*The Chronicles of F.R.E.E. Atania's Knight - Raquel Festow* Part 1

Chapter 31 - A Family Reunited

*Ruth Watson POV*

When we got back to Dean's, it was about mid afternoon and everyone else was waiting in the main seating area for our arrival in a large circle like we do on Secrunerth. As soon as we walked through the main entrance, everyone except our Astrovia friends, Clara, Xavier, Fabian and Natalia, stood and bowed low in respect.
"At ease!" Rebecca called out to them, holding her hand up. She looked at Natalia and smirked.
Natalia squealed and launched herself over to her, knocking her backwards into the door, already kissing her deeply.
Raquel saw Hunter and did the same, her squeal so high pitched, Rhianna, Ruby and I had to cover our ears to defend them. She ran to Hunter, who had only just got up, leapt at him and knocked him back in the chair which then tipped over backwards. Raquel straddled Hunter to the floor, smothering him with kisses.
Darren stood up, watching me carefully. He then made a fangirl squeal and ran in a very girly way over to me, kicking his legs up behind him and waving his arms about. Everyone was laughing at him, Rebecca in particular. He reached me and picked me up, bridal style, kissing me deeply. I couldn't stop laughing even when his lips were on top of mine. I thankfully did calm down and the kissing got more passionate and intense.
Until someone cleared their throat.
We looked over and the two men that had come with Jarod to calm Rebecca were standing, facing us looking very serious.
Rebecca edged around Natalia and faced them, a strange look on her face.
"Axaczi, Oren ei Micha." She said, bowing to them slightly.
They returned the bow and straightened, smiling at her. "Jikaxa plangzi, Viaxaw."
Rebecca took a sharp intake of breath, as if she was calming herself down, and grinned at them.
"Well, you two choose your moments to turn up don't you?" She scoffed.
"My love, they only speak Neonian, remember?" Natalia said, putting a hand on her shoulder, but Rebecca laughed.
"They speak all languages of the Realms, darling. They take after their mother." She quipped, winking at her wife. "Anyway, why are you here? Don't you have some important business to be getting on with?"
"We got wind that you had arrested two Moreno women from Atania." The man with the combed back, receding dark hair said.
Rebecca nodded. "They heard about that, did they?" She smirked.
"Oh yes. Saying you had turned on your own friends because you were losing the plot." The other, older looking man said.
"With your help, no doubt?" Rebecca sneered.
"Course." The first man said, mirroring her sneer and shrugging. "Got to look the part, haven't we?"
Rebecca chuckled. "Proud of you, boys. Very proud. So what other news from the Order?" She said, walking to a chair and sitting down, rummaging in her bag.
"Well... Where should we start from, viaxaw?" The second man said, looking up at the ceiling and pretending to think.
"How about introducing us properly?" Said the first man, looking at myself and the other Doppelgängers with an amused face. "Get a feeling we're not giving a good first impression, here."
Rebecca snorted and looked over at us. "At ease, girls. These are my boys."
Natalia squealed and started jumping up and down. "I KNEW IT!" She squeaked before flinging her arms around the second man and smothering his face with kisses.
The older man picked Natalia up as if she was a baby and plonked her on a chair next to Rebecca, who was bent forward, clutching her stomach and silently laughing with tears falling down her cheeks.
"What the fuck is that meant to mean?" Rhianna asked sourly, looking the first man up and down.
"This is Micha," Rebecca pointed at the second man with the lines on his face, struggling to speak through her chortling. "This is Oren." She pointed to the man with the receding dark hair. "They're my boys. My son's."
"WHAT?!" Ruby and I shouted together in astonishment.
"I don't believe you!" Rhianna spat, folding her arms and scowling. "If they are your son's, then how come we've never met them before? How comes Natalia didn't know who they were? And... You fucked a man?!"
Rebecca flew into another fit of laughter at that. "Ahh, this is brilliant." She squeaked out and cleared her throat, trying to calm herself down. "Micha and Oren are a part of FREE. But they're undercover. As Tiana's own... personal bodyguards." Rebecca gave us an evil smirk.
"Seriously?" Ruby gasped.
"Then why haven't you just fucking killed her by now?!" Rhianna yelled at the men, angrily.
"Because, Rhianna, that's my job!" Rebecca said, suddenly serious. "It's only a matter of time now. Ruth, can you arrange a room for them and Jarod please?"
I nodded, still unsure about the men who were supposedly her sons. Rebecca noticed this and got up, walking over and placing a hand on my shoulder.
"Remember what I told you about Jarod and I?" She whispered.
I nodded, looking at Jarod.
"These were the results." She said, glancing over her shoulder.
"Why didn't you tell anyone though?" I asked, quietly, looking at Oren and Micha.
"Because the likelihood that that information would get back to Tiana was extremely high. I didn't know myself for a long time, and when I did I told Natalia I had found them, just... didn't go into details. Now, it doesn't matter. She's going to find out soon anyway. She's probably expecting my head to be sent to her any day now." She chuckled, darkly before she snapped her fingers as if she had just remembered something. "Micha, don't you have a phone call to make?" She asked, turning to her sons and folding her arms.
"I do." He grinned and pulled out his phone.
Raquel grabbed Rebecca's arm. "Rebecca, erez pixecti!" She hissed in a panic.
"Of course they would be." She murmured back. "They were brought up to be evil."
"You brought your own sons up to be evil?" Rhianna blanched in disgust. She scowled venomously at Rebecca.
Rebecca shook her head. "I'll tell you the story in a minute. But for now, I have someone I need to speak to."
She went over to Micha and stood next to him as he started calling someone on speakerphone. He handed the phone to Rebecca who gave him a wide smile and waited for the call to be answered.
"Micha!" Came an overly sweet female voice on the other line.
Rebecca sneered, evilly. "Hello, Tiana."
The whole room was absolutely silent. Everyone seemed to be holding their breath as we waited to hear Tiana's voice. Even Tiana seemed to be in so much shock, she took a while to respond.
"Rebecca Donton. It's been a while." Her voice was no longer sweet, instead it now was flat and emotionless.
"What's the matter, Tiana? Didn't want to stick around in Atania?" Rebecca taunted. "I was hoping to introduce you to my Doppelgängers."
"I had other business to attend to." Tiana snarled through the phone.
"Oh, yes. That's right. How is your dear sister? I hope she suffered." Rebecca said, cooly, smirking.
"YOU FUCKING BITCH!" Tiana bellowed down the phone. "YOU DID THIS!"
"Actually, no. Unless your memory is as bad as mine, I was busy searching the battlefield for you along with the other versions of me." Rebecca laughed, mockingly. "I may have doubles, but I can't be in two places at once, you know."
Tiana was breathing heavily down the phone, seething with rage at Rebecca's taunting. "What have you done with Micha?!" She breathed, venomously.
Rebecca looked at Micha before looking back at the phone. "He sends his regards." She replied simply.
"I swear if you have touched a single hair on either of my nephews heads, I will not hesitate to-"
"Your nephews?" Rebecca laughed. "Oh no, Tiana. You should know me better than that by now. I would never hurt family."
Tiana's breathing stopped going through the phone. "Where are they?" She whispered.
"With their mother." Rebecca replied, cockily.
"You fucking killed them too, didn't you?!" Tiana growled.
"Oh no no no no no." Rebecca shook her head, slowly, her eyes closed and a knowing smirk on her face. "I said they're with their mother. Their BIRTH mother, in fact. The mother you took her twins away from before her boys even took their first breaths."
"Impossible!" Tiana spat. "The girl bled herself out!"
Rebecca looked at Jarod, who shook his head, jeeringly.
"Ahh, that's what you thought. Unknown to you, the girl survived. She then survived Deathea for ten years and grew up to become your worst enemy..." Rebecca paused to let it sink in before adding, "remind you of anyone?"
Tiana's breath began roaring through the phone again and Rebecca looked satisfied that she knew who she meant.
"Oh, I suppose I should thank your slut of a sister, actually. She raised my boys well. Handsome, strong men they've become. Definitely ones to be proud of." Rebecca grinned at Micha and Oren who mirrored the grin back at her, smugly.
"They would never betray me!" Tiana snapped, finally. Her voice was trembling and we could tell this new information had really struck a core with her.
Micha snatched the phone off Rebecca. "That's what you think, you vile whore!" He snarled, his teeth bared and his fist almost crushing the phone. "We've been giving our real Viaxaw information about you for the past forty years!"
"AND..." Oren bellowed so she could hear him as he wrapped a protective arm around Rebecca's shoulders. "WE HAVE FOUGHT AGAINST YOU SINCE THE DAY WE FOUND OUT WHO SHE REALLY WAS!"
"So sorry, Tiana." Rebecca sneered. "Looks like you've lost your bodyguards and your nephews all in one day. Among the countless of others that suffered today, by the way."
There was a sudden crashing sound before the line went dead. Rebecca pulled a fake surprised face, holding back a smirk.
"I think someone has just broken their phone." She said before bursting into laughter. "I don't think that could have gone any better, do you?"
She pulled Oren down and planted a big kiss on his cheek. Oren wiped his cheek and pretended to scowl at her. Rebecca gave him an annoyed look.
"Don't wipe away my kisses, you little shit." she snapped, giving him another one.
Oren chuckled and gave her a brief hug before he was replaced by Micha. Jarod slapped Oren on the back and shook his hand.
"Well done, my boy." Jarod said, proudly. "You're finally FREE."
"Double meaning, Goaxaw?" Oren mocked. "Really?"
Rebecca looked at them from around Micha. "Don't start with the bad father jokes, Jarod. I get enough of them already." She looked at Natalia. "Come here, darling."
Natalia leapt into Rebecca's waiting arms and they kissed deeply. Oren and Micha hilariously cocked an eyebrow at them.
"Does that mean we have to call her Viaxaw too? Now she knows who we are?" Oren pretended to whine.
Rebecca chuckled against Natalia's lips before pulling away, keeping her arms around her wife. "No! Of course not." She pecked Natalia's lips again before smirking back at them. "You call her Naraz."
Natalia squealed so loudly at that Rebecca ducked away from her, shielding her ears. "I AM SO HAPPY RIGHT NOW!" Natalia squealed, dancing delightedly on the spot.
Raquel ran up to her and they started hugging and dancing in a circle.
Oren and Micha looked disapprovingly at Rebecca. Rebecca shrugged.
"You'll get used to it, trust me." She chuckled.
I looked at Darren in astonishment.
"Who would have ever thought that Rebecca had had kids?" I said to him, putting my arms around his neck.
"Yeah. And for them to have a step mum like Natalia... Holy shit!" He hissed, mouthing the last two words of his sentence, opening his eyes wide to add dramatic effect and making me laugh.
"RUTH!" Rebecca bellowed, making us both jump.
"What?!" I complained.
"Have you called the tavern yet?" Rebecca said, quickly stepping out of Natalia and Raquel's way as they danced around the room with Clara, Xavier and Fabian.
"No, because I was too busy watching you fuck with Tiana." I chuckled. "I'll do it now. Take it I need to arrange something for Fabian too" I muttered as I reached into my back pocket and pulled out the phone I had taken from the dead man back when we were being held captive.
"Give that here!" Micha said, snatching the phone from me and crushing it in his hand. "Before she starts tracking their phones." He explained.
Darren pulled a 'that told you' face and took his own phone out of his pocket to call the Hotel for extra rooms.
I pecked him on the cheek and leaned my head on his shoulder as I started to watch Natalia and Fabian dancing together while Clara and Xavier danced together. I howled with laughter when I noticed that poor Hunter had, very awkwardly and reluctantly, been dragged into dancing with Raquel.
Rhianna wasn't impressed.
"I can see her being a real problem for us." She murmured to me.
I nodded, while biting back my laughter. "I've already told Rebecca she is not to stay on the doppelgänger floor with us." I muttered back, winking at her.
Rhianna couldn't help but smile back. "Thank fuck for that." She stretched her back, groaning as she did so. "I need to have a practise. Fancy it?"
I shook my head at her. "There's no where big enough and quiet enough in this Realm to have a spar." I told her.
She gaped at me. "What? Nothing?"
I shook my head. "You'll be seen wherever we go. We can't risk it." I said.
Rhianna pouted. "No wonder my girl's weren't up to speed."
"Yup." I popped the P. "I'd do anything to let off some steam right now."
"I'd be happy to oblige there." Darren answered, putting the call down. "All booked. I've booked Oren Micha and Jarod a room to share. Rhianna and Ruby have got their own rooms. Reckon that would be ok?"
"Dunno." I said, biting my lip to stop my smirk and snuck up to Rebecca. "REBECCA!"
Rebecca jumped violently and spun round. "What the fuck was that for?" She snapped.
Rhianna fell to her knees, laughing.
"Pay back." I shrugged. "Jarod, Micha and Oren are all sharing a room."
Micha cocked an eyebrow. "We don't need a room." He looked at Rebecca. "I told you we already have somewhere to stay."
Rebecca folded her arms at him. "And I told you I won't let you stay anywhere apart from where I'm staying! I've lost you once, I'm not letting that happen again."
"Mother, seriously. We told you. We came to Earth a lot when we were younger, we have a house here. You're welcome to stay with us? It's big enough to house everyone here." Oren said, looking around the room.
"How did you guys get such a big house?" I asked them, suspiciously.
Micha shrugged. "It was in our inheritance."
"How can it be? I thought Rebecca was your mum?" Edwards asked, confused.
"Not her inheritance, idiot. She's going to outlive us! Our adoptive parents." Oren smirked evilly. "Fuckers never knew what hit them, at least until we hung them up to dry out." Both he and Micha let out a dry chuckle.
Rhianna made an impressed noise. "I like your style." She complimented them.
"Glad you approve." Micha winked at her. "Come on, viaxaw! Come and stay with us. We promise we cleaned the place up after they left. Although, you may not approve of their decor." He grimaced a little, rubbing the back of his neck.
Rebecca thought for a moment and looked at Natalia. But Rhianna butt in.
"Does it have a place we can practise?" She asked eagerly.
Micha nodded. "Over two acres of land."
"I'm in!" Rhianna cried out, spinning to me and giving me a high five.
"Natalia?" Rebecca asked.
Natalia shrugged then nodded vehemently. "If they have the room for everyone, it would be good to have a practise there too." She reasoned with Rebecca.
Rebecca looked around the room at everyone else before looking at her estranged sons and nodding once.
I looked at Darren. "Might have to cancel all the hotel rooms."
Darren sighed, frustratingly and pulled his phone back out. "Wish you had mentioned this before!" He snapped at Oren and Micha.
"Don't blame us. It was mother that told you to book the rooms, not us. We already told her that we didn't need them." Oren said, defiantly, folding his arms.
"Where is this house?" I asked, curiously.
"You wouldn't have heard of it." Micha said, flippantly.
"Try me." I challenged.
"It's in Dartford." He said smoothly, copying his brother and folding his arms.
I snorted. "Is that by the shopping centre? If not, does it have good bus links? Your Naraz will love the shopping spree there." I stuck my tongue out when his face fell, realising I knew where it was.
Perkins belted with laughter and Green giggled. "We can give you a lift there, if you'd like?" She offered, kindly.
"May take a few trips." Perkins mumbled, looking at everyone.
"Well, we have to go back anyway and pack our stuff. So, would you be able to take us there and we'll sort out cancellation when we get there." Darren said to Perkins.
"Sure. No problem." Perkins said.
"I better get my stuff now, before we go." Hunter said. "Coming babe?" He turned to Raquel who nodded, eagerly.
Hunter and Raquel came into the kitchen with Rebecca, Natalia, Darren and I when we went to the back door to leave, but it was completely stuck in the doorframe.
"What the fuck happened?" I shouted, turning round and storming back into the other room to face everyone, furious that Dean and Hewitt's property had been damaged. I then noticed the pothole in the floor. "RHIANNA!" I bellowed.
Rhianna cocked her eyebrow at me, sneering. "Yes?" She slurred.
I leapt at her and pinned her to the ground. "HOW. DARE. YOU. DAMAGE. THEIR. PROPERTY. YOU. FUCKING. BITCH!" I punched at her face with every word that came out of my mouth while she tried to retaliate.
She roared and rolled us over, but I brought my knees up between us and suddenly extended them, launching her across the room. Getting to my feet, I pulled Dragonwrath out of its baldric and held it in front of me, ready for her attack. She withdrew Spineripper and was about to charge when Raquel ran out between us.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" Both Rebecca and I screamed at her in unison.
"TEXINOUS VAAQIS AUPA GRAAX!" She yelled at Rhianna, who had momentarily paused before going ahead and charging at the two of us.
Rhianna fell to her knees, her blade dropped to the floor, and her face looked blank as if she was in a trance. Raquel nodded at her, triumphantly.
"Ladies, she will follow your instruction." Raquel said, looking at Dean and Hewitt. "Whatever you want her to do, she will do it." Raquel gave them a small smile before walking to stand next to a very nervous looking Hunter.
Rebecca and I exchanged looks of astonishment before throwing our heads back and howling with laughter. Natalia went up to Rhianna and stood in front of her, folding her arms, sternly.
"I told you!" She said to Rhianna, who, of course, didn't respond. "I warned you not to piss her off!"
"Technically, she didn't piss her off, she pissed me off." I said, before clapping my hands together and looking happily at Dean and Hewitt. "Well, girls. Enjoy your new slave. We won't bother charging you for her hire, she's the one that did the fucking damage in the first place. Please feel free to get experimental and see how far you can push this! All I ask for is video evidence!" I jeered before spinning on my heel, laughing along with Rebecca, and heading for the Cafe door. I turned back just as I put my hand on the door handle. "Have fun Rhianna! Serves you right!"