Hide and seek

'Those villagers were the loyal servants of Lunae Lumen, so no king in his right mind would attack his own people who had served their former king and queen, and are even loyal to their new ruler.'

'If you guys are aiming to become the new rulers of Ignis then this country is doomed to fall…because with all you have done up until now is making enemy's with countries that can invade you and kill all of you.'

"And even if you were to overthrow the king, me and my wife would take in the people of The Black Dragon Clan, and would sever any ties to Ignis. Because alliances are made between people and not land."

'But what should I care…because not once did you attack me but you did it twice…never mind you guys did it three times already.'

'Hit me and I'll hit back, attack me and I'll attack back, try to kill me and your dead.

"But we haven't…."

"That's where you are wrong, your first attack on her was when you took parts of her magic, your second attack on her was when you attacked Faber Village and caused her to lose someone who was like a grandfather to her, your third attack on her was stabbing our son…"

"And that attack was also an attack on me, so you inevitably declared a war on me."

'Husband since we explained it all to them already, and the head of the clan got out save and sound, should we start killing them?'

"Are you sure he got out? I don't want to have blood of innocent people on me."

'Yes, Arthur got him out and so are the people who wanted to evacuate, The blue rose sent was released 5 minutes ago and the frost lily sent not long after that.'

A guard came running "Master the clan head escaped!"

'See… told you so.'

The man looked in surprise by Marika's words.

"When did he escape and how?"

"Not long ago around 5 minutes, he was helped by a vampire and prince Canus."

Marika and Richard smirked at them.

Richard gave her kiss "You really came up with a good plan, even thought it was last minute."

'But I still need to know who of these bastards set up that facility.'

A few man started to look anxious more than they did before and Marika noticed.

'SO! TELL ME!'

'Why did you guys found it so funny to set up a facility and made people like me have to suffer, and get their magic stole, change their body's and clone people.'

'Did you guys really think that people who suffered greatly by your hands would never have the guts to come here and get their revenge?'

'DO YOU REALLY THINK WE WOULD STAY QUIET AND DOWN!'

Suddenly a portal appeared and Richard knew it wasn't William and then he saw people come through the portal, there were at least 30 people coming through it and Richard was amazed by the numbers.

Dante and Arthur also come in to the room and joined Marika and the group of people.

Richard looked in amazement at Marika, she managed to find other victims or the families of victims and she brought them all here to hear the truth and exact their own revenge on them if they wanted to.

When the group of man saw Dante and Arthur they knew it was all over.

"We…we set up the facility in order to find ways to evolve our species and eternal life."

"It's common knowledge that some species live longer than others or have abilities that could be beneficial to us."

Then one of the man looked at Marika "When you were brought to us we knew we had the new Guardian of the 3 Worlds in our hands and your healing magic was extraordinary, we couldn't make any cuts in you because they healed instantly, when we finally found a way to seal your magic you still seem to have the ability to heal yourself internally…even though we took out some organs, but they grew back even when you were sealed. We thought we finally found the way to maintain a body's regenerative ability."

"As for Prince Alec and His Highness Dante…We were told to hide His Highness Dante for a few years and put him in to staces and then brought back to Sanguis Family."

"Prince Alec was… he was with us for a long time and put in to staces and messed with his memories and altered his face. By the time Prince Alec was released His Highness Dante was one year older then Prince Alec, it was so to confuse the outside world and make it harder to recognize them."

The people were shocked by what they heard about Marika, Arthur and Dante.

"And you didn't stop there…When I was just a baby you pulled cell samples, bone marrow and even T cells from my body. No adult can coop with those kinds of thing let alone a baby of 6 months old. And after all that harvesting you made a clone out of me."

"We did, but he shouldn't be alive because his body was unstable from the beginning."

Lenis appeared suddenly.

"Well I'm sorry to disappoint you, because I'm very much alive as you can see."

The man looked shocked when Lenis appeared in front of them.

Dante hanged his arm around his shoulder "Little brother since you are a nice guys and wouldn't hurt a fly, do you want your big brother to cut them down for you?"

"Thanks brother, I appreciate that very much."

"But how…you were unstable and after your eyes were altered your body was crumbling even more."

"Your biggest mistake, was throwing her in my room before you took half of her magic away. Her healing magic is what saved me and made my body stable."

"The only thing I had to do was play dead and wait for the opportunity to escape your facility."

"You're a fake and nothing more than a copy of the original! You will never have a place in this world!" one of the man yelled at Lenis.

Marika and Dante both lashed out to man.

'Shut your trap!'

"He is not a fake! He is my little brother!'

Lenis hugged Dante and Marika and looked at the man.

"You can't hurt me with your words, because my sister Yumaria already told me that I'm real in every sense of the word, a person with his own emotions and dreams. And my brother Dante told me I'm his little brother and he doesn't see it any other way."

"And as for my father Dantis… he told me I'm his son and I take more after my mother then him."

"Nobody around me denies my existence."

Marika then turned to the people, 'So what do you guys want to do with them?'

'You can kill them or torture them as you please…'

"We would like to see them dead and suffer."

'I wish I could but…'

Marika was thinking 'I have an idea…Canus I have a job for you!' As she told him telepathic.

Canus arrived 'What can I do for you Queen Yumaria?'

'You see these people, they want them to suffer but, just like Lenis they could never find it in their hearts to hurt somebody even thought they were hurt.'

Canus looked at the group of victims "Just tell me the way you want them to suffer and killed and I make sure it will be done."

A woman walked up to Marika and gave her a hug and broke down.

'Your Majesty is to kind, my life was hell, I got accused for killing my own child and the only one who believed me was my husband. Even though I'm still exiled from my clan, knowing these people will get what they deserve is more than enough for us.'

Marika patted the woman on her back and tried to soothe her.

'It's alright, we have all the evidence in the human world, if you need it, let The Green Dragon Clan know and they will send it to you so you can clear your name, and if you have any trouble with that let them inform me and I will personally deal with them.'

'Thank you so much Your Majesty.'

Canus was done recording everything.

"I have all their wished Queen Yumaria" a large group of soldiers came in to the room and took the men away.

Marika smiled 'Have fun, and let your brother join the fun if he wants to too.'

Canus bowed and left the room.

All the people who were send to her finally got to hear the truth and thanked her for showing them that even if she got hurt she was willing to stand against those who hurt her and not going down quietly like they had.

Richard walked over to Marika "How did you find them?"

'Vincent and the boys helped me, and it was Vincent who send them over here.'

"Was this your plan C?"

Marika chuckled 'Something like that, I thought they had the right to know and speak their wishes for their fate.'

Suddenly Marika got attacked by Arthur, Dante and Lenis with a warm hug.

Marika smiled at them.

"Thanks to you we were able to find the truth and close that part of our life's."

'Hum… me too, thanks to you all I got my magic back and be back to who I always was.'

"But now that we saw that doctor again, means he cloned himself and we need to find where he has his clones stored."

'I leave the search for that up to Cinis and Canus on this end.'

Vincent arrived and came to pick up the people.

'Vincent before you leave', Marika whispered to him what she had found out and told him to send out the word to find if he has a facility in the human word.

He nodded and left.

Marika waved everybody goodbye and wished them all well.

Just as Marika and Richard wanted to leave an group of soldiers together with an man and a women arrived in the room.

The woman hysterically started to scream at Marika

'Where is my son!, Give me back my son!'

Marika sighed a bit and then walked over to the woman and gave her a slap in the face.

The man got enraged by Marika's action but Richard drew his sword and pointed it at the man.

"On step towards my wife, and I will end your life!"

Marika looked at the woman, 'You mean the young man that's walks around with other people's magic… Sure you can have him back, when we took out what doesn't belong to him in the first place.

Marika sounded very cold.

The woman looked at Marika with fear in her eyes.

"Do you plan to kill our child like that?" the man started to yell.

Marika walked over to the man and slapped him to the ground and then walked away.

Marika changed to her 7th form, Richard noticed that Marika was letting out killing intend and a heavy pressure.

Richard had a bad feeling about it and hugged her from behind and whispered "Sweetheart calm down, if you don't control yourself then even I could get hurt."

Marika started to calm down because she didn't want to hurt Richard. She turned around in his arms and laid her head against his chest. She closed her eyes and listen to his calm heartbeat.

Richard stroke her head "Good girl, just focus on my heartbeat."

The man and woman kept on demanding they bring back their son.

"You heard my wife, he will return ones the magic he carries is taken out of him."

"And you dare to act like this in front of me The King of The Moon Kingdom and ruler of Lunae Lumen?"

After a few minutes Marika was her calm self again.

She looked at the man and woman 'Your son is carrying half of the magic of a guard of The Guardian of the 3 worlds. You think I would let him be and just have it…'

'Do you have any idea how the person who's magic got stolen is suffering…'

'You f*cking greedy snakes think your above everybody…'

"Your lying! There has not been a Guardian for 75 years and the…"

'If and when the Guardian die's a new one shall be born. The world shall never be without an Guardian.'

'And to be correct, the 3 worlds were without a guardian for 52 years all thanks to The World of Light… A new Guardian has already been born 23 years ago and she is now restoring the order and peace, because the balance has be disturb by greedy and selfish people like yourselves.'

The man and woman fell through their knees "Our son is going to die… if his magic is getting removed he will die…"

Marika looked at the man 'As long as your son keeps carrying his current magic he will die! His body was never made to handle magic from the beginning.' Marika sighed in frustration.

"She is right, although he has inner energy his current magic is not compatible… Instead of looking at my wife as a murderer she is actually saving your son by taking him to Moon Castle."

Richard looked at Marika, "How long before his body will be damaged beyond saving?"

'A year at most.'

"And how long for the original owner?"

'Well…he has the same issues I have, regressing when his body or mind is under a lot of stress, but I didn't see any major problems…But then again I need Genus to assess his body and health and energy state.'

Richard nodded.

'There is going to be a problem on returning his magic…while I'm part Azure we could do it at the temple, but he is not and since it requires you a lot of energy to do that, the only place I can think of is Lunar Lake to do it, but…'

Richard saw concern in her eyes. "I get it…let's think of a solid plan before we do anything."

"Let's go home, you look tired and you had a long night last night."

As Richard and Marika wanted to leave they were stopped by the soldiers.

Richard drew his sword and just cut down one soldier "Seems I have to cut a path so we can leave."

The man then backed off and let them pass

'Seems that they are not all stupid' and Richard and Marika left the room.

When they came outside they saw a lot of dead bodies.

'Seems that Dante is fallowing in my and Canus footsteps.' Marika sighted.

"Well my love, that isn't so bad…" And Richard gave her a kiss.

Marika contacted Cinis and asked were everybody was.

"The refugees were brought to Queentia by air and Arthur and Dante should be with my father waiting for you."

'Alright.'

[Ignis castle]

Marika and Richard arrived at the castle and were welcomed by Cillus.

Marika gave him a hug but didn't speak a word, when she let go of him she walked away.

When she arrived at her greenhouse she closed the door behind her and fell apart completely.

All the creatures that were staying at the greenhouse had seen Marika coming in and noticed she was very sad and partially in pain.

As Marika was sitting there crying they all curled up around her and on her to comfort her.

Cillus asked Richard "What is wrong with her?"

"Well a part of her is now closing her second bad chapter of her life… but she also found out that one of the 5 doctors has clones hidden somewhere, so it doesn't matter if she kills him a another clone will pop-up again."

'She already told me that she will let Cinis and Canus to look for a the potential hidden place in this world and Vincent in the human world."

"But now that she knows that he has cloned himself she feels she is still haunted by her early past."

Suddenly Richard felt a deep pain in his chest, Cillus look concerned "What's wrong?"

"Marika… she is in danger."

Dante noticed something was off with Marika and came running to Richard to inform him but he saw that he was collapsing and held his hand against his chest and was having a hard time breathing.

Kevin, William and Luca came by portal and saw Richard was fighting to stay conscious.

Before Richard passed out from the pain he saw Solis and Caelum flying towards the greenhouse.

After half an hour Richard started to regain his conscience.

Genus was sitting next to him.

"Where is Marika?"

Genus looked dejected and shook his head.

Richard started to get agitated "Where is Marika!"

"Keep your voice down."

Richard didn't understand what was going on.

"How are you feeling?" Genus asked him.

"I'm fine, now tell me where is Marika."

"I'll only bring you to her if you promise me to stay calm."

Richard felt something was not right but he nodded.

Richard fallowed Genus to another room and saw everybody was crying, Richard walked in to the room and saw Marika lying on a bed.

Richard rushed over and checked on her but he noticed her hand was as cold as ice.

"This can't be real, this is not real…"

"I'm sorry but she died."

"Your lying!, Marika isn't dead! I don't believe you!"

Richard just couldn't believe what he just heard. He knew in his heart it was all a lie, because he know she would do anything in her power to stand next to him, she would refuse to give up, even when she died once before she was fighting with all her might and stalled the irreversible, that day she should have only had mere minutes left but she held up for an hour. There was no way she would leave him without saying a word of goodbye to him.

"I don't believe you, she is not dead!"

Suddenly he felt a warmth that he knew very well and saw a pair of arms around him.

'Nice try... but my husband knows very well I won't die that easily.'

Richard smiled.

"Sweetheart what's going on?"

'Well… this is all my fault, when I attack that doctor somebody must have slipped a spell on me and it would affect me and the one closest to me.'

'Solis and Caelum managed to take the spell of me first, and the 3 of us are working on your body.'

'The backlash I will suffer from this won't be pretty, and Luca was against it.'

'But I told him to shut up, because he wouldn't understand, and I redder suffer from this backlash then not having you in my life.'

Richard gave her a kiss, "But why did I feel a pain in my chest?"

'That's because I placed a special bonding spell on you, one that connect us by our hearts, I know it's actually very dangerous but…'

"I'm glad you did, because a life without you is boring and my heart would have broken anyway if I lost you."

'One more thing… when you come to your senses I'm going to need you because I will be helpless for some time.'

"For how long?"

'According to our eldest roughly a month.'

"Alright, see you on the other side."

Marika nodded and left.

Richard woke up and got a hug attack from Solis and Caelum.

"Dad! Thank god you're alright." Caelum cried softly.

"You and mom really have a habit to take years of our life's." Solis said to Richard.

"Where is your mother?"

Luca came up to Richard with Marika in his arms.

Marika regressed all the way to a baby dragon and was sleeping in his arms.

Richard took Marika from Luca and held her in his arms.

"Your so darn cute, just like when we first met." Richard whispered.

"How are you feeling?"

"I feel fine, but I do want to murder the person who did this to us."

"Well since they are all in the dungeon here and I gave Canus 6 more bags of healing pills you have all the time in the world to find out who did this."

"But still for my sister to go through such a risky thing to save you… I will lock her up."

Richard laughed "Well I don't think she will be able to do anything reckless at the moment, and you don't need to lock her up, because she is in this state. She already told me she would need me because she would be helpless so she has already handed me her leash, she can't go far from me and I doubt she will."

Luca patted her head "Well at least now she is forced to rest up and relax."

Marika perked up and start to hide behind Richard.

Luca and Richard looked puzzled but then there was a knock on the door.

Luca opened the door and saw Genus standing, "Great your finally here, I need you to check on Richard and my sisters body if there aren't any problems."

"What happened?"

Richard explained everything that had happened. And Luca told him what Marika and the kids had done.

"Marika told me she placed a special bonding spell on me, one that connect our hearts…"

"Is that girl insane!!!!"

"Where is she now, because that spell although it could tell either of you when one of you is on the brink of death, if you or she had died, your heart suffers severe damage."

"So…even if she didn't placed that bonding spell on me, if I lost her, my heart would suffer severe damage anyway." Richard shrugged his shoulders.

Luca wanted to laugh but he kept it in.

"Well I don't see any traces of that spell on you, and it seems that the little girl went the extra mile for you."

"What do you mean?"

Genus gave him a mirror.

Richard looked at himself in the mirror and saw his current age.

"What the hell! I look like an 18 year old!"

Behind him he felt Marika shaking in fear.

"Don't worry dad… just like mom it won't be forever, you regressed only a little in order to save you…"

Marika was still shaking behind Richard.

"By the way, where is she?"

"Sweetie I'm not mad at you, I'm just a little surprised that's all."

Marika slowly came from behind Richard and showed herself.

Genus saw the baby dragon and his jaw dropped and his eyes were wide of shock.

"Oh my god! Little girl how did this happen?" Genus walked up to her but suddenly Marika started to hiss at him.

Genus stopped in his tracks and took of his glasses. He saw nothing out of the ordinary and her inner energy was stable.

"How is this possible… she shouldn't have regressed like this, her energy is stable for some time now and it still is."

Genus again tried to move closer but Marika still hissed at him.

"Don't worry she is the same with me, look"

Luca took a few steps closer to her and Marika started to hiss at him.

"I already called for Alex to come over, because I have a feeling she won't act like that to him."

Just as Luca spoke the words there was a knock on the door.

Luca opened the door and Alex stood there in his 7 year old body and ran up to his sister.

Surprisingly she didn't hiss at him, and also started to run up to him.

"Just as I thought, she regressed to a time when she was only a few months old."

Richard came from the bed and walked over to them, Marika didn't hiss at Richard.

"Why isn't she hissing at him?" Genus asked.

"That's because I visited the human world once, because her grandmother pleaded to me for protection of Marika."

"Her grandmother told me Marika was the new Guardian of the 3 Worlds, and she showed me the proof of it."

Richard then took Marika over from Alex and showed them a mark that was on her belly.

"Richard promised grandma he would protect her if she would ever come to his world, but he could not do anything for her as long as she was in the human world because of the promise that was made after the great war and he would uphold that old promise."

"Your grandmother respected my words, but at the same time knew that after many years I would not recognize her so she had me place a mark on her."

"I asked your grandmother what her name was and after she had told me I placed a mark fitting of her name."

"Sweetie can you show them the meaning of your name?"

Marika looked at Richard and started to concentrate.

A star started to form and glow on her head.

Richard smiled at her "You're the brightest start that shines in the sea, so keep shining bright and I will always know where you are in the sea that is called the world."

Marika nuzzled Richard.

"On the day we met, just before she died, I felt that I was about to lose something important and that's when her mark started to glow. But I still left her with the choice to keep living as a being of the night."

"When she said she didn't mind I awakened her original soul and kept the promise I made with your grandmother."

"If you would say fate has brought us together again…, fate nor destiny is something that can be applied to her, because she has a neck for changing them all the time."

"I would say it was purely her will that brought her to me, because she told me once, she was always looking for me."

Richard had a warm smile.

"Sweetie do you want to play the games we played before?"

Marika perked up.

"What kind of games did you play?" Luca asked.

"It's a form of hide and seek, only it's called hunting." Alex answered.

"If I remember correctly Marika won them all the time, no matter how hard we tried… she even found us when we used a spell to make us invisible."

"Let's do it, they can see how smart and strong she was when she was only a baby."

"Can I join too?" Kevin asked?

"Why not…I think it will be a good challenge for her the more people she has to hunt." Alex said.

"Count me in too." Dante said. "It's also a good training exercise for me."

While the four of them left the room Alex and Richard started to explain the rules, they couldn't use any weapons or magic, but they could use things like sticks to defend them self's and transforming was also allowed, but if they lost they had to say I give up and head back.

William and the others also went outside but weren't participating but watch from the air.

Richard put Marika on the ground "You know the rules, no killing and don't injure us too bad we can't heal like you do.

Marika looked at Richard and nuzzled him.

"Now turn around and no peaking, when you hear a whistle sound you can chase us."

Marika turned around and closed her eyes.

After a few minutes all 4 of them whistled at the same time, signaling the hunt could begin.

Marika took off and Genus was surprised by how fast she was.

Genus decided to have a good look about her hunting skills and transformed to have a look from the sky. The others fallowed him because they thought it was an interesting show to watch.

Marika was down on the ground searching for her first victim, but her first victim wasn't somebody who was participating in the game.

Canus was lazing around on a tree branch, Marika sneaked up to him and stalked him. Canus noticed somebody was watching him and felt a killing intend on him.

As he looked around he didn't see anybody but he didn't shrugged it off. Marika noticed he was on high alert and slowly and silently creep up behind him and then attacked him.

Canus was surprised by the attack and fell down from the tree, as he hit the ground he broke his arm when he landed, he let out an agonizing scream of pain.

Canus then saw his attacker and pulled his sword, this made Marika hiss at him and stood her ground and attack Canus again.

Canus swung his sword at her but she dodged his strike and bit down in his arm that he was holding his sword.

Genus observed it all but saw it was getting dangerous and went down.

Luca and Genus yelled at Canus to tell her he would give up.

"I give up!"

Genus and Luca landed, Genus picked up Marika and started to scold her.

"Little girl what the hell are you doing!"

"He did not join your little hunting game! Don't you start attacking innocent people now!"

"When you're done with your little game you better heal him when you get back or ELSE!"

Marika who was held by Genus hissed and snap at him.

"Ohh you better stop it or the consequence will be dire for you! DO YOU UNDERSTAND!?"

Marika stopped her behavior but was still growling in his arms.

"Now go hunt down your husband and brothers and leave anybody else alone!"

Genus put Marika down on the ground.

"Now get out of here!"

Marika hissed at Genus one more time before she ran off again.

Genus had a good look of Canus injuries.

"Well aren't you lucky it's a clean fracture and we don't have to set your bone."

"Who was that baby dragon?"

"That was my sister." Luca answered him while treating his injuries

"Your saying that little murdering thing was Mari?"

They both nodded.

Canus looked shocked at the two of them.

"But why did she attack me?"

"Well she is in the middle of a hunting game with Richard and her brothers. But we didn't know she would attack anybody who isn't participating in the game."

"It's a good thing I decided to observe her, because she is currently a baby right now and it seems she is mostly moving around on instinct and she doesn't have the awareness of her adult self, she is a child on the outside and inside right now. And when she is back to normal I doubt she would even remembering she did this to you."

Canus couldn't believe what he just heard.

Luca was done tending his injuries and changed in to a dragon.

"Let's go back because it's too dangerous to stay here when she hunting."

Canus stood up and Luca put him on his back, he took off to the castle

Genus resumed his observation of Marika during the hunting game.

Her next victim was Dante, she was stalking him for a good 15 minutes. He noticed Marika's killing intent and was on high alert, he used his training and kept on moving while he was trying to pinpoint her location.

Marika then moved ahead of him and waited for him to pass by so she could ambush him.

When Dante was passing her she came out of hiding and attack him, but he evaded her incoming attack.

He knew he couldn't use a weapon so he would evade her and try to find an opening to pin her down.

After a struggle that took half an hour Marika had pinned down Dante. Just as she wanted to bite him he told her he gave up.

Marika holed her attack and got off from Dante.

"Sister is just to strong no matter what your age is and what form you take."

Dante opened his arms and Marika pounced at him and he hugged and cuddled her. She enjoyed her cuddle session with Dante.

"Let's do this again, but sis did you attack Canus an hour ago?"

Marika flinched a little "Sis it's not right to just attack anybody you see, you better apologize to him when the game is over. I bet he feel's hurt and he doesn't know why you did that and why he deserved your attacking him."

Marika whined a little telling Dante she was sorry.

"Now you have 3 more pray to catch, and don't attack any innocent creatures and people, make sure you know you have the right target before you attack."

Marika nuzzled Dante and left for her next target.

Luca arrived back at the castle with the injured Canus, Cillus and his brother ran up to him.

"What happened to you?" Cinis asked his brother.

"Mari did this to me, even though she is now a baby she is even more dangerous than when she is an adult."

"How bad are your injuries?" Cillus asked him.

"I broke my arm, she bit me in my other arm and I have a few scratches and bruises."

"Don't worry, she got a firm scolding from Genus."

"Don't bother to bring her to me when she gets back to apologize to me, I don't want to see her for a while."

Canus pride was also injured and he went back in to the castle with a pouting look on his face.

Cillus looked at his son walking away and sighed.

"Don't worry dad, just let him calm down for the time being. Although his pride got a big blow, what bother him the most now is that Mari attacked him like this."

"Well knowing Mari even if he tells her to get lost she will break down his door and apologize to him."

Luca and Cinis started to laugh, "That would be so like her."

Outside Marika had already found and Alex and Kevin, they both had put up a good fight but were no match for her.

Marika now was hunting down her last pray while hunting she let go of her killing intent and took a small break. She knew her last pray was smart and cunning, she knew that she wasn't hunting an ordinary pray she was hunting a hunter.

She changed her hunting tactics and found a river and was playing in the water.

Genus who was still in the air with William saw Richard not far from her. He noticed Richard was hunting and stalking Marika, who they thought didn't notice Richard coming for her.

Marika picked up on Richard scent and rolled around in the mud she made some fake tracks and she buried herself in the mud and laid absolutely still to blend in, in her surroundings.

Richard came to the river and saw her tracks, and he guarded up and was on high alert. Marika noticed but she calmly just waited for him to get close.

Because Marika was covered in mud he couldn't pick up her scent and could only rely on the potential sounds and vibration that she would give off, but he couldn't pick up on it. He slowly investigate her tracks.

Richard smiled and got the gist of what she was doing. "My wife is so smart."

Richard looked around and Marika was patiently waiting for the opportunity to strike. It was a battle of patients.

He moved to the water bank and was sitting next to her. Richard drank some water, and see if she would attack him from the water, but still Marika was waiting and didn't move. Richard waited a few more minutes, but it seemed to him that she didn't attack him and dropped his guard a little.

Just as he wanted to get back up Marika lunged at him, Richard fell back in surprise and Marika was sitting on top of him claiming the victory.

She knew he would automatically give up.

Richard petted her "I still can't beat you, your just to smart."

"Now let's wash of that mud from you."

Marika jumped off from Richard and jumped into the water and Richard started scrubbed her down till she was all clean again.

William and Genus came down while Marika was swimming around.

Genus told him what she did to Canus at the beginning of the game.