.Dragon's Legacy.

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I threw my arms out by my side and level with the ground before sighing and letting them drop down.

"It won't work." I shook my head and turned back towards the little group. "I cannot access this power."

"Maybe it is the adrenaline?" Fin said.

"I would have been able to go spirit on your ass when we fought if that was the case."

"Maybe it is danger towards you?" my aunt Calypso said.

"Could play a role but it would have activated long before that, if no one can figure it out can I leave?"

"It is emotional distress I think." I raised a brow at uncle Eleric. "What has been common with both situations it happened in? One, you were in deadly danger and two, loss of emotional control.... If what you tell us about you being half spirit is true and that your spirit mother gave her life for you but you still talked to her in dreams it would make sense, she'd sense you are in grave danger, strong emotional distress often comes with imminent death."

"So you say this is like a.... S fail save of sorts?" mother asked, I wish Kela was here but she was trying to bring my mather back so I won't complain.

"Most likely." I agreed. "I could trigger when the avalanche came, knowing death would come if I failed and this cold magic bubbled up deep inside me."

"So you need to be in deadly danger for this to come out? Not good." I nodded at aunt Amalia.

"At least it will be a fail save in case something happen on the day of the eclipse."

"We cannot rely on that solely, there are a scary number of these cultists." Uncle Em added. "We will need to mobilize a small army of allies that cannot betray us as we don't know who is part of this cult."

"The shadows." I said and my mother nodded knowing the knights would never betray us. "We can call on the elf, we cannot trust that all the cult will be there at the eclipse as I feel most would stay hidden and cause havoc as they believe in their success."

"Why would they help? Don't get me wrong but we owe them for the day of the black sun." Mother said, Owen in her arms.

"Simple, the king owe me and Kela to life of his wife who's back on the throne. Yes you might owe him but I don't so with this favor we can call in we can wipe yours and help us. Plus Kela was once his best guards woman so he'd be inclined to help more for the price of her favor."

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"Tired?" Kela asked.

"Yeah we spent the day talking about what to do with the eclipse, assume you've been here?"

"Well yeah I don't think your mother would enjoy being half dead for longer."

"She is all healed up as I see."

"Yeah but I don't think she realized that."

"Tra!" the smaller form of him faded into our world, now even trees with seaweed that floated around as if in water were showing up with more people freaking out with mages set around to calm them and the spirits that now easily passed through, it was turning into a complete mess of the worlds mixing. "Is she still where she was?" He nodded. "Great I going to get her."

"Wait Lin."

But I was already free falling through the spirits' sky.

"Mather!" I waved as she looked up and we both know I wouldn't be hurt she still ran over to catch me.

I twisted myself to only grab her arm and fell through the snow layer on the ground, opening my eyes back in my body, being really good at changing worlds by now.

Mather yanked herself out of the water and coughed heavily.

"That was fast." Kela whispered and I winked with a smile.

"Welcome back." I said with a smile before being smacked on the forehead. "Hey!"

"That is for fighting an avalanche." Mather said as she sat in the water before struggling a bit to sit on the edge, not having moved in a while after all but she still smacked the back of my head again.

"What was that for?!"

"That was for the trick you pulled with the devine."

"Now that's just mean."

"I can be mean but when I am stuck in the spirit realms watching you do stupid things I do wonder where I failed with my education."

"Hey!!"

"I'll leave you two for a bit." Kela said as she stood up.

"Sure, see you later."

"Later."

"Don't be as stupid as me and be oblivious to your feelings." I smacked the back of her head with a red face as she said that before she smacked me back leading me to fall in the water. 

"Don't smack me."

"Wengeance!"

"Lin for the gods' sake." She rubbed her eyes before smiling a bit. "I missed you."

"We saw each other."

"I know but it is not the same."

I sat up next to her.

"I suppose not.... And we both missed Owen's birth."

"Your mother will kill me."

"I think she'll spear you, you were just dead a few minutes ago."

"Yeah no, she is the queen of the most powerful human queendom ever and threatened those wanting another trial like hers for your sister's hand as you know while she was pregnant so I don't thin me being just back from the dead will save me."

"Missed you too.... Good to hear your voice without the slight 'I am not alive' cold dead accent to it."

"You were always the one of the thre--now four of you that loved my songs."

"You did say it was your humans parents that taught you this from your little village, how can I not be interested."

"It is as if with all this happy speech you are trying to convince me to song to you."

"What me? Noooo."

"There is no need to be subtle Lin.... Or Linniel?"

"Like I told everyone, I'll do it like Lin for family but Linniel on official papers and with strangers so there is a degree of separation"

"Good, intelligent tactic....Do you have a chosen song? That way we can put off meeting your mother."

"How can she scare you that much?"

"Lin...."

"Fine fine.... Your favorite."

"Alright."

I smiled, leaning my head on her shoulder with my eyes closed, listening without a word, just happy she is back to the physical realm and alive at that.

I missed her.