The Sun King stood waving to the crowds. Neil walked over to the young King.

"Your Highness..."

"What? Did you find him?" Livius asked.

"No..." Neil said.

"I really don't understand... Harri is never late and does everything we have asked for occasions such as these... Now Nike would be purposely hiding... Where is he?"

Petals flew through the air and rained down around the crowds. "Prince Harri!" The crowds yelled out. Livius looked up and saw Harri waving above them. He then was carried down by the winds to Livius side.

"Sorry I'm late, I fell asleep..." Harri muttered. Livius looked at him pointedly. "It's the truth. One of the guards just woke me up. I rushed here as quickly as I could." Livius sighed, and nodded.

The women in the crowd cheered, and yelled out both Harri and Livius. One girl called out to Livius, trying to hand him flowers. Making the girl and her friend blush when he took them and stating the flowers were beautiful. Harri rolled his eyes, knowing that his fiancée was more interested in gaining more popularity then Harri. Though Livius had been found to stop and enjoy the gardens more often.

After some time, Harri and Livius walked alway from the crowds and towards a set up tent. Nike was in the tent waiting for Harri. She glared at Livius. "Just what is 'beautiful,' huh?"

Livius smirked evilly. "Ah, done running around, dear sister?" The King tilted his head up in arrogance. "Or could it be that your jealous that Harri sends more time with me?"

Nike's face became red in embarrassment. "JUST WHO IS JEALOUS?" While the two bickered, Harri walked into the tent. The green eyed male stopped at Neil's side.

"Hey, sorry about being late. I just meant to take a ten, twenty minute nap. I slept in, and now I know not to take naps on days with important events. Sound good?"

Neil looked at the future Queen/Consort for a few moments and nodded his head. "You will have to help with your sister's lessons as... punishment. To hold the lesson in place?" Neil smiled innocently. Harri winced. He knew his sister had fought and escaped from her lessons less and actually listened to the lessons... though she wasn't the best student overall. Instead she would fall asleep due to boredom, or not understand the material at all and argued the points of each lesson.

"Harri!" Nike yelled. Neil and Harri turned their attention to the girl. "What's this ceremony this brat is talking about?!"

Deadpanned Harri replied, "It's for our engagement. This country has an engagement ceremony and a wedding ceremony. The engagement ceremony is also called, 'the Exchanging Ceremony of the Sun.' The couple have their own rings which they enchanted to make the engagement complete. Livius and I are in a temporary engagement at the moment in the view of his country, a verbal agreement if you will."

Nike blinked in confusion. "How do you know that?"

Harri stared at his sister blankly, while Livius chuckled behind the girl. "Cause I paid attention to my lessons and would read the books recommended with the required ones." Nike still looked confused.

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HARRI POV

I was in my room with the maids discussing what I would wear for the ceremony coming up. Neil came rushing in stating there was an emergency and Livius needed me in the office. I followed Neil back quickly.

When entering the office, I saw Livius dumbfounded, in shock, and... very angry. I walked to the desk Livius was siting at. "He got me...!" Livius muttered.

"Who got you, Livius?" I asked.

"The bastard at the Church..." Livius muttered again. He sighed at looked me. "Have you heard of the Divine Authority?"

"Divine Authority?" I asked. "No, I know of what the countries religion is and their beliefs, but the laws and their involvement in the government not so much. I haven't dealt with any of the church when doing the paper work or the events, so I saw no need."

Livius still looked upset. I walked up to him and held his hand. Waiting for Livius to respond. "Our country's Chief God is the Sun God, as you know. The institution which represents the Sun God holds the highest authority over the festivals of the gods."

My eyes widened as I came to understand the issue at hand. Though Neil was the one to continue, "They suddenly disapproved of Prince Harri's marriage, and sent out that decision to us." Tears started to collect in the corners of my eyes. "The reason is 'Prince Harri is a being of a different ethnic group,' and that 'Prince Harri is male, even as a carrier, the traditional role of Queen is female.'"

"No..." I whispered.

Livius gripped my hand hard, and slammed the other on the desk. "That's garbage! This country is mine, but that too is an excuse! In history there are good Queens from different ethnicities!" Livius stood up in anger. "The reason why they don't like it is because of me!"

I looked to Neil with tears falling down my face. "When his highness was crowned, he immediately took steps to crack down on the corruption in the government. The number of people behind the scenes who did not think well of that were not few. In the letter the institution sent stated that the ceremony to Return to Darkness must be done for the marriage to be blessed and allowed by the church."

Hope filled my being. "Ceremony to Return to Darkness." That I had read about a little bit. All I would have to do was retrieve a special ring from an underground shrine within which it is enshrined. The few that managed to achieve the task were able to receive the right from the Sun God to enter the Royal Family. Though the only thing was that many that tried had died while trying to obtain the ring. The exact number of princesses to try was unknown. I looked between Neil and Livius. "Would I be allowed? They stated that my being male was an issue for them."

"If the trial is 'accepted' then you admit to your 'heresy'." Neil states.

"My heresy is not being from the Sun Kingdom, this is true. My heresy is being male, this is true. I admit that I was not born or raised in the Sun Kingdom, and that I am a male able to carry children. These are facts not heresy," I state with confidence. Sadness and fear now gone, and instead a warrior was ready. Though I knew if they were to agree, I would have to discuss my past as Harry Potter.

"This is no doubt came from Rani Arisutesu. But rest assured, even if we have to imprison the entire family, I won't let you suffer a single wound! Therefore, shut up and allow yourself to be protected," Livius stated in anger, fear, worry, and ... love.

"Livius..." I whispered. I gave a small sad smile. "I don't need protection, I need you to listen. Sit down please." He refused, but his held onto my hand. He squeezed my hand. "I wish to tell you about my tenth birthday." Livius now looked confused, but sat down. "Neil could you order us lunch. I believe you need to hear this also." Neil did as instructed.

When lunch arrived, no one really touched their plates. I sighed, and began my tale.

"When I turned ten, I started to get visions of a boy named Harry Potter. I had terrible headaches, but I learned more about this one boy's life. Harry Potter was a wizard, a child that could do magic, almost do anything! He was born to wonderful parents, but before his birth there was a prophecy. For there was a Dark Lord, who wished to take over the Wizardry World and kill any who were not magical. This would include the muggle population, the non-magical that knew nothing of magic overall, and the squibs, non-magical born from magical parents." I paused. "There are four classifications in the Wizardry World. Four blood classifications; Pureblood, Half-Blood, Squibs, and Muggle-born. Muggle-born are those born with magic but have muggle parents. Pure bloods are those born with magic and are descended from generations of magical parents. As Half-Bloods are between muggle-born and pureblood... You want me to go future in depth? It will take a while, but that is the basic of the groups."

"No, maybe another time... why are you telling me this?" Livius asked.

"I want you to understand that I can take the pressure, and why and how I became who I am in a way." I continued. "Anyway the prophecy had stated a child would defeat the Dark Lord, and gave a few specifics on who that child could be. It came down to two boys, Harry Potter and Neville Longbottom. Born a day apart. Though for some reason the Dark Lord choose Harry Potter as the one in the prophecy. Using magic, the Potter family hide themselves. A year they hid, but when Harry was fifteen months old they were betrayed. Their secret location had been given away, a downside of the charm used. The charm is linked to one individual and only they have the ability to tell someone, and the Potters had trusted the wrong person. The Dark Lord killed James Potter first. He tried to stall the Dark Lord to allow for his wife and son to escape. Unfortunately Lily and Harry were trapped. Lily died next, in front of her son. Then the Dark Lord tried to kill the child, but something happened and instead the Dark Lord was vanquished... for the next thirteen years." I sighed. "Harry was then placed with his mother's older sister, Petunia, and her husband and son... It was an abusive upbringing. Lily was a muggle-born witch, and married a pureblood that was of high standing. Petunia was a muggle, and hated her sister and anything magic related. The boy couldn't control his magic as a toddler, and so he was punished for his bursts of accidental magic. He slept in the cupboard under the stairs, even though her son had a second bedroom for his broken and discarded toys. They weren't rich, but were middle class. Vernon, Petunia's husband, was smuggling money from his job. Getting the extra cash to spend and spoil their son... I'm going to skip the rest of the abusive years and just get on with the story.

"When Harry was ten, he learned he could talk to snakes. On his eleventh birthday he received a letter. An acceptance letter to Hogwarts, a school for witchcraft and wizardry. His aunt and uncle knew the truth and tried to hide that they were related to something that wasn't normal..." I looked up, hands balling up into fists as anger welled within.

"Harri... why is the story of this boy important?"

"When I was ten, I only saw until the letter's arrival... but my head hurt so much that I refused to leave my room. My mother came in, one of the rare moments she was feeling well enough to get out of bed... What I told her of this little boy... I asked her why would I see this boy's life? And she said that because Harry Potter was my past life. That I was watching myself, watching who I was in the life before I was born within this world. What she said sounded right to me. That I was Harry Potter, that my soul holds the lives of Harry James Potter and Harri Lemercier. Potter and I are different beings, but I learned lessons of betrayal, cruelty, politics, businesses, and many other things from Harry Potter. He was forced to put his life on the line multiple times and somehow survived. I learned from his mistakes. I understand the good in the world from this world and the wizard world, but I understand the bad in the world from Harry Potter. I can protect myself better due to knowing Harry Potter. I have the elements, and I have Potter's eighteen years of life and death experiences to have some common sense in such situations."

Livius seemed to be thinking. Neil was standing next to Livius quietly, but had a confused and surprised expression. Livius's expression softened. "I still don't agree that you should take part in the Ceremony to Return to Darkness, but I see that I am not changing your mind." Livius grabbed both my hands and rubbed the back of my hands with his thumbs. "We are to be wed and nothing is stopping us. I don't know or care how we do it. Promise me that you will live, using the elements to get out safely no matter the cost."

My eyes softened. "I will be careful, and come back to you in one living piece, Livius."

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Livius and I had made plans to meet with the Priest in the East Temple. Though it would seem my sister wasn't able to stay out of trouble. I sighed. It would seem she had over heard my supposed heresy and who was the likely candidate for the issue in the conversation between Livius and myself. And then decided that she would sneak into the temple and find out more on the Priest. The idiot. I sighed again, as I looked at my troublesome sister in the King's Office. Livius was talking to his advisors about what could be done in such a situation while I dealt with my supposedly older twin.

"Do you realize the situation you have put Livius and me in?" I asked. "Pretending to be a maid and walking into the temple..." I muttered to myself.

Nike looked down at her lap. "I'm sorry, but I wanted to understand what type of person this Priest was to stop the engagement..."

"You are not the one engaged Nike, I am. You could have possibly ended my marriage before the official engagement. You can not meddle like you do at home. Think before you act, please sister. You have not only endangered your own life, but mine as well." I sighed and rubbed my face in frustration. "You need to take the lessons seriously, Nike. They are to teach you the proper etiquette here, but you ignore everything around you. By doing so you hurt yourself and those around you!" I left the room before I chewed into my sister with my justified anger.

I walked to the bedroom that Livius and I shared. Livius was already there hold a small box in his hand. I walked over to Livius. "Harri put out your hand." I did and Livius placed a ring on a chain in my hand. "This is Sheila's ring," Livius held my hand while looking at the ring in my hand, "It will definitely protect you. Wear it around your neck for now, and then you can wear it on your finger."

I smiled. Livius looked up with a worrying expression and looked to continue speaking but I cut him off. I kissed Livius. "I will return, don't worry, my love." Livius looked surprised but happy. Though he still looked to be worried.

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I stood before the entrance to the underground shrine. Half listening to the monologue of the Priest. " Ever since Ancient time Earth has been known as the mother of Yang. The Sun can never exist in the Darkness, which is Yang's womb. Afterwards, the Darkness was banished. That's how the Ying Enters the Picture. This boy, a carrier, is from the Rain Dukedom, Harri Lemercier. I have brought thee here for one single purpose. That is to banish the Darkness so it may not return. To prevent people from coming and going as they please, the entrance to the underground is sealed off. Which means, if need be, use any possible way of escaping. The deadline is set. You've got till sunset tomorrow. Have you understood your purpose?"

I nod. "I have." I lifted my hand and produce a flame to be my torch. The Priest looked startled. I raised an eyebrow. "I'm an elemental. Fire is one of four elements I control. This is old news, surprising you don't know." I mocked. The Priest's eyebrow twitched in irritation.

"Harri!" I turned to see Livius. I smiled and waved, but didn't say anything. We said everything needed to be said. I turned and walked through the doors to the underground. The doors shut and I was surrounded by rock and darkness.

I walked down the passages. I had created multiple fire torches that floated around me. I used the readings that the earth provided me to lead me to the Underground Sun Palace. I found it easily and walked into the Sun Palace. I opened the chest in the statue, and saw the ring box. I smiled, glad I completed that task. I grabbed the box and opened it.

"What?" I whispered. "It's...empty?" Then there was noise behind me. I stood and turned to see men in black clothing, and a black cloth covering their face. "I see, the Priests of God play dirty. You only allow those you like to live or succeed. Those you don't, you kill. Not very fair I have to say." I make the flames I had floating bigger. Thank goodness I continued with my practice of fire control the last few months. "You either give me the ring or I burn you all alive. How does that sound?"

One of the men stepped forward, while pulling out his sword. "It's a pity you made your way to the underground Palace. You're no longer in charge of your fate. After King Livius ascended the throne, we who served the Royal house in the past, we're officially dismissed from our post. We're the only ones who settle disturbances that involve the lower class, which threaten to throw our current social structure off its balance. Having made it this far, your remarkable reputation continues to serve you well. Not just a foreign prince, are you. I can see that you're a force to be reckoned with, and a threat to our nation. This is where we'll take you down."

I laughed. The men around me shifted from foot to foot, bothered by my unchanged posture of being unbothered by their presence. When I stopped laughing I shock the earth below their feet. They fell to the floor and I stopped shaking the earth. "I can kill you with the fire floating around me, but I can bury you alive in this underground palace. I control the earth around us. Do you think, you will survive? I'll survive for I can make the earth move to serve my purpose. Can you?"

The men froze with each word I said. Unsure of what to do, after all their plan was to kill me. But to kill me meant to kill them selves, as the quickly realized.

"Did I mention I control the wind, which means air? That I could suffocate you all here? No? How about I demonstrate, hmmm?" I turned to the men behind me and told the air to make a bubble of nothing around the man. The man placed a hand on his neck, falling to the ground. I stopped the wind. "That's only wind, and earth. Let's try fire, next —"

"STOP!" the man in font of me said. "We get the point. We die unless we stop interfering and give you the ring."

"Hmmm... Yes that would help." I said. "But I know the moment you leave here, you will not return and make this look like a failure. After all there would be no ring for me to show."

The man gulped in fear. It would seem I was right.

"So this is what is going to happen. I'm taking you all hostage, and showing you instead of the Sun God ring. Not only will it prove I completed the task, but it will show the church in bad light. Win-Win right?" I say full of jolly. The men try to run, but I force them into a earth prison I created. By using the fire as my Shepard to the prison. The men yelled from the cage, and tried using their swords to break the cage. I instructed the earth to have the cage follow me on my way out. The earth didn't much want to help me, since it was an unmoving force. It created the cage sure, but it wouldn't move the cage. I felt like pouting, but instead sighed in frustration.

"This would be so much easier if I had better control..." I muttered. I rubbed the back of my neck. "What to do...Ah!" I could remake the cage at the entrance, but until then I could make one out of fire and winds until then. I made the burning flames and cutting winds cage. I turned back to my prisoners. "So I can't move you in the earth prison, but I can in this fire and wind cage. It would be best to not touch either, for you will die if you do." I placed the flaming winds cage next to the earth cage, and opened the earth cage to the other. None moved. "If you don't move I will leave you to be part of the earth." They all quickly moved.

I chuckled. As I closed the cage and made sure it was big enough not to kill them while we walked out the shrine. I hummed all the way out. It was morning and there would be someone at the entrance. I got to the entrance finally with the cage, and about six of the eight men still within. Two had tried to escaped and died.

Rani Arisutesu was waiting there with a smug expression until he saw me with his people in the flaming winds cage. "Sorry it took me so long, I had some individuals interfering with the test." I smirked evilly at Rani Arisutesu. "I have yet to unmask them," I looked at the main Priest of the Church. "Would you like to call the guards and unmask them yourselves? After all it was these people that interfered with a test I took due to your stating me incompetent as the future Queen of you King's lands."

Arisutesu twitched. He knew everything was going to blow up in his face. Especially with my statement of they calling me incompetent. Now they would be the ones incompetent and untrustworthy with the people being unmasked as church members. They every decision the church makes would now be put in question. I hummed happily.

"Of course," the Priest said in anger. Anger that there was interference during the test. She was glaring at the interfering fools. "But I will wait until the official presentation. And state the interference to the public and show those that are responsible." I smirked, it was the best reaction I could have hoped for. Now the church would expose themselves unknowingly and unwilling because of Arisutesu. The High Priest then looked at me with a softened expression. "I will also have the church recognize you as the King's bride." I realeased my control on the winds and flames, releasing the prisoners into the guards good hands.

"Harri!" I turned to see Livius running towards me. I smiled and started toward my fiancée. Only to see Livius's eyes widen in fear. I turned to see one of the men escape from the guards. His sword swinging down to kill me. There was no time for me to stop the attack. I reacted subconsciously, the earth swelled the man up. The man was dead, crushed by the earth.

Livius grabbed my hand and started to pull me away from the rest of the church members. Running away from the possible threats. "Livius?!" We had been running for awhile now. "Livius! I'm okay!" He finically stopped running and pulling me along, only to turn around and cling to me. His head resting on my shoulder, and his arms holding me close him. Also close as possible. I wrap my arms around him as well. Resting my head against his.

We stayed quiet for a moment, until Livius stated to whisper. "Wherever you are... Don't let the law dictate your choices. You could have been injured by that sword for coming here. I was scared! I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I were to lose you! I'd be clueless of what to do! I only want and need for you to be safe! If I lost you... I don't want to lose you..."

Tears ran down my face. "I don't want to lose you either, Livi. I want to stay by your side for all our time on the living plane. I never want to be separated from you, but you understand... we will overcome what ever is thrown our way, together. We can't predict the future, and assuming you'll lose someone won't change it either way." I smirked softly. "How about we make an effort to overcome those obstacles together? I'm not leaving anytime some." We smiled softly and enjoyed our moment together.

That is until Nike interrupted. "Harri! We both know if this brat wasn't the Sun King this marriage wouldn't be happening! He has no charm to speak of!" The King looked pissed now. I sighed. The moment was over. "It's one thing that the King is a child. Another is that he's acting like a brat."

"You... You bitch!" Livius yelled at Nike."This behavior is unheard of! It isn't without reason that I was chosen to ascend the throne!"

Nike laughed with victory. "Now that's the King Livius I know of!" The two continued to bicker, but Livius kept a hold on my hand. I smiled softly at our joint hands. It really was a nice feeling, the idea that we would be married.

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"The church recognizes his Royal Highness, Harri." The High Priest, Rani Reata, said. "Those that interfered with your task are to be brought forth and shown to the public for their statements and punishment."

Five men were lead to the stage. Then revealed as members of the church, members under Rani Arisutesu. Rani Reata jerked back in surprise.

"What is the meaning of this?! Rani Arisutesu! What were your priests doing interfering with the Prince's task?!"

I stepped forward before the man could talk his way out of this mess. "Rani Arisutesu has always had an issue with my husband King, Rani Reata. This is no secret, and it would seem that if he could interfere with the King's happiness then he would take the opportunity. It would seem he has forgotten the teaches of the Sun God. For it seems to me that those that forgo this task are chosen by favorites. I wasn't one so I would not be allowed to find the ring. For there was no ring, only a ring box. Then with me making it to the Underground Sun Palace, they had to kill me instead of hoping I would fall to death from the cliffs underground."

Everyone was silent. Then hell broke out, the public was unset that the church would dare do something that was supposedly sacred.

"Arisutesu? What is the meaning of this?!" Reata demanded.

Livius interrupted the man. "I can assure right here and now... Coming to the temple won't change a punishment according to the law. Having committed one crime, what is there to stop you from committing another? That's how a criminal's mind works."

Arisutesu teeth were grinding together in anger. "I was trying to set the idiot King straight! When has that been a crime! If everything had gone according to plan..!"

"But Arisutesu, you were supposed to protect him." Reata said sadly to the other high priest.

Arisutesu stood and looked at Livius. I spoke up as I walked in front of Arisutesu. "Arisutesu. Rumor has it, that those who seek forgiveness from his majesty, must earn it." I looked at Livius. "Why would you think killing someone who the King chose to marry would earn his respect or forgiveness?"

"Has controlling the elements, ever been a burden to you, Prince Harri?"

I turn back to Arisutesu. "Should the Future Queen come to face his death, you'd be able to claim your desired prize. If not, you'd have to approve of this engagement." The priest looked surprised. "But instead you had others interfere to stop the engagement, forcing me to fail or to be killed by your men's swords."

My sister walked from behind me. I blinked, and looked behind me to Nike. When had she gotten here?!

"I believe what my brother is trying to say is, for the sun to be able to rise, there needs to be a number of vital elements involved. Such are wind, and clouds. Rain not so much. It can be said that a temporary halt of the bad luck that has haunted the country is rather convenient for everyone involved." Nike paused and looked at me. I nodded, showing I understood what she was saying. She stepped back.

"Arisutesu," I said. The Priest turned his attention to me. "What you want, is to be a part of this country." The man collapsed to his knees. Tears gathering in his eyes.

Livius sighed and came up next to me. He looked at Nike and me. Then he turned his attention to the members that were caught interfering with the task and Arisutesu. "Let me make this perfectly clear; If you go out of your way to destroy me, I will definitely destroy you. If someone wants to restore their authority, a certain amount of dignity is required. How you achieve people's favor is your choice to make." Livius paused, and smiled at me before focusing on Rani Reata. "So this time around... you're off the hook."