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Chapter 6 - Lies and Half Truths

Previously:

"Michael, are you feeling okay? You just called Is, Marie, and said you two broke up. What happened to you and Maria?" asked a worried Max.

"Michael? Is? Maria? What are you talking about Mi...Oh no!' said Zan, as he realized what had happened to him and Beth, But how? I didn't do it. And I know Beth didn't, she doesn't even know where the crystal is. So if we didn't do it, who did?" Max and Isabel just stared at him wondering what he was talking about.

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"Michael....are you....okay?" Isabel asked slowly, wondering what could have happened to make him act so strange. At her words Zan realized that they had just heard all he had said and he knew they would have lots of questions. He just hoped he could come up with some believable answers. He was about to try and give some explanation to his behavior when a voice was heard from the living room.

"Zan?" Beth said wearily. Like a flash he was at her side with Max and Is right behind him.

"Could you guys give us a minute?" Zan quickly asked Max and Isabel, before Beth could say anything to arouse more suspicion.

"Okay, we'll just be in the other room." Max said and reluctantly led his sister out.

As soon as they were out of earshot Zan began to speak, "Beth, listen, I don't know how, but we've gone into the past."

"What!?" said the shocked girl.

"Shh! Keep your voice down, they could hear you."

"So, if we're in the past, than they are..." she said, trailing off as she realized who the other two were.

"Yes, and we don't want them to know who we are. Until we can get the crystal and go home, everyone has to believe you're Maria Deluca and I'm Michael Guerin." he stated.

"Okay." Just as she finished saying this Zan noticed the others were coming back.

"Here they come. Remember, you're Maria and I'm Michael." he whispered to her.

Once back in the living room and everyone had sat down, the questions started coming. "Could you tell me now why you two were in the granolith chamber?" Max asked, wondering if he'd ever get the answer to this question.

"Well, like I said before, I went there to think and Maria (He said pointing to Beth.) came to find me. Then out of no where a bright light filled the room, and a strong wind came rushing throughout the chamber." Beth, then continued with the story.

"When the light started we were both shocked, but once the wind started we started screaming for each other. Since Michael was standing by the granolith he grabbed on to it. And since I was at the entrance when it all started, I had nothing to grab hold of and was tossed around the room until the wind suddenly stopped. Because of the sudden stop I was sent flying right into a wall, where I hit my head."

"Oh, my gosh." was all Isabel could say, Max just stared.

"I next thing I remember is waking up here." finished Beth.

"I guess that leaves me to fill in the blanks. Well, the first thing I saw when it was all over was her bloody and unconscious lying on the floor. I tried calling her name but she didn't respond. I knew I had to get her healed and fast, so I gently picked Maria up and carried her out of the chamber. Then I brought her here and you started asking me tons of questions." Zan said all in one breath.

"We'll figure out what's wrong with the granolith later, right now I have a few more questions." said Max, speaking for the first time since the story began.

"What do you want to know?" Zan asked, knowing it was going to be about some of the things he had said earlier. He was shocked when Isabel spoke first and asked the last thing he was expecting.

"Why did you cut your hair, Maria? You said you preferred long hair and didn't want to go short again any time soon." If Zan was shocked at Isabel's question he was more than shocked with Beth's quick thinking.

"I didn't. I guess it's some after effect from whatever the granolith did. Do you think you could bring it back to the way I normally have it Is?" Zan couldn't believe what just happened. Normally, Beth was a terrible liar, but she answered the question without even batting an eye.

"Sure." Isabel said, completely believing Beth's lie. After Isabel changed Beth's hair to Maria's normal style. Max started asking the hard questions.

"Michael, why did you seem confused when I said yours, Isabel's and Maria's names before? Who is Beth? And why did Maria call out my name from the past?"

"Well.....I......we....." he said at a loss for words, but was saved when Beth spoke.

"We might as well tell them what we were doing." He couldn't believe she would tell them who they were, where they were from, and who knows what else. But before he could protest, she continued.

"See, the reason, Michael, went to the granolith to think in the first place, was because he was upset over some of the stuff he saw." Zan, then realized what she was doing and quickly followed her example. Again amazed at her quick thinking.

"She was helping me try and remember our other life. And after what happened at the granolith we both must have reverted back to the memories and got a little confused."

"I guess that explains why you thought we were dating, but why did you call me Marie?" asked Isabel knowing her former name was, Vilandra.

"Your middle name was Marie and were called that sometimes." This time it was Beth turn to be surprised at his answer.

"I have just one last question. What did you mean when you were talking about a crystal? If you were remembering things from the past do you know what it did, if it's here on earth, or if it's important?" asked Max.

"The crystal is important, we have to guard it with our lives. If it got into the wrong hands terrible things could happen." Zan said with all seriousness.

"What does it do?" asked Isabel.

"It's for time travel." Beth said, but decided to leave out the fact that you needed the granolith to make it work.