Dance in the vampire bund: The turtle doves of the vampire bund
By Nikolao
Chapter 3: Crazy Cathy
Akira was standing by the limo in the underground garage below the palace. He was waiting for his princess and the rest of the royal guard. He sighted in relief because it was the start of a new school semester and he was happy he was going to spend a little more time with his classmates. It has been a month and a half long hot summer, he didn't have manny opportunities to go see Yuki because the princess was all over on her buisness trips all over the world, now that she established a strong foothold in Japan with her little show with the three clans she wanted to make sure everyone back at the homeland and in the rest of the world understand that she is doing everything her way and that nobody had the right to say otherwise. Akira turns to the black limo, this was a new limo designed by Alphonse and a specialised science team, they made sure the limo is equipped with the latest defense system for vampires, polarized glass included. Akira turned his face in a smirk when he remembered a few days ago when he and Alphonse had to put Vera inside to test it, they knew that the modification was flawless but they wanted to have some fun teasing Vera who was wery pesimistic about the limo, Vera was not so amused by they're little joke and Mina shared that unhappines as well when she heard all about it from Vera when she came back from the ride. While Akira was thinking about that a sound was heard on the far side of the garage, it was the sound of the lift, they were ascending from the castle level. The metal lift door opens and Mina stepped out followed by Vera, Wolfgang and two werewolf guards. She was wearing her standard school uniform with her trademark ponytail hairstyle. Mina approaches the black limo, looks at the limo for a moment and then looks at Akira.
„I would rather prefer it in red" says Mina pointing at the limo
„When we get back we will make sure Akira paints it in red" Vera says with a smirk on her face while looking at Akira.
„Vera!" Mina turns to Vera in a rather slightly angered manner „We can't be so unfair towards our poor Akira"
„Listen to your princess...Vera" Says Akira with a smile on his face
„It would be unfair to let Akira paint the limo" Says Mina with a just voice
„Yeah" Akira responds happily
„Instead of doing it himself we will bring Alphonse here to help him" Mina says that while turning back to Akira.
„Yeahh...wait...what?" Akira turns back to Mina surprised at her little betrayal
„We girls need to stick together" Vera says
Mina nodds in approval.
Wolfgang looks at Akira with a serious look on his face, looks back at the princess and remindes her that they are already late on the schedule and that they will be a bit late. Akira opens the door for his princess, she says „thank you" at him before entering. Akira was about to enter to take a seat by the princess as usual but suddenly he got pulled on his uniform by Wolfgang.
„It would be best if you drive today Akira" Wolfgang says it in a suggestive manner
„Where is the usual driver?" Mina asks from the interior of the limo
„He has called sick for today your highness" Wolfgang responds
Akira looks back at Mina, she did not object to Wolfgang's order and she wawed her hand to Akira in approval. Akira goes to the drives's door, opens it and sits. He starts the car, the engine was quiet but strong, brand new, if needed this car can go really fast during emergencies. Wolfgang opens the door to the front passenger seat and enters.
„Wait...you're going too?" Akira was confused because this is the first time Wolfgang joins the ride to school
„I have some buisness in the capital city and besides, extra security does not hurt, does it?" Wolfgang responded.
The limo pulles out of the garage and they are on they're way, Mina was sitting alone in the back of the limo, the space between her and the front side is concealed by a thick black polarized glass to protect her from direct sunlight even if the bulletprof glass on the front side of the car gets broken by some crazy turns of event. She moves her hand along the seat she was sitting on and between the seats was a hidden button placed by Alphonse requested especialy by Mina, after clicking the button she could hear the conversation from the front of the limo, of course the only persons that know about this secret button are Alphonse and Mina, this was not the first time she had installed such a secret spying tech, like she said „A queen must know everything in her kingdom".
„Do you have the report? Wolfgang asks Akira
„Yes, right here" Akira pulls the envelope from his pocket, Wolfgang takes the envelope
After a few minutes of father-son talks that were listened closely by Mina they come to a part that got Mina's attention on a higher level.
„Have you heard about the „Red Plaque? He striked again" Wolfgang says
„What? No...where?" Akira's voice becomes a bit louder
„In Washington D.C." Wolfgang answers
„ How manny?" Akira asks
„He took down an entire family of vampires, my sources said they were all killers, killed about a dozen people in a week, looks like that got his attention. But this time, this time it was different" Wolfgang says
„How come?" Akira asks while not letting his eyes go of the road
„My informant said he might not be working alone" Wolfgang says in a worried tone
„Great...that is just what we need...a vampire slayer cult" Akira said that in a sarcastic tone
„Akira...the informat told me he was working with a female accomplice...with red eyes" Wolfgang stated that last part with a delay
Akira's eyes widened by those words
„Are you telling me that there is a vampire out there killing other vampires?" Akira asks
„Akira...be wery carefull protecting her highness, her love for her vampire bund might become her biggest downfall if she gets a surprise attack from a vampire she does not suspect" Wolfgang warns Akira
Mina was listening to those words, her facial expression turned from happy to serious. But it changed back to a smile, that was not the issue at hand right about now, all she wants now is to see her friend Yuki and be with her classmates, things like this „Red Plaque" can wait for a bit.
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The ride to school was a bit longer than usual due to the commotion in the garage and the traffic so they were late for the first period. After the school bell rang for the first recess Mina enters the classroom followed by Akira. Yuki was talking to her friend Sayaka about the summer vacation and then turned her attention to Mina and Akira, the three friends shake they're hands and begin a conversation about they're summer vacation. At some point Mina turns her attention on a few unfamiliar faces in the class, there were two new classmates, one of them was a blonde girl with a long hair and the other was also a girl with a black hair with red highlights. Mina turns to Yuki and asks her about the girls.
„I see we have some new classmates"
„Yes, the black haired one is from Europe, her name is Anna, she has a weird accent, the blonde girl, she is a bit shy, she is from America...I think her name is..." Yuki says but pauses because she can't remember the name right away, then her friend Sayaka joins the conversation.
„Her name is Catherine, but people have already started to call her crazy Cathy" Sayaka whispers to the gang. Yuki looks at Sayaka in a dissaproving way, she didnt like the fact that people have already started to call her names first day of the school.
„Why crazy Cathy?" Mina asks Sayaka
„It's because of the rumors" Sayaka leans to the gang to whisper „People say that some crazy things happens to people when she is around, people get hurt or even missing and she acts weird, sometimes she talks to herself" Sayaka takes a look at Mina and she pauses then she continues saying „She freaks me out...even more than you did when you came here"
The whole school more or less knows about Mina and they have got accustomed to Mina and the vampire thing, most of the students in school have a lot of respect towards Mina for saving them in the church half a year ago when Akira rebelled thinking that Mina was behind the attacks at the students. They learned to call her Mina by her request, she does not want for the other students to feel discomfort while going to school with a member of a royal vampire family, in school Mina was just Mina, another friendly and cheerfull school girl. Mina takes a good look at Cathy and starts to walk towards her, Cathy was clearly separated from everyone by a meter in range, looks like nobody wanted to be near a weird person, but as just as Mina was looking at her she kind of felt for the girl so she decided to make a contact, to throw every rumor to the side and to meet this Cathy girl no matter what other people say. Mina comes to Cathy who at first didnt notice Mina, she was watching outside the window, probably to avoid to much contacts with other people, when she notices on the window a reflection of Mina standing behind her. She turns her attention to Mina, looking at her, Mina gives out her hand saying
„Hello...I'm Mina Tepesh, I'm pleased to meet you, I hope we will get along just fine"
Everyone in the classroom turns they're attention to Mina and Cathy whispering can be heard in the back of the crowd.
„Omg...look, the vampire queen and the crazy one, I dont know who should I feel sorry for"
„She is going to bite her"
„Who is going to bite first? The vampire or the crazy one"
„Omg...did she bite someone already...maybe she's a monster, look at her crazy eyes"
Mina makes a angry face and turns back to others.
„How dare you!" Everyone stoods shocked, Mina continues „Judging someone who you dont know already, dont you see that she is new here? She is in a distant land, she is just looking for someone to not look at her and classify her as something she is cleary not, you are scaring her emotionally and she did not deserve such treatment. A year ago I came here and I was called a monster, a vampire, a bloodsucker, a blood ghoul...and what happened then? I saved your lives, I became your friend"
Mina turns back to Cathy who was surprised and touched by Mina's speech, and then Mina turns back to the crowd, points her hand back at Catherine while saying
„This girl here...is my friend, her name is Catherine, if I hear anyone giving her bad names they are going to have problems with me...is that clear?"
Everyone in the crowd was surprised at first then one by one they started bowing, not to Mina, but to Catherine in a apologetic manner saying „Please forgive us". As more of the people started to apologise Mina looked back at Catherine who was almost crying by how much she was touched by all this. Mina turns back to the crowd, most of them felt bad and went to Catherine to give her a handshake and to introduce themselves properly, but not all of them, one person was standing still, had her hands crossed, looking directly at Mina, not Catherine. Mina turns to that person, looks into her eyes and sees nothing but negativity, almost a evil gaze full of hatred. That person was Anna, her gaze came on Mina and she made sure Mina feels it like a flying knife hitting her chest. Mina looked back at her, watching her carefully, thinking...this girl...might be trouble. But the evil gaze moment was cutted of abruptly by a pat on Mina's shoulder, Mina turns back to Catherine who says
„T...Thank you...Nobody has ever done this for me"
Mina gives a welcoming smile to Catherine saying
„We girls need to stick together"