The sky was dark and cloudy when they arrived at the western coast. The familiar blowhole and the lair
of the beast reminded Lief of his journey to restore the Belt. And of course of the 2 pirates below the
rocks...

Lief: We shall camp up in the cliffs in case the sea rises tonight. But the watchemen should be at the
ready. At any first sign of danger the alarm must be raised. Is this clear?

Mesmeralde: Ok soldiers you heard him! Assemble now!


Later that evening the sky went red as the Ruby. A sign of danger. Yet one of the natives in the area
said the sky was always like this ever since the shores were affected. Yet Lief was wary. He had a
feeling something would go terribly wrong. Someone he cares about...

Jasmine!

Where is she?

Everything went by quickly. Panic rising through him, he heard Mesmeralde's yell of alarm in the distance.
In an instant he ran down from the cliffs up to the shore.

Just as he came to the shore he saw Mesmeralde's staff sprouting wings. He saw her mounting it and
kicking off the ground up towards a screaming figure in the sky.

Lief: Jasmine!

Lief yelled her name, yet he could do nothing. Jasmine was being held up by a triumphant red cloud shaped
into a giant hand. Mesmeralde tried and tried again to attack it, with fire and water shooting from her staff.
Yet it was no use. Soon the cloud was far in the distance.

Nothing to do! The Shadowlord has her. She is dead. DEAD!

Mesmeralde landed in the ground. The wings vanished back into her staff. She shouted orders to the soldiers. In
the confusion and commotion around him, Lief sank to the ground and fought back the voices in his head.

-*-center
Voice 1: You cannot take this anymore
I'm saying everything I've said before
All these words they make no sense
You find bliss in ignorance
Less you hear the less I'll say
But you'll find that out anyway
Just like before...

Lief: Everything you say to me
Takes me one step closer to the edge
And I'm about to break!

Voice 1: You need a little room to breathe

Lief:Cause I'm one step closer to the edge
And I'm about to break

Voice 1: You cannot take this anymore
I'm saying everything I've said before
All these words they make no sense
You find bliss in ignorance
Less you hear the less I'll say
But you'll find that out anyway
Just like before...

Lief: Everything you say to me
Takes me one step closer to the edge
And I'm about to break!

Voice 1: You need a little room to breathe

Lief:Cause I'm one step closer to the edge
And I'm about to break

Lief: Shut up!
Shut up!
Shut up when I'm talking to you!
Shut up!
Shut up!
Shut up when I'm talking to bYOU/b...You... you...
-*-/center

And then, out of the corner of his confused mind...

So softly...

center-*-
Jasmine: Come what may
Come what may
I will love you
Until my dying day.....

-*-/center

Lief: She is alive! I could still hear her voice!

With that his heart was filled with renewed hope. He went and searched for Mesmeralde. He had a plan.
And he needed her to help him. Perhaps this is the right time to show her real powers...

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(c)The first song One step closer
(c) Sung by Linkin Park
Characters (c) Emily Rodda


(c)The second song part of Moulin Rouge "Come what may"
(c) Sung by Ewan McGregor & Nicole Kidman
Characters (c) Emily Rodda