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Chapter 25

Mikan stood squirming at the centre of attention beside a cool Luna. After 2 days, when the court physician had reported to Natsume's mother that she had recovered, Kaoru-sama wasted no time in ushering in the final task. A crowd had gathered in the ballroom, leaving enough space for the 2 princesses to stand in the middle, along with a long table. On the other side of the table, stood Kaoru-sama and a dark-haired girl around Mikan's age. The dark-haired girl seemed really excited and as she dangerously bounced around with 2 vials of light blue liquid. Off to one side, where the group were heavily guarded by the imperial guards stood Natsume, Ruka, Hotaru, Sumire and their newfound member, Koko.

"Koko, can you read her mind?"

"Yup, she'll never expect this move from you."

"Well that's cause she doesn't know who you are and more importantly, she doesn't know your alice. What's she thinking?"

"It's an unexpected test for her as well. She has no idea what's going on. Most probably because of the loss of her informant."

"Good, inform me if she's thinking of anything… suspicious."

Mikan glanced around and saw Tsubasa and Misaki-senpai standing towards a side, anticipating the news of the next challenge. Within the 2 days that she was supposed to be resting, Mikan did travel frequently between the palace and the city square to check on those who were inflicted with the poison Reo had poured into the town's drinking fountain. Between the travelling, Shiki did spend a large amount of time trying to push her alice beyond her known capabilities. This, of course, was met with much resistance from Narumi-sensei and Natsume alike, as they did not want Mikan to collapse from fatigue again. For once, the effeminate man and Natsume agreed on something, which was a huge surprise to the group.

Also, with Koko and Sumire now more aware of Mikan's true identity, they were assaulted with various levels of blackmail from Hotaru to ensure their silence. They also were recruited to keep an eye out on Luna due to their special Alices. Recalling how Koko had exclaimed Mikan's name, which brought on a rain of Baka bullets and Koko receiving burns to his behind, Koko had learned to control his impulse of shouting out Mikan's real name in the presence of others.

Kaoru-sama cleared her throat to signify the start of the challenge and this caused the crowd to hush in silence. Happy with the level of silence, she began.

"Welcome all who have stayed for so long to witness this final challenge between the final two princesses, Koizumi-hime from the Nula Kingdom and Suni-hime from the Julop Kingdom. I'm sure these two have done their respective kingdom's proud and the emerging winner of the challenge would ultimately be my son's bride and future queen of Firenze. Our two kingdoms would be united by the act of matrimony. The challenges, thus far have proved to test one in areas of intelligence, athletics and beauty. The events leading up to today were also, unexpected and challenging. Before I begin explaining this test I would like to announce a few things."

Kaoru looked around and saw that she still had the crowd's attention, "The recent event of those being poisoned during the Harvest festival was one of the lowest that we've experienced in a long time and I hope that this has not dampen your mood. I'm also informed that the culprit was my own advisor, Reo Mori." A few were in shock, a few gasp in shock, for no one expected the trusted advisor to have committed this act. Continuing, "However, I have also been informed by our coroner that his actions were not of his own and were controlled by someone."

Mikan saw from the corner of her eye, that a vein had popped from Luna's temple and fear flashed across her eyes.

"Mikan… I think now would be a good time to tell you that Luna has suspicious thoughts… she has an alice stone in her hands, and she's talking to someone."

"Who?"

"Persona."

"What does she want?"

"She knows that it was you who have informed the queen and, and…"

"AND?"

"She's telling Persona to execute a plan, but she won't say what exactly. She just says that he should not fail her and he should know what to do. She's also wondering how did the coroner find out that Reo was being controlled."

Mikan smiled, "That's because she doesn't know that Hotaru's brother is the coroner and he was able to detect small traces of someone's alice. Anyway, that's good enough. I'm going to nullify her powers for now, stop reading her mind."

With that, Mikan enlarged her nullification barrier so that it encompassed her and Luna. Luna noted the cut off of her conversation with Persona and turned to glare at her. However Mikan looked back at her innocently and proceeded to pay attention to what was being said.

"We all are in mourning but the Hyuuga Family greatly thank those who have helped. Now for the test, Ogasawara, please place the vials on the table." The dark-haired girl moved forward and place a vial filled with a light blue liquid in front of Mikan and Luna each. Smiling at the two of them, she moved back and stood beside the queen.

"The final test would not enable you to use your alice, not because I have nullified it, but because using it would require too much of your energy. The final test would…" The queen paused at look at each of them in the eye. She knew that this might be a dangerous task, since Mikan has been constantly been attacked by Luna and by issuing such a task may put Mikan's life on the line. Despite wanting to give Mikan a heads up on the task, she knew that by doing so, the test would be void as Mikan would have an unfair advantage. So as much as she wanted to, Kaoru kept silent and prayed hard that Mikan would be safe.

The crowd seemed to hinge on the words of the queen, and after what seemed like a long pause, she continued, "…The test would make the both of you pregnant in a span of 2 weeks."

"WHAT?"

"That's absurd!"

Such words spewed from the princesses who did not succeed to pass the test, mostly because they could not grasp how one could be pregnant in 2 weeks and mostly because of jealousy.

"Hey Natsu… these princesses are envisioning you sleeping together with both Mikan and Koizumi."

"Sigh… I had a feeling they would think that."

"Here, let me channel some of their thoughts to you." And Koko proceeded to channel all the images of Natsume with either Mikan or Luna in bed.

"Koko, unless you want your bottom to be fried real extra crispy, I would advise you to stop." This frighten Koko enough and he stopped, but smirked to himself as he enjoyed the speculations of the other princesses.

"Sleeping with polka is one thing, Koizumi is another thing altogether."

"I read all that Natsu, such a naughty boy aren't you?" Within instants, Koko was hoping around the ballroom looking for a pail of water. Hotaru predicted this would happened and used her new water gun on Koko's flaming butt.

"Heh heh, thanks Hotaru…" Koko said in relief but immediately sweat dropped when he saw Hotaru glaring at him, waving her newly polished Baka gun in his face.

Luna and Mikan themselves were shock, both wondering how they could be pregnant and thought the natural way would be to sleep with Natsume.

"Tsk tsk Mikan, I didn't know you wanted Natsume THAT way." Koko found a new target to terrorise in the meantime, not caring that his comment made Mikan blush a deep shade of red.

"KOKO! GET OUT OF MY HEAD NOW! STOP READING MY THOUGHTS!" Mikan did a mental scream.

"Well, you ain't much different for Natsu then. Sheesh all you people, screaming at me, Natsume burning my ass to a nice crisp texture... fine I'll enjoy this free entertainment for myself." Crossing his arms, Koko sulked in his place and continued reading the minds of the other princesses.

Luna was thinking the exact thing that Mikan was thinking as well and gave her sly grin.

"Let me continue please. I think I know what you all are thinking… but no, neither Koizumi-hime nor Sumi-hime would be sleeping with my son. My chemist here would now explain."

"Thank you your highness. These two princesses would experience a simulation of being pregnant, if I should call it so, in a span of 2 weeks. That is, they will experience morning sickness in the initial days, then bloating up as their stomachs expand and at the end of roughly 2 weeks, they would experience childbirth. I have gathered both their DNA and mixed them with Natsume-sama's so that the baby, hypothetically conceived will look like either of them. However, since this is a simulated event, the baby would disappear after 5 days. At the stroke of midnight each day, the baby would grow. Hence, on the first day it's an infant, the second a 3 year old child, the third an 8 year old, the fourth a 12 year old and finally a 15 year old." Ogasawara-san looked at the two princesses and burst out laughing at their shocked expression.

Koko looked around and thought it would be a good time to gather the reaction of the other princesses.

"Getting pregnant is bad enough, they have to look after a child that grows each day by a few years? Luckily I'm not in their shoes. Who knows how the child would turn out to be?"

"Morning sickness… temperaments will change, I've seen my cousin get pregnant and she was one ferocious thing… Poor Natsume! He has 2 'wives'!"

"I guess they're gonna need a new wardrobe for that fast expanding stomach."

"The child grows? Damn!Iif only I didn't drop out, then I could see how my future child would look like with Natsume! How will the president of the fan club answer to the rest of the fans?" Koko's head immediately whipped towards a drooling Sumire as she started imagining how the child would look like.

"Seriously Sumire? You really want to see what your child would look like if Natsume was the father?"

"Ah… erm… Yea… no… IT'S A GOOD OPPORTUNITY!" Sumire blurted out. Koko merely shook his head and let out a resigned sigh. "You can never get rid of the inner fan girl…"

Seeing that the queen was glaring at her, Ogasawara-san stopped laughing, cleared her throat and continued. "All these experiences would start once they have drunk their respective vials which I have placed before them. Oh, I forgot to mention, their temperaments would also change, similar to an expecting mother!" The dark-haired girl excitedly explained all this, much to the horror of Mikan and Luna. "Due to you two being pregnant, your alices would be consumed by the baby as well, and using them would put a strain on your health and life. Hence, please refrain from using it, otherwise you would experience immense fatigue and would not be able to complete the other tasks laid out for you. A doctor would be sent to have your regular check-ups every morning. Your diet would be taken care of as well."

"Thank you Nonoko. As she has mentioned, the both of you would receive various tasks during your two weeks and these task require you to move around the kingdom. If you fail any of these tasks, you are immediately disqualified."

The crowed murmured excitedly, all speculating what the baby would look like and who was the most likely candidate to win this competition. Natsume, however, stared worriedly at Mikan.

"You're worried aren't you? Worried that she would not be able to take the strain of carrying a child?" Ruka whispered.

"Yeah, she's an only child, she's younger than Luna, worst still, she never saw anyone get pregnant before nor know of the things that come with it."

"BA-KA. She'll be all right." Hotaru interjected. "She has that ability to surprise anyone. Besides, she has you, unlike Luna. I've seen many people get pregnant, and those that survive are those with strong willpower, and someone whom they love deeply."

"Survive?" Natsume was starting to worry even more.

"There's a small chance she'll die in childbirth. But don't worry, I have been upgrading the medical facilities here. Besides, onii-chan is here, and he'll be able to boost the chances of her surviving."

"Please proceed to drink the potion. There is to be none left otherwise the consequences would be… would show up in the child." Nonoko chirped.

Both Mikan and Luna stepped forward and took the vials in their hand. Uncorking the lid, they raised it to their lips and a foul smell hit them.

"You expect us, the finish THIS? It looks harmless but the smell, it's pungent!" Luna exclaimed. Mikan on the other hand closed her eyes and took a small sip despite the smell.

"It's actually quite sweet Koizumi-hime, after you get round the smell." Mikan then gulped the potion down as it reminded her of a drink her mother used to make.

Upon finishing the drink, the queen said her final instructions. "I have moved both your rooms to the ground floor of the North wing as being pregnant can make moving around a little difficult. You will find your things there. Good luck." Trumpets fan fared and the queen excited the room with the bounding Nonoko.

Glaring at each other, Mikan said, "Good luck then."

"Ha, luck? More like you'll be needing it, Sa-ku-ra-hime."

Both however suddenly felt something hot climbing out of their throats and rushed to look for their servants.

"Misaki! I need a bucket!"

Misaki ran forward with her prepared bucket (the queen had sent for them to prepare a bucket and bring it down to the ballroom) and placed it in front of Mikan. Within seconds, both Luna and Mikan hurled their dinner out, and the crowed was grossed out by the scene. Then all left in order to keep their dinner's in their stomach.

"So it begins…"

Narumi-sensei stared at the large calendar that Mikan had created since she first drank the vial of solution which made her pregnant. Taking at large black marker, he crossed out "Day 2" and capped market, only to be responded with the sound of Mikan throwing up. It was the start of the third day and Mikan's stomach was already swelling as if she were 3 month pregnant. The bouts of morning sickness was quite serious with Mikan, whatever she ate came back out an hour later.

Misaki gently patted her back as Tsubasa held back her chestnut locks.

"Mikan, you have to get something in your system or else your body is going to give out on you." Misaki-sensei said in a serious tone.

"How can she Misaki-sensei? Everything she's eaten is coming out! The smell of food repulses her, the sight of it makes her run for the bathroom… Look at her! Her eyes have sunken into their sockets, she's all pale, she barely has the energy to do anything!" Tsubasa blurted out at his teacher. Calming down, he smoothed out his ruffled hair and asked, "Is there a herb? Anything for her to at least drink a cup of milk?"

Misaki-sensei pondered for a while, then entered into his room (which was cluttered with books and no one knows how he was able to get so many of them to the Firenze palace).

"Oh fine, go read your books and ignore suffering Mikan." The lack of sleep for the past three days was getting to Tsubasa badly.

"Calm down Tsubasa, there's no use getting all agitated now. Mikan isn't doing well but she's a fighter." Narumi-sensei patted him in the back. As soon as he said that, a white pigeon flew through the window and landed on Mikan's desk. "Ah, it seems that Serina-sensei has some news."

Narumi,
I can see what's going on in the palace, no need to constantly send me updates. Regarding Mikan's condition of morning sickness, I suggest you feed her some porridge and get Misaki to find a herb so that her digestive system does not try to rid the food eaten. Also, Narumi, make yourself useful by making that awful tea of yours? It'll help her sleep and keep the food in.

Serina

Narumi quickly scribbled down his thanks and set the pigeon free so that it could fly back to Serina-sensei, wherever she was. Waving the piece of paper he sang, "MI-SA-KI-SEN-SEI~~!"

Misaki-sensei came out from his room carrying a very thick and dusty book in one hand, and with the other hand, he threw a paper aeroplane so that it landed right in Narumi's mouth.

"Pui puI! Aw that isn't nice Misaki… Anyway what's this?"

"It's a herb that helps to maximise absorption of any food taken in, well a picture of it and its properties. It's found near water bodies. I'll be leaving now thank you very much and will be back in 2 hours. In the meantime, do NOT feed her anything or else the herb would not work." With that, Misaki drew his cloak round his body and fasten it. Slinging his leather pouch over his head, he grabbed the dagger on the table and sheath it on his waist. Looking around the table, he saw his favourite whip bean pod and decided to take it back from Narumi's care.

"Thanks Misaki-sensei." Mikan managed to croak before turning her head towards the bucket again. Opening the door and taking his first stride, he immediately bumped into a palace maid.

"Pardon me sir, I'm here with a message from Imai-hime. Is Suni-hime in the room?"

"She is, do go in and pass the message, though it's not a nice sight in there." Misaki-sensei chuckled and rushed to the stables for a horse.

The palace maid knocked gently on the door and saw Mikan sitting on an arm chair all pale and looking very sick. "Erm… Sumi-hime? I have a message for you from Imai-hime."

"Do relay it." Mikan smiled weakly.

"Imai-hime asked for you to stop by her room after your morning checkup. She said she has something important to discuss with you and asked for you to bring along the pendant."

"What pendant?"

"She didn't say, but she did say you would know."

"All right, thank you. Tsubasa-senpai, please show her out."

Not long after the maid left, the doctor assigned to Mikan came knocking on the door. However, this time, Nonoke came along. While Misaki was braiding Mikan's hair into two pigtails, Nonoke came bounding up to Mikan and loudly said, "OHAYO MIKA-CHAN!"

"Gosh gosh, not so loud. The effects of pregnancy makes everything louder by ten times." Mikan exclaimed while rubbing her throbbing ears.

"Sorry! Well, the effects seem to be realistic enough."

"Too realistic."

"Well, that's the plan. Anyway, you seem to have rather bad morning sickness, Koizumi-hime has had a rather peaceful 3 days if I should say."

"Isn't the potion supposed to make both of us feel the same way?"

"In a way, it differs from an individual's body. She might have a better luck to the morning sickness, but… her cravings could be bad." Winking, Nonoko left the room and ushered the doctor in.

The doctor did her usual check on Mikan's weight, waist diameter, blood pressure and reflexes. "Sumi-hime, it seems you've been losing weight for the past three days, not able to retain your food I presume?"

Mikan gave a weak nod. "My personal physician has gone to get some herbs for me."

"May I be so bold as to enquire what kind of herbs?" The young doctor asked.

Waving to Narumi-sensei, he came into her room with the piece of paper Misaki-sensei had given him.

"Ah, the Porli herb. Your physician is highly educated. This herb would help in maximum absorption of any food you take. Do take in half an hour before your meals. Well, to report, everything is normal except your weight. Your reflexes have also been consistently quick despite you having a lack of rest and nutrition. I will take my leave then. Good day Suni-hime." The young doctor stood up and flicked her white coat behind her. Narumi-sensei opened the door for her and let her out of the room.

"Going to see Hotaru now?" Narumi asked.

"Yeah. She doesn't like to wait." Mikan sighed.

"Tsubasa accompany her. Misaki and I will… try and cook something for you."

Mikan knocked on the wall and awaited for Hotaru to come answer the door. To Tsubasa, he seemed a bit baffled to be waiting in front of a wall, but Mikan was too tired to try explaining things to him. Within seconds, the door flew open and Natsume possessively grabbed Mikan's hand and glared at Tsubasa.

"I thought.. we were going to Hotaru's room? What is this punk doing here?" Tsubasa returned the glare.

"This IS Hotaru's room. Now if you would excuse us, we have something important to discuss. I'll send her back to her room, so you can go rest in peace. Goodbye." Pulling Mikan into the room, Natsume slammed the door shut and gave Mikan a long and tight hug.

"Natsume… I'm all right. Just a little tired from all the puking." Mikan tried comforting him, but the crimson eyed boy refused to let go of her. He has been getting news from the palace maids that Mikan was fairing much worse than Luna these few days due to her atrocious morning sickness and he felt useless because he could not do anything to relieve her of this torture.

"I'm sorry. I'm sorry."

"What for?"

"I planned this test, but I didn't expect you to suffer. I just wanted to expose Luna's true nature."

"It's all right Natsume. I'll be up in a jiffy. Besides, Nonoko-chan said that it differs from person to person. So Luna might have it bad the next bout." Smiling as brightly as she could at Natsume, he slowly released his grip on her and escorted her to the comfy armchair in Hotaru's room.

Koko cleared his throat and that was when Mikan realised that Natsume was not the only one in the room. In fact, there were Koko, a stunned Sumire, a blushing Ruka, a gleeful Aoi, cold Hotaru and her equally cold elder brother.

"Touching, but let's get down to what we gathered here for eh? Let's move to my lab." Hotaru commented. By pressing a button, a large portrait in her room automatically moved upwards to reveal an inner lab with all her equipment. Sitting herself down on a stool, she motioned Mikan to sit on her armchair while the rest sat around the long workbench on stools. She looked at everyone in the room and began.

"As you all know, onii-chan, Ruka, Natsume and I have been researching on ways to allow someone with Aoi's alice type to gain back her alice. Due to her absorbing an alice stone at a young age and her alice was used out due to the sudden surge in power, she no longer has an ability to use her Fire alice. Even though she was initially an Intermittent alice type; the Alice which can only be used for a short period, at any time, but at a high level of power, it seems that her alice source has been drained." Hotaru looked at everyone to see if they have grasped the gravity of the situation.

Nodding to her brother, he continued, "I have been studying many books and in the more ancient ones, it mentioned that if an alice stone of the alice wielder is inserted into the body, the source of that person's alice may start regenerating again. Any questions?"

Sumire perked up, "From my understanding, alice stones only have a certain lifespan and once the power is used up in that stone, the wielder no longer has that particular alice. So how will this get Aoi-chan's alice back?"

"You see Shouda-san, when the stone is inserted into Aoi-hime's body, her body will recognize the stone as it being compatible with her own body and since that was the initial alice, her body will start to replenish her alice source. So even if the stone runs out of power, she has already gained the ability to generate her own alice."

Hotaru continued, "But this of course comes with its own dangers. Even if Mikan possesses the insertion alice, she has to insert the alice stone at the main source of Aoi's alice generation site. This ability comes together with her insertion alice but it is a rumored ability. No one has been able to find a person's alice source, and, Mikan is pregnant, so she can't use her alice with such a vigorous extent, her body will burn out."

"Shiki-san can't do it?" Natsume inquired.

"Shiki-san does not have the insertion alice. He only has the stealing alice." Mikan answered him. "I'll still do it. If I try, Aoi can have her alice back, I have to try." Mikan stood up and grasp the alice stone which she had kept for the past 6 years in her hand. She tried to concentrated hard and find Aoi's source of power but she suddenly felt dizzy and felt herself falling. Natsume jumped up from his seat and caught her inches before she hit the ground. Opening her eyes, she pushed herself up and tried again.

"No stop. This is going to harm you and the baby! How are you going to go about doing the tasks if you pass out now?" Natsume urged her to stop trying.

"I can't stop. This may be Aoi's chance to finally utilize her alice."

"There's always after the test, when you're feeling better!"

"No we don't. Luna isn't going to sit around after the test. She's going to do something! I know it! And by then, everyone's alice would be vital in this battle." Mikan shouted.

"BOTH OF YOU SHUT UP!" Hotaru and her brother shouted at the same time. Sumire wanted to scream at the couple as well, but Koko read the Imai sibling's thoughts and poked her to keep quiet. Ruka on the other hand, was busy flipping through the book that Hotaru's brother had left on the table.

Subaru stood up and walked over to Mikan, placing a hand on her shoulder he said, "Don't push yourself. You're in no condition to stretch your alice that far. I know Shiki-san has been trying to expand your alice capabilities, but doing this would mean hurting the baby growing inside of you. If we knew you were going to take immediate action, we wouldn't have told you this piece of news."

"Erm guys, it says here that Mikan can use her alice, if there is an alice wielder with the Amplification alice. It makes sense. If Mikan's small alice now is amplified by a few times, she would be able to use her Insertion alice without much harm. And if Hotaru told me correctly, Shiki-san has the amplification alice in him." Ruka broke the tension and everyone stared at him.

"Brillant." The ice queen smirked. Raising her hands, she brought forth a small phone and dialed a few numbers. "Get Shiki-san here now!"

"You know… if you sent someone, I could have walked here instead of being deported by this THING." Shiki remarked.

"That THING is a great invention of mine to bring people who walk slowly to places that I want." Hotaru shot back. "You know what to do so hurry up do it before baka here decides to use her alice in her already frail state."

"WHO YOU CALLING BAKA?" Both Mikan and Sumire exclaimed at the same time. Looking at each other, the burst out laughing. The rest merely sweatdropped while Hotaru rolled her eyes.

Shiki concentrated hard and soon a purple alice stone formed in his hands, then passing it over to Mikan, she closed her eyes so that she could concentrate on absorbing it. As soon as she felt the warm feeling within her, Mikan concentrated on Aoi and somehow saw Aoi's outline in her mind. Looking up and down with her mind on Aoi's body, she saw golden streams in Aoi's body, as fine as those of blood vessels. She could tell which direction they were coming from and tracing backwards, she found the source of Aoi's alice, it being at her heart.

"I found her alice source, it's at her heart." Mikan told the group.

"That's a pretty dangerous place to insert someone's alice. If you go too far, it could obstruct the heart. Are you able to control where the alice stone will go?" Subaru asked in a concern manner.

"Yup. Narumi-sensei trained me well enough and with the extra training Shiki-san has given me, I'm positive. I'll do it now." Taking a deep breath, Mikan held the crimson alice stone in her hand and closed her eyes again so that she could see Aoi's body outline. Walking towards Aoi, she located the source and pressed the palm with the alice stone to Aoi's heart.

The alice stone slowly began being absorbed into Aoi's body and as soon as Mikan felt that the entire stone was in Aoi's power source, she removed her hand and opened her eyes.

"Done. Why don't you try using your Alice Aoi?" Mikan asked, surprised that she did not feel tired at all.

"Here, burn this ball of paper I'm going to toss in the air." Natsume perked up. Crushing up a blank piece of paper, Natsume threw it high above his head and it immediately caught on fire, landing to the ground in black ashes.

"I… I have my alice back!" Aoi exclaimed and went to hug both Mikan and her Onii-chan. "Thank you, thank you…" She mumbled in their shoulder while tears of joy streamed down her face.

Sumire, Koko and Ruka who were standing to one side watching the scene unfold, looked at each other and smiled. Suddenly Koko shouted, "SOMEONE GET A BUCKET! MIKAN'S GONNA HURL!"

Tada! Hope you all like it. This is the final test, well at main bulk of it. The next chapter we'll see how Luna is coping with her own pregnancy and what Mikan and her have to do around the kingdom! Do read and review please please! I'm really happy to have hit 1K over hits from those in USA and Philippines!

I would like to extend my thanks to those who reviewed and here are your replies!

Blueberryxn: AH FIRST REVIEW AGAIN! YOU GOT ME ALL HYPED UP!

CrackleGirl11: haha, you have to read more to find out. Though I don't think Natsume would need to do anything. :)

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Little Strawberry RiRin Chan: Thanks for pointing that out! I'll try to make my writing more clearer. Sometimes I get so caught up in trying to write what's going to happen next that I lose my clarity. Oh, Luna can only control people if they are physically close in proximity to her. So she always lures them in by saying that she loves them. As you have noticed, all those controlled by Luna are males. :)

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