I am so sorry for my fail at updates DX I have been busy with projects and finals that there was hardly any time for me to devote to this. I have many chapters written down but none of them are actually typed ¬_¬ Procrastination ftf. Anyways I hope you enjoy this chapter I was also debating making another fanfic but we'll see ;)

"YAO!" Yong Soo called out. Yao turned around to see his nephew charging towards him. Yao ducked as his nephew tried to tackle him. He landed with a loud thud and groaned, "Ahh! Why did you do that, daze?"

"I'd rather not have my royal garment dirtied, aru." Yao replied.

"Whatever old man. Anyways, I got some amazing dirt—I mean information of that Alfred kid! Daze!" Yong Soo exclaimed.

This gained Yao's curiosity, "Like what?" Hopefully it wasn't something stupid like his favorite animal.

"Well apparently his dad was an explorer, he was super well known in the kingdom. Apparently on one of his voyages he met his wife." He began to explain.

"What is this some sappy love story, aru?" Yao said annoyed.

"Hey don't interrupt. And you are just jealous that my love stories are better (Korean dramas XD). Anyway when I tried looking her up in the files I couldn't find anything on her, well not anything before she was married,"

"I could have told you that much." Yao said. He needed to prepare dinner and this nephew was wasting his time with things he had already figured out.

"What did I say about interrupting, Daze?" The boy exclaimed.

Yao sighed and waved his hand for the boy to continue his 'tale of information'.

"As I was saying, there wasn't anything about her. . .until I found this!" He pulled out an interesting parchment of paper. I didn't look familiar and it wasn't a scroll from the royal library or the secret department where all the private information was held.

"Where in the world did you get that, aru?" Yao said taking the papers from his nephew. He noticed an interesting seal on it. I appeared to be an eagle with a rose in its beak. Call him crazy but even though the seal was faded to the point of blurriness, he swore the rose had a blue tint to it.

"You know here and there. I know people. Well the people I know, know some people who had stuff like this," He pointed to the parchment, "Apparently his mother was from the Natives of Marecia. They believed in spirits and all that fun stuff. See her name is written on there. And next to it is her husband's name." He opened the parchment to the specified page and pointed out their names.

"The guy I got this from said he found it in some river and that's why it's all faded and crumpled. I couldn't figure out anything else from this but I thought you could. Oh yeah and the guy said something about a prophesy about one meeting another and something about catching, but then again the guy was senile so I ignored him, daze." Yong Soo finished explaining.

Yao looked the parchment over. I was severely damaged in some parts and legible in others. The characters and form of writing point to an ancient form of writing. "It may take me some time but I'm pretty sure I can decipher the contents." Yao tucked the papers safely in his clothing and began to walk away. 'I must inform the prince about this as soon as I can.'

"Hey don't forget our deal, daze!" Yong Soo smirked.

Yao groaned and turned around, "Fine, aru."

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Arthur was heading towards Yao's study. It had been almost four months since the two boys had lived here. After Alfred's miraculous healing he decided to help out at the stables. Matthew decided to help out at the library where Arthur caught him reading many books half the time. He smiled to himself, those two were like the siblings he never had. He looked out the window and noticed Alfred riding on one of the new horses. It was a chestnut colored quarter horse. It had two white stockings on its front legs and a small star shaped white marking on the top of its head. The horse, a mare, favored Alfred the most. The only other person she ever allowed to ride on her was Arthur, only after Alfred coaxed her into doing so. Arthur still preferred to ride Lumen.

"Alfred seems to be doing very well here." He said to his faerie friend. Acacia smiled in reply and stared out the window. She had watched Alfred closely since his arrival here. His energy knew no bounds, which attracted many spirits to him.

"Yes he is." Acacia replied. He flew through the open window towards Alfred.

Arthur smiled and continued walking. 'Alfred, you are so full of mysteries,' he thought to himself, 'the mark on his chest wasn't a mystery to Alfred or his brother. Their mother had told Alfred that it was just a birthmark and that everyone has one. Even though Matthew's was just a small Heart in comparison.'

He knocked on Yao's door. Small shuffles were heard along with laughter. Yao opened the door and Arthur's eyes were met with one of the most hilarious things he had ever seen. "Mphm, Yao why is your hair," he paused trying to stifle the giggles that were threatening to erupt from him, "up in that fashion?"

"We had a deal! So I told him to dress like this and put his hair up like that." Yong Soo replied as he clung to Yao. Yao pushed him away with an annoyed grunt and cleared his throat to speak.

"That is true but Im Yong Soo, would you mind leaving us for a bit. We need to discuss politics." Im Yong Soo pouted but didn't argue. He closed the door behind him and went off, maybe to convince someone that his ancestors invented cats.

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"So your majesty, what do you think about this." Yao looked at Arthur for his reaction.

Arthur was in deep thought. "I truly have no idea on how to react to this." Arthur sighed in defeat.

Yao had managed to translate most of what he could of the parchments, but the jumps and oddly placed words made no sense half the time. He was able to locate the small prophesy that Yao's nephew had told him about but even that was a bit sketchy. Arthur picked up the parchment and looked at the page that held all the answers. He almost wished that just glaring at it would force it to disclose all of its secrets.

"I'm sorry I couldn't find out anything else, your majesty." Yao said solemnly.

"You have done your best Yao. I'll take what I have been given." He stood up taking the parchments and translations to his study. He bowed and left. When he reached his study he stared at the parchments once more before he turned away. He noticed the painting of his mother. Her smile eternally etched into it.

"I wonder if being Queen was this difficult for you, Mother. I could truly use some help." He spoke to himself almost hoping if his mother would reply. He stared at the painting for a few moments before he heard a thud. He turned and saw the papers had fallen to the floor, even though they were set in the middle of the desk. He sighed and walked towards them and picked them up. As he did so he felt a pang in his head. He dropped the papers and held his head. A soft voice spoke to him,

"One day you will meet the one you have been looking for. Wait for him. For he will appear to you in an instant but will be gone if you do not catch him"

An image flashed before him: Darkness, screaming, crying, fighting. Before him stood a dark creature, the Umbra Cor but not like one he had ever seen. This one towered over the rest. It had seven heads and each head had a set of horns the held the carving of destruction. Its eyes made the fiery pits of Hell look like the soft burn of a candle. The vision then blurred and focused on a scene of a woman singing an incantation. She turned and Arthur realized it was his mother. He ran towards her and called out to her, 'Mother! Mother!' The creature appeared again. Its tail swung at Arthur knocking him harshly to the side. He looked up at it. It roared a deafening laugh. Suddenly light began to attack the creature as it yowled in pain. Arthur looked over to where his mother once stood, but in her place was a man dressed on a blue cape. Arthur couldn't male anything out of the man other than his piercing blue eyes. He turned towards Arthur and said, "Wait for me Arthur." And it ended.

Arthur was once again in his room. There were no voices, no crazy ugly monster trying to kill him and the stranger was gone. He looked up at his mother's painting and he swore he saw her wink. He only managed to stand up before Alfred came barreling into his room.

"Arthur! Are you ok? I heard you yelling. Is there a robber, thief, spy or any enemy in here? Cuz' I'll protect you!" Alfred babbled as he swerved from side to side inspecting the immaculate room.

Arthur still trying to get over the shock of what he had just seen could only stare at Alfred with a confused expression.

Alfred being the dense lad that he was took Arthur's silence as one of fear.

"Hey Arthur, are you scared?" Alfred asked. He approached Arthur warily; looking around to make sure something wasn't going to jump him.

Suddenly Arthur burst into a fit of laughter.

Alfred jumped at the sudden change of mood from Arthur. 'Has he gone crazy?'

"Alfred you," he was cut off by more laughter, "are hilarious."

"Hey! I was trying to make sure you were ok! That's what heroes do!" Alfred pouted but couldn't help as the infectious laughter affected him as well.

"I'll give you something to laugh about. TICKLE FIGHT!" Alfred challenged. He tackled Arthur and began trying to tickle the royal through his garments.

Arthur had slowly reacted to the boys words but once the boy had tackled him he retaliated by tickling the boy's sensitive stomach. It was a win for Arthur from there on.

"Arthur stop!" Alfred laughed. His face was flushed and it was getting harder to breathe under the constant laughing. But Arthur was relentless. He didn't cease his tickling until Alfred's eyes began to tear.

"You almost killed me." Alfred gasped out. He was currently trying to catch his breath that his lungs so desperately needed.

"Don't be so dramatic." Arthur patted the boy's hair.

"Well if you two are done fooling around, it's time for bed, aru." Yao said from the doorway. "Honestly I hurry as fast as I can to find out what all the ruckus was about, fearing for your majesties life and I find you two in a tickle fight." Yet there was no bite to his words.

"Ah-h yes. Um very well." Arthur stood up and tried his best to look composed although his blushing face told otherwise.

Alfred giggled at Arthur's embarrassment. He too stood up, "Night Arthur!" He ran off too his room and probably talk nonstop to his poor brother.

"You two are becoming quite close, aru." Yao said as he picked up some of the papers that were still on the floor.

"Well with a personality like that it is quite hard not to like the lad." Arthur replied. He was now dressed in his night wear.

"Good night Yao."

"Good night Price Arthur." Yao walked off to his room to get his much needed sleep.

Arthur was restless. Those eyes wouldn't leave his mind. And those words. . .

He would have to worry about that later, now he had to rest. He closed his eyes and fell into a dreamless sleep.

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