Luca went inside and packed up a few thing, he picked up a box that was for Marika. Their grandmother told him that if she ever came back to this house he should give it to her.
After he was done packing up he looked around one more time. And whispered "Grandma I'm off now with sister. I'll return now and then to fix and clean up this place so don't worry."
Luca came outside, He placed a barrier around the house so nobody could enter the house while he was gone.
William then opened a portal to the mansion and they all walked through it. After they arrived Kevin came running out of the mansion and hugged her.
"Sister where have you been? You suddenly left without a word."
Dante was came walking out and saw Marika was with Richard and William and an unknown young man.
'You can blame William for that, he said he had an urgent message and he took me to the human world just like that.' Marika told Kevin.
Kevin looked at William "Sister need to be careful for the time being, you can't just drag her of like that. What if she gets hurt."
Marika started to laugh 'Well no human is able to put a scratch on me so it's fine.'
Dante walked over to Luca "Hello brother, it's nice to finally meet you." and he smiled.
"Nice to meet you too, and thank you for keeping an eye on our sister. I know she can be handful."
Dante sighed "She already managed to take a few years of my life in just 2 months, but when she smiles like that I gain it all back."
"Ohh and don't get jealous over Kevin, although he is 10 years old and act like that, he is very skilled assassin."
Luca smiled "How can I get jealous over a 10 year old, it's like looking at myself at that age."
Dante then asked "What skills do you have?"
"To summarize, I'm good at battle magic, I'm average in sword skill, and back in the human world I studied medicine and was head of the department of medicine."
Dante looked at Luca "Then I'll give you a head's up brother, sister can't handle doctors that well when they wear there white coats. You have to talk to Genus about the finer details but from what I've been told they are working on it so she would not attack doctors in the future."
"By the way, you said you were good in battle magic, and have some sword skills. You mind sparring with me a little later?"
"Sure thing brother, I could use the exercise." Luca smiled.
Marika saw that Dante and Luca were getting along just fine. She then told Kevin to say hello to Luca.
Kevin walked over to Luca and looked at him from head to toe. "Well I'm still the cutest of the three of us."
"Really?" Luca changed himself in his 10 year old version.
"Well let's ask sister who is the cutest" he said with a teasing voice.
Marika saw her brother and she couldn't help herself. She both hugged them.
'Now I have two little cuties!'
Luca and Kevin looked at each other and winked.
Marika let go of the both of them.
Luca then said to Kevin "You can be the cute one, but I'll be the awesome one."
Luca changed in to his dragon form and put both of his brother on his back and then took off to the sky.
Derick came outside once he spotted Luca in his Dragon form.
"Were are they going? And who is that Dragon?" Derick asked.
'He is my only family member left from the human world, my younger brother Luca.'
Derick looked at Marika and hugged her "Well isn't it nice to have him here now? I don't mind to adopted a son."
'As for were they going, they flew in the direction of Mystic Mountain. I bet he wants to meet Solis and Caelum.'
[ Mystic Mountain ]
Kevin, Dante and Luca arrived at the mountain and Luca landed at the entrance of the village.
Kevin and Dante climbed of the back of Luca and were met with Solis and Caelum.
Caelum looked at Luca and asked Dante "Why is there a Dragon here?"
Luca changed back in to his human form. "So you two are my nephew's?"
Caelum looked at Solis with a questioning look on his face.
Solis then said "He is mothers brother from the human world so he is our uncle."
Luca looked at Solis "You must be Solis, please don't be so hard on your younger brother. You can't expect he knows everything by just seeing somebody for the first time."
Solis looked at Luca "You sound just like mother."
"Well isn't that a given since we are from the same family. Although I only really got to know here and spend time with her for 4 years."
Luca walked over to Caelum, "Don't listen to much to your older brother and don't let his words get to you. Although he has the ability to see the future, your ability is unique in its own way. And your mother loves you for who you are."
Caelum nodded and hugged Luca.
Solis was somewhat surprised by Caelums reaction to Luca. He didn't even hug Kevin or Dante, but Luca was probably similar to mother in his demeanor.
Luca then turned to Solis "So what is the solution to my sisters problem? I was told you needed a green dragon that has 4 stages and an azure dragon of 4 stages."
"Well Caelum will drain mother of her inner energy, and you and father will replace it when she starts her 7th stage, this should be maintained all the way to her 8th stage."
"We need the baby dragon that lives in The Forest of Eternal Night to heal her if she gets internal damage. The energy that Caelum absorbed from mother can be transferred to the baby dragon."
Luca was hearing out the plan "There is no other alternative solution?"
Solis shook his head " Mother is unique to this world even though it's a miracle she survived all the way to her 6th stage."
Dante then spoke, "A few days after sister woke up here she spend most of the night up in the library. She found a book that had only one recorded case that was similar to hers but un-frontally he didn't survive the 8th stage."
Luca was thinking and asked "How much time does my sister have before her health is at risk?"
"Well not much roughly a week and a half. Because it would be better to unblock her 7th stage redder sooner than later." Solis said.
"Well there are also record that I took from my grandmother's house and see what's in there. As for the current solution, it's not a bad one but the risk to her surviving it is still 35 %. We need to upend it to at least 45/ 50%."
Luca transformed back to a dragon and Dante and Kevin climbed back up on his back again.
"Were going back for now, and I'll pull an all-night to go through my grandmothers record."
He looked at Solis and Caelum, "If I found something useful I'll come back to you guys and pick you up to start my sisters final stages."
Caelum than said "Uncle do visit The Forest Of Eternal Night before picking us up."
Luca nodded and then took off to the sky.
The head of the Mystic Mountain clan appeared, "Never would I thought to see that there would be a descendant of the founding Green Dragon Clan still exist."
"He is my mother's brother, but I also could not believe there were still descendant left." Solis said.
The head of the Mystic Mountain Clan told Solis and Caelum he had something that could help in aiding the survival of Marika.
He gave Solis a crystal necklace. "This crystal needs to be worn by Her Majesty when she is going to awaken her stages. It could help in sealing her healing ability's. This stone is a treasure of our clan but consider what she has done for us, I feel this wouldn't even come close to repay her for helping us."
Solis bowed to the head in respect and said "When she finds out about it, she probably will fly up here and hug you to death."
"Ahaha, we'll see when that time's come."
[ Mansion ]
Marika was in the kitchen and cooking dinner together with Derick. Marika wanted to hold a welcome party for her brother.
She was talking with Derick about what had happened the past 2 days she was up at Mystic Mountain and how well both her brothers protected her.
"So you met sir Raphael, do you know he is young Master Arthur's elder brother?"
Marika nodded 'He really is trash! And to think he will come here in a week and a half to teach me my place! All because I beat Arthur 2 time.' Marika sounded displeased.
Derick laughed a little, "Well I think he will think twice about that when he finds out that The Queen of Virtues et Caeruleus Viridi is the one who beat up his little brother."
Marika started to laugh 'I wonder what kind of face he will make. It would probably be worth to take a picture of it.'
Marika and Derick were finishing up and were about to bring everything to the dining hall when Richard came in. "You're brother are back and waiting the food to be served."
Marika smiled 'We were just about to serve it.'
As the three of them walked over to the dining hall with food the atmosphere was already lively.
Marika, Derick and Richard set the food on the table.
'Everybody this is my brother Luca, he is younger than he appears to be. But I hope you all will treat him like family. A toast to our new family member and friend!'
"To family!" everybody cheered .
Derick and Richard looked at Marika and she appeared more lively and happier than she did the past few months.
While the party was in full swing Marika left the room quietly. After a few minutes Luca noticed that Marika had left.
"Were did sister go?"
Richard hear a faint sound of a piano, so he told Luca to fallow him. As they reached the 2nd floor music room he quietly opened the door and signal he should enter the room but refraining from making a sound.
As both man were entering the room they saw Noah sitting at the couch and writing down the notes on a music sheet Richard and Luca joined him.
Marika hadn't notices the 3 man had walked in the room because she was so emerged in her music.
She just kept on playing the piano for two hours. In that time she created 3 new pieces of music.
When she looked up from the place she was sitting she saw 3 man sitting on the couch sleeping.
She walked over to wake them 'If you guys want to sleep then go to your bed, you'll catch a cold like this.'
The 3 man woke up and Noah said "Well that because you last piece has sleep inducing magic. You unknowingly mixed in a sleeping spell in your music."
Marika started to laugh awkwardly, 'I did? That's cool, but… a well maybe it could come in handy someday.'
Noah handed Marika the pieces of music she composed and written down the titles of the 3 new pieces.
She then left the room and went to her room and take a bath.
Noah looked at the titles of each piece she had composed. The Lover, The Flow of the River, Enemies of Life. He smiled, she is able to read the sheet now, even toughed she hardly plays the piano.
Luca then said to Richard, "Tomorrow I and Dante go visit Genus. And after that I'll go pick up my nephew and nice from The Forest of Eternal Night.
Richard looked at Luca and saw he had a concerned look on his face.
"You also noticed that she is aware that she is slowly loosing condole of herself."
"Yes, and at best she has another week left before it's getting dangerous not only for her but also for us."
"I know you want to do everything yourself, but there is no need, if you just tell us what we can do to help, we can solve this sooner so the damage will be minimum to her."
After Marika was done with her bath, she went to bed. She was planning on going to visit the village the next day, and have a look on how thing were going . She was also planning on bringing Ferox and Agrius back to the pack, Marika then fell asleep.
Richard and Luca came checking on her and saw she was sleeping soundly.
"Aren't you going to stay with sister?" Luca asked.
Richard shook his head "She didn't have had a decent sleep lately, plus we are not yet official engaged or married. And Derick is very old fashion."
Luca started to laugh "I feel sorry for the both of you."
Richard then showed Luca to his room and wished him a good night and left for his own room.
During the middle of the night Marika started to get restless. And got a message from Regina, that they were in trouble and left the forest and were on their way to her.
Marika woke up in a shock. She then dressed herself and took some medicine and other thinks she might need. She then took her two swords and left the mansion quietly.
When she got to the stable she woke up Ferox and Agrius. And placed her saddle on Socius after she was done she gave Ferox and Agrius the scent of Regina and Khai.
'We need to find then quick.'
Marika let Socius out of the stables and mounted him.
'Go!' She urge Socius and took off in the dead of night.
[ Next morning ]
Derick was in the kitchen preparing breakfast, But he found it odd that Marika still hadn't come down yet to help like she always does. Since it was still very early he went up to her room to check if she was still sleeping.
But he found her bed was empty and it looked like she had left in a hurry somewhere in the night.
He quickly went to Richard to inform him.
"Master we have a problem."
Richard woke up and told Derick to come in.
"What is the matter?"
"Marika is not here."
Richard jumped out of his bed and went to her room. He saw the stated her room was in and told Derick to check if Socius was still in the stables.
Richard looked through the room, even toughed she didn't leave a note he knew exactly where she was heading to. Because the drawer where she kept 2 collars for her children were empty.
Derick came back " Master, Socius is indeed not in the stable."
Richard told Derick to prepare some food he could take with him for Marika and he would go to stables to get Stello ready.
After half an hour Richard was done getting ready to leave the mansion. Derick brought the food and some extra clothing for Marika just in case.
Marika was half way to The Forest of Eternal Night when she spotted a group of vampires up ahead. It looked like the wear searching for something.
Marika dismounted Socius and told him to go back and to get Richard.
Marika then asked Ferox and Agrius if Khai and Regina were close by. They silently looked in the direction up ahead and brushed against her hands.
Marika summoned Agito, 'Agito we need to take care of a few vampires.'
Agito changed in a bigger size. 'Alright, I like us to be as silent as possible, I don't know how many there are.'
Marika drew her swords, let's go!'
They all walked up as silent as possible, and took down the first few vampires near the road.
After that the entered to forest and Ferox and Agrius started to track Khai and Regina. Along the way they killed any vampire they come across.
After 2 hours of searching and killing she saw a group of vampires cornering something. When she came closer she could see Regina and Khai, Khai looked very weak and Regina also looked injured.
'Agrius, go back and wait for Richard near the road. When he arrives bring him to us.'
Agrius did what she told him and went back.
'Agito, Ferox while I draw the attention of those vampires you take Khai and Regina and run in a straight line, there should be a cave nearby, and hid in there till I arrive.
Marika was ready to charge, 'Go!'
Marika charged at the group and started to take them down. While she was busy with the vampires who were all around her Agito and Ferox both picked up one of the baby dragons and ran away as fast as they could.
A few brook from the formation as soon as they knew they saw them taken away and fallowed after them.
Marika started to cache the vampires who went after Agito and Ferox. After she killed them she was blocking the path of the other vampires who went after her.
After a the fight Marika noticed she was watched by somebody.
She then said 'When I'm back I'll make you pay for what you have done.'
Marika turned around and ran in to the direction were Agito and Ferox were heading.
Richard was half way on his way to Marika , when he came across Socius.
Richard saw that Socius came to a stop and, he asked where Marika was.
Socius neigh and rears up as to say to fallow him, and he then took off.
Richard then urged Stello to fallow him.
After half an hour the reach the place where Marika dismounted Socius.
Richard looked around and saw a few dead body's up the road. He told Stello and Socius to stay.
Richard walk over and looked at the dead body's at the side of the road. He saw that some had claw and teeth marks and some were struck by a blade.
He knew this number wasn't something she couldn't handle alone, but since she is restricted he was relieved she didn't fight alone.
Suddenly Agrius walked up to Richard from behind and pressed his head to his arm.
Richard looked in surprise at Agrius.
"You know where she is?"
Agrius howled and said he would lead him to her, because that was his mission.
Richard ruffled Agrius head and stood up. He went back to Stello and took the bag Derick prepared for Marika.
"Let's go"
Marika, Agito, Ferox heard the howl of Agrius signaling that Richard had arrived.
Marika finally reached the cave where Agito and Ferox were waiting for her.
Regina flew over to Marika 'Mommy!' As she started to cry.
'Sweetie everything is fine now, mommy is here and daddy is on his way, don't cry sweetheart. You did a good job by bringing your brother here.' Marika was caressing Regina trying to sooth her.
Ferox came over with Khai on his back, he was in bad shape. She first treated his wounds and with healing magic and gave him some of her energy.
Khai slowly came to his senses, "Mommy?"
'Marika smiled at him, everything is alright now, your save.'
Suddenly Ferox started to growl, and Marika was on high alert. She knew it wasn't Richard because Ferox wouldn't growl like that because he knew Agrius was with him.
Marika picked up her swords and told Khai and Regina to stay close with Agito.
"You can't go anywhere now!"
Marika transformed and had an aura around her that would kill anybody who try to harm her children and friends.
Marika whispered 'Once I created an opening you guys take the two baby's out of the cave and find Richard an Agrius, got that?'
Richard and Agrius were fallowing the path of death body's, after a while he came at the spot where there were a lot of dead bodies, Richard noticed that the all were killed by a sword.
Among the body's there was a survivor that Agrius had spotted. Richard walked over to him and saw he was a boy, not much older than 17 or 18 years old.
Richard looked at him and noticed he wasn't a pure-blood vampire.
"What happened here?"
The boy answered.
"There was a monster… it looked like a women…"
"Are you hurt?" Richard asked.
The boy shook his head.
"She didn't attack me because I didn't attack her… She took out so many.. all by herself!"
"Well that's because they provoked her, she won't attack unless she gets attacked."
"Mister, you know her?"
"Well yes, because she is a dragon…. Can you tell me who ordered you to go after her?"
The boy looked at Richard.
"We were told to go to The Forest of Eternal Night to find 2 baby dragons and need to capture them. But when we found them the group leader wanted to kill them… When I saw the baby dragons I didn't want any part in it and I made a commotion to give them a change to flee. One was badly hurt and they both fled to this part."
Richard then summoned Noir "Bring him back to mansion and tell Derick to prepare him a bath and a meal."
"I hope when you get there you're a little less fearful, so you can tell her what you did for her children so she can thank you."
Then the boy said one more thing to Richard before he left "There are still 10 people chasing her and probably they already found her by now. Be careful of the leader of the group he is a coldblooded killer."
The entrance of the cave was blocked by the group of vampires that had survived the last battle with her.
Marika quickly put a new collar on Khai and put him up on Ferox back, Regina was on Agito back.
'Whatever happens find your father and don't worry about me… I'll be right behind you guys I just need to deal with these creatures so we can go home all together.' She said with a smile.
Agito already noticed that something was not right with his owner ever since she came to the cave. But if he spoke up about it would make the others worry and not leave her side so to lessen burden of protecting everybody he didn't say anything.
'Get ready to run.'
Marika stood up and grabbed her sword tight and started to charge at the group that was standing in front of the cave.
Because it was dark in the cave she took advantage of it, she knew that by the time they saw her and could respond she would have already cut them down.
Marika took down 4 man out of the 6 that were standing at the cave entrance.
The two man were shocked and right behind Marika, Agito and Ferox bolted out of the cave with Khai and Regina.
After they left the leader of the group order 2 of them to fallow them and kill them.
Marika heard his word and she placed to cuts on the leader. One to his eye the other on his chest.
After she had place her attacks she took a few steps back to keep her distance from the man.
"You b*tch!!! How dare you!!! Kill her!!!"
Marika smiled viciously 'By all means if you want to die just come at me, but such a big man need's to hide behind weaklings? Your noting more than a poor excuse of a man.'
'Well such a big baby can't handle a few scratches?? Are you vampire's so weak you can't heal your sh*tty wounds?'
"Kill that b*tch NOW!!!!!!"
Five man started to charge at Marika but she killed them merciless one by one in just mere minutes.
After Marika pulled her sword form the last man she killed she turned her head and smiled.
'Don't be such a b*tch and face me as a man….'
The leader was enraged.
"You cocky little sh*t you'll pay for this!"
The Marika said 'Well you're the one who tried to kill my children… You think a mother would just standby and just watch her kids get killed?'
'Well maybe you're vampire race is like that, but we dragons don't just standby and just watch!'
Marika started to unleash her killer intend, and it was so strong that all the bird were taking off from the tree's and every animal in a radius of half a kilometer fled the area.
The leader who stood in front of her felt a sense of fear welling up inside of him. He himself wanted to flee he knew that one wrong move and he was dead.
Richard also felt Marika's killer intend, he knew there were close. Just as he wanted to pick up the pace Agito and Ferox appeared in front of him.
Richard was relieved to see Khai and Regina. He did a quick check on them.
"Are you alright?"
Khai nodded "Mommy healed me, but I sense that mommy is very, very angry."
'It's scary' Regina added.
"Haven't I told you that mommy can be very scary when she's angry?" Richard smiled at Regina.
Regina nodded 'But this feel different than before.'
"Your right, but that because you guys were hurt very badly."
Richard looked in the direction where Agito and Ferox came from. Richard looked at Agito who wanted to tell him something but couldn't because of Khai and Regina.
"Agrius and Ferox take these two back to mansion, Agito you come with me.
Khai didn't want to go. "What about mommy? I don't want to go unless mommy is here."
Richard then said. "Mommy is now keeping the bad guy there on her own so you guys could escape. I'll go to mommy and bring her home alright. Be good and wait till we come back and rest up so mommy can hug you guys." Richard smiled.
Ferox and Agrius then left for the mansion.
"So what did you wanted to say, that you couldn't earlier."
"Master, my owner is in a bad shape if we don't go back fast she might go berserk and her body can't hold up because she was also poisoned.""Doesn't she have any medicine with her?"
"She has, but she never had the time to take it." Agito looked worried.
Agito change in a bigger form and told Richard to sit on his back. And Agito took off with full speed back to Marika.
"Please hold on a little longer sweetheart" is what Richard said in his mind.
Marika was starting to have difficulties in the fight because the poison was stating to kick in. She was heavily panting and sweating, the fatigue was noticeable on her face and she knew she had to finish the battle soon because she could not hold up very long.
After a few more minutes Marika started to collapse and her strikes were in accurate and missed the man a lot. Marika fell through her knees after the last strike, she couldn't hold on.
The leader swung his weapon to strike at her but was blocked by Richard.
"You have some nerve to try to kill her!"
Richard looked at the man with sharp eyes, and told Agito to take Marika somewhere safe.
'Richard kill him!, he tried to take the life of our children...'
'Agito… purple….'
Marika fainted because of the poison and exhaustion. Agito picked her up and took her to the cave where her bag was.
Richard looked at the man "Your lucky my wife was poisoned because you would have been death hours ago, now I will fulfill my wife's wish. Do you have any last words?"
"Please spare my life!! It was Raphael who ordered us…. I just fallowed the orders of my lord."
"Sorry I can't spare your life, my wife want's you dead… Because she acts according an eye for an eye principal. How can I go against it. But do you really think you would keep your life even I spared you?"
The man looked in disbelieve. "But I didn't kill the baby dragons so…." The man started to shake in fear.
"That's true… but still."
Richard swung his sword and sliced of the man's head off.
Richard cleaned his sword and walked over to where Marika had dropped her sword and took them with him.
Richard turned around and rushed to the cave. There he saw Agito frantically looking for the medicine.
"Witch one do I need?? Master I…. Please wake up!! I need your help."
Richard heard the panicked voice of Agito, He casted a spell to illuminate the cave and saw the panic and worry was written all over his face.
"Agito if you panic like this things will only get worse. Did she say anything to you before she pasted out?"
"Only the word purple, but does she mean that that's the color of the medicine or the container it's in."
"It could also be the poison."
Richard contacted Derick and asked if the boy had already arrived. But just as Derick wanted to tell him nobody had arrived yet, the door was opened by Noir.
Noir and a boy walked in and so were Agrius and Ferox who were carrying Khai and Regina.
Derick then asked to boy "What kind of poison did they use?"
The boy looked startled "They always have their blades soak in what they call purple blood.""And what is the effect of the poison?" Derick asked.
"I don't know… I only know it affect your blood… I'm sorry I can't be of any help." The boy said disappointed. Richard heard everything the boy said and said to Derick he will contact Genus.
Derick looked at the boy and smiled "You helped a great deal, now I'll bring you to your room to take a bath and rest."
"Will that girl be alright?" The boy asked.
"Don't worry she is going to be fine, but she will pick a fight with the vampire clan very soon." Derick said to the boy.
Richard contacted Genus "Marika seem to be poisoned by a poison called purple blood, but we don't know witch medicine we can use."
"Where are you now?" Genus asked.
"We are at a cave roughly an hour and a half away from the village."
"How long ago was she poisoned?"
Richard looked at Agito and he answered it's been an hour ago."
And how long ago did she finally fainted? Genus asked
"15 minutes" Richard answered"
Suddenly William appeared
"She really is reckless girl, pack up and lets go."
Agito packed up everything and Richard carried Marika.
William opened a portal to Genus.
As they all arrived Genus and Azurite were on standby. Genus took over the bag from Agito and Azurite showed Richard the way.
Genus came in to the room. And looked Marika over.
"Surprisingly it seems that the cold air of the cave pushed back the effect of the poison."
"Azurite fill up the bath with cold water, we need to keep the effect of the poison as low as possible."
Genus looked at Richard "I'm impressed she is still alive… For a wound like that and the poison, she soul be dead an hour ago."
"What do you mean?" Richard asked Genus with a cold tone in his voice.
"Well this poison will make your blood as thin as water and she would have blead to death within 10 minutes."
Azurite returned and said the bath was ready.
Richard carried Marika to the bathroom and took of her cloths and put her in the cold water. He stayed with her the whole time. Agito came in to the bath room he turned in to a cat and set next to Richard.
"It's all my fault… If I…"
Richard petted Agito "It's not your fault, I saw all the dead body's you guys put up a good fight. And she probably got poisoned when she fought alone while you and Ferox were taking care of Khai and Regina. Don't forget she can't fight at full strength and had to hold back a lot."
"But…"
"She is going to be fine… You didn't fail her. If anything I'm the one who failed her." Richard looked dishearten.
After a few minutes Azurite knocked on the door of the bath room. And said to Richard that they had the medicine, and to prepare for aggressive Marika, because they were going to wake her up.
Richard took Marika out of the bathtub and dried her off while Agito went to the bed to get clean cloth.
After he changed her he put her on the bed. After a few minutes Genus and Azurite knocked on the door, "Are you ready?"
Richard nodded to Agito to open the door. Azurite and Genus were standing at the door wearing there coat's that had a smell on it that Marika hated the most.
Marika's eyes flew open and set up on the bed and look at the two of them she went through all the stages in a blink of an eye and wanted charged to the two of them. But before she could leave the bed she was restrained by a spell that was casted by Richard.
Azurite looked at his teacher and then asked Genus "Is this her normal reaction?"
Genus shook his head "I have never seen her in this state, This is even worse than when I met her for the first time. I think what we see is from the time she was a child."
Richard stood up and told them not to move an inch, because Marika was struggling very hard the magic restrained started to weaken.
He set down in front of Marika and hugged her.