Chapter 8: Aceppting
Leona headed outside to the stable, she wasn't going to run, she learned that she wouldn't get far and there was no way she could get out of the Dynasty without someone opening a portal. She went into the stables and down to where Spirit was. She went into the stall and took out a brush and started to brush the horse gently, she needed to work or she was going to start crying again. "Why didn't he tell me before?" She asked outloud and shook her head.
"The thing for best for you to do is to vamoose Leona, disapper and never reapper." She said to herself but she knew she wouldn't. "Yea right, I can't run from here and even if I some how got in the mortal world and put a couple oceans between me and my father there was still Hari, Loki and who knows what else after me." She said sighing. "You really need to stop talking to yourself." Leona's shoulders slumpped hearing Seckmeht's voice.
"Go away Seckmeht, I don't feel like talking to you right now." She said to him moving to the other side of Spirit have something between her father and her. "You are not going to make this easy are you?" Seckmeht asked. "I never make things easy." Leona retorded. Seckmeht looked at his daughter, he knew this wasn't going to be easy, Leona was still smarting from what happened back in the Dyansty and he saw she would not look at him.
"I knew this would not be easy Leona and what happen before makes it harder. But you must believe me on this: when you was brought I didn't know you was my daughter, remember we rarely saw each other and when you came here those months ago I didn't know it ethier. I just found it out now." Leona kept brushing Spirit but she was listening.
"Did you love her?" She asked him. "What do you mean?" Seckmeht asked unsure what she meant. "My mother, did you love her or was she just a one night stand that ended up with two aciddents?" Leona not sure she wanted the answer but she was trying to put all the pieces of this puzzle together.
"Of all the questions you could ask that is the hardest. You know how I was as a Warlord Leona and yes it did start out as a one night stand." "But it didn't end like that did it?" Leona asked. " No, your mother interested me, she was not revolted or frighten by my apperance she also had great courage and some how she figure out what I was. So I stayed with her for some time but then I returned to the Dynasty, I did not think I would ever see your mother again and I did not know about you and your brother, nethier of us did at that time. I met your mother again a year later, in her arms was two small babes, a boy with dark green hair and snake like green eyes and a girl with rust colored hair and black eyes that was the first time I saw you and your brother." Seckmeht leaned aganist the wall of the stall Spirit and Leona was in.
"So what did you do?" Leona asked. "I was caught between a rock and a hard place as they say, if your birthes was discovered by Talpa he would kill you, your brother and your mother or order you and your brother to be brought to the Dynasty." "What? Why?" Leona asked surpised. "You two was of my blood, if both of you grew up in the light Talpa would have feared that the two of you would somehow be able to convince me to leave him, maybe even join the Ronins."
Leona nodded unstanding that. "So that was the rock, what was the hard place of the problem?" She asked. "I was not even sure I would be able to let someone from the Dynasty kill you, your brother or your mother. I told your mother both of you was born without a chance for survival but she told me that she would not allow me or the Dynasty to harm ethier of you, she would send you and your brother to another country if it was needed. She knew I could have killed her on the spot but she told me falt out that I would be a coward to kill my own childern whose only crime as being born."
"So you didn't kill us, what did you do?" Leona asked. "I left again, I decied to leave you, your brother and your mother be but keep an eye on you three just in case. I saw you and your brother every now and then sometime staying weeks at a time but then Talpa and the other Warlords started to notice my absent, I worried what would happen you to, your brother and your mother should they find out so I made the statues and told your mother I would return when you and your brother was of the age of seventeen, then if both of was strong enough I would take you in as my childern. But then years after I left I got word that you and your brother had died of starvation. I tried to forget about you, your brother and your mother." Leona gave a humorless laugh.
"The irony of it. I and Fox almost did died of starvation but then a family took pity on my mother, Fox and I and took us in until my mother was on her feet." She said. " You was alone wasn't you?" Seckmeht asked. "I am always alone, it's safer that way. Mother use to call us lone wolves, said you gave us that nickname since the only people we was seen around often outside of the house was each other. The few time I and Fox got mother to speak about you, she would speak only well about you."
"She what?" Seckmeht asked, Leona nodded. " She alway spoke well about you, she never told us your name but she alway spoke well about you. Sometimes she tell us that we had your stubborness among other charatertics. Looks like she was right." Leona said quietly looking at the ground. She sighed putting the brush up and looking at Seckmeht for the first time.
" Things have changed greatly since I was the baby girl without a chance as you said and they have also changed a lot since I left the Dynasty, you are no longer the Warlord of Vemon and I .... I've learned that sometimes people desreve second chances. I know this comes as a shock to you finding out I'm your daughter, believe me it is for me. But .... I think as long as that darkness of your past stays in your past .... I would be gald to be able to call you my father if you appect me as your daughter." She said, that was the last thing Seckmeht expected her to ever say.
"My days as a Warlord is over Leona, the Ronins helped me and the other Seasonals realize the turth. Though I didn't realize then I did love your mother and you and I see the teenager you gave grown to become, you have more of the courage and strenght of will then you mother and I have. I'm sorry I was not there those years but appect you as my daughter and I hope in time you can frogive me for not being there and we will become more of a father and daughter." Seckmeht said, Leona smiled. " So do I father, so do I." She said.
"Where is Seckmeht and Leona?" Kayura asked the three Seasonals coming into one of the garden around the casltes. "We don't know, we haven't seen Seckmeht since he went after Leona."Anubis said. "I hope Leona hasn't tried to run again." Kayura said. "I doubt it, Leona is no fool. But she is probaly trying to avoid Seckmeht." Cale said but then saw Leona coming in their direction. "And speaking of her."He muttered.
"Leona where have you been?" Kayura asked seeing the young girl. "Out riding." Leona answered. " Do you know where Seckmeht is?" Dais asked, Leona nodded. " Yea I do. Father is putting the horses up, told me to head inside." Kayura and the Seasonals did a double take. "What did you say?" Kayura asked. "I said father is putting the horses up, he told me to head inside. Why?" Leona asked barely keeping a straight face at the looks on Kayura and the other Seasonals faces when she said what she did.
Anubis looked over Leona's head at Seckmeht when he came here, Seckmeht shurgged and walked over to his daughter, he stood behind her. "She isn't giving you guys trouble is she?"He asked them, Kayura shook her head. " No more then normal." "I never give you guys trouble!" Leona protested. "Oh you don't? How is Cale got a black eye?" Dais asked. " That was differnt anyway you don't garb a girl who think she is in danger unless you want to get socked." Leona repiled.
"Leona you have a penchant for getting in trouble." Seckmeht said. "Seems to run in the family." She repiled in a half challaging, half teasing tone not even looking at him. Caled pulled on Leona's ponytail lighty tipping her head back to look at him. "What was that?" he asked, Leona grinned and pulled her ponytail back. "Do you wish me to repeat it?" She asked him knowing good and well he heard her.
The other Seasonals and Kayura wacthed and listen in suprise. Is it just me or is Seckmeht acting differnt? Cale asked thorugh the armor link. He is acting differnt. I think he found what he was looking for. Anubis repiled knowingly. Light to his darkness but is this part of what the Anceint spoke of? Anubis thought to himself knowing time would only tell.
Leona headed outside to the stable, she wasn't going to run, she learned that she wouldn't get far and there was no way she could get out of the Dynasty without someone opening a portal. She went into the stables and down to where Spirit was. She went into the stall and took out a brush and started to brush the horse gently, she needed to work or she was going to start crying again. "Why didn't he tell me before?" She asked outloud and shook her head.
"The thing for best for you to do is to vamoose Leona, disapper and never reapper." She said to herself but she knew she wouldn't. "Yea right, I can't run from here and even if I some how got in the mortal world and put a couple oceans between me and my father there was still Hari, Loki and who knows what else after me." She said sighing. "You really need to stop talking to yourself." Leona's shoulders slumpped hearing Seckmeht's voice.
"Go away Seckmeht, I don't feel like talking to you right now." She said to him moving to the other side of Spirit have something between her father and her. "You are not going to make this easy are you?" Seckmeht asked. "I never make things easy." Leona retorded. Seckmeht looked at his daughter, he knew this wasn't going to be easy, Leona was still smarting from what happened back in the Dyansty and he saw she would not look at him.
"I knew this would not be easy Leona and what happen before makes it harder. But you must believe me on this: when you was brought I didn't know you was my daughter, remember we rarely saw each other and when you came here those months ago I didn't know it ethier. I just found it out now." Leona kept brushing Spirit but she was listening.
"Did you love her?" She asked him. "What do you mean?" Seckmeht asked unsure what she meant. "My mother, did you love her or was she just a one night stand that ended up with two aciddents?" Leona not sure she wanted the answer but she was trying to put all the pieces of this puzzle together.
"Of all the questions you could ask that is the hardest. You know how I was as a Warlord Leona and yes it did start out as a one night stand." "But it didn't end like that did it?" Leona asked. " No, your mother interested me, she was not revolted or frighten by my apperance she also had great courage and some how she figure out what I was. So I stayed with her for some time but then I returned to the Dynasty, I did not think I would ever see your mother again and I did not know about you and your brother, nethier of us did at that time. I met your mother again a year later, in her arms was two small babes, a boy with dark green hair and snake like green eyes and a girl with rust colored hair and black eyes that was the first time I saw you and your brother." Seckmeht leaned aganist the wall of the stall Spirit and Leona was in.
"So what did you do?" Leona asked. "I was caught between a rock and a hard place as they say, if your birthes was discovered by Talpa he would kill you, your brother and your mother or order you and your brother to be brought to the Dynasty." "What? Why?" Leona asked surpised. "You two was of my blood, if both of you grew up in the light Talpa would have feared that the two of you would somehow be able to convince me to leave him, maybe even join the Ronins."
Leona nodded unstanding that. "So that was the rock, what was the hard place of the problem?" She asked. "I was not even sure I would be able to let someone from the Dynasty kill you, your brother or your mother. I told your mother both of you was born without a chance for survival but she told me that she would not allow me or the Dynasty to harm ethier of you, she would send you and your brother to another country if it was needed. She knew I could have killed her on the spot but she told me falt out that I would be a coward to kill my own childern whose only crime as being born."
"So you didn't kill us, what did you do?" Leona asked. "I left again, I decied to leave you, your brother and your mother be but keep an eye on you three just in case. I saw you and your brother every now and then sometime staying weeks at a time but then Talpa and the other Warlords started to notice my absent, I worried what would happen you to, your brother and your mother should they find out so I made the statues and told your mother I would return when you and your brother was of the age of seventeen, then if both of was strong enough I would take you in as my childern. But then years after I left I got word that you and your brother had died of starvation. I tried to forget about you, your brother and your mother." Leona gave a humorless laugh.
"The irony of it. I and Fox almost did died of starvation but then a family took pity on my mother, Fox and I and took us in until my mother was on her feet." She said. " You was alone wasn't you?" Seckmeht asked. "I am always alone, it's safer that way. Mother use to call us lone wolves, said you gave us that nickname since the only people we was seen around often outside of the house was each other. The few time I and Fox got mother to speak about you, she would speak only well about you."
"She what?" Seckmeht asked, Leona nodded. " She alway spoke well about you, she never told us your name but she alway spoke well about you. Sometimes she tell us that we had your stubborness among other charatertics. Looks like she was right." Leona said quietly looking at the ground. She sighed putting the brush up and looking at Seckmeht for the first time.
" Things have changed greatly since I was the baby girl without a chance as you said and they have also changed a lot since I left the Dynasty, you are no longer the Warlord of Vemon and I .... I've learned that sometimes people desreve second chances. I know this comes as a shock to you finding out I'm your daughter, believe me it is for me. But .... I think as long as that darkness of your past stays in your past .... I would be gald to be able to call you my father if you appect me as your daughter." She said, that was the last thing Seckmeht expected her to ever say.
"My days as a Warlord is over Leona, the Ronins helped me and the other Seasonals realize the turth. Though I didn't realize then I did love your mother and you and I see the teenager you gave grown to become, you have more of the courage and strenght of will then you mother and I have. I'm sorry I was not there those years but appect you as my daughter and I hope in time you can frogive me for not being there and we will become more of a father and daughter." Seckmeht said, Leona smiled. " So do I father, so do I." She said.
"Where is Seckmeht and Leona?" Kayura asked the three Seasonals coming into one of the garden around the casltes. "We don't know, we haven't seen Seckmeht since he went after Leona."Anubis said. "I hope Leona hasn't tried to run again." Kayura said. "I doubt it, Leona is no fool. But she is probaly trying to avoid Seckmeht." Cale said but then saw Leona coming in their direction. "And speaking of her."He muttered.
"Leona where have you been?" Kayura asked seeing the young girl. "Out riding." Leona answered. " Do you know where Seckmeht is?" Dais asked, Leona nodded. " Yea I do. Father is putting the horses up, told me to head inside." Kayura and the Seasonals did a double take. "What did you say?" Kayura asked. "I said father is putting the horses up, he told me to head inside. Why?" Leona asked barely keeping a straight face at the looks on Kayura and the other Seasonals faces when she said what she did.
Anubis looked over Leona's head at Seckmeht when he came here, Seckmeht shurgged and walked over to his daughter, he stood behind her. "She isn't giving you guys trouble is she?"He asked them, Kayura shook her head. " No more then normal." "I never give you guys trouble!" Leona protested. "Oh you don't? How is Cale got a black eye?" Dais asked. " That was differnt anyway you don't garb a girl who think she is in danger unless you want to get socked." Leona repiled.
"Leona you have a penchant for getting in trouble." Seckmeht said. "Seems to run in the family." She repiled in a half challaging, half teasing tone not even looking at him. Caled pulled on Leona's ponytail lighty tipping her head back to look at him. "What was that?" he asked, Leona grinned and pulled her ponytail back. "Do you wish me to repeat it?" She asked him knowing good and well he heard her.
The other Seasonals and Kayura wacthed and listen in suprise. Is it just me or is Seckmeht acting differnt? Cale asked thorugh the armor link. He is acting differnt. I think he found what he was looking for. Anubis repiled knowingly. Light to his darkness but is this part of what the Anceint spoke of? Anubis thought to himself knowing time would only tell.