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A/N: Sorry about Marisa, didn't think she would try such a thing... Atleast Yukari saved the day, thus showing that she's not useless! On with th- *gapped*
Y/N: How rude... On with the show!
Early night, Cirno's house:
"Wewh, been awhile since I last cooked so much..." Mima was a bit tired from all that cooking, and there would be more still to come.
"That is so~!" Rumia grinned toothily, earning a chuckle from her potential mate.
"Sunshine, Usagi, I have a task for you two. I'm sure you realise that I said we'd get the food for the trip, correct?" We both gave a nod. "Well, I'm tasking you two with getting us meat, and no human meat, Sunshine; I don't want to have Reimu pissed off just because you felt lazy and/or in the mood for such a thing..." Rumia gave a pout, as she was hoping to sneak some in.
"U-umm... Why us...?" I couldn't help but wonder of what use I'd be in getting meat.
"Well, you're both creatures of the night. ...I'd go too, even if I'm not able to see so well, but I need to sleep." Mima sighed, missing being able to go without sleep. Now that it would be useful to go without sleep, she was unable to. Back when she was dead, there never really came a time it was particularly useful, annoyingly.
"That is so~! Being a Vampire makes you about as strong as me!" Rumia was about on even ground with Vampires when it was a question of raw power, and had enough skill to make up for any lack of speed. The thing that tipped the scale away from being in her favor would have to be those seemingly random special abilities of theirs. Seriously, if they arn't random, how does one sister control fate, while the other destroys anything with but a clench of her fist...?
Rumia was never very good at Danmaku, and needed a sword to make use of her full combat skill; a swordsman without a sword isn't nearly as effective as they could be, you know? Had she had a sword, that battle with Orange, who was a skilled fist fighter, would have been vastly in her favor.
"Is that so~?" I couldn't help but ask the question in that form.
"That is so~!" Mima enjoyed when others were infected by this way of comunication, just as Rumia did.
"Well lets get going, Usgai; say your goodbyes and we'll be off!" Rumia had a big grin on her face, before she hid herself and Mima within her bubble.
The noises that eminated from the sphere were best ignored, as well as the mewls made by Mima. ...Just what is she doing in there?
"U-umm... I'll be back in a bit, Cirno; I need to help Rumia hunt..." I couldn't help but feel uncomfortable due to the noises that were being made a short distance away.
"Good luck, Usa!" Cirno pulled me in for for a hug.
I couldn't help but yelp, not expecting the sudden embrace.
A blush spread across my face, and I hadn't a clue as to why, but I really enjoyed the hug, eventually retuning the gesture.
I suddenly felt a finger trailing it's way down the back of my neck, causing me to shiver; Rumia had long since finished her goodbye, and had come to retrieve me.
"It's time to go, Usagi." Rumia's finger hooked under ther back of my collar, tugging me away from master.
"Aww... Okay..." ...Now that I think about it, I'm not even sure if I can fly.
"Now that I think about it, do you even know how to fly with those... wings?" Ohh, mind reader!
"Ehehe, nnno..." Rumia sighed, expecting as much.
"Hmm... Going by what I've seen flandre do, al you have to do is flap them, and they work... no idea how, but they do. Come, try outside." But... they don't even have anything to... Ugh, I'm just going to stop thinking about it...
Once we had waved one last goodbye, we made our way outside.
I tried flapping my wings once, kicking up a bit of dirt, and nothing else.
"I-it's not working..." I felt like I had failed at flight, even if I only just started learning this new form of flight.
"Hmm... Could be a lack of muscle. Try flapping as hard and fast as you can." Here goes nothing.
I began to beat my wings as hard as can be, gaining a slight lift with every flap. This was much harder than it looked!
"T-this is... this is realy hard...!" It was quite strenuous to keep myself in the air like this.
"Mmm... Ahh, I know! Stop for a moment, and I'll try something." I landed once more, panting quite hard. Was this what manual flight was like...?
Rumia began to touch one of the rings that hung from my wing, nodding to herself.
Rumia had discovered them to be rather empty of magic, and far less metal than they appeared. She closed her eyes, focusing on the crystal hoop she was touching, chaneling magic into it. After all that over the shoulder reading she had done, she had gained a fair bit of mana within herself, even if she hadn't a clue on how to actually cast any spells.
Slowly, the hoop began to flicker, before glowing with a silver light.
"Ahh! W-what did you do? I felt an odd electric sensation from my wing..." My wing now felt a bit stronger. Not in a 'I can fly fast' sort of way, but in a 'I can fly for longer, and with more ease' sort of way.
"Hmm... Seems you need a great deal mana in these things. I guess that's what makes Flandre's wing glow, huh?" What odd wings... Filling just one left Rumia drained of mana.
Rumia dragged me back inside, which caused Mima some worry.
"Ehh? Back so soon? Did something hap...pen...?" Mima noticed the crystal hoop on my back, and how it was glowing; her curiosity took over, and she began to inspect the odd crystal.
"I suppose you already noticed why we returned? Anyways, her wings need a lot of mana, can you fill them up for her? Just a single crystal took everything I had!" Mima rose a brow at this. She had no idea that Sunshine had any sort of mana stores, or that she would regularly read from over her shoulder. Rumia was quite stealthy, even among nocturnal Youkai, so she had never once noticed her watching.
"Judging by just one of these... I can probably only fill about three of them for her, but that's it." Mima shrugged, not knowing what else to say.
"Wow, that's it? My, I didn't think you had only three times as much ability with magic than myself~!" Mima furrowed her brows at the presumed insult.
"Well, sorry, but I havn't exactly had time to train my body, like you have... Heck, I even weakened durring my time sealed!" Rumia laughed nervously, not meaning to have insulted her potential mate as she had.
"S-sorry, I meant no harm in the statement..." Rumia hadn't expected such an outcome at all.
"Ugh... Fine, I'm sorry I overreacted like that." Mima couldn't help but sigh, thankful that the Darkness Youkai hadn't meant it in such a way. There were many things she was fine with being teased over, but she hated to be called weak with the intencity of a Twilight Spark at point blank range. Also, she hated when other said her cooking was bad, or pointed out that it could be better.
"U-umm... What's going on back there...?" Having both of them behind me made me a bit uneasy, as I liked to keep an eye on anyone that's around.
"Ahh, right, right... I'll fill the stones now, so just have a little more patience, hmm?" Mima chuckled, so as to hide that she had forgotten about filling my crystals; she liked to make other see her as being dependable, not forgetful.
Mima began to glow with an ethereal aura, before a set of purple bat-like wings materialized on her back yet again, before breaking down and flowing into three balls of raw mana that she held in her hand.
"Now, which one's would you like lit?" Hmm... I'm not sure, actually. As I took too long to decide, Rumia chose for me.
"The two at the ends of the wings, and the one that matches the one I already lit." Yay, no need to stress over a probably pointless thing anymore!
The three balls of mana began to float from her hand, making their way into my wings, before a soft warmness began to tickle its way into the three crystals in question.
"A-ahh... mm..." I couldn't help but let out a tiny moan from all that energy flowing in at once, penetrating my wings quite deeply.
"Ohh? Like that, did we?" Mima chuckled at my reaction, finding it quite funny.
"Now, lets try this once more... Goodbye, you guys~!" With Rumia's farewell, we both waved to Mima, as Cirno was sleeping on the bed, and were once more off into the night.
As we left the house, I once more was instructed to try and flap my wings, and got far better results.
"I'm flying!" I happily flapped my wings with a great deal less strain, not feeling as though I might pass out at any moment.
"That is so~!" Rumia couldn't help but giggle at how cute I was when happy over such small matters, such as being able to fly.
I began to flap harder so as to find my ascent speed, and found it slightly faster than my speed as a fairy; while nothing to be proud of, it was somthing I was poud of, as it meant I was slightly less slow!
I began to flap slower, but ended up slipping up, flapping one wing slightly faster, and began plumeting towards the ground, only to be caught by Rumia.
"My, my, that sure was a spectacular fall, wasn't it? You would have painted the ground... Hmm, I guess you wouldn't have, as you have no blood, huh...?" One thing unique between a Vampire that was turned, and a Vampire that was born, would be that one has no blood in its veins, as it was all drained away durring the transformation. Not that a Vampire actually need blood in it's veins to survive, but it's still the way things are. Rumia had a fair bit of knowlege in her from various sources, mostly picking things of interest.
Rumia, not trusting my flight skills, began to fly with me in her arms. Those arms of hers sure did have strength beyond their size, as she carried me as though I were made of air.
We silently made our way through the night sky, on the lookout for prey.