Fanfiction Title: My Immortal
A Vampire Academy Romance Fanfic
Main Characters: CHRISTIAN AND OC (GAIA STARLIGHT IVASHKOV)

Chapter 2 – Sunshine

That night, Lissa and Rose crashed at Gaia's new room. Her room is exquisitely decorated with the most beautiful moving galaxies that one could turn on with a switch on the ceilings. Her bodyguards have installed it for her, because she loves to sleep with the moving galaxies and stars above her head.

Lissa and Rose is impressed and in awe with her room. They touched everything of hers, and Gaia made them dress up in her dress and gave a fair few to Rose, who is surprised with her generosity. Moroi like her do not usually mix well with Dhampirs, and yet she did it effortlessly.

"Just take it," Gaia said to her. "Imma not gonna wear it anytime soon. So if I wanna wear it, I'll just borrow it from you. You must have like a thousand dates with the Desert Princess looks… Imma here is single forever alone!"

Lissa and Rose laughs at her and with it, they dig in to the ice cream they have made. They made many flavors, Tiramisu, mango, chocolate and many more. They had a good time in Gaia's room, and they laughed at everything and everything.

And just then, Christian walked pass Gaia's room and heard the girls laughing. He leans into the door and eavesdropped on what they are talking about, curious on what they are laughing at.

And suddenly, the door is open.

And there she is, Gaia Starlight.

"Hello there, your highness!" Gaia piped up happily and dragged him into her room. "Come on in and have some ice creams!"

Lissa and Rose quiet down at the sight of Christian Ozera. The man shuffles his feet awkwardly until Gaia came and pushes him down onto a plush beanie cushion and places a tub of ice cream in his hand.

"Now, dig in!" she said happily and said to Lissa and Rose. "Christian here is my first friend at the Academy. He's nice… and gentle and such a gentleman…"

"Gaia…" Christian said her name and she whipped her long, long set of dark hair around.

Today, her hair is totally down. She has no jewelries on her hair and nothing else, and she is wearing an oh-so-thin satin nightgown that is so opaque that he could see her nipples perked up…

Oh dear…

Christian flames up and he quickly looked away from her. And she didn't know it as well!

Oh dear god…

"Just eat the ice creams, Christian!" Gaia said to him exasperatedly and spooned a mouthful of ice cream into his mouth. "We made it with my dear alchemist's brilliant inventions. It's yogurt…!"

"Hmm…" he said to her and eats the ice creams quietly. With Gaia's help, slowly, Lissa and Rose begun to open up to Christian more, and they begun to talk. And soon, Christian and the rest of the girls are laughing off at a joke that Gaia had sported not too long ago.

"Then, I was like… just you watch. In the near future, your new little wifey will be having a shit in the toilet and the toilet papers run out and you would be all sucker and like, "How much do you want this toilet paper? Prove it to me…"

Everyone laughed again and Christian, who had never heard something as absurd as that, laughed until there are no more noises coming out from him. Lissa and Rose laughed at him and pointed one finger at him, and it sets off another round of laughter for them.

Suddenly, the sound of the royal trumpet sounded throughout the entire academy. They all stood up and dropped their buckets of ice cream onto the table.

"Queen Tatiana?" Rose calls. Everyone scrambles back to their room and dressed up for the occasion of the arrival of Queen Tatiana.

"I hope I did not take you too much by surprise, but sometimes your Queen awakens with a need to look upon her lovelies..." she said with her hand waving with her staff in one hand. "Where's Vasilisa?"

Everyone looked at Lissa. She balked and stood up gingerly. "Vasilisa Dragomir? Ah! There you are. Please, come up to the stage and let me see the princess… not a day goes by where we did not lament the loss of your parents and brother. The Dragomir name represents the finest of the Moroi qualities…"

"While you, Vasilisa Dragomir," the Queen said to her. "The last of the Dragomir line… If you are our future, I am less than impressed. The power that comes from royal blood must be used responsibly. While you, you gave us dead animals, blood games, escapes to Oregon! Shameful!"

"Queen Tatiana, I can explain…" Lissa started, but the Queen stopped her with one hand.

"Uh, uh, uh, not now, Lissa…"

"However, I have every confidence that our dear Vasilisa here will turn things around. Now, where is Gaia? Gaia Starlight?"

Everyone whispers. Gaia hid herself behind Christian, and he pushes her up from her hiding spot and jerked his head up towards the stage. She blew a tongue out at him, and the Queen calls again.

"Where is Gaia?" the Queen calls pleasantly after calling Lissa. Everyone whispers and looked around, and the Queen calls again in a singsong tune, happy to come here for once. "Gaia…? Gaia dear…? Come out; come out, wherever you are…?"

Finally, Gaia stood up from where she has been hiding. She made a face of sort at the Queen, and the Queen smiles up pleasantly at her.

"Oh, there she is, my baby, baby Gaia!" the Queen piped up happily. Gaia made another face at her, and the Queen smiles broader.

Gaia trudges up the stage awkwardly and faces the crowd.

And faces Christian Ozera, who sits right in front of her…

She blew out another tongue at him and he chuckles.

"Let me introduce to you, my baby Gaia!" the Queen said to the crowd of students. Everyone whispers to themselves, and the Queen coughed to clear the crowd's tension. Gaia hissed at her, and the Queen patted her on her shoulder.

"Now, now, dear... Everyone will know about it sooner or later. Come, come, baby girl. Let Grandmama introduce you to every one of my darlings!" the Queen said to her, and everyone gasped.

Grandmama!?

"Gaia is my baby granddaughter. I hope you will treat her like the Grand Duchess she is. Oh, Gaia. You do know you have just been bestowed the title of a Grand Duchess of Kiev after dear Princess Vasilisa here?" the Queen said to her and gestured towards Lissa. Gaia smiles awkwardly at her and Lissa smiles back at her pleasantly with an equally shocked expression.

Gaia is Grand Duchess!?

Ivashkov!? Gaia Ivashkov!?

"Gaia Starlight Ivashkov! The Grand Duchess of the Ivashkov royal family, Grand Duchess of Kiev!" the Queen calls out happily, and Gaia flames up in embarrassment.

Everyone whispers at once. It is the scandal of the century. The Queen's very own granddaughter in their school and no one knew about it!?

"Grandmama!" Gaia almost exclaims in her whispers. The Queen laughs happily and patted her and Lissa's back.

"I expect you two girls would get along well now. Lissa here is Princess, and would be Queen after me. Then, you are next in line now, my little baby Gaia…"

"I'm not a baby, Grandmama!" Gaia hissed angrily in embarrassment.

"Oh, Gaia dear," the Queen said happily. "You are my only living granddaughter here now. If you're not my baby Gaia, then who else would I shower my love and all my money on!? Adrian?"

Adrian coughed and hides himself further down his seat. Queen Tatiana does not like him much for his frivolous attitude. But she loves him still.

"Adrian. I expect you to behave like the Ivashkov you are…" she said to him, and Adrian coughed out a reply.

"Grandmama!" Gaia exclaims shyly and flames up again. The Queen laughed at her.

"Oh, I do love to see you blush, my little baby granddaughter. You are the most adorable one in the world. Be good like the Grand Duchess you are, and be nice to Lissa as well. I trust you two would be the most best of girl friends…"

"Now, let us adjourn to the banquet hall…" the Queen said to the crowd of students, and everyone stood up and clapped their hands.

"It's so cool!" Rose slammed her hand on Gaia's back happily after they came down from the stage and went together to the banquet hall to have their meals with the Queen. Gaia lurched forward hard and ended up into Christian Ozera's arms awkwardly, who had came to her rescue in time. "You're Grand Duchess and you never told us, you bitch!"

"Rose, be nice to Gaia…" Lissa chided Rose, and she darted her tongue out playfully and scratched the back of her head. Christian helped Gaia up and brushed her coat and skirt off dust.

"T-thanks…" she stuttered to him and blushes up in embarrassment. Christian smiled and walked away from them. She stares on at his back, and sighs dreamily.

"Handsome hunk you've spotted there, my baby, baby Gaia?" Rose piped in and slung an arm around her shoulders and stares on to where Gaia is staring. Lissa too, leans in to Gaia's other free side of the body and smiles cheekily at her. "The Head of the now empty Ozera royal family, which makes him a Prince. Rich from old money and had the most beautiful mansion in the world, smart, genius, fire flaming lickin' good abilities. Great ass as well, ooo… must have meant he had the power to go on and on for hours in the bed while making hot passionate sex-"

"Rose!" Gaia exclaims to stop her from going further. The red had spread to her ears, and she is flaming up shyly. Lissa and Rose both laughed at her and dragged her off to the banquet hall.

There, Christian sat alone while everyone shuffles away from him. He glanced around, and finds that the seats around him are empty. He sighs, and ate his food in silence. As per usual…

And suddenly, another silver plate slammed onto the table next to him. He looked up and saw Gaia, Lissa and Rose flanked at her sides.

"Well, hello there, your highness!" Gaia piped up happily at him and flashed him a charming beautiful smile. "Sitting alone I see? Mind if we join you? The toadies there aren't all welcoming and are very, very annoying…"

Christian laughed at her 'toadies' comment and quickly realizes it and closed his mouth with his hand, coughing into it to mask his laughter.

"Refreshing isn't she?" Lissa commented to Christian. He nodded his head while laughing. "I do love her. She does have such a way of speaking the human's language…"

"Hey, hey, hey… still here…" Gaia said to them and pointed to herself. The rest laughed at her and Gaia, who is not happy with it, slapped a spoonful of mashed potatoes at Christian's face.

"Stop laughing!" she said to them and huffed in a playful way. Christian laughed and slapped another spoonful of mashed potatoes at her hair.

"Oh, oh, oh!" she exclaims in horror. "My hair! Why you oaf!"

She threw another spoonful of mashed potatoes at him, and it flipped towards Rose's hair.

And Rose is livid.

"Gaia…" Rose started in a dangerous tone. Rose flipped her own spoonful of mashed potatoes, but Christian maneuvered her arm out of Gaia's way and it slapped onto Lissa's face instead.

And Gaia laughs heartily at the sight of mashed potatoes on their faces and hair.

Lissa slammed her hand on the table and flipped her plate of food to Rose. And they started the food fight. It escalated to such a degree that the whole banquet hall is alive with food throwing all over the place.

"Students!" Headmistress Kirova boomed, but no one listens to her. "Stop this at once!"

"It is alright, Ellen," the Queen said to her pleasantly and smiles at the little royal group and the dhampir girl, Rose. "My baby Gaia does have such a way to make people happy. I am glad that the Prince is no longer a sad moping little depressed ball…I do worry for him, you know? Being the lonely one left in his family… I considered taking him in as my own, but I have sensed a bond between him and my baby Gaia not too long ago, hence my coming here to clarify things…"

Then the Queen thought to herself. Hmm… perhaps an engagement is in order… Christian and Gaia… what a perfect couple…

She stares with a smile as Gaia and Christian and the rest of their royal little group continues to throw foodstuff at each other.

Everyone marvels at Christian's ability to laugh and be happy with Gaia, Lissa and Rose. Lissa is princess, and Christian is their ice Prince. Famous for his poker face and his icy attitude after his parents turned themselves Strigoi. He is isolated for a few whiles, and then, he turned all icy.

But now, he is all sunshine and smiling. Gaia, being the Grand Duchess she is, mixed with the royalties more than she does to the rest of the Morois. Rose, being Lissa's own Dhampir novice, is with her all the time, and so, they become friends as well.

Everyone suddenly wanted to be friends with Christian, but seeing as Gaia is the one who had pulled him out of the darkness dream he had created all around himself to protect himself from others, he stuck up to her and refuses to be friends with anyone else other than those who really knew their own gang of royalties, such as Rose's Dhampir friends and a friend of Lissa, Natalie. The rest are out of their gang.

Soon, the Equinox dance comes up. Everyone is excited about it, and more so when Christian, who had so wanted Gaia to be his partner that night, is nervous as hell.

"Go on and ask her already, you little pussy," Mason said to Christian. The both of them become fast friend after Rose introduced him to their little royal group. Now they are known as the Royal Tramps, known especially for Gaia's ability to make them laugh out loud in the middle of nowhere, even when they are terribly angry.

Christian has transformed from his old icy glory into a much better person who talks. And he laughed when Mason calls him a pussy. Once upon a time ago, he would have burned up those who had dared to call him that.

"Who's the pussy here when you yourself haven't asked little Rosa here to the Equinox…" he said to him and punches his shoulders playfully. Mason chuckles and stumbles a little.

"Yeah, right… oh well, she doesn't like me as much as she likes her oh-so-handsome training coach…" Mason said to him in a rather disappointed tone.

"You mean Demetri?" Christian said to him. Mason sighs sadly.

"Yeah, you don't even measure up to the man in terms of size, let alone by attraction alone…" Christian said to him. Mason glares at him and Christian laughs.

"You do realize that you've changed right, Christian?" Mason asks him. Christian regards the man and scrutinizes him.

"What do you mean by that?"

"Well, since the arrival of Her Grace, the Starlight Duchess…" Mason said to him in a sing song tune. True, Gaia is known as Starlight Duchess due to the Starlight in her name. Everyone calls her Starlight, only those who are her close friends would call her Gaia. Including Mason, but he would sometimes call her Starlight Princess; since he thought that it suits her more.

Christian fell silent. He couldn't have been that obvious with his feelings to her now, right?

"You've changed," Mason said to him. "Well, in a good way of course. You knew how to talk, and how to laugh, and how to be happy. All thanks to her, I guess. She has done you an awful lot of good I'd say, so be good to her and fess up to her now, alright? She is a hot one, so people would snatch her up for the Equinox Dance coming up soon…"

And speak of the devil, Gaia came stumbling into the water fountain garden with Lissa and Rose flanked at her sides. Mason smiles at him and pushes him towards Gaia, and he stumbles right into Gaia's arms.

"Are you alright, Christian?" Gaia said to him and looked up at him. Christian coughed, and he adjusted his clothes a little. Gaia saw a stray strand of hair fell out from his usual perfect hairstyle and swipes it back to his head. And Christian stares at her.

"Oh, there is a stray strand of hair… you know…" she said to him with a smile and he pulls her aside from her little group of royal and dhampirs.

"Gaia, I had something I want to ask you…" he started. And she smiles.

"You wanna ask me to the Equinox Dance is it?" she started. And he froze. She laughs heartily at him.

"Don't get me wrong here. The Equinox Dance is coming up soon. If you're not asking about this, then is there something else you wanted to ask me?" she said to him.

He shakes his head. "No, no, you got it right. I want to ask if you… well… if you…"

"I'd love to…" she said to him gently and adjusted his shirt for him. She pulled up his white collar and arranged it neatly on top of his coat and patted it a few times. "Alright, you're good to go… and just so you know, I would be wearing a dark blue lace dress that night…"

With that, she gave him a wink and he watches as she strutted away to Lissa and Rose, who is standing nearby and waiting for her. Christian laughs to himself and Mason came and slung and arm around him.

"How was it, my man?" Mason started.

Christian laughs at him. "So easy… so easy…"

"Told ja. Gaia there has a thing for you as well," he said to him, and Christian looks at him incredulously.

"What?" Mason said to him. "It's true. Haven't you seen how her eyes tend to sparkle more when you are looking at her? Or how she tends to blush when you touch her? Or when you're close to her?"

Christian is baffled. Gaia is in love with him as well? Oh, how fetching!

End of Chapter 2: Sunshine