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Rowen sat on the porch swing on the back porch at Mia's later that week. The guys had been called to be told about the strange happenings Rowen noticed in Hokkaido. Sage was hiding his embarrassment about his grandfather being there, the old man had insisted. He stood by the stairs slightly leaning on his cane looking stern and very impatient. The back door opened and out came Mia, followed by a blonde teenage girl, and finally Ryo.
Sage looked her up and down. "Who's the cutie?" Rowen glared at him for a minute. He was such a playboy, he had forgotten about Selira already.
The sky landed a shadow in the middle of the yard. From the trees awaited the ever-faithful White Blaze, ready to pounce just in case. Cye had to take a double look at the fox-like creature "What is that thing?" He slowly stood up.
"You don't need to fear me, Torrent." Senai said. He first looked at Hannah, then Sage's grandfather. "It is good to see you again Date."
"Likewise old friend." Mr. Date bowed to him. Sage looked back and forth between them. Mr. Date looked at Hannah. "I assume this is the girl?"
Hannah felt her heart jump. What did these people want with her? Mia gently put her hand on Hannah's shoulder. Hannah felt a warm presence from her touch, yet it wasn't Mia. It was someone else. "Ah yes. She looks just like her mother." Senai said.
"Whoa, rewind. I don't look one cell like my mother." Hannah complained in a calm voice. "I've seen pictures."
"Pictures of the mother who raised you," Senai said approaching the steps. "but not of the mother who gave birth to you." Hannah glared daggers at the great beast. Senai just chuckled in his throat. "You are not their daughter, I'm afraid she was killed and you were put in her place."
"What do you mean?" Kento asked raising a brow.
"And what do you know about this, grandfather?" Sage asked Mr. Date.
Mr. Date held his hand up. "You are impatient." Sage huffed and his grandpa hit him in the leg with his cane. Hannah snickered.
Senai now stood at the foot of the three porch steps. He looked at Hannah in a way that made her a little scared. "How have you been all week?" He asked her.
Hannah was reluctant to answer at first. She looked to Ryo and he waved his hand to let her know it was okay. "Great. The Sanadas are really nice."
"Good, good." Senai looked to Mia. "How is the child?"
"It's fine. Why do you ask?" Mia responded with her hand over her stomach.
Senai looked to the Ronins. He looked at Ryo intently. "The Queen is the last of her kind. Your child must be born to increase the population by at least one." Hannah stared at Senai when he said queen. "The two of them are what are called Lights in the Demon World. The firstborn of soul mates."
"Firstborn of soul mates? So how do you know that?" Sage asked. Rowen stood up to answer that.
"You know all those stories about how demons can trick people because they understand how the human mind works?" Sage nodded. "Well, that much is true. We have different DNA, so we can sense things you can't. We just can." Rowen said to Kento. Kento closed his mouth.
"Yes, in fact in some suicide cases demons were the murderer, in ancient times." Mr. Date said. "Back in those days Lights were abundant and sometimes parented another Light. Demons killed them because for every Light there was more genuine goodness in the world. Some of the stories are true and the victims were all Lights."
Hannah sat on the railing. "So, is there any way to, like—oh I don't know—conceal myself from them? And did you really mean me when you said 'queen'?"
"I'm afraid you can never hide the energy the star inside you gives off, and yes, you are royalty." Senai said. Rowen looked at Hannah. He had to admit she had the same green eyes as the baby from his childhood. He almost thought about the possibility but pushed it from his mind. There was too slim a chance.
Senai saw Rowen's face but said nothing. "I have stated my reasons, your duty, now, is to protect the two Lights. Neither of them must die, or the world will fall into another dark age." He lowered his head.
Hannah looked at Senai with her head cocked to the right. "Dark age? As in the time when we know little about the world in history?" Senai and Mr. Date nodded as one. Then Senai went over to Rowen.
"Only she has that scent and only she has the scar you know." He said into Rowen's ear. Rowen sighed in annoyance. "There is a great possibility that she remembers those last words." Senai stretched his wings as Rowen went inside frustrated.
Hannah couldn't help but think about the scar on her neck. It had been there her whole life. It wasn't a birthmark? Did he know how she got it? Even her own parents couldn't explain it. Her older brother had said it wasn't there when she was born.
'Is all this true? Am I really someone else?' Hannah went into the kitchen. 'Oh well, can't think on an empty stomach.' She was shortly followed by Kento as he was hungry, like always.
Senai bowed his head to Mia and flew off. "So little brother, you don't want her anymore? I'll gladly take her, and the slut, off your hands." A man up on the balcony said to himself. He brushed his black hair out of his red eyes. "I've waited years to have her all to myself."
He snuck into the house and downstairs undetected to the kitchen. Rowen was sitting at the counter reading a book. Hannah and Kento were both looking through the fridge for a snack. The man smirked as he saw the rest come in, particularly at Mia. 'Since it's the firstborn child, I'm afraid you'll have to die beautiful.'
Rowen was so focused in his book that he didn't notice anything wrong. As Hannah and Kento sat down to eat a white reflection made him jump slightly. He closed his book and looked at Hannah's necklace.
Cye beat him to it. "Hey Your Highness, where'd you get that?" he pointed to her necklace.
"What? This?" she held it up to look at it. "I got it in the mail along with a letter saying I should go to Ashibetsu." Rowen got suspicious. "Funny thing was, it told me that I should know the truth about my parents, and I don't think Senai wrote it."
'She sent it. So that explains all the black demons back home. How did she escape them all by herself?' Rowen thought. Surely a mere human couldn't survive against them.
Sage turned to his grandfather. "Grandfather, how is it you know about all this?"
Mr. Date answered while looking at Hannah. "I met Senai the night you were born. He had lost sight of you, but he knew you were in good hands. He told me about your family and told me to keep the family treasure safe."
"The family treasure? What is it?" Hannah asked leaning forward forgetting her sandwich.
"I wish I could tell you. There is a lock on it that is odd to me. I've never seen the like of it." Then he turned to Rowen. "Are you sure you only took the queen with you?"
Rowen didn't turn to him, but he did answer. "I did. Can't say the same for my mother. She did find something that night."
Hannah turned to him. 'What's his problem? He's been mad ever since he arrived. Hmm, Ryo did say that they were all warriors. Maybe I could learn a thing or two from his moves.' She smirked as she got up to challenge him.
A/N: I hope this explains some important things in the story. Yes, beware of the guy that was listening on the balcony. (gets all anime creepy and speaks in a classic witch voice) Be afraid, be very afraid. Don't roll those eyes at me! I know what you do not suspect!