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To Return

It was quiet and cold in the shadows where he watched the young princess talking with her family on Earth. He smirked. She had no idea what was to come.

"Well, what do you think?" a female asked from the shadows. The male figure turned to look at the shadow covered woman.

"Though Waterfist's death is unpleasant, we now have the advantage of a new queen to try to manipulate. If that fails, we go to plan B with your girls," he said and turned his gaze back to the image of the young queen Eva of Elysian. "I shall worry about the Elysian. You take care of the Crogs."

"Yes, Great One," the woman said and bowed as she faded into the darkness.

"Soon, little queen, soon you will bow to me," the male figure said and chuckled darkly into the abyss.

"I can't tell you guys where I was," Eva told the entire gang who had gathered in the living room once Stan and Jordan had been revived. A little ice water had woken them up in a flash, not to mention a few screams.

"Eva Spera Wei," Don began. Eva simply sighed and tuned the rant that was to come. She had gotten plenty of experience of that skill in her time living with her father.

"Eva, are you paying any attention?" Don growled. Eva turned and grinned at him.

"I just want to get some rest," she said. The sun had gone down an hour ago and she was exhausted from the teleporting to Earth from Elysian. The others agreed that they would hit the hay and turned in.

Rick had woken up that late that night. He had heard something, a soft singing, and decided to follow his ear to the source. Sitting outside in the waning moonlight was moonlight was Eva singing a beautiful song.

"I cry to the moon. The mother hears my prayers. I listen to the wind, and I believe in my dreams. We are one in this universe, we are one on this great land," she sang softly to the moon and bowed her head, a small smile gracing her face.

"I didn't know you could sing so well, little mouse," he said. Eva jumped and turned to look at him.

"I can sing, I just never let anyone else know it," she said in a low tone and crossed her arms. The patent pending Eva Wei pout was out.

"Sorry, little mouse," Rick said and sat beside her on the open porch of the house.

"Thank you," she said quietly. Rick raised an eyebrow at her. "You took care of my dad, didn't you?"

"Yeah," he replied with a small nod.

"Then I have you to thank for his health. I feared he would have died if you wouldn't have helped him," she said and sat down beside him.

"Where were you?" he asked. He was really curios about where she was. Her story she had told them just hadn't added up.

"I can't tell you, but if you're really that curious, know that I am loved where I was,' she said with a soft smile. "I have to go back at the end of the week."

That caught Rick's attention. "Go back?"

"There is a lot of stuff I need to do back there," she said and turned her gaze up to the waning crescent moon. "They need me there. Please, Rick, don't ask anymore questions about where I was and where I'm going."

Rick nodded and the two sat in silence beneath the silver moonlight before sleep called them back to their beds.

"I HAVE to go," Eva said and ran out the house. Yelling and slamming doors followed her.

"Damn, I knew it was going to be hard to leave, but I didn't think it would be this hard," she thought. It had been a week since she had arrived on Earth for her little vacation. Her family had tried to keep her from leaving.

Like that would stop her.

So now she was running at high speed through the woods where the entire adventure to reclaim the throne had begun. She sighed in relief as she out ran the others. She took the Eternium Gem in her hands and concentrated on Elysian. She felt the disconcerting feeling of being pulled apart and put back together. She opened her eyes and gazed at the tall towers of the sunbathed city of Shugoratuna'maldanishek'Rau, the capitol of Elysian.