Hello there readers! :D

Sorry. No flashback with AlliyahtheAuthor today. l; Got an announcement regarding my other storyline The Knights of the Rainbow Heart.

For ALL those reading, please, please, PLEASE try and answer the questions I pose in my author's notes in those chapters.

I await your opinions.

Lisalynd, Writer of Many Names

Christina's P.O.V.

Finally! Time for this meeting to begin!

"Still one problem…" Mia stated bluntly. "We have no idea where the meeting is being held!"

Just about everyone's face fell.

"Guys!" Olivia waved her map in the air. "Have we all forgotten I have this?!"

I face palmed. "Of course! Sorry. Lead on Olivia!"

Olivia put it up to her face. "Show us to the meeting!"

Nothing happened. She frowned.

"Map? You in there?" Olivia shook it a couple times, as if trying to wake it up.

Still nothing.

"Is it broken?" Fiona asked, peaking at it. "Ask it about ice-cream again… I want to see something happen."

"Now's not the time, Fiona!" reasoned Olivia. "I'm not going to ask the map 'Where is the ice-cream shop?' aga-!" She was cut off by the blinking pointer re-appearing on the map again.

"Huh…" Evelyn muttered.

"At least it's not broken!" stated Cassandra optimistically.

Olivia stared resentfully at it. "Now how are we going to get there?"

Destiny chuckled. "I suppose we'll have to do things the old fashioned way!"

"Teleport like wizards?" Savvy proposed idealistically.

"Nope."

Savvy appeared relieved at that. "Oh phew. Good. I did some previous research on teleportation magic, but the little info I gathered made, like, zero sense."

"Yeah. None of us clearly know how magic in Avalon works exactly," reaffirmed Mia.

"Though we do have the tendency to encounter it a lot," realized Mike. "I kind of wish it would stop happening…"

Cleopatra looked down at her amulet. "Should I try to summon Ra and ask him?"

"Nah. I don't think we should bother him, being the Krokotopian god of all gods," Destiny wisely explained.

"What about give up?!" Evelyn suggested, losing hope.

"No!" Destiny exclaimed, burying her face in her hands. "We're going to have to ask!"

Honestly, I hated that idea, even though I considered it earlier. It made us look bad. If we were truly part of Avalon's general group of knights, wouldn't we know where it was? I bet the other knights have been to wherever the meeting was being held before. I sighed, and rested my hand on a light blue colored tile in the center of the room. Suddenly, the floor split in two!

As we fell a good story or two down, we all screamed, "AHHHHHH!"

Well, except for Andrew who was yelling, "FUN!"

Finally, we landed on a table. I gasped. We were in the center of about two dozen knights, all staring at us, shocked.

Holy Jabberwocky…

"You-you made it…" stuttered a voice from the crowd of knights.

I stood up, and climbed off the table nervously. The rest of the Knights of the Silver Rose followed my lead.

I tried to laugh in a deep and manly voice. "Heh, heh…"

I hardly fooled myself, but the knights didn't kill me, so that was a good sign.

"That we did," I finished.

I heard whispering... uneasy whispering. That wasn't a good sign.

"Where did you come from?" tried another knight.
"The floor," Cassandra, wearing Genna's armor, stated honestly.

Her fake guy voice was hardly any better than mine. How would we ever keep our true identities a secret?

Michael's P.O.V.

Oh no. We really should have thought this through, I almost panicked as I usually would.

Until Destiny whispered to me. "Follow my lead."

I knew she was good at acting, but it would take a miracle to get us out of this mess. But I had to trust her.

"Excuse us for our tardiness men," Destiny apologized in her convincing, low, monotone voice. "But our encounter with the beast in the Weirwood took longer than expected. Isn't that right Michael?"

My turn to play my part.

Don't blow it Mike! How would Kowalski answer Skipper?

"Affirmative sir!" I responded almost immediately.

"Oh yes!" agreed Andrew. "It was at least double the size of this very castle!"

"And it kept turning to and from shadow form," added in Olivia her lowest voice possible.

"Don't forget all that thick brown-black fur!" invented Savannah, imitating Olivia's gruff voice.

"My, my," commented a knight as he got out of his seat to stand. "And how did you defeat this extravagant beast?"

He was twice my size!

Uh oh… This is just like the enactment Destiny and I practiced earlier, only this time, it's for real! Our tall tales are about to get the best of us…

"Uh-" Christina started.

"-That has no importance at the moment," interrupted Destiny. "We are only knights in a village so tiny it is pretty much unknown. It is located at the opposite side of the Weirwood from here. But that is besides the point."

"One of you invited us to come here to state business." I finished informatively.

I must admit, I was doing a pretty good job so far.

"Where is that knight we saw earlier today?" demanded Evelyn seriously, banging her fist onto the table.

"You must excuse me," pardoned the knight we bumped into this morning. "I thought they were one of us. I'm Sir Malory!"

He bowed. I could've sworn he winked at me.

Weirdo…

Christina's P.O.V.

Wow. It was Malory who stopped us? I felt like hitting myself on the head. How didn't I recognize his armor?

Never mind that. The real question was: WHY WAS HE WINKING AT MIKE?!

Fury raised inside me. Who did Mike think he was, stealing Malory?! Malory was mine. Whatever the case was, I had to keep an eye on this situation. And if possible, stop it! With that in mind, the whole mess of a meeting began. The knights sat back down while, we stood standing since there were no seats for us.

"Let's continue the meeting…" decided a knight.

Malory seemed to want to object, but before he could say anything, another knight began to speak. "So, how shall we kill-"

"Kill the great stinky beast in Weirwood?" Malory chuckled uneasily. "Why, that's silly. That has obviously already been taken care of! Heh-heh..."

The knight grew a baffled look. "No, sir, I mean-"

Malory cut the knight off. "You know what? Let's talk about something else. Oh. If you'll excuse me, this knight and I have something to discuss in private."

He dragged Mike down a hall behind him. I raised an eye-brow. What was he going to do? I decided I'd follow him. But how would I get out? Suddenly, an idea popped into my head.

"Excuse me," I announced, trying to imitate what a man would sound like once again. "I have to go use the little lady's - I mean knight's! - room."

Mia choked, trying not to laugh. The knights seemed to be a little weirded out, but they accepted my excuse and gave me permission to leave. I went up a short staircase and followed Mike and Malory down a cramped tunnel, opening up to a hallway. Finally, they stopped walking. I hid behind a corridor leading to another hall.

"Did it hurt when you fell from heaven?" I heard Malory flirt. "Because you're an angel!"

Mike slowly backed away. "Uh..."
Malory winked. "Cupid called. He said he needs you to give me my heart back…"
"What are you even talking about?!" flustered Mike.

Malory leaned in, and took my helmet off of Mike's face with his eyes closed. I gasped. He was going to kiss him! Before he could though, Mike did something I would have never expected to do. He punched Malory right in the face!

"What is wrong with you man?" he cried in a fury. "You're disgusting!"

He stormed back where we came after grabbing my helmet back from the stunned Malory.

I guess Mike wasn't after Malory like I thought... At least, not the way I expected.

I must admit, as much as it must have hurt Malory's ego, I found it just a little funny. I stifled a giggle. Before I made myself visible to them, I made sure my helmet didn't reveal my face.

"I heard fighting here. What happened?" I tried to stay as serious as possible, but that was challenging after seeing what had just happened.

"And this guy calls himself a knight?! Please," Mike scoffed, then realized it was me.

I could tell he was blushing underneath my helmet and we quickly walked back to the room where the other knights talked.

Mike made a deal with me. "We are never speaking of this again, okay?"

As hilarious as the incident was, I didn't want to risk the chance of anyone figuring out that I almost lost it, being the leader of our group and all, so I agreed. "Never ever!"

I have to admit, it must have taken a lot to bring out Mike's courage. It was almost like magic at work! That was a figure of speech, of course… But what if it wasn't? I'm not sure of anything when Destiny's involved anymore, it feels like...

We reached the knights' meeting room before I could ponder any further. The Knights of the Silver Rose were relieved that we didn't take long. They didn't seem to have gathered any information out of these knights as they were playing chess, probably awaiting Malory to take the lead. Out of nowhere, dust swept over the room, and turned into a whirlwind!

Cleo wailed, "Ah!"

Hopefully, the other knights thought she was just a guy with a high pitched scream.

"Andy!" Genevieve panicked, trying to fly to him, fighting against the wind.

"Don't call me that around a bunch of knights!" pouted Andy, temporarily crossing his arms before flailing all over the place again.

Cassandra flapped her wings hard as well, but the whirlwind was simply too strong.

What is going on?!

I clung as hard as I could onto a chair held down by another knight sitting on it as if the whirlwind weren't affecting him in the least. He laughed evilly, and pushed both my hands off. With nothing to hold onto, I was sucked into the spinning whirlwind with my fellow Knights of the Silver Rose.