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Rekino's smile was a big as the Grand Canyon. She walked into the living room to see the others sitting down talking with Queen Lila. Her smile widened as she saw the queen. The Lady of Wildfire walked over happily and sat in Rowen's lap.

"Okay Rekino, what are you smiling about?" Ryo asked as he looked at his sister.

"Nothing at all!" Rekino replied, "I just seen the two sweetest things in my life."

Shades raised an eyebrow, "What would that be?"

Rekino smiled again as she told them what happened. About Sage telling Flash his true feelings and about Flash waking up afterwards. She even told about them when she interrupted them. Everyone cracked a smile at that. Then, she told them what Thunder had told Hana. She even mentioned the kiss. When she finished, Shades' eyes were wide.

"Dear Lord," Shades said, "He actually kissed her?"

"YES!" Rekino shouted, "It was so romantic!"

Scorpio looked over at Rekino, "What fumes have you been sniffing?"

"None!" She replied as her face fell. If you guys don't believe me, I'll prove it to you. Be right back." Rekino got up from her seat on Rowen and went into her room. She dug through her bag and pulled out a Polaroid camera. She smirked; this was what she needed. She checked for film and then left her room. She went to check on Flash and Sage and saw the they were asleep holding one another. Easy enough. Rekino thought as she took the picture. Now, for Thunder and Hana.

It had taken Josephine three hours to finally find her French friend. She parked at the airport and ran inside to see Amaya boarding one of the planes. She broke out in another run only to be crowded by people. She frowned, this wasn't going to be easy. She started walking through the crowd.

"Scuse me. Pardon me. Coming through!" Josephine kept trying to get out of the crowd. She finally decided that being nice wasn't going to get her anywhere. She pushed people out of her way to get to the docking area. She ran past the flight attendant.

"You don't have a ticket!" The woman yelled.

Josephine stopped, smirked, and gave the woman her 'traffic' finger, "This is your ticket! Shove it up your ass!" She turned around and ran straight onto the plane. She looked around and didn't see Amaya and decided to go into first class. When she was at the door, the pilot announced that the plane would be leaving. She panicked and ran into first class to find her friend.

"Ma'am, you need to sit down. The plane will be taking off shortly," One of the flight attendants said.

"I need to find my friend. She's not supposed to be on this plane!" Josephine said.

"I'm sorry. You'll have to wait until we take off," The flight attendant replied coolly.

The Lady of Hardrock frowned. She had to think of a way to get Amaya off this plane, but how? "Um, where are we going?"

"To France."

"The hell you say! Stop this plane! I'm pregnant!" Josephine shouted. Immediately, the pilot ran inside the first class department, having heard the passenger's outburst, and Amaya stood up in her seat.

"Josephine?" Amaya asked, "What in the name John Paul are you doing here?"

The pilot looked at the woman with ash blue hair, "Excuse me ma'am, I'm going to have to ask you to leave the plane. If you're in such a condition, the plane will not take off."

Josephine sighed, "I didn't want to be on this plane in the first damn place, dude! I came in here to get my friend and take her home!"

Amaya sat back down, "I'm not going back home, Jo. I suggest you leave the plane."

"Well tough shit! I ain't movin until you get your French ass out the door!" The Lady of Hardrock crossed her arms stubbornly, "And don't even think about calling security. I can and will file for harassment!"

After thirty minutes of waiting and delaying the flight, Amaya finally went with Josephine. The two Lady Guardians got off the plane and headed towards their vehicles. Amaya sighed as she was walking beside Josephine.

"What's wrong, Frenchie?" Josephine asked as she wrapped an arm around her shoulder.

"I don't want to go back home," Amaya said softly, "Kento really hurt my feelings this time."

"Ahst, listen, don't make me kick your ass, 'Mya. If you have to know, Kento almost cried when you left. He really didn't mean to say it. We kinda share the trait of speaking before thinking."

The Lady of Torrent smirked, "Yeah, you more so than him."

Josephine stopped and put both of her hands on her hip while Amaya kept walking to her car, "Hey! I resent that remark!"

Rekino walked down the hall to Hana's room and stopped outside the door. She sighed and cursed under her breath. They were awake and chatting about something. This was going to be harder than she thought. She just listened and waited for the perfect opportunity to strike.

Thunder sat on the edge of the bed staring at Hana, who was sitting against the headboard, while she played with her hair, "What are you doing?"

"Braiding my hair. It's getting on my nerves," Hana said as she ran her fingers through her blonde, curly locks trying to get the tangles out, "I'm thinking about getting it cut. What do you think? Long or short?"

Thunder smiled, "Whatever you decide, you'll still be beautiful," He traced his hand down her cheeks when her blush formed.

The Guardian of Halo stopped messing with her hair and put her hand over his when he started caressing her cheek. She smiled lightly. Thunder shifted his position on the bed so he was closer to Hana, and she leaned forward to meet his lips. It wasn't long before Hana wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled Thunder closer to her body as they leaned further back on the bed. The Storm Warrior had never felt anything like this before, but he tried to remain calm. Hana moved one of her hands to Thunder's side and helped him onto the bed. His elbows supporting his weight as he hovered above her, their lips still connected.

For someone who's never kissed a girl, he's damn good at it! Hana thought to herself. She ran a hand under the back of his shirt and up his back muscles. She felt him tense a little under her touch. Probably from the Alina experience, she figured. She didn't want to rush him or scare him, so she lightly ran her tongue along his bottom lip. Thunder's body started reacting strangely. He wasn't afraid; he actually liked the feeling. He slowly opened his mouth and their tongues touched. Both of them felt a jolt go through their bodies. Hana pressed Thunder's body against her and the kiss deepened. Neither of them wanted to stop, but if they didn't, something would happen that both of them wanted, but was wrong.

Rekino saw the perfect time to take the picture while they were preoccupied with one another. She quickly moved in front of the door and took the picture. She forgot about her Polaroid camera being so loud and she inwardly cursed. This wasn't going to be pretty.

Hana and Thunder separated and looked towards the door. Hana's lips were a bit swollen from the kiss. Her eyes caught sight of Rekino and her eyes flashed angrily. Thunder was just shocked all together at the Lady Guardian's actions. A blush crept over his cheeks. Both of them looked down and saw the camera. This enraged Hana even more.

Rekino quickly put her hands behind her back when she had forgot about the camera. She smiled innocently and waved at them, "Hiya! I was just, uh, passing through and I though, uh, well…"

"Rekino," Hana managed to get out, "When I get up, you're SO dead!"

"Gotta go! I think I hear Rowen calling for me! See ya!" The Lady of Wildfire turned around quickly and left.

Hana's eyes widened, "COME BACK HERE, REKINO!" She struggled under Thunder's body weight; he seemed to not be moving. She looked at him with angry eyes, "I'm gonna kill her."

Thunder quickly silenced her with a small kiss, "Don't leave."

"I won't. I'll come back right after I beat her ass!" She started to move her body underneath, but she moved the wrong way. Her hips brushed against his for a moment and they both blushed, "Sorry."

"It's okay," Thunder smiled and ran a hand through her hair, "I just want you to stay here with me."

Hana's heart seemed to stop for a moment when she saw his smile. She couldn't be mad at him nor resist his command. She gave a rather seductive smirk and decided to stay as she kissed him hard on the lips.

Rekino ran into her bedroom and put away her camera. She held the two pictures in her hand and smirked. She walked out of the room and back to where everyone else was waiting for her.

“Okay, Rekino,” Shades said immediately. “What were you doing back there?”

Rekino smirked again, still playing around with her Polaroid camera. “Just getting some memorable photos,” she said.

Ryo groaned. “Don’t tell me you were…” He shook his head, trailing off. He should have known Rekino would do something like that. “I can’t believe you.”

“What?” Rekino asked innocently.

“Hana’s gonna kill you later, you know,” Ryo said with his own smirk.

Rekino only smiled and sat down on the couch next to him. “She’ll thank me later, trust me.”

“Whatever,” Ryo said.

Rekino looked around now. “Where’s the queen?”

“Oh,” Shades said as she picked up a book. “Scorpio took her out to get her something to eat as all the king’s guards are busy cleaning up the mess caused by Borya and Alina.”

“I hope he remembers to bring back some for us,” Ryo said.

“He will.”

Rekino sat back against the couch with her eyes closed. Her mind drifted off toward Rowen. She had come so close into losing him that day. She thought about how angry she had been at him when she had discovered he had not want to marry her. Now she was beginning to think she knew why he had said he hadn’t wanted to. It wasn’t because he didn’t love her. It was because he was afraid. Perhaps they were not ready for such a commitment yet. After all, they both wanted to finish high school, and go to college. Rekino knew she wanted to be a doctor, and Rowen wanted to be a professor. What profession he would teach, she had no clue, but she imagined it would be something that had to do with the solar system, or maybe a chemistry teacher.

She suddenly felt someone sitting beside her, and rubbing her shoulders. She began to relax more and leaned into the person giving her this massage. “Mmmmmmm.”

“You like this?” came a soft Brooklyn accent.

“Uh huh,” Rekino murmured softly as she leaned against Rowen more. Rowen smiled and pulled her close, and tilted her face to meet his, and kissed her lips.

“Get a room,” Shades said, not looking up from her book.

“We do have a room,” Rowen said. “We’re just not using them yet.”

Shades didn’t reply, but she did smirk.

Ryo stood up. He was beginning to miss Mia and he wanted to know how Hiroshi was doing. He left the living room and went into the kitchen and took the phone off the hook. He paused for a moment. Uh oh. How was he going to get the operator to connect him to Japan when he couldn’t speak German? He took a deep breath and looked down the hall. He really hated to interrupt Thunder, but what choice did he have? He had to know how they were doing. With a sigh he hung the phone back up and walked back through the living room and down the hall.

He passed Flash’s room and then came to Hana’s room. He paused before the door, working up his courage. He took a deep breath and then knocked on the door.

Hana was in the midst of French-kissing Thunder when they both heard the knock. She rolled her eyes in annoyance, but didn’t stop. Neither did Thunder. His hands trailed smoothly along her back, caressing her in a most gentle way. The knocking came again, a bit more persistent. “Go away, Rekino!” Hana grumbled at the door. She went back to kissing Thunder.

“It’s not Rekino,” came a familiar voice that made the two love-birds stop assaulting each other’s lips. They both looked toward the door.

“Ryo?” Thunder said.

“Yeah,” Ryo’s voice drifted through the door again. “Thunder, I need a favor of you.”

“Hold on,” Thunder said.

“Okay.”

Thunder looked toward Hana and smiled weakly. “Hopefully, this won’t take long.”

Hana pouted. “No, stay here with me.”

Thunder smiled a bit more. “I’ll be right back,” he said, kissing her again. “I promise.”

Hana returned his kiss, wanting more of this, but she reluctantly let him go. Thunder got off from the bed and went to open the door as Hana sat up watching. “What is it, Ryo?”

“Can you get me connected to Mia, Thunder?” Ryo asked, rather nervously. He hated to ask for things. “I can’t speak German to get the operators to connect me to home.”

Thunder nodded and followed Ryo out of the room.

Rekino looked up and smirked at Thunder the moment she saw him. She and Rowen were cuddled up on the couch. “So you finally parted from Blondie?”

Thunder smirked back at her as he moved past the couch going toward the kitchen. “Only for a few minutes.”

Rekino grinned at him.

In the kitchen, Thunder picked the phone up and began to dial a series of random numbers as Ryo watched from behind him. For a few moments it was all quiet, and then Thunder began to speak in the German language while Ryo was trying to figure out what he was saying to the operator on the other end. He blinked a few times, raised an eyebrow, scratched at one ear, blinked again, and kept staring with an odd expression.

Finally Thunder became quiet again. A few minutes passed by as ringing could be heard through the receiver. Finally, Thunder switched back to the language Ryo knew and felt comfortable with.

“Mia? Yeah, we’re all fine. Yes, it has been quite a while. I can’t stay on long. No, Ryo wants to talk with you. He asked me to get him connected with you. Sure, I will. Okay, here he is.” Thunder handed the phone to Ryo who gave him a grateful look.

“Thank you, Thunder.”

“You’re welcome,” Thunder said, and left the kitchen, heading back through the living room, and back to Hana.

Mia was so glad to hear Ryo’s voice after being separated from him who knew how long. She held Hiroshi in her arms, tears trailing down the side of her face, the cordless phone held in her right hand. “Ryo, I’ve missed you so much. I’ve been so worried about you and the others.”

“I know you have, Mia,” Ryo’s voice came back to her. “I’ve been missing you too. I’m coming home as soon as I can.”

“I can’t wait to see you.”

“I can’t wait to see you either, or our son,” Ryo replied. Mia smiled down at Hiroshi. The baby was playing around with her fingers of her free hand, and glancing around curiously as his mother spoke on the phone. For the next hour or so, Ryo and Mia talked. Mia told Ryo about what had been happening so far, and Ryo told her what had happened over there. She had been so into talking with him, she didn’t hear the front door opening up, and Josephine and Amaya walking in.

The two Lady Ronin Guardians stared at Mia, and when they heard her say Ryo’s name, they knew who she was talking to. Which reminded them they both had to talk with their own boyfriends.

Amaya headed upstairs to Kento’s room, practically holding her breath all the way as she did so. Josephine was right behind her, but she headed for Cye’s room. She had to tell him of her pregnancy. She was only hoping Rekino wouldn’t kill Cye for it.

Cye was sitting on his bed, crossed legged, and staring down at his blue sheets, in shock.

Josephine walked in the door and stood there looking at her fiancé. She stood there for about five minutes before breaking the silence, "Cye?"

Cye's head snapped up and he looked towards the door, "I didn't hear you come in."

Josephine smiled, "I noticed. So what were you thinking about?"

"How do you know I was thinking about something?" Cye asked curiously but in a monotone voice.

"Puh-lease! You have that 'lame brain, staring off into space, thinking about something that will change my life' look," She replied with a smirk, "So, what are you thinking about?"

Cye looked back down at the sheets, "Two things," He looked back up at her, "Are you really pregnant?"

Josephine walked over to the bed and sat down beside him, taking his hand, "Does that bother you?"

"In some ways, yes, in some ways, no," He replied as he looked into her granite eyes.

"Care to share then?" Josephine asked, "I mean, I just traveled over three hundred miles in three hours looking for your Guardian. So, I need some answers."

Cye sighed, "The part that doesn't bother me is that we won't have to worry about passing down the armors. I'll have a son or a daughter, but the part that does bother me is when it is born, what if someone else attacks? Our child could be used for some sort of trap, and I'd hate for that to happen," Cye looked back down at the sheets again and clutched them tightly, "I couldn't stand that."

"First of all, the future is never certain. Second of all, if anything does happen, you and I both know we will do anything to set things right. And you know that the others would help too, no questions asked," She lifted his face up by the chin and looked into his sea-green eyes, "I love you, Cye. That will never change. Whatever the future brings, I'll be right here with you, no matter what and I know you'll do the same for me."

"You know I would. I have no doubt that you'll be here for me and I for you. I also have no doubt that the others will stand behind us. The problem is the enemies' get worse and worse every time. Who knows what we could face in the future."

"Whatever it is, you know for a fact that we'll send it's ass back where it came from," Josephine replied with a smirk, "Now, what was the other thing you were thinking about?"

Cye looked back at the sheets, "Rekino."

"Ooo, Understandable. She almost killed Ryo," Josephine replied, "Well, she'll have to kill two of y'all then."

Cye raised an eyebrow, "What do you mean?"

"Well," Josephine started, "I ain't the only one with dough in the oven."

Cye just looked at her with a strange expression, "Continue."

Josephine sighed and gave him her Helen Keller hand expressions, "Think about it, Einstein. Why do you think Amaya's been so emotional? It ain't menopause, she's too young!"

"Oh…my…God…" Cye stuttered, "Kento's gonna die."

"Mmm hmm," Josephine squeaked, "Yep, pretty much."

Cye shook his head, clearly stunned by what he had just heard. So what were they suppose to do in the meantime, and more importantly, how would Rekino react? The Ronin of Torrent grimaced. He had seen how Rekino was when Mia first became pregnant, he’d hate to see how she’d be when there were two pregnant. He suddenly stood up.

Josephine raised an eyebrow. “What are you doing?”

“I think I should see about some life insurance for both Kento and me now.”

Thunder had retreated back to Hana and they had spent the next hour cuddling. Hana had wanted to go further, but Thunder wasn’t ready. For one, his upbringing to wait until marriage was strong, and his encounter with Alina made him more fearful of it. So they would wait until they were both ready.

Hana looked at Thunder suddenly, the question weighing on her mind. She propped herself up one elbow, looking at him. “Thunder, there’s something I have to ask you.”

Thunder turned his gaze at her. “Yes, what is it?”

“I was wondering, since, your father seems to be better.. will you be staying here, or will you go back?” Hana asked.

Thunder frowned. “I want to go back, but I doubt they’ll let me. Well, I know mom would, but my dad…”

“Yeah, he’s as stubborn as a mule.”

Thunder nodded.

“Still it doesn’t hurt to try and ask,” Hana told him.

“No, it doesn’t. But…”

“But what?”

Thunder suddenly grabbed her and laid her under him, smirking just a bit. “I don’t feel like leaving you just yet. I’m quite comfortable here.”

Hana smiled and just gave him a deep kiss.

Meanwhile King Thaitus was getting things cleaned up around his country. Damages were estimated, and money was brought in to repair it. A couple of buildings that had not been destroyed were being temporarily used as homes for those who had lost their in the war. Soldiers and guards were cleaning the damages up, men civilians were eager to help out.

Blaze stood on a mountain peak, watching the scene. At his side was Hawk. Blaze knew that the damages done would take a long time to prepare. As much as he wanted to help them, he could not. For he knew if he used his powers, these humans would expect miracles to solve all of their problems anytime they had any. Still he had other things he had to attend to. He looked at Hawk.

The black wolf merely nodded his head, not speaking. But he did do a sort of bow to the white wolf. Blaze nodded his head once, and then vanished from the area, just as Hawk lifted his head, howled once, and then transformed into his hawk form, and flew away from the area.

Ryo was smiling ear to ear as he walked back into the living room and sat on the chair, diagonal away from Shades. Rekino and Rowen were cuddled on the couch. Scorpio was looking at a book filled with different breeds of horses. It had surprised Rekino that the water boy would be more interested in horses than fish.

“So did you call her?” Rekino asked her brother.

“Yes,” Ryo said as a bigger grin stretched across his face.

“He keeps smiling like that, his entire face will get stretched out,” Shades said as she turned a page in her book. Ryo only smirked at her.

“So what do we do now?” Scorpio asked.

“Well, since everything seems to be okay now, we just need to see about Thunder coming back with us, if he’s allowed, and go home after that,” Ryo said.

“Easier said that done, Ryo,” Rowen said.

Ryo only nodded as Flash and Sage came out. Everyone immediately looked at the two. Sage cringed. “Whatever you think we did, we didn’t do that.. We just woke up!”

“Uh huh,” Rekino said.

Flash smirked a bit. “That’s all we did do.. Though I kinda forgot I fell asleep next to Sage, and I shoved him off the bed..”

“Yeah,” Sage said, rubbing his side near his back bone where the pelvis meets.

“Awww.. poor Sage,” Rekino couldn’t help but laugh.

Sage only growled at her, but he said nothing.

Soon enough, Thunder and Hana came out.. When everyone was situated around, all of them wanted to know the one thing. Would Thunder be allowed to return back home with them? There was only one way to find out.

However before they could all go and wake up Queen Lila who had fallen asleep in Rekino’s room, Blaze appeared in the room.

“Blaze, what’s up?” Flash asked.

Blaze looked directly at Thunder as he walked over to him. ‘There’s something you must know.. The rape.. wasn’t a rape, Warrior of Storm… it was merely an illusion done by Alina.’

“What?! You mean.. I’m.. I’m…

Thunder was overjoyed. There were no words to describe how he felt. His friend were happy too, especially Hana. Blaze, however, wasn’t done yet.

“I will,” Thunder said. “And Blaze? Thank you.”

The wolf nodded and vanished from the room.

“Well, at least now everything is finally coming together,” Ryo said as he stood up. “I think it’s time we got the ball rolling.”

Rekino nodded and also stood up. So did Shades and Scorpio.

“I should get my mother then,” Thunder said, then he paused. “Um, where is she?”

“Oh, she’s in my room, sleeping, Thunder,” Rekino replied. She showed him which door was hers, and he went down that way, leaving Hana with the others. Immediately, Rekino started to ask questions, one right after the other.

“So, did you two decide on wedding plans? What about him kissing you? Was he shy about it? Did you have to encourage him to kiss you? You guys didn’t….”

At that Hana suddenly covered Rekino’s mouth with her hand and leaned close to her. “Rekino!” she hissed. She took a deep breath and let it out slowly. “No, we didn’t decide on wedding plans, yes, we kissed, no he wasn’t shy about it, and no we didn’t doing anything else besides kissing!”

Rekino stared at her, then smiled, and took Hana’s hand away from her mouth. “Okay, blondie, just checking.”

Hana just mumbled something.

Just then, Thunder returned with Lila. “I’ve told her we’d be leaving soon,” Thunder told them.

“Then let’s get packed up and ready to go then,” Ryo said.

“How did all of you arrive here though?” Lila asked them. “It wasn’t by flight or ship was it?”

All of them shook their heads, side glancing at one another. Should they tell her, or no? Finally, they decided that telling was the best thing to do. After all, she had witnessed some extraordinary things during this war.

“You see,” Rowen said, as he gestured at himself, Ryo, Rekino, and Hana, “we five arrived in Flash’s hometown with the help of a lady with some ancient magic to her, then, we met up with Flash and the other Warriors, and Flash’s wolf teleported all of us, except a few of them, to here.”

“Why couldn’t the others come?” Lila asked.

“Blaze said the others were needed back at home to take care of Thunder’s grandparents because they were ill,” Scorpio told her.

“Oh dear,” Lila said.

Thunder frowned. “I’m hoping they’re okay.. I know T-boz is a great person to care for someone… I hope to see them both soon.. Right now.. we need to get to the castle.. I have to speak to my father, and it concerns my future.”