Marika landed and all The Guards of the Guardian stood next to her.
Maurus and Alice still couldn't move because of the pressure she was emitting.
She roared out loud.
She looked through the crowd and saw Lex and Elior also frozen on the spot, and told carl to get them out, she order Rex to get her brothers and Ivy, she ordered Canus to take his father and brother out of there too.
Little Marika who was Yume now was also frozen on the spot and Marika walked up to her.
'Hey sis…welcome home…' Marika roared at her.
'You look pretty pissed…but I really worked hard to protect my bro in law.'
Marika picked you little Marika 'Yume…'
'Yes sis…' Little Marika looked a little scared but remained calm.
'Good girl, now go over to your brother in law and protect him from the sl*t a little longer, and I lecture you later.'
Little Marika saluted her, and Marika put her back on the ground.
Richard saw Little Marika coming over "Yume are you alright?"
'Wow that was intense…remind me to never piss her off to that extend…she is super scary now.'
"I know, even I'm afraid of her right now."
'Big baby'
"No I'm not, you may not know this…but your sister is The Guardian of The 3 World, she is technically above us all and even we kings can't go against her…unless we have a death wish."
"So whatever she decides to do, even if she decides to wipe out the entire Astrum clan, if we speak up about that we can be seen as traitors and undermining her authority."
'Well if she is going to do that then we just let her do that, I mean it's not the worst thing in the 3 worlds anyway, we can do without them anyway.'
'I say good riddance.'
Marika heard every word of little Marika and walked over to Richard and her.
Marika was towering over then and looked down on them and let out a loud roar.
Richard, Dantis and little Marika all had to covered their ears because it was to load.
When she was done Richard looked up to her nervous "Welcome home sweetheart."
Marika sniffed Richard and couldn't pick up any scent of Alice on him and she nuzzled him.
'You're not out of the woods yet.'
"I know…"
Marika turned around and was standing in front of Maurus and Alice, but she was focused on the priest instead of them.
'High Priest, can we make a new law about marriage?'
Marika picked him up and put him down again, she laid down whipping her tail up and down.
"What does The Guardian have in mind?"
'Let see…how about when a king or queen marries a Guardian this marriage can never be revoked by any law, rule or time of absence of the spouse.'
'It can only be revoke if there is no mark on both parties, or when either one of them died, but a body needs to be presented and a burial was held.'
"So your implying that it can only be revoked by death or mutual consent for divorces."
Marika nodded.
'As you can see, being The Guardian of the 3 World there will be situations that will have the spouse disappear for a year or even longer.'
'This whole situation literally caused me my marriage, and when I get back my husband was about to get married to some tramp.'
'For all I know they have done it on a bed together, what is adultery by any law, holy or political.'
"I do see your point, you had to suffer because your marriage got revoke because you disappeared during a war and freeing two clans in the process."
"I think it is unfair to The Guardian of the 3 World, you had no say or knowledge that your marriage would be revoked."
"But what if they spouses don't have any heir at that time? You of all should know that an heir to a throne is important."
'Humm… well was there ever an issue about that for king Lunam about an heir? As you know we have eight adoptive children so…'
'For those ministers to even think of the excuse that he had no heir to the throne was preposterous to begin with.'
'And even so… if they have a child or not should not matter, if they have each other's mark then that is all that should matter, because being marked means that they are working on a heir. And if they have an adopted child or one of their own that should not be the issue.'
Marika was still whipping her tail up and down but it wasn't out of agitation but more like impatience.
'But to be honest me and Richard were already married under the law of The Founding Green Dragon Clan in the human world. And that is binding and can never be revoked under any law of rule. But I think it's idiotic that something like that don't hold any weight in this world.'
"If I'm not mistaken marriage under The Founding Green Dragon clan a mark would be placed by the clan head, and something like that should hold weight even here under the holy law of the Azure Dragon Clan."
"Can you show me the mark? "
Marika nodded and told Richard to come over.
Marika changed in to her 7th stage.
The both showed the mark that was left on their hands by Luca.
She even showed her mark that was left by Richard on her body, and Richard did the same.
The Priest nodded.
"Well since The Guardian arrived back before the time limit your marriage is still intact."
Everybody started to cheer and roar out of happiness.
"That's not possible she returned 5 minutes past 12!"
'So… that left me with 55 minutes to spare, because me and Richard got married at 1 in the afternoon one year ago…'
Alice was now fuming with rage and transformed and charged at Marika, Richard and the High Priest.
Marika pushed the two man to the side but she got caught by Alice in her jaws and she bit down on Marika very hard.
Marika didn't make a sound nor cried out of a pain.
'You stupid b*tch, you think this is something that will faze me?'
Marika pulled out a new sword Regina Omnium Draconum (queen of all dragons).
Marika aimed for her eye and mercilessly stabbed her in it.
Alice let her go and Marika dropped to the ground.
All the Guard surrounded her and Genus looked at Marika seeing her remove her bracelets and belt, her healing magic started to take effect immediately.
Marika got up and transformed, she then started her attack on Alice and she was losing to Marika.
Maurus transformed as well and started to attack Marika, Rex and Canus wanted to help her but Marika told them to stay out of it.
Maurus commanded for the others to transform as well and attack her.
All the Guard couldn't stand on the side line even if she told them to do so.
While the guards were keeping the others away from Marika, she still had a hard time fighting two full grown dragon, Richard knew she could hold her own against one, but two…
Maurus and Alice were tearing in to Marika but she didn't give in or give up.
She used her tail and whipped the both of them she then attack Alice blind side and teared her wings of her back, this made her to stay down for some time.
Marika then focused on Maurus "YOU B*TCH! YOUR GOING TO PAY FOR THAT."
Maurus charged at Marika and she waited for him to get close and she whipped him with her tail and then pushed him to the ground.
Marika then grabbed him by the throat and crushed it, what caused Maurus to die instantly.
Marika let out a loud roar.
Alice saw it all happen before her eyes and her father's death body send her in a berserk state.
Marika was getting tired because her magic and energy got drained quit a bit and she still was wearing her necklace so she had only 75% of her energy to work with and she was drained by 50%.
Marika was pushed back by Alice and Marika went down.
Alice took this chance and called for all the clan member to come down.
Marika got up and told Richard to evacuate everybody in to the palace.
"Sweetie…"
'The people are the biggest priority.'
Richard evacuated everybody and Marika transformed back to her 7the stage and took of her necklace and took a few pills.
She pulled out her swords and because the bigger they are the harder they fall.
All the clan members' looked down at Marika and started to attack her.
Marika was just buying herself sometime so her energy would be restored to its full capacity.
She mowed down a few dragons and got back up from Nova, Regina and Khai.
All the other dragons started to help out too.
Marika was finally recharged and transformed again and roared out loud and charged at Alice and attacked her over and over Marika finally got her down.
'You had the nerve to prevent the father of my children to see them, you beat them up and even let them starve to death… death is too easy for you. You are one rotten dragon and your whole clan is full of rotten dragons.'
Marika broke all her legs.
'KILL ALL THE DRAGONS OF THE ASTRUM CLAN!'
'NO!!!'
Marika joined the others and helped them get rid of them all and she mercilessly killed them all.
Alice saw all her clan members getting slaughter.
Richard had also returned to see how Marika was doing but when he heard what she said.
Alice begged him to stop her.
"Are you insane?"
"You know the word of The Guardian is something we can't go against."
"And why should I, you threatened me with my children, you beat them and almost kill them."
Richard called out to Marika
Marika came over, "She begged me to stop you, but I told her I can't do that."
'Is this girl stupid? Did nobody taught her that The Guardian of the 3 Worlds stand above you all…'
'Darling, let Alex Luca and the kids deal with her, you just make sure they stay safe.'
"I will."
Marika joined the battle and saved Genus from an incoming attack.
'Hey white coat are you alright?'
"Well I'm not a fighter…"
'I know why don't you just do what your job subscribes you to do and sit at the side line.'
"Thanks little girl."
Marika counted the amount of dragons that were left and it would be enough for her, Levi, Michael and Canus to handle.
Marika told everybody to get out of the way and to let her and Levi, Michael and Canus to handle it.
The 4 of them nodded to each other and started to attack them, they were so savage and start to tear them apart.
after an hour the whole Astrum Clan got destroyed.
Marika let out a loud roar, and the others roared with her in victory.
Marika looked at Canus and asked 'Are you cured for a while now?'
"Hum… I think I'll be good for a few years now."
Marika whipped Canus with her tail on his head.
"Au! What the hell!"
Marika grind 'That for wanting to call the old pervert over.'
"You heard that from so far away?"
'Well yeh… I poses a copy of Khai's original magic so I used clairvoyance before I came here.'
"WHAT!!!!!"
Canus, Levi and Michael just couldn't believe what they just heard.
'Oh did I forget tell you I have now 3 magic circles in me'
"WHAT!!!"
'Damn you guys are so loud.'
Marika started to stagger and fell through legs.
"Yumaria!"
Michael helped Marika up while she was looking at 3 people standing only a few meter away.
'So you pests found the exit… couldn't you just stay down there and die?'
Canus saw Raphael and his father and uncle standing in front of them.
Canus still had some energy left so he could fight them but Levi and Michael had barely any energy left and Marika could fight since she was staggering, he knew she was hit with something.
"Sis are you poisoned or is it sedative?"
'I don't know you have to ask Genus…'
"You don't have to worry, she got hit with 2 poisons and 5 sedatives."
'Pfft… Really ahaha well sedatives won't work that long on me anyway and the 2 poisons, well I just take a few pills.'
Richard transformed and charged at the three of them.
He picked up Raphael and trampled Reinel and his brother in the process.
'Darling don't forget to shew on him extra hard!'
Marika smiled and Canus looked at her.
'What?'
"Nothing sis."
Genus came up to them while Richard was stomped on Raphael's mauled body
"Pfft, you got 5 sedative and 2 poisons in your system."
'Right…'
"And the sedatives aren't even strong ones even if you were to fall asleep you would wake up at most after 15 minutes."
'Well I take my candy and then close my eyes for a short 15 minute nap.'
Marika took her special medicine.
Richard transformed back and came up to her.
'Are they dead for real now?'
"They should be."
Canus walked over to the body and confirmed they were dead.
'You know what to do.'
Marika closed her eyes and fell asleep.
Richard picked her up and carried her back.
Everybody looked concerned when they saw Marika sleeping.
"Don't worry, the only reason the 5 sedative are having an effect on her is because she was pretty tired, if she wasn't these 5 sedatives wouldn't even make her drowsy."
Canus came back "Well the only thing that remains of them are ashes.
Canus then spotted a torn up body of a dragon.
"Is she dead?"
'No…'
"But she will be in a few hours."
"Just let it lie there, she should suffer while dying."
"Just check on her after a few hours and burn all the body's later." Richard whispered to Canus.
Canus nodded and everybody returned to the castle.
Marika was sleeping on the bed with all her children and even her grandchildren.
After 15 minutes Marika woke up and she had slept for 30 minutes.
She looked around and saw a familiar ceiling and smiled.
'I'm finally home.'
Marika got up and took a bath she dressed herself and went to the room where Sidus violin was and started to play.
The sound she plaid was compassionate and she could see the bodies of the fallen Astrum clan burn.
'I pray for you all that your next life is a better and happier one.'
Everybody in the palace heard her play and Caligo asked "Is she playing a parting song for the fallen?"
I'll pray for you my beloved children.
You who have left the world.
Come to me my children who are stuck in the dark.
Come to me, your guiding light.
I'll send you to where you belong.
Take my hand my beloved children.
I will hold hit and guide you on your journey.
I'll pray for you my beloved children.
You who have left the world.
Come to me my children who are stuck in the dark.
Come to me, your guiding light.
Your new life starts on this road.
Fallow this path to a better place.
We arrived my beloved children.
And now I'll let you go.
As for your next journey, you need to walk this road alone.
I will always watch over you from above.
And once you get lost, just look up.
You will find me there, your guiding light.
I'll pray for you my beloved children.
I'll be always near.
Everybody was silent when they heard Marika sing the song.
It was just like her violin play before compassionate and warm
But her song was on a different level.
It was like an angle singing and calling for all soul to gather to her so she could send them of.
When Marika was done with her song Nova came up to her on the roof.
'Am I still a kind person?'
"I think you are, and although you ended their lives you showed them the way to new a life, even to the people who tried to rob you from everything."
'I think your right, kindness comes in many different ways I guess.'
Marika hugged Nova and they both watch the stars.
Khai and Regina also joined her.
"Mom."
'What is it'
"Did you finally obtain you last desire?"
'Who knows only time will tell.'
'But I think I'm at the starting point of that.'
'Mom since you were gone for a year, when are you and dad holding your wedding?'
'Well me and your dad originally would held our wedding in the spring of this year…'
'Well it will be spring next year I guess.'
"Mom although you just returned and were busy… but today is dad's birthday."
'WHAT!!!!'
Marika got up and wanted to jump down but they were 25 meters up the kids stopped her.
"Were are you going?"
Marika looked at them 'Going down, I'm going to murder those ministers.'
'But mom we are 25 meters up in the air, jumping down like that…'
'Ohh don't worry, I learned a new trick during the war.'
Marika jumped down and transformed to her 7th stage and glided down.
She landed safely and ran inside the palace again.
'Should we tell dad?'
"You want dad scold mom for being reckless?"
"He will find out sooner or later so… and technically it isn't reckless, she just is learning to use her wings in that form. Even dad doesn't know he can use them that way, but they seem to function just fine."
Marika arrived at the room where all the ministers were discussing Marika's returned and the total annihilation of The Astrum Clan.
The guard saw her but stopped her.
Richard was also present, but still sounded cold.
Marika told the guard to let her through.
The guards refused again.
'I praise your guts, but you should know better than to stop The Guardian of the 3 Worlds…'
Marika attacked the guard and kicked open the doors.
Marika walked inside 'Witch minister forced my husband to marry that slut and decided that today was the best day to do so?'
Half of the room pointed at minister Clarus.
'Ohh it's you again…'
Marika walked up to him and slapped him so hard he was thrown from his seat.
Marika was enrage at this point.
Richard stood up and tried to calm her down.
"Sweetie…" 'You stay out of this.'
Richard felt Marika's demeanor had changed a lot in the time she was gone, and he didn't know how to calm her down.
Richard tried to approach her again "Sweetie…"
'I said you stay out of this! And I already told you before you're not out of the woods yet either!'
Richard called for Luca and Genus, because he was at a loss at the moment.
They rushed over and saw Marika was losing her temper and quite fast.
Marika pulled out the sword. 'I have quiet enough of you minister Clarus…'
'Not only did you force my husband to marry a wh*re, but you also thought it was a good idea to do it on his birthday!'
'What the hell were you thinking when you got the news I was MIA?'
'Yeh I waged a ware, but I also was freeing two clans who were trap thanks to the clan of that sl*t.'
"But Your Majesty…we…we were only…"
'You were thinking what? He needed to marry a tramp, so he has a heir to the throne?'
Luca and Genus had observed her for a short moment and had a gist of what was wrong.
Luca and Genus walked in to the room and Marika noticed.
'You two better stay out of this, because I will hurt the both of you.'
"Don't worry sis we won't."
"We are only here to help your husband to understand your current anger."
Marika turned around and put her focus on the Clarus again.
'I'm fed up with you all, my husband has an heir to the throne, he has eight of them!'
'And if you think they are not worthy… two of them are as I see it, our third son looks just like him, and our second daughter looks like me…'
"But they are adopted and…"
Marika had enough her eyes changed and picked up the man.
'You dare to speak against me?'
'Fine then just die already, this castle and kingdom doesn't need stupid, corrupted people.'
'And don't you freaking dare to say anything back, you had your warning before, you all were asked if you were against me before… but if found out later you were, you would die.'
Marika threw the man out of the window and jumped down after him.
Genus and Luca looked calm as Marika jumped down to.
"Sorry brother in law but there is nothing you can do to appease her."
"Accept for the fact you were forced to marry somebody else… it was on your birth none the less…"
"I guess the little girl found out that today is your birthday, and seeing her this upset, means she is reflecting her own past birthdays on to yours."
"Well if I remember correctly the last birthday she actually celebrated and was happy was her 12th birthday."
"On her 16th birthday she left home, and I guess she didn't celebrate it again and if she did she was alone."
"But that's only a small part of her anger."
"What else…"
"Knowing she missed out on you first daughter giving birth to her children, watching the growth of your 5th son and 3rd daughter."
"Not to mention Khai, Regina and Nova's ordeal… Alex showed her a picture he took when we found them and we took them with us and of course their story behind it."
"She was completely heartbroken and blamed herself…"
"You can't imagine how hurt, and worthless she must have felt. When she was freeing people, her kids were almost killed and her husband was taken away."
"Would you consider this a fair price she should pay for being The Guardian of the 3 Worlds and restoring the balance and peace of the three worlds?" Genus asked.
"Not to mention, finding out the time flow difference is also a big factor at play here, while a year had past here, she was down there for 12 hours. Technically speaking, it has only been roughly 17 hours for her that she was at war."
"She can't coop with everything right now, she knows the time flow is different but to her the war was less than 24 hours ago… and then to top it all off she had another battle just 12 hours after a war."
"Although the little girl is strong minded…there is no way for even the strongest mind to coop with this."
"For this to get better, she will need intense therapy, but for that to happen she needs to get away from this place first and go somewhere to relax and calm down."
Richard jumped out of the window and transformed, picked up Marika and flew off.
Marika was protesting because Richard just saved the minister who was moments away from getting killed.
'What the hell do you think you're doing!'
Richard didn't respond and just kept on flying.
'Let me go! That man needs to die right this instant!'
After a few hours of flight he landed with her at the cave she had taken him, Dantis and Luca before.
When he landed he took her inside and laid down and put her next to him and unfolded one of his wings.
Marika started to walk away but Richard stopped her from doing so.
'What the hell!'
She tried a few times but Richard just pushed her back.
Marika was losing her temper but Richard didn't budge.
Marika started to hit Richard.
'Let me go! I need to kill that bastard!'
Richard still didn't talk and let her hit him.
He knew she was frustrated and angry.
'Why did you stop me from killing that greedy a*hole, he is responsible for costing our marriage, and almost killing our kids!'
'I hate you!, I hate you! Let me go so I can kill him.'
Marika fell through her knees and started to cry.
'I hate you, I hate everybody who did this to me and our children.'
'I want to leave and never return or see anybody ever again!'
Richards heart broke and transformed back and hugged her.
"You don't mean that."
'I never asked for any of this or being The Guardian of the 3 Worlds!'
'All I wanted was a normal life, I never want any of this at all.'
"I know sweetheart."
'I'm such a failure as a mother and wife!'
Marika was still crying and Richard held her tight and stroking her head while Marika was breaking down and everything that was bottled up came out.
"I know I failed as a husband and father…I'm really sorry I couldn't protect you and our children as I should have."
"You have every right to be angry at me."
"But you're not to blame for any of this…You saved so many people and I couldn't even keep three of our children save."
Richard was shaking out of anger and grieve.
Marika cried even more.
"But if you weren't the guardian, all the people you have helped and saved were otherwise never saved. Williams parents would be still trapped, Ray would never have known that Arthur was his brother and Derick and Kevin would never been reunited."
"I know that for you the war was less than a day and then had another battle."
"We all knew you would miss out on a lot of things, like Luna giving birth and watching our grandchildren grow."
"But we recorded all kinds of thing so you can look at it and wouldn't feel left out."
'It's not fair, I can only look back on it but the experience isn't the same.'
"I know sweetie…"
"That's why we are going to leave and go to the human world; you, me and the kids."
"And let's have a life you wanted, it may only be a fraction of what you wanted but…"
Marika nodded.
She slowly started to calm down.
She was exhausted and fell asleep in Richard arms.
Richard also started to calm down and transformed again and held Marika next to him and also fell asleep.
Richard was also exhausted, because he had his guard and was tens for a long time and ever since she was gone he didn't had a good night sleep.
Luca, Alex, William and Genus who had fallowed them and seen and heard everything saw them sleeping and left reassured everything was going to be fine.
"Well at least they both took the first step to recovery, all we can do now is to lend them a hand and help them to overcome this."
The four of them returned and Luca went over to Dantis.
He told him what had happened and asked "How is my brother doing on his training?"
"Well he is fine, but there is one challenge left for him."
"And what is that?"
"Killing without getting to succumbing to his urges."
"Then I have the perfect test subject."
"You mean minister Clarus."
"Yeh, she would have kill him anyway…I think is good to know for her that even if she can't do it herself her family would do it for her."
Dantis sighed a little and was thinking.
"Don't worry I and Kevin will keep an eye on him."
"Alright…it's better that he learns in a controlled environment than being on the battle field."