After defeating the Shadow Lord, Lief and the others returned to Deltora to prepare to unite the two lands after Dark made his peace with all the people of Quest.

"Lief, Dara and Dark have arrived," said Sharn as she walked into the room followed by the other two.

"It's been three years you two," said Lief as he got up to meet them. Meanwhile, other guests were arriving outside the castle.

"Barda, the Dread Gnome and Kin tribes have just been spotted," said a guard.

"I can see that," said Barda as he noticed the two tribes in the sky. After they landed, Barda went and greeted them.

"It has been a while, Barda," said Gla-Thon.

"You're right, and I heard that you're the new leader of the tribe," said Barda.

"Yeah, and it's tough work; I can just imagine what Lief must be going through," said Gla-Thon.

"Hey, Barda," said Prin as she ran up to them with another Kin child.

"Hi there Prin, who's your friend?" asked Barda.

"I'm Makaron," said the other Kin child who turned out to be a boy.

"These two have been spending a lot of time together lately," said Gla-Thon. The two Kin then begun to blush as they averted eye contact. Up on one of the ledges of the castle, Jasmine was looking up at the sky.

"I can't believe there's so many people here," said Jasmine.

"I thought I would find you here, you know that you're supposed to be getting ready," said Jarred as he walked up.

"Sure thing, dad," said Jasmine as she got up and walked away. Later that day, everyone was getting dressed.

"Hey, can we come in for a minute?" asked Manus from the other side of the door where Jasmine and some of the other girls were.

"Sure thing," said Gla-Thon.

"Hey, have any of you seen Lief?" asked Glock.

"No, we haven't," said Gla-Thon.

"Is something wrong?" asked Zeean.

"We haven't been able to find him, no one has," said Fardeep.

"Now that you mention it, Neridah has not been here for a while," said Dara as she looked around.

"Wait, those two came to me and bought an uncut ruby and diamond earlier," said Steven as he thought back.

"I wonder, could Lief be making something for her before they run off together?" asked Zeean.

"There's no way he would do that," said Jasmine as she stood up with some anger in her voice.

"Wait, I remember that I saw them both go into the chapel with the secret tunnel," said Manus.

"Then that's where we will go," said Jasmine. After they got to the chapel, Barda noticed that the tunnel had been used not too long ago.

"They could have gone anywhere from here," said Barda as they exited the tunnel at the edge of a forest.

"Hey, what are you all doing here?" asked Prin as she flew above them before landing.

"We're looking for Lief," said Gla-Thon.

"Apparently Neridah and he are running off together," said Glock.

"Lief would never do that, he loves Jasmine and she loves him," said Prin. Everyone was now staring at Prin with stunned expressions.

"What makes you think we love each other, I mean even if my heart pounds like crazy when I haven't seen him in a while, does not mean anything; besides, he's a king, he could have any girl that he wants," said Jasmine with a red and panicked expression.

"Uh, Jasmine," said Manus as he pointed to something behind her. When she turned around, Jasmine found Lief and Neridah behind her.

"How much of that did you hear?" asked Jasmine who was obviously worried.

"Enough, but just so you know, he does not want just any girl," said Neridah.

"Yeah, because he wants you, why else would you two go to buy those gems together, I bet he even made a ring from them," said Jasmine.

"I did, but for you," said Lief as he took a ring with a silver band and a small ruby as the center stone surrounded by diamonds and placed hit on Jasmine's finger.

"Lief," said Jasmine with a stunned look.

"Jasmine, will you be my wife?" asked Lief.

"Oh, you really are an idiot," said Jasmine before she kissed Lief, which surprised him and everyone else.

"Whoa, I did not see that coming," said everyone else at the same time.