Chapter 13: The Reunion

Normal POV

On the moon Clipper Pitch was smiling as he walked next to Nightlight towards the thone room were Lunar was waiting. Every now and then he looked over his shoulder to look at Feria following them. His smile only growing bigger as he did so. The brunette was gaping at the splender all around her with eyes that told her she was starting to remember more and more off her old life.

"This… this place… I… I used to run around here a lot…" Feria gasped, tears filling her eyes as memories started to flood back to her. "Lady aunt always scolding us it was very unbecoming of childeren of our status… running wild… annoying the moonbots…"

"I bet the moonbots won't be as thrilled to see you again as Lunar and I are…" Nightlight remarked with a playfull smirk on his lips that made Pitch chuckle behind his hand.

"I can fully understand why" Pitch grinned at Feria before ruffling the girls hair in a affectionate way. "we were quite a handfull as kids…"

"it wasn't for nothing that the tsar and tsarine reffered to us in their inner circle as "the troublesome quarted" tho no one else knew off the nickname" Nightlight lauched.

"Indeed…. It is a wonderfull full memory… to look back on now tho…" Feria looked up at Nightlight, two hands over her mouth as she suddenly seemed to realize something. "speaking off memories of mother and father… whatever happened to them after I left?"

"Fellandia…" Nightlight looked at Pitch, whom gulped and looked to the side with a guilty look in his eyes before shaking his head to sign "No i did not have the courage to tell her yet" to Nightlight, whom nodded in reply as he sign he understood, before turning to Fellandia. "I am sorry I have to be the one to tell you this… your mother and father fought valiantly… but… but they… they both perished the night you dissapeared…"

"No…" Feria gasped, backing away from both man with tears in her eyes, unable to believe her mother and father passed away without her even being able to say goodbye to them…

"Feria…" Pitch took a step towards her, reaching out a hand to grab her arm. "I know this is hard for you… but you must understand… they did whatever they could to try and protect us from…"

"YOU KNEW!?" Feria cut Pitch off halways throught his line as she looked at him with a shocked look. Realizing Pitch knew of her parents tragic fate for the whole time they had been together… and he had never brought it up. "YOU KNEW what happened to them and you never TOLD me!?"

"I couldn't…" Pitch looked to the side with a mixture off shame and hurt in his eyes. "I… I saw what happened Fellandi… it… it hurt… it hurt to match…"

"You saw what happened?" Feria asked with a look of shock and confusion on her face. "when? How?"

"In the floor of the top deck escape pod room there was a hole in the floor to which the chandelier was fastened… I saw it happen from there" Pitch answered, looking down ashamed as a tearfull Feria was suddenly claimed by a memory.

Flashback

"Momma...papa...Prism looked up at Fellandia with a shocked look, getting up from where he had been sitting previously before he gently pushed Fellandia into one of the escape pods. "Prism... what happened? I heard them scream, Were are they?"

"They are fine Fellandi... their holding off the monster and just screamed for us to get out of here" Prism replied, tho only now could Fellandia see from the look in her adoptive brother and friends eyes that something was seriously wrong when he said this…

end of flashback

"at that moment I just couldn't bring myself to tell you… I… I was planning on telling you and Lunar after the four of us escaped the moon clipper…" Pitch looked at Feria with tears in his eyes, whom was looking at him equally in tears while shaking her head in disbelieve at thesame time. "but… but then everything went to hell… and… and I never got the chance.."

"Prism…" Feria gasped. Seeing the tears in his eyes made her realize how long her best friend had probably been walking around carrying this guilt. "that doesn't explains why you didn't told me during the past few months we have been together…"

"I… I never knew how to bring up the subject without… without hurting your feelings…" Pitch looked away, only looking up when he heard Feria closed the distance between them, placing a hand on his arm.

"and you thought… that me finding it out like this… right now.. Wouldn't hurt?" Feria asked, voice deathly calm but with a dark undertone Prism knew very wel. That was the tone she only knew when she was very very angry with someone. Something that made Pitch look up at her with a suprised look. "I trusted you Prism… and now I find out you have been keeping things from me for centuries!"

"we were appart for most of that time… it is hardly fair to…" Pitch tried to protest, his eyes widening in shock and horror when Feria, whom had been always kind and gentle with him, suddenly smacked him acros the face before she storming off in the direction they had just come from… crying… "FERIA WAIT!"

"Let her go" Nightlight gently grabbed Pitch by the arm to stop him before he could run after her. "You and I both know what she needs right now is some space to cool off…."

"Nightlight…" Pitch looked at him with a shocked look, before realizing he had almost run after Fellandia… whom had always been very hard to deal with when angry… making him sight and nod. "your right…"

"I know you never meant to hurt her by hiding the truth from her Prism…" Nightlight told the former boogeyman with a stern voice. "and she will realize that as well.. If we now give her some space to cool off…"

"I hope so Nightlight" Pitch stated, looking after the place Feria had dissapeared to with a sad look. "I really, really hope so…"

with Feria

Feria had somehow… in a impulse…managed to run into her old room. Retreathing in a far corner of the room were she started to cry. Not seeing someone else had entered the room until she heard someone clear his troath really nearby her.

"and what do you think your doing in here young lady?" Tsar Lunar Lunanoff asked, gasping inwardly when the girl looked up at him. SHE LOOKED EXACLY LIKE HIS SISTER FELLANDIA! Only older… could it be… could it really really be her this time? "this is a private chamber you know"

"STOP THAT RIGHT NOW TSAR LUNAR LUNANOFF THE TWELFTH!"Lunar scolded himself in his head firmly, while keeping a firm gaze at the young girl crying in the corner. "Fellandia is death And you promised yourself you would stop looking for her!"

"I… I am very sorry… I…. I didn't meant to tresspass sir…" Feria gulped as she looked at the imposing man before her with a nervous look. Not yet record-icing him as the tsar but having a feeling this man had to be important… "I… I didn't looked were I was going… and… and just entered a random room to… to cool down…"

"do you wanne talk about what happened?" Lunar asked on a match kinder tone now as he sat down in a chair next to the door.

"I… I came here with some friends of mine… when… when I found out one of my friends has been keeping a secret from me for centuries…" Feria started to tell now. She stayed caution with what she told tho… sure the stranger looked somewhat familliar to her, but for all she knew he was one of Obscures's henchman whom tried to trick her again. And as the people on earth always said: better safe then sorry. "we have been appart for most of that time.. But it still hurt that he also kept the secret in the time we were together..."

"ah I see, and who is your friend?" Lunar asked with a friendly smile.

"Pitch Black..."Feria replied, looking up at Lunar with a small smile on her face. "my childhood friend Prism…"

"ah I see…" Lunar nodded to himself, as he took Feria in from top to bottom with a stern look. "so Prism chose you to give me a kick in the back as well…"

"No!" Feria got up, looking up at Lunar with a mixture of shock and horror on her face. "your majesty, he would never do such a thing! He cares for you to match to do that!"

"oo really? Then I assume you both didn't come for the money promised for your safe return either…" Lunar asked with a firm voice and one eye shut.

"No… I…. I was aware of the reward money from the start… but that was never the reason for me to go along with all this" Feria defended, crossing her arms over her chest in a defensive way. "I'm not that kind of person"

"then why did you come here… if I may ask my dear?" Lunar asked, equally crossing his arms. Clearly not believing this charlatan's story one bit.

"So I could be with you in one room again" Feria smiled, getting up and gently taking one step towards Lunar. "so I could feel what I fell when I was just a six year old girl" Feria placed a hand over her hearth to show she was being completely honest. "to see myself throught your eyes and be remainded once and for all who I truly am…" Feria gave her older brother a pleading look. "please Lunar… I need you… I need you to look me in the eye…. And say that you record-ice in me the sister you traveled and pranked with… lauched and cried…"

"well.…I got to admit your a very good actress… the best one that came by so far…" Lunar chuckled, getting up from where he was sitting and walked to the door. He had seen enough from this con woman. Clearly she was just another pretender out on his money. "But… i have seen enough of this sharade…"

with these words Lunar started to walk further towards the door. But as he did so Feria caught a whiff off a familliar order… Rose bottle-mint. Lunar's scent … which triggered another long forgotten memory.

"Rose bottle-mint?" Feria wondered out loud, looking after the retreathing form of the tsar with a suprised look in her eyes.

"yes, it's a oil for my hands… something the REAL Fellandia would have know…" Lunar replied with a firm voice as he looked at the girl that claimed to be his long lost sister with a stern look.

"yeah…. I…. I used to tease you that you smelled like a old lady…. The lady aunt visited once…. i….i switched the bottles of hand oil…. And then you actually smelled like a old lady for weeks!" Feria snickered at the memory. "you were so mad at me for a week but oo it was so worth the fun afterwards…. For all of us…"

shocked by the command, Lunar turned around and looked at Feria, playing with something she had around her neck since no one…. No one had known about that but Fellandia… could it be…. Could it be he really finally found her after all these years of waiting and hoping?

"what is that… around your neck?" Lunar asked, patting the seat next to him, making Feria sat down next to him, still playing with the necklace around her neck.

"this?" Feria showed the little necklace around her neck "I have had ever since before i can remember… it has been my one lead to who i truly am…"

"May I?" Lunar asked as he held out his hands towards Feria, who nodded and took the necklace from around her neck and handed it to Lunar. Who gasped when he got to have a better look at the necklace. His eyes growing and starting to beam with joy as he record-iced the familliar inscriptions "This... this is it... this was the necklace... I gave to Fellandia...the last day we were together... along with this"

While saying "this" he gently took the music box he had recieved from Black Plague in the med bay when he had gone there to check on him, Syphilis and Lazarus's buisness on the Moon Clipper. Something the music box made Feria gasp, instandly record-icing it for what it was this time.

"The...the music box... you had the royal craftsman make to..." Feria gently took the music box over and looked at it from all sides "to help me remember I would join you on top deck when i also turned eight"

Gently Feria took over the key from Lunar, who looked at her in utter shock and disbelieve when Feria... this random girl his childhood friend Prism must have picked up from the streets somewhere started to hum the melody of the song only Fellandia knew of... their lullaby... as she winded up the music box... making the melody soon filled the air as Feria started to sing

Far away

Long ago

Hear this song and remeeember

Tears filled Lunars eyes as he heard the song flow from Feria's mouth. Instandly realizing this had to be his Fellandia... his little sister… she was the only one aside from him who knew the song…

Soon you'll be (soon you'll be)

On top deck with me… (on top deck with me)

Once upon a deceeeembeeer (once upon a deceeeeembeeeer)

"Oo my... oo...Fellandia!" Lunar gleamed, tears in his eyes as he took Fellandia's face in his hands, tears of joy streaming down his face as he did so. "Fellandia it is you!"

"Yes Lunar...i have come home" Feria smiled, hugging her brother with tears in her eyes...she had found her family... she was home.

Meanwhile outside the door, Pitch whom had originally come to see if Feria had calmed down,smiled when he heard brother and sister reunite. Smiling to himself he gave a kiss hand to the door, swinging a bag with some precious belongings he had left behind last time he was here over his shoulder before he quitly walked to the dock area to leave the Moon Clipper as soon as Lazarus was better... He had done his job…. Fellandia was home safely… and now he could leave for earth and…

"Prism?" Pitch looked up when he heard the fammiliar voice of his former friend and lifeguard Nightlight. "your leaving already?"

"Yeah.. i have done my job... Fellandia is home safe..." Pitch smiled, looking up at his former friend. "I am going back to earth now were i belong"

"Prism... you belong here... with us..." Nightlight steppped towards Pitch with one hand stretched out towards him. "Please..."

"I am sorry Nightlight..." Pitch turned around and placed hand on Syphilis's ship. "Those days are over... I am not the boy i used to be anymore"

"You are in my eyes" Nightlight whispered, watching as Pitch got on the ship to see if Syphilis and Black Plague had already returned with Lazarus so they could go back to earth…. Go back home…

meanwhile on the planet Nihilo

Meanwhile Obscures had moved himself and the nightmares to the planet Nihilo were his base off operations had always been. Lauching loudly when he saw that little Prism boy had suceeded in reuniting Lunar and Fellandia. His lauchter echooing strangely off the walls off the base.

"He lost it..." Ordenant whispered to Onyx with a worried look in his yellow eyes. "He completely lost it..."

"This is greath!" Obscures turned to look at Ordenant and Onyx standing behind him. "Let her have her moment off glory! Let her think she won!"

"So... we... were giving up?" A nightmare standing behind Onyx asked with a deep voice. Ears in his neck and looking rather dissapointed at the idea off having lost.

"No, no my four footed friend!" Obscures lauchted, putting the orb in a central place so all nightmares could see the images inside. "Were just giving them the idea they won... so they will let down their guard"

"Oo i get it!" Ordenant beamed perking up his ears, suddenly catching on to his masters plan. "Thats the oldest trick in the universe! Let them think they won so they let their guard down then crush them when they won't see it coming"

"Indeed" Obscures smirked at Ordenant, before he let out another blood curling lauch. Soon joined by the winning off the many, many nightmares that were now on Nihilo...

This haunting lauchter was replaced by a far more happy land genuine form of lauchter back on the Moon Clipper were Lunar and Fellandia sat together in casual clothing... recalling memories from their childhood.

"Now i remember... how match I loved them..." Fellandia smiled as she let a hand glide over a picture off her parents, standing in the inside garden with herself, Lunar, Prism and Nightlight sitting in the grass at their feet.

"We both do Fellandi... but they wouldn't want us to live in the past" Lunar smiled, placing a gentle hand on his sisters knee. "Not that we found each other again"

"Oo look" Lunar beamed, reaching in a basket that stood close to the chair he was on and grabbing a piece of paper, which he then handed to Fellandia. "The last drawing you made me before we were seperated... remember?"

"Oo yeah! Nightlight made me so mad!" Fellandia smiled as she looked at the picture with gleaming eyes. " I told him i tried to paint you and he replied it looked more like a pig riding a donkey..." wrinkling her nose Fellandia now studied the picture from all sides, before placing it back in the basket while making a face. "Meh, he was right..."

this caught both siblings lauching. Lunar even had to rub the tears off lauchter from his face when he had finally calmed down.

"Oo how i have missed your wit... your lauchter... reminds me off father" Lunar beamed, getting up from his chair and walking to a mirror were a box stood. "But..." Lunar opened the box, revealing it was a beatifull tiara. "you have the beaty of our dear mother..." Lunar picked up the tiara and carried it to Fellandia, whom looked at it with big wide eyes. "The last tsarina off the Moon Clipper"

Carefully he placed the tiara on Fellandia's head, whom gasped and then turned around to look at her reflection in the mirror. Eyes widening when she saw her reflection. No longer did a skinny little street rat glance back at her with ruffled hair and a scared look in her eyes, but a beatifull self assured princes wear a pink trimmemd nightdress that was switched the next day for a beatifull red gown with golden trim and covered in small diamonds befitting a princes.

"This dress... this is the dress i saw in one off my flashbacks" Fellandia gleamed, looking from the dress to her ladies in waiting and seamstress with bright beaming eyes. Among the ladies in waiting was Syphilis... whom had been offered the position as a sign off gratitute for bringing Fellandia safely back home. And Syphilis had gladly accepted the offer. Now she and Black Plague had a high position they wouldn't ever have to worry about being attackes by non disease spirits ever again.

In the next room Black Plague was humming as he fiddled with his tie with Azure watching him from a chair wearing dogs clothes befitting a royal dog.

"You look fabulous Azure! Like a real royal dog" Black Plague commanded, making Azure happily wag its tail at the disease spirit, whom then gently reached for the medal around its neck. "Do you mind?"

"No ofcourse not" Plague chuckled as he steals the medal from around Azure's neck and pins it on his own chest. "you're a wonderful nightmare dog"

Pitch enteres the room and picks up his travel bag. Black plague sees his reflection in the mirror and turns towards him, looking at him with a sad look in his eyes.

"Is there no way I can convince you to stay here as well?" Plague asked as he looked at his best friend with a sad look, looking on as Pitch checked his bag to see if he had everything for the journey back.

"No.. I do not belong here any longer…" Pitch smiled, giving the disease spirits a firm handshake after this. "If you ever visit earth you know were to find me"

"Your making a mistake my friend" Black Plague shook his head as he gave Pitch a friendly hug. "He'd never turn you away wilingly..."

"Believe me... this is the first good thing i'm doing in years" Pitch remarkes, gently pulling away from the hug before turning to Azure on the chair.

"so long Azure" Pitch smiled, rubbing the shadow dog over his head, whom barked then made a low peeping sound. Feeling his creator was leaving for the wrong reasons and wanting to convince him to stay. "Take good care off her for me okay?"

Azure looked up at Pitch with its best puppy look in a last ditch attempt to convince Pitch to stay with them. Something that made the former boogeyman chuckle.

"I cannot stay buddy... i do not belong here" Pitch whispered, gently rubbing Azure over its head one last time before he got up and walked out of room with Plague looking after him with a sad look.

"Prism?" Pitch looked up when he heard the familliar voice off the tsar behind him. Making him look up at his old childhood friend. "A moment"

"Ofcourse" Pitch bowed, following after Lunar to his office, were Lunar ducked behind his desk and got a small case from it, which he then presented to Pitch.

"Here you go... ten million" Lunar smiled, as he handed the case to Pitch smiling brightly. "With my highest gratitute"

"Your very welcome and I accept your gratitute..." Pitch smiled, looking from Lunar to the case with a calm look. "But you can keep the money..."

"Hmmm i fail to see why" Lunar stepped away from the case, looking at me with a thoughtfull look as he walked around me. "You kept Fellandia safe during our parents fight with Obscures... and now you have restored her to me... and yet... you want no money?"

"I got one last look around the place i called "home" from my third to my fifth birthday... thats enough for me" Pitch kept his eyes straight out of the office window now, afraid that if he looked Lunar in the eye right now he would betray that he was lying. "I must go now..."

"Prism..." Pitch looked up at Lunar now, whom looked at him with a mixture of curiousity and sadness in his eyes. "Just tell me... what would you like as a reward?"

"Unfortunatly... Nothing you can give me" Pitch bowed then walked out off the room to find a shuttle he could take home. Now that Syphilis and Black Plague were staying on the Moon Clipper he couldn"t take their ship back...

"Prism?" Pitch looked up when he was almost at the public shuttle leaving for earth. And when he did... he saw Fellandia was standing behind him, wearing a beatifull royal gown befitting a princes off her status. Something that made he had to try his best to not show how badly he was blushing. "Your... your not leaving... are you?"

"I am... " Pitch replied, focusing his gaze on his bag instead off at Fellandia, to avoid He would blush even more. "My buisness here is complete"

"Young man... you should bow and adress the princes as your highness" One off the moonbots suddenly called as it floated to the pair.

"Oo no there is no need for such..." Feria started to object, but stopped as Pitch raised his hand.

"No, no he's right... your highness" Pitch bowed lightly in respect off the now princes. "I am glad you found what you were looking for"

"I am glad you did two as it seems" Fellandia looked towards the bag in his hand with a stern look. "Not in for the money my ass..."

"I didn't... took the money... your highness" Pitch opened the bag now and showed inside were only some old clothes, books, photographs and supplies he had left behind the fatefull night Obscures attacked. "But good to know you still do not trust me... "

"Prism I..." Fellandia started, but stopped when Pitch abruptly turned around towards the shuttle. "Goodbye... your highness..."

And with one final bow off his head, Pitch walked into the waiting area for the shuttle. With Fellandia looking after him with a sad look.

"Goodbye Prism..." Fellandia whispered, before turning around and walking back to were Lunar was waiting for her...

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And with that I end the twelfth chapter off the story. Only two more chapters and the epilogue people! I hope you bear with me!

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