Marika changed all the way to her 7th stage. Everybody was shocked by the fact she survived all the seven stage and changed in to them without any problems.
'Do I need to show my 8th stage as well? But be careful about your answer. One wrong word or action towards me in my 8th stage and you won't survive.'
Marika let go of the second son and Richard came up with an handkerchief and whipped her hand that had touched the second son's face. And look cold at the young man.
"Please forgive my foolish younger brother, he still has to learn a lot." The first son said.
Marika looked at the girl who looked at Marika in admiration, and Marika smiled at her.
'Seems that the eldest and the youngest are smarter and better behaved.'
The second son was still being arrogant and said "Show me! Show me your 8th stage, I bet you'll die when you change in to that anyway."
"Aron stop it! Do you want our clan be reduced to ashes?" The clan head spoke.
"She may not look like it but even before her 7th stage she could easily defeat a squad of soldiers on her own." The first son said.
"She is also married to the king of The Moon Kingdom, and is allied with Ignis Kingdom." The clan head said.
'Everybody step back, since he is so confident I will crush that confidence here and now.' Marika said in angered voice.
Everybody stepped back and Marika transformed in to her 8th stage.
Aron was completely shocked "How…"
Richard walked up to him and then said, she found the way and means to survive all the stages. And she even helped an ancestor of Ignis Kingdom to achieve it."
"Well I hope you survive my wife's current anger." And Richard pushed him towards Marika.
The Clan head then spoke "But didn't the prince die when he was going through the 8th stage?"
"He did pass away, but due to the regret of not be able to complete his final stage his soul wondered around the Temple."
"As she awakened her 7th stage under stress full circumstance she woke him up and offered her help. She in return showed to him how to reach his final stage."
"And since he finally was able to reach his 8th stage I gave him a helping hand, so he was born again."
"Right Nova!?"
Suddenly Nova pop up from under Williams coat and went over to Richard and landed at his shoulder.
"Now this little one sees me and Yumaria as his parents," While Richard petted Nova's head.
"And he was born under a very strong desire, and that desire is to protect and support Yumaria, his mother."
Nova took this Que and flew over to Marika and transformed in to an adult version of himself and stood next to Marika.
Aron looked at the two dragons one Azure and Green the other Black and Azure. He wanted to pull his sword out of fear, Marika started to roar at him.
"I won't recommend doing that unless you want to die. She just now gave you a warning." Richard spoke out loud.
Aron let go of his sword.
Suddenly a knife flew towards Marika but Nova cased a barrier and the knife got deflected.
Nova spotted the one who threw it and let out a loud roar and fixed his gaze on the person.
Marika then telepathically said to Nova 'Kill him.'
Nova charged at the person ad picked him up and flew up high in the air and then dropped the man from his jaws.
Marika then spoke, while in her dragon form and looked at Aron 'Hit me and I'll hit back, attack me and I'll attack back, Try to kill me and your dead!' Do you understand!?'
Aron nodded.
'As for you arrogance and insolent words… You'll go to The World of Night, and stay with Cinis. You better mind the way you speak of me because I'll allow Canus to torture the crap out of you, and believe me he is a battle freak who loves to spill blood.'
Marika changed back to her 7th stage.
'If anybody else has a problem of me being the head of The Founding Green Dragon Clan you can speak now and I'll end you're life here and now!'
Everybody was quiet.
'Now you have seen me, you all can leave now, I want to spend time with my husband in peace.'
Before Marika opened the doors the daughter walked up to her and asked 'Sister can I come and visit you some time?'
'Sure but let me warn you, do not ever try to corvette or touch my husband because I will hurt you no matter how close we have grown.'
'Don't worry sister, he is too old for my taste anyway and besides he suites you way better than me.'
Marika started laugh, 'I like your personality.'
The girl gave Marika a warm hug "Welcome home sister."
'Thank you little sister.'
'Luca I leave the rest up to you and don't forget to pass my message to Cinis and Canus.'
"Yes Queen Yumaria."
Marika and the others left through the door and shut them behind them.
Luca then set his sights on Aron. "Your extremely lucky did you know that?"
"What do you mean."
"If you pulled your sword or aggravated her more, you would have died for sure."
"You call her in incomplete and half blooded dragon. But what do you even know about her?"
"Be very grateful she send you to Ignis. But what she said about Prince Canus is all true, so better think before you speak about her understand."
Aron nodded.
"William let's go back and deliver this arrogant to little thing to Cinis."
Vincent walked up to his brother Aron. "You better behave over there and I hope you'll learn a thing or two up there."
"Yes brother."
'Well I think this is a good thing, maybe that foul mouth of yours can be cleaned over there.' His sister Camilla said to him.
"I don't want to hear that from you."
William opened a portal to Ignis and Luca dragged Aron with him.
"Don't worry, he'll be back alive in a few days, well more like a few years for you guys."
Luca arrived in the office of King Cillus, where Cinis and Canus just informed their father of what happened.
Luca threw Aron in front of them.
"Listen here kid, I don't have much time since I have to defend the northern border of my sisters Kingdom."
"Inside the palace here, my sister is known as princess Mari, outside the palace she is known as Vigilantly Yume, in her Kingdom outside her palace she is known as Marika and when she is acting out her duties as Queen she is called Queen Yumaria. Got that?"
"What about the Moon Castle?"
"That place is tricky, only three people over there call her Marika, the rest refers to her as Queen Yumaria or My Queen/ Her Majesty."
Cinis then asked Luca "What is the second son of The Green Dragon Clan doing here?"
"Let's just say he provoked her, and as punishment she send him here and tasked you to educate him."
"She also said if he were to speak badly about her, Canus could torture him."
"And you better not kill him or you have to answer to my sister and you know…"
Canus then said with a smile on his face wile pulling a big bag. "Don't worry, last time Mari was here she left me this. He won't die."
Luca looked at the bag "Are those healing pills?"
Canus nodded.
Luca then looked at Aron. "You better behave and watch your word's concerning my sister because he has enough healing pills to torture you for 6 months straight and bring you back from near death."
"Don't worry uncle Luca I'll keep a close eye on him." Nova suddenly spoke.
"Thank you Nova, your such a reliable little nephew."
"Nova!"
"Hello uncle Canus, Cinis."
Nova then flew op to Cillus "Hello great uncle King."
"Hello Nova how have you been?" Cillus petted Nova on the head.
"I have been good, I helped mommy today by defending her and I killed somebody today."
Cillus then looked at Canus with a stern look in his eyes.
"Canus…Have been rubbing off that bloody attitude on your nephew?"
"I'm innocent I swear!" Canus whined
"Great uncle it's not uncle Canus fault, mommy told me to do so."
"So how long are you staying" Canus asked Nova.
"I don't know, I think till daddy gets back or till he goes back."
"Well you can stay in your mothers room till then." Cillus said to Nova
"Your Majesty, Your Highness's, I leave the boy in your care. I need to head out to defend the border. I'm a bit pressed for time."
"You can go Your Highness Luca, and if you need support just call my blood thirsty son and he'll be right over." Cillus said.
"Thank you Your Majesty."
Luca bid his goodbyes and left for the border were everybody was waiting for him.
"Aron!"
"Yes Your Majesty?"
"What did you say to Mari to provoke her?"
"I said she was an incomplete and half blooded dragon, after that I dared her to change in her 8th stage and said that she would die anyway if she was going to do that."
"And she let you off by sending you're here?" Canus asked him.
"Yes Your Highness."
"Then you are very lucky she let you live." Canus said.
"Aron, we were about to watch something regarding Mari's past. I hope you care to watch it with us and maybe you can understand a little of what she had been through in her life."
"After that Cinis can show you a little more about her past. And after that he will bring you to her Kingdom and the last place will be the Moon Castle were Dr. Niveus can show you more about her, if you by then don't understand what's she has been through and still retains a kind heart. Then pray that the next time you meet her you'll survive her anger if you provoke her again. Because she live by the code an eye for an eye."
Aron watch how a memory of Marika was played before his eyes, the fear and pain in her eyes were sending a chill down his spine, her screams that could be heard made him shiver.
He fell through his knees, and tears started to fall from his eyes.
"How could anybody do something so cruel to a person."
"How was she able to survive that."
"According to Dr. Niveus she survived because of her innate healing magic." Cinis said.
"According to our time standard, A few hours ago Mari was at Mystic Mountain for some well need rest, since a lot of people were targeting her."
"The father and sister of that women came to Mystic Mountain because His Majesty Lunam was also up there, and the minister probably wanted to plead for his daughters release because she is currently held in his dungeon."
"The second daughter accused Mari from stealing her sisters Magic and this send Mari in a blinding rage."
"In the end Mari used the same spell as that women did and crushed the second daughters innate magic."
"King Richard and Prince Luca had to sedate Mari because she was blinded by rage and she even pointed her sword at her own husband."
"After she was sedated Lenis found out that because of the spell Mari used she damaged her own innate battle magic."
"That's why they decided to have her go to the human world, so she could finally get the rest and peace she needs right now."
"As to answer your question regarding her innate magic, that women left Mari with half of each innate magic and what she has left is both active parts. They can never merges and leaves Mari's body unstable. And because she used that spell her battle magic had to bear the brute force of it all."
Aron was shock by what he heard coming from Cinis.
"Aron your clan only holds 3 stages right?" Cinis asked him.
"Yes…We can't transform in full dragon."
"First fallow me to my study, there is something I want to show you, and after that were going to her Kingdom, because when the Queen is not present and Prince Luca is also away I as her allay take over for them."
"Canus you go with your brother, If His Highness Luca need's help your closer and will be to arrive in a matter of minutes."
"Yes father."
Cinis and Canus left the office of King Cillus.
King Cillus sighed a sigh and a tear ran down from his eye, "How could you still smile like that and extend your hand to people in need. When you went through hell and back."
While the four of them were in Cinis office, Cinis showed Aron the footage of the green house incident.
"That little 3 year old girl is…"
"Correct that is Mari."
"So that was the stress full situation King Lunam mentioned where she awakened her 7th stage."
"And she is still so strong in that form?"
"Well.. she was very strong from the beginning."
Cinis showed him the memories Marika had stored from the engagement party.
As he was watching he asked "Had she awakened a stage before she came her?"
"Not one." Canus answered him.
Aron started to slowly understand how Marika became so strong.
"Well the last footage is of a village, that she defended and the people choose her to become the ruling lady."
After watching it he felt more and more remorse for what he had said to her and he was lucky he got off with his current punishment.
"She had no obligation to defend the village, but still battled all those soldiers by herself."
"So do you still think she is a half blooded incomplete Dragon?" Canus asked him.
Aron shook his head. "She really deserves the title of clan head of The Founding Green Dragon Clan. She really is a Queen who is selfless and protect her people with her own body."
"Than do you know why she send you here?" Cinis asked him?
"Because I'm a foolish child who knows nothing."
"Well that's part of it."
Aron looked puzzled at Cinis.
"I'll tell you then, she send you here because she saw you have the potential to become a great man and leader in the future."
"Now let's go to her Kingdom and you can see for yourself, how things are under her rule."
Canus opened a window and grabbed Aron and jumped out of the window with him.
Cinis sighed and also jumped out of the window. "Really brother?"
"Don't complain, that's how Mari would do things you know that."
Canus and Cinis both transformed in to dragons and Canus put Aron on his back and took off.
When they arrived they were met with Azurite. "Your Highness's what bring s you here?"
"Your teacher is currently in the human world for a well-deserved vacation and Luca is currently at the northern border for a small problem." Cinis told him.
"Canus you go check on the soldiers and look through the reports."
"Yes brother."
"Your Highness could you drop by the black smith on your way to the palace?"
"Sure, are there any issues regarding extension the village?"
"Not really but they want teachers advice on which direction to extend because she cares about the surrounding nature."
"Alright I'll discusses it with the people, let them visit the palace a little later."
Azurite nodded.
"Uncle Smithy! Are you in?"
The man came out! "Tsk you're not the little Lady."
"Well couldn't you tell by my voice I wasn't her." Cinis teased him.
"Well your voice sounded like a little girl so I thought you were the little Lady" The man teased him back.
And they both started to laugh.
"Azurite told me to stop by, so what's up?"
While Cinis and the black smith were talking Aron looked around and his eye's fell on a sword.
"Mister can is have a feel of this sword?"
"Sure little punk."
Aron picked it up and it felt lighter than he thought.
"Wow it's so light in comparison to how it looks."
"Little punk do you have any skill in the art of swords?"
"Yes a little, but I'm better with a bow."
The Black smith threw him a bow and quiver with arrows, "Why don't you go to the back and play with them for a while."
Aron looked at Cinis for confirmation and Cinis nodded.
"There have been some vampires spotted in the village, nothing bad has happened yet, but it looks like there searching for something or someone."
"Where is the Little Lady?"
"She is currently in the human world."
"Alright as long as she is safe that's all that matters."
"Your Highness?"
The apprentice of the black smith appeared.
"How have you been?"
"Quite well, thanks to the princess I can finally do what I love the most."
"If you by chance see her could you deliver something to her?"
"Sure."
The man gave Cinis a pair of sword's "They might be a little heavier than she is used to but…"
"I'm sure she will like them." Cinis said.
"Aron were heading out!"
Aron came from the back and gave the man the bow and quiver back.
"You can keep it, see at as a welcomes gift from the finest Black smith of Virtus et Caeruleus Viridi."
"Thank you Mister!
Aron looked at the bow that had and leaf pattern and the emblem of Virtus et Caeruleus Viridi.
"I'll take very good care of this gift."
Aron an Cinis left the black smith and went up to Marika's palace.
When they arrived Aron saw children playing in the garden.
"Are you surprised by seeing children playing in the garden?" Cinis asked him.
Aron nodded.
"Well this place has multiple purposes, it's a school were the children of the village receive their education, a court for trials, it also functions as a hospital, a shelter for the villages when the village is under attack and not to forget a place where the Queen stay's and rules over her country."
"That's quite smart of her. I mean assassins wouldn't attack innocent children, and attacking a hospital fill with the sick and injured people, they would be seen as coward's, there is no honor in killing defenseless people."
"Now Aron we have a meeting about expending the village, you can observe or if you have any thought you can share them. Maybe there are things we haven't thought of. But keep in mind Her Majesty loves the nature in her kingdom and like to preserve most of it."
"I understand."
While Cinis was discussing with the villagers, Aron looked at the map and saw some points where they could build.
"Uhm… Your Highness?"
"I have an idea but…"
"Well let's hear it."
"I don't know if it's any good but… instead of expending the current Village why not set up small establishments her, her and her."
These are all crossing points at the borders, and it's quite far away from the current village, so any warning form an enemy coming in the country is pretty delayed.
"If you place establishments at the these point you can also install an early warning system so the main village can prepare for an incoming attack."
"And you don't necessarily have to take down a forest. You can build up high in the trees and use it as an advantage."
"As for the establishments near the road, It can function as a trading point or rest stop for merchants and also send word out faster to the neighboring countries or receive information of the neighboring countries."
"That sounds good, but the North is pretty desolate area." One of the villagers spoke.
"That's not a problem, you can dig a water way from this river to the establishments." Aron said to the man.
"And if it's desolated that means we don't have to worry much about plant and animal life to start building."
"But first let's scout out the area and see if there will be any issues with the terrain and we should dig the new waterway first." Cinis said.
"Sending supplies won't be much of an issue, and we still have to see and talk to The Moon Wolf Clan. So it will be a few months before any real work can begin."
"Hey kid, when we finished the build in the North you better come and visit it." The villagers said to Aron.
"Maybe we should ask the Queen if he can be placed there to lead the village in the North."
"I agree, he is smart just like the Queen."
"Kid, are you perhaps a relative of the Queen?" A villager asked Aron.
"Uhm…I'm originally a branch family member of the Queen."
"No wonder…The way you think is just like her." And the villagers smiled at him.
[Next day Moon Kingdom]
Cinis brought Aron over to Moon Castle to visit Genus.
"Genus I brought you a visitor!"
Genus came out from his house and looked at the two of them.
"What is it?"
"Well…I will keep the explanation short, this young man angered Marika and he is now here for his punishment."
Genus looked at Aron and asked Cinis "Do I need to show a lenient way or can it be brutal?"
"Well he already saw the footage you were shown so… I don't think anything you have can be worse than that."
"Alright… Kid fallow me inside and when were done I'll make sure William will send you back to him."
"Don't worry… he won't do a thing to you because, well let's say she had beaten him up pretty bad a few months ago." Cinis whispered to Aron.
"See you later and behave yourself."
Aron nodded and went in to Genus house.
"Well kid, you're lucky to get off with such a lite punishment."
"I have been told that before, why is everybody saying I'm lucky?"
"Let me ask you what did you do or say to the little girl?"
"I called her a half blooded and incomplete dragon. And I dared her to transform to her 8th stage and said she would die if she did that."
"Ohh…then let me explain why everybody say's your lucky. Because one man lost his complete arm just because he slapped her, another man and his daughter died because they kept trying to assassinate her, and currently on man who is responsible for an very old scar is tortured to the brink of death in the dungeon."
"You see Marika past was so horrible that normally one would think a person will grow cold and close them self's of to everybody. But she is a person with a will of iron. Despite all that has happened to her, her heart remained warm."
Genus set down and gave Aron a cup of tea.
"Relax and sit down, and the tea is just a herbal tea."
"I was about to watch a recorded version of a memories from the little girl concerning her trauma of doctors, are you up for it?"
Aron nodded.
"Well we have to wait for two more people to come, so in the meantime if you have question's just ask them."
"Uhm Cinis told me The Queen had beat you up a few months ago."
"Ahaha, well she almost killed me…twice."
"The first time I guessed as much she had a trauma, and the second time was because I gave sedatives instead of pain killers."
"Why do you call her little girl?"
"Well back then she didn't tell me her name and the nick name kind of stuck. But to be fair she calls me white coat or damned white coat."
"I noticed she has a student, what is she teaching him?"
"Medicine, you see Marika is a genius when it comes to medicine. She mad a pill that can neutralize all existed poison's and the genius part about it is she can make it so that only the person she gives it to can take it. Any other person would die if they take it. So even a skilled herbalist or doctor can't crack it because it's odorless, and tasting…well you get the point."
"But her enemies have noticed so instead of trying to poison her the use pretty nasty anesthetics on her. But I bet she will find a way to even counter that in the future."
There was a knock on the door an Genus stood up, "The rest of the audience has arrived."
Damion and Azurite came in.
"Now let's see what they did to her, for the trauma to be so bad as it is."
As they were watching, chills ran down their spines.
Suddenly Aron saw a familiar face and was slowly boiling in anger.
As they were done watching Genus asked Aron "Did you see a familiar face?"
"Yes, he is a doctor in our clan."
"Is he still alive?"
"Yeh he is a green dragon."
Suddenly Aron realized something and asked "Does she remember the faces of all the doctor?"
"It seems so why?"
"When she arrived he was at the group of welcoming the new head of The Founding Green Dragon clan."
"She probably has already saw him but she wouldn't blindly go after him just the moment she sees him."
"Either she will wait patiently for time to strike or he would try to do something to her and she will strike at him then."
"If father were to learn of this…he would probably feel guilty to the extent that it will hurt his health."
"After he found out there was a dragon of Green and Azure decent and saw what The Sun Kingdom did to her his hard broke. He felt responsible for the life she had to live in the human world under the watchful eyes of the green clan."
"As The Founding Green Dragon Clan mostly hide their identity and mingle with humans they are above us the green clan. And we watch over the humans so that if The Sun Kingdom or The Night Kingdom ever were to have a war again the green clan would interfere and protect the humans."
"So you could say The Founding Green Dragon Clan existed to keep the peace between the 3 world and you the branch family are originally soldiers of The Founding Green Dragon Clan and be on the watch all the time?"
"Aron nodded."
"Now I have one more question for you, now that you have seen a large amount of her past what do you think of her now?"
"I admire her, she is a great person. Even thought she had suffer so much she never lost her kindness, she is even willing to pick up a weapon to help those in need, she is the most complete dragon that exist."
Cinis came in and told Aron to stay at the castle for the time being, "Luca and Canus have a little bit of difficulty containing the problem up north so I'm going out there to help them."
Aron looked at the bow he got from the village black smith and said "I want to help, my skills are third best. Genus do you have any sedatives or anesthetic that I can use to dip my arrow heads in?"
"Sure…"Genus got up and brought back a few bottles.
"The red one is the strongest and the green one is a muscle relaxer."
"Thank you."
Cinis looked at Aron and saw a resolve in his eyes and he smiled.
"How many enemies are there?" Aron asked.
"A few hundred but Canus got some training from Marika so he would be able to handle a lot on his own."
"Then we shall use the air and I shoot the enemy down who went past them."
"Sounds good… But don't you need more arrows?" Cinis asked.
"Can we make a quick stop at the black smith then?"
"Alright… now let's go."
Just as the left Genus house the captain of the guard and William were waiting for them.
"We will help defending Our Queen's Country and be the first line of defense near the border of the Moon Kingdom."
The guard captain gave Aron 6 fully staged quivers with arrows.
"Good luck boy and give them hell!"
Aron nodded and William opened a portal to Faber Village.
[Human world]
6 months has passed and Marika was enjoying her current life. She was relaxed and did things she wanted to do.
Richard also enjoyed this time to the fullest, he found out he had talent in the kitchen so Marika and Richard were often together in the kitchen cooking together.
After dinner Marika was up at her spot in the mountain, while she enjoyed everything she also wanted to go back.
"Are you think about going back after 6 more moths?"
Richard appeared because he noticed she seemed a bit absent minded during cooking.
Marika nodded.
Richard set down next to her and pulled her in his embrace.
"Sweetie you know you can't, you still need to recover your battle magic."
"If you don't and we get your magic back we don't know what will happen to you."
Marika didn't say a word she knew he was right, but she felt so disconnected from the human world she felt unease.
'But I don't want to stay here without you.'
"I know sweetie, even though on year represents on day over there, but not having you near me is also eating on my heart. And I can guaranty you I will worry about you because I don't have you in my sight."
"I know we are strong and we can overcome this. Even if the road is tedious right now and we have a separate road to walk for now, know that at the end of it we will meet again and walk on ahead together and stronger than we are now."
"Be a good girl and let yourself heal up, I promise I come to visit you often, and if you want I can send people over if you like."
Marika started to giggle a bit 'William will go insane and exhausted by opening portals so many time's.'
"Well what doesn't kill him does make's him stronger don't you think my love?"
'That's true.' And Marika smiled and gave Richard a kiss.
[Virtus et Caeruleus Viridi northern border]
Canus arrived at the border to assist Luca, with him he brought a squad of soldiers.
"I already informed my brother about the situation."
"Great, because roughly 50 already slipped through."
As the battle at the border continued Cinis and Aron were in the sky and found a few who slipped through. Aron aimed for them and shot them one by one in almost lighting speed.
The soldiers on the ground rounded up the shot down foxes and Cinis kept on flying to the border and Aron shot down the foxes who slipped through.
When they arrived Cinis let out a roar to notified Luca and Canus he had arrived.
"Don't land yet, we need to find the leader and shoot him down."
Cinis did so and after a few minute's Aron found the leader. He shot some foxes who were standing in his way and when he took those down he finally had a clear shot of the leader.
Aron shot an arrow with anesthetic and Cinis went down to pick him up.
Cinis finally landed and Aron came down from Cinis back, at the same time soldiers arrived with the shot down foxes the count was 35 foxes.
"So there are still 15 out there?" Luca said.
"Don't worry the captain and 150 soldiers will be there and wait to intercept them." Cinis said to Luca
"Hey kid!"
Aron flinched a little by Luca's word.
"Thanks to you, the situation got contained."
"Uhm…"
"What is it?"
"After what everybody told me and showed me…It's an honor for me that I could lend an helping hand to defend Virtus et Caeruleus Viridi in Queen Yumaria's absents. If in the future she needs help please notify me and I'll be sure to stand on her side and defend this country once more."
Luca walked over to Aron and patted his shoulder, "You sure have matured in such a short period of time. My sister really has a good eye for people."
"Aron are you ready to go back?" Luca asked him.
Aron looked a bit sad, but he knew he had to go back because he had been gone for a year now according to the time flow of the human world.
"You still have few hours so why don't you go to Faber village and get some souvenirs for your brother and sister"
"Alright!"
Luca whistled and Socius appeared. "I'll ride to the mansion and write a report and pick up a few things. Cinis can you bring him back to the village."
"What about me?" Canus asked.
"You, you stay here and contact King Caedis and have him pick up these foxes. And you guard the border until they have left and meet up with your brother."
"Ohh and if any try to cross it just kill them."
"No problem leave it to me!"