Revenge| Book 6| A novel in the Blue Moon series| An Avengers fan fiction series |

5- Time is Up

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Here's another chapter!!! Hope you like it. It's very much Videl-centered.

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Chapter 5: Time is Up

Videl has walked precisely feet inside the Ardhigizan palace when he wishes he'd brought Victoire with him.

Loathe as he is to admit it out loud, Victoire is a source of comfort for the rightful young Velah emperor. The little girl reminds him of his mother, in the way of her tenacious spirit and her curly hair that he also shares. Victoire also has his mother and brother's vibrant crimson eyes. And she's the only member of his family left alive.

It's not that he's alone. Jijah and Amara had come with him from the North Pole. He and the twins had grown up together, hunting in the forests and in the mountains. But Archer and Lifolas had been with them then, and pain had not. Pain had been a distant feeling to Videl back then. Even when he was Thea's age, sixteen, he was happy and carefree. But then Rini had killed herself that year and six months later, his beautiful mother Agrafina had been killed by the Imeldi. And after that, Neidra had come along, and soon after, he'd killed Leah. That's when he'd really known his life had gone to hell.

Jijah and Amara's parents are waiting in the cloisters, filled with exotic plants and misty trickling waterfalls. Their father, Li, has the twins' yellow cats' eyes, and has extremely chiseled facial features like his daughter. Laya, their mother, has light red eyes and the same full lips as Jijah, and the same slightly pointed ears as both her children. Videl has always liked both of them. Laya had been his mother's closest friend, and after Agrafina had died, she had tried to take Videl and Archer under her wing. Archer had responded a lot more positively than Videl had.

Even so, Laya hurries forward and kisses Videl on both cheeks. Her dark hair is streaked with silver now. "Videl, you've returned." Her eyes are bright as she looks up at him. When Archer had died, all her affections had swept to him, and he'd tried to bear it as much as possible. "Where is Victoire?"

"She's still on Earth," says Videl. "I didn't think she needed to come to a place where the elders still have no use for me."

"Is she safe there?" asks Laya. "Are the humans competent? She is royalty after all."

"Victoire is in perfectly good hands," says Videl, trying extremely hard to not have an attitude. "Emmaline takes care of her like she's her own daughter."

"But Victoire isn't her daughter."

"Well she isn't your granddaughter either," Videl retorts and instantly regrets it.

Amara elbows him.

Li takes over the conversation before it goes even more south. "The three elders are ready to meet with you."

"Oh goody," says Videl, his savage mood worsening by the sadness in Laya's eyes and the crushing loneliness around him. "Then we shouldn't keep the pretentious bastards waiting, should we?"

Six yellow eyes and one sad red pair look at him intensely. Videl wants to drown himself in the waterfall pool a few feet from him. I need Angelique and Thea, he thinks miserably to himself. Angelique keeps me from snapping at people and being an arse, and Thea at least could back me up. Or burn me when I'm being stupid.

He walks down the hall without another word, not wanting his runaway tongue to get ahead of him again.

As he makes his way toward the conference table, Videl passes several Velah girls lingering amongst the columns, watching them. He recognizes all three. One is Felih, who he remembers to be Rini's childhood friend. She's grown into a lovely young woman with shimmering walnut hair and vibrant flame-colored eyes. The second is Mij, a larger built girl with luxurious black hair that reaches her thighs.