A/N: I am so sorry for the wait on this chapter. I lost all ability to write for either of my stories for so long, and am just now getting back into the swing of things. I hope that I'll soon be able to get both finished and that way I'll be able to work on the next project I have in mind. Another Harry Potter story, and a revision on the first story I ever wrote. Well, enjoy.

Even pushing the engines at full capacity the entire journey to the planet, Riddick didn't make it to Serna System for two weeks, but he managed to make it to Zealion in a mere nine hours.

But, that part really should have come later in the chapter, so I'll backtrack so everyone can catch up.

After landing on Zealion, Zoë bolted out of the ship, straight for her mother's shrine in the jungle. She wasn't going to wait around for welcoming ceremonies, banquets, and grand announcements, not when she hated those things, and she had to talk to her mother now to get everything straightened out.

No one bothered to look for her. The only two who would have known where she would go, left her alone, and everyone else tended to look past her, even when she was right in front of them.

Zoë's talk with her mother went longer than most of her previous ones, causing Aragorn, and in turn, Jaden to worry. Aragorn knew of the complications and dangers of Zoë remaining in the shrine for extended periods of time.

Usually, Avalon would come to the realm of the living to talk to Zoë. Granted, they were usually short talks to keep her from going crazy thinking that no one in the entire universe could possibly understand her, that one day very soon her destiny would reveal itself, or that soon she wouldn't have to deal with her father's blind-sidedness or her sibling's taunting. But there were a few times where Avalon came to this realm for an extended period of time, but usually only for especially trying subject that Zoë would bring up or a very special occasion. There was only one time when she had disappeared from the castle for more than a couple of hours, the only time Zoë had ever broken the rules and went to the Realm of the Dead.

It had been a week before his own wedding and he and Zoë were fighting constantly because, as she saw it, he was going to abandon her to have to deal with all of the siblings and father while he was off starting a new family and ruling a completely new planet. After a particularly hateful session of the same argument they had been having since his engagement had been announced, she ran off to be near her mother, the only one who had ever truly loved her. When Avalon told Zoë that she was overreacting and to get over it, she followed her mother into the realm.

Needless to say, Avalon was pissed that Zoë would endanger her own life like that just to get away from her own brother, who she was mad at for being about to leave her. She had tried to send her back as soon as she found her in the realm of the dead, but by the time everything was said and done, Aragorn had already shang-highed her back to the castle, which made the entire process more than a little difficult.

While the doctors in the castle did everything they thought could possibly help, nothing worked to brig her back. For three days Aragorn wouldn't leave her side while the doctors tried one thing after another and then retried it all over again hoping a second dose would help, but noting happened. After the second round of "cures" she suddenly started to come too. No one knew what it was that woke her up, they were just happy not to have lost the Princess. Aragorn swore he wouldn't allow anything like that to happen to her again.

It had been six hours since they had landed, and neither Aragorn nor Jaden had seen her. After the welcoming ceremony, the feast for the guest of honor, and the grand announcement of the last great wedding for this generation of the royal family, both men went in search of her.

Once every room in the castle had been checked out twice by both, and the entire castle grounds had been searched with a fine toothed comb, and still no sign of her could be found, they headed for the shrine.

Even from a distance they could clearly see her laying unconscious on the shrine floor, but as they approached, their paths were being inhibited. A massive barrier had been erected around the shrine not only preventing anyone from entering and taking her away before she was ready to leave, but also repelling all others from the area around the shrine for extra protection.

Zoë didn't want a repeat of what had happened the last time she came to her mother's realm for an extensive chat, so she had elected to erect the most powerful barrier she could, without draining her so much that she would get stuck in the Realm of the Dead, for the sole purpose of privacy and solitude.

Her plan was to confront her mother on everything that had been happening and finally get some straight answers out of her. However, as she crossed the borderlines between the realms, her mother was nowhere to be found.

Instead, waiting there're for her was a woman just a few years younger than her mother. She wore her hair in high swept braids with tiny shivs adorning it. She had the most intense ice blue eyes, almost the color of Riddick's but minus his mercury depths. Her face was kind, but looked to have had to witness too many things at too young of an age, almost as if she might have lost what was most precious to her. She had a lithe frame, somewhere between athletic and naturally slender. As she approached Zoë, she carried herself like you would expect a Lady or a Queen to, just like Jaden had when they were on her father's ship together.

"Zoë, I presume," she said as she neared her. Her tone was gentle and loving, just like her mother's tone.

"Yes, but it seems you have me at a disadvantage. Who are you?"

"My name is Loranna, of Xion, formally of Furya. I believe you know my sons."

'Sons? I know Jaden is from Xion, and he told me he was half Furian because of is mother, but who else does she claim?'

"Riddick," she stated as if hearing her thoughts.

"You're Riddick's mother? That's impossible. She died in the attack on Furya when he was young. He lost his entire family in that attack."

"But I am his mother nonetheless. I made him run and hide as I began to feel that I was getting closer to my end, partly because I didn't want to scar with my death, but also to protect him from the Necros that were headed for us."

Zoë was stunned. 'I'm meeting both Jaden's and Riddick's mother. That makes the two of them brothers, and means that Jaden couldn't be Furian Royalty, or at least not of the Furian Royal House. Which would explain why I didn't really feel anything for him.'

"Actually, that means that Richard is the last full blooded Furian Prince. Jaden is a member of the Furian Royal House, purely because I gave birth to him and am still a member myself. However, because he is only half Furian, he will never be allowed to inherit the throne. The people would never accept him as their king because he would be seen as weak, and he'd never be able to produce a Furian heir to the throne, even if he did have an angel born as his mate. Therefore…"

"Riddick is the one I'm meant to find! But why didn't mother, or even you, tell me the last time I was here, after I'd found him?"

"Because, after Richard and I were separated on Furya, I thought he had been killed. Almost no one survived the attack on the planet, and he was so young, that I didn't think he would have survived alone. And because of the way he's grown up, he's changed so much from my little warrior, to a killing machine. He even used to have my eyes, which would have been my way to recognize him after all those years of being separated, but he even changed those to the shinned ones he has now.

"Even after he defeated the Lord Marshal of the Necros, I still couldn't clearly see his Furian lineage. I could clearly see that he was full blooded Furian, but not that he was my son. And by the time I was able to find him again, I was so busy watching over Jaden and trying to guide him to you so our people might have a future of some sort."

"So why are you suddenly so sure Riddick is your son?" Zoë asked in a highly excited tone.

"After the last time you were here, when your mother warned you about confessing your feelings, and what you'd have to do no matter if he felt the same way, that's when everything changed. You went back and told Richard how you felt, and he told you as well, and from that, both of your bloods awoke to reveal who you really were. I was finally able to see my son, the way he should have looked before he changed all of those things for his own survival, and I could see that you were his 'guardian' angel."

"You mean to tell me that just because I told Riddick that I loved him…"

"And he reciprocated."

Zoë gave Loranna a rather impatient look for interrupting her in mid thought, "that you were suddenly able to see Riddick again?"

"Yes. But it's not like I couldn't see him before, I was just able to see that he was my son."

"Oh," the nervous realization that she had some of the facts skewed made Zoë a little more humble towards Loranna.

"I've known he was destined for an angel born all of his life. The symbol he was born with on his back is the ancient symbol for angel. It's the same one that resides on your back, but his is hidden from everyone, including himself. The only way to reveal it to him and everyone else is for the two of you to mate.

"I'm patiently waiting that day, because then the two of you will have claimed your rightful places as King and Queen of Furya, and the planet and its people will finally be able to heal."

"But now everyone in my family is expecting me to marry Jaden, and I don't get a say in who I want to be with. Besides, the wedding is in a little under a week, and I don't know where Riddick is to get a message to him to get him to come for me."

"Aragorn has already taken care of that little detail, Zoë. He should arrive at the castle within the hour. Just long enough for you to go back to your realm and wake up."

Avalon had been waiting in the shadows for Loranna to finish what she felt she had to tell Zoë herself. Now that Zoë was beginning to understand, she felt it would be a good idea for everyone to go there to help convince the boys, but that part was going to be only a backup plan if she got into trouble.

"Why didn't you tell me who he was when I was here last?"

"To tell you the truth, I had no idea. I knew he was Furian, but I didn't know he was royalty. Once you both woke each other's blood, Loranna came and told me everything she knew, and asked that she be allowed to talk to you first the next time you came here.

"But if you don't leave here soon, you'll not be able to get back and wake up before your Prince comes to steal you away. And, we're giving you the honor of introducing the two brothers.

"Now you better get going before its too late. I love you, as always, and I promise to be there for the wedding."

With a quick kiss for her mother and hug for her soon to be mother-in-law, Zoë ventured back to the Realm of the Living.

It took nine Spellcasters, six Barrier Breakers, and three hours to finally pull down the barrier Zoë had placed to keep everyone from interfering with her visit with her mother. Of course, she had already been back long before they broke through the barrier, but because of her extreme exhaustion due to unscheduled travel between the two realms, she remained unconscious.

The moment the barrier was down, Jaden pushed passed everyone to make sure Zoë was alright. He checked her from head to toe, praying that nothing was wrong. Once he confirmed that she was alive, but unconscious, he scooped her up into his arms and carried her off to his rooms in the castle. He'd keep her there for the night as her body readjusted from being in the Realm of the Dead and her powers grew back to normal, both for her comfort and his own reassurance.

She slept all the rest of that evening and well into the night. No one could either wake her, or really even tried. Both Aragorn and Jaden knew she was fine, just tired, and made sure she wasn't disturbed.

Around midnight, for no reason other than something was telling her that she should wake up; she woke up, turned over, and found a pair of angry, silver orbs boring into her from the depths of the darkness in the room.

"Riddick, I know it's you. Please don't be angry?"

His deep, sexy, animalistic, baritone voice, only more of a whisper, rumbled her body from head to toe. "Why should I be angry with you? I only received a com message from your brother saying that you needed me right away. But, either he was lying, or you got over it pretty fast."

"No, I still need you Riddick. I love you and I want to be with you."

He pushed himself off of the wall he had been leaning on with so much force; he dented the wall with his boot, and stopped a foot from her face, "Don't lie to me! You never loved me! I was just something to occupy your time with until you found your Prince!"

"You will not talk to Zoë like that convict," Jaden commanded from his position on the bed behind Zoë.

"Jaden, stay out of this!"

Riddick turned to leave the room, muttering under his breath, "It was a mistake to come here."

"Riddick, don't go!" Zoë made to get out of the bed to go after him, half crying because he wouldn't listen to her side of things, but Jaden restrained her with a possessive arm around her waist.

"Let go of me! Riddick!"

Riddick felt something his beast respond on autopilot; hearing her scream out his name like that, for him to come save her, just tinted with fear; he couldn't have stopped himself if he had wanted to. He spun on his hell, twisted Jaden's wrist to make him let Zoë go, grabbed her wrist and pulled her into his arms, before he even thought to let Jaden go.

"Keep your hands off what's mine."

"She doesn't belong to you, she was meant for me. Zoë is an angel born, and the future Queen of Furya. I am the last Prince of Furya, and therefore, she belongs with me."

"Jaden, I'm sorry, but you are wrong. Richard is," interjected Loranna.

"Mother!" both boys exclaimed simultaneously.

A/N: I hope you all liked the latest installment of Angel's Majesty. For those of my loyal readers who are still keeping track of the story, I apologize for this latest delay. I hope you are still enjoying the story, and I hope for very few long delays from now on.

Until next update.