Finally, the second chapter, and yes the AU is based on an anime/manga called servamp!
Chariot sat on the floor, on her knees, and with her hands resting on them. Chariot duNord always knew that she had the worst luck in the world. She knew that she would live many years of misfortune and she accepted that fact.
She knew that weird things would always happen to her, but this? This was beyond weird.
Before her, sat Croix, the vampire she met about an hour ago. She was silently enjoying a cup of noodle, while ignoring the stares coming from the red haired woman.
"So… you're a vampire." Chariot started, causing the servamp to put her ramen down.
"A servamp to be precise." Croix said, smirking.
"So, you have to follow my orders?" The red head asked.
"Anything you want. I'm all yours." Croix winking, making her Eve frown.
Chariot was still trying to process all everything she told her, and out of all the craziness she heard, there was one thing bothering her. The mores she talked with her, the more suspicious she became. She took a deep breath, then asked the question.
"If there are seven servamps and they are given their own sins… Which sin are you?"
Croix laughed then rested her face against her palm. She grinned, and stared at her silently, building up the suspense.
"I am the servamp of lust, at your service."
"Oh, fuck me." Chariot muttered, face palming. This was the worst outcome ever. She would have taken any other sin in a heartbeat but not this one.
"Is that your first order? I'd be happy to." The servamp answered, only to have a pillow thrown at her face.
"Is that why you kissed me?! Was that really necessary?" The Eve asked as she hid behind the couch. She was ready to throw another pillow in case she said anything stupid.
"Why does it matter? It's not like it's your first kiss." The servamp answered, then raised an eyebrow when the woman glared back at her. "It isn't your first kiss, is it?"
Croix received another pillow to the face.
"Can we break our contract?"
"No, the contract is permanent. You should also know that there is a distance limit that we shouldn't cross. We have to stay as close as possible." The servamp of lust explained, making her Eve sigh.
"What am I supposed to tell Akko?" The red head asked, covering her face in her palms. Where would Croix even sleep at night? Will she follow her everywhere she went, even at work?
"Oh, that shouldn't be a problem, I can take my animal form to hide."
"You have an animal form?!" The red head raised her head, looking at her in disbelief. Will this crazy day ever end?
"We all have animal forms. Let me show you." Right on cue, Croix transformed into a black butterfly, while Chariot looked at her disappointed. She expected something cooler… "Hey, what's that look for?" The butterfly asked, and was answered by being trapped into a jar. "Really…?"
"Behave." Chariot said and put the jar on a table. She rubbed her temples, feeling a strong headache. "This is fine." She muttered to herself and decided to rest, and deal with everything the next day.
Akko who was spending the night at Lotte, groaned at all the work they had to do. She wanted to give up halfway through it, but Lotte wouldn't let her. Her grades were already bad, so she had to make up for them.
"I'm beat." Akko said as she stretched her arms and leaned into her chair. The rain stopped falling a while ago. She looked through the window, only to spot something unusual. That something looked like a cat, a huge cat. "Oh my god." Akko stated, opening up the window and ready to leave through it.
"Akko what are you doing?!" Lotte asked and tried to stop her but the brunette has already jumped.
Queen has been walking around in her Lioness form, hoping that she would heal faster. Despite All of love barely fighting back, she still managed to hurt her wrist. It stopped bleeding, but it left a scar that would take too long to heal because she had no blood to drink.
Her ears suddenly reacted to a loud noise. She turned to see where it came for, and her eyes widened.
"Oh my God." She said as she watched a human girl run towards her at a terrifying speed. Are humans even capable of running like that? She turned to run away, but she was slow due to her injury, and before she knew it, the human girl jumped on her and tackled her to the ground.
What did she want with her? What normal human would run after a LIONESS?
"I caught the big kitty!" Akko said as she looked at the lioness who looked back at her with fear and confusion.
"What?"
"THE KITTY CAN TALK!"
"WHAT?!"
"Wait until my sister sees you!" Akko said, scratching the back of the lioness' ear. The simple gesture has caused Queen to live through the most embarrassing moment in her life.
She started purring.
It was an act so out of character that she ended up transforming back into her human form right away. Akko blinked, staring into the servamp's eyes before putting two and two together.
"YOU'RE A HUMAN NOW?" Akko yelled and Queen had to use all her strength to pull her off her. The brunette recover immediately from falling her back while Queen touched her injured wrist. She stared blankly as the human sat on her knees and bowed to her. "Please teach me your ways."
"What are you doing?" Queen deadpanned.
"You're a human who can turn into big kitty! I want that power! Please teach me!"
"Listen human, go back to where you came from and forget that you saw me!" Queen said, pointed at her with her injured wrist and Akko noticed it and took it, surprising the servamp of Pride once more. "What are you doing?"
"That's a nasty scar." Akko commented and pulled what looked like a homemade bracelet from her pocket. She put it on the other girl's wrist then smiled at her. "You can have it! What's your name? I'm Atsuko, but call me Akko!"
"What?" Queen let out, still stunned by this weird human. She then pulled her hand away and answered. "I don't have a name." She lied, wanting nothing to do with her.
"Can I give you one then?" Akko asked, immediately coming up with one. "How about-" She was interrupted by the servamp covering her mouth with her palm, before disappearing. Akko just blinked and look around but the girl was already gone. Pouting, she got up and walked towards Lotte's house, while a black cat watching her from the trash can. The cat smirked, having been witness to both of the servamps meeting their potential Eves.
Sleepy ash of sloth licked her palms, thinking of how she could mess with her sister. Having her and All of Love in the same town would be really interesting.
She decided that she would come up with something in the morning, but for the time being, she had to get her beauty sleep.
At least, she slept more comfortably than a certain redhead. Chariot had this strange habit of sleeping anywhere that isn't her bed. She watched TV until she fell asleep on the couch, and now that she woke up, she felt her back hurting. She sighed and stretched her arms. Fortunately, she didn't have a shift this morning, so maybe she could relax a little.
"Good morning." She heard a voice and looked around for it, then her eyes settled on the butterfly in the jar. "Do you mind letting me out now?" Croix asked and regretted it when Chariot pulled a pillow, ready to fight. "I won't do anything stupid. I promise. Besides, this isn't how you treat someone who saved you."
"This is how I treat people who kiss me against my will."
"I am the servamp of lust, what did you expect?"
"I didn't know that then!"
"Well you know now, please let me out."
Chariot glared at the butterfly, then sighed before freeing her from the jar. The butterfly immediately took a human form, and Croix crossed her arms and glared at the red head who was still equipped with a pillow.
The servamp sighed and walked towards the kitchen, while her Eve followed close with her weapon still in her hands. She watched Croix examine the fridge then taking some ingredients.
"What are you doing?" Chariot asked.
"I'm trying to make a good impression by making you breakfast." Croix stated as she walking around the kitchen, while her Eve still watched her in suspicion. "At least that might make you reconsider trapping me in a jar." She murmured.
Chariot decided not to say anything, because she knew that she would probably skip her breakfast if alone, and at this rate she might die really soon.
"So, the other servamps are your siblings?" Chariot asked, trying to start a conversation. If their contract was permanent, she had to at least learn a thing or two about her.
"Yeah, five sisters and one brother. They probably hate me though." Croix chuckled. "See, that wound I had last night was caused by my sister, Queen. She's really mad at me." She confessed. Chariot gulped, wondering what kind of person Queen was.
"Why do you think they hate you?"
That made Croix pause.
She left them. What else was there to say? The fact that she's a servamp of misfortune?
"You only knew me for one night, wouldn't it be strange to tell you my life story?" Croix turned to her with a smirk, and yet, her Eve could sense a bit of sadness behind her words.
"Unbelievable." Queen thought as she took a sip of her coffee. She was sitting in a café, thinking about what happened last night. All of Love escaped, and then she met this strange human girl who almost formed a contract with her.
On top of that, she purred. She has never done something so humiliating in her whole life. She sighed and stared at the bracelet in her hand, despite not liking the human, it wouldn't have felt right to throw it away. The girl was kind enough to give her this homemade bracelet.
Sighing, she was about to take another sip of her coffee, but stopped when she saw a black cat staring at her from the window with a wicked smile.
Queen stared then looked away ignoring the cat. She decided that she wanted to finish her coffee in peace and pretend that she did not know her, until the cat started scratching the window…
"What do you want, sleepy Ash?" Queen asked, sitting on a bench with the cat sitting on her lap.
"You're here for All of love, aren't you?" Sleepy ash asked, purring as her sister pet her, but her words made her stop. "Are you aware that she got an Eve?"
"What?" Queen's eyes widened then she frowned. "Whatever she does will not matter to me anymore."
"Is that so? Because I remember you crying your eyes out when she left." The servamp of sloth commented with a smirk and her sister looked at her blankly before picking her up.
"Do you see all these cars? I'm about to throw you in front of one. I'm sure it won't hurt since cats have many lives, nine I believe?" The servamp of pride said, making the cat meow and try to escape her grip.
"Have you considered asking her why she left?"
"I don't want to hear any of her excuses." Queen said, putting the cat down.
"If it has anything to do with the misfortune deal, then it's a pretty good reason-"
"Sleepy Ash, what's done is done. She betrayed us."
"You mean she betrayed you." Sleepy Ash said, and the servamp dropped her. "You're too prideful to admit it, you really deserve your sin." She said as her sister stood to walk away.
"I will cut my ties with Lust, and that's all you need to know." Queen said as she turn to walk away, but stopped when she heard a name…
"Diana!" She turned to see Akko calling for her, and at that exact moment, a blue circle appeared on her neck and from it a chain that connected her to the circle around Akko's hand.
'Diana' stared in shock as she processed what just happened and sleepy Ash laughed at the turn of events.
Queen has just formed a contract.