Next Day,
Lioness woke up, she felt Axel's arms aroud herself. Lioness: Axel, wake up! But he didn't, so Lioness tryed to roll over. Then she rolled out of the bed, and to bad for her, she hitted the groud, Axel fell over her. And then Axel woke up. "Finally!" she said loud, and stood up. Axel stood up too. Lioness got dressed, and Axel said: I'm going over to my parents, and get my bag. Axel did, and took his bag back to Lioness's room, and got dressed too.
Then they walked down for breakfast, Lioness and Axel held hands when they walked down the stairs. Then Sebastian came running over to them, and said to Lioness: Lioness, the elders wanna talk to you. "Okay, I'll be right there," she answere. Axel: Can I come too? Sebastian: Sorry Axel, but they wanna talk to her. Axel: Alright, then I'll go, and find us a seat. Lioness: Okay, she smiled to him. Then she followed Sebastian.
They walked in to a huge room, the walls were dark-red, and the floor was covered with black marble. A few meters away from her it were sitting four old menn. "You're Catalina Leone?" One of them said. Lioness bowed deeply for them, and said: Yes, I am. Sebastian whispered to her: Very good. "Thanks," She whispered back. Then she looked up on the old four again. Then an other man said something, "Will you give up your life for Jo-Lan?" Lioness: I guess. Then an other man said: We hear that you're together with Sebastian's son, Axel Manning, wasn't it? Sebastian and Lioness both said: Yes. "What about it?" Lioness asked, worried. "We can't allow that, We can't risk it. I'm so sorry,"Lioness: What?! Why not??! "Your feeling for him can change it all. You, Haylie, and Raxiki are going to save Jo-Lan, and maybe the rest of the world. You got to understand that we can't let you two be together." One of them said clare. Lioness: Then I'll not fight! Lioness just left the room without an other word. Axel saw her running out the door, he followed her.
Axel: What's wrong Lioness? "They didn't allow that we're together," She said, and took a seat on a big rock. Axel: What!? Why not? Lioness: They're afraid that we'll mess it all up for them. She took her hand to her head, and started crying. Axel walked over to her, but when he tryed to lay his arms aroud her, she pushed him back with her free hand. Then Axel got up on the rock too, and there they were sitting back too back. Axel: Come on, Lioness. Let's go back.
Lioness: What do you mean back? I'm not going back there. Only to get my things. Axel: Lioness, maybe we should listen to them. I mean; It's not only about us, it's about a world that are going down to hell. "I don't belive it. You're with them about this. You're taking them's side, and not my side. I thought you loved me! She got really angry, then she ran away from him, and into the tempel to get her things. Axel got angry too, but not on Lioness, on himself for saying what he said.
Lioness ran up the stairs, but half the way: Sebastian catched up to her, and held her back. Lioness: What do you want? Sebastian: Hysj, I'm here to help. The elders, are giving you an other chanse. Lioness: What do you mean? Sebastian: They can take away your Jo-Lan powers. Lioness got out of his arms, and yeld: What?! They can do that? I mean the powers are a part off me! Sebastian: And so is Axel? Isn't he? Lioness: Axel is my world, If enything happends to him, Well then I want them to pay. Then I'm gonna kill them all. Sebastian: You got no control over your angry feeling, none of us have, that's what make us keep going. It made Axel keep going when I was gone.Then none of them said something for a long time, into Sebastian said: So..., What do you say? Lioness: Well it hurt?
What are they going to do when they're taking my Jo-Lan powers? Sebastian: I don't know, the only thing I know about that can make your powers to go away is that they take away your memorys. Lioness: I'm not letting them do that, Then I'll forget Axel! That's not helping. What if I don't feel the same about him, and know that I should know a lot more then I do. NO, then...What am I going to do?Sebastian: What about to talk to Axel, I saw your fight. Lioness: Well it was your folt it started. Sebastian: What did I do? Lioness: Well, you told me that I had to go talk to them. Then Lioness said: I'm going home, Sebastian. Nobody can stop me. She went to her room, and closed the door, then a few seconds she opend and throwed Axel's things out, and closed again. Sebastian looked down in the floor, and then took Axel's bag, and carryed it in to his room.
Axel felt helpless, he didn't know what to do, what to tell Lioness. Then his mother came over to him, and sat down next to him. "Hi, mom." Axel said, but didn't look at her. Alexandra: Hei, sweety. What's wrong? Fighting with Lioness? Axel: Who did you know? "Your father told me, and everyone is talking about it." She answered. Axel: What shall I do? I mean: Nr. 1 If she leaves: I got to stay and take her place, and then we can't be together. Nr. 2 If she stays we still can't be together, and she's going to train all the time. Alexandra: But so are you, remember: She's not the only one who came here to become a better Jo-Lan Warrior. Axel: I know, but I love her mom, and I don't wanna lose her. Alexandra: Well. Then you should go, and talk to her. Or maybe a deal, that you two not are together now, and take it like a breake, and she goes bake to Landmark-City, and you stay here and finish your work here. Then you go back. Axel: Mom, that can take years, and you know it will be a huge fight, and I almost died when I fight Quang. And if I die this time...Lioness will be broken, because I know she loves me, and I love her more then my own life. Alexandra: It's a risk you two have to take. Even it can take years before you see her again. Axel: You're right, she'll maybe hate me for it, but I still love her more then enything. "Why are you asking a question that you already know the answere?" she asked. Axel: God, I love you, Mom.
Axel stood up, he ran up to her room. He opened the door, Lioness was standing beside the bed, and packed down her thing. She looked up on him, with tears in her eyes, he slowly went over to her, and layed his arms aroud her, but she didn't held her arms around him back, she just cried. When Axel let her go, he just looked at her. Then without saying enything, they slowly started to making-out. Then they ended up in bed together. Lioness cried badly what they made love.
After, Lioness didn't say anything, Axel didn't say enything. He didn't wanna destroy the moment, he was afreid she got mad, and left angry on him. They were laying in the bed, Lioness was laying with her back turned to Axel. Then Axel turned to her, and said: Will you wait for me? Lioness: What are you talking about? She turned to him, so they looked each other in the face. "You're going home, arn't you? I'm staying." He said to her. Lioness kissed him, and said: I know. Axel: Well, are you going to wait? "I'm going to say this once, just once: I'm going to wait for you in 3 years, not more. If you don't visit me in 4 years: I can't promis you that I'm still waiting, then it's over." She said, very clearly.
Axel: I promis, I'm going to visit you, before four years pass. I'm going to see you before that, too. Lioness got up, and got on her clothers again. Axel did the same, he didn't wanna lay there in her bed naked, maybe his parents got in the door. Lioness: We'll see. That's just words, what you're telling me now. You tell me you love me, but I don't know it's true.
How can I know you'll be back for me? Axel took his hand down in his pocket, and took up a little thing. Then he walked over to her, and took it in her hand. Axel: Don't open it before you're on the plane. Lioness huged him, and she was still crying. Axel wiped her tears away, then he turned to the door, and when he was right about to take the last step out of the door, he turned to her, and said: I'll never let go for you Lioness, I'll always love you. But that dosn't mean that I'm not letting you wait for me forever. Lioness: Always, or Forever. Axel: I don't want you to move out, and live alone when you get home. Lioness: I been thinking to ask Rachel to come, and live with us.
Axel held the door for her, and she took her bag, and walked out of her room. Axel: Please tell the other guys that I'm gonna miss them, and that I'm going to visit them before four years has pass. "I'll," Lioness answered, with a sad voice. She took his hand, and they walked together down the stairs. Master Ji came over to them, and he said: I'm very sorry all this was ending so wrong. Lioness: I'm sorry too, I'm sorry I fail you. Master Ji: It's okay, but I didn't tell you all off it. Lioness: Off what? "About the Chosen Ones. It's four not three, Axel's in this too. Raxiki, and Haylie are not that powerful at all, they're just here to make a sacrifice, but Axel, and you're here to make a change.» He said. Lioness: But why didn't you tell me before, we got here for four days ago, and I'm already leaving. Master Ji: I know, I didn't say I needed you all, Raxiki and Haylie are not staying here so many years longer, the time is just a few years away.
Lioness looked at Axel, and said: I'm still leaving. «I know.» He answred. Lioness walked over to her bike, and put her bag in the room under her seat. She got on her helmet, and so did Axel. He got on behind her, he were going to come with her to the ariport. When they got there. Axel got of her bike, and Lioness parked it beside the landing strip, she were going to fly it home, but she were going to say goodbey firts. Lioness and Axel where standing beside the landing strip, Axel: I know we never got to do this, so I tought we maybe could do it now. Lioness: What? Axel turned to a guy in a uniform, and then an other guy in a umiform came running with a cd-player. And he turned on the song: Goodbye My Lover (James Blunt). Axel: Can I get this last dance with you? Lioness took slowly her arms around his neck, and he layed his arms around her waist.
They where dancing a long time, she had her head on his shoulder, she was almost sleeping, and still crying, and she didn't understand why, she couldn't stop, but it didn't matter to her. Axel: Always.. «And Forever!» She whispered back in his ear. Then he let go of her, and she let go of him. The music stoped too. And a guy came over to her, and told it was time to go. Axel huged her a last time, a long last time. Lioness, and Axel held hands, and when she started to walk away, the held on to the last seacond they couldn't hold on enymore, and there hands let go, and Lioness got on her gear, and she started to fly. She didn't look back. Her gear had an autopilot, it was on, so she chould do something else. She found the little box Axel gave her before she left.
Lioness opened it, and inside it was: A silver ring, and a little inscription inside, it stood: I love you, Lioness. Always, and forever. Then she started to cry even more.