A/N: Ready for this chapter? Thank you all for your support~ let's get into third POV now, shall we? :D Enjoy~
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To Love A Vampire
Chapter 6
By: Fate
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Nanoha woke up early the next morning on that Sunday feeling piped up, the sun not at all bright yet; Sunrise was barely visible. She checked the news to see what the weather was going to be like and had already picked which clothes to wear today as she couldn't help herself but stay up late last night due to sheer excitement of being invited to the blonde's house for the first time.
Although being happy, she was also anxious.
After all, today is going to be the first time at a crush's house—her first crush, Fate. All night the brunette had been mentally debating if she really was in like with Fate. Right before sleep started seeping in she decided that she was indeed crushing on the blonde.
One thought made her stop in her tracks. Fate had claimed to have fangs and somewhat she made herself believe that her crush was born like that or had it fixed; but if she did get it fixed then it shouldn't have been twice the size of her regular tooth. There was just no way they could've been real fangs like in those movies and books about vampires, werewolves and whatnot.
Shaking her head, she trotted down the stairs when her morning routine was finished in the bathroom, she took a quick glance at herself in the body mirror that was plastered onto the wall at the foot of the stairs. She wore her pink spaghetti strap with her white hooded sweater, pink short shorts that were barely showing her rear end but ideally the attention is to show her long porcelain skin legs, black purse in hand and to top it off, she had on her pure white cap that was supporting her bundled up hair inside.
Nodding to herself, she slipped her feet easily into her white sneakers with pink edgings. Double checking to see if she didn't forget anything, she didn't hear her mother walk out from the kitchen. "You're up early—"
Jumping up from her relaxed position and into a frighten kitten posture Nanoha looked up and slowly removed her hand that was on her chest from the small heart attack.
"—today; aren't you usually sleeping on a Sunday morning roughly until the afternoon? And it's snowing outside, you shouldn't be wearing such thin layers of clothing."
"M-mou... you startled me, Mom," she replied back with a different answer her mother was not asking for. Checking her wristwatch that was idly wrapping itself on top of her pulse around her wrist, she looked up in disbelief. "I didn't know that it was a little past 6 only."
As if she was ignored, Momoko pat Nanoha's shoulder—leaving her hand there—and smiled. For one, when Momoko has her grip on your shoulder, it was not a good thing. Two, if she wore that blank smile, then it is definitely not a good sign! And three, if she was to state or ask something, it is best that you answer her or acknowledge her words. If not, you will meet death itself! Momoko was not one to mess around with when you get on her bad side.
Even though Nanoha knew how powerful her mother is due to witnessing her deleterious playful slap on her father which caused him to fly through a wall, she also knew that she wasn't going to die just yet because Momoko would've just gave her nothing but silence and a death grip on her shoulders—she was in fact gripping hard, but not to the extreme lethal damage that she always manages to do by 'accident.'
"Where are you going this early in the morning?" It was a normal question, but Momoko's smile said otherwise.
"T-to um..." realizing that if she spilled the bean she wouldn't be able to go unless she had company, "the park," she easily said after hesitating.
Momoko's smile grew and the brunette felt a shiver run up her spine as well as her shoulder popping due to the intense pressure her mother had on her. Groaning in pain, she let out a cry, "Th-that hurts, Mom!" Clutching onto her now dislocated shoulder Nanoha ran out of the house and yelled out an "I'll be back around dusk!" before she closed the door behind her.
After escaping her mother's grasp she ran along the sidewalk up the snowy hill. "Why..." she pondered out loud, "did I even say 'dusk'? Evening, sunset, sundown... nightfall—twilight even! I could've just told her what time rather than an approximate time frame! Stupid me..." after pondering some more and flailing her arms, Nanoha smiled, "well, at least I can go home before dark since I didn't give Mom a specific time." Taking out the directions that Fate had written down for her the night before, she continued walking. Shivering due to the icy cold weather, she immediately rubbed both arms for warmth.
True to her words, she went to the park—more like stopped by so that she can tell her mother that she actually 'went' to the park and not feel guilty at all because it was the truth. Half-truth anyway. Her sole reason for passing by the park was because Fate's house was located beyond that path and she had to cross the unbelievably huge park to venture on.
Nanoha decided to stay in the park for a while in awe. She was amused by the construction of the place. The slides were ten times bigger than a kiddy's playground. Also, the swings had a variation of sizes ranging from an infant to a toddler, a kid to a teenager, and an adult to—surprisingly they were for elderly as well.
The infant swing looked like a small crib, just that it was supported in midair by metal chains. The toddler swing was slightly different; it just looked like a big diaper swing. The kid swing was similar but didn't have the diaper support. Now, the teenager and adult swings were normal swings, they just had a difference in height. The elderly swing though, it was a different story—no, it was just like a diaper swing but more of a chair with the back seat support than the front support.
A confused but amazed Nanoha flipped her phone open and took a picture of the swing sets. She uploaded it onto Facebook and added in a description: "Believe it or not, they look like they come in handy. =O I'm surprised they have these!"
Giggling, she closed her phone and slid it into her pocket. Without realizing it, she had already walked over to the swing set apparently for teenagers and sat on it. It was the right height for her. Pushing her feet forward, she swung backwards by inches and repeated the gesture until her swing was flying about a total of five to six feet in front and behind her at a slow pace.
Hearing a barely audible familiar JPop ringtone, she reached into her pocket to fish out her phone—it was a Facebook notification. Slowing to a stop, she clicked on the link and it led her to her page, the recent picture upload had a comment under it. Scrolling down to get the full message, Nanoha read it out loud. With each passing period, her smile grew as a chuckle escaped her lips.
Tsukimura Suzuka IS THAT REAL? Hehe, Nanoha-chan~ where is that at? =O You should invite me to go next time you visit that park! I bet Arisa-chan would love to tag along~ it looks fun, you should text me when you go again, ne? :3
Thirty seconds ago
"That Suzuka-chan," another chuckle escaped and she replied back to the comment.
Takamachi Nanoha It certainly is real, Suzuka-chan! I promise to tell you the next time I come here, it'll be fun~ sorry that I didn't tell you about today, I had just recently discovered this park! And I looked around, this place is humongo, I tell ya! :O It's apparently called Massive Terastios Park! I googled the word "Terastios" and it actually means "huge" in Greek! It sure is indeed enormous!~
Just now
Nanoha found herself looking at the time on her phone, "Ah! It's almost seven already? I have to call Fate-chan!" She dialed the blonde's number even though it was on speed dial two. It rang a few times before her call was answered.
"Nanoha—"
"Good morning, Fate-chan!"
"—you're awake already? Good morning. Don't tell me you're planning on coming over this early?"
"Um, yup! I am~ why, I can't?" Nanoha went into puppy mode and heard shuffling on the other end, imagining Fate blushing and stammering while cleaning her room.
"A-ah! That's not it! T-that's not it at all!" Fate's muffled voice could barely be heard as she superficially covered the receiver. "A-are you... coming right now?" Nanoha grinned as she heard Fate's soft, quiet voice.
"Un, if you don't mind," she nodded more to herself than to Fate, "do you?"
"N-no, of course not. You're welcome to come by any time, Nanoha."
"Why thank you, Fate-chan. I'll be there in about ten minutes~" Nanoha had hung up on the stuttering blonde—satisfied, knowing that her friend was as nervous as she was in the beginning. Skipping down and out of the park, she made her way to another sidewalk and headed for Fate's house.
Upon reaching the end of the sidewalk her mouth gaped open and stared disbelievingly at the 'house' she was staring at, it was bigger than Suzuka and Arisa's mansion combined. She observed how tall the house was; it looked like it was six or seven story high. More like a castle than a mansion. Her hand let loose of the direction paper and felt it fly into the wind and disappear out of sight. She was so busy looking to the left and right that she didn't notice someone walk out of the gates.
"Nanoha, hi," Fate said softly as she stared at Nanoha's frozen state. Her voice snapped Nanoha out of her own world and close her mouth that was sure to have made her look stupid just standing there in front of the house in awe. She focused her eyes on the owner of the voice and walked to the open gate she was standing at.
"Hi," Nanoha dumbly replied back after remembering that the blonde had greeted her a few seconds ago. She still couldn't believe that Fate's house was four blocks wide. 'It has to be a mansion or a corporation of some sort, or a castle; geez and here I thought Fate-chan was just rich, she's BEYOND rich! She's richer than the rich!' Nanoha pondered to herself instead of voicing it out loud.
Fate smiled shyly, "Welcome to my house," she led Nanoha inside and made sure the gates were closed, "sorry about the um, long walk ahead." True to her words, when Nanoha looked ahead it seemed like miles away until they would reach the door to her crush's home.
"Ah, that's alright. It'll be a good exercise for me!" Nanoha threw her fist into the air in determination. Blondie just laughed which caused the brunette to look at her with a pout. "Wha? What's so funny?"
"Nothing, nothing~" red eyes gleamed with playfulness and patted the small girl's head and they started their journey down the path. It killed Nanoha to not know what to say since the trip seemed to get longer with each step. "Um," Fate spoke first so it relaxed her a bit since she didn't need to think of what to say, "y-you look nice... in your outfit," she turned away from Nanoha to hide her visible blush. "Though, aren't you cold?" Without waiting for an answer she took off her jacket and placed it over the brunette's shoulders.
Blinking a few times, Nanoha looked down to check herself out and blushed slightly, "A-ah... thank you," she looked over to Fate, "so do you. Black seems to be your favorite color?" The blonde shook her head. "Then what color?"
"Red."
"Red?"
"It used to be, but now it's purple-ly blue," she easily responded and gave Nanoha a heartwarming smile.
'Is that even a word? Though, red and blue does make purple.' Cobalt blue orbs thought before they were drowned into crimson red ones, asking silently why. "Because it reminds me of your beautiful eyes." At the new information the brunette blushed and didn't realize that they had reached the steps to the house. "Well, we're here."
Her attention was turned to an opening door, revealing the insides of the mansion. "Wow..." she covered her mouth and took a step into the quarters of the living room. To say the least, she was flabbergasted. She didn't know what to believe, she was astonished to be standing in a house more expensive than her two best friends' combined mansion.
When they had settled into the blonde's room their conversations were about everything and nothing in particular in happy chatters. Violet eyes weren't prepared when the blonde hesitated to tell her what she couldn't keep inside anymore, she was informed of her beautiful blonde friend being a vampire; she took it as a joke.
"Are there werewolves too?" she held back a chuckle.
"I'm being serious, Nanoha," the voice was quiet but also hurt at the same time. It sounded more scared than hurt. She got the courage to finally tell Nanoha to only have her laugh at her.
The speechless auburn haired girl took in the scene of her friend in front of her, fighting internally about forgetting everything she had said and just leave the room. "Fate-chan..." she reached out and grasped the other girl's hand as if life depended on it. She didn't know what to do, she was just following her heart.
Ruby eyes looked up and met with gentle lavender eyes.
"I..." the blonde began, "need to tell you what happened in my past," she stopped for a moment of consideration, "and... yours as well."
Two weeks later
"Ah, I forgot my phone," the blonde jogged her way up the stairs and into her room.
"It's been awhile," the familiar voice made Fate stop in her tracks when she entered her room, "Fate." The said blonde turned to the owner of the voice and didn't need to turn on the lights to confirm her fears; she saw a mirror image of herself standing in front of her. "Have you forgotten about me? Or shall I make you remember?"
She didn't need to think what would come next. A punch was thrown to Fate's side but she dodged it just in time and countered punch towards the intruder also to have it dodged. She did a round kick to her enemy only to have it stopped and the grip on her leg tightened. Not being able to do anything with her trapped leg, the blonde jumped into the air and spun around, kicking the other blonde's chest and knocking her down to the floor. The impact also made her fall on the ground on her side.
Fate took this chance and ran far away from the mansion to another place to keep all the fighting from happening that would damage the house and cause chaos to the neighbors. The other blonde was about to chase after her, but instead heard a ringtone go off next to her. Looking down at the object, she found that it was Fate's cell phone.
Picking up the item, she flipped it open and read the contents in it. A smirk grew on her face as she read the name of the sender. Not the type to waste any time, she replied back and closed the phone shut, gripping onto it while chuckling to herself in the dim room.
Not a moment later, Nanoha had received a text back from Fate. She had asked the blonde to be her girlfriend after finding out that she was a vampire. At first she didn't believe it until her now girlfriend showed her the fangs she once saw during Halloween. She was buying food to make dinner for her family and wondered if Fate wanted to join them. The brunette opened the text message and read happily:
"Want to come get me?"
She didn't think twice as she ran towards the street leading to Fate's house. When she got there the gates were already open. Confused, she walked slowly then picked up her pace and dashed for the door. Even though she was out of breath she was able to climb the many stairs that was built inside. She was thankful for the blonde picking the first floor and not the other higher floors.
"Fate-chan?" Nanoha called out as she saw her door wide open. Walking into the room she spotted the blonde standing at her drawer with her phone in hand, looking out the window. "Are you ready to go?" she tilted her head to the side and pondered her girlfriend's choice of clothing. Her ribbon was even gone from the bottom of her hair.
Not getting an answer the ponytailed girl walked towards the silent blonde and grabbed her hand after moving all the bags containing the food ingredients into one hand. "Fa—"
"Takamachi," Nanoha froze and stared at the back of the blonde's head, "I've finally found you. After all of these years, centuries, you've been here all along." Taken aback, the smaller girl didn't know what to say.
"F-Fate-chan? What are you talking about?" She stepped back when her girlfriend turned around to look at her. Her eyes were different; they were darker than before and even had a glow to it. "Fate—"
"I mustn't," was all she heard before her friend crushed her phone in half and dropped it, "Nanoha..."
It sounded different the way she called her name, it didn't sound like her at all, it sounded like someone else she once knew long ago but can't recall who. "Fate-chan?" she trembled in place as the blonde slowly made her way towards her, "what happened?"
Feeling the red gaze casted onto her she felt weak but struggled to look away. She managed somehow, but then felt slender yet rough hands grab her arm. Looking up she saw a glint of fang slowly crawling its way out of the taller girl's mouth. Not being able to move, Nanoha knew she was going to be a victim, but let herself get carried away into her girlfriend's scent.
'Her scent!' Nanoha's eyes widened, 'It's not Fate-chan; she's not Fate-chan!' She reluctantly pulled away and punched the unknown stranger who masked herself as her girlfriend and ran out of the room not noticing that her punch had sent the imposter into the wall.
"Che... she's starting to get her powers back," spat the blonde under crumbles of broken wall, a small smile plastered on her lips.
Auburn hair ran as fast as she could, cutting through alleyways to get home faster. Upon reaching the end of one alley her breathing gave way and she fell to her knees, staggering and coughing. Trembling, she reached for her medication in her bag, but didn't get far as a force knocked her out and she was lying on her back staring at the stars. Nanoha was barely alive but she couldn't move. Tasting copper in her mouth she knew that she was bleeding.
She blinked once and saw a dark figure hovering over her. Blinking again she found that the figure was mere centimeters away from her neck and drew her fangs out to consume her blood. The black silhouette pierced its fangs into her neck as a cry of pain echoed into the small passage she was in, blood spilling and seeping out from under the girl.
Overwhelmed by the pain, the brunette inhaled one last breath before blacking out.
When Nanoha opened her eyes again she felt as though the whole thing was just a dream... until she saw a women barely visible under the lit moon, her fangs showing as her grin grew. Her lips moved and the ponytailed girl was able to catch a few words she had said. "—I am Linith, and you are mine now."
She was confused, her's? What does this Linith women mean by being her's? The brunette's eyes widened as a thought came into mind, 'Was I turned into a vampire? No... I don't feel hungry for blood,' she looked up at Linith's fangs again, '...a werewolf? But how can this be? I was with Fate-chan and... and... that's right, I ran away from her place. That's how I ended up here in this alley feeling woozy, scared and sick, but at the same time, alive.'
"Fate-chan..." Nanoha weakly sat up and looked around, "Fate-chan!" Hearing Linith's voice again, she turned to look at her.
"What's your name, young lady?" Linith asked even though she knew the answer. She extended her hand for the weak girl to take and she obliged. They both stood up as the brunette told Linith her name. "What a pretty name for a beautiful young lady as yourself," she grinned, "My work is complete here. Just your job left to be accomplished and victory will be ours."
Being more confused than ever, the smaller girl looked up in fear as she asked, "What's this... job that I have to do...?"
"To kill Fate Testarossa." As soon as Linith finished her statement Nanoha felt her world spin and her empty stomach boiling as if she were to vomit anytime soon.
'Fate-chan...'
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A/N: Woot, sorry for the late update! Final exams are here and I've been busy staying up all night studying! Thank goodness I had time to grab my school's internet and upload this chapter, ne? :D In this chapter, we start from where I left off during chapter 1, just a heads up to you, it's the present now! I hope you all enjoyed this chapter and more so in the future! Please by all means, review! Critiques and such are appreciated; as you know, I rushed to get this finished and didn't edit it much. Dx I skimmed through it, but I'm not sure I made all of the corrections. Thank you for your time!
~Fate
