Chapter 8

The night was cold and quite cloudy, the full moon was shining in the sky as the clouds passed in front of it, Leona, after leaving the student's dorm, went through the streets of Mahora at a fast pace, after a few minutes, she went through a forest, being at night, it was dark and barely visible, the only thing that illuminated it was the full moon, when she was passing the forest, she saw Evangeline's cottage, Leona went toward the door and stopped in front of it. The branches of the trees began to rustle in the wind that had suddenly risen.

"It looks like it's going to rain soon" Leona said, looking up at the sky, then appeared in her mind what Haruna said before. "Do you like her?"

"I wonder why she said that" Leona sighed as she remembered everything that had happened with Evangeline since she arrived at Mahora, Leona knocked on the door and while she was waiting, the leaves on the trees were still rustling in the wind, Leona turned around and looked at the forest. "I'm starting to feel uncomfortable for some reason..." Leona murmured, then the door of the cottage opened, Leona turned around quickly and saw Chachamaru standing in front of her.

"Good evening, Leona" Chachamaru said in a quiet voice and bowed.

"Chachamaru... Good evening" Leona said, looking at Chachamaru.

"The mistress is waiting for you, follow me" Chachamaru said as she stepped aside to let Leona go inside.

"Ok" Leona said, went inside the cottage as Chachamaru closed the door.

"The mistress will come right away, she is in her room, while you can sit on the couch and wait for her" Chachamaru said, pointing to the couch with her index finger. "I have to go to the kitchen to make the tea ordered by my mistress" Chachamaru said.

"Ok" Leona said, she sat down on the couch and looked at Chachamaru as she went to the kitchen.

A few minutes passed since Chachamaru left the living room, there was only the sound of the clock on the wall.

"If they take time to come here..." Leona sighed. "What does she want to tell me?" Leona said, crossing her arms under her breast. "Now that I think about it, this cottage is quite cozy, once I read that vampires used to live in places more terrifying"

Then there was a noise on the windows, Leona looked at one of the windows, got up from the couch and went towards the window, she saw the noise was coming from the wind that was hitting the window.

"It seems like it's quite windy now" Leona said as she watched the branches of the trees move strongly by the wind, then a few drops began to fall. "It's already started to rain" Leona said, she was so focused looking out the window that she didn't realize that someone had been behind her, then she saw a red gaze between the trees, it was too dark and the rain wasn't helping either, so she was not able to know what it was, then Leona felt her heart was trembling by the gaze.

"What is it-"

"Is there anything that catches your attention there?" Evangeline whispered in Leona's ear.

"Eek!" Leona shouted, she turned around and saw a taller woman than herself, with blond hair and blue eyes, the woman was smiling. "E-Evangeline?!" Leona shouted as she had a hand on her chest.

"Look at yourself, you look as if you have seen a ghost" Evangeline said, still smiling.

"If you creep up on behind me and whisper in my ear, it's normal for me to be scared!" Leona said with a slight blush.

"As sincere as ever" Evangeline said, crossing her arms under her breast. "Let's go to the couch" Evangeline said, turning around and walking toward it, Leona turned around and looked out the window to see if the gaze was still there, but didn't see anything.

"It would have been my imagination..." Leona murmured.

"What are you doing?" Evangeline said, sitting on the couch looking at Leona.

"No... Nothing" Leona said, she went to the couch and sat next to Evangeline. "Because I felt that way" Leona thought.

"Chachamaru must have finished the tea" Evangeline said, looking toward the kitchen.

"How come you are in your adult form?" Leona asked, looking at her.

"Hm? It's full moon and I like being like this, do you mind?" Evangeline said, looking at her smiling.

"No... Huh, why did you want to see me?" Leona asked. "Do you want my blood again?"

"Mm? No, not this time, but since you mention it, it's not a bad idea" Evangeline said smiling, seeing Leona getting nervous. "Relax, I'm not going to do that, I didn't tell you to come to my cottage for that matter"

"Then?" Leona said.

"You'll know soon enough" Evangeline said, crossing her legs, one over the other, when she did, Leona saw her panties. Leona blushed slightly and looked away, murmuring something.

"Mistress" Chachamaru said coming out of the kitchen with Chachazero on top of her head. "The tea is ready" Chachamaru said holding a tray with her hands, on the tray was two cups of tea, one of the cups had the reddish liquid and the other had the green liquid, Chachamaru put the tray on the table which was in front of the couch where Evangeline and Leona were sitting. "Here it is, mistress" Chachamaru said in a quiet voice.

"Good" Evangeline said, took the cup of green liquid with her hand and looked at Leona. "The other is for you" Evangeline said, looking at Leona with a glint in her eyes.

"Why is mine red?" Leona asked, looking at the cup.

"It has different flavors" Chachamaru replied.

"I'm fine, thanks, I don't feel like drinking right now" Leona said.

"I insist, taste it" Evangeline said, staring at Leona.

"Why are you offering me tea? Chachamaru I understand, but normally you aren't so kind" Leona said staring at Evangeline.

"Oh, come on, what's wrong with that?" Evangeline said waving her hand. "In fact, I might not have offered you, but I decided to do it, for once, do you refuse my courtesy?"

"Huh... It's not that, I will taste another day" Leona said more and more uncomfortable from Evangeline's gaze.

"I'm offering it to you, I don't take no for an answer" Evangeline said, raising her voice a little.

"If I were you, I would drink it, you wouldn't want to make the mistress angry, ke, ke, ke" Chachazero said.

"Well..." Leona sighed. "It's okay, since the lady insists so much on that" Leona said, "I'd better do it, so she will tell me at once what she wants" Leona thought, picked up the cup and began to drink the tea, then Evangeline smiled, with her fangs showing.

"Did you finish?" Evangeline asked, leaving her tea cup on the table.

"Yes, happy now?" Leona replied and did the same with her cup. "It reminds me of something, It's like... But this doesn't have the same taste and it isn't so disgusting " Leona thought, looking at her cup.

"Do you like it? Are you feeling better?" Evangeline asked, still smiling.

"Eh? What do you mean? "Leona asked confused looking at Evangeline.

"Well... From time to time, it is good to take some blood, although in your case, it is something different since you can't say that it really is" Evangeline said, staring at Leona.

"What?... I'm sorry, but I don't understand you" Leona said.

"Don't you know? Didn't it make you remember the taste of something?" Evangeline said.

"No- I don't understand what you are speaking of" Leona said, looking away in another direction to not meet Evangeline's gaze.

"Don't lie to me" Evangeline said, in a voice deep and looking at her seriously. "Well, maybe with this you will know what I'm talking about, Chachamaru, bring it to me" Evangeline said, without looking away from Leona.

"Yes mistress" Chachamaru said, she went to the kitchen and returned to the living room with a box and handed it to Evangeline.

"Do you recognize this?" Evangeline asked, looking at Leona, raising her arm to show her.

"That's it" Leona said, looking at the box Evangeline had in her hand.

"Wait" Evangeline said, then opened the box, showing the capsules, Leona was surprised to see it was the same box she had.

"Because of your reaction, I'm sure I'm right" Evangeline said. "Is it yours, isn't it?" Evangeline said closing the box with her hand, then Leona began to look through the pockets of her pants.

"Don't strain yourself, you forgot it the other day at my cottage, it must have fallen out when you came here" Evangeline said.

"T-Then the tea..." Leona said in a broken voice, looking at the empty cup.

"Yes, I told Chachamaru to put some of those capsules in your tea" Evangeline said.

"It also had a twist of orange to make the taste of the capsule different" Chachamaru said in a quiet voice.

"Well yes, that too" Evangeline said, waving her hand through the air. "Now, you are going to answer some questions that I have, that's why I told you to come here" Evangeline said, leaving the small box on the table and crossing her arms under her breast.

"You... What do you want to know?" Leona asked with a worried look on her face.

"Oh, well, I want to know exactly who you are, I don't feel that you are a vampire, even being full moon... However, you take those capsules to quench your thirst as if you were a vampire, why?" Evangeline said with a narrow look.

"I don't want to answer that" Leona said, looking away in another direction.

"I think I have not expressed myself well, answer me" Evangeline demanded.

"No" Leona said, rising from the couch. "If that was the reason you wanted to see me, I'm sorry, but I don't want to answer you" Leona said, looking down at the floor. "Anyway, thank you for handing me back the capsules, goodbye" Leona said, took the small box and headed for the door to leave the cottage, but before she did, Evangeline rose quickly from the couch, slamming her against the wall, causing the small box to fall to the floor and held Leona's arms over her head, so she could not escape.

"Augh!" Leona said with a soft groan of pain.

"Did you really think you could escape from me? What a naive person you are" Evangeline said with a crooked grin and bringing her face closer and closer to Leona's. "I told you I would end up finding out about it, and now you'll answer me one way or the other." Evangeline said, staring at her.

"You! Let me go! "Leona said with an angry look.

"I won't do it until you answer my questions, why did you come to this place?" Evangeline asked.

"Do not you understand that I don't want to answer you? Stubborn vampire!" Leona said.

"You are exhausting my patience" Evangeline said, closing her eyes. "Answer me. Now." Evangeline said looking back at Leona.

"I'm not going to answer you, what's your problem!" Leona shouted.

"Oh, hoho, you still refuse to answer me" Evangeline said with closed eyes and a smile showing her fangs. "I got tired of that attitude of yours" Evangeline said in a cold voice. "You don't know who you're dealing with, girl, I assure you that you will finish telling me, many people like you ended up giving in to me " Evangeline said looking at her now, Evangeline's gaze was black sclera and a yellow iris.

"Yes! Like in the old days!" Chachazero said in a voice of excitement. "I want to see blood!"

"Mistress, if I may say so, you should not-" Chachamaru said raising her arm to try to calm her down.

"You stay away from this, Chachamaru" Evangeline said, interrupting Chachamaru and still looking at Leona. "Now, if you don't want to leave here with serious injuries and not be able to attend the child's classes, you know what you have to do"

"Tsk, why you... What do you gain from this?" Leona said in a low voice.

"I ask the questions here" Evangeline said in a firm voice. "Now that I think about it... You always are wearing this kind of bandage on your arm ... Is not it a lesion, is it?" Evangeline said with a mysterious gleam in her eyes, looking at Leona's arm, then smiled showing her fangs.

"W-what?" Leona said in a trembling voice and a look of fear on her face.

"Oh, it seems that I'm right, did you think I would not notice it?" Evangeline said as she rolled up the sleeve of her shirt, looking at the bandage. "I wonder... What will happen if I take it off... Mm?" Evangeline said with a smile and slowly caressing with her thumb the bandage of the Leona's arm, then suddenly, Leona's pupils became smaller in fear.

"Tsk! Don't do it" Leona said, even though she tried not to seem worried, her voice sounded desperate as she tried to break free.

"Why? Does it have something to do with what I asked you? Because of your reaction ... Surely yes... And it makes me interested in knowing what will happen if I ripped it!"

"NO!" Leona shouted trying to get rid of Evangeline's grip abruptly, she tried to hit Evangeline in the stomach with her knee, but before she did, Evangeline noticed and stopped the blow with her open palm, Leona, having her arm free from the grip, murmured something and closed her hand, then her hand began to emit a blue light, and when she was going to hit Evangeline with her fist, Evangeline grabbed Leona's arm with the same hand that she had stopped the blow from before, but in doing so, her hand and arm were frozen.

"Oh?" Evangeline said looking at her arm.

"Now" Leona thought while she was going to hit her with a kick in the ribs this time, but Evangeline grabbed Leona's leg with her other hand that had not been frozen, lifted Leona's leg, turned around, and threw Leona hard against the floor.

"Ow!" Leona shouted, looked at Evangeline quickly, she got up and jumped back before being hit by Evangeline again.

"What's up? Are you tired?" Evangeline said looking at her.

"Tsk" Leona said. "Let me out of here"

"It seems you still don't understand, you are not going to leave here, ah... And if you thought that now that I have a frozen arm, you have more possibilities..." Evangeline said as she closed her eyes, raised her arm, and then the ice broke under her feet, releasing her arm. "As you can see, you made a mistake, I remind you that I also use this kind of magic, well then..."

"I have to find a way to break through her… Every time I try to attack her first, she dodges the hits as if she knew what I'm going to do and I end up being beaten, maybe if I wait for her to attack first... I might get a chance" Leona thought, waiting for Evangeline to attack her, but, it didn't take her a second to notice that Evangeline was in front of her now, she tried to dodge her, but it was too late, Evangeline grabbed her by the neck and picked her up against the wall.

"You are like an open book to me" Evangeline said, staring at her as Leona had her hands on Evangeline's grip trying to pull it away from her neck. "Did you really think you could do something to me? It's true that you lasted long enough when we fought that time, but I was just testing you, I didn't fight seriously" Evangeline said tightening her grip a little more. "When there is a full moon, my powers return"

"What are you... Like a werewolf...?" Leona said in a sarcastic tone, trying to catch her breath.

"Hmph" Evangeline said, with a sudden movement, she threw Leona to the floor, got herself on Leona's back, she immobilized her legs with her own, grabbed one of Leona's arms and twisted it behind her back, and yanked her other arm back with strength behind her, immobilizing her completely.

"You are lucky that I don't kill women or children, although it doesn't mean I cannot hurt you, you'd better answer me, if you don't want me to do something that you might regret" Evangeline said in a cold voice.

"Let me do it, mistress, I have no problem with it!" Chachazero said.

"No!" Leona said, Evangeline pressed her arm a bit more.

"Ah!" Leona shouted out in pain.

"I wonder how long you can last this way" Evangeline said, her hand still pressing hard on Leona's arm. "Don't make me injure your arm"

"Tsk! Let me go!" Leona shouted, as she tried to hold back her tears.

"Then answer me and I'll let you go" Evangeline said.

"Dammit" Leona thought.

"Your time is running out" Evangeline said. "If you like your arm in one piece, tell me" Leona didn't answer.

"Well, you have finally exhausted my patience" Evangeline sighed. "Let's first see what you hide under this bandage"

"I'll tell you..." Leona said in a low voice, a smile crossed Evangeline's lips as she looked down at Leona.

"Oh, I thought I heard something, oh well, it should not be so important" Evangeline said, tilting her head in a mocking way.

"I'll answer your question!" Leona shouted loudly.

"Good girl, I hear you" Evangeline said, letting her grip go a little.

"I... I..." Leona said in a very weak voice.

"What? I didn't hear you with that tone of voice" Evangeline said with crooked grin.

"The reason you don't perceive anything in me is because the bandage is like a seal!" Leona shouted.

"A seal? It gave me that impression, and the capsules?" Evangeline asked with a serious expression.

"It helps to calm the symptoms... Still having the seal up... It isn't strong enough..." Leona answered in a broken voice.

"What symptoms?" Evangeline said, although she had a slight idea of what it could be, she wanted her to say it.

"The pain... The thirst for blood..."

"So you are a vampire" Evangeline said.

"I'm not! I'm human! I... "Leona said in a broken voice, Evangeline sighed and let her arm go, then she got up.

"You can leave" Evangeline said, looking at Leona, who was lying on the floor, Leona rose as she wasn't being held by Evangeline, she looked at Evangeline with a serious look and went to the front door.

"Leona" Chachamaru said, approaching her.

"Chachamaru... I want to be alone" Leona looking at her with a sad look, opened the door and left.

"Really mistress? Aren't you going to ask her anything else?" Chachazero asked.

"No, not for the moment" Evangeline replied.

"Will you tell the old man that?"

"No, I won't tell the old man that, she doesn't look like a threat to me at the moment" Evangeline replied.

"Mistress, do you think it is okay to let her leave? It's been raining for a while; I don't know if it is convenient for her" Chachamaru said.

"Hmph, after what happened, I doubt she would have stayed even if you had told her, she is quite stubborn" Evangeline said looking at Chachamaru, then she turned her head slightly to look at one of the windows.

"..."

"Is anything wrong, mistress?" Chachamaru asked, looking at Evangeline.

/Grace of Destiny/

"I should not have stayed in this place, maybe I'd better leave" Leona thought as she was walking in the rain, looking down at the ground of the forest, then, she stopped and turned around.

"I don't know who you are but stop hiding" Leona said looking at the trees, then a person with a cloak and a hood that covered the face came out from behind one of the trees.

"You took too long to notice me" the person said, smiling.

"What do you want?" Leona said looking at the person.

"I came to get you"

"What?" Leona said.

"How much have you grown, after so long, have you forgotten me? I thought you had seen me behind the window before"

"I thought it was my imagination" Leona thought. "Who you are"

"Oh geez, girl, I guess I will have to take off my hood so you can recognize me" the person said as slowly took the hood away from his face, then showed his face.

"YOU!" Leona shouted.

"Do you recognize me? It has been a while Leona, although I prefer to call you experiment IM" the person said smiling.


End of chapter 8. Thanks for reading, I would like know your opinion about the story so far in the reviews, it encourages me to keep writing. Also, thanks to Miz-KTakase for helping me with grammar and thanks for the reviews I received! :)