Okay that settled it the little kid was Abel. Augusta sighed, taking off her hat and veil. She could hear Ion and Asthe gasp at what she had done. Although they already knew that her name was actually Seth and knew what she looked like she couldn't blame them for their reaction. After all, to them she was revealing who she was to a terran from the Vatican.

"wha-"

Augusta raised up her hand to stop Ion, "I'm only trying to see if I can trigger a memory after all he did see me back during the conspiracy."

Abel looked at the girl in front of him, he knew her somehow. She just looked so familiar, Abel raked his brain for answers. His mind coming up with ten different solutions all at once and then another ten. Empress, friend, doctor... secret agent? Then it clicked he didn't know how, but he knew the girl was his sister. But how was that possible? She was supposed to be over 800 years old and although Ion had said he shrunk, that didn't exactly make up for the age difference.

He said nothing and continued to stare at her, he didn't want to say what he knew with other people there. Plus, it was a bit far fetched. "I'm sorry, but I really can't remember anything," Abel said in calm voice. If Augusta hadn't taken her veil off, he would have yelled at Ion for not telling him the whole situation sooner.

Augusta nodded, looking at her brother with hope that he would remember soon. "I'm sorry that you have lost your memory. You need not be formal with me when in private talks, you can just call me Seth. After all when you had left the empire you had been my friend," She said, giving him a friendly smile. "Now then, we need to do something about this note. I can read a little of it, but I can't translate the whole thing; do you mind translating it Abel?"

Taking the paper, Abel translated it word for word, pausing only once or twice to rearrange the wordings. He also added a few things he had missed when telling Asthe what it meant. Once done Seth made a few suggestions on what to do and one of her plans was exactly the same as the one Abel had suggested a day ago. When everything was accounted for, Seth pressed a button under the table and the white board on the wall flickered to life.

"We can call the vatican using this," Seth said. "It'll take a while to get a good connection and Caterina might not even be able to take the call but we can try." She paused, "It could take a day at the best or a week at the worst," she had a frown on her face as she said this. "Abel, you and Tres can stay in the palace while you wait for this call to get through. I don't want to trouble Asthe with taking care of my guests again."

"It wasn't a problem at all," Asthe stammered. "It's fine if they stay at my house."

Seth shook her head, "I pushed them into a fight that I shouldn't have, and put Abel in danger. The least I can do is offer him a place to stay. Besides, when we finally get a connection it would be best if Abel's around to confirm what I'm saying. If he's not, then Lady Caterina Sforza might not believe me." Seth said almost sternly.

"Thank you," Abel bowed his head to Seth. "I promise I'll try not to be a burden to you."

(two days later)

If Seth wasn't the empress and didn't have to keep a straight front she would have screamed her head off in frustration by now. Abel had some kind of weird sixth sense that made him aware of where she was. Every time she came near him he would suddenly disappear or busy himself or he would go by Tres. The only time he didn't disappear or wasn't with anyone was when he slept. How the hell was she supposed to talk to him and tell him who he really was if he kept avoiding her. Seth stormed off down the hall heading to her room to prepare for her next conference with the nobles.

Abel went onto the balcony and jumped onto the roof when he heard Seth pass by his room. This was really getting tiring. He wanted to talk to her and ask her if she was really his sister but didn't know how. He just wished to get the mission over with as fast as he could and then go back to the AX and confront Caterina. Why hadn't anyone told him he shrunk? That was one of the key pieces to the his memory. He jumped back down when he was certain Seth was further down the hall.

In the past two days Ion and Asthe had told Abel how they had met him, and about a red haired nun named Ester. They told him about his involvement in the conspiracy case and about the Rozenkreuz orden. Tres on the other hand only said he had super bad eye sight and had given Abel a negative number that he would rather not remember. Tres said that his shooting skills were B rank and that his fighting skills were B-. The android was no help at all and only continued to list off Abel's stats.

Abel exited his room and walked down the hall, heading to the conference room they were using to get in touch with Caterina. On his free time Abel almost always found himself there or in the library looking for a book to read. He preferred reading in the conference room because the library had to many people, and his room was always the place Seth looked for him.

When he got there Abel was surprised to find the white board blinking green. Seth had said that it would begin blinking once they got a clear connection to the vatican. Now all they had to do was call Caterina. Abel set his book on the table and walked out of the room, he needed to get the empress so that they could tell Caterina about the note.

Thirty minutes later Seth was running down the hall at a speed that every methuselah would envy, Abel was right on her heels only a foot away. She wondered if he even realized how fast he was running. As soon as Abel saw the connection was ready he had caught up with Seth before she went to meet with the nobles. Once he told her about it, she left a note for Baybars to deliver to the secret council and left for the room.

In the room Seth pressed a button under the table and the screen made a whirling sound as it began to turn on. It took only a minute until Caterina's image flickered into focus.

"Your, Highne-," Caterina stopped when she saw Augusta wasn't the only one in the room, "Abel?" She asked in a steely voice, "You should have been in Albion by now, what are you doing."

Abel opened his mouth, about to say something when Augusta beat him to it. "We believe the Queen of Albion is going to be murdered." She cut straight to the chase, not really feeling like playing a game of politics at the moment. Caterina's face flickered in surprise but it was gone second later. "We have a note that led us to believe this. It's written in Scottish an ancient language and Abel can read it." She held out the paper to the Screen. While Abel again explained what the note said.

Caterina nodded her head when Abel was done explaining, "very well as an add on to your first mission you must also warn the queen and try to find the puppet master as well as infiltrate their base in Albion."

When Caterina signed out, Abel made a quick move for the door, but Seth put her self between him and his only means of escape. She took off her veil and hat, revealing her face. She was scowling down at Abel. Her heels making her taller then she actually was.

A/N: I ended up getting free time during class so I finished the chapter early today. Well it's probably late for you guys, on the mainland... Anyway hope you like it.