Author's Note:
Greetings ladies and gentlemen.
Welcome to the Silver Nasod Mansion. Where the fearsome Vampire Lady Eve Silvermoon lives. In this series of stories Eve is a vampire and the mistress of the Silver Nasod Mansion. Each chapter will be a short story in and of itself (exceptions might of course occur).
I took (and will take) a lot of inspiration from the Scarlet Devil Mansion from the Touhou Project so be warned.
The first few episodes will introduce the main cast. I will also include NPCs from Elsword but they will play smaller roles than the main characters obviously. Anyway, for now let's get the first episode started shall we?
Episode 1: A New Resident at the Silver Nasod Mansion
She's sitting next to the bed he is sleeping on. Though, it is not so much sleeping as it is being unconscious. She found in him in the forest close to the mansion during her regular nightly stroll. His situation was critical. Several severe wounds, not to mention the fact his left arm was missing. Causing him to bleed profusely from his shoulder. Why was he there in the forest? What happened to him? Was he another vampire hunter set out to kill her? And why? Why did she help him? Why did she ask Aisha to heal this man's wounds?
Lady Eve looks at his left shoulder. Aisha could heal most of his wounds, but she couldn't make his arm grow back.
"Maybe, just maybe…" Eve mutters to herself.
"Ophelia!" A maid appears next to Eve. "Yes milady?"
"Bring me a knife."
"Milady?"
"NOW!"
"Y-yes milady! I-immediately milady!"
Ophelia quickly runs off and returns almost just as quick to give Eve a long, silver knife. Its wooden handle engraved with roses.
"Leave." Eve says in a sharp tone. Ophelia bows and disappears.
Eve brings the knife to her arm and makes a small incision. She clenches her fist to force the blood to trickle from her arm. She lets a few droplets of blood fall onto the man's shoulder. She recites a short incantation and without further warning the man starts screaming in pain as an arm starts to grow from his shoulder. The arm has a menacing, demonic look to it. Part of the man's black hair slowly starts to turn white as his painful screams continue to echo throughout the mansion. As the arm is fully grown the screaming stops and the man is unconscious once more.
It is a few hours later when his consciousness starts to return to him. He slowly opens his eyes and realizes he's lying in a bed with what appear to be two women talking to each other, facing away from him.
"Do you have any idea what you've done!?" A purple-haired woman yells at another woman with silvery white hair. The purple-haired woman wears a very short mini-skirt and her shirt leaves most of her abdomen exposed. On the contrary, the sleeves are quite long and wide. Her shoes have some sort of wing-like decoration to them and she wears stockings up to her thighs.
The silver-haired woman the purple-haired one is yelling at is wearing what's best described as a princess' dress that leaves her shoulders exposed. She also wears a small tiara and appears to have a blue gem on her forehead.
"I helped this man." The silver-haired woman replies in an unnaturally calm voice.
"And why did you help HIM? A HUMAN of all creatures!?"
"I don't know." This answer comes without any tone of insecurity, nervousness or any emotion whatsoever.
"And his arm, what if he can't control it?" The purplenette asks with clear worry in her voice.
"What? Are you worried about him?" The silver-head scoffs.
"I'm not worried about him! I am worried about us! What if he attacks us?"
The silver-haired woman turns around towards the man and she notices he's awake.
"Ah, I see you're awake." She says to him in a monotone voice.
"Who?" Is all the man can manage to say.
"I am Lady Eve Silvermoon, Mistress of the Silver Nasod Mansion. This is my friend, Aisha Void."
The man's eyes widen in shock. He doesn't quite remember but her name sounds familiar. He stays silent, unsure of what to say or do.
"It is rude not to introduce yourself when someone introduces him- or herself to you! Also, you might want to thank her for fixing your arm!" Aisha almost spits in his face.
His arm? Curious, the man removes his arms from under the blankets of his bed and looks at them. He is shocked at the sight of his left arm. It has become jet black with a deep red spike on his elbow and he has crimson red nails that make his hand look more like a claw.
"Ah yes, when I found you, your left arm was missing, so I gave you a new one." Eve explains. "Now, Aisha is correct, you have yet to introduce yourself."
The man looks at her completely bewildered. He quickly recomposes himself. "My name is Raven." He says somewhat distracted by his arm as he looks at it and moves it. "Now, I suggest you get some rest, you're still not fully healed yet." Eve says as leaves the room. Aisha walks up to Raven and shoots him a glare. "If I find out you were coming here intending to kill Eve I will throw you into the deepest abyss." She hisses before running off as well. "Can I trust this Eve? Her name sounds familiar and I have a bad feeling associated with it. On the other hand, she saved my life. So she can't be that evil. Also, didn't she say she found me in the woods? Why was I there? What happened…? I can't remember!" Raven shakes his head.
"So what exactly did you plan to do with him once he's fully healed?" Aisha asks Eve, sipping her tea as the both of them sit in the mansion's humongous library. Eve sighs. "To be honest, I haven't thought quite that far ahead."
"Figures…" Aisha sighs.
"I suppose he'll leave."
"And go where? Thanks to you he's become some sort of half-vampire freak. He'll be an outcast, no matter where he goes."
"Is that what you're worried about Aisha? Afraid he'll end up like you did before you came here?" Eve asks in mocking tone.
"Why you…" Aisha is irritated now. "Listen here Eve! You're the one responsible for this mess so you'd better take responsibility and do something about it!"
"I'm quite sure things will work out alright." Eve says with a confident smile as she takes another sip of her tea.
Aisha is speechless. How is it possible for anyone, even a vampire like Eve, to be this casual about a situation like this? Also, was Eve right when she said Aisha worried about Raven? No, of course not! She doesn't even trust him so why would she feel sorry for him?
Raven is standing in front of a mirror in a small bathroom that's connected to the room he was sleeping in. He looks at himself, his hair is different from how he remembers it. Is this a side-effect of my arm? Reminding himself of the arm situation he looks at it. He observes it closely. It truly looks like a demon arm. The arm of a vampire. Could he even still be classified as a human being? He stares back into the mirror. He still has a reflection. The only thing not showing up in his reflection is his arm. Of course, vampires don't have reflections.
He turns around and walks over to a chair that has some clothes lying on it that were brought to him by Ophelia, Eve's maid. She told him that Eve wanted him to come over to the dining hall. What are Eve's intentions? Raven sighs and gets dressed. The clothes are far from anything he usually wears. At least, he thinks so. His outfit consist of a black sleeveless waistcoat and black pants that have some sort of white armour on the right leg and a three red belts on his left. He also wears two similar belts crossed on his waist. On his right arm he wears some sort of fishnet-like glove that reaches almost up to his shoulder. His shoes are black with red soles and have armour on them similar to his right leg.
He walks out of the bedroom to meet Ophelia who escorts him to the dining hall. On the way there he sees that most of the mansion appears to be in rough shape. A lot of exposed wiring and broken lights adorn the halls. There're also a few more traditional decorations such as armours and paintings. The paintings mostly seem to feature Eve. "Hah, she must really like herself." Raven thinks as he follows Ophelia to the dining hall.
Eve is sitting at the head of the table, with Aisha on the right side of the table. The chair on the left is empty. As Raven walks in Eve courtly welcomes him and motions him to sit on the empty chair. Raven sits done and Eve quickly claps her hands twice. Ophelia quickly runs off into another room and just as quickly returns accompanied by a man wearing a helmet that covers his entire head. Together they start serving all sorts of food on the table. As Raven looks around his eyes cross with Aisha who is sitting opposite him. Aisha stares back with a murderous look on her face. "I guess she really doesn't trust me." Raven thinks and he quickly breaks eye-contact.
As dinner is served and Eve and Aisha start eating Raven suddenly realizes just how hungry he is. He can't help himself and starts eating as if his life depends on it. Which might not even be that far from the truth. "Stop eating like some sort of wild animal!" Aisha snaps at him. Raven looks up somewhat embarrassed. "Don't worry," Eve says. "You must be starving, please eat." Aisha sinks back in her chair, still annoyed at Raven's behaviour but even more so at the fact that Eve seems to condone it. Raven however adjusts his behaviour and starts eating more calmly.
As the main course is finished and Ophelia and the other servant, whose name is Oberon, start serving dessert, Raven decides it's now the time. "Eve?"
"That's Lady Eve to you, lowly human scum!" Aisha shouts.
Raven flinches and corrects himself: "Lady Eve?"
"Yes, what is it Raven?"
"I-I would like to thank you. You saved me, I owe you my life and…" Raven pauses. "I want to make it up to you, please let me stay and work for you! When Ophelia escorted me here I noticed the current state of the mansion and I might be able to help with that. I'm quite good construction work. And I'm also a pretty good warrior. I can-" Ravens stops as Eve motions him to be silent.
"So, in short, you wish to stay and work under me?"
"Yes." Raven nods confidently.
"Alright, I shall grant you your wish, on one condition."
"Which is..?"
"Since you will be working for me you must address me as 'Mistress'. Understood?"
"Yes… Mistress."
And with that, the first three characters are introduced. I hope you enjoyed. If you have suggestions for the relationships you'd like to see between certain characters feel free to leave a review. I will consider every suggestion though I, of course, reserve the right to do whatever the hell I want.
I would like to point out that I have already decided on the roles Elsword, Rena and Chung shall play. I have no plans however for Ara or Elisis, so if you have something you'd like to see me do with them, suggest away! You can also leave suggestions on which NPCs I should use and how. Just remember that the NPCs' roles will be minor.
That is all. I hope to write a lot more episodes for this. Though that ultimately depends on whether or not people are interested.
Also another small note: I will most probably still write short stories that stand alone from any of this. I just thought I'd give myself a big project and world to work on.
May we meet again, fare thee well.