Side story 2: Sleeping Blizzard

Misaki strode toward the Moon dorm, her latest visit being one of introducing her new classmates to Emi Aidou, as per their previous requests. Following closely behind were Laura Rosen, Hibiki Kotetsu, Gerald White and Frederick Zito.

"So Misaki…" Hibiki asked. "Are you sure we are allowed in there? Since the Chairman left for the Hunter Association, Mr. Ford has been quite apprehensive about giving out visit permits."

"Not to worry!" Misaki said cheerfully. "I managed to get the Chairman's approval around the same time I got the approval for our visit to Anju! Everything is covered."

"She's pretty sneaky…" Frederick frowned as Misaki giddily sped to the gate.

"I got the permit for you guys." The gatekeeper nodded. "In you go."

"Thanks!" Misaki smiled as the gate opened. Together, the five teens strode over to the door of the Moon dorm. Misaki knocked upon it three times. Within a few seconds, the door opened.

"Why hello there." Henry smiled. "How nice of you all to arrive. As you can see, most of us are only just getting up. Some of us still find it a chore to wake during the early hours of dusk."

"It's fine Senior Henry." Laura Rosen bowed as she greeted him. "We'll find our way around well enough."

"Anyways, we were going to see Senior Aidou." Gerald said. "We wanted to get to know her better and Misaki volunteered to mediate for us."

"I see." Henry smiled. "Nothing excites me more than the prospect of seeing new bonds formed between our kind and yours."

"Yeah, the prospect of you flirting more with human girls at the very least." Ganju grumbled from behind, shocking Henry into a fit of annoyance.

"How rude!" Henry accused the taller vampire. "I would have you know that I do not spend every minute of my life chasing women! I do everything in my power to facilitate the strengthening of bonds between our race and that of humanity, a noble feat if I do say so myself!"

"But you often always go after the girls first." Ganju pointed out, sparking another bout of annoyance from the European vampire.

"Why, you…" Henry glared, obviously flustered. "Take that back!"

"Boys!" Gabriella snapped from the staircase. "Need I remind you that people are still trying to sleep? Especially our own Sleeping Blizzard?"

The words Gabriella mentioned at the end sparked a curious reaction from the human students. "Sleeping Blizzard?" Laura frowned. "What does she mean?" She looked at the vampires, especially Henry and Ganju, who were now apparently frozen with panicked looks on their faces.

"Uh, Senior Henry? Senior Ganju?" Hibiki frowned. "Is something wrong?"

"Nothing…" Ganju said. "We just have to be a bit quiet is all…"

"How come?" Frederick frowned, evidently disturbed by the change in tone.

"Well, uh…" Henry gulped, unsure of how to explain. "Gabriella, help us out will you?"

"Fine." Gabriella sighed. "I brought up the subject anyways. See, 'Sleeping Blizzard' was a nickname we all gave to Emi. Of course, she doesn't know anything about its existence."

"Why does she have a nickname like that?" Hibiki asked Misaki.

"Beats me." Misaki shrugged, also very confused. "This is the first time I've heard about it."

"Well, see. It happened about five years ago." Gabriella explained. "Back at the time, we were all still pretty hyper about sleepovers at Akira's house. The place was big and we did what teenagers usually did, which was having crazy fun as much as possible. Of course, at times, it did meant we stayed up pretty late."

"One time," Gabriella continued, roping all into the story. "We had plans for a little bit of horse riding. To do that, we had to wake really early at dusk. And that was when it happened."

"What happened?" Frederick gulped, not liking how the story was proceeding.

"Well, I had woken early to get my medicine." Gabriella said. "Emi was still asleep at the time and so Ganju and Henry over here decided to go wake her up." At this, she gestured to the two vampire boys. "What we never expected was for Emi to react so… violently."

Shock fluttered through the Day class students. It wasn't like Emi to be violent for anything except sweet treats that were cruelly denied to her. "Hold on." Misaki frowned. "Are you saying that Emi has very violent tendencies when she's cranky?"

"Apparently so." Gabriella nodded. "No one expected that at the time, so it was quite a shock. As for the aftermath, well, perhaps Henry can show you?"

"Why!?" Henry screamed.

"You and Ganju are the ones who experienced it first-hand." Gabriella answered.

Shuddering uncomfortably, Henry sighed as he turned to the Day class students. "Alright, fine. But don't judge me." Slowly, Henry lifted his left arm and reached for the sleeve. The Day class students watched nervously as he pulled it down to reveal upon his wrist…

…a jagged scar.

"That's it?" Misaki frowned, unimpressed. "That's what Emi gave you?"

"This scar in question was caused by a very sharp and very long ice shard." Henry grumbled as he rotated his wrist to reveal a similar scar on the other side. "It went right through my hand and impaled the wall behind me at the time. It took at least thirty minutes to melt it down and free me."

"And all the time you screamed like a girl." Ganju smirked.

"Well how would you feel if an ice shard went through your damned artery?" Henry protested. "It was months before the ache subsided."

"At any rate…" Gabriella continued, snapping them all back into reality. "That was when we realized to never interrupt Emi's well-needed sleep time. Even Akira and his mother was disturbed by the destruction she had caused."

"Woah…" Misaki gulped. "I'm making a note of that now."

"So when is the safest time to wake her up?" Laura asked, evidently freaked out by the tale.

"There is none." Gabriella replied. "We just have to wait till she wakes up all on her own. Maybe Shinji can do something about it, but even he is not entirely sure most of the time."

"Quit exaggerating." Ganju frowned as he and Henry continued their little banter. "It only took a second for your rapid healing to act up and close the wound. All that is left now is that scar, a painful reminder of your thirty minutes of squealing."

"Will you shut up!?" Henry yelled. "I was in pain for crying out loud!"

"Jeez, such an unbecoming behaviour for a knight." Ganju teased further, which only served to enrage Henry even more.

"WELL HOW ABOUT I GIVE YOU A HYPNOTIC SUGGESTION OF WHAT I WENT THROUGH?" Henry roared. "MAYBE YOU'LL LEARN TO THINK ABOUT THINGS BEFORE RUNNING YOUR MOUTH!"

Suddenly, a pillow slammed into Henry's face, throwing him halfway across the room. Ganju, Gabriella and the Day class students now slowly craned their heads toward the main staircase in the Moon dorm. Ganju now shivered as he saw who had just arrived on the scene.

Emi Aidou stood at the top of the stairs, dressed in her nightgown. She breathed heavily as she studied the people present with baggy eyes.

"Who…" She asked darkly as she strode down the stairs. "In the hell… IS MAKING ALL THIS RACKET!?"

Ganju shivered as Henry struggled to recover, freezing the minute he saw Emi. At this moment, Gabriella wisely moved to bring the Day class students away to one of the guest rooms reserved for visitors while other Night class students cleared out as fast as possible.

"E-Emi…" Ganju smiled weakly as he tried to calm her down. "I-it's nothing really! Henry and I were…"

"So it was you two huh?" Emi huffed, the air around her slowly descending into a chilly whirlwind. Ice was already forming on the floor and the furniture. Henry tried to move away, but his muscles weren't listening.

"I have been busy with loads of cleanup in the school…" Emi growled, her face dark and her eyes a beastly red. "I have had to handle hundreds of annoying phone calls addressed to Akira.' Her fingers curled menacingly as she advanced on the shocked vampires. "And now, when I finally get the chance to sleep in, you two decide to wake me?!"

"M-MERCY!" Ganju and Henry screamed as Emi's tantrum now froze the whole room solid. They could already feel their feet starting to freeze over. However, in Emi's eyes, none could be found as she proceeded to remove the cause of her disturbed sleep.

A shape now darted down in front of her, quelling the frozen storm as Emi watched in surprise. Shinji now placed his lips upon Emi's very own. The contact surprised her enough to stop her rampage before exhaustion took over once again, her eyes fluttering closed and her head dipped backward as she snored.

"Looks like I made it in time…" Shinji said as he yawned, picking up her sleeping body. "It's so easy to calm her down. And when she's calm, she just nods off again… Well, time to get back to the sack."

Shinji now carried the sleeping vampire upstairs and back to her room. Realising the commotion had ended, Gabriella led the Day class students back into the living room. Ganju and Henry were still frozen in shock in the wake of Emi's rampage.

"Well, I daresay they won't be recovering anytime soon." Gabriella said nonchalantly as Misaki and company looked at in bewildered shock. "Come with me. I ought to get you some tea as your host. Oh, and don't worry about those two. They'll recover, eventually."

"Y-Yeah…" Misaki nodded. "I'm sure they will…"

Author's Note:

So sorry for the really long hiatus. I have been scrambling about in revising for exams that are coming up in 2 weeks time, so I haven;t been able to write as much as I have.

For now, I hope this filler will be satisfactory. I've always liked on how I can bring just a bit more crazy into this fic of mine and honestly, I think it will be necessary before we approach the next arc of the story.

Once my exams are done will I be able to devote more time to writing. Till then, do bear with me.

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