Disclaimer: I do believe that boy's cheese done slid off his cracker.

This song is 'Almost Remember' and is from the movie 'Anastasia'.

I am going to ease your curiosity. This chapter is indeed back with Avril and The Lone Power. Hope you like it!

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(Avril and the Lone Power stand, surveying a barren wasteland from a plateau)

AVRIL: Whoa, talk about De-Ja-Vu . . .

LP: Any of this look familiar?

AVRIL: Should it?

LP: I dunno. You tell me.

AVRIL: (Eyes widen slightly as a memory surfaces briefly) What is this place?

LP: This place, you mean? This was Everheart, once a copy of Timeheart. The One Who Forgot lived here with another before the tragedy that deprived It of Its memory.

AVRIL: The One Who Forgot? I thought that was just a legend.

LP: I suppose your precious book told you that it was just a rumor, am I correct?

AVRIL: (Nods) Who was the Other It lived with?

LP: (Sighs raggedly) Me.

AVRIL: Yeah right. The One Who Forgot was one of the Bright Powers.

LP: (Angrily) You'll believe anything as long as it's written in your pathetic manual! Won't you? The One Who Forgot was NOT a Bright power! It came with me when I left Timeheart!

AVRIL: Why did It come with you?

LP: So full of questions, aren't you? Take a wild guess. I think that you know more than you're letting on.

AVRIL: (Hesitates) I have no idea.

LP: Then I won't tell you. That is something you'll figure out in time.

AVRIL: Whatever. Let's just get on with this whole thing, shall we?

LP: (Sarcastically) As you wish, wizard.

AVRIL: (Follows LP down a hill and is hit almost immediately with another brief flash of memory) This certainly was a good replica of Timeheart. It reminds me of-

LP: Of what?

AVRIL: (Thinks, then shakes her head) Never mind. I've forgotten now.

Dancing bears

Painted wings

Things I almost remember

And a song someone sings

Once upon a December

LP: Don't you recognize anything?

AVRIL: I've told you before, I don't remember!

LP: Right . . .

AVRIL: (Softly)

Someone holds me safe and warm

Horses prance through a silver storm

Figures dancing gracefully across my memory

LP: Did you say something?

AVRIL: No.

Far away

Long ago

Glowing dim as an ember

And a song someone sings

Once upon a December . . .

LP: (Impatiently) Let me refresh your memory then, since it's taking so long for this to sink in!

(He snaps his fingers and a sun races up over the horizon, changing chadows and dust to trees and landscapes. Within 5 minutes, the area is an exact copy of Timeheart.)

AVRIL: (Gasps) It can't be-

LP: (Smiling) You remember now, don't you?

AVRIL: (Shakes her head and spins away from the view, hastily setting up a transit spell) I know nothing about this place. Don't try to pull this stunt on me ever again!

LP: (Puzzled) Stunt? What are you talking about? Can't you remember anything?

AVRIL: (Shouting) No! Just let me be! I haven't even finished my Ordeal yet, why are you so interested in me giving up my wizardry? I have done nothing to get in your way!

LP: (Looks darker) You do know why I brought you here, don't you?

AVRIL: It's all a trick of yours to make me give up my Wizardry!

LP: How can you be so dense? You think that's what this is all about?

AVRIL: I am going now, and next time we meet, it'll be me kicking your butt.

LP: You know what you are; you just don't want to accept it!

AVRIL: How did you find out what I dreamed about last night anyway? I thought you couldn't get into our minds unless we let you!

LP: (Turns away) We'll speak again when you aren't so stubborn.

(He waves his hand and a black wave of energy sweeps Avril back to Earth)

AVRIL: (Stands up and walks back to her house shakily)

And a song

Someone sings

Once upon a December . . .

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Another cliffhanger! How was it? Do let me know! Take care!