Hey Guys! Sorry for this being so late. I just couldn't get the ending of this chapter how I wanted it to be. Its still not great but its better than it was. I do have the ideas for the next couple of chapters floating around in my head I just have to get them down on paper.

Also, I have reread and adjusted all of the previous chapters. Nothing important was changed so you don't have to reread them if you don't have the time.

As always, I would appreciate any reviews that you can give me.

Chapter 6

"Lucivar! Why did you have to do that?" shouted Jaenelle.

"Do what?"

"Act as if you knew why she is the way that she is?"

"I'm not supposed to?"

"No! How would you feel if someone did that to you?"

"Grateful I should expect."

"No you would feel as if someone were being condescending and treating you as if you were not capable of defending yourself."

"Maybe, but…"

"No, no maybe. That is how you would feel! It is how I felt when all of you were trying to help me get back on my feet after I came back from healing. Now stop it! She made herself vulnerable to us and you took advantage of that. Go and apologize," Jaenelle shouted. When Lucivar just stood there with no apparent wish to follow her suggestion she continued, "That was not a suggestion, Prince," came the sepulchral command.

"As you command, Lady." Lucivar then turned around and walked steadily toward the Hall. As he reached the wing which contained Shaitara's suite, he encountered an Eyrien figure blocking all light causing its face to be in shadow.

"Please step aside I need to speak with Shaitara." Upon this announcement the figure snapped its wings shut, revealing Tara armed with two Eyrien sticks and dressed in a similar outfit to that of Shaitara when she was first seen.

"No."

"Move or I will fight you."

"Then you will die."

"How can you say that? I'm family."

"I have not known you until yesterday. Shai, I have known my entire life."

"So you choose her over what is right? Over letting me apologize to her? How can you do that to her?"

"How could you treat her as if she was a pitiable creature? As if the best you could do for her was to treat her as if you were above her and could only offer your condolences?"

"I never…"

"You did, when she gave you the gift of her knowledge! There was no way that she could have prevented sharing part of who she is when she was gifting all those in Jaenelle's court with her combat knowledge because it is most of what she knows. So tell me this, how would you feel if I did the same to you regarding your time as a pleasure slave?" enquired Tara.

Lucivar just stood there with his mouth flapping like a fish's.

"Told you. No. Please, give her some time she will be down before the end of the day even if I have to carry her down myself." After finishing that proclamation Tara turned around and started walking down the hallway and turned into the room she and Shai shared. Lucivar attempted to follow but nearly immediately ran into a Black shield.

I told you to leave her alone. But did you listen, no. She will be down shortly to the entrance hall. Be there or have her hunt you.

For the first time in perhaps his entire life, turned tail and ran to the entrance hall. When he skidded to a halt in front of the newly reassembled First Circle and their children, he merely stood there for about a minute looking at them.

"Lucivar? What is the…" trailed off Marian as she saw the imposing figure of Shaitara descending the stairs from the family wing.

"Mother Night," swore Surreal.

"Lucivar, what have you done?" enquired Jaenelle.

"He has chosen. I wish all of you to hear this. I did not gift you with my knowledge so as to gain pity from anyone," crooned Shaitara. "I wish to continue as just another warrior in this Court. Understood?"

As she finished asking Saetan took a step forward and suddenly fell down with a crossbow bolt protruding from his shoulder.

"Jaenelle, DOWN!" screamed Shaitara. "Daemon, kill him!" she continued as she pointed at the assassin standing outside the window reloading his crossbow.

When Daemon heard this he slithered inside the poor man's mind and turned it to smoldering ash. He turned around to see Shaitara already knelt beside their father trying to keep him conscious.

"Father?"

"Yes…"

"I need you to relax and not fight me on this." When he nodded she removed the bolt with her hands and then placed them over the wound like she had when she was healing Daemon. "Do you have any other injuries that I don't know about, Father?"

Saetan merely looked at her. To which she replied "I see. Jaenelle, I am going to need to call in my Jewels to heal him."

"I'll heal you afterwards," was all she replied with.

"Thank you," Shaitara said before she closed her eyes and called in her Jewel of Rank. Saetan flinched when he saw the Jewel merely appear in her hand unset and felt the depth of power contained therein.

Shaitara began grimacing the moment the Ebony came into existence. She then placed her hands over his wound gripping her Jewel. As the First Circle looked on Saetan's wound began to glow and Shaitara began to grimace more and more. As the bolt wound began to disappear, Shaitara began to bite her lip, drawing blood.

As Saetan felt the bolt wound heal he began to feel a finger growing back where Hekatah had removed his little finger. He raised his hand and watched as a black nailed finger grew in size until it appeared that it had never been missing. By this point Shaitara had tears coursing down her face and sobs escaping her mouth.

Saetan then felt the damage from the Ring of Obedience being reversed. When the damage was mostly fixed, Shaitara began screaming as though in intense pain. However, she continued to heal Saetan because had she stopped all of the damage that she had reversed would have become irreversibly permanent and Saetan would have had to become demon dead in order to survive.

Suddenly, Saetan felt as he had during the height of Jaenelle's reign, completely whole and healthy. Just as he felt this, he saw Shaitara curl up into a fetal position clutching her stomach and slide her Jewel to Jaenelle who caught it with her handkerchief. Jaenelle then handed the covered Jewel to Daemon who vanished it. She next walked slowly over to Shaitara where she was still laying on the floor.

"Shai? Where does it hurt?" she enquired.

"W…wo…womb…Ring of…Obedience keyed to…ahh…Jewels around…womb."

"From Dorothea?" All Shaitara could do was nod through the pain. "Very well, I think I can remove it without having to heal you at all. Just like ribbons through wood…" Jaenelle reached out her hand and passed it into Shaitara's abdomen much like she had done to Saetan when she came back from the Abyss after being raped. A few seconds later she pulled her hand out holding a large golden ring that shrank into non-existence. As Jaenelle pulled out her hand, Shaitara passed out.

"Damn. Gabrielle, could you please come see if she needs healing?"

"Of course," a few seconds pass while Gabrielle checks through Shaitara's body for anything wrong with it. "Doesn't look like anything other than over exertion, extreme exhaustion and pain. Just let her sleep it off, she should wake up in the next day or so."

"Thank you. Khardeen, could you carry her up to her room? As for the rest of you, do not mention this to her. She probably won't remember any of it. Now, Papa, are you alright?"

"Yes. She completely healed me. I don't know how she did that as even you wouldn't have been able to replace the finger that Hekatah sent to you."

"She is a Sovereign Black Widow. She can only heal completely and as such has the ability to replace lost appendages. Now, as you are alright I need to go ensure that she is." After finishing this, she walked up to the Family wing while Saetan just watched her from his seat on the floor.

"What happened?" Saetan asked from the floor.

"You don't want to know, Uncle Saetan. You don't want to know."