The Bungsu Princess Inferior

22. Get out of the body

"Quick call Drew's mother!" varen's screams startled me.

I stood looking at Varen running to carry my body into the palace, he looked very hasty. I looked towards the feet and hands, oh not everything is transparent! I immediately ran behind Varen who was carrying my body.

Especially this? Why so many surprises lately? I almost felt crying. Why are my body and soul separated? Am I dead? I died making a protective layer? Oh yes, Kak Prisa will surely laugh at me! Kak Prisa can even make a treatment building just by shaking his hands, he can make 3 buildings in a day without fainting! Oh yes, what if this is really the end of my life?

Mom's dad, I haven't even met you guys. I miss you, mom. I was crying but no tears came out. My feet kept running after Varen, who now carried my body into the room I occupied last night, and he put my body in bed. Varen covered me, then sat down beside my bed.

I watched my body. There were tears at the end of my eyes, so what was it that I felt still had an effect on my body even though we were separated? That means we are still connected!

Varen grabbed my left hand and held it, "what do you think of when you spend all your life-sustaining energy creating a protective layer? Stop doing as you please Aira! You always torture me!"

Varen brought my left hand closer to his lips, he seemed to lightly kiss my hand. I gawked, in the three empires I had never met someone who treated me like that, kissing the hand of a woman was usually only done by lovers, not fellow friends. But could the customs in this empire be different? As diverse cultures as mothers often tell us, perhaps this is a culture they respect women, just maybe.

Curiosity began to tease me again, I approached my body and began to touch it. "Aw!" It hurts, like there's electricity stopping me from touching my own body. I sat down on the floor and started crying, is it possible that I would really die? I kept crying, a lot of things I still wanted to do but why did I die so quickly? Many regrets come to my mind.

"Oh Aira my dear! What happened to Varen?"

My crying stopped, I saw the Empress coming followed by General Drew behind her. He approached and sat to my right, opposite Varen. He touched my right hand, then held it tight. The divine white light belonging to the empress began to envelop my body. "Explain!"

A sense of warmth began to fill my soul, the empress transferred her energy nonstop. Meanwhile, the empress' eyes were still staring at Varen asking for an explanation.

Suddenly the sound of hasty footsteps could be heard approaching, he passed by Drew who was standing at the door. "That shield, who made that protective layer?"

The emperor came but his words stopped when he saw me lying on the bed. The emperor looked at the empress and Varen alternately.

"Aira made it, Aira made a barrier and a protective layer." Varen clasped my left hand with both of his hands, "the core energy is still sealed just like me, but he used all of his life-supporting energy just to make a protector."

Varen's eyes look teary, he looks at my body with a gaze that can't be quantified. The Empress was still channeling her energy, filling the empty spaces in my body and soul, she stroked my hair gently.

"Come, general, please close the door. Don't let anyone in!" The Emperor ordered Drew, without a word General Drew did as he was told.

"You're saying the core aura is sealed just like you?" The emperor stood beside the empress and looked at his son.

"Yes father, he performed the same ritual as me in the stone cave. When I found him, he was fighting the dark energy on the stone table."

The Emperor looked into the eyes of his two sons, "I guess you met him on the way." The emperor's eyes turned to look at my face, "if he performs the same ritual, and moreover he can even create a protective layer by himself, then no doubt." The emperor touched the empress' shoulders, a silvery light was seen flowing out of the emperor's hands, through the empress' body and entering with the empress' white aura into my body.

"Aira is the heir, but which heir of the empire? how did he get to the rock cave?" The emperor seemed to be throwing his confusion.

"Darling, I really don't care about her origins, I've steadily chosen her to be a daughter-in-law." The Empress chimed in on the Emperor. "I love her" the queen said later.

My soul trembled at the empress's words, as soon as something sucked me into the body. The body that now no longer rejects me, and feels warm is filled with two energies.

"Thank God, my dear is back!" the empress kissed me back and hugged me, she hugged me tightly. "Don't worry me again baby, is anyone sick?"

I looked at the empress and smiled, "nothing, thank you Your Majesty. Sorry to make you worry."

"We who should be grateful, thanks to your help the silver empire is now protected by a protective layer" the emperor interjected.

"I'm sorry but I'm not perfect, Your Majesty," I feel sad. "I'm sorry I couldn't make it perfect" my eyes re-glazed over, wanting to cry. I'm afraid that the protective layer I've created can't protect them.

"Hey how can you say not perfect! It took more than 10 people to make it, but you did it alone! Stop lowering!" Omel Varen enlivened the atmosphere, his mouth nagging but the look in his eyes seemed to say something else.

"Varen, Aira just woke up don't be homelin dong!" The empress mediates while clucking. "When he was worried for forgiveness, now he woke up and got up, just like your father!"

"Who's the wronged father?"

I smiled looking at them, it was like being in a warm family, without deceit. But our laughter suddenly disappeared, the door of the room was wide open revealing General Drew with a worried face.

"Although, Your Majesty, I'm sorry I barged in, there is a precarious situation that I must report," General Drew faced the emperor. "The enemy has surrounded the protective layer, they are moving faster than we thought."

"Dwelling..Dungs...Dung..." drums of warning sounded blaring, danger sign!

The emperor turned towards the door that was leading to my balcony. He opened it wide, Varen helped me stand up, we followed the Emperor. My body was no longer limp, like waking up, it felt like regaining energy even fresher than before. But Varen, unwilling to let go of her hand that held tightly to my shoulder, as if so afraid that I might fall, we walked together.

I was shocked and stopped my steps, not only me but the emperor and empress also stopped their steps. I can't believe what I'm seeing, maybe thousands or millions? I don't know, these monstrous creatures are really encircling the protective layer, they urgently try to penetrate the protective layer. Strange, the barrier I made while in the rain forest palace disappeared when I fainted, but the barrier and protective layer I made this time remained in place even though I had fainted.

"So they're the enemy in question all along? But what are they after?" I'm heading towards Varen.

"They want me" Varen looked me in the eyes. "They want to kill me to destroy the power of the moon God," Varen's gaze and words gave me goosebumps.

"What does the power of the god's moon have to do with you, Varen?"

"I was born when the moon of the gods shone, 17 years ago." The Emperor, Empress and General Drew observed the protective layer in silence, letting Varen explain to me. Wait, wasn't I born on the moon of the gods? The prophecy of an heirloom book, the words of the elder Mahanta ringed in my head. So it's true that I wasn't the only one born on god's moon 17 years ago? Varen and I were born at the same time?

"The moon of the gods grants its power to bless the birth, until the moment that the moon of the Gods weakens, the Moon of Gods loses the power to suppress all dark auras, and so on, until all the creatures believe that killing me is the only way to eliminate the power of the remaining god moon. They want to be free from the shackles of the moon god so that they can no longer hide."

I gawk, then this doesn't apply to me either. "Varen, but I..."

"Crete... Kretek.." the sound of cracks was heard echoing. My words hang, I want to tell Varen that I was also born during the month of the gods, the same as him, but it seems like my intentions should be conveyed.

The protective layer started to crack, I panicked. What am I supposed to do? Varen tightened his hand on my shoulder.