"Wake up!"

The silence was broken.

It had been there for a long time... possibly an eternity.

But now a voice had broken it.

"Miss Remilia, I am Patchouli Knowledge, the witch. Do you remember me? I need you to get up now, Miss Remilia, we only have a few minutes."

Remilia Scarlet opened her eyes, and saw nothing. She had something in her hands that she lifted and tried to look at, but again she saw nothing. Maybe she'd gone blind. She dropped the object and pushed herself up before attempting to rub her eyes... only to discover that she was blindfolded. Well, at least she wasn't blind. (Most likely.) She removed the blindfold from her head as she asked, "Why do we only have a few minutes?"

"You will die within the next few minutes."

She turned her head quickly to look at the witch, eyes widening as she dropped the blindfold. "That wasn't part of the-"

"Calm down, Miss Remilia. You will live... but you must get out of the coffin first."

Remilia looked around and realized... she was in a coffin. The object she'd had in her hands before was a black rose, and now it was sitting next to her in the small space. Well, at least she knew that she really had died. She pushed herself up - slowly - and stood still a few moments, before taking a step forward in the coffin. Okay, she could walk. She lifted her foot out of the coffin and onto the ground. Well, it didn't seem like being dead for a hundred days did much to her body, at least.

"Good, now come with me." Patchouli said, turning away to walk toward the forest surrounding the cemetery.

"Wait, what about my coffin?"

"My assistant will take care of that. Come now."

What assistant? Remilia wondered as she walked after the witch. There was nobody else around, and Remilia had never seen her with anybody. It didn't matter, she supposed, as long as the job was done.

They didn't wander too far into the forest before Patchouli stopped walking and called out, "Kurumi, I've brought her."

The vampiress had been sitting in a nearby tree, half asleep, before the witch called for her. She quickly flew down from the tree, landing in front of Remilia and startling her. "Forgive me, Miss Scarlet, if I scared you just then~" Kurumi sang. "I am Kurumi. I'm here to grant you the immortality and freedom you long for."

Remilia blinked. "Immortality?"

"Yes," Kurumi laughed, "I am going to turn you into a vampire."

Before, this might have surprised Remilia. She would've denied vampires even existed. But she had been brought back to life by a purple-haired witch, and the fact Kurumi was going to turn her into a vampire didn't seem that strange at this point.

"Well, let's get on with it, shall we?" Patchouli said. "We have to make it to your mansion before the sun rises."

Remilia nodded, and Kurumi stepped toward her, grabbing her shoulders. "This shouldn't hurt much. In all honesty, I think growing the wings is the worst part."

"Wait, what-"

But Kurumi bit her before she could say anything else.

These chapters are short, and boring, and I hope that they will stop being that way soon. XP