26 Chapter 26

After they all cleaned up Lovell, looked at Zephyr, she seemed to have her nose in a book. Lovell looked at the cover, ran over, snatching it from her hands as Kana walked in, carrying some groceries. She slowly placed the provisions down, Lovell froze in fear as she walked over, pulling out throwing knives. Zephyr realizing what she caused, couldn't stop Kana from throwing the knives at Lovell.

"Umm, miss Kana?" Zephyr tries to get her attention as Kana moved in. "Ma'am Lovell did nothing wrong, I did."

Kana froze as she looked at her, her ferocious face became calm. "Oh, sorry, I thought he became a naughty little man for reading my diary?"

Lovell sighed, "you did have a tendency to overreact, Kana, ma'am." Kana laughed as the others stared at her. "Anyway—"

Kana put her hand in front of Lovell's face, cutting him off. "I want you to cook Lovell; we will talk over dinner, kay?"

Lovell was shaking as he looked into her face. "Y-yes m-ma'am!"

Lovell walked over to the groceries and took them to her kitchen. Kana looked at the others. "Now let us talk about you all and how Lovell has been doing. I don't want to hear about what brought you here till I know I can trust you six and know you are not a threat." Kana smiled as they looked over at Lovell, seeing the reason why he acted the way he did.

Gale coughed, as he found his composure. "Well, Lance and I met Lovell first at Stonebeak, about four months ago." Gale gestured over to Lance. Kana sat down as she listened. "A-ah sorry I should have started with introducing myself," Gale stuttered as he placed his hand on his chest, "My name is Gale McKnight, son of King McKnight of the Grand Dale Kingdom."

Kana leaned forward, "I thought they were humans, not daemons?"

Lance turned his gaze. "Well, things happened where Gale became a daemon."

Kana turned to him, her eyes sadden. "Oh, that must have been hard to do, then umm…"

"Lance."

"Lance, well, it seems you have travelled a lot together with—"

Lance turned to her. "Lovell left us about twenty-five days ago, because of some internal issues he needed to work out." He looked over to Lovell as he prepared the food. "But Lovell got captured shortly after by a person named Hunter. He managed to get out obviously but not without help from the inside." Lance narrowed his eyes. "After that, he met Scarlet here and the twin animilian half-breeds."

Kana leaned back, gripping her chin. "I see, so I'm guessing you all met back up somewhere by chance?"

Lance nodded as Scarlet shifted her weight. "Well, how I met Lovell was that he practically landed in front of me after teleporting from Mourn Fortress."

Kana turned to Scarlet, her eyes bulging. "What?!"

Scarlet nodded, "Yes, surprisingly, he managed to use a teleport spell without knowing his own destination." Scarlet noted as she placed her hand on her chest. "By the way, I'm Scarlet de Rosier, of the Rosier House here in the Gold Heart Empire."

The twins looked at Kana, "We are Zero and Zephyr." They spoke in unison as they placed their hand on their chests.

Zephyr smiled softly, " If we had never stolen from Lovell, we wouldn't have been saved for the Rat King."

Kana looked at her, as she busts out laughing, Lovell wince in the other room. "Sounds like him, he was taught how to track, steal, and assassinate, even though he can be timid."

Luna placed a finger in her chin, "What do you mean miss Kana?"

Kana stopped laughing as she smiled. "Call me Kana, well Lovell has a sweet spot with children even though he has killed over a hundred people." She turns to him, see what he was looking out of the corner of his eye. "Lovell's reputation in the underworld is almost legendary. Though it was tame before Morris died." Kana's eyes darkened. "Morris meant a lot to Lovell."

Luna clasped her chest. "How so?"

Kana turned to Luna. "He became a monster after he watched him die." Kana closed her eyes before turning to Lovell again. "Morris was like a father to him."

Everyone looked at Lovell, seeing that he wanted to cry. Fang turned to Kana. "I'm guessing you trust us even though not all have introduced ourselves?"

Kana turned to Fang. "Yes, I know who you are, and miss Luna. I do have eyes and ears across the lands. Besides, there are some things I don't know." Kana got up as Lovell walked out of the kitchen, Kana smiled at Lovell. "So, foods ready then?!"

Lovell nodded as the others helped set the table. Luna noticed over Lovell's left eye. She reached over touching it, Lovell startled by what she did, grabbed her hand. "Please don't touch that."

Kana looked over at them; she covered her mouth, evilly, "Well, do I see the love in the air?"

Lovell and Luna turned red as they turned away from each other. Scarlet joined Kana in fun. "It seems that they might be?"

Fang clapped his hands, startling them. "Enough you two, they already know they can't be together." Kana pouted at him. "Besides its taboo for any god that reincarnates to marry and have children."

"And who made that rule, Fang?" Kana growled.

Fang sat down as he reached for some grub. "The other gods did, I think it was after some incident."

Kana looked at Lovell and Luna, seeing how it was tearing them inside, knowing this reality. "Oh, well, changing the subject. What brought you all here to me?"

Lovell looked at her. "We need to find the others. I left something there, and it might be helpful with what we need to do next. Plus, Lua might have some info we might need to find out what the dark lord is planning and how to stop him."

Kana leaned back in her seat. "I don't know their location at this time, but that doesn't mean that I can't find them." Giving him a thumbs up.

Lovell smiled. "Thanks, Kana, you're a lifesaver."

Kana huffed in pride, "Well, it will take two to three days to gather any info of their location, so relax and recuperate. Form the look of things, lots happened when first saw all of you." Everyone smiled in glee as she said those words, Kana turned to Lovell. "In honesty, I thought you would look like your true form over your real mortal self, there Lovell?" She turned to Fang, "As well as you there, Fang?"

Fang turned to her. "Well, the flowers don't affect threyans that way, only our mortal forms."

"ahh," Kana turned to Luna, "Now Luna, you and the girls will be sleeping in the guest rooms while the boys will sleep out here for the night." Zero and lance went to protest. "Sit down. It's temporary for the night." Kana was stopping them before they sat back down. "I will have to take to a friend to see if you boys can stay at his spare house in town."

Lance sighed, "What a relief. So, tomorrow hopefully, we will be sleeping in beds and no your floor like a bunch of animals."

Lovell looked at him, "Umm, that sounds fine to me, but I might be the pillow over Fang, though?"

Kana watched as they chatted away over dinner. She smiled, seeing Lovell loosen up since she last saw him. "Your finally truly happy, Lovell," Kana whispered to herself. Lovell looked over to her regarding her smile at them.

The next day, Kana got a hold of her friend and let the boys know that they could stay at his spare home. Lovell thanked her as she left. Luna walked up to him with Scarlet in tow.

Lovell turned to them. "What's up?"

Scarlet smiled, "We thought of going into the market and gather some essentials before we leave in possibly three days."

Lovell sighed at her. "And you need me to come?"

Scarlet nodded. "You have a better sense of things than Lance, Gale and Zero combined, and Fang already said no before we asked."

Lovell peered behind them, seeing Fang sharpening their weapons, and Lance teaching Zero how to clean the weapons while Gale and Zephyr discussed a book that they were fawning over. Lovell sighed, "Fine, I'll go."

Scarlet grinned. "I knew you would."

As they entered the town, Lovell noticed a stand with handbags and satchels lined up. As he glanced over, he saw one bag's design. Lovell stopped and picked the bag up. Feeling the leather's embordered design, he knew it from somewhere. He looked at the vendor. "Excuse me, but where is this bag made?"

The man looked up at Lovell, "Why do you ask, boy?"

Lovell stared at him. "Well, it seems familiar to me, and I was wondering if my hunch was right? That's all?"

The man looked at the bag. "It's from Blacklight village." Lovell's eyes lite up as the man looked at him. "You know of the place?"

Lovell's eyes saddened, "Yes, it was my home before it was destroyed twenty years ago."

The man looked at Lovell as he placed the bag back down as Lovell noticed the price. The man gritted his teeth as Lovell walked away. "Hey, boy!" Lovell turned around to see the man holding the bag. "Take it as a reminder of your origins."

Lovell stared. "I can't; I don't have enough—"

"Boy, it's a gift. I could never sell the dam thing for twenty years because it was the last one ever made." Lovell walked up to the man as he took the bag from him. "I found out it was addressed to you, Lovell."

Lovell stared at the man, noticing that the man was someone he knew. Tears streamed down his face, "Old Man Phil."

Phil smiled at him. "Long time, no see little Lovell." Lovell was ecstatic to see him as Scarlet called out for him. Phil turned to them. "go to your friends Lovell; they need you; besides, we might see each other again someday soon." Lovell looked at him, knowing he was right as he ran off to his friends. Phil waved as he turned to the sky. "Marie, its done, he has the bag now, just like you asked that day."

"So, what's with the new bag?" Scarlet asked him

Lovell slanged the strap over his head. "A memento form Blacklight." He smiled as he opened the bag. He noticed a letter, pulling it out he saw it was addressed to him.

Luna turned around to him. "What is that?"

Lovell flipped it over. "A letter addressed to me?" Lovell opened it.

/Dear Lovell, /

/I know when you find this bag I will have been long gone and you might ask yourself, why is there a letter addressed to me inside. Well, truth be told, I knew one day the Faremin forces might find you till I found out that a young girl born in the village was Lunatica's reincarnation. I knew that they would kill her as did the villagers, but despite any preparations, we knew that her only hope was for you, the Ren-Ky of Light and Darkness, to take her to safety. If by chance they had attacked before she was three weeks old and you survived with her. I want you to seek out Morris, your fathers' good friend and your godfather. /

Lovell paused as he read the letter, tears welled up., as he continued.

/I will watch over you with your mother and guide you no matter what to the right path. /

/Love, Marie Kaya. /

Lovell clenched the letter close to him, finding out how everyone he loved was connected to his father and knew who and what he was. Luna tried to touch him in comfort, hesitating, she pulled herself back, knowing that she wasn't needed for this. Scarlet leaned in, hugging him as he let go of the pain inside.

Two days passed, Kana opened the door, her face pale as they all stared at her. She looked at Lovell. "I got good news and bad news."

Lovell looked at her, "the good news first, Kana, we need something that's not bad first."

Kana looked at him. "OK, but I'm warning you the bad news isn't good. Anyway, I found Ark is nearby."

Lovell sat up, "Really, where is he?!"

Sweat ran down her brow, "That's the bad news. He's in the Goldhill prison for stealing a royal treasure."