Fine's POV
I bit into the sweet pastry that was with my cup of warm blood. Sweets and blood, I don't always like the blood but it's alright as long as it's not from the source and with freshly baked sweets. I licked a bit of the remaining sugar that was on my fangs. So sweet.
"Fine, Rein, today a letter has arrived for you from the Moon Kingdom," Father said as he held out the letter with the Moon Kingdom symbol on it. He then passed it to us. "It's inviting the two of you to the Full Moon Festival."
Then we both asked,"Full Moon Festival? What's that?"
"It's a very happy festival, that happens once a year. There's also a beautiful moonlight that comes called the Healing Moonlight," Mother explained. "You two should go. The Moon Kingdom is safe for you two because you can go whenever and not get burned."
Then I said after I finished another of the pastry, "Sounds like fun. When is it?"
"Tomorrow."
"Thank you for the food," Rein and I said as we got up from the table. "Thank you for informing us about this Mother and Father."
"Well? Should we go? It seems like it's going to be interesting," Rein said as we walked back to our room.
"I guess, Milky seems to be worried after what happened at the last Princess Party," I said as I read the other letter in the envelope. "And Mother never lies to us. I'm wondering what kind of country it is as well. The only problem is... "
"We should be alright, these wounds are almost gone anyways," Rein said holding one of her bandaged arms up. "And what else did Milky write?"
" 'You absolutely have to come. I really want you two to meet my brother and Mother. This festival is always really fun and there's going to be lots of food and fun events. So you two must come no matter what.' Is what's written. She really wants us wants us to come."
"So we're going?"
"Yeah," I said. "Meaning we should sleep eventually."
"I wonder what kind of person her brother is," Rein said as she put on her night gown. "Maybe it's someone really nice like Bright-sama~!"
"If they're like Milky, then we'll get along with them. Anyways that Healing Moonlight sounds like it's really beautiful."
"Doesn't it? I really want to see it!"
"Then let's go to sleep soon and we can see it as soon as possible," I said as I got in my bed after I pulled the curtains together. "Sweet nightmares, Rein."
"And don't let the bats bite," she said back at me. After a few minutes of silence, she then said as she got up," But I can't sleep! I want to go right now!"
I got up as well and then asked her,"I know it sounds like so much fun! Can't we just go right now?"
"But it's already really late."
"Then do we not go?"
"But I really want to go!"
"FINE-SAMA, REIN-SAMA GO TO SLEEP RIGHT THIS INSTANT IF YOU ARE PLANNING ON ATTENDING THE FESTIVAL TOMORROW!" Camelot yelled out. She must have heard us. We quickly lied back down in our sheets and tightly closed our eyes.
Then at the same time we said," I really want to go now!"
"GO TO SLEEP NOW, BOTH OF YOU!"
Then we finally went to sleep.
~Fine's Dream World~
He's here again, glaring at me. Why is his presence always in my mind? Why...? What did I do to this person? He raised his gun, looking at me with such cold eyes, and a finger on the trigger. Something about him... seems unusually familiar through. What is it?
Wait! Why am I thinking such thoughts? He pulled the trigger and without thinking, I started to move towards him. I put my pale hand up to his face and the words "I'm sorry" spilled out of my mouth. What am I-?
My mouth opened and my fangs grew then...-
"Fine! Wake up! Wake up of else you can't eat any food in the Moon Kingdom," Rein shouted. "Do you want to make Milky even more worried than she needs to be? Come on Fine, why won't you wake up?"
I opened my eyes to see Rein above me. "I'm up." I got out of bed and put on my clothes. What's with that dream? "How long have you been up, Rein? And how long did you take to wake me up? I'm sorry that I took so long."
"Fine... did you have a bad dream again," she asked as I was about to leave to get some breakfast. I froze for a moment. "Well, did you?"
"I can't hide anything from you can I? Well it's not that much of a deal now, so don't worry too much about it. I'll be fine, that's my name after all. Let's go after we eat."
"Fine, I already got some blood sausage, enough for both of us. Now, let's eat together it's still hot."
I grabbed one of the plates that she brought and sucked the sausage. It's good... I really can't deny that blood actually tastes good to me. The only thing better than blood is the taste of sweets. Honestly that boy, I wonder was I going to drink out of him? If I was then why?
"Fine, let's go."
"Huh? But I haven't finished-"
"You've been poking your plate for 15 minutes, you're done!"
I looked at my empty plate. "Oh, I am done. Well then let's go."
Arriving at the Moon Kingdom castle...
"Fine, Rein, I'm so glad you came!" Milky yelled as she hugged both of us. "I was so worried after what happened at the last Princess Party. Are you two alright? You're not thinking about it anymore are you? Cause Lione, the Seed Princesses and I decided that we're going to be by your side no matter what."
Moon... it seems you were right. "We're alright so don't worry about it too much," we both said at the same time. She let go of us and smiled. "Now let's go meet your family, Milky."
She lead us to where her Mother was. When we saw her; she was really beautiful. "Welcome to the Moon Kingdom. I am Milky's Mother Moon Malia. It's nice to see that you two made it here in good health."
"I'm Princess Fine," I started off. "It's nice to meet you."
"And I'm Princess Rein, thank you for the invitation."
"I wish that our prince could greet you as well, but he refuses to stop training, even through its the night of the Full Moon Festival," Moon Malia said. Training? For a vampire hunter? I knew that princes of other countries did do things like that but... "He did say that he'll join you three later if he has time through."
"Understood Mother, we'll be leaving now then," Milky said as she curtsied. "We'll be back a little late."
"Have a safe trip and Fine, Rein, please enjoy the festival. No one will really be afraid of you two today, there are other nice vampires in this country."
"Thank you for worrying," we both said at the same time. "We'll be sure to enjoy ourselves."
"Milky, Moon Malia-sama's really nice. I'm curious to see what kind of person your brother is now," Rein said as Milky and I were have an eating contest with kabobs, which were delicious. "What kind of person is he?"
Milky finished up her kabob and said," Well...he took care of me when I was little because Mother has poor health and I don't have a Father anymore... Even through he seems cold a lot, he's a really nice person and he's really smart and good at a lot of things."
"Sounds like another version of Bright-sama~~~!"
Milky and I sweat dropped when she said that. "Is Rein always like this?"
"Whenever someone mentions Bright. Anyways, that aside, Milky let's go eat our hearts out! Look there's a waffle stand over there," I said while pointing. "Rein, they have your favorite blueberry flavor so stop fantasizing and hurry up!"
"Coming!"
As we were finishing up some ice cream I noticed that one of the stands had a really cute doll. "Those are Mon Mon Golem dolls. He's the reason for this festival. When he wakes up the kingdom gets the power it needs for the year and the moon will shine at night," Milky explained. "Those dolls only come out once a year and they're always different."
"Sounds interesting," I said as Rein came back with two dolls and handed one to me. I hugged it as I said,"So cute~!"
Milky got a doll too and said, "This year's doll if you press it's nose then an illusion of the full moon comes out. I really love them! Oh look Fine, moon dumplings! They're really good!"
"Really? Let's go eat then! Next we can go get ramen and then doughnuts."
"Then I want to show you two something. So let's hurry and have a blast!"
After a lot of food, games, and buying cute dolls...
"Look, this is the Star Spring. Isn't it pretty?"
"Wow, you can see the stars in space. Who knew that there was a place like this in Mysterious Star? But why did you bring us to a place like this, Milky?" Rein asked as we looked at the beautiful stars. It's really beautiful. The Moon Kingdom has a lot of interesting things.
"Oh, well I've heard around the castle that you can do a bunch of fortune telling here, including love fortune telling. I thought that Rein would be interested in it. With her... um... crush? On Bright-sama. I guess you would call it. That and here you can see the Healing Moonlight with the aura and it's really pretty."
"What do I need to do?"
"Say the person's name that you love three times. The more shooting stars you see the better your love will be rewarded or so they say. Try it Rein."
"Bright-sama! Bright-sama! Bright-sama!" She looked really anxious to see the results but nothing happened. Then she started to cry in a ball form. Well... she doesn't have to be that sad... Fortune telling isn't always right, isn't it? I'm not really sure.
I laughed very humorlessly. Then turned to Milky. "But I'm surprised Milky, how do you know about this? Is it because you have someone you like or something?"
"Well," she said as she blushed as red as my hair. I was right. "I have done it before and got a lot of shooting stars and I'm pretty sure that he likes me. Whenever he's at a party, he would always dance with me." (Can you guess who he is?)
"He sounds like a nice person. Now you shouldn't really say that in front of Rein through," I said as we looked at the girl in ball form who now had an arrow with 'Not even one shooting star' written on it.
"That aside, Fine do you have anyone that you like?"
"No, I don't. I'm not interested in stuff like that." Then an image of that vampire hunter came into my head. No! Not him... How can I like someone who's name I don't even know? I don't know anything about him, so why? I've been asking myself too many questions lately.
"Fine, Rein stop crying and get out of your ball, look!" Rein and I looked up. How beautiful... The moonlight's sparkling. As through making even more stars appear all around. "Make a wish you two, and then it will come true."
I wish... that there could be more people who won't judge us vampires on what they are but on who they are. I smiled slightly. I really hope that my wish comes true.
"This moonlight is really pretty, I'm glad that we came to see it. don't you think so, Fine?"
"What exactly did you wish for Rein," I asked noticing that she was a lot more cheerful than 5 seconds ago. She didn't say anything and just smiled. We all continued to watch the beautiful light of the moon, all smiling. Somehow this light gives me hope.
On the way back to the castle, Milky asked,"Are you two planning on staying for the night? Or are you going back home?"
I said, "I'm not sure... really we could go back home at any time. What do you think Rein?"
"It would be fun to sleep over, but would it be okay, will we be a bother?"
"Mother told me that you two can sleep over before you arrived. We have plenty of guest rooms. It's your choice. I don't think Oni-sama will mind too much," Milky explained. "Really I don't think that it would be that much trouble if you two stay here for the night."
"Milky, about your brother," I started to say.
"Hmm?" Then she looked a little ahead and said as she ran towards the person, "Ah, Oni-sama! Did you finish your training for the night? You missed out on all the fun. We went to the Star Spring, ate a lot of delicious food, played a bunch of games, and got stuff dolls. "
"Really? It sounds like you had fun." That purple hair with matching eyes... With the scent of gun powder. It can't be...? I froze on the spot and I felt that Rein did too. He looks the same the only difference was that he was smiling, kindly. He then looked at us and said, "Thank you for taking care of my sister. Is there something wrong?"
"You... are a vampire hunter aren't you?" The words slipped out before I had a chance to think. What should I do?
