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The outer space was calm. Since the defeat of Polidori and the destruction of Byron, the atmosphere of the planet was clear and without problems. Near the planet's orbit, a giant satellite floated in it. It was pure white, with solar cells around it, and a huge cannon on the top. Laplace was placed near the bottom of the satellite, unused for about four years. Which it was good, since the habitants in the floating machine needed to fix the big hunter fortress after its last show against Polidori.
The silence was interrupted by an annoying ringing sound from the control room. It was one of the biggest, along with the machine room, with several tables with many buttons that would make a child crazy with all their different shapes, colors and lights. It had some floating windows that showed results of some test running on Laplace inside and outside the satellite, as well as some test from the satellite itself. There was also a huge window which was made for the only purpose to see the outer space without using the cameras that were placed in different spots on the surface of the machine. From it, the planet, the Sun and the Moon were seen, and the pink haired girl sleeping on the control table loved to sit and watch these three stellar beings spin around each other.
The ringing stopped and then, a few seconds latter, started again. The girl's bunny ears twitched in anger at the annoying sound and decided to finally awake. Her messy hair, result from her odd sleeping position, fall on her face as she tried to push it back, trying to find her phone that laid somewhere in room. She spun in her spinning chair, looking around. She got up, her jacket that was hanging from the back of it fall to the ground and tripped over her black boots that where on the floor. She yawned, visible tired after a long and hard work. Again, the phone ceased its ringing and the girl groaned. She adjusted her short, purple pants, making his little bun tail comfortable, and put back in place her black bikini top. Her red eyes scanned the room and, giving a joyful cry, found her pink phone. Just as she was going to check the missed calls, the phone rang again. This time, she took the call.
"Yo! Alice reporting!", said with her usual cheerful voice as she sat down again on the chair. "Who's this?"
"Who else?", answered the male on the other line, and Alice's eyes sparkled.
"Oh, Heavens! I can't believe it's you! If it wasn't for Aaron, you would have forgotten about me!", came her reprimand. Her bunny ears twitched in anger.
"...Lies.", came from the phone, hiding a nervous laugh.
"You weren't able to lie, mean dark swordsman!", she laughed too, moving the chair away from the control panel and putting her bare feet on it, making herself comfortable. "If I wasn't up here, I would say you died after beating up Polidori."
"For what type of person do you take me, Sunflower girl?"
Alice giggled. She felt happy to heard him say that name, after all, she was a distant descendant of the legendary sunflower and star tellers from the past.
"So, how's everything down there?"
"And you are telling me? Can't you spy me anymore, can you?"
"It's funny to spy you when you are doing naughty stuff~ .", came her reply and she could heard the faint gasp that Lucian made in the other line.
"What the fuck have you been up to, fucking pervert?"
Alice busted into loud laughs.
"Oh, you fell for it?!", she laughed again. "I can't believe it! How innocent are you, darling?"
"...I'm going to hang up..."
"No, no! But you can't deny me some fun after not talking with you for quiet a while."
"True."
"Besides, I'm not as perverted as you are with Aaron, though."
"...You had been watching?"
"Nope, Aaron talks with me, you know."
"I'm going to kill him.", she heard him sigh loudly, but couldn't tell where he was. Remembering she could spy on him, started to run a program on the control room. A black, floating window popped up in front of her as she typed a few things on the keyboard. "But can't blame him. After all, I talk a few things with Dumas and Nish..."
Alice giggled again.
"Talking about the Duke, he got more handsome!", said with a wide smile and blushed cheeks. "And his new mate it's very cute, too!"
"They hadn't mate yet, but I think that day will come soon seeing how clingy it's Dumas with him.", Lucian laughed softly. Alice giggled when, after putting everything the program asked her, could take a nice shot of the dark swordsman with the outdoor cameras of the satellite. What surprised her was that the man looked up, smiled and waved at her. "Hey!"
Alice laughed again.
"You got handsome, too. And Aaron it's quiet pretty.", she was trying to figure out where the hell Lucian was, since the Sunflower girl couldn't tell at first sight. "The Laplace it's almost done with the reparations, I still can't believe how you two fucked it up like you did."
"Well, if you have any chance in getting inside of one of Polidori's body, then you will know why."
"So, tell me, what's the problem?"
"You might know what has been happening with the north gunslingers, right?"
"Yes, you are pretty fucked up down there.", answered Alice. She watched as Lucian lay on the ground, putting an arm behind his back. The girl already knew he was a vampire know after seeing him fight in his full form a few days back in the forecourt.
"We will need your help up there. Nish suggested that we could use the satellite to see what will be Oyan's moves, where is he hiding, things like that."
"Oh, yes! Absolutely!", answered Alice, very happy to help her friends again after a long time.
"I want to ask... Do you know how it's Oyan's spy?"
"Physically? Yes, I know.", said the girl, opening another window, typing different things from the first one and let it search what she wanted. "I can't tell if it's a vampire, human or other creature, since he is always covered up."
"We only need his usual clothes and the rest it's story.", he heard the girl giggle again. "Does it seem familiar to you?"
The screen finally showed a zoomed image of Oyan and his spy walking around the Guild's forest.
"Not at all, not even the first time I saw him.", her ears twitched again and fall on her head. "Sorry to not help you with that."
"It's alright. Do you have a nice picture of him?"
"Yup! Plenty of them! I had anticipated some of your steps and I have saved a nice folder with several pictures of him, but none of them are without his mask, sadly.", she typed a few things in the keyboard and a transfer bar appeared on it. "I will send you the best I have. It's a picture of him in the full moon phase, looking up, so you will have a nice shot of his face."
When the transfer bar popped up a message box saying the transfer was completed, on the planet, Lucian heard that his pink phone, because Alice chooses the color sadly, made a beeping sound. Putting it in front of him and accepting the file, the image loaded on the screen and appeared seconds later. For the first time, Lucian could meet Oyan's spy.
"Mm..", hummed the dark swordsman, eyeing the clothed boy.
"Do you know him?"
"Not really, but he seems familiar, specially those big glasses.", in his mind, he told himself that if the boy was the one who thought of, couldn't be still alive after what happened. "Although I think they are not the same person.", he saved the image in the phone's hard drive and put it again against his ear. "Thanks for the picture, sweetie.", said before hanging up, smirking.
On the other side, Alice stared blankly at the screen where showed Lucian standing up and leaving. Her face was blushed and her ears couldn't register what the man said to her but after a few seconds. She smiled then, thinking how Aaron changed Lucian in the past four years.
Lucian jumped from the cliff to the ground, putting the phone inside the Casket Armor, between this and the tight suit that protected his skin, and left it there since he didn't have any pockets with that suit.
Now that he knew and had a picture of Oyan's spy, Ernest's tries in telling the other's how the kid was were useless as no one understood him, they could work better. But still were thinking how to help Alexander, who was still under the gunslinger's hands. It would be risky going straight into the Guild and start looking, since the weaponry they had was much better than the local gunslingers. They needed to wait for Bea's relatives, Kay's friends and the vampires and people that wanted the north gunslingers out of the East cities. It had passed now three days since they had walked around the cities saying and talking with different people and creatures about what was happening in the city. Surprisingly, most of them knew about it but were too afraid to do something. The family that Lucian saved long ago said they were going to help and were also going to talk with their relatives and friends, and have more allies for the imminent fight. After giving the details of the reunion in the ruined Dark Castle, Lucian left and went to talk with the Inn's owner, Marthin and his helper Maximilano. Both of them agreed with the vampire and, after he left, reunited several people that left after him in different directions. Seemed that most of East City wanted the north gunslingers out of their lands.
As good as it sounded; it also went wrong with some of the people they talked with. Nish and Perrault were badly insulted by some vampires that hated humans and wanted all of them out, and weren't going to help. Nish got really pissed off and ended up fighting with the ones that insulted him and Perrault, only to be stopped by two bigger vampires that kicked them out from the pub. He feared that those types of people would show up in the middle of the reunion and start insulting and doing other nasty stuff like fighting with those who wanted to the war between humans and vampires end for all. What would happen then? Who will protect those people? Nish had hopes that the same people will kick them out from the Dark Castle and block the entrance to them. The next families they talked to were kind, but didn't want to cooperate because they were afraid after what happened in the last war. Nish understood and told them, even so, that if they changed their mind or at last wanted to be informed on what's happening, they were free to go anytime or ask to anyone.
The three gunslingers went to talk with humans instead of with vampires, knowing they would suspect from them if they told them there was going to be a war between them and the vampires. Luckily, they found nice people that listened to them and agreed in helping kicking Oyan out from the city, but a few others rebelliously rejected the idea and started a fight with Ernest and Kay about how they weren't doing their work right and that the local gunslingers sucked too much. Kay was about to lose his temper with them when Ernest stopped him and said that if the sucked so much, then why he didn't list in the Guild to help it to be better. With it, they told to the ones that wanted to cooperate where the reunion would be, the time and day, and left.
The Terrennials had it easy. Toasty and Nero were pretty convincing with their words and found a nice group of vampires and humans that wanted to cooperate and help. They were four or five families in a single group, and more than one hundred of people. Nero eyed the vampires and whispered to Toasty that they were pretty strong. They taught them a big arsenal of weapons that could be used if needed, and Nero examined them all, one by one. The men of the families answered the Terrennial's entire questions about their kin and the weapons, while they answered the ones the kin asked them.
Now, three days later and with Lucian heading the leadership along with Dumas and Ernest, they were getting prepared to go to the Dark Castle and make clear all the rules about the important mission. He had to admit he was nervous about the whole thing. He had never done something this big, not even when he decided to fight besides Trinity against the tyranny of the Lord of Destruction. It was true the enemy was a lot stronger than them, but they weren't too much to deal with. This time, they were going to confront more than one thousand, according with Sheridan, and all of them wore thick armors, reflecting shields and nasty solar guns. He hoped that the armors that Bea's relatives had were enough for all the vampires that wanted to fight against them.
Lucian found funny the way Oyan acted; straight, uncaring, not thinking things too clearly. The man had lost many important and valuable gunslingers since he was promoted to leader of the north Guild, and even before when the old leader was in charge. Why sacrifice lives so lightly? Didn't he know that soldier that runs works for another war? As he saw the evening that Oyan decided to attack the mansion, he left with the healthy ones and left all the others behind, most of them had not so important wounds and could be saved and healed up if he wasn't so close of mind. He sometimes wondered who was the one that taught him that was the correct way to act before certain situations.
He grabbed the pink phone and put the image of the spy again on the screen, watching it silently, as trying to concentrate and focus his thoughts on the silhouette of the boy sitting on the ground, looking up to the dark sky. As Alice said, Lucian found it familiar, but couldn't remember to whom. Being all covered it was hard to figure it out, although his hair and big, round glasses were something he remembered from a vampire that long ago helped Ratatosk in his plan to get his hands on Vanargandr, as Trinity told him. He could ask Ernest or Dumas about the boy, since they knew better than him what happened before the war started. Yes, he was an active member of the Guild, but he always lacked information about the current situation and some details escaped from his hands and then it was too late. He had fixed that little mistake and now he tried to gather all the information he could.
Lucian returned to Sheridan's mansion and was surprised to see Carmilla there only.
"Good evening, Carmilla.", cheered the man when he stepped inside the mansion. The maid bowed at him lightly. "Where are the rest?"
The maid blinked in confusion.
"The only ones that are here its young Aaron and I only."
Lucian paled a bit.
"Fuck!", cursed as he rushed up stairs, followed by Carmilla.
They run towards the boy's room and opened it, finding no one there. When the men entered the mansion, he could feel only the girl's presence, meaning that everyone had already left to the castle. They all agreed in letting Aaron stay for his own safety even if the kid had complained about it. Lucian didn't want him to end up injured because of him, and the best way was to let him locked in a safe place. He knew it was wrong, that the boy hated being closed up for so many time, but couldn't risk losing him, like he did with Trinity and Ella. He knew, also, that was also a risk leaving him like that, but had to decide. And now, the kid wasn't in the mansion and the vampire thought, as he and Carmilla searched all over the place that Aaron might have gone to the castle to hear what they were going to talk about.
They failed to find it in the mansion. Lucian moved his little wings in a nervous way, as he tried to think where Aaron could be, besides the castle. He took the pink phone and phoned Ernest while eyeing the outdoor gardens of the mansion. When the men decided to pick up, he sighed heavily at the situation Aaron got himself in, but said he was going to patrol New Culiacan and the castle a bit before they all arrived to it. As he hung up, the vampire thanked Carmilla for her help and left the mansion, walking the gardens in search for his evasive mate.
After searching for about an hour, he finally found him talking with a strange young man, wearing dirty clothes and a black hat. Thinking Aaron could be in danger, Lucian jumped between them and growled at the stranger, making his wings grow to their full form as he showed his teeth and fangs to the other, who had jumped backwards at the feeling of a new presence.
"Easy.", said Dyango softly, not moving from his defensive position. His skin made lightly gosebumps and his hair lightly shot forwards. The intense energy of Lucian was too much for him, and frightened the young man a bit. "We were only talking."
"He helped me when we were in Acuna, after you drank my blood.", explained Aaron. "He wants to help us.", Lucian seemed to relax, but his wings kept protecting the boy. "His name it's Dyango, and it's a writer."
The young man took off his hat and bowed, smiling.
"Pleased to meet you.", said.
"....Dyango, you said?", whispered Lucian. The boy could tell he was shocked for some reason.
"Yes, but oh! It's too late now, and I have to leave!", exclaimed him, putting the hat on again. "Let's us meet again, Lucian."
Before the vampire could stop the young man, Dyango left the same way he did before, leaving Lucian and Aaron alone in the forest. The wings shrank and went to their minimum level, as the vampire turned around to hug the boy and kiss him softly.
"Just tell me where are you going, please.", he told the boy. "I know you are a powerful gunslinger now, that you can take care of yourself, but remember there are people that worry about you because there are other ones that wants you dead.", Lucian heard Aaron sigh and return the gesture, whimpering. "Sshh, don't cry, my child, it's all right."
"I can't stay back and see how you guys do all the work. I feel so useless...", answered the boy, hiding in Lucian's chest.
The vampire smiled, petting Aaron's head and hair.
"Want to come, then?", asked the man.
Aaron lifted his head and the vampire sighed, cleaning the tears that were leaving his pretty eyes with his fingers.
"Can I?"
"As long as you stay besides me or the others.", Aaron pouted but agreed, as he hid his face again on Lucian's chest. "Ah, my child...", sighed for a third time tne vampire. "What would I do without you?", said as he hugged the boy tighter. "I love you so much."
Aaron smiled and snuggled closer as he could.
"I do, too."
They kissed for a while and left the forest, hand in hand, towards the ruined Dark Castle. Even when they seemed they didn't have anything in their minds, Lucian was pretty confused. After seeing the young man, this Dyango, his energy gave a light jump, as if Dyango's energy and his resonated somehow. The vampire wanted to know why and why he looked so much like him... But he had more important things to do right now. He could leave that after the reunion in the castle.
Lucian had to transform into his full form due to the dangers in Acuna, the city they had to go through if they wanted to go to Dark Castle. The vampire carried his mate on his arms as he flew over the skies, finding quickly the two towers of it. From above, they could see a lot of people going inside the castle but what was surprisingly was the fact that no men of Oyan was near. Lucian landed next to the entrance and made his way through it, with Aaron still in arms, until he found Ernest and Nish in the center of the first hall from the castle.
"You found him, eh?", said the tanned man, ruffling the boy's hair. "Quiet the problem you are."
Aaron giggled.
"How things are going?", asked Lucian as he let his mate made it to the floor.
"Very well, nothing has happened yet.", answered Nish. "How it went with Alice?"
"She sent me a satellite image of Oyan's spy. Talking about him, where the hell are his men? I didn't see anyone when we were heading here."
Ernest shrugged.
"I don't know, but as long as he doesn't show up with a group to attack us, I'm fine."
"Shh! Don't call the disgrace!", said Nish, angry. "I will put some ice statues around the castle and in other principal spots to prevent him to come over here."
"I'm going to help you.", said Lucian. He turned to Aaron and kissed his forehead. "I will return soon. Don't get into troubles.", he smiled to him and left with Nish.
"You either.", answered the boy, leaving with Ernest.
Bea, Kay and Dumas were waiting for everyone to arrive and settle there. Aaron sat against the wall with the Terrennials around him, as he waited like the others. Half and hour later, Nish and Lucian returned, and two hours after, the doors of the castle closed. Dumas was surprised they could summon many humans and vampires that night. Just seeing with his eyes, the former Duke counted between two hundred and five hundred of people, but could be less than that. He eyed them all and stood in front of the group, narrowing his eyebrows. He stood firmly and said:
"I want to thank everyone who came tonight, due to the circumstances the East Cities are right now, seeing that anyone of you could easily been captured or killed under the gunslingers hands.", was the first thing the former Duke spoke. Nish, behind him, spotted some vampires that he had fought days before the reunion and, surprisingly, they were calm and paying attention. Had they considered it? "Some of you might have see me and my partners go from house to house, shop from shop, bar from bar saying that the north gunslingers were trying to break into out lands.", most of the crowd nodded. "Sadly, it's true. I also have to say that it was all because a little argument between some of my partners here present, and seeing how the situation it's out of our hand we ask for your help.", Dumas started to walk back and forth, seeing all of the faces, memorizing their facial expressions. "We thought, at first, the north gunslingers were trying to help but we noticed little by little that it wasn't their intention. Again, we are sorry for that. Although, some of us have been taken care of a few of them but according to a informant, the enemy has more reinforcement back in the North Lands, and he is slowly gaining followers here, too."
The former Duke walked to the wall and proceed to walk forwards into the crowd, meeting their eyes every now and then as he spoke.
"One of my partners, Bea the blonde woman,", said as he raised his arm towards said woman. "Has some relatives with potential weaponry we can use against the gunslingers, as well as armor for our defense. Kay, the canid over there, also has relatives that will help us with this.", Dumas stood in the other side of the room and proceed to walk back, but taking another route. "We also have the Terrennial's help, and two of the most powerful vampires I ever met.", said with a wide smile. "I think all of you might recognize our old fellow, Sartana…", raising his arm, he showed the multitude the purple haired man. "…now imbued with the same dark powers as I and many of you. The other one it's Nish, capable of doing amazing stuff with his ice powers.", he suddenly stopped. "Then, Ernest... The current leader of our local Guild has agreed to allow us to use the remaining members of the Guild that will soon face its disintegration. Perhaps one of the most valuable fellows from our group it's the boy that its sitting over there, with the Terrennials...", everyone turned their heads towards Aaron, and most of them gasped. The boy blushed in embarrassment. Luckily, for him, Dumas made himself the center of attention again. "Yes, the very son of the legendary warrior Trinity."
"This makes no sense!", one shouted. "Why will those, who once fought against vampires, will to cooperate with us to defeat the north gunslingers?"
"Because we have realized that vampires aren't monsters. They are like humans, just with different habits.", answered Ernest walking forwards. "Sadly, we came to that realization way too late.", he sighed. "Of course there will be humans and vampires that will still hate each other, but at last we do not want them in the East Cities.", several people gasped and murmured between them. "I have knowledge that in some past time, there have been cities, towns like that, and I think many of you wants it.", he crossed his arms on his chest as he watched Dumas come and go between the crowd. Most of the people were now sitting on the floor. "And, the Guild you all knew its lacking members now. The professionals are now old and have health problems or they are not in good condition to fight anymore. The rookies that works with us doesn't have any intention of learning. They are just there because of the wars between humans and vampires left them with nothing but themselves, and found a new home in our arms."
"So, sooner or later, the Guild would have died.", finished Dumas, still walking.
"How exactly this happened?", asked a woman near the end of the crowd.
Ernest opened his mouth but, surprisingly, Aaron stood up and was the one who answered to that question.
"My mate, Lucian or Sartana, how you want to call him, was a few weeks ago transforming into a vampire.", said the young boy. Everyone could see he was nervous. "After the war eleven years ago, after he and my father fought against Dumas, he was gifted with the Dark powers of the Dark Terrennial Nero. Thanks to them, he had to renounce to a part of his humanity to be able to gain said powers. He used an amulet for the past four years to prevent this energy to take over his body and transform him into a vampire right away. After fighting with Dumas, he went to train and maximum his weapons, but had to take the eyepatch off to be able to use them, since only the dark powers were capable enough to control them. With this, he was slowly transforming into a vampire.", he laid on the wall, but didn't dare to face the crowd, that was listening to each word. "Ernest, who has been like a second father in my life, and Toasty, the Light Terrennial, were worried and most of all, scared about the idea of Lucian becoming, at last, a vampire."
Toasty, who was sitting on Aaron's right shoulder, closed his eyes before opening them again and feeling angry with himself after all he had done to come to the realization that his fear and worry were for nothing.
"Ernest was the one that had talked with Oyan, the north's Guild leader, and ask for his help since I have run away with my actual mate, since I feared that he and Toasty would make any harm against my mate, me or us.", he sighed again. "He only did it because he feared I would turn into a vampire and, as his duty as gunslinger, would start doubting about what is right and what is wrong, but soon he understood that if killing a human was wrong, killing a vampire was too.", finally, he decided to look up to the crowd, and found that most of the ones there understood him. "Most of the people here in the East cities are fond of the vampires as some vampires are fond of them and us, most I, would love to see the utopia that Dumas and the Immortals once foresee four years ago."
"Then, are you willing to renounce to your father's legacy as a gunslinger?", asked the same woman.
"Yes.", answered the boy, making eye contact with the woman.
"And what about your humanity?", asked a vampire near her. Nish recognized it as one of the ones he fought. "You said you mated your partner and that he is a vampire, but even if you are marked it doesn't mean you will live forever.", he made a wide grin, as wanting to catch the young boy in some trap to make all the plan fall. "What will you do?"
"Well, what do you think I will do?", came Aaron's angry response. "Of course I'm willing to renounce to my humanity if that means staying with him! What kind of question was that?"
Everyone was taken back with that response, especially Lucian, Ernest and Dumas, who were watching the boy with their eyes wide open. Upon that answer, most of the ones reunited seemed to gain trust in Aaron and the rest. Questions and answers went from here to there, from the weapons of the enemy, to what they would do if they win the fight. Most of them wanted to let humans and vampires leave the city if they didn't want to share it with the other, which seemed fair, but would also bring problems if said families didn't want to leave. They would reunite again, this time with everyone and with everything they got, and would trace a plan to attack Oyan and the north gunslingers, using Alice's help from the outer space.
A few hours later, all left in small groups. Dumas sat besides Nish, who was taking a break after talking for more than three hours straight, and snuggled with him, feeling suddenly tired. Bea and Ernest were talking with other members of the Guild that were patrolling New Culiacan and seeing if Oyan was there. If that was the case, then they will need to stay in the ruined castle or get the hell out of there as fast as possible.
Aaron was quietly sitting on the floor, petting Perrault's head softly, and thinking. He said he would give up his humanity in order to stay with Lucian, but didn't know if he was ready to do it within the next weeks, or days. He was sure, but not completely. Touching the right side of his neck, he asked himself if he could wait a few years before letting his mate transform him but if he did so, would he lose his memories as a normal human would do? He couldn't bear the idea of not remembering Ernest, Bea, Kay and everything he did when he was with the Dark swordsman, four years ago. He treasured those memories and didn't want to lose them. But now was more worried about the upcoming fight. All of his friends were going to fight, except him, who was more likely going to stay at the Guild's hideout or at Sheridan's mansion or a safe place for him and wait until the fight was over, and couldn't do anything about it.
The trip back to Sheridan's mansion was quiet. It was near morning and Nish was starting to complain about it, but no one was hearing him at all. Everyone was tired and wanted a nice sleep, and perhaps worried or excited at the idea of having followers that shared their help with them. There was so much to do and so little time… Lucian agreed, for that day only, to stay up and talk with Alice, watching Oyan's moves while the others rested. It was going to be hard, because the only one there to actually talk about something interesting was Nish, but he was going to sleep. Aaron was too tired to stay up and Dumas refused completely to stay up talking with that crazy pink haired bunny, as he often called Alice. Seeing his own fate, Lucian kissed Aaron's forehead in a good night kiss when the boy went upstairs with the two vampires once they reached the mansion, while he sighed and sat on the couch in the living room, trying to think a way to stay up at last until noon. Ernest told him he could replace him once he had slept a few hours. He hoped that the Guild's leader keep his word. Lucian wanted so bad to curl up beside Aaron…
"Coffee?", said Sheridan with a mug on his left hand. Lucian lazily lifted his head and smiled. "I guessed you wanted one."
"Thank you.", answered, taking the white mug from the professor's hand. "I hope it helps me to stay awake. Caffeine, sometimes, doesn't affect me."
Sheridan laughed softly as he sat besides the vampire, with his own mug of coffee.
"I know what you are talking about.", he took a sip from his drink. Both of them saw Nero and Perrault flying upstairs, while Toasty chose a blue flowerpot to rest for a few hours. "Does he always do that?"
"What? Sleep in a flowerpot? Yes, always.", took a sip then, drank a bit more. "Funny, right?", he laughed when Sheridan nodded his head.
"I might help with the armors that Bea's relatives will bring tomorrow.", said the man, taking another sip of his coffee. "Upgrading them in chain with my alchemy will be a piece of cake."
"How strong will be them after that?"
Sheridan shrugged.
"It will depend on the basic level of those armors. If the level it's a good one and they aren't too much used, then I think they will be as good as the Casket Armors."
Lucian opened his eyes in surprise and smiled.
"Good to know that.", he crossed his legs on the couch and rested his back on it, looking at the ceiling again.
They sat in silence, drinking their coffee quietly. It was going to be a very cold day despise there was no dark cloud on the sky and no wind was blowing, at last not for now. The Sun was lazily rising, licking the ground under its yellowish light and warmth. Most monsters were already heading to a dark place where to rest for the day until the night, far away from possible gunslinger and other hunters.
Lucian fells asleep on the couch, the mug between his hands. The remaining coffee got cold as he slept. Sheridan took it and placed it and his own one on a small table near the couch. Carmilla appeared in the room with a thick blanket that placed on the sleeping vampire. She smiled softly at him when the man curled under it as he quietly sleeps. Sheridan noticed it and looked at the girl.
"Do you know him?", Carmilla knew the professor wasn't referring to when the man came for the first time to the mansion looking for advice in how to upgrade his terrible dark sword.
Carmilla looked nervous. She gripped her hands together over her lap. She sat on a chair, near the small table where the mugs laid, as the girl looked at Lucian and Sheridan.
"…Yes.", she answered shyly.
Sheridan hummed, interested. It was the first time that Carmilla admitted she remembered something of her human past to him. Both of them knew the vampire was in deep sleep to actually hear what they were talking, so they didn't bother going to another room to talk about the subject.
"I still can't remember my name.", started the girl, placing her hands on her lap, playing with her apron. "But I remember a building, probably the local Guild, in where many faces walked from here to there.", she looked at Lucian and then to Sheridan. "I believe I was a member of it because most of them saluted me, some girls stops me and talks to me about stuff I don't know. Sometimes, I can see their mouth move, but no words come from them.", Carmilla looked away, placing her sight on several photos of Sheridan's inventions when he was still in the Vambery. She remembered them all, especially Stoker's Casket Armor. "I was a volunteer in the Guild, helping those who lost their homes because of the fights against the vampires, giving them food, clothes…", she smiled sadly. "He was there, always with me, helping me in everything.", she laughed as she looked at Lucian. "He was kind of shy with me and was clumsier the usual, giving the wrong things to the wrong people, saying nonsense's…"
"So you actually meet Lucian when he was still human and Trinity's partner…", it wasn't a question, but rather an affirmation. Carmilla nodded.
"Yes, and even when I was human I could feel that I already knew him from another time, but couldn't remember. Much like now…", Sheridan smiled softly. It was good that Carmilla was feeling this. It was nice that, after so many years, the girl was finally taking the memories that they were taken from her, but couldn't know how she was getting them back. "I also knew that I was falling for him, but we where too shy to admit it even thought everyone knew we were deeply in love."
"After Dumas took you to the Vambery, don't you remember anything else?", Carmilla shook her head. "Then it seems that your memories are slowly rising from the darkness every time he comes here."
"Seems so.", said the girl.
"Do you want to retrieve them?"
"…Not really."
Sheridan was surprised to hear that.
"Why?"
"As Lucian made his life after everyone and everything crumbled, I have to follow his example and keep living my current life and not dig into the past, not complain about what I had and I don't have anymore.", explained the girl, smiling. "I have a wonderful person besides me that I love as he was my very father or my very brother, and a girl that I love in more ways I would ever do with anyone else.", the last sentence made her blush. "She is what Aaron is to Lucian, and we should keep it that way because both of us have forgotten the past long ago…"
"Well, it's your choice after all. I might have created you, but I'm not a God to tell you what you should or shouldn't do.", he stood up and Carmilla followed him outside the room. "Thought I didn't know that Laura have charmed you so much.", added with a mischief smirk.
Carmilla's eyes widen as she blushed deeply.