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Author's Note- I am posting this chapter with the prologue before I see any reviews. And for future reference, any dialogue in elvish will be stated as being in either elvish in the story itself, or it will have the exact elvish words with the translations immediately following. Thank you to all who are reading this.

Chapter One~

"Belle!" Liv called half laughing, half extremely annoyed, as she chased after her best friend, who had just thrown a pinecone at her, hitting her in the back of the head. Belle had then run away yelling very childishly, "Catch me if you can!"

Liv had already chased Belle out of Liv's backyard and into the woods behind her house. It was the two friends' last summer together because that fall they both were heading to college. Different colleges.

"Belle! Belle! Isabelle Marie Simmons!" Liv shouted, throughly exasperated, as she heard Belle getting further ahead of her. Finally, she heard Belle's progress stop.

"Olivia Anne Watson," Belle said mockingly as Liv ran up to her giving her a good whack on the back of the head. "What was that for?" Belle began innocently and pretending to rub her head soothingly. For that she got another good whack on the head. That started the glaring contest. Suddenly a bird chirped loudly from somewhere above their heads. Breaking their eye contact, both girls looked up for the source of the noise and then around them.

"Do you have any idea where we are?" Liv asked worriedly as she continued to look around. They were on the edge of a pleasant grassy clearing, and the trees above were swaying gently in the wind. It was a wonderful place in its peacefulness, but Liv didn't like it. To her, they were in the middle of nowhere, and they had no idea how to get home, or anywhere for that matter.

"Isn't beautiful?" Belle asked in an awed whisper, smiling broadly, completely oblivious to Liv's worries. She stood with her arms spread wide, her head thrown back with her eyes shut as she breathed deeply the clean air.

"Is that all you can say?" Liv began angrily, "We're lost in the middle of God knows where, and all you can say is how beautiful it is? It's your own stupid fault we're here in the first place." And with that, Liv stalked away, going straight through the clearing. Liv knew she was being unfair and she had no reason to this angry with Belle, it was just that she was already annoyed, and her attitude had made the situation worse in Liv's eyes. Belle, however, only stared at the ground guiltily, and rather in shock at her friends sudden mood swing.

"I'm sorry," Belle started, rather meekly. She was used to Liv being mad, but very rarely was she ever mad at her.



However, the response from Liv was quite different from what it would normally be. "Belle get over here, quick," were the words Belle heard drift across the clearing. There was an urgency in her voice that made Belle comply faster than usual.

Belle was in the middle of forming the first syllables to "What the hell's the matter?" when she reached Liv's side and saw her expression. Following her gaze, Belle too gasped in shock, saying in a hushed whisper, "What is it?" as though the occasion deserved reverence.

Below them on the ground was a flat, smooth, white stone, circular with a diameter of about three feet and lying a few inches above the ground. Embedded in the center of the rock, an inch or so apart, were diamond like crystals shaped like perfect spheres. Simultaneously the two friends looked up at one another as though seeking some form of reassurance. Liv spoke first whispering, "Could it be from outer space?" ready to believe practically anything.

"No," Belle said quietly, looking down again. Liv looked down as well. "No," Belle repeated after a moment, "It's too beautiful, too natural." Then, as if on cue, the crystal closest to Belle, on the western side, began to glow with the golden light of the sun, and the crystal closest to Liv, on the eastern side, began to glow with the silver light of the moon. First Liv, then Belle looked skyward for the source of the light. Seeing it, the sky, they could do nothing but stare in wonder and amazement, for in the west the sun still shown with its radiant light, yet in the east the moon shown as well, giving out its own pure, silver light.

Suddenly a great golden column of light connected the sun and the western crystal while a silver column connected the moon and the eastern crystal. Then, before either Liv or Belle had a chance to even open their mouths a bare centimeter in shock, they were each drawn into the columns, Belle into the golden one and Liv into the silver one. Eyes closed, they both felt as if the light itself was coursing through their very veins.

Then, below them, the great crystals shattered into millions of tiny pieces, swirling up and around them, like golden stars around Belle and silver around Liv. Abruptly the shards of crystal stopped swirling and dove straight at the two girls, covering every inch of Liv with silver light and Belle with golden. The largest sliver of the sun crystal implanted itself in the very center of Belle's chest, while the largest sliver of the moon crystal went into the center of Liv's chest.



All of a sudden the two columns, gold and silver, were merging into one of pure, un-endless, white light. Liv and Belle swirled around as if in a great dance as old as time itself that kept everything growing and living, directing all life to the light at the end. Yet some did stray form that path of light. In fact, many do, but that was not their destiny.





Then, as Liv and Belle spun, one last, great burst of light sent them soaring off apart, Belle to the East, and Liv to the West.