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It was that time of the week for Dayhun. It was time to meet at the usual spot, outside the local market. Dahyun looked at her phone. 18:07. ‘She’s never this late’ Dahyun thought to herself, putting her phone away in her coat pocket, before looking left and right up and down the street, waiting for the person she was meeting. She let out a deep sigh. The night had already fallen and the sharp, cold November evenings took the passers by breath away.
Dahyun finally felt a buzz in her pocket. She reached in and pulled her phone back out. A text from the person she was meeting. Dahyun quickly entered the code to unlock her phone and opened her messages app. Clicking on the contact saved under a peach, she opened the message.
‘Sorry I’m running late, work was pretty hectic. I'll be at our usual point in a couple minutes.’
Dahyun could now relax a little, nothing had happened to them, it was just work keeping them. Dahyun knew that they were risking their job doing what they were doing for her, but they did it willingly. ‘That is what friends do for each other.’ Dahyun gave a small smile to herself. How did she end up being friends with such a kind hearted human, considering she was a vampire.
People always believed the rumours they read in books about them being evil, turning into bats, not having a reflection in mirrors or appearing on photos, only drinking blood from humans. But Dahyun wasn’t like that at all. Dahyun was caring, especially of the people around her. She had grown close to some of the locals, but only a select few knew her secret. And Peach was one of those select few.
A rich scent suddenly invaded the nostrils of Dahyun. She could tell the smell from anywhere. Blood. But not just any blood, human blood. The smell was calling to her, trying to lure her away from her spot, but Dahyun managed to keep strong and resist her urges to give in and follow the scent, only for it to be getting stronger, and stronger, and soon she wasn’t able to resist anymore. The hunger that she had subsided for the week took over.
Her eyes changed from their usually creamy gold to a dark red, her nails elongated and sharpened into a point and her fangs grew ready to devour the flesh of whatever the smell was coming from. She had turned into the hunter that she hated she had become, and worst of all, she had done it in public.
“Dahyun, is everything okay?” A voice called out to her, snapping her back to her senses. “You do realise where you are, people might see you. You are fortunate that it's a cold night and the streets are empty.” The voice continued.
Dahyun turned around to see the person she was expecting. In front of her stood a woman with wavy, black hair that ran down to the middle of her back, carrying a small cooler bag. “Good evening, Momo,” She started before seeing the source of the scent. “Momo, your arm is bleeding, what happened?” Dahyun asked as she lifted Momo’s right arm up, pushing Momo’s coat up towards the elbow to reveal a cut.
“I must have caught my arm on the door as I left work, not realising I had cut it. I thought it was just a graze.” Momo gave a soft giggle.
Inspecting the wound, Dahyun was once again fighting the urge to take a bite out of Momo and drain her. “It's not a deep cut,” she informed Momo, “but it is enough to drive me, and possibly others, crazy.” she whispered. Dahyun raised her wrist up to her mouth, taking a bite ensuring that blood was now flowing from her wrist. “Please, drink this. The wound will heal and the scent should go, allowing me to focus.”
“I can’t drink that!” Momo exclaimed. “How can I drink your blood when I’m not a vampire?”
“Will you keep your voice down!” Dahyun shouted in a whisper. “It’s simple. You suck your own blood when you prick your finger on something, right?” She saw Momo nodding, “Well it’s the same principle here. Suck on my wrist and the wound will heal instantly.”
“I suck on my blood because that's just it, it’s my blood, not your blood or anyone else's blood,” Momo insisted on declining the bleeding wrist, “The wound will heal and the blood will stop soon.”
“But soon won’t be enough to stop the others,” Dahyun whispered, not knowing whether any of them were watching. “Please Momo, I am practically begging for you to take my wrist, you don’t know what they are like.”
Momo couldn’t bring herself to accept the offer, despite seeing the look of desperation on Dahyun’s face, both as a concerned friend, but also a concerned vampire for their territory. “I’m sorry Dahyun, I just can’t do it.” She finally said, looking to the floor in shame of not being able to help.
‘Well Momo, you leave me no choice.’ Dahyun thought. “Momo,” she called. Momo looked up, catching Dahyun’s eyes, except her eyes had now changed. The creamy gold eyes were now dilating repeatedly. Momo could only stare deeper and deeper into the hypnotic gaze that Dahyun was casting upon her, slowly falling into a trance that Dahyun was able to control. “Momo,” Dahyun once again repeated, before continuing with her order. “You will drink the blood from my wrist, healing your wound. You will believe you did this off your own accord.” Dahyun once again raised her wrist to Momo, with Momo this time finally taking the wrist to her lips, tasting the blood for the first time.
She didn’t need much, only a few drops. But it was enough for the cut to finally heal and the scent to disperse into the air. Dahyun could now finally focus on the point of them meeting. Momo snapped out of the trance that she was in, also now being able to focus.
“Is that what we need?” Dahyun asked, pointing to the cooler bag.
“Yes, there's 6 in there as normal.” Momo replied as she opened the bag, allowing Dahyun to have a glance in.
“Excellent, I really do appreciate you doing this for me Momo, I know you are risking your job, but it really does mean a lot to have you do so and willingly too.” Dahyun offered a small, but warm smile.
Momo saw the smile on Dahyun’s face and returned it. “I’m just happy to be able to help you, you are so kind, I never thought I would find anyone like you in this world, let alone you be a vampire.”
Dahyun was happy to have someone like Momo who she could rely on. A few of the townsfolk knew what she was, but Momo was the one she trusted the most with her secret.
“Well, I guess you’ll be needing this bag then.” Momo giggled as she handed the cooler bag to Dahyun.
“Thank you Momo, same time next week?” She smiled, knowing what the answer would be.
“Of course Tofu, I’ll try to be on time next week too.” Momo said, causing the pair to laugh. The pair hugged and bid each other a farewell for the evening before going separate ways.
As Momo was walking home, she could feel the hairs on the back of her neck standing up on end, she could feel that she was being followed, but she didn’t turn around, she just wanted to get to some safety, but no matter where she looked, she couldn’t find none. There were people's houses along the path, but Momo thought to herself ’I can’t just knock on a stranger's door saying I am being followed’ and all the shops were closed too since it was evening, so Momo tried to outthink her follower. She knew the streets like the back of her hand.
Momo turned into a nearby alley which she knew would be well lit, waiting for her stalker to pass by. But no one walked past. ‘Was that all in my head?’ Momo wondered as she stuck her head around the corner of the building she was leaning against. She still saw no one walking along the path in either direction. Momo leaned back against the wall and tried to calm herself down.
“Expecting someone.” A voice came from her left, startling Momo.
Momo slowly turned to face where the voice had come from, and found a dark haired woman staring directly at her, with an evil grin on her face, baring her teeth.
Momo screamed loudly, shaken by the suddenness of someone appearing behind her. ‘This can’t be my follower’ Momo thought, ‘she’s got here too soon, unless…’ a look of realisation appeared on Momo’s face. She knew she was in big trouble.
“Yes, that’s it, I love when my food screams.” The woman cackled. Her fangs suddenly became more prominent and within a blink of an eye, she lunged at Momo and started to drain her blood from her neck. Momo screamed even louder with the pain of the vampire’s bite and the blood leaving her body.
Meanwhile, a few streets away, Dahyun was walking towards her home, when she heard Momo’s screams of anguish. She darted down the next alleyway and into the darkness, safety from the naked eye where she was able to sprint with her vampiric speed towards where Momo’s scream came from.
When Dahyun reached the alleyway that Momo was in, she immediately saw the reason for her screaming. ‘Shit, we didn’t act soon enough. I should have been firmer with her before any of this could have happened.’ Dahyun rushed behind the feasting woman and ripped her off Momo, throwing her against the wall, before quickly crouching by Momo’s side and inspecting her. Momo was struggling to breathe, with blood still spilling from the wound the vampire had caused.
“You have just ruined my meal.” The woman cracked her neck, recovering from being thrown by Dahyun.
“Well, this one is off limits.” Dahyun stood up, her attention now fully focused on the dark haired woman in front of her.
“I don’t think so,” she replied to Dahyun, lunging at her. “No human is off limits, everyone knows that.”
“No, no one knows that. That’s just what your coven thinks” Dahyun punched her foe, knocking her against a dustbin. She looked back towards Momo and could see her condition was worsening.
“You know nothing about my coven’ the woman noticed that Dahyun’s attention was on Momo. Staggering back to her feet, she managed to sprint towards Dahyun.
Dahyun was surprised when she felt herself hitting the wall behind Momo. She thought that throwing the other woman against the dustbin would have finally made her leave Momo alone, but that didn’t seem to be the case. Dahyun shook her head and noticed that her attacker was now towering over Momo once again. “I thought I told you she was off limits!” Dahyun raged as she once again forced the vampire off Momo.
“Gah, why are you so annoying.” The woman sighed as she realised she was struggling to keep up the fight against Dahyun. “I hate having your kind around our territory, why can't you just be normal vampires like us?”
“Your territory?” Dahyun couldn’t believe the words she was hearing. “How is this your territory? We were here before you, we established ourselves before you. Your coven thinks it owns everything, but you don’t.” Dahyun walked towards the vampire who was struggling to get up to her feet, her energy being drained from the battle. Dahyun bares her fangs, trying to assert dominance in the situation, sensing the weakness of her opponent. “I will give you one chance. Leave now, or I will force you to leave.”
After weighing her options, the woman realised that it was time to give up, as much as she hated being a quitter, she had to accept that this hunt had failed. “This isn’t over.” She said, before rushing off into the darkness of the alleyway.
Dahyun watched her leave before finally being able to have a sole focus on Momo. She could see that Momo was now in a critical condition, but she couldn’t risk taking her to a hospital, she had lost too much blood, and once again, the scent of Momo’s blood was sending Dahyun insane. She needed to get Momo to the coven house, and fast. Dahyun picked up the cooler bag and carried Momo in her arms, before running into the darkness and towards their home.
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“Mina.” Sana exclaimed as she saw Mina walking through the door to their home. “I missed you.”
“Sana, I was only gone for two hours.” Mina rolled her eyes before walking past the excited woman and slumped on the sofa.
“What’s gotten into you?” Sana asked before jumping on top of the slumped Mina, sitting on her lap.
“Nothing has gotten into me Sana, I’m just not in the mood tonight, okay? can we just leave it tonight.” Mina pushed Sana off her lap.
Sana pouted. She knew something had happened tonight because Mina wasn’t usually like this. ‘What happened to you tonight Mina, why won’t you tell me?’ Sana tried to follow Mina who had got out of the sofa and walked towards the room they shared. Mina slammed the door behind her. “Minari, please talk to me.”
“Sana, please leave me alone, I’m not in the mood.” Mina snapped back behind the door.
Sana was about to try once again, but she got interrupted from a voice behind her.
“Trouble in paradise?” the voice cackled.
“What do you want Sneha?” Sana answered bitterly.
“Oh, I only want to know what’s wrong with Minari ” Sneha mimicked Sana.
Sana was enraged and ran towards Sneha. She grabbed the dirty blonde haired woman and held her against the wall, slightly aloft, digging her claws into her neck where the grip she had was holding her. “Don’t you dare mimic me Sneha!” Sana growled.
Sneha was struggling to loosen Sana’s grip on her throat. She had underestimated the strength that Sana had, and did so at her own risk. However, she remembered who else was in the house with them. ‘As your sire, I command you to get this woman off me!’ She instructed mentally.
Within a few seconds, Sana was no longer gripping Sneha against the wall, but was rather lying on the floor with another woman, with mahogany coloured hair holding her around the waist, after tackling her off her sire. “No one hurts Sneha apart from me, got that?” the woman stood up, brushing herself down before checking on her creator. “Are you okay Sneha?” she asked.
“Yes Kiara, I’m fine.” Sneha clearly wasn’t fine, but she didn’t want to show any weakness to her sired or, more importantly at this stage, Sana.
Sana stood up and was about to launch another attack on Sneha, sensing her weakness and that she was recovering, but as she was about to launch, the front door was thrown open and in walked a clearly angered tall, dark haired vampire. “Saved by the boss” Sana mumbled. She turned on her heels and quickly raced after her ‘boss.’
“Hey boss, is everything okay?” Sana asked after finally catching up with the tall woman.
The woman deeply sighed. “How many times have I told you Sana? How many times have I said don't call me boss.” she said as she walked towards the cellar.
“Sorry bos… I mean Tzuyu” Sana corrected herself. “How was your hunt?”
“Failed, my dinner screamed for help and fortunately for it, the help came.” Tzuyu reflected as she opened the door.
“Nevermind, there’s always the next hunt.” Sana tried to see the brighter side.
“But I'm famished Sana, I need to feast, and I can’t keep getting a bottle every time to ease the hunger.” Tzuyu proceeded to go down the stairs into the cellar.
“I understand,” Sana followed Tzuyu to the cold, damp cellar where there were hundreds if not thousands of wine size bottles filled with blood. “Do you want me to get you a live meal now?”
“It’s not the same,” Tzuyu sighed. “I enjoy the chase, the thrill of making them panic, and then the ecstasy of the first bite.” Tzuyu ran her hand down the front of her neck, remembering just how good it felt when a hunt was successful. “But alas, this will have to suffice for tonight.” She pulled out a bottle with the numbers 2015 on the front, indicating the year the blood was put in the bottle.
“If you are sure.” Sana turned to leave the cellar
“Sana, before you go,” Tzuyu called out to her. Sana turned to face Tzuyu. “Just a couple of things. Firstly, what was all that fighting going on when I came in through the door?”
Sana gulped, she knew that Tzuyu didn’t like her coven fighting with each other, only with the enemies of the coven. “It- It was nothing.” she managed to stutter.
Tzuyu could sense Sana’s nerves from the stutter, she was clearly hiding something. “Don’t lie to me Sana!”
“I-I’m not” Sana once again sounded less convincing than she tried to.
“Don’t make me say those words Sana.” Tzuyu was ready to say the words Sana never wanted to hear.
“No, please, not those words,” Sana started to crumble, memories came flooding back to her of the time Tzuyu used the words to order her to do as Tzuyu wished, even if she didn’t want to. “I'll tell you, just please don’t use those words” Sana sobbed.
“Well then Sana, what was the cause of the fighting?” Tzuyu asked once again.
“Mina came home in a strange mood, not wanting to talk about anything, I tried to get through to her but she was having none of it and went to our room, I tried to appeal to her by using her nickname, Sneha mimicked me for it, I lost my temper, grabbed her against the wall and then Kiara tackled me off Sneha and onto the floor, then you walked in” Sana rambled.
“So it was all over nothing?” Tzuyu rolled her eyes.
“Yeah, I guess it was really.” Sana looked down to the floor embarrassed.
“Well please, make sure it doesn’t happen again,” Tzuyu sternly told Sana. “I need you all to have your energy preserved for if they ever try anything.”
“Of course Tzuyu, I’ll ensure it doesn’t. And anyway, we all know if they tried anything, that they would lose, for there is only one true queen of the vampires, and she is in front of me now.” Sana bowed to Tzuyu, causing the latter to give a small chuckle, before once again turning towards the cellar door.
“Sana, one last thing before you go,” Tzuyu once again saw Sana turn to face her. “Can you get two glasses for this please?” lifting up the bottle she was holding.
“Oh, but I’m not hungry yet Tzuyu, and I’d prefer to hunt tonight.” Sana replied.
“It’s not for you though.” Tzuyu shook her head and laughed.
“Who’s it for then?” Sana asked, confused as to who Tzuyu would want to be sharing a drink with.
“It’s for your girlfriend.”
Those words were enough for Sana to dash out of the cellar and up the stairs, into the kitchen to grab two wine glasses for Tzuyu.
Meanwhile, below her Tzuyu was thinking to herself. ‘Oh Mina, what have you done this time. This conversation should be fun.’
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“Chaeyoung!” Dahyun screamed. “Chaeyoung! Open the door!” she repeated kicking the door since she had her arms filled with a nearly lifeless Momo.
“Alright, I’m coming, keep your hair o-” Caheyoung mumbled as she walked to open the door, when she saw the scene on the doorstep, she got excited. “Oh, live meal this week?”
“No Chaeyoung, not live meal.” Dahyun answered back. “Help me put her on the sofa”
Chaeyoung took Momo’s legs, while Dahyun moved to hold Momo under her shoulders. The pair shuffled until they put Momo on the sofa.
“Okay, are you going to tell me why this woman isn’t a live meal?” Chaeyoung asked.
“She,” Dahyun pointed to Momo, “is the reason we don’t have to hunt humans. She is the reason we get the bags weekly. Momo is risking her job doing this for us.”
“Wait, so this is who you meet on a weekly occurrence?” Chaeyoung asked, trying to understand exactly who this woman was and why she meant so much to Dahyun.
“Yes, Momo was our blood donator, and did so willingly, I didn’t even have to compel her at all.” Dahyun informed Chaeyoung.
“That’s great,” Chaeyoung started “but that doesn’t explain why she is on our sofa right now looking rather lifeless and we aren’t doing anything about it.”
“Well, there is a reason for that.” Dahyun gave a nervous laugh before continuing. “Momo was late tonight meeting me because work was busier than usual for her. When she turned up, there was a scent of blood in the air and I was close to snapping into that mode, but Momo managed to calm me down, despite my mind still going crazy from the smell of blood.”
“Did you find out where the blood was coming from?” Chaeyoung interjected.
“Let me finish and you’ll find out,” Dahyun cleared her throat. “Anyway, that was when I realised the smell of the blood wasn’t fading, but was getting stronger. I noticed that Momo was also dripping blood from her arm, so she was the source of the smell.”
“So you went into that mode, biting her, draining her and bringing her here to try to save her?” Chaeyoung once again interrupted.
“No Chae, stop interrupting me and you’ll actually find out what happened and why we aren’t doing anything, because there isn’t anything we can do.” Dahyun snapped out of a small annoyance that Chaeyoung had caused. “So, I tried to offer her some of my blood, but she refused twice, so I had to compel her to get her to drink the blood and close the wound up before they got to her. After the wound healed and the aura of the blood dispersed, we bid our goodbyes and went our separate ways, only for me to then hear her screams a few minutes later and see her being drained by one of them . Fortunately, after a bit of a scuffle in an alleyway they finally left, but the damage had already been done to Momo.”
“So, we aren’t doing anything because she’s been drained, but because she has your blood flowing through her, she should be turning into a vampire, correct?” Chaeyoung tried to wrap her head around what Dahyun had told her.
“I’m turning into a what?” a voice from behind the pair surprised them.
“Momo!” Dahyun was startled. “How much of that conversation did you hear?”
“I heard enough to know that you can’t be trusted.” Momo was livid. She tried to stand up, but she was immediately off balance and fell back onto the sofa.
“Momo, please listen to me,” Dahyun walked over to the struggling woman, crouching in front of her. “I am so sorry that you have had to go through this. I would never have wished this upon you, but please know that I was trying to protect you.”
“Stop your lying Dahyun!” Momo bitterly snapped. “You are the reason I have become this monster I am.”
Dahyun sighed, knowing that what Momo was saying was true. ‘I guess I am now being punished for my actions by now having a dear friend hate me.’ Dahyun thought to herself.
“Momo, without Dahyun stepping in, you would be dead, whether it was by her hands or by the vampire who attacked you. You are just fortunate that Dahyun is mostly able to control herself, and that is mainly thanks to you.” Chaeyoung tried to reason with Momo.
“She didn’t need to do anything.” Momo insisted.
“Chae, can you give us a minute please.” Dahyun asked quietly, “Can you get Momo one of the small bottles from the kitchen.” Chaeyoung nodded as she left the room.
“I’m not drinking anything!” Momo sharply told Dahyun.
“Momo, you need to drink in order to survive. You have three choices. The first choice is you accept that you are now a vampire and you embrace my coven’s traditions by hunting animals. The second option is you embrace you are a vampire and hunt humans. The third option is that you refuse to accept you are a vampire, don't drink any blood and die a slow and painful death. Now, I would prefer for you not to do option two and I definitely don’t want to see my friend who I fought so hard to save die a slow painful death so I would also like you to not pick option three.” Dahyun saw Chaeyoung re enter the room with a small bottle of red liquid in her hand.
“What is that?” Momo asked, knowing the answer already.
“It’s blood, but it’s animal blood rather than human blood.” Dahyun told Momo as she opened the bottle.
Momo’s heightened scenes took over and she was now craving the bottle. But there was still a little bit of herself fighting the urge to grab the bottle from Dahyun’s hands and gulp it down her throat.
“I need you to drink from this bottle Momo.” Dahyun held the bottle out to Momo.
“N- No!” Momo struggled. She couldn’t give in, she couldn’t lose to her monster self.
“Momo, I don’t want to have to repeat the meeting point situation. Please take the easy option and take the drink I am offering you.” Dahyun once again held the bottle out for Momo to take.
Momo closed her eyes. The pain, the desire to drink, the hunger. It was all taking over. When Momo opened her eyes, they were blood red. “I said no!” She once again got up from the sofa, this time making her way towards the hall to leave the house.
“Once again Momo, you leave me with no choice.” Dahyun deeply sighed. “As your sire, I command you to drink this bottle of blood.”
Within a blink of an eye, Momo had gone from standing in the door frame to downing the blood as if she was doing a drinking game at a party. When she finished gulping down the last drops of blood, she slammed the bottle on the table in front of her. “More.” she demanded. “I need more.” Momo repeated.
Dahyun turned to Chaeyoung. “I guess we are doing a hunting lesson tonight.” Dahyun went over to the cooler bag, taking two of the blood bags and throwing them to Chaeyoung for her to catch and taking two for herself. “Drink up! We will need our energy tonight teaching Momo the ways of our coven and teaching her about being a vampire.”
Chaeyoung nodded and ripped the bags before drinking from them. She knew they were in for a long night.
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“Minari!” Sana called out. Sana didn’t care if Sneha or Kiara were outside their door again, the only thing that mattered was Mina. “Mina please open the door.”
“Sana, please can you just leave me alone for a little bit.” Mina replied through the closed door.
“But Mina, you don’t understand. Tzuyu wants to talk to you.” Sana informed Mina.
‘Great, just great. Can’t wait for her to tell me how much of a failure I am.’ Mina thought as she finally opened the door.
Sana immediately embraced Mina, giving her many small, soft kisses all over Mina’s face. “I love you baby, you know that right?”
“Of course I know that.” Mina rolled her eyes.
The pair went into the kitchen, grabbing the wine glasses that Sana had been asked to get by Tzuyu, before heading into the stairwell to head down into the cellar.
“Ah Sana, I was wondering where you had got to with the glasses.” Tzuyu smiled seeing Sana coming down the stairs. “Oh, and I see you managed to get Mina out of your room.”
“Yeah, guess it didn’t take much when I say that you wanted to speak with her.” Sana nervously laughed.
“Oh, I have that much power?” Tzuyu chuckled.
“What would you like to talk to me about?” Mina asked as she went and took a seat at a round table in between herself and Sana, and where Tzuyu was standing.
“Sana if you please.” Tzuyu pointed towards the door, indicating she wanted to be left alone with Mina. Sana turned and left with a worried look on her face. “I won’t do nothing Sana, I promise.” Tzuyu called as she heard Sana walking up the stairs.
“Why would you do something to me?” Mina asked, confused as to why Tzuyu would say that.
“Sana has this fear that I will do something to hurt you, despite me never wanting to hurt my two most loyal followers. Now, drink?” Tzuyu raised the bottle she had got earlier.
“I’m not actually that hungry.” Mina lied.
“See, now I know that is a lie Mina, I know what happened earlier.” Tzuyu poured the blood into a glass and placed the glass in front of Mina.
“You do?” Mina was surprised. Sure Tzuyu was her sire, but she didn’t know she could know exactly what happened.
“Yes, Sana told me it all. You didn’t need to be off with her” Tzuyu sat opposite Mina.
‘So she doesn’t know then.’ Mina thought. “Oh yeah, I guess I was just a bit exhausted from today’s hunt.”
“My hunt failed today, but that’s the thing with failure. We can fail, but it’s all about how we bounce back from the failing that makes us who we are.” Tzuyu put her hand on Mina’s shoulder. “Next hunt you are coming with me, then we definitely won’t fail.”
“Y-you want to hunt… with me?” Mina stuttered.
“Yes I do, us pair working together would be unstoppable, we can get a full night’s hunt in and have enough time to fill some new bottles up.” Tzuyu pointed to some bare shelves behind her. “Besides, it’s always better fresh from the source.”
“I’d be honoured to hunt alongside you, it’s been a while since we last did it.” Mina smiled.
“That it has Mina, that it has.” Tzuyu returned the smile. A comfortable silence passed over the pair for a few seconds before Tzuyu finally broke it. “Well, I better let you get back to Sana, I’m sure she wants to know you are alright.”
“Thank you for the drink Tzuyu, I’m certainly feeling a lot better now.” Mina started to make her way up the stairs.
“Mina.” Tzuyu shouted, causing Mina to come back down the stairs. “Next time, you can tell me that your hunt failed too, you know, I won’t tell anyone.”
Mina nodded and the smile that was on her face when she left the first time was now replaced by a frown. ‘She did know after all. I thought it was all too good to be true.’ Mina mentally kicked herself as she made her way back to the room she shared with Sana.
“Hey, how did your talk go?” Sana jumped up when she heard the door opening.
“It went well,” Mina faked a smile. “She wants me to go on a hunt with her next time because she thinks we will work well together.”
“That’s great babe. You and Tzuyu will work so well together and the humans won’t know what will have bit them.” Sana cackled.
“No they won’t Sana, and I can’t wait.” Mina joined in the laughing.
“Now then, I think I need to have some fun with Sneha for earlier, care to join me?” Sana asked, reaching her hand out for Mina to take.
“But you know Tzuyu doesn’t like fighting like you were earlier.”
“Who said we’d be fighting? We just need to have a bit of fun, like a prank.” Sana smirked
“Well then, let’s teach her a lesson.” Mina joined in the smirking as they plotted revenge on Sneha.
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Dahyun led Chaeyoung and Momo deep into the woods where she knew they wouldn’t be heard by anyone. “Now Momo, since you have been turned into a vampire by my blood, you will now belong to my coven, the House of Diluculum. We are vampires that hunt on animal blood, but as you well know, we also need human blood once a week. However we prefer not to take the blood directly from humans, which is why we always got the bags from you.”
“I see, it makes sense now.” Momo said. “So are there any more covens?”
“We know of at least one more coven, and we don’t get along.” Chaeyoung informed Momo.
“Oh, why don’t you get along with them?” Momo inquired.
“Well, let's just say that we have a difference of opinions on what is best for vampires.” Dahyun stated as she started to walk a little deeper into the forest.
Momo nodded and, along with Chaeyoung, followed Dahyun.
Dahyun suddenly stopped. “There Momo” she pointed to a wild boar. “That is your first hunt.”
Momo suddenly became extremely nervous. It had dawned upon here that this was actually real now, there was no turning back. This is what she had become, this was her future. She had to accept it, or she would die. “What do I do then?” She asked.
“It’s simple really,” Chaeyoung giggled. “You just go up to the animal and bite it on the neck, blood will then come out and you drink it.”
“Is it really that simple?” Momo was unsure whether she could trust Chaeyoung.
“Sometimes you have a chase with the animal, but most of the time it really is that simple.” Dahyun reassured Momo.
Momo took a moment to collect her thoughts and prepare herself for what she was about to do. When she was ready, she sprinted towards the boar, fangs extending, before pouncing upon the animal, sinking her fangs into the boars neck and slowly drinking her first meal, savouring every drop that she got from the boar.
“Nice job Momo!” Chaeyoung shouted from where she and Dahyun were watching Momo.
“Yeah, very impressive for the first time.” Dahyun joined in the compliments.
“Thank you.” Momo replied as she rejoined the other two.
“So, now you have experienced hunting, time to head back home.” Dahyun started leading the others back towards their home. “You still have a bit of learning to do tonight.”
The walk home was filled with various conversations about how long Dahyun and Chaeyoung had been vampires, what Momo did before she got turned, love life, as well as many other things. They finally reached home, with Dahyun opening the door, allowing her two sired vampires to head in before her.
“Why don’t you pair continue getting to know each other?” Dahyun said as she hung her jacket upon the coat hanger. “I’ve just got something I need to do before I join you.”
“Sure” the pair said as Chaeyoung showed Momo into the living room where she had woken up a couple hours before.
Dahyun went up the stairs and into her office. After shutting the door, she immediately went over to her desk chair, sat down and picked up the phone. ‘Come on, please pick up.’ Dahyun repeated, waiting with bated breath until she finally heard a voice on the other end of the phone.
‘You are through to the vampire council, this is Sunmi speaking, how can I be of assistance?’
“Hi Sunmi, it’s Dahyun from Diliculum.” Dahyun replied.
‘Good evening Dahyun, what can I do for you?’ Sunmi asked.
“Well, I’d like to report an attack in my coven’s territory.” Dahyun said sternly. “And I want to take action to ensure they don’t do it again.”