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❤️ He is awake and War (Part 3) ❤️

"Gwen is a big girl, she should handle it herself," Kira said with a shrug. "What if by the end of the day we chase Morgan away from her and she later wants him, she will blame us for pushing him away from her. Take me for an example, I know what I want. I want you and not Dean, my heart knows who it wants and that's you, but for Gwen..." she trails off.

"You're right, but nevertheless we should keep an eye on them, I don't want Morgan to hurt Gwen nor do I want her to hurt him in return, he is my brother after all." Storm told her. "And will you stop talking about Dean? I don't like the way you are making him sound important."

"Do I smell jealousy?" Kira teases him.

"Call it whatever you want my love, but I don't like the way you call his name every time. You've mentioned his name today more than three times, not that I am counting." Storm said with a sour expression.

"I only mentioned his name because he was the topic at that time." Kira told him, rolling her eyes at him.

"I don't care," Storm said, tightening his hold on her. "Anyway let's check on Gwen, she left with Morgan and who knows what they are up to." He added.

"She has turned that room basically to hers," Kira said as they left the old training ground. "We will have no privacy at all, all thanks to her." She added with a tiny smile on her lips.

"We will stay in another room if you want my love." Storm suggested.

"But that room reminds you of your father, it will be very evil of me to take you away from that." Kira said. She remembered who the room had belonged to and it would be somehow to take Storm away from it.

"Don't worry about that besides we won't be staying in Ashland for long. We will leave when it's time and go home, for now, we are temporarily staying in the Palace."

Kira smiled at that. Wherever Storm goes, she follows.

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Morgan was livid in anger. How could Gwen do this to him? If she thinks that telling him 'No' will make him stop then she better think again but he will never let her go. He needed someone to talk to so he went in search of his brother and was told by a guard that Fred was in his room.

Knocking once on Fred's door.

"Come in, the door is always open." Fred's voice said from the inside and Morgan wasted no time in entering.

"Oh it's you Morgan," Fred said, getting up from his seat and leaving his painting and brush. "Please sit down." he added pointing at the chair he had occupied a second ago but Morgan paid him no attention, instead he rested himself at the door, staring at the wall behind Fred, the room was quiet for close to two minutes. "You look troubled." he said in observation as he watched his brother, going back to his seat- since his brother didn't want to sit- and taking his painting brush and resuming his painting. "What is it?" he asked, still drawing whatever it is he was drawing.

"It's Gwen." Morgan replied.

"What about her?" he asked.

"She doesn't want to get married to me anymore," Morgan said expecting to see a surprise look on his brother's face but got none, anyway he pushes that off to a corner of his mind, "And she is pregnant for Kando." the reaction he was expecting from his brother finally appeared on his face.

Fred was shocked and speechless.

"What? Pregnant for Kando's?" Fred asked and when Morgan nodded his head, he continued. "How? When did it happen?"

"I was as surprised as you and I can't go and ask her when she slept with Kando." Morgan answered, holding the bridge of his nose. "The point is she doesn't want me around her anymore and it's driving me crazy." he added a second later.

"Probably it's the pregnancy that is making her behave that way towards you, brother."

"I doubt it, she told me to stay away from her and she really meant those words. I shouldn't have allowed her to get kidnapped in the first place. I should have stopped him from taking her away from me." Morgan said sadly sliding down the door to sit on the ground.

"Are you kidding me? You could have stopped Kando? Have you forgotten what he did to you? He is a lot stronger than you, brother, so you don't stand a chance against him."

"I don't care, I don't blo.ody care. If he is dead whatever spell he had placed on Gwen will be gone and everything will be the same way it was before she was kidnapped."

"So you are still going to marry her with her pregnancy, with Kando's child growing in her?" Fred said with wide eyes as he stared at his brother as if he had grown ten heads.

"Yes, I still love her regardless, once Kando is out of the way, I will kill the child after it is born." Morgan told his brother. He has made up his mind and there is no two ways about it.

"I hope you know what you are doing Morgan. About the killing of the child, count me out of it, I won't have my hands stained on the blood of an innocent child." Fred said.

"That child is the reason why I and Gwenevere are in this mess so once it's out of the way I will have her back to myself."

"Have you told mother?"

"No and I don't intend to tell her. She would laugh at me, so please keep your mouth shut."

"I won't tell her if you don't want me to." Fred promised. "What about Storm, does he know?"

"He knows, even Juno knows but they stand with Gwen in whatever decision she takes."

"What will you do now?" Fred asked, there were no options for him to give to his brother.

"I don't know Fred, I sincerely don't know." he answered and Fred nodded his head in understanding and went back to his painting.

***

Unknown Place:

The mysterious unknown man who has been in the same position since opened his eyes and stood up to his feet, without uttering a word to Phoenix, he came out of the opening cave removing his cloak and stretching out a hand towards the sun, he smiled to himself and then went back to meet Phoenix, grinning like a fool.

"It worked, I am fully back," he said happily and started laughing hysterically and stopped to tell her. "And now it's time for everything to fall back into place, Phoenix."

***

Emera House:

Rumi arrived home but instead of going inside, she went to sit down close to Grace grave.

"There is something I am not getting right," Rumi began soliloquizing. "I mean why would he come to me asking we join hands together when clearly he has been controlling Dean."

Then a thought suddenly came to her and she stared at Grace's grave. "What if I have been thinking from the wrong side all these time? Let me start from the beginning." she said to herself and closed her eyes, taking a deep breath then opened her eyes.

"I feel you were cut off early to prevent this day, if you were still alive you would have told me everything, right?" she asked no one. "I was living peacefully with you guys, my plans to be in your family worked out and I was taking my to strike but then the blind seer came and told you my secret which made me kill you," she said then remembered something, if her thoughts weren't occupied on killing Grace, she would have noticed it in time. "The blind seer that visited that day was not real. It was an illusion made by someone to reveal my true identity to you which prompted me to end your life. Who could have a stronger magic to do this? I had taken Sarah powers and had imprisoned her so she is out of my suspect list. Dean wouldn't stoop that low to do that, he is the type that will attack you and want you to know the attack is from him, besides his aim was his brother, the late Emperor. Then there is me but that's impossible, I would know if I had done it myself. Someone used me as a pawn to get to you Grace. Someone is playing games with me. Could it be the unknown man? Who is he and why did he come to me? I'm confused." she stood up to her feet. "I can't be wrong can I? The blind seer hasn't come back here ever since the incident which confirms my suspicions about her. I will have to ask Juno if she knows of anyone who is in love with her apart from Storm and Dean." nodding her head. "That is what I will do, asking her, I will start from there."

She went inside and with nothing else to do she began to sew some of her old torn dresses. Her mind reflects back on the day of Grace's death and her first encounter with the unknown man.

***

Kudarma Kingdom:

Dean's Room:

Dean groaned out painfully as if something was hurting him, then he opened his eyes and stared around him. He was surprised to see himself in his room because he remembered quietly well that he was in Kando's room beating him when Rumi came and stood in front of him then touched his forehead and then... nothing.

He was still angry. Angry at Rumi for interrupting him and angry at himself for allowing Kira to stay that long in Ashland.

Then he remembered his strange dream and that made him sit upright on his bed immediately.

What game is he playing?

Dean thought as he remembered every detail of his conversation with the other man in his dream.

"Cando!!" he yelled once and soon enough Cando and his brother walked in bowing down to him. "You've healed?" it wasn't a question as he realized there were no wounds on Kando which means he must have slept for some time. "How long have I been asleep?" he asked.

"A day and a few hours, master," Cando replied.

"Rumi was here to check on you master," Kando said.

"Leave that witch out of our discussion Kando," Dean warned. "I will kill her anyway." he added and didn't see the tightened jaw of Cando. "Or better still make her my second wife after Kira. She has proven to me how powerful she is and it will be a waste to let her go just like that."

Aelfric wouldn't mind if he married his two beautiful daughters. Dean thought to himself. It was as if his daughters were meant to be with him.

"Prepare five thousand of my armies, they will be attacking Ashland and its Kingdoms tomorrow." Dean told them.

"Are we going to war against them?" Kando asked.

"It's a wake up call to let them know how serious I am. I have given the entire people of Ashland enough time to release Kira to me which they have refused to yield so the five thousand armies will be my warning message to them," Dean said. "Kando you will lead them and bring back the remaining survivors while you, Cando, on the other hand will be getting my remaining five hundred thousand armies already for the real war."

Both brothers nodded their heads.

"You can leave now," he said and when they left his room, he got down from the bed and went to have a quick bath then changed before leaving his room.

Ten minutes later he was facing the sand statues in the room which his dragon's fire had created.

"You, my immortal armies will be the last." he said and created a knife made out of fire and with it he sliced open his palm and his blood began to fall down to the ground. "This should be enough." he added and left the room. His blood formed a circle around the sand statues. Only when the blood that circled around then dries off will they be able to come to life.

Presenting his bleeding hand to his dragon's who were quick to lick out the blood making the cut heal almost immediately.

"Get ready, war is beckoning on us." he told his dragon's rubbing his hands on each or their stony heads.

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"I will kill him if he tries what he said," Cando said as he and his brothers approached the camp where the armies are.

"Why?"

Cando turned his head slightly to look at his brother for asking him 'Why' as if he was not there to know. "Didn't you hear what he said about Rumi."

"And so?" Kando asked.

That prompted Cando to halt as he opened his mouth widely at his brother. "And so?" he repeated his brother's words. "He said he is going to get married to Rumi and you are telling me 'and so'?"

"You shouldn't be bothered about it because in your own words you don't like Rumi so why are you so bothered about Dean taking Rumi as his wife?" Kando asked with a smug look on his face.

Cando didn't reply.

"Why did Dean suddenly want to attack Ashland? Apart from Kira there has to be something else," Cando said changing the topic. "Or is he being controlled again?"

"I doubt that, besides, he appears normal," Kando said. "But that won't stop me from informing Storm."

"So you will be going to Ashland tonight?"

"Of course I will." Kando answered. He wanted to see Gwen again.