ROYAL BLOOD

ONREAHU

Rufus took a sip from his glass and said, "I was busy with my cousins."

Scott looked at the fireplace and asked him, "So, did ye find out the kid?"

Rufus took a chance and replied, "You remember the kid, right?"

"Ye, I told ye tha' I almos' Killed 'im."

"Strange, because you ought to know that kid. You wouldn't kill him."

Scott gulped and said, "Noi, mate. I 'ave no connection with 'im."

"You sure you don't know that person?"

"Ye, I don't." Scott was getting nervous and he asked him, "Did ye find 'im?"

"yes, we did."

"So who was tha'?"

"Scott, why are you lying?"

Scott sensed that Rufus had already found out so he tried to sound confident and innocent, "Lyin'? fer wha'? Ye kno' tha' I neve' lie."

"You're lying again. Don't break our friendship, Scott."

Scott got up furiously and said, "I am not!"

Rufus got up and cried, "You know Grivald! That boy was Grivald! And you guided us to the pub! You work for Gary!"

Scott sat down back on the armchair and said, "I'm sorry, mate. I kno' I did tha' but Noi, I don work fer Gary."

"Scott please don't lie anymore. Why would you do that then?"

"It wa' Ryan."

"What do you mean?" Rufus asked him curiously and sat down on the armchair once again.

"ye, he tol' me to be a par' of this. I tol' 'im no 'cause I did not want to Lie to you. Bu' he insisted an' said he woul' giv' meh coins."

"Coins? You did this for money?"

"ye, I wa' havin' a hard time. No income an' I needed coins fer food and othe' things. I though' fer a while an' coul'd not say no 'cause I needed the money."

"You could've come and asked me if you needed money instead of lying!"

"I'm sorry, Rufus. I do not work fer Gary." Scott said looking sad.

Rufus got up and walked out of Scott's house. Scott watched him go and did not stop him. He drank the remaining sip from his glass and threw the glass. He felt guilty and sad. Rufus got out feeling extremely angry and hurt at the same time. Scott did it all for money. He just was not ready to accept this.

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Grivald watched as the creature walked towards Lore and his group. Grivald had never seen something like that in the forest before. He wanted to stop the creature but was terrified to do anything.

Lore, Wisteria, Jackson and Leo took a few steps back as the creature approached them.

"Should we run?" Wisteria whispered.

Suddenly, there was a sound from a bush nearby and everybody turned to that direction. Grivald had accidentally stepped on a twig and it snapped making a noise. "s**t!" Grivald muttered and he ducked down. He shut his eyes tightly hoping not to be seen.

Lore watched as the creature raised its left arm and made a gesture of pulling something out from the bush and suddenly, Grivald came out of the bush and landed hard on the ground.

"What is he doing here?" Jackson whispered.

"I don't know. This is our chance. Run!" Lore cried.

The creature looked back and saw them running. Soon, the creature raised its arm and formed an invisible wall all around. Lore stopped and tried running forward but he was stopped. There was an invisible wall. Leo ran all around by feeling the wall with his hands trying to find a way to escape. Grivald got up slowly and tried running away but he fell back as he hit his head in the invisible wall. They were trapped. The creature had casted a charm and they were surrounded by invisible wall and had nowhere to go.

"Stop!" the creature cried. Its voice was very deep and powerful.

Grivald stood up by placing one of his hands on his head. He was grunting because of the pain.

"W-Who are you?" Lore asked the creature.

The creature looked at him for a moment. Lore looked very familiar to him; he had surely seen him somewhere before but could not remember where.

"I am Morganite." He replied.

"H-hello, M-Morganite." Lore stammered.

"What are you?" Grivald asked from behind.

Morganite turned back and looked into Grivald's eyes. Grivald looked familiar too. He rushed and looked into others eyes but did not feel the same. He looked into Lore and Grivald and sensed some sort of a connection.

"C-Can we go?" Wisteria asked nervously.

"No!" Morganite replied. He looked pulled Grivald and made him stand beside Lore.

"Who are you?" he asked them.

"Lore." Lore said. Morganite looked at Grivald and he said, "I am Grivald."

"Have we met before?" Morganite questioned the both of them.

"Never." Lore replied and Grivald agreed.

"What is it then, I sense from you two?"

Grivald and Lore exchanged glances. Wisteria stepped up and asked, "What exactly are you?"

Morganite looked at her and replied, "I am an Onreahu."

"Onreahu?" Leo questioned.

Morganite stepped back and said, "Onreahu are people who are created by magic in order to protect someone or something."

"Who created you?" Lore asked.

Morganite replied, "I was created by witches; Adelaide's people as requested by the Queen; Violane. My purpose was to protect her children. I guarded the two princes' secretly but the King found out and he cast me out. I came here, in the woods and this is where Adelaide told me about the Kingdom of Onreahu. It was a home to those Onreahus' whose purpose of serving was over. I entered the Kingdom and found myself a home amidst other Onreahus."

"The King and The Queen had two children?" Lore asked Morganite.

Grivald did not know this as well. Gary had not mentioned about it.

"Yes. The two Princes' were twins." Morganite replied.

"But the mansion did not have the portrait of the other prince"

"What mansion are you talking about?" Morganite asked Lore in confusion.

Leo poked Lore from behind signaling him not to talk about it.

"N-Nothing." Lore replied.

"Are you talking about the mansion in the clouds?" Morganite asked.

Lore looked at Grivald nervously. Grivald looked and Morganite and gulped, "How do you know?"

Morganite was astonished and he replied, "I had helped the Queen and Adelaide to build it. How many of you got inside?"

"Me and these two." Leo replied pointing at Grivald and Lore.

"That means you-"

"Yes, we know. Royal blood."

Grivald looked at Morganite and said, "But I do not know whom I am related to."