Silent killer

"How was she with her brothers?"

"Well she did attack them but they only got a few scratches."

"Maybe he let out an aura that she preserved as dangerous"

"Watch this."

Richard let out his killing intent but didn't look angry or anything.

Marika noticed and she jumped out of the water and started to attack him, but Richard caught her and let go of his killing intent, and Marika was calm again.

"I could never figure out why she does that, but this is why it is actually so dangerous to be around her at her current age."

"I think it's better for her to go somewhere where there are no people around her."

Genus nodded.

Marika saw Genus and hissed at him and he looked at her.

"What? You still have to apologize to Canus, and don't think about attacking me because I will sedate you."

Marika stopped her hissing at Genus and started to his at William.

William changed into his dragon form and Marika instantly stopped hissing.

Richard started to laugh "Seems she is aware that she is a dragon and won't perceive them as a threat."

Genus wanted to test this theory and walked up to her and she started to his at Genus again and he changed into his dragon form and again Marika instantly stopped hissing.

"This girl is so difficult…" Genus sighted.

"By the way Master, did she hiss at you in your human form the first time you met her?"

"She did, and she did bite me, fight me over and over again, but I never changed my appearance because, I forced her to get used to me in my human form and showed her I wasn't there to hurt her."

"After few hours she noticed I wouldn't budge and she gave up and finally understood I wasn't going to hurt her."

Richard looked at Marika who was playing with Wade in the river.

"I started this hunting game to see what she was capable of because she is the guardian. I never knew then how smart she was, but from the very start she always seem to outsmart me and Alex and she learned and adapted quit fast."

"How she is now, you could say she is close to our early feral ancestors."

"Well I thought she was already a silent killer when it comes to doctors, but it seems she took all your hunting game experience and used against them."

"Well what concerns me now is that since she will be like this for at least a month and the fact she is even smarter then back then, this can cause for a lot of problems."

Genus nodded, "Let's talk it over with everybody."

"Sweetie it's time to go back! You still have to apologize to Canus!"

Marika and Wade came out of the water.

Marika shook all the water of her body and stated to yawn a little.

"Take a nap and I'll wake you when were back."

Marika closed her eyes and fell asleep.

Richard picked her up and they all started to walk back to the castle.

[Ignis castle]

When they arrived Cillus welcomed them and saw Marika sleeping.

"Where is Canus?" Richard asked him.

Cillus sighed "He locked himself in his room, and said he didn't want to see her."

Richard woke up Marika, and she saw Cillus but she didn't hiss at him.

Genus didn't understand it at all.

"That's because of his aura, I told you before she is very sensitive about it."

"His Majesty is giving of the aura of a strong but calm dragon, and she respects her elders, she was the same around her grandmother. She always hissed at her own father for the first 3 months of her life."

Cillus looked at Marika and petted her. "It seems you made a big hole in his pride and trust, although he said he doesn't want to see you, just ignore his childish behavior and go apologize to him."

Marika nuzzled Cillus.

Richard arrived with Marika at his door.

"Canus, I heard what happened and I brought Marika over to apologize to you."

"Leave, I don't want to see her right now."

Marika looked sad at Richard, she then jumped out of his arms and started to scratch the door and whimper, this aggravated Canus.

"Get lost already! I don't want to see you!"

Marika flinched and wanted to cry.

"Canus that's enough already! How could you act more like a child then the child that is standing in front of your door."

"Let's go Marika, this big baby is not worth your apology."

Canus heard Richard leave.

While walking away he got outside and went over to his balcony and saw the door was open.

"Let's go up there and enter his room, even if he let out his killing intent don't hurt him just pounce at him, no biting or scratching him alright?"

Marika nodded.

Richard helped Marika get up there and put her down.

Marika sneaked in and saw Canus lying on his bed covered in bandages.

She sneaked all the way up to the bed and sat on top of him. Canus flinched and threw her of off him.

Marika landed safely.

"Get Lost! I don't want to see you!"

Marika did what Richard had told her and pounced at Canus over and over.

"What the hell do you think you're doing?"

The commotion drew people to his room, but Richard told them not to interfere.

"Get away from me! I hate you!"

Marika flinched at his words but pounced at him again and this made Canus fall backwards and Marika was sitting on top of him again.

Canus then noticed warm drops falling on him and saw Marika was crying, and whimpering.

Canus was in shock seeing her like that.

He slowly reached out to her and started to soothe her.

"I'm sorry sis, I shouldn't have lashed out to you like that."

Richard was sitting on the rail of the balcony and smiled.

Canus sat up again and hugged her with his only usable arm.

Marika started to calm down and started to heal his injuries.

Once she was all done, Canus asked her "Why did you attack me like that?"

Richard came in to the room, "Did you let out a killing intent or an aura that says don't come near me?"

Canus shook his head.

"Then she mistook you for one of her brothers who were playing our hunting game."

"But what do you mean by letting out a killing intent?"

Richard let out his killing intent and Marika attacked him.

Richard caught her again and drop his killing intent.

"She always had this abnormal sensitive reaction, I used this hunting game to assess her reaction's and actions."

Canus looked at Marika and smiled. "So it seems I wasn't the only dangerous dragon when still a baby."

Canus petted her "But seriously sister, it really hurt falling down and breaking my arm."

Marika whimper.

Canus took Marika from Richard and hugged her "Well it isn't bad to fight and kill like that, it's also dangerous and can get you killed."

"Well she isn't that stupid, she came up with a darn good plan to hunt me down."

"What do you mean?"

"Well Marika and I played this game a lot, she is even smarter about it now than back then, she noticed while she was hunting me I was hunting her. She made fake track and covered herself with mud and blended in to her surroundings. She patiently waited till I created an opening for her to attack me. Even thought I was on alert and had my guard up, she still managed to take me down. She reacted in a split second."

Canus looked at her with wide eyes. "You are a real predator."

"But isn't she currently dangerous to anybody around her?"

Richard nodded.

"We are going to leave soon so she can sit this out until she is back to normal."

Marika heard Richard words and she hid under the bed.

When they were done with their conversation they noticed Marika was gone.

"Were did she go?"

Richard sighed and looked around.

"Well she didn't left the room by the door, she maybe went out through the balcony."

"I'll tell the others she sneaked away."

Richard went outside and started to look for Marika, but it was like finding a needle in a haystack.

Canus told everybody she had sneaked out while he and Richard had a conversation.

Alex then told Canus to first search is room thoroughly just in case.

"While you may think she ran out she probably hid herself in your room."

While the others went looking for her Canus went back to his room and started to check under every space and even in his closet. The last place he checked was under his bed but he still couldn't find her.

Canus then went out of his room again and called for William.

"William can you get Nova and the other kids?"

William nodded and picked up Khai, Nova and Regina.

When he got back with the three of them, Canus explained what had happened.

"Mom is a baby dragon now?" Khai was surprised

"Yes and she is hiding somewhere, and since you guys can also take on the form of a baby dragon you can help us find her better since you can crawl under tiny space."

'Well that's true…I have an idea.'

"And what is that?" Nova asked.

'Brother Canus you call everybody back.'

Canus did what Regina asked and they all met up in Cillus study room.

'Mom is still in Canus room that's for sure, but she won't come out, and especially now that she know that everybody is looking for her.'

'You all should go home and let us handle mom.'

Richard nodded "I don't know how she will react to you guys now, but as long as you stay in your dragon form you should be fine."

"First lets place some food and water in your room uncle Canus and then we go eat, when we get back and see if she had eaten the food we know for sure she is still there."

Canus order a servant to place a bowl of soup in his room.

The others went to the dining room and sat down for dinner.

As they were talking Luca made a call to Vincent and told him they were going to need another un inhabitant island with a warm climate, for a little while.

"Well that's going to be a problem."

"Why?"

"Well…it seems that a group of humans tend to want to take over those islands because the found natural resources an plan to whip out the Eco system to get what they want."

"Aren't there any activist groups or something to protest?"

"There are but…"

Luca looked at the others.

"Let's send Mari over and chase them away."

"Yeh but she also could harm the activist groups."

"Not necessarily… If we tell her who she can and can't attack it should be fine."

"What do you mean by telling her who she can and can't kill." Vincent asked.

"You'll see once we arrived there and meet up with us." Luca answered

"Just send the location to William and we let you know when we leave here."

Luca finished up the call to Vincent and they were back at discussing the new mission for Marika.

"Yeh but don't you think it's risky? I mean aren't we exposing our existences like this?"

Richard started to laugh "If your concerned about that, then you should stop worrying."

"She is a master at hiding and stalking, and humans aren't as sharp as dragons so they never know what had hit them."

"And even if she get spotted or get caught two adult dragon should be enough to scare the crap out of them."

Richard looked at Alex and Regina.

Alex sighed "Alright… I get it."

'You want me to poses as mommy's mom?'

Richard nodded "Parents can be very scary when their child gets hurt. You remember how scary your mom was when you were chased by vampires right?"

Regina nodded.

"Just be as protective of your mother as you were with Nova in the beginning and be as scary as your mom when you were hurt. You think you can do that?"

'Leave it to me dad.'

"Khai you'll be acting as her brother if needed, you both possess healing magic so you could easily act as her twin brother."

Khai nodded. "This is going to be fun."

Everybody left and Richard walked with Canus to his room to check if she had eaten the soup that was left there.

Marika heard them coming and went back hiding under the bed.

They saw Marika had eaten the soup, Richard saw Marika tail disappearing under Canus bed.

He whispered to Canus "She has been hiding under your bed this whole time."

"Huh…but I looked under there and I didn't see her."

"Well she is really good in blending in her surroundings, and she probably hid in a dark part under the bed."

Canus nodded.

"So what do we do now?"

"I'll leave her in your care, she probably will come out during the night."

Khai, Regina and Nova also came in to the room in their baby dragon forms.

"Have fun on your sleep over with uncle Canus." Richard said out loud.

Richard left the room and went back to the mansion.

When Marika noticed all the people left the castle she came out of hiding and pounced at Canus.

But started to hiss at her kids.

"What is it sis…are you jealous of them?"

Marika looked at Canus and nuzzled him.

"Are you seriously jealous of them?"

"It's not jealousy uncle Canus."

"Then what is it? Why is she hissing at you guys like that?"

'Mom has claimed you and your room, to her we are intruders.'

Canus sighed "What do you mean by she claimed me?"

"Well she claimed your room as her territory, and since you're the owner of this room you fall under her territory."

"So what do we do now?"

'Easy, just play with us and show her we are not a threat to her or this room.'

"Do you think this would also happen to Richard and his room?"

'Highly likely and she probably be even worse, because her scent is already there.'

Canus put Marika down and went over to Khai, Regina and Nova.

Marika start hissing but Canus was just ignoring her.

Marika kept hissing at them.

"Sis stop it! They are baby's just like you, instead of being mean to them you should be nice and play with them."

Marika stopped her hissing and slowly came up to Khai.

Marika then pounced on him and started to wrestle him but it was all in good fun.

Nova found it peculiar and just observed them together with Regina and Canus.

They were add it for half an hour until they both were tired.

"Marika then walked over to Regina and Nova and nuzzled them and started to play with them two, Khai joined in the fun and Canus was watching over them.

After a few hours the four of them got tired and Canus told them to go to sleep.

Canus changed his cloth and also went to bed.

All four of them climbed on Canus bed and started to curl up next to him and Marika on top of him.

Canus picked her up and laid her down next to him, but she didn't like it so she climbed back on top of him.

Canus sighted and picked her back up again and but her above his head.

"Sorry sis but I like to toss and turn, so stay put."

Marika listen to him and she curled up and fell asleep.

During the night Marika woke up and got off the bed but was stopped by Canus.

"And where do you think you're going?"

Marika flinched a little.

"Sorry sis but I'm a light sleeper so…"

Marika ran over to the door and started to scratched at it letting Canus know she need to get out.

"Alright but I'm coming with you."

Canus opened the door and Marika rushed out to Cinis room.

Marika was sitting in front of the door and Canus knew something wasn't right.

Canus whispered to her "Alright I will open this door and you quietly sneak in and when you think it's the right time you attack whoever is in there."

Marika nodded.

Canus quietly opened the door so not to alarm anybody who was inside.

Marika sneaked in quietly and the person who was in the room hadn't noticed them, Cinis on the other hand pretended to be asleep.

Marika crawled low over the ground and was right under the man who was hovering over Cinis ready stabbed him.

Just as she saw he was ready to stab Cinis she lunged at the man and bit down hard in his arm that was holding a knife.

This surprised him and pulled her off of him and threw her in to a wall, this gave Cinis time to react and try to take down the man.

The assailant got free and from Cinis grip and pushed him away.

Marika got up and charged at him again and bit down in his leg, but the man kicked Marika and she yelped out of pain and let go of his leg, Canus came in and knock out the man from behind, Marika started to stumble and fell to the floor.

"KHAI!!!"

Canus yelled for Khai to come over, but Canus yelling woke up Cillus and rushed over to Cinis room.

"What happened?"

Cinis walked over to Marika and picked her up.

"I'm sorry sister… because of me…"

Marika nuzzled Cinis telling him it wasn't his fault.

Khai came in to the room and saw the poor state she was in, he started to heal her wounds.

"She has been poisoned as well and we need Genus or dad here."

Cillus contacted Richard and he arrived with Genus and William.

Marika growled at Genus.

Genus looked at her "What? You got yourself in this mess and since you can't heal from poison you're going to need my help."

Marika stopped growling at him.

"I really wish this regression will end soon, because she is way nice to me when she is older."

"You may look cute, but your far from being cute."

Genus smirked at her.

Richard chuckled a little by Genus words, and then he started to laugh about what he saw next.

Marika had a hard time moving towards Genus but when she reached him she sat down and looked at him cute and acted all cute to him.

"I'm not falling for your little act."

Marika then yawned a little.

"You better stay awake!" Genus said in a firm and loud voice.

This made Marika to wake up and be alert again.

"Good girl."

"As for her medicine, she need her special made pill."

"Does she have any in her room at the mansion?" Canus asked.

Richard shook his head, "We checked her room but there weren't any."

"We'll all the herbs were there so that's a good starting point."

Genus took out the recipe "Well this little monster was at least kind enough to give me the recipe a few months ago I can make it but there is one little problem."

"And what is that?"

"The amount of energy and the healing spell she uses… according to what is written down anybody else will need to deplete their energy 3 times over."

Khai looked at it, "Dad I need uncle Luca, Alex and Rex; as for the azure energy you should hold enough on your own, but let have sister back you up just in case."

"I can cast this spell."

"But what do we do if you and your sister are depleted of energy after its done?"

Khai pointed at his collar. "Break it and transfer the energy."

Nova casted a spell and pull out a few bags, inside there were even more collars.

"Don't worry dad, when Khai and Regina explained to me why I had to wear a collar, we started to make them our self's too, because it's the best fail safe mom thought of. We made a small energy reserve for our self's so if you and mom aren't able to come in time we are not helpless."

"And even if mom went away for 5 years I still be good, that´s how big our reserve is."

Richard started to laugh "You three are really taking after your mother more and more."

Marika was starting to get exited out of the blue.

"Seems the people are here."

Rex saw Marika and wanted to rush in but was caught by Luca at the collar.

"And what the hell do you think you're doing? You want to kill my sister and your aunt?"

"I'm sorry… but she is so cute…I can't help it."

Alex slapped Rex on the back of his head. "You really need to learn to control yourself."

Marika stumbles over to Rex and tried to climb up on him but she fell down a few times so she gave up. Marika was showing signs of collapsing and Richard picked her up.

"Sweetie you have poison in your system, why are you moving around like that? You're making it worse for yourself like this."

Rex looked in surprise at Richard and walked over to him. "What the hell happened to you, you lost what… 9 years?"

"Well the reason I look like this… is thanks to Marika, because if she didn't I would be dead probably."

"Then how come aunt Marika is a baby?"

"That's because this little girl used up almost all of her energy and she used quite a few magic spells, not to mention she reduced his regression because of the bonding spell she put on him, in order to save her husband…She is currently bearing the full brunt and the backlash is what you see now."

Richard looked at Marika and she filched a little and started to shake out of fear.

Richard petted her and gave her a kiss, "I'm not mad at you, how could I? I get to see my wife as a cute little baby again."

Marika nuzzled Richard and yawned again.

"Little girl?!" Genus said in an agitated voice.

Marika started to hiss at Genus again.

And Genus smiled "That's better."

"Now let's get started, Master you take her for a cold bath because she needs to stay awake and slow down the poison."

Marika hissed in protest but Richard carried her to the bathroom of Cinis room.

Cinis fallowed them because he felt guilty and thought Richard could use some help.

In the bathroom Marika was putting up a fight.

"You really can't stand cold can you?" Cinis asked Marika.

Marika hissed.

"Sweetie I'll join you so you will be less cold."

Marika was hissing and didn't even want to get in together with Richard.

Cinis got an idea and whispered "What if we make the water around 20 degrees and let it cool from there?"

Richard nodded.

While both of them were making new bath water they also put in some toys for her and some bath soap so she couldn't tell how warm the water was.

Marika saw them and got curious about what they were doing.

She slowly and carefully walked up to them, but when she saw the foam and toys she jumped in to the bathe.

After half an hour the water started to cool down and Marika wanted to get out but both Cinis and Richard struggled to keep her in.

Canus came to take a look because it was noisy.

"Do you need any help?"

Marika was hissing and letting them know she would bite them if they didn't let her out.

Canus took off his shirt and sat down in the bath and held Marika firmly.

"Ahh nice and cool, don't you think sis?"

Marika stopped struggling because she couldn't get out of Canus grip, but she kept on hissing.

"Sis please be quiet, I like some peace when I take my bath."

Cinis and Richard wanted to laugh because of the face Marika was making.

Another hour had passed and Cillus came into the bath room to tell them the medicine was ready.

He saw an exhausted Cinis and Richard.

Marika also looked exhausted but Canus looked relaxed while holding Marika.

Cillus took a towel "The medicine is ready, dry her off and get her back in to the room."

Canus let go of Marika and she jumped out of the bath the moment Canus loosened his grip on her.

Richard was drying her but she was growling at him.

"I know your mad at me, but it was for your own good."

"After you took your medicine you go and sleep and then we go to the human world and you can hunt till your heart is content."

Marika instantly stopped growling and behave herself.

Richard came in to the room and saw a few exhausted people and Khai also looked tired.

Marika looked sad at everybody, she whimpered a little.

"What's wrong sweetie? Do you feel sad because they had to pushed them self's for you?"

Marika nodded.

"It's alright sister we will recover after some rest." Alex said to her.

"But you better not get poisoned again, because we can't do this every day for you." Luca fallowed up.

Genus walked over to her "Open wide…"

Marika looked at him distrustful.

"If you don't take it, you'll never be able to walk normally and you wouldn't be able to play your little hunting games again."

Cinis took the medicine from Genus and took Marika from Richard.

"Mari can you please take the medicine? I already feel guilty you got hurt to this extent because of me, don't add more guild to my conscience for you not be able to walk properly or play with us."

Marika nuzzled Cinis and opened her mouth.

Cinis fed her the medicine and petted her "Good girl, now get some sleep."

Marika yawned and then looked at Genus.

"Sleep tight little girl."

Marika closed her eyes and fell asleep.

Everybody sighed a sigh because they were tied them self's.

Richard looked at Luca "You still think she is hard to handle then when she was 10 years old?"

"I swear she was even worse back then."

"He is right, this is nothing compared to when she was 10 years old."

"Please spare me if she gets in trouble then, because I don't want to deal with that."

Everybody started to sigh again.

"Let's get some sleep before she leaves." Cillus told everybody.

Richard took Marika and went to the room he stayed in last time, the others moved to Marika's room and Dante's room.

[Next day]

Marika woke up and saw Richard sleeping.

She snuck out of the room and ran through the castle.

She arrived at Cillus study and started to scratch at the door.

Cillus went to check on who was making the sound and saw Marika was scratching his door "Mari, what's wrong?"

Marika jumped up to Cillus and sat herself down on his shoulder and nuzzled him.

Cillus sat back down in his chair and Marika jumped down on his desk.

"Good morning Mari, is there something you need?"

'Uncle!' Marika said suddenly.

'Uncle eat!'

"You came to pick me up for breakfast?"

Marika nodded.

"Alright, but the others are still sleeping."

'I wake'

Cillus patted her head "Alright you wake them up and I tell the kitchen to make breakfast."

Marika took off again and first went to Cinis room, she scratched the door until she saw Cinis opening up and she pounced at him.

'Brother eat!'

"Alright Mari, I'll be right there."

Marika left the room and she was going to Canus room next and repeated her actions.

Khai opened the door and saw his mother up and energetic.

She saw Canus was still sleeping and jumped on top of the bed and jumped up and down on him.

'Brother eat, brother eat, brother eat!'

Canus woke up and saw Marika energetic behavior and smiled.

'Brother eat!'

"Yeh, yeh I heard you the first three time sister."

Marika pulled his cover and brought over some cloth.

"What is wrong with her…"

'Nothing is wrong with her, she thinks you're too slow.'

Marika nodded and then rushed out of the room and went to her room.

Rex had already heard the commotion next door and opened the door for Marika.

Marika looked at Rex 'Friend!' and ran past him.

Marika was merciless to her brothers and jumped on them and tucked their arms.

'Brother eat, brother eat!

"Sis not now, we'll eat later." Luca said to her.

Marika wasn't pleased by his reaction and wanted to tail whip Luca.

Rex saw this and stopped her in time and picked her up.

"Marika!"

Marika flinched a little at Rex loud voice.

"You do not whip your brother, they are still tired from last night, let them rest a bit more."

Marika nodded and went back to Luca and nuzzled him.

Luca patted her head "Alright sis apology accepted now you go eat breakfast with the others."

Marika looked at Rex 'Friend eat!'

"Sure I'll come and join you."

Marika nuzzled Rex and left for the last room.

Marika came a crosses William and Genus and started to jump against them.

'Whit eat!, blue eat!'

Genus looked at Marika "So you can use words now, your progressing faster than I expected."

Marika sat down and nuzzled Genus and he patted her head.

'I good girl?'

"Better than last night."

Marika jumped up on Genus shoulder and gave him a nuzzle attack.

Genus patted her "Alright, alright you're a sweet little girl."

Marika then felt something was not right and her behavior changed 180 degrees.

'Husband!'

Marika jumped down and ran away, William fallowed her and told Genus to get some medicine and come to the south wing.

Marika arrived at the door but couldn't open it.

She scratched the door and stated to panic an growled.

William saw this and tried to open the door but he couldn't either.

Marika then ran off again to a place where she knew she could enter and William fallowed behind her.

She came up to the window door and rammed it but she couldn't break it.

William checked it and noticed a barrier.

He looked inside and saw Richard was awake but paralyzed and couldn't do anything against the woman that was sitting on top of him and starting to undress him.

William looked at Marika, "Marika, it seems he is paralyzed and can't fight her off of him."

Marika got even more enraged.

"Don't be mad at him; now this barrier I can bypass it with my portal magic but… my memories won't be affect by it, but since your this young, I'm afraid it can and will affect you."

Marika started to cry.