Shiva was working hard as usual but heard a few of the servants talking as they worked about how they might have a visit from the commander that had been randomly showing up and that supposedly she was bringing some of the other military people since it was thought that Shiva was a spy. None of the servants or slaves believed it though and kinda felt bad for Shiva, she was getting so much trouble for nothing.

Atros was was walking around the house and heard the servants talking about something involving Shiva so he knew it wasn't too. "No need to talk, you should all be working instead of chatting away. Unless you don't want to work here anymore that is." he explained and crossed his arms across his chest. He hadn't seen Rurik or Mel since breakfast and only hoped that they were talking and getting along. Still, he had to go tell his wife what he heard, so he headed over to where Irsa was and started to tell her what she heard.

The servants quickly quieted and went back to work even more not wanting to get in trouble or anything. Mel had been relaxing in the library but decided to head outside to check on the two little foxes knowing she should stay out of Rurik's way for not, he didn't seem to be in a very good or friendly mood so she figured she shouldn't bother him.

Shiva relaxed a little when she noticed the servants weren't really talking about her anymore and went back to work herself wondering how Rurik was doing and if he was okay... it had been a few days since he fed... should she say something to him? That really worried her.

After resting for a while, Rurik opened his eyes and sat up on the couch. His pale green eyes were slowly starting to get darker which meant that they would turn red eventually, and that was not good. If his eyes turned red he would go into a bloodlust which would put everyone in danger. "I really should feed soon." he said quietly to himself.

"Are you sure that's what they said?" asked Irsa when her husband told her what he had heard. "That's what I heard love. It could be just a rumor, but if it's not?" Atros replied. "We have to go tell Rurik right away!" ordered Irsa. They both knew that he wasn't going to like the news very much but they still had to tell him, so they left to go look for him.

Shiva sighed softly as she worked but noticed that the house seemed allot quieter then usual... what was going on exactly? Why didn't anyone seem to be up and active? Maybe they were all just tired from the party... but she did notice when Mel quickly went to tell her parents that she was leaving before she left to go and spend time with her friends before they had to go.

"Alright deary, have fun. Don't stay out too late." said Irsa before opening the door to the parlour room. "Oh, here you are dear. Your father and I have something to tell you" she said. Rurik closed his eyes again and buried his face in his hands, he didn't want his parents to worry. "Alright, what is it you want to tell me?" Rurik asked. "Well I heard the servants saying that the commander was planning on visiting again, and that she was bringing other military people to check up on Shiva." his father explained. Rurik said nothing for a while before letting out a soft sigh. "I see, well let them come. I will be more than happy to talk to all of them really." he replied. This surprised his parents but they knew that this calm side of Rurik wouldn't last long if they did come over. "Thank-you for letting me know. Can you tell Shiva that I need her to come here?" he asked. "Of course dear." replied Irsa before motioning at Atros to follow her out of there. "He seems in a good mood." said Irsa. "Too bad it won't last very long." replied Atros before looking around for Shiva. When they found her, Atros pulled her aside. "Rurik wants you to meet him at the parlour room right away.I think it's important." Atros said softly. "Come love, let's go check on the flowers." Irsa suggested and walked out with her husband.

"Oh, yes your highness right away." Shiva said softly before making sure that someone else would take over for her before she quickly headed to the parlor and looked at Rurik worriedly. "Master? Are you okay?" she asked worriedly wondering if he was feeling ill or something, she hadn't seen him do this before so it was rather odd.

Hearing Shiva, Rurik rubbed his eyes gently and sighed. He didn't want to scare her, but knew that if she saw his eyes she'd be very scared and worried. "No Shiva, your master is not okay at all. My parents told me what might happen today and I honestly don't know what to do about it. I won't let them hurt you though, I know that much." Rurik said softly. "I don't want you to be scared okay? So just sit down right here and stay calm." he ordered politely.

Shiva shook a little as she realized what he was talking about and it frightened her some. "Y-you think they'll try to hurt me?" she whimpered a little but then was confused at how he didn't open his eyes but moved over to sit next to him. "O-okay" she said softly and a little worried since he was acting a bit strange.

Rurik then opened his eyes and shrugged. "Maybe. You never know with the military, they can do anything really which I don't like. Don't worry though, I won't let them do anything unless I approve of it." Rurik explained and gently pet her since he could tell she was frightened. His eyed had turned darker now, they looked dark brown at this point. "Relax Shiva, you'll be perfectly fine." he assured and smiled at her. He wasn't going to let some strangers do anything to her, especially since he didn't like to share what was his. Pulling her closer, he sank his teeth into her neck and began to feed off of her. He tried to be as gentle as possible but it was pretty hard when he was so thirsty.

Shiva jumped a little out of shock as she saw how his eyes had changed but smiled and nodded some as she listened to him. "Thank you master" she smiled softly but when he bit her she actually let out a shoft cry since it kinda hurt... almost like when he bit her to punish her but at the same time different... she could tell that he was trying not to hurt her but it still hurt worse then normal. She took a few deep breaths, well as deep as she could with him biting her, trying to calm herself a bit and tried to relax as much as she could knowing it would only hurt worse if she moved evven a little.

The taste of her blood was delecious, it was like a drug for him really. He continued to feed and wondered exactly when the commander and her friends would arrive. He didn't know for sure if they were even actually going to arrive, but he had to look presentable if they did, and so did Shiva. When he was satisfied, he pulled away and pet her gently. "Thank-you Shiva." he said softly and wiped away some blood from his chin. "Alright then, we both need to look presentable for our visitors, so go get ready because you never know when these people might arrive." Rurik said softly and hoped that his eyes went back to normal soon.

Shiva gave a little almost whimper like sound when he finally let go and had accidentally leaned into him a bit as he was feeding. He had certainly taken a bit this time and that was rather apparent by how she had a bit of trouble sitting up straight again and then staying that way. She held her head a little feeling rather dizzy and worried a bit that she would have trouble standing up right now. "M-master... y-you could have told me you were so thirsty... sooner." she said softly since it had rather surprised her how much he had taken.

Rurik laughed softly as he stood up. "I know, but I didn't. Besides you had work to do." he replied easily and noticed ho dizzy she looked."I apologize if I hurt you. I need to go get ready now and I suggest you do to. " Rurik said before leaving to his room where Jamil was brushing Sylph who was very happy about it. Silently, Rurik grabbed some new clothes and left to get ready.

"It's okay..." Shiva said softly before nodding some. "Yes master, right away." She said softly and after a few minutes was able to stand and wasn't as dizzy as before so headed to her room careful not to fall as she went. She soon got ready and sat for a little bit before going to get something to drink and was finally able to get back to work until she heard that their guests had arrived. Not to long after all of this had happened Lithil had arrived with a few of her men two of which were warlocks and three of them had very strong presences about them, one being her captain. Once they arrived they requested to see Rurik, Shiva and Imber in private and the servant quickly went to tell Rurik.

Rurik was getting dressed when the servant informed him of the guests. "I will be right down! " he answered as he continued to get dressed. When he was done, he quickly fixed his hair and looked into the mirror. His eyes weren't completely back to normal but they were getting there. Quietly, he went to get Shiva and Imber. "Let's go, it's not good to keep these people waiting you know." Rurik stated.

Shiva looked up from what she was doing and nodded going to get Imber seeming rather worried but fallowed Rurik to where the small group was feeling even more nervous as she sensed the power coming from the group. Lithil alone worried her but this group with her scared her completely. "Good after noon my young lord, sorry too have disturbed you, as you might remember I am the general of your fathers army, Kaji Reno. I have come by request of my commander Lithil here with some of my other men to make sure that there is no threat to you or your parents, may we all speak in private?" Kaji asked politely noting how Shiva seemed to be worried or even scared by how she stayed close to the Prince the way she did.

Rurik glanced over at Shiva and gently pet her shoulder as he pulled her close. Listening to the male, he only nodded. There really was no point in fighting with them. Not yet anyway. "We can speak privately in the parlor room since I do not think father would allow me in his study." Rurik replied and motioned for them to follow him over to the parlour room. "Just relax Shiva, nothing is going to happen to you." he whispered reassuringly to her once they reached the room. When everyone was inside, he motioned them to sit and locked the door closed behind him. "Alright. What is it you need to speak to me about?" Rurik asked while keeping Shiva close.

"As I said before I want to test to make sure one, if not both, of them are or are not angelic spies, and this time we brought what we needed to check, it shouldn't hurt either of them so they really shouldn't worry... unless one of them is a spy." Lithil explained and watched as Shiva stayed close to Rurik and didn't budge from his side in the least. "All we need to do is have them both put these bands on their wrists and ankles, then Shadow and Haze, the two warlocks you see with me, will cast a spell that should pull forth any other forms that the two might have, if they even have any other forms at all, or will bring forth anything that is hidden, such as a secret purity or anything like that, in your servants case the only thing that might come out are her ears and tail. But don't worry we already took the precautions necessary to prevent any of us from being harmed by any purity that might come off of them. Does that all sound okay your highness?" Kaji explained calmly and Shiva relaxed a little hearing that it shouldn't hurt them at all and looked to Rurik still a little worried but just wanted to clear all this up.

Rurik listened carefully at what was being said. "It won't hurt them at all...?" He repeated and looked at Shiva before looking back at the group. "That's fine by me. But what I'm curious to know, is what will happen if one of them does end up being a spy?" Rurik asked curiously. "Will you take them away from here and lock them up or?" he said softly. If they did end up taking Shiva and Imber away...well he'd have to get another personal slave. Still, he was going to try to keep them both here, he wasn't going to let them be taken away if he could prevent it.

"Well... in that case we would highly suggest that you allow us to take them away from here, the kingdom's safety is way more important then the lives of one or two spies." Explained Kaji and Shiva whimpered and shivered a little not liking the thought of being taken away from Rurik in the least.

Rurik nodded and smirked. "Fair enough then." he said and looked at Shiva before petting her. "That's not going to happen though, is it Shiva?" Rurik asked and let out a soft breath. "Alright then. Let's get this over with shall we?" Rurik suggested to the group. He was actually curious to see what resulted from this little test.

Shiva shook her head since she was positive neither her or Imber were angels and certainly weren't spies but still gave a little whimper when they had her stand with Imber and put the bands on both of them before the two warlocks started to cast the spell. Right away Shiva yelped a little as her ears and tail came out but didn't seem to be in any pain from it but was even more shocked as Imber shook her head and tried to run for the door but seemed to be repelled by an invisible shield. "I-Imber?" Shiva whimpered a little before holding her head as she suddenly fell to her knees and at the same time Imber's body seemed to shimmer and suddenly it burst into a blinding light. 'I knew she couldn't do it, how could something so pathetic ever amount to anything?' 'at least she tried... it's not her fault she did more then we could ever do.' 'but it's a servants duty to protect their masters no matter the cost! She should have given her own life before she let anyone harm our fair mistress! I know I didn't! I fought to the very end!' 'all we can do now is grant them both our powers and their memories back... there's nothing else we can do.' 'lets just hope she does a better job convincing then she did protecting.' the soft whispering was muffled by the sound of the rushing air in the room but Shiva could hear it, so could Imber and possibly even Rurik but the others weren't close enough to the two to hear it. Once the light had faded a young woman with beautiful almost teal aqua blue hair and fluffy cloud like angel wings sat where Imber had ran to and Shiva barely could keep herself up with her stretched out hands. "young mistress?.... oh.... so pretty.... but... how...?" Shiva whispered as she glanced over at the girl but then passed out all of her power being drained and seeming to have flowed to the young woman. "Ngh! A-ah m-my head.... so... painful..." the girl whimpered in an almost chime like voice as she held her head seeming to be in pain as the others in the room seemed to stare at the two Lithil with her mouth hanging open in shock before covering it and just seemed stunned that something had actually happened... and Shiva hadn't actually been an angel at all

Rurik stared at the other girl And didn't like what he saw at all. Now he was going to have these two girls follow him around. It sounded nice, yes because he could order them both around but he really didn't want to. Who the heck was this new girl?! Rubbing his forehead, Rurik looked over at the group and sighed. "Okay, so what are you going to do now?" Rurik asked simply. Why was there another girl here? The last thing he needed was another talking girl in the house.

Once the guards got over their shock they quickly moved to secure the new girl and Lithil quickly scanned both of the girls wrist bands with the device she had before and it barely made a sound on Shiva but went off on Imber. "Well... it seems I was wrong, your servant seems powerless and weak... and she doesn't seem to know anything, she's not the one that needs to be interrogated so we have no use for her do with her as you will... but as for this woman..." she explained and Imber whimpered weakly and gave little weak tugs but didn't seem to be strong in the least. "P-please! N-no! D-don't hurt me!" she cried weakly tears falling from her crystal blue eyes "Hm.... did she call that woman Mistress? In her files it mentions nothing of her having a female master... my lord, do you know anything of this?" Kaji asked softly to Rurik eyeing Imber, then Shiva before looking to Rurik curiously