So I have been reading a lot of manga that I would personally categorize as modern Shoujo manga lately, and such ideas keep barraging me relentlessly. So I wrote this one to get it out of my system.
The little blonde girl shivers as she enters the temple's yard. Fearful sky blue orbs frantically darting around, taking in the sights of the eerie stone statues that litter the dark yard. Demon heads with leering faces, squinting foxes whose slanted eyes seem to follow the girl's every move glinting under the pale glare of the moonlight. The young child swallows as it hurriedly passes by one such sculpture while holding its breath. The toddler's tiny heart beating with a thumping sound akin to that of a war drum, small fists anxiously clenching the wrinkled hem of the girl's ceremonial white dress.
Lux then accidentally steps on a twig and the blonde-haired child screams in fear as the brittle wood snaps with a loud sound underneath her sandals.
"Eeeep!" Lux curls up into a ball as she uses her palms to cover her ears. Eyes closing at once, lest the approaching demon or evil spirit that produced the loud sound sends a terrible cruel smile at the terrified blonde girl.
Lux remains in that defensive hunched position for a few seconds, shaking in fear, before a brilliant sky blue eye dares to take a peek and confirm the presence of the otherworldly beast.
The little girl exhales in immense relief when she only finds the same unmoving animal statues and grisly gargoyles facing her as before. Luxanna's relief however is soon extinguished, when the young child remembers the reason for it coming to the secluded temple in the first place.
"Perhaps Vashayan doesn't really eat children." The frightened blonde-haired toddler tries to reassure herself. "Maybe the rumors aren't true."
'Why did Lux had to be the only person attuned to spiritual beings in her village!'
The poor blonde girl almost burst into tears at that thought.
'Why did the village's elder had picked her as Vashayan's bride to appease the powerful demon god!? Why not his own daughter or the children of the other rich folk? Was the real reason for her being the sacrifice that she was a lowly orphan? That wasn't fair. It wasn't fair at all!'
Lux shivers as she slowly stands up and resumes her reluctant walk towards the main temple building. The air seemed to be thicker there, filled with mystical energies, spiritual power humming just underneath the garden's soil. And if the blonde toddler had previously thought the first statues capable of seeing before, this time she can swear that the stone demons are now whispering to her mockingly.
The indiscriminable sounds seem to only get louder as the quivering toddler approaches the temple's wooden doors. The demon heads sculpted from aged stone twitch and spread their smiles, the long red ribbons that have been tied on the sharp edges of the temple's roof waver and dance about quietly. A few crimson leaves being carried away by the gust of the chill autumn wind.
With a shaky hand and a hitched breath Lux raises one clenched fist to knock at the temple's tall doors. The moment the girl's skin touches the wood, however, the ominous buzzing around the temple abruptly ceases completely. The red ribbons still as the wind stops blowing.
Lux takes a frightened step back, the blonde toddler's muscles tensing as little Luxanna's instincts scream for her to turn around and run away.
"Are you lost, child? What are you doing here alone so late at night, hm?"
The male voice, suddenly emanating from behind the unnerved human offering makes Lux yelp once more. The toddler's small body violently colliding with the temple's giant door as Lux turns around to face the mysterious speaker. What she sees makes the young girl gasp in awe.
There, not even three steps away from her is a monkey as big as an adult, dressed in ceremonial armor and holding an ornate staff. While looking at her quizzically the humanoid monkey rubs at its furry chin in deep thought. "Wait, you clothes remind me of something. Could you perhaps be here to meet Vashayan-sama?" The sentient monkey wonders.
Lux can only nod at the supernatural entity while cowering with her back pressed against the temple's warm door.
"Oh, why didn't you say so when I first asked you?" The Monkey King smiles in a friendly manner before his mischievous jade-colored orbs shift somewhere over the blonde toddler's head. "Hey, you've got a visitor, Vayne."
Luxanna's eyes widen in horror when the young girl abruptly realizes that the strange monkey is staring at someone behind her back. Her head turns ever so slowly like in a dream, or a nightmare. The child's heartbeat quickens.
The first thing that Lux realizes is that the temple's doors are now open ajar letting her gaze catch a glimpse of the temple's interior. A simple yet elegant hall with wooden flooring and paper lanterns hanging from the walls are the immediate details that Lux manages to recognize until her eyesight is blocked by the figure that she has been leaning against all this time while mistaking it for the door. Then the young girl's gaze starts climbing upwards as if of its own volition.
The elegant black kimono gives way to a waterfall of midnight black hair woven into a long braid under little Luxanna's wide awed eyes. The woman's pale epidermis, like fresh milk shining beautifully under the argent moonlight, with two crimson suns replacing the eyes of the powerful supernatural being. The demon god stares intently into the wide eyes of the speechless blonde child. Ruby lips parting, a beautiful feminine voice spilling out into the night.
"So I've noticed, Wukong. What do you seek from me, child?" Vayne asks behind Lux, the fair-skinned goddess doesn't seem bothered by the fact that the blonde-haired toddler is currently leaning against her shapely legs.
Lux stutters something unintelligible, too shocked and startled to use coherent speech.
'Wasn't Vashayan supposed to be a giant red-eyed wolf that devoured the sun everyday in order to shroud the world in darkness and give people time to rest until the next dawn?'
"Y-you're Vashayan-sama? The Night Hunter?" The young orphan girl whispers in a low shaky voice that fades in the cold gusts of the autumn wind as Lux takes a step away from the beautiful female entity.
The pale woman nods her head with an irritated frown.
Lux swallows as she kneels down and presses her forehead against the wooden floorboards. "G-greetings, Vashayan-sama, I am here to be your bride." The blonde-haired orphan whispers.
Predicted questions: Why u no Ahri? It makes more sense for this setting.
Answer: Don't wanna, I like (future) Vayne x Lux more. Write it yourself, hmp!
Q: How did you come up with the word Vashayan?
A: I was trying to think of a name that sounded ominous and mysterious, I then used the first two letters of Vayne, the first three of Shauna, threw in a few from the remaining ones and... Tada!
Q: What happens next?
A: Vayne transforms into a giant black wolf and eats Lu- puts Lux on her back and together they ran away and have a lot of heartwarming magical adventures.
Q: Did those elders from that nameless village actually assume Vashayan's gender!? I am triggered!
A: Yes, yes they did. I am also outraged.
Q: Why do you keep writing these stupeh questions?
A: …Insomnia. It is always the right answer.