A/N: This was actually written in January and I just now decided to make it into a story. This is based on the German cartoon series known as The School for Little Vampires and it's based on a childrens' book from the 1980's. I love this series so much, even if I haven't seen a lot of the episodes in my native language of English, but I am glad to have found it and was able to watch the series and still do on YouTube, even if I don't speak or understand German, but I'm actually learning by watching this series. This is also based on an RP with my good friend AnnaleaseTurner who was kind enough to to do it with me with our OC's, also Fou is here, she is not MY OC, she belongs to FinnishVampire who kindly let me borrow her. Everyone else belongs to this wonderful series I hope gets a US release sometime. Read & Review!
Like all days where class is in session at the Vampire Academy, it was night time and all the mortals who lived in the village among the castle they believed was abandoned or haunted due to never seeing any of the creature of the night students or faculty come out, due to the fact they can never see the sun. The stars shined like diamonds in the clear endless sky with darkness taking over and the vampires were awake and living like the humans, though believed them to be very different and rarely had contact with them.
A girl with platinum blonde, almost white hair walked nervously down the corridor. She looked timid and unsure.
There was no one also in the hallways just then, but there was a very tall figure with a tall top hat with a cane and he had piercing red eyes. He looked down at the girl. "You must be our newest student, yes?"
The girl looked up at him and jumped back a step from surprise. "Y-Yes, sir..." she stutters.
"Come with me, child..." he told her, his voice slightly overbearing, but not intentionally so as he seemed to slither down the hallways to take her to the room where all the students feared of being sent to at most times.
The girl followed, looking nervous. The man opened the double doors, allowing the girl to go in first and stand in front of the desk with a large chair. There was also a sleeping brown-furred wolf that was by the desk. He woke up with a yawn, sounding more like a puppy than a bloodthirsty carnivore and looked nervous at the girl, even if she was more to him. The girl looked extremely nervous.
The man looked at the paper before the girl. "Demetria, is it? It says you need a bit of extra help yourself in the department of your lifestyle... No need to worry, not everyone makes the 'perfect' creature of the night much like our very own Dracula."
Demetria nodded. She was new to being a vampire.
"This might sound odd to you, but almost everyone here was born a vampire, but some can be bitten," the count told her gently. "I just hope to see some progress from you during your time in this school. Can you promise me to try your level best, but you might have to bounce ahead in your comfort zone for when we have our school inspector visit."
"I-I promise." she says quietly. She tugged on the braid of her hair.
"Now, let's get someone to help you out a little," the count looked at the files of his students, finding someone who could show the new girl around. "Oh, how about Wren?" He sent out a call for the latest new student of the school, probably to help the newest girl understand the situation.
There came a young vampire girl with very, very pale skin, wavy black hair tied with red bows in pigtails, a coal black short-sleeved top, shorts, silver tights, black boots and black finger-less gloves. "You wanted to see me, Count?"
Demetria looked at Wren. She felt plain compared to the beauty of the girl.
"Wren, will you kindly show around Demetria?" the count requested from her.
The gothling vampire smirked. "What's in it for me?"
"WREN..." the count nearly sounded scolding.
"I kid, I kid," Wren laughed, then came to the new girl. "Come on, let me show you the REAL way around this school. Anything to get out of another dance class with Lady Kryptina."
Demetria followed Wren. "Thank you, sir." she tells the Count.
"Have a good day, girls." the count told them.
Wren went with Demetria as the doors mysteriously shut behind them. "Now, let me say this now, never EVER get sent in there, it'll be your worst nightmare."
Demetria looked confused. "What do you mean?" She asks.
"The Count can be pretty strict sometimes," Wren told her. "He's pretty cool sometimes, but if you do something wrong, you'd be better off losing your head."
Demetria nodded.
"Now, come with me," Wren walked with Demetria down the hall. "I know it looks big right now, but it's actually pretty easy once you find out your way. Over here is Professor Oxford's room," she opened the door to the empty classroom with a large blackboard with tabled desks on each layer close to the door like in a college classroom. "He usually teaches things like history and any sort of vampire technique, like there's bat transformation, hypnotism, and blood thirst."
Demetria nodded slowly.
Wren then took the girl into the dining room, which used to be like a formal dining hall with a table, candlelight and even a chandelier, but since there were more students joining the school, it looked like a normal school cafeteria. Though, it was still dimly lit and many tables and chairs about with a bar to get food and trays with.
"This is where we'll eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner," Wren explained in the tour. "My uncle cooks the meals here, sometimes I get to leave class early and help him."
Demetria nodded. "Ah, okay." she says. She offered a timid smile.
Wren smiled, then came into the coffin room. "And this is where we'll sleep through the daytime and wake up at night, we usually get woken up because either way, it's dark when we sleep."
There came a midnight blue kitten who mewed and nuzzled against Wren.
"Hey, Morty!" Wren happily picked up the kitten with a smile.
Demetria looked at the cat, smiling. She loved animals.
"Demetria, this is Morty," Wren held the kitten in her arm. "I adopted her last year... She's named after my late mother."
Demetria smiled a little. "She's a cutie." she says softly.
The kitten mewed at her with a smile.
"Yeah, I never had a pet back home." Wren smiled as she nuzzled her kitten back.
Demetria reached out to pet the kitten. Morty allowed Demetria to pet her, smiling as she gently purred. Demetria smiled. One thing that made her feel normal again was animals.
"Come on, let's continue, Morty, would you like to come with us?" Wren asked her kitten.
Morty mewed in agreement. Demetria followed Wren.
Wren then showed Demetria the gym. "And this is where we do many things like play 'Batball', train for the 'Vampire Olympics', and sometimes even," she then shuddered. "Dance lessons..."
Demetria nodded, listening closely.
Wren kept going along with Demetria behind her. "Oh, hi, Auntie Fou." she smiled at the adult vampire woman in front of them.
The woman had long ebony hair with very ivory skin with a sickly white shirt, black skirt, and black shoes. She looked down at Wren with a smile. "Hello, dear... Why aren't you in class?"
"Showing the new girl around." Wren answered casually.
Demetria hid behind Wren nervously, shyly.
"Oh, hello, there," the woman bent down to the girls' height. "Welcome to the Vampire Academy. My name is Festorina Fouella Fang, but you can call me Fou, everybody does, I'm not Wren's biological aunt, but she calls me 'Auntie' because I'm rather close with her Uncle Nestor, we usually cook meals together."
"She's like a step-mother, only she doesn't make me do chores and mooch off my dad." Wren said to Demetria.
Demetria smiled shyly. She held out a shaky hand to be shook.
Fou smiled, shaking her hand fondly. "I hope you enjoy your stay here."
Wren stared an octopus that Fou had caught that was trying to escape. "Oh, that reminds me, I should show you Missy!"
Demetria smiled at the woman. She then looked at the octopus. "Aww, the octopus is cute." she says quietly.
Fou chuckled as she grabbed the octopus and held it close to her. "They're very slippery fella's though."
"Sometimes I have to watch them while in the kitchen." Wren made that sound like the most boring thing in the world, which to her, it really was.
"Can I touch it?" Demetria asks them both. She was acting less shy around Wren at least.
Fou and Wren blinked.
"Sure, dear... He might shiver though." Fou held out the squishy cephlapod for Demetria to touch.
Demetria reached out and gently touched the octopus' head. The octopus shivered a little, its tentacles dancing.
Fou smiled. "She seems nice..."
"Yeah, though kinda quiet." Wren shrugged.
Demetria giggled. She pet it's head lightly. The octopus looked up to her, blinking a bit. Morty was merely licking her paw and mewing a little loudly about the sea creature.
"You are cute, like Morty is cute." Demetria smiled.
Morty had a small smirk, seeming to understand that.
"Animal lover?" Fou highly assumed.
Demetria nodded. "I love animals! I wanted to be a vet before..." she trails off.
"Interesting, I used to work at the circus before I came here." Fou smiled.
Demetria smiled at Fou.
"Well, I'll let you continue the tour, I have a lunch to assist with." Fou smiled, taking the octopus with her.
Wren waved to her, then looked back to Demetria. "If you like animals, you should meet Missy!"
Demetria looked sad the octopus was taken away but turned to Wren. "Who's that?" She asks softly.
Wren grinned then.
Wren had taken Demetria to a secret passageway she was taught that was beneath the school and they were by the beaches of the moat outside the school. She took out a sardine out of her pocket which smelled a bit fowl. The smell attracted bubbles into the water which made a pink sea monster with pronounced eyelashes and lips, she didn't look at all dangerous, but looked very friendly and smiled to the girls, wondering who the blonde one was.
"She's gorgeous..." Demetria says softly. She covered her cheeks, shy.
The monster leaned out to Demetria, sniffing her, then smiled.
"I guess you could say she's the school mascot." Wren shrugged, not sure what purpose Missy really served in the school when she would be out here all the time.
Demetria blushed and smiled back.
"Missy, this is Demetria, she's new in school." Wren explained.
The monster named Missy then nuzzled against the vampire girl, smiling fondly. Demetria smiled and hugged her gently. Missy purred in the hug, then looked at Wren, seeming to be waiting for something.
"Alright, alright, sheesh!" Wren took the sardine out and threw it like a softball to go into the monster's mouth.
Missy caught the fish in her mouth, happily eating it and musing in her moans right now.
Demetria smiled and glanced at Wren. She liked Missy. "What do we have to see next?" She asks.
"Well, there is one thing I should warn you about..." Wren told Demetria a little cautiously. "See that house over there?" She pointed over beyond the castle's fog to show there was a malevolent looking home that seemed to be more into the village than the school zone.
Demetria nodded. "Yes..." she says softly. She itched her neck.
"That's Polidori's place," Wren explained. "He lives there and he believes in us, he often tries to invade the school with wooden stakes and garlic, but don't worry, he's not that good. He always fails and no one in the village believes him."
Demetria gave a nod. She looked at Wren, blushing as she asked her question. "Were you bitten or born a vampire?" She asks softly.
"Bitten," Wren rubbed her neck. "Funny story... You see, I was a half-mortal before I came here actually."
Demetria smiled softly. At least she wasn't the only one bitten.
"You know, my uncle was bitten too." Wren told the girl.
Demetria looked surprised but pleased. "Wow..." She says softly.
"Oh, yeah," Wren nodded. "100 years before I was born, my mother and him decided to go out into the world and try to become functional people since they were adults now. He came to this very village and my mother went to a different one, he then came to her and revealed he was now a vampire and had taken the job for janitory assistance here, then a long time after that, my mother fell in love with a mortal man and I came into the picture."
Demetria smiled gently. She itched her neck though.
Wren then took Demetria inside for a bit more of the tour, then came into Kryptina's room which had a simulation bedroom. "We do a lot of physical things with Lady Kryptina... One big test is that we sample going into human's rooms at night and sneaking up on them so we can feed on them without waking them. It's harder than it sounds."
Demetria covered the spot on her neck where she was bitten.