Richard arrived and saw Marika was agitated.
He gave her a hug and a kiss, "William has filled me in, but I have to say they are getting to bold."
'No kidding, I was this close to lose my temper and just rush out there and kill them.'
Richard then spotted eagle on Marika's shoulder.
"I see you have a cute little bird on your shoulder."
Richard petted the eagle.
'Well that's because Sky came to seek my help again, he brought six young eagle over in search fo a Master, so I gave one to Luca, Aron, uncle Cillus, Canus, Cinis and she is with me.'
"And what is her name?"
'Her name is Aura, she reminded me of Lenis and Ivy.'
'She looks so timid and weak, but with some proper guidance she will become a great and strong girl.'
Richard stretched out his hand to Aura and Aura walked over and sit on his arm.
"Aura let me tell you something good about your Master, where others see you as weak and not becoming something great. Your owner sees you as someone who has potential and she will help you to become the best you can be."
Richard whistle and his eagle came to the window.
"Felix meet Aura, starting today she will be Yumaria's support. You help her out and teach her."
"Aura, if you are unsure find Felix he can help you."
Aura nuzzled Richard and then Felix and she went back to Marika.
There was a knock on the door "Your Majesty I brought over the guest."
'Enter'
Eight wolfs entered the room and Marika asked in a whisper to Richard 'Is the clan head also present?'
Richard nodded.
"Noir you traitor! Why are you here?"
"You swore your loyalty to The Moon King, but you even dare to go to her when she calls for you!
Spike wanted to speak up but Marika stopped him.
'Richard call for him.'
"Agito!"
Agito appeared "What is it?" As he showed affection to Marika.
'As you can see, Agito is my familiar, but he will come even if Richard calls for him.'
'I don't see that as disloyalty.'
'Noir was given the task to watch over me and protect me by his Master meaning that he should come to me if and when I call for him.'
'So if he refuses that order…now that would be showing disloyalty, don't you think?'
'But Agito isn't my only familiar… Am I right Spike?'
Spike walked over to Marika and laid his head on her lap.
'Although me and Spike had a bad first meeting, he genuinely feared for my life two days ago, because I had to bring back Noir from the brink of death.'
'And Spike aside, how was Noir going to explain himself to The Moon King if something bad happen to me?'
'Hand them over…in your dreams, or do you wish me dead?'
The clan head started to speak.
"Leave Spike and get Noir"
Marika's eyes flew in rage and Richard pulled his sword.
"Sweetie don't worry, they won't get him."
"You know what Queen Yumaria said is all true. Noir was ordered by me to keep an eye on her, and help her when she is in trouble. Even if that means she calls out to him."
"You dare to speak of disloyalty and betrayal. Seems you need to look in the mirror, because I see disloyalty and betrayal right now, right in front of me."
"MOM!!" Caelum came flying, in a panic.
When he landed he transform in to his human for.
Mom, there is trouble on the mountain, The Sky Cloud Clan!
Marika looked at Canus.
'After you cut of the arm of the head of the clan you send him back right?'
"I did."
'And you did tell the whole clan that if they set foot on my land unannounced they would be killed.'
Canus nodded.
Marika sighed in annoying's.
'Caelum, how many are there and is the clan head with them?'
"There are around 75 of them including the head of the clan."
'Alright.'
Marika made a call to Cillus and explained what was going one, 'I'm sorry uncle Cillus, but I can't let this slide. I'll kill them for trespassing and for endangering my people.'
"It's alright Mari just send the body's back to me and I'll handle the rest."
'Thank you uncle Cillus.'
Marika ended the call. 'Let's go Canus, we have permission from your father to spill their blood.'
Marika then casted a massive chaining spell on The Night Wolf Clan.
'Darling, I'll give you a call when I arrived, and in the meantime you enlighten them what happens when you touch my friends, family and my people.'
Richard gave her a kiss "I will my love."
'Agito, if any of these bastard touches Spike or Noir, kill them.'
"Yes Marika."
Marika then left with Canus and Caelum.
Richard sat down in Marika's chair, "You also almost killed my fiance. Maybe I should just wipe you all out of existence."
"Well I hope you all survive when she gets back. Not only did you almost kill the ones she holds dear. But your also trespassing on her lands, what can also result in your deaths."
"But Your Majesty… Your engage to The Queen, so aren't…"
"Ohh shut up!" Agito hissed at them, "Just because they are engaged doesn't mean their marry, and she didn't announce she opened her borders to The Moon Kingdom for anybody to freely come in to this country."
"That's why you dogs are so stupid, you directly assume things without even bother to check or confirm your assumptions."
Richard smiled at Agito and petted him, "You are right."
Richard received a video call from Marika
"Now let's watch a little show shall we?"
[Mystic Mountain]
Marika landed but it was eerily quiet.
'Where is everybody?' She asked Caelum.
"The people were all rounded up and brought to the main hall of the clan heads house."
'That's problematic…'
"Sister why not try to make a diversion and try to lure out most of the forces?"
'And how do you want to do that?'
Canus pointed at a patrol. "Let them call for help"
'Alright but you take care of that and I sneak past by them and head in side. I calculate roughly 37 of those idiots are for you to kill and 37 for me. Can you handle that number on your own?'
Canus gave her a thumbs up "No problem."
Marika patted Canus on the shoulder and smiled 'Well enjoy yourself.'
Canus came out of hiding an charged at the patrol.
"Intruder!!!"
More of the Sky Cloud Clan came out side but were only met with their death.
Marika went inside and hid in the dark to assessed everything and saw the people were shoved in a corner.
She saw Solis was beaten up and Sophos was also not in a good state. Her anger raised to the max and she let out her killing intent.
This was noticed by the people of the Sky Cloud Clan and started to get nervous.
Marika casted a spell and pulled out a bow.
She first aimed for the ones who were guarding the hostage. And shoot them one by one.
This made the rest confused and the head of the clan started to yell, "Show yourself!"
Marika didn't listen nor responded to his yelling. She systematically started to shoot down the enemy and the people of the Mystic Mountain Clan started to flee through the back of the hall. Solis noticed what was going on and said, "It seems that my mom and Queen has heard of your unannounced arrival. I don't think you all will go back alive."
"Shut up!" And Solis was hit by the head of Sky Cloud Clan.
Marika whispered to Caelum to evacuate everybody to the cave.
"Mom…"
'Don't worry, you all will be safe there and they can't pass your fathers barrier.' As pointed at her spell.
Caelum gave her a hug. "Be safe mom."
'I will and don't forget Canus is near so I'll be fine.'
Caelum left and brought all the people to the cave below.
Marika looked outside and saw Canus was done on his end.
Marika came out of the dark and said in a loud voice 'Canus are you done playing outside!?'
Canus came walking inside "My dear sister, did you play with your bow?"
'Of course, I still have guest at home so I can't get dirty now, can I?'
The head of the Sky Cloud Clan saw Canus walking in side and started to get nervous.
"Your…Your Highness, why are you here?"
"Humm, I was visiting my sister, because she had a present for me, my father and brother."
"And then I found out that you and your clan were here and causing problems for my sister and The Queen of Virtus et Caeruleus Viridi."
"Seems that not only do you ignore Her Majesty's words, you even ignore the fact you lost your arm because you dare to slap her."
"But it seems that you also ignore words of the Crown Prince of Ignis."
Marika walked over to Solis and Sophos.
Marika placed her hand on Solis cheek and looked very sad. 'I'm so sorry Solis, this happened all because of me.'
"Mom don't blame yourself, because I don't blame you for it."
'Did they use any poison on you or Sophos?'
Solis shook his head.
Marika healed Solis and Sophos.
'Canus you take these two out of here.' Marika had a very cold an dangerous look on her face.
Canus took Solis and Sophos outside and heard the screams of the people who were getting killed by Marika.
'So it seems you have a death wish…'
Marika swung her sword and aimed for his legs, what made the clan head fell to the ground.
'Well that's fine by me.' And she shrugged her shoulders.
"You arrogant little bitch!, You'll pay for this!"
'Hmm… I pay for this? I don't see how, because you and your clan fully knew that setting foot in my Kingdom without notifying me would result in your death.'
The clan head got infuriated "If it weren't for you! This land and the people in it would be under the control of our clan and the Mountain River Clan!"
Marika crouched down and said 'Well that's the problem with you greedy bastards. You see me as evil because I want to uphold peace and justice, I'm an malignant thorn in your greed.'
Marika whispered something to the man and stood up and patted his shoulder.
The clan head looked horrified, after Marika's words.
'I told you once before, hit me and I'll hit back, attack me and I'll attack back, try to kill me…'
Marika swinger her sword and decapitated the man.
'…and your dead.'
Marika took a deep breath because she felt like she needed to control her emotions.
She made a call to king Cillus to let him know everything was over.
'Hello uncle Cillus, I'm done here, but I have no idea how to transport all these dead body's to you.'
"Don't worry Mari I already send a clean-up crew to you."
'Thank you uncle.' Marika smiled at him.
She ended the call with him and then then said to Richard 'I need to arrange a few things here and then I'm coming home.'
"Alright sweetheart, see you soon."
Marika ended the call with Richard and walked outside.
Marika came outside and saw Canus, Solis and Sophos were waiting for her.
Solis came up to her and hugged her.
"Mom are you alright?"
Marika nodded, 'I'm fine, but I fear something like this will happen again, all because of me.'
Marika looked a little sad.
"You're not to blame here, this would have happened sooner or later." Sophos said to Marika.
'But still…'
'Solis go tell your brother and the others that's it's safe again.'
Solis left for the cave and looked back at his mother, because for some reason he felt that she would fall apart any moment.
Marika told Sophos that there were people of Ignis coming up here and help retrieve the bodies of the death.
Just when Marika was done talking to Sophos; Solis, Caelum and everybody from the clan arrived.
Marika turn around 'Anybody injured, sick or poisoned?'
"Mom??"
Marika looked at Caelum 'I won't overdo it, I promise.'
'And it seems you already used up most of your energy healing people.'
Marika gave Caelum something to restore his energy.
Solis whispered to Caelum, "Let her be and just keep an eye on her. She feels guilty about what had just happened and she is blaming herself."
Caelum sighed "Fine…"
Marika started to treat the injured and after that the sick.
An elderly man saw that Marika felt responsible for the event's that just had happened.
"Child, you are not to blame for this."
'But…'
"We all feel blessed to have a Queen like yourself. You never hesitate and when your people are in trouble you fly over and rescue them."
A few other clan members heard the old man talking and also came over.
'He is right my dear, you came to our aid. And now you even treat our wounds and provided the sick with medicine.'
"This was bound to happen sooner or later."
'And you even take the time to treat us.'
'Of course I would, you all are precious to me.' Marika said to everybody.
"Then stop blaming yourself, conflicts will happen throughout life and that is sometimes unavoidable. You can't always prevent events from happening."
'You saved us, and nobody got seriously injured.'
"So be proud of yourself."
Marika smiled, 'Thank you.'
'Just know that you are love by us my dear.'
"You are a good Queen and a great mother, don't ever forget that."
Marika nodded again.
When Marika was done with the treatment of everybody the clean-up crew arrived.
'Princes, by the orders of His Majesty we are here to retrieve the dead bodies of The Sky Cloud Clan.'
'We were also instructed to clean and repair any buildings that suffered from this attack.'
'Thank you, I really appreciated it.' Marika said.
'We also have a message from our king to the head of The Mystic Mountain Clan.'
Sophos came over.
'His Majesty words were; If a situation like this happens in the future, may it be the Sky Cloud Clan or any other clan, and Her Majesty is not around, you can always call up on the Black Dragon Clan and I'll send my son Canus over for support.'
'Pfft.' Marika wanted to laugh but she kept it in.'
"Finally my father…wait…"
'Congratulation my brother of the battle field, you officially became an ambassador.'
Everybody of The Mystic Mountain clan started to laugh.
"Well it's an honor to us to have such a capable bloodthirsty ambassador who is just like our Queen."
"Well I won't complain, if there is blood that needs to be spilled than that's fine. Anything to protect the country of my friend and my sister of the battle field."
The clean-up crew started with their task and the clan people helped them out.
'Caelum could you come here for a minute?'
Caelum walk over to Marika "What is it mom?"
Marika gave Caelum a black bag, 'Everything you possibly need is in here, including a written book about diseases and there symptoms, and which medicine to use. All the medicine is labeled so you can't give the wrong medicine.'
'If you feel unsure just let me know and I'll come over, if you run out of medicine let me know and I'll deliver new once.'
Caelum nodded and hugged Marika.
'Take care of yourself and I'll come and visit you guys and see how everything is going.'
Marika bid her goodbyes to everybody and flew back to her palace.
"Are you alright sister?" Canus asked her.
'Just a little tired that's all, but the Sanguis are really getting om my nerves.'
"You mean they are influencing the tribes of other counties, in order to let us fight each other?"
Marika nodded 'To be honest Ignis, Lunae Lumen, Virtus et Caeruleus Viridi, are allied now, but Reinel Sanguis thinks that we could attack Cruentus anytime because Ray is neutral towards us.'
'But in the long run this situation will turn on him and what he fears will happen, and because The Night Wolf Clan is here and The Sky Cloud Clan tried to take over The Mystic Mountain Clan, Reinel hopes I turn on you guys what could cost me my life and that of the people.'
"So Reinel planned that The Snake Clan would distract us, so The Sky Cloud Clan could make a move on The Mystic Mountain Clan. And he used The Night Wolf Clan to create friction on you and Richard so the whole engagement would be canceled and put a strain on your alliance with us and him."
'Something along those lines, yes. But the idiot that Reinel is… He still hasn't figured out after our meeting on Mystic Mountain that I and Ray are working together to take down the whole Sanguis family accept for Arthur.'
"So the warning and treat you gave the vampires, that you would take them all down and wiped them out of existent's…"
'Yep, Ray knows I wouldn't do that but it was also my final warning, and Ray knows if there will be one more incident he can evacuate all the people and I will massacre everybody of the Sanguis family.'
'And you are coming with me.'
"Sure Mari, no problem… ever since you came, my life is less boring and you let me torture a lot of people, I'm so blessed to have a sister like you."
Marika giggled 'It's not so bad to have a friend and brother like you either.'
Marika arrived at her office and gave Richard a hug and a kiss.
She then sat down on his lap.
"Are you alright sweetheart?"
'No I'm not.'
"You look very tired my love."
Marika nodded and dispelled the massive chaining spell
'I kept up a massive chaining spell, and a communication spell. On top of that, I had to cast a second communication spell, healed the clan head and our son, and healed the rest of the injured people because our second son was out of energy.'
'And he kept a close eye on me because he feared I would end up like I did the day before yesterday.'
Marika then turned around and looked at The Night Wolf Clan.
'As for your punishment about falsely accusing Noir of betrayal, I'll leave that up to my husband.'
'As for coming to my country without any form of notification, I'll let you off with a warning this time.'
'Do not enter my country without notifying me first, if you do, your dead.'
'Noir and Spike, they will be staying here in Virtus et Caeruleus Viridi.'
'Now get out of my palace.'
Richard gestured to Marika that he was going to stand up, and Marika stood up from his lap.
"Sweetheart, take a nap. You have exhausted yourself."
Marika nodded.
William opened a portal so The Night Wolf Clan could leave.
Marika then sat down in her chair spoke in a cold voice. 'I advise you to stop colluding with Reinel Sanguis.'
'Because I will put the whole Sanguis family in their graves very soon.'
'And if you don't believe me, just keep your eyes on The Snake Clan, because they are the first who will be wiped out.'
'If you don't heed my words, then you're the ones who betrayed your king, and do not come to me for help.'
Richard looked at Marika but did not say a word.
"Make sure she doesn't get disturbed." Richard said to Canus.
Canus nodded.
Richard gave Marika a kiss, "Take a good rest sweetheart."
When Richard had left Marika leaned her head on the desk an sighed a very big sigh.
"Sis if you want to take a nap go lay down on the couch."
Canus lead Marika to the couch and Dante came in with a blanked.
Marika then fell asleep.
[Moon Castle]
Richard was in the audience room with The Night Wolf Clan and he looked very cold at them.
Dantis couldn't remember the last time Richard looked so cold and annoyed.
"Maybe I should just kill you all." Richard then spoke.
"But Your Majesty, we of The Night Wolf Clan have been loyal to the Royal family since the establishment of this kingdom."
Richard knew they would play it that way so he thought of something.
"You and your clan shall be confined in your territory and are not allowed to have any contact with anybody outside of your clan. Any communication to other clans needs to be reported to me."
Dantis was surprised by Richard way of handling this situation. Instead of locking them up he used the same method on them that Marika uses to protect her country.
"You can all leave."
They bowed to Richard and left the room.
"Dantis make sure there are soldiers at their territory to keep an close eye on them and enforce my words."
"Your Majesty, Why did you use this method?"
Richard smiled "Well my wife is very clever, although she use this method to protect her people and has control over who comes and leaves. It can also be used as a form of grounding them and cut them off."
"But what she said before we left made me suspicious and question their loyalty."
"What did she say?"
"She said; I advise you to stop colluding with Reinel Sanguis."
"She also mention; if you don't believe me, just keep your eyes on The Snake Clan, because they are the first who will be wiped out."
"I think she has already figured out what's going on and she already estimated there next moves."
"I only hope that nothing will go wrong until she gets her Magic back."
"While I do hope that everything stays calm until then, we better have our guards up until she has her magic back. I think for now with the defeat of The Sky Cloud Clan and the heavy surveillance on The Night Wolf Clan, it would be unwise to attack again anytime soon."
Richard nodded.
"Now first let's focus what your engagement banquet." Dantis said.
Richard chuckled a little "She is going to feel so bored and annoyed with all those nobles there."
"If she behaves she can party with the soldiers next day" Dantis said.
"Yeh she did promise them to have a meal with them after the Moon Festival." Richard smiled.
[Ignis Kingdom]
Luca was observing Lenis in the dungeon and saw Lenis was venting everything out. Even though Lenis was a boy who was timid most of the time, he could see that thanks to his sister he had grown a lot more confident.
Luca saw Lenis was about to snap and rushed over.
"Lenis…you know you can't kill her."
"Luca? Why are you here?"
"Well that's because Canus was a bit worried about you since this is your first time torturing somebody."
"And my sister send me here to check on you."
The women laughed at them 'Well if it isn't the first prince of Virtus et Caeruleus Viridi.'
Luca ignored the women.
"Come with me Lenis, I'll give you a crash course on how to torture somebody."
"And tomorrow you can put that knowledge in to practice."
Lenis nodded.
'A look at you you're so obedient, just like the dog you are.'
Luca told Lenis to ignore her.
As they left the women's cell they came across Cinis.
Lenis looked inside and whispered to Luca "I have seen Canus torture methods before…But I never knew that Cinis could be just as cruel and savage as his younger brother."
Luca smiled "Well people like Cinis may look calm on the surface, but when they are angered they can explode and those types of people are the most dangerous there are." Luca whispered back.
As they just came out of the dungeon Luca asked Lenis "Do you by chance know what he did to my sister?"
"Canus told me that Marika nearly died 11 times in his hands when she was just a 5 year old child."
"And she told Canus to let that man almost die once a day for 11 days."
Lenis looked at Luca.
"Well good for him to experience the same pain she had felt, anybody will wish for death after a few days. Let's hope his last day will be an agonizing one." He said playfully
Luca and Lenis enter the room where he was staying.
"So you're staying in sisters room?"
"Yes, it's to protect me from possible harm while I'm here."
Luca smiled and the thought that this idea would have come from Cillus.
Luca sat down.
"So Lenis lets first talk about your experience in that place."
Lenis didn't say a word.
"Are you afraid to talk about it?"
Lenis nodded.
"Why?"
"I don't want remember it anymore."
Luca could see the same fear, he saw in his sister the day she talked about it.
"Lenis…you may not know this, but when my sister was ready to talk about it she knew very well that she would breakdown and would show us her most vulnerable side of her."
"Even though she is so strong and calm there are things that can make her fear like anybody else, and I don't mean this incident alone, when she was back in the human world and her son Khai got stabbed, I could clearly see the fear on both her and Richard, they were afraid to lose their child that day."
"Being afraid is not something to be embarrassed about, even if you may look weak when you're afraid, it doesn't mean you can't overcome it and become stronger."
Lenis took a deep breath and started to talk about what they did to him, How they took out his eyes and modified them with shards of a crystal.
"They asked me what I could see, I told them I couldn't see anything."
"I had no idea on how much time had passed, but my eye sight slowly started to recover."
"But it strained on my vampire ability to regenerate and recovery ability."
"I was pretty much dying."
"Then at some point I heard a girl yelling and bashing on the door."
"I looked up to see where the it came from."
"I think she noticed my movements and came up to me."
"I remembered she had a concerned look on her face and said; how horrible, how could they do this to s child."
"She told me not to worry and she would heal me."
"When she was healing me I could feel a sense of warmth."
"She then looked up and told me that there were people coming so she stopped healing me."
"She then smiled at me, she told me where she lived and when I got out of this place I should come and find her."
"She started to yell and bash at the door again. But when she bashed at it for the 4th time two man came in and took her away."
"She put up a fight but they shot her with some kind of medicine and she was dragged out of the room."
"The word she spoke to me before the door closed were soundless, but she said come and find me no matter what."
"Time paste by and I heard they dropped of the girl back to where she was taken, and that by the time she woke up, she would have the sense she had a nightmare.
"Not long after that, there was a commotion and I waited a few minutes till it all got silent, I looked at the door she had bashed in to and saw the hinges were badly damaged and I bashed at it with all my strength and the door came down."
"I escaped by running as fast as I could."
"I ran in to a group of man who identified them self's as The Green Peace Keepers, and they showed me the way out."
"When I was finally outside, I was handed over to a couple of nurses and a doctor. The doctor told me I was lucky that I was even alive. I told him that I heard that somebody healed me but was taken away shortly after. But I told him that I didn't know who it was or what the person looked like."
"I asked him to bring me a mirror, and when I saw my reflection I was shocked, and asked them who the person in the mirror was? They told me that that was me. I was so shock that I didn't look like a twelve year old boy and the eyes I saw weren't my eyes."
"I asked them where I was now but they didn't say anything."
"I told them if they could bring me to the place the girl mentioned or close by was good enough."
"The doctor looked at me strangely, and asked me why they should drop me of there. I told him that I had a relative living in that area, and he didn't ask any further."
"I spend a year up there to rehabilitate and recover, When I finally was healthy they dropped me off. And when I found her place I was told by her neighbor that she met with an accident on her way to work a month ago and her body was never recovered."
"My whole world collapsed and I asked were the accident took place the elder pointed in the direction and I went up to the bridge."
"Then her words came back to me; Find me no matter what. So I walked down the river and had no idea how long I was walking for when I arrived in The Blood Kingdom.