On the Other Side...

Elder Taros keep losing himself in his thoughts, 'Once she awakens her lineage, her blood heritage, I do not know it what kind of entity she will become.'

But the only one unaffected by the pressure is the one that caused all the despair.

Mara was looking at the door in a daze, when she heard a voice inside her mind, "Little Mistress..."

"Eh?" she awoke from her daze to realize that the speaker was the voice of the boy she heard earlier, and curiously asked, "You're the voice of the warm cloud aren't you?"

"Yes, that's right little Mistress, a part of me is linked to your subconscious, but the rest of me is sealed deep inside your soul, when your blood touched the Gate of Destiny, you could make a connection with me, that's why I can talk to you right now..." after a couple of seconds in silence she spoke one more time, "My sincerest apologies, I could see what happened since the last time I talked to you," the voice spoke dejectedly because he was not there to give strength to his little Mistress.

"Oh, that? Don't worry, it's not your fault, we still have to do some investigation to find out what happened," she expresses with a nonchalant attitude.

Stunned, the voice said, "Little Mistress, aren't you sad about your Mommy's death?" her voice sounded full of incredulity.

"Oh?"

"..."

"..."

"I should, but I felt nothing... is it something bad?" little Mara expressed indifferently.

It was at that moment that the warm cloud remembered something, and cried out in alarm, "OH NO! Little Mistress, you must give more blood to the gate!"

"If you don't the Gate of Destiny, will absorb all your emotions; that gate not only gets his food from the blood of the Leaders but also on the emotions of their Mistress! Quickly, quickly, the Gate of Destiny has been thousands and thousands of millennia thirsting for the blood of its Master and yours is the most like it..."

"????" little Mara understood nothing of what the warm cloud was telling her, but upon hearing the urgent voice, she listened to it.

Despite feeling indifferent, she kept her innocence and curiosity, so she did it quickly. And the door could understand what she wanted to do, so it ejected the dagger swiftly, and in doing so the dagger flew immediately to little Mara's hand.

Elder Taros, couldn't see what was happening because the moment little Mara took the first step, the gate turned its attention to him, and pressed a little more, making him duck his head and direct his gaze to the ground because it knew that once this now called 'Divine Protector', realized the actions of the little Mistress, he would stop her and the only thing the Gate could reason was one word, 'HUNGRY, HUNGRY!'

Despite everything going on around her the little Clan Leader Mara discreetly raised her hand, and the dagger fell into her hand, without thought or hesitation, she made a diagonal cut across her palm, she was not careful, but seeing the dagger do it slowly and gently, she got shocked, 'The dagger also has a conscience?'

And as her thoughts are heard by the warm cloud of energy, he replied, "The dagger is the same as the Gate of Destiny, in fact, the Dagger has its own name, and once you know it, the dagger can be your best weapon, it can alter itself into a sword if you like, but remember little Mistress, you must know its name before, so it will serve as your personal weapon."

"A sword? Great, Mommy always told me stories of heroes and villains with swords," little Mara expressed excitedly, her eyes were shining like stars, with a gaze full of expectation of what the dagger can do, made it shiver, giving it a bad premonition of what may happen to it.

'Sigh!'

"Little Mistress, you must know the dagger's name, and it must acknowledge you as its Master before it will show you what it can do," the voice of the warm cloud reiterated to her once again.

"Uh, right... how will I know its name?" little Mara showed her confusion not only in her face but in her voice as well.

"Little Mistress, that you will have to find out by yourself, but the Entries on the Clan's Chronicles will help you..." the childish voice continued to explain, and after a pause, he continue, "Speaking of names Little Mistress, can you give me a better name than the warm cloud? While it's true that I look like that in your subconscious, my main body is not..." she said with a sad tone.

"Ah? Right, I can't keep calling you that, there will come a point when I won't be the only one who gets confused... Hmm..." an arduous moment of thinking by little Mara, who innocently gives meaningless names or names that have nothing to do with the other party...

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Elder Taros, who had his gaze downcast, sneezed, "Who could be talking about me?"

*

The warm cloud seeing that she was thinking of a name for him and forgot about the dagger and the blood he shouted once again, "Little Mistress, you're giving too much blood to the Gate!!!! Control the dagger, tell it to stop!" his voice completely exasperated, how could they forget where they were, the unruly dagger, doing its little games.

"Oh, you want to absorb all my blood?" a female voice that did not belong to a little seven-year-old girl spoke through the small body of the same, and the dagger at that moment froze, and stopped absorbing the blood from the wound.

When it stopped, the wound healed immediately and left no trace of it.

The dagger did not know what to do since the voice was one that it would recognize anywhere, one that it had feared for millennia after millennia, even though she was not present during all that time, the dagger which had awakened consciousness just like the door, had feared, and hearing it again, it realized that it would have to return to that time in which its body got hurt for many times of transformations into weapons that were unthinkable for any living or non-living being.

The female voice just gave the dagger a smirk, and it flew straight into the crack of the door disappearing in plain sight.

Little Mara's aura did not change at all, but her expressions did.

The voice was the same one that gave the mission to Housekeeper Ursula to be 'marked' to protect Mara.

When the door absorbed the dagger with a large amount of blood, it trembled and opened, at that moment the pressure on Elder Taros disappeared and he immediately turned his gaze towards the door which was opening slowly, until it stopped at a certain point, the red lines separated away from the door and formed an arc in the space that was opened in the middle of the door. It was like a spiderweb moving for its Queen.

As it did so, the veins were as if they were making a pass at its Governor.

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Little Mara instinctively advanced along the path shown by the lines, like a spiderweb making that look like an arch.

As she advanced step by step, it illuminated her body with the golden light the door had previously radiated, and when everyone recovered and returned to their senses, little Mara was no longer present but had entered the throne room. A mysterious place for many but familiar to every Leader, the problem is...

That the now titled 'Divine Protector', always gets inside with the Leader, but this time the same 'Divine Protector', was in a trance, from which he could not get out, since he saw the red lines form a path for Little Clan Leader Mara.

And when he came back to his senses, the door had been closed, and he furrowed his eyebrows, he stood up and realized that he got his back soaked with sweat, not caring about it anymore because he has something more important to do, he went towards the door, extending his hand towards it and closing his eyes...

After a few seconds in that state, he opened his eyes abruptly, and a light flashed from his eyes, he normally can feel the anomalies inside the room, but this time he couldn't do it.

Just as he was about to form a seal with his hands to open the door, he stopped and froze in place but his eyes showed disbelief, and fear, because one of the red lines on the door, was pointing at his head, giving him the idea that it could eliminate him at any moment.

It was then that the Elder sat down and didn't even try to open the door, much less try to find out what was happening on the other side.

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On the other side of the door, little Mara was looking around in amazement.

Her eyes were shining like stars as she looked at the living room sky, the floor, and its walls.

Feeling comfortable and refreshed being inside this hall, all kinds of feelings got taken away by taking inhaling deep and exhaling, which made her feel lighter like she's bathed with a spring of power, invigorating her senses and feel like she is the power itself.

Feeling that way, she ignores everything around her to sit down on the comfy floor, close her eyes, and meditated, a complex state for a supernatural being, but this state can only get achieved when the creature turns 15 years old; quite early to little Mara.