Kirika immediately sat up and looked around the room, Yuna was still deep in thought so the voice in her mind that directly spoke to her definitely did not come from Yuna.
[You cannot see me master. As I said I am in the Vast Blue skies with the ground drenched in the blood of kin]
//Why are you calling me master?!! And who are you//
[I am a piece of you, A wand that was created when you became a witch],
//OK what?!!, I don't think I'm a witch, I crave for blood?!!//
[Well that is because you are a hybrid of a Witch and a Vampire, a Vampira. Though it seems your witch transformation and Vampire transformation was suppressed. I hypothesised that you shall become a full Vampira in two days]
Kirika froze.
Her breath hitched as she tried to process what the voice had just said. A wand? A witch? A Vampira?
//What do you mean "full Vampira"? What happens in two days?!//
The voice was calm, maddeningly so.
[In two days, the curse that the Witch in white Tranferred to you will break free from the one that Cursed her and will fully become a part of you, no longer becoming a curse and this was all due to the machinationsof the Starless mother or else the Sanguine Vampita curse that was placed on her by a Supreme One would have been far more worse for you.],
Kirika's mind spun, her thoughts tangling like roots in dark soil. The voice inside her was speaking in riddles, but something in her bones—something deep and ancient—recognized the weight of those words.
The curse will become part of me... no longer a curse?
//Wait, slow down! Who is this Starless Mother? And what do you mean by 'Supreme One'? What did they do to me?!//
The Wand's voice replied, steady and without emotion.
[The Starless Mother is an entity older than history, one who exists outside the planes of fate. She is neither light nor dark, but a convergence of paradox—hope that eats itself, and despair that gives birth to stars. The Supreme One, however, was the Witch who ruled the Crimson Spheres—she is the one who placed the Sanguine Vampita curse.]
[The one in white, the girl you saw during your near-death experience—she was the Supreme One's victim. She passed the curse to you, to free herself.]
Kirika's heart thudded in her chest like a trapped bird.
//So that girl… saved me, but passed on a curse… and that curse is going to merge with me completely? Why would she do that?!//
[Because she is a witch that has committed the greatest act of Blasphemy against the Three Supreme Ones, She gazed into the********?************, oh it seems I cannot tell you anything more. The Three Supremes seem to block it.]
//Wait?!! They were listening to out conversation?!!, aren't we speaking telepathically!!!//
[Master. They are beings out of our scope. I know of the information since all wands carry the Gift of the Starless Mother due to her creating the witches and Aetherium in this world 78 million years ago, she is not apart of this frame work reality]
Kirika rubbed the sides of her head with both hands, she was starting to get a headache.
//OK let's ignore that, if I don't see them I am not being watched.//
[...But you define—]
//No//
[I—ok, they aren't watching you but you should be ready in two days, the moment you complete your awakening, you will be sent into your Blood Aetherium World below the Endless blue skies to claim me, for now I shall go back before I waste power and won't be able to guide you to me.]
After a few seconds, she didn't hear his voice anymore, she looked at her hands and then brought them together to cover her face and groaned.
Yuna who was brainstorming was cut off as she observed the strange actions initiated by Kirika. She stayed silent for a moment before asking. "What's wrong?."
Kirika's fingers opened and her eyes peeked out of the gaps, Yuna's heart raye began to rapidly increase. Kirika's pupils were red. "It turns out I am something called a Vampira, some sort of half-witch, half-Vampire person and it also turns out that o would have been Cursed if I was not lucky. Oh and let's not forget about the voice in my head that said it was a wand. Yuna, I'm suffocating, I need to go out on a walk."
Yuna hesitated for a moment, the red pupils on Kirika slowly disappeared but there was bow a slit in the middle, but seeing how she was Normal now, it wouldn't hurt to let her go on a wa— Wait what did she mean she was a half witch half Vampire?!! And what does she mean by a talking telepathic wand?!!. "Huh?"
Thay was the only thing Yuna could say as she was utterly confused, it seemed she really needed to do some digging in her dad's office. "You can go out...but aren't you sort if thirsty or hungry, I don't know what vampires call it but if it's bothering you, I don't mind sharing blood."
Kirika lowered her hands from her face and looked at Yuna strangely with a slight blush on her face. "Yuna. I can read all your thoughts and only the one you though of at this moment was the loudest."
Yuna turned beet red. "W-Wait! That's not fair! You're not supposed to actually hear that!" she stammered, covering her face with both hands.
Kirika tilted her head, a sly little smile tugging at her lips. "Well, I did warn you earlier, didn't I? It's like your thoughts have a megaphone when they involve me." She leaned forward just a little, teasing. "Also… really, neck? And you imagine I'd be all gentle and—"
"Stop!" Yuna squeaked, nearly jumping from her seat. "I was just trying to help! Not... whatever weird fantasy you just dragged out of my subconscious!"
Kirika laughed softly, not cruelly—more like someone clinging to any scrap of joy in a chaotic storm. "Thanks though… I mean it. But I'm not at the point of biting anyone yet. I just need… air. Space. Before I start glowing or floating or screaming bloody poetry at the moon."
Yuna raised an eyebrow. "That last one… is that a Vampira thing?"
Kirika shrugged. "I hope not, but at this point, who knows?"
She stood up and stretched, the creaking of her joints oddly louder than normal. "Now that I can walk using my legs is a must."
//Shame, she didn't bite me, wait?!! I shouldn't be thinking things about her should I?!!//
Kirika paused mid-stretch, glancing back at Yuna with a smirk so slow and deliberate it sent goosebumps up her friend's arms.
"You really shouldn't be," she said playfully, "but you are. Loudly."
Yuna buried her face into her hands again with a groan. "This is the worst."
Kirika rolled her eyes. "OK I'm going out."
"Wait, you're still in your sleeping dress, why not wear one of my clothes?," Yuna quickly said before she went outside.
Kirika paused at the door and looked down at herself—barefoot, draped in a soft, oversized sleeping gown. "Good point," she said, turning on her heel with a sigh. "I probably shouldn't look like I just crawled out of a coffin."
Yuna, still beet-red but trying to regain composure, stood and walked toward her closet. "Let's see… I think I have something that won't make you look like you just ean away from home" She rifled through some hangers and pulled out a dark hoodie with a crescent moon design, and a pair of sleek black jeans.
Kirika narrowed her eyes. "All black and a hoodie in this sunny weather?."
Yuna gave her a look. "You literally just said you're half vampire. You want people to think you sparkle in the sun or burst into flames?"
Kirika rolled her eyes but smirked anyway.
"I don't think that's the weakness of vampires, Reality is sometimes much more compact than fiction, bur I don't mind wearing one of your clothes, I just hope you don't do something weird with it once I take them off, your thoughts aren't helping."
Yuna's face flushed an even deeper shade of red at Kirika's jab. "I'm not thinking anything weird! Well… not too weird." She quickly grabbed the hoodie and jeans, holding them out. "Here. Hurry up before I change my mind."
Kirika took the clothes with a faint smile, retreating to the small bathroom to change. As the fabric slid over her skin, she felt oddly… grounded, the mundane texture anchoring her swirling thoughts.
When she came back, Yuna's eyes flickered again, but she looked determined to keep her composure.
"Better?" Kirika asked, tugging the hoodie's sleeves over her hands.
Yuna nodded, but there was a flicker of worry beneath her smile. "Much better. Just… be careful, okay? And call me if you feel weird or—"
Kirika held up a finger to stop her. "Yeah, yeah. Don't worry. I'm not going to spontaneously combust or anything."
Yuna laughed softly, shaking her head. "You say that now, but—"
Kirika grinned. "Trust me Yuna, I may have just woken up two days ago bur I can still protect myself."
Yuna really did not want to let her go out, she was technically still a patient—well a patient that has no medications given to her but still a patient. But denying Kieika isn't something she wants to do. "OK, I trust you, just come back early."
"Ok, but I may go to my house to get some things, can't keep wearing your clothes can I?." She said with a smile.
Yuna rolled her eyes. "I don't really mind but are you sure you want to go to your house, your guardian kinda ditched you and left that house."
Kirika smiled but she did not deny her words. "Yeah my older brother is...strange, he definitely does not like me, I mean...I did survive a car accident that killed both my mom and dad...anyways I don't want to remember that."
Yuna did not know what to say...she didn't mean to bring about such incidents. "Sorry, I didn't mean to bring it up."
Kirika chuckled and moved to the door. "It's in the past,don't worry about it, see you later."
Yuna watched as she opened the door and went out closing it behind her, she could hear her rapid footsteps going downstairs. She could hear her opening the front door and closing it behind her.
When she was gone Yuna let out a long sigh. It seems her life is not going to be normal from this moment on and speaking of normal she went outside her room and went straight forward to her dad's office.
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The forest was burning but there was no smoke to indicate it, it was a strange phenomenon that could not be explained by humans.
The smell of sulphur was strong around the surroundings and if one were to look from above, there would see a ring of fire were an unnaturally big wolf that looked to have been made from charcoal and flames feasting on a reindeer.
After the beast was done with it's feast, the flames in the surroundings extinguished and it's body began to twist until it became the humanoid image of a boy with black hair and orange eyes. The boy had a long tail that was made from coal and fire and he had two long ears on top of his head.
Kisiri Hanagari, the trued and final victim of the Terrorist attack. Though now he was not human.
He was wearing a white hood and blue shorts and his teeth were much more sharper than what a human would have, he was a Lupine, to be more specific a Hellhound.
"You know you could have controlled that better." A voice said in his mind.