A/N: A salute to Rosario + Vampire, one of the series that had been in the plans to cross into the original SI Archives.
Chapter 5: Epic Coding Fails
Circa 1400-1500 AD, Wallachia
The third New Type Vampire to have existed since their creation stared at her teacher "You are not serious."
Harmony shrugged "Well, I had no idea what sort of measurement to use as the calibre of a psychic beam weapon at the time, so I designated it as having a calibre of X, for an unknown number, when the Ancestor presented me with the base weapon which I integrated into this sword. And since there is a legendary sword of similar name in the time I came from, well, this is X-Calibre… also known as Excalibur, said legendary sword."
"King Arthur's sword? Is it the same as the Sword in the Stone?" That had been a detail of the legend she was not familiar with and was curious about.
"I rented it to Merlin for a few years for the Sword in the Stone stunt. Then I rented it to him again from the lake where he could contact me directly with a receiver taking his calls. There, he could actually speak to me instead of being jammed from scrying for me or any other of his primitive magical communications. I had to help him affirm the guy's legitimacy by giving the sword to him again for a while, with a bit more bling this time than that stone" seeing her student looked a bit confused, she amended to "…bling means decorations. Now, it is time to pass it onto you and sic you on target designation 2S2."
The pink-haired vampire quirked her mouth momentarily in thought before saying "I see… more or less. Could you tell me what those designations of yours mean like you said you would once I finished my training… and why don't you help instead of calling it 'siccing' me on him?"
The old, old mortal—nanite serum aka Elixir of Life was GREAT—snorted "Of course I'll help, or you'll get absolutely squashed! The 2 designates that vampires were the second engineered combat strain encountered by Nod forces in the Galactic Civil War a hundred twenty thousand years ago. Notice the time frame. The time loop of humanity is why estimates of Mitochondrial Eve, the one woman all matrilineages trace back to, was estimated in my time by scientists as living anywhere from a hundred thousand to two hundred forty thousand years ago. She wasn't the only woman unlike the religious books you may have read, but no others produced unbroken female lines to the present day."
"You're going off topic, Teacher."
"Well, there was only one vampire classed as an S-level threat, though most vampires averaged around O by their classification scheme, everything R and above was just mad drawing board theory shenanigans until they encountered her… Since she was so superior to other vampires they coined her New Type, or by Chinese, the other main language of human society, 'Xin shi', which the Japanese who scried into the past transliterated with some interpretation to 'Shinso'. Anyhow, that vampire was called 2S1… her designation name with all the damage she did was Gvosdika, citing some piece of then-ancient, pre-time-travel and thus pre-colonization-of-that-homeworld data which associated the code and the name… Then there was the great Turning of the Vampires."
"Why then does Alucard not get a name while you coined me… Akatsiya?"
"2S1 Gvosdika is the code for a self-propelled artillery piece used by the civilization that began with the Russians… well, Muscovy in this time period, to be specific. There was no 2S2 in the Russian Army, and 2S2 in his current mental rut isn't worth of bearing a name anyhow, so 2S2 is what I'll call him. However, the 2S3 used the Russian for Acacia, which was…"
The pink-haired vampire, now identified, sighed "…Akatsiya."
"That's right. Of course, you need not follow this scheme when naming your children… but I'd appreciate if you might think of your teacher when that day approaches, and invite me over to help take care of you if needed…"
"There are many reasons why I go by Akasha, though I have long forgotten my birth name, and forsaken the name Alucard gave me when he took me under his wing. It is due to my teacher, the Second Dread Lord. She gave me this name, and, well, I interpreted it as needed." Akasha told her daughter, preferring to stay away from the fact that her daughter's last name, which was matrilineal, was only a slightly modified version of the name her teacher had initially granted her.
There were some things that didn't need to be widely known (such as the fact that the stronger monster strains were all constantly at least partly sealed by the Creed of the Dread Lords). After all, her daughter's succubus friend looked like a blabbermouth…
A/N: In my original plans for the post-WWV Uprising, Harmony would forever owe a debt of honour to the Yuki-onna for bringing the curse from Confucius' followers (after she killed him) on them, causing early infertility due to the assholes being butthurt at them being independent women. She had only noticed and disabled the curse for good in the early 1950s when she was idle between the 2nd and 3rd world wars. So, when Harmony, who had just broken numerous Yuki-onna out of the labs during the fall of the Empire in cooperation with the defecting Japanese Prime Minister and her old student Akatsiya (see below), came across the succubus labs, she rescued them all. Ageha Kurono was one of the few in good enough condition to join as they carved a path through to the reverse engineering prototype Psychic Dominator with plans to destroy it or use it to fix Japan. Since the device's operational area was only Japan, Harmony let Aono save his race from the massacre that SI would have inflicted on them, a greater one than near the end of WWII.
Ageha was so confused over not spontaneously miscarrying (the experiments included breeding experiments, but succubae will spontaneously miscarry if they aren't bonded emotionally to the father of their offspring) that she named her daughter "Chaotic Dream" after their family name of "Dark Dream", which hailed from before the firing of the Array due to reasons I won't spoil yet. If my reading of Kurumu's kanji is the same as Chinese, then that should fit. She found out later that the sperm sample they used on her was Aono's, and due to her respect for the man's sacrifice… Kurumu was only mentally seriously fucked up (hence why she doesn't manage to just seduce the guy outright) instead of miscarrying. And you can guess who Jane Shepard named Harmony's little brother after. And guess which kid later has the misfortune to get face-raped by someone's breasts regularly later on when his sister sends him in to encourage human-monster (ancient biologically engineered combat form or fetish fuel strains) relations…
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