(My) *HIDDEN* [secret]

"He's still alive? I thought he was dead?" Zumi stated bewildered.

Kodiak smiled before reseaving the kiss.

The Empress shakes her still bowed down head.
"I wish he was. He must have done this. He must have made the illusion! Perhaps it was even he who in some way let us know that the snow would be in ten years when in fact it was just five years away." she states quietly. She sobs.
"And now I'm his daughter in heart and soul, what the hell have I been doing?!"

"No not in heart and soul just in mind you can redeam your self, come one lets find our younger self, together we'll kill judas, and reveal how to prevent any of this from happening." zumi stated gently.

The Empress gives a soft sob, a sigh and then she rises back up, determination in her eyes. She ndos.
"It's the best we can do." she says lowly as they start walking to where Zora started to run after facing what she thought was truth.

Zumi follows ready for this to end, he never wanted this to hapen in the first place.

kodiak broke the kiss as he saw zumi and the empres someing there way. "Looks like we've all made up."

"Unless they have decided we are the problems and they have teamed up to finish us off. Which would of course be idiotic since that would mean their defeat as well." Zora says with a smile.

The Empress looks at Zumi.
"Jsut a question. How can you still bear with me after all that's happened? How come you haven't given up?"

Zumi smiled, "I guess a little of the old me still exists the part that loved you and the part that always hoped and dreamed. so i never stoped hopeing and waiting."

Kodiak chuckled, "that's true. they can't kill of with out killing themselfs."

The Empress smiles a bit.
"the pieces of my broken heart still belonged to you. Maybe that's why I just could never destroy the locket..." She pulls up the gilded heart of ruby with the moonstone and eyes it over, remembering the past. How Kodiak gave this to her on their second wedding anniversary.

"I never took mine off i'd still be wereing the ring if it hadn't been destroid." Zumi admited.

The Empress sighs.
"My fault that too, probably broke when I tried to kill you. Mine was destroyed in Hell." She holds up her pendant locket.
"I thought this was all that remained of you."

"Well we're together again, and we're going to pay that b@sterd back" Zumi responded.

The Empress lets her locket down and suddenly realizes something.
"Kodiak!" she yells shrilly.
"Of all the stupid things ever, what am I wearing?! Or, what am I NOT wearing ratherly!" Everything starts to come back like a shock to her now, her behaviour and her everything. Nothing seemed to fit in with who she really was.

zumi startled but smiled, the old zora was comeing back. "it's ok. you where just going through a phase."

"A phase?!" she yells.
"This is, I don't even know what to call it! It looks like I've been stranded on an island with a few satin rags as only improvised clothing!" she complains.

"I could probably convice my younger self to lend you his cloths after all he has his armor." Zimu responded.

The Empress smiles a bit.
"What happened to your armor anyway?" she asks.

"I stoped wereing it i would stand out, that and now i guess after so many years eather i wouldn't fit into it or id be too week to use my armor."

The Empress sighs looking up to the sky.
"I wonder what would have happened if I had only let you explain from the start. If I hadn't tried to kill you." she says quietly.

"More then likly you would have understood, after i explained for a while and we would kill your father and conceave another kid." zumi sugested.

The Empress nods with a tear in her eye.
"So they just need to know." she says quietly.
"Zora just needs to know to trust you and Kodiak needs to know that he won't be dead. If prepared they, we, may make it."

zumi nodded, "the future isn't set in stone, never is, they can change it, we can hope."

The Empress nods.
"They will. They know the consequences if they don't, we have both always been determined." she answers as they reach ZOra and Kodiak. Zora smiles.
"Wonderful, we're not trying tokill each other Kodiak, it's a clear progress!" she says happily. She looks to the Empress.
"So, have your senses awakened enough to realize why we never started out career as fashion designers?"
((From now on we have nothing to follow, but let's see what happens!))
Suddenly tjhe skies are filled with dark clouds, rumblings and thunders filling the air.

Kodiak whiped around his armor apearing from nowhere upon himzumi interpoised himself between the future zora and where he thought the thret was comeing from.

"Zora." the Empress whispers to her younger self.
"This man is not your father. Do not act as if he was!" she says. Zora tries to question what she meant with that, however has no time as lightning strikes down on the ground before them. AS teh smoke dissolves a man stands in there, tall with a devil horn shped crown, the same the Empress wore before, and a kings mantle.
"What an entertaining tragicomedy you have given me, very amusing! I especially like the part where everyone just wants to kill." he says, with a voice filled with spite and impending doom.

Kodiak growled, he had been to angry before, he needed a calm head if he was to survive this.

zumi wanted nothing more then to rip this man apart.