Okay, hereit's finally, the firstchapter.
This time we'll have more ofFaris/Rumiho's POV, which will haveaquite different narrative in comparison with Okabe's POVs.I hope it's not confusing, I just wanted to add some dye of unreality and fantasywhen it comes to Faris.
Chapter 1: Dual Parallel Meeting
Akiha Rumiho wasn't the type of person to believe in horoscopes. The thought that the random position of stars at her birth could have the ability to predict her future was something ridiculous for her. And she felt the same about other fortune telling methods, stuff like astral travel, etc.
Rumiho was a kind but realistic girl, much more mature than other girls and boys her age, though more than by choice it had been the result of the heavy burden of responsibilities placed on her shoulders since she was young.
But at that precise moment, Rumiho didn't exist. Well, at least not in consciousness.
Meanwhile, her body acted as a medium for the millenary and almighty Cat Maid of the Eastern Abyss, Faris Nyan-Nyan.
Unlike Rumiho, Faris could afford to believe in horoscopes and that kind of stuff, after all, she was the proof that all those fantastic and magical things really existed.
So after reading the newspaper's prediction she immediately started to look for her predestined one.
She did it not only for her own sake, but also for Rumiho's sake. Lately, the young girl just woke up and took control of her body for a few hours a week, shutting in herself the rest of the time and by her own choice, which saddened Faris. She wanted Rumiho to be happy too, to be free to be herself, after all, despite the thousands of years age gap between them, they were still both the same person at the end.
It was then that Faris heard the entrance bell ring, while two people entered MayQueen.
The boy with a barrel-like body was unmistakable; it was Hashida Itaru, aka Daru, one of MayQueen's best clients.
He was a little... Well, quite perverted actually, but he was a harmless and quite funny guy, so he had become one of her friends. Actually, Daru seemed to be infatuated by her as a result of having fallen victim to her demonic allure, although there was little she could do about it. On one hand, despite the appreciation she felt for him, Faris didn't see Daru in a romantic way, and besides, the Fates had already predicted hundreds of years ago that her true love would be one of the few people capable of resisting her demonic aura and love both her and Rumiho for the people they were on the inside...
However, at that moment, the person who really called her attention the most was the one next to Daru; a really tall girl, surpassing even Daru, although relatively thin, resulting somewhat lanky. Her hair was black and slightly disheveled, reaching about 15-20 centimeters below her shoulders. She wore a simple light gray t-shirt under a lab coat, a brown long skirt, and green sports shoes.
Leaving aside the lab coat, her clothes were quite casual but, despite the skirt, not too feminine. Her clothes, hair and lack of makeup, seemed to indicate the girl didn't seemed to care that much about her looks, even though Faris found her pretty cute in a strange way she didn't know how to describe.
The question now was the girl's identity. Faris knew that Daru didn't have a girlfriend, but she knew that he had another close female friend besides Mayuri and her.
So it could only be that person; Okabe Rina, Mayuri and Daru's best friend.
The first unknown/new person she meet that day... And it was another girl.
Faris tilted her head meditatively, and after a few seconds she just smiled.
Faris supposed that a girl was fine too.
Rina's eyes widened as she noticed the petite girl approaching towards them.
She was like a character straight out of an anime, wearing MayQueen's beautiful maid uniform, which seemed to have been made specifically for her, with everything and cat ears. Her pink hair, matching her pupils, gathered in two pigtails and framing her absurdly gorgeous face. What caught Rina's attention the most was how silky her hair looked. Unlike Mayuri, who always had to wear an orange wig while working as a maid to look more visually striking, there was no way that this girl's beautiful hair was fake. As absurd as it was, the girl in front of Rina seemed to have actually dyed her hair pink... And the most absurd thing of all was how nice and natural it looked.
"Welcome back, Daru-nyan!" She said happily, and Rina wasn't able to feel anything artificial or false in her voice. Her words were genuine.
It was her, Faris Nyan-Nyan, the Great Maid Queen. Possessing a smile and loveliness powerful enough to be considered a force of nature... And Rina thought she could go against her?
Before she could even try to escape from the scene to never return, the catgirl's eyes moved towards her and her smile grew, stopping Rina in her tracks, like a huge bear trap closing around her entire body.
"I didn't know Daru-nyan had a girlfriend! Congratulations-nyan! "
Both Daru and her looked at each other and then back at Faris.
"She's not my girlfriend, Faris-chan..." Daru said with a pale face.
"He is not my boyfriend!" Rina exclaimed at the same time, feeling a chill running down her spine at the mere idea of Daru and she being more than just friends. The scariest thing is that it wasn't even the first time someone thought that about them.
Faris let out a stupidly cute giggle at their reactions.
"I was just teasing you-nyan!" She said, like she was playing pranks on them. After a few seconds her expression became more relaxed and her gaze fixed on Rina, making her slightly nervous.
This was turning out to be worse than Rina imagined. It had to be her horrible luck once again. Faris seemed to be one of those extroverted, beautiful and popular people who always spent time mocking her. Just the kind of people with whom she had it harder to deal with.
"Daru-nyan and Mayuri-nyan have told me a lot about you. Nice to meet you finally, Okarin-nyan!" Faris smile at that moment could easily overcome the sun's glow... But even that was unable to prevent a grimace from appearing on Rina's face, while at the same time turning her face red with anger.
...At least she expected the sudden blush on her cheeks to be anger
"Who are you calling Okarin?" Rina let out somberly, noticing in her peripheral view how Daru lowered his head and sighed. The only people who called her that way were Mayuri and Daru, and only Mayuri could get away with it.
"...Okarin-nyan?" The girl said with some confusion, and Rina's expression only soured more. Maid Queen or not, if Rina didn't stop her insolence right now, things would only escalate.
"NO! You are completely wrong! My name is Hououin Kyouko! Great Mad Scientist and this world future master! The mastermind after the overthrow of the current world order! ...And the Spear of Longinus that will pierce and stop the heartbeat of The Organization..." Rina recited the small presentation she had practiced before, knowing in advance that things would end up like this sooner than later. Adding impact by changing her voice tone multiple times, in addition to gesturing exaggeratedly and ending dramatically.
It had been even more perfect than it seemed in her mind, and her words seemed to have worked, considering Faris's stupefied expression.
...And then the catgirl's eyes started to water.
"EH!?" Rina screeched and recoiled in horror.
Her intention was not to make her cry!
Put some fear in his impertinent little heart? Yes. But make her cry? Of course not!
"I... I-It wasn't my intention-" Rina tried to carefully apologize to her, when she felt a slight pressure wrapping around her.
Faris was embracing her.
"Kyouko..." Faris muttered, while basically burying her face in Rina's chest.
Rina could do little but stay paralyzed and try to ignore how warm and soft the other girl body was.
It wasn't exactly easy; every tiny cell of her body didn't wanted to do anything but dig without stopping until reach the center of the earth and just die of embarrassment.
The only thing that made it even worse... Why the hell did it felt so good?
And suddenly the embrace stopped, and Rina wasn't sure if she was relieved, or disappointment that it was all over so fast...
But she didn't had much time to think about it, before Faris took her hands and looked at her with the most dreamy expression she had ever seen.
"I've been waiting so long for you, nyan..."
"E-Eh?" She asked weakly. What the hell was even happening?
"Hououin Kyouko, one of the three Devas trained by Gilgamesh-sama to maintain balance in this world." She said as she let go of Rina's hands and stepped back a few steps, pulling a small handkerchief out of her pocket to dry her tears. "I regret not having recognized Kyouko immediately; I'll be very happy to serve under your whenever you need me from now on-nyan." Faris clasped her hands and made a small bow.
Ah. Faris had only been messing with her. Rina nodded expressionless, as she felt her train of thought derail and burst into flames. Now what was she supposed to feel...? Confusion about Faris irrational behavior? Ashamed by having felt so unusually comfortable in the other girl arms, although it were for just a moment? Or anger at having fallen into Faris game without doing anything to stop it? A combination of the three seemed the most appropriate...
"All right. Follow me-nyan." She said, addressing both of them, again in a lively voice, as if nothing had happened.
Rina really wasn't liking this girl not one bit.
The maid entered MayQueen's kitchen after taking Daru and Rina's order; an extra-large ice cream, along with a couple of cupcakes for Daru... And just a black coffee for Rina.
Faris sighed. Things could have been worse, she supposed. From now on she'd need to be a bit more careful about the way she acted around Rina. She couldn't continue being that bold anymore or she would end up messing everything.
The truth was that, despite the thousands of years of experience that Faris had as a maid, even she could get a little nervous when she wanted to make a good impression on a person she had just met. However, instead of acting clumsy or shy about it as an average person, she used to act rather hastily and rash, which resulted in her going perhaps a little too far with the hug... As pleasant as it felt...
Faris shook her head, trying to get rid of that thought and the warmth that was beginning to burn in her cheeks; She had to stay calm. Although that didn't stop a smile to grow on her face.
Even before she met her in person, her image of Rina had always been quite positive. After all it was the girl that Mayuri, one of her closest friends, practically saw as family. And even Daru, who always seemed a bit rude and uncaring while talking about Rina, came to express without even noticing it a certain degree of respect towards her, showing the actual trust he had for her.
So now Faris was almost completely sure that Rina was the one; her predestined one. And it made a lot of sense, after all, Rina seemed to be the same kind of person as Rumiho.
Behind that moody mask she used, there was hiding a shy and, Faris would even venture to say, even a bit insecure girl. And like Rumiho, that girl had managed to create a set of barriers that practically isolated her from everyone else at her surroundings.
So if Faris truly wanted to meet the person hiding behind the almost impenetrable tower, she would first have to get to know the door's Guardian.
Hououin Kyouko... A tsundere? Yeah. Faris was almost 100% sure about it.
Initially, the girl seemed expressionless and even somewhat bitter, as if she obviously didn't want to be there. Although Faris noticed easily how the older girl was staring at her whenever she believed Faris wasn't aware of it.
But then Faris ended up calling Rina by her cute nickname, after deciding that calling her by her last name would be too cold and distant while using her first name would only make the older girl feel even more uncomfortable that she already was, and what was the result? That the girl responded with an apparent irritation that did little to hide the embarrassment that she actually seemed to feel, an image that was etched on Faris's retina. And when Faris hugged her afterwards, she blushed so much that Faris almost feared for a moment that Rina was going to implode. She looked so adorable!
It was unfortunate that Faris couldn't keep on teasing her without risking making her truly angry. But at the end, even if it took her one thousand years she wasn't going to give up. Little by little Faris would pass through Rina's defenses. And maybe then, just then, she could go back to hugging the other girl to her heart's content.
I hope you liked it.
Because I have to deal with college, all chapters will be relatively short like this one.I will try to update around one or two chapters per month.
Until next time, pals.