K I fixed a few spelling mistakes and added in a couple of things I had forgotten
It was now the morning of the next day and I still couldn't get rid of the feeling that someone had been watching me last night. It frightened and worried me because I have no idea who had been outside with me. Whoever it was, however, must have seen me use my, or Ashlen's, earth based powers. All I really knew was that it was neither Yuki or Zero who had been spying on me last night. If it was either of them I'm sure they would have confronted me last night. The same goes for the Night Class vampires, but I can't be completely sure about that. It didn't really matter though, did it? It was just a matter of time before that person reveals what they saw so, either way, this was going to turn out pretty bad.
Because I was bored, and didn't want to waste time on my laptop, I decided to spend some time outside. I have always loved going outside, especially if I was at the beach. I also knew there was a chance I could run into the spy from last night but, in that case, I could try to convince them not to tell anyone what they saw. Bitter sweetly my lie about being a future student had spreed so a lot of people simply ignored me now. That was the sweet part, the bitter part was Aido had already caught me in the lie and I wasn't looking forwards to explaining to Kaien or Yuki and Zero why I lied.
As I was making my way to the field where the horses were kept, I couldn't help but feel jumpy. A handful of people would look my way every time I passed, making feel nervous. It was possible that a Day Class girl had seen me last night, thinking I had been a Night Class student that had snuck out of class. However, unless they were secretly from a vampire hunter family, wouldn't she have gone screaming, or at least running, back to the dorm? In truth, I would have preferred a vampire over a human seeing me last night. Aido had already seen the fire power I seemingly had, though it wasn't intentional, though hopefully he hadn't told the others.
'I'm stressing over this for nothing. Everything is going to be fine. Perhaps I wasn't being watched at all and my nerves just got the best of me after being attacked by that vampire.' I tried to convince myself as I stepped off the stone path onto the grass. I sighed inwardly and rubbed the back of my neck.
'Ashlen's fire and earth powers. Not only that but I am in the world of Vampire Knight. However, how could I have my alter ego's powers, not to mention her sword, if this is not a dream? The sword was created by a dragon's fire but dragons don't exist here. Maybe... maybe this version of my sword is a vampire weapon? I don't know.' I thought, lightly rubbing my forehead as a headache began to form. I was thinking too hard about this and my confusion was starting to hurt me.
This time I groaned in dismay as I reached my destination. A tree not far from the horses stable which appears in volume two of the manga series. I'm pretty sure it was the same tree that Zero naps against while the rest of the class works with horses. After White Lilly kicks Yuki in the butt, which I had actually chuckled at, he wakes up, grabs the reins, jumps on her back and calms her down. It turns out that White Lilly did all of this because Takuma spooks her with his scent; by opening a window. I have no idea if this had happened or not.
Sitting down against the tree, I began to ponder what my life would be like here. Would I actually follow the story line or will things work out differently? Everyone I met so far seems to act in character and I'm pretty sure Yuki is still secretly a Kuran. I mean, to tell the truth, I was suspicious that Yuki and Kaname were related long before the secret was revealed. It is easy to tell because they look related, even before it was revealed they were siblings. It's more than likely that I was going to follow the story line, but which one was the real question though.
While the manga and anime were pretty much the same, there were some noticeable differences as well. One of the most noticeable in the manga was chapter six, which was the first chapter of volume two. It was the chapter with Yuki outside, sleeping through gym class. It was the same chapter with the horses and White Lilly getting spooked. A noticeable difference in the anime was episode three. That was with dorm inspection. While going to the Moon Dorms, Yuki gets Zero mad because she questions about the pill case she saw him putting in his jacket pocket. Long story short, she ends up following him into town, but gets lost and ends up getting attacked by a Level-E child.
Either of those events could happen. Hell, a mix of both can even happen. For all I know they already happened. All I know right now is that Yuki is still human but shows no sign of bloody flashbacks. I have no idea if Zero bit Yuki yet, or if Yuki knows about Purebloods. Even if part of me still wanted to go home, I was actually curious to see what was in store for me. I didn't want to get involved too much but a few things should be easy to find out. Such as Zero's old hunter teacher becoming a teacher at Cross Academy or Maria becoming a student.
"Hey, you! Who the hell do you think you are?!" I heard the familiar voice of a female demand. I looked up to see myself surrounded by three, glaring girls.
"Excuse me?" I asked in confusion, staring at the middle girl. She was the one that spoke and looked familiar but I couldn't remember where I had seen her, or heard her voice for that matter, at the time.
"What on earth makes you so special that it makes Idol-Senpai talk to you?" The same girl demanded, venom seeming to drip from her lip. Her friends shouted their rounds of agreement and I finally remembered where I had seen the first girl before.
These girls were Hanabusa Aido fan girls. While I couldn't recognize the two other girls, I could remember the first. She was the girl that called me a skunk bag the other day. Arg, that means she is one of those shallow, easily jealous fan girls. So not only did she decided to ruin my day but this girl held the characteristics that I hated in a female. Really, the girls that only care about fashion, make up, looks and gossip give the female race a bad name. Actually, no, it just makes them materialistic and stuck up. Now, if said girl was a slut, dressed in a inappropriate way and thought being a virgin was a bad thing, then she'd be giving the female race a bad name. Besides Rebekah I don't really know anyone like that, but I did know a lot of materialistic girls who thought the world revolved around them.(1)
"How should I know? I hardly even know the boy," I lied with a roll of my eyes. "I don't know why he seems interested in me." I lied again.
Because Hanabusa Aido was one of my all time favorite Vampire Knight characters, and my VK crush, I knew him pretty well. Well, I knew more of his personality than I did his background. I knew he was the youngest in his family, had three older sisters, was very wealthy, that Akatsuki and Ruka were his cousins and that he fell in love with Kaname. I also know a few things like he always keeps a marble on him -or that's what it looks like come second season- and he likes the smell of lavender. Other personal stuff I don't know; like the first girl he fell in love with, his favorite toy/activity as a child and stuff like that. (2)
Anyways, because I knew the vampire well enough, I had a pretty good idea why he paid attention to me. It was actually a number of reasons and one of them I had already thought of before. As a child, Aido was spoiled and pampered. He was used to getting attention, no matter what it is for, I guess. Anyways, I suspect that is one reason why he bothers me is because I don't give him the attention he wants, as his flirting didn't work with me when we first met. So he is bound to get my attention some other way. At least, that is what I think. Another reason is simple; he saw me use Ashlen's fire element power. He is probably still curious about it since, after all, he is a snoop and likes to put his nose in other people's business.
"Don't lie to us!" The girl on the right demanded. The other two nodded and didn't crease the glaring.
"Yeah! Idol-Senpai seemed to be acting really friendly with you, you stupid skunk bag." The girl on the left yelled at me. I could only sigh as I stood up, wondering how these girls thought up such a weak insult; I don't even stick, so being called a bitch would be a better insult.
"Whatever, I don't care what you think. I'm leaving." I grumbled, dusting myself off. Since the three girls had me surrounded I'd have to go the one place they weren't guarding; around the tree.
"Where do you think you're going, wimp?" I heard the third girl demand angrily. Though I wasn't frightened of these girls and just wanted to leave, I stopped long enough to sigh loudly. I didn't want to get into a fight but these girls were starting to push my buttons.
"What's wrong? Are you scared of us? Is that why you are running away?" The first girl snarled as I felt hands grip my shoulders. Before I had time to react, I found myself being pulled from behind and pushed against the tree.
Alright, so these were the kind of jealous girls that will get physical about it. I wasn't really physically strong, holding around fifteen pounds is a struggle for me. I could throw a few punches and kicks but I felt that would get me into deep trouble. I was also no where near mentally strong to deal with this shit. Why can't these girls just leave me alone? I get that they were crushing but, fuck, it made no sense. They were all crushing on the same boy so why weren't they fighting over him amounts themselves?
'Why not just use Ashlen's fighting abilities?' A thought came to mind. I frowned at it, and the girls, as I thought back.
'Because I am not Ashlen and, even if I was, I don't think I'd have her fighting skills here. I gave her the skills when I became interested in Naruto. I am in the Vampire Knight world, not Naruto, so, if I am becoming Ashlen by a freak of nature, I don't think I will have her skills. Besides, I am not in the mood to explain why I got into a fight with a group of girls that are probably just trying to scare me.' I thought to myself as I slowly felt anger start to bubble inside of me.
"What the hell is your problem? Why don't you just leave me alone?!" I demanded, pushing the first girl, the one who grabbed me, away from me. However, before I could take two steps away from the tree, I was pushed against it once again.
"Bitch, you have no right to push my friends or tell us what to do!" the girl on the left demanded. I glared at them but felt butterflies swim in my stomach as I saw the first and second girl ball their hands into fists.
"Hey! What's going on here?!" A angry, harsh tone of a familiar male demanded. Even if it wasn't for the fact that the three girls tensed up, with looks of fear on their face, I knew it was Zero who had just arrived.
"Come on, lets get out of here." The first girl demanded. Without argument all three girls ran away from us, finally allowing me to back away from the tree.
"Tsk, stupid fan girls. Are you OK?" Zero grumbled as I dusted myself off. I noted he had a pissed off tone in his voice but told myself he wasn't annoyed at me but the three fan girls.
"Yeah, they didn't hurt me. They were just a few jealous fan girls." I answered as I rubbed my one shoulder. It had hit the tree harder than I first thought and not it felt like it was bruising.
I've never actually been physically bullied before; at least not where I get beat up. I have been hit a couple of times, though mostly on the arm and Lisa being the first to hit me on the face. So I was glad that Zero arrived when he did. Even though I thought the girls were just trying to scare, I couldn't be sure. It looked as if they had been getting to punch me and I don't know how well I'd be able to protect myself. Even though I was depressed I wasn't emo; in fact the idea of pain scared me. Still, I did have emo like thoughts and sometimes thought physically pain would be better than emotional. I didn't cut myself though, for more than one reason. The most I might do is slap my arm until it gets red but I usually only do that to a itchy bug bite.
"They wouldn't get so jealous if you just stayed away from the Moon Dorms. I know Yuki asks you to come but you need to stop." I was told, a bitter tone in his voice. I could only sigh and let my arms hang.
"I only go to keep Yuki company when you don't go. I'm not a fan girl, and I hate all the screaming from the others." I admitted. This caused Zero to stare at me questioningly with his lavender colored eyes.
"Then why go at all? Aido is obviously causing problems for you, for whatever reason. This then causes the fan girls to act out. It's stupid so stop going to Moon Dorms and the others will leave you alone." I'm pretty sure Zero ordered. I rolled my eyes and crossed my arms against my chest.
"I know it would be as simple as that. If you were there, I wouldn't be. Yuki only asked me to come when you weren't there. I think she just likes having a friendly face around her when everyone else, in lack of better words, hates her." I answered and readied myself to leave. Turning my head around, I'm sure I heard Zero sigh.
"She doesn't have many friends. Thank you for being nice to her but it would be better for the both of you if you just stop going." I heard him say in a somewhat tired tone. I looked behind me in time to see him walking away, back to me.
"Next time the girls try to get physical, don't be scared to fight back." He called back before disappearing into the horse stable. I blinked, frowned and shrugged before walking away.
Zero didn't seem too big on rules that didn't have to do with the Night Class or fan girls. Fighting wasn't allowed, that was one rule I could remember. So, he really shouldn't be encouraging me to fight back, even if it was to defend myself. However, I don't think he really cares about the no fighting rule. After all, until Yuki showed up, he did try to get into a fight with the Night Class on valentines night. Oh... crap! I should have asked Zero what day it was.
'Eh, oh well. I guess I'll find out sooner or later when Saturday comes. It couldn't be Tuesday, could it? After all I ran away from the Bakers on a Friday and yet there was still school for the past few days. However I have been here about four days. I guess I'll ask Kaien or Yuki when I see them next.' I thought to myself as I hurried back to my room in the Sun Dorms. As I passed by a few other girls that gave me odd stares, something else crossed my mind.
I had been here for three to four days and I hadn't eaten anything. I ate that fish Kaien had given me and some wild fruit, but that was it. Crap. Well, it wasn't too unusual for me. Instead of causing myself physically harm when I get upset or depressed, I lose my appetite. Yet, what would I do for food otherwise? I am not brave or blunt enough to tell Kaien I have no food, and I haven't looked at my money to see if it had transformed into Japanese money yet. I have been drinking a lot of water, though so that is probably why I haven't been feeling the effects of hunger pains; I've been filling my stomach full of liquids.
'I'll check the money later. I guess I can always hunt for more berries in the forest later as well.' I thought as I made it to my room safely. Sighing in relief, I went over to my bed and sat down, kicking off my shoes.
Besides those three jealous fan girls, and other girls that gave me looks, I didn't run into anything weird. I am now sure that the person that watched me last night wasn't a fan girl. I still think Yuki would have confronted me if it was her and Zero would have said something if it had been him. That only left a Night Class vampire and Kaien Cross. I don't it had been Kaien though as I am sure he would ask to see me by now. That only left a Night Class vampire, which one, though, was the real question.
I still couldn't wrap my head around the fact I had Ashlen's element powers. At least two out of the four. She also had some water powers but struggled with her powers over wind. Ashlen could also shape shift into different animals and talk to animals. I don't think I could do either of those since I hadn't been able to hear one animal since I've been here. Needless to say the only animal I've come across since I've been here are birds and none of them could talk. I also felt no desire to shape shift or control water and wind.
I guess I could also say I was starting to come to the realization that I wasn't dreaming. As weird as it seemed, as impossible, as too good to be true as it was, this was real. However, there was the confusion of having Ashlen's powers, which only happened in dreams. I guess it just made me feel better about being here when I thought that everything that was happening was nothing more but a long dream.
'You know... maybe I should see what other powers I have. Not just powers, but skills. Obviously I have powers over fire and earth but is it really Ashlen's powers or am I turning into a vampire to fit in better?' I thought then frowned at it. 'No, I don't think I am turning into a vampire. While vampires have a number of powers, don't they just have one special power? Only Purebloods have a number of powers. Not to mention I have no thirst for blood.' I added, laying on my back with a deep sigh. It was decided; come night I would sneak out back to the forest to test out any possible powers I have. I just hope no one spies on me this time.
(1) Girls, please do not take any offence against this. I am just one of those girls that hates being judged by men simply because of what other females have done
(2) When I first started this story I had no idea that there was side stories made. So I had no idea that Hanabusa forms feelings for a former human girl. So, like what I did with Takuma's parents -father- I will not involve that in this story
For people who have just starting reading, please don't think Ashley is a Mary-Sue because she us developing powers. I do have a reason for it and that reason is revealed in the original story.
I also have some questions for the readers and it does require a review. Simply a yes or a no will do as well. Should I put more Ashley(n) and Zero moments into the story? They are more or less just friends