Richard, Marika and Khai went back to the others, and Regina flew up to Marika.
'I'm sorry mommy, I'm sorry I didn't listen to you!' as she was crying.
Marika hugged her and petted her head.
'Well…did you learn anything today?'
Regina nodded.
'I learned a lot, I'm not invincible and why you tell us to take it slow. And even if I'm a little behind my brothers that's it's oké. I also learned that sometimes there are things I can't join my brothers in or you and daddy. And that I need to stand on my own two feet.'
'Anything else?'
'Yes, Nova maybe born only a few days ago, he is not weak and I should protect him when he is injured or down. He is strong and can do things on his own. And if not then he will be protected by others.'
'Good girl, you have reflected very well.'
Canus and Nova walked up to her and Nova said "Mommy I found a book that I borrowed from Ignis. It can help you."
Marika took the book from Nova and flipped through the pages. She saw a written and drawn up version of a bonding spell.
'Were did you find this?' She asked in surprise.
"I found it at the Dragon Temple, I thought it can help mommy."
'Well you are right this book can help mommy to fix a small problem.' And she petted Nova
Marika took Nova from Cans and said in a whisper, 'Talk to Richard, I feel Nova somehow knows things from his past life.'
Canus nodded and said "Nova let's play again soon."
'By the way where is Lenis?'
"He'll be going back tomorrow, he needed a little more time."
'Alright.'
"Don't worry, he will be staying in your room at the castle."
Marika smiled 'Thank you for taking such good care of him.'
'I'm going to take a rest, I'm a little tired.'
As she walked in the mansion she walked over to her brother Luca room and just went inside and laid down on her side with her back turned to him.
Luca looked up "Hey sis how was your day?"
Marika didn't say a word and just laid there while tears were coming from her eyes.
Luca knew something was bothering her but he let her be for now.
'Luca?' *sob*
"What is it sis?"
'I can't deal with this anymore.'
'How many more people of the past will pop up and need to torment me here?'
'Two days ago I met that women who stole something from me.'
'When I heard her voice in Richards office, a very painful memories resurfaced. I thought I put it away so deep that it would never come back.'
'Luca?'
'Could you call for Richard, Azu and Genus and his student?'
'Because what I'm about to tell may sound's absurd… but still… I need all the help I can get.'
'Because it will be impossible for me to do this alone.'
Luca petted her head. "Sure sis, I'll be right back."
[Study 3rd floor]
Canus and Richard talked about the possibility of Nova remembering things of his previous life.
"Well that shouldn't be possible, but what can be possible is that somethings may feel familiar to him."
"Alright."
*knock* *knock*
"Enter."
"Could you call for Genus and his student, to get their asses over here within 5 minutes?"
"Sure, what is it?"
"It seems your wife heard a women talking to you and that triggered an very unpleasant memory, but she wants you, me, Azu , Genus and his student present before she is willing to talk about it."
"What triggered her that she wanted to talk about it all of a sudden?" Richard asked Luca.
"What do you mean?"
"Well she told me that the female doctor that was talking to me triggered a very painful memory, but she wasn't ready to talk about it, so I didn't press her and told her that if she was ready I would be there to listen to her."
Canus then asked Luca, "Did she come to you carrying a book?"
"Now that you mention it, there was a book on the coffee table."
"Maybe she saw something and triggered her."
Suddenly the 3 of them heard a loud sound coming from Luca's room.
"Sh*t!"
"Get Genus and his student here, and let William stop by Faber Village to pick up Azurite!"
Luca rushed over and saw that half his room was turned upside down.
In the midst of his trashed room he saw Marika sitting on the ground crying.
He saw the book open on a page that made her so upset.
As he read it he himself and got angry.
He then hugged his sister "It's going to be alright sister, we will find a way to get back what was stolen from you. I promise you that."
"Now let's go somewhere else, we can't stay in this room since you made a mess out of it."
Richard and Canus also arrived and saw how upset she was.
Luca gave Richard the book and both him and Canus looked at the page.
Canus the whispered, "Let me take Nova, Khai and Regina to Ignis and see if we can find more on this subject."
Richard nodded.
Richard walked over to Marika and hugged her "I'm here, it's going to be alright."
'What did I ever do… to deserve this?'
"Let's go somewhere else for now."
Marika stood up and walked out of Luca's room.
As they were inside the library .
Richard set down and let her head rest on his lap.
"Sweetie do you remember the day you woke up?"
"You came to find me, and found me here in this room napping on the couch. You were so tired that you just curled up on this couch and used my lap as your pillow."
Richard was stroking her head and it was calming her down.
"I just couldn't figure out if you were either pretty bold, or you just feel very comfortable with me."
'It was the latter.' Marika said in a calm voice.
Richard smiled. "Then that mystery is solved."
Genus and the others arrive at Luca's room.
"Wow…who trashed your room?" Genus asked him.
"My sister did this."
"The last time I heard she trashed a room was when she heard her elder brother got killed by the Red Dragon Clan. And the room she trashed was her own."
"Where is she now?"
"Richard took her to the library to calm her down."
Luca carried the book and told them to fallow him.
As they arrived Marika guard was up to the highest point.
Richard told them to be careful because Marika was on edge right now.
Luca opened the door and Genus said, "We tossed our coats in the hallway."
Marika looked and calmed down.
Genus student then whispered "Why did we need to toss them?"
"You saw that room right? Whatever made her do that, she could easily attack us if we had worn them." Azurite whispered.
The 4 of them walked in to the room and sat down.
"Damn little girl, you're a mess and you made a mess of your brothers room."
"So what ticked you off like this?"
Marika flinched a little, and started to shake.
"Sister I'm not mad at you for trashing my room. Let's clean it up together later alright?"
Marika nodded and calmed down again.
"It's alright sweetie take your time and take a deep breath. You called for us for a reason."
"We are here to help you, alright."
Marika nodded again.
Genus took down his glasses for a moment to see if there was any instability in her energy. He did saw a little instability but it was not alarming.
Marika took a deep breath and said 'What I'm about to tell you may sound absurd to you all, but it's all true because I remember it all.'
'I thought I buried these memories deep inside me, but they resurfaced again.'
'This incident isn't as old as my trauma of doctors, this happened to me when I was 18 years old.'
'You see my body was throughout my 18 years of life very stable, accept for my occasionally being drowsy after healing wounds I never transformed to a childlike state after a traumatic experience or too much stress.'
Marika took another deep breath.
'Two days ago I heard a women talking to Richard in his study in Moon Castle…'
Marika was shaking and holding herself very tight and the look of fear was written all over her face.
"It's alright sweetheart take your time."
'Just a few days after my 18th birthday…It was a day like any other. I went to work and after work I picked up my neighbor Mister Harry from the hospital and we went to the grocery store to pick up some groceries for myself and him.'
'When we arrived home I went to his place first and did some small shores for him and cooked for him, since he was old and sometimes lonely. I stayed for dinner and we talked about my day at work and his visit at the hospital. He told me that because of my cooking the doctors were very pleased by his health.'
'After dinner I went to my own home where Chase was waiting for me and like every day welcomed me home.'
'I played with him for a bit watch some television and went to bed early because I had a double shift the next day.'
Marika swallowed her saliva and the resumed her story, But Luca and Genus saw she was slowly going to a state of mind where is was going to relive the horrible moment's and gave Richard an heads up since he was sitting next to her.
'I woke up by the sounds of people screaming, when I looked around the dim lighted room I saw the body of a boy lying on the ground with horrible wounds and…'
'I try to break down the door but I couldn't.'
'After a few minute's 4 man came to the room and dragged me out of it.'
'I struggled so hard to break free, but they shot me with a muscle relaxer.'
'We then arrived at another room and I was tied down to the bed and a women came in to the room.
She then started to talk to the man and asked what was so special to me?'
'They told her I had healing magic and combat magic.'
'As she approached me she said; You have something I want and I'm going to take it from you.'
Marika face looked horrified and she was shaking uncontrollably.
Marika started to cry 'She took half of my healing magic and battle magic.'
'The method she used was so painful I thought I would die' Marika held her hand against her chest and clenched it very tight she created a wound on her chest.
Luca showed the book at Genus and the page where the method was described on how to extract magic from a person.
'That women, she stole half of my healing and battle magic. Leaving me with an unstable body and probably hoped I would die soon.'
'When I woke up again because my alarm clock went off I thought it was all just a nightmare because the date on my clock told me it was the next day.'
Marika was crying in Richard arms.
Richard held her tight and stroked her head and said to her "Thank you for telling us, you can take a nap. You must be tired."
Marika eyes slowly were getting heavier and she started to nod her head. Richard laid her down with her head on his lap again. And kept stroking her head even when she was asleep.
Marika changed to her 5 year old form, and Richard called for Derick to bring in some tea and a blanked.
When Derick entered the room he saw his daughter all curled up and looked like she had cried herself to complete exhaustion.
Derick covered her up and asked, "What happened to her?"
Richard gave him a summary of her story and Derick was completely heart broken.
"But how did she survived all of that?"
"Probably because of her healing ability." Genus answered.
"If that women is carrying half of her innate magic it wouldn't be a problem to get it out of her and split it from each other if it were mended together."
"The most troubling part would be the little girl."
"Because it has been 5 years there is a high chance her innate magic could also have mended together and to split that, she has to go through hell to fix it am I right?" Luca asked Genus.
Genus nodded.
Richard asked Luca, "Do you thing Lenis is able to see in what state her innate magic is?"
"Well since he is able to see a person's soul I think he should be able to, but we have to wait and for him to come back."
"That's not necessary!" suddenly a voice spoke from the door.
Everybody looked at the door and saw Lenis standing there.
"Canus filled me in and I came back as soon as I heard."
Lenis asked if Richard could remove the blanked a little and turn her on her back.
He fallowed Lenis instructions.
Lenis started to concentrate and saw Marika's color and form he then looked at her innate magic.
He was shocked to see that half of both of her innate magic was gone. He started to focus a bit more and to his relieve they didn't mend together.
Lenis was done and started to explain.
"If and when she gets back her stole innate magic she won't have any problems."
He drew up two circles "You see a magic circle needs an activation part and a stabilizing part in order to work."
"Marika was left with two active parts of her magic and they can't combine together."
"But for some miracle she can use her healing magic without the stabilizing part. I could make a rough guess but I need to actually see what is happening when she uses it to get a clearer picture."
"But for now I guess her active battle magic is working like a stabilizer to her healing magic."
"So when did Marika get robbed of her magic?"
"5 years ago." Luca answered him.
Lenis looked at him "You say 5 years ago?"
Luca nodded.
Lenis fell to the ground and had a shocked look on his face.
'Thank god you also made it out.' Marika hugged him.
Tears came to Lenis eyes. "It's all thanks to you."
Everybody looked puzzled.
"You see, she was in the same room as me for a short moment. I was barely alive at the time but she healed me and rammed the door a few times if she rammed it for the 5 time she would have broken it down."
"But they came and picked her up before she could escape. But the people never check out the door on the damage she caused and I could see that the damage in the hinges was very severe and it only needed one more push."
Lenis held Marika and stood up again.
"But why didn't she remember you when she saw you in the frost or when she talked to you in the kitchen?" Derick asked him.
"Well she probably had put it all away deep in her mind. And then you would forget people's face just as easy." Luca said.
"True… and I was a twelve year old boy at the time, but I never forgotten the girl who saved me and healed me. Although she had forgotten me, when I saw her again I was relieved to see she also made it out and was still alive."
Marika had fallen asleep again and Lenis caressed her head.
"I can't speak for Marika's experience, but I think she suffered enough for now. If you want to know more about that place and what they were doing, I will tell you what I know."
"But there is one thing I want you to know, I want to help you take down that women and I want that person to suffer the same way that Marika suffered."
Lenis eyes were cold.
Richard walked over to Lenis and patted his head, "Of course we will do it that way, an eye for an eye. But what about you?"
"I'll crush that b*tch mentally beforehand."
"I'll take Marika to her room and let her rest."
Richard nodded.
Genus looked at Marika again, but her instability hadn't changed.
"Well for now we can say that her last awakening is making sure that her instability won't be as bad as before."
"I checked her 3 times and it stayed around the same level the whole time."
Lenis arrived at Marika's room but she got fussy out of the blue and this made him be on high alert.
He opened the door and saw 4 people standing in Marika's room.
He slammed the door shut and rushed back to the library with Marika in his arms.
The sound alerted everybody in the library.
Lenis opened the door to the library but got struck by a knife in his leg that one of the man managed to throw.
Lenis stumble inside and almost fell but Richard caught them both.
"There are man from that place, they want to take us!"
"Don't worry, your save here."
The man opened the door to the library and saw Richard in his 3rd form. One of the man backed off in fear.
"What are you afraid of? It's just one dragon and a bunches of doctors."
"Are you sure?" Luca also transformed in to his 3rd stage.
"It's two dragons and a bunches of doctor's! Luca then said.
Marika was now awake and signal to Lenis to put her down.
Marika walked up to Richard and Luca and transformed in to her 7th stage.
'It's 3 dragons and a few doctor's.'
The man saw Marika and stated to laugh at her.
Richard and Luca looked at Marika "Ohh my sister is so cute!"
"Yeh my wife is absolutely adorable."
"What can a tiny dragon like you even do to full grown man like us?"
'Your right… Just wait a moment…I forgot I was still in the form of a child.'
Marika changed back to her adult self and the man stopped laughing.
'That's better.'
"F*ck."
'So…tell me what you want with my best friend Lenis?'
"Our Master need him."
'Ohh is that so…'
'Little white coat, do you have that thing I gave you last time?'
Genus laughed when he heard Marika refer to his student as little white coat.
'Don't laugh at him like that you damned white coat. He never gave me his name so how else do you expect me to address your student since you as a teacher also failed to mention his name.'
Now both Richard and Luca started to laugh.
"Then let me quickly give you my name, my name is Damion and yes I have that one me."
'Good keep it in your reach just to be save.'
'Azu this is for you.' And she threw a tranquilizer.
Marika then casted a spell and drew her swords, and threw one of them to Derick.
'You can keep that sword dad.'
Derick unsheathed the sword and saw (Pater et filia vincula) written on it meaning A father and daughter bond.
"What about me sis?" Luca asked her.
'Do you really think I would forget about my little brother.' And she smiled.
'I saw you train with something similar to what Richard uses so this one is a tat smaller and lighter.'
She pulled a long sword, the scabbard had a deep green color and the hilt had a Peridot in it and Marika had already casted a protection spell in it.
'Hope you like it.'
"How can I not like a present from my sister he also unsheathed his sword and saw one side of the blade a dragon and on the other side (Condita Viridi Draconis) The Founding Green Dragon."
The four man were stupefied and distracted by what just went down.
Marika smiled and kicked them all in to the hall way.
'Dad you stay here with Lenis and the others just to be safe.'
Derick nodded.
'Lenis will you be alright?'
"Of course, there are 3 cable doctors here. And Marika could you do me a favor?"
'Sure, what is it?'
"The leader of the 4 was the one who threw the knife in my leg, could you cripple him for life?"
Marika smiled and nodded.
'Richard…brother… let's take the toys outside and play with them for a bit. We don't want dad to clean up a mess again.'
Marika grabbed the 4 man by the collar and dragged the outside.
"Well since my sister is in a good mood how can I refuse." Luca said an shrugged his shoulders.
"Well these toys will break fast so I will hold back, we don't want the fun to be short."
They both left the room and fallowed Marika.
While Marika was dragging the man when she suddenly remembered something. And told Luca and Richard to hold the man before they would go outside.
Marika ran to her room and grabbed her black bag and went back to the library.
She threw the bag to Genus. 'Here is my special first aid kid, everything you could possibly need is in there.' and she left again.
Genus looked in the bag and his jaw dropped.
"What is it?" Derick asked him.
"She got a whole pharmacy stored in here."
"I need to ask her to make me one of these."
Derick laughed "Well she takes that bag wherever she goes so, she is always well prepared."
And then Derick whispered something to Genus.
"You've got to be kidding me!!!"
Derick shook his head. "It's true."
"Ahaha I really can't beat that little girl."
Genus then started to focus on Lenis wound, "You're lucky it didn't hit any major arteries."
Genus took out the knife and checked it for poison. But he couldn't smell any and asked Azurite for a second opinion because he was taught by Marika thus could find the faintest trace of smell when it comes to poison.
Azurite confirmed there was no poison on it.
"Your double lucky, there was no poison on the knife or else it would affected your already damaged liver."
"Well according to Luca, I was already getting better so, it would only be a small set back." Lenis said to Genus.
"You are pretty optimistic aren't you."
"What else can I do…and Luca told me that next to my diet and medicine, positive thinking is also good medicine."
"Well your all patch up now, take a few days of rest and don't put weight on your leg for a week."
Derick heard a scream and looked outside and asked Lenis "Do you want to witness Marika to fulfill your request?"
Lenis nodded.
Derick opened the window "Daughter could you hold off for a moment!? Lenis would like to see you cripple that man for life!"
'Sure dad!'
With the support of Azurite and Damion, Lenis came to the window and looked outside.
'How is your leg?'
"Well I need to rest, and can't put any weight on it for at least a week!"
Marika pinned down the man with her sword and transformed in to her final form but adjusted her size a bit. She then stomped on the man's leg and Richard and Luca could hear the bones break.
Everybody accept for Lenis had a painful look on their face. Lenis was the only one who had a content smile on his face.
Marika changed back and asked 'Was that alright with you?'
"Perfect!"
Genus then said "She really is rubbing off on you."
"Well isn't she rubbing off on anybody who is close to her?"
"Pfft."
Luca heard it and wanted to laugh.
"Well Luca is an exception since he is blood relate to her."
'pfft.' Marika couldn't contain herself an started to laugh.
'Ahahaha, that is so true.'
"Sis!? Really now?"
'What? Isn't it true, but to be honest you're a more passive version of me.'
While Richard opponent charged at him again he hit him and broke his leg.
"Sweetie! I broke one of the toys."
The two who were left stepped back, they knew that keeping at it would only result in major damage.
'What did you break?'
"I broke his leg."
The man was out gold due to the sudden pain.
'Ahh well it doesn't matter, I was getting bored playing anyway. They are so weak and break so easily. They don't make sturdy toys now a days.'
Marika looked at the left over man and said 'Take those two with you when you leave will ya, oh and give this message to your Master. Tell her to f*ck off and I won't hand over my friend Lenis.'
Marika turned around and added 'ohh and tell her I remember her so she should expect me to visit her soon and take back what she stole from me.'
The three of them walked inside of the mansion.
The two man who were left standing picked up there wounded comrades.
"They didn't even take us serious from the beginning did they?"
"After we drop them off, I'm leaving I don't want to be there when she gets to our Master."
The other man nodded. "Same here, I like to live a little longer."
They left the mansion to head back to Moon Castle.
They all went to the library to check on the others.
Marika walked over to Lenis and asked him 'Are you in any pain?'
"Only when I move."
'I got a solution for you to move around when you need to, it will probably be ready by the end of the day tomorrow.'
Marika searched through her bag and found the pain killers.
'You should be able to take these without putting more stress on your liver.'
Lenis hugged Marika "Thank you, for fulfilling my request."
Marika smiled at him 'No…thank you. If you didn't react so fast to the situation it could have turn out much, much worse.'
Richard came up to Lenis and ruffle his hair, "She is right, so take pride in your ability to protect your friend."
Lenis nodded and smiled.
"Marika can I ask you something?" Lenis asked her.
'What is it?'
"After I recover from this injuries, is it possible for me to learn some self-defense?"
Marika pulled Luca and Richard next to her and said 'Sure you can, here are three great teacher who can teach you.'
Genus then said "Do you want to create a monster?"
Marika, Richard and Luca shrugged their shoulders and said in sync "Why not?"
"pfft, ahahaha" Lenis laughed.
"I'll be in your care teachers."
And the three of them smiled.
[Next day]
Marika walked in to Lenis room and gave him the thing she told him about.
Lenis was sitting on his bed drawing.
'Lenis I got you something!'
Lenis looked up and saw Marika holding a pair of crutches.
Marika helped support him for a moment and then gave him the crutches.
'Now try and move around with them.'
At first it was a bit clumsy but after a few minutes he got the hang of it.
She then showed him an efficient way to get up himself up from the bed and he mimicked it perfectly
'Shall we go down for lunch?'
"But what if I fall down the stairs?"
'You won't, I'll catch before that happens anyway.'
Marika took on crutch from Lenis and told him to grab the hand rail of the stairs.
She then showed him how to get down stairs.
'Take your time and take it slow. And don't lean to much forward or else you'll fall.'
Marika was standing next to him and slowly descended the stairs together with Lenis.
Richard and Luca were watching how Marika was guiding Lenis in his new found mobility.
"Uhm she is surprisingly good at teaching" Luca said.
"Well she does like to help out anybody in need and if her knowledge can help somebody, she will teach them." Richard said.
"But it's also good for Lenis to move around in moderation and learn what he can and can't do."
Marika and Lenis reached the kitchen where Derick was making lunch.
'Hi dad!'
Derick looked up and saw bot Lenis and Marika standing at the door.
"Is it really alright for him to be out of bed?"
'Well of course, moving around with the limbs that are not injured is better than stay up in bed and have muscle loss all together.'
'And he isn't using his injured leg so…'
Marika helped Lenis to sit down at the kitchen table.
Derick served them there lunch.
'I'm sorry I got you back so early from Ignis.'
"It's not your fault, I figured Luca would need some help in trying to understand in what for state your innate magic is."
'So how was your stay at Ignis?'
"I got a lot of inspiration there, not only for the design for your project, but also for myself."
"I was a bit overwhelmed that I didn't have to address the King and first Prince formally."
"When I was up on the mountain behind the Temple I felt like I didn't want to go back down."
Marika smiled.
"So how was your day after the kitchen incident?"
'It was fun. I went to Lunar Cave with Khai, although I wanted to go in there my intuition told me not to so we explored the forest around the cave.'
'Why don't you come out side for a bit and watch me, Dante and Kevin have a sparring match? You can learn by observing on how to defend yourself.'
"That sounds good."
"Sister!"
Dante and Kevin came in to the kitchen and had a worried look on their face.
'I was about to call for you two, shall we go to the training area to start with the sparring for today?'
'What's wrong?'
Dante gave Marika a piece of paper and she read the content. After she was done reading it she crumbled it up and threw it away.
It's nothing to worry about, now let's go outside.'
The four of them left the kitchen and went outside.
Derick took the piece of paper that Marika crumbled up and threw away from the trash.
Derick also read the content and was concerned.
He took Richard lunch and went up the stairs.
As he arrived at his room he knocked a few times.
"Enter."
Derick put down Richards lunch and gave him the piece of paper.
Richard also read it and his face had a cold smile on it.
"What did she say?"
"Well her face turned slightly dark but told her brother there was nothing to worry about and just threw it away."
"Well do not underestimate your daughter's ability to think and plan a head of time. She probably already anticipate this."
"She knows now she is not alone and has the Moon Kingdom and Ignis Kingdom as her support."
"But she has one more person who will support her that her enemy is not aware of."
"You mean…"
Richard nodded.
"Then there is nothing to worry about." Derick said.