Chapter 4: Stranger

[Soft tone] “Blang… you shouldn't have said that this is your home, and you can't follow me because I can't shelter you. I would beg him to let you stay, so please stay here.” Cyrus holds Blang's two hands as he talks to her.

“No way Cyrus!” She removed her hands from Cyrus, “I can't stay here, remember what the old man said, I am now their enemy. Or do you think they will still treat me like their kin after defending you in front of them all? No! Just let me go with you. We will make my father's dream come true, it shouldn't be here.”

“But Blang, what about the evil vampires?”

“Don't worry about them! Once we finish work on the throne, then we would stop them! Let go!”

Blang and Cyrus left the cave and went back to the forest with their throne.

While the young vampires were happy immediately Cyrus and Blang left, they all looked at each other and the one that happens to be the leader among them said, nobody can stop them from going out to the city again.

“Tonight we will feast on blood!! Hahaha,” They all laughed and waited for the sun to set completely.

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Cyrus and Blang built a hut in the forest where they work on the throne. Cyrus rebuilt the throne and made sure the throne looked giant exactly like a king's throne, then also carved a crown with three stars and three moons on it as a design with wood.

It took him ten years to finish the throne and crown because of attacks from wild animals and birds. Floods also disturbed them, so they had to rebuild the hut again.

Life was frustrating to the point that Cyrus wants to give up, but Blang keeps encouraging him to continue pushing it because they can't give up, not now.

After ten years the throne is ready with the crown, they placed it in front of their hut, with the sun reflection on it and the beauty of the throne shows. Blang and Cyrus were standing beside each other, watching how beautiful the throne was.

“What did you think of Blang?” Cyrus asked as he was staring at the throne.

[Exhale sharply] “You did a great work, but I was thinking we should change the look”

“How?” Cyrus looks at Blang.

“Let's change it to white, it will look more beautiful than these.”

“Mmmmmh, you're right, Blang. But how are we going to achieve the color you suggested?”

“It's simple.”

Blang smiles at Cyrus, and she looks for dry sticks, gathers them together and burns them into ashes. Cyrus wondered what Blang was going to do.

After all the sticks burn off, Blang packs the ashes into a wood-carved bowl and then looks up to the sky with sadness clouding her face. Blang began to cry, the cloud went cool with a bit of darkness and rain started.

Cyrus was just looking at Blang without saying anything. After a few drinks of water dropped into the bowl, Blang smiled, then the rain stopped and the sun took over the sky. She stood up happily and went to meet Cyrus, handed over the bowl to him and asked him to paint the throne with it.

[Signs]” Goodness, I'm so happy I have someone like you in my life, and thanks for coming with me back then.”

Cyrus was happy, and he collected the bowl from Blang and went ahead and painted the throne with the crown, it brings out ash-white. After Cyrus finished painting.

Blang told him that the time blood moon should be expected will be very soon, so it is better they start worshiping the throne from now on. Cyrus held Blang's hand and said he was scared.

“Why are you scared?”

“What if the moon did come out, as it always has?” Cyrus has fear clouded over his face.

“Hey, Cyrus! Don't say that, please, we have to put our belief in it and have faith that the moon will appear bloody.” Blang looks straight into Cyrus' eyes.

Cyrus went mute, his heart started beating fast and his lips slowly trembled. Blang stands still while keeps looking straight into Cyrus's eyes, and Cyrus intends to kiss her.

Leaves started rustling with the sound of foot approach. Blang closed her eyes and slid her face to the left, then told Cyrus that she was sorry, while Cyrus replied that it was okay if she didn't feel the same way he felt.

But Blang said it's not like that, Cyrus asked what did she mean by that?

“Someone is coming!” Blang glances her eyes at the back of Cyrus.

“That's not possible because nobody knows about this place.” Cyrus becomes restless.

[The foot keeps approaching] “Believe me, Cyrus, someone is coming. Let's take this throne inside, please.”

Cyrus and Blang take the throne inside their hut and they both rush out and are ready to fight. Immediately that person appeared Cyrus and Blang couldn't do anything, instead, they were both extremely surprised.