"Bastard" was the last thing Jordan heard when the pain reverberated through his jaw. He physically fell off the bench and onto the floor with a hard "thud".
The young man brings one of his hands to his jaw as he winces from the soreness. A golden light soon emits from his hand as he starts to heal his broken jaw.
'Well that went rather well…' The Avatar deems.
He could not help but to declare her the victor since she had a nasty right hook. 'I guess I'm back at square one…'
Natalie was still fuming since her intentions was to clear her mind and relax in the garden. Yet, a couple of minutes into the process of destressing, he was standing right next to her with a cocky grin on his face, as if he won a game or a bet.
'He's a sorry excuse for an Avatar invading people thoughts like that…' She concludes while she enters inside of the castle to check up on her dad and how the search was going.
Meanwhile...
Eva was slowly trotting through the familiar halls of her home before deciding to make a detour. She checked on the twins to see if their father already tucked them in for the night.
The young woman walks in on Aikka who just closed a book, leaned over quietly, clicked the light off, and paused when he caught Kiera's body shift due to the sudden change in the room's brightness to darkness.
He settles the book to the right of the lamp, raises to his feet, and places a kiss on their kids' forehead while he wishes them a goodnight.
"I would like to have one of those when I'm going to sleep." She whispers to her husband.
The Noursaian catches a glimpse of his wife, who observes their nighttime ritual with the twins. Her very round and pronounce belly reminds him that they were going to have more kids on the way.
After her husband made sure that the twins were fast asleep, he exited their room and closed the door behind him so no outside noise would rudely awake them in the middle of their slumber.
"Sure, you can have as many as you like," The orange haired male teases her while he encloses his wife in an tight embrace.
Eva was gladly returning the hug from at an angle to avoid hurting her protruding stomach.
"I need to go see the doctor tomorrow. The due date is coming up pretty fast." She reminds him once they start their short distance walk from their children room toward their private master bedroom.
"So how many are you going to give me this time?" Aikka jokes with his wife when one of his hands connects with her stomach as if to feel how many there was in her stomach.
"We already have two. I personally just want one more and that's it!" The raven haired woman with crimson tips proclaims.
Her crimson eyes was peeking up to see that even though her husband was joking he was dead serious about his question.
"I mean you already have Kieran as an heir or do you just want a bigger family?" The young woman was curiously probing about how many kids that they were planning on having.
Aikka briefly pauses to peer at her as if his expression tells her, her answer already, "Kiera and Kieran are about to turn ten years old. You should know that I come from a rather large family."
His wife could not help but ruffle his hair between her hands, "I mean it's fine by me. I just wanted to see where we both stand on this subject because although I thoroughly enjoy baby making its just giving birth that hurts."
"I would have to agree with Queen Eva, after all, we, women suffer the brute of the world's physical and emotional trauma that the world has to offer." A feminine voice that did not belong to Eva interjects, which prompts the couple to face a rather young woman.
"How rude of me for not introducing myself to you…my name is Princess Mai and I will be visiting Noursaia for a couple of days." The woman name Princess Mai introduces herself with a bow of her head out of politeness.
Aikka and Eva exchanged looks at one other as if to gauge if either one of them knew her and if she heard their entire conversation beforehand, which left them rather embarrassed.
"Captain Natalie did say something about having a guest." The raven haired woman with crimson tips softly whispers to her husband once Mai glances away from the couple.
"I'm so sorry that you didn't receive the proper greeting from us…it would be ashamed if you weren't properly taken care of." Queen Eva apologizes once she manages to bounce back from the sudden interruption of the young woman's presence.
"It's quite okay Queen Eva. Captain Natalie gave me the greeting that would be most memorable of my trip here."
"I usually thought that the military would be remotely detached with humanity, especially high ranking officials such as you two are the king and queen." Princess Mai quickly responds back to Eva's apology with her hands up in an innocent manner.
"...but its my country's idea to make sure that we all establish a good relationship…since it would be horrific if a coup d'état was performed because of my ineffective leading abilities." The king supplies his answer to Princess Mai's question before her eyes land on him and seems to dazzle because of his presence.
"Why a good answer from the youngest king to ever succeeded the Noursaia throne. That is something that might come in handy in a sticky situation."
"It seems as if I better return back to the guest quarters since I was lost when I was heading back to my room." Mai explains why she currently stands in front of them.
"Why thank you so very much. I hope it does pay off one of these days."
"But if I remember correctly Cpt. Natalie's men are positioned throughout the castle, so you're bound to run into them if you look further down the opposite side of this hallway." Aikka advises and directs her as he points her in the opposite direction since the Royal Family quarters were the only rooms down this hallway.
"Thank you King Aikka. I look forward to talking to you again Queen Eva, have a good night." She bows again before she closely follows his hand as a guide and makes her way down the hallway.
"Are you alright?" The Noursaian poses to his wife since she appears to be in another zone. He then turns them back to the location of their destination, their bedroom.
"I'm sorry…it's just something that looks really familiar to me about her…but anyway you're coming with me to the doctor…no ifs and buts about you hear me?" The young woman orders in her motherly tone to her husband.
This was causing him to start laughing because she was secertly jealous of Princess Mai.
The princess rounds the corner before she pauses and produces a silver mechanism, which display a holographic black Krog with one missing eye.
"I'm in…what do I have to do next?"
After receiving her instructions, she was quickly rushing off of the phone since she was paranoid that her being allied with the Krogs would have made her an outcast to Nourasia causing her to forfeit her princess rights.
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The next day brought the same sunshine that woke her husband and herself to another day in their beloved country Noursaia, a beautiful palace and a large bed but most importantly was in each other arms.
Aikka lays his head gently on his wife's stomach as he would always do whenever it was close to her due date. He did the same thing with the twins and would remain there until he got a reaction out of their baby.
"So did you feel anything yet?" Eva popped the question after she woke him up a couple of hours early because of the kicks from their baby in her stomach.
The Noursaian wasted no time, placed his ear against her stomach and waited in that same position ever since he was awake.
"Well...you don't have to worry about kicking for now." The young man comments after he lifts his head from his wife's enlarged stomach.
"Do I have to get up? I just want to stay in bed." She grumbles since she no longer feels the need to move let alone put on some clothes to go to the doctor.
"Eh?! You were the one who was so eagered to go see the doctor this morning."
"I can get you a wheelchair if that's what you want?" Aikka suggests with an expression of confusion on his face after he hears his wife's request.
The young woman huffed out a long tired sigh from being the peacemaker last night between Natalie and Jordan, or their Avatar, was rougher than she expected.
She at least wished that throughout the whole entire argument that they would gain some type of cease-fire truce and just be friends.
However from the sound of Natalie's tone, she was highly upset with whatever Jordan had found out about her.
Her crimson eyes noted her husband raise one of his eyebrows at her as if he knew that she was not telling him something important and he wanted to know what it was.
"I'm just really tired after trying to prevent Natalie from trying to kill Jordan last night."
"I don't blame her." Her husband said when he felt a pillow hit his arm after what he muttered. Aikka looked up to see that his wife was the culprit.
"Well whatever Jordan did it sounded as if he can't cover his tracks with her…and they said some pretty harsh things to each other, too." The pregnant woman issues him a roundabout response.
Eva simply removed the pillow from against his arm and placed it back underneath her head.
"Jordan said that Natalie would never enjoy true happiness because she doesn't take time to focus on her personal needs and wants."
"He even went on to say that she wouldn't be aware of when people would use her for their own good. On top of that, he called her a cold-hearted bitch."
"Doesn't that sound harsh to you, Aikka?" She asks her husband once he returns his head back to her stomach.
"It all depends on what Jordan did to her but how did Natalie respond?" Aikka needles since he grows curious as to how a captain would react to the Avatar's harsh words.
"Natalie countered against Jordan by saying that he invaded her privacy. That he was a jerk and that he doesn't take people feelings into thought when he does stuff."
"She even issued out a vocal restraining order against him that if he came around her, she would not hesitate to kick his ass." The raven haired woman with crimson tips summarizes Natalie's part to her husband.
"He must've really crossed the line with her with what ever he did…" "I never would've thought that the king would be the noisy type." It was his voice.
"What are you doing in our bedroom?" The Noursaian angrily questions before he quickly lifts his head from Eva's stomach.
He was not the least bit surprised that Jordan lacked common courtesy with anything that he did. The Avatar did not even bother to announce his plans to enter in to their room even though he had already been there.
"I was strolling through the hallway and I just so happen to overhear that someone mentioning my name so I thought they were wanting me in the room. So here I am!" The golden figure explained his presence in a sarcastic tone that suited him all to well.
"My wife was just telling me about your attempted apology session to one of my soldiers and that some harsh words were exchanged between you two. It seems as if it has arrived at the front of my gate." The king irritably answers Jordan's question.
"...and if you were to let your wife finish then you would understand that we agreed through Eva's threat that we would not allow our or rather my façade make its way inside of your home." Jordan quickly fires back.
Eva was slowly but surely growing tired of this childish rivalry between the two. It was then that she decided to interject herself in the conversation.
"What did you do to her, Jordan? I do deserve to know the answer to that question, don't I?" She used her charm against Jordan.
Thr young woman mentally knew that being peacemaker was about to pay off in her favor.
"Why yes you do but only if you allow me to speak to Natalie one last time." The intergalactic dignitary offers as his means of a wager.
"That's solely up to Captain Andros. I know that you know that she doesn't want to see your face especially not at this time." The queen alleges as a reminder about last night and Natalie's demand.
"Since when have I ever listened to what other people told me to do?" Jordan seriously questions, as if it were a joke.
However the king and queen were staring at each other sending a mental message certifying that Natalie was right about Jordan and whatever he did to her.
"Okay then. I'll try and set something up for you but not until you tell me what exactly did you do to make Natalie so upset?" Eva agrees to his conditions on a half turn as she was going to ultimately claim both prizes.
"Well this is what happen…" The Avatar begins to tell his side of the story to Aikka and Eva.
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Natalie paced through the halls of the castle in order to confirm if Princess Mai knew where she was going this time.
Ever since she caught wind about the princess accidental bump in with the king and queen where no soldiers of hers were present, on site, or in the area caused her to be on edge.
'She's a rather bold one being a stalker…' The raven haired woman conceives.
The solider mentally reflects back to how she was able to prepare for Princess Mai's arrival and that was thanks to none other then….
The Avatar. Natalie's new sworn enemy.
Her heels constantly clicks against the marble floor as she heads to the king and queen's private bedroom to inform them of the entire Princess Mai situation.
As the captain neared the double doors, she overheared some muffled voices converse with each other.
Natalie stealthy cracks the door open only to get a glimpse of the king and queen alert on their bed with a golden light in front of them.
"Well this is what happen…" the Avatar starts to talk.
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Author's Notes:
11.27.16 Major editing revision
Major editing cleaning 06.23.17