(A/N) Hello I'm back with another chapter, sorry about the long wait I had my midterms and unfortunately my dog got sick last week so after taking her to the vet all throughout the week we finally found out what was wrong with her, unfortunately we had to put her to sleep, so as you can imagine I haven't really been in the mood for writing fan fiction lately.
Last Time…
Asta gave the door a death glare who ever was in there was making her wait way to long Asta began to tap her foot against the floor impatiently. Then she saw the door knob begin to turn and just as she opened her mouth to shout at her new partner she was at a loss for words, until she heard him say "hello Asta-chan it has been awhile."
"Abel what are you doing here?"
"well Asta-chan I'm your new partner, well not so new really but you get the idea" Abel said with a grin.
"So the Empress decided to partner you with me?" Asta asked after Abel explained his reasons for being in the Imperial Palace.
"Yes, she said it would be best if we partnered up from now on until we can find the main base of operations for the Orden."
"So did the Vatican request this?"
"Um…not exactly, you see I'm on 'vacation' for an indefinite amount of time so everything I'm doing is of my choice not the Vatican's." Abel replied a bit nervous about the current line of questioning even if it was necessary for them to get this out of the way in the beginning.
"Then how did you get a meeting with the empress, let alone get her to partner you up with me?"
"Well, she had heard that I was coming and decided that since we worked so well together before we might do well again." said Abel, happy that he was able to think up something so quickly 'besides it wasn't really a lie was it? Seth-chan did hear that I was coming and she was the one that decided that me and Asta-chan should be partners again, just because it was me that told her I was coming doesn't really matter…Asta-chan is going to kill me if she finds out I lied to her' Abel thought with a bit of apprehension about the future.
"Well I'm glad that we will get to work together again." said Asta with a smile even though she could tell something was wrong with his explanation she decided to just trust Abel and let the matter rest as it was blindingly obvious that Abel was getting uncomfortable. "So Abel do have you enjoyed your stay in the Empire so far?"
"Definitely, I have been here for almost a full day and I haven't been attacked, I haven't had to prove someone isn't a murderer, and I haven't stumbled on to a plot to assassinate the Empress, yes so far my trip is a lot more relaxing than my last one." Abel grinned happily as he said this
"I suppose that would make a trip a little more fun wouldn't it?"
"It does, now I finally get to relax for a while."
"Wrong, we are going to be searching for clues about the Orden as soon as possible so you will have very little time for relaxing."
"But Asta-chan…" whined Abel.
"I suggest you get some good sleep tonight I plan on coming here to bring you down to the investigation at 5:00 a.m.."
"Asta-chan is so mean to me." Abel whined even louder. After a few hours of catching up and reminiscing about their previous missions Asta decided that it was time for her to go back home and let Abel enjoy his last night of relaxation before their mission officially began.
After Asta left, Abel left his room to go have his dinner in a rather elegant dinning room, and just minutes before Abel's food arrived Seth entered the room. Abel rose to his feet and bowed deeply, after all they may be brother and sister in private but to the general public Abel was just another foreign priest and Seth was their beloved empress and as such it would be considered greatly insulting to the Empire if Abel should show such disrespect to their empress, and by proxy Methuselah as a whole would be greatly outraged. Abel hated such social rituals ever since he was a child and liked them no better now, he believed people should be able act normally in front of anybody including superiors, unfortunately there were few people that believed as he did, and none of them had the power to change the mindset of the masses.
Aside from the dinner being rather formal it was very enjoyable, not only was the food excellent but he and Seth got a chance to speak of something other than business, that in its self was worth the formality in both Abel's and Seth's opinion, it was once in a blue moon that they could at least act like normal people.
After their dinner Seth had to return to her work and would be at it the rest of the night so she bid Abel a good night and returned to the throne room, after this Abel returned to his room and thought over the events of the day. 'well things certainly could have gone a lot worse than they did, but I wonder if Asta-chan was kidding when she said that we are going to wake up early'
Much to Abel's dismay when Asta says 5 o'clock she means 5 o'clock, Abel tried to pull the sheets back over his head when a loud knocking awoke him from his slumber, but the knocking just got louder and louder until a very irate Asta let loose a loud yell, "Abel if you don't answer this door right now I'll break it down and drag you to head quarters myself!"
Normally Abel would just ignore such a warning but when your talking about Asta, a women he remembers quite clearly as having a rather violent streak over the course of their time together, so Abel sluggishly got out of bed and made his way over to the door. "Asta-chan, why must you be so loud when I'm trying to sleep" mumbled a tired Abel as he opened the door to face his tormentor.
Asta briefly looked Abel up and down, he still had on his night cloths. Asta remembered quite clearly saying she would be her at 5:00 a.m., so while already annoyed that Abel took so long to answer the door now she had to deal with the fact that he wasn't even near ready to go to the investigations department headquarters "Abel, if you value your life I suggest getting ready to leave immediately." Asta said in a threatening voice, at which Abel quickly decided it would be wise to follow her orders.
After taking a few minutes to change and take care of the other necessities Abel and Asta were off to the IDHQ to get Abel up to speed on all the information that they had gathered on the Rosen Creuz Orden, after walking several minutes through the government district of the city they finally arrived at their destination. The IDHQ was a large building built in the same fashion as the rest of the city but it gave Abel the same feeling that he got whenever he had been away from AX HQ to long on a mission, it was as though you could feel the work that was done in this building was important.
After entering the building Asta and Abel had to go through several security checkpoints, the deeper they went into the building the more thorough each check point was, Asta was usually seen through without much hassle but due to the fact that Abel was a foreigner and his security clearance card was relatively new, the security guards were much more suspicious about making sure he was who he said he was and that the card was legitimate. Eventually after over a half-hour of security checkpoints they were where they needed to be, Asta's office.
(A/N) well there's chapter two of 'Of Vampires and Crusniks' hope you enjoyed it, and even though this chapter was a bit boring and not much happened I had to get this out of the way to start the more interesting things that will be happening in the chapters after this one. Again I am sorry for the late update and I promise the others will not take this long, this past month hasn't been very good for me. See you next time and remember to R&R.
P.S. I'm looking for a Beta-Reader for this story so if you are interested either leave me a review or send me a message.
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