(Liv's POV)

I sat alone and stared at the full moon above me, Elijah and Phyllis to my right. Elijah had fallen asleep as had most of the others; the only ones being awake were Monger, me, Phyllis, and Link. Phyllis simply stared at the dark desert hills. By the look in her eyes, I could tell all she wanted to be left alone. Monger, he asks me to call him Warren now but only in private, was somewhere else, keeping an eye out for the base.

I looked at my right hand where the energy bolt struck me and took its course. It all reminded me that they were still after me, Elijah, and Phyllis; nothing, not even their defeat at Tierra del Fuego, would stop them.

"Hey, what's up?" I heard a familiar voice call. I smiled back.

"Hello, Link." I greeted.

"You doing okay?" He asked.

"Yes, thank you."

"Check this out." He pointed at Dr. Cockroach and Susan. "Look at how close they are. I don't know any paparazzi that wouldn't give for that. Seriously, they'll do anything to find a relationship among us guys."

"Are they a couple?"

"Nah; I tried getting Doc to hit on her for me since I tried it and it didn't work out. But, none of them would have it. I guess if they did become a couple, it'd probably work out."

"Of course; they were both human once upon a time."

"Yeah. You'd have to be careful cause those stupid paparazzi try to follow us as best as they can...enough of that! What about your past?"

"Why do you ask?" I giggled in surprise.

"Wellll, I tried lots of times to get Doc to talk about his, and doesn't tell me a thing except that he was a scientist from a small town in England. I know all about Susan's 'cause she was a little, I don't know, hysterical when she first got here."

"I don't know where to start."

"Were you rich?"

"Yes, I was, as a matter of fact. I was the only daughter of a plantation owner. Ever since I was seventeen, my parents tried to marry me off to an equally fortunate bachelor, and I had suitor after suitor. A few times, I was engaged. Finally at twenty-five in '39, I dated a scientist; he had a hard time finding a girl, so I decided to let him have a shot. At the time, I read quite a bit of fantasy stories. My suitor was trying to create a serum that would hopefully cure polio.

"One day, while visiting him in his lab, I accidentally came in contact with the unfinished project and I've been like this for the past seventy-five years. He was so devastated at what happened. The last thing he told me was to run away and hide somewhere far where no one could find me. And I lived in a remote part of the woods for about eleven years."

"What about the years between here and now?"

"That's another story, which'll explain part of Elijah and Phyllis' pasts. What about yours?"

"Uh, even though I've been here for about twenty thousand years, there's not much to remember with the first seventeen thousand. A lot of people say I was frozen for about three thousand years. The earliest I remember is waking up in some room and running off to some really nice place called Cocoa Beach. Then they knocked me out and locked me up in the monster facility."

"Any suitors in Cocoa Beach?"

"Yeah there were some chicks there who were the femme fatale, but none were the femme Faytale."

My heart jumped into my throat. Was he really referring to me as a hot babe? Yes, I was known in society not only for my financial heritage but for my beauty somewhat, but still. It didn't creep or gross me out like some past suitors did, so I smiled. I felt a little warm and prayed that I wasn't blushing. Thank God by now all the other monsters were asleep. I gently scratched one Elijah's soft coyote ears.

Before I could say more, Warren's voice enhanced with a megaphone announced, "Prep and landing! Everybody up!"

I suddenly realized at Warren's order that I was torn between two suitors. And compared to the psat suitors I've had, a ninety-five-year old U.S. Army general named Warren Robert Monger and a twenty-thousand (at estimate)-year old fish-ape-human hybrid monster called the Missing Link were the best so far.

Finally, I get to the romance of the other couple (or should I say part of the triangle). Btw, on the Dr. C./Susan thing, I don't support that at all and the scene I wrote doesn't support that either. And Elijah and Phyllis' pasts will be explained in the third story of the Invisoline Trilogy.