...Or not?
A month passed since the events in Amarant, it was night time, Nobita and his friends decided to go camping on the outskirts of the city, they all arrived at the camping spot that was near a small forest, they were taken there thanks to Suneo's parents.
Once they arrived they prepared to set up the tents, the guys were dressed in their typical camping clothes, Suneo was checking his telescope. "Did you know that this place is perfect for seeing stars? A comet is going to pass by tonight. It will be perfect to finally use my Celestron Explorer 114 AZ Telescope"
"Yeah, yeah, yayyy, help us with the tents already, we still have to set up camp!" Gian complains, so Suneo leaves the telescope on the table to help Gian with the tents.
Shizuka stretches her arms. "What a nice weather today, as I understood there will be a clear sky and unlike in the city, we will see the stars more than ever in this place. Are you excited?"
"Of course! It's been a long time since we went camping! Thanks Suneo" Nobita says smiling at the dwarf who shrugs his shoulders smiling proudly, but accidentally hits his finger with the hammer letting out a squeal of pain, Gian laughs while pointing at him.
"I'm very glad that everything has been quiet lately. Let's enjoy the day"
Everyone agrees with what Doraemon says, the guys spent the time walking along nearby paths while Suneo's parents prepared everything for the barbecue at night under the stars, they spent the time laughing and playing in nature.
Night came at the camp, everything was ready, Suneo's father was grilling some meat and vegetable skewers, while Suneo's mother was putting several desserts on the table, including a strawberry jelly. The children were sitting on logs while Suneo was setting up his telescope before the comet appeared, until...
"Aaaaah!" Shizuka screams scared, Nobita, Doraemon, Gian and Suneo get up from their seats to see what happened, the girl with pigtails points inside the tent "I heard screams in there"
"I'll take care of it, if it's something dangerous, I'll give it what it deserves!" Gian slowly approaches and opens the tent entrance a little, three bats quickly flew out, all 4 jumped in shock.
But Nobita sees them flying around the camp, so he takes a couple of bananas that were on the table with the desserts, peels them, cuts them and puts them on a rock, the bats instinctively fly towards the cut bananas and start eating them.
"Where did those bats come from?!" Suneo shouts.
"They must have hidden there to sleep for a while until nightfall while we were walking because they like dark places and they are nocturnal, that's why they were screeching, they already woke up. If we get too excited and scream too much we'll scare them, they really like bananas, figs and insects and these bananas are good for us" Nobita sits and looks at them smiling "It's delicious, isn't it?"
Doraemon and the others are surprised at how the silly boy controlled the situation, he didn't even get scared by the bats, something he normally would have done. "Wow Nobita, you're so calm even though it's about bats. Better yet, how do you know about bats?" Shizuka asks, impressed but dumbfounded.
"Oh, that's easy. Selene taught me a lot about bats when she lived with us and..." The human's smile faded to nothing else, he just stared at the starry sky in silence. "I wonder... How is Selene doing now?"
The happy atmosphere turned into a silent atmosphere with all the boys looking at the stars. "Didn't you talk to her 2 weeks ago on the communicator?" asks Doraemon.
"Yes, but she didn't tell me much, she said she would talk to me possibly tomorrow and the transmission was a bit static." Nobita sighs. Did she end up becoming the Vampire Queen?
"It's likely, maybe she's busier now" says Suneo.
"But..." Nobita smiles. "I know she must be fine, I'll wait for her."
The bats had already finished with the banana to fly and flutter around the boy with glasses. "You're welcome" he says smiling, the bats fly away into the forest.
"WOW, LOOK AT THAT!" The stocky boy points to the sky, something was crossing the starry sky, which caught everyone's attention, including the adults.
"How pretty!" Shizuka's eyes sparkle as she clasps her hands together, though Suneo was confused.
"Wait... I think it's still too early to see the comet." The dwarf looks at the time on his watch. "Yes, one hour."
"Maybe it decided to go early because it's in a hurry." Nobita laughs and Doraemon sighs tiredly.
"Comets don't work like that, Nobita."
"And what Suneo says is true, I think that's not the comet. Besides, it's flying too low." The robot cat uses Suneo's telescope to see what was falling closer. "Not only that, it's actually falling, it seems like it's going to fall near here!"
Everyone jumps nervously. "Should we go?" Shizuka asks.
"I don't think it's necessary, with the direction it's falling, it seems like it's going to fall on the other side of the forest near us."
Nobita looks at the meteorite that was falling closer to the Earth's crust, he was stunned to see it, until he sees how the characteristic blue color of a comet turns into a bright violet color, which makes him feel something in his chest. "Wouldn't it be that...?!"
The (comet) passes over them, falling exactly where Doraemon said, on the other side of the small forest, there was only a shock wave of wind that made the tents move with force.
"Thank goodness it fell far away" Suneo says relieved, but he feels someone pass by him, it was Nobita who runs towards the direction where the comet fell "Hey! Where are you going?!"
But the silly boy didn't hear Suneo or anyone else telling him not to go away, he ended up going into the forest, the magentun necklace he had under his shirt began to shine, he decided to use it this time, and that shine made him want to reach his destination with more enthusiasm.
"Nobita! We have to go look for him or he could get lost in the forest!" Doraemon and the guys with the permission of Suneo's parents ran after their friend, they didn't know why he had reacted like that.
But the clumsy boy had a hunch, that hunch was guiding him to a fixed point, he was getting tired because of his low stamina, but his desire to reach his destination was strong and drove him to continue, finally leaving the forest to a surprise.
"This is..." What was in front of him was the cabin and the lake where he was with Selene a while ago when it was her birthday, he had no idea that that place was nearby since they used the Anywhere Door to find it the first time. Doraemon and the others manage to reach him, also with the surprise that they were back in that place.
"It's the place we used for Selene's birthday party that night" says Shizuka who stood next to Nobita.
"Wow, the world is small" says Gian "Although it's a little destroyed unlike last time."
"That must be why" Doraemon points to a crater in the distance, the shockwave had had an impact on the structure of the cabin and the water was moving in one direction due to the wind despite being a lake. "Nobita. Do you want to go there, right?"
The boy looks at his robot friend and nods, Doraemon exhales and takes out some flashlights for everyone, turning them on, the 5 guys walked towards the place where the curious comet fell, little by little the smoke from the impact became present until it slowly dissipated.
Shizuka, Suneo and Gian are perplexed that a shiny violet rock like amethyst was what had fallen, but Nobita knew what THAT meant, so as the space rock emitted light, he gives the flashlight to Doraemon and slowly goes down to the bottom of the crater that wasn't very deep.
"Could it be possible that...?" Doraemon had shining eyes, so they all go down too.
Nobita slowly approaches the shiny violet rock, feeling like that time makes his eyes shine. So, like the first time, he touches the meteorite, as this one was bigger, an automatic door opens upwards making the boy with glasses step back a little.
Someone came out from there, that person... It was Selene.
She was dressed in her Earth clothes, her pointy ears were gone, her skin was no longer whitish, she didn't have fangs either, but she had that platinum hair and those violet eyes that met the gaze of the clumsy boy, and once again they have done it again.
It was like that day. Time seemed to stop for both of them while the fireflies made an appearance. The others were surprised to see their friend from Amarant again. Nobita didn't say anything but was perplexed, Selene was but she smiled at him approaching him "Long time no-one, Nobita"
"Selene... Selene!" Both friends held hands and jumped with joy while crying "But how! Why? I thought you couldn't come to Earth because you were busy, it was a month and a half since we stopped seeing each other!"
"SELENEEEE!" Gian and Suneo approach knocking Nobita down in the process, crying happily to see her.
"So nice to see you again, Selene!" Shizuka smiles excitedly and Doraemon nods as Nobita gets up.
"But it's true. What happened? You look very human and you're not wearing the bracelet." Doraemon notices someone else coming out, it was Count Caleb who also looked human, he was wearing his usual Victorian clothes and was walking. "THE VAMPIRE KING?!"
"What a turbulent ride." Count Caleb holds his head coming out of the escape pod, shaking it to recover. "Hello kids! Sorry, I'm not used to capsule travel."
"Why do you look like humans?" Gian asks surprised.
"It's because we're humans now." Selene smiles sticking out her tongue.
The 5 guys from Earth let out a "WHAT?!" In unison, they were surprised, both their ex-vampire friend and her father were now like them.
"Don't tell me... That's what you were talking about that time when you asked for privacy?!" Selene nods at Nobita's question "But how? And Zurie and the twins?"
"I'd better explain it to you" Count Caleb coughs a little "In the discussion between all the Vasilescus, Zurie and his siblings were the ones who suggested that we travel here. After the pressure applied to the council, I asked Donovan to undo the memory spell he put on the human city, it can be reversed with a counterspell" The Count takes out a glowing purple sphere "It took us a few days but we were able to make a magentun counterspell using the council's knowledge"
"Also, there are ways to reverse vampirism but they are very complicated to do, because the ingredients to use are very rare, and come on, none of us ever thought of doing it, we had the ingredients, but it took us a while to find the last one since it is a very rare flower that exists once every 200 years in Amarant, and it was the only one and the smallest, so the reversal spell ended for two"
"But... What about Zurie and your cousins? They must feel alone if their uncle and cousin aren't with them now" Shizuka says a little sad.
"As my father said, Zurie told us to do this. In fact... He's the Vampire King now" Again a "WHAT?!" sounded in the environment because of what Selene said.
"We made a vote in Kyuketsu, you know that I changed the rules of the game now. They had a lot of confidence in me and because of the broadcast of the failed promotion ceremony, they felt compassion for the life that Selene was leading and agreed that Zurie should do it, after all, he prevented my death. Also, he told Selene that it didn't matter if we lived apart, he told her that the right choice is: To be happy" The now Caleb just smiles looking at his girl "And I wasn't going to leave her alone in this. It will take me a while to get used to this being human but I think you can help me with that."
"Well, Lady Mara did end up getting what she wanted for Zurie after all" Suneo crosses his arms in dismay. "Only she won't be a witness to that anymore."
"Zurie accepted the position because he has the same love as my father in helping others, Locke and Kaige will help him a lot with his shyness, he is already making great progress. He will do well as Vampire King. It was a sad farewell, but he supported me to do this because at first what I wanted was something selfish but, he always looked after me as a family like my father."
"He prepared himself to not let himself be controlled by the council and did his promotion ceremony with a vervain-free necklace, especially because his brothers are going to take care of him now, the 3 of them are strong and will do a great job together, and I'll be able to communicate with them whenever I want, they have each other and they gave us the push to start a new path. We took a capsule and traveled a month ago"
"Oh, no wonder I heard static when you were communicating with me, it's because you were traveling!" Nobita is startled because he already understood everything "And I guess since he's now human, your dad is no longer weak from vervain, right?"
Caleb nods. "It will be difficult to start from scratch, but for my daughter I'll be able to establish myself in your city, I'll not leave her alone in what she needs."
"So... Are you going to live here now? For a long time?" The silly boy gets excited
The platinum-haired girl also gets excited, they both smile at each other. "Yes Nobita, for a long time now, I didn't tell you before because I wanted to surprise you. Thank you for waiting for me."
"I told you I would." Nobita smiles.
"You know? I put the address close to where you would be, who would say that we fell into this place where we once separated. Now it will be the place where we met again."
The boy nods "I know, I didn't even know this was near us, we're camping to see a comet." The boy extends his hand "Will you join us?"
Selene smiles taking her friend's hand "Of course"
Both of them could no longer hear each other in their minds because there was no longer a vampire link for obvious reasons. But that was the least of it, they were happy to see each other again, once again they met again and this time they would share a lot of time together with an unbreakable friendship.
Doraemon put away the capsule, used the Anywhere Door to go straight to the camp, of course before they used the chamber that is used to change to give camping clothes to the newcomers. Suneo's parents welcomed them and they all ended up enjoying an evening watching the stars and then a comet.
The next day, with Doraemon's help, Caleb was able to use the counterspell and once again Selene was able to belong to the life of Earth. It was complicated, but Selene's father was able to adapt and get an office job and a small apartment for the moment, an easy start to a new life.
Selene returned to the Nobi house but now as a guest like the rest, Nobita's parents greeted her as always since the counterspell made them remember again. She enrolled in school again, this time without the need to hypnotize.
The platinum girl spent time with her friends from Earth, now she was the same age as them because she had become human, she was able to enjoy all kinds of food, she could go out during the day or look in a mirror without worrying about using an invention. Of course she enjoyed spending time with her first human friend, with whom she has a sincere friendship that grew stronger every day.
She even still had the notebook Nobita made for her, her most valuable item, but she kept it on her desk in her new room which was smaller, but she loved it just as much as the old one.
The path was confusing and full of challenges, but the Vasilescus were willing to follow it, nothing was more exciting to them than a new beginning.
Finally the day came when Selene would go back to school, Nobita got up early, he had everything ready and his backpack on his back, the boy goes down the stairs with Doraemon. Tamako was already at the entrance of the house. "Have a good day son and remember not to fall asleep in class"
"I know mom. But I think that today I will be more than awake, see you."
When he opens the door and goes out with Doraemon, he sees Shizuka, Gian and Suneo waiting for him for this day, the boy smiles until he leaves the grounds of his house and sees that Selene was with her Earth clothes and her red backpack. "It's about time!" Gian says
"Come on, for today we all want to go with you know who" Suneo smiles looking at Selene.
"Good morning Nobita and Doraemon, today we will all go together this time" Shizuka says that excitedly.
"Good morning guys" The silly boy looks at the platinum girl "And good morning Selene"
"Good morning Nobita, now we can all go together"
The 5 human guys start walking towards school while Doraemon says goodbye to them "See you and have a nice day!" The robot cat smiles "Now Selene found what she really wanted" The blue cat slowly enters the property
"Happiness is sometimes found where you least expect it"
Nobita and Selene walk along with Shizuka, Gian and Suneo. "Ready to go back to school? Many will be happy to see you back in the classroom" asks the boy with glasses
The platinum girl takes a deep breath and shows a happy smile with a slight blush "With a friend like you by my side, I always will be"
The way they both run smiling at each other is the final scene of an adventure between two guys who were previously on two different paths, but thanks to meeting each other, they shared not only a path but a valuable friendship strengthened by a promise that will always live in both of their hearts.
Neither the future nor destiny were set in stone, that was demonstrated by the two of them.
Especially with a promise of strong friendship that was able to cross borders and that will keep Nobita and Selene together for the rest of their lives.
THE END
