Lost and Found

I just want to say thank you thank you thank you to @SilverArrow3 aka Silver for helping me :)
== Chapter 1 ==
It was a gloomy day in the Sencen household.
“Are you ready yet kids?” Amy could hear her mom shouting at her and her brother Cassius from the ground floor of the family’s home, Orchardview.
“Nearly mom!” Amy shouted from her room in the second floor. Amy’s room was huge. And huge is an understatement. She had a big double bed in the middle that could fit her whole family in it. The walls were painted a light green colour with pictures of family and friends hanging on the walls. She was sitting at her desk right in front of her bed.
She was trying to fix style her hair in a nice but casual way, wearing a simple green dress (like all elves do when the went to the wanderling woods). Amy had light blonde hair and a sort of hazel colour eyes. Suddenly she heard her brother at the door. She didn’t even bother look at him.
“What do you want, idiot?” she told him. Amy’s brother looked basically exactly like Amy but a boy.
“Mom wants you to hurry up.” Then she heard her dads voice.
“Ah ah ah, what have I told you Cassius about letting your sister take time to do her hair?” he said. She turned around and saw him standing behind Cassius. He had a big grin on his face. They were both wearing simple green tunics and trousers. “But seriously, come on or we are going to be late.” His grin disappeared and was replaced with a look of sadness.
“Mhm” Amy replied.
They arrived at the wanderling woods just in time. They could see loads of other people in there already. Keefe turned to look at his wife and she had a confused look on her face. “What’s wrong?” he asked her. She shook her head. Keefe took it as a sign that she didn’t want to talk about it. The family walked over the the entrance. The oh-so-familiar sign stood above their heads. ‘Not all those who wander are lost’.
Sophie suddenly stopped. She turned to her husband and said “I just wonder what really happened to Fitz.”
== Chapter 2 ==
Amy was walking through the corridors of Foxfire when she saw her friends, Elora and Everett Dizznee, walking up to her.
"Hey Amy!” Elora said. Elora was kind of short with the same strawberry-blonde hair as her dad, but with the golden brown skin of her mother. Her brother, Everett looked the the exact opposite of his sister with light brown hair of their mom and the pale skin of their dad. All three of them were wearing the blue Halcyon level 2 school uniform.
“Hey El! Hello Everett.” Amy said while blushing. It was no secret that Amy had a massive crush on Everett. It was just after school had finished and everyone was going home.
“Why aren’t you going to the leapmaster?” Elora asked her.
“Oh, I was told by the Forkle to go to his office after school.” she replied.
“Oh ok! Well can I still come over after that?”
“Absolutely! I’ll hail you when I’m done.” Amy said.
“See you later.”
“Bye.” Elora told her.
Amy continued walking to Mr. Forkle’s (Magnate Leto’s) office. When she finally got there she opened the door to see all 12 of the councillors standing behind Mr Forkles desk.
“Uhhhhhhh hi?” Amy said. She was very confused.
“Amy, glad you could make it” Councillor Emery said to her.
== Chapter 3 ==
“Well, if I’d know you all would be here, I wouldn’t have had much of a choice would I?” Amy said.
“Well... no, I guess not.” Councillor Emery replied. "Please, take a seat.” He pointed to the seat in front of the desk. She took a seat and looked over to Mr Forkle who was sitting at the chair behind the desk. He had as much as a confused look on his his face as she did.
“So I assume you are confused as to why you are here?” Emery asked her.
“Well yeah. I just get called here by the whole council, so yeah, I’m confused.”
He gave her a studying look. “You know, you are so much like your father.”
“Ok?” Amy replied.
“Anyways, onto the important matter. We have chosen you, to go to the forbidden cities.”
“WHAT?!?!?!” Amy said in shock. No one ever got to go to the forbidden cities. Especially not someone her age.
“We wanted to chose someone to got the forbidden cities so that they can look into the future generation of the humans.”
“But why me?” Amy questioned.
“We chose you because you have the perfect abilities.” He replied.
“A polyglot and an empath?” Amy almost felt that she had been flipped upside down and then told that walruses were invading Eternalia. 
“Yes. A polyglot so that you can speak English and an empath so that you can tell if they are lying or not.”
Amy was, well, very excited. She would be one of the only elves not in the nobility to go to the forbidden cities. She was pretty popular in school, but she would be even more popular now.
“Do my parents know yet?” Amy said.
“You will tell them as soon as you get home.” Emery replied.
“Oh, ok. When do I start?”
“You will be sent a leaping crystal tomorrow morning. We wish you’ he turned and lifted the crystal ‘the best Miss Sencen’”
And with that, they leaped away.
== Chapter 4 ==
Amy’s parents weren’t..............too happy about the councils decision. Well, kinda.
“That’s awesome!” Keefe said as soon as Amy told them.
Sophie on the other hand, had quite a different reaction. “Your not doing it.” she said.
“WHAT!?” Amy shouted.
“YES, WHAT!?” Keefe said. Sophie glared at him.
“What? She would be one of the only people not in the nobility to go to the forbidden cities.” Exactly what Amy thought.
“The council should have told us before making such a big decision!” Sophie argued.
“But-“ Amy said.
“My final decision is no.” Sophie told her barrow storming off. Amy ran up to her room. She jumped on her bed and just lay there.
Oh no, she thought. Elora was meant to come over later. Amy picked up her imprater and said "Elora Dizznee." Eloras face popped up on the screen almost immediately. She was great at answering hails.
“Hey Amy!”
“Hi El, I’m really sorry but I can’t have you over today.” Eloras face saddened.
“Why not?” she replied. Amy though about telling her the truth but she realised, this was councils orders. She couldn’t just give it away, so instead she said, “Oh, my family are going to Atlantis to pick up Cassius's matchmaking scrolls.” It wasn’t technically a lie-- backseat they were going to do that that day, but Elora was meant to come over first.
Elora looked really hurt. “Oh ok, bye I guess.” And she was gone. Amy was sad that she had had to lie to her best friend, but it was the right thing to do. She saw her dad at the door. He had a look on his face that usually meant he had an idea. Usually, a bad one but Amy loved them.
“I really want you to go to the forbidden cities.”
“Mhm?” Amy asked.
“So, tomorrow when you get that leaping crystal, your mom will be there to take it off you immediately. But she won’t get it. Because we will first. We are getting you to the forbidden cities no matter what!”
== Chapter 5 ==
Sophie was still angry from their fight yesterday, and Cassius had been acting strange, since he had gotten his matchmaking scrolls the day before. Amy really wanted to ask what was wrong, but she knew she shouldn’t. Right on cue, Keefe said, “I’m going to go and see if Luna and Wynn are here.”
“I’ll come with you.” Amy replied excitedly, like they had practiced a million times the day before. They both stood up and went outside. They walked over to the orchard and walked to the spot that they had hid Sophie’s old human clothes for Amy to wear.
Any quickly got dressed in a pair of trousers that were really scratchy and a top that had some weird group of boys on it.
“So, are you ready?” Keefe said as he pulled the leaping crystal he had found in the letter the council sent this morning. He had stayed up late and waited until the messenger had arrived, took the letter, and hid it from Sophie.
“Uh, I guess so?” Amy said. She was feeling really nervous now. Uh oh, I think the walrus feeling is coming back. Amy thought. Stop it, Amy. A Sencen never gets scared. She took a few deep breaths and then she was ready. The council’s instructions were very clear. Leap to the lost cities at 9am, observe (do not talk to anyone) and leap back before 10am. Those instructions would change for every visit. But today, just observe. Just observe, just observe. Amy thought. “Hello? Still with me?” She heard Keefe voice interrupt her thoughts. “Yep, now I’m really ready.”
“Ok. You will leap in 3..."
Oh no...
"2..." 
This isn’t going to end well...
"1."
What do I do?....
and then she was whisked away.
Amy felt her body absorb the light and suddenly, she was in what felt like a whole new world. She noticed three main things when she first arrived in the Forbidden Cities. The first thing she noticed was that the air was so-- thick, almost.
The second, was how different the clothes humans wore were. Even though she was wearing human clothes, some people’s clothes were dark and gloomy, while some people’s clothes were bright and colourful. The third, and most obvious thing that Amy saw was a boy. He was around her age and had bright blue eyes and very light brown almost blonde hair. He started walking over to her.
Oh no. That was the first thing that came to her head when she saw him walking over.
What do I do? He started walking over more quickly now. Soon he was right beside her.
He held out his hand and said, “Hello!””
== Chapter 6 ==
“I’m Oliver, but you can just call me Ollie.” 
Amy really did not know what to do. “Hi?” she said “I’m Amy.” She shook his hand nervously. 
Stupid me. Why did I talk to him. I’m only meant to observe.
“I’ve never seen you around before so I wanted to say hi.” 
At least he seems nice. She thought. 
“So, where are you from?” He asked. 
Amy thought for a second and then said, “somewhere very far away from here.”
Neither of them knew what to say. This is SO awkward. “Cool.” Ollie replied. “Do you want me to show you around?”
“Sure!” Amy told him. He started walking and she followed him.
“Well here’s the shops.” He pointed to a small row of shops to the left. “They have the best ice-cream you will ever have.” Amy nodded. And that’s what they did. 
Ollie pointed stuff out, and Amy nodded and she she tried to remember it all. 
He pointed to a huge patch of grass with loads of trees. “That’s my favourite bit of our whole little town, the park! We could go over if you want?” Amy looked up at the big town clock that Ollie had pointed out earlier. 
9:55. I should probably go now.
Amy didn’t want to leave, but she had to. “Sorry I have to go now.” She told Ollie.
“Oh, ok.” He looked sad. Amy felt sad too.
Gosh, why am I making so many people sad lately? Elora, mom and now Ollie.
“Will you be back?” Ollie said, interrupting her thoughts.
“Yes.” She said. He smiled and Amy smiled back at him. 
“Well, bye.” Ollie said. “Bye.” Amy replied.
She walked around a bit until she found a empty alleyway for her to leap back home in. 
And that is how it went. Every week, she got up early so that Sophie didn’t see her, got changed into her human clothes, and leaped away. Every time she met up with Ollie. They did different things every time. One time they got ice-cream. Another time, he brought her to an art museum. 
Each time she went, her time that she got to spend there got increased. 1 hour, 1 hour and 15 minutes, 1 hour and a half and so on. But on her 5th visit, she had the best time of her life. 
“We could rent bicycles?” Ollie said when they met up. 
“What’s a bicycle?” Amy asked. 
“You don’t know what a bicycles is!?” Ollie replied.
“No.” 
“Ok then, I’m going to teach you how to ride a bicycle!”
If Amy could go back, she would have screamed in her face and said, DONT DO IT! But she couldn’t.
At the start she was, extremely bad. She kept on falling off but Ollie kept on saying, “you can do it!” That is what helped her. His voice telling her that she could do it. You can do it! You can do it!
On what felt like her millionth time, she finally got it.
“IM RIDING A BICYCLE!” She screamed at no one in particular.
Ollie laughed at her but it was a nice laugh, not one that felt like he was making fun of her. They rode the bikes over to the park and layed them on the grass. They lay down on the grass and just lay there is silence. 
There was beautiful flowers around them and it was hot under the early summer sun. 
Every time when she had to leave, it felt sad. But each time, she knew that she would see Ollie again soon.
== Chapter 7 ==
Amy was really concerned about Cassius. 
He hadn’t been eating and just spend all day in his room. So she decided to see what was up with him. 
She made her way to his room and went in. Cassius was sitting on his bed, reading a book. “You know, there’s a thing called knocking?” He said as she closed the door. Amy glared at him. 
“What is up with you?” She asked. He instantly turned pale. “No-nothing.”
“I know you. I can tell when something is wrong. And anyways, I think you forgot I’m an empath.” Cassius muttered something under his breath that sounded quite like ‘why did she have to inherit the empath genes’. 
“Why do you want to know?” Amy sighed. Cassius really doesn’t know anything about me does he?
“Stop trying to change the subject!” She went and sat down on his bed. “Fine. If I tell you a secret will you tell me what’s up?” She asked.
He nodded. “But you go first.” He said. He’s got me there. “Ok.” She had to think for a second. 
Then, her mind settled on something.
“I go to the forbidden cities every week to look at humans.” Cassius’s mouth just went into an 0 shape.
“What?!” “It was the councils orders. They told me to go to the forbidden cities to observe the humans.” She told him. 
“Woah. Wait, is that why mom is so angry?” He asked. Amy nodded. “Ok, it’s your turn now.”
They sat there for a minute before he said anything. 
“It’s about my matchmaking scrolls.” I knew it. Amy suddenly looked up at him.
“Do you have a secret girlfriend who’s not on the list?!?!”
“No no no. Not that. Actually, it’s kind of the opposite of that.” He started fidgeting loads.
Then it finally clicked for Amy. 
“You don’t have a secret girlfriend because you don’t like girls at all.” Cassius nodded. “I’m gay.” 
“I assume you haven’t told mom or dad yet?” Amy said. “Nope.” He replied. 
Amy started laughing. Cassius gave her a weird look. But Amy kept on laughing. “Moms going to kill me when she finds out that I’m going to the forbidden cities. And mom and dad don’t know that you are gay yet.” 
Then Cassius started laughing too. And they just spend the rest of the day laughing at themselves.
== Chapter 8 ==
“I have to go now.” Amy said to Ollie while laughing. 
“Ok.” 
Today Ollie showed her this thing called a ‘cinema’. It’s a place the humans have where they show moving pictures. They watched a really funny one and that’s why they were laughing. 
“Bye then!” Amy said. 
“Bye!” 
Amy went off to find a place to leap away. She found a alleyway beside one of the shops and went down it. 
She made sure no one was around and pulled out her leaping crystal. 
She let the light take her away when she heard a shout. 
When she landed in the woods outside of Orchardview she saw another figure beside her. 
“OH MY GOD!” She screamed. “WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?” 
“What. Just. Happened?!?!” Ollie shouted. 
“First, shut up before my parents hear you. Second, you just light-leaped and third, what are you doing here?!” 
“Well, I wanted to know what you did whenever you left me.”
“That was a stupid idea.” Amy said. 
Amy completely started panicking. 
What am I going to say? What am I going to say?
When she finally came to a conclusion. 
I’m not going to tell them.
Even Keefe, the master at doing things he isn’t meant to, would not want to be responsible for a human.
Sophie didn’t even know she went to the forbidden cities. 
But she knew who she could tell. 
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“You WHAT?” Elwin shouted. 
“I didn’t do anything.” Amy said. She then pointed over to Ollie, who was sitting on one of the beds. “It was him.” 
“Well-I-I. I should probably ask your parents permission first before I let you bring a human to foxfire.” 
Amy gave him a look. 
Elwin couldn’t believe it. “You haven’t told them!?”
“Please Elwin, you don’t even know how angry they would get.”
They stood there in silence for a few minutes before Elwin talked again. 
“Fine. I’ll talk to Forkle and ask if he can let a ‘exillium transfer’ into foxfire.”
Amy jumped into the air. 
“Yes! You’re the best Elwin. I don’t know what I would do without you!” She said as she dragged Ollie out the door. 
“Yeah, I don’t know what your family would do without me.” Elwin said under his breath as they left. 
== Chapter 9 ==
“Woah.” Ollie said. 
Amy had just explained pretty much everything about the lost cities. 
Well, everything she could think of. 
Birthfunds, matchmaking, the infinite lifespan, even about her mom’s adventure from when she was young, all about the neverseen and the black swan. But most importantly, foxfire. 
“So, I have to go undercover in a school where I don’t know any of the subject or, basically anything about it?” He said. 
Amy thought for a second, “Yeah, pretty much. Speaking of that, you have to get ready for school. It starts soon.”
They were still in the healing centre because Amy had hailed her parents and told them she was at Elora’s house. 
Amy picked up the uniform and showed it to Ollie. 
“I have to wear that?” He said. “Absolutely no way. You can not make me wear that.”
Amy grinned. 
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“I can’t believe I let you do this to me.” 
They were walking along the foxfire hallways and Ollie could practically feel the stares, but Amy was used to it. 
Since she was the daughter of two of the most powerful people on the lost cities, it was expected that she would do great things. But that wasn’t the case. 
She was obsessed with medicine and being a physician. That’s why she had gone to Elwin first when Ollie came. She was used to him. They spent so much time together. He felt like another part of her family. 
That’s why she was used to stares, she had got them before. 
“I told you, I have my ways.” 
I can’t believe he thought Verdi would really eat him. Shes the best dinosaur I know!
But then Amy looked up. She saw Elora looking back at her. Elora had a pained look on her face. 
“One second Ollie. Stay here.” She said. Ollie just nodded. 
Amy tried to walk over to her but Elora walked away before Amy could get there. 
Amy watched her walk down the hall. 
Now people were really staring.
“Let’s go Ollie.” She muttered. 
This is going to be a rough day. 
And boy was she right. 
== Chapter 10 ==
“How have you even managed to get detention already?” Amy asked. 
“I swear it said whip not whap so it’s not my fault.” Ollie told her. 
“Sure it’s not.” Amy murmured. 
Lady Delmira had given Ollie detention for not knowing what whap meant. 
“Well you had better hope that Lady Cadence isn’t doing the detention otherwise you better like curdleroots.” 
“What in the world is a curdleroot?” Ollie said.
Amy groaned. 
She had been in a really bad mood all day because Elora wasn’t talking to her at all and Ollie getting detention had definitely not helped. 
They had just met up for lunch when Ollie told her. 
“How were your other classes anyways?” She asked. 
“They were alright. Elven history was helpful. Off I go to detention.” Ollie groaned. 
“See ya.” Amy replied.
Amy made her way to lunch. When she got there she was taken by surprise. 
Elora was sitting at a table right in the middle. 
Amy and Elora had always sat in the same seats in the corner since they had come to foxfire. 
Amy knew that they were in the middle of a fight but she had still expected Elora to sit there. 
The two of them had been best friends from birth. Their parents had been best friends so they were immediately introduced to each other. 
They instantly became friends and did everything together. 
They had so many memories with each other. 
When they came to foxfire for the first time they were both drawn to a small table in the corner. They had sat there everyday since. 
Despite Elora not being there, Amy still went over to it and sat down. 
She just sat there and, thought. She thought about Ollie, she thought about Elora, she thought about her parents and more. 
“Hey, can I join you?” She heard a voice say. 
Amy looked up to see the one person she had never expected to see. 
Everett. 
“Oh, uh sure.” She said nervously. 
He sat down and stared at her. 
“Are you not going to eat anything? You need your energy.” He said. 
Everett had always been so smart and careful about everything. He had always made sure everyone was ok and doing whatever they needed. 
“I’m not hungry. And I have things to think about anyways.” Amy said, a bit harsher than she had intended. 
“What do you need to think about? Is it about El?” He asked her. 
Amy thought for a second. Lunch was almost over. Could she just stall and wait for it to be over?
“Well, El is one of them. Can you tell me why she’s mad at me?” Amy said. 
“It’s that person you keep on hanging around with. What’s his name?” Everett asked. 
“Ollie.”
“Yeah, him. She thinks you’re replacing her with him. He seems so perfect.”
Funny you should say Mr Perfect. 
“What?!? Why would I-“ Amy tried to say, but she was interrupted. 
He must have a ‘worst time to pop in radar’ because Ollie was there. 
“Hi Amy! Who’s this?” He said. 
Everett gave her a look. 
“Uh, Ollie, this is Everett. He’s Elora’s brother.” 
“Nice to meet you dude!” 
“What’s a ‘dude’?” Everett asked. 
Amy could tell he was a bit annoyed. 
Ollie panicked a bit, “Oh, it’s another word for a cool person.” 
“Cool. One sec, I need to write something down.” Everett pulled out a pencil and a piece of paper. 
“How was detention?” Amy asked, to stop the silence. 
“It was fine. Luckily it wasn’t Lady Cadence.” Ollie replied. 
Everett looked up from writing and stood up. 
“Well, I should probably go now. Bye.” He said. 
As he left, he pushed the piece of paper towards Amy. 
She opened it up and read it. 
I can see why she’s annoyed.
== Chapter 11 ==
Once both Ollie and Amy had finished classes for the day, they went to the healing centre where Ollie would be staying, with Elwin. 
It wouldn’t be permanent but it would have to do until they found a better replace for him to stay. 
Amy was going to visit Biana so Ollie would have to stay here for a few hours until she was back. 
“Make sure to stay here and listen to Elwin.” Amy said. 
“Oh wow, I wonder if someone is finally going to listen to me.” Elwin called out. 
Amy laughed. “Bye!” 
“Bye.” Ollie said. 
Amy pulled out her crystal and leaped away. 
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“Hey!” 
Amy had arrived at Biana’s house, Everglen. 
It had used to be her family’s house but her dad had given it to her because she was the only child left. 
“Hi Biana!” 
Every month Amy went over to her Biana’s house to have a good time because Biana had no husband or children. 
Biana had always insisted that she didn’t want to marry even though she was super pretty and loads of people had liked her. 
They started walking inside the huge house. 
“So what do you want to do today?” She asked Amy. 
“Can we play base quest? I want to see how good you are. But no abilities because you can vanish but all I can do I feel your emotions!” 
“Sounds good!” Biana said. But she looked sad. 
“What’s wrong?” Amy asked. 
Biana sighed, “It’s nothing it’s just.......I used to play base quest a lot with Fitz.” 
“Oh.” Amy said. “Do you mind telling me about Fitz again? I haven’t heard it in a while and it confuses me every time.” 
“Of course.” Biana replied. “Once The Black Swan defeated the Neverseen, everything was perfect. We were all happy. But then it happened. Fitz disappeared. We searched everywhere. The lost cities, even the forbidden cities. But we couldn’t find him anywhere. We hosted a planting for him because we assumed he had died. But I’ve always felt like he is still out there but no one believed me. I think he’s just waiting to be found.”
They stood in silence. 
Amy grabbed hold of Biana’s hand. 
“I believe you. I think he’s still out there.” 
Biana smiled.  “Now let’s go play some base quest! Last one there smells like a bilepod!” She then took of running with Amy close behind her.
== Chapter 12 ==
Amy arrived back at Orchardside. 
She had had a really fun time playing base quest with Biana but as soon as she got home all her bad thoughts came rushing back. 
Elora......
Mom.......
Ollie..........
“Are you ok?” A voice asked her.
Amy looked up and saw Cassius staring back at her. 
“I guess.” 
“I’m going to tell mom and dad tonight.” He said. 
“Really?” Amy asked. 
Cassius nodded. 
Amy leaned over to him and gave him a hug. 
“You know that I will love you no matter what, right?” 
Cassius hugged her back and said, “Of course I do. That’s what little sisters are for.” 
Amy laughed. 
“I’m going to tell them at dinner. So in 5 minutes.” Cassius said nervously. 
Amy looked him in the eyes. 
“It’s going to be ok. I promise. Let’s go inside.” 
They walked inside to see their mom and dad sitting at the table, waiting for them. The table had delicious food all over it.
“Hey kids!” Keefe said to them. 
“I was wondering if I would need to drag you both inside.” Sophie said. 
Everyone laughed. 
Amy and Cassius sat down decide each other and started eating. 
“How was Biana?” Sophie asked Amy.
“She was good. We played base quest!” 
They spent the rest of dinner chatting. 
“I have something I want to tell you.” Cassius blurted out. 
“What is it?” Keefe asked. 
“Well, it’s something to do with my match list.” 
Keefe’s eyes lit up. 
“Have you found someone that you like? If you have, don’t you think you should wait until your Winnowing Gala to meet them all?” 
“No. It’s not like that.” Cassius told him. 
“Well what is it? You know you can tell us anything right?” Sophie asked.
Cassius looked over at Amy for help. He looked scared. 
“His list is all girls but he doesn’t like girls.” Amy said. 
Cassius looked at her thankfully. 
“Oh honey. How long have you known?” Sophie asked him. 
“A couple weeks.” Cassius answered nervously.
Sophie hugged him. 
“We’ll go and get you a new list tomorrow, ok?” 
Cassius nodded.
Keefe joined in on the hug. 
“I will always love you.” He said.
Then all three of them looked over at Amy. 
Amy smiled and joined in. 
A happy family.
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