Author's note: yay I'm snowed in and I don't have to go anywhere because everywhere I needed to be is closed, that means I have nothing else to do today but right my stories. So here we go onto chapter 10.

Chapter 10

Yuri turns on his side in bed and cuddles into his soft pillow and smiles contently. He was dreaming that he was lying in a field of white flowers, on his back, staring up at the morning sky. The sun was bright, the sky was blue and the grass on the ground was bright green. The wind softly blew into his face and he breath in the warm spring air. "Wow, it's so peaceful out here, but I can't help but feel like there's something I have forgotten". He shrugs his shoulders and closes his eyes relaxing in this perfect day. He then opens his eyes again and finds himself back in his bedroom laying in his bed, like a lit spark he jolts up into a sitting position with a shocked look on his face, "oh no the war". He quickly hops out of bed seeing that he was still wearing his clothes from the night before. He opens the door in a hurry only to find Conrad standing there looking at him.

Conrad looks at him and smiled a little "good your up, are you alright your majesty?" He steps back to give Yuri some room to come out.

"What happen?" Yuri looked panicked and worried "I didn't just sleep through a war did I? Everyone's ok right? Please tell me I didn't miss it". When Conrad nodded, Yuri went off into an apologetic rant "I'm so sorry, I'm such an idiot, what kind of ruler takes a nap while a war is going on?, it's just that I was with wolfram and I was so tired and I didn't even realize I had drifted off and……"

Conrad puts his hands on Yuri's shoulders to calm him down. "whoa don't worry no harm was done, we were more then able to handle ourselves, the war took a mere 10 seconds anyway with zero casualties".

Yuri looks up at him stunned "what, but that's impossible, how did you pull that off?"

Conrad wasn't sure exactly how to answer him, he knew that somehow Wolfram knocked Yuri out on purpose to make sure he didn't take part in the battle, so he didn't know just how upset Yuri would be "well… you see your majesty, Wolfram displayed some very interesting skills out there, so it made it possible for our forces to overcome them".

Yuri walks a little past him and stops to address him further "where is wolfram right now anyway?" Yuri was clearly just a little upset.

"He's in the meeting room with Gwendal and Gunter" Conrad answered. Yuri walks ahead of him toward the meeting room and Conrad walks behind him "Yuri try not to be too upset, I'm sure what he did was merely to protect you".

"I'm not 15 anymore, I'm 17 and can take care of myself" He said while walking toward the room "what he did was put himself and everyone else in danger and in the state that I was in who knows what could have gone wrong, I could have woken up and half of my family here could have been dead".

Yuri marches into the meeting room and everyone is seated at the table. Gunter got up immediately "oh your majesty you're awake, thank goodness, have you slept well?"

Yuri looks at wolfram who sat next to Gunter close to Yuri's desk. The blond looked away a bit suddenly taking a fascination to the wall across from him. Yuri circles around the table and passes right behind wolfram to sit at his own desk "a little too well, I apologize for not being there". He glares directly at wolfram that chances a glance back at him "apparently a certain blond nymph felt I would have been useless to all of you out there in battle and decided to bench me before I even had the chance to get in the game".

Wolfram and Conrad noticed the baseball reference even though it seemed lost on the other two occupants in the room. "Well geez I'm sorry about that, but I had a chance to stop a war before there was any blood shed, so I went for it".

"So you knocked me out so I wouldn't get in YOUR way" Yuri tries to not look hurt by that "Gee thanks friend, it's nice to know you think so highly of me".

Wolfram became agitated "I knew you didn't want to get involved in a war so I simply granted your wishes and saved your life. Show some gratitude, do you realize that since you have never fought in a war before, most likely you would have been killed? YOU UNGRATEFUL WIMP".

"DON'T CALL ME THAT" Yuri shouted he stood up and glared at him "and for your information, I've grown stronger since the last time YOU threw a fit and disappeared". Wolfram's annoyed expression turned slightly into one of guilt as Yuri continued talking "you came in out of nowhere, knocked me out and took over without even so much as a notion of whether I might have been able to handle fighting in the war or not, do you still really think I'm that weak? And another thing I don't enjoy the thought of relaxing in my room while my army is out there doing all the bloody work, you really think I would enjoy waking up and finding out that those who are most important to me have died in a war that I initiated myself?" wolfram couldn't say anything to that so he kept silent, Yuri had calmed down a little too and sat down at his desk "tell me what happened out there wolfram".

Wolfram looks at him, then at the other occupants in the room, they were all listening intently to him "well I have this new ability to send out heat waves out through long distances, so I used it on belars men, it disabled them and we were able to take them in as our prisoners".

Yuri blinks at him "heat wave? since when did you have a heat wave power?"

Gwendale chimes in after being silent all this time "he apparently has gained some new abilities since the last time we have seen him".

Gunter looks confused "abilities? What kind of abilities?"

Conrad instinctively puts his hand on his ribcage "well we have seen your healing abilities and your heat wave. Is there anything else?"

Wolfram frowns a bit, he knew this day would come but it still didn't make him feel any less self-conscious "well my ability to manipulate fire has grown to an expert level; I can now do just about anything with it. I can talk to nature and the animals that inhabit it, I didn't think that it would be such a useful skill but you never know when it will come in handle, and I've also learned to fight in hand to hand combat, which includes martial arts and kickboxing. I also have the ability to travel through different worlds but I can't do it through water like Yuri can, I would have to open up portals. In fact I have been unable to do it recently because the firestone implanted in my back was taken out before I had awoken in this world". Wolfram then grins a little hoping he could ease their shock "but on the bright side I won't be able to go anywhere anytime soon because I can't go dimension hoping without the stone".

They all just stared at him for a while, wolfram shrinks a bit realizing everyone's confusion. Gwendale is the first to speak "how about you start from the beginning? What happened to you that night you blew up the meeting room?"

Wolfram shrank again this time from slight embarrassment "I apologize for that by the way, my temper got the best of me". He thinks for a moment and continues "well afterwards I ran out into the woods to clear my head and calm down. I remember hearing something in the distance, then going to see what that something was and then……" He pauses and glances down suddenly getting depressed "I did something awful".

Yuri looks at him concerned "awful? What do you mean? What did you do that was awful?"

Wolfram doesn't look him in the eye, "I killed someone"

They all look at him shocked, Conrad sits down next to wolfram and looks at him worried "who did you kill?"

Wolfram's head is still casted down "I killed her son". He then looks up at everyone "but it was an accident, I slipped and fell into her nest and crushed her son to death".

Gwendale looks at him not being able to hide his concern along with everyone else "whose son wolfram? Who is this she that you are referring to?"

"The phoenix queen. She made her nest in the same area as Reese heirs" He continued with a flash of guilt in his eyes "I slipped into her nest and crushed her son so she……."

The room was silent for a moment. Then Yuri Anxiously spoke "so what did she do to you?"

Wolfram gave them all a blank look "she tore my heart out, killing me instantly".

The room fell silently again for a long time. Yuri started shaking a little trying to hold in the tears "he died all alone out there, and nobody even knew where he was". Thinking this made a few tears escape from his eyes.

Gunter looked sadly at wolfram "the poor thing, he must have been so frightened". He had never been that close to the blond before, but this bit of news broke his heart. He looks over at Gwendale and Conrad who had also fallen silent and to themselves; there was a streak of pain and guilt emanating from the both of them. Gunter then looks at Yuri and freaks a little "Your majesty".

Yuri holds up a hand to silence him "it's alright". He wipes his eyes and looks over at wolfram "we wanted to know what happened so now we do".

Wolfram looks back at him "Yuri"; this was exactly why he didn't want to tell anyone, he couldn't stand the look of agony on these men faces. He then thinks of something else and addresses Yuri "where's Greta and Mother, I haven't seen them since I got back".

Yuri gives him a sorrowful look "they were out looking for you, they took the cruise ship and we haven't seen them since, they did send us letters though".

Wolfram nods not sure what else to say or whether he should even continue. Conrad then speaks up again "well you're here with us now, what happened during the year you were gone?"

Everyone's attention turned to wolfram, so the blond knew he had a long story to tell. He sighs and looks at everyone about to tell them his story.

Authors end note: I thought I would end it here and make the next chapter a flashback chapter. So everyone will get to see what happened the first time wolfram meets Avery. So keep that in mind that the next chapter is a very long flashback sequence, but don't worry I'm snowed in today, so I am just home all day writing, chapter 11 comes directly after this chapter, so you don't have to wait.