Taming My Vampire Servant

"You confessed to me… and kissed me."

"No way!!" Ivory quickly moved backwards, turning beet red, "Why… Why will I confess to you!? And why the heck will I kiss you!? You must be lying!! That's too much!!" she was taken aback by the sudden revelation. At the back of her mind, she was not yet ready to confess!

Sigmund chuckled, "Why are you asking me, dimwit?! You were the one who initiated it, not me! And do you even know that it's not the first time you kissed me?"

"What? When did I-"

"When you tried the Conversion Magic at the back of your house," he explained, "You told me that you wanted me, then you kissed me."

"In your dreams!" she retorted.

The Vampire Servant noticed that she was blushing. He knew that her feelings for her were true, but since he already decided not to tell her that he felt the same, he told her, "I will forget about what you did, so let's not get awkward with each other. It can develop distrust between us, which will lower the quality of your mana. I do not want that to happen, Ivory."

Ivory just nodded, but deep inside, she was disheartened. She thought that Sigmund is a Servant, that's why he couldn't feel the same way towards her.

Little did she know that he already had feelings for her despite knowing the fact that he shouldn't. He's trying hard to fight his feelings for her, and he's afraid that if they become lovers, Goddess Destinia would separate them. 

It's like the two were playing hide and seek. But how will they find each other when both of them are hiding?

"I feel better now that I told you about it," Sigmund grabbed her arm and smirked at the sight of some hickeys in it. "Now, give me your blood," he was about to bite it, but Ivory withdrew her arm.

"Let me first apologize for what I did, Sigmund. I caused you discomfort, and we almost fell apart as a Master and a Servant pair," she turned serious. "From now on, I will be more responsible for my actions and strive to control the extraordinary mana, so it will never happen again."

He stared at her for a while and messed her hair. He said, "Let's forget about it, so stop yapping and let me replenish my mana."

Ivory stared at Sigmund as he finally sunk his fangs into her flesh. He was sucking her blood on her arm, but it wasn't pain but relief that she felt when he did it. She was glad that he was honest with her and was relieved that he wasn't avoiding her anymore.

Sigmund, on the other hand, felt lighter after telling her about the kiss and her confession. Fortunately, it seemed like his fear of her avoiding him because of it would not happen, because she already apologized. 

As he licked the oozing blood with his coarse tongue, he stared at her, curious about her facial expression when she moaned. When he paused, she glanced at him.

"Are you… done?" Ivory bit her lower lip. "Can I sleep?"

"Hmm? Why does it look like you're wanting for more?."

She blushed, "No, I… I just feel tired," and looked away when she pulled the blanket to cover herself.

Sigmund tucked her in the bed, "I guess we're good?" he asked her for confirmation.

Ivory nodded, "Yes, so please don't avoid me."

"Okay, dimwit," he chuckled and sat beside her. "Now sleep."

She smiled sweetly at him, "Don't leave me…"

"I'm going to watch over you as you sleep. Don't worry too much."

When Ivory closed her eyes and drifted off to sleep, a subtle smile escaped from Sigmund's lips. He slid the loosened hair on his Master's face to the side and stared at her peaceful expression.

…

The next night, Ivory met Lycus in the wood chopping area in the middle of Greensteid Forest. She dressed herself with a dark blue dress with a brown leather vest on top and leather bracers wrapped around her forearm, brown pants, and leather boots. Lycus was only wearing a thin vest adorned with some feathers around his nape which slightly covered the sword scar in his neck, and a rivet plated shoulder armor on his left arm. 

Sigmund was made to watch from afar, outside a barrier made by Lycus. "That punk… He kept on using barriers against me," he murmured as he kicked some small rocks beneath his feet. "I just hope Ivory can fully control that troublesome mana so all these efforts will be worth it."

In the middle, Lycus started explaining to Ivory. "In this training, you must make me surrender. If you do, I shall reward you with anything."

She asked him, "Uhm… So how do I start?"

"Use your normal mana first, but you have to make your other mana surface later on. Since we're here in the forest, try to use either Earth or Wind magic."

Ivory nodded and stepped back. Using her right hand, she gripped onto her long magic gray staff. She continued to observe Lycus, glowering at him while she held her staff tightly in her grasp.

She suddenly yelled after concentrating her mana onto her staff wherein only the white crystal glowed. She raised her free hand and positioned it in towards Lycus. Her hands then glowed as well, making the ground beneath Lycus' feet shake and crack.

Before he was even devoured by the ground, Lycus jumped up as his light blue irises started glowing. He pointed his palm towards Ivory's direction, accumulating the wind, and shot her with several razor winds.

Ivory jumped to her left to avoid these, but the last two razors hit her badly on her shoulders. She rolled to a far part of the barrier where Sigmund closely stood.

"Hey, you're bleeding!" Sigmund said worriedly, clenching his fists. "I told that punk not to-"

"Sigmund, I'm okay, please don't interrupt," she gave him a weak smile. "I have to make the extraordinary mana envelop me."

"By hurting yourself? Stop this!"

"Believe in me," she said, her eyes teary, "Cheer for me at the side. That's all I need for now."

"You… stupid woman…" he leaned on the tree and looked down on her. "Fine… Kick his ass, Ivory."

Ivory chuckled, resisting the pain as blood dripped from the cuts on her shoulders, "Thank you, Sigmund." Slowly, she stood up and she faced Lycus once again, who had already landed on the ground. He unleashed more wind razors towards her direction while she tried to avoid these by running near the barrier.

As the wind razors touched the barrier, it dissipated, and the Vampire Servant sighed in relief. He almost dodged it and forgot that a transparent magic barrier was set.

Ivory continued evading Lycus since he was not taking any breaks from attacking at all. She tried to attack him with the same element, but he was quick to dodge the razors. She also attacked him with pointed pegs made from hardened clay, but he only crushed them with wind. She was no match with his speed, and going against the extraordinary mana was too much for her.

Lycus gave her more lacerations that even her clothes got torn. When he saw her lying on the ground, he said, "Lady Ivory, if this was a real battle, you're already dead by now."

"If this was a real battle in which I could really die, then the extraordinary mana would have already enveloped me," Ivory tried to stand up using her staff as her support, but she felt her knees weakening.

"Then I should just try to kill you for real, so save yourself," Lycus told her, then he concentrated his mana onto his hands as he extended them in front of his chest. Soon after, the wind moved towards the center of his big hands, forming a ball of air.

Seeing him make a powerful Air Elemental magic technique, Ivory gulped. She thought it would be the end of her if she wouldn't heal herself, but she also hoped that Lycus wouldn't kill her because they're related to each other.

But seeing how he took effort into using his precious mana into her training, she knew he was taking her seriously.

Lycus released the ball of wind towards her, and it was fast as a running cheetah hunting for its prey.

But when it reached Ivory, a loud explosion happened, and everything inside the barrier became clouded with dust. Lycus was worried that he really killed Ivory, and so he used the wind to shove away the dirt in the air to be able to see her. 

And when the dust subsided, Lycus gave a wide grin. Ivory was standing at a distance, her light blue eyes glowing brightly like the full moon. She had already  enveloped herself with the extraordinary mana, and her wounds rapidly healed.

She played with her magic staff by twirling it in between her fingers, and looked at Lycus seriously.

"Lady Ivory, I see you have successfully enveloped yourself with the special mana-"

But she didn't let him continue to speak. She immediately dashed forward, using the force of the wind to approach him as fast as she could, and used the staff to pin him on the ground.

"Lady… Ivory…" Lycus tried to push her as he strongly held the staff that was pressed tightly on his neck. But with the massive wind accumulated on Ivory's back that's making her extremely heavy, he couldn't move.

"I won, Lycus. I finally caught you off guard," she grinned as she looked down on him. "Now... I'll tell you what reward I would like to have," and she glanced momentarily at Sigmund, who had been worriedly staring at her from afar.