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Zara and Qwen were in a huge field, one half of the sky showered in daylight, the other night. Zara and Qwen lay beside each other on the borders of their respective sides, just soaking up the power their celestial body fed them.
"Zara!"
"Qwen!"
Both girls sat up, recognizing the voices.
"Hello, Andy!" Zara cried when she saw Andy and Josh standing by each other a few paces away.
"Hi, Josh," Qwen said.
"You've got to come back with us!" Andy pleaded. He rushed forward and took Zara's hands. He stared into her eyes and his hand held the back of her head firmly, his fingers in her hair. "Come back with me," he pleaded.
Zara only laughed. "I can't, silly! Besides, isn't this place lovely?" she asked, gesturing around with her hand.
Andy shook her head slightly with his hand. "No! Fight it, Zara! I know you can beat it! Come back!"

Josh was holding Qwen in his arms, gently rocking her back and forth. He was crying silently. "Come back, Qwen," he sobbed onto her head. "Please, come back."
"I can't go back, Josh!" Qwen replied.
Josh cried harder into her head. "Please, come back. You have to!"

Andy took something from his pocket, a fruit of some sort and handed it to Zara. "Here, eat this."
She eyed him mistrustfully. "Why? What is it?"
"It'll make you better," Andy said, putting it in her hand.
She tried to pull away. "I'm fine!"
Andy took it now and pressed it into her mouth. "Just eat it."
Zara chewed it and swallowed. "There. Happy?"

Josh took a small fruit out of his pocket and handed it to Qwen. "Here," he said.
"What is it?" Qwen asked, suspicious.
"Just eat it, please," Josh begged.
Qwen sighed and rolled her eyes. "Fine." She chewed it and swallowed it.

Zara began to cough and spots danced before her eyes. She looked at Andy. "What did you do to me?" she coughed before everything went black.

Qwen choked and coughed, and shook with pain. "What did you do?" she asked Josh before she passed out in his arms.

Zara woke up coughing. She opened her eyes to see that she was in a white room with a high ceiling. She looked over to see Andy's worried face hovering by her. There were tear marks on his face.
"Zara!" he cried when he saw her head turn toward him. He leaned over to kiss her—he was on his knees and the bed was low—then he buried his head in her shoulder. "I was so worried!" he sobbed into her.
"What happened?" Zara asked vaguely. Her mind was foggy and things were just beginning to clear, but she couldn't remember anything yet.
He looked up into her face. "You—you don't remember?" he asked.
Zara shook her head. She could vaguely remember a blade with her blood and someone else's on it, and a burning pain in her neck, and a beautiful field full of sunlight, but it was all foggy.
Andy looked into her eyes. "You died," he said.

Qwen coughed so hard that she sat up. She immediately felt someone's arms around her, and she looked into the face of the person that was holding her. It was Josh. His eyes were welling with tears of joy. He kissed her, then hugged her again.
"Qwen! You're alive!" he cried.
"Why wouldn't I be?" Qwen asked.
Josh looked at her. "Lord Frityr. He cut you—" Josh stopped. "Can't you remember?"
Qwen shook her head. Things were very faint and distant in her mind. Josh leveled his eyes with hers.
"You passed out and were out for the longest ti—" he stopped and looked at her, tears beginning to form again as he remembered the grief of the past week. "Qwen, you—you died."

Another week recovering, and soon the Princesses were as good as new, except for the red scar that was on Zara's left collarbone, and the black one on Qwen's right collarbone.
They had slipped in and out of consciousness, but the sleep was a healing sleep, and soon their memories were back and they were being filled in of what happened after they had died.
"All of the smoke men disappeared, I guess around the same time Lord Frityr died because right after that a bright white light filled the world," Josh said.
"And then the dragons appeared," Andy jumped in. "Everyone celebrated for a while, until we started to wonder where you were."
"That was when we went to look for you," Mooncry said. "We found you in that courtyard, side by side, each your own color of red or black."
"We took you to Gandor to try to get its magic to restore you. We were instructed to find Calypso, for she would know where to find the Fruit of Life," Sunfire said as she gestured over to a small dragon the same size as Eastflame and Westwail.She had all the colors of the Four Chosen splashed all over her body.
"And then we tried to get you to eat it, but by that time you were—you were—" Eastflame broke off and looked down at his feet.
"Dead?" Zara filled in. Eastflame nodded.
"So we knew that we had to send someone into the Place Beyond to try to bring you back," Westwail said. "And of course everyone knows that your own Place Beyond lies in your own head, and the only one would could bring you out would be someone that you could listen to, so we sent Andy and Josh."
"I think you know the rest," Andy said.
Zara looked at him. "And what of my parents? Are they dead as well as Sir Eryk?"
Andy looked down and nodded sadly.
Zara felt an urge to cry, but it quickly dissipated. She had never really known them as parents anyway. She nodded. "I suppose it must be so."
"And now, Princesses," Sunfire said brightly after a moment of silence, "if you feel well enough, you can go get ready for your coronation tonight!"
"Coronation?" Qwen asked.
Bowen, Kara, and Brother Gilbert stepped out from behind the dragons. "You're being crowned the Queens of this land!" Bowen cried.
"And you—" Kara said, looking at Andy and Josh, "you are being knighted and dubbed the rulers of the army."
The day passed by quickly. The coronation was a wonderful event. Everyone turned out for it, and they had a lovely meal. Now the Four Chosen lay staring up at the setting sun on the courtyard where Lord Frityr cut Zara.
The sun was sinking beneath the edge of the sky, sending orange and red across the bottom of the sky. Light purple and deep blue were further up the sky, and at the very top was the deepest black. A few stars showed. Zara cuddled up against Andy's body. She and Qwen lay between Josh and Andy. Qwen put her head on Josh's shoulder. The stars of Dragon Heaven suddenly appeared in the sky, though the sun was still a while off from setting. It shone brightly as a dragon flew across the sky.

The End

A/N. And that's the end. Leave your reviews. Sorry it took so long to post this-I lost my copy of the story and couldn't find it for the longest time. After I recovered from the heart attack of finding it missing, I looked more carefully through my floppy discs and found it XD So there it is. I hope you enjoyed it.