A/N: Thanks everyone for being so patient... I've been having computer trouble lately, so I haven't been able to update...but I'm updating now so everything's OK right? * sigh * Oh well...here goes nothing...

Numair stepped towards the young man, his hands out, as a sign of peace. "I need to put a spell on you, it is imperative that we understand each other because you'll be staying here for...a while." The young man's eyes narrowed for a second, as if he was thinking. Then he turned towards his companions. He spoke to them for a second. Alanna noticed that the young woman's eyes narrowed at whatever it is the other said. The other one, the boy with the oddly colored hair, cocked his head like a puppy, looking at all four of the Tortallians, confused.

The boy turned back to Numair, and to Rauol's amusement seemed to steel himself. Numair rubbed both hands together and then placed them on the young man's chest. A black light was emitted from beneath his hands. The young man's eyes widened in surprise, right before he was blasted backwards several feet. With a cry the girl started towards the boy, but then turned and lunged at Numair, her eyes blazing. The young man standing beside her grabbed her, talking urgently to her. Alanna drew her sword, but the girl seemed to have calmed down enough. Raoul sort of chuckled. The girl was tough.

The young man that had been blasted shook his head and stood up, looking for all the world as if nothing had happened. Numair sighed inwardly, 'at least he didn't scream... I wasn't sure if it would work or not... must read up on these spells more often....' The young man calmly walked up to Numair, but not before giving the girl a squeeze on the shoulder as he passed her.

***view change***

Tom stepped up to the robed man. The guy rubbed his hands together and placed them on Tom's chest. Alex glanced at Phi, whose eyes were narrowed and she was poised for action. When he saw her eyes widen he looked over at Tom. He felt his own eyes enlarge as a black light came from under the man's hands. Suddenly, Tom was thrown back, like he was just shot from a cannon. Phi yelled and sprang forward. She began running towards Tom, then got a strange, slightly homicidal look in her eyes and leapt at the weird psychopaths. Alex quickly grabbed Phi and pulled her close so she was unable to commit a murder before she even knew whom she was killing.

The woman with the creepy purple eyes took out a lethal looking blade and got into a defensive stance. Still holding onto to Phi, Alex said, "Phi, breathe; you don't even know what these lunatics are capable of. I mean, they just blasted Tom ten feet for crying out loud!" Phi struggled against him for a second, then settled down. Alex sighed with relief and let go of her only after he was sure that she wouldn't hurt anyone...including him.

Tom shook his head and stood up, slight agitation in his eyes. He strode past Phi and Alex, giving his sister a small squeeze on her shoulder for reassurance, and faced the man who had shot him across the room. The man with the blue eyes and the black beard stepped forward and bowed a little, "I am Jonathan of Conte, king of Tortall. I am sorry if my mage startled you. This is Master Numair Salmalin, he just had to do a quick translation spell." At the word "mage" one of Tom's eyebrows rose, and even more so at the word "spell". Jonathan continued, "These are two of my kingdoms finest knights, Lady Alanna of Pirate's Swoop and Alau and Lord Raoul of Goldenlake and Malorie's Peak."

Tom stood there for a second, soaking all of the new information in and trying to make sense of their incredibly long names. Alex and Phi waited for a moment, then Phi lightly kicked Tom in the leg.

* random change of views... * The young man seemed startled then clamed down and said, "Oh... excuse me! I am Thomas, this is Phionia, and my friend Alexander." Phi and Tom perked up when they heard their names, "This...umm... 'spell' of yours...will you be able to send us back to our world?"

Numair hesitated for a moment, "Yes...but it will take some time to prepare and a lot of power to finish. It is one thing to accidentally transport someone, but to purposely do it is a whole other matter all together."

The girl named Phionia tapped Thomas lightly on his shoulder and whispered something into his ear. Thomas nodded and turned towards Numair, "Phi and Alex want to know if you can let them... understand your language too."

Numair looked surprised, "Of course!" He stepped up to the two and put one hand on each of their chests. He thought to himself, 'Now that I have a little more practice, this shouldn't impact them as much as it did the boy... '. Alex looked nervous and said something urgent to Thomas, who replied something gently. Alanna went up to Thomas and asked, "What did he ask?"

Thomas looked at the Lioness, and said frankly, "He wanted to know if it would hurt, and I told him yes, but that it wouldn't be as painful as coming here in the first place was."

Numair hands glowed black again, and suddenly Phionia and Alex were launched back about two feet. Thomas jogged over and pulled Phionia up, then went over to Alexander and helped him up. The boy moaned as he stood up, rubbing his head, "I feel like I got hit in the head with a baseball bat..." he paused and perked up, "Hey! I'm speaking a language I never knew I knew!"

Phionia brushed herself off and muttered to herself, "That was annoying..."

Tom laughed at the girl remark politely and said, "For once Phi is complaining more than you, Alex!" Alex grinned at Thomas appreciatively.

'Phi...Alex...', Raoul's mouth twitched as he thought of their nicknames.

Thomas spoke to his companions, "I would like you to meet King Jonathan, Lord Raoul, Lady Alanna, and Master Numair Salmalin. It seems that Numair is a mage and is the one responsible for brining us here, the reason being that he had an accident while experimenting with one of his spells. He will be able to send us back to our world...but it will take a while."

Alex curiously asked, "So um, what are we going to do here in Camelot in the meantime. I mean, hanging out is cool with me, but it might get kinda boring..."

Jonathan nodded in agreement. Even with the translation spell that Numair had cast, they still seemed to be using some of their old vocabulary. "I think that it would be best, in all of our interests that we find something for you to do. The new pages and squires will be arriving soon. Before they come we might want to introduce you to our world... it would mean that there would be less explaining to do..." He turned towards Numair with a slight smile, "Since you brought them here you can give them a tour..."

"Me?!?" Numair sputtered, "but...but there would be so much to cover, so much explaining, it would take weeks for one person to explain a whole world!"

Jon sighed, "Not the entire world Numair...just the palace, maybe the city. If we are lucky, they can go back to their world soon so they won't need to get used to ours...if we aren't able to send them back, then you can educate our guests about the entire world."

Numair looked relieved, "Oh, that's good news..." he looked towards the three teenagers, "All right, we have better get started. We have a lot of ground to cover..."

Numair walked out of the room followed by Alex, Phi, and Tom who were excited about getting to explore a new world, kind of like the feeling you get when you visit a theme park for the first time. When they were out of the room, Jon sighed and flopped down into one of the thrones, his head in his hands. Raoul turned to Alanna, "So... do you think Numair can get them back?"

The Lioness looked at the door, then back at the king, "Let's hope so...otherwise we could have a very bad situation on our hands..."

Numair walked down the hall, "Okay, now where to start?"

He passed the great hall, and was sauntering by some large tapestries when he heard a "Whoa!" from the boy named Alex. He stopped, "Yes?" He turned and saw that they were all staring at the pictures. "Well I suppose this is a good spot..." Numair cleared his throat, "All right...these are some portraits of our past and present kings and queens."

Phi was breath taken, "Wow, they're beautiful!" Numair looked closer at the paintings. He had never really paid any attention to them before, but now that they pointed it out, they were very well done. It was almost as if they could come alive. But, he had work to do and he really didn't want to be stuck here all day. He began to walk further down the hall and, sure enough, they followed.

"We just passed the great hall. That is where the pages, squires, and visiting knights eat their meals. We are now going through the dormitories. The pages are down that hall,"he pointed down to the left, "the squires sleep down that way," he pointed to the right, "and the knights and our visitors, such as yourselves, sleep on the next floor up. The servants sleep next to the kitchen area, which is past the great hall." He walked quickly and the three had to jog to keep up with him, and they certainly did not want to get lost in this labyrinth of a palace.

He led them up a huge flight of stairs, "Up here is the main library and the mage's studies. The classrooms are also on this floor and when the pages and squires come back, this is the busiest place in the entire palace." Numair walked back down the stairs and out of the main building, towards a large opened field with a large single story building on the edge of the grass.

Tom looked at it, "Is that a stable?"

Numair looked surprised, "Why, yes it is. This is the cities largest stable and where most of the pages, squires, and knights keep their horses."

Phi wanted to go seethe horses, but Numair insisted on going to a place that sounded like an armory. When they reached the other building, Phi was so glad that she hadn't stayed with the horses. This was the coolest place! It was filled wall to wall with weapons like spears, bows and arrows, swords, weird sharp things, and those sticks that the knights on TV used to joust with...oh ya...lances...

Alex looked at the sharp pointy things, then at the scary, happy look on Phi's face, "Umm... can we go now? Phi has that weird look in her eyes that says I'm gonna-accidently-put-a-hole-in-you-with-one-of-these..."

Numair glanced at Phi, "Yes, well I suppose I should lead you to your rooms now..."

Tom looked at his friend and his sister, "I think that would be best, we have a lot to think about and soak in, besides, you probably have work you would like to do." He said this last part with a slight smile on his face.

Numair blushed slightly, embarrassed at the thought that he might have already insulted them, "Was it that obvious?"

"No."

"Right then, your rooms are right over there," Numair walked to two doors as he talked, "If you need anything, you can just ask a servant you see in the hallway or wait until they come and get you for supper, which will be at six. If anything happens that causes you to need any sort of medical attention, the infirmary is near the libraries." He reached the doors and said, "The one on the left can be your room," he motioned towards Phi, "and you two can stay in this room. I'll have one of the servants set up an extra bed."

Tom took Numair's hand and shook it, "Thank you Numair, see you at dinner!" And with that, all three went into the boys' room and shut the door. Numair looked down at his hand, "What was that for?" He shrugged and walked back towards his study to get started on finding a way to get the newcomers back to their world.

** Change of views, kinda thing...**

In their new room, Phi fell onto the bed, exhausted, face down. Alex looked down at her and sat down on the window seat. Tom flopped down next to his sister, and once again, began to stare into space. Alex looked out of the window down into the large empty field that was next to the stables, "You seem to be zoning out today Tom. More then usual anyway..."

When Tom didn't respond, Phi mumbled something into the pillow and the kicked him, hitting his leg. He snapped out of his weird behavior and looked around, "Huh? What?"

Alex looked back at his best friend and sighed. There was no one he'd rather get sent into another dimension with, but sometimes... "What are we going to do?"

Tom looked at him, "I don't know... go along with their plans for now. It sounds like they have a way to get us back..."

YES! I finish typing! I'M SO HAPPY! (* sob *) I hate typing... Anyway, I hoped you enjoyed it and I made it extra long for all those days I have missed...sorry about that...I hope you are still interested in my story...