A/N: All right...*sigh*...The final chapter of my story...*sniffle* WHY DID IT HAVE TO COME SO SOON!?! Wait a minute, I have all ready written 29 chapters...I suppose that's enough for one story.

***Tom, Phi and Alex's View***

Phi slowly sat up and shook her head, trying to clear it. As her vision returned, the first thing that she noticed was that they were not in the Scanran fortress anymore. In fact, she was lying in a bedroom, her bedroom back in the Palace.

Phi sighed and gingerly flexed her arms and legs, and happily discovering that they, although her left arm and head were covered in clean bandages, were all still there and working. She shivered as she remembered the stories her dad and Tom used to tell her about medicine in her middle ages, how they used to use leeches and cut off limbs. Tom! She jumped out of her bed, sending her pillows and blankets flying as she stumbled trying to regain her balance. It had been a while since she had used her legs and her muscles were unused to any amount of physical activity.

She pulled herself up and finally made it to her chamber door, yanking it open. Phi stumbled to her right and tried the handle to Tom and Alex's door. Locked. She kneeled down because it took too much effort to stand and began to fiddle with the lock on their door, sticking a pin that was holding some of her bandages together into the keyhole and wiggling it around.

As she heard a tiny click, she tried the handle again, silently congratulated herself when it opened, and rushed inside. Alex was still asleep, but her brother was sitting up in his bed reading a book. She launched herself onto him as he laughed in surprise. After hugging him, Phi pulled away and looked at his hand curiously. It seemed healed, but the skin that had gotten burned seemed to be a lighter shade then the rest of his palm. When she looked up at him he shrugged, "It doesn't hurt anymore, but they say I'll probably have the scar for the rest of my life..."

Phi frowned and turned to look at Alex, who had bandages wrapped around his chest, as did Tom, "Is he going to be all right?"

Tom put his book down, seeing that Phi wasn't going back to her room anytime soon and adjusted his position so that she wasn't cutting the circulation out of his right leg, "Actually, the Duke expected him to come around before you did, but he said that he's been wrong before too..."

"Hmm...How long have we been out?"

"When I woke up, they'd said it had been about four days," Phi's jaw dropped, "But that was a day and a half ago too, so it's probably been about five to six days..."

"Five to six days?!"

"Ya well, what they told me is that our injuries knocked us out after a bit, then the magic they used to heal us knocked us out even more, and the fact that the two of you hadn't eaten in a couple days didn't help."

At the mention of the word "eaten", Phi's stomach growled and Tom grinned and pointed to a plate that was on his bedside table, "Would you like some, um...bread and cold soup? It came an hour ago, but I wasn't that hungry."

She nodded and quickly devoured the offered food, even the soup, "Thanks...I needed that..."

Tom smiled, "You could've also just asked for more, new food too..."

"Ask who?" Just then the door to their room opened to reveal the Duke and Neal.

The Duke smiled as his eyes fell on Phi, "Well, well, well, it looks like someone woke up ahead of schedule...But then again, I probably should have expected as much from one of you...I'll have one of the servants bring you up some food, although it looks as if you've already eaten..."

Phi looked down at the crumbs on her shirt, blushed, then brushed them off as Neal came over to her, "And you even managed to walk all the way over to this room too. You must be feeling better..." As the Duke walked over to Alex to check on him, Neal sent his Gift into Phi to check out her health status, "Yes, just as I figured. Your wounds are healing nicely and I don't think you should have any lasting scars like these two."

Phi frowned and looked over at Alex, but didn't say anything until the two healers had left, "When did Neal get back?"

Tom thought for a moment, "Dom came in and said that he came in the second day we were here, and has been helping his dad with the healing since..."

"So, what scars will Alex have?"

"They told me that he will have a couple on his chest, nothing bad, just a few scratches where the tissues came back together when they were healing him, but that is all, nothing serious. Of course you were the lucky one, coming out with none at all..."

She grinned but turned quickly around (almost falling off Tom's bed) when they heard Alex move around. He rolled onto his stomach and rested his head on his arms, looking up at his two friends, "Good morning..."

Tom laughed, "Morning? It's like two in the afternoon! And it's about time your up!"

The other boy grinned and lifted himself onto his elbows, "Well I hope that I haven't kept you all waiting, but by the looks of it, I would say I haven't..."

Phi shook her head, "Guess how long it's been..."

"Three days..."

"Nope. Higher."

"Four."

"Nope, higher."

"A year?!"

She laughed and shook her head, "Way lower, go back to your previous guess and work from there..."

"Five?" Phi nodded, "It's been five days?" He groaned and sat up in his bed, letting his feet fall off the side, "It only feels like an hour...except I'm wiped..."

Tom grinned, "I wonder why..."

Alex was just about to respond with a "witty" response when their door opened again and Numair and Daine came in, "Ah! All three of you are awake! Duke Baird said that only two of you were conscious! Good to see that all of you have pulled through so well. Anyway, I just came into tell you that I have finally perfected the spell for getting you back to your dimension. I thought that you should be the first to know, so I haven't told anyone else yet..."

Tom looked excited, "You'll have to show me how you did it before we leave..."

The mage nodded and Daine interrupted, "We should go tell the King now Numair, you told him last week that he would be the first to know if you discovered anything important..."

"Oh yes I did, didn't I..." He waved to the three, "We'll call on you later today or early tomorrow then..."

The three nodded and waved back as he walked out while talking excitedly with Daine about something or another. Phi sighed, "It's strange, ya know? I will be happy to go home and all, but I was just beginning to get used to this place."

Tom's smile faded and he looked thoughtful, "It was great being here, like coming into a dream, with knights, dragons, and magic...but we can't stay here. We wouldn't fit in and we would probably screw up their culture or something."

Alex walked shakily over to Tom's bed and sat down on the edge, "It will be nice going home though. Think of all the things we are going back to, like TV, the Internet, movies...pizza. Pizza sounds really good right now...I wonder if they could make it here?" Tom looked at him funny and Alex shrugged his shoulders, "It was just an idea..."

Phi zoned out for a moment, then looked at the two boys, "Do you think that time has passed in our world?"

Tom frowned thoughtfully, "I wouldn't see why not. I mean, we traveled over dimensions, not time..."

Alex suddenly realized what Phi was thinking about, "So what are we going to tell our families we were doing for almost a month?"

They went silent for a few more minutes before Tom started to think out loud, "They probably have already called the police and they might think that we have been...kidnapped or something...we might be able to play off that idea..."

Phi looked at her brother, "Well, in a way, Alex and I were kidnapped, so it wouldn't be lying, kind of..."

Alex shrugged, "Let's just wait and see what happens when we get back before we start making up excuses...I think that two thirds of us have had enough practice making them up that we should be able to wing it pretty well..."

Tom grinned, "Good point..."

After another hour or so, which Phi, Tom, and Alex spent talking about different things, King Jonathan came into their chamber after knocking first, "I'm glad to see that you are all well. Numair has just informed me that the spell to send you back to your own world is ready...Will you all be able to make it down to the courtyard, or do you need some assistance?"

Tom looked at his companions, "No, I think we can make it on our own fine..."

The king nodded and led them down the stairs and out of the Palace to the courtyard that was in front of the building, "I apologize for having you walk so far, but if we let Numair do the spell inside the Palace, it would probably destroy the entire room that we were in."

Alex grinned, "It's no problem...We need the walk, right Phi?" He turned to the girl who was beginning to limp a little as they neared the group out in the middle of the courtyard. Phi gave him a small glare, then looked at the gathering group in front of them and blushed. It seemed that most of the people that they had gotten to know in Tortall were there; Alanna, Raoul, Kel, Dom, Neal, Merric, Owen, Esmond, Devic, some of the other first year pages, Duke Baird, the king of course, Daine, and of course Numair. The mage rubbed his hands together in anticipation and stepped over to Tom. He handed the boy something and smiled, "These are for you three, from all of us. It isn't much, just three protection charms that will keep you safe no matter where you go in the future." Tom took the necklaces gratefully and handed them out to Phi and Alex. They were beautiful, carved out in the shape of a lion's head with a sun around it.

Devic walked up to them and Phi saw that his eyes were wet. She grinned and gave him a hug, "I'll miss you back in the other world. Just stay out of trouble kid, okay?" He nodded and smiled as Kel and her friends came up and shook each of the three's hand and wished them good luck.

Finally, after everyone had said their good-byes, Numair waved everyone to step back, rolled up the sleeves on his black robe and began to focus very hard on the air in front of him. All the mages in the group, including Tom, looked on curiously as Numair's black magic flowed from his hands and formed a vertical line in the air. The line split to form a kind of doorway that was about ten feet wide and fifteen feet high...very large for a spell. As the sides of the lines drew apart, a picture began to form in the center. It was a little fuzzy, but Phi, Alex, and Tom recognized it immediately. It was Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, where they had gotten sucked to Tortall from in the first place.

As the hole in the air grew larger, air currents began to pull the three closer towards the opening, and by the time it was fully opened, they were about four feet away from it. The currents of air grew stronger and Phi, Alex, and Tom felt a now semi-familiar sensation of being tugged by an invisible force and they were thrown into the hole, just as they were when they last traveled through dimensions. Tom turned around just as they were passing through and caught a glimpse of Numair coming in front of the opening to close it up again. When he managed to turn around, they were almost out of the trans-dimensional tunnel, and as they hit the other side, everything went black.

Alex moaned and forced his eyes open. His head was pounding and he felt strange. He sat up and shook his head, noticing that Phi and Tom were laying on his left and were just beginning to wake up too. Suddenly, a wave of memories hit him and his hand flew to his neck. The necklace that Numair gave them, it was there. He laughed and looked at Phi and Tom, "You guys! We're home! And it was real, it was all real!"'

Tom grinned and looked at him strangely, "Of course it was. Were you expecting it to be a dream or something?"

"Well I had my doubts..."

Phi glanced at him as she stood up, "Well you can't get hurt in a dream, and all of us got pretty beaten up..."

"Good point. But it seemed too good to be true. Wait a minute...are we speaking in English or Tortallian?"

Tom looked at Phi then turned back to Alex, "I think...Tortallian. This doesn't sound like English to me."

Phi shook her head and switched to English, "Weird..."

Alex stood up with Tom's help, "Ya no kidding...Hey! Now I'm tri- lingual! I know Spanish, English, and Tortallian!"

Tom laughed and turned towards the parking lot, "I wouldn't go bragging about it. People would probably try to have you locked up if you went around speaking Tortallian. No one else here knows it...which is pretty cool. We have our own language now!"

Phi stopped in her tracks and turned to Tom, "...How do you know where the parking lot is?"

"That's easy, I can hear the cars..." He stopped to and looked at Phi, "Could we hear cars before?"

"I don't think so...Numair must have gotten the spot wrong by about half a mile...at least it's the right park..."

Alex shrugged and kept on walking. When they reached the parking lot, he fell to his knees and patted the pavement, "Ah sweet concrete, how I missed you..."

Tom laughed, then looked around, "Very nice...oh shit."

Phi looked up, surprised to hear her brother swear, "What?"

"My car's gone."

They looked around, and sure enough, the car was nowhere to be found. Alex grimaced and looked at Tom, "So how are we going to get home?"

Tom sighed and began to walk along the side walk next to the parking lot towards the city, "Find a phone...call our parents...won't this be fun..."

Phi walked next to her brother, "Just think of it this way, a short hike through San Francisco is nothing compared to a three and a half day ride through a Tortallian forest on horseback..."

Tom smiled, "Good point..."

Finally, after about an hour of walking, they found a business that would let them make a quick phone call for free. Tom sighed again and dialed his house, "Hello? Mom, um...ya, this is Tom. Alex and Phi are with me and we need a ride home.

A/N: So, as you can see, I left plenty of room for a sequel. But don't get your hopes up! I will only write one if I get enough public support for it because frankly, there's no point in writing one if no one is going to read it, right? Oh, it would also take me at least a couple weeks to get it started because I would have to think of a sketchy plot line first. Anyway, this is the end of this story! PLEASE R&R SO I KNOW HOW YOU ALL LIKED IT!!!