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Voltron New Beginnings

Chapter 14

Part Two "Seeing Through Shadows"

Rated pg13

By Cindra

Edited by T-bryd

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(Back at the Castle of Lions)

Keith entered the castle he was muttering to himself about how much of a failure as a father he was and was ignoring anyone who tried to talk to him.

Allura, who was propped up against a pile of pillows on their bed, eyed him with worried eyes. "Keith is something wrong?"

"Wrong? Why would anything be wrong." He muttered and stripped off his shirt.

"Talk to me and tell me what has gotten you so upset." Allura maneuvered herself off the bed and waddled over to him.

"I try to be a good father and I taught them not to talk to any strangers didn't I?" He was still in his own world and hadn't noticed that Allura was in the room with him yet.

"Yes, Keith, you are a wonderful father and we both taught them not to talk to any strangers." Allura tried to ignore her husbands Striptease.

"Why doesn't she listen! I mean a puppy, a cat, or even a horse is understandable! Not our child! No she has to befriend one of them!" Keith stalked into the bathroom and headed for a hot shower to clear his mind.

"Keith? Who is them?" Allura was now fully alert and wanting to know what Andy had done this time.

"Oh, you know them." Keith muttered in response as he let the hot water soothe away his frazzled nerves.

"No! I do not know who THEM is!" Allura opened the shower door and turned the shower setting from hot to ice cold.

"ALLURA!" Keith yelped in surprise when the warm water turned to ice cold and began to pelt his body.

"Is that better darling?" Allura turned the shower setting back to a warmer temperature.

"WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA ALLURA!" Keith roared furiously glaring daggers down at his wife.

"YOU TELL ME KEITH!" Allura yelled back at him.

"WHAT! Allura, what did I do NOW?" Keith asked in a yelp.

"Why did you enter our bedroom, strip down to nothing, while muttering about how much of a failure as a father you are, because Andromeda made a new friend. I believe that you said were one of them. Now I repeat WHO IS ONE OF THEM and what do they have to do with my baby!" She hissed at him sensing that he was hiding something from her.

"Easy, love, you have to calm down or you will upset the babies." Keith winced when she glared murderously at him.

"I want to hear the truth! What had you so shell-shocked that you didn't even realize that I was in the same room with you!"

"I found our darling little girl in the forest with Pidge and my little sister. She was talking to her new friend when I arrived on the scene, his name is Darian McCloud, and Myria and this guy seemed to be having a really heated conversation. I asked what was going on and this is the best part, it turns out that Darian is an immortal, and an ex-vampire. That is why I am in shock! Our child made friends with a complete stranger, only he's not human he's some kind of ever living being!" Keith snarled in frustration.

"ANDY MADE FRIENDS WITH AN EX-VAMPIRE!" Allura screamed in terror.

"Calm down Allura! This guy is on our side and wants to help us take down his twin brother Adrian." Keith turned off the water and stepped out of the shower.

"And you trusted him? He admitted that he was an ex-vampire! What proof could he possibly have shown you!" Allura screamed at him.

"These." Keith pulled on his robe, before walking over to the case that he had set by his clothes. "He gave one to Myria, Pidge and to our little girl and then he gave these to me." He opened the case and showed her the medallions. "Take one and put it on."

"A jeweled medallion? What does this have to do with Darian?" Allura frowned.

"That is worn for protection from Adrian and his goons. I trust him because he was wearing similar medallion, but his was a cross. Hell the guy was walking around in broad daylight and our daughter is absolutely crazy about him." Keith towel dried his hair.

"What were your feelings about him?" Allura asked.

"Anger at our daughter for going off alone and then finding out that she trusted a complete stranger and to tell you the truth I didn't even notice anything different about him. Keith muttered under his breath.

"That sounds like something that you might have done at her age." Allura frowned.

"That is exactly the point that I am trying to make! She is exactly like I was and wants to be just like me! I just don't want her to feel like she needs to be like me! I want her to just be herself!" Keith was pacing their bedroom.

"She can't help it Keith. She loves you so much, it just scares me to think that she'll want to take the risks that you love to take, but it also makes me burst with pride to see the same fire and determination in her eyes when she sees how proud of her you are." Allura stood in front of him so that he would stop pacing and look at her.

"I just didn't realize until now just how much alike Andy and I are and it scares me to death."

"I know, Keith, but she always has us to guide her onto the right path." Allura hugged him and the twins kicked them both.

"Man, Allura, that was a big one, did they hurt you?" Keith reached out and rubbed her belly.

"I'm fine darling, you kind of get used to it after a while." Allura groaned when they kicked her again.

"Maybe, our little guys want to come out and play, after all your due date is only three weeks away." Keith pulled her to him for a kiss.

"The sooner the better. I thought that the girls moved around a lot when they were with me." Allura winced when they moved again.

"Hey in there leave your mother alone and go back to sleep." Keith growled down at her belly.

"Yes, please listen to your father and give your poor mother a break." Allura groaned.

"Come on sweetheart you need a nice long nap." Keith picked her up and carried her to their bed.

"Only if you hold me while I'm sleeping."

"I would hold you in my arms forever if you wanted me to." Keith set her down on their bed and then crawled in next to her.

"Hmm…you always take care of me."

~~~

"I KNEW IT!" Myria snarled as she read the report on what had gone down at Oral's castle.

"How could anyone be this cruel! They slaughtered the entire castle!" Myria was in the mood to hunt her enemy.

"If they wanted to make us know that they mean business, then they sure hit the perfect target. Keith is going to go mental when he hears about this!" Pidge slammed his fist into a wall.

"Darian lied to us! He was merely there to distract us while Adrian and his goons attacked Queen Oral's Castle!" Myria screamed at Pidge with tears of anger, rage and frustration streamed down her cheeks.

"That's not true, Myria! You would have felt if he were evil! He would have hurt Andy if he weren't our side. Hell he had the perfect opportunity to use Andy to bring Keith to his knees. He did warn us that Adrian was going to be out in spades tonight!" Pidge tried to get her to see reason.

"Then I say I go and take out Adrian once and for all!" Myria ran from the room.

"Myria wait!" Pidge ran after her.

"Adrian is going to pay with his life for doing this!" Myria snarled.

"You are not going after him alone!" Pidge easily stopped her in her tracks and hauled her into his arms.

"Let me go Patrick! He must pay for what he has done!"

"He will pay! I promise you that! I will however not let you go off alone and get yourself killed!" Pidge through Myria over his shoulder and stalked towards his quarters.

"Patrick put me down!" Myria screeched.

"What? Did you say something?" Pidge snarled.

"I mean it Patrick Scott Paterson put me down or I'll!" Myria screamed banging her fists against his back.

"Or you'll what hurt me? Sorry love, but I'm bigger and stronger than you!" Pidge snarled back.

"Patrick let me down!"

"Promise me that you won't go after Adrian and I might consider it!" Pidge growled.

"NO! I'm going to make him pay!"

"Fine, then I won't let you down!"

"PATRICK!"

"Yell at me all that you want Myria, my room happens to be sound proof!" Pidge dumped her onto his bed. "Now, be quiet while I tell your brother about Orla!"

~~~

"Yes? What is it?" Keith barked sleepily into his Tele-com.

"Keith, we have a terrible situation at Queen Oral's castle." Pidge said hoarsely.

Keith was instantly awake, "What's wrong Pidge?"

"They are all gone, Keith, every last one of them. Our new enemies took out the entire castle and left no survivors." Pidge tried to remain in control of his emotions.

"Oh my god..." Keith ran his hands over his face as Pidge's words hit home. "When did this happen?" He growled hoarsely.

"Sometime after night fall and that's all we know."

"Call everyone to the War room. I want everyone to know what has happened." Keith tried to keep from losing it.

"How is Allura going to handle this? She is stressed out as it is." Pidge frowned.

"I'll handle that Pidge just go inform the others." Keith shut off the monitor and looked over at his sleeping wife.

"Keith? What's wrong? You're really upset about something." Allura yawned and opened up her eyes to look at her husband, who had tears falling down his cheeks. "What is it?"

"Allura, I don't know how to tell you what I have to say to you, but there has been a terrible tragedy at your Aunt's castle." Keith tried to keep his emotions in check but was not quite able to.

"What's wrong? What happened to my Aunt?" Allura whispered softly.

"Your Aunt and everyone in her castle were murdered tonight." Keith had pulled her into his arms.

"Why? Who would want to hurt my Aunt!" Allura wailed in denial. *NO! This Can't Be true!* The look in her eyes mirrored the horror and the denial of what she had just learned.

"I'm so sorry, baby." Keith whispered hoarsely. "I'm so sorry." While he held her close to him.

The reality of his words finally set in as the denial left, "Who did it Keith!" Allura screamed at him. "And WHY? My Aunt and her castle?" The last was more of a sob than a scream.

"Adrian, and his goons finally decided to play dirty." He answered her gently.

"I think that I'm going to be sick!" Allura wailed and fled to the bathroom.

"Ally! Are you okay? Is it the babies?" Keith ran after his wife.

"Okay? NO, I am NOT okay! What kinds of monsters could do this!" She screamed at him pounding her fists against his chest in anger and frustration.

"You have to calm down, Allura, if not for you think about the twins." Keith pleaded with his wife as he picked her up and carried her back to their bed.

"I don't want to calm down! I want to hurt someone! Why did they do this! What reason could they have had to kill all those innocent people!" Allura began to throw pillows in every direction.

"Look at me Allura." Keith ordered.

"Why don't you just leave me alone!" She screamed at him.

"No, Allura, you have to calm down NOW! Orla would have wanted you to be strong! Do you understand?" Keith held her face between his hands and forced her to look into his eyes.

"It really doesn't matter now does it! My Aunt is dead and she died at the hands of that horrible monster! I have no family left! I don't want to be strong!" Allura snarled at him.

"Allura, please I know that this is hard, but you have to calm down. This stress is not good for you or the twins!" Keith pleaded with her again.

"I'm perfectly fine! The babies are...!" Allura passed out in his arms.

"ALLURA!" Keith picked her up and ran from their room. "Please god, PLEASE don't take her away from me." Keith prayed as he ran to the med.-wing of the castle.

~~~

(A few hours before dawn at Darian's lair)

"It's alright, I won't harm you." Darian watched the young woman who was curled up on a window seat in his lair.

"Who are you?" She whimpered.

"A friend who can help you." Darian was loading the serum into a hydro syringe.

"Why can't I see my reflection!" She wailed in terror when she realized that she could not see herself in the wall of mirrors across from where she was sitting.

"My brother bit you did he not?" Darian asked.

"I don't know! I can't remember what happened to me!" She wailed.

"Listen to me! You have to trust me if you want to live!" Darian snarled.

"What is that in your hand?" Allana eyed the strange green liquid in the hydro syringe.

"If I don't inject you with this serum you will die." Darian took another step towards her.

"NO! I hate shots! I do remember one detail about who attacked me and he had your face!" Allana screamed at him in terror and tried to look for a way out.

"Calm down woman! If you don't get this serum you'll die! Do you want to die, because when the sun comes up in less than one hour you will experience the sensation of being burned alive and then be turned to ashes!" Darian was now stalking her around the room.

"I don't believe you!" She screamed at him.

"Fine! Have it your way, but don't say that I didn't warn you!" He roared down at her before turning and stalking out of the room.

"Wait! Oh wonderful now he decides to throw a tantrum!" She walked over to the table where he had prepared the vaccine for her. There was one syringe left on the table.

"I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU THINK OF ME, BUT YOU ARE TAKING THIS WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT!" Darian stalked into the room grabbed her by the arm and gave her the serum.

"Hey! You are hurting me!" She hissed at him as the serum went to work on her system. "Why do I feel warm inside?"

"Just sit down and let it take effect." He snarled at her, but gentled his hold on her arm as he led her back over to the window seat. "This adds an extra element into your blood stream. That will cure you of any ill effects due to the bite that my brother gave you."

"What does that mean in English?" She rubbed the spot on her arm where he had given her the shot.

"You, My Lady, are now immortal or to put it in terms that you can understand you can't die." Darian watched how she reacted to the news.

"What are you saying?" She whimpered.

"You won't age a day over what you are now."

"This is not happening to me!" She screamed in denial.

"Yes it is, Allana, and you have to come to terms with this." Darian didn't know how to comfort her.

"What about my life? I wanted to have children and then to someday hold my grandchildren in my lap, as I grew old gracefully. Are you saying that my dream will never come true?!" She screamed at him.

"I have no way of knowing that Allana, only myself and one other have taken this vaccine." Darian growled softly.

"THAT IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH!" Allana grabbed the nearest thing, a Ming vase, and threw it at him.

"DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW OLD THAT VASE WAS!" Darian roared at her.

"NO! AND I DON'T CARE!" She screamed at him some more and this time picked up an Egyptian statue.

"Put that down Allana! Hey what are you doing!" Darian growled as he dodged her weapon until Allana tricked him and hit him in the head with the statue. "Look Allana stars..." He groaned before he fell unconscious to the floor.

"Darian, quit kidding around!" She was kneeling next to his body, but he wasn't moving.

"Darian?" She hissed into his ear, but still he didn't so much as move a muscle.

*Oh my god!* She thought to herself, *I've killed him!* "Wait he said that he can't die!" She was on the verge of hysterics as she looked down at his lifeless body.

*Look you only have one real choice here and that is to leave him and then find a way out of here! He isn't dead and he is really going to be steamed at you for hitting him in the head with that statue!* She thought to herself as she stared down at him. *Why did he have to be so damned good looking! He looks as if he were created from an ancient statue of the gods.*

"I just can't do it! I can't leave him there like this!" She finally made up her mind and got down on her knees near his face and prepared to give him CPR.

"This had better not be some sort of sick joke or I'll deck you again!" She hissed down at him before placing her mouth over his own, only she wasn't expecting to feel as if some one had zapped her with electricity the second her lips met his.

Darian's reaction was to unconsciously pull her down into his arms and then he growled something like "Finely mine," in her ear.

"Hey!" She gasped when she found herself lying on top of him, but she made no attempt to pull out of his arms.

"You fit perfectly just like I knew that you would." He growled against her lips, still half way between his desire for her and his dreamlike state.

"Darian you have to wake up." She whimpered not wanting to trust the way her body's instant reaction to being in his arms.

"No, love this dream feels to right to wake from it." He began to deepen their kiss.

"That's because I am real." She whimpered shakily as his hands began to wander. "Please let me go before we do something that we'll both regret."

"You are so perfect and worth the wait of nearly two thousand years." He growled against her throat.

"Huh!" Allana stared down at him in shock. "Darian please wake up!" She was so close to just letting herself go with her feelings.

"Allana? What's wrong?" He slowly came back to reality and opened his eyes.

"Please let me go!" She whimpered and he released her.

"What happened the last thing that I remember was you hitting me with that statue? How did we end up how we were a few seconds ago?" He groaned in frustration. His head was pounding and his body was screaming for him to take an icy cold shower.

"You weren't moving and I was trying to save you! How was I suppose to know that you would attack me the second I got near you!" She snarled at him.

"Look princess! I'm the guy that you hit in the head with that statue! You knocked me out cold! How the hell could I have taken advantage of you when I was not even conscious!" He winced his head was beginning to pound.

"Well you seemed perfectly fine a few minutes ago!" She shouted at him.

"I thought that you were a delusion!" Darian snarled.

"Well! Thanks a lot you creep!" She screamed raising her hand to slap him across his face.

"That does it brat! I have had enough of your actions!" He easily stopped her in mid slap.

"I'm tired of this conversation! Now show me to my room!" She gave him a regal glare.

"There is a room to your right. I believe that your highness will be most comfortable." Darian snarled sarcastically.

"My name is Allana, not your highness and pouting does not suit the male persona! Now if you'll excuse me I am going to bed." She stalked from the room, her nose stuck up in the air.

"Women, even after 3,000 years, I still can't understand how they act and never will." He went in search of some painkillers, an ice pack, and a cold shower. *I can't believe that I waited over three thousand years for her!* He snarled to himself as he entered his bedroom.

~~~

"What is wrong with her Doctor! Why isn't she waking up!" Keith snarled at Dr. Stevens.

"Why the hell did you tell her about her Aunt! She isn't suppose to be under any stress!" The doctor bellowed at his king, as he tried to stabilize Allura.

"She would have been more upset if I hadn't told her. I promised her that I wouldn't keep any more secrets from her." Keith eyed the monitor that showed the vital signs of both her and the twins.

"Look, Keith, you have to let us stabilize her or the babies might go into fetal distress." The doctor tried to reason with him.

"Allura…" Keith pushed him out of the way and held her hand in his own.

"Move out of my way!" Doc Stevens snarled.

"Allura, it's me Keith. You have to fight for me angel. Please come back to me Allura. I can't live without you!" Keith pleaded with his unconscious wife.

"Keith, get out of the way or I'll have you physically removed!"

"Look, buddy, you have to let him help Allura." Lance pulled on his arm.

"Let's go, Keith, Allura will be fine." Hunk tried to move him but he refused to budge from his place by her side.

"Come on, Ally, squeeze my hand. Let me know that you're coming back to me." Keith received a weak squeeze from Allura's hand. "She squeezed my hand..." He cried in relief before the doctor gave him a strong sedative that knocked him out cold.

"Was that really necessary!" Cassie glared at the doctor as her brother was being carried out of the room by two of his guards.

"Yes, it was now I want all of you to LEAVE!" The doctor roared at them.

"Fine, we're going, but I would leave town after you help Allura, because Keith is going to kill you when he wakes up!" Cassie snarled at him as Lance dragged her from the room.

"Keith..." Allura moaned softly.

"That's right, Allura, Keith was here, but he had to be sedated." The doctor smiled down at her.

"Oh dear..." She smiled weakly before drifting back to sleep.

"Thank goodness that her and the babies vital signs are returning back to normal. That was close but they are going to be just fine." Doctor Steven's sighed in relief.

~~~

(A few hours later)

"What happened." He groaned and went to hold his aching head, only to find that his arms were bound to the cot." Hey! What's the big idea! I demand to be set free at once!" He roared furiously when he realized that he was in a cell, in the castle's brig.

"So you finally woke up. How does it feel to be at another person's mercy?" Myria grinned at him from her seat in front of the cell.

"Myria! Get me out of this cell!' Keith roared using his skill to free himself from his binds.

"Don't bother, big brother, Sheena made sure that you couldn't get free, so just lay back on your cot and listen." Myria grinned at him.

"Allura! I want to see my wife!" He roared furiously as he struggled to free himself from his binds.

"She is fine, Keith, and so are the twins. The reason that you are in here is because, we all know how you are when you lose your temper."

"TEMPER! YOU HAVEN'T BEGUN TO SEE ME LOSE MY TEMPER! NOW LET ME OUT OF THIS!" He used all of his fury to break his binds.

"How did you do that? Sheena made sure that you couldn't possibly break those binds!" Myria was thankful that he was in an energy cell.

"Sheena is getting rusty. Now be a nice baby sister and let me out of here!" He snarled at her.

"Are you crazy! If I let you out you'll throttle me! No thanks!" She wailed at him in terror.

"Don't be ridiculous I won't hurt you." He glared at her.

"No way, big brother! I just.. Well never mind that you are going to stay put!" She snapped cursing herself for almost giving what had happened between her and Pidge away.

"You just what Myria?" Keith snarled as he stared at her red-faced expression and the guilty look that she was giving him with her eyes.

"Nothing, Keith, now if you'll excuse me I think that I'll let Patrick talk to you now." She glared at him.

"Patrick? That is Pidge's real name. When did he tell you that?" Keith growled.

"Well, we sort of lost control and made love by the waterfall and that's when he told me his given name." She gave up and told him the truth.

"YOU WHAT! Why? You had only a few weeks until your wedding!" He roared at her.

"Oh stuff it big brother! You and Ally went for it before you were married!" She snarled.

"That was different! We thought that we weren't going to be allowed to get married, I tried to comfort her when she came to my room and she attacked me." He gave her a guilty look.

"Well it takes two to tango, big brother!"

"Yes well, did having Patrick change how you felt about him?"

"No not really."

"So you see little sister making is wonderful, but in the end you still love the same even when you're not with them in that special way." Keith growled at her.

"Do you honestly expect me to believe that you could give up being with Allura?" Myria frowned at her brother.

"Me? Give up Allura? Never, besides we're married and you baby sister are not." He grinned at his sister's red-faced expression.

"That is not funny big bother!" She snarled at him and hit the button to open the cell.

"Temper, temper." He grinned down at her. "Oh, and by the way. Patrick is now on night watch for the next month! See ya later squirt!"

"That's not fair Keith! When are we going to be able to see each other!" She wailed.

"Not until the wedding. Now if you'll excuse me I have to go check on my wife."

"Patrick is going kill me! Can't we talk about this big brother?" She chased after him.

"If you don't like it then I guess that I'm going to have to call up Dad and tell him exactly what you have been up to." Keith glared down at her.

"No, that won't be necessary." She squeaked and ran down the corridor.

~~~

(Back at Darian's Lair)

"This is just what the doctor ordered, to get rid of this nasty headache." Darian groaned as he let the water soothe his aching skull. Near the shower were a series of long wooden stakes just within reach in case of a sneak attack from his brother. Not that he was worried about any attack seeing as his fortress was built where an old cathedral had once stood. Darian was completely relaxed and enjoying his shower when he heard movement in the enormous master bathroom.

"Your getting pretty stupid Adrian. Did you really think that I wouldn't be prepared for a sneak attack?" He stepped out of the steaming hot shower, it's mists of steam surrounding his body and he had a stake in his hand ready to strike at his prey.

"Don't hurt me Darian! It's me Allana." She squeaked in terror.

"Allana, never sneak up on me. You might get yourself killed." He growled reaching for a towel.

"Me? Is it my fault that you only seem to have one powder room in this entire fortress!" She snapped at him as she took in the view.

"Well excuse me, your highness! I haven't had company in over two thousand years!" He snarled as he toweled himself dry in front of her.

"Do you mind!" She hissed at him her cheeks were flushed and she was blushing from her head to her toenails.

"What's wrong Princess? Do you like what you see?" He grinned at her.

"Does it really matter!" She hissed back trying not to stare at him.

"Yes! Damn it, it does! We're going to be stuck with each other for a very long time, so we might as well dispense with the formalities!" He growled down at her as he took in the sight of Allana clad in one of his T-shirts.

"You are very rude! Do you know that!" She slapped him hard in the face.

"And you are a spoiled rotten princess!" He caught her hand before she could slap him again.

"Let go of my hand Darian!" She hissed and tried to pull free of him.

"What if I don't Allana?" He growled daring her to challenge him.

"Don't get me started, Darian!" She glared up at him ice blue eyes, met aquamarine ones.

"Come on Allana, what are you going to do?" He pulled her up against him.

"This!" She hissed and kneed him.

"Next time hit me with the statue." He groaned falling to his knees in agony.

"Well, next time back off!" She glared down at him.

"Leave, Allana, because if you're not safely in your room by the time that I recover, I will pay you back ten fold!" Darian snarled through teeth gritted in pain.

"You wouldn't dare!" She hissed.

"Allana! In the mood that I'm in right now I could seriously throw you back into my brothers arms and let him handle you!" He glared up at her.

"I was merely defending myself." She took a step away from him.

"From what! I was not going to attack you! I prefer a willing woman not and ice princess!" He roared and vaulted back up to his feet.

"What was I supposed to think! Look at what you're not wearing!" She defended herself.

"Well? Who barged into my shower!" He roared back.

"Is it my fault that you don't have a door on your bathroom!" She shouted back.

"I wasn't expecting company when I built this place!" He snarled.

"You should have at least told me!" She snapped.

"You should have left when you found out that I was in the shower!"

"You scared me! I was barely awake!" She wailed.

"Didn't you even hear the water running in the shower?"

"I don't notice anything when I am half asleep!" She hissed.

"Well next time try and wake up before you wander around okay!" He snarled at her.

"FINE!" She screamed at him and then stomped out of the bathroom.

"To think that I have waited two thousand years for that royal pain!" He snarled to himself and stepped back into the shower that was now ice cold. "Oh hell it was getting hot in here anyway." He stood under the cool spray and let it cool down his body. "Gods did she look good in my T-shirt!" He grinned to himself.

Allana stood just outside Darian's room, "Why does he have to have such a killer body!" She groaned and headed back to her room. "And what does he mean by waiting 2,000 years for me?" She wander into what looked like his study and found that he kept journals on his life. "Who are you really Darian?" She frowned and began to read the journal that still lay open on his desk. There was also a very think album filled with photo's lying next to it. In it was a picture of her in the arms of a bearded Darian and Myria was standing next to them. "I finally have a reason to live and something to look forward to in the many long years ahead." As she began to read, "She is without a doubt the most beautiful creature that I have ever seen and it gives me great joy in my heart to know that this wonderful woman will one day be my wife and the mother of my children." Her voice caught as she read the words out loud. Something began to change in her heart as she continued to read on and journal after journal long into the night. Finally falling asleep with her nose still buried in one of the books. She clutched a picture of a young man in her hands.

Darian had gone to check on her and found that she wasn't in her room, but he did find her sound asleep in his study with his journals all around her. "So there you are." He eyed the picture that she had clutched in her hand. "So you went in search of answers did you?" He looked at the dates on the journals that she had been reading. "Now what I want to know is how you feel are you happy about what you have found?" He frowned down at her she was smiling in her sleep.

Allana felt him watching her and forced herself to open her eyes. "Would it help if I told you that I was sorry?" She blinked up at him with innocent sky blue eyes. "I had no idea about any of this." She whimpered. "I'm just so angry about everything and about the death of my mother and everyone at home. I just wanted someone to scream at to blame for all of this." She broke down in tears. "I must be a major disappointment to you."

Darian walked around his desk and pulled her up into his arms. "A major pain maybe, but no not a disappointment. I know that this is hard for you to take in, but I am here for you now and you'll never be alone. I don't plan on letting you out of my sight any time soon. I hate to say this princess but your stuck with me." He brushed away her tears.

"I don't think that I mind being stuck with you. In fact it might just be the adventure of a lifetime." She reached up and touched his cheek. "That is if we don't kill each other first." She smiled at him.

"May I do something that I have been dying to do for countless years?" He asked her softly.

"That depends on what you have in mind." She grinned at him.

"Nothing to serious, we have to get to know each other before we move on to that phase in our relationship. I was referring to kissing you." He growled his mouth inches from her own.

Allana wrapped her arms around is neck and kissed him, before he could kiss her, "Kissing is good, but what I would really like is for you to hold me for a while."

Darian swept her up into his arms and carried her towards his room. "I have a better idea, why don't I hold you in my arms and we will both try and get some sleep." He set her down in the middle of his bed and then crawled in next to her.

"That picture in you journal?" She yawned sleepily.

"What about it love?" He growled against her hair.

"Who was he?"

"Do you really want to know?" He yawned sleepily.

"Yes." She turned on her side and frowned at him.

"That was a picture of our first born son."

"And the woman with him holding the little boy?"

"That is his wife, Keith and Allura's youngest child." Darian settled her back into his arms.

"Then those other photo's are of little Andy and her husband?" Allana whispered.

"Yes, you could say that." He chuckled, "Now can we please try and go to sleep?"

"And I thought that Keith was just joking about that wacko dream of his." She yawned.

"Nope at least most of it anyway." Darian grinned.

~~~

(In Adrian's Lair)

"Adrian, when are we going to take out the Castle of Lion's?" Hans growled.

"Soon my friend, but we need to catch them when they least expect it." Adrian snarled.

"Darian could be a problem, if he has become their ally." Lacrosse walked into the main part of their lair.

"You leave my brother to me."

"The Huntress is getting ready to make her move." Lacrosse poured some red liquid into a silver goblet.

"We can easily turn her to our side, besides she is an amateur hunter." Adrian grinned at the two men.

"What if her brother trained her? Maybe we are underestimating the princess." Lacrosse snarled.

"Nonsense! She is nothing, but a weak little kitten compared to the weakest of our kind." Adrian laughed in Lacrosse's face.

"Are you considering as a meal or as something more?" Han's grinned at him.

"I would have preferred her to have been a virgin, but it's a shame to waste body and spirit like the Princess Myria's." Adrian grinned evilly at the thought of making Myria his own.

~~~

::Myria…:: a voice growled over and over in her mind.

"No go away!" She cried out in her sleep.

::You will be mine.:: The voice continued to call to her.

"No! I will never give in to you!" She whimpered as she thrashed around on her bed.

::It is your destiny.::

"No! Never! My destiny is to kill you!"

::My brother hasn't had the time to show you, so your threat does not scare me.:: The voice seemed amused.

"You'd be surprised of what I am capable of." She snarled in her sleep.

::Are you trying to trick me? Surly you can think of something better than an idle threat.:: He was laughing at her.

"I am going to make you pay for every life that you took in Oral's castle." She hissed back.

::So the little kitten has claws, no matter you will be mine.::

"Never! I would rather die, before ever giving myself to you!" She cried.

::That is the idea, first I kill you, and then you are mine for all eternity!::

"I'll see you in hell first!" She shouted back shutting him out of her mind.

"Myria?" Patrick tried to wake her after sneaking into her room.

"No I won't.." She was still unable to wake herself up.

"Easy love I'm here he isn't going to hurt you." Patrick striped down to his shorts, crawled in next to her and pulled her trembling body into his arms.

"He won't leave me alone." She whimpered against his chest.

"Your mine forever and he is dust when we get through with him." He felt her relax in his arms and then let himself relax enough to fall asleep.

"Yes, I'm yours forever." She whimpered in her sleep, but was jolted back awake when the castle alarms began to blare.

"WHAT THE HELL!" Patrick roared falling out of the bed and taking Myria with him.

"Ouch, Patrick, that hurt! Are we under attack?" Myria was still lying on top of his body.

"Impossible! I just came off watch and everything was peaceful on the planet!" Patrick eyed her sleep attire, a sheer nightshirt of the finest silk.

"Then what is going on? Why are the alarms going off?!" She frowned down at him.

"Your brother is trying to make our lives as miserable as possible!" Patrick reluctantly moved Myria so that he could get up and get dressed.

"I'll kill him!" She fumed.

"Myria! Do you mind!" He groaned in agony as he took in just how see through the shirt really was.

"Don't you like what you see?" She winked at him suddenly in a very playful mood.

"Myria, get dressed or we will end up attacking each other."

"Would that be so bad?" She walked over and pressed her self up against him.

"Myria, please have mercy on me!" He begged, "Your brother would kill me! Isn't it enough that I have to pull night watch for the next month! Do you really want to have to attend my funeral as well?" He made no move to touch her.

"Do you love me?" She nibbled on his ear lobe.

"Myria, don't you ever want us to have any kids?" Patrick gritted his teeth in sheer concentration.

"Of course I want kids silly. Do ya want to practice?" She began to place tiny kisses against his chest.

"Listen to me! We have less than thirty seconds, before your brother discovers where I am and when he does I doubt that I will ever be able to create our future children with you." Patrick growled against her mouth.

"I can handle my brother." She purred back.

"Myria, forgive me for saying this, but you are the reason that I am in this mess to begin with."

"Did you or did you not tell me that if you would die if you didn't make love to me." Myria hissed digging her nails into his back.

"Myria, nothing could have stopped me, not even your brother." He winced when as she dug her nails even deeper into his shoulder blades.

"Then when did it become my fault!" She hissed anger flowing through her body.

"Myria? Can we discuss this later! Your brother is probably standing outside your door as we speak." Patrick snarled down at her.

"We are going to finish our conversation until you realize that my scheming conniving brother tricked me into getting him out of his cell! And the fact that you and the rest of the gang put him there! So don't blame me for any of this!" She felt like slapping him across his face and her emerald eyes blazed with fury.

"Myria! No one is blaming you! This is just a routine drill and we are late!" He threw some of her clothes at her.

"We are not done yet, Patrick! I am 19 and Keith does not run my life! I do exactly whatever I feel like doing! Right now I wouldn't care if Lotor, Devon, Rand, Shaitan or even Adrian and his goons were attacking! I love you and want to be with you and no one, not even big brother is going to stop me! Now shut up and kiss me before I deck you!" She shouted as loud as she could so that anyone listening would get the point and leave them alone.

"As you wish." He pulled her back into his arms kissing her soundly on the mouth, as if on cue the Castle alarms went silent.

"See he does listen to me." She grinned at him when he picked her up and carried her back to her bed.

"I love you so much that it hurts."

"I know that now show me how much." She whispered against his mouth.

~~~

"Hey! What the hell is the big idea! Why did you shut off the alarm!" Lance looked completely frustrated and disheveled.

"I changed my mind." Keith answered calmly.

"Do you have any idea how long it has been since Cass and I had a night to ourselves!" Lance lost it and grabbed Keith by his shirt.

"Let go Lance or Cassie may become a widow." Keith snarled at him.

"Fine! Just explain to me why we are having a drill at 4am in the morning!" Lance let go of Keith's shirt deciding that Cassie liked him better alive than dead.

"Because, all of you are getting rusty! Or maybe this is to teach you that if ever one of you even attempt to lock me in the castle brig again! Best friend or not! Brother-in-law or not! I will take great pleasure in tearing you in half! Do I make myself clear!" Keith roared at him.

"Crystal clear. Can I go back to bed now!" He roared back.

"Yes, by all means please do and by the way, Lance, your pants are on backwards and your wearing my sisters blouse." Keith chuckled when Lance stalked from the room.

"Keith?" Allura's soft voice spoke to him from the Mic that he wore in his ear.

"Yes, angel?" He switched on the telemonitor to there room.

"We're lonely." She whimpered.

"On my way darling." Keith blew her a kiss before shutting off the monitor.

~~~

Myria waited until after she knew that Patrick was sound asleep, before she crawled out of bed. "I have to do this alone." She bent down and kissed him. "I don't want any more of you to be hurt by him."

She took a quick shower and then suited up in a jet black ninja uniform. *I need to borrow some of big brother and Sheena's toys just in case.* She stealthily gathered up the various weapons that she would need. Patrick's quarters seem to have a ready supply of anti-vampire weapons and she loaded up a pack with them, she had also borrowed several throwing stars, smoke balls, and her brothers laser sword.

Andy had seen her Aunt sneaking out of one of the rooms and went to go see what she was up to. "Aunt Myr?" She whispered softly.

Myria whirled around to stare down at her niece. "Andy? What are you doing up? It's barely 6am."

"I got thirsty and went to get a drink of water. What are you doing up and why are ya dressed for battle?" Andy yawned sleepily.

"I'm going out on patrol and I don't want to take any chances." She frowned down at her niece.

"No, you are going to fight Darian's brother aren't you." Andy frowned up at her.

Myria's eyes widened when her niece called her on her lie, "Listen kiddo this is something that I have to do alone." She tried to explain.

"Daddy won't like this." She frowned.

"No, he probably won't, but I have to face him alone." She knelt down and hugged her niece.

"Be careful Auntie Myr. He's a really bad prince." Andy whispered into her Aunt's ear.

"I will little one, now go back to bed." Myria escorted her back to her room and then tucked her back into her bed. " See ya in a little while." kissed her on her forehead and then vanished from Andy's room.

Andy hugged her stuffed lion to her chest and tried to think of the right thing to do. "I should go tell Daddy that she went off alone, but then she trusted me not to say anything and I don't want her to get mad at me." She felt torn between what she should do and being loyal to her Aunt.

"I'll just tell Daddy when he wakes up and that should give Aunt Myr a chance to fight Adrian on her own." She decided and tried to go back to sleep, Bandit curled up against her and licked her face.

"Am I doing the right thing Bandit? What if she gets really hurt?" Andy cuddled her puppy in her arms.

Bandit whimpered in response to her question.

"If this is what they mean by making adult decisions then I don't want to grow up." She whimpered softly.

Alex stumbled into her baby sister's room and glared at her. "Explain why I am awake at 6am!"

"I had a bad dream." Andy whimpered lying to her sister.

Alex's expression softened and she crawled in next to her sister. "Want to tell me about it?" She asked softly.

"It was about Aunt Myria, she went to fight the bad prince all by herself." She sniffled.

Ariel also stumbled into Andy's room, "Is she okay?" She yawned sleepily.

"She had a bad dream about Aunt Myria." Alex whispered back.

Ariel crawled in next to Andy and gave her a hug. "Don't worry baby sister we'll keep the bad dreams away."

"Do you think that you can go back to sleep if we stay in here with you?" Alex asked her sister who really looked as if the weight of the world was lying on her shoulders.

"I think so." Andy nodded and the three of them fell back to sleep.

Keith and Allura had sensed their daughter's fear and had gone to check on her, "Now that isn't something that you see everyday." Keith smiled down at his wife.

Allura had waddled back to their room to get the video cam. "They really are very protective of their baby sister aren't they." Allura whispered as she filmed the scene before them.

"I think that they have everything under control so we can go back to bed." Keith led Allura back to their room.

"Why would she be dreaming of Myria fighting Adrian?" Allura frowned.

"That's a very good question love, but we can wait to ask about her dream after we sleep for a few more hours." Keith settled her back into his arms and they both fell back to sleep.

~~~

"WHAT DID YOU SAY!" Adrian snarled at the fool who dared awaken him from his sleep.

"Princess Myria has found us!" Lacrosse snarled down at him.

"THAT IS IMPOSSIBLE YOU IDIOT! NO ONE CAN FIND US!" Adrian grabbed him by the throat and began to strangle him.

"LISTEN UP ADRIAN! BECAUSE, I AM ONLY GOING TO TELL YOU THIS ONCE! LEAVE ME ALONE! LEAVE THIS PLANET! OR FACE MY WRATH!" Her voice echoed around his room and she appeared in front of him dressed in black with her brother's sword blazing.

"HOW DID YOU GET HERE! THIS IS NOT POSSIBLE!" Adrian roared.

"Anything is possible for a trained shadow warrior." Myria glared at him.

"This was not part of my plan." Adrian snarled.

"I can handle you bugging me when I am sleeping, but I draw the line at being interrupted when I am with my fiancée!" She drew out a lethal looking bow with an even deadlier looking razor sharp wooden stake in it instead of the usual arrow.

"I would drop that if I were you princess." Adrian hissed.

"Why would I want to drop this! I am about five seconds from killing you!" She had no idea that she was surrounded by ten vampires.

"I wonder how royal blood tastes after a few thousand years." Hans was just inches from her neck.

"How about an elbow to the face!" She slammed her elbow into his nose.

"Kill the bitch no one does this to me and lives!" He roared holding a hand to his broken nose.

"What's the matter, Adrian, do you have to have your idiots do your fighting for you?" She staked three of them at once, before slamming a kick into the face of another. *I can do this as long as I have the medallion around my neck.* She reached up and felt for the heavy gold chain around her neck, but it wasn't there! *This might not be a good thing.*

"You've made a fatal error, Myria, I am stronger than you are." Adrian hissed taking her completely by surprise and pinning her to the floor of his room.

"No, you just think that you are!" She snarled at him holding his jaw closed with her hand. "You're not going to bite me! I won't let you!" She kept an iron grip against his jaw.

"He might not be able to, but then we vampires like to share our meals." A larger vampire snarled.

"I can promise you this! You will not live to see the next full moon!" She hissed back.

"Big words, little one, considering your current position." Another growled.

"Did it really make all of you feel big and powerful by slaughtering everyone in that entire castle!" Myria showed no fear in her eyes and she was perfectly calm and cool.

"Adrian, had many pleasurable experiences with Princess Allana before she died." Lacrosse sneered.

"You are one sick puppy, Adrian!" Myria screamed at him trying to keep him from biting her and also keeping him out of her mind.

::No, you caused the massacre of the castle when you betrayed me and slept with that fool fiancée of yours!:: Adrian taunted her with his mind.

"No, you're lying!" She threw him off of her. "I was never yours to have!"

"Yes Myria, you're mine and you betrayed me by giving yourself to that mortal! So, I had to punish you little one so that you would listen to me." He stalked her around the room.

"Punish me! I love Patrick you maniac whether he is a mortal or not! Only a blind insane bitch would ever fall for a fiend like you!" She screamed at him fighting his influence on her mind.

"You are mine, Myria, don't fight it. Come to me it is your destiny." He was slowly over powering her attempts to resist his influence on her mind.

"NEVER!" She forced herself to stay where she was standing.

"Leave us!" He snarled at his minions and they all vanished from sight. "Come to me my love and I will make the pain in your head go away." He walked towards her but she stepped away from him.

"I will not give in to you!" She ignored the pain and the fact that her nose was now bleeding. Her head felt like it was going to explode.

"I can take away the pressure if you come to me willingly. It would be easier on you and you can experience the full effect of the pleasure that I am about to give you." He took another step towards her.

"No, NEVER I will die first!" She feel to her knees as the pain increased.

"It is no use, Myria, you are already mine." He knelt down next to her lifting her chin up with his finger so that she could gaze into his eyes and he saw fear and pain radiating from her emerald green eyes.

"It hurts!" She wailed holding her head in agony, "Please make it stop!" She begged him.

"Become mine and the pain will be but a memory." He growled in her ear.

"NEVER!" She hissed but then screamed as the pain got even worse.

"It is no use I am stronger and wiser when it comes to the powers of the mind."

"MAKE IT STOP! PLEASE!"

"Be mine!"

"NO!" She screamed.

"Say it and the pain goes away." He growled.

"PLEASE!" She begged.

"SAY IT!" He ordered her.

"Yes! Now please stop the pain!" She was on the verge of losing her mind and tears streamed down her cheeks.

"The pain will be taken away, but first I must have you." He gently placed his hands on either side of her neck and kissed the mark where he was to make his bite. "At last you are mine!" He growled and then bit her neck.

~~~

"NO!" Darian sat straight up in bed.

"What's wrong?" Myria blinked sleepily up at him and then became wide-awake when she saw how upset that he was. "What's happened?" She frowned at him.

"Adrian just bit Myria!" Darian threw back the covers and raced to get dressed.

"I'm going with you." Allana started to get out of bed, but Darian pinned her with a glare. "No, you are going to stay here where you are safe and as far away from him as possible!"

"What are you going to do?" She gave him hurt look.

"I have to go rescue Myria and I need for you to promise me that you are going to stay put." He bent down and gave her a hard but fast kiss and then vanished from the room.

Allana bit down on her bottom lip when she realized who Adrian's next target had been. "Myria? That 's Allura's sister-in-law! Allana jumped out of bed and ran for Darian's study and the nearest Tele-com.

Cassie answered the call when she found that no one else seemed to be awake, "Allana! You're alive!" Cassie almost passed out when she saw who was on the screen.

"Yes, I'm alive and well thanks to my very own knight in shining armor." She smiled at her friend, "I really need to speak with your brother is he awake yet?"

"No, but I can go wake him up. Is there something wrong? What happened we thought that he had killed all of you!" Cassie frowned at her friend.

"This really gorgeous prince named Darian rescued me from his evil twin brother, but I will fill you in later. This is about your little sister Myria." Allana was trying to get Cassie to pay attention to her.

"Does this have anything to do with that creepy guy that is haunting her dreams? Hey wait a minute! He's the same creep that killed all of those people in your mother's castle! Does he have my sister? Is she hurt!" Cassie feared for her sister's life.

"Aunt Myria is hurt!" Cassie did not know that her niece had wandered into the control room in search of her father and had over heard their entire conversation. "This is all my fault!" she wailed at the top of her little lungs and then ran from the room in tears.

"Andromeda! Come back here!" Cassie shouted at her niece.

"I think that little Dromi saw Myr leaving the castle and that is why she is so upset." Allana frowned.

"What happened to my sister? Is she hurt?" Cassie wanted some answers and wanted them now!

"Darian only said that he had bit her, and then left to go rescue her from his brother! That is why I need to talk to your brother!"

Keith walked into the control room with Andy bawling her eyes out in his arms. "Allana? You're alive! But how when the entire palace was slaughtered?" He was so confused yet relieved to se that she was alive. "Does any of this have anything to do with why my baby girl is bawling her eyes out?"

"This is all my fault, Daddy!" Andy hiccuped between sobs.

"Myria is missing." Cassie tried to explain to him.

"Not exactly missing, Adrian has her and Darian went to go rescue her." Allana tried to explain.

"Adrian killed her and it's all my fault!" Andy began to cry even harder.

"Easy, baby, Myria is with Pidge and I will prove it to you." Keith sat down in front of the main consul and keyed an image on one of the monitors. Patrick was snoring away in Myria's bed, but Myria was no where to be found.

Andy frowned at the image on the screen, her crying had calmed down to a few sniffles. "Why is Uncle Pidge sleeping in Auntie Myr's bed?" She looked up at her father with her huge amber eyes.

Keith blinked down at his child's wide-eyed expression. "Ask me that question in about ten more years. Now what do you have to do with Myria's disappearance?" Keith frowned at his child.

Andy's eyes instantly pooled with tears. "I saw her before she left the castle! She said that she had to face him alone and I didn't want her to get mad at me! Now she's hurt or dead and its all cause I kept my promise and didn't tell you where she went!" Andy wailed.

"Easy, baby doll, Darian is going to save her. He won't let him hurt her." Keith rocked her in his arms. "We are going to talk about this later." He frowned down at her.

"He's right sweetie Darian is going to save her. He really is like a knight in shining armor, in fact he knew the actual knights many moons ago." Allana tried to cheer up the little princess.

"Did Darian save you from his evil twin brother?" Andy sniffled.

"Yes, he did little one. Have you met him?" Allana smiled at her.

"Yes, he calls me his little blossom, and he understands what it's like to be a twin." She whimpered.

"When did she meet Darian?" Allana gave Keith a puzzled look.

"This afternoon in the forest meadow after she ditched her sisters. Darian took her under his wing and she befriended him." Keith explained.

"That explains that entry in his journal." Allana spoke her thought out loud.

"Excuse me?" Keith frowned at her.

"Never mind, you wouldn't understand even if I tried to explain it to you." she sighed. "I just think that you and Pidge should be here when Darian arrives here with your sister."

"Where exactly are you?" Keith tried to get a fix on her location.

"In the Arusian Mountain's that's all that I know." Allana frowned. "Are Allura and the babies okay?"

"Yes, both Allura and the babies are fine. She will be ecstatic to learn that you are still alive." Keith smiled at her.

Pidge ran into the control room, "Myria is missing!" He shouted at them.

"We know that she is missing, Pidge, or should I say Patrick? Do you want to come with me when I go get her or are you just going to stay here?" Keith pinned him with a glare.

"Where is she! Is she hurt! Answer me!" Pidge snarled at him. "Did you just call me Patrick?"

"Do you sleep with Aunt Myr now?" Andy frowned at him.

Pidge turned three shades of red and stared down at his little niece, "I like to hold her while she sleeps and that way I know that she's safe."

"So that is why, Daddy, is so ticked at you. You and Aunt Myria moved in together before you two got married." Andy frowned at him. "You do know that you are supposed to be a good role model for us don't you."

Keith couldn't help but chuckle at the look that his baby girl was giving Pidge, "Yes, Patrick, you are and I expect you to be a very good role model for my girls." Keith glared at him.

"Fine, but first I need to find Myria!" Pidge glared at Keith when he hadn't moved from where he was sitting. "Well are you coming with me or not!"

"Do you have any idea where you are going?" Keith frowned at him

.

"No he doesn't, Daddy, he just wants to find Auntie Myria." Andy whispered into her father's ear.

"I will see the two of you when you get here." Allana ended the call to the castle.

"Was that Allana?" Pidge frowned at Keith.

"Yes, Patrick, it was. Darian saved her from Adrian and she is safe at his place in the mountains. That is where we are going as soon as I make sure that Andy is safe and sound with her sisters." Keith got up and headed for the door with Andy tucked under his arm.

~~~

(Adrian's lair)

"Now I shall release you from your pain." Adrian growled against her throat.

"I don't feel very good." Myria moaned, "I think that I am going to be sick." She went limp in Adrian's arms.

"Strange?" Adrian frowned and gathered her limp form in his arms. "This has never happened before."

"Put her DOWN, Adrian!" Darian snarled at his brother.

"She's mine and there is nothing that you can do about it!" Adrian hissed.

"That was NOT a request!" Darian roared.

"I won you lost now LEAVE us!"

"DID YOU BITE HER!" Darian noticed the teeth marks on Myria's neck.

"YES, SHE IS MINE!"

"Myria? It's Darian speak to me!" He ordered her.

"Yes, darling, do say something so that he will leave us alone." Adrian growled.

"I feel hot, can't breath right, and I want to sleep forever." She whimpered.

"It's okay, Myria, I'm here to get you out of this hell hole." He sent Adrian a psychic blast so strong that his brother dropped to his knees in agony, giving Darian the chance that he needed to snatch Myr out of his arms. Once he had her safely in his arms he threw a vial of holy water at Adrian's feet.

"NO! She is mine! I used all of my power to turn her and there is nothing that you can do to change her back!" He vaulted to his feet and took a step towards his brother, fire began to lick at his toes the second his bare foot touched the clear liquid on the floor.

"If you wish yourself dead please continue towards me." Darian grinned at his brother as his foot caught fire.

"What is this Darian!" Adrian jumped back from the puddle of water on his floor.

"Holy water, never leave home with out it." He gathered Myria in his arms and vanished from the room.

~~~

(Two hours later back at Darian's lair)

Allana stared down at the girl lying on the bed and then at the man who was clearly frustrated by what he was reading on his data pad's screen. "Why isn't she waking up? The serum should have worked its magic by now."

"This has to have something to do with her bloodline. It's like her body is fighting off the very cure that it needs to save her life." Darian took a blood sample from Myria's arm and then ran the results through his DNA scanner.

"Well, you had better think of something before our company gets here." Allan paced the guest rooms plush carpet.

"Company?" Darian arched an eyebrow at her; "You are the only one who knows the location of our home." Darian frowned when she gave him this look of pure guilt.

"Well, if I tell you what I did you have to promise me that you will not go mental on me." She blinked innocently up at him.

"I love you, Allana, so the worst that can happen is that I would yell at you. Other wise, you have my solemn vow that I will never lay a finger on you in anger or hurt you like that in any way ever." Darian's gaze never left her own.

"I told Keith that Myria was missing. He is family and that is his sister that is lying there in a coma!" Allana defended her decision, but then blinked up at him in total shock when she realized that he had told her that he was in love with her. "Did you just tell me that you loved me?"

"Yes, I did and as for your informing Keith, well what's done is done. Let's just hope that he keeps a cool head about all of this." Darian knew the instant that Keith entered his home.

"Why wouldn't I remain calm about this?" Keith voice snarled at him from the shadows of the room.

"Hello, Keith, welcome to my home." Darian growled.

Keith emerged from the shadows and stalked over to where his sister lay almost lifeless on the bed. "What happened to her!"

"Adrian bit her and she seems to be having a bad reaction to his bite. That and the serum don't seem to have any effect on her." Darian remained absolutely calm as he explained the situation to Keith.

"What he means is that Myria is suffering from some form of blood poisoning." Pidge stalked into the room.

"She should be alive and full of energy, instead she is lifeless and completely unresponsive." Darian frowned and showed Pidge the information on the data pad.

"Myria? It's me Patrick. You are safe now and I need you to come back to me." Pidge walked over and took her hand in his own, but she didn't even respond to his touch.

"She reacts to nothing, yet her vital signs still remain stable at least most of the time."

"What do you mean by most of the time!" Pidge grabbed Darian by his throat.

"I don't have time for this! Myria is stable for now, but if we don't figure out why the serum isn't working she is going to die!" Darian was not in the mood to be strangled and he also needed Pidge to concentrate on helping him save Myria.

"WILL YOU TWO STOP SHOUTING AT EACH OTHER AND HELP HER!" Allana screamed at them.

"Look you two genius's help her before I tear you both in HALF!" Keith noticed that Myria's temperature was beginning to rise dangerously high, when he reached down and felt her forehead.

Pidge shoved Keith out of the way to scan her vitals with his Med-scanner. "She's burning up! Hang in there angel we are going to make you all better." Pidge pleaded with her to stay with him.

"I've tried everything Patrick! Every formula that I can think of and nothing seems to be working! She should be coming out of this, but her condition hasn't even improved!" He watched helplessly as Myria began shiver as if she were freezing instead of burning up.

"Then we reverse the formula." Pidge forced himself to focus on saving Myria, "Where is your lab?"

"That is just to simple of a solution, but it's worth a try. Hell I can't believe that I didn't think of that myself." Darian groaned in frustration as he led Pidge out of the room and down the hall to his lab.

"My sister is on the very brink of dying and he wonders why he didn't think of that!" Keith muttered to himself as he eyed the readings on the med. scanner noticing that Myria's temperature continued to rise.

"We need to get her into some ice and fast. Bring her into the bathroom and I will program the tub to make ice." Allana began to panic when Myria's temp rose to one hundred and four degrees.

"What if the shock is to much for her system to take?" Keith set his sister down into the ice filled bathtub.

"It's a chance that we are going to have to take. Her fever is going to kill her if it doesn't break soon." Allana watched in horror as Myria's fever melted the ice around her body.

"How is she living through this?" Keith was beginning to lose it.

"Adrian bit her, Keith, she isn't mortal any more." Allana pointed to the two marks on Myria's neck and watched as Keith's face went pale under his tanned complexion.

"Why wasn't she wearing her medallion! How could she be that stupid!" Keith felt so helpless as he looked down at his sister.

Allana to try and break her fever began to pour icy cold water over Myria's head. " She was to distracted by Adrian's taunting and forgot to put on her medallion. Does it really matter! Look at her! I think that she learned her lesson! NOW focus on Myria and forget about everything else!" She snarled at him.

"I'm sorry, Allana, I guess that this has me scared out of my mind. She's my baby sister and I was supposed to keep her safe! What am I going to tell my parents if she dies!" Keith had tears streaming down his face.

"She is not going to die, because Darian and Pidge are going to save her! We have to believe that!" Allan set down the pitcher and went to comfort him.

"Damn right she isn't going to die on me!" Patrick ran into the room with the new serum and injected it into her arm.

"What happened how was he able to bite her in the first place!" Pidge glared murderously at Darian.

"She forgot to wear her medallion. That is why he bit her." Keith growled.

"Why the hell did she take it off in the first place! I told you both to never take it off until Adrian was taken down!" Darian roared at Pidge.

::Hey do you mind? I happen to have one killer of a migraine!:: Myria snarled at them using her mind.

"Myria!" Three very startled voices shouted in unison.

::Yes it's me! Now would someone please explain to me why I am laying in a tub filled with ice?::

::You have been really ill, Adrian bit you which you had a bad reaction to his bite.:: Darian answered telepathically.

::Am I one of you now?:: She felt like panicking.

::I am not entirely sure, but then you did survive a fever that would have killed any mortal.::

::Hey whoever said that I was mortal.:: She joked weakly.

::Are you able to wake up yet or do you feel like resting for a while?::

::Rest. I don't think that I'm up to answering Keith or Patrick's questions right now.:: Myria sighed. ::But, please get me out of this tub! I am freezing!::

"Patrick, Myria would like to get out of the tub and into a nice warm and comfortable bed." Darian smiled at their confused faces.

"How would you know that? She hasn't moved at all since we gave her the serum?" Patrick frowned at him.

::Patrick, my love, please get me out of this tub before I do you bodily harm!:: Myria ordered him in his head.

"Yes, Myria, as you wish, Myria." Pidge muttered to himself as he lifted her from her ice bath and then covered her with a huge warm fluffy bath towel.

::As for you big brother, you really do need to get home Allura is about to go into labor.::

"Allura! I have to go, Pidge… Uh I mean Patrick, I know that you will look after my sister, but I have to get to Allura." Keith looked as if he was on the verge of panicking and then disappeared from their sight.

"I think that someone is about to become the proud father of twin little boys." Patrick grinned.

~~~

(Back at the castle)

"Oh no you two! Not now! I can't find where your Daddy has disappeared to although I did just hear your Aunt ordering him to come back home." She laughed as she quietly chatted with her unborn baby boys, who answered her not with a kick but with a contraction.

"Mom?" Andy called out to her mother when she saw her wincing in pain.

"Hello, sweetheart, Mommy is fine. I just have a little back ache that's all." Allura huffed as the contraction ended.

"Mom! Is it the twins? Are you in pain? Where is Daddy?" She fired off questions at her mother, "Ariel! Alex! Get in here now!" Andy shouted for her sisters making her mother jump in surprise.

"Andy, honey, I am fine there is no reason to get your sisters upset." Allura winced when another contraction started to hit her.

"What is it Andy? Why did you yell for us!" Alex demanded her feathers all ruffled at being ordered by her baby sister.

"Mom, is it the twins?" Ariel helped her mom to her feet.

"Daddy! Mommy needs you!" Andy yelled for her father.

"Andy, be quiet! Daddy isn't here right now!" Alex snarled at her sister.

"I'm here Andy. Why does your Mommy need me? Is it the twins?" Keith eyed his very pregnant wife who looked as if she were in extreme pain swept her up into his arms and carried her into their bedroom.

"It took you long enough to get her!" Allura snarled at him.

"Calm down, Allura. We have been through this before and we got through this just fine. Now tell me how far apart your contractions are?" Keith set her on their bed and spoke to her in a clam soothing voice.

"WE'VE DONE THIS BEFORE! EXCUSE ME DARLING, BUT YOU JUST COACHED I DID ALL OF THE PUSHING AND WENT THROUGH ALL THE PAIN! SO, DON'T TELL ME THAT WE'VE DONE THIS BEFORE!" Allura grabbed him by his hair and shouted into his ear.

"OUCH! All right! Allura you did ALL of the work! Now let go of my hair!" Keith yelped in pain.

"Oh, I'm sorry, darling, did I hurt you?" She cooed sweetly.

"Oh no, sweetheart, I just love having you pull my hair out by the roots!" Keith growled propping up pillows all behind her back.

"Well you are the one who got me in this condition you know!" She hissed at him as another contraction rocked her body.

"Allura Danielle, this is neither the time nor the place for this conversation." Keith growled down at her his face flushed red with embarrassment.

"Oh, I don't know, Daddy. I think that the conversation was just beginning to get interesting." Andy grinned and her parents glared at her.

"Andromeda Marie! That is enough! Now be a good little princess and run along with your sisters and go get the doctor." Allura ordered her child.

'"NOW!" Keith snarled at the three girls and they ran from the room in fear.

"I hope that Dr. Steven's is back from the city. He had to visit the main hospital because of an emergency." Allura groaned as another contraction began to rock her body.

"These are less than three minutes apart! He had better be back." Keith tried not to panic.

"I don't really think that I can wait if he isn't in the castle! So you are going to have to deliver the babies here and now!" Allura tried to focus on her breathing.

"Me! Are you nuts! We need the Doc!" Keith was now panicking.

"Listen to me! Take a deep breath and let it out nice and slow! You are going to deliver our babies! Do I make myself clear!" Allura snarled at him.

"Yes, angel, but I am going to need some help." Keith calmly reached for his Tele-com. "Cass? This is Keith get in here now. Oh, and I need the birthing kit which in the first aid kit, and some blankets." He ordered his sister.

"Is Allura in labor? But Doc Stevens won't be back for hours!"

"Just get in here now and bring me what I asked you to bring me!" Keith barked at her.

"On my way big brother!" Cassie ran from the room and raced for the necessary supplies.

"See? I have everything under control." He smiled at Allura and looked like he was on the verge of passing out.

"Oh no you don't! Wake up!" Allura slapped him hard in the face.

"I'm awake! I'm awake! Now the contractions are only a couple minutes apart, we're almost home free just don't push until I tell you to okay?" He ordered her.

"Don't push until you tell me to? Boy you sure are bossy!" She snarled at him.

"Don't worry the Calvary has arrived!" Cassie and Lance ran into the room with the emergency kit.

"Lance, get behind Allura and prop her up. Cassie give me the birthing kit." Keith barked out orders.

"Don't worry, Ally, Keith has had first aid medical training for years and he was terrific at it in the academy." Lance grinned down at her.

"Remind me to kill you later!" Allura snarled at her husband.

"Famous last words, love. Now on the count of three I need you to push for me." He grinned up at her, "One, two, three push!"

"The baby is coming!" Allura gasped as she pushed with all she had in her.

"I see dark hair, Allura! Now give me one big push and twin number one will be home free." Keith watched as Allura brought their son into the world and right into his arms, "Way to go Mom! We have a very healthy little boy." He grinned up at her tears shined in his eyes as he handed him to Cassie.

"One more champ. This one is for me! Now push!" He ordered her.

"I am pushing, Keith!" She groaned in agony.

"This one also has dark hair, looks like trouble Mom." Keith looked up at his wife and winked at her.

"Tell me about it!" She panted then pushed with all her remaining energy.

An angry wail filled the room as son number two entered the world. "Allura, meet your other son. We have identical twins." He smiled up at her Cassie was settling both boys in there mothers arms.

"They are so tiny and so perfect. Hello little ones I'm your Mommy." She cooed down at her sleeping sons.

"They are so adorable! Watch out, Ally, they remind me of someone." Cassie grinned.

"Yeah they look like little duplicates of Keith." Lance grinned.

"No, they look like little miracles." Keith was so proud of his wife and so happy to see her holding their twins in her arms.

"Mommy! Daddy! Doctor Stevens isn't in the castle!" Ariel and Alex came running into the room. Then stood in awe as they gazed at their mom and the two little ones that she was holding.

"Oh WOW! They are so tiny!" Andy raced over to go see her little brothers, "I'm Andromeda, that's Alexandra and then the red head is Ariel." One of the babies woke up and stared up at her.

"What are their names?" Alex asked excitedly.

"How about Andrew and Anthony." Allura smiled at Keith.

"Girls this is Andrew and this is Tony." He smiled at his three little princesses'.

"We promise to love, protect, and teach you everything that you need to know." Andy kissed each of them on their downy hared heads.

~~~

Adrian stood outside the grounds of Darian's fortress. He had finally decided to rid himself of his twin, Allana, and Myria for once and for all. "I want every escape route closed! Leave no one alive!" He barked orders at his men.

"Yes Adrian we will not fail you." Han's gave the signal and the attack was under way.

Adrian was in for a major wake-up call, because Myria, Darian, Allana, and Patrick were more than ready for Adrian's surprise sneak attack.

"Myria? Are you sure about this? You have only been awake for less than two hours." Patrick watched as Myria began to arm herself with various weapons.

"I am fine Patrick. He won't catch me off guard this time." Myria was wearing her medallion of protection around her neck.

"We've got company!" Allana hissed at them from her perch on the far stairway.

::Darian he's here. Are we ready?::

::Ready and waiting.:: Darian growled back in Myria' s mind.

Myria then turned to look at her man, "Stay in this room and do not leave it no matter what." she ordered him.

"But you three need all the help that you can get!" Patrick growled in protest.

"Trust me man of mine everything will be fine. Just don't leave this room."

"I love you Myria." Patrick pulled her into his arms for a quick kiss.

"I love you to Patrick." She kissed him back and then vanished from the room.

"He's called in everyone! I'd estimate that there are over 200 vampires invading my fortress, but we're ready for them. They also do not realize that this place was built on holy ground and they will be at our mercy the second the step inside my home." Darian growled, "As soon as you see that they are beginning to weaken stake them and then is you have to douse them with holy water." he instructed the two women.

"Won't they catch this place on fire?" Allana frowned.

"Not like you are thinking my love, a vampire spontaneously combusts when doused with holy water and there for cannot catch anything around them on fire." His explanation was cut short when vampires appeared from everywhere and surrounded them. Darian let lose with some lethal martial arts moves on the attacking vampires.

"Who taught you how to fight?" Myria was impressed by his fighting skills.

"Bruce Lee and a few other martial arts masters." Darian grinned at her as he disposed of 20 or more vampires. "Damn I just weatherized those windows!" Darian snarled when the windows of the fortress began to shatter around them.

"Darian?" Allana hissed staking any vampire that go within two feet of her.

"Yes angel?" Darian glanced over at her to make sure that she was okay.

"Promise me that this is the last time that we'll have to do this for a very long time!" She activated a device on her wrist and the room was doused with holy water via an over head sprinkler system.

"I think that I can arrange that." Darian finished off twenty more vampires with his special weapon that fired continuous wooden stakes at his enemy.

"Hey Darian? Where are the ring leaders of this little operation?" Myria was easily taking down each and every one of her opponents. "I don't see Lacrosse, Han's or Adrian anywhere."

"They are just waiting to make their entrance." Darian frowned, "Uh? Excuse me, but did you know that this place is built on holy ground?" he made conversation with their attackers.

"You're lying! Even you could not live on holy ground." one idiot hissed at him.

"I never lie and in case you haven't figured it out yet. I have been cured of this for over a thousand years." Darian grinned at their horrified faces.

"Looks like we fooled you and now you're all going to die." Allana grinned at them.

"Curse you all to hell!" one shouted when his skin began to burn.

"You first!" Myria hissed and staked him through the heart.

"Hey Adrian! Where are you and your other cowards hiding? You are missing all of the fun!" Darian taunted his brother.

"Now Darian, I am sure that Adrian wants to play with us. After all, I haven't even begun to show him where my true feeling lie." Myria added to Darian's taunting.

"You two really do like pulling the dragon's tail don't you." Allana frowned at them as she activated the final traps around the fortress.

I believe that the phrase that you are looking for is lion's tail not dragon's and yes I do enjoy tormenting my twin." Darian staked the last of the vampires and the room fell silent.

"250 down and three more to go." Myria grinned.

"Make that one to go Myria, Hans and Lacrosse just landed in the pit." Darian growled.

"Come out! Come out where ever you are Adrian! It's just you and me alone!" Myria shouted into the empty room.

"No way Myria!" Darian snarled.

"Leave us! Darian!" She snarled back.

"Darian you can't let her face him alone!" Allana couldn't believe that he would let her risk her life like that again.

"He had no choice Allana. Look Darian, I can and will make you leave." she was now completely calm and in control.

"You are new at this and I am a pro so don't even try it!" he growled at her.

"Try me Darian, I have never felt so powerful in my entire life! It's like something unlocked my mind!" Myria glared at him.

"Make me do something against my will and then he will be all yours." Darian challenged her.

"No problem." she commanded him to kneel before her with her mind and Darian found himself on his knees.

"Darian this is no time for joking around!" Allana snapped at him.

"I am not joking Allana! Okay Myria you have more than proven your point now let me get back up to my feet!" Darian snarled through his teeth.

"Leave!" she ordered him again.

"Let's go love, I think that Patrick needs some company." Darian swept her up in his arms and vanished from the room.

"Finally alone at last, darling, don't your friends have any manners?" Adrian appeared in front of her, his face only inches from her own.

"Adrian are you well? You look like you are getting a migraine." she purred up at him and he felt a sharp pain in his head.

"It won't work Myria I am stronger than you are." he snarled at her and the pain in his head increased.

"Oh really? Then why are you barely able to stand?" she applied even more pressure to his mind.

"I command you to stop this at once!" he roared at her.

"You command! Adrian after everything that you've put me through, you actually think that you have the right to order me around!!!?" she shouted at him. "You are going to feel more pain that you ever thought possible and then you are going to die!"

"You can't do this you are one of the good guys!" he fell to his knees in agony.

"Consider me your judge, your jury and your executioner! You are never going to kill anyone again! Your three thousand years of terrorizing innocent victims is over!" she snarled down at him.

"We could have conquered the universe together." he growled hoarsely.

"Not in this lifetime creep." Myria staked him through the heart and his body turned to dust. "Now the universe is free of you and your kind forever."

"Myria? Are you all right?" Patrick ran into the room and pulled her into his arms.

"I'm fine Patrick." she smiled up at him.

"You've changed Myria." Patrick stared down into her wary emerald eyes.

"Yes, but its a change for the better." Myria whispered softly her eyes pleading with him to understand what she was going through.

"Are you like Darian and Allana now?" Patrick asked quietly.

"No I don't think that I am immortal like they are. I might age slower than normal people but I think that I can still die."

"What else Myria?"

"I can really use my mind now, I can use telepathy, and maybe even move objects if I concentrate hard enough. Honestly Patrick, I've only had this for a few hours and don't know half of what has happened to Me." she prayed that he would understand this new part of her.

"Myria, I love you and I don't care if you have any strange mental powers. Just try and stay out of my mind." he grinned at her.

"I think that I can manage to do that." she grinned as he silenced her with a kiss.

~~~

"Hey big brother am I an aunt again?" Myria walked into Keith and Allura's rooms.

Keith ran over and gave her a big bear hug, " So are you okay now?" he frowned down at her.

"Well, big brother you could say that I'm even better than okay." she walked over to where Allura was holding court with the twins.

"Myria? You seem different is everything all right?" Allura frowned at her.

"I'm fine Allura. I took out Adrian and all of his men." she smiled down at her nephews who were sleeping in the arms of their mother.

"Myria meet Andrew and Tony." Allura smiled at her.

"Now, now big brother I am not that stupid! Darian and Allana helped me get rid of them." she grinned at her brothers shocked expression.

"Does this mean that you can read minds now?" he frowned.

"That and much more, by the way the twins like their new names." she giggled at the expression that her brother was giving her. "Speaking of Darian and Allana they are both out side and are waiting for permission to enter your room."

"Allana is here that's wonderful news and I have not had the pleasure of meeting Darian yet. Does Andy know that he is here in the castle?" Allura smiled.

"Andy is making Darian carry her around on his back." Myria grinned as the two people in question entered the living quarters of Keith and Allura.

"Allura!" Allana ran over to her cousin.

"Allana, I'm so sorry about your mother. Are you okay? Did her hurt you?" Allura gave Keith the twins and then hugged her cousin.

"I'm fine Ally. You look wonderful and so do the twins."

"Andromeda will you please let Darian go so that he can meet your mother." Keith growled at his child.

"But Daddy!" she wailed in protest.

"Now young lady!" he snarled.

"Okay daddy, see ya later Darian." she ran from the room as soon as he set her down.

"I'm Darian and you must be Queen Allura." Darian bowed.

"Please call me Allura and thank you for saving Myria and Allana." she smiled up at him.

"My pleasure your highness and my honor." he kissed her hand.

"Yes, Darian thank you for saving my sister and our planet from Adrian." Keith replied smiling at him giving him a let go of her hand or I'll tear you and half look.

"If you think that I defeated him and saved all of us from my brother then you are mistaken. I merely watched from the side lines." he grinned pulling Allana into his arms.

"Yes you could say that Myria had him on his knees." Allana winked at Myria.

"Yes well you could say that." Darian's face flushed with embarrassment.

"Maybe you can show me how you did that one of these days." she grinned as his face grew even redder.

"Well you see Allana all that you have to do is..." Myria tried to explain how to bring him to his knees, but he cut her off.

"I really don't think that telling Allana is a very good idea." he growled.

"Now Darian a big strong handsome man like you couldn't possible be afraid of someone like Me." she innocently batted her lashes up at him.

"Be afraid Darian, on second thought run for your life." Keith grinned and then laughed at the look that he was giving him.

"Don't worry Darian I won't hurt you. It isn't everyday that a girl finds out that someone has been waiting three thousand years to meet you." She stood up on her tiptoes and kissed him.

"Something tells me that we are missing something major here." Allura frowned.

"Was she really serious? Have you really been waiting all of that time for Allana?!" Myria frowned at her friend.

"Well a little over two thousand actually, but yes she was serious." Darian growled.

"But how?" Allura frowned.

"A few visitor's from your time and that is all that I am going to tell you." Darian grinned.

"Who? Was it one of us?" Myria still wanted answers.

Allana grinned at Keith and Allura, " Can I at least give them a hint?" she turned to pout at Darian.

"One hint and that is all." Darian sighed.

"Just one?" she frowned.

::Look Allana I do not wish to get a lecture from the keeper of time, so it will only have to be a small hint! :: His voice growled in her head.

"Well let's just say that you don't have to worry about Andy not reaching her eighteenth birthday." Allana grinned at them.

"You met Andy?! In the past!!?" Keith stared at him in shock.

"Let's just say that your dream was almost right on the mark." Allana winked at them.

"That's it Allana we are going home!" Darian tossed her over his shoulder and carried her out of the room.

"Wait! I want to know more!" Keith chased after him, but he was gone.

"Well darling at least we know that Andy is going to be all right." Allura smiled at him. "Now come and hold your sons for a while." she patted his side of the bed.

"I am going to get some answers from him if it takes me years to do it!" Keith growled as he cuddled his son in his arms.

"I really don't think that you will get him to talk, big brother. He has the most amazing collection at his fortress. I think that I saw Excalibur in a glass case in his study, right next to King Arthur and Sir Lancelot's armor. " Myria grinned when her brother groaned.

~~~

Andy followed them out of the castle, and to his air car. "Why are you leaving?" she pouted up at him.

"Allana was going to tell your father something that he didn't need to know about." Darian scooped her up into his arms. "It's late and you really shouldn't be wandering around out here in the dark."

Andy frowned up at him, "I thought that you were going to tell me good bye before you left the castle." she sniffled.

"He just wasn't thinking clearly sweetheart and he won't do it ever again." Allana smiled at the little girl.

"Promise?" she frowned at him.

" Yes, I promise little blossom." he cuddled her in his arms. "Would you like for me to tell you a story before you go to bed?"

"I love stories!" She smiled up at him.

"Dromi! Get in here before Daddy really gets mad!" Alex shouted for her baby sister.

"Come on little blossom, it's getting dark out and you should be getting ready for bed." he carried her into the castle.

"I'm not afraid of the dark!" she frowned at him in annoyance.

"I know that and you know that, but sometimes you just have to indulge your parents and go along with what they want you to do." Darian continued to talk to her as if she were a grown-up.

"I like you a lot Darian. You talk to me like I am a grown up." she yawned sleepily and curled into his arms.

"I like you to Little Blossom." he kissed her on the top of her head.

~~~~ on to chapter 15~~~

I in no way own any of the original characters in this story and Voltron is the property of World Events Productions, ltd. (So nobody sue me okay ^^;) The new characters on the other hand are mine and under no circumstances are they to be used without my permission.