Act I

  “Hey, hey, wake up Lizel.” I said, trying to wake her as I sat naked with nothing but a blanket of fur covering me.

  “You've found a good mate brother, a bit immature but she has potential.” I heard a gruff voice as a transparent wolf as large as I'd appeared to Lizel stood above me.

  “Well I'm still thinking about that, I didn't make any family in my last life Heron, there was too much war.”

  “Ha! you were the one who chose that path, you cannot blame anyone else for being mateless for decades!”

  The wolf kept laughing at one of my poor life choices.

  “That world was to fucked Heros! You know this! I've used your skin, you've seen its state, we couldn't have just left it to wither and die. . .”

  “Yes we could have not left that world to die. . . I just wanted to make sure Shiro, you will always have my strength in this life and the next.”

  The wolf said as it faded into nothing, as I looked down as Lizel was still sleeping, so I tied my fur blanket as best I could to look like clothes before I piggyback carried Lizel home.

  “Sigh. . . Probably a few hours before we reach the outer town.” I said as I walked, I was strong enough to carry her but I would need to take a few breaks, hopefully she wakes up soon.

  I can feel her as I carried her on my back, her smell was strong, it was some where between the smell of the woods, vomit, sweat and alcohol. . . it should have been disgusting but it wasn’t really bothering me much.

  We where on the pastures at the south part of Maple wood, there where cows and sheep around and then I saw people and they saw me, one was already running towards us in what looked like worried panic.

  “Boy! What happened?” The man was pudgy fat, with strong shoulders and arms, he looked the part of a farmer.

  “A prank, got drunk with friends, we got lost in the woods.” I said my bell earring ringing as my voice spoke and heard as truth.

  The farmer nodded and took his phone out his pocket, it was an older model.

  “Here boy, call someone to pick you up.” He said as he gave me his phone, I nodded.

  “Thank you sir.” I said as I phoned in the forest ranger office.

  “Ranger office, Sharmina speaking.” I heard other end said.

  “Hey it’s Shiro, can you pick me up. . . I’m at.” I didn’t know where I was, as the rancher looked me up and down and took the phone from me.

  “Sharmina, It’s Victor, the kids are on my ranch can you pick them up?” He said and then she said something too and then the farmer nodded.

  “Alright kid she’s on her way. . . just go that way and you'll see the front gate. . . and some advice, don’t take ridiculous bets.” He said looking scrutinizing the fur blanket covering me up.

  “I’ll keep that in mine, sir thank you.” And with that I continued walking.

  Act II

  “Thanks for driving us Lady Sharmina.” I said as I felt the wind blunt my face as we drove.

  “It’s fine, kinda surprise you called me though, kid. . . what’s with her?” The deer yokai pretending to be a human said as she pointed at a very grumpy head aching Lizel.

  “She drank too much last night.” I said smiling at her as I ignored the grumping.

  “Fuck, I’m alright the sun just sucks right now.” Lizel said grumping some more before just laying back down, on my thighs, good thing we where in a pickup.

  “Alright so tell me Shiro, why where you two at Victors ranch? Where you on a wild date~” She teased.

  “Yeah we where, Lizel wanted to do something traditional and running naked in the woods was something werewolves thought was fun!” I joked and it made her laugh.

  “Ha ha ha! Oh romantic, did she hunt you well? Seeing she’s like that she must have had a fun night!” She continued.

  “So Sharmina is everything fine around here? I don’t know if it would effect the town after we just killed close to a hundred spider vampire monsters a couple nights ago. . . how does the succession war effect this place?”

  I asked as I felt like it was odd, that the only supernatural things that I know exist here in maple wood, is Sharmina being a deer Yokai who works on the forests, and that tribe of fish folks that lives in the maple wood lake.

  And for some reason the humans stay oblivious to it all, even while a vampire girl start drinker there daughters and young sons blood.

  “Hmm. . . where fine? The war is an isolated thing Shiro, king Surtre the eternal flame had decreed the royal battlefield years ago, so most that aren’t part of the war had already been temporarily relocated or been warned that there would be a war here.”

  She explained as the green rolling hills of the pasture lands disappeared returning to the normal sparse woods and forested hills around the town.

  “Huh, how many stayed just like you lady Sharmina? I know Rikka is a native and the fish folks in the lake, but I don’t know anyone else that isn’t human.”

  “I’m not sure if I can tell you Shiro. . . you’re part of the war and part of the royal decree was either someone is part of a candidates party or they’re not and under the king’s protection.”

  Huh, I didn’t know it’s like that, and that explains why I don’t meet any other monsters or like me humans who’s part of that monsters world.

  “Thank you fore telling me lady Sharmina. . . wait can you slow down?” I asked as I saw something on a pile of rubble.

  She did as I asked her, stoping near the pile.

  “What is it kid?” Sharimina asked as I jumped out the back of the pickup and looked over the thing I saw.

  “A doll? How did you even noticed that thing kid?” Sharmina said as I touched and looked over the thing that looked like a doll.

  “It’s not a doll it’s an automata. . .” I said as I recognized the core and some of it’s parts, it wasn’t built as lovingly as Flenna and Frannel but it is an automata it had all the main components of one.

  “An android? Here? In the human realm? That shouldn’t be possible, unless a royal is around here.” She said as she started looking around.

  I’ve been feeling the ambient life around me since we stopped and I know a royal isn’t here, unlike normal people even monsters like Rikka and Lizel. . . Komiko and Seraphim felt like bonfires compared to everyone else that was either a candle or lighter.

  “There’s no one around us now. . . let’s go back lady Sharmina, I’m taking it with me.” I said as I made it float and Sharmina just shrugged and went back to her driving seat.

  As we rode again I examined the automata, it looked like a young woman, it’s hair was the same metallic fiber as the two other androids I knew. . . it’s face mask was broken in half as if a strong blow had landed on it’s head.

  And it wasn’t one strike as I saw many cracks and dents in it’s head frame casing, it’s torso was ripped open, it’s limbs cracked or broken. . . and many where rusted or water logged. . . making it hard to know how old the machine was.

  As I was working on the automata without any tools we stopped, and as I looked around I saw we where already at the base of the hill.

  “Thank you lady Sharmina, I can get us to the mansion from here.” I said at the back of the pickup truck as Sharmina was about to say something.

  “You know I can drive you kids the whole way.” She said but I just shook my head and then started singing.

  “Take me home~ to a place~ ~ I belong~ ~ ~” I sang as I focused on the crystal around my neck as I took some of it’s power feeding it to arcana’s realm, as I felt everything changed around me and the two I was transporting with me and then we where at a lounge room, in front of me was a slightly surprised princess.

  Act III

  “Shiro? When did I permit you too start taking broken things home?” The princes asked as I and Flenna worked on the automata, it wasn’t in as bad a shape as I first thought according to Flenna.

  “My apologies princess but it did look interesting, plus now I can experiment on androids without accidentally breaking Flenna or Frannel.” I said as I opened the androids head frame, taking out it’s processing core, still attached to her other internal systems, via copper wires wrapped in some kind of rubber. . .

  It didn’t even look like a brain just a box with a lot of slots filled with memory and CPU like analog chips, as unlike the human ones I was familiar with this ones didn’t use plastic, but dotted bronze plates on hardened glass.

  The only interesting bit was some kind of reinforced glass ball in the middle with black fluid. . . overall it was disappointing, I would have thought this androids would have a more different processor, but considering the era of this world I really shouldn’t have gotten my hopes so high.

  “You look disappointed, not as you imagined?” The princess said as she looked over away from a terminal, reading the memory logs of the android.

  “Not really princess, I just thought it would have been more than this.” I said as I placed the processing core down on the operation table and started working on the androids chest casing, Flenna opened it while I passed her the tools.

  Her tools where difficult to use, especially the more specialized ones, after the casing was opened what I saw made me believe Flenna’s words even more, her outer shell may have been wrecked but most of her internals was fine.

  “You where right Flenna, it really isn’t that badly damaged, look here!” I pointed at the automatas hydraulic action pumps, that controls an automata’s artificial muscles.

  “There ruined and probably needs to be replaced but everything else is fine. . . whoever did this to this android wasn’t thorough.” I said looking over her other mechanical components that oddly looked organic.

  “It seems she has a name Shiro. . . designated scout unit E-24. . . usually androids like her where used as messengers in the last war, they still do the same thing now but for the citizens of the kingdoms. . . I think you humans called them mailmans right?”

  I raised a brow at the princess and then nodded.

  “So a mailwoman, probably meant to see you princess or someone else here in maple wood or the next town over but was ambushed. . . have you read anything else princess?”

  I asked as I stood next to her as she read through the computer like code of E-24’s logs, it was all environmental and diagnostic reports. . .

  “I’d expect androids would have some kind of internal diary, how do they record information? Or learn new things.” I asked as we kept reading through the logs it wasn’t even dated.

  “I do not know Shiro, I’m no doctor Franken, but he did told me such things where part of the logs.” The princess answered and then we saw Flenna came towards us and then plugged herself into the terminal. . . after a few minutes the logs changed and then it became readable.

  “Your theory is probably right Shiro, this one was sent by doctor Franken, her orders where to tell me to come and meet with him when I can, for Flenna’s yearly update.”

  “Who is this doctor Franken?” I asked very curious, at what he might be.

  “The inventor of Androids, and an ex-companion of a royal of the last succession war.”

  The princess was casual with her words but I can see her hand shook as she spoke.

  “I want to meet him, when do you want to go?” I asked as I smiled and went back to working on E-24’s components and looking for ways I can ask Flenna to customize her while we fix her broken parts.

  “Later. . . maybe after your birthday Shiro.” She said as I paused, as I realized It is my birthday in a few weeks.

  Act IV

  “Finally your awake, how does everything feel?” I asked as I observed the android designated E-24 sat up from the table and looked at herself.

  Her eyes glowed as packets of data text was flowing through them so quickly that I can barely read the first compound sentences before it moved to another page.

  “E-24, functions. . . neural core active. . . batteries 1 to 10 active. . . Hydraulic pumps. . .” She continued on with her diagnostics, while I video taped everything using a jury rigged CCTV system I placed around the mansion.

  I don’t have a way to record digital videos yet, but I was able to hook a bunch of stripped down tape cameras into a large tv taping system using a lot of cables, they can record 24/7 but I need to change the central cartridge once a month.

  “Hello, I am looking for a girl, blonde hair, tall, going by the name Komiko.” She said as she tried standing up but failed, as she doesn’t have any legs nor anything below her charging port so then she started looking around.

  “Your badly damaged E-24, I am Shiro a servant of princess Komiko, please let us continue to fix you.” I said moving backwards as Flenna appeared behind me.

  “Flugga (Stand down Scout Unit E-24, main objective accomplished, override. . .new orders adhere to the new handler Shiro and princess Komiko.)” Flenna said as I gave her a raised eye brow questioning her silently.

  “Understood. . . Repair mode activated.” E-24 said as she closed her eyes and laid back on the table.

  “You never talked like that to me or the princess, is that how androids talk to each other?” I asked as I started using a magnetic screwdriver drill to attach a thigh on E-24’s left leg port. . . I added a lot of black oil as a lubricant as I screwed in bolt after bolt.

  “Flugga Flugga (Yes, as a royal android, I have the authority to command other units).” Flenna said raising her head proudly which made me chuckle, as her eyes where still doe like, and at the thought of such a small thing commanding armies of androids.

  “Tell me E-24, how much do you remember of your travel from doctor Fraken’s realm to this one?”

  “. . . Memory corrupted. . .” She said after a long pause of her probably trying to recall anything, which wasn’t surprising as a large part of her memory bank was filled with errors. . . which was odd cause she didn’t have any broken memory chips in her neural core. I wonder what could have happened.

  “Explain, why does your logs not have dates?” I asked as I attached her other thigh, as Flenna worked on her face. . . which was just her using some kind of grey clay that was smelt into place and then painted with some kind of dye.

  Unauthorized usage: this tale is on Amazon without the author's consent. Report any sightings.

  “Date catalogs data storage efficiency, remove to able to keep more relevant data.” She answered in that robotic voice that was becoming more and more human as Flenna started working on her voice box.

  “Flenna, why isn’t she speaking in Royal Android?” I asked as I took a step back and looked over my work and then started doing some testing by bending her legs, working the oiled ball rings, as I bent in the right way a few times, satisfied I started putting in my customizations.

  Like toes, Flenna and Frannel doesn't have toes and then a more human dermal system as I noticed that there not very huggable. . . I want to see how human like I can make this android, who knows I can probably make a lot of money selling the conversion process and tech.

  “Flugga (You do know father wouldn’t let you keep this one right?)” Flenna said as she finished with E-24’s voice box and started working on her torso.

  “Oh don’t worry about that Flenna I could be very persuasive and plus I have a lot of time before we meet, which give me the advantage.” I said smiling to myself as I finished adding her toes and started covering her leg frames with a soft polymer mixed alloy casing instead of the steel like ones the androids use. . . they really where built for war, just repurposed after it.

  “Flugga? (That would weaken her considerably, why?)” Flenna said questioningly as she saw the plating I was using to cover and protect the internal components of her leg from the environment.

  “Oh this stuff is much, much tougher than it looks.” I said giving a plate to Flenna as she started trying to bend it and it does bend and then tried stretching it and it does stretch but when she tried ripping it apart and then using her blow torch. . . it didn’t work.

  “Your father maybe a genius in robotics but I’ve met actual gods of engineering at material science, this was called cybernetic flesh.”

  I said remembering, how excited Alloy was when he was finally able to synthesis the perfect composite material for synths and androids, to be able to walk with other people, as people and not blatantly feel and look like machines.

  “It’s a really good material invented as something a Synth would feel comfortable covered with but also strong enough that it’s rated better than what tanks are armoured with in the human realm currently.”

  I said happily as I finished the first leg and then took out a small essence crystal.

  “[Bind]” I said as the plates started coelessing and then molded itself and finally it stopped as the legged looked perfectly human rather than ant like carapace.

  I started touching E-24’s new leg and then touched my own. . . it’s too smooth. . .

  “Ehh. . . I need to summon some more. . . what do you think Flenna?” I said poking at the new skin while thinking of few other things to try.

  Flenna took out what looked like an ultrasound mike and started vibrating the skin while her eyes where glowing with data streams going through them.

  “Flugga, Flugga. (It is a good material Shiro, an upgrade to the current android casing.)”

  “Something your father would want to buy?”

  I asked hoping to fished something out of her but then her dopey eyes focused for a moment before returning to normal.

  “Flugga. (It is something he would kill you for.)”

  “Huh, smart man, I would love the challenge. Ha ha ha!” I said before I started laughing and continued our work.

  Act V

  “So. . . this is E-24?” I asked my uncertainty was difficult to hide, as the broken thing Shiro brought home a few days ago was now giving me such an elegant curtsy with a softly demure smile.

  And she’es beautiful, not that oddly artificial doll like beauty Frannel has but, real. . . as if she’s a beauty model.

  “Lovely right!” Shiro said excitedly as he showed of the android to me, to Hellen, to Nanami, and to Lizel the boy even called Rikka and my sister over! Has his work finally driven him insane!

  I screamed internally as I felt a small frown on my face, that I can’t remove.

  “She is lovely sister. . . and wow, she’s so soft!” Seraphim said surprised as she started touching the androids legs and exposed belly.

  That made the android blush, why in the realms would he make an android that can blush!

  “It’s turning red princess, you shouldn't caress her with an audience.” Rikka said trying to hold a laugh, as my sister looked up and embarrassingly let go.

  “As you can see, she feels and acts human! Now Lizel do you want to try smelling her?” Shiro asked excitement in his eyes, so much so that Lizel wasn’t able to deny him.

  She nodded and walked towards the ‘android’ and then started sniffing her and then placed her ear on her heart.

  “Huh!? Shiro is this. . . is she really an android? . . .” Dumbfoundment, that’s the only word that can describe Lizel’s face as she continued smelling and listening to her batteries?

  “It. . . She has a heart beat and she has a breath and smell. . . and they all smell like Shiro but different. . .” Lizel said before going to the couch her face thoughtfully confuse.

  “Rikka it’s your turn!” Shiro said as I saw Rikka looked at Lizel and then back to the excited Shiro before giving a breath.

  “Alright what do you want me test Shiro?” She asked as Shiro grabbed E-24’s hand and then with a knife cut it. . .

  I was expecting the small knife to bend or scrape steel as would normally happen but, it cut through, and E-24 started bleeding white blood. . . Rikka looked at the blood seriously and then took the hand and started feeding.

  “Ah. . .She tastes good. . . virgin blood, she kinda tastes like you Shiro.” Rikka said as E-24 pushed her away, as the wound disappeared in seconds.

  “And now the final test, hey Hellen can you please try pushing E-24 back?” Shiro asked Hellen who was just watching everything with curious eyes.

  She nodded and tried pushing the E-24 but nothing, the floors was starting to crack as I spoke to stop them.

  “Alright stop it now.” I said as Hellen stopped and Shiro’s smile turned brighter.

  “So what do you think princess?” Shiro asked as he started fussing over the androids new clothes that made her look like maid. . . but with a tight uniform, did he borrow some clothes from Nanami?

  I thought as I looked at her, disappointing pair of apples, I’m not as large as Nanami but mine was atleast something respectable for a woman my age.

  “Why did you turn her to this?” I asked rather than answering him because if I where to say what I thought, Shiro might just reconsider his position as my servant.

  “Your new friend is cute Shiro, but I do need to start cooking, we have a lot of guests!” Nanami said mirroring her brother’s excitement as she walked out, Hellen and Lizel following her.

  “I plan to sell her to doctor Franken, everything I put in her repair and upgrades would probably interest any roboticist.”

  Shiro looked confident, which worried me but then I saw Frannel and Flenna and both nodded, which confirmed my suspicion.

  “Alright Ellane can you do the thing?” Shiro asked E-24, as she bowed to him and then walked towards me and then gave a curtsied bow, before speaking in a woman’s voice.

  “Good day princess, I Ellane formally designated as Scout unit E-24 ask to be in your service until I am returned to father Franken.”

  I was a bit taken aback by her speech pattern, she sounded like a royal android, but she spoke in Nihonjin, the language of the local humans.

  “I would only accept if your words are of the royal realm.” I spoke demonic the common langue of the royal realms, but as I spoke Shiro raised questioning eye on my words, which was normal I haven't yet taught him the language.

  “Quaesō, regina, suscipito mē servom, dum redūcī exspectō.” She answered in the royal realms tongue as I nodded smiling at her.

  “Good, I accept. now Shiro, do you have any other features you want to show us?”

  I asked more in politeness than actual interest as I took a sip of the tea poured by Flenna as she poured another one for Sera.

  He excitedly said yes before he started undressing his doll, and started pointing out the features hidden by the clothes, from eyes that can see infrared from a functional. . . let’s say reproduction system, some component that can turn normal food to mechanical fuel and even.

  “Shack! Hidden blades! And there electrified! Bzzb zbzb” Ellane the android flicked her wrists revealing foot long stiletto like daggers that was arching with electricity.

  “I call it anti-android pokers.” Shiro said as he continued and I sighed just letting him tucker out.

  Act VI

  “Mmm. . m.m.mm.M.. . . It’s good, you have taught her well Nanami.”

  The mistress said as I gave her a small bow, as she finished eating her sauced stake and broccoli.

  “Thank you princess, young Ellane is quite talented mistress, and she’s such a hard worker.” I answered as the princess gave a nod.

  “Thank you for your compliment princess.” Ellane answered sweetly, giving the mistress a curtsy.

  It’s been a few days since Shiro introduced his new friend to everyone, and now she’s working for the princess, she’s been so helpful.

  Because of her I have more time to for myself now while the princess was still kept satisfied.

  “Oh where did Shiro go?” The mistress asked as she stood and looked through the window.

  I followed her thinking about the last time I saw Shiro.

  “Flugga.” Flenna answered the mistress.

  “School? Isn’t today a rest day?”

  The mistress asked as we watched the two. . . body guards? Went at each other in a fight, I wasn’t trained like Shiro but from what he told me and whenever I asked the two they said they call this fighting, sparring something they need to do to not get rusty.

  “It’s his club mistress, they’re planning to do another play.” I said remembering one of the plays I watched as my little brother played a little red hooded boy being. . . seduced by a big bad wolf.

  It was a long uncomfortable talk after that particular play, I’m his big sister he needed to be taught that girls sometimes want more than his friendship. . . before something bad happens.

  “Wonder when they’ll be ready. . .” The mistress said smiling in glee as she watched the sparring but I know that she had become quite the fan of my brother’s plays.

  Act VII

  “Princess. . . are you awake?” I whispered, as I opened my eyes. It should be the early morning as I felt the princess, still crutching onto me like a teddy bear.

  No answer after a minute so I slowly moved her, as gentle as I could as I took one of her stuffed dolls and replaced me with it and then covered her up with the blanket.

  I stayed silent as I left her bed as I pressed on my ring and then the room changed, as I appeared on my lab, it was still in the attic, but now it was cleaned and properly worked on.

  In silence I walked towards my workstation, as I started working on one of my projects a spell catalyst that could store more float spells than the harpy feathers I’ve been using.

  It’s a common enough good in the royal realms as it’s usually use for clothing and bedding, they where decent for the spell but it can only be used once and then they turn to ash.

  Now I was trying to see if these vampire spider’s, bat like wings could be a kind of catalyst, I’ve butchered and taken as many intact parts from the corpses before turning them into essence crystals.

  “Hear my voice little fairies~” I started singing as I poured a bottle of quick silver on a wooden plate with a circle of runes.

  And then other voices sang along with me.

  “In the woods of fey~” A red spark of light continued.

  “The boy of the forest sang~” A green spark of light sounded.

  “No other knew him but the lord of all~” A blue spark of light ended it.

  “Lord~ Lord~ Lord~” The sparks of light dimmed and enlarged turning into girls wearing leaves and flowers, barely a foot large each.

  “Hello girls, just wanted some fey magic.” I said to the girls as they started flying around the room looking around at things and then playing with them before settling on my workbench.

  “Lord Woods! What spell! What magic!” The girls spoke excitedly which made me smile but then.

  “Crash! Thump!” I heard woods breaking and a wall getting struck with a powerful blow.

  I stood up from the my workbench and ran towards the attic door, kicking it open and jumping down as I saw, the princess being carried by Ellane, Flenna thrown a cracked wall, Lizel and Helen trying to stop the android from leaving.

  “Shiro, your doll’s going wild.” Komiko said casually while here feet dangelled and was carried like a sack.

  “Yeah, I see that. . . Helen, Lizel, hold her arms!” I said as they stopped trying to stop Ellane from walking down the stairs, but held on her free arm as I moved in.

  She tried swiping at me with her free hand, but the two was able to stop her, as I grabbed at her thigh and felt around for her switch. . . and then.

  “System shut down. . .” She was turned off as Helen helped Komiko off her.

  “What happened princess?” I asked as she dusted herself off.

  “I don’t know, your doll broke into my room I fought back, Flenna tried to help failed and these two tried doing the impossible and you showed up.”

  “Well that sounded bad.” I said and then it started echoing.

  “Bad~ Bad~ Bad~ little toy~ naughty little~ Doll~” The fairies I summoned followed me as they sang getting the attention of the others.

  “I was practicing magic when this happened.” I said deflecting the looks they where giving me.

  “I think we need to look at her logs in more detail.” The princess said as she went to check on Flenna I did the same as I asked the fairies float, Ellane so Helen can carry her.

  “What’s wrong with this girl Liz?” Helen asked as she stood back with Lizel.

  “She’s just sick Hel.” Lizel answered as I worked on Flenna, as her cranial frame was very damaged.

  “Sister, you know how rude it is to call someone this early in the morning?” I looked behind me and saw it was Sera and Frannel.

  “A bit late Sera, but I do need help with Flenna and Shiro’s doll.” Komiko said as Frannel came and carried the fritzing Flenna as we all moved towards Flenna’s room.

  Sera started working on the monitors as Frannel connected both Flenna and Ellane into the machine, as she work to open and diagnose both of the turned off androids.

  “Huh. . . Sister look at this.” Sera asked as she motioned for Komiko over as I was helping Frannel with the repairs, I looked back and saw the two meatheads where playing with the fairies I summoned.

  “Shiro, did you work on Ellane’s codes while you where working on her?” Komiko asked as I was summoning some soft steel to shape a newcasing for Flenna, passing the quickly hardening dough like metal to Frannel so she could shape it before I answered.

  “No I didn’t, I just added a few new ones so she could use her new enhancements.” I said as I kept the summoning circle up as Frannel molded the metal to the shape of Flenna’s head.

  “Well that means before you found the doll, someone changed her original orders.” Sera said as I stopped my work and walked towards them looking at her mission log.

  [Doctor Franken - Go to the 3rd princess and remind her of Flenna’s yearly maintenance.]

  [Error - After a error with the princess error her and bring her to this error.]

  “How? Didn’t you say she only had one mission?” I asked princess Komiko and she just shrugged.

  “Sera is better with tech than I am, and when I saw so many errors on her logs after the main objective I assumed it was just a false objective because of how damaged she was.”

  “Well, alright. . .” I just said speechless at her carelessness.

  “But I was suspicious, why someone would just leave an android after almost destroying them. . .” Komiko started as she touched the soft cheek of a turned off Ellane.

  “I originally thought she was a kind of way of finding us, but after a few days of nothing happening and without me feeling any threats I assume she was just a lucky victim of the game. . .”

  “But now you think she was hacked and used to try kidnapping you?” I said as I saw that sadness in Komiko’s eyes, as she frowned.

  “Yes.” She answered.

  “Will find them sister. . . I think I can find out where exactly you where about to be taken.” Sera said as she worked on the terminal.

  Act VIII

  In a dark woods, where the sun barely shines, the air itself was thick with the spores of mushrooms, and the wet mossy soil.

  An old stone ruin scattered broken and withered stone monoliths, in that circle of ruins, a group of dark clothed paled skin red eyed women talked.

  “Damn this! How long is this going to take?” One spoke her voice agitated as she kept sharpening a cutlass with an iron grinder, her whole body coated in a black hooded robe.

  “We wait as long as it takes.” Another spoke her hair blood red hair, poking out from her hood as she meditated in the centre of the others.

  “It shouldn’t take that long, Bhel, I saw the android leave the mansion an hour ago it shouldn’t take it that long, even with it’s clunky legs. . .” Another spoke her own hands occupied with her pistol, cleaning the barrel.

  “I think that’s it. . .” Another one spoke as she stood up alerting the others, as Ellane appeared carrying a tall, white dressed, golden blonde, lady on her shoulder.

  They all stood approaching the android, but then one of them stiffened.

  “You! I know you're there show yourself!” The one with the sharp cutlass suddenly yelled making the others wary as they started looking all around themselves.

  “That night lovely tonight, women of the realm of darkness~” I sang as the air above distorted the forest singing along.

  “It’s the sorcerer! Be on guard he should be close!” The red haired one yelled, as the others readied there guns and blades.

  “More than you think ladies~” I said as I appeared before them as Ellane dropped the puppet, her arms turning into blades, as I heard the arching of electricity from them.

  “Bang! Bang!” Two shots already fired as the scout pistol wielder attacked first.

  “Tak, tak. . .” The grape bullets struck my chest, as my cloak of scales stopped them, as each bullet fell with a scale falling with them.

  “Well I was planning for peace but a fight it is then. . . Oh friends, we are in party!” I yelled as I tossed dozens of cards towards the vampires.

  Some dogged others cut at the cards.

  “I am Lizel Whitefang! Daughter of the great warrior Viggle Whitefang! I would be your end Filth of the night lands!” Lizel said as she appeared from one of the cards, her fist striking one of the hooded vampires.

  As the vampire quickly shift, striking Lizel back with a rapier, and shots with the vampires pistol, driving Lizel back as she was able to rip into the hooded vampire, taking a chunk of her shoulder.

  “Aho! For Sparta!” Hellen appeared next charging into the frey with her large shield breaking the circle the vampires where trying to hold.

  The vampires lost interest almost immediately towards me as Ellane started doing the sword dance program I added to her code, cutting into the fight.

  “AHH!” The vampires screamed in pain every time they’re weapons touched the sword arms of Ellane, making her have the most attention.

  “Bang! Bang! Tunk! Die already you thing!” One of the vampires yelled as she shot and stabbed at Ellane while she was in the air.

  “Thump! . .” One of the vampires Fell as Lizel struck her down, and then continued her rampage against the one of the ones Hellen was driving back.

  “Tuck, Tuck. Bang!” Hellen stood like sentinel, fighting off three of the vampires, striking and shooting at her shield as she continued to stab and push them back.

  I took my eyes of the fights of the others as I focused back to the one I had, this one seemed to be there leader as she fought with long bladed claws.

  As I pushed her back with my saber.

  “So are you the leader miss vampire?”

  I asked the woman as she kept trying to slice my throat and stomach.

  “Ahh!” She yelled at me her eyes, read her fangs out.

  “Don’t waste your breathe Shiro, this ones are practically animals, all lower vampires are.” I looked up as I electrified my hand as I held the one I was fighting on her neck.

  “AhhH! NO!!” She yelled out as I smelled burnt flesh and hair with a bit of piss.

  “Rikka? I thought you where watching with the princesses?” I said to the Rikka as she floated towards me as I casted a fall spell on the pacified vampire before letting her fall.

  “Oh I just wanted to get a better look of the action.” She said waving to a close by hill where the princess where watching using opera glasses.

  I looked down and saw the girls where mostly done, I asked them to be non-lethal and they where, as you really can’t kill vampires even the lower ones without destroying there hearts or head.

  “Tell me what do you plan on doing to those lower castes?” Rikka asked her smile ever present smile, on her red lips.

  “Do you care what I do to them?” I asked back looking into her eyes, she quickly looked away, as her smile twitched.

  “No I don’t but I am interested. . . planning to see if they have a more powerful master?”

  “They probably do, this bunch doesn’t seemed to be able to hacked something like an Android base on how well they fight, but I’m more interested in there magic.” I answered.

  As I pulled out my six shot, as the last one saw her friends where all downed and tried running.

  “Tuk! Sishhh. . .” I shot her and saw as her body immediately combusted, as Rikka flinched at the action, but immediately turned back to normal.

  “Well now I know why that vampire lord was so afraid.” I said smiling to myself, as I holstered back my gun and floated down, first Ellaine and now I have six new cuties I can play with.

  “I’m starting to like this world more and more.” I said to myself as I started collecting the vampires making them float so I can carry them easier.

  “I do wish your just weird Shiro, because if not I’m starting to understand why the royal family specifically chosen you people like you to be purified.” I felt my own eyes twitched at the comment.