I've had this idea for a while. I just have been working on so many other stories that I never got the chance to start this. However, even though I still have many stories to work on, I'm starting this one! I know vampires are WAY over-rated, but whatever… I own nothing.
When Mashiro Rima was announced to be dead, it was shocking. She wasn't sick or anything. Her body was found outside of her house, with absolutely no scratches. There was nothing that could've shown her death. However, the lack of a heart beat was enough to prove her death. Her skin also looked pale. Other than that, she looked alive, except that her eyes were closed. The story of the girl who was dead with an unknown cause was on the news, until the next day when her parents ordered for this to be taken off the news. However, for the people who knew her, her death was a major tragedy. Her parents had immediately blamed each other, and were getting a divorce. They both realized that they hadn't treated their daughter with enough respect. They somehow blamed each other for it.
After about a week of investigation on Rima's body, it was time to bury her. All of the friends Rima ever had were there, along with her parents and the rest of her family. Her closest friends sat towards the front, together. They said nothing to each other. They didn't know what to do, since their queen was gone. She was more than just their friend… she was a part of their family. Amu was crying into Tadase, her, pretty much, boyfriend's arms. Yaya, the one who acted like a child, was crying as well. Nagihiko, the last guardian, besides Rima, cried silently as well. Kukai held Yaya and had tears of his own. Utau, Ikuto and Kairi sat next to them, sad as well. Suddenly, Amu stood up.
"Don't bury her." Amu said. Everyone at the funeral looked at her. "She once told me that if she ever… died… she didn't want to be buried. It was just a hypothetical conversation, but…" Amu started to cry again.
"Yeah, I was there too." Yaya stood up beside Amu. Usually, Yaya spoke in third-person, but something like this was an exception. "Don't bury her…" The men who were digging the grave, put down their shovels, and nodded.
"On Mashiro-San's wishes…" They whispered, backing away. They kept her body in a coffin, and dismissed everyone. The guardians, plus the others, all left together. Little did anyone notice, that there was a twitch inside the coffin…
One Day Later. . .
"Ow…" Rima moaned, sitting up. She was on her bed. She didn't remember waking up, but she knew she did. The minute she "woke" up, her head started hurting.
"You okay Rima?" Kusu-Kusu wondered.
"Yeah…" Rima said, sitting up. She went downstairs, and found no one was there. That's odd… usually at least one of her parents was home… She was going to take a piece of toast. She picked up the toast, when a wave of nausea passed her. She put it down. "Ugh, food just isn't appealing right now…" Rima did feel thirsty however. She went to the fridge, and took out milk. Again, she felt sick, so she put it away.
"Uh Rima… aren't you going to eat breakfast?" Kusu-Kusu wondered.
"Nah…" Rima muttered. She grabbed her bag, and headed to school. Rima looked up at the sky, and noticed the sun. Staring at it made her cringe. It hurt a lot…
"Rima, you okay?" Kusu-Kusu exclaimed.
"Yeah… I-I'm fine…" Rima whispered. What was up today? Rima figured she was a little sick, but she felt like going to school anyway. She arrived on school grounds, and went to her first stop before school; the Royal Garden. Rima looked inside, and saw the other four inside. However, there was absolutely no talking. They were… crying?
"Why are they crying? Did something happen?" Kusu-Kusu wondered. Rima opened the door to the Royal Garden.
"What's wrong?" She asked. It was weird… All of them were crying. Rima was especially shocked to see Nagihiko's face emotional. All of them looked at her with shock.
"Don't you hate when your mind plays tricks on you?" Amu grumbled. Rima was confused. Mind playing tricks?
"That's strange… I'm pretty sure it's playing tricks on me right now." Nagihiko whispered, his voice shaky.
"I see… her." Amu whispered. All of the other guardians nodded.
"Wait, we all see her standing there?" Tadase exclaimed. The others nodded slowly, stunned.
"Um, are you guys talking about me? W-What's going on?" Rima asked. All of them were facing her.
"She looks confused." Amu whispered.
"Yeah, she does." Nagihiko agreed. Tears began to form in his eyes. Rima was confused and annoyed.
"STOP TALKING TO ME AS IF I'M NOT HERE!" Rima bellowed. "What's going on? Why are you guys emotional every two seconds? Just… have something make sense!" Everyone looked at her, blinking slowly. Yaya stood up, and walked next to her. She touched her cheek. Rima moved back, surprised. "Why did you…?-"
"Her skin is cold, but I did feel it." Yaya said.
"Yaya, why do you sound so… serious?" Rima asked. "You're usually all fun and playful…"
"Amu-Chi, what's going on?" Yaya asked. "Is she… alive?" Rima blinked. Is she alive? Well clearly!
"What would've happened; I died?" Rima wondered.
"Well, you did die." Amu whispered. Rima turned to her.
"Uh, no. I didn't." Rima said.
"Yes you did… I tried everything to believe you were alive but I couldn't… Nothing made sense…"
"Well, I didn't die because I'm standing right here!" Rima snapped coldly. "I'm sorry if you had some nightmare about my death! Amu, learn the difference between dream and reality!"
"It wasn't just her." Tadase whispered. "We all were at your funeral. We all watched as they almost buried your lifeless body." Rima froze.
"Buried my body?" That thought frightened Rima.
"Well, we once had a conversation about burying, so Yaya and I told them to stop burying you." Amu whispered.
"If I'm dead, why am I alive?" Rima exclaimed. "Why don't I remember dying? Why is Kusu-Kusu here? What the hell is going on?" Rima was beginning to panic. "H-How did I die?"
"The cause of your… it was unknown." Nagihiko responded.
"Unknown?" Rima exclaimed.
"Yeah, it was on the news and stuff. Only for a limited amount of time though when your parents sewed the news stations for putting you on TV." Amu said.
"My parents! Where are they? How are they? Did either kill each other yet?" Rima accidently slipped the last part out.
"Kill each other?" Nagihiko exclaimed.
"N-no… I-I don't know why I said that…" Rima whispered.
"Well…" Amu faced the other guardians, then turned back to Rima. "Is this a dream?" Rima stared at Amu.
"No. If it was a dream, you'd know." Rima said. "I'm not dead, and never died! I'm just a girl who was randomly convicted of being dead! Well, what about my parents?"
"They-They're getting a divorce." Amu whispered. Rima's eyes widened.
"I should've known…" Rima whispered. Her knees sunk to the ground. Though she felt like she was about to cry, no tears came down her face. Even though she wanted to cry, she couldn't. Strangely, that was the least of her problems. It just added to the list of confusion.
"And about what's going on… No one really knows…" Amu admitted. She stood up, and helped her up. "Geez your hand is cold. Come to think of it, you're awfully pale." Amu said.
"Well, another mystery." Rima muttered. "Joy…" Amu hugged her out of nowhere. Rima hugged her friend back, but was extremely confused.
"Well, this clearly isn't a dream so we can say you're alive!" Amu said. "I know we should find out exactly what's going on, but whatever happened, I can have a second chance with you!" Rima smiled.
"Amu…" Rima whispered. Amu let go, when Yaya jumped into her arms. "Y-YAYA!" Rima exclaimed.
"Yaya missed Rima! I didn't know what to do!" Yaya moaned. Yaya let go, Rima breathing for air. However, Rima's breathing was weird. She could breathe but she didn't feel like it was doing anything… It was an odd experience, but Rima shrugged it off. Tadase didn't go over to hug her, but he gave her a wide smile that wasn't usually seen on Tadase. Nagihiko however did more than just hugging her; he kissed her. Rima was shocked when it happened. Though her cheeks didn't feel red, she knew she had to be showing embarrassment one way or the other. However she had an interesting sensation; the urge to… bite him? Rima backed off immediately. Nagihiko was all red on the face.
"Sorry… I have strong feelings for you. I realized the minute I heard you were gone. You know when they say you never know what you have until it's gone. I'm just happy you're back." Rima nodded slowly. Rima normally would've been in dead shock and may have passed out, but she thought of her need to bite him. What was that? Rima was also shocked Yaya hadn't started teasing her yet. What a strange, strange day!
"I have an idea. Why don't we visit Tsukasa-San? He might know what's going on!" Tadase suggested.
"S-Should we tell people that Rima's alive though?" Amu asked. All eyes fell on her. "People will be studying her for a long time! Who knows what will happen? They'll ruin Rima's life permanently!"
"Yeah, Amu's right!" Rima said quickly. She hated publicity fame. "I don't want to be the lab specimen! However, Tsukasa isn't bad idea so let's talk to him and tell them the situation!" Everyone nodded. "Oh yeah, you can tell Kukai and Utau as well."
"And Kairi-Kun?" Yaya added.
"Sure." Rima agreed. "Well, we should go to Tsukasa before school starts!"
"Mashiro-San, it is Saturday…" Tadase said. Rima looked at him, surprised.
"It…is? Then why are you guys here?" Rima wondered. No one said anything. Rima figured they all were just mourning her "death." On the way to Tsukasa's office, everyone was giving her stares and smiles. Rima was getting annoyed by the attention. Yaya kept clinging to Rima's shoulder. Nagihiko was giving her way too many smiles. "Kusu-Kusu, did you remember me dying?" Rima asked.
"No… I'm as confused as you are." Kusu-Kusu admitted. Rima nodded. They arrived at the office. Tadase knocked on Tsukasa's door. Tsukasa opened the door, and smiled at everyone.
"It's great to see you all!" Tsukasa exclaimed, leading them all inside. Rima walked through the door last, so Tsukasa took a second look at her. "I suppose my theory about you're 'death' was correct." Tsukasa muttered. Rima looked at him, and then walked inside the office. She had only been inside the office once when she first moved to Seiyo.
"Hello Tsukasa-San. We wanted to ask you a few questions about…"
"About why the Queen is alive?" Tsukasa guessed. "Well, I have all of the answers!" All of them stared at him.
"Well… Can you tell me?" Rima exclaimed, persistent to know all of the answers to her confusion.
"I can understand why you want to know. Alright, it's quite simple actually. You are currently a vampire." Rima blinked at him.
"A… vampire? Those aren't real! They are just haunted creatures that…"
"Has anything proved them not real?" Tsukasa pointed out. Rima opened her mouth, than closed it quickly, unsure what to say. "Well, you are a vampire. You must have been bitten without remembering. When you are bitten by a vampire, there is a 25% chance that you are transformed into a vampire. The other 75% leads to death. When you transform from human to vampire, it takes a week at most for the changes to occur."
"How do you know that… that's me?" Rima asked.
"For one thing, your skin is awfully pale." Tsukasa said. "Did you eat breakfast today?"
"No… I didn't have an appetite." Rima admitted.
"Exactly. You didn't drink either, did you?" Rima shook her head slowly, shocked by his theory. "The only thing vampires digest is blood." That made Rima cringe. "Did you have the urge to bite anyone?"
"W-Well yeah…" Rima muttered, not saying how and was practically praying that Tsukasa didn't ask. Fortunately, he didn't ask.
"It's sunny today. Did that make you feel sick?" Rima nodded slowly. "See? All evidence proves you being a vampy!"
"Vampy?" Rima wondered.
"It's short for vampire!" Tsukasa said. "Only warnings; stay away from garlic. It won't do you any good."
"Is there any way I can change back to human?" Rima asked. Tsukasa turned to her, surprised.
"There are a few rumors about this, but no definite way. Why would you want to change back? You live immortally!" Rima's eyes darkened. An immortal life… A life as a vampire… None of this seemed to make any sense, though in reality, it made perfect sense.
"Can Rima-Tan turn into a bat?" Yaya asked.
"Uh, no. That's just in those stories about vampires. If vampires weren't real, how would they make the stories?" Rima was silent. She tried to let all of this process. Vampire Rima… A blood-sucking creep… It didn't fit. Rima, Rima the blood-sucker. All Rima wanted was for life to go back to how it was. "By the way, I wouldn't go to school if I was you. Do you think most people will believe a story about vampires? We can tell Yuu if you'd like and he can teach you the lessons privately!"
"That sounds good." Rima muttered. Tsukasa beamed, and everyone left the office. Rima felt sick suddenly, sick of all of this. Or perhaps it was the sun... Rima looked at the sun, and cringed as she did earlier that day. She looked down at the ground.
"How did Tsukasa-San know all about vampires?" Amu wondered.
"You're right!" Tadase exclaimed. "Do you think he…"
"Yaya wants ice cream!" Yaya complained randomly. All eyes fell on her. "Please? Everyone's being so tense, but vampy or not, Rima's alive! So, we should celebrate with nothing better but ice cream!"
"Yaya-Chan's right. Ice cream sounds good." Nagihiko agreed. He looked at Rima.
"Sure…" Rima muttered. Her mood wasn't so great. She only wished it was anyone else, and not her that this happened to. She didn't want to die, but she didn't want to be a vampire either. So, they decided to get ice cream. At the local ice cream store, they happened to run into Kukai and Utau.
"Hey…" Kukai whispered, when he noticed Rima. "WHAT?" Nagihiko explained the whole situation to Kukai and Utau. Kukai hugged Rima, like how Yaya hugged her. "Wow, vampires are real… YAY YOU'RE ALIVE!" Kukai let go, letting Rima "breath." Utau smiled at her, not hugging her. Everyone got ice cream, except for Rima.
"Aren't you going to take some ice cream?" Yaya asked.
"Nope. It doesn't sound great." Rima muttered, sitting down with everyone at the table. Luckily for Rima, she didn't see anyone in the street besides Utau and Kukai that she knew that would see her. Watching everyone eat ice cream, Rima felt herself wanting to bite them. Ugh… this was annoying. Rima bit her lip to prevent herself from simply jumping up and sucking their blood. How was she going to drink blood if she had a huge chance of killing that person? Though not technically, Rima still was human, and didn't like the thought of killing people for food. Could she possibly feed on the blood of animals? A little boy passed them, and Rima found that boy's blood looking extra delicious. Don't…even… Rima pressed down on her foot.
"Rima are you okay?" Amu asked.
"Huh? Uh, yeah!" Rima lied.
"Is it people's blood…" The word alone made Rima even thirstier.
"Don't!" Rima hissed. Amu nodded. "I-I'll be right back." Rima stood up, and left the table. She saw a wild cat walk by. She decided to test her theory. She ran over, at a speed that was really fast, and bit the cat. The blood sucked into her mouth, and it tasted like heaven. It was the best thing Rima ever had. The cat collapsed to the ground, dead. Rima felt guilty, but she was really happy it wasn't a human she killed. She looked around, making sure no one saw. Luckily, no one saw. Rima came back to the others.
"Did you kill someone?" Utau asked.
"No, a cat." Rima admitted.
"How did it taste?" Kukai asked. Rima looked at him, not answering. Kukai continued to eat his ice cream.
"I'm glad you thought of this Yaya; my ice cream is really good." Nagihiko said, clearly trying to change the subject for Rima's sake. Not that anyone really understood her, but perhaps Nagihiko understood the most; about not wanting pity.
After everyone finished their ice cream, it was getting later, so everyone went back to their own houses. Rima walked into her own house, and went to her room. It was one thing that didn't change at all. Rima sat on her bed.
"What a…day." Rima muttered.
"Yeah, really…" Kusu-Kusu agreed. "I wonder if I'm a vampire as well…" Rima thought about that for a minute. "Good night Rima!" Rima said good night to her chara, and watched her disappear into her egg. After many attempts at sleeping, Rima found herself not tired at all and not sleeping.
"I guess vampires can't sleep…" Rima whispered to no one. She was bored out of her mind, watching TV. TV was another thing that didn't seem to change. Rima smiled, and watched useless cartoons.
I have good feelings for this fanfic! I'm sorry if I copy Twilight too much. I'm using the typical idea of a vampire plus some Twilight features to make my own. Don't worry; there is no Edward Cullen or werewolves or random pregnancy that makes no sense… Just a funny thing I almost did I should point out. For all of the Harry Potter fans reading this, I almost typed "Sirius" instead of the word "Serious…" Anyway, please review!