We will pick up, where you left off

[Sun Kingdom]

Leo and Michael told Luce what has happened and that it bothered them that vampires had gotten their hands on a poison from this world.

"Liana and I checked the vault but all the poisons are accounted for."

"But how is it possible then…"

"Your Majesty, who has access to the fault?"

"I do and 2 researchers, and one doctor."

"Do they all have the key?"

"Yes and so has one guard when he is on guard duty."

"What are you thinking Leo?"

"While I doubt that researchers and doctor would be so stupid to do something like this, the guards on the other hand."

"You have a point, it's well know what will happen to the if they were found out."

"Yeh, and who do you think the first group would be looked at suspects."

"So what do we do?"

Michael smiled "Let ask for some help."

"Who are you going to ask?" Luce ask his son.

"Rex and Dante."

"Good idea, they are both trained by Queen Yumaria herself."

"But do you think The Green Dragon Clan will agree to this?"

"Rex is a distant relative of Queen Yumaria and thus a member of The Founding Green Dragon Clan."

"So I don't think it would be a problem if we explain why."

"But what about Dante?"

"I'll ask His Excellency if it's alright."

Luce nodded and agreed to this.

[Human World]

10 months had already past and Marika's body was fully recovered from the poison.

Khai who was still in control over Marika's body was enjoying his life with his father in the human world.

He had attended school for 6 months, because he wanted to experience somethings in life his mother did.

The last 4 months they had been traveling to many countries and were now in Greenland.

"You know your mother doesn't like the cold."

'I know, but she said she would put up with it because this place was something William wanted to revisit but he told her he didn't want to anymore because he choose to have a bonding spell with mommy instead.'

Richard and Marika entered the cave, they both wore very thick cloths because it was still very cold even thought it was summer.

They explored the cave and found a few things that were related to a dragon clan the once lived there.

'Daddy can we collect these thing and take them back?'

"I don't see why not, maybe Carl can have a look at them and tell us more to which clan it belongs to."

Marika and Richard found a few documents and books, also some jewelry and other things.

When they went in further the found what look like wat was left of houses.

When the walked down the houses Richard stopped because of a name plate that was at the door.

"Khai let's have a look inside this house."

'Why daddy?'

"Do you see the name on this house?"

'Clericus?'

Richard nodded, "This is the house of Williams ancestors. Let see if there is something inside that we can bring back for him."

Marika nodded.

When they went inside they were surprised by what they saw, on the outside the house looked small, but the inside was way bigger than they expected.

'It's like a palace in disguise.'

Richard nodded "Let's have a look around."

They saw beautiful paintings and a few pictures that had a young man in it who looked like William.

Then they found a family picture 'Daddy let's take this with us for William.

Richard nodded and took the framed picture.

They kept on walking and found a bed room, they entered it and saw a desk with what looked like a notebook.

Richard opened it and his eyes widened by what he saw the name that was written was William Clericus.

"This is William's notebook, but how…"

'Daddy?'

"Let's bring this along as well. Now let's go back to The Green Dragon Clan."

Before they left the cave Richard placed a trace spell and a barrier so nobody could come in and this village that was abandoned and left to time would be undisturbed.

[Sun Kingdom]

Michael was making a call to Dantis.

"Your Excellency, I was wondering if it was alright for Dante to come up here for a few days?"

"It has to do with the current condition of Queen Yumaria."

Dante who was sitting with his father heard it "Sure no problem, what do you need me for?"

"Well since two poisons Queen Yumaria was poisoned with came from our world we think the guard have a hand in this."

"Who has access to the vault then?"

"The King, 2 researchers, 1 doctor, and 1 of the guarding soldiers."

"I doubt the doctor would be so stupid to hand out the key, since the whole medical wing got wind of what my sister did to one of them."

Michael nodded.

"So that only leaves the researchers and the guards left."

"I don't think it were the researcher either." Dantis then said.

"While it would be obvious to suspect the doctor and researchers, the enemy thinks they have you blinded."

"That's what I thought too, so in order to not too alert them we are on to them, me and Leo will be interrogating the researchers and doctor and Rex and Dante will be stationed as extra guard of the vault."

"When do I need to come over?"

"If you could leave today for the human word then we could pick you and Rex up at the same time."

"Sure I'll be leaving in an hour and meet up with Rex at The Green Dragon Clan."

Michael ended the call and went over to Leo.

Leo was still on call with Alex and Rex when Michael arrived.

"How did it go on your end?" Leo asked him.

"All good Dante will be heading over to the human world in 50 minutes."

Rex heard this and started his whining "Dad, Dante is coming with me so there is no problem, I will let him kill if there is a need to."

Suddenly a child voice was heard on the other end of the call.

'Uncle Alex stop being so over protective of my cousin, he is an adult.'

'Rex, mommy said you should go, and if Alex still refuses than she said; Rex go's that's an order from the head of the clan.'

Rex hugged Marika "Khai tell your mommy I'm grateful and I'll keep the promise of the rules she set for me."

Marika nodded and hugged Rex back.

Alex sighed and knew he couldn't do anything now, because she just forced her hand as clan head.

"Alright pack up then."

Rex left and started to pack up a few things.

Richard also came in and saw the defeated look on Alex face.

"While she doesn't like to force her hand on her brothers she is right you know. If he becomes a leader he need's the experience."

"I know…"

"Take it from me, being a father of an late teenager is hard, and having a son that is the same as his aunt is even harder."

"Isn't it also time to let him go and stand on his own? I know you raised him well and although he has the same personality as your sister, his decision making would be closer to yours."

"And like he said, if there was a need to kill he leave it up to Dante, so isn't he showing he takes your wishes to heart."

"I heard a wise prince say this to your sister when she question her kindness; Isn't it inevitable to hurt somebody who is hurting you, or kill somebody who wants to kill you? You may think it's an act of cruelty, but isn't trying to stay alive not a right that is given to people when they are alive? "

Marika tucked on Alex arm.

He bend down to pick her up, but got a warm hug, and she whispered something to him.

Alex looked at her and had a warm smile on his face and nodded. "If you say so, then I believe you."

Alex nodded to Leo and Leo ended the call.

Leo sighed a sigh, "Next time I let you handle Alex."

Michael laughed "Alright, but I don't think he will be as difficult next time as he was now."

[Green Dragon Clan]

Marika was sleeping on Alex lap and he was talking to Richard.

"How were your past 10 months?"

"They were good, he is really calm that is it worried me from time to time, even under a lot of stress he remained his calmness, were as your sister would lash out."

"But his curiosity is what drives him, he liked it a lot when he went to school and learning new and different things, he does adapt fast to his environment."

"Your sister was also for 9 months quiet, even Khai couldn't communicate with her, but it seems she is slowly waking up again."

"But he still has one month before the barrier she placed around herself is gone, and then it's just a matter of time when Khai will go back to sleep."

Marika slowly started to wake up and got up.

'Daddy we need to go to England.'

"Is there something wrong?"

Marika nodded 'Mommy said Sano needs help.'

"Did your mommy tell you why he needed help?" Alex asked.

'Yeh she said the island is in danger and she doesn't want to deal with the after math of Sano's body again.'

"Can you ask your mommy if it's alright if Ivy, I, Vincent and some of The Green Peace Keepers join you guys."

Khai was silent for a moment and then nodded.

'She says it's alright, the more the better.'

"Alright, I'll inform Vincent and The Green Peace Keepers."

[Faber Village]

Kevin and Ellie were still on their mission and found out that the one who disguised himself as Genus, was actually someone from The World of Light.

He was communicating with a vampire.

"I can't get my hands on any poison for now, they doubled the guard since they got suspicious of the guard and everybody who holds the key to the vault."

"That fine, but what does this poison do?"

"It will destroy the innate magic of the person and makes one's inner energy go out of control, and the person will die."

"How long does it takes for this to happen?"

"5 minutes after administer the poison."

"Sounds good to me, here is the money."

The Genus impostor thanked the man and the buyer left Genus house.

Kevin and Ellie had heard everything and Kevin told her to fallow the buyer and needed to take him down and get the poison from him before he could get back to The Blood Kingdom.

Ellie agreed and they fallowed the man.

Ellie let out a howl to notify The Dire Wolf Clan.

As the man kept on walking and ignoring the howl, Catlaster and the pack started to stalk the man.

Ellie and Kevin moved a head of the man and waited with a trap at the edge of the forest.

Kevin whistled and the pack started to chase the man towards Kevin and Ellie, who were waiting to spring the trap.

The man saw a pack of wolfs and started to run, when he saw the edge of the forest he ran even harder and just when he thought he was safe a rope appeared out of nowhere let the man trip and fell down to the ground.

Kevin and Ellie worked fast and tied the man up.

Kevin went through the man's pocked and found the poison he just bought.

Ellie walked over to the pack and patted them all and told them they had done a good job. She asked if any were injured or got hit with a poison?

The wolfs all shook their head and nuzzled her telling her they were all fine.

Kevin called for Luca to come to help them with a man they just caught.

After a few minutes Luca arrived.

"What's up little brother?"

"Well this man bought a poison from the fake Genus and it can destroy the innate magic of the person and makes one's inner energy go out of control, and the person will die."

"Uhm… So they really are trying everything to kill Mari, they are really getting desperate." Suddenly a voice spoke.

"It seems so… Canus why don't you take him and torture him or kill him, I don't really care anyway."

"Really!?"

Luca nodded.

'Now the only one that is left is that fake Genus.'

"Well that won't be hard, we just have to lure him to Moon Castle and Dantis and William will handle the rest."

'Kevin should we do that thing we discussed, it will be fun.'

Kevin looked at Ellie and nodded.

Luca looked at the two and saw they had the same facial expression that Marika has when she was up to something sneaky.

Luca sighed "My sister is really a bad influence on you two."

'No she is not!'

'To become the best you need to learn from the best.' Ellie said proudly.

Kevin laughed and took Ellie by the hand and they went back to Faber Village.

[Human world]

Richard and the others were sitting in a conference about the island.

Richard understood now why Marika told them to go there, it wasn't really a conference but more an interrogation by the leaders of the world.

"Why are you the only survivor?"

Sano rolled his eyes, "Well I'm not the only survivor am I now…The activist also survived didn't they?"

"True, but you are the only one onboard of the ship who survived."

Richard started to get up and walked over to Sano "I think you mistaken, he isn't the only one of the ship's crew that survived, I was also onboard that ship and I'm still alive."

"And who are you?"

"I assisted doctor Sano while he was doing research on the dead body that got retrieved."

"When I got word that my boss was interrogated in this conference I could not standby and just watch."

"And if you want to know who lead the expedition with the activist and doctor Sano that was me."

"Then can you tell us how we can deal with these so called dragons?"

"Deal with them? I think your mistaken, it's not a matter of how you can deal with them but think about how they will deal with humanity."

"Sano is it true they want to destroy the island?"

Sano nodded.

Marika stood up and looked at the people.

'Really mankind has fallen this low…'

'Shall I explain to you what your problem is and what problem you will create…'

Richard picked up Marika and gave her a kiss on the head.

"I think you should listen to my daughter because she is smart and even she a 5 year old understand things better than you idiots who studied at renowned places and became greedy world leaders."

The whole world was watching because there were camera's all over the place, because everybody got curious about the images were posted online by the activist and drew in a lot of attention.

Marika then waved over one of The Green Peace Keepers to show all the images they took on the boot and even the footage of the labs.

Not to mention the activist shared their images and even with some magic had converted Alex memories in a form of a video that showed Marika hunting the hunters and researchers and her memories of the cave where they were aiming for with the dead bodies of the bird and the eggs.

'As you all can see most plant life on that island were thought to be extinct but they are thriving there, most of the plant are actually very good for making medicine that can cure a lot of chronic illnesses. There were also animal living and thriving on the island and half of the animal population is according to you extinct.'

She then showed the footage of the dead birds and the eggs.

'The moment humans set foot on the island you start to kill innocent creatures who are defending their offspring and leave the eggs to die.'

She then started to show the images of her hunting the people that went into the forest.

The leaders watched how she killed the hunters and wounding the researchers.

'This dragon is only a baby, and shows high intelligence in its hunting method.'

'Doctor Sano what was the overall death count of human on the island.'

"145 deaths, 25 injured."

'And how many did the baby kill?'

"127 died by the baby dragon alone."

All the people were shocked by what they heard.

Marika looked at the people. 'So a baby alone can kill 127 people, just think about it, you saw how intelligent it was, stalking, creeping, waiting, picking the hunters off one by one without getting hurt.'

'If a baby can kill 127 humans you can be damn sure an adolescent can deal twice the amount of deaths, and an adult…'

The Green peace keep showed the footage of Regina and Alex.

'We can safely assume one adult can kill roughly around 500 to 600 people on its own.'

'Here is a question for you people, who is more dangerous a male or a female dragon?'

"Isn't it obvious, the male, he is larger than the female dragon."

Marika looked at the leaders with shocked eyes.

'Daddy why are these grownups so stupid?'

Sano wanted to laugh but kept it in.

"Sweetie, not everybody is as smart as you or doctor Sano."

'Isn't it obvious the female dragon is the most dangerous of two of them, they are more territorial and they will kill any threat that comes to them or their babies.'

"She is right you know, the last two hunters that were on the island were killed by a juvenile and an adult."

"It is shown that not only the parents will kill if the youngest is in trouble but also the older sibling will kill the a threat to its younger sibling."

"We only got a glimpse of their social behaviors but, it's safe to say they will kill and defend each other no matter the age."

The leader started to deliberate "Let's send a few missiles to the island and destroy the dragons.

Marika started to cry 'Daddy why are they doing this? The Dragons always have lived on that island in peace and never hurt anybody before.'

"You can't do that! What if they see the attack coming and fly away from that island… are you taking the responsibility if they were to land and nest in near human settlements, do you really think you can just wipe them out!"

"IF YOU DO THIS, THEN YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE EXTINCTION OF HUMANITY!"

'Daddy… please do something.'

"It's alright sweetie."

Marika was crying uncontrollably and the whole world watch how she cried for living beings that had no voice, and never were responsible for any deaths until humans set foot on their home and started to destroy everything.

"Boss just correct me if I'm wrong."

"But the reason we never saw them before, was because they lived on that island right."

"And when they started to isolate them self's from humans they fell in to myths and legends."

"That's correct, if you look at the history many cultures spoke of dragons all over the world."

"So a creature that size kept them self's hidden from humans all these millennia's, shows you how intelligent they are."

"Killing them won't be easy, because they are masters of hiding and seeing how they hunt, humans may be save during the day, but what about the night? Even if you develop night vision equipment you still fail, because I estimated that they learn fast and adapt fast. So in the end we all die."

Suddenly a voice came from the door.

Marika looked up and saw Carl.

"Killing those dragons is the last thing you want to do."

"I'll give you some nice history lesson that seem to have some truth behind it according to the discovery that was made recently."

"According to ancient text, all dragons have their own hierarchy, for example leaders, kings and queens, but there is one Dragon that rules over all of them and that dragon is called The Guardian."

"This Guardian, what is its role in this?" A leader asked.

"Simple it rules over all dragons, and if somebody is disturbing the balance, may it be a dragon or human, he or she will call forth all the dragons and destroy the cause of the disturbance."

"So I advise you not to do anything as stupid, as nuking that island, not only will you fail miserably, but you are accountable for not only destroying rest of the plant and animal life on the island but you will ensured that The Guardian will come out of hiding and destroy humanity and set you all back to a time without any technology you have today."

"Because it happened in the past before and to be precise it happened 3 time's already."

"And you all should be ashamed of yourself for making this smart and cute little girl cry."

Carl patted her head.

Marika was still crying 'Uncle Carl they want to kill the dragons, but they never did anything to humans before they came to their home and wanted to destroy it.'

"Maybe we should go to the island and tell the dragons what humans want to do and let them ask the guardian for help. Maybe letting the guardian kill a few million people isn't such a bad idea, maybe humans can than learn that they are not on top of the world and that there is an existence that is above them."

The leaders were shocked, not long after that news came to them that people all over the world started to riot and demanded that the island should be left alone.

The world leaders were called murderers and that they should leave their position.

Some even demanded they should go to the island and see if they would survive and others said the leaders should just kill them self's.

Marika saw the movement on screen

And one of the journalist started to interview a protester.

"Sir what do you think of what was shown of the conference?"

"Those so called world leaders should be ashamed of them self's calling it a conference is just bull sh*t , it was clear to us the biologist was interrogated, and they even had the gall to ignore a child who was speaking up."

"We destroyed already so much of nature, and killed of so many animals and it's time for us humans to stop, there are only so few places left untouched by us."

"And if those leaders decide to nuke the island, even if I die because of those dragons then I blame these so called world leaders for that."

Marika was moved by the words of the man and the riot that was formed.

"Little girl if you see this, then know you are not alone, you have your daddy and all us rioters and protesters and activist on your side, so give them a piece of your mind and don't be afraid to speak up, you and all the children all over the word are the future."

Marika than whispered to Richard 'Do you think mommy would be proud of me?'

Richard smile "I bet you she would be proud and overjoyed for what you have accomplished today."

The world leaders found their composure again "Let's destroy that island we can take down this guardian dragon when it appears."

Marika heard this and stated to cry again.

Carl started to laugh "You seriously think, that that solves your problem, how naïve and stupid can you be."

"When a guardian dies, a new one will be born…the world will never be without an guardian."

Ivy was fed up with it all and walked over to the world leaders.

Alex noticed his daughters hostility "Ivy don't!"

Ivy slapped the man who said they should destroy the island so hard he went to the ground.

Richard handed Marika over to Carl and went up to Ivy to protect her.

"Ivy calm down…"

'Who gave you the right to decide on who is to live and who is to die huh!'

'You only look down on people…'

'WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? DO YOU THINK YOU ARE GOD?!!'

'You all are so clueless of the world around you, destroying everything that's stands in your way.'

'This is a warning for you all, you may have had it your way for millennia's but mother nature is ruthless and doesn't discriminate, so don't start to wonder what you have done wrong when she will strike back at you!'

Ivy walked back to Marika and whispered something to Marika and she stopped crying.

'Daddy let's go home.'

"Are you sure?"

Marika nodded 'Why should we try to convince them if they are this stupid and stubborn. Let them be responsible for their own extinction.'

'But can we go to the island and warn the dragons and all the creatures up there?'

Richard nodded, "Let's do that they deserve to have a warning and evacuate in time."

"This just came in, the island that was the cause of the commotion worldwide has just disappeared!"

The Green Peace Keepers and Vincent that were in the crowd had a smile on their face.

Richard and Marika looked at them and they nodded.

Marika smiled and was happy.

Carl who was still holding Marika "It seems The Guardian has heard your wish little girl all the animals and plants and even the dragons are safe now."

Marika cheered and so did the people all over the world.

Suddenly a voice came out of nowhere 'Let this be a warning to all of you, this time I protected my kind this way. But this will be the only time I do this.'

'Next time it will be different.'

'You ignorant humans have no clue how many dragons actually exist among you right now.'

'If this happens again, humans shall pay the price.'

Richard knew it was Marika, but Marika in Carl's arms wasn't speaking so he wondered how she pulled this off.

The world leaders were shocked and silent.

Richard and the group left the conference and Sano was dragged with them.

The world leaders were left speechless and it seemed that the island was save once more.

When they arrived back at The Green Dragon Clan, Sano looked at Marika and was surprised by what he saw.

Richard explained what had happened and that he was now talking to their son Khai who was inside her body right now.

"How did she know I was in trouble if she is sleeping right now?"

"Well it seems she is even more in tuned with the 3 world than a month ago, she is still growing her power, and by the looks of it, even though she is sleeping, she awakened a power she should actually not have, but thanks to this little one she was able to learn it."

"So your saying that she is absorbing's Khai magic, just like Khai is absorbing her healing magic?"

"Something like that."

"But when this little one is back in his body he will be 3rd powerful dragon roaming the 3 worlds."

"Who is second?" Alex asked.

"Yumaria holds the most power, Richard is second, and Khai is third when he get back to his body." Carl told them.

"Simply put when Khai is an adult and would life here in the human world, he should have enough power to cause a few near extinction events."

Marika looked at Carl "So… When I'm all grown up I alone have enough power to protect the whole world?"

Carl nodded.

'Then I will…'

"Khai…I know what you're thinking but those are matters for the future, for now you focus on protecting your mommy during the war and make sure she comes home to us all."

'Yes daddy.'

Marika then looked at Sano 'Now that the island is safe you go back to home to Genus and visit the temple.'

Sano nodded "I will."

"Khai…thank you for helping me save the island."

Marika smiled.

[Sun Kingdom]

Rex and Dante each were in different shift group that were stationed at the vault as extra guards.

Rex was bored out of his mind by standing all day an started to speak to Dante telepathically.

"This is so boring… any useful gossip?"

"Not really, but there are a few who are acting different than the other guards."

"Different how?"

"Well they isolate themselves from the rest and formed a small group."

"Humm…well keep an eye on them for now."

"How is guard duty?"

"It's so boring, I'm really not cut out for this stuff."

"That's going to be problem then in the future then…"

"If my sister wants you to be next clan head you need to deal with boring stuff all the time."

"This is good practice for you."

"Dante?"

"What is it."

"Never mind I'll ask you when we get this problem solved."

"Alright."

Rex yawned for a bit.

"You two! shift is over let's go."

Rex and the one that was standing next to him looked at each other and then at the guards.

"But the new guards aren't here yet…"

"They will be here in a few minutes."

"But we are under strict orders from the king to not let the vault be un attendant."

"You two are new here so you don't know, but a few minutes is fine."

One of the guards wanted to lash out but Rex stopped him.

"Give me the key and you guys can go, I'll hand over the key to the next guard, and we will sign out the same time you did, so we will won't get payed over time."

The guard looked at Rex but handed over the key.

The two left but were visibly annoyed by Rex.

The young man looked at Rex "How can you be so calm?"

"Weren't you afraid of them?"

Rex started to laugh "You haven't met my teacher, she is way more scarier than those two."

After half an hour the new guards arrived

The guard looked at the two of them "Where are the two who were supposed to stand at the door?"

"They left half an hour ago." Rex answered him.

"What the hell, they should hand the key over before they leave."

Rex took the key from his pocked and handed it over.

"Be grateful the two of us fallow strict orders or else we all be in trouble if His Majesty found out."

"And you guys are late."

"Next time I register for overtime pay."

Rex let out a subtle hint of aggression towards the guard.

"Let's go newbie, let's hit the bar, my treat."

Dante saw Rex and the young man leave and with the word Rex spoke he got the gist of what was going one.

Dante and another man stood across from the door and the two others.

As the night went on not much happened until Dante started to smell a scent in the corridor he saw the guards starting to get drowsy and Dante took a pill that should help him against anesthetics.

He pretended to be a victim as well and warned Rex.

Rex went over to Michael and told him what was happening right now.

Rex and Michael arrived at the scene and saw 2 man walk up to the guard who held the key to the vault.

"Do we really have to use this method?"

"Well thanks to those two new recruits we have to…"

"Alright…But do you think they are on to us?"

"I don't think so, they are still investigating the medical and research teams."

Dante who was actually wide awake heard everything and saw everything.

When the man had the key and opened the door Dante struck them down.

Dante started to stagger a bit and Rex rushed up to him.

"Are you alright?"

"No they use some kind of anesthetic to fill the corridor."

Rex helped Dante up.

Michael also cam and closed the door and took the key with him.

A group of soldiers arrived and took the two man who tied to break in to the dungeon, the other guards that were out cold were taken to the infirmary and new guards were placed at the vault.

Rex and Dante were moved to a room and Dante said he would tell them what he heard and saw the next day.

"Have a good rest."

Dante nodded and fell asleep.

"You can go, I'll watch over him." Rex told Michael.

Michael nodded and left the room.