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Chapter 5 : daughter

Adam and Teela have chose their room. It don't looked different from the others, but as soon as they have entered it, they have known that this room was to mean them. There is also a small room near by who can be used by Cringer and Windy. Like this, they can be close to their friend without having their privacy destroyed. For the first time in her life, Teela is very happy. She is no longer the captain of the guards, but she had found something more important to her than that. Being with Adam is like a dream come true, and not because he is also He-man. For her, Adam is perfect, even with his fault. He is the opposite of her, calm when she is boisterous, wise when she was acting toward her feelings, but also they are both short tempered, she had learn it since they traveled together. But that's not why she loved him so much. She loved him for being Adam, that's all. They were always meant to be, she is sure of it.

Adam, felt safe for the first time. For a very long time, he had lost this sens of safety. Since he had become He-man for the first time, he can't have a minute of proper rest. When he was not battled Skeletor, he had to fight his own feelings for not yelling at his father and Teela what he was really doing when the thought he was running away. Since he had turned sixteen, he can't have a real life. But now, he know that this time had come to an end. He is home here. He can't explain why, but he know it deep inside him. Castle greyskull was the place where he was meant to be to live, with Teela by his side.

Marlena looked fondly at her "two" children. She is happy for them. They deserved their happiness, after all they had go through. But it was not an easy way they have to take. For long, she had believe that Teela would never open her eyes for what is just in front of her. She had seen her son lost his happiness and joy, and at some point she was very afraid that he wanted to end his life. then the miracle had occurred, and Teela had changed her mind about Adam. They can have lived happy, but Randor had to search for a dream. Marlena really doubted that Miro was really Randor's son. She was not as naive than her husband had believed her to be. She was well aware about Randor's first marriage. But she had loved him so much that she had accepted to be the second in his heart. And for some time she was happy. The birth of Adam was a dream to her. She was so proud of her son, but Randor wasn't and it had made her crying when she was alone. Adam was never good enough for his father, even before he turned sixteen. And by disowned him for Miro, Randor had cut the last link of love she can have felt for him. There is no way for her to share his life anymore. She just hoped that he would not suffer too much when he finally would open his eyes. That's all she can felt for him now.

The sorceress tried to avoid her daughter as much as possible. She know that she don't have any choice but to teach her the way of the sorcery, but the longer time she had, the better prepared for her daughter anger she will be. The sorceress don't doubt that her daughter would not take in a good way the new she had to share. She had seen how she had acted toward Adam with his secret, and she is afraid that it will become worst with her. It's not like her to be so worried, but Teela had a way to made her feelings coming out just by looking at her. She don't even have a name to give for Teela's father. She had married the man because the spirit of Greyskull had ordered her to do. She had loved him as much as she can have, and it's not the way her daughter loved her husband. Teela is a passionate woman unlike her. And if even He-man feared Teela's anger, what can she do herself ?

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Duncan don't know anymore what is true or not. Currently, he is searching for his missing queen. One day, Marlena was not anymore at the palace, there were no ransom asked for her, and she don't have left a letter to her husband to explain why she is no longer with him. Was she kidnapped, or had she left on her free will ? There is no answer to it. Randor had asked for his friend to search for his wife, and Duncan had agreed to it. He is very happy to leave the palace. Without his daughter, this place had become an hell for him. Sometime he remembered times when he was teaching Teela and Adam how to fight, but then his memories changed and he saw himself with Miro and Teela. Nothing of this made sens. He can't remembered two things so different. Either Miro was raised in the palace or not. But he can't tell. He is so lost.

He began his search in the city. There is a lot of work to do to find the queen if she had chose to hid herself in the city. Duncan don't hoped to find help with the inhabitant. They were more and more angry with their king, and not ready to help him. How the things can have become so bad ? Randor was well loved by his people before- before what ? He can't remembered, but he is sure of it. What is wrong with him ? Is this someone who can help him ? Maybe. He thought so. If he don't find the queen there, then maybe he would go north to the old castle. More and more he felt like if he is called by it. For now he fight it, but for how long ?

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Teela come alone to the throne room. The sorceress had asked her if she wanted to come to talk with her, and Teela had agree. She know that Adam need some time alone with his mother to share and heal their pain. She had done her best to help him, but there is some things that a mother can do better than a wife, even if the wife loved her husband more than her life. For long she had wondered when her father would tell her the truth about her mother. She known her father very well, and had learned when she was young that her father don't look in the eyes of the person he is talking with when he is lying. And her father had never looked at her eyes when he said that her mother was dead. Teela knows that her mother was still alive, and she had hoped for her father to tell her who she is. But now, that he had fall under Miro's power she had lost this hope. But she don't felt the right to complain. She had a family now, and she know that only the death would separate her and Adam.

" Come in, child." Said the sorceress with a voice devoid of any emotions. " The spirit of the castle had ordered me to teach you how to use your magic."

" Me ? Why ? I just have a little power."

" I don't have much more when my mother had take me here to teach me. She was the sorceress before me."

" Was it always your family the guardians of the castle ?" asked a very interested Teela.

She laughed to herself. After spending so much time with Adam, she had begun to pit on his interest.

" Not at all. My family was the fourth one. When a sorceress can't have a daughter, she chose some who had magic in her, and this sorceress would give her place to her daughter if she had one. This had gone like this since king greyskull."

" Who was he ? Why does had the queen said that he was her ancestor ? Why isn't she the sorceress ?"

" Now is no time for this." Said sternly the sorceress. " You have to train."

" Why don't you teach it to your daughter ? Don't you have one ?" Asked Teela.

" Yes, I have. But I have abandonned her. I doubt she will forgive me."

" I will." said Teela confidently.

" What ?" Exclaimed the sorceress.

" I forgive you, mother. You have give me a life I can't have dreamed to have. And without you, I would not have meet Adam. And I would be so lost without him. So, thank you to give me to man-at-arm for him to raise me."

" How do you know ?" said a puzzled sorceress.

" I was not sure until now. But it had hit me when you have talked about the family of the sorceress. All of this made so sens. why I have telepathy when you have give me your blood. Why only your blood can have save me, and so on. I can't swear you that I would not be angry with you later, but for now I'm just happy to have found you."

With this Teela run to the sorceress and hugged her. The sorceress don't know what to do. She was not accustomed at this sort of affection display. she hugged her daughter back with some difficulty.

" It's time to work." she said when the hug ended. " And I'm not very afraid of your anger now."

" Why's that ?"

" Adam." Was the only answer of the sorceress.

And for the first time since very long ago, a laugh was heard inside of the castle.

To be continued.

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