(My) *HIDDEN* [secret]

The Empress kicks Zora aside as she grabs the edge of Zumi's hood and tries to pull it off. Seh is however pushed aside by a kick from him. As she rises she sees how he has gripped his hood himself.
"Oh so you want a closer look?" he asks as he slowly pulls.
((Maybe you can be Zumi now, after this part he is very much like Kodiak!))

(Now i can be.)
as the hood fell it revealed two grey kitsune ears and a gray kitsune head, from under the cloak five tails emerged, five gray tails with black tips.
Kodiak took a step back compleatly dumbfounded, all acounts he has found stated that this man should be dead.

Zora face vaults.
"What?!" she exclaims shrilly. The Empress seems to be at a stand still. Her eyes shift, from surprise to fear, fear to happiness without a smile, and finally it fades into anger again. She stands like frozen, before she raises her hand, takes her crown off and drops it to the ground. It shatters with an awful sound. She turns on the spot and starts to walk away with determined, final steps.

zumi how evr grabbs her shoulders. "We aren't done her, hon."
Kodiak shook himself and readyed his blades.

The Empress glares at him and shakes his arm off violently. She bares her teeth in a snarl.
"I am! And I'm not your hon anymore!" she growls and turns around again. Zora stares at Zumi and Kodiak.
"Not a chance! That is not Kodiak!" she yells pointing at Zumi.

"I agree with her on this one." Kodiak stated gestureing to zora, "Every thing i've found state myself as dead in this future."
Zumi didn't respond to kodiak "If you where done i would be dead."
"Hey we need an explenation!" Kodiak called.

The Empress frowns.
"That's what I thought too. But no, it's not part of my priorities anymore. So just let me go now!" she answers angrily. Zora looks to Zumi, the Empress and Zumi again.
"Okay, let's just assume that you are Kodiak, which I don't think you are. Why in the world would you be hiding from the world?!" she demands.

(I have no clue how to answear that)
"Yeah, last time i checked i was going to grow up with my head held high not hidden behind a cloak!" kodiak shouted.

((The reasons were many; Partially he planned this moment from the very second he heard about Zora's change to the Empress and simply wanted to use it as a final weapon, using the surprise to get her guard down and perhaps talk her back to the good side. And part of him just didn't want to be Kodiak anymore, he wanted to hide his pain from himself kind of. But he would ony confess the first part.))
The Empress looks at Kodiak.
"I do agree with your past self, Kodiak. This isn't at all like you." she says coldly.
"But then again, I don't know you so I couldn't tell!" she adds snarling. Zora looks at Zumi frowning.
"You're not Kodiak! You wanted me to commit suicide, why on earth would Kodiak allow that?! Kodiak never gives up! Kodiak always fights for the right solution, Kodiak would have taken the hard way and tried to either kill the Empress, the true villain, or talk her over! But you are not Kodiak!" she shouts.

"Quiet!" zumi roared at zora, "I was hidding because i didn;t want the empress to know i was alive i was going to use it as a weapoin!"
Kodiak sighed. "My my you've lost your touch."

Zora glares at Zumi with narrowed eyes.
"And finally, Kodiak usually doesn't shout at me!" she says with a final tone. The Empress looks at Zumi angrily.
"And Kodiak usually keeps his promises, I suppose you are about to say soon." she says coldly to Zora.
"He does!" Zora objects.

Kodiak raised his arm to zora signaling her to be quiet. "Hold on a second zora, Empress, what hapened? I had to have mess up some where for you be become like this and my self to become that pitifully week." kodiak gestured to zumi, who lunged shouting.
"Weak?!" and throughing a punch that kodiak easly caught,
"Yes weak and ptifull." Kodiak responded.

The Empress frowns at Zumi and Kodiak.
"I would feel sorry for the bastard if I didn't hate him so much." she says quietly. She walks around Zumi and Kodiak with slow, watching steps.
"And yes, I'd say you messed up pretty damn much back in those days." she adds up. Zora looks at her future self.
"How? What could possibly make me like you?! You're just as weak and pitiful as him! I'd say that this future has been like an inverted maturing process, both of you are so childish!" she comments. The Empress glares at her.
"I wish you'd know what really happened. You wouldn't be so stuck up if you knew! One day there and I guarantee, you'll be ready for the junk pile! You're nothing special, never get to think that! You're not special to anyone, not to the bastard you call boyfriend, not to the family you have left!" Zora steps forward.
"What does my family have to do with this?" she asks frowning.

Zumi growled, "I did my best!"
"Quiet you." kodiak responded to him. "So what did i do please, i know you can't like being this way i know i'm far from perfect but at least.........hold on remaining family, don;t tell me that one of the reasons is zorro or that dirt bag judais."

Zora winces as she looks at Kodiak.
"J-Judas?" she asks wondering. Her eyes harden.
"You know something about my family?!" The Empress however clears er throat to silence Zora as she speaks.
"They're part of the problem, yes, I can't deny that. But the worst part must be you. At least my father never pretended to care about me." she mutters with gritted teeth. Zora just looks very confused, biting her lip. Just in this moment part of her life has gone to pieces. She always expected it, somewhere she would find her parents. They would be happy to see her, they would be celebrating, embracing her, almost spoiling her with unconditional love and in the case they would be dead she would find some written words by them, telling her how much they loved her and a reason for leaving. But according to those three persons, herself and Kodiak, this would not ever happen. No happy family reunion, no celebration for her existance. No confirmation on that she was ever wanted to be brought to this world. And now, ccording to the same persons, she would in addition lose her brother's comfort and Kodiak, the Guardian, the angel, the light, the everything, would too let her down.

"PRetended to care?! i always cared about oof!" Kodiak sluged zumi in the stomach.
"Would you shut up i'll hear your side when the emperes is done." kodiak growled. "Still how did i pretened to care? oh and zora after this little ordeal is done i promise i'll tell you what i know. least i can;t use my blade magic till i do."

The Empress shakes her head and turns.
"I don't want to talk about it, you won, the Empress has abdicated, she's not going to bug you again!" she yells as she tries to walk away. Zora frowns, not knowing what to do right now.

"I'm going to sound like an ass but we aren;t done here! i must know, so i can avoid makeing the same mistake as zumi. "I can see it under that hood he was hideing not from you empres but from his own pain."

The Empress waves off his words with her hands.
"I do not want to talk about it, your future self knew it was wrong but he did it anyway, what difference could you possibly make?!" she snaps.
"Just... just leave me to my own fate!" she says with a growling sigh.

"The diference would be that i would know, me, from the past. this idiot might have messed up but i'm not him, not yet think about it, i loved you." kodiak looked at zora and smiled. "But now you and zumi are arch enemies. and he doesn't seem to have his blade magic any more."
"Kodiak, stop! it isn;t your place to change the future." Zumi growled.
"Right now it is." Kodiak responded.

The Empress snarls.
"You are the same person! Havent you realized?! Just like I am the same as your loved Zora, you are the same as that wreck Zumi, as he calls himself! You cant change anything! It will happen no matter what! It's my fate to be abandoned by all those I trusted! I might as well save my past self from the devastating shock by saying it now, Zora, that friends are not meant for you and they will realize it!"
"That's not true!" Zora retorts.
"We can change, both of us can change! Kodiak can stay out of messing up and I can stay out of becoming you!" she says. The Empress looks at Zumi.
"Well Zumi, as you prefer to be called. Is there anything in the past you would have changed?" she asks coldly.

"My failure, that is what i want to change so that this never hapened so we would still be together....so our child could be with us playing." Zumi cried.
kdoaik nodded.

The Empress seems like as if having the whole world crushing down upon her. Her fists clench as her face gets paler. Zora too changes in body language, stiffening and staring at the three others with her. A long and crushing silence rises, until the Empress turns around, mostly to hide her true feelings. She crosses her arms.
"Do you even know what was your failure?" she asks, almost breathlessly frm the tears held back.

(I don')
Kodiak looked at zumi.

((Zumi doesn't know either, as you know the Empress was actually tricked into thinking that, in a similar way to how she made Zora imagine Kodiak leaving her behind. He thinks his failure lies in failing to protect Zora that day when she was dragged down into Hell which I willt ell you about later))

Zora looks at Zumi, as wel as the Empress. Both of them are itching to know his answer.
"Well?" the Empress asks irritated.
"Aren't you going to tell your past what mistake not to make? Or are you afraid his disgust will make him kill himself and therefore you?"