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I couldn't dare look away but at the same time I couldn't stand to look at what's become of her. Wires of every color and size running through her body. In a sense she looked like a marionette that some had kept preserved. I walk closer slowly and realize the dress she was wearing was singed in places around the hem and in her stomach. Her face, once warm, lively and welcoming, was of a pale complection small cuts and scars visible on her flawless features. I felt cold, goosebumps making there way up and down my body as I press my hand against the glass and look. Tears are making their way to my face but I don't want them to fall yet.

I look over at my dad. His face is as pale as hers and he just stares at the end product of Blackfire's invasion. He drops to his knees and puts his face in his hands as a sob almost barely audible escaped his lips. I look down at the floor and notice a single drop of salty water had dripped from his face and hit the cold metal. I look back up at Nightwing and he is standing up once more a cold almost deadly look plastered on his masked face.

"She is fine." I almost jumped out of my skin at the sound of a voice. Nightwing and I look over at Uncle Ryand'r who seems unfazed at the sight of my mother.

"She was put into a cronological sleep when we found her in the throne room. She was barely alive when we brought her here. She is doing better, almost back to full health but it will still take some time." Uncle Ryan looks over at me and smiles. "Mar'i, you've heard of the R'occ'osara'r tree right?" I nod.


Flash Back

"Mar'i come look outside." an auburn haired woman called to her daughter from the balcony. A young child about the age of four quickly abliged to the wish of the Queen. The woman smiled kindly and picked her daughter up as the looked over the kingdom the raven haired girl would one day rule.

"It is another lovely day isn't it Mama?" She looked up at her mother her Saphirre eyes catching the rays of the sun.

"Yes it is. If only you're father could be here right now, he would have loved it." Tears were forming in her emerald eyes but she kept strong for her people once again.

"Mama what's that patch of purple and yellow spotted trees?" The child changed the subject motioning towards a two acre square of what looked like willow trees with Lavender and gold spots painted on the leaves and a bright orange trunk.

"Those are R'occ'osara'r trees Mar'i. They're very important." She smiled at her young daughter as she explained what the deadly trees purpose is.

End Flashback


"Ma told me once that they have deadly leaves but yet their sap when mixed with the water from the Lake of X'hal has healing powers." I stated gripping my locket in reminisence.

"Right," Uncle Ryan replied. "We took every ounce of sap those trees had to offer and took about 19 gallons of water from the lake and made a remedy strong enough to heal her--"

"Where's Blackfire.." It was heard, I think, only by me but it sent an unpleasent chill into the air.

"I'm sorry?" Uncle Ryan asked.

"Where's BLACKFIRE!!!??" He screamed and banged his fist on a nearby desk.

"She's on the other side of Tamaran building an army to come and destroy the resistance. You and your team will be briefed on it later." I was suprised my uncle was so unfazed by my dad's rashness, I mean it caused me to jump back a foot or two.

"I'll. Kill. Her." The words were dipped in venom, sugar coated in malice and sprinkled with rage.

"Don't act so rash Grayson. It was your rash actions that made you lose her in the first place was it not?" Ouch. And the point goes to the And'r side. Dad looks as if he's going to argue but just slumps his shoulder and walks towards the glass tube.

"Kori...You look as beautiful as ever." I signal my uncle to leave and he nods and heads out.

"If you only knew how much we've both missed over the years." He realeased an empty chuckle and takes off his mask. He, then, grabs my hand and pulls me towards my pickled mother.

"This is Mar'i. She left to find me but lost her memory. She's been in an orphanage for the past nine years until Rae and BB found her. She's got your spirit and my damn good looks." ok...concieted much? He laughs softly again. "She has your brains too Star, smartest kid in her class. You would be so proud of her. I know I am. Please Star, get better, there's still so much I need to tell you about her. And I need to apologize." A huge sigh was sent into the air. He has problems apologizing too? What a suprise... "Star, I'm So sorry my pride got in the way. I would do anything just to have you in my arms again. Please, Please forgive me. I love you." He placed something gold on the table next to her, littered with papers and computers and walked out without another word.

And I swear to X'hal I saw her mouth twitch upwards.


I walk out the guarded doors to see something that will haunt me to the day I die.

Brendon was playing tonsiel hockey with some Tamaranean slut! He had her pinned to a wall his hands going up and down her back while hers where tangled in her hair and all I could think about is when we shared our first kiss and the tears are threating to fall. I think he sensed me there because he parted and looked directly at me, aubergine eyes empty and his mouth turned upward in a wicked smirk. The girl bows respectively whie he does it in a mocking manner.

"Hey Princess, just teaching her English...And French, hope you don't mind." That did it. My eyes narrow turning a brilliant shade as blue as I walk up to him were almost touching and I have to restrain myself from pressing my lips to his and feeling that state of ecstasy I felt only yesterday night. But, instead of kissing him like my heart, body, and mind wanted me too I slapped him across the face with great force and flew away the tears flowing freely. I make my way to my room and shut the metal door. I slide down it, the cold metal doing nothing to help me, and cry in a heap on the floor.

And I still can't believe in that one or two seconds my hand touched my face, my heart leaped into my throat.

He is such a bastard!.


Brendon's POV

How can she do this to me! The instant she walked through those metal doors my heart yearned to go in there with her, to wrap my arms around her like I've done oh, so many times. But it is HER fault we're not together. She was the one who had doubts we should be together in the first place! Urgh! She drives me over the brink of insanity! And when her uncle touched her lips to learn our language I wanted to punch him in the face for tainting the lips I crave so much with his own. Can't she just leave me alone?! I walk out of my room and down the hall. I need to prove to her that I'm over her.

"R'est'r my'rtr' yr' cmr'e." I hear a voice say. I turn around and find my lips are on someone elses. For a moment I imagine it's Mar'i's lips on my own and start making out with the Tamareanean I hope is a female, either that or this dude has a very girly voice. We part and she backs up against the wall.

"You are a very handsome earthling." She blushes. I still imagine Mar'i blushing like she did when I told her to sit next to me in math that day I played the prank that triggered a chain of events leading me to where I'm standing presently. I bet you didn't think I saw that huh?

"Tell me something I don't know." I smirk and close the space between the girl I have yet to learn her name and myself. I sense a destressed presence behind me and turn with a wicked smirk plastered on my face. I turn to see the betrayer behind me her eyes welled with tears. The girl next to me bows respectively and I mock it.

" Hey Princess,just teaching her English...And French, hope you don't mind." Her eyes turn blue in rage but yet I wasn't scared. In fact, I was interested in how they turn blue she walks up to me making us centimeters apart and all I wanted to do was bend down just a bit and capture her lips but I restrained myself with great force. She stares at me for a minute and--

WHAP!

Her hand cuts off any thoughts I had for a millasecond I snap out of my trance long enough to see her flying away from me. I put my hand to my red cheek in shock and I stay that way as I walk to my room and close the door and slide down it. And can you believe all I thought about when her hand touched my face was how soft it was?! I use my powers unconsiously and make a lightbulb brake, but I could care less right now. Was Buggy really right? I wanted her so bad right now. All i wanted is to feel her hand on my cheek again.

She is such a BITCH!!!!


Well there's your chapter enjoy! leave some reviews please!

Next Chapter there will be a fight secne and a song Brendon wrote himself to try to better his feelings for Mar'i. Plus, Nightwing will have another moment with Mar'i.

Love ya,

Jackie