[3 weeks later]
Marika had a good time traveling around with Cillus, Derick, Kevin and Lenis.
They went to the city where she lived before coming to The World of Night.
They were sitting at a terrace of a small cafe with a few of the square and fountain.
Marika saw a little girl anxiously look around.
'I'll be right back.'
Marika walk over to the little girl and crouched down.
'What's wrong?'
'I got separate from daddy.' The little girl said to Marika.
Marika looked around, it wasn't that crowded so it should be easy for the girl to spot her father.
Marika picked up the little girl and set her on her shoulders.
'Can you see your daddy?'
The girl spotted her father and called out to him and wave.
The man saw his daughter and came rushing over.
"Marika thank god…"
Marika looked at the man and then at the girl, 'So your name is also Marika?' as she smiled at her.
The girl nodded and waved Marika to come down as she whispered something to her.
Marika was surprised for a moment and smiled.
Marika then asked the little girl 'Do you know the meaning of your name?'
The girl shook her head.
Marika pulled a pendant from her pocked she had asked Saxeus to make for her. It was a beautiful blue Sapphire within it was a Moonstone and showed it to the girl.
'The meaning of your name is Star of the Sea.' And she put the necklace on the little girl.
The man looked at Marika "We can accept something so precious."
Marika smiled at the man 'That's alright it's a small reward, she was very brave and didn't cry the moment she notices she got separated.'
Lenis and Derick both noticed the little girl resembled their Marika and they figured Marika also had noticed.
Marika smiled and saw them off.
When she stood there alone again a few tears fell from her eyes.
Kevin noticed something was off and took Lenis to see what was wrong with his sister.
"Sis are you alright?"
Marika wiped away her tears and nodded.
'It's so strange to see someone who was a part of you for so long, after a long time.'
"Do you feel sad seeing that little girl walk away?"
'A little, but seeing her also made me very happy, she is a healthy and strong little girl.'
'Now let's go back, it's starting to get dark soon and we need to head back to our departure place.'
When they got to their destination Cillus and Marika both transformed in the dark and took off to in the night sky.
[Next day]
Richard and William cam to pick up Cillus, Dantis and Genus.
'Thank you for staying with me for the past 3 weeks it really felt like I was home again.
"Sweetie they are not the only once who are going home today."
'Ohh is Luca going too?'
"Yes and so are your brothers Dante, Kevin and your father and our children."
'Why?' Marika started to feel anxious and panic was visible in her eyes.
"So we can spend some time together, just the two of us" Richard reassured her.
Marika calmed down a bit.
She hugged everybody goodbye and asked Luca to check on Aron.
When everybody left Marika felt a warm embrace from behind.
"Don't worry, you can go home soon too."
Marika turned around in Richard's embrace. 'Really? I don't have to wait another 10 months?'
Richard nodded "Actually you could go home right now. But I'm a selfish person and want you all to myself for the moment."
Marika smiled at Richard 'I have no problem with this selfish request of yours. And now that I know I can go home any moment. For now I don't want to go back yet.'
Marika kissed Richard.
'But first there is a place I want to visit with you.'
"Alright"
Marika woke up in the middle of the night and started to prepare for the trip.
After she was done she woke up Richard.
"Sweetie, what's wrong?"
'We need to go.'
Richard got dressed while Marika was already transformed and waiting for him.
Richard climbed on Marika's back and she took off to the sky.
When they arrived dawn was about to break. 'We made it in time' Marika panted.
'Let me rest first for a bit we still have an hour to walk down this hill.'
"Have you traveling like for the past 3 weeks?"
'I have, but it's worth in the long run, I don't have to waste money on public transport.'
Richard chuckled "Well as long as you don't exhausted yourself it's fine."
After half an hour Marika was all rested up and ready to go down the hill.
When they got down the walked for another half an hour and reached the place she used to live.
'Well it's all new and very different for 110 years ago but I used to live in this area.'
As they kept on walking Marika took Richard to the bridge were her old life ended and her new life started.
Marika looked in the distanced and started to reminisce about that day.
'This is where my life ended and my new life started. I fell from this very bridge down in to the water and traveled to your world.'
'That day… We had a very bad storm in the night and the water under the bridge had risen and the current was strong, a lot of debris had hit this bridge and people were warned to treat carefully crossing this bridge.'
'I had to cross this bridge every day for work, only that fateful morning a driver lost control over his car and was driving towards me. It was at this very spot I jumped from my bike over this railing to avoid getting hit.'
'But even avoiding the hit of the car I sustained a lot of injuries in the water because of the debris in the water and the current.'
"Couldn't your healing magic heal you?"
Marika shook her head, 'The amount of injuries was so sever and the energy in the human world is so low even my healing ability wouldn't be able to heal me in time.'
'When I came across Kevin I knew my body was already starting to shut down. I rescued Kevin and survived for that long purely because of my Iron Will and stubbornness.'
'By the time I arrived at your world my body had already almost completely shut down.'
"So the reason you were a sleep for 7 days was because I awakened you true soul and helped your healing ability to healed all your internal injuries."
Marika nodded.
'Well I consider myself lucky that it only took me 7 days, because of the big amount of energy that is at your mansion, if not for that it could have taken much longer.'
'If it took any longer you would call for Genus and god know what he would have done to my body while I was asleep.'
"Well if he did something strange he wouldn't survive anyway." Richard smiled.
"Because they day I met you I felt I finally found what is most precious to me, and I didn't want to lose it when I finally found it."
Marika hugged Richard 'I'm so thankful you stayed with me and gave me a new life, even though it been one bad situation after another I wouldn't trade it for anything.'
'This bridge and that accident brought me to you, the one I was looking for my whole life.'
Richard smiled at her and kissed her.
As they were walking back they walked past a playground where Marika spotted the little girl she met yesterday.
She saw 2 boys and one was holding the pendant she had given to her.
Marika whispered to Richard, 'I met her yesterday, she is my other soul who I released back then.'
Richard looked at the little girl who strangely looked so alike to his wife.
'Give it back to me!'
"Why would I, it's mine now! You don't deserve such a pretty thing, your ugly."
The little girl was so angry and she charged at the boy and toppled him over.
'Give it back! It was a present from my sister!'
Richard looked at Marika "Didn't you say she left you with all your memories? So she shouldn't remember you."
Marika nodded 'That's true but, I told her; please be happy in your new life. And if someone bothers you just beat them up. Your stronger than you think. And she told me too be happy and live my life to the fullest. And not to be afraid to love someone.'
'Yesterday she said to me she was upholding my words, and asked me if I did the same thing.'
As they were watching the little girl fight to get her necklace back Marika looked very proud. And then walked up to the little girl.
The boy who was beaten by the little girl saw Marika coming up to them and was in shock "How come there is a fairy here?"
Marika crouched down and hugged the little girl 'I see my little sister toughed that bully a lesson, good girl.'
Marika then looked at the boy 'You call me a fairy, but you call my little sister ugly. Just you wait until she is my age. She'll be so pretty that you can only dream of having her as your girlfriend.'
'Now leave and don't bully my little sister again.' Marika said in a firm voice.
The boys took off and looked back once and suddenly see Richard standing next to Marika.
'As you can see I'm also upholding your words. This is my husband Richard.'
The little girl smiled at him 'You better take very good care of her, because I will come and beat you up if you make her cry.'
Richard chuckled "You two are so alike."
'That's because were sisters.'
Marika patted the little girls head. 'Where is your father?'
'Daddy is at home and not feeling so well, I was on my way to get some medicine when those bully came.'
'Let's go to your daddy, I have some medicine with me so you don't have to go to town to get it.'
Marika and Richard fallowed the little girl and arrived at her home.
Marika went to the room were the little girl's father was.
'We meet again.' Marika smiled at the man.
The man saw Marika and sat up on his bed while coughing.
"How come you're here?"
'I saw Marika on my way to town but she was bullied by some kids. After that she told me you were sick and she was on her way to get some medicine for you.'
"It's nothing really… just a cold."
Marika looked at the man. 'It's not just a cold, if you keep this up little Marika wil be an orphan in just 5 years.'
Marika written down a complete diet plan for him and gave him some medicine for his current cold.
'When your cold is cured you take these 10 pills for the next 10 days and fallow this diet strictly, I also leave you some herbal tea. I'll teach Marika how to make it and when your better she can teach you.'
"Are you a doctor?"
'No…but your health issue is the same as an old friend of mine had. But he reached the age of 80 years because of the help of doctors and me.'
"If…if I die before my daughter is an adult would you be so kind as to take her in? I don't have any family and the family on her mother side doesn't accept her as a family member."
'You better not throw the tower in the ring that easily, like I said before my friend lived all the way till his 80th.'
The man nodded and thanked Marika
*knock* *knock*
Marika opened the door and saw the little girl and Richard standing with some light food and tea.
The little girl and Richard served the and food.
'Marika could you come with me for a bit? I'm going to teach you that will help your fathers health and when he is better you teach him how to do it.'
The little girl asked Marika 'Did you teach your husband how to cook?'
'I did.'
'He is really good, he mad something for me and it was very delicious, can I become as good as you two?'
'Sure you can, but you need to practice a lot.' Marika smiled at the little girl.
As Marika and the little girl had left the room, Richard sat down.
And started to call Luca, he showed what medicine Marika left the man.
"Hmm, I need to talk to the patient for a bit."
Richard placed the magic circle in front of the man.
Luca started to ask the man when he stated to have symptoms and if he had seen a doctor yet.
The man answered all his questions.
Luca then asked the man "Did my sister gave you a diet plan?"
The man nodded and showed it to him.
"Well if you stick to it she is indeed right you can live to way past your 80th, but I do advice you to see a specialist from time to time."
"And since you are in early stage of a heart disease, the early you get treated the better."
Luca then ended the call.
The man then asked Richard "Is he a doctor?"
"He is…"
"So that's why your wife is so knowledgeable."
Richard shook his head "It's because a neighbor and dear friend of hers also had a heart disease and she just acquired the knowledge because she spoke to his doctors from time to time. Everything from diet to herbal medicine… Because of him she created what you have lying there."
"But as you have seen we are not from this world, asking her to take care of your daughter if you may die before she is an adult means she has to stay in the human world, because your daughter can't handle the travel to our world."
"I know I'm asking a lot, but still…my daughter seems to like her a lot and I feel at ease knowing she will be in good hands."
Richard looked at the man "Well as long as my wife is happy and wants to take care of your daughter and adopt her as her own I don't have any objections about that. But still my wife is right you better not give up so easily, because my wife is well versed in how one feels losing parent's in the early years of life."
Then man looked at Richard determined, "I'm not planning on giving up so easily, because I have no intention of leaving my daughter, and it's every parent's responsibility to teach and make sure there children grow up safely and healthy."
Richard nodded to man.
After a while Marika and the little girl came to the room again.
Richard stood up from the chair and moved it closer to the bed so the little girl could sit closer to her father.
'Daddy! Big sister taught me how to make you tea and she also cooked a lot of food for us, because she said you need to stay in bed for a few more days.'
The man looked at Marika "Thank you so much, for helping us like this."
Marika smiled at the man 'I would never understand how hard it is to be a single parent because I have my husband next to me. But if I can help out so you have the chance to recover than it's nothing.'
The man looked at Marika and then to his daughter.
"Marika if there comes a day that something bad will happen to daddy and it will cause you to never see me again before you're an adult, would you mind if big sister and her husband raise you in my stead?"
The little girl looked at her father 'I don't mind because I like big sister and big brother.'
'But daddy won't leave me any time soon so… if big sister and big brother can come and visit us that would be great too.'
The man patted his daughters head.
"Your right daddy isn't planning on leaving you any time soon, but daddy wants to make sure you have people to turn to if that would happen."
The little girl smiled and nodded.
Marika then told them that it was time for them to leave.
Marika hugged the little girl 'Be good and remember what I taught you about those bullies.'
The girl smiled and gave Marika a big hug.
Marika then turned to the man 'Take good care of yourself and I will come visit again to check up on your health in a few years.'
Marika gave the man a hug and she suddenly felt a familiar warmth, the man whispered something to Marika and Marika nodded she also whispered something to him and let go.
The little girl then showed them out and said, 'Thank you bid sister and brother. I will take very good care of daddy, come and visit us again soon.'
Marika and Richard wave the girl goodbye.
Richard looked at Marika and asked "Are you sad?"
Marika shook her head, 'I'm happy that Mr. Harry's wish got granted.'
Richard looked at Marika "What do you mean?"
'He once told me he wished that he would like to have a daughter just like me in his next life.'
"Then what did he say to you?"
'He said he was glade so see that I have a wonderful husband who truly loves me.' Marika smiled.
"What did you say to him?"
'That they should look out the window and look to hill.'
Richard got the gist of what she was planning and smiled at her.
When they both reached the top of the hill they transformed
The man and his daughter looked outside when they heard the roar.
In the shimmer they saw two dragon shadows with their wings spread bowing to each other.
After a final roar of both Marika and Richard took off to the sky.
'Daddy did those two dragons came and pick up big sister and big brother?'
The man shook his head "Sweetie those two dragons are your big sister and big brother."
'Really!? The eyes of the girl sparked 'They are so beautiful.'
The man smiled "They sure are."
Marika and Richard arrived back at the main house and Richard pulled Marika in his arms.
"Thank you for showing me around and talked about how you came to me."
'Well your my husband and you're the only one who knows where it all happened.'
'I tell you one more little secret, the reason I like to travel was because I was searching for a way to get to your world and find you.' Marika smiled at Richard.
"You were searching all this time for me?"
Marika nodded.
"But didn't your journey ended when you found me?"
Marika shook her head.
'Now that I found you an new journey has started for me and one that has you next to me.'
Marika kissed Richard passionately.
'And even if this life ends I will search for you again in my next life, because I will always yearn for you.'
Richard picked up Marika and carried her in side.
Her confession light a fire in his heard, but he tenderly held her and gently made love to her.
[Next day]
Richard woke up with Marika in his arms, and gently stroke her head.
He felt reassured that she would never leave him and even if it were the case she would look for him again, because he was the only one she would ever want in this life or the next.
Marika slowly woke up and kissed Richard 'Good morning darling.'
"Good morning my love."
Marika asked him 'What do you want to do today?'
"I want to stay like this the whole day"
'Why not…I like the idea of lazing all day.'
Richard laughed a little "But we still need to eat."
Marika teased him 'Alright I'll eat you for breakfast, you can eat me for lunch.'
"What about dinner?" Richard asked her.
'We eat each other.' Marika smiled and kissed him.
'Richard shall we make a promise?'
"And what will that be?"
'Whenever we have a day for our self's over there, let's spend it here.'
Richard kissed her, "That sounds good to me, it's a promise."
[ Moon Castle]
Everybody was busy preparing for the festival and Marika's stay at the castle.
Dantis returned to castle and saw everybody being busy. He asked one of the servants what was going on.
"We are preparing for Her Majesty's stay during the Moon Festival. But we don't know what to do or prepare." The servant said to Dantis.
Dantis sighed and asked William to bring Kevin and Dante over.
As the two of them arrived Dantis then said "Could you please help the servant's out because they are clueless when it comes to your sister's liking's."
The servant's looked at them with pleading eyes.
"Well don't stress about it too much, I doubt you need to prepare anything." Kevin said.
"He is right, she will probably stay in His Majesty's room."
"But just in case you guys could prepare a room next to His Majesty's that would be more than enough as for her liking's just keep it simple and light." Dante explained.
"Do we need to prepare any cloths for her?"
"That won't be necessary, she'll bring her own. She hates to wear dresses and only wear one if there are any formalities she need to attend." Kevin said.
'How about we make His Majesty's room spring theme and Her Majesty summer theme, both are light and fresh.' A maid said.
"But His Majesty room is dark in color how are you going to pull that off?"
'You man are too simple minded and only see abstract.'
Dante was thinking "How about you make it like a night of spring in His Majesty room. Some flowers and well placed candles are all you need."
'See even His Highness Dante know how to decorate a room as dark as His Majesty.'
The servant's bowed to them and thanked them for the advice.
Khai, Regina and Nova were in Richard study to finish up the last part of the plan for saving there mommy. All three had achieved and grown so much in their inner energy and now even Regina and Nova could both transform in to a human form.
Suddenly a man came in to the office and Khai, Nova and Regina guarded up.
"Mister you're not allowed here when His Majesty is out." Khai said to the man.
"Then why are you 3 children in here hmm…"
'We are her to organize the work for His Majesty for when he returns.' Regina said to the man.
The man got angry and slapped Regina. "You three get out of here! This is no play room for children."
Khai went to his sister and healed her bruised face.
When the man saw this he pulled a knife from his pocked and stabbed Khai.
"A monster like you should just die!"
"Guard!" Nova yelled for the guard to come.
"Don't worry brother." Khai started to heal himself. "But I will need mom to come home soon."
Nova yelled again for the guard, William heard the commotion and went to Richards office, together with a few guards they came in to room to see what was going on.
He saw Khai was in bad shape.
Marika and Richard were making lunch when Marika dropped a plate.
"Sweetheart?" Richard turned around and saw a frantic look on Marika's face.
'William!'
Richard remembered the last time Marika had that expression on her face, it was when Chase got stabbed.
"Sweetie go get your black bag, we are going home I'll call for William."
Marika rushed out of the kitchen and went to their room to get her black bag.
When she came back she saw William coming through the portal and pushed him a side and rushed through it.
When she arrived she saw her children and that Khai was in very bad shape.
'Khai mommy is here, what happened?'
Richard and William also arrived.
Khai pointed at the man "He came in dad's office and we told him he could not be here. He hit Regina and when I was healing her bruise he stabbed me in the back. I couldn't heal my wound very well because I can't reach it that well."
Marika told Khai to turn around.
And saw a deep half healed wound on his back.
Marika walked over to the 3 guards who had the man detained and took the knife from the third guard.
Marika may looked calm on the surface but everybody could feel her killing intent.
Marika checked if there was poison on it.
Genus also came in to the room and said to Marika it had an anesthetic on it and he could sleep it off no matter which form he took.
Marika whispered a few word and Richard pulled his sword and killed the man who was detained by the guards.
"Take him away and don't cover him up, I want everybody to see, that when they hurt any of my children or my wife this will be the result." Richard said in an extreme cold voice.
Marika was healing Khai, Regina and Nova were sitting next to Marika.
Richard walked over to them and saw Marika had already healed Khai but was caressing his head and silently crying.
"Everybody leave this room." Richard said in an ice cold tone.
Everybody left and Richard asked Marika "What are you planning to do?"
'Nothing for now, but…'
'Mommy?'
Marika looked at Regina and smiled 'You're so pretty.'
Marika then looked at Nova and saw his human form was the same as when she saw him in Ignis temple. 'You're so handsome.'
She hugged them both. 'You have grown so much when I wasn't around.'
Tears kept falling from her eyes.
'Mommy when brother Khai wakes up we will go to The Forest of Eternal Night.' Regina said to Marika.
'We will be staying at the small cottage and train even more.'
Marika nodded.
'When you go, we go to Faber Village and pick up Consilium he'll be staying with you guys and protect you until he breath's out his last breath. Agrius and Ferox promised me they would escort you guy.'
Nova and Regina hugged their mother.
'Richard how long can that women stay in Ignis?'
"For a few months, I managed to arrange it so there will be no problems."
Marika smiled 'Good, I'm not in a hurry anyway and I'll let Lenis know that he can torture that women all he wants for the time being.'
Richard picked up Khai and said to Marika "Let's go to mansion for now."
Marika nodded.
William came in and saw Marika had calmed down. He walk over to her and whispered something to her.
'Oh my, oh my, thank you William for letting me know.'
William opened a portal to the mansion and Marika said before she went through, 'Sorry I was so rough earlier I'll make it up to you later.'
When they arrived Derick was there to welcome them home.
Marika hugged her father and asked if Luca was home.
Derick nodded and she went up to his room.
Marika walked in to his room and saw Lenis sitting there and having a checkup.
Luca saw from Marika's eyes something really bad had happened and she needed to talk.
'Lenis, why don't you go to Ignis. Richard arranged that women can stay there for a few months, so why don't you go there and exact your revenge, just don't kill her.'
"Sis can you really wait for that long?" Luca asked.
'Sure I can, as long as I'm not near her I'm fine and Lenis also has the right to torture her for what she has done to him.'
Lenis gave her a hug "Thank you Marika."
'How is your health?'
"His repertory infection is gone and his liver infection should also be gone in 6 months if he keeps up with his diet and prescription." Luca said to Marika.
'That's good.' Marika smiled.
'Lenis could you stay with kids for a little bit? I need to talk to Luca.'
Lenis nodded and went over to Richards room.
Marika let go of her mask and Luca could see how shaken up his sister really was.
Richard entered the room and pulled Marika in his arms.
Luca notices that Richard was also trembling. He wondered what had happened that made this man who was calm and composed tremble like this.
'He almost died today, if I were even a minute later and if he didn't heal half of his wound, he would have died.' Marika cried.
Luca saw how upset she was and knew he wouldn't be able to get a sensible explanation from her so he looked at Richard.
"What happened?" he ask him.
Richard told Luca what had happened when they were making lunch in and that Marika suddenly dropped a plate and had a frantic look on her face. After that she yelled for William.
"When I saw the look on her face I knew something was terribly wrong with Khai."
"I told her to grab her black bag and I called for William."
"When he arrived she just pushed William to the side and ran through the portal."
"After that she was totally calm and asked Khai what had happened."
"He told her a man came in to my office and they told the man he should leave and could not be in there while I was away."
"He told her the man slapped Regina and when Khai was healing her he got stabbed in the back by the man."
"Khai managed to heal half of his wound…but for what I could see the unhealed part was very deep and he could have died if he didn't do what he did."
"Luckily the knife contain an anesthetic and not poison."
"Marika healed the other half of the wound and Genus told her that Khai could just sleep of the anesthetic."
"Marika then whisper; No mercy."
"I drew my sword and killed him and told the guard to just drag the body away and not cover it up. So the one who was behind it could see the consequence if they dare to harm her or our children."
Luca had listen to the story and saw them both were still shaken up.
"Why don't you two go to Khai and stay with him until he wakes up."
Richard nodded.
Marika looked at her brother, and saw what he was thinking and said. 'A snake will always be jealous of a dragon, because they know they never can become a dragon, no matter how hard they try.'
Richard took Marika to his room where Khai, Regina and Nova were.
When they arrived the were met with a hug.
'Kids could you go down stairs and ask Derick to make something light to eat and a soup? Your dad and I haven't eaten anything so…'
Regina and Nova nodded and left the room.
Marika went over to Khai and checked on him, Lenis was sitting next to him watching over him.
'Thank you Lenis for watching him.'
Lenis looked at Marika and saw how exhausted she was.
'Lenis my brother is going to do something foolish because he learned what happened, could you please take him to Ignis for me and let him discus with uncle Cillus on the best course of action.'
Lenis nodded and said "Let me know when Khai is awake."
Marika smiled 'I will, have fun exacting your revenge when your there.'