A/N: So here it is. Chappie three.

"Ugh! What happened? I feel terrible!" Kelsey was the first to awaken. Though she felt bruised in a hundred places, and her head beat like a bass drum, her concerns turned quickly to her two friends. They were still lying prone upon the grassy ground, sprawled out as if they had been thrown there by some great force.

"Rachel! Kai! Wake up, you morons!" she screamed into their ears.

"Ow, Kelsey, don't be so loud!" Rachel moaned, and rolled back over, her hands over her ears.

"No, really. Wake up!" she kicked them both in the side. Kai cursed loudly.

"Okay, okay, I'm up. What happened?" Rachel said blurrily.

"Oh my freaking god!" Kai yelled, sitting straight up.

"What?" the two girls intoned

"The trees have leaves! They're, like, green!" He yelled.

"So what? Trees have leaves, duh!" Kelsey said mockingly.

"Yeah, Kelse, but there are no trees with green leaves during November in freaking Connecticut!" Rachel said hysterically, if not rationally.

"Something must have happened, then." Kelsey said, stating the obvious. Both of her companions made motions as if to smack her violently.

As they sat on the ground, dumbfounded and arguing, a figure approached them from the dark of the copse. Standing almost six feet tall, the strange figure was garbed in emerald and white velvet robes. Her lips were ruby red, her skin whiter than the snow that had dusted the ground of their hometown.

"Greetings, my strange children," the figure said in an eerie voice that sounded both aloud and inside the three's heads. Kai grabbed his ears in surprise. Kelsey stared at the "intruder" with hostile eyes narrowed to slits. Rachel stared at the figure in disbelief, overcome by a feeling of déjà-vu. Where did she recognize this person from?

"Welcome to your new home," the three opened their mouths to speak, but no words sounded. "Welcome to Tortall." Rachel stifled a silent gasp.

Finally, Kai found the strength to ask, "What happened? Why are we here?"

His harsh words did nothing to shatter the stranger's mysterious calm. "You three were killed in a terrible accident in your home country. However, we gods sensed that you could not be allowed to die. Therefore, we brought you here, instead, and instilled your spirits into bodies."

"You instilled our spirits into bodies? Like, bodies other than our own?" Kelsey asked nervously. The thought made her squeamish.

"Yes. These bodies were recently vacated in another accident that should not have occurred. However, we gods were not able to save the inhabitants. We had already used our available power saving you. Therefore, you must take on the identities of the bodies."

"So, we're dead, we shouldn't have died, but now we're somehow alive, and we're in someone else's bodies, but they died, too, and now we have to pretend to be them?" Kai asked in an incredible run-on sentence.

"You must not pretend to be them, you must become them. This is instrumental to your destiny. You must fulfill the role that they could not complete."

Rachel was now feeling very apprehensive. She had read too many fantasy novels to not know what would come next. "And what would that destiny happen to be?" Please say something easy, please say…I don't know, make someone a peanut butter and jelly sandwich with our feet, please don't say…

"To save the world." The stranger echoed Rachel's thoughts. "Yes, if you do not stop the terrible maelstrom of war that is about to engulf this world, there is no way we can ever hope to return you to your home."

"Why can't you just send us home now? Or why can't we just stay here?" Kelsey asked.

"Our powers now are too diminished by our efforts to hold back the flood of darkness. It was a miracle that we could even bring you here. Only once the darkness has been banished will we regain our full powers. And if you decide to not follow your quest, and simply remain here, then you will suffer the same fate as all of the other inhabitants of this world. You will die at the hands of the darkness."

A/N: As always, review!