So hello. The normal font is the kingdom. The italic font is the dream world.

ENJOY!

Keep me, here up on top of the mountains,
Far away from all distress, far away from all distress,
Save me, free me from all these distractions,
Violence filled interactions, save me,
But keep me awake

The days were going slow at the castle, no one really said much, and the house seemed to be quiet without the laughter of all the teenagers. Stacie and Quil were the only ones left and they mostly kept to themselves. Sometimes they hung out in the other's room, but most of the time you just didn't see them.

Aya entered her dream world quickly, but didn't take the time like she usually did to look around at the beautiful surroundings. Instead she picked up her long white dress and started to run towards her and her mother's spot, she was there waiting with a basket of wildflowers already picked. But when she saw Aya's face she shoved away the flowers and pulled her daughter down next to her.

Leofrick was confused about how is daughter was acting, his wife spent most of her time in the Queen's chambers. Most of the time she sat there and read a book out loud hoping that no matter what the Queen would hear her. Leofrick didn't know the full strength of the spell that Luc put on her, but he was sure the Queen could hear nothing.

Sam watched from a distance at Aya and Binky, it seemed Aya knew that her mother wasn't telling her something and she wanted to know right then and there. Sam closed his eyes, something wasn't right back in the real world, the alive world. Something was going horribly wrong and Binky was in the middle of it, but Aya was at fault.

Arabelle was getting bigger, her belly starting to take on the full round looks, everyone knew for sure now. She was sitting by her bedroom window watching the rain fall, it had been raining a lot lately, the flowers looked beautiful. Walter came in sat behind her, placing his hands on her swollen belly.

"My dear, how are you feeling on this rainy day?"
"Wonderful, if I wasn't pregnant I would go walk through the gardens I love to do that when it rains, the flowers seem more alive that way."
"Yes, I know. That's how I first met you, I was walking in your father's garden because he thought you were a thief moving towards his shed to steal his builder tools. But when I walked up you were in that loose blue dress, no coat, no shoes, your hair was plastered to your face, and your gold eyes were like the sun. I fell in love with you that day."
"I remember you ran away from me and asked my father for my hand."
"He said, 'It's her choice lad, I promised her I would never make her marry someone she did not love'."
"He came to me and I told him, 'That fellow in the garden? Book the church papa, I will marry that one."

"Sam, do you feel it?" Penny asked from behind him, she looked worried and anxious.
"Yes something isn't right, something is going wrong. No one can tell."
"Do you think we should tell them?" Sam ripped a piece of bark of the tree he was leaning against and started to tear it into smaller pieces, while looking still at Binky and Aya. The scene was different now, Aya looked shocked and scared, Binky was trying to look understanding. "She is telling her isn't she?"
"I think so, but I think Aya came here already knowing about the power, just not what it was."
"Do you think she will bring us back?" Sam turned to her with stony eyes, he knew what he had to do, and he knew what he had to say.
"Tell Binky I'm sorry and that I love her." Then he turned and walked out of their lives forever.

Stacie shut Quil's door quickly behind her trying to keep the front of her grown shut, she knew what she was doing was too stupid for words, what she was doing was wrong. She ran to her room, slipping her slippers off half way so she could run faster, she didn't want her mother to see her like this. She knew her hair was a mess and she was sweaty, her breathing was still uneven. She slammed her door hard behind her and slid down to the floor letting the tears fall that she had been fighting back since Edward left.

Aya stared at her mother in surprise, her mother knew all about this new power of her's, but yet wouldn't tell her what it was all about, wouldn't tell her why it was she wouldn't tell her.

"Aya honey, you have to understand that this is difficult for me too, I want to tell you I really do, but it's the fact that I don't know what you would do this new found power."
"Mother, you can trust me, I'm not going to go chasing silly dreams with this power, if its really as strong as you say it is, then I'll get training."
"This power can not be trained Aya, it's the most powerful power that I have ever heard of, my power may be strong, but not as strong as yours."
"I know all about your power Mother, but whatever my power is it can't be more powerful than yours and uncle's."
"No it's not, but its pretty close."

Isabel was having trouble thinking, she kept messing up on her sewing, her mind was jumbled and her head was aching. She set down the dress she was working on and looked at her sore fingers, she had buried herself in work since Edward left, she didn't want to think about how empty the castle was, she didn't want to think about the fact that her son was across the world from her.

"Iz?" Her turned towards the sound of her husband's voice, Hadrian was standing by the bed looking at her with sad eyes, she hadn't spoken much since they left Edward in American.
"Yes Hadrian?"
"Can we talk?"
"Of course." She sighed and stood up walking towards him, she had to crane her neck to look at him, she had always loved him for his height.
"My dear, you can't be sad forever, Edward is a big boy, he can take care of himself. He learned a lot from both of us, and know that Aya would never let something happen to him." He gently took a piece of loose hair and pushed it so that it was behind her ear, she stood on her tip toes and he bent down and lightly pressed his lips to hers.

Penny watched Sam walk away and fade, she suppressed a sob, Sam was her only friend, she knew that she had her sister her with her now, but Sam was the only one that understood what it felt like to be dead. She turned back to her sister and niece and waited for the perfect time to go to them. Aya was waving her hands in the air and Binky was simply looking at her, Penny gasped when Binky turned and meet eyes with her. Penny knew that she had to go to them now, it was time to tell Aya and Binky wanted her there. She just didn't understand how to tell Binky about Sam crossing over.

Quil picked up his undergarments and started to pull them on. He then pulled on his pants and his tunic, he was thinking about Stacie's soft skin, they had started this soon after Edward left, but they both knew that there was no feelings between them. He was doing it because Stacie's skin was as soft as Aya's, Stacie had the same blood as Aya. Stacie did it to fill the space Edward had left behind. Quil walked over to his closet and pulled on his boots. He then grabbed his cap pulling it on his head and walked out of his room and out of the castle without anyone seeing him leave.

Aya watched as Penny walked over, she knew her mother was getting ready to tell her, but for some odd reason she wanted Penny there. Aya moved and shifted, this dress wasn't the one she was used to, it was to long, to white, she loved her small green dress.
"Have you told her?"
"I'm getting ready to, but I need you here. It's up to her what she does after she finds out." Her mother said still staring at Aya, but talking to Penny. Aya's heart hammered in her chest.
"Alright, I understand." Penny said as she sat down next to Aya, Binky knew what she wanted, but it was the fact that Binky had no control over what Aya decided to do.
Binky reached forward and took her daughter's hands into hers.
"Honey, you must understand that this power needs to be thought about before using it." Binky closed her eyes and then reopened them, she had tears behind the lids. "Binky, you have the power to bring back the dead no matter how long they have been dead."

Luc sat quietly in the dinning room sipping a goblet of lion's blood mixed with vodka, he did this a lot, drank himself away. No one tried to stop him, but the gave him long serious looks whenever he poured himself a new glass. Luc had never been a drinker, even as a teenager when he went into his rebel said just before his 17th birthday. He drained the last of his drink and stood, he wobbled a little bit before straightening up and making his way to the bar, but before he could pour himself another glass his goblet was yanked out his hand and throw across the dinning room.

Aya stared at her mother with such surprise Binky had to laugh, Penny also started laughing, but Aya did not, for she had no idea what to think. She had a power that seemed impossible to have, bringing people back to life? It seemed like a joke to her, but she knew it wasn't. She knew deep in inside that this would never be a joke. She turned to her Aunt Penny, the Aunt she never grew up with by her side, she knew that with this power she could change all of that, make it so that Penny would always be there. So silently she grabbed her Aunt's hands and tried this new power.

Ruby stared at her drunk brother, he smelled of vodka and blood, lion's blood, Binky's favorite. He stared at her in such great shock, she felt like slapping him across the face, maybe that would sober him up, she thought with bitterness. He had been drunk every day since he put Binky into her sleep, she had let it go, but not anymore, she lost two sisters, she wasn't going to lose her brother too.
"You. Can't. Do. That." He slurred his words and tried to walk around her. "I'm. The. King. BEG FOR MY FORGIVENESS!" he screamed reaching for another goblet.
"You stupid bastard." Ruby said as she swiped her arm across the counter knocking all of the remaining goblets to the floor, the sound of crashing glass echoed through the room.
"ooooh, you're going to have to pay for those!"

A bright light surrounded Penny and Aya, Binky brought her arm up to shield her eyes, when she brought it down they were gone.

Leofrick ran to the dinning room at the sound of more than one glass breaking, when he got there he found his drunk brother in law and his very angry wife screaming at each other. He walked over to them and yanked them away from each other, he was sick of the fighting, he was sick of smelling nothing, but vodka off the king and he was sick of his wife sitting in the Queen's chamber reading to her when she knew that she couldn't hear her.

When Aya opened her eyes she screamed, for right in front of her eyes there was a skeleton, not just any skeleton, but her Aunt Penny, she was in the ground, in a coffin, with her dead Aunt. She started to panic and started to hit the lid, she knew that there was no luck in doing this, no one would hear her. She tried to calm her breathing and tell herself that she had something she needed to do. She reached over and grabbed her dead Aunt's hands.

Arabelle walked to the Queen's chambers, she knew Ruby left for she could her and the king's screams coming from the dinning room, she opened the doors quickly and slipped inside with her back facing the bed, she didn't want anyone to know she was in here, she didn't want anyone to know that she came in here to talk to Binky. When she turned she only let out one scream before she saw a flash of white, felt the fire in her stomach, and before her world went black.

Nothing happened for awhile, but slowly she started to see the changes in her Aunt's body, the golden hair she always knew from her Aunt Ruby slowly grew, the skin slowly started to cover the old bones, when it started on the fingers Aya had to fight herself not to let go. To Aya it felt like hours before her Aunt finally took a gasp of air.

Walter heard his wife's scream from the fight room, he was waiting for Quil to show for their regular sword match. He took of running for the Queen's room, but when he opened the door he wished that someone else had got there first.

Penny couldn't believe what was happening, she couldn't believe she was alive. She turned her face towards a crying Aya, she smiled and began to dig them out of their hole before Aya used the rest of the air that was left in the coffin.

The others came quickly, they ran as fast as they could, but froze in their tracks at the sight of Walter clutching his dead wife and the empty bed where the Queen should have been.

Finally Penny as able to break through the top of the grave, she breathed the fresh air and reached down to pull Aya up. Her niece smiled at her before passing out in her arms. Penny laughed and set her down on the grass, she quickly filled the hole she had dug and picked her back up. She ran towards the house quickly, she climbed up a tree she knew was close to her room. She could hear the boys downstairs messing around when she snuck into Aya's room, Penny gently placed Aya on the bed and kissed her forehead, she knew that she would remember nothing tomorrow.

It was 6 hours later and Walter was still in his room with his wife clutched in his arms, his terrible cries could be heard through the kingdom. They didn't know how someone got in and stole the Queen's body, they didn't even know who would do it.
"We need to find out who would do this, Arabelle…" Isabel began, but stopped, she couldn't finish her sentence, thinking of Arabelle hurt.
Everyone looked up at her and waited, but when she gave no sign of finishing they looked back down at their glasses of leopard blood and vodka, the King was the only one drinking plain blood, he blamed himself for this. When it seemed like the silence was going to kill them there was a sound from the front room and the sound of feet running. Ruby stood quickly, she knew the scent coming towards hers she had been waiting for the scent for the last 16 years.

Penny was climbing down the tree when the vision hit her, the vision of Binky being stolen and a lady named Arabelle being killed, she saw the screams of her sister and the others, she knew she had to get to England. When she jumped to the ground she ran into May who smiled and said. "I can help you get there."

Ruby rushed to her sister, they embraced with grabbing hugs and kisses to the cheeks, and Luc saw with amazement who this was and ran to them.

"LUC! MY BABY BROTHER!" Penny screamed throwing her arms around him, he picked her up and spun her around, and he couldn't believe it. He sat her down and looked at her with a goofy smile on his face.
"How? How are you here?" He asked.
"Luc you need to go get Aya right away, her power, her power can change all of this." She said quickly, grabbing his hands so hard that if he was human they would break.
"What power?"
"The power to bring back the dead."

Cause the roads that we take can confine us or set us free,
Make your path, don't you break, Just need to get away,
And you've been so tied up with your life take a break from it,
Or you won't last

OH! Such a chapter, took me forever to write. But anyway who wants a story about Luc after this one? I mean I'm thinking about starting it now so that after I'm done with this story I can start on that one right away.

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