Chapter 2. Hatred

"Don't say anything..." said Helios with a teary eye. He then takes a knife from his back and doesn't care anymore about the pain. He cut his palm and tried to treat her deep scar with his blood.

"Please..." whispers Helios, keeping his focus on her neck. He knows the scar can't recover fast and she hasn't much time. Without thinking anymore, he pulled her body closer and bit her neck. Moon Ryeong's eyes widen when she feels his teeth on her neck, but then her eyes are completely closed. Helios never intended to suck her blood so deeply; he just wanted to keep her alive, but her scent couldn't be ignored.Her blood is so addictive, he then keeps sucking and sucking more.

The King, who is finally waking from his collapse, can see that Helios is biting his Queen. He quickly grabbed the pistol near him and shot Helios's back. Helios paused his previous activity and released Moon Ryeong from his embrace.

"You!" shouted Helios in anger.

He tries to attack the King, but Kim Sung Gi suddenly appears and stops him. Sung Gi then attacked Helios back with his new power. While Helios and Sung Gi were busy with their fight, the King ran toward the Queen and hugged her in his arms.

"My Queen... please..." said the King with a teary eye.

Moon Ryeong's eyes suddenly open, but they turn blue; she is no longer herself and transforms into a vampire in a matter of minutes. She feel the thirst for blood and suddenly attacks the king, trying to suck his blood. She pushes the king and tries to bite him.

"My Queen...", calls the King with disbelief in his eyes. He can't believe that his queen is a vampire now.

Kim Sung Gi, who is aware of the condition, leaves his fight with Helios and approaches the King and the vampire Queen. He pulled Moon Ryeong from the King's body and strangled her neck. He quickly took the sunsa knife and wanted to stab her heart. Helios, who knew about that, quickly attacked Sung Gi, releasing the Queen. With that, the battle between Helios and Sung Gi started again. When Moon Ryeong finds her chance to attack the king again, she approaches him quickly and wants to bite him, but the king is fast enough to hold her and prevent her from biting him. They then hold each other's shoulders, during which the Queen wants to bite the King, and the King tries to stop her.

"Your majesty! She is not the Queen anymore, you should kill her!" shouted Sung Gi in between the battles.

Even though it was hard for the king to attack the woman whom he loved, he finally decided to take the sunsa knife and wanted to stab her. The King lifted the knife into the air and swayed it over Moon Ryeong's heart.

"Andwae!" screams Helios, then runs fast in between them. In the end, the knife stabs Helios's back when Helios stands between Moon Ryeong and the King. He fastly swayed his hand, and his sharp finger nail succeeded in hurting the king's neck.

Helios, who had lost blood due to numerous battle injuries, was so weak on his feet that he kneeled in front of Moon Ryeong, who was still unsure of her position. When Helios kneels on the ground, Moon Ryeong notices that the King has a severe neck injury. He dropped his body on the ground while fixing his gaze on the Queen. The King and the Queen are staring at each other, and Moon Ryeong's eyes slowly become normal again.

"My... Queen..." said the King, with his last strength, trying to reach the Queen with his hand, but he failed.

"Your majesty!" shouted Kim Sung Gi, approaching the King, who had closed his eyes.Moon Ryeong starts to become conscious of her identity and that of the man who is lying on the ground in front of her. She starts to cry, and her heart is in so much pain.

"Your majesty!" shouted Moon Ryeong in the end, wanting to approach the King.

Helios, who is still kneeling down, lifts his eyes to see Moon Ryeong's face. He could clearly see tears in her eyes. The King's love woke her up from the vampire state, and now she realizes that the King she loved left her alone behind.

Helios quickly stood up and took Moon Ryeong away from the palace. He won't let her go to the king anymore; he won't put her in danger by leaving her with Kim Sung Gi there. He is severely injured, but he is unconcerned.He kept running away with Moon Ryeong in his arm while Moon Ryeong just left it blank.

After they were far away from the palace and reached the forest, Helios put Moon Ryeong down on the ground while he squatted in front of her. They are now in the cave in the forest.

"Why? Why don't you just kill me and make me die together with him? " She is staring at Helios, tears welling up in her eyes.

"I never planned to save him from the start..." said Helios with a cold voice.

Moon Ryeong started to cry harder. She had lost him. She lost the man who she loved. She is so broken, it feels like all of her life was taken from her. But yes, her life as a human was completely taken away from her. She pushed Helios, who squatted in front of her, away from her.

Helios doesn't do anything, and lets her do everything that she wants to. He was looking at her with a mixed feeling in his heart. Somehow, he could feel a deep pain at seeing her crying. He wanted to hold her and comfort her, but when he lifted his hand to reach her, he felt a deep pain in his back.

He now remembered that the sunsa knife was still stashed there and it made his pain feel worse. He then tried to reach the knife with his hand and pull it strongly. He moans in pain when he does that, but in the end, he succeeds. He put that wooden knife on the ground and then leant against the cave's wall.

Moon Ryeong silently observed his every move in the middle of her crying. She saw him put the knife on the ground near him. She quickly takes the knife and sways it to stab her own chest, but unfortunately, Helios is so much faster than her and he grabs the knife with his hand, making his own palm injured.

"What are you doing?" screamed Helios in anger at Moon Ryeong.

"Let it go... I want to kill myself." said Moon Ryeong, with a grudge and hatred in her eyes.

"No," said Helios shortly.

Moon Ryeong tries to pull the knife again, but she can't succeed. With that, some blood starts to drop from Helios's palm. When Moon Ryeong saw the blood, her eyes turned blue. Without thinking anymore, she dropped the knife and started to suck the blood from Helios's palm. She sucked the blood like it was the only thing she could get, and it made her thirsty. In the other state, Helios just silently observed Moon Ryeong and let her suck his blood.

"mianhamnida (I apologize)..." said Helios in a low voice. He feels guilty for making her live as a monster like him now, but he just has no other choice to save her.

He just wanted to make sure that in the future, she would not feel lonely like he had in his life.Moon Ryeong keeps sucking Helios's blood more and more, and when he loses more blood, he can feel all the pain from the scar he got in the battle. He was injured by the bullet that was still planted in his back, a scar from the sunsa wood knife, and a deeper scar from his battle with Kim Sung Gi. He felt more and more weakening, and slowly his body dropped on the ground, unconscious.

She stopped her activities when she saw Helios was laying on the ground weakly. She realized what she had done before. She observes his body and finds that he has so much blood covering his clothes. His white and pale face became paler. He is so weak right now. Moon Ryeong just sat beside him, staring blankly at him. She then stared at the knife that dropped beside him.

She knew she could kill him if she stabbed that knife in his chest. With that knife, she can kill the monster who took away her human life, the monster who made her become the same monster. With that knife, she can kill the vampire who killed her husband. That's right, with that knife, she can end his life in minutes. She slowly takes the knife and lifts it in the air, putting the knife in his chest. This is maybe her only chance to kill him. She has a chance to destroy him right now. He is so weak right now that killing him will be very easy for her.