Magnolia was a bustling city with bubbly citizens who were literally all over the place. Being the city that was pretty popular due to housing the Fairy Tail guild which was once a great guild, it was naturally a hotspot for tourists who wanted to see the guild as well as those famous places like the Kardia Cathedral, and the South Gate Park. Kaiser couldn’t go three feet out of the villa without getting annoyed by tourists, disturbing her peace of mind. However, she could see how the guild could benefit from having control of this whole city. There were just so many tourist spots and she liked how, unlike her own guild, Fairy Tail hadn’t really tried to expand their influence, so it would be easier for her to do so.

On this very uneventful day as of the moment, the nightwalker was having a stroll in the East Forest to ease her mind, getting away from the hustle and bustle of the city environment. She wanted to have some alone time, to be honest, not that she didn’t enjoy the company of her guildmates. It always helped her to assess things when she was alone, and when it was quiet. The latter was impossible when she was in the city and so she headed out to enjoy some tranquility in the East Forest, which was actually one of the more popular forests in Magnolia. Surprisingly no one was here, which was weird. Kaiser didn’t mind though. In fact, this was the kind of environment she needed right now.

After wandering about the peaceful forest for like fifteen minutes, the vampire had reached pretty deep inside of it. She didn’t have a reason to come this far, but her feet had taken her as she was simply roaming. However, she began to sense a magical presence as she neared the center of the forest. She felt like it was calling to her, but that was probably just her imagination. But of course, she couldn’t help her curiosity. The noises from outside of the forest were drowned out somehow, and it was almost completely silent. Kaiser soundless approached the magical presence, since she didn’t want to scare it away or something. In that moment she felt like a treasure hunter, as she neared a tree from where the energy originated from. Coming around the tree, she noticed that there was a whole person at the base of it, tangled up in the roots.

She seemed dead, but Kaiser noticed that she was breathing from the way her chest heaved up and down, ever so slightly, so it seemed like she had been asleep...for a very long time considering how the roots were kind of starting to wrap around her. Kaiser approached the figure, a violet haired beauty with fair skin that appeared soft and almost like it was faintly glowing. She immediately felt the urge to feel her flesh that looked soft like marshmallows. Of course it didn’t help that the woman was completely naked. The nightwalker then leaned forward and reached towards her face with one hand, wondering what would be the appropriate way to wake her up, but being the person that she was, she landed a mild smack on her face, then moved back a bit, waiting for a response from the sleeping figure.

Kaiser had never patiently waited for someone to wake up. She didn’t know why she was standing there gawking at the naked lady, but it was like she was enchanted somehow. The figure stirred after her soft slap, and then shifted around, as if she didn’t want to wake up. Kaiser’s lips formed a wicked grin. It wasn’t every day that she stumbled upon a sleeping naked woman in the forest, so she was really fascinated by what she saw. Of course there was also the fact that she was stark naked in the middle of a forest that was accessible to the public, and even after getting smacked across the face by a random stranger, she was still able to curl back into a much cozier sleeping position.

However it didn’t take long for her to enter the state that Kaiser could relate to, a phase that she went through right after she got up every morning as well. As a vampire, it was hard for her to match her sleeping pattern to a human sleeping pattern, during the beginning stages of her vampirism. The reason she had to do that was because she couldn’t be sleeping while her competition was up and working. After some time was taken to force said habit, her sleep clock was kind of just reset to when she was actually a human.

The moment the woman woke up, the first thing she asked was, of course, who the hell Kaiser was. However something else had caught the pale sorceress’ attention, and that was her new friend’s red irises. A vampire. How...interesting? She couldn’t contain her excitement, as it was immediately displayed on her features by a manic grin.

“You’re in the East Forest my dear, and I am Kaiser. Care to introduce yourself, as well?” she said, giving the girl her most charming smile. While she spoke these words in a kind and friendly tone, she was having an inner battle of whether she should kill this vampire, or get to know it better before doing so? Her talisman picked up the fact that she was not only a vampire, but a vampire that used magic. And so she resorted to the latter, hoping that she wasn’t wasting her time by being this way.

Kaiser’s amused look turned into a frown, as she heard the girl say that she couldn’t remember her own name. Deja vu. It felt like she had experienced this before, and in truth she had, about a year ago with her guildmate Venus. While she met her guildmate in the most bizarre way, this woman seemed to have just woken up from a deep sleep, and she was naked too. Kaiser made a look that said ‘Are you serious?’ when the woman asked her who she was. “How would I know?” she blurted out. The vampire let go of her hand to take off her coat and put it on the nude lady. “You should probably cover up them balloonies. They’re really distracting,” she said with a soft chuckle as she covered the woman’s torso with her coat.

The pale sorceress then decided to take a seat next to her new company. After leading a female only guild for some time now, Kaiser had become somewhat of a feminist, becoming interested in other women’s stories and wanting to help them in any way that they needed, not to mention it was reinforced by the fact that it was a vampire too. It could be why she didn’t feel shame in being completely naked. Vampires were extreme in one way or another it seemed. She watched the woman’s expression shift from one to another as she seemed to be recalling her memories to aid her in remembering who she was. An identity crisis. The vampire remembered when she had something like that after like a year of being in Fiore. It wasn’t anything like waking up naked in a random forest though. She just couldn’t decide what her nationality was, after moving from Bosco to Joyan and finally to Fiore. She was young.

Brought back to reality from her little train of thought, Kaiser found herself gazing into the woman’s eyes. “Attacked?” she began. That reminded her further about her first meeting with Venus, who was evidently attacked by someone or something, at that time. However this person had not a scratch on her body, and claimed to be attacked. Kaiser looked over her body once again, and gave her a questioning look. All sorts of ideas came to her head but she wasn’t going to bombard her with a million questions. “Why don’t you follow me back to my villa so we can figure it out together?” she would ask.

From the information that she was receiving, Kaiser implied that the girl was turned into a vampire after the attack, because if she was one before, she would’ve known that it was more than just an ‘attack’. She was clearly describing a vampire bite, but as if she had never experienced it before. She had just turned. The pale sorceress unknowingly smiled at the moment she was being shown where the bite took place even though there was nothing there to prove what she was saying. Kaiser knew exactly what had happened though, by this point, but she wasn’t going to unload it all on her right here and right now, and risk scaring the girl away. Kaiser’s face lit up when she agreed to follow her back to her villa. She was unaware of the excitement she felt, meeting another vampire for the first time who was also a user of magic from what the Talisman told her.

Standing up from the tree root, Kaiser patted away any debris that was clinging to her backside and helped the girl get up, wondering exactly how long she had been stuck under this tree for. Hopefully she still knew how to walk otherwise Kaiser didn’t mind having to carry her to the villa. The vampire felt like she was doing some kind of charity work now. She had subconsciously become some kind of walking non-profit organization, but it wasn’t that bad. She led the way back to the villa, and since she didn’t feel like getting a cab or something, she just walked and hoped that the girl didn’t have a problem with it. It was weird to converse without knowing someone’s name, so she decided to just give her one. “Let’s call you Raquel for now,” said the Daeva. The name came from...really nothing. Kaiser just came up with it because she thought it fit and she liked pronouncing the name. The way it was said made it feel like a sophisticated name, though on paper it was plain and splendid as day.

Once they arrived back at the villa, Kaiser would bring the girl to the dining area, to make some coffee for herself as well as the guest. She gestured for the girl to take a seat at the dining table. “I’m gonna get you something more comfy to wear,” she said and while the coffee was brewing, went up to get something from her loungewear collection and changed herself. Returning to the dining area, she would give Raquel the clothes she brought for her and prepared the coffee for both of them. Once they both got their coffees and were both seated at the table, Kaiser would say, “So tell me all about it,” as if they were two old friends catching up in a long overdue hangout sesh.

Kaiser brought her coffee to her mouth to blow on it a bit, while she all eyes and ears on Raquel. Then she took a big gulp as the girl rapped on about the attack. Although she already knew exactly what had happened to her, she was curious to know more about the attacker. The whirring sound of the air-conditioning system punctuated the storytelling, which didn’t really give her the information she wanted, and so she decided that she would just break the news to the girl. However, a sudden thought seemed to have occurred within her mind, causing her to drop her mug which produced a loud cracking noise and littered the floor with tiny pieces of shattered glass.

Acting on instinct, Kaiser shot up from her seat and covered the distance to reach and grab onto Raquel’s arm. “Snap out if it,” she said sharply, pulling the girl back swiftly to force her out of the trance. The brunette vampire didn’t plan on becoming her personal psychiatrist or something, but she wasn’t done with her as yet and so she would refrain from offing her right there and then. Kaiser used her force to sit Raquel back down on her chair and held her down. She was probably being a little bit dramatic right now, but because she was also holding herself back from doing something that she would regret later.

“Calm down and take a deep breath,” she began. She drew in a long breath herself to prepare her mind before launching into an explanation that she would have to construct in a way that wouldn’t shock Raquel to the core. Of course in a split second how could someone come up with something like that? She gave up, and just broke the bad news to her, all the while holding her down in her seat. “You’re a vampire now. You got bit by one, and the assailant left some of their blood in your system after draining you completely, which is the reason you’re still alive, although no longer as a human, but as a vampire.” Kaiser wasn’t sure how she would react upon receiving this next piece of information that she would unload onto the poor girl. “Why do I know? Because fun fact, I am one too.” She thought about adding ‘Don’t worry I won’t attack you’, but assumed that Raquel would understand this because if Kaiser wanted to, she could’ve done it already.

As impatient as Kaiser was as a person, she felt some kind of understanding of what Raquel was going through right now, because she too went through the same thing when she turned. She too had been a human before, and what’s worse, she had to go through it all on her own. The vampire gave some time for Raquel to panic after hearing what she had to say. Of course, this was expected. What human would receive the message that they had turned into a vampire well? Unlike Kaiser, most humans would rather remain to be weak and useless creatures, than become a creature of the night. The questions that Raquel asked were expected, and she had thought of the perfect demonstration to clear all her confusions, and make her realise the truth.

“I’ll show you,” she said, and her vampire fangs would protrude from between her lips when she smiled. Raising her right wrist to her mouth while she still held onto Raquel using her left hand, she licked a spot of porcelain skin that was translucent enough for the greenish veins underneath to show through. Then, she bit down, sharp-tipped teeth of a predator sinking flawlessly through the thin layer of skin on her wrist which caused blood to burst from the tiny holes, and flow down her forearm in a sanguine stream, even dripping down to the rug and staining it.

Withdrawing her teeth from the bloody wrist, she brought her hand in front of Raquel, holding it very closely in front of her face. Blood would pulse out of the two punctures that her teeth created as she licked off any blood that was on her lips. “You know that I have no reason to argue with you, if you can resist this,” she spoke. The grip on Raquel’s arm tightened a little, since she wasn’t sure of how thirsty the newly turned vampire would get.

The reaction from Raquel was everything Kaiser expected, but she didn’t realise how satisfying it would be to witness another of her own kind connecting with her in such a way. The senior vampire released her grip on the violet-haired woman’s arm and let her drink from her wrist to her heart’s content as she watched, pleased by the sight. “I knew it. You couldn’t resist it,” she chuckled. Even though the fledgling was coming at her with full force, Kaiser had enough strength to withstand this force as she was much stronger than the newly turned predator.

“I’ll take you out for a proper meal another time,” she promised, as she retracted her fangs. If Raquel continued to feed on her blood any further, she might need to go out for a meal right this instant, and so she shoved Raquel’s face off of her wrist and withdrew her hand. The reason that she was a little bit forceful in that action was because she understood the craving that Raquel was feeling, and she believed a gentle push wasn’t going to move the thirsty fledgling off of her. Once Raquel had settled down, Kaiser would reach over to grab a napkin and wipe the blood off her mouth.

“There’s an empty room upstairs right beside mine. You can have that. Maybe get to know the people in my guild while you’re here. I don’t know how long you’ve been in that state, so I’ll assume you have no idea about the new guilds that have popped up recently. Ours is one of them, and it’s called Daeva Eye.” She didn’t force the girl to stay though, since she might have a family or something elsewhere. So instead she offered, “If you’d like to join it, I’ll be happy to let you in. You’re the only other vampire I’ve ever met.” If the girl agreed to joining the guild, Kaiser would bring her guild stamp and give her the insignia wherever she wished. Afterwards, she would instruct the part-time maid she hired to clean up the dining area while she went upstairs for a bath. She hoped that Raquel stayed.