((Maybe, the bird can take us to the Dark mage, maybe we could say that it's his pet or something.))

"Our destiny..." Spence said as he turned to the figure in the sky.
It was that very same ice bird that took Spence and Diseh away from Jade and Teresa over one year ago.
The bird flew toward a small tree not very far from the group and settled itself down on the branch. It didn't attack, it just sat there.
Spence stared at the bird in amazement, "Huh...it's not attacking us..." Spence scratched his head and then turned to the group, "I wonder what it wants..."

((I now have a question for yall if we go with my latest idea. What should our main enemy be?))

"I don't know, and don't care." Diseh was still sitting in the decomposing carcus of the raptor.

Teresa glanced at the bird, then said,

"Well, it'd better not carry you of again." She stared at the bird's feathers..How they shimmered in the sunlight. It was a handsome creature.

((Simple, the Dark mage that teleported us into his world that he created.))

"I've got a settle to score with that bird, so I don't care I'm going." Diseh started after the bird, not waiting up for them.

Teresa strared at the bird a moment, then said,

"Well, I don't really care....as long as it's not another Ice Dragon in disguise, I'm fine." She mounted Dark and he started trotting forwards.

Spence watched everyone leave, he tried to smile, but his back hurt so much. Suddenly, pure white wings sprouted out from his back in a flash.
He fell down in pain, but tried to once again stand up with his blade being used as a walking stick.
"This is my curse..." he said with teeth clenching, "You guys go ahead...I'll try to catch up..." he smiled, to just fling his head back to the ground in pain.

Diseh was long gone, away from his slowened commrads. Diseh continued onward without turning back to help them. "They better hurry up." Diseh continued on following the giant ice bird, with pirsitance. Jumping over trees that had fallen, and hurdling over rocks. Even at some points he would use his ice, and fire magic to over come obsticals. Little did Diseh know that when he or any others used their magic the Black Mage knew where they were, and could strike.

"It's that curse he gave me...a year ago..." Spence quickly inhaled and exhaled trying to stop the pain flowing from his prieced back to his brain.
"The dark man who forced me against my will...he did this to me...I can...see him almost..." Spence fell to his knees, landing in some white feathers that floated to the ground.
Spence turned his head away from Jade's, "Leave me, you have to!" he cried, "You don't have to worry about me, as soon as the pain stops, I'll be fine..."

Spence pushed Jade away and fell back onto the ground in pain.
He then shouted, "When I was young, I had no one, no one to look up to, no one to take care of me, no one to love me!" he stopped for a brief moment and stared into the sky as calm as he could, "You guys want to go back home, don't you...?" he questioned, "Well...I don't want to go back, there is no home for me...only somebody else's..."
Suddenly, the pain in his back stopped, as if it wasn't there in the first place, Spence stood up and brushed the dirt off him.
"It's past now..." he said with a blank stare as he turned to Jade, "I guess...we should go now..." he said sadly as he stared into the feathery ground in front of her.

((Hmmm how long am I gonna run? or w/e?))

Spence shrugged, "I don't know...I don't really care why...I just want them to vanish..." he said sucking in a huge breath of air.
Spence walked slower and turned to Jade, "Want are you gonna do when you get back home? Who's there waiting for you?" he asked as looked back to the ground in front of him.

Spence's eyes watered up, he put a hand on Jade's shoulder and tried to be strong for her, "It should be fine when you return...I'm sure he would still be waiting for you."

Diseh kept on running after the bird, faster then any human should run. Figures started to appere in the forest, from his own time. The figure was of a girl Diseh knew, and deeply carred about. Diseh flashed back to the day of his departure.

Diseh had no family or friends, except this one girl. Tori knew Diseh before he bacem a theif, and has been his friend for a long time. They both deeply cared about each other. That day of his departure Diseh had done something he had never done. He bought something. He had bought an engagement ring. Though they both were only 19 he truely knew love. He had just bought the ring, and the cops had spotted him. They had been tracking down Diseh for months, and that got so close. They chased him down the ally with the time portal. Just as he jumped over the fence Diseh saw a Demonic Figure just beyond the portal, then slipped through the portal.

Diseh wondered about Tori, and his life before. But Diseh has changed his heart has been locked up, and no longer cares, for anything, or anyone. Diseh just kept on running.

(( To keep things less confusing, I won't just "jump in the fray".))

Isaac had made home in a small cave not far from where he awoke. All he had there was some wood to be used for fire and tool making, some sharp rocks, and his sword.

He grabbed his sword and chopped the wood into pieces suitable for burning. Need a fire...it's colder than a lake in here.


((This cave can be anywhere it's convienient for anyone else to stumble upon...hint hint))

Dark started to canter, ebon body rippling with muscle as his hooves pounded the ground. Teresa looked around, seeing Diseh up ahead, then her face froze as she saw a green-eyed, black haired young man on a white horse cross her path, a long ways up ahead.

Wha...? No...It's not Chris....Wait a second..could it be..?

She nudged Dark, who snorted and galloped before stumbling on a large tree root. The figure was gone. Gone.

Teresa sighed, then orderd her stallion to keep moving, which he did. As her horse galloped on, Teresa pondered her past.

Christoph, Chris for short, had shatred an intense rivalry with Teresa for a while. At least, since she was twelve. Chris was a couple of months older than her, and a fellow knight. After a while, they were engaged. It was just how it was. But then Teresa and him had a friendly joust, and Teresa got thrown off. That was the last she remembered, falling off of her horse.

I sure hope he's alright...

((You know what I just noticed is that Spence is only 15, I'm 19, Teresa is 23, Jade is 23, and Issac is 26.))

Diseh heard someone following him, and turned around, and saw Teresa. "You better keep up knight, or you'll get lost." Diseh jumped over a log, not noticing the 20 foot drop below. He fell, and started to roll until he hit a tree. He fell backwards, and his head was spinning. He noticed a man gathering wood.