Oh, man. No reviews for that last chapter.

Char– Maybe, because you write boring stories...

That's it, Char. I've had enough of you! (walks toward him with a roll of duck tape)

Char– What are you gonna do to me?

Geode– (looking while eating popcorn)

Meeting Aiden

Sasha was still looking out over the water when Roscoe came over. "What are you looking for?" he looked at the sea.

"Sasha always looks like she's thinking about something," Alanna said happily. Taryn was looked sullen- so far, Alanna had won ten coins from him. "Ready to keep losing, Taryn?"

Taryn rolled his eyes, got up and left. Kevin looked over at Alanna. "Don't get bigheaded every time you win." he warned.

Candace climbed down from the crow's nest. "Alanna, aren't you supposed to teach me aura?" she reminded her.

"Oh, yea..." Alanna got up. "Let's go."

"You can't learn aura." Kevin told her. "That's Mars psynergy."

"But you learned move and that's Mars psynergy," Candace pointed out.

"Oh," Kevin turned back around and continued reading his book.

Roscoe and Sasha continued to look out at the sea. "I thought you couldn't learn aura and stuff until you got more experienced," Roscoe said.

"Djinni," Sasha told him. Roscoe nodded.

"Hey, I see land!" Everyone looked at Kevin, who was up pointing northwest. "Can we go there?" he asked, looking at Sasha.

She nodded. "Go ahead, Kev. But don't crash the ship." Kevin went up to the rudder. Roscoe said he would help him and went up there. Together, they turned the ship leftward. Taryn came from the inside of the ship and looked. "Cool, a mountain range," he said.

They docked the ship, and got off. Candace looked at the mountain outside the village ahead. "Let's climb it!" she said.

"Are you sure?" Alanna asked. Candace nodded. Alanna shook her head. "Hello! Wearin' a skirt here!" she pointed at the raspberry skirt she had got from her mom's closet.

Candace thought for a moment. "Well, uh... we'll go to that village and buy you some shorts to wear under it." They all went to the village near the mountain.

"I haven't eaten this good since..." Roscoe thought a moment. A glum look appeared on his face. Then he smiled. "I haven't eaten this good in a long time." Sasha looked at him.

"Something wrong?"

Roscoe shook his head, looking at Sasha. Then he turned to Candace. "You should offer the cooks here a hand. Sasha and the others told me what a great cook you are. And if the food here is this great, just think how much better it'd be with you here."

Candace looked a little embarrassed, but pleased. "Nah... I don't think they need my help."

"Don't be so modest." Kevin and Alanna said. The waiter came over with the bill and handed it to Sasha.

"One hundred coins..." She got one hundred coins out of her pack.

"I'll help," said Candace. She and everyone else got some money out of their packs and Sasha put some money back. They got up to leave, when some people came in the inn. It was a man and a woman, and two older men and women. And behind them marched a middle-aged man with blonde hair. They looked rather worried as they wentto see the innkeeper.

"Have you seen Aiden and Beatrice?" The woman asked.

"They've been gone all day," said the blonde-haired man.

"I'm sorry, Faran," said the innkeeper to the blonde-haired man. "I haven't seen them either."

The other man ran a hand through his hair. "This isn't like them! Well, it isn't like Bea, anyway... They would have told us where they were going, especially if they weren't gonna be back by dinner time..."

Taryn turned back to the others. "They just said he was Faran,"

Alanna shrugged. "What about it?"

Kevin kicked her. "Remember why we're here? It's about his mom!"

Alanna nodded. "Oh, that guy." They all just looked at her. She looked at them. "Well, why are we just standing here? We should be over there, right Sasha?"

"Yea," she said. They walked over to the group.

Roscoe tapped the woman's shoulder. "Excuse me. We couldn't help over hearing your conversation and thought that maybe you could use some help."

They all turned to the six kids. "Who are you?" asked Faran. He glanced at Taryn. "Are you all traveling?"

"We're all looking for Alex," Taryn told them. "I am Taryn by the way. And this is Sasha, Alanna, Candace, Kevin, and Roscoe."

"I am Faran. Where have I heard of the name Alex before..."

"I can tell you later," Taryn said. "But it sounds like you need some help."

The man shook his head. "You are merely children. We couldn't ask for your help."

Alanna scowled. "He's calling us children! I hate being called a child! Don't you, Sasha?"

Sasha thought about this a moment. "No," she half lied.

"Don't let him get to you." Alanna said.

"If you see to kids though, can you bring them here? The boy is tall and looks about your ages, and the girl looks around ten years old," said the old woman.

They all nodded and left the village, buying Alanna some pants on the way out. Everyone started for the mountain.

"There wasn't a mountain here in our parents' stories," Sasha said.

"What did your parents do?" Roscoe asked.

"They lit the elemental lighthouses and stopped Gaia falls from devouring Weyward," Kevin told him.

"You mean your parents did that?" Roscoe exclaimed, looking up at the Venus beacon which was not too far from them.

They all nodded, Candace doing so because Felix and Picard were the ones she considered family. They approached the mountain.

"It's bigger up close," Sasha and Kevin said in unison.

"Jinx!" Kevin yelled.

"Hold on, Bea!" yelled a voice from high up.

"I am!" said a girl's voice.

"Who said that?" Kevin asked. They all looked around.

Candace looked up. "Oh my word..."

Everyone else looked up. From a very high ledge, a young girl was hanging. And at the top of the mountain, a boy was looking down at her.

"Bea, why didn't you tie your shoes when I told you too?" the boy called to her.

"I'm sorry!" she called back.

"Forget about it, the only thing we should be thinking about is how to get you to safety!"

The girl's hands slipped. She gasped. "Aiden, hurry! I'm slipping!"

The boy, who was presumably Aiden thought for a moment. She just had to fall over the side with no places for me to climb down.

"Um... Bea, listen. I'm gonna climb down the other side as quickly as I can, alright? Then I'm gonna run around to this side and you're gonna have to, uh..." he knew this was risky, but the side of the mountain she had fell off of was to smooth for him to try to climb down at her. "You'll have to fall for me to catch you."

"What?" she looked up at him as if he were crazy. "That's crazy! If you were an earth adept instead of fire, you could've used growth."

"Why don't we use growth, Kev?" Candace asked him.

"She's too high up," he replied. "It'd never reach."

"We can climb the mountain," Sasha suggested. Then she looked at the smooth part of the mountain in front of them. "Never mind."

"Let's get help." Alanna said. They turned to leave, but heard Bea scream. They turned around and saw her fall off the ledge.

It all seemed to happen in a flash. Bea fell through the air, Aiden yelled, Sasha and the others, except Candace, seemed frozen to the spot, and Candace, as if by instinct, ran to the foot of the mountain. Bea landed on her and they both fell.

"Candace!" everyone was surprised.

"Ow..." Candace mumbled from under the girl. Bea quickly got off of Candace, shakily.

"Th-thank you..." she said gratefully. She looked up at the top of the mountain where Aiden was, too stunned to speak. "I'm okay," she called up at him.

She looked up at Candace. "Who are you all? Why did you save me?"

Sasha, Kevin, Alanna, Taryn, and Roscoe walked over and introduced themselves.

"We thought you needed some help," Candace replied, rubbing one shoulder. She cast cure to ease the pain of having a person fall on her from up a mountain.

"I'm Beatrice, but I hate that name, so everyone calls me Bea," Bea said. "That was my brother Aiden up there." She looked up, and not seeing Aiden anymore, figured he must be on his way down.

"Everyone in your village is looking for you two," Sasha told her.

"I know," Bea said. "Mom and dad would've probably said no if we asked them if we could go rock climbing. It was my fault I fell, though. I didn't have my shoes tied and was playing around up there..."

"Bea, are you okay?" Everyone turned around, and saw Aiden coming around the mountain. Bea ran over to him.

"I'm fine," she replied. "Candace saved me." she pointed over to her. Aiden glanced over at Candace and nodded.

"Let's go back home," he told Bea taking her hand. Then he looked at the others. "Who are you all? What are you doing here?"

They introduced themselves and explained why they were there. "So," Aiden half asked half said. "So you're Sheba's child, eh? Wait 'til Faran gets a load of this..." Him and Bea started to leave. Then he turned around. "You guys coming or not?"

Aiden and Bea were drowned in kisses, hugs, 'You had us worried's', and other stuff.

"Where were you?" their grandfather asked.

Bea and Aiden looked at each other hesitantly. "We went... mountain climbing," Bea said in a small voice. Their parents looked at Aiden.

"You dragged her into this, didn't you?" his father asked.

"Dad, no-" Bea started.

"Bea, do not cover up for him." Her mother interrupted. "He is always doing stuff like this."

Aiden looked at them both with a mixed look of anger, and sadness, though he tried to hide the sadness.

"Aiden, why do you do stuff like this, much less drag your sister into them?" his father asked, disappointedly.

"Dad-"

"You are going to be fifteen in a week! You should be a good influence on her, not a bad one-"

"Dad!" Bea yelled. "Aiden saved me today. I had my shoes untied and fell off the mountain. I was about to slip from the ledge I was hanging onto, but he caught me."

Their parents and everyone looked at her, suspiciously. Then they turned to Sasha and her friends. "Did he really do this?" the mom asked.

Candace nodded. "Your son is very brave, ma'am. That mountain was very high, and he climbed down and saved her." She glanced over at Aiden, who looked back at her half gratefully, curiously, and guiltily.

His parents relented a little.

"Well..." his mother said, "I'm very glad that you saved her, Aiden. But she wouldn't have needed saving if you both had listened to us. And Bea... if your shoes are untied, tie them. You should know anyway not to be playing on top of a mountain! I'd expect as much from Aiden, but you?"

Aiden held his breath and started mouthing ' One, two, three...'.

"Let's go eat." their dad said. "There's been enough exitement today. You five are welcome to stay with us if you want."

"Taryn needs to tell Faran something, first," Sasha reminded them. Faran walked up and looked at Taryn.

"Yes?"

"Sheba is in Vale," Taryn said. "She couldn't come back here."

Faran looked a little relieved. Then his face took on a confused expression. "Why not?"

"Well...she was too nervous to come back after not coming to visit in so long after you thought she had drowned. Secondly, she felt like she wasn't treated as a regular child. She was mostly known as a 'Child of the Gods.' And thirdly, she fell in love."

"Sheba fell in love? With who?"

"My dad."

"Then- then that means-"

Taryn nodded. "He was Ivan."

"Isaac's friend?" Faran smiled and snapped his fingers. "That's where I know the name Alex from! He was one of the people that kidnapped Sheba! But why are you trying to hunt down such a dangerous man?"

"Only I can wield this sword and I need friends to help. Only this sword is really capable of beating him." Sasha explained.

"Alex has gotten much stronger than he was twenty-five years ago," Kevin told him.

"Hmmm..." Faran thought a moment. He went over to a jar and pulled out a necklace with a purple gem in it and placed it around Taryn's neck. "It's a power zapper," he said. "It drains everything. It drains psynergy, lowers attack, defense, and agility. It's so powerful and rare, that it can only be used once. If your foe is weak enough, it might just kill them. Use it wisely."

Taryn nodded and they all said their goodbyes and left.

Geode– looking at Char duck taped to the wall, laughing

Char– the only thing of him visible is from his head up

He's so sweet like that.

Previews for the next chapter:

Kali stopped. " Lena, do you know anything about your history. Not to be rude, I'm just asking."

Lena shook her head. "They never bothered to tell me. But I do know some of it."

Kali nodded. "Okay, name the elements."

"Oh..." Lena looked back up. "Kali?"

Kali stopped. "Hm?"

"Did you used to be evil and heartless?"