Lucky-13
Written by Valerie Fowler
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Rated: PG (13)
Quicknotes: Nothing important. Thanks for reading this far! This chapter is a bit short, but I guess it's that way for a reason...and since I'm not writing them in order...well, you get the picture maybe. And sadly, I managed to leave out Chamo-kun...
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2) VAMPIRE BLUES PART 1
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"Hey, Negi, you wanna go out and get something to eat?" Asuna asked dolefully from the hallway. She peeked in her room, eyeballing Negi, who was sitting on the floor with papers spread out in front of him. Grades, perhaps. 'He really takes this teaching thing seriously...' She thought as he nodded in a silent response. A few moments later, he packed up the papers and changed into some street clothes, a full-sized white hoodie, black pants and sneakers.
"So...where are we going, Asuna-san?" Negi asked gingerly as they walked down the street. Asuna shrugged, kicking a rock on the sidewalk. It was a beautiful day, there was no denying that. At the moment, laziness was all she felt like doing.
"Whatever you want." She replied, yawning loudly.
Eventually they'd come into the city, and sat down at a small outdoor Japanese restaurant. After the food was ordered and all was set, Asuna set down to watching Negi poke at the thing he'd ordered. Out of spunk, he'd ordered squid and sushi...and now he looked at it as if the food would jump off the plate. Asuna picked up one of the sushi balls and popped it in her mouth to prove to him that it wasn't alive.
"I'm never gonna get the hang of this place." Negi sighed, poking a chopstick at the squid. He could have sworn that the thing had blinked at him. Asuna was about to eat that as well. Little did the two of them know that they where being watched by some other students on the other side of the restaurant.
"That little brat..." Came a small voice simply dripping with malice. The robot beside her nodded quietly. She wasn't disagreeing, but not entirely agreeing either. Evangeline's fingers shook, gripping the table like a life force. The sight of him was enough to set her blood boiling...and set off an unquenchable thirst for his. Chachamaru was convinced that her mistress was catching another cold. Eva twitched several times, eyes ablaze. Without thinking, or caring, she stood up with a jerk and strode over to their table.
"Hello there, Negi-bozu." She grinned, teeth sharp. Negi smiled from his squid.
"Hello Evangeline! Funny seeing you here!" Evangeline looked over at Asuna, nodding. Asuna did her best to hide behind the menu. She didn't want to be seen eating at a nice restaurant with Negi...in public, no doubt! It would be all over the high school in minutes!
"Same for me. Asuna, I do believe you two are starting to grow on each other a little." She chuckled. Asuna's eyes narrowed dangerously, her face red as a beet. She stood up from her seat, slamming the menu on the table. The squid inadvertently 'jumped' from the plate and landed in Negi's lap.
"AAAIIIEEE!!! IT IS ALIVE!!!! AHH!! GET IT OFF!! GET IT OOOOFFF!!!!" He leapt out of his seat, jumping around and screaming. Eventually he'd managed to get a hold of its leg and fling it...into his hair. "IT'S TRYING TO EEEAAT MEEE!!!" Asuna strode over, smacked Negi hard across the face and threw the squid to one side, dusting her hands off and looking back over at Eva.
"Look, girl. Don't mess with me, alright? You know who won last time."
"But that was only temporary, remember?" Eva smiled, tilting her head to the side and placing her delicate hands upon her hips. Chachamaru was at her side in only a moment. Negi had finally recovered from the killer squid incident, and stood by Asuna, somewhat behind her...He wasn't the one with the kick-ass karate moves... And what was Eva talking about anyway by 'temporary'?
"She can't save you now, Negi. You're a teenager now. I don't know why you still hide behind her." Negi closed his eyes, wishing her away...and she was still there when he opened them. Was she created simply to mock his every move?! He stepped out from behind Asuna, eyes set into Eva's. For a moment, he thought he'd caught something...but it vanished as soon as he'd seen it, making him wonder if he'd ever even seen anything at all. Her eyes where so deep, as if she was searching into the soul...Asuna gasped as Negi stumbled backwards in shock, hitting the table and almost flipping it over.
"You...you....who...?" He stammered incoherently, babbling about nothing. Asuna turned around to see what was the matter with him, and found herself flying over tables a moment later, kicked in the back by Chachamaru. She cried out in pain as she hit a table, sliding over someone's dinner and landing on the ground nearby.
"Are you crazy! You can't attack me in public!" Asuna raged, rubbing her sore arm. Negi had already backed up several tables, and stayed a far distance away from both of them. His nervousness seemed only to increase with the passing seconds. Chachamaru's expression was something to behold as she came back to both feet: An expression of total shock. It was as if her leg had just kicked out on it's own...
"I'll have you, Negi...You'll die...you'll die, and I'll take the blood out of you, little by little..." Eva mumbled under her breath, eyes glowing in an indescribable fury. Her fists where balled, teeth bared...and fanged. The crowd from the tables was already watching the scene. Many of them had moved from their places and taken a safer spot. Others abandoned and ran altogether. Asuna struggled to stay on her feet, still wobbly from the first attack. Eva looked as though she couldn't control her anger.
"Kill her...kill them...not him, leave him to me." She muttered again. Chachamaru was confused at first, but quickly stalked forwards, leaping upon tables and trashing anything in her way. Asuna readied herself for the blow that would most certainly come...and realized that Negi was on the other side of the restaurant. The contract...it wasn't activated!! She remembered this as soon as she'd gotten an unwelcome kick into the jaw, and went sprawling another twenty feet.
"Asuna!!" Negi yelled, hiding behind the chair as Evangeline came for him. She leapt into the air...and took Negi completely by surprise, toppling him as he ran to the next chair. She took him by the shoulders as he screamed and shouted, kicked and thrashed, and sunk her teeth into him. The crowd screamed and gasped in awe at this turn of events, running away or staying around from the pure shock of it all. Asuna struggled once more to her feet, eyes wide at the sight of Negi on the ground with Eva sucking away at him. The pain in her jaw was excruciating...and her leg was about to give out. Another kick and two sickening crunches later, she lay in a pile on the ground.
"Evangeline...please...no...." Negi pleaded desperately, moving about in any way he could...the pain...his neck was burning...he forced back the black spots clouding up his vision, reaching behind him and taking the girl by the hair...perhaps he could pull her off, but it did no good. So tired; must sleep...
"GET OFF OF HIM!!" A scream, Negi couldn't interpret whose voice it belonged to. A sudden release of pain, the ebbing, throbbing feeling in his neck... He forced himself into a sit, glaring in the direction that the noise had come from. Evangeline was nowhere in sight, but there stood Asuna only feet from him, leaning against the table. Her knees visibly shook underneath her, and her face was as pale as a ghost, with a considerable gash across her forehead. She sunk to her knees, passing out at Negi's feet.
"Asuna?" He asked quietly, looking around. The crowd was almost completely gone, the restaurant empty. He made his way over to her, knees shaking in fear alone, with some weakness from the drained blood. The girl on the ground did not respond. It wasn't until he'd gotten closer that the damage was completely seen. Arms and legs bruised, possibly broken leg, and unhinged jaw...He came up under her, desperately trying to pick the girl up, but all the dead weight was too much for him. He collapsed under her.
"Asuna!! Wake up...!" He yelled at her, shaking her arm like a child would do to wake his mother. A small set of tears welled up in his eyes as he tried it again, and again, until they where pouring down his cheeks like a waterfall. He picked up her phone, wildly dialing the hospital.
Everything went so slow from then on... The ambulance came, sirens blaring to the scene and took her off, helping Negi to his feet and putting him in as well, examining the bite and blood marks on his neck. He didn't see any of it, didn't feel it. All he heard where the doctors screaming over Asuna, her pulse, the blood-loss, heart rate... Everything he didn't want to hear; everything he never wanted to happen. He slowly mumbled responses as the ambulance got in motion, watching that girl on the stretcher with all the love in his heart. She lay there unconscious, and something inside him longed to help her, to make her better. He couldn't describe the feeling that overtook him and made him cry again.
It was the feeling of having something wrenched out of you that can never be replaced.