out of her eyes quickly and she started to shake.

"I don't know..." Her voice was so full of fear and her eyes had absolute terror written in them. My heart stopped for a second.

'If she didn't know who it was...then who was it?' That one thought sent shivers through my spine but I quickly pulled Molly up and looked her up and down.

She was shivering from the cold and her nose was read. Her sickness wasn't going to go away at this rate. I looked down and noticed her feet were cut up. Combine that with a horror stricken face and you could tell it wasn't a pretty sight. I thought better of making a joke about it at this time. She seemed to just let me take her anywhere, her feet just moved to where I moved her so I started to pull her along.

'Her being behind me probably isn't the best idea...' I thought. If someone came from behind then she would be the first person they'd go for so I brought her to the front of me and walked with her close to me as I held her shoulders. She walked along in a daze as she seemed to stop crying. I lead her back to my house and sat her down at my kitchen table. She let me sit her down and I fixed some cocoa up for her. She just stared at the mug before she started to tear up again.

"What happened?" I asked her comfortingly.

"Someone...something was at my house. Angela went out for a walk and I guess she found a friend since she's usually back within an hour. I can tell that she's fine. But...I was alone. And I-" Molly looked at me with wide eyes.

"Oh no! I'm so sorry I...I shouldn't trouble you. I'm so sorry." She got up on shaky legs and was about to leave but I pulled her back down into her seat.

"Don't you even think about leaving." I told her and she looked at me, I think she was more frightened of me than the person or thing that scared her away from her house.

"Please. Just stay here. I didn't mean to scare you." I scratched the back of my head she blinked at me for a few moments and finally sat back down at her seat with the cocoa.

"I'm sorry."

"And stop saying you're sorry."

She bit her lip.

"And stop biting you're lip!" I exclaimed.

"AHHHHH! WHAT DO I DO! I'M SORRRRRRRRY!" She started to become flustered.

"Didn't I just say to stop apologizing! Geez!" Molly sat still and looked at her hands.

"Why are you so afraid of boys?"

"I told you that they just scare-"

"I know that's not the whole truth." She looked at me and then looked back at her hands.

"I-I don't want to talk about this..." She muttered. I sighed in frustration.

"Can I please know?" I asked her. She looked at me and her eyes showed so much grief that I could feel it radiating from her.

"Well I..." She looked at the cocoa and smirked.

"It was in middle school...I guess you already knew that." She laughed half-heartily.

"And I...I had this crush. It was this boy and he was really popular. I didn't know about it really, I probably wouldn't care if I did anyway. But I thought that he was a really nice guy." Her smile faded and was replaced with a frown.

"I couldn't have been any more wrong. After I had confessed to him, which he rejected immediately by the way, he went and told the whole school. The boys started to tease me and call me horrible names. The girls just gave me sympathy, telling me it was a bad idea to have gone for a guy like that..." She stopped.

"That's it? That's no reason." She looked at me and it was the sternest expression I'd ever seen on her face.

"I'm not done." She sighed and looked back at her cocoa regretfully.

"I didn't mean to snap at you."

"It's fine." I sat down in the chair next beside her and turned it to her.

"Well...I just thought that the boys were really mean and I ignored them. But they started to get angry that I wasn't becoming affected by what they would say, they would yell at me and for the longest time I kept yelling back, and that only made them angrier. I would yell back a them but there was this one boy who I yelled back at and he pushed me to the ground, hard, it could have ended up worse if his friends didn't tell him I wasn't worth it and they were satisfied that I finally broke down crying."

"That's rough."

"That wasn't even the main reason...A year or two later, I guess sophomore year, the boys got a little more bold. They would start to follow me home, banging on my door. I was so afraid. They kept giving me these...these looks! It was terrifying. They would back me up into corners, trail me into alley ways. Luckily for me there always seemed to be a scapegoat that saved me every time. But one time, just one time! I was too careless and I didn't notice a boy follow me home. If I had only turned around!" A pained expression appeared on her face.

"What happened?" She looked at the wall this time. She was purposely averting my eyes.

"I lived in a bad part of town. The part where everyone ignores a cry for help out of fear that they might get mixed up in it. I had just unlocked my door and as soon as I opened it I was pushed to the ground. I turned and saw a boy from my school coming in and locking the door behind him. He dragged me to the couch and threw me on it and then he pinned me down. I struggled but he was too strong. I couldn't push him off of me. He started to pull down his pants and I screamed for help. The apartment walls were paper thin but I guess everyone pretended not to hear. He told me that I should feel lucky that he was doing this. He started to pull down my skirt and..."

My eyes widened. "So did he..." I have no idea why I felt disappointed about this. It was a horrible experience that Molly went through and I could only feel disappointed. I'm a sorry excuse for a man.

"NO...he didn't...well didn't get a chance more like it." I sighed with relief after she said that but she didn't notice, thankfully.

"There was a lamp on the table behind me. Without thinking I took it and slammed it down on his head really hard. I actually did it a few times and the last hit it broke. I slid out from underneath him but my skirt got stuck and after shaking myself loose of it I crawled over the phone to call the police. I waited in a corner until they finally came hours later. They always took too long to respond to phone calls in my neighborhood. They knocked on the door and before I opened it they showed me their badges through the peep hole. I opened it and stood away in the corner when two very young male officers came in and grabbed him off the couch. They tried to take me along with them but it was too late. My faith in boys was destroyed and I didn't feel I could trust any man. They had to call a female officer in just to get me downtown. I've been afraid of guys ever since." She started to wipe at her eyes.

"It's okay though. Ever since I came to this island I've gotten better. Luke and Calvin just seemed to have grown on me and Hayden is like a father. But I still get nervous. Even when I talk to Julius." I laughed slightly but she started to frown again.

"I still have nightmares...about what could have happened if I didn't think quick enough. It just..." She glanced up at me.

"And here I am just spilling my heart out to you! We're not even on such great terms and here I am just-"

"It's alright. Really. I just never knew..."

"Just...don't tell anyone. I haven't told anyone except for Angela."

"I swear I won't." I said.

We sat there in an awkward silence for a while.

~Angela's POV~

"So the rogue sprite can only be conjured up by a spell caster such as yourself?" I asked Wizard, we had been talking for a good few hours now. I still couldn't believe the guy is an actual Wizard! He had showed me when he filled my mug back up without getting up to do it, instead the mug got up and filled itself! He said that it was very low level magic too! Wow this guy is so fascinating!

"Yes. But they must be...experienced in the dark arts. Usually only highly magical beings such as...deities...can conjure up things like sprites. And only very powerful deities..."

"So the Harvest Goddess can conjure up sprites?" Wizard shook his head.

"No. The Harvest King actually made the sprites for her, she is only able to call upon them because he gave her...I guess something you can call the "right" to them."

"The right? You mean like a title?"

"Yes...exactly like that. The title that he had over them as their conjurer was handed over to her through a type of transition through tangible items. If the item was to be destroyed, so would the sprite." I looked at Wizard for a moment with I guess a confused look on my face because he gave a sigh.

"Let me put it...in a way you would understand better. The bells you're gathering...Molly told you how when she found the yellow bell...the sprite inside was faded, right?" I nodded. I wasn't surprised that he knew about this event. Molly had told me about it and I assumed Wizard saw the event unfold through his crystal ball that was nestled on a pillow between us.

"Well...it had been worn out by the constant waves and the sand weathering it away. It was nearly destroyed so the...spirit of the sprite was fading away. If he had been...in that location for any longer...he would have died."

"Oh! I get it now! So if the bells are destroyed then that means that the sprites will be gone which means we couldn't wake up the Harvest King which ultimately leads to the untimely doom of the island!" I exclaimed with realization. Wizard looked at me blankly.

"I...I got it right. Right?" I asked, I could tell that my face was turning a shade of pink.

"Yes you did I just...did not expect you to get the whole picture...so well."

"Well Mr. Wizard! I happen to have a particularly brilliant head on my shoulders!" I chuckled and Wizard smiled at me and actually laughed himself. It was a deep and pure one. I twirled my hair and blushed a deeper shade of pink.

"What is...on your mind?" He asked. I was going to say nothing...I was going to continue our conversation...I was but just like not too long ago, instead I...

"You're laugh is very soothing. I like hearing it." I told him, smiling shyly.

Wizard stared at me and I waved a hand in front of my face flustered.

'Where the hell are these words coming from!' My mind yelled frantically, and as if Wizard could hear my thoughts, he gave a small smile.

"You're...humorous. You're...full of surprises...aren't you?" I smiled widely at him.

"You could say that."

"But...back to what you were saying..."

"Oh, yes yes yes! I was thinking that, if we can just find the item holding the rogue sprite's spirit...then we can destroy the rogue sprite and everything will go back to normal!"

"It's not that easy..."

"Why not?"

"First of all...do you know where the item is?" I looked to the ground embarrassed.

"Oops... I guess you're right. But how will we find the item?"

"It is said that two people of pure heart...together can see the rogue sprite...you know this much, right?" I nodded.

"Well...would it not also make sense if...the two people were also able to locate the item it was...attached to?"

"Yes! That does make sense! Molly and I could find the item...why am I feeling that there is a catch here." I stated blandly.

"You have a particularly brilliant head on your shoulders...that's why." I giggled.

"You used my joke against me...touché!"

"Yes...but what I mean to say is that...the conjurer would not have made the item so easy to destroy...they put spells on the item...making sure it's secure."

"So in the case of the bells...the spell would be that the power would fade with the people's belief in the Harvest King...wait...but he handed the "title" over to the Harvest Goddess...so maybe it's because the people have been unkind to nature as of late."

"That could very well be the spell the Harvest King placed upon the bells."

I could feel an epiphany coming.

"It makes so much sense now! Whoever is trying to kill us is doing it because if we revive the powers of nature then the bells will be completely indestructible! Not only that but we might just be the only ones on the island to see the rogue sprite and find the item it is attached to!"

"You're good at this..." I smiled widely but then I frowned instantly.

"The only thing I'm not sure about is who it is. Who would want to destroy Castanet? It makes no sense." Wizard looked at me seriously now.

"I'm not sure...but you must be careful. In fact...this is only the beginning..." I nodded solemnly.

"But...I'll help anyway...that I can. If you can find the item...I can find a way...to break the spell."

I looked at him with determination in my eyes.

"Let's do it Wizard!" I yelled, abruptly standing from my seat.

"Wh-what?" He asked, shocked.

"Let's save Castanet! If we have your help...then I know we can do it!" Wizard nodded smiling but his smile soon faded and he looked towards his crystal ball.

"What is it?" I asked him. He looked to me with concern.

"It's Molly...she had an encounter...with the rogue sprite." My heart stopped.

No. Not again!

I ran for the door and yanked it open, the cold air hit my face. I looked back at Wizard and he was still in the same spot.

"Well?...Don't wait for the Winter, Wizard! C'mon!" I grabbed his hand and pulled him out, slamming his door behind us. We were off to the farm.


How was it you guys? I'm getting more into the main plot/romantic side of the story now. I hope it isn't too confusing, I'll clear anything up for you guys in the story if you don't get it. But other than that I'm trying my hardest. And there are still a few secrets up this story's sleeve so if you want to know then you have to keep reading. XD Sorry but that's the rule. No spoilers from me!