Eva and Aikka remained in their current position for a couple of hours before a sudden thought passed through her head, which centered around their two responsibilities at the castle.
"Aikka, what about the twins? I got a feeling that they're planning an evil scheme." She mentions while she rubs her now sore tummy.
"Your mother's intuition again?" He grouchily inquired since he had just woken up from a rather good nap.
"Yes, and its tingling too!" Eva jokes along with her husband, which earns a little laugh from Aikka as well.
"If you say so," The young man was replying after rising up on to his feet and turning around to help his wife up on her own two feet.
"Can we at least have another hour of peace?" Her husband teases when he asks his wife with a serious look on his face.
"We have busy kids so no we can't." The raven haired woman with crimson tips reminds him of Kieran and Kiera before her instincts telks her to look backwards but did not see anything out of ordinary.
"What's wrong?" The Noursaian inquired when he traced her gaze but did not see anything or anyone either.
"I thought…" Her voice trails off.
The pregnant woman simply shrugs her shoulders and smiles back at Aikka as a show to him that it was nothing.
"You have to be careful here! Your stupidity almost got us caught." A feminine voice whispers to the figure.
A shadowy figure slowly stalked over to where the couple previously sat at before they left.
'Aikka you will be mine!' The woman chanted in a repeated fashion as if it was a mantra.
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Natalie headed home before another one of her soldiers approached her again with another report.
"Captain," He salutes before she acknowledges him with a salute as well "...the suspicious movement were now spotted near the Royal Park."
"You may go home, solider." She quickly dismisses the solider before she recalls the locations of reported sightings.
'Royal Park, the castle's main gate, Noursaia's Priest Water Fountain, what do they all have in common?' The raven haired woman inwardly considers.
The young woman tries to discover the connection between the locations.
The captain just so happened to stroll by a pair of women in the midst of gossip did the answer sudden become clear.
"Did you hear that the King and Queen were in the Royal Park?"
"To bad we can't go there. The only people allowed to are non-commoners unlike ourselves."
"I guess it's a fruitless dream then. Oh, but did you hear about Rhonda?"
'That's it! That's the missing link! They all belong to the Royal Family of Noursaia!"
'Has anyone within the family recently formed an outside alliance to overthrow them or could it possibly be foul play? Is it a deranged fan girl?'
'The next clue should answer my last question.' She mentally concludes to herself.
"Excuse me Miss but aren't you Capt. Natalie?" A masculine voice asks her to identify herself.
"Who wants to know?" Natalie defensively challenges before she rotates to see someone in a cloak figure with their face conceal from her view.
"Just a wanderer who was entranced by the maiden's unspeakable beauty." The man highlights before a golden bright yellow lock falls from his cloak, which gives his identity away.
'The Avatar!' The captain instantly recognized him since she was informed by intell that he had already left the planet.
"Is one not use to hearing a compliment from a mysterious stranger?" He interrogates since he did not hear a response to his other question.
"Drop the act, Avatar! Your color makes you too easily noticeable." The raven haired woman huffs.
She casually saunters pass him only to have his golden eyes trek her every movement.
"I'm sorry we got off to the wrong start. My real name is Jordan." The Avatar introduces himself after he suddenly appears before her for the second time.
"Excuse me, but I have other pressing issues to deal with instead of a flirtatious Avatar." The young woman scoffed once she pushed him aside fairly irritated with his behavior.
"I do know that what your soldiers are reporting to you maybe a serious threat to your home and the Royal Family." Jordan interjects since he figures that it would catch her attention.
The solider temporarily froze in place before she rotated to face him one more time.
"State your price." Natalie demands in a monotone voice.
"All I ask for is a date?" The golden figure coyly proposes as a smile appears on his face .
As much as she would love to kill him right now, she could not soldly because that would bring shame to all of her hard work.
Not only that, but the galaxies are going to have to reprimand her for such a rash decision.
The captain did not think she could hide for the rest of her life.
"Alright I will go but on one condition…" The young woman replied since she knew that the Avatar always had something in his pocket.
Jordan's face lit up but stayed rather composed outwardly.
The only reason why she accepted was only so she could acquire the necessary information that she needed to find out about her mystery.
"Are you ready?" He poses to her once he offers her one of his arms, which she reluctantly reaches out to it.
'This should be fun!' The golden figure presumes as he continues to smile and lead them to their next destination.
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"Alright class, gather round." Canaan orders his class in a strict tone.
Kiera and Kieran occupied a seat right next to each other. Morose loudly giggles while she sits next to Kieran, which annoys him even further.
"Today, we will play a game. This will involve all of your Archery lessons, Survival Tactics, and some common sense."
"Now when I dismiss you, you will go inside of the weapons room and pick out your weapon, which of course is your bow. Then meet me back here in a couple of minutes."
Kiera nodded her head at her twin and knew that that was the signal to be the first in line so they could enact the plan.
"Morose," Kieran catches the girl's attention.
"Ladies, go first." He politely offers after he shuffles out of her way so she could easily pass by him.
Morose instantly accepted the offer since she assumed that she finally caught Prince Kieran's eye.
Once she was pushing the door open, the pail of honey was dangerously jigging off of the edge.
The string that was tied to the other door held a pile of feathers that would trigger some paint to fall on her.
'3…2…1' Kiera was mentally countdowning when a loud piercing scream following laughter could be heard.
"Not my new clothes!" Morose angrily shouts after she desperately attempts to wipe the sticky coat of black feathers away from her body. Much to no avail, it did not come off so easily as Morose had wished.
"What is it?" Canaan asked after he overheard the loud scream since he assumed that an intruder broke in to the compound.
"Someone decided that I would look better as a chicken than a Noursaian!" She furiously hisses.
Her eyes had sharpen to locate the slightest of movements that would give the culprit away.
"It was you!" Morose irately points out when her scan abruptly stops at none other then Kiera.
"I'm sorry but I would never do anything that childish, especially to someone with the likes of you!" Kiera retorts with a straight face at the girl's accusation.
"...but you really would make an excellent chicken though." She chimes in before Morose snaps and lounges at her with anger evident in her eyes.
Kiera merely side steps the assault as the girl's body flies outside and lands in a pile of brown dirt. Morose smelled even worse when she glanced down at what exactly it was that she had landed face forward in.
"Eeww gross!" She hollers while she throws a mad temper tantrum.
"Now you smell like a Corinthian Horse instead of a chicken." Kiera claims before the whole class laughes along with her joke while Kieran was off to the side with an unreadable expression on his face.
"That's enough Kiera! Morose go take a shower and meet us back on the field. Everyone else pick up your weapons and follow me." Master Canaan's stern voice can be heard from behind the students as he broke through the bouts of giggles and laughter heard from his students.
As the servant lady pulled Morose along throughout the house, she peered back to see Kiera with a huge smile on her face while she pointed and laughed at her.
'It is so on Kiera!' Morose angrily screams as she devises different ways to get her revenge on Kiera before they turn the corner.
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Author's Note:
11.23.16 Major editing revision
Major editing cleaning 06.23.17