I made it! I wanted to update before going on holiday and I made it!
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NaTsUkO-ChAn: You'll find out at the end of this chapter who that man is.
Vegibee: Gungun is sitting still and if you read the last chapter of 'Trouble that the future brings' you'll read that Wolfie and Yuuri get a son together. Conrad and Yozak aren't getting twins, since I already have another plan for them.
Nikkie23534: They're still searching for Gwendal and the other prisoners, but help is coming!
XZanayu: Help is coming so Gwendal's rescue isn't that far off anymore.
Disclaimer: I don't own Kyou Kara Maou, I do own this story, but I don't make money from this.
"When is your contact arriving again?" Yuuri asked a little annoyed at his mother-in-law. The guy was late and they were kind off in a hurry.
"He can be here any minute." Cheri answered with a smile and got a look from her blonde son. How that dirty creepy guy was going to help was still a mystery to the queen.
"Shouldn't we be leaving?" Carlen asked his pregnant captain.
"We're still waiting on Mother's contact." Conrad answered the worked up soldier.
"Who is it anyway?" Greta asked. She was standing between the two men with Yuji in her arms while keeping an eye on her little sister who was playing on the stairs.
"She doesn't want to say, but I do know he's connected to Günter somehow." Carlen made a noise to make clear I didn't like it.
"She's too secretive." He mumbled annoyed while poking lightly against the little boy waist to make him giggle. Yuji tried to grab the finger but missed as Greta took a step backwards.
"Yaelle, stay away from the edge!" The little girl had conquered the stairs and was now wobbling dangerly close to the side. Innocent emerald green eyes locked into brown once and the blackhead dropped down on her but.
"Gre-ta!" She yelled raising her arms to her sister. She also wanted to be carried. With a sigh the oldest sibling handed her brother to her uncle and walked over to Yaelle.
"Come here." With a squeal of delight the youngest was raised and carried back to the three men.
"Darling!" Cheri yelled suddenly, pulling everyone's attention. A little clumsy the unknown man walked closer and Wolfram was a little surprised to see him so respectable. The man had washed himself, shaved and had put on an old uniform which was only buttoned up at the neck. A belly was the obstacle for the other buttons. "You made it!" Cheri hugged the unexpected man before looking him over. "You even put on your old uniform." The ex-Maou said sentimental. "Come, come, we'll give you a new one." She pulled him towards the royal couple. Standing before them she finally released him and the man saluted his king and queen.
"Captain Von Clausewitz reporting for duty!" Astonished Wolfram's eyes widened.
'Who would have thought he's a captain? Or was; looking at the age of that uniform.' Yuuri instead greeted the captain friendly and Cheri pulled Von Clausewitz towards the castle.
"We'll just take a minute!" She smiled sweetly.
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"I guess he's going to be your superior." Greta mumbled to Carlen, who nodded thoughtfully.
"He's still young, but looking at that uniform I wonder what made him quite?"
"And what made him come back?" Conrad continued and his eyes slid to the royal couple. Wolfram seemed to have the same thoughts while Yuuri was being his usual dense self.
After five minutes to be exact, Cheri and the newly dressed captain returned to the open. Von Clausewitz looked thinner now his belly was covered but you could still see he hadn't been active for a while.
"I hope his condition isn't that bad." Carlen mumbled at the oldest princess, who giggled.
"Behave you two." Conrad gave them a disapproving look.
"Yes mom." He got as answered and rolled his eyes.
"Men," Captain Von Clausewitz asked for attention, "as you all can see, I've been out of the field for a while, but this rescue mission is something I must do, so I hope we can work together without problems." He asked for respect and got silent nods as answer.
"See, you still have it!" Cheri chuckled and her old friend couldn't help but smile a little. He always had this air around him that demanded respect.
"Let's move out!"
"Our traces are removed and new once are leading to the east." Günter whispered when he reached Yozak at their meeting point. They had split up each going on their own mission. The spy had the job of finding out where the humans took their prisoners and the librarian had made sure, the one's tracing them were led stray.
"I've seen their hideout and I suggest we make a ground plan while waiting on reinforcement." The silver-head nodded agreeing.
'Hold on, Gwendal, we're coming!'
Becoming aware of his surroundings, the first thing Gwendal wondered was why Günter wasn't in his arms beside him. Then he remembered what had happened and next the smell penetrated his nose. With disgusted he identified urine, sweat and blood running through each other.
"Sir, you're away!" Someone suddenly noticed when he slowly opened his eyes. A dark ceiling with moisture dropping off was the first thing he saw and then two heads interrupted his view on the ceiling. "Sir?" The same voice as last night, at least he thought it was last night; he didn't really have a sense of time.
"How long have I been out?" His hoarse voice asked.
"Five hours."
'Okay, it's still the same day.' He straightened himself and succeeded in sitting straight with a little help. "What's the situation here?" Gwendal continued once he was as comfortable as he could.
"We're with six survivors. We were with eight but two have given their lives during 'interrogation'." The commander nodded while taking in his cell companions.
"You're with five, who are they interrogating?"
"Captain Overstraeten." Gwendal's eyes widened.
'Raphael's and Arne's father!'
"Don't worry about him, he'll never tell a word and is strong enough to last longer than any of us." The man who had been taking the word reassured."I'm Ruben." He also introduced the other four in the room and suddenly the door opened. They watched two humans who were playing guard drag in a man who looked half-dead. A third man entered the room and started banging with a sword against the bars to drive the prisoners to the back. Then he opened the prison and push Captain Overstraeten inside. The Captain got caught and laid down gently on a bed while they were lock up again.
"Lookie who's awake." On of the guard noticed their latest acquisition. "I think we're getting a new visitor downstairs." The other one laughed promising before they both left the room. Nobody had to say anything; they all knew Gwendal was next.
"Can't we go slower? I'm tired!" Arne complained for the fifth time in five minutes.
"Arne…," His older brother sighed, "you know we have to reach the border first."
"And how far is the border?" The boy kept complaining. Sighing Raphael searched one of the soldiers and asked him the same question. After he got his answer he returned to his little brother. "If we keep this pass we'll reach it in an hour where after we'll search for a safe place to sleep." Disappointed it was still an hour Arne mumbled his displeasure but stopped complaining for a while. He got what he wanted to know, even if the answer wasn't the one he wanted.
"How are you two doing?" Gisela came to check up on the boy.
"Tired but we'll live." Raphael answered while the woman's right hand got Arne's undying attention.
"You discovered them already!" The medical Mazoku played impressed. She opened her hand and held out the little snacks she brought for them. Arne quickly grabbed his one and his brother followed his example. Glad to have something in his stomach Raphael thanked Gisela, who got called to one of the wounded. The hour seemed to take forever but finally they reached the border.
"I know a place not far from here where we can rest." Erhard informed their leader.
"How long before we reach it."
"Fifteen minutes give or take and another half hour further is a tavern where we can spend the night." The soldier agreed to his plan and they started to inform everyone.
"We'll take a break at the tavern and then continue until twilight." Captain Von Clausewitz decided and a new wave of strength went through the soldiers. Now they had something to look forward too that wasn't going to take hours. "Carlen, go scout the area!" The soldier saluted to his superior and quickly ran ahead. He went over to sneaking when he heard noise and took a look at the inn. His hand was already searching through his backpack for a disguise but stopped immediately when he noticed just who the guests at the tavern were.
"Jan!" He yelled and left his hiding place to prevent the tired soldiers from attacking him.
"Carlen!" Jan and his partner ran over to him. "You're back up?"
"I'm the scout, the others are five minutes from here." Dark blue eyes slid from his colleagues to the survivors who were still outside. The eyes stopped on two boys and Carlen wished he could share this moment with Greta. She would have been trilled to see her love alive again. "Are Günter and Yozak inside?" He asked for the persons he couldn't find.
"They went back to cover our tracks and find out anything about the prisoners." The dark blue haired man nodded understanding. He should have seen that coming.
'Günter wouldn't just stand by the sideline when it's about Gwendal.' He realized and he couldn't hide the hint of jealousy inside. Suppressing it he told his colleagues he was going to report to his captain and quickly made his way back into the forest.
"Where's Günter?" was the first thing Von Clausewitz asked when they reached the tavern. When he heard the survivors were over the border already, he had been hoping. But quickly again his hope disappeared when he heard the silver-head was still in the danger zone. Calming himself down again, he called on a meeting and in the end decided that two soldier, who had been with the survivors until know, would accompany them as guides. Maybe he knew the area but things could have changed in the years and the two knew roughly where the humans were. Two soldiers that had come with him were going to escort the survivors and their tired colleagues back. "We'll let them rest for twenty more minutes and during these twenty minutes I want you," Von Clausewitz looked at Carlen, "and one other soldier to scout the area around the border." The blue haired man nodded and knew already who he wanted as his partner. "You can enter the human country, but be careful." While the captain watched his subordinate walk to the others, he entered the tavern. Looking around he couldn't help but think that half of the inn was changed in a hospital. 'There weren't enough beds I guess.' Von Clausewitz thought while walking over to a table in the other half that still looked like a tavern. Sitting down he ordered something to drink; non-alcohol for a first time in years.
"And?" Captain Von Clausewitz asked when Carlen and his partner returned after twenty minutes.
"The humans aren't anywhere near the border." The captain nodded and signed to everyone that they were leaving.
"Say hi to Greta for me." Carlen teased Raphael, who looked surprised.
"Greta?" He asked with a hopeful tone.
"Yeah, she's waiting for you and worrying her head off." The soldier continued his teasing and for the first time he saw a gently smile on the boy's face. He had heard about his parents and was glad he could cheer up the boy a little.
"Where leaving!" His captain ordered and with a last nod to Raphael he joined the group soldiers who were leaving for the human country.
"Here was the last building." Yozak pointed on the paper whereon the ground plan of the human's base was almost complete.
"Then we're done. Now where would they keep the prisoners?" Both looked thoughtfully at the plan they had made only to be interrupted by bird sound.
"That bird sound..." Yozak mumbled looking up as Günter turned questioning at him. The sound came again and now the spy was certain. "Back-up is here!" He smiled while jumping up and returning the sound. Günter quickly rolled up their ground plan and both started to make their way towards the sound. It took a little search but finally they found the soldiers who had also seen them.
"Günter! Yozak!" Carlen yelled and the silver-head had to admit he was glad to see his admirer. The violet eyes lock into dark blue one's and then slid slowly to the person behind Carlen.
"Henning?!"
Stephke23: Okay, don't expect next chapter soon, I'm going to India and I wont have time to write there or probably even get close to a computer. Review, that would get me back into action after my trip!