I sat there sighing I had been woken up by a memory of me playing out in a backyard my Daddy and Mom there Daddy was chasing us around then a storm hit out of nowhere. I went and made myself some tea after that odd dream. I was curled up watching the sunset from my chair before the door to the hall with the bedrooms opened.
"What are you doing up?" Father asked me.
"Dream." I said sipping my tea.
"You didn't wake the cooks did you?" He asked me.
"No, I had Vicky show me how to make it." I said. I laugh at myself thinking about it.
"That was nice of her."
"Yea it was." I said as I took a sip.
"You want to talk about it?" He asked me as he dragged a chair over to me.
I looked at my tea then up to him. "I was young, younger than Xavier is now." I said. We were playing in the yard. It was the middle of the day when all of a sudden bam lightning almost struck me. Daddy used his magic to redirect the bolt. Mom was freaking out, Daddy's long hair was standing up on end which I found historical, and started laughing like an idiot. "
"I see what else happen?" he asked me.
"Mom dragged us inside and then I was looking outside and then this face appeared on the window I woke up went I screamed. It was almost a blink and you will miss it moments." I said holding out a piece of lose paper. "I couldn't get his face out of my head." I sighed.
"We will talk to your mother when she wakes up." He said kissing my head.
"Thanks." I said softly, taking back the paper
"So what happened yesterday?" He asked me.
"We went to the garden. We walked and talked for a bit but then we got more visitors and I don't mean the outside kind."
"What clans?" He asked me.
"Laima and Sanguinoso." He choked on the second one.
"What did they want?" He asked me.
"Same thing most clans are going to want from us joining the outside world again fresh blood." I tell him.
"Yeah, I can say that being the biggest thing everyone wants. Other than those sunglasses."
"Yeah, I can see that as being the two largest things the Clans well want." I said calmly.
"I can also see people adopting children at Young ages to turn them when they get older." Father said .
"Yeah, I can see that too. Some people are like that."
"You don't sound too thrilled about that." Dad said
"I'm worried if they bring in young ones then other young ones will attack them. Kind of with Xavier I honestly don't like him here because then we can't look too vampiric young ones out to do what they need to do. In order to keep him safe. But at the same time, I'm locking him up so that they can do things wouldn't be fair either."
"He's been thinking about this a lot haven't you?" He asked me.
"What else am I supposed to do when I can't sleep and it's the middle of the day and all the paperwork is done?"
"You finished all it was quite a bit there."
"Like I said I couldn't sleep."
"You haven't had one of these in a while."
"I thought about going out for a run so but then again it was too bright."
"Typically light doesn't bother you."
"Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. Today was brighter than it usually is and again summer's coming."
"Indeed it is. 186 days that are longer than the night."
"The season every vampire hates." I said with a shrug.
"Indeed. I don't think I have actually met a vampire that has said it was her favorite season. Thankfully they're still 60 turns the cycle before summer comes."
The door to the rooms opened again. "Night's blessing Mother." I said.
"Night's Blessings both of you." She said.
"Morning." Xavier said and I blinked and turned around looking at them I could not hear his heartbeat
"I figured his heartbeat would cause an issue so I put a muffling spell on him." Mom said. "As long as he does not take off his shirt it should not be an issue." She said.
"Well, that fixes one of the issues you were worried about." Dad said and I smiled and stood up and hugged them both.
"What issues?" Mom asked me.
"I was worried that if you guys decided to stay when we go to set up the meeting how we were going to keep the pages and Xavier save." I tell them.
"I understand that and we can test the spell on them with one of the adults." I said.
"I agree with that." She nodded.
"I can get the other kids?" Xavier asked.
"Only if they can handle one of the others with the same spell on them. " Dad said, patting his head.
"Okay. Umm, what do I call you?" He asked my dad.
"You can call me Uncle if you want."
"Or you can do what I do and call him Father." I said rolling my eyes.
"Diana!" He huffed.
"Papa?" He asked him softly I grinned as my Dad mentioned under his look.
"Yea you can call me Papa." He said as he took him from Mom.
"Let's head to breakfast." I said grabbing my sword and putting my belt on.
"Always expecting a fight." Dad sighed.
"Of course Father I have so many young Males that think they can use me a way to get higher in the ranks." I rolled my eyes at him.
"Are you sure they would still try that with you now dating your King?" Mom asked me.
"Yes, Mother that will make them try it even more since if they can prove I am weak they would be placed as my guard." I grumbled.
Dad laugh. "Indeed but you really only need to worry about those older than you and really they know better." I groaned.
"Not if HE comes home." I grumbled.
Father laughed. " You know as well as I do if he comes back here the king will put him as your guard no matter what."
"I am the knight to beat in the clan, Father I do not need a bodyguard!" I hiss at him as I jumped over a shadow that he sent at me.
"You are but you are also the Queen do be if I remind you that you are right now the most important part of the clan if something did happen to you Logan would go to war." I sighed as he said that.
"We haven't had someone try and kill a mate-to-be well before I was even turned." I hiss at him.
"I get that but you also must remember someone did take a swing at." Father stopped as I felt it too.
I took in a deep breath and I sighed as my shoulders dropped. "Hello, Teacher." I said, turning to look at one of the last original vampires standing behind us.
"Princess Diana." He said bowing to me. His eyes moved to Father. "Prince Nicodemus." He said uprighting himself before he looked at my mother and brother. "Outsiders."
"Maxwell." Father said.
"Teacher may I introduce to you my Mother Head of the Witch Dragon Clan Cornelia and my younger brother Xavier." I said and he raised his eyebrow.
"They are not human?" He asked us.
"No." Father and I said.
"Mother Xavier this is Maxwell, the last original of the Northern clan." I introduced them.
"I see then I greet you Lady Dragon and Heir Dragon." He said bowing to them.
"Hello!" Xavier said waving at him.
"Greetings." Mother said softly looking from me to him then I sighed.
"How many outsiders are here?" He asked us.
"11." I said. "I limited the number that I agreed to bring in Teacher."
"You went outside the walls!" He snarled at me stocking forward until he was inside my bubble and I glared up at him. I would not back down from him.
"Yes, I went outside the walls. Nothing happened, no fire, no giant guns, they were no vehicles. They came with some livestock and some guns. I am sure they were for if they were attacked by the animals in the End." I said.
"Yes, that is indeed the precipice of the guns we knew there were things here that would be dangerous but the guns were for a last resort." Mother said as she pulled me back from him and glared up at him. "I understand that if you have worries I can tell you though that the guns that once sat outside the walls of these lands were moved a long time ago when the war with the werewolves happened." She tells him.
"And when was that?" He growled down at her.
"Maxwell!" Father and I snap at him.
"2000 years ago give or take a year." Mother said as she passed Xavier to Father. "No I understand you an original would have more issue with us being here than the others, but I came here with the intent to find and learn about my missing Daughter, the delagest came here with the intent to speak to the leaders and being the Vampires out of the containment that they have been forced to live in."
"Maxwell, I did not ask you to come home to antagonize the guest," Logan said.