half an hour later

"Kur, we have found you a suitible mate" Rani bowed. Two Naga were dragging in a girl, chained. Her hair was filled with twigs and leaves, and her left sleeve was torn off, as well as the bottom of her pant leg on the same side. He snapped out of the dark control at her sight.

"W...wadi!" he stammered.

"Yes, my Naga had seen how you were attracted to her and she to you"

"You were spying on me!" he said sounding dark, and still hiding his surprise at the sight of Wadi.

"How did you think we took advantage of your awakening by Argost so quickly?" sighing he jumped off his throne and picked up Wadi with his Kur enhanced strength.

"Will you wish for us to remove her cloths, or will you do it yourself?" Rani questioned. He turned around sharply at the mention of it.

"Rani, do you have a king?"

"No, but what has that anything to do with it?"

"Rani, if I am to have a queen, I want one who won't try to poison my drink, which is something I wish to avoid. I wish to have a chance to make sure it will work, if not you can have her for dinner" he lied at the last part. Really he just wanted to avoid having the nagas force him to rape her or something.

In his room

Wadi slowly opened her eyes, to find herself in a luxury room. A large window had a view of the forest below, and the bed felt like a cloud it was so soft. How did she get here, from being amubshed by Nagas, that served.....

She immeidatly got up and tried to get away, but a familiar voice said

"Wadi" turning she saw Zak. Her fists automaticly curled for a punch.

"You" she shook.

"You killed so many of my people, my friends, my father! I had to live in the woods, and for the record plants taste horrid!"

"Wadi...."

"You killed your own family!...." she yelled, thank goodness the room was sound proof and the nagas didn't spy on him, but now he bowed his head.

"Argost did" he told her. She stopped, and listened.

"When he did, something happened. The dark part of kur, the part the Nagas want, got loose. That part was the one who took over the world. I got control back, but still sometimes" he paused as if a pain racked him, he shook himself and he continued " the dark part is still there, I'm just trying to keep him under control". Wadi seemed calmer, but still had a distrust in her eyes.

"If you are the Zak I know, and not the Zak I hate" he winced at that part " why don't you go and kill the Nagas?"

"I, can't, if I showed them in anyway that I wasn't still the same as the one who took over, they would do something to keep the dark part of me in power all of the time. And if that happened, I wouldn't be talking to you, but you instead would have a chain around your neck" she winced.

"The Nagas, they have got it in their skulls that I'm, well you know, lusting for a girl" he turned away to avoid staring at her, or let her see his buldge. " and that's why they dragged you here, and didn't just eat you. They had watched me from before all of this, and knew of your crush on me, and vise versa. Of course, as you can tell, I'm not exactly raping you, know am I. The walls keep them from hearing us talk, or in their minds your screams of pain"

"Okay, I'm really starting to hate those snake things even more" she commented. Zak laughed

"I don't trust them at all" he paused, and let his eyes glow orange briefly and then stopped. " I still do that to see if they have spies in here or something"

"Do they?"

"No" he commented. Then he felt a sudden chill, and found that his belt was gone, and his pants fell down. Thank goodness he still had underwear.

"WADI!" he groaned turning around, and she laughed, with his belt in hand. Before he had a chance to say something, he kneeled as he felt a horrid pain.

"Zak" Wadi gulped. She ran to him, and shook him. Worried, she had inferred that these spouts of pain seemed to signal him going the bad Zak, the kind that would do what the Naga's expected to her. What could she do to stop it. Panicking, she decided to try something. She then gave him a peck on the cheek, and he stopped being in pain.

"Wadi" he said, and still was good.

"Your not evil Zak" she said with tears of joy, and relief.

"No" he told her " I'm not" and standing he turned to her.

"Wadi, I need to ask you a favor" he said nervously. She turned her head inquisitivly.

"I'm listening, but if it involves...."

"No, of course not" he caught her meaning " What I need to ask of you, is that you stay with me, at least for a while. If you try to leave, the Naga's will eat you. Just stay with me, and I'll keep you safe. I won't do anything as long as you don't want to" and her answer was to embrace him in a long, passionate kiss. He closed his eyes happily.

"Wadi, thank you" she blushed. But he wasn't finished.

"We may need to play the role, you know keep the Nagas blissfully unaware" and Wadi froze.

"My bad, what I meant was, well you sort of don't have the appearance of...." he tried to tell her but she stopped him.

"Oh, I need to look the part too" she raised an eyebrow.

Later

The next day, Zak strode into the throne room and sat down. Noticing that the small side chair was present, he whistled and Wadi ran in and took a seat. He rested his hand on her now scarfless head, feeling the softness of the long, brown hair. She now had a purple tang top and black skirt that showed off a bit of skin and bust. Zak and Wadi agreed to a look like this, with Wadi's approval to make sure she appeared as the Naga's expected her to.

"So, I see you have your queen, my lord" Rani hissed