Vampire Princess Miyu Fan Fiction ❯ Deepest, Darkest Nightmare ❯ Chapter 1

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Deepest, Darkest Nightmare
By: Reba Jean, September 28, 2002
Email: rebajean@writing.com
Webpage: http://www.angelfire.com/tx5/prairieskye
Genre: Humor
Rating: G


Disclaimer: Characters based on Vampire Princess Miyu by Narumi
Kakinouchi.

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"Larva, sit down and shut-up!" snapped a thoroughly irritated Miyu.

"You don't understand," Larva complained.

"Of course I do; I was human too. My body was subject to deterioration
before I changed. I had to go every year, sometimes twice," she
countered.

"They're going to torture me," he whined and jumped up again to resume
his pacing the length of the room.

"How can I be human again after all this time? Why did that witch have
to put that horrible spell on me? It is just as bad as the last time."
Larva stopped pacing and stared gloomily out the window.

"Larva, sit down. You're scaring the little children. Why did you
have to wear your mask and cloak anyway? You know we need to try and
blend in with the humans," Miyu chided.

Larva turned and looked at the other end of the reception room. In the
corner was a small table and chairs, covered with a Lego ™ building
surface and tracks for cars and trains. A small red haired boy was
staring at Larva angrily. An even smaller blond haired girl had
crawled under the table and begun crying. The little boy suddenly
lunged, ran over, and kicked Larva on the shin.

"You scared my sister! Creepy clown! You're a bad, bad man!" yelled
the small boy. His face now only inches from Larva's mask, doubled
over as he was, from the agony in his shin.

The boy quickly ran back over to his oblivious mother, still entranced
by the soap opera playing on the lobby TV. He grabbed the flowing
drapery of her long skirt and hid beneath it.

The startled woman exclaimed, "Andre, what are you doing?"

"Mommy, that mean man scared Sissy. He growled at her and he has big
pointy teeth behind his clown face," the little boy wailed.

Amanda glared at Larva and complained, "You should be ashamed of
yourself! Scaring little children!"

Larva protested, "But I didn't do anything! I just smiled at him." He
demonstrated.

"Eek!" the woman actually shrieked. She quickly gathered her children
and moved to the waiting area on the other side of the secretary's
desk.

Miyu turned toward Larva and scowled, "You shouldn't pick on them just
because you're afraid!"

An attendant entered the room, interrupting her tirade as it was just
beginning. "Mr. Larva, please come with me now."

Larva looked pleadingly at Miyu, "Please come with me." He clung to
her hands and pulled her behind him. Larva reluctantly followed the
woman down the hall. Only greatest need would drive him to this
extremity. The unbearable pain drove him onwards. The woman motioned
for them to enter the brightly lit room at the far end of the hall. It
was packed with strange machines. Their long arms had the appearance of
a mechanical octopus. There was a large padded chair in the center of
the room hemmed in on all sides by the terrifying machinery.

"Please have a seat, sir." The woman turned Larva and shoved him gently
towards the chair.

Larva cringed and hung back, "Miyu, it's really not that bad. Let's
go!"

"No way, it took forever to get this appointment. I'm tired of your
complaining about the pain," Miyu blocked his exit.

Suddenly a large man loomed in the doorway, reading a clipboard. "Hi,
I'm Dr. Drill. Having trouble with that left, upper canine, I see.
It's been a long time since your last visit, hmm, two hundred years.
That must be a computer error."

Larva shrank back and visibly paled. His eyes rolled back into his
head as his mask clattered to the floor. He crumpled lifelessly to the
floor beside it.

Miyu gave a short laugh, "It took forever to get him here. Go ahead
and start while he's out. I've never seen anyone so afraid of the
dentist as Larva."

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Author's Note: I realize that Vampire Princess Miyu and Larva are
portrayed majorly out of character. I wrote this little episode
waiting in the dentist office for the third of a rather painful series of gum procedures. And I have a very petite, kind lady dentist.

Remember, always brush and floss every night. The pain you prevent
may be your own.

Thanks for reading! Please leave a comment or review, whether you loved it or hated it.

RJ