The vampires of Scarlet Moon were stopping hyperventilating from the effect of the pencil cross, they were confused because they thought that humans were ignorant enough to know about them, although in reality they were the ones who didn't know that humans already knew about them, even if it was only through myths.
"How is it possible that those two earthlings knew about the crosses? They're supposed to have never seen a species like ours!" Demestrius says as he shakes his head "Ugh! We should have drained at least a little of the child's blood and hypnotized the pair so they don't remember seeing us. They'll surely go to the police with the gossip."
Echo also shakes his head "Don't worry Demetrius, other humans will call them crazy if they tell other humans about us, we've been studying them for 48 hours, they're skeptical by nature. No one's going to believe a couple of kids. But let's focus on going after her and eliminating her, otherwise, the boss is going to punish us with vervain whips again."
Near the ancient tree, Nobita and the girl who had fallen from the night sky kept looking into each other's eyes but no one said anything. Doraemon was nervous because not only was nothing happening but he feared that there were a couple of vampires who could catch them at any moment. So moving Nobita a little, he wanted to break the ice of silence "Hey, react, we have to go now, vampires could get here at any moment!"
For some reason, the boy was captivated by the cute appearance of the platinum-haired girl, her delicate and precious appearance made him nervous, he couldn't even hear his friend as he raised his voice. On the other hand, the girl looked curiously at the one who woke her up, it was the first time she saw an earthly human, but his reactions seemed nice for her. Both had just met in reality, but they seemed to behave like friends from years ago.
But the silly boy finally comes back to reality because of the jolts of the robot cat "Oh, that's right! I forgot" Nobita laughs scratching the back of his neck, to which Doraemon only reacts with a sigh and then searches in his pocket and takes out the Anywhere Door, since it was better to use the quick exit on this occasion because they were being chased.
"H-hello" the boy says nervously to the girl. "I know this is sudden, but I'm glad I found you. My name is Nobita and this is Doraemon. What's your name?"
The girl smiles a little at Nobita's good attitude but... She didn't understand anything he said.
"Ce zâmbet frumos ai. Dar, nu înțeleg nimic din ce spui." (What a nice smile you have. But, I don't understand anything you say.)
Nobita is confused because he didn't understand the Romanian language, just with luck he was able to understand his own language without getting confused by words that were complicated for him "Huh? Don't you speak my language? You must be an alien for sure." The boy points at himself, he knew there was the Translator Jelly to fix that detail, but he was so excited that he preferred to ignore it and point at himself "My name is Nobita, NO-BI-TA"
The girl looks confused at the boy but seeing how he pointed so much, it seems that she got that "Oh! Cred că spune că îl cheamă Nobita." (Oh! I think he says his name is Nobita.) She smiles as she carefully brings her hand closer to him, she taps the boy's cheek using her finger, making him blush as expected while she smiles at him.
"Numele tău este Nobita și ești om, nu? Obrazul tău se simte ca un jeleu." (You're called Nobita and you're a human, right? Your cheek feels like jelly.)
"O-okay, you got it! I think so, I don't understand your language, though you don't need to poke my cheek like that you know? He-he." Part of the boy with glasses feels a little sorry that a girl was doing that, but he was letting it go because of the mixed nerves and excitement, both of them were laughing and having a nice time. Although, he wouldn't say the same about Doraemon.
"She's also speaking Romanian? That paleness, the ears almost pointed. Does that mean... Oh no." Doraemon thinks, turning pale as he immediately realized the obvious; she was a vampire. "Nobita, we have to go, we can't take her. She's one of the vampires!" The robot cat pulls the boy to take him to the Anywhere Door, but he lets go, annoyed.
"Oh come on, she doesn't even have fangs in sight! Besides, if she was still a vampire, she hasn't attacked us like that pair, we can't leave her here, I think those vampires could do something to her too"
"But..." When Doraemon was going to refute something, he heard the girl kneeling on the grass while holding her belly, her violet eyes soon changed to black and empty ones, that's what happened when a vampire reached its hunger limit, when that happened, they became wild attacking their prey to catch them and drain them, or they also fell exhausted starting to weaken slowly, the second case was the one that touched the girl. Nobita runs towards her to help her.
"Are you okay?! What's wrong with you?!" Nobita asks worried and nervous.
"Mi-e foame, mă simt foarte slăbit." (I'm hungry, I feel so weak.) The pretty platinum-haired girl looked Nobita in the eyes, and he could see a clear sign of desperation and sadness as she shed a few tears. "I beg... Ajută-mă, Nobita." (Please... Help me, Nobita.)
It was more than obvious that the boy wouldn't let that request for help go by. Yes, he didn't understand Romanian, but as someone who was able to understand the pain of others, he knew without a doubt what he had to do. He took off his shoes and carrying the girl on his back, he headed to the Anywhere Door. Even though Doraemon wanted to prevent it, he knew that he wasn't going to stop him if he became determined to help someone who begged him. Even more so, they both heard the wind blow violently suddenly, indicating that the pair was close. "Nobita, hurry up, they're close!"
Nobita nods and enters, Doraemon puts the capsule and the boy's shoes in his pocket to enter as well just in time, because he manages to quickly close the door when the Scarlet Moon pair arrives "Damn! Open the door!" Echo tries to force the Anywhere Door, but it disappears indicating that it has already been removed by its owner. "THAT PAIR, I SAW THEM, THEY TOOK THE PRINCESS AND THE CAPSULE WITH THAT DIMENSIONAL DOOR, I THOUGHT HUMANS DIDN'T HAVE THAT KIND OF TECHNOLOGY!" The vampire shouts as he knocks down a tree that was next to him.
Demetrius just sighs "We don't even know where they took her, and even if we did, entering human houses at will is impossible if they don't give us permission, how I hate that rule of our species. Well, it's obvious that Lady Belladonna is going to punish us for this"
The pair of vampires were frustrated, they had failed in their mission to destroy the one who is now known to be actually a princess, which meant trouble for the two of them. For what purpose did they want to get a girl of their own species out of the way?
The atmosphere of tranquility was present in Nobita's room as he helped the girl sit on his knees, she was very weak from hunger, it was hard for her to move, he sat in front of her. "Relax, we are in my house, welcome by the way." The boy scratches his neck embarrassedly and smiling "Sorry for the mess, I have comics and toys lying around sometimes, it makes me a little sad that a girl I barely knew is here in my room"
Doraemon takes out the Translator Jelly for her to eat so she can understand the language, but she refuses to eat it when she smells it "Come on, I know it's not a delicacy but it will help you understand this world" Nobita says with a compassionate look.
"I think she seems to be weak, she surely hasn't eaten anything and that's why she's acting like that. And she won't want to eat anything other than blood. Oh well, we'll eat it ourselves to understand her"
The girl was already dizzy and raised her head a little as she watched the pair talk to each other while Doraemon was about to break the jelly, paying special attention to Nobita's neck. She didn't want to do what he was about to do, but her instincts were starting to take over due to the lack of food.
They were both going to eat the broken jelly, when... "Nobita" is heard from her, so they pay attention to the girl.
"What's wrong?" the boy asks.
She remained silent for a moment until she just lowered her head in shame "...Iartă-mă...pentru asta" (...Forgive me...for this)
The boy didn't understand anything she said. But what happened immediately was so fast that he didn't even notice, until he could feel the hands of his new friend holding his arms, she lunged at him so fast that not even Doraemon was able to react in time.
Nobita's pale and stunned gaze looked at the night sky as he felt the fangs of that new friend he had saved, digging into his neck, she was able to hide her fangs from view and took them out to be able to do that. The desperation to quench her thirst had taken over her, even the boy felt it as the blood in his body was being drained little by little. And if she didn't stop, that was the end of his life.
His vision was weakening, he could barely move his eyes to the side to see how she was feeding, his body temperature was dropping, his mind was going blank, and letting himself be carried away by unconsciousness it barely occurred to him to think with a slight feeling of betrayal a "Why?" before fainting in the arms of that girl he wanted to help and who did that to him.
The day had arrived in Tokyo, while at the Nobi's house, around noon, someone begins to open their eyes. Nobita was lying inside his futon without his glasses as the day lit up the room. "Uh? Was it... a dream?"
That was the first thing he thought until he noticed that he had a hard time getting up, he was exhausted even though he had slept, with a little strength he was able to sit up. Doraemon enters the room and excitedly runs to hug his friend "Thank goodness you woke up! You were close to getting anemia" says the robot cat while crying.
The boy suddenly remembers what happened, so he touches his own neck, he had a small patch right where he was bitten, so he quickly puts on his glasses "W-was it real? She bit me?! What time is it?!"
"Relax, it's a little after noon, you're still very weak, luckily I had the doctor's bag to treat you, thank goodness we didn't have to opt for a blood transfusion or else mom and dad would have gone crazy with fear, you resisted well, I had to tell them that you got sick with a cold and pretend that you had a fever. They would have punished us too if they found out that we went out late at night with everything that's happened. That's why mom let you sleep late and called your teacher to tell him that you wouldn't be going to school today"
"It was good that she let you go before something worse happened"
Nobita hears (she) from Doraemon, although he felt somewhat betrayed by the bite, he was still somewhat worried "Where is she?"
"She realized what was going on when she heard you say a (Why?) so she let you go and apologized, at least she said she heard you say that, I didn't hear it" Doraemon points to a Doormat on the wall near his bookcase "It's in there, remember vampires and sunlight shouldn't mix, although artificial light doesn't kill them, vampires can be bothered by bright lights, so I replaced the light inside with a Night Bulb for the poster room so your parents don't find out, and I left a small lamp with a special light for bats"
(Editor's note: Talking about Philips ClearField LED lights, every day you learn something new)
The blue robot takes out a small light bulb "These bulbs are very useful for bat researchers, they emit a red light so they don't bother them and at the same time you can see them, as incredible as it may seem, it also works with vampires, I thought you might want to "I wanted to see her and that's why I left that lamp, although she is now sleeping. But knowing you, you will surely enter there. I had to take her with the Anywhere Door to other places that were at night so that she could feed, since she was more lucid, this time she did it carefully with large animals to avoid weakening them and also avoid the other vampires"
"Oh" She only answered that, Nobita was so excited to want to save the platinum-haired girl, but now with the bite, he couldn't help but feel his body tremble a little "So, although she bit me, I'm not a vampire, right?"
"Hey, if you were, you wouldn't be here in broad daylight. It seems that some things that we believed about vampires differ from popular beliefs. But I still have many things to find out. Why is she here? What relationship does she have to do with that pair that attacked us? She hasn't wanted to tell me anything, not even her name. Apparently she can speak our language now, I don't know if it has to do with the fact that she bit you. Even though I helped her, it seems that she only trusts you, so maybe if she sees you, she'll want to tell us what's going on."
She only trusts you. Those words that his friend said seemed to have had an effect on the boy, since he stopped shaking, it was normal that he was a little scared, he had trusted too much, but he also found out that she had apologized for what she did. He knew that what she did was not to kill him because she stopped in time, unlike the pair that would have almost left him dry if it weren't for Doraemon.
The boy remembers how they got along well as soon as they met, how they were perplexed by seeing each other, as if they were friends for years, how she smiled at him while touching his cheek out of curiosity, how he taught her to say his name, at that time they didn't understand each other because of the language, but they were able to understand each other by getting along.
Now wasn't the time to leave her alone, he had already come too far to just abandon her because she bit him in times of need. Maybe if he talked to her, he might be able to understand her completely, that (Why?) he had thought it, he had not said it, and he could hear her thinking in Romanian. Could she read his mind? Could he read her mind? Apparently, it could be true that they both had a connection, but. Why?
There were so many questions that invaded his head. In the end, curiosity for her was stronger than his fear of what was now on his neck, he smiles in an understanding manner "Okay, let's take advantage now and go to..."
"NOBITA!" His mother had entered his room, both of them turned to look at him nervously "You're not going anywhere, you're sick" She kneels down and checks his temperature with her hand "Wow, you don't have a fever anymore, when Doraemon told me you got sick in the morning, you had a temperature of about 40" It was obvious that the robot used an gadget to alter his temperature, in order to pass off the bite as a cold to disguise the paleness and weakness. "But you're still a little pale, it's better that you stay resting in bed for the rest of the day. You can't go out to play or anything like that in that state, understood?"
"Okaaaay" Nobita says, to which his mother just gets up to leave the room closing the door, both sighing in relief.
"It's better for you to rest a little more for now, mom made you something to eat so you can recover, I'll bring it to you."
Doraemon also leaves the room, opening and closing the door, the boy just lies down for a moment while looking at the Door Mat "If only I knew at least her name" thought the boy sadly until...
"Selene" The boy hears the platinum girl's voice surprised "My name is Selene"
"Could you hear my thoughts?" The boy thinks surprised
"Yes, I can hear you, you can hear me. Sorry, I didn't mean to do that to you, I'm sure you're scared of me now. I... I was really hungry and I couldn't help it, I hope you get better, Nobita" Thinks the girl now known as Selene. "I'm awake for a moment. I really apologize, I know it sounds selfish and capricious with what you just went through but... Can we be friends?"
Nobita looks at the ceiling and smiles "I admit that I did get scared by that, but I know that you didn't do it out of malice. I hope you're okay in there too. And yes, let's be friends"
"Really? What a joy" Selene was lying in the dark room on a futon that Doraemon had lent her, she was also smiling "Then rest, let's talk later, if I could, I would take care of you until you get better as an apology"
"Y-you don't need to do that, don't worry" Nobita can't help but let out a small blush on his cheeks because he felt ashamed "And yes, let's talk later, Selene"
