A little apology for a late update (THAT RYMES! :D) Enjoy! :)

"Alright, do you use magic?" The boy asked.

"Yes, but my star magic powers are the only thing that will work right now." Ryoma sighed and pulled the two onto the branch with his tails. "My friends will try and do something, I'm absolutely sure of it. But until then, let's just take it easy for now; panicking won't do us any good." The kid nodded and they just sat there. Although he didn't look it, Ryoma was both worried and thinking of a way out of this mess.

On the Edge of the Waterfall

"What are we going to do?" Oishi panicked.

"Calm yourself Oishi." Yukimura said softly.

"Yeah, Yukimura is right. Panicking won't help what-so-ever." Fuji reassured.

"But those two may be really hurt." Oishi was still nervous.

"Kirihara, get away from there!" Jackal said fast and scared.

"But it looks like the little brat is fine. He's just sitting there... I think." Kirihara was leaning over the edge and looking down.

"See, what did we tell you? He's perfectly fine Oishi." Fuji said happily.

"Kirihara, get away from there before you fall as well." Yukimura warned.

"Alright, fine." He started walking away from the edge when a giant bird came flying up to the top with two people on its back.

"Amazing, cat dude!"

"He, he. It's not that amazing." Ryoma said sweat dropping at his new name. "Please let us down before anything else happens."

"Um… that's the problem. I can't land." The owl said. There was a few seconds of silence.

"WHAT?" Was all Ryoma managed to get out. "Fine, we'll jump. Hold on to my neck Akoyo." The boy nodded. Ryoma jumped off of the owl's back and landed with a thud and he wobbly stood up. "That hurt somewhat. Guess the expression, 'cat's always land on their feet' also applies to me." The two of them laughed and Akoyo released his grip on Ryoma's neck.

"Akoyo, thank goodness you're safe!" The mother ran over to her son and squeezed him into a hug. "Thank you so much. May I please know who you are?" She asked.

"Ryoma, my name is Ryoma Echizen. It has been a while. How are Tilun, Club and Mina doing?"

"Ryoma, darling! It's been too long." She squeezed his neck and he went wide eyes from lack of oxygen. "You and your friends can follow me. I just baled a cake." She dragged Ryoma away by the tail and he hissed, slashed and clawed at the ground. Everyone simply came with the two.

"Are Tilun, Mina and Club still making those weird contraptions?" Ryoma asked being dragged by his tail. He decided to give up since the woman had a grip that would rip his tail off if he were to struggle.

"Yes, they do make their contraptions. Although without your magic touch they don't seem to work."

"Ah." He responded gathering dirt.

"Looks like we're here." She let go of Ryoma's tail and he hopped onto his feet while rubbing his tail. She opened a door on this HUGE and extremely TALL building. "Excuse the mess on this half of the house." She said pushing her hand to the right to show which side was 'dirt'. When they stepped inside it looked like a normal (although REALLY large) home. Ryoma was antsy and was jumping up and down.

"Where are they?" Ryoma asked ready to pounce. She pointed to the far door on the opposite side of the room. Ryoma pounce to the door and it shot open and everyone heard three loud screams. Then after a few seconds it stopped and a girl along with two boys came out of the door and Ryoma was attached to the boy with green eyes and blonde hair.

"Why did you tell him?" He asked while the other two laughed. "WE wanted to surprise HIM."

"CAT LIKE REFLEXES TILUN! CAT. LIKE. REFLEXES." Ryoma noted right in the blonde haired boy's ear. Tilun pushed Ryoma off of him and they all sat on the couch with rags while whipping off some of the oil and grease on their hands.

"So, what are you here for?" The black haired girl asked.

"My great uncle Vernon is helping me train while the others are here as well training. What were you guys doing Mina?" Ryoma explained.

"Dears, you can sit down on the couch." The woman motioned all the others to sit down.

"Can we ask for your help?" The brown haired boy asked.

"Depends Club, what's your request?" Ryoma responded with a serious tone.

"We need you to shut something off. It's in the back room and it went into a crazy state and none of us could turn it off because it has its own self-defense system." Mina explained.

"Let's go take a look at it first." They all got up from the couch and headed through the back door.

"So… what's the relationship between those four?" Yukimura asked the mother.

"Ryoma has always hated his father and the friends that his father always brought into the castle were too boring for him after something happened to him. So one day he snuck out and got lost. I found him on the streets and brought him in to rest. When he was back to normal he didn't want to talk to anybody. But one day my three sons and daughter came home with something. It was a dragon egg covered in a stunning silver coat. Ryoma was so happy and from that day on he and my kids had worked together to hatch the egg. One day it finally hatched but that same day was when the king sent a search party around the city."

"What happened that day?" Oishi asked.

"Well, Ryoma was scared of his father so I decided to lie to him about holding Ryoma in my house for a month. So they went through the entire house because, well, I'm not the best liar to tell you the truth. My family escaped on the dragon because it grew very large. The dragon I'm talking about is none other than the dragon Kang that Ryoma cares for all the time." Everyone was shocked at that.

"Wait, but what about King here? Do you know when he came in?" Eiji asked pointing to the gold dragon.

"You're going to have to ask Ryoma that yourself. But-" She was about to finish talking when there was a huge explosion and a black cloud exploded from the back room. Four teenagers came running out.

"Ryoma, next time make sure you don't hit the self destruction button alright?" Club said while coughing.

"Why did you even make a self destruction button in the first place?" Ryoma snapped.

They thought for a few seconds before sweat dropping. "We don't know."

"EH?" Ryoma fell anime style. "Why make one for no reason?" He asked. They just shrugged and Ryoma hung his head. "I give up. You three are impossible. So… what's next?" Mina threw a towel at him so he could wipe away the dirt, oil and other remains from the contraption off of him. "Thank you Mina." Kang came flying in through the window unseen by the others. Mina saw him and smiled.

"Kang, you're looking better than ever!" Mina said taking the dragon out of the sky.

"When did he get here? I thought he stayed back at the castle." Ryoma commented.

"He flew in from the window just a second ago." She said laughing at their expressions.

"Shut up." They all said while blushing. Everyone laughed at them.

"So, what were you guys talking about?" Mina asked sitting on the only open couch while the others dog piled her.

"We were talking about your-" Kintaro started until the woman put her hand over his mouth.

"We were talking about what you have been doing these past few years since we've seen you." She said with a sad look in her eyes remembering what happened after they escaped the king's actions.

"Oh, alright then." Ryoma said happily. 'Don't lie to me Azura. I know you're lying to me.' Ryoma started the telepathy conversation.

'What are you talking about Ryoma? I wouldn't lie to you.' The woman responded in her mind.

'YOU LIAR! You were talking about Alex! DON'T LIE ABOUT HIM!' Ryoma thought in the rudest voice ever to her.

'Ryoma! You know I would never talk about my oldest son like that!' She was looking at him in disbelief.

'Yeah, just like how my father didn't try and kill my sisters because they were the 'perfect children' he asked for! I know you best; you're like a second mother to me!' Ryoma was starting to tear up.

'Ryoma, I didn't mean it like that. It's just too painful to talk about it.'

"SHUT UP!" Ryoma yelled at her. He ran out of the house in tears. "You lie about him too much, you never talk about him, you never think about him anymore. I know you feel sad, but sometimes letting it out is the best thing for you." He said to himself softly as he ran down the street in tears.

"Why hello there… little prince." A low cold voice chilled him from the spine. He stopped cold in his tracks and looked up. "Why are you so jumpy? Wasn't that what my brother said to you?"

"Where are you? Answer me right now!" Ryoma snapped his eyes were moving side to side rapidly trying to find one of the many dark academy masters.

"Right above you little prince." Ryoma looked up to see a familiar looking boy wearing a sliver cape and black armor. He attempted to jump onto Ryoma but Ryoma was far too fast for him. "You should treat your guardian with more respect."

"What are you doing here?" Ryoma asked calmly. His two tails moving back and forth showed he was on guard. "I thought you were on the punishment trials."

"Yes, but I came back for my own reasons."

"Oh? And what exactly are those reasons?" Ryoma asked crossing his arms. The boy licked his lips. "And just for the record… you are NOT, my guardian anymore." Ryoma's voice was now rude and stern.

"That's not very nice. You mean to say you don't know why I'm here? Well, I did come here to take back my rightful place as the king's successor. You did take that position from me after all."

"You are not the rightful ruler Sochi; never have been, never will be. You were just his top guard and nothing more." Ryoma said rudely and started glaring at him.

"Then I'll just have to prove it to you!" Sochi took out two guns and pointed it at him. "Picked these up on earth. Wonderful friends you have Ryoma. Too bad I'll just have to kill them." He shot the first bullet and Ryoma easily dodged the bullet but Sochi kicked him through the wall.

"Is that all you got?" Ryoma smirked. Sochi was now pissed.

"DIE AROGENT BRAT!" Sochi called lunging across the street, but Ryoma took off running down the street.

At Azura's House

"Why did he just run out like that?" Horio asked.

"Well, we were kind of talking and… it went out of hand." Azura explained.

"How were you talking? We didn't hear you what so ever lady." Kirihara said rudely.

"Kirihara, please be a little nicer." Yukimura said sweetly. Kirihara huffed and sat back.

"We were sending each other thoughts back and forth about…Alex. He was my oldest son, but he also died the same day as that attack before. He was taken by the king because he tried to buy us a few more minutes to escape. He thought that it was his fault so we decided never to talk about it ever again. But then he told me'Yeah, just like how my father didn't try and kill my sisters because they were the 'perfect children' he asked for! I know you best; you're like a second mother to me!' I tried to tell him that it wasn't true, but he wouldn't listen to me after that and that was when he ran out." She explained all of that at once and was sad to sad all of it.

"O-our father tried t-to…" Serenity was shaking from sadness.

"…Kill us?" Taylor said sadly.

"Dears, I can tell you why." They looked at her eagerly. "He wanted a son, strong and handsome and everything in between. But when he had girls he thought 'girls were too weak' or 'they will never rule the country'. He is a terrible man beyond your understandings. Ryoma himself hardly live through his training as a little kid. He told us almost everything while he lived with us. Please go find him and comfort him. I don't know if I have the ability to at the moment."

"Yes ma'am, we'll find him." Oishi said. Everyone got up and went to find him.

"Alright, each school split up and look for Ryoma." Tezuka ordered.

"I don't think we need to." Katsuo pointed to the power lines above and Ryoma was sprinting past fast and furious. The powerline snapped as a bullet pierced it at the speed of light. He fell to the ground and stood up.

"You sure are hard to catch. but now I can finally finish what we started as kids." He smirked and dropped the now empty guns.

"What the h…" Arai was cut off by Eiji and Momo's hand. They backed into an ally and watched.

"This seems like fun to watch. Let's see how his fighting adapts with weapons now that he has two tails." Vernon smirked and Ryoma equipped two double edge swords covered in a yellow light which he threw behind him to his tails. He equipted two more swords but this time they were as black as darkness itself.

"Should you start? Or shall I do the honors?" Ryoma provoked.

"Let me show you my true form as well." Sochi transformed into a purple like liquid that changed into anything he wanted.

"W-what a-are you?" Ryoma said when he saw him transform.

"I'm your worst nightmare." He replied. They were all shocked to see the ancient animal of the stars. A nine tailed monkey-like figure. "I have nine tails, I'm agile, I have a total of eleven swords. You will never win."

"Watch me." Ryoma smirked before Sochi attacked.