Seto walked into Yugi's office and was surprised that no one was there. He thought it strange since Yami had indicated talking to Yugi not five minutes before. He felt sure Mokuba would still be here. But as he turned to leave a glow caught his eye. He turned and found a map glowing. He frowned wondering why. He walked over to it and as soon as he touched it he was soon engulfed in a bright light. A minute or two later he was able to see again and the light had formed a portal. Now he was really freaked out wondering how and why a portal suddenly appeared.
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Meanwhile Mahaado went to confront Diana. He did find it weird that other than strange looks at his hand not one person said or did anything. In fact he expected them to laugh or question why his arm was encased in armor. Now that he thought of it, Dylan seemed to think he was crazy as well when he mentioned it. Finally he opened the door to his and Diana's room.
"Diana! What the hell did you do to me?!" Mahaado screamed, slamming the door behind him.
At that baby David started screaming his head off. She sighed and walked past Mahaado ignoring him and going outside to find a maid sitting reading a book. When not needed the maids assigned are to stay close by in case they're needed. "Miss."
Asana snapped her head up and quickly marked her page. Being in a school with a lot of rowdy noisy boy's you learn to tune out noises. Being brought back to reality she quickly set her book down and ran over to her, "Yes, ma'am." It hadn't been easy for her to learn to adjust that when you're called, you answer. She now understood a little more what Mokuba went through.
"My stupid husband decided he didn't care if his son was sleeping."
"Now hold on.…"
Diana continued to ignore him and then with the hand she had at her side she moved her fingers as if to snap them but did it lightly and made no noise. Suddenly Mahaado was screaming almost as loud as baby David was. "Miss, please take baby David and take him to my sister and help her calm him down."
"Yes, ma'am." Asana moved past Mahaado wondering but not daring to ask what was wrong with him. Instead she quickly moved over to baby David and scooped up the crying baby and left.
Diana moved her fingers in a silent snap again and Mahaado was on the floor gasping for breath.
"What-what's going on?"
"Quite simple really. I was given the power to control you."
Mahaado blinked and looked at Diana, "Control me?"
"Yes, as long as you wear that ring I can control how loose or tight it gets?"
"And the armor? Dylan looked at me like I was crazy when I mentioned it but despite his saying he saw it I could see it in his eyes that he didn't believe me! Not to mention all the way here no maid, guard, anyone looked twice at my arm. Just me for holding it. So what's going on?"
"Quite simple really. Me, you and anyone with an extremely high level of magic will see it. Of course that counts anyone in this kingdom out. Sure they seem to have fairly good powers to have defeated… ah what was his name again? Ahh….never mind, Anyway you said he was very powerful."
"Well yes but had he been at full strength these fools wouldn't have stood a prayer of defeating him!"
"You think you could have defeated him?"
"I trained under Master Dartz the same as these fools. Only Master Dartz was still in his prime then and I trained with him for years, whereas I've heard they only had a couple of months! My father paid him well to train me and I never forgot his teachings or his training! I know I would have defeated him."
"Mmm…well be that as it may. It doesn't change the fact that neither he nor your father taught you not to spy on others."
"In war it is your best defense."
"Ah, but we're not at war. You're not spying on others because you think they're going to start a war with us, you're spying to be nosey! Spying on the enemy in war or fear of war is one thing. I don't have a problem with that. Spying just because you're bored is a whole different story! Now your father and everyone else may have bowed down and let you do as you do as you please and at one time I too did as I was told. But now I have a baby I want to protect and raise to do the right thing! I can't do that if his father is doing as he pleases! My son won't grow up to be a respectable man like my father used to be before that bitch killed our mother and took over our kingdom and sold us off like we were sheep!"
Mahaado stood up and asked, "Do-Do you regret marrying me?"
"At one time I would have said, yes."
"What, but why?"
"Though I was told the ancient legend of a man who remarries and no longer wants his daughter after he has a new child. It strangely reminds me of my father and stepmother. I never thought my father would allow the same thing to happen."
"What do you mean, the same thing? What legend?"
"Centuries ago a King and his Queen of ten years. Loved children and loved their only child a daughter. When the wife dies suddenly the husband remarries and has a new child, a boy. Well heaven forbid the daughter rule, no they give her to a wondering prince who thinks she's pretty. She was barely ten and the law was 16 oh but the new wife didn't take long in convincing her new husband to change that law and force future generations into doing it as well. I've read that at least 4 children boy's who were not married by 13 and girls by 10, were killed. That's the law they put in place. So you see my father was going against it. I heard he'd thought of changing the law but was running into obstacles with first his council and then my stepmother. You think I wanted to be married at 12? I heard all about you before the wedding and wasn't impressed knowing you'd slept with almost every maid in the castle and who knows how many other women. I barely even liked boy's when we met. So I wasn't thrilled about having to marry you. I'm impressed you even stayed faithful since I know your advisors had to keep a sharp eye on you to make sure of it."
Mahaado neither confirmed nor denied ever being totally faithful to her. Even though he knew what she said was true.