Marika arrived at Richard's office in Moon Castle.
'Darling!!!'
Marika pounced at Richard.
Richard looked at Rex "How much did she drink?"
'Not enough, I can still drink some more!'
"She drank the most out of everybody… around halve a barrel…everybody was already passed out when we left."
Richard looked at Marika "Alright I'll drink with you."
Marika looked happy.
"There should be a bottle and a few classes in that cupboard."
Marika went over and looked in the cupboard.
"Are you serious?" Rex asked him.
Richard whispered something to him.
"Alright…"
Marika found the bottle and glasses.
"Don't forget tomorrow's sparring and assessment appointment! Aunty!!"
Marika put down the bottle and glasses 'Don't get cocky mister! I can still beat you with an hangover.'
"Alright aunt… teacher… Marika." Rex teased her.
William and Rex left the room.
Marika poured a glass for Richard but held on to the bottle.
"Did you have fun at your party?"
Marika gulped down half of the bottle, 'I did…but they are all wimps…their tolerance is so low."
"Well maybe your tolerance is just too high."
Marika started to feel drowsy and looked at the bottle.
'You tricked me…'
"I did not, you took the bottle yourself and drank half of it."
'Uhm… then wake…dinner'
Marika fell asleep on the couch.
Richard picked her up from the couch and brought her to his private wing.
As he was walking he came across Genus.
He told him she was drunk and still wanted to drink more, so she drunk half of the bottle of sleep inducing alcohol that was in his office.
Genus looked at Richard with wide eyes, "She drank half the bottle!?"
"Well if her alcohol tolerance is that high…I don't think she will be sleeping for that long."
"She probably made herself resistance to a lot of drugs, I estimate she will be a sleep for 3 hours at most."
"I'll bring over something for if she has a hangover."
Richard nodded and left for his room.
He laid Marika on the bed, but she didn't let go of him.
'Don't let the pervert take me.'
Richard looked at her and smiled.
He laid down next to her and held her tight as he whispered to her "I won't, because you mine and mine alone."
Marika calmed down and Richard also slowly drifted off.
[Human World]
Dantis was at the archives to try and find out who was responsible for the facility Dante, Lenis and Marika were at when they were younger.
At the same time Luca was dealing with The Green Peace Keepers under the watchful eye of Harold and Vincent.
"Are you the new head of The Founding Green Dragon Clan Luca?" The leader asked him.
"No I'm not."
"Then who is it?"
"It's none of your concerns, the head of the clan is out right now."
"Then we have nothing to talk about."
"Ohh…I didn't know you were so biased."
"And give me a god damn good reason why you only want to speak to the head about this matter? I'm the one who asked you guys to come here not the head of the clan."
"That's because it involves The World of Night."
"So…Are you guys insinuating just because it involves The Night World I'm helpless to do anything about it?"
"No, but this requires a diplomatic approaches, we can't…"
"Ohh stop the bullshit already, I already have someone of The Night World in the archives looking through it and I'm well aquatint with two of the kings and a queen over there."
The leader of The Green Peace Keepers got agitated.
"I have just one question, why do you need see the head of the clan? You guys damn well know I'm more than eligible to fill in the roll or be the substituted incase the head is out."
"It's a pity your brother and sister both died, while your elder brother would do a great job as a leader, your sister wasn't too bad either."
Luca was starting to get enrage by the words of the leader.
"Who died?"
Alex came in to the room.
The leader looked up and saw Alex standing there.
"I'm still alive as you can see, I was just… taking a very long vacation that's all."
Both Vincent and Luca wanted to laugh but kept it in.
"Your Highness Alex! We heard you died."
"Ohh?? Well I nearly died that's all."
"But I did not feel like coming home when I was fully recovered."
"Why?"
"Because I didn't want to fill the position of clan head, and have to deal with headaches like yourself."
"Pfft" Now Harold wanted to laugh.
"Brother did you inform the head that The Green Peace Keepers are causing trouble?" Luca asked Alex.
"I left a message to the head of the clan, its seems the clan head is sleeping at the moment."
"Can't you wake the clan head, and inform we wish to meet?"
Alex looked at the leader, "Alright…but it's your funeral."
Alex contacted William and told him what was going on.
"Please…I want to live a little longer." William whined.
"Just tell the head of the clan that The Green Peace Keepers will take the responsibility."
William sighed "Alright."
[Moon Castle]
William swallowed once and knocked on the door.
"My King! My Queen!"
Marika woke up and opened the door.
'What is it William?' Marika sounded very agitated
Marika was very grumpy because somebody dared to disturb her sleep.
"Please don't murder me, but your brothers have an issue back at The Green Dragon Clan and…"
Marika looked at Richard who was still sleeping.
'Fine…' She gestured to William to hand her a piece of paper and a pen.
William gave it to her.
'Now turn around and bend your back.'
Marika started to write a note and left it at the bed side.
She left the room and dragged William with her to Genus office.
She burst down the door, and walk in and looked through his shelf's.
"What's wrong with the little girl." Genus asked William.
William explained what happened and Genus looked at Marika.
"Little girl, if you looking for the anti-hanger over it's the blue bottle and the orange is a counter to the alcohol you drank at Masters room."
"Thanks white coat."
Marika drank them but was still grumpy.
"Sorry for disturbing you."
Marika left the room and dragged William again.
Outside William opened a portal and Marika went through.
Just as he was about to close it and sigh in relieve he had survived an arm came through the portal and grabbed him.
William then pleaded to Marika "Please Marika, I don't want to die yet."
Marika looked at William 'I won't kill my means to leave this place, I need you to be here and get Richard when thing go out of hand.'
William sighed a sigh in relieve.
At the castle Richard had woken up and saw Marika was gone, he saw a note lying on the bed stand.
To my dear husband.
I had to leave because there is a headache at The Green Dragon Clan.
I also took William with me, so you have to fend for yourself, or just take the rest of the day off.
I love you darling, I'll be home in a few hours.
Richard smiled and went back to sleep.
Marika approached the building while she had her murderess aura at the max.
'Oke which f*ckers had the balls to interrupt my sleep.'
Everybody pointed at the leader of The Green Peace Keepers.
The leader looked at Marika with big eyes.
"Your still alive?"
'Well I died, and came back to life, got a problem with that?'
'You wanted to see me? For what?'
'I left this matter with Luca, so you need to talk with him.'
'And now you're are causing trouble and disturb my sleep…Do you want to die that badly?'
"I only wanted to speak about this matter with the head of the clan…"
"And since neither Alex and Luca are in that position and you're not worthy of the position because you can never fully awaken as a dragon."
Marika's anger and killing intent flared up.
'Charles…go outside right now.'
Charles didn't respond to her words.
Marika then grabbed the man and threw him outside.
The others of The Green Peace Keepers stood up and pointed their weapons at her.
'I will give this warning only once, Hit me and I'll hit back, attack me and I'll attack back, try to kill me and your dead.'
The group of man lowered their weapons.
Marika went outside and saw Charles was starting to get up.
"Seems you still have your strength."
'Oh Charles shut up already, I have more than my strength.'
Marika casted a spell and pulled out both of her swords.
She charged at Charles and immobilized him in mere seconds.
Everybody was in shock.
'You asked me to come here, now I'm here and you won't recognize that I'm the head of the clan?'
'If it's so hard for you then I'll just show you.'
Marika took on her final form and looked down at the man.
'If you still can't accept the fact that I'm the new head of the clan then you can choose, either live the rest of your pathetic life in exile or die by my hands.'
"How did you survive all the eight stage…"
'That doesn't concern you, I already written everything down and is safely kept for the ones who will need it in the future. And all the other dragon clans possess this knowledge.'
"This is unacceptable, that knowledge should be kept only by us." Charles yelled at Marika.
Marika was fed up with the man and let out a roar, but it wasn't like her usual one, this one was much louder, heavier and demanding.
William noticed the change in Luca and Alex behavior and transformed in their final form, he asked Harold who didn't seem to be affected by it.
"What is she doing?"
"Oh my god…"
"What is it?"
"She…she is the Guardian of the 3 World, she is calling for them."
"Calling for who?"
"She is calling for all the dragon clans so she can be recognized as the new Guardian."
Charles looked at Marika in horror, he not only provoked the new head of The Founding Green Dragon Clan, he also provoked The Guardian of the 3 Worlds.
In mere moments, in the sky there were flocks of dragons head their way.
Harold told everybody to discard their weapons and kneel down as low as they could. Everybody of the clan fallowed his instruction.
All the dragons landed in front of Marika.
Marika let out a roar and all the dragons roared back at her and then bowed their heads to her.
Charles saw one particular Azure dragon walk up to Marika and nuzzled her, all the other dragons roar again in a celebrating manner.
"This can't be! This… this…there shouldn't be a Guardian Dragon anymore." Charles yelled.
"Ohh how stupid are you? If and when the Guardian die's a new one shall be born."
"The world shall never be without an Guardian."
Marika looked down and saw Carl standing in front of her.
He bowed to her and Marika lowered her head.
'What insolence, how dare they ignore my call, Carl I hope you have a good excuse for this.'
Carl was calm, "My Queen it's not the time yet for them to show them self's."
Marika looked at Carl 'Fine, but next time they better show up.'
"My Queen is well in tuned with the 3 worlds, you have grown a lot since the last time we met."
'Save it…since you're here, it means you found something haven't you?'
"Sharp as ever, yes I did. Thanks to your calling, tremors were felt in the Blood Kingdom."
'We'll talk about it later…'
"Yes My Queen."
Marika turned her eyes on Charles.
'Now Charles…What will you choose?'
Charles was shaking in fear, not only because of her, but also because The Moon King was acknowledge by the others as her husband and mate for life, and he was the second most powerful dragon that roamed the 3 worlds.
"I beg your forgiveness, please spare my life."
'Then you choose exile?'
"I choose to accept you as the head of The Founding Green Dragon clan and will live the rest of my life in exile."
Marika then thought of something.
'Do you wish to redeem yourself and prove your skills?'
Charles looked at Marika, "If there is anything I can do… I will accept any orders."
'Good…You and your man will infiltrate the Sanguis at the Blood Kingdom, and find any evidence of the great war and how they managed to make the Blue and Brown Dragon Clan disappear.'
The leader and his man all knelt down to Marika "We shall accept these orders."
'Before you go you still have to answer to my brother Luca, and make sure the others do so as well, if my brothers call upon them they have to answer, If not then their fate will be exile or death.'
"As you wish Guardian."
Marika told everybody they could leave.
Marika picked William up and put him on her back and took off to the sky with high speed.
William was scared and had his eyes closed and screamed.
'Hey big baby open your eyes.'
Marika was souring through the sky.
William open his eyes and the view he saw was breath taking.
"Where are we going?"
'Where do you want to go?'
"Huh?"
'Have you already forgotten? I promised to make it up to you, because I was so rough with you the day my son got stabbed, and I dragged you here when I was grumpy and scared you today.'
'So where do you want to go?'
'If you have no idea's I'll bring you to a few places that are beautiful.'
"But what about His Majesty and…"
'William a few months here are only mere hours there.'
William felt the wind in his face and said "Let's go where the wind will take us."
Marika smiled 'As you wish.'
[Green Dragon Clan]
Luca showed them a picture of Lenis, "Have you seen this boy once?"
The leader look at the picture and shook his head. But one of his man did recognize him.
"I have seen him before, He was trying to escape that god awful facility when we were there to raid the place and shut it down."
"What was the time flow in that place?" Luca ask him.
"It was normal according to the human world, we did however found a man who could use time magic, but he was a victim of that place."
"All the records should be here so why call for us?" The leader ask Luca
"Well that's because my sister was there at some point in time and was locked up there for a full year of her life. And when she just arrived there, she was put in the same room as a the boy"
Everybody in the room turned silent.
"I have one more question, the boy told me when he ran in to you guys, you handed him over to a doctor and a couple of nurses, who were they and where are they now, and were was the place you brought him?"
The man then said, "We have hide outs all over the world, he was taken to one close to here, and the doctor here volunteered to help us with the recovery of a few victims. You can ask him more about the state of health the boy was in ."
"Well that won't be possible, he is dead."
"Dead?"
Luca nodded, "My sister killed him 2 days ago, or 2 years depending which time flow you like to fallow."
"Why did she…"
"Does the building still exist and is it in use?" Luca asked him.
"The building is long gone, but the underground facility should still be there and accessible."
The man gave him the address
Alex saw the address "She was at that place twice in her life!"
Luca looked at his brother "What do you mean?"
"That address is the address of the hospital she went to when she had that accident when she was 5 years old."
The leader saw the look on their face and said to one of his man "You bring them there and show them the echoes of that place."
The man nodded.
"I'm coming with you" Dantis said to Luca
"Are you sure?"
Dantis nodded "I want to see it for myself were my son was kept for 4 years, and I already found out who was behind the facility origin."
The leader and his man stood up abruptly and bowed to him "Your Majesty Caedis."
Dantis looked at them and said "I'm not the king you should bow to, my nephew is on the throne. I am a mere Grant Duke."
"But still…"
Luca looked at Dantis and asked "So who is behind this facility?"
"The facility was established by The Snake Clan from Ignis Kingdom and the Sanguis of The Blood Kingdom helped to finance the place."
"So that's why you refused in the first place and said it needed a diplomatic approach."
The leader nodded.
"Well since my sister already is about to destroy both of them anyway."
"But how? Doesn't she need to negotiate or get approval of the king's?
"The both of them already made very dumb moves so both kings will give her a green light when that time comes, she already arranged it ahead of time. The only thing she was doing now was collecting more and more evidence to make it all solid and that both kings would not suffer from the public."
"Simply put, if Queen Yumaria was alive at the times of the great war, she could have ended it in just one week. She can plan and anticipate her opponents move and even force them to move in a certain way."
"If she was an adult when Ray Caedis wanted to take over throne and kill his father, she could have easily done all the planning, and instead of taking 6 months she could have make it work in less than a day."
"She would have gone down in history as the greatest strategist then.
"As for now she will be known as the greatest Queen that ruled her lands and probably the great protector of The World of Night "
[Austria human world]
Marika landed in Austria near a mountain foot.
"Where are we?"
'Welcome to Austria.'
William looked around and found himself in a forest that was quiet.
Marika took William by the arm, 'We still have a 30 minute walk so… and there is a place where we can rest up and when the sun is up were going to The Admont Library.'
"Why are we going to a library?"
'You're a scholar right? Aren't you curious about human literature?'
William smiled "But what if I want to visit it for more than a day?"
'Don't worry, I told you already a few months here are only a few hours back home.'
"Won't you get bored?"
Marika laughed 'Nope not at all, back when I just arrived at the mansion and Richard had to go out for a few weeks, aside from training and teaching Kevin and Dante, I spend the evenings and nights in the library of the mansion, I pulled a few all night's to study up about the world and its history and stuff.'
'But don't tell Richard that.'
William started to laugh. "So while I'll be enjoying the books there, you're going to read up and learn about the changes of the past 120 years."
Marika nodded 'Knowledge is power.'
Marika and William arrived at a small house just outside of the city. Marika opened the door and turned on the lights.
"Does this house belong to you?"
Marika shook her head. 'This house belongs to the Lillium parents.'
"You mean this is the house of late Queen Lillium, His Majesty's mother?"
Marika nodded.
'Well this is where she live before the great war. I bought this land and house after I found out to who it belonged to and I got it very cheap. I tried to restore it to the best of my ability's, so that the memories of her existence would be forever in this world.'
"Does His Majesty know of this place?"
'No he doesn't.'
"Why is that?"
'That's because he isn't ready, although he doesn't show it, he still is mourning for his parents.'
"But you have been gone for so long, and the house still looks clean and untouched by time."
'That because…Let's just say the descendant of Lillium uncle are punished by taking care of this house.'
Suddenly there was a knock on the door.
Marika opened the door and saw a boy of around 12 years standing holding a box with food and other supplies.
'Du kannst rein kommen.'
"Nein ich kann nicht weil wir nicht dürfen."
Marika took a step outside and pushed the boy inside 'Ja, du kannst.' And closed the door behind her.
"You can even speak their language?"
'Yes, I can speak multiple languages.'
Marika asked the boy if he had eaten yet?
The boy shook his head and Marika took the box from him.
'komm mit mir und ich mache dir was.'
'Take a nap William, I'll wake you wen food is done.'
The boy fallowed Marika to the kitchen.
When they were done cooking Marika asked the boy 'Du willst etwas Lustiges sehen?'
The boy nodded.
'William wake up! There is trouble at the castle!'
William jumped up with a scare and looked at Marika and saw the boy laughing.
"Very funny Marika."
William patted the boy's head, because he saw he was more relaxed now.
'Lass uns essen.' She said to the boy.
As the 3 of them were eating, there was another knock on the door.
Marika stood up again and staid to the boy to keep eating.
Marika opened the door and saw a young man around 18 or 19 years old.
"Wo ist mein kleiner Bruder?" He said in a agitate tone.
'er isst drinnen' Marika said calmly.
'Komm rein und überzeuge dich selbst'
The young man came inside and saw his little brother eating
"Kleiner Bruder, geht es dir gut? haben sie dich verletzt?"
"Mir geht es gut, großer Bruder, die Dame ist sehr nett und sie hat mich zum Abendessen bleiben lassen."
The young man then looked at Marika and started to speak English.
"So are you a descendant of this cursed house?"
'No I'm the owner of this cursed house for over 128 years now.'
The young man looked at Marika as if she was insane.
Marika started to laugh 'Well… I get why you have that look on your face.'
'But why do you call it a cursed house anyway?'
"For 3 generation we are tasked to clean and maintain this house as punishment for what an ancestor had done."
'Well the world you know is only this but there are 2 more that exists, Let me tell you a little fairy tale and why your family has this punishment to take care of this house.'
Marika started to tell the story her grandmother always used to tell her.
After she was done telling the tale, 'If you don't believe me there are some remnants left in this place of this girl.'
Marika told the young man to fallow her to the attic
She showed him a well preserved painting of the girl and her family.
"So the dairy of an ancestor of ours is real…"
'What was written in it do you know?'
The young man nodded.
"It told the story of a little girl that was taken in by her uncle because she has special ability's, but she was always kept in the dark basement, and only got out when they needed her ability. When she turned 18 he couldn't take it anymore, because she was there for 13 years. He helped her escape from that place and wished her a happy life."
"So it's all true…"
'Do you know who placed the current punishment on your family?'
The young man shook his head.
'That was me, but if the real descendant deem to forgive or let it go, then your family will be free of taking care of this house.'
'But would you still think this house is a curse on you? Don't you think there was one ancestor who actually cared for her and wanted her to be remembered for who she really was? An nice girl who despite her treatment still loved her family.'
The young man smiled while looking at the painting.
"No I don't think that it's a curse anymore."
William stood there and listened to their conversation.
"If only His Majesty knew what she did for him, before she came to their world." William whispered.
William thought then why? How could there be a person who went through hell herself and still held on to the story and wanted to make sure that the child of the story had a place he could visit and see where his mother was born and loved by her parents.
she saved and restored the house of his mother's parents and all there belongs. So he could actually see for himself where his mother was born and raised for 5 years of her life before the great war broke out.
Is it because her life and that of His Majesty's mother are somewhat similar?
He wanted to know, but how was he going to ask her. Then again Marika would talk about it if you asked her unless it was something painful to her.
He decided to ask her after their visit to the library.
Marika told the young man she and William would be staying here for a couple of days and after that then would leave to resume their trip.
The young man then said "If you have time could you write the story you told us? I want it to be in our family so that every generation after me and my brother could learn that greed is something that will hurt others."
Marika smiled at the young man "So you figured out the sin of your ancestor already." And she ruffled his hair.
'Sure no problem.'
The young man then told Marika where they lived and if they needed help or anything they should come and find them.
Marika walked them out and waved them goodbye.
Marika sat down and yawned a little
"Do you want to take a short nap?"
Marika nodded.
'Just wake me up in a hour or so.'
"Alright."
Marika fell asleep on the couch and William covered her up with a blanked.
[Moon Castle]
Richard was enjoying his free time, because both William and Dantis were in the human world.
He was lazing around when Genus came up to him.
"I don't remember anymore when it was the last time you were lazing like this."
"It was 12 years ago" Richard answer him."
"Uhm that long…Time really flies by."
"She wasn't even born back then."
Genus stated to laugh, "Yeh according to the time flow of the human world you would be 9855 years old now."
Now Richard started to laugh because he remembered the day Marika had woken up and their conversation.
"What so funny?"
"Well the day Marika woke up and I told her where she was, she was excited about it. That she was in the world of an old legend, and she actually thought I was a few thousand years old."
"But what did you mean back then she was a special existence to us of the dark?"
"Well, back then for somebody like her to have such a big energy pool and healing ability even before awakening she has the potential of being the Guardian of our World."
Richard then sat up and said. "Well you are half correct."
"What do you mean?"
"Marika is indeed a special existence but not only to us, she is a special existence to The 3 Worlds in itself."
"You mean that little girl is the New Guardian of the 3 Worlds."
Richard nodded.
"She already managed to pull of the call, you know when the Guardian calls we can't ignore it and have to obey his or hers call."
"When did she do that?"
"Today."