The sun shone brightly through the window, onto Ameria's closed eyelids. Slowly, she opened her eyes, pulled her arms up and stretched, then let out a yawn.
"What a beautiful day!" she thought,"I can't believe slept in though, I...."
Suddenly, the memories of last night flooded back into her mind, the dream, and Xellos.
"That jerk!" Ameria said to herself, "How dare he avoid my question like that, then put me to sleep! I'll get him back later for his unjust ways!"
"Lina-san, "Ameria asked, as her and the rest of the group walked down the street, "Where are we going now?
"To visit my grandmother."
"WHAT?" Ameria exclaimed.
"You have a Grandma?" Gourry asked.
"Yes, I told you earlier" Lina snapped.
"Freaky," Gourry thought, as he pictured an older version of Lina, holding a cane, yelling, "Fireball!"
"What's so freaky about me having a grandma!" Lina yelled, as she bopped him on the head with her fist.
"Well," Ameria started, "You...."
Zelgadis pulled his hand over Ameria's mouth, he was no idiot, he knew what Lina would do if Ameria said anything to.....truthful.
"Let's just get going," Zelgadis said, still holding onto Ameria's face with his hand.
"Fine," Lina said, and grabbed Gourry by the hair, and dragged him along the road.
"This place is so beautiful!" Ameria gushed as they entered the town Lina's Grandmother lived in. Ameria thought it was great, because it was near one thing that she truly loved, the sea.
"Glad you feel that way!" Lina said, "Cause this is where you're gong to be staying for the next 4 months."
"What? Were staying here a while?" Ameria asked, jumping up and down excitedly.
"Nope,"Zelgadis said, beaming with happiness,"You are!"
"What do you mean?" Ameria asked.
"Well, "Lina replied," Our next mission is going to be a little too...um...violent for you so we thought, that we'd leave you here a while. "
"How come ya didn't ask me?" Gourry asked.
Lina punched him in the gut, "You were their for the whole conversation, nitwit!"
Ameria stared at the ocean, it had been 3 months since Lina and them had dumped her off at Lina's Grandma's house. When Ameria arrived, she expected an older, bossier version of Lina.
Instead, she got Achika. Achika was very sweet, you never would have guessed she was related to Lina. After only the first couple days, Achika-san became Achika-mama. After a week she was there, Achika-mama enrolled Ameria in a nearby school. It was fun being here, Ameria decided. But, she still missed the travelling, and her friends. Especially since a new addition to the group had been made.
Diana. She was practically perfect, almost as perfect as Achika-mama, a least that's what everyone else thought. After some eavesdropping, Ameria found out that had everyone wanted a break from her, so that's why they dumped her here. When they went on another quest, they met Diana, and allowed her to travel with them. Ameria didn't know why, but she felt as Diana had replaced her somehow. What hardened the blow, was that Diana also got a thing for Zelgadis, and Zelgadis seemed to like her too. Every few weeks, Ameria would get a message from them, they visited a couple of times too. Every time, Ameria would happily greet them, she would also be affectionate towards Zelgadis, his reactions soon began to change. Instead of grumbling, he'd just plane ignore her. Or he's just brush her off and walk away, and get very angry if she tried to follow.
Once she heard him apologizing to Diana about the nuisance, her. Ameria felt so hurt, she asked Lina about them, and Lina just said that they weren't anything. Ameria found out something from Gourry though, Diana would often hang off of Zel's arm like Ameria used to, but he never cared, and looked kinda happy when Diana did.
When they left again, Ameria cried and cried, but, luckily for her, Achika-mama was there for her. Unlike most people, the nice old lady let Ameria cry instead of telling her not too. Achika comforted her, and listened to how she felt.
Soon, Ameria noticed how worried Achika-mamma was, so she stopped moping, and acted cheerful, like herself. Achika-mama soon became happy again, and life went on.
Her dreams also become more frequent, as well. Ameria had still not told anyone about them, not even Achika-mama. Another problem is that she constantly felt like she was being watched, she didn't know by whom, or why, but, every now and then, she'd get this really earie feeling.
Ameria notice it was starting to get dark.
"Better get going or Achika-mama will get worried. "Ameria thought to herself.
"Achika-mama, I'm home!" Ameria said, walking through he front door of the house. Ameria loved this place, it was exactly like a traditional Japanese house, and was oh, so beautiful.
"Welcome home Ameria-Chan," Achika said, "I'll start dinner in a bit, and we can eat, okay?"
"Can I help?" Ameria asked, "Those lessons in cooking you gave me really ought to be put to use, it would be very unjust if they weren't!"
Achika looked at Ameria a couple seconds, then smiled.
"Of course dear, "she said, "Of course."
Ameria quickly shot up from her bed, with tears in her eyes, it was that dream once again.
"This is starting to get annoying!" she thought.
After a while of staring out her window, Ameria decided to go to the one place where she always went when she was depressed or worried, the ocean.
Quickly, she put on an outfit Achika-mama gave her, climbed out the window, and walked there. Ameria knew that it would have been faster to fly, but lately, she hadn't been using magic tha, there was no need for it, anyway, Achika-mama had told her she shouldn't use magic Inless it was necessary. Ameria soon found that she enjoyed doing some of the things she usually used magic for better by hand. Anyway, going to the ocean was only a five minute walk.
"I've been putting off trying to figure out what these dreams means too long," Ameria thought to herself, as she swung her necklace back and fourth.
"Ameria," a very familiar voice said.
It was coming from behind her, she turned around, and saw Xellos standing there, his eyes opened ,and staring at her in a way that made Ameria very uncomfortable.
"I've been watching you," he said, as he pulled his hand up to her cheek, "And you suspected it don't you?"
Ameria pulled away ,"What!? Why were you watching me?"
Xellos smiled, and his eyes began to glow ,"Because you're the guardian."
"Guardian?" Ameria asked, looking confused.
"Yes, "he replied, "Long ago, when time first began, their were three main god demons, even more powerful and destructible then my kind, they caused more trouble then any Mazouko could, so all the Mazoku pulled together, and sealed them away. They remained sealed away, until a short hundred years later were freed again, someone had accidentally broken the seal. After lots of grief, pain, and havoc, they were sealed away, by a young vampiress, who was also the daughter of a prince in the Mazoku clan.
The mazoku decided the seal needed a guardian, and so granted the vampiress' blood line with a great power, a power that would only be freed if their was any danger of the demons breaking free again. She became the gardian vampire princess. Shortly after you were born, one of the demons broke lose,and you're mother had to chase it, and only a few weeks ago was declared flared. The mazoku were ready to hunt the demon,when we remembered something , rather, someone, you. L-sama quickly realized that since you're mother failed, her power would be taken way, and passed on to you. But, by the time we figured that out, the demon, Roshio, had freed it's two companions, and now are invading and destroying anything and everything they can."
Ameria stared at him in shock, "I'm part...vampire?"
Xellos nodded, "We realized you had no knowledge of this, apparently you're mother did not want you to go through what she did, so told you nothing of you're future, you're bloodline. So, L-sama decided that I would come, and absorb you're power, so that you wouldn't become guardian, and we could take care of the problem ourselves."
"Why didn't you do that earlier?" Ameria asked.
"That is a secret," Xellos replied, "And getting the power of you're bloodline taken away from you might destroy you're life force as well. "He thought to himself.
"I...I..." Ameria was speechless.
The next thing Xellos did, was pull his hand to her necklace, and began to absorb her energy through it. Soon, Ameria could feel her energy slowly begin to drain out of her.
She began to feel weak, then she saw it, Xellos' neck, It was right in front of her face and for some reason, she felt a yearning feeling go through out her body.
Xellos noticed she was beginning to grow pale, and decided that this probably would kill her, but at least it would make all the Mazoku more powerful.
Ameria couldn't take it anymore, and began to move closer to him.
"Don't move," he said,looked down into her eyes, then gasped in shock.
"What's happening?" she thought, as Xellos gazed into her eyes.
Xellos' gasp was understandable, Ameria's eyes had changed drastically. They still had an innocent, child like essence to them, but now, they were a bright golden,amber color, and had this yearning look in them.
In the blink of an eye, Ameria had pulled her face up to Xellos' neck, and bit into it. Small drops of blood began run down his neck, but only a bit. The rest was greedily consumed by Ameria's fangs.
As she drank Xellos' blood, Ameria could only think of one thing, and one thing only...how warm and sweet it tasted.
Whoa! Even I'm questioning my sanity now! Man, that was, as Gourry says, freaky. Freaky, freaky, freaky! Well, it's based off of Vampire Princess Miyu, so, I guess it's aloud to be freaky, right?
I bet all you Xellos fans just LOVE me now, ne?
I know that the part in the story that was describing what had been happening was kinda brief, but, hey, gimme a break! I didn't want to get into all those boring details, BUT if I get enough e-mails, I may write a side-story to explain everything, and go through all that was happening, okay?
And about Ameria, I know she's really acting out of character, but give her a break, her "dead" mother has been visiting her in her dreams, her friends left her, just so they could be rid of her a while, and "her guy" is supposedly falling for a women she hardly knows.
Also, I must state that I am NOT trying to make Lina, Gourry, and Zelgadis look like bad, heartless, really mean characters. So, sorry to anyone who is offended or something. But, them doing this was the only way I could think of at the moment to build up to what's gonna happen, so, until next time, ja ne!
Got any flames, ideas, or just wanna annoy me? E-mail me at: mindyb@norcom.mb.ca
Note for flamers: If you're gonna flame me, watch the language, I'm only 12(man, that story was freaky!)