《Blood of an Inhuman Hitman (Rewrite)》


 Chapter 1 - Life Loves Throwing Curve Balls

    A Blonde Teen was standing in the toilets of his high school and looking into the mirror in front of him while he washed his hands.


    After he''d finished washing his hands, he splashed some water onto his face and then looked deeply at the reflection he saw. He saw deep royal blue eyes, an angular and sharp face that looked quite manly, or so he was told by a lot of people.


    He looked up at the mop of golden blonde hair that would be considered medium in length if he let it down but he combed most of it towards the back of his head and behind his ears. It looked quite trendy and most people seemed to like it.


    He looked at his body in the mirror and slightly shook his head. What he saw was a white shirt that was stained in some kind of black paint. But it would do little to distract people from the fact that the shirt was kind of tight and showed off his toned upper body from playing sports.


    ''I guess I should have guessed she was gonna do something like that...''


    This blond teen was called Jack Noctis and he''d just broken up with his girlfriend. His now ex-girlfriend didn''t take the break-up very well, as seen by his shirt being covered in black paint; she was an art student and he broke up with her near paint. Looking back on it, he couldn''t help but feel he was slightly stupid to do it there.


    He didn''t break up with her out of spite, quite the opposite in fact, as he broke up with her because today was the official end of highschool and they were off to college in a few months. He did it to save them both the trouble of keeping a long-distance relationship going, when he would be in a completely different state to her.


    ''I needed to break up with her today before I moved, I don''t want to hurt her by forcing her to do a long distance relationship. And it wasn''t set in stone that we''d stay together long after I moved, right? Guess she wanted to be the one who broke up with me or something...''


    As he continued to second guess himself and doubt the way he broke the girl''s heart, he reached into his backpack and brought out a football jersey he''d been given by the coach today. Something about his contribution to the team or whatever.


    He was in the middle of putting the jersey on and looking in the mirror, letting his vain side takeover for a moment, when he heard a voice off to his side, "All that working out paid off, huh dude?"


    Jack''s eyes shot off to his side, full of caution that soon melted away when he saw who it was.


    Gary Long, a chinese-american kid who Jack had grown up with stood in front of him. Gary had been Jack''s best friend for as long as he could remember, even when Jack''s mom just up and left him, Gary and his family gave him a home until he went to live in a hostel after he had enough money. He really loved the guy like a brother.


    Gary stood around 5''8" and while he looking skinny, Gary was actually quite toned from all the martial arts classes he took. He had short black hair and metallic grey eyes on a slightly above average face. Overall he was a decent-looking guy.


    "Jesus, Gary, you scared the shit out of me!" Jack couldn''t help but laugh as he slid the football jersey over his bare upper body. He grabbed his bag and walked over to Gary and fist bumping him in greeting.


    Gary looked at Jack putting on a football jersey in confusion before his eyes fell on the stained white shirt hanging out of Jack''s bag. He instantly started laughing his ass off which caused Jack to groan and quickly stuff the white shirt fully into his bag.


    "Shut up, dude, I''m gonna have to rush home and wash this before it permanently stains the shirt...Speaking of going home, where''s Jason? You two are usually together," Jack looked behind Gary before smirking and seeing a chance to get back at his friend who was laughing at his misfortune, "Hmm, now that I mention it, there are some weird rumors going around that you two are always together for a reason~"


    At Jack''s faux jeer, Gary instantly stopped laughing before looking at Jack with a mock-angry look on his face, "Don''t you start, I''ll bombard you with peanuts if you don''t shut up!"


    Jack rolled his eyes and put his hands up in surrender. Yep, Jack had a nut allergy and whenever he brought up Gary and Jason''s sore spot, death by peanut bombardment was the counter to it.


    The air was light and casual between the two friends who were bantering with each other but there was somthing wrong in the air; something sinister below the surface.


    Not knowing any better, Jack implored Gary to lead him to wherever Jason was waiting for them. Gary quickly agreed and they made their way. Along the way to the front of the school (where Jason was waiting), Jack asked Gary how he knew he was in the toilets. To which Gary informed Jack that there were multiple spottings of a tall blond kid with a shirt covered in black paint by multiple students and that a good majority of them said he was heading to a bathroom.


    So past that it ws just a matter of elimination.


    Jack shook his head in disbelief; this friend of his would totally be a good detective, totally no sarcasm.


    Anyway, it didn''t take long for them to get to the front of the school and see Jason, the last member of their trio.


    Standing in front of the two was a tall teen, at about 6''3" Jason was taller than both Jack and Gary. But his height''s impact was slightly diminished by his width; Jason was quite chubby. So despite his height, he wasn''t very intimidating.


    Jason had brown hair and matching brown eyes. Jack thought that if he slimmed down a bit on his face and his figure, he''d be quite a good looking guy. Alas, as Jason would say himself, he likes binge eating too much to slim down.


    "Aww, you changed your shirt! I had my phone camera ready and everything!" Jason had a disappointed look on his face as he shoved his phone back into his pocket.


    Jack''s eye twitched when he saw this, "Hmm, wouldn''t it be fun if I covered you in paint and took a picture of you? Huh, Jason?" his voice sounded pretty annoyed as he glared at his friend.This text was taken from Royal Road. Help the author by reading the original version there.


    Jason attitude instantly did a 180 and he started talking about how bad it was that someone would pour paint all over Jack. Used to his quick-witted friend, Jack just ignored Jason.


    But shortly after that they all started laughing and started walking towards Gary''s house. They were going to Gary''s house because as per summer traditions, they would start the summer off with a massive marathon of games and movies, while deciding on what to do for the rest of the summer.


    Granted Jack would have to dropout of most of the plans as he had to get his stuff together and take it to his new college dorm but he''d make sure to be there as much as he could.


    Halfway through one of their conversations Jack saw that Jason had disappeared. He looked around for any sight of him and when he was about to look behind himself, he felt something hit his head, hard.


    Jack instantly felt the world around him go black and everything, whether it be sound, his sight and even his sense of touch, everything just got jumbled up and felt distorted.


    He could, however, feel himself being dragged somewhere. When his senses started coming back to him he found that he was in an alleyway. He wondered why no one saw him getting dragged into the alley but suddenly it hit him.


    ''There had been a festival today and everyone''s probably there, granted that there isn''t a lot of people on the street usually anyway, so I can''t be shocked that no one helped...''


    His senses now back and functioning, albeit barely, Jack heard some familiar voices and instantly felt nauseous.


    "Don''t you think you hit him a bit hard, Jason? He''s been pretty out of it for about 7/8 minutes now," Gary''s usually joking voice, was now speaking in a cold, almost detached sort of way. Another familiar voice answered he question.


    "Well, I had to hit him hard otherwise the big bastard wouldn''t have gone down, Gary. Anyway, look he''s looking right at us now, so say your stuff to him," Jason walked away, clearly disinterested in whatever was about to be said or what was about to happen.


    Jack was looking up at Gary and Jason, his friends since early childhood, no, his best friends since early childhood, and he couldn''t help but feel sick to his very core at the betrayal. He went to say something but before he could, Gary slapped him across the face.


    Usually he could have withstood a blow from Gary, someone about 70lbs lighter than him and a whole 4 inches shorter but because of the earlier blow and the damage that caused, the slap from Gary felt like a hammer crashing against his face.


    "Now now Jack, we get that you''re confused but we need to speak to you first," a slight manic tone was present in his voice as he continued, "You see, I''ve been pretty displeased by the way you''ve treated ME!" Gary had some kind of outburst but calmed himself before carrying on, "I liked Sasha, you knew this, and what do you do? You went out with her! You''ve brought her out with us and flirted with the girl I liked in front of me! Is that what friends do?! Huh!?"


    Before Jack could speak, Gary started punching Jack in the face. He kept punching until he heard a sickening crack and blood started spurting out of Jack''s nose. But despite the pain, Jack didn''t scream, he barely even let out a grunt of pain in response to Gary''s punches.


    After doing this and letting out a relieved sigh, he started speaking again, "Why did you do it, Jack? Why date the girl I like, flirt with her in front of me and then expect to get away with it? You could have dated any other girl but you chose her, Why? Why? Why? WHY?! It absolutely infuriates me!" Gary started twitcing as he started hitting Jack again.


    While listening to what Gary was saying, Jack was in complete disbelief. From what he was hearing, Gary wasn''t very mentally stable to say the least.


    After the punches from Gary stopped, Jack looked up at Gary in complete horror. He saw the unhinged look in his friends eyes and the detached smile spread across his face. But the more he looked, the less horror was present on his face. In fact, the more he looked, the more Jack''s face filled with fury.


    All the fury built up until it burst out of Jack''s mouth, "So this is all about a GIRL!? a GIRL you couldn''t even speak to on your own?! HAHAHAHAHA!" Jack coughed up some blood before continuing, "Honestly, why blame me for the fact that you couldn''t ask her out? That''s unfair. Is it that if you like a girl, I can''t go out with her? That''s naive. If you like a girl, you go out with her, not do what you did and just procrastinate instead of talking to her!"


    Hearing what Jack pretty much roared at him, Gary was shocked.


    He thought that in his current situation, the usually cool and bold Jack, would be shivering in terror but instead, he was unlike his usual self when he was angry; A barely controlled beast that was inches away from tearing something apart.


    Looking over and seeing Gary hesitate, Jason walked over and kicked Jack in the face a couple times but like before Jack only grunted in pain, he didn''t beg or scream, he just grunted.


    After the kicking stopped, Jack looked up at Jason. His look must have told Jason that he wanted to know why he had done this.


    Jason''s calm face twisted into a sadistic grin as he spoke in a casual voice, "I''m doing this for a simple reason. I simply hate how perfect you are, Jack. You have a good body, your handsome and charismatic. I simply can''t stand you. So I decided that I wanted to hurt you and so did Gary, so we came up with this plan."


    ''Perfect? I''m not perfect at all you fuckwit.These two are fucking insane. I need to escape and get the cops--Huh?''


    As Jack looked down he saw a knife firmly planted in his abdomen.


    It had been thrust in there by Jason. Jason then started pulling it out while twisting it. This, unlike the punches and kicks, elicited a cry of pain from Jack, and many more after that as Jason kept stabbing Jack.


    He stabbed him in his chest, in his arms and legs, he carved up his face. He just did what came to mind, like he was playing a game.


    Soon after he''d grown bored of cutting and stabbing him, Jason put the knife away and got up and left with Gary after spitting on him.


    Jack was left there, surprisingly alive, hanging onto the last flames of his life. His usually bright and confident eyes were now dimming quickly, the only light left in his eyes was the rejection of death and rage at his so-called best friends.


    ''So this is how I die? I don''t want to die like this. I wanted to live my life. Why did this have to happen to me for fuck''s sake? Why me? Why mE? WHy Me? WHY ME!?''


    After mentally screaming this while his body went into seizures, Jack started to pass out from blood loss.


    Just before this happened a figure appeared and spoke, "Ohohoh what a wonderful test subject. His blood is especially vigorous. I could definitely test that on this boy," the voice was androgynous and sounded incredibly light-hearted despite looking at Jack''s mutilated body.


    After the mysterious figure spoke, they pulled out of a vial with a vibrant red liquid in it that seemed quite similar to blood but at the same time definitely wasn''t human blood or normal blood in general. This was apparent because it seemed to give off a red glow and an aura of incredible vitality. The figure took out a syringe and extracted the liquid from the vial and in a quick motion that seemed extremely practiced, the figure stabbed the syringe into Jack''s chest, right where his heart would be.


    "Don''t disappoint me now, I have quite high hopes for you~"


    After saying that the mysterious person left in an instant. But more interestingly the wounds on Jack''s body had started to heal and Jack''s entire body was shivering and all its muscles were contracting and the bones sounded like they were broken over and over again.


    Jack was starting to change. Changing into something quite, well, Inhuman.

 Chapter 2 - A Bit More Complicated than Puberty

    Slowly opening his eyes, Jack felt like his brain was trying to force its way out of his skull.


    After a few minutes of repetitively opening and closing his eyes, Jack could finally function to a barely normal level. He took in his location and to his relief, he saw that he wasn''t in the alleyway anymore.


    Focusing more on the room he was in, he saw that he was in a pure white room but most of his vision was cut off by hospital curtains. So other than the bedside table next to him and the white wall to his left, he couldn''t see the door or any windows. Well, if there were any, anyway.


    ''At least someone got me to a hospital...I really didn''t wanna die.''


    As this realization passed through his head, more of Jack''s senses came back to him. It seemed his brain was still slowly booting up and recovering from the earlier damages.


    With his sense of touch fully restored, Jack could feel something wrong with his jaw; like there was something new there, something he''d never had before. Not only his jaw but his hands, more specifically, his fingertips felt like they had something hidden inside them as well.


    Jack thought about it for a while but he came to the conclusion that the damage Gary and Jason did to him had made it so his Jaw had to be wired up and his hands might have been broken as well; he didn''t know.


    While Jack was wondering whether or not he had been mutilated by Jason and Gary''s abuse, he failed to notice that 3 people had entered his room. He only noticed when one of them started pulling the curtains that surrounded half of his bed so that they were out of the way.


    When they were fully out of the way, Jack came out of his daydream and looked about confused. Contrary to what you''d think, the first thing Jack noticed was that his room didn''t have any windows.


    After thinking that was weird, he finally took notice of the 3 people who entered his room.


    There was 2 larger figures and 1 smaller one. The smaller one wasn''t that small at all though as Jack looked at her, he was a bit stunned.


    She stood around 5"10, her body was very athletic looking; not overly muscular but you could tell she had just enough muscle. Her bust, Jack predicted anyway, was around a C Cup. But the main highlight was her ass, it was incredibly plump, but not overly so, it fit her body incredibly well. But it all seemed to pale in comparison when Jack really looked at her face; She was just so beautiful. Her beauty went well with her brown hair and piercing green eyes.


    ''...What a woman...If I didn''t know better, I''d think I''d died and gone to heaven hahaha!''


    Stifling a chuckle at his own joke, Jack moved his eyes to what seemed like her bodyguards.


    They seemed to be twins, both women and they were both quite tall for women at around 6"2. Unlike the redhead at the front, you could see that these two were quite muscular but not overly so and instead of taking away from their beauty, it added it''s own unique beauty. Making them look like beautiful Amazonian women.


    Both the twins had white hair and blue eyes and the only difference between them was that the one on the left had a scar on her left cheek. The first thing Jack thought about them was that they both had oddly delicate-looking faces when compared to their body''s.


    Soon after he''d finished checking them out, he suddenly got tense when he saw the brunette walking to his side and starting to talk as she was walking over, "Hello Mr.Noctis, you can call me Zoe. I''m here with some news," as she finished saying that she pulled up a chair next to the bed Jack was in and spoke again, "There have been some pretty big changes to your body Mr. Noctis and I''m here to break the news to you."


    Hearing the mention of news and what she said, Jack felt his stomach turn and felt the blood leave his face in sickening disbelief.


    ''Did those two bastards actually cripple me...?''


    His despair must have shown on his face as Zoe spoke again, this time in a more gentle voice. But it didn''t fool Jack, it might have been subconscious or maybe not but he''d started listening to people''s tones more, what they said and their expressions and he could tell that she didn''t care; She was just pretending, like his so-called best ''friends''.


    But when he heard what she said, he was incredibly surprised, "Don''t worry, Mr.Noctis, you aren''t a cripple. You''re better than ever, actually."


    "Huh?" Jack looked shell-shocked at Zoe for a minute before he finally pulled himself together and a brilliant smile sprung up on his face. It was both an excited and confused smile, but it was a smile nonetheless.


    But something was bugging him slightly; Nagging him at the back of his head, constantly telling him something was wrong.


    So he spoke up to rid himself of his doubts, "But umm Ms. Zoe, I was stabbed a whole lot in my stomach and chest, I''m pretty sure they broke my nose and a few other bones in my face. Even if someone got me to a hospital right away shouldn''t I be dead or at least in some sort of coma?"


    Zoe nodded at his words and while she did, she opened up the handcuffs that Jack didn''t know were on him. One she''d taken all of the handcuffs off, 4 to be exact (One on each limb), she opened a briefcase one of the guards handed her and looked at a file while speaking to Jack, "Mr.Noctis, you could be seen as unlucky or lucky, it''s up to how you yourself see it. Get out of the bed and have a look in that mirror over there," as she said this she pointed at a wall to the left side of the room from where Jack was with a remote and the wall opened up to reveal a mirror.


    Slightly shocked and confused at why a Hospital had a mirror hidden in a wall, Jack complied and stood up from the bed.


    When getting up he saw that he was wearing a hospital gown and everything else was covered in bountiful amounts of tight bandages. He was surprised he could even stand up after what happened to him, but he put it in a file of questions to ask later on and continued getting up.


    When Jack stood up he felt something was weird but he couldn''t place his finger on what exactly, he decided to keep walking anyway and got in front of the mirror. What he saw nearly put him on his ass.


    First of all, he''d grown. A lot. Before he was just 6" but now he''d grown half a foot and was now 6"6 or 2m. And that wasn''t the only change, nor was it the biggest.


    ''Holy shit, I''m absolutely ripped!''


    Jack''s surprise was boundless as he looked at his once well-toned body. He''d always been muscular because of his love for sports but he''d never been as muscular as he was now. His body was now full of athletic muscle, like a sprinter or a gymnast.


    It filled out his large stature perfectly, every inch of muscle looking like it was packed full of explosive power and strength.


    Each individual muscle, from his rock-solid abs and strong pecs to his solid arms and legs, each of them complimented each other to paint a picture; A picture that told a tale of violence and strength. That was the feeling that he got when he looked at these muscles. Whether he was looking at his body structure, his height, or his muscles, it hardly seemed like a human''s body. It seemed more like the body of something born to kill and hunt.


    Shaking his head to get that odd thought out of his head, he looked at his head and was surprised. His original locks of golden blonde hair were now blood red and from what happened it was now quite messy, but it still looked quite good. His stare was ironically drawn to his eyes and he looked in shock at how they''d turned from their original royal blue to a scarlet red that was incredibly bright; Like a torch in the night. Then he saw them.


    ''Oh wow, my pupils are now reptilian slits--Wait...What? Like...Why...?''


    Yep. Jack''s pupils had turned from their original human and round looking ones into more inhuman looking reptilian slits that made his eyes look like that of a predator.


    As he continued to inspect his body and how much it had changed, Jack heard a gulp from someone in the room which knocked him out of his stupor and he turned around to face the group of 3 women who were watching him. He saw that the twin who had the scar was bright red while the other twin was blushing slightly while in a daze as she stared at Jack''s body.


    When he was about to speak, Zoe reprimanded the twins, "Just because you two are Oni''s doesn''t mean you have to be distracted by a guys body if it''s that good, does it? What if he tried to escape and you two couldn''t stop him because you were too busy looking, Hmm?"


    The two girls snapped out of it and got even more embarrassed but they soon put their professional demeanors back on, Jack could''ve sworn he heard the one with a scar say some like ''I hope he tries to escape, it''d give me an excuse to grapple him to the ground and touch him...''.Stolen novel; please report.


    ...Jack didn''t want to escape before but now he definitely didn''t want to, especially as he was at risk with getting touched by such a pervert, as he thought about this he shivered in instinctive fear.


    As he was thinking he decided to speak, "So Ms. Zoe, what happened to me? I''ve changed a lot since the last time I looked in the mirror. And did you just say ''Oni''s''?" towards the end his voice and tone got more and more confused.


    Zoe, seeming to understand what he was going through, answered his questions with a calm voice, "Well Mr. Noctis, we don''t know what happened to you, we only know that you were infected with two different strands of vampirism. Extremely potent and ancient strains of vampirism to be exact," she let what she said sink in before continuing, "The first, a strain called ''Sanguis Angelus'', quite a mouthful, I know. We call them ''Blood Angels'' for short," she paused to catch her breath while passing some files to Jack, "The other strain is something we thought was lost to the ages. A strain called ''Vaebeast''. Let''s just say the two different strains have bonded and caused multiple mutations in you, Mr. Noctis,"


    Jack was stunned when he heard what she was saying. His first reaction was to call her crazy or to doubt her but how else could he have changed so dramatically? He genuinely couldn''t think of anything that could do this to someone, so he took the information that was given to him.


    Seeing he was so shocked, Zoe carried on so she could bring him out of his stupor, "And to answer your other question, yes, I did, these two are my guards and they''re also Oni''s. All I can say is, welcome to the world of the supernatural."


    This news made Jack''s stomach lurch because of him being torn in two different ways because of two different beliefs. One side not wanting to believe in the supernatural and the other side having no choice in whether to believe it or not, it was just the only thing that made sense of the entire situation.


    Because she could see what Jack was going through, Zoe spoke up, "Calm down Jack, I represent an organization that recruits people like you, we could help you get used to your new changes and what comes with them. If you want to find out more, come with us--"


    Before she could finish, Jack spoke out.


    "I''m thirsty."


    The twins flinched at that, they both knew how fierce a normal vampire could get when it was thirsty, let alone a vampire made as the result of two ancient lineages joining together. They both got ready to take him down if he lunged for any of them.


    Zoe, on the other hand, kept her cool and spoke up, "That''s a vampire''s thirst you''re feeling, it shouldn''t be so bad. You should be able to hold on for a while longer, so don''t worry. But this is why we need to get you off of the streets and into our training camp, you won''t be able to control yourself around humans when you enter a full-blown Blood Thirst."


    Suddenly she noticed something wrong with Jack; He was shaking like he was holding back something.


    He spoke soon after she noticed this, "I need something to drink. Now."


    Zoe put her foot down and spoke in a stern voice, "And I said you''ll have to wait, Mr. Noctis"


    Jack seemed immensely annoyed by her reply, "You don''t get it," he hissed through gritted teeth, "It feels like every cell in my body is hungry. Every muscle fiber, every fucking sinew in my body, hell even my bones feel fucking thirsty. So please, get me something to drink."


    As he spoke further and further, his shaking got worse and his eyes went incredibly bloodshot and like traditional vampires, fangs were where his canines had been but he had two sets of fangs. One on his top jaw like a normal vampire and one on his lower jaw, it made him look less like what you''d expect a vampire to look like but more like a carnivorous animal, which in all honesty he was.


    "You know what Vampires feed off of right, Mr. Noctis? Blood. They drink blood and if the thirst is affecting you this badly, your strain of vampirism seems to have the glutton trait..." Zoe went into thought a second before looking at the twins, "You two, hold him down while I get him some blood. Make sure he doesn''t escape, got it!?"


    "Yes, Miss!"


    The two Oni got to work quickly as Zoe left the room and each grabbed one of Jack''s arms and using their inherent strength as oni they pushed him into the ground.


    Jack, in his hunger-fueled annoyance, started thrashing about, but he soon stopped.


    For 2 main reasons: He knew that thrashing about would waste his time and energy and he stopped because he was surprised at his own strength. Now that he thought about it, he felt incredible, he felt strong.


    So he decided to test just how strong he really was.


    "Grrrrr!" unknowingly to Jack, a guttural growl came out of his mouth as his eyes brightened and he started flexing his arms and putting them to use.


    He heard the two sisters grunting, trying to keep his arms in place and they were doing a mighty fine job if you asked Jack but still, he was ever so slowly bringing his arms from his back, where they were being pinned, to the floor in front of him.


    It seemed the twin without the scar was weaker, so his right arm was nearly on the floor.


    "Geez! What''s this guy made of?! It''s like trying to bend a sentient steel bar that tries to bends you in return!" was all the weaker twin could grunt out as she strained and struggled to bring Jack''s arm back up behind him.


    Even the stronger twin was starting to struggle further and further as she continued to hear her younger twin constantly complaining. After a particularly strong tug from Jack, she decided that there was something that she needed to do, so she did it.


    *POP! CRACK!*


    "ARGHHHH!"


    ''She dislocated my shoulder, for fucks sake--!''


    Before he could finish his mental sentence, the other twin did the same thing.


    *POP! CRACK!*


    "ARGHHH! YOU BITCH!"


    Jack was getting increasingly feral and this wasn''t helping the twins hold him down. He struggled harder and harder and the twins kept breaking his shoulders, they''d reached some kind of stalemate.


    Luckily, Jack seemed to calm down after what seemed like forever. His shoulders had been dislocated so many times he felt like they''d be permanently damaged but as expected of a Vampire''s body, he kept healing.


    ''Seems like there is a downside to healing that quickly, it does nothing for the pain...''


    As he was calm, Jack just kept thinking while trying to ignore the twins, who''s hands'' kept going over his back and arms, too, as they put it, ''Make sure you don''t do anything silly''.


    ''Bloody perverted twins...Now onto bigger questions, should I join this agency?'' Jack put some serious thought to this before carrying on ''I don''t think I can fully trust them and they''ll probably use me for their own benefits but they''ll help me get used to being what I am. They''ll probably help me get stronger as well, I can feel that I''m not at my full strength potential-wise, kinda like I have to go through a maturation period as a vampire. Great, I have extended puberty..and I''d just gotten out of the damn thing as well!''


    As he was thinking this he thought of another shocking thing.


    ''How am I so accepting of the fact that I''m not human anymore? That''s a big deal right?... Well, I guess I wouldn''t care about it after my dad died and mom pretty much left with my little sister, saying some shit like ''We''ll be back''...Hmph, back my ass,'' Jack felt a weird melancholy as he thought about all this, ''...I''ve got nothing to really tie me back to being human anymore, so I might as well accept what I am before I do something stupid.''


    As he worked out this little possible trauma before it manifested, he felt better and as he felt better the door opened and Zoe walked in with a big duffle bag of what Jack assumed to be blood bags, she walked towards Jack and when she got to him she poured the contents of the duffle bag onto the floor in front of him. She motioned for the twins to let go of Jack and then nodded at him so he could feed.


    Jack picked up one of the bags and hesitated but soon steeled his resolve to live his life as what he is now, so he opened up the blood bag and the scent was just out of this world. It smelled like all of Jack''s favorite food items mixed together and he couldn''t hold himself back anymore as he starting chugging down the blood bag.


    To say it was delicious would be an understatement. It tasted impeccable and as he was basking in the bliss of the blood before he knew it the bag was emptied. So he picked up another and after a while, he picked up another.


    He went through 20 blood bags until he was sated and he found something interesting.


    Every time he finished a blood bag, he felt stronger, faster, more durable. It was amazing, mainly because he could tell that it was permanent, he''d doubled in strength from these blood bags but it did give less of an increase each time he drank.


    Soon he stood up and realized he was slightly more muscular than before. It didn''t make him look too bulky, but just enough that you could tell that he was packing a lot of power. Although all his muscles still looked like an athlete''s rather than a weightlifter''s. The twins didn''t seem to mind, they still looked at Jack the way he looked at Blood Bags.


    "So, Mr. Noctis, now that you''ve had your breakfast, have you thought about our offer?"


    "Well, Ms. Zoe, I had a lot of time to think when those two over there kept dislocating my shoulders and touching my muscles constantly and I accept your offer but on one condition."


    Hearing what he said Zoe gave the red-faced twins a death stare while they glared at Jack for reporting them to their superior and finally asked him what he wanted.


    "What do you want? Money? Power? We can give you both."


    "Oh, I don''t doubt that Ms. Zoe, not at all. But as I''m joining the agency, I''ll get those things anyway, so I just want to ask one small thing. Can you find out where my mom and little sister are? Then get them to a place where I can meet them one last time?"


    "Of course we can Mr. Noctis. We''ll get it arranged, so now, follow me and I''ll take you to a car and we''ll go to the agency''s training grounds."


    Jack knew he was about to ask a stupid question but he asked it anyway.


    "What about sunlight though? I am a vampire, you know?"


    The twins giggled while Zoe had a slight smile as she spoke.


    "We''ve already flashed you with a UV light when you were asleep, you have different weaknesses compared to ''traditional'' vampires. Every strain of vampirism is different, Mr. Noctis."


    "Ah, okay. Kinda did sound like a stupid question in my head. Oh, and please call me Jack, people only ever called my dad Mr. Noctis."


    "Hehe okay, Jack-a-boy"


    Jack grimaced at the nickname Gary had called him throughout all of high school. But soon after he shook his head, they wouldn''t be able to hurt him now, if anything, he would hurt them if he saw either of them in the future.


    Jack, Zoe, and the twins walked out of the room and towards an elevator.


    Jack was nervous and excited about this new prospect for his life. In the future when he was at the training ground, he''d look back at this moment and wished for death instead of being trained like how he was.

 Chapter 3 - Physical Tests at the Training Ground

    When Jack and the others got to the ground floor they exited the elevator, they were in a mall. Zoe motioned for Jack to go towards one of the toilets and when he asked her why she replied with.


    "Because there are some clothes in there for you. Go in the ''Out of order'' toilet cubicle."


    Jack hoped the clothes weren''t just on the floor and they were in a briefcase as he replied to Zoe with sarcasm, "Oh, how hygienic. I''m already so thrilled to be working with you."


    Zoe and the twins both laughed but did nothing to refute him. Slightly worried, Jack just walked towards the toilet Zoe pointed out to him and entered them. He got a lot of weird looks from people around him because he was wearing a hospital gown and also probably because he was 6"6 and incredibly muscular. He ignored them and entered the cubicle with the ''Out of Order'' sign on it.


    Inside he found a briefcase, causing him to sigh in relief, and he opened it.


    The insides of the briefcase were revealed to him and he saw a pair of black combat trousers, a black tank top, black combat boots, and some black socks and underwear.


    ''Wow, they''re really going for the training camp kinda vibe. What''s with all the black though? Are they going for some kind of Matrix vibe as well?''


    Shaking his head, Jack took of the hospital gown and looked at how many bandages they had put on him. Suddenly an idea came to him. Back when he was in the ''hospital'' room, before being held down by those two oni twins, Jack felt something weird in his hands and he figured he might as well try and see if they were what he was thinking of.


    He focused on his index finger on his right hand and suddenly the nail on that finger morphed into a claw that looked incredibly sharp.


    ''These will probably come in handy at some point in the future. Hell, it''s already being pretty useful right now.''


    As he thought this, Jack carefully brought his claw to where the bandages started on his neck before swiftly and precisely bringing his finger down to his stomach in one smooth motion, cutting through the majority of the bandages. Then he just ripped off the of the bandages, pleased with his work. Soon after this, he put on the underwear and socks, then the combat trousers and then the boots, before finally putting on the black tank top, which looked more like a sleeveless men''s sports top rather than the usual baggy tank top.


    After this, Jack walked out of the cubicle and saw himself in the mirror, he''d be lying if he said he didn''t think he looked amazing. Not because of the clothes but because of his body. He just couldn''t stress enough on how intimidating he looked. This was reaffirmed when people back away from him when he came out of the cubicle. Jack wasted no time and walked out of the toilet and back to where Zoe and the twins were.


    When he returned back the twins started looking at him again, so he asked, well whispered to Zoe about it.


    "Psst, Zoe, why do those twins keep staring at me?"


    Zoe stifled a laugh, quite badly in fact as the twins looked over at the two of them, but she soon calmed down and answered his question.


    "They''re Oni''s, it''s in their instincts to find someone who can physically beat them and hell, you do look like you could physically beat them. They''ll probably challenge you to a fight after you''ve finished your training."


    It suddenly made sense, he''d probably already proven that he was physically stronger when they were trying to restrain him. Even if it was only a little bit stronger and they didn''t want to hur--kill him when they were restraining him. Thinking back about how they kept dislocating his shoulders when they had restrained he was a little annoyed and also quite excited for their fights in the future when he can do the same.


    But he soon snapped out of his mental monologue and asked Zoe a question, "What kind of training am I doing then, Zoe?"


    "Good question. We''ll start you off on some physical training to get you used to your new body and to make you stronger while we''re at it. After that, you''re on combat and weapons training. Then, you''ll be on your mental strength and fortitude training."


    "I have to do physical training? I''m plenty strong already."


    "Not as strong as someone of your lineage should be, Jack. Granted that you haven''t gone through the Maturing period, going through physical training should help maximize the benefits gained from your upcoming Maturity period. You need to work hard, unlike those two lazy demons," she said this as she pointed at the twins who seemed like they''d just gotten told off by their mom.


    "That''s not fair, Young Miss, It''s just training gets boring...but now we have the motivation and a goal to work toward!" When he heard the scarred twin say that, Jack felt a shiver go up his spine.


    ''Please God don''t let me be the cause of that motivation, please, just let me have some peace!''


    After mentally whining for a while he realized that he didn''t know the twin''s names, so he decided to ask.


    "Sorry for waiting so long to ask, kinda been a long day, you know?" he smiled apologetically at the twin, "But if you don''t mind me asking, what are your names?"


    Jack''s smile had killing power that he was quite oblivious to and this seemed to fry the brains of both the twins and nothing came in the form of an answer until the younger twin snapped out of it and introduced herself and her sister.


    "H-hello Jack, wait can I call you Jack?... Ahem anyway, erm I''m Yuka and this is my older sister Aya!"


    The younger one, Yuka, introduced herself in an incredibly nervous state but she got the important stuff out and she also introduced the older twin, Aya, the one who had the scar.


    "Of course you can both call me Jack, I don''t mind. It''s a pleasure to know you two, we''ll have to have a fight after my training. Don''t think I''ve forgotten about my shoulders being dislocated."


    Jack continued to smile as he talked to them both, he even flashed a provocative smile towards them at the end when he said they should fight.This tale has been unlawfully lifted from Royal Road. If you spot it on Amazon, please report it.


    Obviously, as they''re Oni''s they took his request for a fight and his provocative smile as something completely else than what he was planning and Zoe had to put her hand over her mouth and look away as she was laughing so much. Jack didn''t realize what he''d just done as he was too busy thinking about what he was gonna do when he got to the training camp and about how he''s gonna meet his Mom and little sister for the first time in about 3 years.


    Soon he and the others were in a car that drove off towards what Jack assumed is the direction of the training grounds. He was right, after about 45 minutes of driving and sitting in the car, where he mainly talked to the twins, they arrived at what looked like a military compound.


    The vehicle just drove through the checkpoints and dropped the 4 people off next to a building that had the words ''TESTING CENTER''. Zoe and the twins just walked in and Jack soon followed when he found them staring at him, they walked to some stairs that seemed to lead down under the building. Once they''d reached the bottom, Zoe talked to a few people and told Jack to follow her into a room that looked like a massive indoor gym.


    Zoe led Jack over to what looked like a benchpress machine with some pretty big weights next to it.


    Zoe spoke up, "Come and lie down on this benchpress machine and we''ll test you and I''ll explain the way of power in this agency."


    Jack complied and went up to the bench and lay down on it while Zoe explained the ''power system'' to him.


    "Okay, so every race has different strength limits, so we don''t lump everyone in together. Everyone has different strengths," she pointed toward the twins who''d just entered, "Onis have more muscular endurance and strength compared to most races...say for example an Elf would be weaker than an Oni unless it''s Racial Rank was much higher than the Oni. But the Elf would absolutely destroy the Oni in a competition based on Speed or Grace/Control. Do you get what I''m trying to say?"


    Jack nodded his head, "Yeah, you''re saying that people in the agency base their strength off of their Racial Rankings. You''re also saying that each Race has inborn strengths and weaknesses, right?"


    Seeing that he understood what she was getting at, Zoe started to explain what they were gonna do.


    "So what we''re gonna do now is use these special weights that weigh 100kg each and see how strong you are, okay?"


    Jack nodded again and waited for the twins to lift the weights up onto the bar. Jack decided to ask Zoe a question while he waited.


    "So Zoe, is physical prowess the only way of power around here? No special abilities?"


    "Well, of course, it''s not the only way of power, it just depends on what creature you are, decides the power system you''ll be using. Human''s, Elves, some different lineage''s in the Vampire race and some other smaller species use abilities, things innate in their races, to get more powerful. While lineages from Vampires, like the one you''re from, Oni''s, Werewolves and stuff like Orc''s use their body''s to get stronger by tempering their body''s too insane heights."


    "So I can''t have an ability? That sucks a little bit..."


    "Well, you might have an ability, just depends if you''re a variant Vampire in one of your strains," she thought about the possibility before laughing, "If you are, well, you''ll be an even bigger monster than you already are...Anyway, let''s get to testing your limits!"


    Jack nodded his agreement and put his right hand on the bar and pressed up expecting resistance, but he got none. It was like picking up a twig. He looked in Zoe''s direction and showed her that he was fine, so Jack put the bar down and they put 200kg more on the bar.


    Jack was quite curious to what the bar was made out of but soon just washed those thoughts away as he pushed the bar up with one hand, it was definitely heavier but not heavy enough to force him to use 2 hands. They added more on once again pushing the overall weight up to 600kg, this time it was a slight struggle to get it in the air with only one arm but he did it. Once it hit 800kg however, he decided to use both his hands to push it up, he even did a few reps to show that he was still fine to go.


    All in all, he could bench press up to 2000kg using his absolute maximum strength and also using some kind of mysterious energy in his blood which he decided he''d ask Zoe about when he could.


    Before they moved onto the next test, however, Zoe wanted to inform Jack on something, "So, you remember when I mentioned Racial Ranks earlier, right?" Jack nodded, "Okay, let me explain them a little."


    She sat on a nearby bench before she carried on speaking, "Every supernatural creature is in a constant state of Evolution. We fight, we kill and we survive and grow strong, that''s the modus operandi of us monsters. But we all have limits, you''ll hit yours after you finish your maturation period in a few months and what do you think you do after that? Hmm?" Zoe looked at Jack for his answer.


    Jack just looked at her for a minute before thinking about the issue. He thought long and hard about it before coming up with a semblance of an answer, "I''ll break through the limit and reach a new Racial Rank?"


    Zoe nodded, "Yes, you''re currently in E-Rank. An average Vampire within your mixed lineage but when you break through that limit, you''ll become a D-Rank and your abilities and racial traits will undergo an evolution. After that, you''ll be classed as a D-Rank Monster, or in your case a Vampire Soldier. Any questions?"


    "Yeah, how do I actually push through the limit and break through?" Jack knew he had to break through, just not how, so he decided to ask her now in the off-chance that he wouldn''t be able to ask her when the time came.


    "By using a special capsule back at the agency," seeing Jack''s curious face, Zoe quickly shot him down, "Don''t think about it, I''ll show you it on a different day."


    After this discussion, they carried on with the physical exam after clarifying that Jack didn''t have any more questions and understood all the information he''d already received.


    Anyway, they went to the next test which was the 100m Sprint.


    Jack got on the starting line with Yuka standing next to him with the starting gun, while Aya and Zoe stood at the end of the track with stopwatches.


    *Bang!*


    Soon after the gun was shot, Jack burst forth with enough power to send a myriad of cracks from where he pushed off. He flashed down the track and in no time he got to the end of the track and heard Zoe speak.


    "The only thing all the vampire lineages have in common is their speed and you, with the Vaebeast lineage, have the physical strength to back it up, simply incredible," Zoe shook her head in awe as she looked at the stopwatch, "Anyway, you did that in about 2 seconds, meaning you were going about 45m/s which is about 100mph and you''ve only just been turned, you ancient Vampires are incredibly rare but when one of you does show up, you''re all freakishly strong..." she seemed to be despairing about Jack''s potential but she had a smile on her face, so he knew she was just joking with him.


    "Wow, I just ran at 100mph? This new body is insane," he widened his eyes in disbelief. He''d always thought Olympic sprinters were quick but hadn''t he just ran 4 times quicker than one?


    They then went on to do other tests to decide what his training program should be when he looked at it, Jack winced a little bit, the excitement from going from a normal human to a Vampire dying down a little bit.


    After the tests, Zoe showed Jack to his room and spoke to him.


    "Just rest for the next few days and I''ll organize a meet up with you and your family. But you can''t tell them anything about the supernatural, do you understand? Just say you''re joining the military."


    Jack nodded and entered his room where he collapsed onto his bed because of how exhausted he was from all the tests but then he remembered he forgot to ask Zoe about that mysterious energy.


    ''You idiot, Jack! Welp looks like I''m gonna have to wait until tomorrow to ask her...''


    Soon after he thought this, he looked at the clock in his room and it was getting late, so he took off his clothes and got into bed and slept until the next morning when he woke up to some guy around 5"9 and with wings looking at him.


    "Oi! Let''s get training!"


    .


    .


    .


    "Eh?" was all Jack managed to get out.

 Chapter 4 - Training from Hell and Information on Lineages

    "Eh?"


    As Jack looked at the average but muscular man, he wiped his eyes thinking he was seeing things. But he came to realize he wasn''t. He looked at the man in more detail.


    He wore similar clothes to what Jack had on yesterday but he was wearing green and black rather than just black. He also had black hair and ice blue eyes, his wings were also black.


    "You looked at me enough? Good, then get up!" the man abruptly said which caused Jack to jump a little in shock.


    Jack was shaken out of his stupor and soon shot out of his bed and found some clean replacements of his clothes from yesterday and quickly put them on before he stood straight up, his back as straight as a tree.


    "Okay, that''s better," the man sighed before sizing up Jack, "You really are a big fucker, just like Zoe said. Well, I''m gonna help you excavate that potential of yours that Zoe seems so adamant about. Well, for your physical body at least. Well, I better introduce myself. I am Charles Tenebris, a Fallen, we should get along as our surnames pretty much mean the same thing. I''m going to be your physical trainer, as you''re a vampire and one with two especially ancient and strong lineages I''m going to push you to the very edge. I actually can''t wait to see how much you improve."


    After speaking, Charles just started walking out of the room, causing Jack to have to quickly follow him to catch up. They kept walking until they reached an outside training area similar to the testing area he was in yesterday. Charles spoke to him as soon as they got there.


    "Okay Jack, start running."


    "What?" the red-haired teen looked lost as he stared dumbly at Charles.


    With an annoyed look on his face, Charles looked at Jack with disbelief as he repeated himself, "I said, start running, you dimwit."


    Still confused, Jack started running around the running track which was quite big, Jack estimated that it was 800m the whole way around; about half a mile.


    Jack soon completed his first lap, quicker than any human ever could and even then, he was pacing himself. Then followed the second, the third, the fourth, and before he knew it he''d completed 10 laps and he wasn''t even out of breath. That mysterious energy kept going to his muscles through his blood and repairing the tears in them and fueling them to go further.


    ''Okay, I really need to ask either Charles or Zoe about this energy. It seems helpful but I''m in the dark here and that doesn''t feel particularly comfortable.''


    After the 10th lap, Charles called Jack over and told him to put those weights on his wrists and ankles and to also put on the weighted vest.


    Jack complied but was utterly shocked by the weight of the small wrist and ankle weights. They must have each weighed at least 250kg and after putting them on, Jack felt like when he tried to move his arms it was like he was trying to move through thick sludge. But it was still manageable, at least until he put on the vest anyway.


    The vest must have weighed at least 500kg, Jack felt like his shoulders were going to give way under the pressure and that his back was about to break. As if he didn''t notice any of it, Charles forced Jack to start running again.


    This time it took considerably longer to do a lap but that mysterious energy was getting more and more robust and was helping Jack''s muscles repair and become stronger than before. As he was running, Jack started to try to figure out what the mysterious energy was. He found out that it came from his heart, more specifically a bead of blood in his heart. The bead and energy were both an incredibly deep and bright sanguine red, just like blood.


    ''Quite fitting as I''m a vampire. It''s probably something to do with Vampires overall or just my Lineage.''


    As Jack kept running, it was getting easier and easier to move his body and his body was getting stronger and stronger because his Vampiric healing factor and the mysterious energy were accelerating his muscle''s growth.


    This carried on for a few hours and Charles kept adding on weights and even with the mysterious energy and his especially powerful healing factor, by the end of the session he was exhausted.


    Remembering the mysterious energy he brought it up to Charles. When he told him, Jack only saw Charles look at him with a shocked face like he''d just seen a miracle. Or something impossibly bad.


    "Stay right here, Jack, I''m going to get Zoe!"


    This line didn''t put him at ease either. His earlier traumatic experience making him feel uncomfortable about the fact he was being left in the dark about something concerning himself. He only hoped they''d tell him the whole truth, he''d hate to be distrustful of Zoe, for some reason.


    About 10 minutes later Charles reappeared with Zoe, she instantly rushed up to Jack and had him explain to him about the mysterious energy.


    After he did, she seemed stunned.


    Seeing her stunned behavior, Jack''s slight paranoia from before caused him to walk up to her and shake her out it, wanting to know some answers "Zoe! Snap out of it, what is this energy in me? What does it do!?"


    She snapped out of her stupor and looked towards Jack before finally answering the question that had been on his mind and giving the information he wanted.This narrative has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road. If you see it on Amazon, please report it.


    "It''s why your lineages were hunted into extinction by the Hunters - an association that hunts supernatural creatures. It''s called Blood Energy, it''s what made your lineage so special," Zoe composed herself further before carrying on, "It has the effects of constantly helping the body of its user get stronger. Whether it''s your strength, speed, durability or especially your stamina and recovery ability, they''re all be enhanced incredibly. It will eventually result in a super vampire of sorts and along with your already strong healing factor from your mutated lineage, it makes you an incredibly scary opponent and also one that''s very hard to kill."


    "So wait, other Vampires don''t have Blood Energy?"


    "Well they do but from what you''ve told me, you feel like there''s a bead of blood in your heart, right? That''s a sign of incredibly pure Blood Energy. Most Vampires have impure Blood energy which can only help them so much and that''s why the Hunters leave them alone for the most part," Thinking about what this meant, Zoe looked at Jack with serious eyes "You can''t mention this to people, Jack. If the Hunters got a hold of this information, you''d be hunted the ends of the Earth."


    What Zoe just said lit something inside of Jack, something bloodthirsty and violent was awoken in him.


    "Oh, because it''s such a normal thing to tell people. Along with the fact I''m a Vampire, I''m a special one," Jack smirked at Zoe''s worried expression but carried on, that weird violence inside him pushing something out of his mouth, "But if the Hunters do find out, I welcome their challenge."


    After he said that a bloodthirsty smile spread itself across his face, revealing his fangs and sharp teeth like a beast. Zoe simply smiled at this, as if she was pleased that Jack wasn''t shaking in his boots.


    While Charles walked up to Jack and slapped him on the shoulder and spoke to him, "If you want to speak ballsy like that, you need the strength to back it up. Don''t worry, I''ll push you further tomorrow!"


    Jack instantly paled as he remembered the day he had today and then he imagined a day that was harder. As he tried to plead Charles to not do that, Zoe giggled while covering her mouth with her hand.


    And like that 5 months went by.


    Jack learned some things about his mutated lineage and the two lineages that made it and these things were:


    -His lineage was made through a Beast gaining vampirism and then passing it back to a normal Human, which started the Vaebeast lineage. This made it so that whoever had that specific lineage gained specific strengths of a certain beast. These were called Aspect of the Beast and Jack found out his aspect was that of a Tiger, he unlocked it when he finished his maturation period. It resulted in his body becoming stronger - Especially his bones, tendons, muscles, his teeth and the claws he can morph from his nails.


    -He was also unlucky enough to have the Glutton trait as he found out after his first feeding after his first day of training. If a normal vampire required a single blood bag, he required 4 or 5. This was mainly due to his pure Blood Energy. Luckily, it would get better with time.


    -He also found that he can spread his Blood Energy throughout his body and his body would undergo a slight transformation. In this transformation he gets red stripes in a pattern like that of a Tiger, his body also gives off a slight red glow/aura and he gets 2x stronger in this form. But he can only hold the form for 10 minutes otherwise even with his healing factor, his body starts to break down from the surge of power.


    -The Blood Angel lineage didn''t give him any physical buffs like the Vaebeast one but it did give him buffs to his mentality and his ability to learn. Specifically, things to do with War and Fighting. This, from what Zoe had told him, was a normal thing for most lineages but his was special in that it was so focused on one thing.


    -Something he''d found as a demerit from this, however, was that he had taken a massive liking to fighting and violence. According to Zoe, the Blood Angels were something akin to the special forces for the Vampire royalty. Think of super SAS and you''d get an idea about how scary they were.


    This was pretty much all he discovered and he couldn''t exactly search for information on his lineage as it was all gathered up and burnt by the Hunters.


    Anyway, Jack had finished his grueling and hell-like training from Charles and was half-way through his combat and weapons training. But before he carried on any further, he had to meet his Mom and his Little sister, he''d put it off with the excuse that he needed to go through the physical conditioning of the training camp first and then he''d said he needed to complete the weapons and combat training but he had to meet them eventually.


    He just didn''t know how to explain the changes that had happened to his appearance.


    Shrugging it off and deciding to just tell his mom he''d dyed his hair and puberty happened in a major way, he took off the weights he had on and had a shower. He didn''t have to worry about his eyes as Zoe had already given him some contacts that looked exactly like his old eyes, sorting out that problem.


    Weirdly enough, Zoe said something about it not mattering if his mom found out anymore. It confused him as the Agency''s modus operandi was pretty much "Don''t let people know we exist".


    Nonetheless, he carried on washing himself and when he got out he dried himself, put on some clean clothes, put in the contacts and walked to meet Zoe so she could take him to where he was going to meet his mom and little sister.


    "Are you ready, Jack?"


    Zoe teased Jack as soon as he arrived, she seemed to love doing it and acted like she was Jack''s big sister whenever she could.


    "Yeah, I guess so, Zoe. Let''s get going."Jack replied nervously.


    His mother may have left him after his father had died but he could see why, he wasn''t exactly helpful, like ever, he was a bit of an ass and he was a walking talking reminder of his father.


    He inherited everything of his fathers, from looks to his height, even some of his mannerisms, so it must have been hard for his mom. She also left him with enough money to live on his own for about 10 years if he wasn''t stupid. He hadn''t totally forgiven her because of how much it hurt when his mom just packed her stuff up and left but he understood part of the reason why she left.


    Guess he had his new vampiric perspective to thank for that understanding.


    He was mainly nervous about meeting his sister.


    Although he was older, it was only by 2 years and when she left, she was around 13 so he wouldn''t be surprised if she didn''t care about him much after 3 years of growing up in a different place. That was what he was scared about the most.


    He loved his sister, not in a weird way, but in a purely platonic way and he cared deeply for her, just like an older brother should. But if she forgot about him he''d be lying if he said it wouldn''t devastate him. Especially what happened all those months ago which turned him into what he was.


    Shaking his head, Jack got rid of all the negative thoughts and started thinking about the positives. As he was doing this, he walked to the car he and Zoe were taking and got into it, Zoe wasted no time and they shot off towards where he was going to meet his mom and sister.


    Jack was nervous and felt like he had butterflies in his stomach.


    ''Seems like even Vampires can worry this much, huh? They always seemed so calm in the movies.''

 Chapter 5 - Meeting after 3 years

    POV - Helen Noctis


    ''He''s late. He''s always had a bad sense of time, just like his father...''


    As Helen looked around she was greeted by a fancy restaurant which was devoid of people, which was slightly shocking as she''s looked at reviews for this restaurant and they always talked about the full atmosphere. Little did she know that Zoe, the one who organized all this for Jack, thought that this would be the best place for the family to meet as it would help them get used to Jack''s new appearance.


    As she was thinking, Helen heard a question off of her daughter who was sat next to her, "Mom, when''s Brother going to get here? I didn''t get a chance to say goodbye when we had to move because of my powers..." her voice was filled with distress.


    As Helen heard her daughters question, she gently smiled and stroked her daughter''s silky black hair. She looked at her daughter''s red eyes, that she inherited from her, and saw a plethora of emotions in the ruby-like eyes from nervousness to sadness and most of all guilt.


    Helen quickly consoled her daughter, "Don''t worry, Kate, your brother will be here soon. And why do I see so much guilt in your eyes?"


    Hearing her mother''s question, Kate seemed to draw into herself a bit as she quietly answered, "Because I was the reason we had to leave Brother!" her voice was quiet but it came out as a hiss of self-hate, "He was left on his own because I couldn''t control my powers!"


    Hearing Kate''s answer, Helen could only sigh because of the number of times she''d heard Kate say those exact same words.


    "It wasn''t your fault and I''m sure if your brother knew, he wouldn''t blame you either. If anything, he''ll blame me and he should because I didn''t teach you enough and it was also my decision to take you away, so stop blaming yourself, Kate."


    Hearing Helen, Kate could only wryly smile at what was said to her. But soon after this, her face froze and a dazed looked appeared in her eyes and on her face.


    "Brother...?"


    Helen looked towards the stairs of the restaurant her son should be coming up and he was coming up them, she knew it was him because she was his mother but his appearance still shocked her.


    An exceptionally tall, red-haired teen was walking up the stairs wearing a black tank top that showed off the impeccable muscles on his upper body and arms. When he looked towards them his eyes lit up with many emotions, with happiness and a bit of anger being at the top.


    Helen and her daughter Kate were still shocked because of his eyes, they were unlike how they usually were, they were still blue but they had an unstable feeling about them; something seemed wrong with them. He walked over to them and flashed a smile at them that showed off his slightly animalistic teeth and canines but it was nevertheless very handsome and seemed to have a charismatic pull to it.


    Then he spoke, in a voice that was deep and smooth; Very pleasing to the ear, "Hello Mom, Kate, it''s good to see you both!"


    And then he sat down.


    POV Change - Jack Noctis


    ''Woah, Kate really shot up in 3 years, she must be what 5"10, 5"11? Well, she must have gotten that from mom, she is quite tall for a woman.''


    As Jack looked at the 2 women who were both beautiful and even nearly identical, from both of them having black hair, red eyes and pale skin to them even being a similar height, with his Mother being only slightly taller, Jack couldn''t help but think about all the years he''s missed with them. He was still thinking when his mother asked him a question.


    "Why do you look so different, Jack?"


    "Well, Mom, 3 years without your family can change you a bit"


    Jack saw both his Mother and Sister grimace as he said that. But he didn''t regret saying it, even if they had reasons to walk away, he still had the right to feel that leaving a 15-year boy alone was a bad thing. Before his Mother could say anything else, his sister, Kate, spoke up.


    "Brother, I-I just want to say that I''m sorry for leaving you alone.."


    Hearing what Kate said, he smiled and his anger eased up a little bit, "Don''t worry, Kate, I don''t blame you," he just kept staring at his mother.


    When he was staring he actually found out something interesting through his vampiric blood sense. Her blood''s vitality was much higher than a normal human''s, well actually, it would be better to say that it was too much for a human to have. Before he could look further into it his mother asked another question.


    "I know you''re angry at me, Jack, and you have the right to be angry but you have to understand there were reasons to why we had to leave. But I''m still your mother and you need to tell me why you look so different."


    Jack scoffed at what she said, thinking about how this was something he always disliked about his mom, she needed to know everything. "Puberty can act in mysterious ways I guess," he shrugged staying true to his promise of not saying what he was.


    He understood that he''d changed a lot and that she''d want to know why but what bothers him is that she never tells him anything, for example, why she left him on his own for 3 years. So Jack decided to give her a taste of her own medicine.


    "Mom, before I answer your question, answer one of mine. Why is your blood vitality much higher than a normal human? It''s like you''re not a human or something~"


    As soon as she heard what Jack had said, Helen froze and looked at Jack with eyes that gave away that she was in utter shock at the minute. Even Kate was shocked by what her brother said, according to her mother, Jack should be just a completely normal person but now he could tell their blood vitality.


    "Jack, How do you know that?"


    "Tell me what you are, Mother, and I''ll do the same."


    To her insistent questioning, Jack only smiled and ordered a lemonade from a waitress who was walking past.


    Soon Helen gave in and answered Jack''s question, "We''re Witches, Jack. It can only be passed on from mother to daughter and it imbues us with Prana or Life Energy and allows us to use it for spells or to nourish our bodies and strengthen them. That''s why we left, your sister was an incredibly talented Witch, she was gifted an obscene amount of Prana when she awakened and we had to run away to keep you safe because we thought you were a normal person."


    Looking over to see how her daughter was, Helen quickly spoke again as she saw Kate''s nervous expression, "But you cannot blame this on your sister, she couldn''t control how much Prana she awakened."


    Hearing what his mother said, even though he himself was a Vampire and one of an extremely rare lineage at that, he was stumped for a bit. After he''d had a drink of his lemonade he ordered, his mother spoke again.


    "Tell us what made your appearance change so much then, Jack? If it''s a bad thing I can reverse it."


    Hearing what she said, Jack had an expression of horror for a moment, "No! I don''t want it to be reversed!" Jack backed into his chair, clearly despising the idea. He started thinking that he should''ve just kept this to himself and gone with the reasons he''d thought of before.


    Seeing him close up to questioning, Helen quickly grabbed his arm that was still on the table. Jack tried to resist but his mother just pulled his hand toward her like it wasn''t something that could rend apart a car.If you spot this story on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation.


    Jack saw a rune appear above his arm and a few cuts opened up on his arm and drew blood. At this point, Jack lost his temper a bit and let out an animalistic growl, the blue contacts on his eyes simply melting away and showing his blood red irises and slit pupils.


    Helen didn''t care about this reaction and instead looked at his blood for a moment before going pale and pulling Kate, who was preparing some kind of healing spell, away from Jack, "Get back, Kate, he''s a Vampire!"


    As the last words came out of her mouth, his sister stared at him with shock and she just seemed frozen. But just as quickly as she became dazed, his sister soon regained her composure, while her mother spoke to Jack, "Why did you let yourself be turned into such a beast, Jack?"


    Confused at her reaction but also angry, Jack coldly replied to her "It''s not like I had much choice," his voice was despondent but his mother didn''t seem to accept this answer.


    She instantly hissed back at him, "There''s always a choice, Jack! How many people have you killed? Hmm? How many?!" Kate once again became shocked solid by her mother''s words. She couldn''t think of her loving big brother being able to kill someone.


    "Sure, there was another option. My other option was dying, Mother. Do you wish that I''d picked that option?" as he said this, Jack lifted his shirt and showed them something he hadn''t shown anyone else.


    Proof of his death as a human.


    POV Change - Helen Noctis


    Helen looked in horror at her child''s eyes; blood red and full of instinctive thirst but when she heard what he said and saw what was under his shirt, her anger dissipated into nothing, replaced by numbing-shock and utter regret over her actions.


    What she saw were multiple stab wounds all around his chest; dozens of them. On his chest, his stomach, along with some slashes on his sides. Now that she saw them, she saw the light, almost unnoticeable, scars on his arms.


    Seeing these scars on her baby, Helen just slumped onto a nearby chair and couldn''t stop thinking about how she wasn''t there for her child when he needed her.


    How she''d failed. How he had every reason to hate her. But also how he still came to meet her despite this, how he still looked happy to see her and what did she do? Get angry and look at him like some kind of monster when she found out what he was.


    Kate, on the other hand, broke down with tears pouring down her face and she instantly rushed up to Jack and kept trying to cast healing spells in her hysteria. Jack calmly smiled at her and stopped her.


    "Don''t bother, Kate. I''m all healed up. But it''s something of a curse with turned Vampires like me. We always keep the scars that came before being turned. Even if the transformation heals us, it keeps the scars," he smiled gently as he stroked her hair.


    Hearing what he said, Kate stopped trying to heal him and instead started hugging him tightly, in an almost death-like grip.


    POV Change - Jack Noctis


    Jack separated himself from his sisters embrace and slid his tank top back on. He looked over at his regretful mother and spoke, "I didn''t want to become a Vampire, mom, but what choice did I have? Why hate what I am now when I can''t change what I am? That would just be stupid and unnecessary," he smiled at his mother, trying to convey that he was still her son and that he wasn''t wallowing in self-hatred for what he was.


    Helen just looked at him, with eyes filled with guilt and self-hatred but those two emotions, especially the latter, started to fade and she came back over and sat at their original table. She looked at Jack with her fists tightened at her sides, new anger in her eyes, "Jack, would you mind telling me who it was that hurt you? I wish to avenge you, to make up for my shortcomings as a mother," her voice was practically dripping with guilt and was incredibly shaky from the emotion she was currently feeling.


    Her emotional state even seemed to be effecting the environment with plates and glass shaking all around the room; like the inanimate objects were scared.


    "I''ll do that myself, mom, you don''t need to dirty your hands with them. I do not blame you, they were the ones who killed me, not you. So, let''s just get on with our reunion now that everyone is sure on what the other is? Okay?" Jack smiled pleadingly at his mother to drop the issue and after sighing and calming herself down, she did.


    The silence that followed seemed to be hard for Kate, so she broke it first, "So, brother you''re a vampire? How do you get your blood?" realizing what she asked, she went to change her question but saw Jack smirking and stopped herself; it was like he was saying he couldn''t get annoyed or offended by her questions, just like how he used to be. It warmed her heart to know he was still the same Jack. Personality-wise anyway.


    "Well Kate, I get it from the Agency - The people who are training me," he smiled at his sister, he always remembered how she hated silence and found it funny that she was still the same even after 3 years.


    "Well, what are they training you for, Jack?" Helen jumped into the conversation, wanting to know more about what was in her boy''s life now.


    "Probably something to do with combat. I know that our enemies are the Hunters."


    Hearing what Jack said, his mother looked at him with confusion as she spoke in reply to him, "The Hunters are your enemy? Jack, the Hunters are the people who keep the peace among the supernatural world."


    "Well they might be, but they''re also the people who supposedly wiped out all of those who had my vampire lineage before me. So whether I like it or not, they''re my enemies now."


    Kate wanted to speak but was signaled by her mother to stay quiet, as an angry look was appearing on her face.


    "Jack, what is your lineage?"


    "Well, I''m a mutated Lineage from two Ancient Ones, both were wiped out by the Hunters. One is the Blood Angel Lineage and the other the Vaebeast Lineage. Do you know about either of them?" he tilted his head to the side, wondering if his mother could give him more information on either lineage.


    Helen looked at Jack in horror after she heard the name of his lineage.


    "Jack. Those are the cursed lineages. Both are lineages of evil beings, the Vaebeast lineage even gave birth to the first Vampire King who was renowned for his Tyranny, Cruelness and most of all his Blood Gluttony."


    When Jack heard what his Mother said, he was a bit taken aback but he soon replied, "And? That was them and I''m me. It doesn''t matter anyway, I haven''t shown any excessive examples of those behaviors other than that of Blood Gluttony," Jack shrugged his shoulders, purposely leaving out the fact he now had all those things and more because he didn''t want his mother to worry and intervene with his training.


    Jack''s mom looked at him with a worried expression on her face and they all continued talking although it was quite awkward after Jack''s lineage had been brought up.


    Soon, Zoe came up to the second floor of the restaurant and walked over to Jack and his family, "Jack, we really need to get going, your next teacher is gonna be at the training ground soon and you two need to meet today."


    Before Jack could answer, Kate quickly shot a glare at Zoe and spoke up, "Hmph, can''t you see he''s spending time with his family? Who are you anyway?" she seemed annoyed that her precious time with Jack was being interrupted, causing her to lash out.


    Again, before Jack could scold Kate and answer Zoe, Zoe spoke back toward Kate.


    "Ohohoh I''m Zoe, his Guidance counselor at the agency. And he''s got to do something quite important, sweetie, so I''ll have to take him with me now~"


    Zoe had a smile that slightly scared Jack and Kate but his mother seemed quite unperturbed by it and simply urged Jack to go with Zoe. Jack complied and after saying goodbye to his mom and giving Kate a hug, he left with Zoe.


    Looking back on the meeting, Jack only had one thought:


    ''Well, that could have gone better.''


    POV Change - Helen Noctis


    As Helen watched her son leave with the red-headed green-eyed beautiful lady, she couldn''t help but think what kind of agency her son had gotten himself into. She could hear her daughters grumbling about how she wanted to speak with her brother more.


    Helen could only shake her head and smile while thinking, ''What if all the witches Kate''s age back at the coven could see and hear the Demon Witch Kate grumbling about wanting to spend more time with her big brother? There''d be an outrage.''


    As Helen laughed to herself mentally, she cast a spell to keep Jack''s location known to her at all times.


    She could only wish that she and Kate could see Jack more often from now on, to repair their relationship as a family.


    POV Change - Jack Noctis


    "Zoe. What do you mean I have to take a language course as well? Am I going to a different country or something?"


    "Yes, yes you are Jack-a-boy. More specifically you should focus on Japanese~ Because you''re going to Japan~ And I''m coming with you~!"


    If Jack didn''t have excellent control over his strength, after the 5 months of intense physical training, he would have put his feet through the bottom of the car floor or squashed the car''s interior in his grip.


    He quickly replied to Zoe, a bit angry at her indifference to his confusion and how excited she was about the whole situation, "Why am I going to be going to Japan?!"


    "Because that''s where you''ve been stationed and where you''ll go after completing your training. I picked it for you, I''ve always wanted to go to Japan but I''ve always been stationed in the West. So I put you there and as your Guidance Counselor, I have to come with you! Exciting right?!"


    Jack would be lying if he said he didn''t want to see Japan but he didn''t want to go as part of a job.


    Suddenly he remembered a question he wanted to ask, "What are you training me for? What jobs am I going to do for the agency?"


    "Well, we''re training you to be able to do any combat-related job you come across. Meaning you can be a bodyguard, a hitman or Both once you get to pick your missions. I''ll explain later."


    Jack knew that when Zoe didn''t want to talk about something, she wouldn''t, so he left it and laid back in his chair in the car and closed his eyes, wondering if he had to be a hitman or whether he could primarily be a bodyguard for someone.

 Chapter 6 - Results of training and Starting High School in Japan

    It had been a few weeks after he met his mom and his younger sister, and Jack had been hard at work training his close combat skills. Along with learning how to use his fist and claws effectively, he''d also been learning how to use a multitude of guns.


    According to his trainer, who also happened to be Zoe, he had an unnatural talent in both close quarters combat and marksmanship, this was attributed to both his lineage as a vampire and because he seemed to be inherently talented towards these things when he was a human.


    Some more interesting things Jack had found out today would be that Zoe was a half-human. Her Mother was a Human while her Father was a Draconian, this mix of genes led to her becoming incredibly powerful, powerful enough in fact to throw Jack''s 6"6, 265Ibs figure around like it was nothing more than a thin twig.


    "Ahhh!"


    As Jack was thrown into yet another wall by Zoe he let out a scream. His body was in tatters but it started healing as soon as he hit the floor.


    After he healed, which was incredibly quickly, he stood back up with a helpless look on his face as he spoke towards Zoe, "Come on, Zoe, I know I have a healing factor and all that but it still hurts when you break most of my ribs and then throw me into a wall!"


    As she heard this she giggled and stuck her tongue out at him and this signaled the end of their training session.


    These past few weeks Jack had gone through such intense training and fighting that he had gone all the way to the peak of his current rank, E-Rank. He wanted to break through into D-Rank but Zoe warned him to not push too far too quickly in case he mutates too heavily and becomes a mindless monster. So in the end, Jack decided to wait until she gave him to affirmative; she knew more about this stuff anyway.


    Anyway, his rapid increase in strength was because of his own efforts and because of the amount of blood he''d ingested, to put it lightly he''d been drinking 5 times more bloody than necessary a day.


    While he didn''t need to have this many - he only had to have one or two pints of blood per day - the more blood he drank the faster he recovered and the stronger he became. So, Jack drank as much as he could.


    Over the past few weeks, he''d been training in a few martial arts which were: Taekwondo, Muay Thai, Krav Maga and the MCMAP used by the Marine Corps. He''d reached a level that would shock master level practitioners of these martial arts if they knew how fast Jack had learned and progressed through these Martial Arts.


    Zoe described 5 levels that were the so-called realms of these martial arts which were Novice, Apprentice, Adept, Expert, and Master. Jack had reached Apprentice in all of the martial arts which showed just how immense his talent was when it would take a normal human a few years to normally reach the level he had.


    He had implemented his claws into these styles of fighting as well, meaning he could also use these martial arts when he''s in his Feral Form.


    Onto his other lessons, mainly his lessons regarding learning Japanese.


    He''d learned to read the language quite quickly, this was expected by Zoe as apparently Vampires naturally learn things quite quickly, one of their many talents as she put it. When it came to speaking the language he was getting there, he could understand it fully but he wasn''t quite completely fluent in it yet but he was good enough in it that Japanese people should be able to tell what he was saying.


    Jack looked at Zoe as he grumbled: "So we''re going to Japan tomorrow, huh?"


    Hearing his question, Zoe nodded without looking at him as they both walked towards the canteen.


    Jack found out that he could also eat normal food but for some reason, he couldn''t drink normal liquids. His past favorite drink, Orange Juice, tasted like shit to him now and when he forced himself to swallow it he threw it straight back up as soon as it hit his stomach. So now whenever he had food, he''d wash it down we a blood bag.


    ''Man, I must just scream ''I''m a vampire'' Welp, not much I can do about it.''


    As he and Zoe sat down and ate their meal, Zoe suddenly spoke up, "Jack, we need to have you go see our Psychiatrist," seeing his worry, Zoe quickly consoled him, "Don''t worry, it''s just protocol for when Agents leave to go on a mission."


    Jack let out a breath of relief and simply nodded before carrying on with eating and drinking.


    Soon after he and Zoe were done, they walked to where this psychiatrist was. Soon he entered and saw a petite woman with purple hair and red eyes sitting at a desk.Love what you''re reading? Discover and support the author on the platform they originally published on.


    "Hello Jack, have a seat. I only want to ask a few questions, you''ll be out before you know it."


    "Alright Doc, do what you need to do."


    Zoe waited outside while the questions went on. About 15 minutes past before Jack walked out of the office.


    As soon as he walked out, Zoe told him to wait there and she walked in to have a chat with the psychiatrist.


    POV Change - Zoe


    "So, how''s it looking Dr. Vrak?"


    Hearing her question, Dr. Vrak showed a troubled face before she asked a question, "Where did you find this boy? He''s incredibly unstable!"


    Zoe grimaced slightly before carefully answering her, "I know Doc, but he''s gotten better. And he won''t be able to do anything too bad because I''ll be with him most of the time and I can easily stop him."


    Hearing what Zoe said, Dr. Vrak visibly relaxed, but only slightly, "As a psychiatrist, I can''t exactly let him go into the field can I?" her worried frown slowly changed into a mischievous smirk, "But as a Demon, I wish for him to go into the field and cause chaos. Oh, how I am torn~"


    "Well, he wouldn''t be the most insane one you''ve ever let through into the field, would he?"


    Conceding to what Zoe said, the Demon shook her head and let out a dramatic sigh and stamped on Jack''s papers in a green stamped that said: "APPROVED".


    "Bye-bye then Doc!~"


    POV Change - Jack


    2 days later~


    Jack and Zoe were in their new house in Japan.


    Jack had been briefed on his mission he had to complete while he was here. He had to be a rich young lady''s bodyguard for her entire 2nd year at high school. Meaning Jack had to join the school as a 2nd-year high schooler and go to a Japanese high school for an entire year all while protecting this young lady.


    As he was thinking this he couldn''t help but rage a bit as he put some strength into his hand as he relentlessly hit the special-made sandbag. This carried on for another hour before he calmed down. He went to have a shower and when he came out he dried himself off and put some pants on and looked at himself in the mirror.


    ''How am I supposed to pass as a 2nd-year highschooler?!''


    As he looked at his body, all he saw was perfectly carved muscle that looked like every inch of it pack immense power. His body gave off the sense of looking at an apex predators body, a body meant to kill and fight; not the body of a 16/17-year-old boy.


    His aspect of the beast hadn''t helped with this at all, as his Aspect was that of the Tiger, the apex predator, the king of the hill - How could his body be ordinary if he was meant to be the Apex?


    Shaking his head, Jack looked at his pretty much perfect body he let out a laugh as he thought about how many girls he could possibly woo when he was both handsome, tall and had an incredibly well-built body.


    ''Well, Vampires are all known to be lady killers~''


    As he chuckled at his joke he looked up at his face, he nodded at the changes Zoe had done the night before.


    Knowing that his red eyes would attract a lot of attention, she gave him new blue eye contacts, as his last ones broke after his outburst when he had a reunion with his family. They decided they could leave his hair as it was because it didn''t look too unnatural and if push came to shove he could just say he dyed it.


    As he looked at himself, he finally did his hair right and slicked it back with only a few stubborn strands of hair falling down onto his forehead.


    Today was the start of the year and Jack had to go to school and meet this young lady he had to protect.


    After putting on his school uniform and making sure he''d put enough knives on his body (He stopped at 8), he packed some flasks of ''juice'' into his bag and then ran towards the high school.


    He soon arrived without breaking a sweat - perks of being a vampire - and went towards his classroom, 2-C.


    When he was outside the door he opened it and entered a quiet room full of people who were looking at him.


    He didn''t know whether they were shocked because of his height, his hair and eye color or because of the fact even though he had clothes on, it didn''t take much effort to see that he was incredibly muscular, but they were all looking at him like some kind of exotic beast.


    He shook his head and walked towards the teacher. The teacher was a handsome looking man who was a bit on the short side but made up for it by being quite physically conditioned.


    The teacher looked up at Jack, introduced himself with a smile as Mr. Hanagawa and pointed towards a seat near the back between two, quite frankly, very beautiful girls.


    The one on the left was like Jack, she was definitely a foreigner, she had blonde hair and ice blue eyes, unlike Jack''s royal blue eyes. The one on the right was definitely Japanese, she had short black hair in the style of a bob cut and black eyes that seemed to shine.


    Jack sat down between them and they both turned to look at him, both for different reasons. The blonde girl because she had found someone like her whom she could relate to and the Japanese girl because she seemed to be very curious about Jack.


    Jack ignored their stares as he thought about whom he had to protect, her name was Hanazawa Aya. He looked around and then finally he looked towards a girl sitting on the far side of the class and saw that she had a tag on her bag which said "Hanazawa Aya".


    He knew this was the person he had to protect so he decided to introduce himself next time they were on break. The only disconcerting thing was that she kept looking over at him and death staring him.


    ''Oh god, she''s one of those annoying Hime-sama kind of girls...''


    As Jack was despairing, both the girls on the left and right of him seemed more and more curious about him as time passed on and Jack''s problems grew with each second.