Being Strong On Your Own

Chapter 20: The Hidden

After brewing tea for Grey and Anabeth, Arina placed a pointy hat over her head then put on a robe and let herself look what she was.

"Please drink it, it's a pretty rare tea somewhere else.I don't mind if you show me your face, two vampires aren't something that hard to handle."

Grey took off his helmet.

Both drank the tea and immediately felt the bitter taste radiating into their mouths.

"It's bitter" cried Anabeth.

"That's true, I've made it so well."

"Do you have any sugar?"

"Things like that don't exist, I'm here living alone without going anywhere."

Grey thinks he's more secretive than he thinks.

"I thought you were from Vardes at first, but I thought you were wrong."

"We are from the kingdom of Neira."

"Ah so from there.you guys must have bad luck for living in such a place."

Hearing Arina's statement both looked curious, she clearly knew something to the point of being able to say so, seeing the reaction of the two Arina was finally able to deduce one thing.

"You don't know yet, ah surely the ancients there hid the truth from the present generation."

"Please don't convolute, you can explain everything," demanded Anabeth who made Arina close her eyes for a moment and then continued.

"The kingdom of Neira was a kingdom that was used as a collision to save other kingdoms."

The statement made time stop between the two, Arina continued as she should.

Once upon a time there were three kingdoms fighting with the Undead King, every king of the three fought bravely to be able to decapitate the Undead King unfortunately even though his head was severed the Undead King was still alive.

He rose up and defeated the three kings until they fell to the ground, and if they yield, all mankind will perish, that was why two of the three of them were waging themselves to push the Undead King down the abyss before he took his head back.

The one remaining king saw how the three were carried away by the torrent but he was sure that one day the Undead King would return to take his head, unbeknownst to everyone he brought the head to the kingdom and kept it in the capital and at that time the king began to build a border region to protect the capital, at least he thought this was his responsibility because only he was still alive against the Undead King.

The moment the Undead King got his head then it was the end of the entire human race.

"That king is king Neira?" ask Anabeth.

"True, those two kingdoms had no leaders for a while that's why he took on such responsibilities and it seems he spread rumors that only your kingdom is left including the humans in it," on Arina's statement, the two nodded in agreement.

Anabeth has a tough face now.

"He sacrificed his kingdom to protect the other two kingdoms, that's ridiculous."

"That's his choice, if he doesn't do it the end will be the same.. The Undead King would destroy the two kingdoms and then destroy Neira, at least so far he had managed to save many lives."

Grey can understand that, although the way a little extreme king Neira has done his job well. But what made him curious was only one thing.

"How do you know all that?"

"When it happened I was under the water of the abyss, I was too young to be involved in such a thing."

"And Vardes?"

"That's the name of one of the remaining kingdoms and another of Asteria. Once you know all this, are you mad at your king?"

"I'm just angry at the people of the capital who are not helping us at all who are fighting at the border."

Arina tilted her head and Grey continued.

"What happens let it happen, now all we want to do is how to handle it including the red moon."

"I've been waiting for someone to come to see me for a long time, when I knew the undead were starting to attack, I kept trying to experiment to help a little, I didn't expect my wait to be in vain."

"Why did he go that far as Grey?"

"He was sorry, when the two kings fell into the water he could have saved both of them but back then maybe he was too scared, which is why he wanted to penetrate everything in this way."

"Arina, you?"

"What Grey said was true, if I could save both of them then there would probably be many lives saved in the present" he said in a statement.