Reine stroke the canine gently. "Hmmm how should we call him?" she pondered to herself. "Doggy?"
"It's a wolf," Gwen reminded her as she put down a bowl filled with water, just in case the wolf woke up.
Reine furrowed her brow. "…Wolfie?"
"Objection," Gwen responded almost immediately. "Seriously, Reine?"
"Well, do you have better ideas?"
The brunette sighed. "Why don't we go to sleep now and think of names tomorrow?"
Reine turned around to see that her sister hadn't only brought water; she brought thick comforters for them. "You're sleeping on bed, Gwen," Reine said sternly.
"Couch," Gwen bargained.
Reine weighed her options and finally nodded. "Sure, but take this one," she said, handing the thicker comforter to her sister.
"Deal."
Gwen headed to the nearest couch and covered herself with the comforter, using the small pillow to support her head. After ensuring that Gwen's asleep, Reine lied down next to the canine and used the comforter to cover both of them. She fell asleep while holding the wolf like a little girl holding to her teddy bear.
It's warm.
Reine adjusted her body so that she could feel more of that warmth. She sighed in relief when she felt the warmth began to envelop her. Her eyelids fluttered open; a hazy blond figure came into her vision.
Neil? she thought. Damn. It can't be—you're a fool, Reine Kreiss!
She rubbed her eyes and her vision was cleared. The person in front of her was clearly a man with ginger blond hair that was spiky and even more unruly than Neil's. She held her breath and looked down; he was stark naked.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAA!" she shrieked in terror, flipped the comforter open and got away from him.
The man shifted and rubbed his eyes open. "Hmm? Who's that?" he groaned; his voice less husky then Neil's.
"W-Who are you?!" Reine asked, pointing at him.
That man finally noticed Reine's presence. "Who are you?" he asked, completely disregarding Reine's identical question to him. He then grinned. "Nice hair."
"GET OUT!" Reine reached for the nearby bowl and threw it at his direction. "PERVERT!"
The noise wake the other sister woke up; the young woman straightened her back and turned to the direction of the noise. "What's it, Reine?" she asked sleepily as she reached for the lamp switch. When her vision was cleared and the lamp was turned on, she held her breath.
"WHO ARE YOU?!" Gwen screamed.
The man covered his ears and wincing as if in pain. "Calm down, I have pretty sensitive ears!"
"GET OUT YOU DAMNHEAD!"
Suddenly, the front door was opened. Reine and Gwen turned around and saw their neighbors, both Allen and Neil, stood on the doorway.
In a blink of an eye, Neil was already in front of Reine. "I knew I shouldn't have left," he muttered under his breath before taking Reine into his arms. "Hold on."
"W-what?" Reine stammered, completely distraught by the turn of events.
Not having the patience, Neil simply put Reine's arms around his shoulder and in another heartbeat, he brought her to her room. He put her down on her bed. "W-whattheheck?!" Reine cursed, her speech became faster than usual. "What are you? A ninja?"
Neil shrugged. "Something like that."
Not giving the pinkette another chance to talk, Neil walked out from the room to find Gwen's already in Allen's arms—unconscious. Neil tensed.
"She fainted from the turn of events, not me—although I do have every capacity to strike her down," he added with a devilish grin.
After Allen put Gwen together with Reine, giving the latter something else to worry about, the two men walked back to the living room where the blond 'intruder' was.
His eyes lit up when he saw Allen. "Allen! I'd never thought I'd see you here!"
Much to Neil's surprise, Allen smirked. "You got lucky, buddy. If it's another werewolf, I'd have torn him to pieces."
The man laughed and he held his breath when he saw Neil. He took a moment to study the other blond, scanning him from top to bottom. He gasped. "Holy sh—is that really you?!"
Neil raised his eyebrow. "What the heck you're talking about?"
The other man grinned. "It's me!"
"Huh? I don't know you at all!" Neil snapped back and threw the comforter. "At least cover yourself!"
Allen glanced teasingly at Neil. "Don't tell me you got a boner over—"
"Of course not you damn idiot!" Neil growled. "Let's go to Klaus and have him getting checked up!"
"Well, other than slight dehydration and obvious signs of unkemptness, you're fine," Klaus concluded, before he gave his patient his first speech of taking care of himself. Allen and Neil waited outside of the clinic, knowing that it would come down to that speech… again.
"Letting a werewolf into a woman's house? That's very smart of you," Allen remarked sarcastically. "I know you're blond and all, but I can't believe you're at this level, Neil Forrester."
"Don't push your luck, blood-sucker," Neil threatened him. "Who's he, anyway? I thought vampires and werewolves don't go along?"
"Typically, yes," Allen replied. "But we're on different level."
Neil rolled his eyes—duh, isn't that obvious—and prompted Allen to chuckle in amusement. "You don't usually take interest in my life story, why now?"
"Don't get ideas," Neil retorted. "I'm asking because he seems to know me."
"And that makes me know you as any other thing than Eternal Sucker-Winner of Animal Idol? Oh, please…" Allen replied derisively, before changing his tone to one that was more serious. "We had parted ways for centuries that I'd almost thought he's dead."
The werewolf emerged from the clinic with a huge grin; how he was clothed with a simple shirt and pants courtesy of Allen. "First time someone emerging from Klaus with a grin," Allen remarked. "You haven't change at all, buddy."
"So do the both of you!" he replied.
At that moment, Neil noticed Reine walking up to them. The werewolf noticed that too and jogged towards the girl. "Thanks for giving me a shelter earlier!" he said cheerfully; Neil figured he either completely ignored Reine's sour look or was oblivious to it. "My name's Rod, and I'm a werewolf!"
Reine gasped. Her annoyed expression turned into one of utter shock. "Werewolf…?" she asked hesitantly as if fearing of offending him that she had misheard him earlier. However, Rod nodded excitedly.
"Are you a flower nymph?" Rod asked, still smiling.
"Nymph? Me…?"
"Uh-huh," Rod nodded. "In any case, sorry for what happened earlier—I always transformed back naked, you see."
This time, it was too much even for Reine. Her body fell to the ground, but saved thanks to Rod's quick reflex. "Hey! Are you okay?!"
Neil sighed inwardly.
Good Lord…
Hmm... so what do we have so far?
Rio as earth nymph
Hana as one of the Fates
Allen as vampire
Rod as werewolf
Neil as... ninja?
In any case, thanks for reading! Please rate and review! ^^