Anaya was shocked, she tightened her embrace around Celia's waist, was this man really her father ?
She had always hoped to find her parents, but how to be sure that it was indeed her father and not an impostor ...
Celia has sensed her hesitation and she decided to ask the questions that refused to come out of her mouth, Celia asked him : "How can we be sure that you are her father ? Do you have anything other than your word to give us ?"
Dan replied to Celia : "If I only have my word, will you believe me ?"
Celia honestly said to him : "Yes, I will !"
Anaya looked at her surprised, and Celia found it very funny because her baby wife and her father in law just had exactly the same expression on their face.
She explained to them : "Well, you seem to be an honest man and Alec trusts you enough to betray his own family, but you abandoned my wife, even if it was to protect her, abandonment is still abandonment, why do you think my baby wife hates physical contact so much ?"
Dan was stunned by this young woman, and he didn't know how to answer that, he felt already very guilty and he knew very well that he was at fault.
Celia, in the other hand, knew that her words might have been a little harsh but she had to tell him because Anaya would never tell him how much she had suffered from his choice as a father.
Celia then continued : "If she hates physical contact so much it is because she is afraid of attaching herself to people and then to be rejecting by them.
You just put us all in danger with your confession, Anaya won't be able to concentrate on the fight if you don't explain to her why you had abondoned her, and I wouldn't be able to concentrate either if I know that Anaya are not in her normal state."
Anaya looked at her wife and she once again thanks fate for making her meet such an amazing person, she didn't know how many times you could fall in love with the same person, but she felt again that feeling of having thousands of butterflies in her belly.
She took Celia's proudly raised chin in her hand and turned it to face her, she said : "Enough my love, I think he has understood his mistake, and that he will give us an explanation."
Anaya kissed her tenderly on the lips and Celia whispered in her ear : "Luckily you removed my marks, it would have been a bit of a mess for my first meeting with your father."
Anaya chuckled and said : "You will never change my love."
Anaya then transferred her attention to her father, after all, if Celia believed him then there was no doubt that he was really her father, she said to him : "I don't want a big explanation or an apology, I just want to know why and how is my mother doing ?"
Dan ran a hand over his face before confessing the truth to her : "Fifteen years ago, the current Emperor of the red dragons found out our hidding spot and launched a sneaky attack during the night, your mother was killed during this attack, before she died she asked me to hide you and to come back and get you only once your birthmark will appeared, so that you could grow up safe from our war."
Dan added remorseful and furious at himself for not finding this out until it was too late : "If I had known earlier that this fake Emperor had already found you and that he had sent Alice to watch over you and to rally you to their side, I would never have left you in this orphanage."
Anaya raised her hand and said to him : "It's okay, I know enough for the moment, and don't feel guilty for what is already in the past, thanks to the orphanage I met my wife and Liam and Alec have protected us from Alice and her men."
Celia wanted to confort her wife who just learnt that her mother was dead but she had this feeling again, another transdimensional portal was about to open.
She placed Anaya behind her and said to Liam : "Another transdimensional portal is going to open, are you sure it will be the Lys Alliance ?"
Liam asked her quickly : "Where is it going to open ?"
Celia pointed to a spot and Liam ordered everyone present : "All in a defensive position, we keep the girls safe."
Dan relayed his order to his men and positioned himself in front of his girls, the transdimensional portal finally appeared and the twenty members of the Lys Alliance came out.
Dan recognized some of them and was relieved, he released his guard, and turned to his daughter in law to ask her : "Can you really feel when a transdimensional portal is going to open ?"
Celia looked at him and said : "Didn't I just prove it to you."
Dan smiled at her and she turned to Anaya and said : "Remember what Liam said, let's settle this trust thing once and for all, and let's go play a bit !"
Anaya looked at her surprised and asked her : "What exactly do you have in mind ?"
Celia took Anaya's hand in hers and intertwined their fingers together she said to Dan : "Tell your men to stand on the fortified wall, and trust us."
Dan nodded and ordered his men to stand on the wall.
According to Alec, his daughter's wife was a formidable person, he couldn't wait to find out what she was really capable of.
Celia walked with Anaya towards the members of the Lys Alliance and Liam hadn't exaggerated, the weakest of them was a level twelve grade three mage.
She said to them : "Thank you for coming to help us in this battle, Liam told us that in order to create a lasting alliance with you we just had to prove to you that Anaya is really the golden dragon and that I am really a mage with a potential of seven spheres.
They just nodded and Celia said to them : "Great then, please follow us !"
Celia kissed Anaya's hand before letting her go, she smiled and winked at her and she said to her : "My baby wife you're going to love my plan."
Celia revealed her wings of spiritual energy and flew to position herself in the air between the fortified wall and the shield.
Anaya followed her using one of her daggers which she transformed into a sword and thanks to the energy of the wind, she came to position herself next to Celia.
Celia waited until everyone was well on the wall and she finally said to Anaya : "Listen carefully my baby wife, I want you to transform into a golden dragon and use a blue seal to go to the other side of the shield, use your fiery breath on them and as soon as you see a portal opening in front of you think of me and you will come back on the safe side."
Celia added : "Don't aim at the generals, aim at the evil creatures first."
Anaya looked at her, her eyes had already turned golden from the excitement, she told her : "I didn't think you would allow me to go to the other side."
Celia smiled at her : "Well, they want to know what we are capable of so let's give them all a good show !"
Celia also told her : "Besides, I need a good diversion to test the red seals and see how much energy I can send through them, that will allow me to better organize our attack."
Anaya said to her : "Okay, let's begin my love, and don't worry I wasn't planning to go and to provoke her generals."
Anaya moved away from Celia and long golden wings began to appear on her back, Anaya put back her dagger inside her magic bag and finished her transformation, her golden dragon had grown bigger since she had reached level eight and she felt much more powerful as well.
She saw that Celia motioned for her to wait and she saw her wife take out her dagger which immediately transformed into a scepter.
Celia then opened her divine door and sent the universe energy straight into the scepter, she felt she was transforming again into this kind of angel form, and once the transformation was over her long silvery hair flew all around her.
Her eyes had become entirely silver and she sent lightning at the shield to stimulate it and cause the seals to appear on it.
She then positioned green papers filled with universe energy mixed with Anaya's light energy in front of all of the red seals.
When everything was in place she nodded to Anaya and she saw baby wife in her golden dragon's form flew straight on one blue seal.
Celia just hoped she will be fast enough to avoid Anaya to get hurts.