Fine's POV
"Fine, wake up."
"What? It's still day. Wake me up when it's night," I muttered to her. We didn't plan to do anything this day, so why is she getting me to wake up early?
"Lione, Milky and the Seed Princesses are here. Wake up! They wanted to practice flower arrangements with us today," Rein said tugging on my bed covers. "Fine!"
"Alright then, let's go," I said sitting up. I never thought about the possibilities of people actually coming to visit us, on their own will. It just seems weird somehow, since we're still vampires. But I don't understand how others think, so it's alright.
"Well, then hurry up. They've waited for us long and Shade-sama is here as well," Rein said as I got dressed.
I stopped when I heard that and went back into bed. "On second thought, I think that it's better to be sleeping during day. I don't want to get burned or something." I just don't want to be around that person, he makes me feel... uncomfortable.
"Fine!"
After 10 minutes of dragging, whining, and wondering on where Rein got her strength passed by painfully.
"Sorry, we're late. I had to get Fine," Rein said cheerfully who was dragged me in. "I hope that no one strange came towards you guys."
"No, everything's fine. Your parents told the maids and everyone to keep their hands off us," Lione said. " Besides, I should be apologizing, for coming here all of a sudden, without an invitation. It was my idea. I hope that we aren't going to be too much trouble."
"No trouble at all," I told her. "You guys wanted to practice flower arrangement with us, right? Camelot prepared for lessons today and there's a lot of materials to use."
"Wait Fine," Saya said. "Why don't we use flowers that we grow ourselves?"
Nursya continued, "We brought Dream Seeds with us. They grow by the feelings you use to take care of them."
Milky said, "Sounds interesting, let's use them."
"Then let us show you a good place to plant them," We both said at the same time. "Please follow us." It's a bright day again. The minute Rein and I stepped outside our bats came to us, shielding us from the light. They're always very good to us and today's a bit cloudy too.
"Don't worry, they won't hurt you as long as we don't command it," I said to the quivering princesses as a bat perched itself on my finger. I stroked it head as I said, "They're really obedient so I wouldn't worry too much about it. Here we are."
"Then let's start!"
"But I wonder, do flowers really grow easily," Lione wondered aloud as she put down the heavy bucket of water.
"As long as you give your flower your feelings of love and thanks then, it'll grow in return," Loloa explained to her.
"Now, that I think about it," Rein started, she finished putting the little signs in the large planter. "I remember once my Mother said that she got Dream flowers from my Father once. I'm pretty sure its when he asked her to marry him but he wouldn't say anything. Do you remember, Fine?"
"I remember. No matter how much we asked he didn't answer us," I said.
"I wonder if I should give flowers to Bright-sama with my feelings for him?" They were hearts in her eyes again. She's thinking again and she's saying really weird things.
This is strange... normally she gets out of it within 5 minutes. Something's definitely wrong. I turned to a bat and said, "Please get me my mallet. It's on the bottom drawer of my dresser and please hurry before her imagination..." I had no idea what to say. "Please just hurry, as fast as you can."
The bat nodded and took off. "Well, the good thing is that Rein's energetic, right?"
"Yeah, even through it gets annoying. Well, it gives me an excuse to use the mallet that I have. The bats will hurt her too much, if I use them."
Then Rein suddenly got out of her day fantasy. "What was happening? Anyways let's plant the seeds." I wonder what it'll turn out to be? My Dream flower... I put plant food on it and patted it. I hope that it'll grow to be really big. When everyone planted their seed, Rein said, "Since today has good weather, let's go take a walk. By the way, Fine, what's that?"
I turned to see that the bat has my mallet. "I'm sorry, it must have been heavy. Thank you, but can you hold onto it a little longer? The bat nodded in reply. I noticed that everyone was staring at me. I held a bat out and said "Nee, Milky do you want to pet it?"
"Huh? Um... well..."
I took her hand and gently slide it across the top of the bat's head. "See? It won't hurt you."
"It really is cute." I let go of her hand as she continued to stroke it. It seems like the bat likes her back. "I never thought that a bat could be so cute. Don't you think so Oni-sama?"
"Just make sure that you're careful. We don't want Mother to worry."
"Okay." Such a caring brother. I wonder how it would be if Rein and I had an older would be interesting.
"Fine, Rein, your garden is really amazing," Saya said. "All the plants are well care for and there's so many different types of flowers."
"Really? We don't take care of the flowers that often since the gardeners tell us not to. And this place looks really amazing at night. Perfect scenery for couples. I wish that Bright-sama and I could dance in this garden when it's night," Rein said. There's hearts in her eyes again. Where'd my mallet go? I have a bad feeling.
"Uh? Shouldn't we go check on the flowers now?" Lione asked.
"Sure. Let's go then," Rein said suddenly snapping out of her love mode. When we came all of the flowers had sprouted expect for mine. "Um... Fine."
"I'm alright. After all, flowers all grow at a different pace, so that why it's completely fine." This atmosphere is getting weird and my bad feeling is growing. Is it one of my bats? I have to go check. "Now that I think about it, Rein, I haven't eaten anything yet because you woke me up. I'm going get some snacks."
I quickly ran before I could hear Rein protest. When I was out of sight, I said," Please make sure that my sister's bats don't follow me." I ran away to the elevator and caught a bat with a pink ribbon. "What's going to happen?" It spoke the message in bat talk. "I see. Thank you. Go rest now, you've been through a lot." We have another guest today.
The elevator opened and a figure stepped out. "As expected of one of the vampire princesses. Your skills with bats are simply wonderful as always." A man with a pair of deep blood red eyes.
"Please tell me why you're here. We have some guests today and I would prefer that you wouldn't cause trouble for them," I said seriously in an emotionless voice.
"Alright then, Fine-sama as you know my brother was killed a while ago by a vampire hunter."
"Yes, I'm very sorry for you. By the time I examined him, it was too late to do anything. I'm truly sorry."
"The reason why I'm here today is because I heard that the vampire hunter is here and I would like to have the pleasure of taking his life." His fangs were all the way out. Even through it was day, he still had a lot of power in him. "Where exactly is he?"
"My apologies, but there is no vampire hunter here. Only princesses of the Flame, Moon and Seed Kingdoms, as well as the prince of the Moon Kingdom. If you wish to seek revenge, then I would suggest searching for the accurate person first."
"You really are siding with all the hateful humans."
"I am not siding with anyone. I am just stating the facts. I aware that you were quite fond of your brother and I'm truly sorry that he's gone. I can't say anything else because I don't know what it means to lose someone. Really, I'm incredibly sorry, however please remember that your brother shouldn't have been doing such business. If he was human his fate should be the same. That type of business is illegal."
He didn't speak for a bit. Then he said, "You are right about that. Maybe if I stopped him, he wouldn't be dead. It's just that he was the last of my family. Maybe you will become a good Queen in the future. Thank you for stopping me before I did something stupid. " He stepped back into the elevator.
I'm glad that I could solve that without violence. Now, it's time to go back. I've been missing for too long. Rein and the others are going to get worried.
"You handled that well." I turned around to see Shade. "You were taking too long so I came to see what you were doing."
"I'm sorry for troubling you."
"Shouldn't I be thanking you? You did make it so a vampire wouldn't have killed me."
"I don't want to make another enemy. Besides, it's my duty because I'm going to be the next Queen," I said quickly walking back towards the others. "Now, let's head back before Rein runs here and starts dragging us."
"Do you want to be Queen?"
I stopped for a minute."Well, who else will do it if I don't? After all I'm the oldest, so I've got to take responsibility."
"What?"
"You probably thought that Rein was older didn't you?"
(In anime there are two ways to tell who is older and who is younger. One, is that one of the twins is always protected by the other, the younger twin is normally protected. Or the older one acts more childish/ foolish. At least that what I've discovered so far. I have no idea if Fine is older or not, this is a guess.)
"What if Rein wants to succeed?"
"Then she'll succeed, it's as simple as that. It doesn't matter who becomes Queen as long as one of us does. Hurry up, I don't want to get dragged."
"Then what do you want to do?"
"Who knows. You know, this is the first time I've actually talked to someone about this. Thank you."
"No... problem. Now, let's head back."
Normal POV( I'm going to speed up this story to the Flower Princess Party)
"Fine, Rein those flowers are really different," Lione said looking at the large sunflowers and the small blue tulips.
Mirlo said, "I can't image the arrangement that you're going to make. It's going to be very unique isn't it?"
"It's going to be like us," Rein started. Then Fine nodded and said," Yep, similar but different. The rest is going to be a surprise." Then Fine noticed Altezza holding a huge bouquet full of roses and they both rushed over to the girl's side. "Altezza, do you need any help with that?"
"I'm perfectly fine carrying them on my own."
Fine just continued to smile. She reached out for the flowers as she said, "Don't be like that, let me-"
"I said I don't need any help!" Altezza quickly moved the roses before Fine could touch them. Fine looked down at her finger and noticed that she was bleeding a thorn was in her finger. Altezza also noticed this and started to say, " Oh, I'm-"
"Are you alright, Fine? Does it hurt," Sophie asked, looking concerned.
"I'm alright. Vampires heal pretty fast, look it stopped bleeding already," Fine said after taking the small thorn out and licking the small amount of blood. "See?"
"That's really convenient," Mirlo said.
Altezza quickly left and so Fine and Rein were a little discouraged. Of course they didn't show it but they were quiet for a while. No one said anything. Then Rein perked up a bit and said," Well, Fine and I better go dress up. The party's starting soon."
As Fine and Rein were dressing, Altezza was walking through the corridors of the castle. 'Even through I said all those rude things, they're still nice to me. That conversation that they had after they left me... how can they still believe that?'
"It's because they really want to be friends with you," A voice said to her. Altezza looked up too see a girl with pure white hair, smiling at her. "Those two just want to be friends with other people. even after everything that's happened to them, they are still very kind."
"Who are you? Leave me alone, I need to go finish preparing for the party," Altezza said turning around in the other direction.
"Why won't you be friends with them?"
At that Altezza didn't move in a soft voice she said," It's because they're vampires." Altezza started to walk off again.
"Oh, that's why?" The blond girl stopped once more. "Let me tell you a little secret. When it's their birthday soon, if nothing goes wrong they will slowly become human. All vampires in Mysterious Star will so you don't need to worry about that."
"What?" When Altezza turned around the girl was gone. 'Exactly who was she and what did she mean by all that?'
"It seems that I've made you confused." She was right besides Altezza who was slightly scared. Well, I'm basically saying that what they are, doesn't determine who they are." She saw away again while saying, "Good luck on today's party. It'll be something interesting today."
''What a strange person," Altezza thought aloud. "I feel like someone said something like that to me once. Let see..." "Not all vampires are bad people. We're like normal humans. I hope that you can believe that one day." "Fine said that."
Then a hand can out and grabbed Altezza.
"Now, we'll begin the 4th Princess Party," Moon Mailia announced. "First will be the Moon Kingdom's own Princess Milky." Milky came out of the floor, next to her was a moon shaped vase with a flower that looked like it had dumplings on it. "It's an arrangement with moon drop primroses. Please have some if you wish."
"Milky your plant turned out so nice," Fine said picking one of the buds and putting it in her mouth. "Sweet!"
"It suits Milky well," Lione said.
Then Sophie came over and asked," Have you seen Altezza?" When the question was asked, Fine and Rein stopped smiling and looked at each other. They hurried out of the room.
Then Milky noticed that her brother was looking somewhere and collapsed. After a small incident, when Milky and Shade were out of reach from anyone hearing them Shade said," Thanks Milky. Now, I can do my job."
"Good luck." Shade was about to walk away but stopped when Milky said," Oni-sama, are you really going to kill a vampire again?"
"It's my job. You know that Milky."
"But..."
"What is it?"
"Nothing, I'll be hiding for a bit. be careful." Shade walked away from Milky. 'I already know that it's your job, but if Fine and Rein found out who you really are then what happens?'
"So you really are here Altezza," Fine said as she opened the door to the cart of where Altezza was trapped. "Are you alright?"
"Of course," she said. Then remembering what the girl said to her, she said," Thank you... and I'm sorry for everything."
"It's fine," Rein said helping her down. "So will you be our friend now?" Altezza smiled and nodded at the pair who were smiling back at her. "Now, on to other business. Who put you in there?"
"I'm not really sure. I think that it was a vampire...maybe."
"You're not sure? This could be troublesome," Rein said as a bat came to Fine.
"Rein, a human with vampire henchmen, how unique. I believe that the man used to be the Moon Minster. He's trying to ruin the party and he wants to take over the Moon Kingdom. Let's go stop him. Altezza please head back to the party. It's your turn right now and Sophie is trying distracting them."
"Thank you."
When Altezza left Rein said," Fine, it's time."
"I got it." Bats came from every direction and surrounded them. Their wings grew. Their eyes turned a deep blood red, redder than a rose, than Fine's normal eye color, a color deeper than blood. The royal vampires have more power than normal vampires. They can control other vampires like puppets and their skills with bats are extraordinary higher.
"I can't believe that a human is controlling good vampires. He really is scum," Rein said as we flew past all the halls and outside to spot a crowd of people. "Truly the lowest being alive," she said as we landed in the middle.
The guy with the mustache said, "You two are... Attack them, they want to drag you back to the cage you were once in." As soon as the vampires took a step, they fell to the ground practically gagging. Almost as if they couldn't breathe.
Meanwhile a conversation was happening...
"You're Prince Shade aren't you," Bright asked the purple haired boy after he killed three vampires.
"And what if I am?"
"Why do you fight vampires? I think that if we just open our minds a little then we could be able to-," Bright unfortunately couldn't finish his sentence because Shade interrupted him
"Prince Bright, you have only recently started your training and still have not actually hunted a vampire yet. Vampires are just monsters, we cannot trust them, nor they with us. Isn't it only the right thing to protect what you have the best you can? Wake up Bright and realize the things that you have to do. That you need to do."
"We are able to get along with them through, so why is there such a thing like vampire hunters in the first place?"
"We hunters, get rid of those who have lost their minds."
"But still-"
"I know that not every vampire is bad but, there are bad ones out there. So we protect people from the bad. That's our job."
The man was shocked and tried to run away before either one of them could move a muscle and whip came into view and hit the man, also knocking him into the ground.
"So it really was your plan. And I thought that they locked you up 4 years ago. You're going back to prison."
"Thank you for helping us, Hunter-san," Rein said to him. Her eyes had turned back to her normal sea green. "If you don't mind through, can the vampires come back with us?"
"Do what you want."
Shade was about to leave when Rein noticed something. "You're bleeding. Let me help." Rein took out her handkerchief and tied it on top of Shade's wound. "Now, it's okay." He looked at it, speechlessly. At this time Fine was putting the knocked out vampires on their balloon ignoring her heart's pain.
Time speed up to the end of the party...
As everyone clapped for Sophie's win, Fine noticed that on Shade's hand was Rein's handkerchief. "I hope that you all enjoy the rest of the party."
Bright took Rein to go dance while Shade suddenly came up to Fine and offered his hand to dance with her. Of course Fine being the way she was would have rejected but he took her hand before she could say anything. (Has anyone noticed that in the 1st season when Bright likes Fine he never asks her to dance after the first episode?)
"I'm sorry!' Fine had just stepped on Shade's foot... for the fifth time. "This is why I don't really dance that often."
"Don't you have dance tutors?"
"Long story short, they quit after the First Princess Party."
"Then should I become your dance tutor?"
"Wait, what?"
Rein was having a very similar conversation with Bright and somehow the two princes decided to go tutor the vampire princesses in dance.
