The King sighed. "I never wanted things to be this way you know."
"Just explain everything to us and then I will see if I can trust you." Ivan said, clearly annoyed. Remy couldn't help but smirk at his lover.
"Spill everything you bastard." Remy slipped down into his seat.
The King rolled his eyes. "If the two of you are going to be cocky bastards, I.."
The King stopped his tirade as he looked at the small girl in the room. "Can you please tell us the truth?"
He couldn't help but smirk at his granddaughter. She was really growing into herself. "Now, Xenia, let the tyrant King talk." He couldn't help himself he wanted at least one more jab at the man that had tried to ruin his life.
The King looked pissed, but held his tongue. He probably didn't want to upset the 4 people that he had brought back from the dead. He still didn't have answers for that. Maybe he did need to calm down and listen.
The King turned his back and walked away from him. "All of my life, I was told of a monster that once lived in the country of Absolon. It was a beautiful place back in the day, there are even paintings in my castle of the great country of Miresa." He waited for more as the King took a breath. "In my youth, my father told me of how Fiore came to be. It was formed by the sister of the last King of Miresa and her husband. They became the King and Queen of our land, but not at a cost. Miresa was once sealed away like it is now. Back when King Thanos was killed by his son Prince Cepheus."
"Why would he kill his own father?" Ivan asked.
"Probably money or power." Sasha said.
The King turned around to face them. "No, he killed for love. Prince Cepheus was in love with a noble woman by the name of Cassiopeia. She ended up mothering his child, before she was murdered."
"Well considering how he got to be King, it was bound to happen." Carolta said.
"Cepheus was gripped with grief. Apparently he was bound to his wife with some kind of magic. And because of it, he knew that he was going to die."
Remy froze. "What kind of magic did Cepheus use?" It couldn't be. It just couldn't.
"It doesn't say. It just says something about a meteor shower." The King started. "Are you going to let me finish what I have to say?"
He shook his head as Ivan walked over to him. "Do you think it's the same?"
He knew that this wasn't the place to bring this up. They weren't really in the friendliest company, but he couldn't hold back. If this was the same power, then his family would have been connected to Miresa's royal line. The question was, how? "It's possible."
The King looked at him in irritation. "Will you enlighten us or will you let me continue with the story?"
"Please go on." He didn't want to say anything for sure until he had all of the answers.
The King let out a grunt, but continued. "After the death of his beloved, he knew he would die, so he made a deal with the devil. He sold his soul so he could get his revenge, he was also promised that his beloved would reincarnate someday and they could be together again. He took that name Cetus from that day forth and began to kill of any citizen of his country that didn't have magic."
"Why go after non magic users?" Arlinton asked.
"He hated them, even before his wife's death, he treated them horribly. He was also told that his wife was killed by someone without magic." The King explained.
"So he tortured his people, just like he's doing now." Remy said.
"My question is, what does this have to do with us and the weapons? Why did you bring them back?" Ivan asked.
The King looked up at the ceiling. "It was said that Cetus would find a new body 10,000 years after his destruction he would return. I did what I had to do. I knew that I had to make those weapons. I needed the bloodlines of the strongest mages in Fiore to stop his return." He glared at Ivan and him. "But you two had to get in the way."
"Us, you were the one that caused this. You made Bickslow." Ivan stated.
"I don't know who that is." The King said angrily.
He growled. "He's one of your weapons. He's the one who Cetus took over to regain power."
The King backed up. "That can't be. It just can't be. I doomed us all."
He wanted to laugh at the tyrant, but wondered what else he knew. "I do have one question. How was Cetus defeated?"
The King had fallen to his knees. "Someone close to him destroyed him." The King looked up. "His own son sealed him away."
Now he wasn't expecting that. "Did the son have the same magic?"
"That is unknown, but the son carried the pain of the horrors he had done for his father." The King answered. "He is known as the hero, Perseus."
Now that was a name he knew, only because his mother had told him about Perseus. He was the father of the first Bickslow of his line. The one that he named his son after. He was related to Cetus. "So then it is true." He looked over at Ivan. "My line comes from that monster."
The King looked confused as did the other mages. "What are you talking about?"
"The power of your eyes. It all starts with Cetus then." Ivan said.
He nodded. "Perseus was the father of the first one with the figure eyes in my family. Which means that he couldn't have used that kind of magic. He had to use his mothers."
"But what kind of magic was that?" Ivan asked, everyone behind them seemed floored.
"She used illusion magic." The King answered, then froze. "I…Perseus had his soul preserved by his son. We used part of it when we were making….55."
He was at a loss. "So your saying that my youngest son is going to have to kill my oldest son."
The King shook his head. "No, but he may have the key to locking away Cetus forever."
Ivan seemed to be pondering something. "If he was locked behind an illusion, then it would make sense that he looked like a monster when we found him in the cave." Ivan sighed. "If only Bickslow didn't go to him."
The King looked angry. "Why did you two even let him get close to that thing?"
"He did it to save us from the etherion blast you were firing at us." Ivan said with a straight face. "So you see, everything that you tried to do to stop Cetus, gave him the power he needed."
The King again was at a loss. He opened his mouth to say something, but then quickly closed it.
"Excuse me, but how did you make Bickslow if he is Remy's son?" Winoona asked. She looked mad the she was being ignored.
The King didn't look like he wanted an answer. "Do you want Ivan to tell them or me?" The King just gave him a nod and he smirked before he looked back up at the resurrected spies. "Bickslow was made to be a human weapon. The weapon project is made of children that were made from our DNA. That's why this idiot had us killed."
The four of them looked at the King in shock. "You said that you couldn't just let us retire. That we knew too much to go back into the population!" Arlinton looked really pissed off.
"How could you do that?!" Sasha exclaimed.
"I did what I thought I had to do. I knew what would happen in the future and I was preparing myself for the war that was coming." The King didn't look back up.
"So we have kids too? Where are they?" Carolta asked.
"I….I don't know." The King answered. "Except for 25, I have no idea."
"You didn't even name them! You numbered them!" Winoona screamed.
Remy heard Ivan chuckle next to him. "This take me back."
"I was going to say that." He laughed.
All of the eyes turned on them. "So you two think this is funny! At least you know where your child is!" Winoona said as she walked over and got in his face.
"Well to be honest, I know where both of Ivan and I's children are. Bickslow has been possessed and Viktor is also in Miresa." He said with a straight face.
"Wait…you said that they are both you and Ivan's?" Carolta asked.
"Well, yes. He picked the parents based on teams." He watched as Carolta and Sasha looked at each other in shock and Arlinton and Winoona looked speechless.
"It doesn't matter." The Kind said. "You said that 32 and 55 are in Miresa. That only leaves three of them in Fiore. And 55 is the one that has Perceus's soul. We don't even know where all of them are at."
Ivan chuckled again. "You really think that Remy and I lost contact with them? Warner and Carma are easy to find and Arma is already here."
Sasha looked confused. "You….you gave them names?"
He crossed his arms. "Well we couldn't continue calling them numbers. That's just weird."
"So who is who's?" Winoona asked.
"Warner and Arma are you and Arlinton's. While Carma and Rosa are Sasha and Carolta's." Ivan stated.
He chuckled again. "And even a new generation after that has been born." He looked down at Xenia. "She's Bickslow's daughter. Warner and Carma also have a child."
The King looked shocked. "I didn't know that they could have children."
"Why would you say that?" Ivan said.
The King looked away. "I didn't have the first generation the same as the second. The second generation was supposed to be only attracted to the same sex."
"So that would explain why Vik is gay." He said looking at Ivan. "I just thought it was because we are."
"I'm not gay." Ivan stated.
He rolled his eyes. "You're married to me."
"That's different. It's you. I couldn't do that with another guy." Ivan stated.
He chuckled to himself and was about to say something, but Arlinton seemed to be at his widths end. "Enough with the flirting."
"Yes, we I didn't want all of you here to talk about Ivan and Remy's sex life. I wanted you here to help me take care of Cetus." The King said.
"Before that, how did you bring them back?" He asked.
"Oh, that. I kept their souls. It was the same thing we did with Perseus's soul. We had their DNA on file so I just had new bodies made." The King looked annoyed.
He couldn't believe that it had been that easy, but knowing what he knew about his children, he just excepted it. "So what else do you have for us?"
The King cleared his throat as he walked over to a panel that started to produce images. He walked forward in shock. "Where did you get this?" Ivan said.
"We have our sources. But at the moment, this is what is going on in Miresa." The King stated.
He looked over the image, seeing Cetus sitting with Flare. A young boy looked to be playing with a young girl. Vik and Rosa were also in the image. Vik looked wary, but didn't look like he could do anything about it.
He turned to look at the King. "What do we do?"
The King chuckled. "Train my army."
He looked at Ivan for a second. "You want us to do your dirty work."
Arlinton, Sasha, Carolta, and Winoona looked confused. "It thought that you wanted all of us to look up information. Why are Ivan and Remy going to be doing training?" Sasha asked.
The King then laughed. "They used to operate a military guild of their own." The King smirked. "I can even say that the two of you can make an unstoppable force. I couldn't do anything against you. You were always a step ahead of me."
Ivan looked wary. "How do we know that we can trust you? You haven't been the most trustworthy person."
"You'll just have to make that bet." The King stated.
He rolled his eyes. "It's not like we have a choice, do we?"
The King laughed. "No you don't."
He sighed. "Just let me teach my granddaughter and promise that she's not going to be used in your game."
"But Grandpa, I can help!" Xenia said.
"No, you're too young. You need to learn how to protect yourself and that's it." Ivan stated.
"I can teach you what to do, but that's it. You don't need to be fight in a war. You're still a child." He said.
She looked a little mad, but there was nothing he could do. He wouldn't have her walk that path. She wasn't going to get involved in this war. He refused to lose her the same way he had lost his sons. He just couldn't take it if he did.
Kitt sighed as he looked at Edvin. They had been in Blue Pegasus for the last 10 years. It had been hard to move on, they had both lost family. He knew that his parents had to be dead. Edvin's parent had died the day of the attack. Neither of them could go back to home.
That wasn't the only thing that haunted them. All of these years, they had been without Vik. He missed their other lover. He didn't even know if he was alive.
He just wished that they had an answer. Maybe someday, they would.
Viktor fell against Rosa as they finished having sex. She was smiling at him as he kissed her. "Do you feel better?" She asked.
He chuckled. "Maybe a little, you?"
She laughed. "Maybe." He rolled onto his side and looked at the ceiling. "Have you heard anything from 55 lately?" He was surprised that she sounded so serious all of a sudden.
"No, he hasn't said anything yet. I must not be crazy enough." He said.
"It has to come soon. I just know it." She said cuddling into his arms.
"I hope your right, Rosa. I hope your right."
To Be Continued…
Author's Note
Finally, we are done with the time skips. The next chapter will take place 6 years after this and shit is about to hit the fan again.
Sorry about the lack of updates. I hit some snags with this series and for a while, I had really bad writers block. I was also dealing with some depression and working on some of my sadder/darker series. This series is dark, but not to the level of my Dragonball series.
I hope to be getting back to regular updates. Its drives me crazy when I can't get things done on time, so bear with me.
