Bloody Tears, The Heart of the Vampyre 8 – A Dance of Sun and Moon in Darkness
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With the help of Lilizim and Sas'Ha, Violetta's throne room was quickly turned into a treatment room for the Au'ric vampires following Lilizim, each of them being served a mixture of blood from Violetta and Maria with the contents of the vials, each cured case lighting up so much that the habitants of Grobuz began to think that a big fight had broken out in the throne room, seeing as more and more of the light-infused vampires swarmed in.

But after a few hours of treatment, the doors to the throne room finally opened and both of Violetta and Maria entered to witness what seemed to be about a hundred or more bats kneeling in front of Lilizim, who was just getting adorned with a crown and white dominatrix attire by Sas'Ha, making Violetta shake her head, "I wasn't expecting to see so many having been victims of this."

Lilizim heard Violetta speak and turned around to look at her, "I may not be a royal like you, but I am still technically their queen as the first of our kind." Violetta nodded before looking at Tenchi who walked in and saw the people kneeling to Lilizim and also the attire that Lilizim was wearing, "Oh my, you made them all submit to you?" Lilizim looked at Tenchi, oblivious to what she meant, "It was more that they kneeled for me once they were treated."

Violetta sighed before she looked at Maria, "Arrange a room for me, Tenchi, and Lilizim, please." Maria knew that look, it was the one of a ruler who had a difficult decision ahead of her, "Yes, my queen." Maria walked out of the room as Violetta looked at Tenchi and Lilizim, "We need to have a discussion in solitude." Tenchi and Lilizim didn't get a chance to speak as Violetta walked to the doors and opened them up, looking at the guards near the door, "Guards. Bring our visitors to the dining hall for a meal."

The guards looked at the masses of people with disgust, "Are you sure your majesty? They are the enemy and can attack us." Violetta grabbed both the guards by their throats, lifting them off their feet before she looked at them and in front of the entire mass present, she hissed out in anger at them, "You dare to oppose your queen's word, guard? I can strip you of your title for this treason to the blood crown!" Tenchi whistled and looked at Lilizim, "I got no idea what she is planning to do."

Maria soon came running, witnessing Violetta chewing out both of the guards to the point that both were crying before she heard Maria approaching and dropped the guards, "You fixed a room?" Maria nodded to her, "Yes, my queen." The guards quickly ran in and began to file the bats to the dining room as Maria waved for Tenchi, Lilizim, and Violetta to follow her to a room next to the dining hall that seemed rather comfortable and Tenchi whistled again, "This is luxurious. What room is this?"

Maria quickly spoke up, "This is the dining room used when we have meetings with delegations from other realms. Now, take a seat and I will have the servants come with meals for you all." No one objected to it as they took a seat in one of the many chairs, but close to one another as Tenchi took in the room slowly, seeing shields, lances, and rapiers hanging near the banners depicting the many different vampire royals of the past.

Suddenly, Violetta cleared her throat, calling the attention of Tenchi and Lilizim to her, "As it so happens and we got to see it for ourselves first hand, the Au'ric vampires are gonna get mistreated and not trusted by much of the population after what happened to some of their own. I am without a solution right now for how we are gonna solve this and keep them safe." Both Lilizim and Tenchi understood what she meant and nodded to Violetta as Tenchi spoke up, "Do you have some location like in the mountains where no one goes that could be like their own sanctuary?"

Violetta shook her head and sighed, "Most of the mountains here are having mining operations being run, so there is no place in them for a sanctuary." Lilizim listened with Tenchi, but Tenchi was soon thinking through the map she had seen over the planet, just as three very feminine male bats came walking in and served them a black pudding each, which Tenchi grabbed with her hands and began to devour eagerly, making both Violetta and Lilizim just look at her before Lilizim decided to forgo table manners by grabbing the black pudding and quickly devouring it, leaving Violetta to just give in and devour hers by hand.

Cleaning off her hands, Tenchi spoke up, "We got a space of unused mountain outside of Tepehi, I can let Lilizim and her followers live there and provide supplies like food, textiles and more." Lilizim was taken aback by what Tenchi said and Violetta swallowed before looking at Tenchi, "Are you sure that you wanna do this, Tenchi?" Tenchi nodded, "They are like I was, Violetta. They got nowhere to go and they wanna find a place where they belong. I found my future and now I want to give them a future."

Violetta nodded before Lilizim spoke up, "If you are offering to give us a chance at life without a risk of hatred, then I am willing to take you up on your offer." Tenchi nodded before trying to speak, but Lilizim suddenly spoke up before her, "Vampire Queen Violetta. Queen Tenchi. I, Lilizim, promise to take care of my people and make sure they stand ready to support you both whenever you need, for a peaceful future between us."

Tenchi and Violetta applauded as Violetta spoke, "We are both trusting your word on it, Lilizim. Or maybe we should make it official. I hereby declare as the Vampire Queen that you should be known as High Sun Priestess Lilizim of the Red Sun." Tenchi spoke up after her, "I hereby agree as the Wyvern Queen that you should be known as High Sun Priestess Lilizim of the Red Sun, and even if not official, the Sun Queen Lilizim."

Lilizim began to tear up at their words before bowing deeply, "Thank you, Queens." Tenchi smiled and lifted a hand, "Oh, come on, we are all Queens here." Suddenly the doors opened to the room and Maria walked in, "I hope I am not disturbing, but I just wanted to tell that I am lifting the ban of Tenchi flying and fighting. It means you can travel back home, Tenchi." Tenchi smiled before standing up to walk over to Maria, giving her a hug, "Thanks, MarMar." Maria patted her on the back before slowly moving back, "Just give the word when you are ready to go." Tenchi smiled before looking back at Lilizim before looking at Maria again, "Correction, when we are ready to go home. The Au'ric vampires will live in Ri'Co'Va from now on." Maria knew better than questioning it as she nodded, just as Tenchi spoke up, "We are leaving after we have eaten. You got work back in Ri'Co'Va after all as the Staeian ambassador." Maria nodded as she didn't disagree with what Tenchi had said.

After every bat had finished eating, Lilizim had gathered them all with her outside of the castle as they waited for Maria and Tenchi, who came walking out of the castle with Tenchi looking pleased as she was ready to go home, just as she saw a beam of light appearing and after shielding her eyes, she heard the footsteps and slowly uncovered her eyes before she stood with her mouth open at the sight of Alexander standing there, "Hope I am not too late, my best student."

Tenchi quickly ran over and hugged him closely, "Sensei! You are looking so much better." Alexander began to gasp for air before Tenchi let him go and looked over him as he stood in his kimono and didn't wield any katana at all, something that had been usual for him, but before she could ask, he changed into a serpentine dragon and light began to surround every bat, except for Maria and Tenchi, who quickly jumped onto him and got into position to hold on before he took to the air with the orbs of light floating next to him like a giant set of wings, but even when feeling inspired, he didn't seem to even wanna sing, which surprised Tenchi before she held on for dear life as he began to speed up, "Next destination, Tepehi!"

Back in Grobuz, Violetta stood and watched as Tenchi and the others disappeared over the horizon, just as a guard walked up to her from behind, "Your bloody highness. You have a letter from Hoofking Steelmane." Violetta looked at the guard and took the letter, "Thank you, guard. May the Blood Moon watch over you." The guard saluted and left as Violetta tore the envelope open with one of her fangs and unfolded the letter inside to read, "Greetings, your bloody highness. I am writing to you to bring a warning that I am coming to visit to discuss a particular case with you as I got one of your people in my kingdom. I will be there with you within 2 days. With full respect, Hoofking Steelmane." Violetta looked at the horizon again, "Seems we are gonna be busy once again in Grobuz."

At the same time, Elvira was sitting in her room, reading a book about a female bat who was mistreated by her family and her battle to fight back and free herself from them. Having read half of the book and found herself to fit in with the protagonist to a certain degree, she had thought back to her mother and sister and how they got treated by her father and brothers. Closing the book at the end of the chapter, she looked at the window and said to herself, "I wish I could finally settle the score from my past." Unbeknownst to her, the wheels of destiny began to slowly grind to set events in motion.

The End.