Free Crossover 'The Chosen One Trilogy: Book One' by Mireille Chester Page A

into her calf high dark brown leather boots. Her shirt was a
cream colored tunic that fit snugly and stood out against the khaki
green color of her skin. She had on a belt that held a dagger and a
quiver full of arrows hanging next to a bow on her back.
    “Wow. I don’t know what to say.” I
wasn’t lying. I was speechless.
    She stepped forward and gave me a hug.
“Are you ok?” She took a step back and looked up at me.
    I looked at her again and smiled. “Yes.
Yes, I am.” I laughed. “It’s a very good color for you. Makes your
eyes stand out!” I gave her another hug. “What are you doing
here?”
    “Well, after you left I wasn’t sure if
you had just taken a road trip or actually come here, so I waited
for the blue birds to come and get me. I wasn’t doing very much
good guarding you over there, so I came as quickly as I
could.”
    “First Dodge, now you! Who else comes
from here?”
    Her caramel eyes laughed. “Just Ben.
Though he was never put on guardian duty. When I came home to
report some months ago, we ran into each other and found we were
fated. So he tags along when I’m there to watch over you. There
have been other Wedelven guards sent to watch you, but I’ve never
met them.” She grinned as Ben stepped out of the woods carrying a
bag.
    “Hey there, Hayden.”
    “Wow. This just keeps getting better.”
I smiled at them. Though Ben was just as transformed as Tara, I
wasn’t as shocked with the difference in a appearance this time
around.
    Ben was wearing similar pants and boots
as Tara, though his were a bit darker. The only difference in his
attire was the fact that he wasn’t wearing a shirt which seemed to
magnify the fact that his skin was a golden brown with dark khaki
green stripping that blended into it.
    As we ate bread and cheese for
breakfast I looked at them and noticed some differences in the way
they acted. The way they looked at each other was so much more
intense, more passionate then when they were at the arena. It was
almost as if one was always aware of where the other
was.
    A breeze blew through the trees. I
stopped chewing.
    “What?” asked Tara.
    “Your ears are pointy!”
    All three almost choked on their food.
Tara’s laugh was like bells. “Out of everything you just saw,
that’s the most shocking?” She was doubled over with
laughter.
    I grinned and shook my head. “I guess
so.” My eyes narrowed with a thought. “Why do you look so different
here? How do you change how you look there?”
    “Well we couldn’t be walking around
over there with pointy ears, now could we?” She snorted. “Though
people would probably notice the skin color a bit more. When we
cross over, an illusion takes over our looks so that we can blend
in. Ben looks a little taller than he really is, but I stay the
same height.”
    It made sense. My eyes widened. “Do I
look different?”
    She shook her head. “No. No pointy ears
for you.” She grinned.
    “Hmm. So can everyone from here go
there?”
    Jasper shook his head. “Only those with
a cross gem can go and only a few are chosen by the queen to have
one. I imagine the Majs have some.”
    Tara pulled the chain from around her
neck and pulled out the stone that was hung on it from out of her
shirt.
    “Your grandma’s necklace.” I remembered
the story she told me. The stone was about the size of my thumb
nail and a beautiful deep blue. In it were two lighter blue lines
that made the shape of a cross.
    “Well, it really wasn’t my
grandmother’s.” She grinned at me.
    Ben pulled his out of his pocket to
show me. It was the same as Tara’s.
    “I wonder why I can go back and forth
without one.” I waited to see if they would explain it to me but
the three of them shrugged.
    “It obviously has something to do with
why you’re so special.” Tara smiled.
    I laughed. “I still think this might be
a dream, you know.”
    Jasper put his arm around me. “I truly
hope it isn’t.”
    Tara’s eyes widened as did her