(Hadrian P.o.v)
   Everything was in place by the time Luna and I arrived at the banquet , Luna was wearing a red dress that suited her so well it was almost impossible.
  Dad had not yet arrived , so we took our seats , dad only invited two trusted people to the banquet, Lord Red and his advicer , I had never seen Lord Red before , only been hearing of him from dad, it was strange but since that dad trusted him enough to make him a Lord of one of the downtowns , I couldn't question his decisions , although I was irked because I was the prince and I was supposed to know of this things but dad kept saying  he can be trusted , you don't need to meet him, it's for your own safety .
  At least today I would finally meet him , Luna must have noticed my unsettled behavior because she peered at me from her sit tilting her head in a worried manner.
  " Are you okay ? " She asked
  " Yeah .... I'm fine " I answered
   " Where is Zuka , isn't she coming ? "
  " Off course she is , she must still be with dad "
      After some minutes two presence appeared in the room by the door entrance , Luna and I turned to see , two males , the other was smaller looking to be Luna's age , with black Raven hair and a lean body decked in blue jeans and black turtle neck with a leather jacket wearing glasses , the other male looked strongly familiar  , I felt I had seen him somewhere before , I was trying so had to remember but I think Luna beat me to it because she stood up from her seat looking at the male with wide eyes
  " You !!"  Was all she said and the male smirked and that was when I recognized him , it was Darren the Akuta we found, what was he doing here , was he here to attack us , did we just waste our energy looking for an Akuta who was not really an ally but a set up for us , I stood up abruptly , already charged to emit a fire ball at him , when he started walking towards the table, the smaller male walking right behind him the whole time...
   " Is this how you welcome your guests , your father won't be so pleased to hear about this " he mused ...
   " What are you doing here , we were not supposed to meet here " I said , if I could remember correctly we were to meet back at the alley not in the institute ... He was trespassing..
   " No , I am not trespassing..." I cut him off before he could finish
  " Don't invade my mind " I sneered..
   " ... I was invited , by the king ..." He finished ... ignoring my warning
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What did he mean by he was invited by the father , the only people I could remember my father inviting was Lord Red and his adviser , and now that I think about it , they was only two of them here and looking at Darren now he was dressed all flashy and all , he looked nothing like an abandoned Akuta  , the only explanation to this was that he was ...
  " Lord Red ?" I blurted my thoughts out
  " Yes , I'm Lord Darren Red , the whole ordeal of yesterday was planned out ... By the king which I'll leave it to him to explain , you didn't wonder how I could easily find you guys ... Fate you think ... " He said that with a little laugh...
" Actually I did wonder " Luna said beside me as a matter of fact ..
" You did ?" Darren and I asked at once...
  " Yes, I mean it was not so right .. it seemed suspicious " she mumbled more to herself than to us , right then dad and Zuka appeared at the head of the table and all eyes darted to him , Darren nodded in a bow to my dad , well I was fuming beside Luna and needed some explanation
  " Red glad you could make it " dad mused going in for a hug , I glared at Zuka but she too seemed to also discover this new friendship because she raised her in surrender coming to stand beside Luna ...
  " Dad what's going on ? " I inquired
   " I will tell you all everything but please can we all just sit down and calm down ... This room has so much tension to shock a whole city as it is " dad mused
Even with everything going on , dad still had to the energy to be sarcastic , Darren sat down with his advicer beside him , everyone one else sat down after much hesitation 
  Zuka spoke up after a long silence
    " Okay.. this is awkward but dad we an explanation , apparently you know this man but you still didn't say anything even after we told you we were looking for him "
   " It's not your father's fault I told him now say anything about me " Darren said biting down on the food on his fork ... He and dad were the only ones eating while we sat anxiously waiting for answers well except for ... The advicer...
   " Why ?" I asked leaning on the table with my hands under my chin, it was the advicer who answered my question next..
  " My Lord needed time to uncover the evolution of the legend and he couldn't have done that if everyone knew about him , if Rhea found out about him then he would be hunted down and killed " he said with a boyish but soft and beautiful voice ...
   " Who are you ?" Luna spoke up looking at the advicer with a sudden look of interest , I would have been jealous if I don't not see the look she gave him , it was a look a sister have to her brother and also a look that a scientist gave to his beautiful Discovery.. he stood up and bowed..
  " I apologize for not introducing myself , I am Storm Red , brother of Lord Darren Red " he said and went back to sitting
   " Wait brother? I thought it was only one Akuta that fell , why is there a brother ?" I demanded more confused
  " The legend is true but not all was recorded ....' dad finally spoke up " when Darren came to the astral world , we knew there was a presence of something out of the outer world that had invaded the force field ... My team and I went out looking for it .... Whatever it was , we couldn't find it , everyone left and I stayed behind that was when I found Darren , he was not in good shape , he was dieing and in his hands was a baby ... I took him to our doctor and she healed him .. the baby was okay ... Darren and I became close friends but he told me not to say a word about him or his brother , that there was something he needed to find out ... He told me about the defection of your mother that he saw in a vision but I didn't believe him untill it happened , he was the one who told me about King Killian daughter , Luna and that was how I knew he had a daughter , I knew keeping it a secret was our only option ... But now we need all hands on deck especially after Darren last vision and discovery " dad ended and all eyes flew to Darren who cleared his throat before talking looking at Luna intently...
   " Rhea now knows how to become a pure blood "
He said vaguely still looking at Luna , I had a feeling this was going to be a bad news
  " It's your blood Luna , your blood is the key for her freedom , that's pretty obvious the problem now is that she knows this, now she will hunt you down not just to kill you for hatred but for her freedom " as simple as that sounded we all feared because we know the catastrophe that will befall us if mom becomes free...
" And Luna?.." Darren called
  " Yes " she answered
  " I saw King Killian in my vision ... He is still alive " Those words that escaped Darren's mouth brought out a gasp from everyone ... What !!!!
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