It's been what? Like almost 2 months since the last update. Anyway, before you get to read, you all have to say Happy Happy Birthday to ISHHL. It reached it first birthday. I'm so proud! Anyway I just have to remind myself more than I do all of you, but Ages again:

Nicole: 24

Brenna: 25

Jenny: 25

Melissa: 25

Amanda: 26

Katlin: 24

Amy and Libby: 6

Dara: 4

Enya: 3

Kaida: 2

Trowa: 8

Chichiri: 7

Alexander: 1

Sadie and Bryce: 11 months

Trey, Trinity, and Triveni: 5 months

Ok, now you can all go ahead and read!

Nicole shook her head in another attempt to clear it. Tangora seemed to be refusing to answer their calls. "Boy it feels good to be whole again."

Jenny nodded agreement. "I'm certainly glad we've got our memories back."

"Yeah," Melissa added, simply, and hugged Nicole around the shoulders.

"I'm confused though. We've all met before, why did it take so long for our memories to come back?" Kat asked, getting mostly shrugs in response.

"No clue. Where's Brenna?" Nicole asked. They looked around and saw Brenna and Amanda standing in the corner, staring at one another.

"It was you!" Brenna hissed.

"I didn't know it was you, Vixey." Amanda defended herself.

"It was you!" The knight persisted.

"Although this does make it funnier!"

"It was you!" That was it. Brenna's hand moved to her dagger. They may have been friends on earth, but in Tortall, there was still a very fine line along Brya and Ariana's relationship.

Jenny was instantly alarmed. "Brenna! You can't kill Amanda!" she said sternly.

"Watch me."

"Brenna!" Jenny glared at her.

"Fine. But she better not do it again," she said, relaxing a bit. She ran her fingers over the hilt of her dagger.

"It is pretty funny, Bren." Nicole said, and everyone laughed as Brenna scowled. Suddenly a knock sounded desperately on the door again.

"Lady Jolin! Lady Jolin!" a frantic maid's voice called. Jenny opened the door and poked her head out.

"Lady Jolin. The king! He… he killed himself. He said something about 'they'll never take my treasure.' Then he jumped off Balor's Needle. It happened just before Liam's execution. The prince is a live and is to be crowned in a week. Lady Kyli will be crowned Queen that day as well."

Jenny kept her face still. "Very well."

"You've all been summoned to the palace immediately, my lady."

Jenny nodded. "Alright. Get the children and the carriages ready." She closed the door and turned to her friends.

"We can't go to the palace now." Amanda said flatly.

"And why not?" Brenna responded.

"Because we're one step closer to answers. We could maybe, I dunno, go HOME," Melissa answered.

"But what about our lives here? Our husbands and children?" Jenny added.

"What about everything we gave up in the first place?" Nicole reminded her.

"But I wanna be queen." Katlin pouted.

Amanda shook her head. "Either way, we can't do anything until we talk to that damn god."

"Fine! TANGORA! Get your ass in here! We know you're there!"

FINE. WHAT DO YOU WANT, MORTAL?

"What do you mean 'what do we want'?" Nicole glared at him. "You took away our memories and now they've returned."

SO?

"So? We want to know why!" Brenna told him. The god was scowling at her. A very rare thing. She had only seen him that depressed one other time.

DOES IT MATTER THAT MUCH? YOU'VE GOT YOUR MEMORIES BACK. YOU SHOULD BE HAPPY. he responded, angrily.

"We want to know why!" Amanda repeated. She watched him carefully. She may have memories, but as a mage, she was always wary of the gods.

FINE. YOU'RE ALL IN A SMALL ENCLOSED SPACE. THE SMALL BIT OF MEMORIES YOU ALL KEPT, WELL THEY FELT EACH OTHER'S PRESENCE AND ALL SIX TOGETHER WERE STRONG ENOUGH TO BREAK THE SEALING SPELL.

"Oh." They all said.

Tangora sighed. That was it. It was over. They were free, all hope was lost. But they couldn't know that. ANYTHING ELSE? Did he really have to ask. He knew what they wanted.

"You said we don't exist on earth anymore, right?" Melissa asked.

YES. YOU DON'T EXIST THERE ANYMORE.

"Well, can we see for ourselves?" Nicole asked.

YOU MEAN, GO BACK TO EARTH?

Amanda nodded. "Exactly. And if they do remember, or we can make them, we get to stay there if we want."

Tangora stroked his chin, thinking. I CAN GIVE YOU A WEEK, IN EARTH TIME. IT WILL ONLY BE A FEW HOURS OUR TIME.

"You mean, you'll do it?" Melissa looked at him. "I mean, you're not going to put up more of a fight?"

NO. I WAS WRONG NOT TO LET YOU HAVE PROOF. BUT THERE WAS A REASON I WANTED TO KEEP YOU HERE.

"And that was?" Brenna asked him.

I CAN'T SAY. JUST THAT AFTER THE CROWNING OF LIAM AND KYLI, YOUR DESTINIES COME INTO PLAY. BUT IT WAS UNFAIR OF ME TO TAKE AWAY ALL YOUR MEMORIES. I APOLOGIZE.

"So we can go back to earth?" Katlin asked. Tangora nodded.

"And if we return, I stress the if; we can keep our memories of our lives on earth?" Melissa said.

I SUPPOSE THAT IS ONLY FAIR. AGREED.

"Then when do we leave?" Amanda questioned, smiling.

RIGHT AWAY, IF YOU'RE ALL READY. BUT I'LL HAVE TO RETURN YOU TO TEENAGERS AGAIN.

"I don't know about this," Jenny said, her face nervous when she heard about the age change. No one knew she was nearly nine months pregnant. She loved how Jolin's body always hid her pregnancies so well. If she became an eighteen year old, she might lose the baby.

"What are you talking about? We get to go home. And if they do remember us, we can stay." Nicole told her friend.

"No, she's right. Things are good here. Why mess with it?" Brenna asked, admiring her sword and clutching the locket Tasuki had given here.

YOU CAN ALWAYS RETURN WHENEVER YOU LIKE. BUT IN ORDER TO GO, YOU ALL MUST GO.

Brenna nodded. "Alright. I guess it couldn't hurt."

"I guess it's ok." Jenny agreed, shrugging.

"Katlin?"

"But I wanna be queen!" she pouted.

"She agrees." Brenna and Amanda said at once. Tangora nodded and raised his hands.

WHEN YOU ARRIVE YOU'LL BE EARTH TEENAGERS. NIRA, YOU'LL HAVE THE PORTAL. YOU MAY USE IT TO RETURN AT ANYTIME, BUT IN A WEEK, IT WILL PULL YOU ALL IN IF YOUR OLD LIVES REFUSE TO REMEMBER YOU. He shut his eyes and gold light radiated around them. Everything went back as the maid opened the door to find the room empty except for the God.

Amanda rubbed her eyes as the darkness pried them open. A pale orange light blazed overhead.

"What the?" she asked, realizing she was leaning against the brick wall of a building, staring at a small grassy field. She nudged Jenny, who lay on her left, awake.

"Hmm… where are we?" she mumbled.

"Against the gym, staring at the practice football field." An eighteen year old told her. Jenny stared at her for a second, not recognizing her at first. Nicole smiled and plopped down in front of Jenny. "The morning after we were sent Totall."

"Well, smarty. What time is it?" Katlin asked, yawning as she woke up.

"Six forty five A.M."

Brenna blinked as she and Melissa joined them. "And you know this how?"

Nicole smiled. "My watch tells time and date."

"Oh," Melissa said laughing. "Then we're at your high school?"

Katlin nodded. "Yep," she tapped the wall behind her. "The evilness behind us would be the gym. Enemy of all ninth and tenth graders; it sucks all the happiness for our lives and drains us of all-" Brenna put her hand over Katlin's mouth.

"We don't need a monologue. A simple yes would have done fine." She laughed.

"Well, what now?" Amanda asked.

"Um… I guess we go where we usually do." Nicole said, placing a tattered book in her book bag. They all had books with them, and were dressed in normal clothing for high school.

"Which would be?" Melissa asked.

"Band room," Brenna, Amanda, and Katlin said in unison. Jenny just nodded. They all stood up and began to walk toward the school's back door. Jenny lingered behind, her hands on her lower pelvic region.

"Jenny, you ok?" Nicole asked, placing an arm over her best friend's shoulder.

Jenny smile weakly. "Yeah, I'm good." Nicole nodded and focused ahead of her as they walked. Jenny began to feel a little nauseous. Her eighteen year old body was still pregnant.

The girls entered the building, walking swiftly through the quiet morning halls and towards a decently noisy room. Katlin opened the doors first and turned the corner. Her face lit as she saw a cluster of people in the back corner of the room. She grinned and ran towards the one closest to her, latching her arms around the blond girl's neck.

"Ami-chan! It's been so so so long! I missed you!" she told the girl, hugging her around the neck and nearly cutting off her oxygen. Everyone else in the group turned and was staring at Katlin, Nicole, Jenny, and the others. The blond girl managed to pull Katlin's arms off her neck. She turned and faced the other girl.

"Um… do I know you?" she asked. Katlin's smile faded. Her eyes filled with tears, as did Nicole's and Jenny's. Brenna and Amanda stood dumbfounded. Melissa indifferent. Was it some kind of cruel joke?

"Amy?" she asked nervously, hoping her classmate would smile and laugh.

"Yes? And you are?" a smile didn't even cross Amy's face. She looked concerned. Brenna put her hands on Katlin's shoulders. "You don't remember us?"

A young man sat on the floor, looking at them through one open eye. He had been asleep moments before. "Nope. Can't say we do."

Brenna's heart sank. She turned to a girl taller than her with dark brown hair. "Lib?"

The girl looked at her for a second and then shook her head. "I'm sorry. Am I supposed to?"

Amanda shook her head. "No. It's all right. It was our mistake. Sorry for bothering you." She tried to give the group, their friends, a smile as she and the others turned, heart broken, and left the room. They went back outside and behind the wall. They could see the outside door that lead to the band room. Nicole and Katlin sat on the floor, leaning against the wall, trying to hold back tears. Jenny sat silently in deep thought. Amanda stood, arms crossed and her eyes closed. Brenna stood sideways against the wall, slamming the side of her fist against it every few times as she fumed angrily, and Melissa remained quiet, unsure what to do or say.

While the girls were preoccupied, they didn't notice that two teenagers had come up to them. The two stopped in front of Amanda. She slowly opened her eyes and blinked. Standing in front of her were two girls from the band room, the one Katlin had hugged and the one Brenna had questioned.

"I thought you said you didn't remember us?" Amanda said, unsure.

The taller one pouted while the blond blinked. "Mamma?"

Ok, Ok, I know. Short chapter. Stupid author with short chapters. But if I made it longer, I couldn't end it like that. And I really want to end it that way. So yeah, tough luck! - And I think in came out very well anyway. Things are really starting to come into place. I couldn't wait to get to this point. Well, anyway, the Nymph is very very happy with the chapter, despite that she is very sad about being so far away from all of the characters! Hope you all liked it!

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