Chapter 35
I was suddenly awakened when I heard crackles around the place, accompanied by a swaying of this hut we were at, made only of the thatched roof. It shakes when too many movements are done inside. So, I slowly opened my pair of eyes to see what was causing the hut to move.
“You’re awake already, Brother.” Tonette was talking to me, so I stood up from my bed immediately, then right away scoured around when I realized Dralia is not around.
“Where’s your sister, Tonette?” Tonette smiled and shook her head at the same time. Is there anything funny in what I said?
“She is out there,” she replied to me shortly. “Hurry up there, we will start walking the mountains again. We’re going to walk early now so that you don’t faint again from the extreme heat of the sun. And then, increase the amount of oil you will be applying on your body, Brother. Then, sunscreen as well. I&r
Chapter 36On our sixth day, the sky was still dark but we had already started walking through the forest.“Sister, I’m already tired.” Dralia and I, both looked at Tonette’s spot when she spoke.“All right. Let’s sit here in the shade of this tree first. We have been walking for a while so I do understand. By the way, are you okay, Tonya?” Dralia said with a worried tone.“Yes, Sister.” Tonette was already sitting while leaning against the tree. While still observing any suspicious activity around.I can’t help but keep up with what she’s doing, it’s like I know what she’s noticing around the place. Even I, myself, I noticed that also. But I just ignored it.“Sister,” she called her sister again. But I preferred to step onto the back of the tree on whic
Chapter 37Tonette, and I were just behind her, while Dralia was just busy talking to her werehorse friend named Kiloy. Tonette only interrupts in the conversation once, while I was really quiet, I decided to just listen any strange sound around.“If you come with us now, Kiloy, how about your kingdom there?” Dralia commented.“There are other werehorses there, so its fine, then the real reason, Princess Dralia, why I chose to come with you, is because of the harassments the black vampires did the other day.” Dralia’s eyebrows raised as she was staring at Kiloy.“Troubled your kingdom? And why is that? What do they need from you?” We stopped walking when they stopped as well.“I don’t know, our Majesty just told us to look and observe around, and don’t let any black vampires to enter our kingdom again. And, maybe they have bad plans against us.” Dralia averted her fa
Chapter 38Kiloy stopped us first from following him because he wanted himself to be the first to enter the hole that we had peeked at earlier. He has carefully gotten rid of the bushes that got in the way around the hole we had peeked at earlier. Then suddenly Kiloy fell to where he had fallen.“Kiloy!” We called his name with a worried tone. Dralia intends to go down to help her friend, and when I peeked down below, I realized that the spot where Kiloy fell has a certain deepness. That’s what he had said earlier. The fairies intentionally made this kind of trap, so that they could not be easily entered by anyone.“Dralia!” It was too late when I wanted to catch her, to prevent her from jumping into where Kiloy had fallen on earlier. Tonette and I just looked at each other. And then, we just decided to follow them instead. I’m just holding on to the hem of Tonette’s dress now as if the opposite happened
Chapter 39“Thank you so much, Queen Belinda, for letting us stay here for the meantime in your kingdom.” Dralia is the one who bids goodbye on behalf of all of us since we are only visiting their place.“Are you sure you’re going to continue your travel again?” Dralia just nodded as a response, accompanied by a smile on her lips.The two friends hugged each other, but when they let go of their embrace, a sudden tiger-like thunder roared, and it looked like a raging sky. A flash of very long lightning was drawn. It is just early in the morning but the surroundings are very shady.They all looked to where I was looking. Some are terrified of lightning and thunder.“Princess Dralia, it looks like heaven doesn’t allow you to leave our kingdom right now.” The queen said jokingly while smiling.I was just seriously looking at the two women having a sincere talk. It looks like we can
Chapter 40Because of the queen's wounds, we never left the kingdom. We have to wait for her to wake up first. Dralia has also worked out a way for the queen to be well.Dralia is now holding her necklace, and I just noticed that she is still wearing it. It can't be seen, because she always wears a black cape with a head covering."Please get water from the stream," Dralia said. One of the fairies immediately ran to the stream, and when she returned she was carrying a glass of water in a bamboo pouch."Thank you very much, do you have a white cloth?"“There is, Princess. Here it is.” Immediately within reach of the fairy.I just watched the treatment it does to the queen, only now I witnessed again, how Dralia would treat using her necklace she’s wearing, that her parents inherited from her.I also remember then that it was she who healed my wound when that incident hap
Chapter 41Tonette keeps on asking right now her older sister what they had talked about with the queen. We had decided earlier to leave in front of the stone house for the meantime so that we would not hear what they were talking about.But Dralia did not even bother to answer her sister Tonette. Consequently, all Tonette did was to let her sister think first whether she would share what they had discussed or not.Even I didn’t dare to ask Dralia about that. But whatever it is, I know she will let us know that too.“The Queen is already fine, and because of that, we can leave here tomorrow already.” Her face was just blank as she told us that.“It’s good then, Sister. Are we leaving early tomorrow?” Tonette inquired.“Yes, we will leave as early as possible tomorrow. Even the sun will not show yet, we will go.” Her face was still the same. Earlier, she was happy to see firefli
Chapter 42We walked another few kilometers from where we came from earlier so that we could now cancel the effect of our hiding. I still can’t get my mind off about those creatures. They’re big in size, the tree that we were on shook when they ran. How strong are they, and then why did they get so upset earlier. According to Dralia and Kiloy earlier, the Ogre do not act like that if they are not disturbed in their habitat.“Maybe now we can put an end of the magic, we are also far away from the kingdom of fairies. Then I don’t think anyone will see us here again.”“Invalidate the invisible request.” Dralia whispered those words first. When she thought Kiloy was right.“Invalidate the invisible request.” Simultaneously, we three whispered the terms. And that is it, and we’re slowly getting back to our normal form.“Can you see me now?” I asked Dralia. When she
Chapter 43I could see Dralia while simply shaking her head on us, as she stood in front of us.“Can you just stand up there, you look like idiots. Have you forgotten what kind of creatures you are?” Dralia is now scolding to us while holding at her waist.Kiloy and I just looked at each other, and immediately stood up. We arranged ourselves right in front of Dralia. I was really just looking at her while still smiling widely.Dralia was still bent over touching her forehead. Immediately she became serious again, due to the arrival of a creature that had caused us to hide under the bed earlier.I was about to step back when Dralia grabbed my hand even if she’s not facing me.“Chief Orbel, why are you here?” my girlfriend said politely to the elderly leader of the Ogre. I notice something on the leader’s face. It has a scar on the face that is like three lines. I can’t figure out if i
Chapter 78We lost sight of the strange cloud we saw earlier, and instead of looking for that strange cloud, we just ignored it in the end, seeing that if we choose our curiosity over our mission, it might slow down our journey. Curiosity kills, as others would say. We just tell and make ourselves believe that maybe that strange cloud we saw just does not exist for real. Or maybe we did not see it in a clear view. What’s important now is our mission, nothing else would matter most. And maybe the three of us just see it as something unusual but not in the actual.“Won’t you still stop waiting for that strange cloud to come out again, Brother Harris, and Kiloy? Because if you’ll ask me if I were you, just don’t bother to disturb that cloud anymore. It is a waste of our time. Your curiosity will slow us down. That may just want our attention. And it is unworthy for real. Let’s just leave it l
Chapter 77We now continued our journey, left the river after we already satisfied our thirst, and then walked and walked to where our feet would take us. We don’t want to waste our time, since Dralia, and the whole palace including the whole vampire race needs us now. I’m just worried now on this walk of ours, what if we meet some other kingdoms again? How can we explain to them that we are not adversaries?That we don’t have any single intention to harm them and their entire kind? What if we meet some obstacles or challenges along the way that will slow down our pace? What if something will happen to us while we are busy completing our mission and do not care anymore about our safety? I have these thousands of what-ifs in my mind, but I am motivating myself to do my best through this journey, and finishing it successfully will be great.It would be nice if Dralia was given a choice to be with us right now because we did
Chapter 76We don’t have any slightest idea of where we are now, but given that we already feel tired, it only means that we are already far from where we came from, which is the palace, and we, in that far just by running and jumping as quickly as possible. Our tiredness is like killing us slowly, that is why we stopped and rested for the meantime. We need to rest of course especially that we had to use our energy that much to quickly get out from the palace unnoticed by the black vampires.It is not an easy task to do since vampires have a strong smell. That means it can smell anything, everything. You name it. This is the right timing for us to rest since the morning already arrived and we are still running and jumping around not noticing it. It slipped out from our minds since we don’t care anymore if the morning reached us. All we think about is how to get out, continue the journey even with Dralia not around unlike the usual, and most
Chapter 75How long have we been here inside the CR, just staying inside and waiting for Dralia to permit us to at least show ourselves but Tonette still doesn’t let us out. I am now even more confused about what was happening right now. What’s going on outside and why doesn’t she let us out? What is it, for real? Is Dralia still safe?Where are Tita Delia and Sir Dracu? Why are we hiding like this as if someone had just arrived and does not want to see us? I hope Kiloy and I hurried to use the bathroom earlier, it may be possible that we can still have a chance to witness or at least had a peek with the incident right at this moment outside. And maybe I could be of help just in case something bad happened outside. I just hope Dralia and her parents are still outside safe and sound.And I just hope this hiding will end in no time for I am very worried about Dralia now and wanted to see her in an instant with my two eyes.
Chapter 74We made the most out of the few hours we could spend with Dralia’s parents since we only have limited time now. The full moon is fast approaching and we should continue our journey to Del Mundo Mountains again so we could reach there right on time. As well as we still can plan our next move upon reaching there. We should hurry before it is too late. All the fellow vampires hope that we could do our mission successfully and we could save everyone, even humans from bad vampires as well.To make our stay more memorable since we only have a little time left to stay here, we had a celebration in which Dralia first informed us of the reason why we held this kind of celebration and her parents agreed to prepare for everyone. This celebration symbolizes hope for everyone that we could make it and finish our mission right on time, and a reminder to us that they trust us and we should try our best to fulfill our mission for them. It is like a fa
Chapter 73There was a sudden knock on the door. That unexpected knock made us quickly arranged ourselves properly before we answered who knocked on the door and found out who was waiting outside. After the door opened, that was the only time we had come to realize that we didn’t lock it earlier the moment we entered the room.That made my heartbeat raised faster than the actual upon realizing that we were just as calm as it was, not knowing or making sure of locking the door in the first place before doing something that would be embarrassing for the both of us if ever someone of their family, like one of her parents or maybe Tonette, who would be caught us doing awkward thing inside. We were both very careless.How idiot we were. But we didn’t blame ourselves to the fullest since we did not plan of doing it in the first place. It was just an accident for real. We were just being drowned in our emotions and that ma
Chapter 72After Tonette and I talked last night about what I had dreamed, I left her in the living room after I asked her permission to leave first, since there was nothing else to talk about and I had already collected information that I could connect piece by piece to come up a solid explanation about my dream, if it was for real or just a dream at all. There is still a part of me that wants to just keep in myself about what’s inside of my dream that night. I am half bothered but I don’t want to believe that what’s in my dream could possibly happen because I don’t what will I do or what can I do if ever. Dralia and I also talked about what happened last night. I did not have a second thought anymore on telling her about it and asking her some questions because I really wanted to know the whole truth. I told her how I felt after that dream and it never left my mind since. I have the right to know how Dralia feels about being forced by t
Chapter 71When Kiloy cried all of a sudden, he said something that opened my eyes. He seems to have mentioned the incident last night.“I’ll read it tonight, I hope there’s no noise later, just so I don’t wake up anymore or be disturb.” He said that comfortably, it seemed like he just didn’t care to say that.“What’s that again, Kiloy?” it would have been appropriate for him to leave when I stopped him.“Huh? Why Harris? ” he looked at me in surprise.“You said there was a noise last night,” I repeat I am probably very desperate to listen now, because of my question to Kiloy.Earlier I asked Tonette, now I ask Kiloy. Maybe I shouldn’t ask them about that anymore.“Ahh, it doesn’t matter, then it’s not imp ---.” I stopped speaking when he answered my question. I thought he would ignore my question to him.
Chapter 70I am now sitting by myself in the living room, and at the same time reading the books from under the table. I was just seriously reading something I didn’t even mind about the surroundings when the chair I was sitting on all of a sudden moved on its own. I was startled knowing that I am just alone in here, but why all of a sudden my chair moved even if I didn’t move it myself personally.“ Brother Harris?” I dropped the book because of shock when I realized Tonette was now by my side in an instant. It double my heartbeat upon realizing how Tonette just emerge that quickly and out of nowhere like a wild mushroom without me expecting or just sensing it myself. I tried to fix myself and asked her why went here unannounced. “W-What are you doing here?” Even if I am still startled by the thought of her being with me now