I do not own any of the characters. Please enjoy and review.

HoroHoro: Cool, so there is now a battle going on?

Me: Yep!

Ren: Finally some fighting.

Jeanne: Fighting isn't always good, Ren.

Pilika: It turn you boys to idiots who fight each other for fun.

The rest of the girls nodded.

The Boys: Whatever. Fighting can be fun, you know.

Chapter 10

"How long is it going to take?!" Akira shouted while jumping up with his hands on his head from inside the carriage. Marika pull him back down onto the seat.

"We're almost there. Don't worry." Lexi assured him.

The gang was on their way to the center of the two kingdoms' land. The Nightmares have started attacking and the Dream was defending their kingdom and was launching back attacks. They all knew that the two kingdoms will fight mostly in the center but they had to try to reach it. They were taking a hidden route away from the fighting to be able to reach it without getting attack.

They winced when they heard another explosion. They could hear the cries from the two sides as they clash weapons. There were shouts of pain and victory from both sides. Lexi looked worried as she looks ahead of them to see a roaring battle ahead. As they got closer, she could see a lot of tents and armies of the Dream set up. Generals were giving commands of all sorts to attack and defend to the soldiers.

Rei was sitting next to Lexi. He gives her a small knock on the head. "Quit worrying, Lexi. It wouldn't do you any good anyway." Lexi nods but Rei could still sense that she was still worried. But then, how can she not? Rei thought. Her kingdom is at stake as well as the lives of many people.

They soon arrived at one of the base of the Dream's soldiers. Lexi jump off so did the others. General Mikisha, one of the Dream's best generals, was surprised when the carriage arrived and he was even more surprise when the missing princess jump off the carriage in non-princess clothes and in a non-princess manner! All of them had changed back into their normal outfits before they left the castle.

Mikisha rush up to the princess. "Lexi! When did you come back? More importantly, why are you here at this time?" Mikisha had known Lexi ever since she was a baby and she was always wearing her gowns and would never be so impolite in front of people in the kingdom! He notices a couple of other kids behind her.

"Not now, Mikisha. I came here for an important reason." Lexi said sternly. Mikisha was quite shock at her tone.

"But, I never heard from the king and queen! It's dangerous for you to come out here! Those Nightmares are attacking!"

"Simple, the only reason why you didn't heard because I never told them. I came here with my friends." Lexi said coldly.

"But why would you disobey your parents? This is the first time I seen you do that!" Mikisha shouted.

"Don't try to stop me. I'm not the sweet helpless little girl people think I am. I'm not a pretty doll!" Lexi slash a nearby stump in half with her silver whip. The others watch with interest.

Mikisha gave out a small sigh. He pats Lexi's head. "Looks like you change a lot since you disappeared." he look over at the rest of the gang. "Take good care of her, alright? She's very loved by our people." The gang nodded.

Mikisha turn around and shouted out orders. Lexi smiled and began making her way to Mirminda forest with the others right at her tail.

They have been walking in Mirminda forest for quite some time now and they had not yet reach the shrine. Everybody was on guard for any attackers nearby. The forest looked like any other forest but it had a powerful aura lucking in the many lush green trees. There were no animals in site but the gang had found recent tracks along the forest floor.

Lexi was trailing behind the others as she checks her whip to make sure it was ready. Rei quickly wrap his arms around her and made her lean onto his chest. She gave a small yelp. She could feel his warm breath near her neck.

"First time I have seen you act like that. Nice. I like a strong girl." Rei whispers into her ear which causes her to blush furiously. He smirks as he let go of her and start to follow the others.

"Jerk." Lexi mutters as she ran to catch up. Akane smiles at her and Rei.

It wasn't long before they had reached a clearing in the forest. There, standing before them was an ancient shrine that had powerful masses of energy coming from inside of it. They gather around I and notice that there was a small little wooden door located right in the middle of the shrine.

"Open it." Morty said.

"Lexi's the only one here that is a part of the royal family that is alive so why don't you go ahead Lexi?" Jasmine gave Lexi a gentle push towards the shrine. She places both hands on the small doorknobs and slowly opens it.

There was a bright flash which blinded them that they could not see that behind the door laid a different universe and the door in the shrine was a portal, a link to another world. They felt themselves being suck into the portal and they started to float around in this different place. They open their eyes to find themselves surrounded by bubbles of the past. To say the least, everybody was pretty amazed. They had somehow been transported into a dimension of time!

"What is this place?" Charlie shouted/asked. They were now pasting by the memories of their past. In one bubble, show the battle in Scarlet Town, in another show of their meeting with Keir. Daichi look around at all of the different bubbles with interest. You could only see the memory but you couldn't hear it. This was a really strange place.

"Daichi, I never would have believe that there was a time portal anywhere in the world!" Amidamaru exclaim. "Yet, here we are floating through the past!" Daichi nodded with wonder filling his mind. He notices that the bubbles seem to be only forming the memories of the people in this unusual dimension. They show them going back to their younger years.

He notices a weird memory. He went closer to it. It shows a little girl standing outside a car. A man was yelling at her and she had her head down so he couldn't see who she was. And then, the car drove off leaving the little girl standing there at the edge of the road. The girl was dirty and he could see scratches on her arms.

That must have been her parents who left her! But what kind of parent would abandon their own kid at such a young age? More importantly, who was that girl? Daichi thought hard and he was about to look into the memory again when it had disappeared on him! He frowns and looks over at the others. They only have four girls plus the two queens. It couldn't be Serena since I known her for a long time and it couldn't be Marika because her father died. Lexi had her two parents and they sound like they wouldn't want to let her go. So that only leaves Annie, Jasmine and Seshu. But I can't figure out which one!

"Hey look at that!" Akira suddenly shouted. They all look over to see that inside two large bubbles that were close to one another show the Hikari Orb and the Kurai Orb. They flew closer to watch what was going to happen next. In the background, they could see lightning flashing into both of the room. Both rooms started to shake and they guess that the tornado was just starting. They heard a rush of footprints coming from both bubbles as the people in the castle rush underground for shelter. Slowly, two little pixies emerge from the orbs. They looked the same but were wearing different colors that suited their orbs. The pixies had on mischievous grin. They flew around a bit before going back into the two orbs. As the group watch, the two orbs suddenly disappeared into thin air with a pink and purple flash!

"Nobody stole it! The two pixies were playing a trick!" Daichi shouted.

"Pixies are very mischievous. They love to play tricks on people." Amidamaru said grimly.

"Too bad that trick of theirs turn into a centuries war between the kingdoms." Yuki said.

"All this time, we had blamed each other for the disappearance of the two orbs, but it was those mischievous pixies!" Nevel said angrily.

There was twinkling laughter behind them as they watch the bubbles. They whirl around to see two beautiful orbs about the size of a basketball floating right in front of them. Two little pixies peek out from behind both orbs and gave a smile.

"The pixies! And the orbs!" everybody exclaim. The pixies floated in front of the two orbs with their hands behind their backs and they had sheepish looks on their faces.

"Sorry!" both pixies said together. The group frowns.

It was a dangerous trick that those two did, but I think they just wanted to play. Can't do anything about the past, but we can change the present and future, Daichi thought.

"Come on, guys! Let's just get the orbs back safe and sound." Daichi grin at the pixies and a rush of hope flew into their little faces.

"All right, I guess. But you two must promise never to do this again, okay?" Lexi scold them. They both nodded and went back into the orbs. There was another bright light and the group found themselves back outside in the forest in front of the shrine. Both kings and queens departed for heaven because their work here was over. The two orbs surrounded the gang as they felt themselves being lift into the air. They floated out of the forest and finally stop in midair in the middle of the battle. They look down to see everybody had stop fighting and was watching the group of kids flying in midair. Lexi's parents were there as well as the king and queen of Nightmare kingdom. Both had confusion written all over their faces.

"What on earth is going on?" Amanda shriek. Leo tried to calm her down.

"Everyone! You can stop fighting now. I have the two orbs so please drop down your weapons to hear what happen long ago!" Lexi shouted to the crowd. Surprisingly, the soldiers drop their weapons and the area fell silent.

The pixies came out of the orbs which earn them shouts and gasps of shock and awed. "We're very sorry! We made the orbs disappear because we wanted to have a little fun. Being coop up inside the orbs with nothing to do is NOT our idea of fun!" the pink pixie pouted.

"That's right! It was only a mere trick. We didn't think it would start a war between the two kingdoms!" the purple pixie jump in.

"Why didn't you return the orbs right away then?" Leo asked. Shouts erupted from the crowd as they agreed with him.

"We couldn't because the people had lost hope in peace between the two kingdoms and soon we got trap inside a different dimension!" the pink pixie replied. The purple pixie nodded in agreement.

"Does it matter? We have the orbs back and those two promises never to do it again. I think you should have them play around once in a while so they don't get bored." Lexi said. The kings and queens look at one another before nodding. The pixies smile and flew back into the orbs. Lexi and the gang were brought down next to Leo and Amanda. The Kurai orb flew into the Nightmare king's hands while the Hikari orb was place into Leo's hands. The two sides started laughing and joking with one another. The gang smile as once again, the two sides were at peace.

It was the perfect night for an evening ball at the Dream's castle. Amanda and the Nightmare queen, Meruda, had planned the whole party after the fighting had stop. The ballroom had plenty of space for dancing and food. In a corner sat a large array of tables fill with delicious food. Several golden chandeliers lit up the room and the queens had hired the best musicians to play at the ball. Four large chairs were place at the front for the kings and queens. Everybody was dress in fine gowns and tunics. It was very lively indeed.

Leo stood up from his chair as well as Iydeed, the Nightmare king. Leo silences the crowd. "Welcome to a wonderful celebration for our two kingdoms has finally join together once again!" Leo's voice boomed into the ballroom. The crowd claps and cheers.

"Make yourself comfortable and enjoy the party!" Iydeed shouted. More cheers and claps came from the large crowd. Iydeed gave a signal to a page. The page nodded and presses a small button. Colorful rays of fireworks exploded into the moonless night sky. Everybody watch in amazement as each firework came into view. It was truly a beautiful sight to be held.

After a nod from Leo, the musicians started a lively yet slow song and the crowd started to dance together. Everybody was partner up.

Leo had the gang come over to them. "Thank you for what you have done."

The gang smiled. Lexi gave a sigh of relief.

"But," Amanda began. They look at her suddenly anxious. "Lexi, you disobeyed your father and me."

"Mother! I had to!" Lexi protested.

"I know, honey. And I know I'm going to have to let you be on your own now, don't I?" Amanda said tearfully.

"We have agreed to let you travel with your friends. But write to us every so often, all right?' Leo said, smiling brightly. Lexi nodded really fast and was beaming with excitement.

"Actually, we were planning to leave tomorrow morning." Daichi jump in.

Leo and Amanda look at him in surprise. "So soon? Don't you want to rest?" Amanda asked. The gang shook their heads.

"We have to get going." Rei said.

"Yeah, we do have a time limit." Yuki agreed.

Both kings and queens smiled. Leo reaches into his robe and pulls out a couple of short yet thick strips of fabric in different colors. At the two ends of each fabric was a small button that was a darker version of the color of the fabric. He handed the boys two fabrics each in a different color that suited them each perfectly. They look at him in confusion.

"Those are a piece for your Oracle Bells. You see, the Patch people have asked us to guard a piece because the previous guardian has fallen ill and he is a dear friend of mine so we had agreed." Leo explains. The boys drop the fabrics into the pouches.

"You have shown that you are worthy of it. Good luck in the fight!" Amanda said encouragingly.

"I can't believe we got a piece without knowing that it was here!" Charlie said jumping about. The others laugh and nodded.

"Lexi, dear, I forgot to tell you that you should be looking for suitors soon." Amanda broke the news to Lexi who suddenly panic.

"Mother! I am not even 16 yet! I'm only 13 right now. You can't expect me to marry now!" Lexi shouted in protest. Most princesses are to be marrying at the age of 16.

"Well, you do have boys as your friends in addition to girls. Maybe one of them will do?" Amanda said playfully.

"What?! Mother! And besides, that one," Lexi points to Daichi. "already has a fiancée!" At the mention of that, Daichi casually swung his arm around Annie's waist and pulls her closer. Annie rolls her eyes at him and smiles sweetly at the king and queen.

"That's an even younger age!" Leo said in shock. Daichi grins and shrugs.

"There is still four more!" Amanda protested.

Lexi rolls her eyes. "I'll decide on whoever I want to marry when I want to." The queen finally gave in and sigh to which earn Lexi a happy smile.

"Go dance!" Amanda urges them and shoo them off into the dance floor. Daichi and Annie were together so was Yuki and Serena. Akira held out a hand to Marika and Rei pull Lexi into the crowd of dancing people. Charlie practically ran to the food tables because he didn't want to dance and even if he did, he didn't have a partner.

Charlie grabs a plate and was sampling each food he could find. Nobody else was at the tables because they were all dancing. He looks up just as a girl about the same age as the other girls walk up to the table.

She had wavy orange hair and the two bangs that stood in front of her ears were braided with each having a yellow ribbon that was braided in also and was holding it. She had white skin with a flower headband on top of her head. She wore a flowing yellow dress with orange-red lining. A sweet smile was on her face and her brown eyes twinkled.

"Hi there! You're eating a lot. Don't you want to dance like the others?" she looks at him with a curious expression plastered on her face.

Charlie reddens at the fact that he was caught eating this much. "I don't like to dance because it's not break dance!" Charlie quickly pulls out a golden chain and cap from who knows where and bust a move. The girl laughs at his joke and he smiles gratefully.

"You're funny! I'm Claire Hinamori! Nice to meet you! Oh, and this is my ghost, Maylofree." Claire said while still laughing as a small tabby cat ghost peek out behind her dress.

Charlie started to laugh too. "I'm Charlie McDonell. This is my guardian ghost, Mic." Charlie reaches down to pet both Mic and Maylofree. They both purr loudly. Charlie and Claire talk some more and Charlie began to feel ready comfortable being with her.

Charlie rose back up to his feet after a while to find Claire's face sad. "What's wrong?" Charlie asked suddenly anxious. He wasn't good with girls like the other boys were.

She shook her head. "Nothing much, I just wish my family were still alive to see this wonderful day."

"What happen?"

"They were all kill in the war. I have been living by myself for a while now." she explains sadly.

Charlie claps in her face. She looks at him, startled. "Why don't you come with me and my friends? We're traveling to find the five pieces for our Oracle Bells."

She eyes him anxiously. "I'm not sure if they would want me to be with them."

Charlie gives a laugh and started to pull her towards the others. The others greeted her warmly. The girls were talking and laughing with Claire while the boys were together snickering at Charlie. Daichi let her join them but Charlie was going to have to tell them why soon. Charlie agreed and he told a couple of jokes to the gang. Lexi, Marika and Claire laugh so hard that they were hugging their sides. The night ended peacefully for them.

Meanwhile, while everybody was partying inside the ballroom, a certain boy floated in the air looking down at the. "Enjoy your fun for it will not last. You better watch out." Keir said before vanishing into the moonless night.

Ren: Gee wow. Pixies.

Me: Gee thanks.

Yoh: Give her a break, Ren.

Lyserg: There are good points in the story.

Me: I got you and Jeanne together, Ren!

Ren: In the story.

Anna: Right. (Roll eyes)