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A/N: This is where Gabrielle gets her memory back. YAY! Anyways, enjoy.
Chapter 3: Memory Found Magus and Gabrielle appeared in a cave. He dragged the violently protesting Samaran down a tunnel and to a dark spot in the wall. Magus drew a symbol and the section of wall disappeared. He yanked the girl into the room in the cave. In the room was a tall man with dirty blonde hair and a ragged beard that covered the lower third of his face. His clothes were of poor quality and at his belt was a battered sword. Magus threw Gabrielle to the man's feet. "Ok, I got her." He barked. "Now my payment." The man went to the back of the room and emerged with a young woman in chains. Her hair was as blue as Magus's and she wore a tattered violet dress. "Janus!" she cried. "Now you have your sister, Janus." The man snarled. "Now go! I have no need for either of you." The man looked at the frightened Amazon. "As for you," he yanked her to her feet and groped at her neck. "What?" he hissed. "She doesn't have the necklace?" His crystal blue eyes were cold as ice. "You said to get-" he was cut off when the man threw a fireball at him, making him fly across the room. "Janus!" the young woman cried. The man sauntered to him; Gabrielle attempted escape. "Not so fast, little one." The man waved his hands and heavy chains appeared on the girl's wrists; she fought desperately. "Feisty, aren't you?" he taunted, keeping a firm grip on the chains. "It was a pain in the ass just to get her here," Magus explained. "It was hard enough just her but her friends had to intervene." "SILENCE!" the man bellowed; he punched Magus in the face then stomach. "Jaron, stop it!" the woman shouted. "Leave him alone!" "Shut up, you stupid female!" he backhanded her viciously. The woman swung her wrists at the man called Jaron making her chains wrap around his neck. She yanked downward hard and watched as he went face first into the dirt of the cave floor. Her fighting made Gabrielle like her at once. Gabrielle lunged for her; she wrapped both hands around the chains between her and Jaron. Acid sprayed out of her hands; Gabrielle made sure some got on Jaron's head. The chains were severed and the woman was free. "C'mon." The Samaran urged. "Let's get out of here." "What about Janus?" she asked. "Forget him!" Gabrielle retorted shrilly. "No, he's my brother, evil or not!" she protested. She went to the knocked out man and shook his shoulder. Gabrielle hopped around anxious to get moving; it looked like she was dancing. "Let's get outta here!" Gabrielle shouted, seeing Jaron stir. Magus finally awoke and groggily got up. "I can't believe you just did that." Magus told his sister. "Well, when one is threatened one must defend herself." She explained. "Schala," Magus began. Something in Gabrielle's fuzzy memory blazed. She remembered that name for some reason; she shook it off. They ran for the cave exit and Gabrielle saw that they were at the North Cape, very far away from her mountain home.
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"Where could they have gone?" Marle asked her concerned friends. "Dunno." Crono answered rubbing his chin. "Mayhap Magus took her to a lair of his?" Glenn suggested. Just then the girl thundered into the cabin plowing into Glenn. "Gabrielle?" Lucca cried. "What happened?" The Samaran jumped off of Glenn who lurched to his feet. "Sorry," she told him. "Magus attacked me, he brought me to this cave to this guy and then this woman beat him up then as we were coming back he attacked me and this woman, Schala. Said she was his sister." "Come again?" Glenn demanded shocked. "This woman, Schala was with him and this man called Jaron." Gabrielle repeated a bit annoyed. "Schala, you said?" Lucca inquired. "Yes." "Oh, my." She breathed. "What?" Gabrielle asked. "Long story." Marle said equally shocked. A shadow scurried into the cabin. It was the shape of a woman and she was panting. "Hello?" she wheezed. Suddenly, she gasped. "C-Crono?" she gasped. "Is that you?" "Schala?" everyone but Gabrielle chorused. "Yes, it's me." There was an eruption of hugs and cheers. "'Ey!" Gabrielle bellowed. "Would someone kindly tell me what is going on?" she asked hotly. "Gabrielle this is Schala, she rescued us when we were at Zeal, I'm assuming you know what that is." Crono explained. Gabrielle's memory took another flash. She shook her head to clear it. "We've already met." Schala said happily. "But when we were running back here, Magus threw himself at Gabrielle! I've never seen anyone run so fast, Gabrielle." "An Amazon thing." Gabrielle explained. "Many run around this entire mountain at dawn." "Well, it's so good to see you, Schala!" Marle said. "How did you survive?" The woman sat down in a chair and smoothed the table's surface with her hands. "It's a long story." She told them. "When Zeal crashed and came to the ground, I stumbled into that evil Mammoth Machine and my pendant blazed and I was whooshing downward. I landed in a deep bank of snow. "I found what you Amazons call the North Cape and went into it. Janus was there but so was that man Jaron. He captured me and told Janus to get Gabrielle or he'd never see me alive." Schala went on. "I hate you Amazons." Someone drawled from the doorway. "How the hell do you run so fast?" Gabrielle gasped and shifted in a battle position. "Hey, hey! I'm unarmed and I don't want to hurt you or your stupid village!" Gabrielle put down her fists puzzled. "What?" "I only attacked you in the first place is because Jaron had Schala. He wants your pendant." Magus told her. "My pedant?" Gabrielle inquired. "Yes, your pendant." Magus confirmed sitting in a chair. "Well?" he snapped when Gabrielle didn't say anything. "Well, what?" Gabrielle demanded. "Where the hell is your pendant?" he asked. Gabrielle went to the table by her bed. There was a small wood box on it; Gabrielle opened it and took out a dark silver pendant with swirling designs surrounding a black gem in the center. "This?" the Amazon asked. "It matches Jaron's description of it." Magus said. "Now what?" Glenn asked. He paced around the cabin. "Don't know about you, but I want to go home." Marle said. "Oh, please stay!" Gabrielle pleaded, slipping the pendant over her head and tucking it under her tunic. "You guys are the coolest people I've met." "Sorry, Gabrielle, but we got to get to our own time." Crono told her. "Just one night?" Gabrielle asked. "Please?" "Oh, why not?" Crono said. "All right." Lucca said. "Sounds like fun." "I can have some of my people set up tents. Or you guys could sleep in here." Gabrielle offered. Everyone shrugged, then Gabrielle's eyes brightened. "Hey! Why don't the girls stay here and the boys get another cabin. We've an extra one." "Sounds good to me." Crono said. "Ok." Glenn said. With that settled the group went to the campfire to share a late lunch with the tribe. Gabrielle, Glenn and Magus sat together on a log. "So, where did you come from before coming to the Amazons?" Magus asked. "Is it that obvious I'm not a native?" Gabrielle inquired her eyes dancing.
"Yes, for one thing, your accent's one I recognize but it's different. I still can't decide what it is." Magus told her. "Gosh, Magus, you make her sound like a disease." Glenn said, shedding his normal Middle English. Gabrielle giggled, a sound that made Magus and Glenn look at her with different looks. Glenn because he had realized that Gabrielle was really pretty when she laughed; he craved to make her do so again. Magus because he recognized this young woman's voice more and more. "So, where are you from?" Glenn asked biting into an apple. "I don't know, I know that sounds insane.but I really couldn't tell you." Gabrielle replied. "So." Magus began. "You don't know where you were born." He took up his wood tankard to sip his water. "I have some memories.bits and pieces but other than that.no." Gabrielle said. "I know it was like Tenutanga or something." She told them stumbling over the name she thought was her birthplace. Magus heard that name and choked on his water. Gabrielle slapped him on his back. "You all right?" she wanted to know. "I'm," he coughed. "Fine.just pea-" he coughed again. "Peachy." "What was that about Magus?" Glenn asked. He snuck a peak at Gabrielle who was looking at Magus with concern. He never thought he'd feel this way about someone who'd plowed him over a few minutes ago. He looked at her. She was wearing a white shirt again but now she had tan pants like the black ones she wore the day before. Over the white shirt was a royal blue tunic. If she didn't have long hair or a womanly figure, she would have looked like one of Glenn's fellow knights back home. She did look attractive; he loved how the breeze tossed her auburn hair across her face and how her brown eyes shown. "Glenn!" Magus was shouting to get his attention. "Hey!" he waved a gloved hand in front of his face. "Oh!" Glenn cried finally being able to take his eyes off of Gabrielle. "What?" he demanded Magus harshly. "You going to finish your cheese?" he asked. Glenn handed it over. "Where're you from, Glenn?" Gabrielle asked breaking off a chunk of her bread and giving it to a dog that had wondered over to them. Animals littered the village and were very friendly. Glenn jumped at her question and answered, "I'm from A.D. 600. I'm a knight in Guardia." "What's a knight?" she asked. Her ignorance was so innocent Glenn's insides melted. Magus laughed a bit. "It's a man who fights for their ruler. Usually they wear armor and carry a sword." Glenn wiggled the scabbard on his belt that carried his sword. "Can it be a woman?" This time both men laughed. "What?" Gabrielle demanded. "Sorry, Gabby." Magus told her. "Women can't be warriors." The girl glared at Magus's nickname for her. "Oh, they can't, can they?" Gabrielle inquired tartly. "I've kicked YOUR ass plenty of times and you still say women can't be warriors?" "Well, it's different with people in A.D. 600." Glenn explained. "Men are the warriors." "That's fair stupid." Gabrielle said bluntly standing up. "If women were warriors, there'd be twice as many." "To most people the women who do fight are savages. You know, not ladylike." Glenn told her. He stood as well. "So we're all savages?" Gabrielle wanted to know waving her arms around all her people. Magus was very amused by this conversation and his shoulders quivered with suppressed laugher. "To some people-" "To you?" Gabrielle interrupted. "Well, I don't know, I haven't met all of them." Gabrielle shook her head and threw down the rest of her bread and stormed off. Once she out of earshot, Magus let out all of his laughter. His pale face was red by the time he mastered himself again. Glenn sighed and watched her go sit by Marle and Lucca on the other side of the fire site. She was walking so fast her auburn hair that fell past her shoulders bounced behind her. "I'm glad you thought it was funny." Glenn groaned. He sat down grumbling. Magus leaned against the log with his hands clasped behind his head and grinned. "That was hilarious, Glenn." He told him. "She's so pissed at you!" "Shut up" Glenn ordered fiercely. "And I'd appreciate it if you'd mind your own business." Glenn stormed off, leaving Magus alone with his thoughts. That girl was so familiar, but he couldn't decide who it was. He hadn't known very many people here on the ground. But in the sky he'd known lots of people even though he had few friends. There was the neighboring sky kingdom Tenotekhan: Zeal's archenemy and rival. That girl nearly said it; meaning she had to have been born there. One of the only people he knew from there was the King's daughter, Sabrina or something, Magus couldn't quite remember. How old would she be? Seventeen? Sixteen? How old was Gabrielle? Could this girl be the daughter of the ruler of his native land's enemy? And the girl's magic! She had to be an Enlightened One, then. Didn't the King of Tenotekhan have magic? His memory flashed and he remembered the sorceress teaching the little girl acid magic. Gabrielle had acid magic! Magus jumped up and hunted for Gabrielle with his sharp eyes. Gabrielle was talking animatedly with Lucca, Marle, and Crono. He ran to them. "-and then when the machine was starting, my pendant started to glow and BAM, this gate just pops out of the sky and-Magus what's wrong?" Marle said. "Uh, nothing, Nadia, I mean Marle," Marle glared when he said Nadia, "Gabrielle, I need to talk to you now." He took the girl's hand and yanked her up. "Tell me the story later, ok Marle?" Gabrielle asked her friend. Marle nodded. "What's wrong, Magus, you look scared." Gabrielle told him. "Ouch! You're hurting my arm!" He dragged her behind some bushes. "Listen.I've just figured out something." Magus said. "Ok, deep inside your memory do you.do you remember being in the sky? Or maybe in a castle?" "No.I remember lots of blinding light, a tall wicked looking woman, two kids running around this big room with flames chasing them and some little boy with blue hair.like yours." Gabrielle told him quickly. "Gabrielle.Gabrielle I think that little boy was me." Magus said putting his hands on her shoulders. Gabrielle stayed silent as he went on. "That woman could be my mother, Queen Zeal, and that blinding light could be Lavos." Gabrielle groaned. "Could you people stop talking about Lavos?" she demanded ripping his hands away. "Leave me alone, I don't want to remember my past, I just want to look forward to my future." As she was leaving Magus said, "Gabrielle, I think you were princess of a kingdom in the sky that rivaled the one I lived in. We met in secret and were best friends and our parents despised each other." Gabrielle stopped dead in her tracks. "Together we accidentally unleashed a demon called Tkahn. Do you recall any of this?" he asked her. "I." Gabrielle's memory flashed again. This time the images were more in focus and she could match up names to faces and she nearly fainted when she saw one particular image. Lavos. Its hellish fire raging on earth and then shooting skyward toward Zeal and Tenotekhan. At first the fire shot around the two kingdoms but then Gabrielle saw it penetrate the ground and the lush trees and greenery turned a charred black. "Everyone!" a man burst into Zeal Palace. Gabrielle recalled the meeting her father was having with Queen Zeal. "We must flee! Lavos's power has erupted!" Gabrielle's father ran out of the palace with the man, leaving Gabrielle there. Everyone stood up and shouted as the sky kingdom began to shake. Gabrielle hiked up the skirt of her dress and ran for it. Climbing down the mountain as fast as her ten-year-old legs could carry her. In the second to last cave to pass through before she could get off of Zeal, she saw two bloodstained figures. One was a woman face up and one was a man face down. The woman she recognized as her Zealan mother and the man could have been her Tenotekhanian father. The girl crouched down to see her mother. Her body was charred and bloody. Gabrielle screamed in grief and went to turn her father over. Suddenly, an earthquake threw her into the shimmery yellow teleport that took her to the next cave. Knowing she couldn't go back, she ran out of the cave and hurled herself onto the bridge. It promptly snapped at the old ropes. Gabrielle took a huge leap and caught the edge of earth. She swung her leg over and tumbled onto the solid ground. "Princess!" someone shouted. An arm wrapped around her waist and heaved her off the ground. Gabrielle looked up to see, Uselia; her tutor in magic. The strong woman easily carried the girl. A flame shot out of the ground two feet where they were, making the ground around it split and fall off. Uselia slid with it. She threw Gabrielle onto the solid ground before the ground broke completely off. Gabrielle held her hand out. "Take my hand!" The princess ordered. Uselia lunged for her hand and got it. The sorceress gritted her teeth and held on with all her strength. Another flame shot out and came up right under Uselia. She burst into flames, shrieking in agony. Gabrielle's left arm became very burned and scorched. Suddenly, the sorceress exploded after her anti-flame spell went wrong. The powers expelled by Lavos made any magic go haywire. Blood hit Gabrielle's face. Gabrielle actually felt it on her fifteen-year- old face. Then, the ground Gabrielle was standing on broke. With a shriek, Gabrielle plunged the whole way down to the ocean. "Gabrielle!" Magus was shouting. "What's wrong with you?" Gabrielle realized that she was screaming. She stopped so fast it sounded like it was cut off by shears. The Amazon collapsed to her knees and hid her face in her hands. Magus knelt by her, trying to comfort her as the girl sobbed. "I remember everything!" Gabrielle told him. "Zeal. Tenotekhan. Lavos. Schala. Janus. EVERYTHING!" Magus actually touched her, putting his arms around her shoulders. Gabrielle's response was to bury her face into his shoulder. Magus tried to comfort her but the girl wouldn't stop crying. Glenn, Marle, Crono, and Lucca burst out of the bushes. They looked like they were going to attack but instantly put their weapons down. Marle knelt by Gabrielle looking very concerned. "What wrong with Gabrielle?" Marle wanted to know. "We heard her scream. We thought you attacked her again." Magus glared at her. "She's remembered everything about her past." Magus said quietly. "It's not pretty, I guess." "Gabrielle?" Glenn whispered. He hoped she would forget about him thinking the Amazons were savages. "Go away." She ordered. She still clung to Magus. Magus shrugged as Glenn left. "Well, aren't you glad you know your past?" Crono asked her. "No!" she barked. "I'd've rather stayed the way I was!" She looked at Magus and pounded on his chest. "Why'd you have to make me remember everything?" she demanded. "You had a right to know." Magus told her. "Besides, now you can remember why you know of Lavos and you know everything about you know. Now shush and get all your tears out." Magus ordered. He was getting tired of having a crying girl on him. Even though now he realized he now held the only girl who accepted Janus and made him her friend when Zeal and Tenotekhan were at war. Magus could even say he loved this girl. He had a crush on her when they were young. Gabrielle still had the free spirit Magus had loved about her. Her blue locks were gone and were replaced by auburn but she was the same girl. He was glad that he was reunited with her. Gabrielle smiled at him and let go of him. She shakily got up and wiped her eyes. "I'm going to be ok." She said finally. Crono patted her shoulder, "That's good. C'mon, let's get out of these bushes." Magus was the last one to climb out of the bushes. After detangling his cape from the bushes, he turned to see the village cleaning up and getting ready for a ride. Gabrielle was saddling her bay mare as Glenn tried to talk to her. She kept snapping at him; Magus could see her brown eyes filled with fury. She finally slapped him and mounted her horse and rode out. Walking over to him, he patted his shoulder. Glenn had his hand over the cheek Gabrielle struck. "Ouch, that girl sure hits hard." Glenn groaned. "You're a knight, Glenn." Magus said. "You've handled worse than getting slapped by an Amazon girl, I hope." "How old is she anyway?" Glenn asked. Magus shrugged. "Sixteen or seventeen maybe." Glenn, being seventeen was pleased to hear this. His tried to hide his blush when Magus asked, "Why are you asking?" "I was just wondering." Glenn replied hastily and walked off his hands in his pockets.
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Gabrielle, Marle, Ayla, and Schala had gone on the ride with the other Samarans. Schala recognized the girl immediately and Gabrielle's memory was slowly rekindling itself. The girls were glad that they knew more about this formally mysterious Amazon girl. "Tell me more about A.D 1000." Gabrielle said to Marle and Lucca. "What's it like?" "There's a lot less snow I'll tell you that." Marle said. The girl's giggled. "Um.let's me see. Lots of villages and towns scattered around." "There's a lot more technology." Lucca added. "We should take you there sometime." "It big!" Ayla told her. She spread out her arms to prove her point. "How did you guys get here in the first place?" Gabrielle asked, wanting to ask this question since they arrived. "Well, this is hard to explain." Lucca replied. "There's a thing called the Wings of Time-" "That's the thing Balthasar created!" Gabrielle piped up. The girls nodded.
"Yes. And this crazy guy Dalton put wings on it to make I his chariot." Marle added. "Now we can fly wherever we wish in whatever time." "Awesome." Gabrielle remarked. "I'd love to get out of here for a while!" she told them. "It'd be like having a party. It gets kind of dull here." "Party?!" Marle suddenly shouted. She winced and slapped her forehead with a fist. "Oh no!" She cried. "I forgot about the ball tomorrow night, remember?" she asked Lucca. "What day is it? Tuesday? Wednesday?" Lucca wondered. "I think its Wednesday." Schala said. "I could be wrong." Marle groaned and turned her horse around. "We've got to get back home NOW." She told them. They kicked their horses into swift gallops and rode back for the village. "Dad's going to KLL me!" she wailed as the came in sight of the village.
A/N: This is where Gabrielle gets her memory back. YAY! Anyways, enjoy.
Chapter 3: Memory Found Magus and Gabrielle appeared in a cave. He dragged the violently protesting Samaran down a tunnel and to a dark spot in the wall. Magus drew a symbol and the section of wall disappeared. He yanked the girl into the room in the cave. In the room was a tall man with dirty blonde hair and a ragged beard that covered the lower third of his face. His clothes were of poor quality and at his belt was a battered sword. Magus threw Gabrielle to the man's feet. "Ok, I got her." He barked. "Now my payment." The man went to the back of the room and emerged with a young woman in chains. Her hair was as blue as Magus's and she wore a tattered violet dress. "Janus!" she cried. "Now you have your sister, Janus." The man snarled. "Now go! I have no need for either of you." The man looked at the frightened Amazon. "As for you," he yanked her to her feet and groped at her neck. "What?" he hissed. "She doesn't have the necklace?" His crystal blue eyes were cold as ice. "You said to get-" he was cut off when the man threw a fireball at him, making him fly across the room. "Janus!" the young woman cried. The man sauntered to him; Gabrielle attempted escape. "Not so fast, little one." The man waved his hands and heavy chains appeared on the girl's wrists; she fought desperately. "Feisty, aren't you?" he taunted, keeping a firm grip on the chains. "It was a pain in the ass just to get her here," Magus explained. "It was hard enough just her but her friends had to intervene." "SILENCE!" the man bellowed; he punched Magus in the face then stomach. "Jaron, stop it!" the woman shouted. "Leave him alone!" "Shut up, you stupid female!" he backhanded her viciously. The woman swung her wrists at the man called Jaron making her chains wrap around his neck. She yanked downward hard and watched as he went face first into the dirt of the cave floor. Her fighting made Gabrielle like her at once. Gabrielle lunged for her; she wrapped both hands around the chains between her and Jaron. Acid sprayed out of her hands; Gabrielle made sure some got on Jaron's head. The chains were severed and the woman was free. "C'mon." The Samaran urged. "Let's get out of here." "What about Janus?" she asked. "Forget him!" Gabrielle retorted shrilly. "No, he's my brother, evil or not!" she protested. She went to the knocked out man and shook his shoulder. Gabrielle hopped around anxious to get moving; it looked like she was dancing. "Let's get outta here!" Gabrielle shouted, seeing Jaron stir. Magus finally awoke and groggily got up. "I can't believe you just did that." Magus told his sister. "Well, when one is threatened one must defend herself." She explained. "Schala," Magus began. Something in Gabrielle's fuzzy memory blazed. She remembered that name for some reason; she shook it off. They ran for the cave exit and Gabrielle saw that they were at the North Cape, very far away from her mountain home.
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"Where could they have gone?" Marle asked her concerned friends. "Dunno." Crono answered rubbing his chin. "Mayhap Magus took her to a lair of his?" Glenn suggested. Just then the girl thundered into the cabin plowing into Glenn. "Gabrielle?" Lucca cried. "What happened?" The Samaran jumped off of Glenn who lurched to his feet. "Sorry," she told him. "Magus attacked me, he brought me to this cave to this guy and then this woman beat him up then as we were coming back he attacked me and this woman, Schala. Said she was his sister." "Come again?" Glenn demanded shocked. "This woman, Schala was with him and this man called Jaron." Gabrielle repeated a bit annoyed. "Schala, you said?" Lucca inquired. "Yes." "Oh, my." She breathed. "What?" Gabrielle asked. "Long story." Marle said equally shocked. A shadow scurried into the cabin. It was the shape of a woman and she was panting. "Hello?" she wheezed. Suddenly, she gasped. "C-Crono?" she gasped. "Is that you?" "Schala?" everyone but Gabrielle chorused. "Yes, it's me." There was an eruption of hugs and cheers. "'Ey!" Gabrielle bellowed. "Would someone kindly tell me what is going on?" she asked hotly. "Gabrielle this is Schala, she rescued us when we were at Zeal, I'm assuming you know what that is." Crono explained. Gabrielle's memory took another flash. She shook her head to clear it. "We've already met." Schala said happily. "But when we were running back here, Magus threw himself at Gabrielle! I've never seen anyone run so fast, Gabrielle." "An Amazon thing." Gabrielle explained. "Many run around this entire mountain at dawn." "Well, it's so good to see you, Schala!" Marle said. "How did you survive?" The woman sat down in a chair and smoothed the table's surface with her hands. "It's a long story." She told them. "When Zeal crashed and came to the ground, I stumbled into that evil Mammoth Machine and my pendant blazed and I was whooshing downward. I landed in a deep bank of snow. "I found what you Amazons call the North Cape and went into it. Janus was there but so was that man Jaron. He captured me and told Janus to get Gabrielle or he'd never see me alive." Schala went on. "I hate you Amazons." Someone drawled from the doorway. "How the hell do you run so fast?" Gabrielle gasped and shifted in a battle position. "Hey, hey! I'm unarmed and I don't want to hurt you or your stupid village!" Gabrielle put down her fists puzzled. "What?" "I only attacked you in the first place is because Jaron had Schala. He wants your pendant." Magus told her. "My pedant?" Gabrielle inquired. "Yes, your pendant." Magus confirmed sitting in a chair. "Well?" he snapped when Gabrielle didn't say anything. "Well, what?" Gabrielle demanded. "Where the hell is your pendant?" he asked. Gabrielle went to the table by her bed. There was a small wood box on it; Gabrielle opened it and took out a dark silver pendant with swirling designs surrounding a black gem in the center. "This?" the Amazon asked. "It matches Jaron's description of it." Magus said. "Now what?" Glenn asked. He paced around the cabin. "Don't know about you, but I want to go home." Marle said. "Oh, please stay!" Gabrielle pleaded, slipping the pendant over her head and tucking it under her tunic. "You guys are the coolest people I've met." "Sorry, Gabrielle, but we got to get to our own time." Crono told her. "Just one night?" Gabrielle asked. "Please?" "Oh, why not?" Crono said. "All right." Lucca said. "Sounds like fun." "I can have some of my people set up tents. Or you guys could sleep in here." Gabrielle offered. Everyone shrugged, then Gabrielle's eyes brightened. "Hey! Why don't the girls stay here and the boys get another cabin. We've an extra one." "Sounds good to me." Crono said. "Ok." Glenn said. With that settled the group went to the campfire to share a late lunch with the tribe. Gabrielle, Glenn and Magus sat together on a log. "So, where did you come from before coming to the Amazons?" Magus asked. "Is it that obvious I'm not a native?" Gabrielle inquired her eyes dancing.
"Yes, for one thing, your accent's one I recognize but it's different. I still can't decide what it is." Magus told her. "Gosh, Magus, you make her sound like a disease." Glenn said, shedding his normal Middle English. Gabrielle giggled, a sound that made Magus and Glenn look at her with different looks. Glenn because he had realized that Gabrielle was really pretty when she laughed; he craved to make her do so again. Magus because he recognized this young woman's voice more and more. "So, where are you from?" Glenn asked biting into an apple. "I don't know, I know that sounds insane.but I really couldn't tell you." Gabrielle replied. "So." Magus began. "You don't know where you were born." He took up his wood tankard to sip his water. "I have some memories.bits and pieces but other than that.no." Gabrielle said. "I know it was like Tenutanga or something." She told them stumbling over the name she thought was her birthplace. Magus heard that name and choked on his water. Gabrielle slapped him on his back. "You all right?" she wanted to know. "I'm," he coughed. "Fine.just pea-" he coughed again. "Peachy." "What was that about Magus?" Glenn asked. He snuck a peak at Gabrielle who was looking at Magus with concern. He never thought he'd feel this way about someone who'd plowed him over a few minutes ago. He looked at her. She was wearing a white shirt again but now she had tan pants like the black ones she wore the day before. Over the white shirt was a royal blue tunic. If she didn't have long hair or a womanly figure, she would have looked like one of Glenn's fellow knights back home. She did look attractive; he loved how the breeze tossed her auburn hair across her face and how her brown eyes shown. "Glenn!" Magus was shouting to get his attention. "Hey!" he waved a gloved hand in front of his face. "Oh!" Glenn cried finally being able to take his eyes off of Gabrielle. "What?" he demanded Magus harshly. "You going to finish your cheese?" he asked. Glenn handed it over. "Where're you from, Glenn?" Gabrielle asked breaking off a chunk of her bread and giving it to a dog that had wondered over to them. Animals littered the village and were very friendly. Glenn jumped at her question and answered, "I'm from A.D. 600. I'm a knight in Guardia." "What's a knight?" she asked. Her ignorance was so innocent Glenn's insides melted. Magus laughed a bit. "It's a man who fights for their ruler. Usually they wear armor and carry a sword." Glenn wiggled the scabbard on his belt that carried his sword. "Can it be a woman?" This time both men laughed. "What?" Gabrielle demanded. "Sorry, Gabby." Magus told her. "Women can't be warriors." The girl glared at Magus's nickname for her. "Oh, they can't, can they?" Gabrielle inquired tartly. "I've kicked YOUR ass plenty of times and you still say women can't be warriors?" "Well, it's different with people in A.D. 600." Glenn explained. "Men are the warriors." "That's fair stupid." Gabrielle said bluntly standing up. "If women were warriors, there'd be twice as many." "To most people the women who do fight are savages. You know, not ladylike." Glenn told her. He stood as well. "So we're all savages?" Gabrielle wanted to know waving her arms around all her people. Magus was very amused by this conversation and his shoulders quivered with suppressed laugher. "To some people-" "To you?" Gabrielle interrupted. "Well, I don't know, I haven't met all of them." Gabrielle shook her head and threw down the rest of her bread and stormed off. Once she out of earshot, Magus let out all of his laughter. His pale face was red by the time he mastered himself again. Glenn sighed and watched her go sit by Marle and Lucca on the other side of the fire site. She was walking so fast her auburn hair that fell past her shoulders bounced behind her. "I'm glad you thought it was funny." Glenn groaned. He sat down grumbling. Magus leaned against the log with his hands clasped behind his head and grinned. "That was hilarious, Glenn." He told him. "She's so pissed at you!" "Shut up" Glenn ordered fiercely. "And I'd appreciate it if you'd mind your own business." Glenn stormed off, leaving Magus alone with his thoughts. That girl was so familiar, but he couldn't decide who it was. He hadn't known very many people here on the ground. But in the sky he'd known lots of people even though he had few friends. There was the neighboring sky kingdom Tenotekhan: Zeal's archenemy and rival. That girl nearly said it; meaning she had to have been born there. One of the only people he knew from there was the King's daughter, Sabrina or something, Magus couldn't quite remember. How old would she be? Seventeen? Sixteen? How old was Gabrielle? Could this girl be the daughter of the ruler of his native land's enemy? And the girl's magic! She had to be an Enlightened One, then. Didn't the King of Tenotekhan have magic? His memory flashed and he remembered the sorceress teaching the little girl acid magic. Gabrielle had acid magic! Magus jumped up and hunted for Gabrielle with his sharp eyes. Gabrielle was talking animatedly with Lucca, Marle, and Crono. He ran to them. "-and then when the machine was starting, my pendant started to glow and BAM, this gate just pops out of the sky and-Magus what's wrong?" Marle said. "Uh, nothing, Nadia, I mean Marle," Marle glared when he said Nadia, "Gabrielle, I need to talk to you now." He took the girl's hand and yanked her up. "Tell me the story later, ok Marle?" Gabrielle asked her friend. Marle nodded. "What's wrong, Magus, you look scared." Gabrielle told him. "Ouch! You're hurting my arm!" He dragged her behind some bushes. "Listen.I've just figured out something." Magus said. "Ok, deep inside your memory do you.do you remember being in the sky? Or maybe in a castle?" "No.I remember lots of blinding light, a tall wicked looking woman, two kids running around this big room with flames chasing them and some little boy with blue hair.like yours." Gabrielle told him quickly. "Gabrielle.Gabrielle I think that little boy was me." Magus said putting his hands on her shoulders. Gabrielle stayed silent as he went on. "That woman could be my mother, Queen Zeal, and that blinding light could be Lavos." Gabrielle groaned. "Could you people stop talking about Lavos?" she demanded ripping his hands away. "Leave me alone, I don't want to remember my past, I just want to look forward to my future." As she was leaving Magus said, "Gabrielle, I think you were princess of a kingdom in the sky that rivaled the one I lived in. We met in secret and were best friends and our parents despised each other." Gabrielle stopped dead in her tracks. "Together we accidentally unleashed a demon called Tkahn. Do you recall any of this?" he asked her. "I." Gabrielle's memory flashed again. This time the images were more in focus and she could match up names to faces and she nearly fainted when she saw one particular image. Lavos. Its hellish fire raging on earth and then shooting skyward toward Zeal and Tenotekhan. At first the fire shot around the two kingdoms but then Gabrielle saw it penetrate the ground and the lush trees and greenery turned a charred black. "Everyone!" a man burst into Zeal Palace. Gabrielle recalled the meeting her father was having with Queen Zeal. "We must flee! Lavos's power has erupted!" Gabrielle's father ran out of the palace with the man, leaving Gabrielle there. Everyone stood up and shouted as the sky kingdom began to shake. Gabrielle hiked up the skirt of her dress and ran for it. Climbing down the mountain as fast as her ten-year-old legs could carry her. In the second to last cave to pass through before she could get off of Zeal, she saw two bloodstained figures. One was a woman face up and one was a man face down. The woman she recognized as her Zealan mother and the man could have been her Tenotekhanian father. The girl crouched down to see her mother. Her body was charred and bloody. Gabrielle screamed in grief and went to turn her father over. Suddenly, an earthquake threw her into the shimmery yellow teleport that took her to the next cave. Knowing she couldn't go back, she ran out of the cave and hurled herself onto the bridge. It promptly snapped at the old ropes. Gabrielle took a huge leap and caught the edge of earth. She swung her leg over and tumbled onto the solid ground. "Princess!" someone shouted. An arm wrapped around her waist and heaved her off the ground. Gabrielle looked up to see, Uselia; her tutor in magic. The strong woman easily carried the girl. A flame shot out of the ground two feet where they were, making the ground around it split and fall off. Uselia slid with it. She threw Gabrielle onto the solid ground before the ground broke completely off. Gabrielle held her hand out. "Take my hand!" The princess ordered. Uselia lunged for her hand and got it. The sorceress gritted her teeth and held on with all her strength. Another flame shot out and came up right under Uselia. She burst into flames, shrieking in agony. Gabrielle's left arm became very burned and scorched. Suddenly, the sorceress exploded after her anti-flame spell went wrong. The powers expelled by Lavos made any magic go haywire. Blood hit Gabrielle's face. Gabrielle actually felt it on her fifteen-year- old face. Then, the ground Gabrielle was standing on broke. With a shriek, Gabrielle plunged the whole way down to the ocean. "Gabrielle!" Magus was shouting. "What's wrong with you?" Gabrielle realized that she was screaming. She stopped so fast it sounded like it was cut off by shears. The Amazon collapsed to her knees and hid her face in her hands. Magus knelt by her, trying to comfort her as the girl sobbed. "I remember everything!" Gabrielle told him. "Zeal. Tenotekhan. Lavos. Schala. Janus. EVERYTHING!" Magus actually touched her, putting his arms around her shoulders. Gabrielle's response was to bury her face into his shoulder. Magus tried to comfort her but the girl wouldn't stop crying. Glenn, Marle, Crono, and Lucca burst out of the bushes. They looked like they were going to attack but instantly put their weapons down. Marle knelt by Gabrielle looking very concerned. "What wrong with Gabrielle?" Marle wanted to know. "We heard her scream. We thought you attacked her again." Magus glared at her. "She's remembered everything about her past." Magus said quietly. "It's not pretty, I guess." "Gabrielle?" Glenn whispered. He hoped she would forget about him thinking the Amazons were savages. "Go away." She ordered. She still clung to Magus. Magus shrugged as Glenn left. "Well, aren't you glad you know your past?" Crono asked her. "No!" she barked. "I'd've rather stayed the way I was!" She looked at Magus and pounded on his chest. "Why'd you have to make me remember everything?" she demanded. "You had a right to know." Magus told her. "Besides, now you can remember why you know of Lavos and you know everything about you know. Now shush and get all your tears out." Magus ordered. He was getting tired of having a crying girl on him. Even though now he realized he now held the only girl who accepted Janus and made him her friend when Zeal and Tenotekhan were at war. Magus could even say he loved this girl. He had a crush on her when they were young. Gabrielle still had the free spirit Magus had loved about her. Her blue locks were gone and were replaced by auburn but she was the same girl. He was glad that he was reunited with her. Gabrielle smiled at him and let go of him. She shakily got up and wiped her eyes. "I'm going to be ok." She said finally. Crono patted her shoulder, "That's good. C'mon, let's get out of these bushes." Magus was the last one to climb out of the bushes. After detangling his cape from the bushes, he turned to see the village cleaning up and getting ready for a ride. Gabrielle was saddling her bay mare as Glenn tried to talk to her. She kept snapping at him; Magus could see her brown eyes filled with fury. She finally slapped him and mounted her horse and rode out. Walking over to him, he patted his shoulder. Glenn had his hand over the cheek Gabrielle struck. "Ouch, that girl sure hits hard." Glenn groaned. "You're a knight, Glenn." Magus said. "You've handled worse than getting slapped by an Amazon girl, I hope." "How old is she anyway?" Glenn asked. Magus shrugged. "Sixteen or seventeen maybe." Glenn, being seventeen was pleased to hear this. His tried to hide his blush when Magus asked, "Why are you asking?" "I was just wondering." Glenn replied hastily and walked off his hands in his pockets.
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Gabrielle, Marle, Ayla, and Schala had gone on the ride with the other Samarans. Schala recognized the girl immediately and Gabrielle's memory was slowly rekindling itself. The girls were glad that they knew more about this formally mysterious Amazon girl. "Tell me more about A.D 1000." Gabrielle said to Marle and Lucca. "What's it like?" "There's a lot less snow I'll tell you that." Marle said. The girl's giggled. "Um.let's me see. Lots of villages and towns scattered around." "There's a lot more technology." Lucca added. "We should take you there sometime." "It big!" Ayla told her. She spread out her arms to prove her point. "How did you guys get here in the first place?" Gabrielle asked, wanting to ask this question since they arrived. "Well, this is hard to explain." Lucca replied. "There's a thing called the Wings of Time-" "That's the thing Balthasar created!" Gabrielle piped up. The girls nodded.
"Yes. And this crazy guy Dalton put wings on it to make I his chariot." Marle added. "Now we can fly wherever we wish in whatever time." "Awesome." Gabrielle remarked. "I'd love to get out of here for a while!" she told them. "It'd be like having a party. It gets kind of dull here." "Party?!" Marle suddenly shouted. She winced and slapped her forehead with a fist. "Oh no!" She cried. "I forgot about the ball tomorrow night, remember?" she asked Lucca. "What day is it? Tuesday? Wednesday?" Lucca wondered. "I think its Wednesday." Schala said. "I could be wrong." Marle groaned and turned her horse around. "We've got to get back home NOW." She told them. They kicked their horses into swift gallops and rode back for the village. "Dad's going to KLL me!" she wailed as the came in sight of the village.