Ella St.Tremaine's Story

Nate was hiding away in one of the castle's libraries, he enjoyed the view from one of the benches near a window and often liked to look out it. The view was one that stretched across the greenish landscapes of the back property to a lake. He watched the water the waves rolling in and out. It was calming for him, he loved the sea, even more when he was able to go out on it. It was always one of the better missions, when the queen sent him out on his ship to go get something or do something that required getting across the water. Although he missed his friends, as all of the boys had quickly become friends, and it wasn't hard to see, they worked alongside each other every day and were all quite similar if you looked hard enough. He planned on waiting until most of the others had finished before going to see the queen. He was determined to soak up some enjoyment in his last moments of peace for the day. Once he saw the queen she would give him a task and then probably another once he was done the first and generally none of the tasks were all that pleasant. But she was his queen and he served her loyally.

He was just contemplating going up to see her and get his job for the day when he heard commotion outside in the hallway. By the time he looked back to the window, the weather outside had changed and it almost looked as though a storm was coming. He groaned and headed out into the hall. "What's going on?" He asked one of the many people rushing by. "It's the queen, my lord. She has summoned us all to the grand hall." He answered quickly before ducking around the next corner. Nathaniel made a face and followed the hall that he knew would take him straight to the Grand hall. When he arrived he smoothly joined the huddle of the others. "Do you guys know what's going on?" He asked in a whisper, he figured maybe one of the other workers would know what all of the commotion was about. He hadn't really ever seen the queen this stressed out and she never called them all together like this unless something big was happening.

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Ella sat in her class. It was her last class of the day. Now that she was nineteen and a senior, she had a few spares saved up. This allowed her to take the afternoon off of school. It was the perfect situation for her as she worked part time as a maid, cleaning the homes of the wealthier families in her neighborhood. She went to school in the mornings and then worked in the afternoons and evenings. She was trying to save up some money to be able to send herself to college or even just move out of this town and go start over somewhere knew on her own. Why wouldn't she? There was nothing tying her down to this town, she had no real family left alive, her parents were dead, no grandparents, she had never had a boyfriend, nor any friends. She dreamed of a new life, somewhere far far away, somewhere away from her awful step family and somewhere where she could finally be happy again. As she sat in class, her mind drifted off to a daydream of what her life could be like. She stared blankly out the window and absentmindedly fiddled with her necklace, twirling the small light blue stone around in her fingertips. She had no idea what the teacher was talking about and probably wouldn't have even snapped out of her daydreaming until the bell rang.

It wasn't the bell that brought her back to reality, however. Instead, it was the sudden warmth building against her fingers. Instinctively, she dropped the pendant, causing the pendant, which seamed to be rising to a nearly scorching temperature, to swing back to its usual spot against her collar bone. She barely had time to freak out about the fact that the pendant she'd worn since infancy was beginning to feel as though it's blistering heat might start to burn her, before her vision started to go foggy. Her vision went black, her sideways sitting position had caused her to slip out of her desk and onto the cool tile floor.

When she opened her eyes again, she was outside. She could see from across the grass a man in an old fashioned suit and a preschooler in a baby blue dress. The man smiled as he set down a small bloodhound puppy in front of the little girl. "There you go my princess. A puppy of your very own. Now what shall you name him?" The man looked concerned, as though he was worried about something far behind the sweet moment. The small blonde stared at the puppy, making a face. After a few seconds she looked up to her father and exclaimed her choice. "Bruno!" The man, probably her father, smiled. "Bruno and Cinderella, what a wonderful pair you two make." As he watched the girl and her dog play, he smiled, a smile which soon turned to a more somber expression. And with that her vision faded once again. This time, she opened her eyes to the shoes and ankles of someone standing in front of her.

"Ow"
"Oh Ella, are you okay? Do you need to go to the nurse?" Her plump teacher asked.
Ella tried to focus on the woman as she forced herself to stand up. "Yes please, I think I hit my head." She said. The teacher nodded and gestured her off. Partially mortified, Ella stood up and headed towards the nurses office. When she got there she noticed it was unusually crowded today. She sat down in one of the chairs outside of the door. Her head hurt and she figured she probably had a concussion or something, I mean, what else could have brought on such hallucinations.

((I am going to have the four girls meet and have one of my chars find Emerald's char since she's in the nurses office already.))

Mai Wu and Dawn Trudy

As Mai and Tatyanna got closer to the nurse's office, Mai saw two more girls near the door, only they were sitting on the ground. Concerned, she came forward.

"Are you two all right?" she asked.

Dawn looked up and almost instantly saw the jade pendent Mai was wearing. Okay this was really starting to get freaky. She recognized Mai Wu, but never took noticed of her pendent before. Mai had also saw the pendents of the two girls too. Dawn finally answered.

"Well I was feeling lightheaded and I fell flat on my face just a few minutes ago, so now I have a headache. She has a headache too. I was going to see the nurse and she needs to see one too, but I don't trust myself to stand up." Dawn replied.

"Oh, well, hang in there and I'll see if we can get you some help. Tatyanna, can you keep an eye on these two? I'll be right back." she said before moving on.

She turned the corner and saw several others near the nurses office. One whom she recognized as Ella St. Tremaine for the teen worked at her aunt's house cleaning things there from time to time whenever her aunt needed an extra pair of hands.

"Hi Ella, are you okay?" she asked the blonde as she approached her.

She only met the girl a few times and thought her nice but never really got to know her.

When Ashley stepped into the cool hallway, she instantly felt a bit better. As the cool air hit her face, she felt her entire body go into a relaxed state. She peered down the hallway and noticed a crowd of girls surrounding the nurse's office. Raising an eyebrow she walked a little closer. She knew some of the girls there, but others were unfamiliar to her. One thing she did know, was that something strange must be happening. They all looked too frantic, too bewildered by some strange force. When she stepped a little closer, she also noticed a final crucial fact.

All of them had virtually the same silver chain and pendant hanging from their necks. Ashley's face went white, almost as if all signs of life had disappeared.

Laurel finally spoke. "That is it. I think something is weird here. Look!" She pulled her own pendant out from her neck. "There's been too many 'coincidences' today, and I think someone - or something - is toying with us." She glanced around at all of the girls, all of whom had the similar-looking pendant.

"Could there be more of us, though?" Laurel wondered. "All of you have had weird sightings, right? All of you look pale - the same."

Lyna looked up at the girl that spoke to her. How had she known that she had a vision and a headache? Did all the girls experience the exact same thing? She was about to open her mouth to reply when a sharp pain coursed through her skull. She groaned and squeezed her eye lids shut. The headache just wouldn't go away.

"... Yeah. I'd ask what was going on but it seems like people have been asking already." She replied.

Six times? Why were there so many of them? Lyna wanted to think more, but the throbbing in her head just wasn't allowing her brain to process thoughts. "Anyone got some advil? This is killing me." She groaned. It probably wasn't a coincidence. The situation was just too ridiculous. A bunch of girls that had the same pendants, the same symptoms, all at the same time? Some sort of other power was at work here. Either that or fate had really drawn all these girls together.

Despite the magic that never allowed her to take off the pendant, she wasn't a firm believer in the supernatural. It just wasn't... normal. Sure her pendant wasn't normal, but it was just pendant she couldn't take off. Society would have labelled it as 'witchcraft' if she ever told anyone, so she never did. But that was it. It was stuck on her and nothing more. At least, not until today. That spark of orange... and these strange visions... was it all... magic? Would she accept that there was something inhuman at play? Somehow she couldn't bring herself to believe it. If she did then its like accepting that she wasn't normal. That she was a freak.

Laurel watched as the girls spoke to one another, each as confused as the last. She had always been a straightforward person, and she hadn't liked everyone's uncertainty. So that was what she'd done - laid it out in the open, addressed the issue everyone had been wondering silently about. She didn't think of herself as the leader or anything, but she hated this.

"I think we should stay together," she spoke up again. "Until we can actually find someone who can explain this stuff, we should stay close to each other, keep in touch if anything else weird happens - that kind of thing."

Laurel looked around at everybody's faces for approval. Would they accept her suggestion, she wondered, or would this weird feeling tear them apart?

((Okay I am going to post for the girls this time. I am having that dreaded Writer's Block with the guys.))

Irina Kurdesh, Dawn Trudy

Irina was lying on one of the beds in the nurses office. Normally, she would have been there for an injury, but this time she was there for a totally different reason and it left her very baffled. Not too long ago, she had been in class when she felt her blue topaz pendent warm up and she found herself in another area. It looked like an island and she saw a baby crawling towards the water. The baby had white hair and an eager grin on her face. Soon though, the baby was picked up by a beautiful woman with white hair and different markings all over her.

"My little Kida, must you always go searching for trouble?" the lady looked sternly at the baby, but when the baby smiled back, the woman couldn't help but grin.

It was then the image faded and Irina felt disoriented by it. She actually did have naturally white hair, but kept it dark brown. She learned white hair only appeared on old people so it was weird to her why she had natural white hair as a young lady. The teacher had looked at her and asked if she was okay. Irina said no and had asked if she could visit the nurse's office. When she had arrived, there had been very few people there. Now though as she lay there, she heard plenty of voices coming from outside the office. Annoyed, she got up and walked pasted Mai Wu and a blonde first before coming outside and recognized several other girls.

"Um, excuse me, but several people are trying to rest in here. So maybe you guys can lower it please?" she asked, trying to be polite, but it was obvious she was irritated.

Dawn kept looking at the others as they conversed and saw a few other girls show up. She turned her head though when a voice appeared at the door and saw a dark hair teen that she knew she recognized somewhere but couldn't think. It was then it dawned on her. That girl was on the varsity swimming team and basketball team. Automatically, she looked and saw that the girl had a pendent also.

"Oh, she has a blue topaz pendent. Have you been feeling ill too?" she suddenly asked.

Irina looked at the blonde, looking puzzled, but replied, "Yes, but how'd you know that?"

"Hehe, the rest of us here have pendents and aren't feeling good. Are there any other girls in there?" Dawn smiled.

Irina couldn't imagine why this blonde was smiling but obliged her. "Well, there's Mai Wu and another blonde, but that's it."

Dawn nodded and turned the others, "Why don't we all introduce ourselves really quick? I am not very good with names so you'll have to bare with me. We seemed to be connected it seems. I am Dawn Trudy and I just turned 16."

The only reason why Dawn was smiling was because she was actually scared and excited and she smiled to hide her true feelings.

Irina thought the girl was spontaneous but still answered, "I am Irina Kurdesh and am also 16."

Dawn Trudy, Mai Wu, Irina Kurdesh

Dawn smiled as introductions were made. Mai heard talking and saw a bunch of girls outside the nurse's office. She heard them introducing themselves and felt the ground start to shake somewhat. This day was getting weirder and weirder. She felt she better introduce herself as well.

"Seems we're all in the same boat. Oh my name is Mai Wu, and I am 18 years old." she said after Laurel introduced herself.

Dawn nodded when she too felt the floor shake.

"Okay, I better not be dreaming, but do you guys feel the floor shaking?" she asked them, fear in her voice for the first time.

Irina thought Dawn was joking but could feel the tremors also.

"Um, yeah I can feel them all right. What in the world is going on here? I think am going to be sick!" she commented.

"I've lived here as far as I can remember and never felt an earthquake before." Dawn added and dropped to her knees because she was feeling queasy herself.

"And there shouldn't be earthquakes here, we're nowhere near a fault line." Mai said, trying to keep calm.

"Anyone got any suggestions?" asked Dawn.

She could feel her pendent heat up again. Both Mai and Irina felt the same thing.

Perry Solime And Julie Mak

Perry watched as the girls panicked. She was a little terrified but tried to remain strong, for the other girls. She didn't want to feel responsible if she didn't help them.
Julie was nervous too, she would've rather have been swimming in the beach right now, but she was beginning to painc.
"What are we going to do girls?' she said, looking around for any other suggestions.
Perry stood in front, she had never been in charge before, she wasn't very good at it. But now it was time to take up that role.
"Ok, girls. We should split up. This is weird, all of it. First, we all feel sick, see these strange memories, then we find we all have the pendants and now this earthquake! So, that's why we should split into groups and try and find out what's going on here."
She hoped this would give the other girls some encouragement, at least. After all, she had seen all the girls' pendants began to heat up again. It must have some connection.

Melinda

Melinda embraced the moment. She knew how much the girls needed her right now. A breath in. A breath out. She knew in just a little bit of time, there was going to be something extraordinary. Something big and powerful. Her wand layed all alone on the seat, she picked it up and consentrated. Her fists clenched, her lips pursed and her eyes closed and she slowly moved her head to face the roof of the carriage.
It was now or never.
She flicked the wand at the horses, their body was outlined in a bright orange colour, highlighted so they picked up speed. Making loud thundering noises with their hoofs, almost like the sound of an earthquake. She would try and use this earthquake to connect with the Princesses. Although, it was a risk. It may kill a few innocents, but it had to be done. The whole world was counting on her. She wanted to find the girls, stop the brainwashing, so they could be reunited with their lovers. So it would all end in Happily Ever After.
If only the Queen would stay out of the way for her to do it.

The day seemed to be going in quite a blur for Emily. She honestly wasn't sure how she ended up in the nurse's office with a bunch of other girls she knew. She was fine this morning, it wasn't common for her to catch a cold. Was there a flu or something? The girl sat down on a small wooden stool close by, and put her aching head in her hands.

"Careful Alice, don't go too far!" Warned a lady from a distance.
"I won't mother!" Called back a small child, running off towards a forest.
The child giggled as she chased some of the woodland creatures around. The girl, Alice, hopped onto a rock, and looked as far as she can. The forest was a vibrant lively green, with the critters happily scampering around.

Emily's head snapped up at the unusual scene that played in her head. What was that? Although Emily often daydreamed and imagined all sorts of things, this particular one felt different compared to some figment of her imagination.

-And now there was an earthquake. As if her head wasn't spinning enough.

Finding herself unable to move, Ashley decided that the best course of action was to do absolutely nothing. She was confused as to why no teachers had left their classrooms because of all the strange tremors, but soon directed her attention towards a much more dire issue. Her head was aching more than it ever had before. Against her own will, she found herself being dragged into her own dreams, as if she weren't the one creating them, but rather that she was only an observer in a much larger dimension.

The night sky was magnificent. A toddler washed her hands in a shallow outdoor basin, twirling them about and making patterns in the water with her fingers. She seemed thrilled with her creation, even though her parents seemed unimpressed. They turned to speak with a servant. The young girl smiled as she leaned down, peering at her own reflection. It was then that she noticed the image of a boy in the water, but before she could turn, she fell into the basin with a splash. She thrashed about, trying desperately to stay on the surface, but to little avail. Her vision grew hazier with the lack of oxygen.

Then suddenly, she could breathe once more. Her vision returned to her as well. Looking around anxiously, she began to sob when she couldn't find her parents. Unsure of what else to do, the girl looked up to the sky for comfort. It was strange how she felt when she did. All of her sadness seemed to vanish, as if someone had miraculously wiped it away. For a moment, she believed that she was still staring into the pool of water. The image of the young boy was still fresh in her mind, and she knew with certainty that it was HIS image strewn across the sky. A deep whisper echoed through her mind. "He will always watch out for you," It said, "Until the sun turns to ice."

The vision ended and Ashley's mind became her own once more, although her head was still throbbing. Shocked back into reality, she took a deep breath and tried her very best to forget the events of the day. The earthquake was understandable, but she found it extremely unlikely that she would experience two strange dreams and an earthquake in one day. After a moment or two of wondering, she made up her mind.

Her only explanation was that she was set up on some sort of prank show. The earthquake was some sort of contraption set up underneath the school while the dreams were an effect of some experimental drug. Yes, she assumed that she had it all figured out.

"This is stupid." She laughed, rolling her eyes. Looking up to where she believed a hidden camera to be, she continued. "Look, next time, try something funny. I hear that whoopee cushions are all the rage these days."

Dawn Trudy, Mai Wu, Irina Kurdesh

It seemed like the shaking was getting worse. Dawn was on the ground in a fetal position, just trying to breath. It was then her pendent warmed up again and once again Dawn had another vision.

She was in a garden it seemed. She looked around and saw several people on a bench and a baby and a toddler nearby. The toddler was a boy with sandy blonde hair and the baby was a pretty blonde. The boy ran up to a couple that looked to be royal and Dawn can hear their words.

"Papa, flower for baby!" the boy smiled.

The man chuckled, he was a bit on the heavy side but looked very paternal. He rubbed the boy's head and looked at the flower. It was rose, but without any thorns, which was rare.

"Phillip, why don't you give it to Aurora yourself. Just say her name and I am sure she'll crawl to you." the man replied.

Dawn's head turned sharply to the baby as she remember her last vision. What in the world was going on here?! She watched though as the boy, who she felt a stirring for, walked a few towards the baby and called out her name, holding out the flower. The baby turned and smiled. She managed to turn a bit, but instead of crawling, she managed to haul herself up on two feet and walk the few steps to grab Phillip's hand and the flower, before falling down to her rear.

"Look honey, our little Aurora walked! She walked for Phillip!" smiled the lady from her last vision.

Both kids were swooped up by their fathers as they celebrated the day when the baby first walked. Dawn felt herself get emotional as the vision faded and she woke up to a cold sweat. She looked around as the shaking intensified. She heard Ashley and could only nod her head.

Mai was trying to stand up, but was feeling pretty nauseous at this point. So she only managed to get on her hands and knees. It was then she had a vision like the others. It looked like she was near a big pond and she saw too small children playing in the mud. Suddenly two men approached them and they looked a little upset. The boy, who looked to be 5, stood up and bowed in apology. Than the girl, who Mai recognized as before, placed her hand in the boy's and bowed too.

Mai heard her say, "Sorry papa, my fault, not Shang's."

The boy looked at her in surprise as the men grinned slightly and forgave them both. Mai felt a pain in her heart this time as she was sent back to the present. Gasping, Mai looked up and the ground began to shake more and more.

"I just had another vision. This time there was a boy there." she told the others, trying to find inner balance.

"Really? I just had one too with a boy." Irina replied as she hauled herself onto her feet, refusing to get sick, even though she had the mother of all headaches.

She tried making it over to her friend and colleague, Lyna. Her vision had been when she was in a throne room with the same mother and daughter as before, this time with a dark skinned man. Another family, this one pale faced, approached them and the two men greeted each other win a hug and handshake. The little baby girl was trying to get off the lady's lap and managed to do so before waddling over to the small boy, who was clinging to his mother's dress with one hand. She giggled as she hugged the boy with her tiny arms and kissed him on the cheek causing the boy to blush. The two man chuckled as the baby's mother looked embarrassed.

The tall white man said, "It looks like your Kida has taken a liking to my Milo."

Irina recalled the vision and felt her cheeks warm up. Was that baby really her? It was impossible right?

"Look girls, I don't think it's safe to stay here. I am surprised no one else is trying to get out of this building. Either I am going crazy, or we're the only ones who can feel this shaking." she said as she managed to get over to Lyna.

"Ella St. Tremaine, senior." She recited along with the other girls. She stayed out of their other conversations but listened to what they were saying, until yet again her head screamed in pain and throbbed. The worst migraine she'd ever had was beginning to take over her entire head. She couldn't even think straight any more. She squeezed her eyes closed in an attempt to numb some of the pain. This was when yet another of her dreams took over her entire mind.

This time instead of seeing the small blonde girl, it was as though she was the girl. Except in this dream she was older.
She was in a large ballroom, the most spectacular room she'd ever seen. Music played and the sound of her own laughter filled her ears. In front of her stood one of the, no, the most attractive man she'd ever seen. He laughed too as they spun around in circles and eventually drifted out to the patio. The beauty of his smile nearly made her melt. They danced under the stars and she was having more fun then she'd ever had in her life. Their perfect moment was interrupted by the chimes of a clock. Ella watched as she spun her head to look towards the clock. In a panic she broke their contact and ran towards the stairs.
"I'm sorry but I have to go. " She called as she picked up the blue ballgown enough to run down the stairs.
"Wait!" She heard the stranger call from behind her. "I don't even know your name."
But Ella continued running, even when she tripped over a stair and her shoe fell off. She contemplated picking it up but the male was chasing after her. When she turned, she noticed the building she was running from was a castle. She ran until she had reached a small garden like place, like magic, the beautiful gown she was wearing disintegrated under her hands and became a torn dress over a slip.

Ella opened her eyes. That dream had felt so real yet she still couldn't believe that. "Yeah, I had the same kind of dream. There was a boy, he was... and...I think we should get out of here. There's something going on. The drugs in the air theory is sounding more and more plausible.
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Nathaniel flew backwards with the burst of air. He picked himself up off of the ground in time to see the queen slam the doors and order them not to leave the room. She had never so much as order them not to leave the castle let alone one room. There was certainly no way that Nate was going to stay there. He loved the sea far too much, it was familiar it felt like home. Still he nodded in agreement with the others. The last thing he wanted to do was defy her majesty and piss her off even more. He had never seen her this mad before which meant that something serious was definitely going on. He wondered what could be going on. He wasn't sure if it was a good sign or a bad sign that she was locking them all up in here. He was going with bad. "What do you think is going on?" He whispered[quote][/quote]

Things just kept getting stranger and stranger for Irina, Dawn, and Mai. One minute the floor was shaking and the second, their surroundings were vanishing. Dawn simply fainted for all that was happening was too much for her to handle. She started falling to the floor, but the floor never came as everything disappeared. Mai had seen this and tried reaching for the blonde when the floor vanished. Irina tried reaching for Lyna too but her surroundings vanished. She hated the feeling of falling, but managed to hold in a scream. Mai gritted her teeth and tried to keep a brave face up. Dawn was still completely out of it and wasn't even aware they were free falling.

When they were all on solid ground again, Mai looked around. Where were they? She saw the other girls were okay before checking herself out. As she did this though, she saw her clothes were different and looked Chinese. She also realized her hair was up and felt it. It was in Chinese style too. Looking around, she saw that the other girls were garbed differently. All looked to be from different cultures. She saw Irina first and the girl looked drastically different from the others. Not only could Mai pinpoint the origins of her clothing, but her hair had changed from dark brown to white! Not to mention she had different symbols on her body.

"Irina, you're hair, it's white." she pointed out.

Irina looked at Mai in surprise and grabbed a lock of her hair and saw it was true. Groaning, Irina stood up and realized her headache was completely gone.

"My hair color is actually white, although I don't know why." she told Mai.

Mai nodded before seeing a few of the girls question someone she had never seen before. When the lady introduced herself as Melinda, Mai stood up and bowed as it was the polite thing to do. Before she could introduce herself, Irina said something.

"Are you a fairy? You wouldn't happen to know where we are would you?" she asked.

Mai sighed and looked and saw Dawn was still on the ground. The young lady's was a bit more curly now and she was wearing an elegant blue gown that reminded Mai of Medieval Europe.

Irina saw Dawn too and commented, "Does anyone want to wake up Sleeping Beauty over here."

((Lol sorry pun intended here lol.))