I'm losing control

'I get a few towels and blankets, I'll be right back.'

Marika ran out of the room and got what she needed and ran back.

On her way Marika bumped into Richard.

"What's the hurry?"

'The eggs are hatching!'

Richard told her to calm down and carried half of what she was carrying.

When they arrived at the room there was not much progress, but Marika did hear small chirps coming from the eggs.

She put everything down and sat down and started to hum.

As time passes the little chicks were half way through hatching, this reminded Richard of the day that Caelum hatched and had a warm smile on his face and looked at Caelum.

"What is it dad?" Caelum asked him.

"Seeing this reminded me of the day you hatched, while these two take their time you were impatient and hatched a lot quicker."

"And what happened after I hatched?"

"I cleaned and dried you and put you in a blanked an sat you next to your mom."

30 more minutes past and the little chicks were fully hatched.

Marika and Richard both took a towel and started to dry the little ones, Solis and Caelum took the blankets and put them in there and laid down on the bed with them.

Marika and Richard had a warm smile on their faces 'Let me know if you need help.'

Solis nuzzled Marika and went to sleep.

'They probably didn't sleep much ever since they took care of the eggs.'

"Well we can't blame them, because we did the same with Khai in the beginning."

Marika nodded, 'Well I don't expect to get much sleep tonight either.'

"That's fine…I don't mind if two newborns wake me up at night, it's good for us anyway. We can get used to it when we have our own baby."

Marika nodded.

Marika and Richard left the room and went to kitchen.

As they were cooking Marika told him about the two hatch-lings and their origin.

'I was thinking of letting them stay at the mansion until they are a little more grown and then bring them to Mystic Mountain so they can and grow up and then bring them back to the human world.'

'I already talked it over with Solis and Caelum and they agreed to it.'

"Are we going to adopt them?"

'I don't mind…do you?'

"Of course not, they are cute and if they want us to be their parents you know I'll welcome them with open arms."

Marika nodded and gave Richard a kiss.

Everybody was eating dinner and Luca noticed that Solis and Caelum were missing.

"Sis where are Solis and Caelum?"

'They are sleeping right now, and watching over the newborns.'

"So the eggs have hatched."

Marika nodded.

'They will be living with us at the mansion for a little while before they go to Mystic Mountain.'

"And when they are old enough, they go back to the island."

"Sano you'll be their guardian in the human world."

Sano nodded.

As they all finished up their meal Marika told Luca she needed to talk to him and Luca took her to his room.

What is making you anxious this time?"

'My magic…'

Luca stood up and hugged his sister.

"It's alright sister, why don't you ask Richard if your magic repressing set is ready."

'But I don't want it.'

"Marika, how long do you think you can keep it under control?"

'Not long a few more days at most.'

"If you know that, then why are you so against it?"

'Because I want to control it on my own.'

"Sis there is nothing wrong to use a tool or a stone to help you get thing under control."

'Do you think I can control it one day and don't need to use those stones anymore?'

"Knowing you sis, you'll succeed, because even fate and destiny don't apply to you."

"Now listen to me, just wear them during the day for now, and if you feel it's fine to take them off before sleeping you do that."

"But if Richard or me or Genus think it's too dangerous than you have to keep wearing them even if you sleep, and when you overcome that hurdle you can expand that until you don't need them anymore."

Marika nodded 'I'll do that.'

Marika gave her brother a hug and left the room to look for Richard.

When she found him she dragged him outside.

"What's wrong sweetie?"

'I'm going to need that magic repressive set, I don't have much time either because in a few days I can't control it.'

Richard made a call to Saxeus and asked if it was ready.

"We are finishing up the last piece and it should be done by tomorrow."

"Alright I'll come by and pick it up tomorrow."

Richard ended the call.

"Sweetie you head home first with Genus, your magic should adjust to the time flow there and that gives Saxeus the time he needs to finish it."

Marika nodded.

Marika told everybody she was leaving and said goodbye.

Marika then woke Solis and Caelum and told them what was going one and that Richard would help them out if they needed.

"Alright mom take good care of yourself and we see you soon."

"Mom your health is important and try to avoid stressful situation in order to slow it down as much as possible."

'I will, see you soon.'

Marika caressed the baby's 'Be good little ones and listen to my children.'

Marika left the room and met up with Genus

They arrived at the castle and Marika started to feel sick, she was even more sensitive to time flow adjustments.

Marika couldn't coop with it and Genus took her to Richard room and laid her down on the bed.

"Little girl… the reason you went back early was because you know you can't control your magic any longer."

Marika nodded. 'At best a day or two. But now that I'm back I probably sped it up.'

"Well you may not like what I'm going to suggest, but in order to give Saxeus the time he needs we need to seal it."

'No!' Marika let out a burst of energy and this made Genus hit a wall.

Marika was shocked by what just had happened and rushed up to him and started to heal him.

'I'm sorry…I didn't mean to.'

"It's alright, but please consider it."

Marika had a look of defeat on her face, she knew she was a walking hazard right now.

'Alright I'll think about it.'

Marika was done healing Genus and told him he should leave her for now so she could meditate and try to control her energy output.

"Alright, I'll inform everybody to leave this area and I will come along with a servant when it's time to eat and bring over your meal."

Marika nodded.

Genus deep down had a bad feeling the moment he left the room.

Marika heard Genus leave and peaked out and saw the wing was completely empty and went to the room next door, there she pulled out a map and a book.

She looked at the cave she hadn't explored yet and looked in the book for information on the cave.

She found out that it was actually a cave that would put a damper on a person's energy and magic.

Marika then took a few things and left the castle grounds.

After a few hours Genus came back to check on her but he saw she was gone. He started to call Richard and told him Marika was gone.

"Calm down, just tell me what happened from the top."

Genus told Richard the moment they arrived back she started to feel sick and brought her to the his room to rest. There she had told him by going back it sped up the loss of control and he got hurt by an outburst she had.

"She healed me and told me to leave the room so she could meditate to try and regain control, so I left her for a few hours."

"Look if she has left a note or anything or has taken things like cloths."

Genus looked through the room and saw nothing out of the ordinary.

"Go to the room next door, maybe she left a clue there."

Genus rushed over and saw the balcony doors open and a map and book on the table.

"This is bad…if she went there then…"

"Where did she go?"

Genus show the map and pointed at the cave.

"She left for Tenebris Cave."

"Isn't that a cave just past my border with Ignis?"

"Yes and also the territory of The Nox Wolf Clan."

"While the cave can put a damper on her current state, if those wolfs find out she is there they won't hesitate to attack her, and she can't fully release her powers while inside the cave."

Richard sighed "Call Canus and tell him what is going on and where she went and let him keep an eye on the cave and her."

Genus ended the call with Richard.

Genus then called Canus who was with Cillus and Cinis.

Genus explained the situation and where she was heading.

"She is going where now!?"

"Well consider what you just told us, it is the best place for her right now… but since The Nox Clan have claimed it as their territory…They will attack her, because they adapted Mari's rule she placed over her country, killing any trespassers."

"Canus you go over to the cave, they should halt any attack when you show up."

"Alright… but I will kill any of them if they attack me or Mari, just so you know."

Cillus nodded "But do try to keep it at a minimum, they are vassal clan after all."

"Yes father."

"I'll go with you, maybe instead of spilling blood we can take a diplomatic approach to it."

"Good idea you can give them a lecture."

Cinis slapped the back of his brother head "Can't you act a little more like Mari for once? Did you know before she kills or go to war she warns them first."

"Have you been absent minded all the times you were with her?"

"That's why I said I would only kill those who either attack Mari or me. I'm fallowing her rule of conduct; Hit me and I'll hit back, attack me and I'll attack back, try to kill me and your dead."

Cinis sighed "Fine… Let's go, the longer we stay here the less time we have to intervene or even be ahead of them."

Cinis and Canus bowed to their father and left the room.

"I don't know what Mari is thinking…It has only a been hours since she left to the human world."

"Don't forget it's been a month over there… and she probably hadn't had a relaxing month to recover."

"True… but don't you think her action is a bit to rash even for her?"

"I don't think so… although she choose a dangerous place for her problem, It was the most sensible decision, I think she already felt guilty what happened to Genus." 

"Your right…she redder run away, than to hurt the ones she cares about the most."

"But doesn't that make us a burden to her? She does care for us and don't want to hurt us either…"

"You think she went to that cave just on a sheer gamble? She knows that out of the two of us you should be able to at least handle some of her accidental outburst of energy."

"Your right…Well we at least we need to try and suppress her until tomorrow morning."

Canus and Cinis both transformed and head out to cave.

[Tenebris Cave]

Marika landed at the cave entrance and instinctively she had her guard up.

Just when she turned around she was met with a pack of wolfs who were growling and snarling at her.

The leader of the pack came up to her "What business does The Queen of Virtus et Caeruleus Viridi have in our territory?"

'I just need to stay in this cave until tomorrow morning…'

"Leave!"

"You came without notifying us so you are trespassing, and we kill any trespassers who set foot in our territory without notifying us first."

Marika smirked 'Aren't you just copying my laws...Do you even know why I set up that law in the first place?'

'It's because the village and the people who lived there were attack and killed for no reason, and because I saved them without asking for anything in return they appointed me as their queen.'

'And in order to protect them I set up this law so that everybody knows that mess with common people who are innocent will die.'

'And what about you huh? The Nox Clan has no enemies or have been attacked for over 100 years, and you never had a law that said that nobody can set foot in your territory much less this cave that by the way only got claimed 2 years ago.'

'There is no reason to copy my law to begin with.'

'You should know better than to start a fight with me, because I'm very well capable of killing you all on my own.'

'But I'll give you a heads up…Right now I'm not in control over my own abilities so if you do get hurt or killed don't blame it on me because I warned you.'

The leader listened to her explanation but still refused Marika to enter the cave.

'Then explain to me why I can't get in there?'

"We don't need to explain anything, now leave!

Marika wasn't backing down and turned around to enter the cave, she did promise Caelum to try and stay calm.

"Get her! And tear her apart!"

Marika released her killing intent but also released a burst of energy.

Before it hit anybody Canus managed to block it.

"Hey clan leader… what the hell do you think you're doing???" Canus voice was cold and threatening.

"Your Highness…"

"We were just…"

"You really have some nerve…to try and attack the queen who is allied with us." Cinis then also spoke in to a very cold tone.

Marika fell through her knees out of relieve that nobody got hurt this time.

But by seeing Canus and Cinis her anxiety started to well up and screamed for everybody to stay away.

She tried to control the pressure that was about to release but she kept it in but was damaging her physically and she scream out of pain. Even though her healing magic was healing the damage it was an loop that lasted for a few minutes.

Marika started to cry 'Please leave…I can't deal with this type of unnecessary things right now!'

Suddenly a voice spoke from the cave "Get lost all of you! Can't you see she is struggling to keep your skin save!"

"Brother it doesn't look good…her body is shutting down and fast."

Two white dragons appeared in front of them, Marika looked up and saw Lex and Lux standing behind her.

Lux picked up Marika and carried her in to the cave.

Lex then looked at Canus and Cinis "I permit for Your Highness's to stay and guard the entrance until The Moon King arrives."

"Excuse my rudeness, but this cave to who does it belong to?" Canus asked.

"This cave originally was territory of The Brown Dragon Clan."

Canus then grinned at the clan head of The Nox Wolf Clan.

"If that's the case… then we will inform our father and make sure that this land shall always be territory of The Brown Dragon Clan and cannot be claimed by any other clan."

"I will also speak to my father and research for the original amount of land that used to be owned by The Brown Dragon Clan and restore it." Cinis told Lex.

"The Black Dragon Clan never had claimed any land after The Brown Dragon clan disappeared and your clan tried to save as much of it so that when they would returned they would still have a home to return to, and for that we are grateful to the current king and his predecessors."

Lex left them with those words and went inside the cave.

Canus and Cinis then turned to the wolfs.

"You heard him get lost!"

"And don't think this land is your territory!"

The wolfs turned around and left the cave grounds.

"Brother I will go back and report to father that everything is fine and then I will return."

"Alright, and before you return please bring some food and blankets."

Cinis nodded and left.

Inside the cave Marika was getting worse.

'Lux…tell Carl I need Genus here… and tell Richard; to tell Caelum I really tried my best.'

Marika casted a spell and pulled out a black bag before she fainted from exhaustion.

Lex heard Marika's words and called Carl and told him Genus was needed at the cave and to inform The Moon King and passing Marika's words to Caelum.

"Brother what do we do?"

"Well first let's keep our calm for now."

Lex opened the bag and was shocked by what he saw "Wow the guardian has a complete pharmacy in this bag."

Lex pulled out a blanked and gave it to Lux "Here wrap this around her first so her body stays warm."

Lex then looked at all the medicine bottles and read the labels

"Lux what was that medicine she cave you?"

"It was a medicine that would help me to boost my energy if I were ever to get to a place or in a situation that nobody could give me any."

Lex then closed the bag because he found a medicine that could help her but he didn't want to give it to her without any confirmation it could help her

"Let's keep her warm for now and wait for Genus."

Lux nodded and leaned with Marika against his brothers body to keep her warm.

[Moon Castle]

Carl arrived at Williams office and told what Lex had told him.

William called for Genus and said he needed to go to Tenebris Cave

"What! Are you sure?"

"I doubt that Lex or Lux would make a mistake about the guardians current state. Lex and Lux are very sensitive about these type of things."

"William you inform Master, I head out right away."

Genus rushed out and flew to the cave.

William contacted Richard who was with Solis and Caelum taking care of the babies.

Carl told Richard what he was told and relayed the message "She said; tell Caelum I really tried my best."

Richard then looked at Solis and the babies, "We are coming with you dad."

William heard it and opened a portal.

When Richard and the kids arrived Carl was baffled by what he saw.

"Are those fire phoenixes?"

"Yes they area and they were found in the human world."

"They still exists…This is a wonderful discovery."

"Please keep them save because they can and will be targeted if somebody found out of their existence."

"What do you mean?"

"If I remember correctly, there should be one phoenix tribe in The World of Light who wanted to eradicate them because the fire phoenixes were the most powerful phoenixes that roamed the 3 world."

"Don't worry, when mom hears this she would probably murder the whole tribe up there if they lay a finger on them."

Richard told Solis and Caelum to fallow him and they would first go to Marika to assess how she was and they would pick up her magic repressive stones in the morning.

Genus arrived at the cave and rushed inside.

When he found Marika he saw Lex and Lux keeping Marika as warm as possible.

"You must be Genus a guard of the guardian." Lex spoke to him.

"Seems that not all her guard are fighters."

"I see that the messenger guard is really concerned about her."

"You have to excuse my brothers behavior, but thanks to the guardian my brother can coop better with his body problem."

"Well she knows how hard it is to be incomplete and only have half of once magic."

"But she already found the other half so she was already cooking up a plan together with The Moon King to restore your brothers magic."

Genus walked up to Marika and have a look on what was going on inside her.

"Hum…seems her body was indeed shutting down not long ago but it looks like she is healing up right now."

"So what happened."

"When she arrived, she tried to calmly explain to the wolf clan she needed to be here but they straight up wanted to attack her because she didn't leave and ignored them."

"She let out her killing intent as a warning but released an energy burst along with it. But got anxious when she saw the two princes from Ignis and she tried to control a pressure burst that was coming out of nowhere."

"By trying to keep it in she damaged her body and her body started to heal the damage and this loop continued for a few minutes."

"She practically begged everybody leave because she didn't want to harm anybody."

"And that's when my brother noticed her body was shutting down and took her inside."

Genus spotted the black bag "Did she get the bag before she fainted?"

Lex nodded "I found a blanket but I wasn't sure about giving her any medicine, I found a bottle that said energy stabilizer.

Genus looked through the bag and found the bottle Lex mention.

"Good thing you didn't because this wouldn't have helped her… her energy is to massive to even have any effect on her."

Richard and the kids arrived at the cave and before they went inside they gave Canus something to drink and eat.

"Thanks brother I was starving."

"Well it's a small reward for reacting so fast."

"How is she? I heard her body was shutting down and I saw Genus ran in so fast, I never knew he had that kind of speed."

"I'll let you know when I know more." Richard looked at Solis and then said "But she will come out of this just fine, and she will be kicking your butt in no time."

"Well it's good to see the both of you back to normal size."

Richard and the others came inside the cave and saw Lex and Lux.

Richard saw Lux was holding Marika tight in his sleep in order to make sure she stayed warm. He gestured to speak in a low voice so they wouldn't wake them up.

"Your Majesty I ask you for forgiveness for my younger brothers behavior."

"That is not needed, I'm not a patty man who can't see that he is genuinely concern for my wife and doing everything he can to keep her warm."

Marika started to shiver and grunt in her sleep what woke up Lux.

Lux woke up instantly and started to hum the same song she had did for him once.

Marika was still shivering but her mind calmed down. Richard recognized the tune and when Lux was done he saw Genus, Richard and the phoenixes.

"Ah Your Majesty it isn't what it looks like…I was just keeping her warm and calm."

Richard patted his head "I know and thank you for keeping her save, but where did you learn that tune?"

"The first time I met with the guardian I was in bad shape and while she helped me she was humming this tune to me to keep me calm."

Richard smiled.

Solis and Caelum walked up to Marika and placed the babies under the blanked.

"You two can take a break me and my brother will take over." Caelum said to Lex and Lux.

Solis and Caelum changed their form and Richard put her next to them.

The baby fire phoenixes were sending out heat and absorbed some of Marika's energy, Caelum did the same, and Marika slowly started to stop shivering.

As the night progresses Marika was finally stable and sleeping.

Richard went out side of the cave and saw Cinis was also guarding the entrance.

They had light a fire and were eating, Richard joined them at the fire.

"How is she?" Cinis asked while handing Richard a blanked and some food.

"She is finally stable and sleeping now."

"How was your recovery in the human world?" Canus asked.

"It was fun, Marika had hunted a lot of humans in her baby state and saved a island."

"She also managed to save Genus brother in the process."

"Sano?" What did he do?" Canus asked.

"He broke is body and he damaged his magic."

"Then it must have been something very important to him, for him to end up like that."

"I guess so... he was never the type to be reckless."

"But how was Marika with him when she first met him?"

"She pounced at him and made him fall a few times and even scared him two weeks later."

"How did she scare him?" Cinis asked.

Richard laughed "The first time he saw her she was a baby, two weeks later she was her normal adult dragon again."

"She just ran up to him the same way as when she was a baby."

"That's so like her." Canus laughed.

It was early in the morning when everybody got awoken by a high pitch yelp.

"Seems she is awake." Cinis chuckled a little.

"She sounds fine…but she saw something cute I guess." Canus fallowed up half asleep.

Richard stood up and walked in to the cave.

When he saw Marika hugging the phoenixes he noticed they had grown and had their full fluffy coat.

'You two have grown quit a lot since I last seen you. You both have become so cute.'

The little birds chirped happily.

"Well that's because of you sweetie, when we brought them over they had only half of their fluffy coat."

The two baby birds started to nuzzle and chirped at Marika.

Marika looked at Richard Solis and Caelum 'Don't tell me…these two cuties think I'm their mom.'

And the 3 of them nodded.

Marika smiled 'Alright you two…but daddy is going to name you.'

Richard looked at Marika with a surprised look on his face "Are you sure?"

'What… I named all four of our son's and our eldest daughter, you only named our youngest daughter.'

Owen for our son the red phoenix, and Vita for our little daughter the blue phoenix.

'Young warrior and life…sound fine to me.'

'Welcome to the family Owen, Vita.'

Richard walked up to Marika and gave her a kiss on the head. "You be a good girl now and wait for me, I'm going to pick up your present."

Richard then petted the two baby bird "You and your brothers are watching your mom and make sure she stays in here till I get back."

The two chirped and nuzzled Richard.

[Faber Village]

Richard had arrived at Saxeus and saw three exhausted man on chairs and couch.

"What happened to you guys?"

"Nothing much, we just pulled an all-night to finish your order." Saxeus explained to Richard with an exhausted voice.

"But don't tell her about it."

Richard chuckled a little "Don't worry, I won't tell her."

Saxeus stood up and gave Richard a wooden box and he opened it.

There was a necklace with a little stones and a pendant with the crest of Lunae Lumen, a pair of earrings and bracelets with a similar design with the Crest of Ignis, and a belt with the crest of Virtus et Caeruleus Viridi.

"With these Our queens energy would be half the size and suppress her magic by 3 quarters."

"If that's too much for her than she just have to remove the bracelets or the earrings."

"The earrings suppress her battle magic, and the bracelets her healing magic

"If she remove either the necklace or belt she would gain a quarter more energy."

Richard thank the three of them and walked over to the door.

"Before you go, could you go to the black smith he said there was something very important that Our Queen needed to know."

Richard nodded, "You guys get some sleep, because I have a feeling she will storm down your door very soon."

The three man yawned and dragged them self's to a bed.

Richard arrived at the black smith "Owner are you in?"

The owner uncle Smithy came to the front when he heard Richard calling out for him.

"Lad why are you here? Where is the little Missy?"

"She is at Tenebris Cave right now, Saxeus told me there was something important you needed to tell her? I'm heading there now so I can pass on the message."

"Tell her there is trouble at Queentia, we haven't heard anything from them the last couple of days."

"Did you send anybody up there?"

"We did send a few wolfs but they came back saying something is not right, the air smelled foul and didn't get any closer."

"Alright I'll talk to pack."

Richard went into the forest and called for the pack.

Catlaster saw Richard and nuzzled him "What can we do for you?"

"I heard from the black smith you send out a few pack members to investigate Queentia."

"Correct, the village got anxious when they hadn't heard anything from them for a few days."

"Who did you send?"

"Agrius and Ferox."

Agrius and Ferox walked up to Richard "We went there but didn't come close." Ferox told Richard.

"The air smelled foul, like death."

"And the Moon Wolf Clan? Are Silva and her children safe?"

"Yes they are safe, we check every day." Agrius answered him.

"That's good, but if you smell is near the den of The Moon Wolf Clan, have everybody evacuate to the mansion."

"We will big brother."

Richard patted the both of them.

"Thank you for looking out for my mate and pups."

Richard shook his head "This is what she had wanted anyway, and to her you are precious and she would be heartbroken if she loses any of you."

"Same goes for you all, as soon as there are signs of a foul air near this village or your den evacuate everybody to the mansion."

All the wolfs bowed to Richard.

"Agrius, Ferox, keep an eye on Queentia and make sure Silva and her children are save, and tell Luna not to hesitate and leave with the pack as soon is the air changes."

"Yes big brother."

Richard left the forest and went back to the cave.