Stepping down and Take over

In the kitchen Marika was making the cookies while Derick was preparing to make the cake.

Genus was sitting at the table watching over Marika.

He got a call from Ray asking if it was alright to talk to Marika.

"That's fine but don't expect too much, here mind is a mess and her logic could be that of a child and then an adult."

"Richard had explain as much."

Marika heard Ray's voice but was still focused on making cookies.

Genus held the spell in front of her.

"Hey Marika what are you doing?"

'I'm making cookies for everybody as a reward for killing the bats that are outside.'

Marika then looked up 'I'll make some for you and Julia too because you are my friends and you didn't send those bat's, so I'm not mad.'

"How did you know it wasn't use."

'Because you and Julia are nice, and want peace like me.'

"That's true, but it seems that not everybody sees it like you and I do."

'That because they are stupid and only care for themselves, so even if you can't control a group, as long as you can control the mass you are fine.'

"You mean I should just turn my head on this problem and focus on the common peoples problem?"

Marika nodded.

"But what do I do if they start to doubt?"

Marika smiled 'Then I send you footage of what is going on outside now and what they did at Queentia.'

'Those bats were very talkative so I recorded everything they said at Queentia'

'Aura, Alacer and Audax have recording stones on them so…'

"Alright I will keep my hands of this problem and focus on the rest of the people."

'Big brother Ray, if you are scared I can send grumpy Clause back.'

"It's alright, Julia is doing a great job and she is mostly outside of the palace and mingling with the people, just like you she is at her best when she is outside."

Marika smiled "A good Queen is best left outside of the palace then inside."

Ray said his goodbye to Marika "I'll be looking forward to your cookies."

'Big brother Ray, don't tell big sister Julia about me, because I don't want big sister to feel bad and sad.'

"I won't, this will be our little secret."

Marika smiled and nodded.

After her call she redirected her attention to the cookies again and finished up making them in 15 minutes.

When she was done she brought over the oven tray and gave it to Derick.

She then was jumping letting him know she wanted to wash her hands.

Derick picked her up and was holding her so she could was her hands.

When Marika was done she went over to Genus and signaled to him that she wanted to sit on his lap.

"What is it little girl?"

Marika hugged Genus and yawned a little.

'White coat I found something in Queentia, one of the bats dropped it.'

Marika took a stone from her pocket and showed it to him.

Genus looked at it and his eyes were wide of surprise.

"Little girl do you know what this is?"

Marika shook her head.

"If this is legit then this is a stone that has the knowledge of all the previous Guardians of the 3 Worlds"

'Then we should ask Carl to check it.'

"That's a good idea."

Marika yawned again and fell asleep on Genus lap.

"Who would have thought she would become this comfortable with you, to even sleep on your lap."

"I doubt that, her mind is all over the place, before Ray's call she was a child, during the call it fluctuated a lot and after the call she was back to a child again."

"The reason she got tired and is sleeping now is because it apparently takes her a lot of energy to control her adult mind."

Derick shook his head "I very certain she is comfortable with you, if she wasn't then she would try her hardest to stay awake until I sat down or somebody else came in here."

Genus looked at Marika and patted her head.

"Well she probably is going to deny it and say she thought I was just a big teddy to her."

Derick and Genus started to laugh.

Outside it was the battle just ended and when Levi got a call.

'Darling why is it so dark over there?'

"I told you I needed to go to The World of Dark"

Canus then walked by and patted Levi on his shoulder "Told you dumb."

The girl on the other end heard it and sounded agitate 'Did he call me dumb just now?'

Then Cinis came by "See easily offended."

'Darling you don't think I'm dumb and easily offended right?'

'I am the pretties girl in the world.'

'Don't worry darling I'll teach them a lesson when your back.'

Now both Richard and Leo walked over and put their hands on Levi's shoulder

"To vain" "Shamming"

Levi sighed "Well you can try teaching them a lesson, but I doubt it will end well for you and your family."

'What do you mean?'

"Well you are up against my brother, His Highness Cinis and Canus, and His Majesty Richard Lunam and if you even try something against him, I think you'll won't survive, because Queen Yumaria will kill you."

'What did you say!?'

Levi started to record his conversation just in case.

'You mean the slut that was here not long ago, the one who killed the former king and my best friend, not to mention she is the cause my uncle is exiled.'

Richard looked at Levi cold and murderous.

"I think I need to make a visit to The Sun Kingdom."

Canus and Cinis nodded in agreement,

"Vincent open a portal to the human world, Michael you make one to The Sun Kingdom."

Vincent and Michael felt the killing intend coming from the 3 of them.

"I don't think they are joking right now." Vincent whispered.

Michael nodded.

Levi saw Vincent open a portal and Leo was dragged by Richard.

They went through the portal and Levi just cut of the call and ran after them.

When they arrived Michael opened a portal to The Sun Kingdom.

They all went through it and Michael showed them the way to his father.

They burst down the door of the meeting room.

"Your Majesty Lunam, what bring you here?"

"I'm here for as personal matter."

Levi showed King Luce the footage and he nodded.

"Guard go get Lima her."

After a few minutes the girl was brought before Richard.

When she saw Richard, Cinis and Canus, she started to shake in fear.

Richard kicked her down and pierced his sword through her shoulder so she was pinned down to the ground.

The girl screamed out of pain.

"You have the gall to call my wife a sl*t, then I shall teach you what happens when a husband is nearby hearing those words."

Canus crouched down "Hum…no wonder she is so dumb, her parents were to focused on her looks than her brain."

Cinis also crouched down "She is a lost cause, even with the finest teachers there is no way they can fix her brain."

'You think that wh*re Queen Yumaria is better than me, she is noting compare to me, her looks are a little above average, so what, she is just a monster who kill's innocent people.'

'And now she sends her 3 boy toy's…'

"Lima shut up! Do you have any idea that you're insulting His Majesty Lunam and His Highness's Ater?"

Lima looked at Levi and saw he was dead serious.

"Michael would you mind round up this girls family, and Leo you take Canus to them and let him wipe them all out." Richard order them.

'No…no… Not my family.'

Richard smirked "You should have thought of the consequences when you opened that mouth of yours."

Richard pulled out his sword and Cinis picked the girl up.

"Levi next time you want to date a girl just call us first and we will tell you if she is suitable or not."

Levi nodded "I thank Your Majesty and Your Highness in advanced for your advice, it seems I'm still young and need some more guides."

"Let me bring you to the others."

When the four of them had left the room Luce sighted.

"That girl really had brought this on herself"

The man in the room saw the footage and with what they heard they all were in agreement of the king.

"We should be grateful Queen Yumaria didn't hear this or half of this country would be destroyed."

"No she wouldn't, she would act out the same way His Majesty Lunam does now."

"We can't and won't blame His Majesty for acting like he does, I would also be hell bend on anybody who would insult my wife."

"Not only that, being called a boy toy, who in the world is going to accept something like that."

"Your Majesty we will handle the after math of this matter."

Luce nodded, and was surprised to see these stuck up nobles were actually so agreeable.

Outside the girls family was all rounded up and Canus was waiting for Richard and his brother.

When they arrived Canus saw his brother dragging the girl.

"Brother why are you dragging her?"

"You know how my wife will react if she smells another women on me, do you want me dead?"

"Ah your right…"

"Brother don't forget to disinfect your hands afterwards."

"What's the meaning of this?" A man yelled.

Canus saw the man that was yelling and slight his throat.

"Your daughter here had the nerve to call my wife, Queen Yumaria a sl*t, wh*r and monster in my presence."

"Not to mention she dare to call His Highness Cinis, Canus and me the boy toys of Queen Yumaria."

The people looked in horror towards the 3 man.

"Lima! You dare to insult a King and 2 princes, are you out of your min!"

'Lima why did you condemn us like this!'

Suddenly Richard got a call from Marika

'Daddy!, Mommy heard what happened and she is very angry, so she told me to tell you that you can leave the parent be and just kill that girl.'

And then Marika looked at the group of people 'My mommy told me to tell you, if you produce another one like her, kill that child and yourself, because you're a failures as parents.'

"But sweetie she called your daddy and your uncle Cinis and Canus the boy toys of mommy."

Marika the turned her head "Great uncle Cillus, what do you think?"

The group of people were even more pail when they heard the name Cillus.

"Cinis and Canus should each stab her and let your daddy kill her, because she insulted your mommy so he should at least have that right because his honor, pride and name got stained and its every husbands right to defend his wife's honor and name."

'Yes great uncle Cillus, seems mommy agrees with you.'

'And daddy, make sure you don't have that woman's smell on you when you get home.'

"I didn't touch her, only kicked her to the ground."

'Let mommy be the judge of that.'

Cillus was laughing.

'Daddy hurry home because there is still a reward waiting for everybody.'

"I will sweetie."

Marika ended the call.

Canus and Cinis each stabbed the girl and Richard slight her throat.

He then looked at the group of people "Be grateful my wife spared your life's, if it were me; you all should pay the price for producing such a foul mouth child."

"Leo Levi, Michael you guys fallow us you still have a reward to collect for defending Queen Yumaria's country."

The 3 of them left the group of people and Michael opened a portal to the human world.

Richard then called for William after collecting Vincent.

Richard arrived back at the mansion and Marika came running out the door.

She was still a child, after sniffing Richard and confirmed he had told her the truth, she raised her arms.

Richard picked her up.

"How are you feeling sweetie? Do you still have nightmares when you sleep or panic attacks?"

Marika nodded.

'Uncle Genus said I only have 2 poisons left inside me but since I had already two pills I had to wait till tomorrow for my last one, because eating too much medicine could be bad for me.'

Canus then walked up to Marika "That was a nice show you put on just now, but why is our father here?"

'I invite him to come and celebrate the victory.'

"As expected of my little sister Mari, always being a good girl."

Marika saw Michael, Leo and Levi standing and didn't know what to do, she felt hesitation to go near them.

Richard put her down and walked over to them and gave them a short explanation of her situation.

"What!!!" Levi was shocked.

"Next time I see that prick Raphael I'll kill him."

"Calm down Levi, being loud like that won't help."

Michael looked at Marika and smiled at her.

Marika walked up to them and Michael crouched down to her level and stretched out his hand.

Marika was unsure but also reached out.

Michael was patient with her because he could not sense any trace of the usual Marika in the child that was in front of him.

Marika finally took his hand and Michael now finally could have a peak on what was going on with her.

He showed a slight sad smile. "Hello, I'm Michael, and who are you?"

'My name is Marika and I'm 5 years old.'

"Nice to meet you Marika."

"Is Richard your daddy?"

Marika nodded.

"Then where is your mommy?"

'She is sleeping right now.'

"Is she sleeping inside you right now?"

'Yes, because she was tired of her last battle and got hurt badly.'

"Alright, then we better let her sleep for a little longer."

"Marika do you mind if my friend Leo has a look at the poison that is still in your body?"

Marika looked at Leo and Levi direction, who were still talking to Richard.

'Sure, but will it hurt?'

"Not at all, I promise."

Michael waved Leo to come over for a moment.

Leo also crouched down to her level.

"Hello, I'm Leo."

Michael told Leo to check on the poison that was still in her body.

Leo told Marika to hold his hands hand.

Leo was concentrating and found that the two poisons that were running through Marika's body were from The World of Light.

"Levi call Liane and ask her if there are any poisons missing from the castle vault."

"Huh…what do you mean?"

"She currently has two of the most dangerous poisons in her body."

"What!? Which one?"

"One is a neuro corrosive and the other is soul poison."

After hearing his brother he didn't hesitate and called his sister and told her to go with the king to the poison vault and check for the poisons and if they were missing.

Marika smiled at the two of them 'Don't worry, mommy is save and we have protected our souls from the poison.'

Levi finished his call with Liane and told his brother everything was still in the vault.

Michael end Leo had this nagging feeling so they would investigate as soon as they were back.

'Let's go inside.'

Michael and Leo smiled and nodded.

Inside everybody was waiting for the rest of them in the dining hall.

Marika the walked up to Cillus and he picked her up.

'Today was a good day for all of us. We showed those bats that messing with one of us, means messing with all of us.'

'We are brothers and sister and share a bond of that can't be broken by greedy and stupid people.'

'Let's celebrate our victory that we achieved by our unity.'

Everybody cheered and the party started.

Marika walked up to Michael, Leo and Levi and handed them a pendant and a dagger.

'With this you can come and go to Virtus et Caeruleus Viridi Kingdom whenever you like, and when you do, don't forget to bring your mother and sisters along.'

'But the wimpy king can't just yet, he needs to work a little harder before he has permission.'

The 3 of them laughed, Marika handed a small guidebook to Levi.

"What is this?"

'Just a few rules you need to abide to when you want to walk freely in my kingdom. It's all for your own safety.'

While it was for a short moment, Michael felt Marika's presence.

Marika saw his emotion and smiled at him.

'Don't worry, I won't stay like this forever. I'll be my usual self in no time.'

Michael nodded.

Marika then took Levi and Canus by the hand and dragged them outside.

When they arrived at the training ground she ordered them to take a training weapon.

Marika transformed in to a dragon and started to attack the both of them.

Marika was very fast even in her baby form.

After an hour they stopped.

Canus and Levi were totally beaten by her.

Marika changed back and said, 'Blocking and dodging is also important. Levi you should focus on you breathing it's too fast.'

Levi smiled "Alright, I will work on it. When your back to normal let's have a sparring match."

Marika nodded and started to yawn a little and walked up to Canus and sat down next to him.

Leo and Michael came out side and called for him.

"Levi it's time to go home."

Marika snapped out of her drowsy state.

The 3 of them walked over to them and she saw them of.

"Let's meet up again soon."

Marika nodded 'Bye, bye'

'Daddy?'

"What is it?"

'The day after tomorrow, I'll be sleeping again. Can we do something fun together tomorrow just the two of us?'

"Sure, let's do all the things you want to do."

Marika smiled and nodded.

Marika started to yawn again and Derick came over and took her from Richard. "You need some sleep, you had a busy day today and will have one tomorrow."

'Yes grandpa…Grandpa can you tell me a story of mommy as a bed time story?'

"Sure, I tell you about how she got here and what she have been doing."

Canus walked up to Richard, "You knew that her personality was different?"

Richard nodded "You know she carries half of Khai's souls, what we are seeing is actually Khai's soul that's in her."

"How could you tell? I only noticed that she was different when she was close to me."

"When she called me when we were at The Sun Kingdom."

"Marika's child personality is more naughty, Khai's is more calm."

"Don't worry while Marika's soul is sleeping Khai soul will make sure she gets her medicine. But this incident had woke up Khai's soul and since no two souls can be active in one body, Marika probably let him out so she could rest for a bit."

Richard, Canus and Cinis went back inside.

Genus explained and told them that it was indeed Khai's soul, his total take over occurred after her nap in the kitchen.

"Khai is able to communicate with her even though she is sleeping right now, but he said he was only here until her body was cured of the poison. He said she was tired and needed a rest because she was stressing out so bad her soul was taking damage."

"Then what about Khai? Isn't he now getting the damage on his soul?" Cinis asked

"No, the only trouble he has is with Marika's memories, the reason for the panic attack and nightmares is because he was trying to know what her life was like."

"Alright, I'll stay with him for the night."

"I think he went through the worst of it, but if he does wake up with a panic attack or a nightmare just tell him it's not real and you and Marika will always protect him, what he now needs is some reassures from his parents." Luca told Richard.

"Is there anything I need to keep in mind when I take him out tomorrow?"

"Just make sure he has a lot of positive stimulation, and if there is a situation that seem threatening show him you will protect him."

Richard nodded.

Richard saw Cillus, Cinis and Canus off and went to check on Marika who was sleeping.

He saw she was having a nightmare, he whispered a few words and stroke her head. And saw she was calming down.

"I'll come a little later, I'll be in my study if you can't find me."

Richard went out of the room and went to his study and sat down.

Derick came in to the room with some tea and showed him the footage of the events in the kitchen.

Richard had a look and listen to her conversation she had with Ray, she still sounded like herself.

But when he saw her sitting on Genus lap and talking to him he knew for sure, Marika totally trusted Genus and felt comfortable around him.

When he saw Marika waking up from her nap he saw the change from her soul to Khai's soul occurring.

Marika jumped off from Genus lap and looked frightened at both Derick and Genus and started to cry.

Soon he saw Khai rushing into the kitchen and telling him everything was alright.

"Don't cry, grandpa Derick and uncle Genus won't hurt you, I know it's the first time for you seeing them but they are family.

Marika slowly stopped crying.

Regina and Nova also came into the kitchen.

'I know it's confusing and a bit weird, but mommy is sleeping inside you now and you need to protect her.'

"Grandpa and uncle can help you with that and so will we." Nova reassured her.

Marika hugged Khai and started to calm down.

"Why do I sense mommy inside you?"

Khai smiled "That because I carry mommy and daddies energy inside me."

"It's so warm."

'Grandpa do you have that picture of us all?'

Derick pulled out a stone and show the image of the 5 of them.

Marika looked at it 'Are they mommy and daddy?'

"Yeh that's our mommy and daddy"

'Mommy is pretty and looks so kind and warm, daddy looks the same.'

Richard had a smile on his face after seeing the footage.

"The kids took care of her for the rest of the time and they called His Majesty Cillus over, because he was curious about him, and strangely he took a liking to him right away."

"They also handled the panic attacks well, and got him calm in matter of minutes."

"Overall it was quite peaceful, he is so calm even Genus felt more at ease around her." Derick chuckled.

Richard stood up, "I'll be heading to bed since I get the feeling that tomorrow is going to be an exhausting day for me."

"Well children have so much energy, but I think you will be surprised how calm he is."

Richard left the room and went to his bedroom and saw Marika was sleeping but tear was falling from her eye.

He decided he will enter her mind and see what was going on.

When he entered he saw Marika and hugging Khai soul.

'Baby what's wrong?'

"Mommy I'm afraid that I will lose my memories with daddy when I get back to my real body."

'Baby don't cry, you will not forget them I promise you.'

Richard came up to them and hugged the both of them.

"Khai, I can help with that so believe us when we say you won't forget them."

Khai hugged Richard and nodded.

Marika had a warm smile.

'Now both of you get some sleep you're going to do a lot of thing tomorrow.'

"Yes mommy."

"Mommy…"

'What is it darling.'

Khai hugged her "Thank you for being my mommy, I love you."

"You too daddy."

Marika smiled at them and started to lay down and fall asleep again.

Richard and Khai saw her sleeping and they both gave her a kiss.

"Have a good rest mommy."

"Sleep well my love."

[Next day]

Khai woke up and woke up Richard.

'Daddy, daddy, wake up, its morning!'

Richard woke up "Have you decided what you want to do today?"

Marika nodded, 'I want to go the human world, mommy told me where to go, because I wanted see where she was born and grew up.'

'I want to go fishing, and swimming and travel to a few places in the human world.'

"Did mommy explain to you that the time flow between this world and the human world is different?"

'No… is it very different?'

Richard nodded "You said you have one day right?"

Marika nodded.

"Well if you spend one year over there than one day has past here."

"So you can gather a year worth of memories with me instead of a day."

'Can we really do that? But what if mommies body is better before the time is up?'

"Do you really think mommy is that cold and just take over again?"

'No…but won't it be bad for mommy?'

"It won't, I promise you and I bet your mommy would like the extra rest."

Marika smiled.

Richard picked her up and took her to the bathroom and they both took a bath together after that they got dressed and went down to the kitchen.

"So where are you heading to?"

'Were going to the human world grandpa'

"Do you think she did this on purpose?" Derick whispered to Richard.

"Well even if she did, it's only because she knows that he will feel it was too short. But I think she needs more time herself." Richard whispered back.

Genus and Lenis came in to the kitchen and saw Marika was eating her breakfast.

"Khai!"

Marika saw Lenis and wanted to run over, but saw there was still a piece of bread left on his plate and eat it quickly and ran to the door.

'Big brother Lenis!'

Marika hugged Lenis.

'Why are you here?'

"I came to check on you, before you leave and see how your mommy is doing."

"You could tell in an instant that it's Khai?" Genus asked him.

"Well duh! My eyes aren't for decoration you know."

"And even with my eyes closed I could tell, because of his aura."

Derick and Richard laughed a little by Lenis remark to Genus, Marika had really rubbed off on him.

Lenis had a good look on the energy in Marika's body.

"Everything seems fine, it seems your mommy has put a barrier on her battle magic."

"Hum…"

"What is it."

"It seems she placed a barrier around herself too, it won't break until 11 months has passed."

'Really? Why did mommy do that?'

"Because she wants you to spend as much time as you can with your daddy while you are awake."

'So even if mommy's body is better I still can spend time with daddy.'

Lenis nodded.

"But your mommy needs that time to recover, the damage she got from one of the poisons was more that she had initially thought."

"Your soul looks all good and there is no damage from the poison, so have lots of fun with your daddy, and take good care of your mommy while she is sleeping."

Marika nodded and hugged Lenis.

Genus came up to Marika "This is the last one, and if you still have poison in your body let me know."

Marika opened her mouth and Genus feed her the medicine.

Genus patted her head.

"Have fun on your trip."

Marika nodded.

'I come back so I can say goodbye to everybody before I go to sleep again.'

Derick gave Richard a black bag and Marika and Richard left for the castle to meet up with William.