Chapter 4. The Roar of King Arsen

    The sound of falling objects and breaking tree branches could be heard as the leaves rustled. Kalina's body that was thrown by Elard was stuck on the tree. The girl's head was suddenly dizzy. Images of the past suddenly swirled in her mind. When Kalina in the modern world fell off a cliff, her body was caught on a tree then when she fell and thought the body hit the river rocks. A handsome young man appeared behind the bright light. Unexpectedly Kalina in that time opened a seal when her lips touched a stone carved like an eagle.

      "I thought it was a dream, it turns out that I have indeed experienced that time in the modern world. I have experienced the past again.”

 Kalina's memory slowly emerges of the accidental fall from the cliff. The meeting with Gavin, which was sealed for hundreds of years. So that it caused an uproar in the modern world because of Gavin's presence in modern times. A complicated incident occurred, because being in a place where there shouldn't be a lot of dark magic auras that possessed the human body put Gavin and Kalina who accidentally came into contact with Gavin in danger. Kalina almost loses her life during the long battle to dispel the dark magic that possesses the human body. In exchange for his life, Gavin used the Aurora gem that was guarded by Kalina. Exchanging his life, Gavin eventually disappeared as if he was never present. Then Kalina returns at the time of the accident falling off the cliff. All the odd things were solved. 

"I'm sure Mrs. Anantari knows something." Kaluna muttered while collecting many complicated memories that made her headache even worse. A surprising thing happened again, Kalina entered the other world occupied by Gavin after wearing a necklace given by her future mother-in-law. Before disappearing Kalina had realized one thing, there was something tugging at her body. "Could it be the Aurora gem that Gavin planted to revive me. So that I am dragged into this world because it is indirectly connected between the gem and also a necklace that looks like an ancient artifact given by my future mother-in-law?" Kalina wondered.

The girl felt her chest and then widened her eyes, "The necklace from Mrs. Anantari!" she squeaked. "Where is it?" Again the hand groped her neck until it looked like a monkey scratching its body.

       "What are you doing up in the tree, are you running away from the wedding?" A baritone voice rang out. 

      Kalina widened her eyes in surprise then looked down. The girl pursed her lips to see a handsome man looking up with his great meas crown, the man was none other than King Arsen and his men lined up under the tree. King Arsen stared in surprise, he thought how could a girl with a rambunctious behavior climb up the tree. Not to mention that if observed, the girl resembled an ape looking for lice by scratching the body.

      "O King who is kind, not arrogant, and handsome. Please let me go. I want to go back to where I came from!" pleaded Kalina. The girl hugged the tree trunk tightly for fear of falling.

       King Arsen frowned, "Don't you want to marry me?" The man asked.

  "Of course not, I don't love you. How could I possibly want to marry you?" Kalina responded that the offer to marry a stranger was crazy to take it for granted. Although King Arsen's face was quite handsome. 

       King Arsen's eyeballs widened, never getting a rejection from a girl. The man shook his head. 'That girl rejected me? All this time girls have been vying after me,' he whispered. "Am I not handsome and powerful enough. Have I lost my charm?" King Arsen asked one of the young maids.

       "His Majesty King Arsen is always handsome and charming," replied the girl bowing her head not daring to look up. Afraid of the wrath then slammed her body to the ground.

        "But why doesn't that foreign girl want to marry me, isn't this an insult?" King Arsen rubbed his chin several times. "Hey, you insolent girl. Come down!" ordered King Arsen waving his hand at Kalina.

  Kalina shook her head, "I don't want to." Kalina realized she had said something offensive to the viceroy. Seeing the reddened face and widened eyes down there, the girl naturally felt threatened, how could she go down to give up her life. 

       "Eunuch! Go upstairs and bring down that annoying girl!" King Arsen lost his patience.

        "Yes, Your Majesty!" the man replied and walked up to the tree with a few people.

        "I won't come down!" screeched Kalina hugging the tree tightly.

       A little commotion ensued where the eunuch climbed up the tree. They tugged and pulled each other until they fell from the tree including Kalina who almost fell too. King Arsen without feeling sorry for the pain of the eunuchs looked up. Looking at Kalina's gaze.

  "You are a troublemaker and a nuisance. If it wasn't for Aurora's jeweled container I wouldn't even want to marry you, wild girl!" swore King Arsen.

        "Gosh, do you think I want to marry you, hem? Oh, come on. I don't want to marry a coward like you either!" Kalina's voice now rose to see King Arsen staring down.

       "You really are an insolent girl!" King Arsen shouted loudly. The king was furious.

       The roar of the floundering lion that came out of King Arsen's mouth made the earth shake, buildings shook violently. Likewise, the tree that supported Kalina's body was also shaken. The girl winced, hugging the tree. Meanwhile, inside the palace, the shaking caused by King Arsen's lion roar reached the hill where Gavin and Elard were hunting. The two handsome demons stopped for a moment and looked at each other. 

        "I told you King Arsen couldn't possibly love that girl." Elard smiled and grinned.

        Gavin looked at his best friend then frowned. "It's unusual for you to talk about a girl.”

  Elard chuckled, "It's because that girl Kalina is so noisy and, well, troublesome, isn't it?" he argued. Even though Elard himself did not know why he thought of the girl who was considered the cause of the problem. "Let's go into the Palace, let's see what that girl did to make King Arsen roar!" the young demon then invited.

        Gavin shook his head with a smile without commenting. The two of them became animals again and moved quickly down the hill. When they reached the back door of the palace, it was already crowded with people. They returned to human form and pushed their way into the crowd. King Arsen looked furious by shaking the tree vigorously. It was certain that the girl named Kalina must have felt sick up there.

         "Stop it!" Kalina's voice was very loud.

         "Get down, you insolent girl!" said King Arsen, shaking the tree again.

        King Arsen let out a long breath then exerted his strength and shook the tree again. Brak! The tree branch broke, Kalina's eyesight widened, the girl's body shook and fell down.

        "Argh! Help!" cried Kalina.

Gavin, who was surprised at the time, spread his wings and jumped into the air to catch Kalina's body. The girl was still closed, with her body trembling in fear. Surprised, she did not expect King Arsen to do something reckless by shaking the tree until it fell. Who knows how many times Kalina had fallen and almost lost her life since entering the time more than a hundred years ago.

       Kalina's chest heaved, her hand reaching for a warm, soft cushion. Her eyes glazed over as they slowly opened. She cried silently. "I'm scared, Gavin. Please take me to a quiet place, just for a moment!" pleaded Kalina.

       The girl in Gavin's arms hugged even tighter. The chatty one who was always cheerful and liked to shout loudly now looked fragile. Especially when the girl called his name, a tremor ran through his chest. Gavin's heart suddenly pumped quickly, at this time the two humans looked at each other still in a state of floating in the air. It felt like Gavin was getting more and more mesmerized, diving into Kalina's clear eyeballs. The girl's face was puffy, eyes averted in embarrassment by Gavin's intense gaze.

  Kalina's memories come flooding back, where she was once caught up in Gavin's warm embrace when they first met. Gavin's seal was broken by Kalina's accidental kiss when she fell off the cliff, and floating in the handsome man's arms was now repeated with a different concept.

       "Please, Gavin!" pleaded Kalina once again, bringing Gavin to his senses.

       The eagle demon seemed enchanted and obeyed Kalina's words. He flew higher and higher and took Kalina away to who knows where. The noise down there seemed to be inaudible, only his own breathing and the sound of his heartbeat dominated. Oh, what a different feeling Gavin was experiencing for the first time. That feeling, fun, happiness mixed into one.

        Meanwhile, King Arsen, Elard, and several other people down there were confused. Where could Gavin have taken Kalina without permission.

        "Gavin, bring that rancid girl down!" shouted King Arsen.

       Elard shook his head at Gavin's ridiculous behavior, his best friend then monologues in his mind, 'Is Gavin crazy, where did he take the girl?'

Continued....

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