Whispers filled the ballroom as the man in the black suit smirked at the impact he caused.

"I thought he was dead!"

"I swear, I saw his body!"

"Why is he here? He was banished!"

"We killed him! YOU killed him!"

"Where even was he then?"

"How did he come back?"

The man cleared his throat and the room fell silent.

"I wanted to take over the Land of course, but -"

"You can't do that."

Enya suddenly stepped forward, holding up the medallion from her neck. It twinkled softly in the light of the lights that hadn't been snuffed out yet. "We made sure people like you can't do ANYTHING to us. Get out before our armies make you."

Laec was impressed by Enya's seemingly new found determination and bravery.

"Yes," he hissed, "those medallions. They are the very reason I came here, as a matter of fact..."

"You can't do anything now Nori!" Fergus bellowed at the man. "You are powerless!"

"Oh believe me I can, Fergus," he grinned, displaying his unnaturally white teeth. "You see, you have made it impossible for me to hurt you PHYSICALLY. But there's nothing to stop me from hurting you MENTALLY."

He swooped forward in front of Laec and looked directly into his bright green eyes.

"Laec of Leaudon..." he whispered as Laec looked stonily back. "You are afraid, so afraid..."

"Of what, you arse?" Laec said, surprising even himself with his rudeness.

"You are afraid that this girl," he gestured to Enya, "will never love you in the same way you love her. Because even as you held her close and told her how beautiful she was, you were afraid she would just think of you as another man, and that she loved another." He gestured this time to Ash.

"Stop..." Laec muttered, he was holding his face in his hands and looked as though his whole world was ending in that one second. What the others didn't see was the images playing in his head, put there by Nori. Enya and Ash, dancing together. Enya whispering words to Ash as he smiles and kisses her softly amongst her red curls...

"NO MORE!" Laec finally screamed. "I love her, I love her, please, don't do this to me..."

Nori smiled and looked around the room. There was no doubt about it, the others were afraid of what he could do now.

"So unless you want that happening to you -" he grinned again, "I suggest you give me what I want."

"Which is what?" Fergus shouted.

Nori allowed for a pause before he said, his tongue rolling over and tasting every syllable:

"Those medallions."

A/N Thanks so much for nearly 200 reads!! *fangirls* You guys are fantastic! Sorry for the shorter chapter but I've been working on my other Mericcup fanfic, Sweet Dreams are made of This. I've only done two chapters on that so I need to work on it whilst I figure out the plot line for this one, having a bit of writers block with this story :( Hang in there though, I will be updating as soon as I can!