Michael p.o.v
I wake up the next morning and head downstairs after I changed to see Author and Jake already eating breakfast. "Morning guys, where is Alexis?" Author points upstairs as I understand what he means. I sit down as Author grabs my breakfast and place it in front of me and I dig in. Soon Alexis come down and eats breakfast as well. "Oh Michael I forgot to tell you. Your father called this morning and said he is coming to visit and the team as well." I nod as I take a sip from my orange juice. "He also said Ana was coming." I immediately spit my juice out as I cough. "Are you serious! Can't I be away from her for at least a month." Jake looked confused as Alexis holds my hand. "Don't worry mother, I will be there to protect you from her." I smile as I kiss his cheek and hug him. "Thanks buddy, okay I will head out to get a few order that I need. Jake, you will come with me while Author and Alexis stay to clean the house a bit before they come." They all agree and we finishes our breakfast before we head our separate ways. Me and Jake get into my car and I take the highway to head into the city. We stop at a few store to pick up some things that I ordered for Jake and some clothes for him as well.
While we were in the car driving back, I looked towards him to see he was focused into the distance. "Jake...what happen at the base?" He gets startled a little as he looks at me and sighs. "Father....father and a group of men got violent and they were able escape by exploding the place. I got trapped in some debrie, but he only looked at me and left without helping me." I grip the wheel as I gave a u turn to the exit for the house. "How did James got those explosives if y'all hardly get any supplies?" He shakes his head and looks out threw the window. "I have no idea, my guess is that he sneak into the weapon room that is in the lower level of the base and stole many things." We finally reach the house and I see my father's limousine was already here. "I am going to talk to my father so we can visit the base within a few day so I can see what we are dealing with." He nods as I park and we grab the things before heading inside.
I am greeted my the team as they give me a group hug. We all tumble to the floor and I was pin down as they bodies were on top of me. "Okay guys I get it! get off me, you three are heavy then I remember and we saw each other three weeks ago on a mission." They get off me and Jacob helps me up. "We did, but you barely visit our base and you never bring Alexis to visit his uncles." Alexis come out of nowhere as Luke picks him up, spins him, then passes him to Lucas who does the same thing. "I know but things have been hard for both of us so we hardly get to spend time together." Author picks up the bags and takes them upstairs into my room and and puts Jake's stuff into his. I walk into the living room to see Ana siting there with her back turned towards me as my father noticed me and walk towards me. "Hello Michael, sorry if I am bothering you today. I wanted to chat a bit more and the team wanted to see you as well." I give him a hug before releasing him. "It's no problem at all father, it's good to see everyone and Alexis has been wanting to see you. I also wanted to talk to you about something, but in my office." He nods and I lead him upstairs into my office and I close the door. He sits down in a couch that was in from of my desk while I sat down in my chair. "I wanted to know what happened at the base. Jake told me what happen and it got me worried about everyone's safety." He sighs and crosses his arms.
"James was behind all of it. The explosion he did at the base killed 20 adults and 10 children. It took my men a long time to recover the bodies as well as identify them. Your people are scared and terrified that they haven't worked for two weeks now. They even don't let their children outside of their rooms since they believe there is another bomb somewhere at the base." I slam my hand on the table and my father looks at me nervously. I calm my breaths down as I compose myself again. "I want to visit the base to see how bad it is. I also want the assignment of James so I can personally look for him. Can we visit the base two days from now?" He takes out his phone and checks his schedule before he nods. "Yes, we can visit. I will get the information about James and hand the assignment over to you."
I thank him as he stand up. "Now let's us enjoy the time we have here together. I want to know everything that has been happening here in this house. I smile as we head downstairs to join the rest of the gang.
Marcus p.o.v
I layed on my bed as my mind was wondering off to Michael. She has been away from me for a while and so far Author has given me small updates of Michael. I sighs as I get up and change into my formal suit so I could deal with some issue that were brought up. I head to the throne room when I see my trusted men were all there waiting for me. I signal one who comes up to me and whispers to me something interesting. "Bring him in to me." He nods and signal the guards who open the door to show a man been dragged up to me. h
He was pretty beaten up since he tried to sneak pass my guards. "What is his name and where he come from." They lift his head and his pierced blue eyes shown anger and relief. "This man is James Madison, claims that he escaped a base where they have dragons locked up and he is the father of Michael Madison."
People whisper as I raise my hand so that everyone goes quiet. "What do you have to say for yourself?" He smirks as I signal the guard to let him go. "I am truly Michael's Father. My wife gave birth to her, but our owner Ivan took her away from me. I just escaped from their base and I have information that is interesting for you. A few powerful men told me to find you and deliver a message for you." He take out a small envelope and a guard takes it and passes it to me. I take it as open it to see something that made my blood turns cold. Everyone around me froze as I start at pictures of Daniel.....but he was dead. They cut off his head, arms and legs as well as tongue. I look back at James as I walk out to him and pulled him from his collar. Everyone was in edge since I am known for my anger.
"When was these pictures taken!" James looks nervous as he raised his hands. "These were taken hours ago before they let me go!" I push him away as I leave immediately. I rush to my room and changing into my uniform quickly before grabbing my mask on my way out. I open my balcony and take off into the air as the wind hits my mask. I continue to fly as I can feel Author communicating with me.
Author: Please hurry, something is wrong with Michael!
I continue to fly faster as I finally reach her house. I could see people were there as well so I don't take off my mask as I smash into the windows of the living room. I could see Ivan and her team there as I land down quickly. Michael was on the floor and I could see she was in pain. Author was with her as he tried to get her sit up. He look at me as he lifts her and walk towards me. I take into my arms as I could see tear in her eyes and she was throbbing in pain. I lay my forehead on hers as she opens her eyes and sees me. I look up to see Ivan and her team on edge as they looked at me with hate. "What are you doing here? Give us Michael back!" Author looks at me as I look towards Alexis and nods towards him. Author takes Alexis quickly into his arms and take off flying out the window. They all looked shocked as one guys goes towards me, but I blow him back with my wings.
I take off as I hear gun shots as on hits my side, but I continue to fly away. I soon catch up with Author as he lands into a forest with Alexis who was holding onto him for dear life. I land roughly on my back as I give up from the pain on my side. Author take Michael off from me as I sit up and take off my uniform to see the bullet hole was a bit deep. I apply pressure as Alexis only stared at me and I look towards Michael. "Author, go get the gang quickly, I can't fly in this state at all. Make sure they bring some medicine for Michael and as well something for Alexis as well." He nods and take off quickly leaving us alone in silence. I move a bit as I take Michael into my lap but I groan from the shrikes of pain on my side. "Wait don't move!" Alexis take off his small shirt and carefully walk to my side and puts it cover my wound. "If you move, you will bleed more." I take it and he looks towards Michael. "What happened to my mother?" I sigh as I rub his hair and he looks at me. "I don't know yet.....but I will take care of her." Tears started to pour down my face as he wraps his small arms around my neck and buries his head as well.
I am taken by surprise as I slowly wrap my arms around him and sat him on my left leg while layed Michael was on my right. I knew that Daniel loved Michael and as well as Alexis, but now it is up to me to take care of them. We stay like that for about 20 more minutes as I soon start to loose focus. Alexis grab my head so I can look at him. "Please stay awake for me. My mother can't loose you so please stay awake for her and me!" I smile as I try to stay awake until he pushes my wound which give me jolt of of pain and it wakes me up. "Oh you know how to wake me up." I smile as he tries to smile but he was crying.
Soon I feel winds blowing at us as I see the game has finally arrived. Mark and Joshua immediately check me as Author takes Alexis from my arms. Jane checks Michael before she start to strap her into a stretcher. Mark start to wrap the wound for the meantime and Joshua use a tranquilizer on Alexis so he could sleep through the whole trip. Soon Zack help me up with Joshua help and we take off into the air.
Soon we arrive back at the territory and they take me immediately to my room where Mark attended me while Jane and Zack took Michael and Alexis to their room. I hiss as Mark rubs the wound a bit too hard. "Can't you be out of gun shot range for at least a few weeks. This is the third one this week and it is not good for you." I don't say anything as he finish patching me up and I stand up grabbing a plain black shirt from the counter. I walk out of my room and head into Michael's as I see Joshua examining her and Alexis. "How are they doing?" Joshua hands me notes as I go over them. "Michael seen to be really in pain, but it will pass within a few days. Alexis on the other hand is too young so he can't really feel the connection break from him at all. He should stay asleep for three hours before she wakes up." I nod as I grab a chair and sit beside Michael, grabbing her hand.
Few hours go by and Alexis is up first like Joshua said. He was very sad that Michael was in a bad state and he barely said a word at all. He woke up and the first thing he did was crawl into my lap and cuddles to my chest. I wrap my arm around him so he doesn't slip as I lean back a bit so he was comfortable. Soon he falls asleep again and Jane walks in with a file."Hey, here is the file that I found...it was order given by someone in the base that Michael comes from. They knew about Daniel and knew that he was a weak spot for her." I open the file and read over the messages and reports of a person, but no names are mention and there is no ID as well. I sign as I hand her back the file. "Start looking for the one that is responsible for my brother's death. Find the responsible and send me the location, I want to kill him personally." She gives me a bow and leaves the room.
I rub Alexis back as he moves a bit and I lay him down next to Michael. I leave the room to get something to eat and I make sure I put two guards in her room in case. I walk into the kitchen to see mark there eating some fruit. "Hey how is Michael and Alexis?" I shake my head as I grab an apple. "Alexis woke up already and cuddled with me until he fell asleep while Michael has been asleep the whole time. I am having a gut feeling about something and I don't like it at all." Mark nods and we start to talk about the files that Jane brought me. We spend about an hour on them until we hear a crash upstairs. One guards rushes into the kitchen with Alexis crying so hard. Blood was running down from his head and there was small cuts on his arms.
I went into parent instinct as I took Alexis from the guard and hugged his tight. Alexis was trembling in fear as he tried to hid himself in me. "Sir, Miss Michael woke up and she was very upset that she started to attack us. Alexis got in the way of the attack and I was able to get him out before she could injure him more." I pull Alexis off me and hand him to Mark as he cried harder and tried to hold onto me. "Take him to the medical bay quickly!" I rush back upstairs and enter the room to see it was a disaster. The walls, the floor, the furniture were completely destroyed and I look towards Michael as she was approaching the other guard who was trying to stand up. I jump between them and send Michael flying through the other side of the room. She goes through the wall and land into the library. I jog in and Michael immediately tackles me to the ground. We flip around the flour until I was able to pin her down.
She was full on angry as she tried to knock me off her, but it was no use. "Michael it's me Marcus! Snap out of it!" She struggles until she starts to laugh. "There is nothing you can do. She is already lost someone important and we need to find out who is responsible. So anyone that gets in our way will have to face us no matter what." She laughs as she sends another full blow of her force and it knock me out. She gets up and walk towards the window and before she can open it, my instinct kick in. I was right behind her as I dig my fangs into her shoulder and put my hand around her head as I send images into her head of her past with Daniel.
She struggles under my grip until she goes still and i can hear her sniffs. I pull my fangs out and I see my mark starting to form into a small golden flame on her shoulder. I lick the blood off her and she looks at me. I could see the fear and sadness in her eyes as I hug her tight. She cries as we stand there for a while alone. I put away and places my hand on her shoulder. "I am sorry....I marked you without your conse-." She pulls me down as she rips my shirt and bite down into my shoulder. I hiss as I hold her body close to mine and soon she lets go. She licks the blood off and I look to see a small blue golden flame forming. She hugs me as I lift her and walk out of the library to see the gang looking at us with a worried look. "Are you okay?" I nod as I look to Michael to see she fell asleep. "We are okay... although we need to rest since we marked each other." They looked shocked before smiling brightly at the good news. My vision goes blurry as I stumble and Zack catches me while Joshua takes Michael from my arms. I growl but it was weak as Zack put his arm under me and drags me out before I fully collapse on the floor and blacked out.
Jacob p.o.v
Servants sweaped the floors since glass was everywhere. Ivan had a whole entire base searching the area for Michael and so far they have no clues. I stand in front of the window where the King of Dragons busted through. Last time we saw him was few months ago when he gave us Michael's message and he was calm. This time he came, he looked in panic and his first object was to take Michael. What surprised me the most was that Author out of no where popped out silver wings and took Alexis with him. Author knows who is the King of Dragons all along and he didn't seem to give us the heads up. "What are you thinking about?"
Lucas stand by my side as he stared at the window as well. "Author followed the king like if he was a pup. He knew who he was and never told us. He knows who the king really is to the outside world, but he never dare to mention it to us. Something is not connecting at all and it starting to bother me so much. When they visited us, he delayed a message from Michael for us to stay away. He was calm and cooperative. This time he was out of focus and worried since he was mainly there for Michael. My guess is that Michael knows who he is, because she didn't put up a fight at all."
Ivan appears as he ends a call. "I called a friend of mine that has the best tech for a search. He will be here in a few minutes, in meantime we should continue to search the place." We nod and look outside for any clues but so far it is like they disappears in thin air. We hear cars pulling up and we walk to the front of the house to see Marcus Royal and a young woman beside him. "I came as soon as I could. My team are been deployed right now to start the search." Ivan shakes his hand with relief.
"Guys meet Marcus Royal, this is the friend that I was talking about and this is the man that I want for Michael to marry with." We hear glass break as we turn towards to out left to see Ana's fist was through a window. Marcus coughs awquardly as he walk into the house to search the place. We spend about two hours until we see that there was nothing that could help us at all. "I don't understand... Michael trusted the king of dragons after what he did to her. She let him take her away like nothing and Author took Alexis as well." Ivan rubs his temples as we think deeply until we could hear men yelling and gun shots were fired. We all run outside into the deep wood as we find a guy with two guns in his hands. Blood was everywhere as the men were either injured or killed. The guy see us and shot at Ivan but Marcus get in the way. He gets shot in his lower side of his stomach and we all take cover. I look towards the twins as Luke takes out a gun and hands it to me. I load it quickly and stand out in the open as I pointed the gun towards the guy. He points his guns at me as we look at each other.
"Who send you here?" He doesn't respond and I take a step forward which make him jump back a bit. My guess is that I am not one of his targets so he really wouldn't shoot. "One more time, who send you here?" He looks around for the rest, but I distract him as I take another step. "STOP! You are not the target, my boss told me that Ivan is the target so I can't shoot, but I will if you get closer to me." I nod as I continue to talked to him. "Why is Ivan a target? What has he done?" The guy shakes his head as his hands start to shake a bit. "The boss has some beef with him. He says that Ivan caused his family to be teared apart and now he has no one." I think hard to try think of someone, but my mind is blank as Ana walks out with a gun as well. "Who is your boss? If you tell us, we will make sure you are safe and no harm will come towards you. I promise." The guy looked frighten as he thought it through. I see the twins getting Ivan and Marcus out of the woods. I turn back to the guy as he continued to think until he looked at us. "If I tell you, promise me that I will not get kill. My boss is a scary guy and anyone that betrays him will kill them and their family. I have a little baby sister ans I need the money as well. Please promise me!"
We shakes our heads as I put my gun away. "I promise we will not hurt you. It is something that we can help you." The guy nods and as he opens his mouth to spill out his boss name, a gust of wind brushes pass us with force that makes the trees shake. I cover my eyes as I open them to see in time Author in front of the guy with a sword pierced right through his stomach. The guy looks scared as he looks down and Author pulls the sword out. They guy stand for a few seconds before he falls to the ground and dies. Author turns towards us and I immediately notice that his eyes were fully black. He blinks and suddenly look at his surroundings to see where he was at. He notice the sword in his hand and immediately drops it. "What the hell just happened? One minute I am in a car, now I am here?" We looked at him in shocked before four men tackled him to the ground. They put restrains on him as Marcus and Ivan walk up to us.
"Looks like we found a suspect. Don't worry Ivan, I will deal with him and soon we will have information about Michael's whereabouts." The young woman picks up Author and takes him away while I followed behind them. We reach to the house as a servant tells me about a notebook that was hidden under Michael's bed. I take it and walk towards the door as I could hear Marcus and Author talking.
"What the hell was that Author? I though I told you stay put? You were to watch Michael and Alexis while I am distracting Ivan and his team." Wait....he knows where Michael is? "I was going to but one minute I am in the car and the next I am here in the wood killing someone that was trying to survive. Also I don't think you should be far from Michael since you were unconscious two hours ago." I continue to listen their conversation from the door as I hear Marcus sigh. "Okay....listen closely because this is an order. Head back and have Joshua search for any clue of where that guy came from. I want every detail so I can find that guy myself to deal with him, is that understood?" An order? He orders like if he was some kind of royalty. "Yes my Lord, I am sorry for what happened. Make sure they don't see you mark and they don't find clues that you are the King of Dragons." My eyes widen as I go to back out before someone grabs my arm and pushes me towards the door. I go flying out and land on the ground as the person pins me down hard to the point I can't move. "Looks like we have a sneaky one."
I see that it was the young woman who had me pin down hard to the ground. I look up to see Marcus staring at me intensely while Author on the side without handcuffs at all. I gulp as Marcus crouches down to me and punches me on the sides of my head which knocks me out cold.