It was an experience that lasted a while since Fujino died without a trace for Akira. He had recovered somewhat, and even became more responsive and attentive to Princess Mina to her relief. Yet Kaburagi was still a bit, off.


The day began and it was the time they spent preparing for school. While Akira brushed her silky yellow hair, Mina couldn't help but to notice him being lifeless still. In her sight he looked a mess; sickly even. However, he gave a warm smile when he noticed her looking at him in concern with her sparkling ruby red eyes. On the inside, she couldn't take it anymore as she burned from the fact that he was still thinking about… that girl.

"Akira?" She called.

"Yeah?" He bellowed.

She hesitated at first, balling her fists up tightly in her lap, but let off a menacing glare at him directly in his cyan colored eyes. "Stop. Thinking about her."

There was no reaction; his face was still blank as he raised an eyebrow. "What are you talking about, Princess?"

She let out a growl of frustration, "I forbid you do you hear me?! I forbid you of ever thinking of that girl again… am I understood?! Akira!" She snapped.

He tilted his head. "I dunno who you're talking about but… whatever you say, Princess…"

Before she could say anything else the door of the bedroom opened, Vera appears.

"Princess."

"Yes, what is it Vera?"

"I hate to disturb you, but you must come to the main entrance right away." She said before the scene goes black. "We have a problem…"


Within the gaudy entrance of the palace, Beowulf and VGS operatives surround throughout with weapons ready. After being allowed clearance to enter by the Beowulf standing by, Mina, Akira and Vera come to the railing of the balcony over viewing into the center of the room. They find four scantily but uniformed dressed women, two on either side of a fifth woman who stood in front wearing a similar kind of outfit of the women, but with a white buttoned up, militant looking jacket containing an ornate broach over her right breast that was molded in the shape of a water lotus with two olive branches crossed behind it. The beret she wore was white in color, while the other four women wore black berets.

"Her Majesty, Queen Wilhelmina Vlad Tepeş, I presume" Said the woman in white.

"Yes, I am she. But I ask that you call me Princess Mina. What business do you have here?" asked Mina.

"Nothing to commence a threat of any sort I assure you, your highness." She responded. "I am here by order of my superiors, Alpha General Jerdana Watson, and Royal Advisor, Fiva Alistar, to name a couple."

"Oh? And who might you be?" Mina asked.

"My apologies, ma'am; I am Alpha Major Piper Steinveil. The four outstanding, honorable women around me are part of the Lotus Clan Elite Ops; specially selected and trained young ladies who protect members of the Klezarith Royal Family with utmost importance, as well as the treasured BEAM Quaternity and their descendants. There are 4 other operatives here as well, but they are awaiting in stand by in our transportation chopper."

"You speak in high regard of these women." Mina smiled.

Piper smiled back. "Why yes. They are no doubt a sterling gem to our military, and to our Queen."

"I see, you did mention you have a royal family within your clan, Klezarith was it? And you also have a living Queen as well?"

"Yes ma'am, Queen Sadiara Lillithina Klezarith… She is the longest living matriarch, and our beloved illustrious ruler; she is a no doubt a mother to us all along with the Quaternity. Sort of, how you are to the Vampire Society here in this beautiful bund and elsewhere, your majesty."

Mina was impressed, curious as she wanted to meet this queen of theirs; but first came first, she returned to the matter that was ensuing here. "I shall have to meet your Queen one day; but back to the matter at hand, you say that you had some business to be had here with me?"

Piper shook her head. "Not with you in any way, your grace, not specifically at all. However, I do wish it were on better terms that we had met, I say that with whole-heart sincerity. You see, we have come by means to retrieve the guilty one."

Mina gave a questioned look. "The guilty one?"

Piper nodded solemnly, then looked directly at Akira with a glare along with the other four women.

Akira jolted to this gesture.

"Yes you; Child of the Enemy." Piper began. "You wouldn't happen to be, Akira Kaburagi Regendorf, would you? Eldest son of Lord Wolfgang Regendorf, and Lady Hitomi Kaburagi Regendorf*, elder bother to Yuuhi Kaburagi Regendorf, as well as next head Alpha Head of the Earth Clan and servant familiar to Queen Wilhelmina Vlad Tepeş?"

Gasps eroded from all around.

Akira then nodded hesitantly. "Eh, yeah, that would be me…"

"Oh good, it wasn't hard to find you at all."

"How do you know all that about me?" he asked.

"We know practically everything about you; we have our sources, Child of the Enemy. Sadly we cannot reveal them to you, nor did we obtain that information for positive circumstances."

He raised a brow. "Then… what do you want with me? And why do you keep calling me "Child of the Enemy?"

She closed her eyes with a sigh in a pained expression. "Not surprising you don't understand… but you shall soon enough I suppose. As for "What we want with you", we are to take you into custody. After continuous surveillance of our source teams and reading through your information I just can't fathom why you would even commit the most heinous act against the Lotus Clan throne… I'm sorry child that it must be this way, as you are only a boy; but I'm afraid I have to state this to you, for I hath no choice and tis my charge." She then pointed to him with a stern expression , canines visible. "Akira Kaburagi Regendorf; in the name of the Klezarith Royal Family, accompanied with jurisdiction of BEAM Quaternity, and on behalf of the Lotus Clan society with power granted to me by Lotus Clan Law, I place thee under arrest. You shall be transported to our Sanctum to stand trial before the royal court as well as receive and serve out your fate of punishment."

Akira blinked; he couldn't believe what he heard. "What? Under Arrest?"

Piper nodded. "I'm sorry… really I am. But you committed s terrible crime and for that you must be punished by our means."

"Hold on." Vera came forward. "May I ask what crime he has committed?" She asked.

Piper flinched a bit in her heels, then looked to them warily. "The worst crime you could ever commit. A crime that has not only jeopardized our Clan entirely, but has also killed any kind of hope for the future to our existence. Akira Kaubragi Regendorf has been labeled as a not only a traitor, but killer as well… For you see… he is responsible for the death of the last standing blood heir to the Lotus Clan throne; you spilled Royal Blood, boy." She growled with a grimace.

Akira's eyes shot. "What…?"

"You, Child of the Enemy; you're being charged with the murder of thee Princess Fujino Lilliana Klezarith… you two called one another friends? She grew up alongside you in that miserable little Japanese village with her father? I figured she never told you due to reasons of security, but she was indeed a princess. Yet, she was the last living child of Queen Sadiara, the last living blood successor able to take the throne in the name of Klezarith… our last Princess..."

"What?!" Akira said; he began to freak out. "No, I… I didn't! I didn't kill her! This is a mistake! No!"

"What's a mistake?!" Yelled one of the women, who wore glasses. "You killed our princess! You ended our existence! You ruined everything our clan fought for!"

"Gloria! Hold your tongue!" Piper growled.

"… My apologies ma'am. I… It's just I… I couldn't hold my composure anymore…" Gloria turned away.

"Bullshit…" the woman next to her softly mewed, a blonde with soft eyes filled with tears.

"Christina, keep it together!" Piper snapped.

"I'm sorry ma'am, it's… it's just that the memories are haunting again… It's happening again…"

"Ma'am, permission to remove my comrade for recuperation?"

Piper nodded. "Granted."

Gloria goes to and gently embraces Christina, and walks the now sobbing woman out of the open doors.

"Marina, Melisande."

The two other women look to Piper in attention.

"Retrieve the target so that we may leave. We've overstayed our welcome and this is wearing entirely too thin right now."

"Understood, ma'am." They responded as they proceeded to the stairway.

"Akira, I suggest you come quiet and easy like. I wish not to fight you or your brethren, or even engage in battle for that matter period."

"But I didn't murder Fujino! I swear!"

"Calm down, Akira." Mina snipped. "I understand that there is a law within your clan. I don't mean to disrespect or interject, but Akira is still my servant. I will not give him up to just anyone."

"Mm, that is understood your highness… yet it's required anyway that you accompany; he is your servant of importance, and you are able to stand trial with him as his defense. You are in no way involved or to be punished, but you may speak for him to vouch for his innocence."

"Stand aside, Beowulf!"

"Stand back!"

Piper looks to the commotion, Marina was standing at odds with one of the guards at the stairway.

"Remus. It's alright; allow them to do their order by their superior." Mina said.

"Y-yes, ma'am." Remus stood aside with cut eyes in disgust as Marina cut back with the same mutual feeling, as if they were engaged into a sword based battle via sight as she went up the stairs.

"You may want to pack a few things as will take more than a day to complete." Piper said. "I shall wait for you in our chopper." She said, walking to the doors.

"Vera."

Vera looked to her. "Are you sure, Princess?" Vera asked in concern.

"I sense no lies in her words. I would like to meet this ruler of theirs as well…"

Vera nodded and went to do her task.

Melisande, a strawberry blonde, searched Akira as Marina waited to place the cuffs.

"My my, such a petite body for a loup enfant." Said Ninette.

Akira blushed.

"Ninnette… Honestly dear, stop feeling him up; just search him so I can get the cuffs on." Marina said.

"Oui, Mari. My goodness you're no fun." She pouted.

"No because I'm at work. As you should be… Bedsides I don't quite fancy anything Earth Clan related... especially their, ahem, loins… Now, try and be quick love, I want to get away from this Earth Clan cesspool as soon we can get."

"Oui, I agree. Yet, Mari, you have to admit even for an Earth Clan child his body is, délicieuse? Ehuhu~ I couldn't resist."

"Of course you couldn't. But like I said before dear, I have no interest." Marina sighed.

"What do you have against the Earth Clan?" Akira asked.

"Hush that lovely mouth of yours, mon cher. Or else Mama Ninne will hush it for you. Besides, that is a long story to tell; one I bet you don't want to hear…" Melisande said standing. "Alright, Mari."

"Right, hands over your head now." Marina commanded.

"A long story?" He said raising his hands.

"Yes… a dark one that. Let's just say that the Earth Clan was whom made the poisoned blood between us. Believe it or not, the Lotus Clan and Earth Clan were once one, one as a people a point in time… but, that story shall be saved for another time pup. I might tell it to you before your death." Mari said. "Now start walking." She said pointing her sword against him.


Meanwhile in the chopper.

Christina growled in frustration, "Why did I let myself lose it back there?!"

"Calm down, Chris." Gloria said cradling her comrade's hands. "It's understood, alright? You're not the only one feeling this. It's bad enough as it is, I mean there's nothing to do about it, crying won't help either... The Queen has held her crown for a long time, centuries actually. She's even told us herself she's too old to have any more children and even though she won't admit it she can't exist forever, the sanctum is a great indicator for that one. She's in her 500s for Christ's sake..."

"So what's going to happen is what I'm afraid of… What's going to happen to all of us, huh? Are going to be put out into the world up here? Or are we going to close ourselves up like the matrons before us and like in the dark like trolls until we rot away one by one? We all know there isn't any other person to take over if she passes. Not even any of the illusionists can take on the task she's been doing. Not even Lady Beatrice, and she's the most powerful there is but even she's ancient! If she goes then everything we know will just fizzle away..." She curled into her seat. "Look, I'm sorry really Gloria... I'm just scared, really scared… I bet the Black Mercato has even gotten wind of this, and just drooling at the chops waiting for us to crack, like a pack of wild dogs stalking a warren of vulnerable bunnies in the dark…"

"Aah…" A small girl moaned as she squirmed in her seat, covering her ears. "Shizuka…" She said, burying her head into a beautiful woman with black hair and grey eyes sitting next to her.

"Christie, I know things are frightening right now but, could you please do not bring them up right now… if you can help it?" Shizuka asked gently as she curled her arm around the girl.

Christina looked at the girl then down to the floor, putting a hand on the girls' head to pet it. "… Sorry Germaine, I didn't mean to scare you honey…"

In the cockpit, two other women sat with worried expressions as they over heard the commotion from the cabin.

"Mm? ... I know you are… You don't have to tell me twice… … No I haven't… But after this, I'll be going to be with him… like I told you before you're more than welcome to come as well, but I know you're more than likely to go stay with your cousins… … They are…? I see…"

"Victoria, Amielle." Piper said as she came in.

"Yes ma'am?" said Victoria.

"Place the chopper in power save, we are awaiting the Princess as well as her selected retainers to arrive on board shortly. I'd prefer that we not crash into the ocean, swimming is truly unattractive…"

"Understood ma'am." Victoria replied as she placed the vehicle under the power save.

Piper then came into the passenger cabin. "Honestly, who died?"

The women jumped as they looked to her.

"Really now, here we are proud warriors of the Lotus Clan and, look at how we displaying that." She said sitting in her seat.

"But we're about to die." Said Germaine. "Who's proud of that?!"

"Germaine!" Snapped Shizuka.

Piper only hooted. "To be young again; dearest Germaine, understand that with a bright time there is a dark one. Our dark one has shown itself once again since the Great War between Werewolves and Vampires. Every civilization had its moment in the sun before it either died off in darkness or became a phoenix and rose from its ashes. The last dark time, we were under the merciful phoenix and survived, coming back stronger, able, lovelier than before… Now, the real question is, who's mercy are we under this time round; the erasing miasma of the dark… or the glorious light of the life giving phoenix?"

The women looked to one another with questioning eyes, then to the floor in uncertainty.


Mina and Vera walked side by side as they were escorted to the outside. Vera was still worried about the entire thing, seeing how they just ended a battle with Telomere.

"Princess, are you really sure about this?"

"As sure as I'll ever be, Vera; besides, I want to meet this queen of theirs. Once this is resolved and Akira is proven innocent, I'll then be sure to teach their queen to not meddle with my affairs or my servants." Mina finished.

"Yes ma'am." Vera replied.

*An Authors Note: I decided to give Akira's mother a name since Nozomi-sensei never gave her one. I mean if he did and you know it please let me know but otherwise that will do lol. Oh and Remus is one of the Elite 8, also known as Wolf Boys, and he is part of team 1 with Romulus. Personally I think he's hawt but hey what werewolf isn't hot in Dance in the Vampire Bund? Even the old men from the manga had something good XD Also I have watched the anime and have possession of all of the available manga from the DIVB series including Dive, Sledgehammer and Scarlet Order as well as the Doujins, so I will have a few chapters with these series in mind too along with the characters within them. So stay tuned, yes? :3*

*PS: as for the chapters I posted before in this story, I will bring them back but at a later point in the story, so dun worry X3 They'll be back!*