Julia looked surprised at Marika, but now she knew why she was a great queen. She places everybody's well fair above her own.
'Thank you Your Majesty.'
'Oh and please stop with the Your Majesty, just call me Yumaria or Queen Yumaria, I will slap the back of your head if you call me Your Majesty.'
'As of today we are friends and friends should call each other comfortably' Marika had a warm smile on her face.
'As for the approval you seek from me, you have it, but I will expect an invitation for a banquet and your wedding.'
Julia hugged Marika 'Thank you Yumaria.'
Marika pulled Julia by the arm and went over to Ray and Richard.
'I like her, can I snatch her away from you for a while?' She asked Ray.
Ray nodded and Marika dragged Julia with her.
On her way to the resting area Marika told Camila, Ivy and Little Marika to fallow her.
Once they arrived in the room Marika closed the doors and sighed a very big sigh 'Finally I can breathe.'
They all sat down, 'Girls this is Julia and she is my new friend, Julia this is my sister and friend Camila, next to her is my niece Ivy and the cute little girl is my little sister Marika.'
All of them gave her a hug and little Marika asked Julia what her favorite flower was.
'I like Gladiolus, they are pretty and smell nice.'
Little Marika then made a flower with her magic and gave it to her.
Julia thanked her.
'So Julia tell us when are you planning to get married to Ray?' Marika asked her.
The rest of the girls now got excited.
'Well…that's… we haven't decided that yet.'
'Me and sister Ivy will do the flower arrangement.' Little Marika then said.
'Me and Yumaria will do your make-up and hair.' Camila fallowed up.
'What about the dress?' Ivy asked.
Marika smiled 'I know two designers who can fix that.'
'Julia what do you think of the gown I'm wearing?'
'I thought you were wearing a wedding dress, but this is just a gown?'
Marika nodded.
'Well… to be honest, I like the style and it would be perfect as a wedding dress.'
Marika smiled. 'Alright that is settled.'
I'll be right back, after a few minutes Marika came back with Lenis.
'This is the designer of my gown.'
Julia saw the boy 'You designed this gown?'
Lenis nodded
'Could you…could you make a wedding dress in the same style as Yumaria's gown?'
Lenis sat down and drew op 3 dresses "What do you think?"
Julia looked at them and then said 'could you combine these two?'
Lenis looked at it and drew the combined version.
'Wow…it's so pretty.'
'Let us know the date of your wedding and I'll make sure your dress will be done by that time.'
'Really!? But what about the cost?'
'Humm…it will cost you nothing, it's my wedding gift to you.'
Julia started to tear up a little 'Thank you Yumaria.'
Marika and everybody had a warm smile on their faces and when they smiled at her.
As the girls were having a good time and were talking, Marika suddenly tensed up and Julia also guarded up, Ivy, Camila and little Marika looked at them.
Marika then looked at the window and saw a shadow.
'Julia take them out of this room and find Canus for me and send him up here.'
Julia told the girls to leave the room with her and go back to the party where it was saver because there were a lot of people there.
Before little Marika left she said to Marika 'You beat them up badly big sister for spoiling our fun'
Marika nodded and four of them left.
Just as they left the room they heard the sound of shattering class.
Julia told the girls not to look stressed or panicked. The three of them nodded and mingled back in to the party.
Richard and Ray saw them come back but Marika wasn't with them.
Both men saw Julia walk up to Canus and whisper something to him.
Canus nodded and walked out of the room calmly.
Julia then joined Ray and Richard and whispered what happened.
Richard was calm "Well since Canus is going it has probably something to do with Ignis."
Cillus, Cinis and Luca also came over.
"Did they finally come? Luca asked.
"Well your sister has been going back and forth between worlds so…"
"That's true…but to try and kill her today of all day's" Cinis said.
"Isn't this going to have a negative impact? I mean Yumaria isn't here and Canus now left the room. If the both of them come back together…" Ray said.
Richard, Luca and Cinis smirked.
"Well that's part of her plan" Luca said.
"She is going to see who is going to make a fuss about it." Cinis fallowed up.
"And when they do we found the last opposing nobles, and we will capture them. And strip them from everything they have." Richard said.
In the room Marika was facing 6 assassins 'Do you guys mind if I take of my dress? I don't want any blood on it, because this dress was designed and made by a dear friend of mine, and I would hate it if it got blood on it.'
The six assassins looked confused but nodded, and turned around.
Marika went to a screen and took of her dress and hung it up behind the screen.
'Thank you, your such gentleman you didn't even peak at me.' Marika smiled.
"We maybe killers but we do have principles."
'Your such honorable man…I will make sure your deaths will be quick and painless.'
As the assassins were facing Marika, Canus came in to the room silently and knocked out one of the assassin, what made them start to focus on Canus.
Marika drew her sword and started to kill them together with Canus.
In just 3 minutes they were done 'These were the special trained assassins you told me about?'
'Well they were disappointing…'
"Your right sister… but there is still one left."
'Let's wake him up and see what he has to say.'
Canus slapped the man awake.
"Were you guys specially trained to kill Queen Yumaria?"
"Yes…"
'Well you guys are a disappointment… look we took out your friends in 3 minutes.'
"Well sis maybe it's because you're a guardian…"
'And what would you be?' she asked Canus.
"A special trained personal guard for the Guardian."
Marika and Canus started to laugh.
Marika turned to the assassin 'Well those stupid snakes could never kill me anyway.'
'They can't even take down The Black Dragon Clan…'
'Well their plan has flaws in so many ways… I just question their intelligence.'
'But there is one thing I know for sure, clan head Vipera is probably the only snake with a decent brain… after all what he witnessed on Mystic Mountain he wouldn't dare to do something to me or try to create discord.'
'Am I right?'
The assassin nodded.
Marika then started to write two message.
'Well since you are a gentlemen throughout this, I spare your life and send you back with two message, on is for the stupid idiot that send you here and the other is for Clan head Vipera.'
Marika smiled at him, 'It would be wise to never appear in front of me again, unless you want to die.'
The assassin took the message and left the room.
Marika walked back to the screen and put on her dress.
'I'm sorry Canus.'
"For what?"
'When we return to the party, we probably will get scorned.'
"Well I don't mind…because that give me a good reason to kill."
'Pfft, and here I thought I was the only one who toughed of this positively.'
'Shall we return then?'
"As you wish little sister."
Canus opened the door to the ballroom and escorted Marika back to Richard.
They both heard the whispers and took little glances of the people who were whispering an noted there faces in their mind.
Canus handed Marika back to Richard and went back to his father and brother.
"What happened?" Cinis asked his brother.
"O a snake had send a few assassins, if you even can call them that."
Suddenly a loud voice was heard.
"How dare you!" Richard shouted.
'Darling calm down… it's expected for man like them to have a wild imagination.' Marika smirked.
"But your Majesty it's just… We saw His Highness Canus leaving the room and came back with Her Majesty, who knows what they have done in that time."
'Duke Livens, you dare to call me a loose woman, but what about you hmm…'
'Well I like for you not to compare me to yourself…because the partner that is with you tonight is not even your wife.'
'And by the way Duck Livens half an hour ago you were just like everybody else just kissing up to me, what highly disgust me.'
'But I just tolerated it for the sake of my husband, so why in the world would I suddenly do something that disgust me the most?'
'Now that were on the subject of being against me…who else is against our marriage, please raise your hand, and if you don't do that now…if I find out later remember there is a coffin waiting for you.'
5 man raised their hands.
'If you all would be so nice as to fallow me.'
'Julia, would you be a dear and escort me together with Prince Cinis'
Richard let go of Marika and they all left the room.
Richard can I kill at least one of the 5 man? I mean they did whisper some disrespectful words about me" Canus said to Richard.
"Sure you can take him with you and do whatever you want."
"But it wasn't one, it were two actually, you can have them both."
"Thanks brother you're the best!"
Richard laughed.
Now that Marika had smoke out the last few opposing people who could form a danger to her there would still be people who would criticize Marika and her ability to rule. But that was something they both could easily deal with.
But for the time being it looked like it would be peaceful in the castle.
After half an hour they all returned and started to beg Richard for forgiveness.
"My love should I forgive them?"
'You know how I think and do thing right.'
Richard nodded. "Guard's take them away and make sure those two are separated because the will go with His Highness Canus later."
Marika smiled and then whispered something to Canus.
"That's so savage, but I like it." And he patted Marika on the head.
As the banquet progresses Richard took Marika outside to get some fresh air.
"You really can't stand event's like these, but you endured it so well" as he gave her a kiss.
'Well my suffering was worth it… but please don't drag me to these type of events too much.'
"Don't forget you have to suffer like this again in the future."
Marika laughed 'Your right, I have to suffer again, but I volunteered for it.'
Richard chuckled and they resume there walk until they reached a pond.
Suddenly Richard spoke "Marika, there is something I need to talk about with you, because it concerns you and I want your opinion on it.
Marika flinched a little because he hardly uses her name, but she told herself to stay calm because he wanted her opinion so it meant even though it concerned her, he still wanted to know what she thought of it.
"I saw the destruction you caused at the palace of Ignis…I do have to say you hold a lot of strength."
"But I'm a bit worried about it, when you have your magic back, according to Nova you'll energy pool would be twice the current size."
"So the 300 meter destruction you caused now will be 600 or even more."
"So for you to release you pant up anger like you do now isn't an option."
Marika had a bad feeling about what she was going to hear.
"So the solution they come up with was either to seal you magic or remove one of the two.."
'No!'
"Sweetie…"
'I said no! Do they have any idea how it feels to be incomplete and unstable!'
Richard pulled her in his embrace and stroke her head.
"I know, I told them to wait and see what happens when you have both your stable parts of your magic back and let you adjust and try to control it first."
"But if you can't there is a 3rd option left for you."
'What is that?'
"We use magic repressing stones. This way you won't be vulnerable and if the situation ask for it you can take them off and unleash your full power."
'Who thought of this 3rd option?'
"I did, because I think you have suffered enough, leaving you with just one of the two magic you probably still would feel your incomplete and I want you to be happy."
'Alright…'
Marika wasn't happy about it but she also knew the concerns of everybody was something that was reasonable.
'You can suppress my magic…even though I'm not happy about all 3 of the solutions the 3rd one isn't the worst one.'
"Sweetheart don't be angry, I know you don't like it…but while your magic is being suppressed you can also learn how to control it. And if you managed it, you don't have to be suppressed anymore."
Marika nodded.
'Life isn't fair, fate is something we can't change… I just need to work harder and change whatever my fate or destiny is.'
Richard gave her a kiss "That my girl, always thinking of a way to overcome an obstacle."
"Now let's go back you still have to discuss the hunt you'll be holding tomorrow."
As Richard and Marika returned from their walk, she walked over to everybody from The Sun Kingdom.
As she told them what had happened yesterday and what the wolfs look like and smelled like, Luce then told her that they were indeed wolfs from their world, but as to how and why they were in The Moon Kingdom he couldn't give her an answer.
"Could it be that a few have survived the great war and went MIA. (missing in action)"
'Humm that would be a reasonable explanation.'
'Well after what they did I thought, you boy's would like to join me on a little hunt tomorrow.'
"We don't mind, but are we going to kill the whole pack?" Levi asked.
'Well… I really want to try to capture them and send them back to your world, but if your life is in danger then you better kill them before you get killed.'
'I also asked two man who are experts in setting traps and Canus will join us too.'
Liane joined the conversation 'If you need sedatives I can make them, but I don't have the herbs with me to make them.'
'Don't worry about that.'
Marika waved over Ivy and little Marika
'Liane this is my niece Ivy and my little sister Marika.'
'Marika can you help out my friend Liane and grow the herb she need to make a sedatives for tomorrow?'
'Sure, but on one condition.'
Liana looked at little Marika who waved her over to come down to her level.
Little Marika whispered to Liana 'If you promise me to show all kinds of flowers from your world next time.'
Liana smiled at her and nodded.
'But daddy is going to nag if I don't sleep on time.'
Marika ruffled little Marika's hair, 'Don't worry about that I'll talk to him.'
[Next day]
Marika was up early and prepared some things she was going to need and asked the chef in the kitchen if they could make something that was easy to carry around just in case something could get wrong and at least everybody had something to eat.
'I know you don't like me down here but…'
"That's not true Your Majesty, it's just that to us it is strange that a royal would come down and cook, but we observed Your Majesty in her cooking and we did learn a lot from Her Majesty. It's an honor for us you visit the kitchen and cook."
The chef then came back with a lot of dried food.
"It may not be to the taste of the royals but these dried food still have their vitamins, minerals and proteins you need to survive"
Marika saw, dried fruits, meat, and even dried baked bread. She tasted everything and was pleasant surprised.
'You even used herbs and spices. It taste really well.'
She then patted the chef on the shoulder.
'Tomorrow I have dinner with the soldiers and I want you guy's to cook up a feast but it doesn't have to be to the taste of a king or queen, just keep it normal and simple.'
"We will Your Majesty"
Marika left the kitchen with everything she needed.
William informed her that the two man from Faber Village also had arrived.
She walked up to them and gave them a hug, 'How have you two been?'
"We have been well My Queen."
Marika slapped them both on the back of their heads. 'Yumaria, you know I don't like for my friends to address me by my title.'
The two man started to laugh, "Sister do you really need to slap us that hard."
'Yes since my brothers don't know how to behave around their sister.'
Richard saw from the window Marika was laughing and looked very happy. A smile came to him but also a thought.
He toughed Marika really came to life when she was around the common people. And that after the wedding he would let her keep interacting with them because keeping her in the palace and bore her with politics would only make her unhappy.
"Dantis, William; after our wedding I refuse to tie her down in this place, and if the nobles and the court are being difficult about it, then I'll just deal with that."
"Yes Your Majesty"
"I also want you guys to keep a close eye on them, although they are quiet now, I do think they will criticize her when they meet with her or talk to her."
"Your Majesty why don't you let her sit in one of your meetings and let her observe, you take a day of and let her handle them."
"I think it's a good idea, you were about to bring up her idea about the improvements of the trade, why not let her do it, and let the prime minister assist her during the meeting."
"Alright, but I get the feeling they will come and complain to me after wards."
"Well sooner or later they'll have to accept the fact she is going to be your wife and Queen, but what they don't know, once she has the information of her opponent she already figured out all there moves and how she can counter them, their jaws will drop once they find out she is actually the one who control their every move."
Richard started to laugh "Now that would be an interesting show to watch."
Marika was ready to head out when Liane came with the sedatives.
'Queen Yumaria here are the sedatives.'
'Thank you Liane, go and get some sleep now.'
Liane gave her a hug, 'Come back save and sound.'
Marika nodded 'Alright man let's head out!'
A few nobles watched how Marika and the soldiers head out for their hunt.
"Let's fallow them and see what she is up to."
"But won't she notice us?"
"You think a weak woman like her will notice us? If she was strong do you think she need so many soldiers with her?"
"Alright, but let's stay at a safe distance, I don't want to get caught in the middle of what she is even doing."
The nobles mounted their horses and fallowed behind her.
Richard also saw them leave and smirked.
After a few hours they arrived at the village and had a look around, there were currently no wolfs presence and she told the two man to start to set up traps.
Marika told a few soldiers to scout the area.
'Alright here is the plan if the scouts can't find there den we have to lure them out.'
"And how are you going to do that?" Michael asked her.
'Easy, I'll change in to a baby of just one year old and let them capture me.'
"Are you insane sister!?"
'Well yes… but that's why I brought you with me.'
Agrius and Ferox came up to Canus and nuzzled him, telling him it will be alright.
'Well aside from me my brothers, father and Richard, you're the only one who Agrius and Ferox listen too.'
Canus patter their heads "Alright…"
"Big sister is right, we like you."
"Your smart just like sister, we trust you"
'See… even they know your capable, just have a little more faith in yourself.'
Marika was checking the weapons of the soldiers and handed out the sedatives to everybody.
The captain walked up to Canus "Your Highness should not doubt yourself. She acknowledged your cunningness and battle skill, just the day before the banquet she was badly wounded because she was defending a baby, when the enemy retreated she made decoys so if the enemy were to fallow us they would never know where the baby really was. I asked her how she come up with that and she told me you were the one who taught her that idea."
Canus looked at Marika and with surprised eyes "She did that?"
The captain nodded.
"While Our Queen is smart and capable on her own, having somebody like you who can adapt and think in similar ways on the hunt or battle, gives her a reassured mind and knows that the casualty rate will be low."
"And didn't His Highness also got some training from her personally?"
"Your right…"
"Then trust her, like she trust you."
The scout's had returned and came to report.
"Queen Yumaria we found their den, but they also seem to have an second den where they keep humans, and other races."
'Canus what do you think?'
"Let's split up, I'll take a few Soldiers and Michael together with Agrius and Ferox. When you start your attack, the once who are at the second den will probably move to you and we can rescue to whoever is in their second den."
Marika then asked the scouts, 'Were they children or adults?'
The scout's revealed a gloomy look on their face, 'They were all infants, and some looked like they were on deaths door My Queen."
Marika's expression instantly looked murderess 'How many babies are there?'
"For what we could count there were at least 12 of them."
'Canus do you still have that bag I gave last time?'
"Yes."
'Good, all you need to do is find a water source and crush those pills', Marika took out 4 bottles 'I trust you can think on your feet, and when you have all the baby's leave and call for Genus and William.'
"I will sister, stay save."
Marika patted Canus on the shoulder 'I'll try brother.'
Marika left with her party and went up to the main den.
The captain called Richard and informed in in one the situation.
When they arrived at the den they saw two wolfs each carrying a baby, the babies were crying so loud it broke everybody's heart.
The wolfs put them down on the ground and killed the babies.
Everybody witnessed this act, and were horrified by it.
Marika who was sitting at the front state to shake out of anger and said 'Change of plans, they are all going to die.'
Richard saw Marika was getting up and pulled out her sword.
He told everybody to stay low and stand down.
Marika walked up to the den in her 7th stage and everybody witness Marika unleashing a tremendous amount of energy.
All the wolfs noticed her and stated to snarl and growl at her.
'You murderess, and here I was going to save your asses and send you back to where you original came from.'
'But now… you all can go to hell for all I care!'
'You all should just DIE!!!'
Marika charged at them and starting to cut them all down, but the force behind her sword strikes were so strong that even trees and brushes were cut in half.
Marika was going berserk and all that everybody could do was just watch.
Richard then asked "You guys brought sedatives with you, how strong are they?"
"I don't know I have to ask my sister."
Levi called his sister "Sis how strong are those sedative?"
"Strong enough to keep the wolfs down and out for 3 hours, why?"
He then showed Marika in a berserk stated "And how effective will they be on her?"
'Brother are you nuts!? What are you planning to do? Do you want us to die?'
"Liane, you won't get killed because we need a strong sedative for her if she won't calm down on her own after she is done killing them."
'Well in that case you guys need to at least give her six to have her even down for 15 minutes.'
"Alright, you guys when she is done with her killing spree give her 10 minutes, if she is still in that state just give her 12 of those sedative, I won't complain or hold anything against you on the method you're going to use on her to sedate her."
"Yes Your Majesty."
Canus arrived at the second den and waited for the remaining wolfs to leave.
While they were waiting Canus and Michael felt a tremendous energy burst,
Canus called Richard "I think something is wrong with sister I just felt an energy bust and I'm very certain it's from her."
"Your right, she is going berserk right now, she just witnessed two babies getting killed by the wolfs."
Both Michael and Canus turned white, and then heard a howl coming from the other den.
They saw all the wolf leaving the second den, Canus thought of a plan
I need William to open a portal to where I am now and evacuate the babies who are here and still alive, tell Genus that some of them are on death door and have Luca and Azurite to assist Genus.
Canus and his group move in and found 24 babies, but since his group was only around 12 man the Canus took the capes of the soldiers and stated to wrap then around them and put one baby in it and the soldier had to carried one in their arms.
William had arrived and Canus told him to keep the portal open.
As they all went through it they arrived at Genus in the medical wing of the castle.
There everybody was on standby and all the nurses and doctors on hand were ready to receive the babies.
Canus then quickly gave them the healing pills and told them to crush them and feed them to the babies via a bottle.
"But…" One of the doctor stammered.
"Just do as he say's Our Queen is a medical genus and she managed to bring back people from the brink of death before."
And by that he meant Noir and William.
"William I know of your current situation, how many portal are you allowed to open?"
"Well I already opened two today, but since this is an emergency I'm allowed to open a 3rd one."
Great open one for me to Marika, but don't close it right away."
William did that what Canus asked of him.
Canus arrived where Marika was and saw she had killed all the wolfs, but 10 minutes had already past and she hadn't calmed down on her own. And when they tried to sedate her, it made her hostile towards everybody.
"We can't sedate her, it made the situation worse."
"She turned in to her final form."
Canus nodded and told them to retreat through the portal and when the last one was through William should close it.
As everybody was leaving Canus walked up to Marika "Wow sis you really went on a rampage."
Marika roared at him.
"Come on sis, it's me your brother in arms, I don't have a sedative with me so I can't sedate you."
Marika growled at him and snapped at him, "Hey what did I do to you to deserve this?"
Marika kept growling at him .
"Mari, I wanted to tell you, we found 24 babies in total and they are all at the palace. Genus, Damion, Luca and Azu are all taking care of them and I re-laid the massage and the pills for treatment, they are all going to survive thanks to you."
Marika changed back to her 7th form a tears dropped from her eyes, 'But I couldn't save these two…'
Canus hugged her, "Mari…My sweet little sister Mari, you couldn't save these two but you managed to save 24 babies, that 12 more then what we had anticipated."
'But still…'
"Mari you did everything you possibly could, but what you can do for them is to give them a name and a proper place to rest."
Marika took off the make shift baby carrier from Canus and tore it in half to wrap up the bodies.
As she was wrapping up the body's Canus asked her.
"What do we do with all these death body's?"
'Burn them…'
Just as Canus wanted to start to burn them he heard a few whimpering sounds.
"Mari!"
Marika stood up and walked over to Canus, 'What is it?'
Canus was holding 4 pups in his arms "I'm sorry sister, but I hate to burn living things."
Marika checked the little ones and miraculous hadn't suffered any injuries.
'Alright we will take them with us.'
"Are you sure?"
'Well they are still babies and they haven't killed yet so why should they suffer from the actions of the adults?'
Marika took the 4 pups from Canus and told him to see if there are any more.
While Marika was tending to the pups Canus found two more and one adult but it seemed that the adult wouldn't live long due to the severity of the injuries it had received.
The adult wolf then asked Canus 'Could you please take my children…I know what we did was wrong but they didn't do anything wrong.'
Marika walked over to Canus, 'I'm not so cruel as to leave these two to die, I'll take them with me and hand them over to The Sun King.'
The wolf then spoke one last time, 'A few of the pack have fled to…'
Marika checked the wolf and told Canus it had passed away.
"Where did they run off to?"
'If they went to the village then they will be caught in the traps that were set, if not then we just have to hunt them down again.'