{POV: Jona}
I was still rather embarrassed that I did those things in vampire form…
If I didn’t have better control of my emotions, and a good poker face, I would be beat red….
Though, I know if I were to be asked a question it would be hard… to reply with more than a few words….
“Is this what a family is like?” Kira.
The way she is looking up at me is like a child idolizing their role model as I am trying to brush her hair…
As to why I am brushing her hair… Nimue had tried earlier and got it all tangled up, so it is left to me to fix the mess… and all the tangles… how did she mess it up this bad? I know it was kind of messy before but…. tt’s a pain to brush it without hurting her..
“Not really….” Jona.
I really can’t say a family is this helpful to each other… since my own mostly cared for themselves individually. My father did try his best to support us… but he didn’t really openly show his care, and he only worked, paid bills, and talked about conspiracy theories and aliens…
He really liked fantasy and such; he was not the type that was paranoid about the government, so enjoyed the stories and making his own ideas.
He just wasn’t good with people, and when someone said or showed him an emotion like love… he would shut them off but not on purpose. Though if his family did so, he would fall for it and not care how far it got him into dept. He was loyal; he would do anything.
Now.. the cause was my mother’s cousin… my aunt in some odd way… she smoked about a carton of smokes in like three days, combined with the fact she played her disability to the maximum by barely getting out of the bed. This caused dad to feel like he had to go out of his way to help her.
Even though she could walk and take care of the minor things, she played it up a lot….
My mother wasn’t the type that loved my father or even most of her kids. She spent most of her time dating people online… sending them money that we didn’t have, and going out with other guys around here… yes you can say she was a slut…. The worst part is her gambling problem and then blaming that she didn’t have money is because of us, she was very abusive with her words….
Though she did really care for my little brother…
He had it easy growing up, as to where I had it hard.. I was forced outside when she didn’t want to deal with me. Something happened when I was younger, and at first I could barely remember the day, but now that I have this photographic memory I remember it as if it was yesterday. She took me out when I was just five years old just because I had an accident due to being ill, and mind you it was cold outside… even snow on the ground, she decided to clean me with the water hose…
That ended up putting me in the hospital for a few days because of how bad my fever went up.
My sister was smarter than the rest… she didn’t make a promise like I did, and went off on her own to better herself while putting distance between mother and herself, though she keeps in contact with me every so often.
My brother wasn’t much to speak of; he was babied and got all of the things he wanted all his life,and so he became a spoiled brat.
So as to what I am doing be considered family? I would really don't have a clue… my family probably would be similar to the ones that threw Kira out… if it wasn’t for my father, I have a feeling I would have been thrown out long ago…
Things he didn’t know is that when he would be off working, I had a very abusive childhood to the point that if I cried I got beat, if I complained I got beat, and even times where I had to go a few days without food because I didn’t behave like the way she wanted.
But I made a promise to take care of them on my father’s death bed, to make him feel more relieved…
And I did, I got them the money they needed, while each got their own. My brother got his through my sister, since she was the most responsible out of the family, and she always kept her word… she had promised that she would make sure he didn’t gamble or blow his money on things that wasn’t for him.
She didn’t know how the money came or how I got it… but I was allowed to give one phone call… and I chose her… even though I promised to always be there for her, I had to take a chance… since with the money we were getting was at the brink of putting us on the street….
She’ll probably understand…
“Yes… it is how a family should be… but Kira… don’t you see the face Jona’s making when you said family? I think she had a family that was just as bad as yours…” Nimue.
Face?
Reaching up to feel my face and I felt my eyes wet….. my mask broke again? This time I really didn’t realize it?
Kira hugged me tightly as I was already finished with her hair. I was mostly absent minded in my own head… and I just hugged her back out of reflex…
“We can be a new family… the start of the Flame Clan’s revival!” Nimue.
She had tried to come up with something and patted my head like a caring mother… even I know what a caring mother is… but I have only seen them in movies and such…
“Idiot! Like I wou-“ Jona.
“YAY!~ WE ARE FAMILY NOW!~” Kira
She cut me off… and there is no way this is how a family should be! I mean we got an idiot knight that serves me…. A kid that I picked up myvampire form….. really and me? Who really doesn’t know how a true family would react… I seen acts and plays in movies, but every family in my eyes are just that way in public, but behind closed doors… they are too violent to each other.
But if this child wants a make-believe family… I will give her that.
I would kill anyone that does harm to her… though I can’t say I can be a true family member to her… since I don’t quite like that word. I am happy she wants to be related to me.. and sad at the same time.. these two… do they know being any type of relation to me will cause them suffering?
“You don't need to cry more, you know? If your family life was bad… I will show you the way a family is really like, even if we aren’t kin by blood, we still have a bond! I will prove you can be with people that love you, and be your family. No matter how long it takes I will prove it on my Knights honor!” Nimue.
…. Really ? You said something super embarrassing… ahaha…
“Idiot! I don’t need you to p-“ Jona.
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“Me too! I will prove that families can be happy!” Kira.
She cut me off again… I swear I think she is doing that on purpose…. And why am I reflexively replying like that…
No I am not happy about them wanting to be my family like that… they rarely even know me… it just… maybe they will be reliable servants…. Yes…. People I can use for my own survival…
{POV: Rose}
After the first fight, I felt my movements was too open and predictable. If the body isn't able to move properly, it is just like a puppet with movements. I followed what I did in my world… while I say my world, it is mostly in the mind Jona and I share. I spent majority of my time mastering all the moves of the Blade dance because in here… I can still only use the moves that was set for the class… that being said, the other moves that were sealed or locked, other than the ‘Unknown Seal’ skills, really were disappointments since they mostly work with a party to be around you… so no need to pay those any mind.
Though, when the Vampire side of Jona came out.. I felt more surprised than worried since it seemed like this is really the true her… but if she keeps acting impulsive… she would end up doing something she’d regret… sadly after asking if she was okay… my voice didn’t reach her anymore…
When she …. one-sided slaughter the people in the slums… mind you they tried to attack her first… but… it still made me sick…
And when she went bonkers… when she took into much blood…
The battle there…. was just… wrong…
There even guys that didn’t do anything too her…. So, didn’t matter if he was innocent or not…. She just simply sucked their blood…. and destroyed them like they were nothing more than entertainment…. This isn’t her… this isn’t right….
I tried my best to get out to her but I felt there was a wall of darkness… holding me back…
I could only see her bathe in the blood…. And laugh as she slaughtered them… not really any words, more like a mad beast…. Just seeking any and all prey….
Once she finally came too… the blood had finally soaked into her skin… I have no idea why… but she didn’t look dirty anymore…
And when she was bonkers… her hair… instead of its pretty color… was solid black… the color of darkness….
When she was back at the inn and talked a bit… with the new girl and Nimue… I doubt anyone seen it but there was a bright flash… just minor around the new girl and the next thing I knew… Jona was back to normal… I mean her vampire form is… cute in its own way… but not when it goes battle crazy… like today… I loved it more when she helped the kids.
However, I feel like I’ve been neglected… I still can’t speak to her… and I feel afraid….
“You are not needed… here…” A mysterious voice.
When I looked at the direction of the source, there was a girl… that looked like Jona, only her eyes were more dead with no shine that resembles life,and with a chilling sneer on her face… her hair is the same pitch black, but… what is the most defining of her… is the chains… the chains made of darkness holding her in place.
“You should leave…. Let her fall back into the world she comes from… like me…” Dark Jona.
I am sure… that is the dark one… but is being held by chains… so she can’t harm me physically… well if you consider it physical…
“You can’t even talk to her anymore, you know that your bond is broken, right?” Dark Jona
“You will soon be chained up like me… and I will take your place… and bring the world into darkness… letting all those idiots live out their lives with stupid grins on their faces.” Dark Jona.
“NO! I will never let you ever make her do that!” Rose.
I will try my best to keep this evil in place… I can’t let such a nice person like Jona fall to prey to this monster… even if she tries to play it off as she doesn’t care… I know she does….
“Then why can’t you talk to her? Ahahahahah! It’s because it’s her choice! Just like she can’t hear me, you will be unheard and forgotten.” Dark Jona.
Her laugh… sounded creepy when her voice is pretty monotone…
“So what! I will still fight you with what’s right! You need to back off!” Rose.
Somehow around rose chains of light started to appear around her, but it didn’t seem to bind her… but seemed to tell her that there isn’t anything to worry.
Then the fight between Rose and Dark Jona began. Though that is a story for another time… Who is the real light? And who is the real darkness? Neither can know until one is the victor.
‘Rose?’ Jona.
The voice of the owner that didn’t know what is going on, Rose's other half.
“Yes? Is there anything you need help with?” Rose.
While speaking like nothing is wrong the battle between Rose's chains of light, and the darkness around the small garden that Rose made her own keep fighting for ground while Rose started feeling tired… but couldn’t let the darkness win… something inside her couldn’t allow it.
‘I was wondering if there is a way to make your body for real?’ Jona.
{Pov: Nimue}
I had no idea how the vampire side of Jona could be so cute… and childish, but to say that to a half-elf? I know my master is only acting on a whim…. But if we were to go into the Elven Kingdom… that poor girl would have to go through suffering… as long as she’s by our side it won’t be as bad… but I doubt master would want her to stay with us forever… knowing master’s pace… she would rather not have something to protect… but now it’s too late.
The girl is named Kira… and is so attached to master…
When she asked if this was what family was like, I expected master to just ignore it… since she wasn’t asking anyone predicular… but master froze for a bit… and even though her face seemed expressionless she started crying with a troubling sadness in her eyes…
Was her family that bad? Did it scar her that badly in that she would deny this is family like? To me, it seemed like two sisters sitting together. And as for me myself… I always wanted children of my own… but as a Royal Knight I couldn’t have any due the training we go under… it damages the chances of having a child, even worse than it already is…
Elves have a low chance of giving birth to children as is… and the training is harsh since you start at a really young age.
I couldn’t help myself but to try to cheer her up, and tell her that we can make a family with us, even if we aren’t blood, and I will prove to her we can.
She seemed to try to go tsundere and always deny me, but Kira countered it by backing me up as if she was doing it on purpose but I know she isn’t, in her own way she is just trying to help out.
This girl is good to keep so let’s try to make sure she stays with us, since it’s rare for an elf to have a holy attribute and they are usually blessed by the Goddess of Light as their bringers.
As well as all elves well pure blood elves like myself are blessed by Gaia, which lets us use nature magic, though half-elf’s can’t use this magic, since their other side of their race will negate the blessing.
No one knows why… they just know that most elves will never have a child with another race, unless forced.
Back to master… the Flame Princess is also known as the ‘Dusk Maidens’ since they have a different type of birth then all the rest of us… most of them are not born in the womb of the mother, but with the mana of the mother.
I have no idea as to why this is happening, but in the pains of creating the ‘Dusk Maidens’ they have to go through a year in nothing but darkness… to give birth to the strongest baby, and then the child is then forced to stay in darkness too they are thirteen years old before set out on the world, the mother is usually there with them the whole time teaching them that this darkness is just the start of their race. Endless and yet beautiful.
This has been told to me by my teacher, though I was around before the Kingdom of Flames was destroyed, I have had a chance to see one of these so called ‘dusk Maidens’ they aren’t treated as true princesses of Flame, but the grand magus of Flame.
Since the true princesses are born normally… which is odd… usually around the same time.
But even then they aren’t true princesses…
One is raised with pure love… and light, while the other is surrounded by darkness…
Then there is a ritual that combines the two, to make the true princess, though this also makes a third Persona inside the body making the ‘Dusk Princess’ and is known for their power to step into the land of war.
When the time comes for me to tell her… I hope she isn’t the Dusk maiden… or the Dusk Princess… because the evil in them is hard to control, the more they live without the one raised in love… they will utterly fall into darkness.
{Pov: Kira}
Poor… Jona… she had it like me? Maybe worse?
Did her family feed her…? Did she have to feed herself?
It doesn’t matter… she saved me… and I will save her by being her family~
With the sad times behind us, we can be happy together!
And all the food…… she gives me…. I can’t wait to she gives me more…
And all the clothes~ I wonder if she’ll let me try playing with her hair some… it is so pretty….
{Pov: Jona}
I was wondering if there is a way to make your body for real?
I mean wouldn’t it be easier for us to fight together if you didn’t have to be crammed in my head all the time, suffering from my crazy mind?
‘Yes, I would love to have my own body… but as of right now I am happy just being beside you, after all we are true sisters.’ Rose.
If you say so… but I will keep an eye out… it has to be rough for you being in there… I know how dark my mind can get…
‘You have no idea~’ Rose.
I guess it’s time to hit the road.
“Let’s go girls, we need to get too some distance before sundown.” Jona.
“Okay.” Nimue and Kira.