Hello, dear reader! Thanks for taking some of your valuable time to read my story! This is my first fanfic ever! So I really hope you enjoy reading it as much as I'm enjoying writing it!

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Stupid Cupid!

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Prologue: Panic Attack

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Located just on the outskirts of New York City, was situated the opulent and unnecessarily large Vandenberg family's mansion.

The exquisite 100,000 square foot mega compound, with view to the sea, provided all the necessary amenities to never wish to leave elsewhere. Starting with the imposing 62,000 square feet main house, with 21 bedrooms, 30 bathrooms and a 91 foot-long dining room; followed by three swimming pools and two pool houses (A single pool house? Ha! That's for the Poors.) Its own 164-seat Movie Theater, 10,000 square feet playhouse and bowling alley; various squash courts, tennis courts, basketball courts; and finally, a private gym.

All this set on 63 acres of beautiful gardens and extensive plains; where right now, the main character of our story, Charlotte Vandenberg, was about to start her daily archery practice in company of Jose, her favorite butler.

However, today's practice was extra especial for the young miss, because the 17 years old bow-shooting-freak, was about to dominate a new trick.

"Alright Jose, yesterday training was totally awesome! But it's time we take yesterday's move to another level. So, let's do this the same way as we practiced… you remember, don't you? I'll give you the signal to start, you'll make your shoot and I'll try to stop your arrow on midair using my own! Remember to aim at my head please" Charlotte said, bouncing around the field like a kid on Christmas eve.

Her butler sighed and rolled his eyes after hearing his mistress' extremely reckless petition "Miss Charlotte, I don't think it's wise to do such a thing. I didn't think it was a good idea yesterday, and I'm still thinking the same today, even more now that you are not even wearing your protective suit"

The young lady instantly pouted "Jose… if I want to become a badass archer, I need to learn how to dominate this trick without wearing that LA-ME protective suit. Besides, we had practiced this move so many times that there's really no way I could possibly fail"

"Please miss… let's think this through again… what if you accidentally get hurt? Or what if your father finds out we are doing this? He would be so…"

"Jose!" the young lady interrupted raising a hand "how many times will I have to repeat myself? My dad isn't going to find out!" She said full of conviction until a look of doubt took over her features "hmm… But just in case he miraculously does get to find out, I'll just tell him that I forced you into this by threatening you with calling immigration"

Jose raised an eyebrow at her "Do you know I was born in Brooklyn right?"

"Come on! I even know the full name of your bisabuela(Grand Grandmother), and she had like six different names!" she replied cheekily "But, I'm pretty sure my pretentious father doesn't. So, if he discover us and believes I forced you, he won't have any reason to fire you… I think"

"Is not myself the one I'm worried about Miss Charlotte…"

She snorted at him "You worry too much! Come on! Let's get started!" without giving him another chance to retort, she flew to take her quiver and bow.

"Please Miss Charlotte, let's practice one more time with you wearing the protective suit, just to be sure, and then we'll see if you are really ready to take such a risk…" he insisted to his overly stubborn mistress.

Charlotte turned pensive for a second "That's sound very reasonable Jose… too bad I already burned my protective suit!" she smirked at him mischievously.

Jose inhaled deeply and began rubbing his temples "Sigh…Alright! I'll do it Miss Charlotte. But! You must promise me you'll absolutely refrain of telling anyone else about this… and when I said ANYONE, I'm also including Sebastian" he said firmly.

"Uh…? Why can't I tell Sebastian? He needs to know about this…" She stomped her foot crankily against the grass to make emphasis "Only if I succeed of course…"

Sebastian was Jose's 20 years old only son, and Charlotte's childhood friend. But, unlike the disastrous young lady, Sebastian was annoyingly skillful in everything he did; he was smart, athletic and utterly handsome. That's why Charlotte never passed any opportunity to brag about her accomplishments to him, no matter how insignificant they were.

Knowing this fact already, Jose narrowed his eyes at her to show he serious he was about this "If you mutter any word about this to him, I'll stop helping you practice"

"Alright Jose, It's a deal" she practically groaned "Plus, I'm sure he will only end up ruining my moment with his nastiness anyway"

Without any other word, both of them went to take their respective places on the field.

While waiting for Charlotte's signal to make his shot, Jose started remembering the first time he taught the five years old Charlotte and eight years old Sebastian how to shoot a bow "They were so cute back then, always competing to see who was able to hit the target more times" he thought with a smile "I wonder what happened to them…" he snapped sourly.

Surprisingly for him and probably everybody else, his clumsy mistress displayed an extraordinary innate ability with the archery bow. She even managed to defeat Sebastian almost every time they were practicing. But as time passed by, his son grew out of it and stopped practicing with them. However, little Charlotte was so happy to find something she was better than Sebastian at that archery became her new obsession.

Jose snapped out of his memories when Charlotte finally gave him the signal to start, lifting a little red flag from the other side of the field.

Hesitantly, Jose drew his bow, pointing at the head of his really reckless mistress. He could have sworn that after shooting his arrow; everything started moving in slow motion, because he perfectly saw the way his arrow, slowly but sharply, flew across the air towards his mistress direction, who continued immobile in her stance.

"Why is she taking so long to shoot?" Jose wondered "maybe she got too scared and went catatonic again?" Drops of cold sweat started running down Jose's temples, and his heart began beating so hard he thought it had jumped to his throat "MISS CHAR…" he tried yelling with the intention of warning her.

However, his words were cut short, when in a quick but agile movement; Charlotte finally drew her arrow and made her shot, making her arrow collide in midair with Jose's oncoming one and splitting it in half "A-Amazing..." Jose thought as he watched how Charlotte's arrow finalized immune its original trajectory hitting the center of the painted target on his protective suit.

"RAWW! HOLY GUACAMOLY! I DID IT JOSE! I SPLIT IN HALF A FRIGGING MOVING ARROW! AND WITHOUT THE LAME PROTECTIVE SUIT ON!" She roared while excitedly jumping up and down. "Did you see how cool it was Jose? Next time you should take a picture of me doing it!" Charlotte yelled happily, skipping towards him.

Jose breathed again and tried to calm down his accelerated heartbeat "Yes miss, you did it perfectly…" he panted with a hand over his chest "but… this is the last time…we do this… without you wearing… your protective suit" he added, trying to speak between deep breaths. Even though he almost suffered from a massive heart attack, he needed to admit that his mistress had indeed looked pretty cool making that shoot.

They were both enjoying the gleeful moment until…

"DAD, CHARLOTTE! WHAT DO YOU THINK U ARE DOING!?" someone's angry voice suddenly yelled from behind.

Charlotte and Jose frightfully turned their heads around towards the choleric voice's direction and, as they expected, they were greeted with Sebastian's irritated expression, they didn't even know how or when he got there. Neither of them noticed his presence until now.

Jose instantly face palmed himself and gasped "Ay no…" as soon as he noticed his son's glare. This was the reason he didn't want Charlotte blabbering anything to him.

"Sebas! When did you get here? Did you see that?! I just split an oncoming arrow in half using my own! I'm amazing or what?" She blurted, smiling widely and forgetting about her deal with Jose at an impressive speed.

Sebastian's eyes widened "WHAT? Have you lost your mind Charlotte!? Look at my father! He looks as if he almost suffered a heart attack! I have already told you to stop using my elderly father as a human target!"

"Elderly…?" a really offended Jose repeated, frowning and taking out the arrow that was still buried in his protective suit.

Charlotte rolled her eyes "Bah...Come on! Sebas, as always, you are overeating, we just…" she started protesting, but made a sudden pause when she noticed Sebastian's get up "Wow…" She expressed in awe, putting both hands over her blushed cheeks "Sebastian, you look really handsome wearing that business suit" She practically purred while gazing him up and down.

He immediately recoiled "Ugh… stop staring at me like that Charlotte" he demanded with an annoyed expression.

Oblivious to his discomfort, she advanced towards him "I can't help it… if you don't like it, then stop looking so handsome" she said coyly after while invading Sebastian's personal space.

"Back off little pervert!" he growled, grabbing Charlotte's head and pushing her off effortlessly. He was already used to her sexual harassment.

"Ouch!" she rubbed her head. She was already used to his ruthless treatment.

"And dad" He stared at Jose, who was still a little bit offended because of the elderly remark "How many times will I have to tell you to stop following all this crazy girl ideas? You always let her push you around"

"Sebastian, I'm the one who taught her how to shot a bow in the first place, is my responsibility to make sure she doesn't hurt herself... and we both know she'll end up doing something really stupid if I'm not supervising her"

"Yeah, probably" Charlotte agreed, scratching her head with the sharp point of an arrow.

"This is a waste of time dad, you know how strongly her father disapproves of this hobby of hers, which in my opinion, it's just a real waste of time, and not to mention, risky. She should be inside the house studying, or doing something equally productive with her time" he continued ranting "Charlotte… you are not a child anymore, star acting your age and respect your father's rules, they are only for your own good" he finally ended his little speech, using the condescending voice he knew Charlotte hated.

"Sexy Sebastian…" the miss started, but stopped for a second so she could remember what was the last thing he had said, she got lost in his beautiful eyes in the middle of his scolding "I have the right to decide the way I want to spend my time" she said, finally coming out of her trance "Besides, if I had followed all my father's 'rules' until now, I'm sure that I could have ended up becoming the third wife of some rich middle aged Arab sheikh" she joked, making a horrified expression.

"Sheikh Mohammed was a strict but fair man, I'm sure you could have ended up becoming as happy, willing and obedient as his two other wives. It could have been beneficial for you" Sebastian commented back with a straight face.

"Wait…What…There really was a sheikh?"

"Ay mijo cálmate la señorita solo se está divirtiendo, no está haciendo nada malo" Jose finally intervened in Spanish (Relax son, the miss is only doing this for fun, she's not doing anything bad)

His son snorted in clear disbelief "Papa por Dios! te van a terminar despidiendo por su culpa, deja de mimarla y hacer todo lo que ella te pide" Sebastian replied also in Spanish (Dad, for God's sake, you are going to get fired one day because of her, Stop pampering her and doing everything she says)

"How can you say that Sebastian!? I'll never let my father fire Jose! Even if I have to marry Sheikh Mohammed to prevent it!" Charlotte yelled dramatically, with a hand on her forehead and a deadpan expression on her face.

"Miss..." Jose whispered, almost moved to tears with both hands over his heart because of his little miss declaration.

Sebas darted his eyes between both of them "You two sicken me!"

"Anyway!" Charlotte perked up, clapping her hands together "we're really far from the main house, there are not guards patrolling this area this time of the day, AND I have already checked for any security cameras around here and found none. So… there's no way of anyone ever discovering us" she finished cockily.

Sebastian glared at her with the typical almighty/cocky look he tended to use only when he was about to blast Charlotte's confident "Oh, there are not security cameras, hmm?" he muttered while scratching his chin "Then what's that thing at the top of that tree that looks like a paralyzed squirrel?" he pointed with at the strange looking squirrel.

Jose and Charlotte followed Sebastian's accusing finger until the top of the tree; at first sight, it just looked like a normal squirrel, just chilling on a tree, but then they saw how the animal's eyes started blinking oddly with red light, and how its body started moving awkwardly with robotic tendencies.

"Oh…" both of them exclaimed.

The young lady's hands went to both sides of her head "When did they put that there?! I swear I checked that tree millions of times before and never saw that damn camera-squirrel!"

"It's new, they installed it this morning… that's how I knew you two were here" Sebastian replied with a cocky smirk "I was on my way to have a business lunch with your father and some of his associates, when I suddenly felt something was wrong and went to find you… just to make sure you weren't doing anything stupid and dragging my dad with you, but when I couldn't find neither of you I…"

"Ay Dios mío! I'm going to get fired" Jose interrupted his son' narration abruptly to burst into tears (Oh my God)

Charlotte began to panic as well "Hold on a second! My dad never checks the security camera's recordings! Why will he do it today?"

"I might be guessing here… but I bet a security guard is going to end up watching the recordings the camera-squirrel made today, and will immediately run to inform your father the reckless way both of you were shooting arrows at each other…"

"But..." Charlotte tried to protest.

"Zip it Charlotte, as I always have to do, I will go and try to fix your mess" Sebastian barked, trying to calm down his too emotional father "Dad, stop crying and listen to me! It's already noon so I bet all those lazy guards are out eating lunch or something. I will go and enter the security camera's room and delete all the recordings made by that camera. Meanwhile, you need to make sure no guard enters while I'm inside"

Finally, Jose calmed down from his emotional breakdown and nodded in agreement to his son's plan.

"Hey wait! What can I do? I want to help too!"

"Stay here and clean up any evidence of you and my dad being here… when you finish go to the main house and try to act norm… well, like you usually act" Sebastian ordered, grabbing his father and rushing quickly to the main house "and try not doing anything stupid until then" he added with a warning glare.

Charlotte didn't say anything else and just stood there, watching both of them walk away until they were out sight. She didn't know how Sebastian did it, but he, as always, had just managed to ruin her moment AGAIN! Gosh, she could sometimes swear that his hobby, life's mission and superpowers were all 'make Charlotte feel like shit'

"Argh! That stupid Sebastian, he thinks he's so smart! Next time I will shoot an arrow at his big mouth…" she screamed out of frustration, throwing her arms in the air "Sigh…no better not, it would be such a waste, his mouth is too pretty… as well as his hair, so soft and shining all the time…" she added dreamily "but in my opinion his eyes are the best part of his face, especially when he smiles, which is rare… and his long legs that look like they could go by days…" she started drooling a little.

"Maybe he's right… maybe I should stop practicing archery, and follow my dad's orders…" she pondered the idea for a few seconds in her mind "NO! NO! NO! WHAT I'M THINKING? I REFUSE TO FOLLOW THAT PATH!" she snapped angrily, drawing her bow and shooting an arrow straight to the creepy camera-squirrel's head, piercing it in the middle. "Stupid Sebastian with his stupid sexiness, trying to brainwash me!" she muttered bitterly while shooting another arrow this time into the squirrel's chest "die, die, die! Stupid squirrel-camera and go to hell you too, stupid fat bird-camera" Charlotte yelled hysterically, shooting a third arrow to what she assumed was a fat bird-camera, standing just a little bit below the squirrel.

But when she heard a loud "ARGHH" and the sound of something plummeting to the ground, instead of the sound of a camera breaking, she became worried.

"Eh…? Wasn't that a security camera? Was it a real bird then? But it was so weird looking!" she panicked and rushed to aid the apparently real bird.

She knelt down in front of the feathery body sprawled on the ground. "Please birdy don't die on me" she pleaded almost in the point of tears. She moved the wings carefully in order to inspect the strange bird injuries, hoping it wasn't already dead. "I'm so sorry little fatty bird, I will help you, so be strong, just stay still so I can inspect your little pierced arm…wait? Do birds have arms?" she asked to herself confusedly.

Obviously birds didn't have arms, or legs, or a human head…

"It looks like a…little child? But it has wings…"she whispered with a worried expression on her face.

Yep. The thing she thought was a bird wasn't a bird. Actually, she didn't know what the hell it was; it looked just like a small toddler but with bird wings on his back… Charlotte started hyperventilating and was almost on the brink of suffering a panic attack when…

"URGHH…." the winged toddler suddenly reacted and started trying to lift his body into a sitting position "what…what happened?" he said drowsily. Unlike his cute appearance, his voice was very deep and rough sounding, very similar to a truck driver's voice, or like Jose's voice in the mornings.

That last thought made Charlotte giggled, distracting her from an oncoming panic attack "Here, let me help you" she offered him gently as she helped him to sit up.

"Thank you babe, you are very kin…ARGGHH! What is this?! Why I have a fuck*ng arrow piercing my arm?" the strange creature suddenly yelled in pain.

The young lady became nervous again "T- That was kind of my fault… you see… I thought you were a security camera disguised as a really fat bird, so… I accidentally shot an arrow at you…I'm so, so, so sorry I will help you anyway I can"

"You dared to shoot at me? And wait…you just called me fat? You little BRAT! You don't know who I'm?"

"I- I think I have a slight idea…" she lied.

"Imprudent girl… I'M CUPID! THE ALL POWERFULL, ALMIGHTY AND IMMORTAL GOD OF LOVE, ROMANCE AND DESIRE!" the choleric toddler shouted with anger, making his voice sound even deeper than before.

Charlotte snorted, she found the little cupid's reaction extremely funny, but she didn't want to offend the little winged toddler "Ah…I see, t- that's why y-you're w-wearing that diaper like cloth…haha" she put a hand over her mouth to prevent a wild laughing outbursts.

"Do you think I'm funny child? That's it! I will curse your mortal soul and you will spend the rest of your days without anyone loving you, forever all alone! Bitter! Single! AND the worst part of it… you will die at a really old age, but you will still being a VIRGIN!" Cupid yelled, throwing a hysteric toddler's fit.

"Well, I think somebody needs to take his afternoon nap…" Charlotte, who was now trembling trying to contain her laugh, mused in her mind "aww…He looks so cute when he is blabbering angry curses… look at his pink and puffy little cheeks I want to pinch them so bad…tickle, tickle, tickle"

"Hey you moron! Are you listening to me?" the adorable but temperamental Cupid asked angrily.

Charlotte took a long breath in order to calm herself down, and wiped the few tears that had managed to escape her eyes "Yes… I'm deeply sorry sir" she apologized, trying to sound as serious and collected as possible "might you please allow me to treat your wound?" she requested politely.

The toddler turned his head crankily to the side "Hmph, you won't be able to treat my wound child; you are just a lowly human being… I'm an immortal god I'll not die because of this… but… it'll surely make my job more difficult from now on, and for that reason you have to be punish"

"Ok! Ok! I'll accept whatever punishment you want to give me. However, can you be so kind and tell me… what is an immortal god like you doing wandering in my garden?"

The little god looked a little surprised by her question "hmmm… you are too reckless for your own good child… you are not even scared or begging me for mercy…"

"Oh, I'm terrified sir, but this is the way I deal with fear" she lied again, Charlotte found the all-powerful god as intimidating as a gummy bear.

Cupid narrowed his eyes at her but looked convinced "well… I will tell you the truth then… I have been coming here from some time now, to see you practice archery with that human slave of yours… I was surprised to see how skillful you're with the bow. Also, I was quite moved by your dedication… since humans invented the stupid fire guns they had forgotten everything about the awesomeness of archery." The little god confessed sadly.

"Thank you! And yes, I understand exactly how you feel… I even have to hide the fact that I practice archery because of my father. He thinks I'm just wasting my time doing it" she sighed "I wish he could learn to appreciate archery the same was as you do" she added with a smile.

"What a narrow minded father you have child, I pity you… just a little bit" The little god admitted while looking at his pierced arm.

"Again, I'm sorry about your arm. I mistook you for a security camera and, as I said, I cannot let my father find out about this or he will forbid me to do archery forever and fire Jos… punish my human slave with one hundred lashes" Charlotte pleaded, using her best puppy eyes.

The little god remained silent for a few seconds, staring deeply into her puppy eyes. Cupid wasn't an evil and unforgiving God. On the contrary, he was a really loving and merciful God. He was the god of love after all.

"Sigh… Alright child, I'll take pity of you and forgive your mortal soul… but! you will have to help me with my job until I can use my arm again"

"Yes! Thank you so much! Oh immortal god! You are too kind too me! "Charlotte exclaimed happily "and what is your job exactly?" she asked.

"You really aren't the smartest apple of the tree, are u child? I already told you that I'm the god of love and desire, and that I'm a fan of archery… That doesn't ring a bell with you?"

"My name is Charlotte" she declared abruptly, hoping he could stop calling her child, immortal god or not he still looked like a frigging toddler "and, are you seriously saying that your job is shooting arrows at people to make them fall in love?" she giggled at the absurdity of the idea.

"Exactly!" Cupid answered proudly.

"Oh…"

"That's right child…now have you see my bow anywhere? I think I dropped it somewhere when I fell" Cupid asked, looking around for his bow "Oh! Here it is!" he announced happily "now girl touch it and you'll receive the gift of my magic" Cupid picked up a strange looking archery bow from the ground and offered it to Charlotte. It was a really flashy and sparkly golden colored bow, which made her wonder how she didn't see it before.

Charlotte received the little golden bow from the cupid hands carefully. It was really tiny, like the one she used when she was still a child.

"Right now pull the string" he ordered.

She lifted the tiny bow and stretched the string gently. She felt really silly, but she didn't want to offend the little Cupid...again. She was about to ask him what to do next, when in the blink of an eye, the small bow enlarged itself until it was big enough so someone of her size could shot it comfortably.

"Amazing! … Was this magic?...I really have to be dreaming…this cannot be real…maybe Jose's arrow really did hit me after all and now I'm in coma on a hospital bed…or maybe, I'm already dead!" Charlotte whispered to herself almost in the brink of suffering another nervous crisis.

"Perfect! Now is time to give you the uniform" the little Cupid, who was completely oblivious of Charlotte's almost catatonic state, snapped his fingers.

Suddenly a white and sparkling light covered Charlotte's body completely.

"Wha- What is happening? What are you doing now?" she was really freaked out. All her clothes just vanished completely and if it hasn't been for the light covering her body, she would have been completely naked right then.

After a couple of seconds, the strange light faded and her clothes were magically replaced for a white colored, two-pieces outfit: a tight fit crop top with a v neck cut over the chest and back, which showed too much of her chest and stomach for her taste; together with a matching frilly skater skirt, which reached until her mid-thigh; and on her shoulders, two golden metal pads, shaped like multiple metallic feathers, and connected by three delicate golden chains that cascaded all over the naked part of her back.

"This is the uniform? Why it has to be such a revealing outfit? "Charlotte protested and was once again distracted from oncoming panic attack.

The winged toddle nodded in agreement "Oh you are right, I'm sorry, I forgot about the rest of your outfit" he apologized and snapped his fingers again.

The sparkling light came and faded again in less than three seconds, reveling now on her feet a pair of dark brown gladiator style sandals that reached just below her knees; and a braided golden metal hairband on her hair.

"This was not what I meant!" she complained again, shaking her fist in a threatening way.

"Hmph… just be grateful that I have such a conservative taste in clothes or you could be wearing only underwear right now" Cupid warned "Oh that's right! I almost forgot about your wings" Cupid snapped his fingers for a third time, making little white wings appear on her back.

"No! No little wings too! This outfit was embarrassing enough before… even if I have to admit it's kinda cute…" she crossed her arms crankily around her chest, provoking her new wings to wiggle and toss feathers around the grass.

"But, without wings how are you supposed to fly and shoot at humans from the sky?" Cupid seemed to be genuinely confused.

"I don't think it's even possible to fly with these wings, they are way too small for my body. It's anatomically impossible to be lifted by these chicken wings" Charlotte's face became vivid red. The thought of being seen in public while wearing this outfit made her want to crawl to a hole and disappear "Well, at least nothing is pink and flashy…" she muttered, trying to console herself.

"PINK! What a wonderful idea! That's the color of love! Kind of…" Cupid exclaimed, maybe a little bit too excitedly.

Charlotte winced "NO! Don't even think about it..." she tried to warn "and you just made my hair pink…" she announced, with a really resigned voice.

"Why are you complaining so much? Did you forget that you are a just a lowly human? I'm giving you the chance to repair me for your offense. Or do you prefer to spend the eternity all alone and die like a single and virgin old woman, in an apartment full of cats?"

"Die like a single, virgin, old woman please!" she replied without hesitation, anything was better than this embarrassment. Plus, she was a cat lover.

"No way! I had already made my mind child. You will be doing my job until I'm fully recovered. And to punish you for all your insolence, I'll also make your skin turn pink" he declared mischievously. Cupid was having maybe a little too much fun with this.

"What! Why!"

"Well… Let's see, because you called me fat, laughed at me, complained a lot, and because you SHOT AN F*CKING ARROW AT ME!"

The little miss eyes widened "Holy sh*t!" she exclaimed inside her head. She was now starting to regret the gummy bear comparison she made before.

"Muawhahah hihihihi" the not-so-cute-right-now Cupid began laughing demonically "I hope you have a wonderful time doing my job Char-lo-tte… and just in case you are stupid enough to even think about neglecting your new duty… just remember that I looove punishing naughty little girls, Mawhahahah" Cupid flashed a toothy smile full of fangs.

The scary toddler finally disappeared while hysterically laughing between clouds of sparkly glitter, leaving a very shocked, pink, and skimpy dressed Charlotte kneeling on the floor.

She was holding her new golden bow really tightly against her body, as if holding to her own life; her cheeks were flushed like two big apples, over her new pink colored skin; and her eyes were as wide and glazed as plates "I was just tricked by a toddler…" She barely whispered between deep exhalations.

The young lady crouched and started rocking her body back and forth on the ground.

"And try not doing anything stupid until then" was the last thing she remembered before shutting down.

She was finally having a panic attack.

Wow! That was a long prologue! Please stay tune for the next chapter! Where we finally meet April, Casey and the turtles! Yeeii!