Lily: So…tired…

Erika: …

Anna: You two stayed up all night playing poker with candy again, didn't you?

Erika: No, we stayed up all night playing poker with chips.

Conway: Where's the difference?

Erika: Chips is not candy, it's a huge difference.

Rosalina: Shouldn't we thank the reviewers now?

Stephanie: That's a great idea!

Lily: We would like to thank: Moonlight Enchantress, Fudokishi, AnimeFreak81296, and ...nothingness...: Thank you!

Stephanie: And another thanks to the wonderful Moonlight Enchantress for the help of this chapter. Thank you!

Daniel: Okay, Nicole, if you get up and start working on the chapter, I will let you play…Final Fantasy X-2! -Holds up game-

Lily: GIMME! -Holds out hands-

Daniel: Not until the end of the chapter.

Lily: So cruel! Bribing me with games…well I was going to start on the chapter anyways, so let the story…begin!

(-Stephanie-)

"Ack! They took Anna too!" I exclaimed.

"Mjrn!" Fran shouted.

I turned my head, along with everyone else, as Mjrn dropped the Nethicite and Fran ran towards her. The Nethicite rolled until it shattered and nothing remained.

"Okay…I got to admit…that was kind of cool." I mumbled

What? It made a pretty color.

Fran stooped and gasped as this scary looking phantom thing came out of Mjrn and then disappeared. And then, Mjrn fell to the ground.

"That thing inside her. What was it?" Vaan asked, gaining my attention.

I then looked away from Vaan and back at Fran who was now kneeling on the ground, holding her sister.

"Is it you?" Mjrn asked Fran.

She had such a sweet and innocent voice. Cute!

Fran slightly smiled and nodded her head.

"I say there is some explaining to do." Rosalina spoke.

Mjrn closed her eyes as Fran stood up and sat her on a box near the orange blanket things. Mjrn opened her eyes, knowing we wanted an explanation and so started her story. "When the hume solider came to the wood, the village took small heed of them. So as long as the wood herself is safe, the viera give little care to goings on beyond. But in me an uneasiness stirred. I had to discover why they had come." Mjrn spoke.

"So you came here hoping to find something out, and got yourself caught." Balthier said. "You're as foolhardy as your sister."

Mjrn looked away. "They took me then, and set close beside me a stone. They said its Mist would have been drawn into me, that viera well suited this end. I saw the light coming from the stone and then-…" Mjrn turned to look at her sister, who had her head down as she listened.

"You're so cute!" Nicole and I suddenly squealed, hugging Mjrn. The viera looked really shocked at our action.

"You guys try not to scare the girl anymore than she already is." Rosa sighed.

"Sorry." We both apologized. We backed off. "But she's so cute." We both soon chorused, crossing our arms.

Fran, ignoring our little thing, continued on with what she was going to say: "We have seen this. On Leviathan, the Mist from the Dawn Shard drove me, too, into such rage. She was taken not by the Dawn Shard."

"Manufacted Nethicite." Larsa said, "Then that means—Penelo, the stone I gave you, do you still carry it with you?"

Penelo nodded. "Sure, it's right here." Penelo replied taking the stone out of her pocket. Once it was out Larsa grabbed it, making Penelo gasp.

"This is more dangerous than I imagined. I should never have given it to you. Forgive me, I did not know." Larsa frowned.

"I'd always thought of it as a sort of good luck charm. And even if it is dangerous on Leviathan it kept us safe." Penelo smiled.

"There is a place for all things, even danger such as this." Ashe spoke.

"I hope you're right about that." Vaan said.

"Well, shall we head back now?" Rosalina suggested with a smile.

We all nodded our heads and headed back through the Henne Mines, fighting creatures on our way back.

The whole time I thought about Anna and Erika. I really hoped they were okay, and maybe Erika is torturing Ryan and Trevor as we speak. Maybe they would get so annoyed with her that they would just give her back to us, along with Anna, right away. Nicole's dad always said if someone kidnapped Erika or Anna that they would probably bring them back in five seconds. Erika and Anna if you can somehow hear me…annoy the hell out of those kidnappers!

"Um, Steph, what's so funny?" Conway questioned.

"What?" I blinked.

"You were laughing…" Nicole narrowed her eyes at me.

"No I wasn't. You must be hearing things." I said. I walked faster, passing the two siblings, laughing a bit to myself.

(-Erika/Anna-)

"Dam dadi doo dam dam didoodi dam, dam dadi doo dam dam didoodi dam, dam dadi doo dam dam didoodi dam, dam dadi doo dam dam didoodi dam, Dam dadi doo dam dam didoodi dam. When the morning come come, I'm dancing like you're dumb dumb. And when the groove is high, when dummies jump to sky, if you feel the groove groove, the dummies have to move move, can you feel the beat the beat the beat…" Anna and Erika sang as Trevor and Ryan once again covered their ears.

"I say we give them back and grab another two." Trevor suggested.

"No way, what if they are even more annoying?" Ryan asked.

"They can't be as annoying as those two!" Trevor exclaimed.

"You never tell me what is wrong. Cause now it's time to be alone. Let me love you everyday, so long you let the dummies play, dance to the beat dance dance to the beat, dance to the beat dance dance to the beat…"

"When did you say we were going to kill them?" Trevor asked.

"When we kidnap them all,"

"That's a waste of time. Just kill them off one by one."

"No. I'm the leader here and you'll do as I say." Ryan said giving Trevor a glare.

"Fine," Trevor grumbled. This plan was going to take a long time to complete.

(-Stephanie-)

After about thirty minutes of fighting our way back through the Henne Mines, we made it outside again where our chocobo's were waiting.

"Do you think we'll have to fight that stupid Elder Wyrm again?" Nicole asked.

I smiled at my younger friend. She was starting to calm down and talk a lot more. Although you could see that she was really worried about Anna and Erika, she tried not to take her anger out on anyone anymore.

"We only had to fight the Elder Wyrm once in the game…" Conway replied.

"So, we could run into it again, if someone wants to be an idiot." Nicole said glaring at her older brother.

"Like I said before I thought it was just a lump of grass!" Conway screeched.

"And like I say all the time at home, you are an idiot!" Nicole shouted as she whacked Conway with her shoe.

"What the hell was that for?" He asked as he rubbed his head.

"That's for being you. This is for being an idiot!" Nicole replied as she once again whacked Conway with her shoe.

"Ow! Quit it!"

"No!"

"Um, shouldn't we stop them?" Penelo asked as she looked over at the two bickering siblings worriedly.

"For the last time cheese is not a fruit!" Nicole shouted.

"And I say it is!" Conway shouted back.

"How did they come up with cheese?" I asked.

"No one really knows…" Daniel spoke.

"Hey...I used to argue with my little sister like that..." Rosalina suddenly spoke.

As Nicole was about to once again hit Conway with her shoe, she stopped and looked over at Rosalina, "Huh, Rosalina? You remember something?" she asked.

Rosalina nodded, "I do...but…it is vague, I cannot even remember her face...just her voice."

"Need some sleep, Rosy Posy?" Conway sweetly asked as he looked at Rosalina with heart like eyes.

Rosalina twitched. "What. Have. I. Told. You. About. Calling. Me. That. Name?" And then the next thing I knew, Conway went flying into a bush.

"When did he call her that?" Nicole asked as she walked over to Penelo and stood next to her.

"Must've been when we weren't paying attention." Penelo shrugged.

"I think I heard Rosalina shout at him earlier…" Daniel said trailing off.

"Oh."

"I hate to break up the conversation you six are having, but we probably should get going." Balthier spoke as he walked up to us.

We all agreed and grabbed a chocobo. Nicole went over and picked up her brother, throwing him over her shoulder and stuck him on a chocobo with her, with small Fantasy who has been surprisingly quite this whole time. Rosalina rode with me; Daniel rode with Vaan, and so on.

Nicole, Fantasy, and Daniel slowed their chocobo's and rode next to me.

"Fantasy, I think its time for you to explain some things." Nicole spoke.

Fantasy immediately knew what Nicole was talking about right away. "Ah, oh, right. Rosalina started the regaining process. She'll remember the most recent memory before I had to erase them, which was probably her little sister. As time goes, she'll recover more past pieces, small, then much larger. We can help her unlock her past. As she progresses, she can recall things further from her recent past. Maybe we can unlock her past life before she can." Fantasy explained.

"Oh, that makes sense." Nicole nodded.

"You are so secretive, eh? I think the Garif, even under all those skull-hats, can still hear you!" Rosalina suddenly spoke.

Everyone laughed, minus Fantasy. Although I completely forgot Rosalina was behind me, it was hilarious.

"Hey look! I can see the Golmore Jungle." Nicole suddenly pointed out.

We all looked ahead and she was right. There was the entrance to the Golmore Jungle. About a couple minutes later, we all jumped off our chocobo's. Conway was now awake and still flirting with Rosalina. "Alright, let's try not to get our asses kicked in her, okay?" Daniel asked as he walked right into the entrance with Rosalina following behind. The rest of us soon followed right after.

(-Erika/Anna-)

"You guys have ice cream?" Anna questioned after a long while of silence.

"No. What are you talking about?" Ryan asked.

"That's a lie bigger than cake. Erika told me that you guys have ice cream, now hand it over!" Anna ordered.

"You're the one kidnapped! We shouldn't let you have anything!" Ryan retorted.

"We'll start singing again." Anna threatened.

"We have ear plugs." Ryan smirked.

"I can kick your ass."

"Not when you're tied up."

"Where do you get all this stuff? It's from our world, right?" Anna questioned.

"That's right." Trevor nodded.

"So…you two can go back to our time anytime you want?" Anna asked.

"Yes, why?"

"DOES THAT MEAN I CAN HAVE CAKE?" Erika suddenly yelled out.

"No." Both of the boys coursed.

"Jerks," Erika muttered.

Anna rolled her eyes and leaned on Erika's shoulder. "I'm tired." She said.

"I am too." Erika nodded.

"One of us has to stay up in case those two morons try to do anything." Anna whispered.

"I vote you. Night," Erika quickly said as she closed her eyes and drifted off to sleep.

"You bitch!" Anna screeched as she kicked her ravened hair friend. No affect, "How dare you leave me alone with these two!"

"Oi! What's wrong with us?" Trevor asked.

"You're kidnappers and I hate you." Anna bluntly replied.

"That's true." Ryan nodded.

Anna raised an eyebrow, "What's true?"

"What you just said…"

"I didn't say anything…"

"Yes you did."

"You must be going delusional." Anna replied swiftly turning her head.

"I give up." Ryan sighed as he sat down next to Trevor.

Anna just grinned.

(-Stephanie-)

It took a while, but we finally made it back to the village full of viera. "It's so beautiful here." I sighed as we walked on a bridge.

"I'd probably live here, if I could." Nicole nodded. I slightly smiled. I would too. But, we had homes to return back to, and I couldn't wait.

Suddenly everyone stopped walking. I tried to look ahead, but I couldn't rally see. "I heard the woods whisper." I heard Jote say, "Take it. Lente's tear is a permission. Pace through the wood and leave. To other places go."

That's when another viera walked up to us with something in her hands. She handed it to Vaan he slightly nodded and backed up as Mjrn spoke up. "That cannot be all! I saw it when I left the village! Ivalice is changing! How can the viera stand and do nothing at all?" she exclaimed.

"Ivalice is for humes. The wood alone is for us." Jote replied.

"But that is wrong! How can we just hide here in the trees when the entire world outside is on the move! I, too, wish to live freely—to leave this wood!" Mjrn said.

"Do not do this." Fran suddenly spoke up, "You must remain away from the humes. Stay with the wood. Live together with the wood. This is your way."

"But Fran—my sister!" Mjrn started to protest, but before she could say anything else, Fran spoke again.

"I am no longer of you. I have discarded wood and village. I won my freedom. Yet my past has been cut away forever." Fran said looking down and in a slightly weak voice she said, "No longer can my ears hear the green wood."

I looked at Fran with a sad face. I felt like crying, actually.

"This…solitude, you want, Mjrn?" Fran asked.

"Sister…"

Fran shook her head, "No, Mjrn. Only one sister remains to you now. You must forget my existence." After that, Mjrn ran off crying.

"I am sorry to make you do this." Jote suddenly spoke after moments of silence.

"She goes against the laws of the wood. I threw down these laws. It is better that I do this. Better I than one who must uphold these laws herself." Fran replied.

Jote looked over at the two viera that stood behind her and nodded her head at them. They both then left.

"I have a request: Listen to the wood's voice for me." Fran said, "I fear…I fear she hates me." The powerful wind from earlier surrounded Jote once again, as she listened to the wood.

"The wood longs for you. For the child gone under her boughs," Jote finally spoke.

"A pleasant lie, that." Fran said as she turned around to walk away.

"Be cautious. The wood is jealous of the humes who have taken you." Fran stopped and looked back at Jote.

"I am as them, now. Am I not?" Jote didn't answer; she just looked down and stared at the ground, "Good-bye, sister." And then Fran walked towards us, not looking back.

"Well, I guess we can focus on other things now." Conway shrugged.

"I guess." Nicole mumbled.

I sighed as we walked towards the entrance of the village. One of the things we had to focus on was getting Anna and Erika back. But where did Ryan and Trevor take them?

"Hold on a moment. I don't like the way my dress is fitting me, so I'm going to change. Be right back." Rosalina spoke as she walked inside a hut.

About four minutes later, Rosalina came out in a low cut, white shirt. The neckline was kind of low, but modest. The shirt was clinging to her body and there were some gold flower designs on it. It looked like Hawaii flowers and they weren't small or big, but medium sized. The whiteness of the shirt made her skin make her look even darker than before. Her shirt was tucked into a pair of dark blue jeans and the pants had white, medium Hawaiian flower designs on the leg, going all the way down. I counted about five or six on each one. The legs were flares and the pants had two pockets in the front, and two in the back. For shoes, she wore heels or something like that. Her pants did cover the top portion of the stilettos, but her heel, and the toe was shown. She also wore some accessories. For a necklace she wore a golden chain, with a pendant of two white angels' wings. The wings were medium sized and they shined brilliantly. The outside rims of the wings were outlined in gold. The wings had some small diamonds implanted in the wings themselves. She wore a pair of golden loops that came to her jaw line and a bracelet that is made of opal…I think…on her right wrist. Her belt was a golden/white belt that was wide, but small enough to squeeze through her belt loops. And if I saw correctly I could see a small bit of eyeliner on her bottom eyelids, light strawberry lipstick on her lips and some mascara on both of her eyelids.

"Rosalina, you look beautiful!" Nicole squealed.

"So pretty," I spoke with a smile.

"Thank you." Rosalina nodded.

"Well, shall we get going?" Balthier questioned.

We all nodded and headed towards the save crystal to save our game once more before we left.

"All right," Vaan said. He placed his arms at the back of his head and used them as a pillow while he continued to walk. "So, now we need to find Erika and Anna, right?" Vaan looked down at Fantasy. "Are they still around where we found Mjrn?"

Fantasy nodded. "Yes, I believe so."

"Then let's head back to the Henne Mines!" Penelo said.

Lily: Okay! I'm glad I did this chapter. Now gimmie the damn game! -Holds out hands-

Daniel:-Sighs-Here…

Lily: Yay! -Goes and plays Final Fantasy X-2-

Stephanie: How many times has she beaten that game?

Fantasy: Only once. You must be thinking ofFinal Fantasy XII…

Stephanie: Oh. Yeah, I probably am.

Rosalina: -Grabs a coke-cola and leaves to watch Lily-

Lily:-Pauses game- Well everyone, please leave a review and I hope you enjoyed this chapter! We'll update as soon as we can!

Everyone: Bye!