Hey guys, I'm back! I know it hasn't been long (only like a day, go figure) but I'm sooooo excited about this story that I couldn't wait to post the next chapter! It's going to fill in a couple of gaps here and there so that you guys can understand a little more about the characters and their powers. *COUGH COUGH* So, anyways, on to the chapter!

Chapter 1

Turtlelove POV

When the portal spits me out, I'm in the middle of no where. Literally. There are no animals, people, or monsters anywhere. On the one side of me sits a forest. On the other, ocean. I decide that it would be a good idea to set up a sort of house. I don't want to call it a true house because my true house is in the jungle with Kitsune. Bang! Right in the stomach, it's a pain like someone just punched me in the gut, but of course, no one has. It's still too soon to think about her; about how I couldn't save her. Another pang, I have to stop doing that.

I walk over to the first tree and start chopping. It's not long until I have enough wood to make a decent sized house, so I start building.

It's not long until I have a pretty cozy place. I know I'll need torches though. I need food too. So, I make a quick wooden pick, and start digging. I find coal almost immediately, and craft a furnace soon after. I dig out a fairly large area for the start of my mine, and go back up to the surface.

My pick has broken but I don't care because I won't need it anymore. I have enough cobblestone to get a good start. I craft a furnace, put half of the coal inside, and use the rest to make torches. Pretty soon, I have a very nice house with a bed, crafting bench, furnace, double chest, and something of my own. A painting of Kitsune jumping through the trees. I painted it one day while she was out getting coca beans for cookies because I promised her that I would show her my mom's recipe. Another pang.

I also hang a picture of my mom next to Kitsune's. I don't feel as much pain anymore when I think about her because she died almost five years ago. She taught me everything I know. Literally.

When I was about five or six, my mom told me that I had a special gift. I had the power to feel the emotions of others around me. She also said that I would be a very gifted healer, and the reason she knew this was because she was a Shaman. She was a healer herself so she knew that I would be one as well.

As for my power to feel emotions, she said that came from my father. She never talked about him much though because, well, they were never really married. Or a couple. Or friends. She met him while she was walking home one day. She had been out collecting ingredients for her medicine because she had been running low. As she was walking, he jumped out, beat her (almost to death), and took advantage of her. (he raped her.) So when she found out that she had ended up pregnant, she couldn't bear to get rid of me so I stayed. We never spoke of him, and I never really asked.

So she taught me to heal, and I trained my power on my own. Mostly because my mom didn't really know how it worked so she couldn't really help me, and because she didn't want to believe I got anything from him.

I learned quickly that my power could help me heal better because I would be able to gauge how much pain a person was actually in. That helps when you're trying to figure out how much medicine they need. Unless it's a potion, then they drink the whole thing.

I realize that I've spaced out a while in front of these paintings and I decide that I should probably go outside and actually look around a little. When I go outside though, see something a little unsettling. Where there should have been a portal back to the Dark Dimension, there's just the edge of my little clearing. How can that be? I thought. The portal can't just teleport you where it wants. It sends you back to the one you built in the Overworld. Apparently, this portal either didn't work like the others, or someone really doesn't want me to come back to that dimension.

That's when I hear a sort of shuffle behind me. It doesn't sound like someone coming to hurt me though. I close my eyes and try to feel them. I can sort of feel curiosity, but it's drowned out almost completely by nerves. Whoever this is, they're a nervous wreck.

I turn around and see a strand of hair quickly disappear behind a tree. I walk towards it slowly so I don't startle him/her. When I get to the tree though, I know it's a girl. She stands in front of me looking like she expects me to hit her. She couldn't be more than fourteen-years-old. She has black hair, green eyes, and wears a green tank top that matches her eyes. She also has on long, dark brown pants, with boots that bear resemblance to mine. The only difference is, hers are black, mine are a light gray.

"Hey, It's okay. I don't want to hurt you." I smile at the girl. Hoping to Notch she believes me.

"Hi." She barely whispers back. I almost don't catch it as she says, "I'm Kit."

"Hi Kit. I'm Turtlelove." This girl is small. Really small. She's pale too, and it doesn't look like she eats often. I stand in front of her, but all I really want to do is bend down and give her a hug.

Her next sentence startles me. "I need your help."

I wait for her to say more. When she doesn't I ask, "Why do you need my help?"

"My village is starving." She said. "Me and the other kids have been running around looking for any food we can. The adults stay at the village to rebuild because half of the houses there burned down in the last fire. That's why we don't have any food."

"What do you mean 'the last fire'? Were there others?"

"We've only had two other fires, but they were a long time ago. Before I was even born." She gives me a proud look. "I'm almost thirteen now!"

I guess I was off on the age, but now that I look at her, she does look thirteen. I can also tell that she isn't lying, so I decide to go to her village and help.

~/Time Skip\~

When we get to the village, I almost cry. It's one of the most depressing things I have seen. People are slowly chopping down surrounding trees, placing wood, glass, and cobblestone, and there, one the side of town, is a mass grave. People dead from starvation, dehydration, or the fire, all lay in a large, square hole.

"Let me take you to our leader." Kit says. This girls confidence has grown tremendously since I met her an hour ago. She isn't whispering anymore and she has taken every opportunity to show me that she knows everything about this forest. Now she drags me through the center of town, toward a house that's bigger than all of the rest. Well, half of a big house. We don't go inside because the chief/mayor/whatever they call her, is standing out front, directing all of the activities.

She waves a cheerful hello at us which is odd considering half of the town and half the people, are gone.

"Kit, who have you brought this time?" This woman makes it sound like Kit bringing a stranger out of the woods to help your burned-down town not starve, like a kid who just brought home a new toy.

"This is Turtlelove." Kit said. She clearly didn't like this woman's demeaning tone, but she didn't say anything. "She's here to help us find food."

"I can also heal." I said. Clearly I would be needed here for a while, so I might as well tell her what I can do.

"Excellent. Then I'll find Hannah, she's our healer, and get you started." Then she turned to Kit. "As for you, I think you can handle finding at least one of our pigs without wandering away." She meant it as a suggestion, but it was obviously a command for Kit because she ran toward a burned animal pen like she was on a timer.

She turned back to me after watching Kit go. "By the way, I'm Stacy. Feel free to ask me if you need anything." She didn't give me a chance to answer because she pointed me to another girl, apparently Hannah, on the other side of town and continued with her work. I guess she expects me to leave.

When I get to Hannah I see that she's only about nineteen. She has blonde hair that resembles mine in color, purple eyes, and wears a white apron on top of a pastel pink dress. She smiles at me and waves me into her little hut which looks like it was put up in a rush. For a girl with people dying in front of her, she's extremely happy-looking.

"Hi I'm Hannah!" She smiles at me. "I do most of the healing here in town, but I heard Kit brought you here and that you're a healer too."

"Yeah I am. How did you know-" I didn't get a chance to finish because this girl is just bubbling excitement.

"That's great! I'm so glad that Kit finally found someone that can help me. Stacy has promised me the extra hands over and over and over again, but I never get it. So now that you're finally here I can't wait because I always have at least five or six people in here at all times and I need my sleep, right? I can never get it though because they're always asking me for something. 'Hannah I need food.' or 'Hannah my burn is killing me.' or 'Hannah can I get a drink?' It's absolutely exhausting! I never get a break or sleep! If it keeps up any longer I'll get sick and then where will we be? I'll bet..."

Hannah keeps babbling for a while and I decide to just start taking care of the people here. I walk over to the beds and ask if anyone there needs anything. All of them want food. Great. I open the bag I brought with me and look inside. I have six pieces of bread. One for each person. Hannah is still talking by the time I have handed all of it out so I find a place on the floor to sit and just relax a minute.

When I wake up again Hannah is in my face saying that "everyone needs their burn medicine" and it was "time to get up, up, up!"

I walk over to her small little medicine counter and recognize the exact recipe she's using for the burns.

"Um, Hannah? That's not a burn medicine." I said it gently and I almost didn't think she heard me. Then she responded.

"Yes it is. We've been using this medicine since last week! Of course it's a burn medicine."

"No, Hannah. That's a pain-killer. That won't do anything for the burns."

She looks at it again to see if I'm right. A little while after that her face gets really red. She gives me a half smile and looks away. I can feel the shame rolling off of her in waves.

Finally she asks, "Well, then what is the medicine for burns?"

So I taught her my recipe for burn medicine that I have perfected over the years with Kitsune. She has the power to control fire. It's actually how we met.

I came to the jungle she lived in thinking no one lived there. She watched we for a while as I built my house. When I went inside-she had been leaning off a tree branch this whole time-she fell out of the tree. I felt her pain and ran out of the house to find her sprawled out on the ground. I picked her up, carried her inside, sat her on the bed, and began making medicine for her leg.

After I healed her, she trusted me enough to show her the power she had. She said that she could 'make fire' so I followed her outside my house to a clearing in the jungle a little ways away. Then she took off her gloves, and held out her hand. A small flame bloomed just above her palm. She did it with the other hand and was soon spinning around in circles making little swirling motions with her hands, laughing and having fun. She didn't notice at the time, but the tree next to her caught fire. The fire grew quickly, get out of hand very quick. By the time she noticed though, it was too late. Hot, searing pain exploded across my arm. I fell to the ground screaming at the top of my lungs. Kitsune put out the fire before it burned any more, and carried me back to my house. She apologized for burning me, and she healed it fairly quick with a plant she called Blazeleaf. Apparently it was really rare and it had healing qualities for burns.

Anyways, that's how we met. It's one of my fondest memories of her and I'll never forget it.

I helped Hannah make the medicine and we healed all of the burn victims in her little hut.

"Ohmygosh! This place hasn't ever been empty before! Not completely." She's positively ecstatic and I can't help but return her smile.

After I helped heal a few others, Stacy came and found me. She said it would be getting dark soon and I could go home if I wanted. I thanked her for letting me stay and she said it was her pleasure considering I had helped them so much. Before I left, I made sure Hannah had the recipe down, and hugged Kit goodbye. I hope they find food. I thought as I left.

Kitsune POV

When I come to, all I can remember is running for my life. Running for what seemed like forever, then being thrown toward the portal. I know I didn't go through it though because the next thing I remember is seeing Turtle go through the portal without me, and blacking out again. Why didn't I go with her? I thought. Why didn't she take me? Did she just not care anymore? My mind is foggy, so I don't ponder it too much and look around at where I am.

I'm not still at the valley. That's for sure. I'm in a cell made of obsidian. It's dark and I can't see well but that doesn't matter right now because I'm looking at a back-lit figure standing just outside my door. I sit up with some pain, and look at the figure. Whoever he is, he's strong. Really strong. The muscles on his arm are bigger than my head.

The figure speaks slowly, "Welcome Kitsune." It's a deadly tone. I only laugh though.

"You think you can hurt me?" I say. "If you so much as take a step toward me, I'll burn you alive!"

I meant it as a threat but apparently Mr. Strong wasn't concerned by it. He chuckles a deep, throaty laugh and says something that scares me enough I almost black out again. "I think you'll find it quite impossible to use that power here girl."

No not possible. I think. He has to be lying. He can't take my power. That's when I look at my hands. They have been wrapped in a sort of cloth very tightly. Not only that, they're glowing an unearthly orange.

Mr. Strong laughs again. "Like I said, you won't be able to use that power anytime soon."

Then I know why it would have been a good idea to look around my cell a little more because another man jumps out of the shadows behind me, punches me hard in the temple, and I black out.

Holy crap! Who expected that one? Not only has Turtle helped a village from dying, but Kitsune is ALIVE? And how could it be me without leaving you all a nice cliffhanger. :) I would like to tell you all that you can now start submitting your own OC's! Ground rules for submitting one though:

Don't send me your OC more than once. I don't want all that spam and I will read all of them don't worry.

Don't send me youtubers. I will add them if I feel that they fit with the story NOT because you guys send them to me.

So, anyways I will post the next chapter when I have picked an OC and written the actual chapter. See you guys next time!

P.S. Please send me your OC in a private msg and not in the reviews. Thanks!

~TL