It was all a dream

[Cave]

Richard woke up and noticed Marika wasn't next to him anymore and looked around but saw her laying under the statue that could show ones memories.

Marika then showed him everything the moment they separated and how she used her wings in her 7th stage to glide down and lessen the falling speed.

He also saw how Gale had saved her when her wings gave out.

He saw Marina and Mira taking care of her and told them about William.

Caligo hugging her knowing he was still alive and thanking her for the message she pasted along.

He saw how Marika explain everything to them and the difference in time flow when she realized it.

Both clans didn't doubted her and helped her knowing she was The Guardian and would save them all.

He saw how she came up with the idea to get the all the children out.

The more he saw, the more he noticed when she was communicating with Khai, the message he got from him was six hours after she fell down.

He also noticed that Marika started to panic when she heard that her kids were in danger.

He saw her straining and exhausted herself when destroying the crystal and she hadn't fully recovered her energy when in the last hour another panic attack came about, she had one hour, thus one month to leave because she knew she was close to losing him.

Her saw her hitting the barrier and with the help of Caligo and then she turned in to a dragon and rammed the barrier with the blood on her head.

It amazed him so much when Williams family helped her in the last bit of breaking the barrier and when it broke they all flew out.

Marika stopped showing her memories and cried a little.

Richard came up to her and petted her on the head.

"Sweetie… you did great."

"It must have been hard on you all that time."

"I was so worried when you fell down like that…I thought you would be gravely injured."

"But seeing you use your 7th stage like that was genius of you."

"I should thank Williams little brother for saving you and his parents and sister for taking care of you."

Marika changed back and hugged Richard 'I was so scared when I heard about the kids and you.'

'I was scared I would lose you all…'

"Sweetie you were not the only one who was scared and anxious all that time…

"But thanks to message you told Khai to pass to me I knew you were alright and working hard on freeing the people."

"But my anxiety got worse when I was at the altar and there was still no sign of you."

"I wished for you to come quicker because I was afraid you wouldn't make it in time…"

"I know you would never lose the kids that I'm sure off, if you would lose me… one way or the another you would burst down my doors and take me away, because that's how you are."

"You probably heard a few things from William and Genus but I think seeing it is much more fun."

Richard transformed and showed her memories of the past year.

She saw that they had arrived only one month after she was gone and that he had locked himself away from everyone.

She noticed his grieve wasn't an act, but it was all real.

She was relieved to see that he went over to Luna when he got a message from Rector and supported her during child birth in her set.

She saw Khai passing down her message to him.

And then his interaction with all the children slowly declined because of that Alice.

She could also see the interaction between her and the kids and confirmed that they didn't like her nor were welcoming to her, they even showed subtle hints of hostility towards her.

After months had passed William was up to his tricks and keeping Richard safe and so did the captains and trainer.

Even Genus had pulled a few tricks on her and Marika laughed throughout these things.

She never knew they all loved her so much and pulled every prank in the book to keep Alice away from him.

When Richard announced his engagement with the woman the people showed the dislike and voiced them. Demanding she should be a concubine and never get the title as queen because they would never accepted her or acknowledge her in any way.

She saw how Richard agreed to it, and promise them that that title was reserved for Yumaria and no other woman would get that title.

The people cheered about that and saw Alice obvious displeased face.

She saw Luca also came by often to be a nuisance for them because he was now acting king of Virtus et Caeruleus Viridi and he made sure to be an nuisance to Maurus and Alice.

She saw how Maurus was angry and burst in to a meeting where he demanded his daughter to get the title as Queen.

Luca threatened that he would sever ties with Luan Lumen and clearly told him that if he was to make Alice a queen he would be vulnerable from more sides then one.

Because Virtus et Caeruleus Viridi was already allied with the Red, Yellow, and Black dragon clans and that he and the even The Green and Founding Green dragon clan will wage a war.

Luca explained to Maurus and everybody in the room that she already had shifted the balance to an extend that no matter who would try to take her place it would not end well for that clan.

And like his sister he would show no mercy even if it means he had to take down The Azure Dragon Clan alongside The White Dragon Clan.

Marika then heard a familiar voice peak and saw Aves telling them they would never accept or acknowledge her because she doesn't have the capability to run a country in the absence of the King.

Maurus said he had no place in this meeting and should stay out of it.

Aves countered him perfectly and the other Dukes supported him.

She then saw the day Richard had lost it on Alice when Alex and Luca found the kids and cut Alice with his sword.

Even though Maurus yelled at Richard he pointed his sword at him and told him if he didn't like it he was free to pack up and leave.

The last part she saw was little Marika and Julia's interaction with Alice.

She was so proud of how little Marika had grasped her as Yume and she acted it out perfectly although Marika had put up a little filter on her speech little Marika didn't but then again she showed how she would act and speak if she didn't filter her words.

Marika had a great laugh throughout the last part of it all.

Richard stop showing his memories and Marika now had a better grasp on what had happened while she was gone.

She was happy to see that if she couldn't do it herself, her family and friends would do it in her stead.

Richard transformed back and Marika hugged him.

'I'm sorry, I put you in to this position…'

'It must have been so hard for you…'

'And I just blamed you and was mad at you a moment ago and I had no reason to be…'

'I'm sor…'

Richard kissed her and they shared a passionate kiss.

It ignited a the flame of passion and they let go of their restraints and made love with the passion t had burned for one and another.

Marika woke up again and didn't see Richard next to her.

She looked around and saw her surroundings were different from before.

Marika started to panic she yelled out but nobody answered her.

Marika looked up and saw she was back in the cave were the blue and brown dragon clan were held.

But now she was alone down there, nobody was around.

Marika yelled but still nobody responded to her.

Marika fell through her legs, it was all a dream.

Marika tried to calm her mind and started to calm herself down.

She tried to remember what had happened.

But some things were a bit blurry.

If it was a dream then Khai's soul should still be inside her.

She concentrated and found Khai's soul was still inside her.

She hugged him and cried, 'Khai…what happened do you know?'

"Mommy it's alright, everything is going to be fine."

Marika looked at Khai, 'Do you know what happened?'

"You did free the blue and brown dragon clan, but you exerted yourself so much you passed out and fell down."

'Your dad!!! How much time has passed?'

Khai looked dejected and shook his head, "They will start the wedding soon."

Marika looked defeated and knew she lost Richard to Alice by now.

Marika thanked Khai and left him there.

"Mom! Call for dad and the others, if you do that you can stop the wedding!"

"You know they have to obey your calling!"

Marika nodded.

Marika got back to her senses and transformed.

She started to call for all The Guards of the Guardian.

And after that she started to call for all the dragons kings.

Marika kept on calling for them till she was exhausted.

When she was about to collapse she heard the roars of them near the edge of the rift.

Marika let out one final roar before she fainted and regressed to a child stated.

Everybody at the top found Marika and Richard went down and destroyed wat was left of the barrier.

He found Marika on the ground fainted and her energy and was close to none existing.

Genus also came down and had a look of Marika and told Richard to hurry and take her up because if she stays any longer down here the crystal fragments will absorb the last bit of energy that she has left and she would die.

Richard handed Marika over to Genus and told him to climb on his back.

Richard took off at full speed and reached the sky again.

Richard landed and Genus asked Khai if she had the stones that contains his inner energy that he saved up.

Khai gave him the bag "Although it's a reserve for 5 years, it isn't enough to help mom."

"I know… but every bit would help calculating with this reserve we can get her energy back to 25 % and your father, sister and uncles will fill up to 50 present, this way they won't be strained.

Khai nodded.

Khai and Genus started to crush the stones and pouring the energy in to Marika.

When they were done, Richard, Regina, Alex and Luca also poured half of their energy in to her.

Marika had now half of her energy restored and the rest should now restore on its own.

Richard let Dantis know he found Marika and to the clan heads she is save now.

Richard picked her up and told everybody he was going to mansion and let her rest there

[6 days later]

Marika was still sleeping and hadn't woken up once.

Genus told Richard that Marika was already fully recovered but for some reason she didn't want to wake up.

"Khai do you know why your mother doesn't want to wake up?"

Khai nodded "There are actually two reasons."

"And what are those?"

"Well one of them is that if she wakes up everything she will she hear and do…she thinks it's all a dream."

"The second one and I think it's the very soul reason…she thinks she has already lost you to that woman."

"She redder sleep forever than to face the world that hasn't you in it next to her."

"And how does this affect you?"

"Well for now I'm fine, but if her body starts to deteriorated I will suffer, and then we need to forcefully take my soul out of her, but that can result in speeding up her process of dying."

Richard looked at Solis.

"I'm sorry dad…but just like before, there is a black patch in her future."

Richard nodded "It's alright, if it's a black patch then that doesn't mean I will lose her, it only means there are too many variables of potential out comes."

Richard patted his shoulder "Don't worry, I know what to do and I'll give her a firm scolding and tell her she is worrying you guys needlessly and it's time to wake up and face the world again."

Solis nodded.

[Next day]

Richard visited Marika who has now been sleeping for 7 days after they found her.

Richard laid down next to her and entered her mind.

When he arrived he saw Marika in her dragon form and Khai trying his best to console his mother and telling her she got out and dad hasn't married that women but Marika didn't budge or listen.

She had closed herself off and put a barrier around her.

Richard walked up to Khai "How is she doing?"

"Daddy!"

"Not good, mommy won't listen to me and she even closed herself of from me."

"I told her you saved her but she won't believe me and she thinks that if she wakes up that everything is a dream and you won't be there."

"I told her that it's not true and that she managed to stop the wedding by calling for all the dragons and the guards…"

Khai was crying because he was at a loss of what he should and could do.

"Don't worry, I'll talk some sense in her."

Khai nodded.

Richard walked up to the barrier and stated to bang on it.

"Sweetie I think you should wake up now."

'Leave you're not real and everything out side is just a dream.'

Marika didn't look at Richard at all.

"And how do you even know if I'm real or not? You don't even look at me."

'I don't need to, my husband is gone and taken by someone else…'

"If he was taken by someone else why I'm I standing right in front of you?"

'YOU'RE NOT MY HUSBAND!'

'Your just a part of me that wasn't me to think that your my husband.'

Richard looked at Khai.

"When mom fell down due to overexertion she had a dream, and it was so vivid and real to her."

Richard understood and he knew there was only one way to help her now.

Richard was angry and he used a lot of force and broke her barrier.

He walked up to her "There should be a limit to your stubbornness."

Marika saw Richard was very angry at her 'Get away from me!'

"No I'm not going to, you have been sleeping for 7 days now and you're out of that hell hole."

"You promised me that you would come home safe and sound, but it seems you didn't held up that promise."

Marika looked at Richard.

"You called for us to come to you, what had stopped the wedding."

"When I found you, you were on the brink of death!"

"YOU BROKE YOUR PROMISE TO ME!"

"When you wake up I'll tie you down to me because you broke your promise with me and for your reckless behavior."

Marika knew that the Richard who was standing infront of her was the real one.

Marika changed back and pounced on him crying out of happiness

'Hum…you do that…I don't care if you do that.'

'As long as your near me than that's fine.'

Richard smiled at her when she let go and started to fade away.

"It's time for you to wake up now and stop worrying me and our children."

Marika smiled and nodded.

'I see you on the other side.'

It was already evening when Richard woke up.

He was still lying next to Marika because he didn't want her to get anxious when she woke up and didn't find him next to her.

He tied a red lace on her wrist and tied the other end to his own wrist.

He stroke her head. "Sweetie it's time to wake up now."

Marika slowly started to open her eyes and saw a familiar ceiling.

She then turned her head and saw Richard next to her.

She touched him a to confirm it was really him.

She then noticed the lace around her wrist.

"I told you I would tie you down to me."

Marika laughed when she saw the red lace tied to her wrist.

She kissed him passionately until she was out of breath.

Richard pulled her in his embrace and hugged her

"I missed you so much sweetie, welcome home."

'It's good to be home and have you next to me.'