28As we all know, the mobile game rocked our world with the notion of Vampire!Claudine, and then one of my patrons nadie95 requested me to do a small vampire AU story... And then I just didn't stop writing it and it became 4 chapters long haha!
I'm not too familiar with the events of the game, but I was told Claudine/her vampire character had a wife named Elizabeth who died. So this fic is going to be based off that notion; the immortal vampire Claudine is searching the world for her long-lost love's reincarnation.
Disclaimer: I do not own Shoujo Kageki Revue Starlight.
Centuries of Love
Prologue.
For centuries, she's wandered the earth, ragged and worn, cold and joyless, stealing the warmth from the veins of unsuspecting passerby to sustain herself just barely beyond the point of no return.
Her tattered clothes tell of the era from whence she came, layers and frills and collars, which always make her stand out in the modern ages of shorts and skirts and sandals.
One of the few powers she has left is her ability to mask her presence, and she uses it often. She's kept to the shadows all this time, only taking blood when she most needs it, typically from sleeping girls - she'd never touch a man if she could help it.
The girls she drank from rarely ever stirred when she fed - Claudine was always gentle with them. They all reminded her of her long-lost wife Elizabeth in some way, shape, or form. Some had similar hair, some had a similar complexion, some had a similar face.
But none of them tasted like her; none of them drew Claudine's soul to theirs like her centuries-late lover's had.
She'd lost track of time since Elizabeth had died and left Claudine searching for the incarnate of her soul. There was a tug, like the thinnest thread, thinner than a hair or the web of a spider, pulling at her heartstrings.
It's led her for many, many years. Searching.
Some days, she felt it might be best to simply let herself wither away.
But then she remembers how Elizabeth had passed, too early and too unfairly, how she'd promised Claudine those four words that have echoed - aching - through her soul for more time than she cared to remember:
"I'll find you again…"
It had been a promise - the promise of a mortal human with a mortal lifespan, to an immortal being. Claudine wasn't about to let herself fade away, not until she'd fulfilled that promise and lived a full, fair life together with her.
So she followed that feeling, that tug of the string of fate.
Sometimes she felt she got close, only to lose that feeling. But never entirely. There was always something there, driving her forward, even if just an inch each day.
She followed that feeling, that guiding light in her soul trying relentlessly to bring her back to the one she loved most dearly in all the worlds and universes and times.
She's searched far and wide, often getting close, sometimes deceitfully so.
But she knew the second she tasted their blood that none of them were who she sought. It all tasted dull, flavorless, cold. She'd know Elizabeth's blood even after all these years, but she's yet to taste it again.
Whenever she did - if she ever did - she'd know for sure she'd found her soulmate again.
But until then, she continues to wander through the countries, seasons, and people.
Waiting...
A/N: This isn't really going to cover how Claudine became a vampire; that's going to be up for your interpretation (or whatever the game dictated, if that's relevant).
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