Abomination

Alex and Casper arrived at a small room where a young man could be seen sitting as he furiously jotted down some notes.

"Hey Rick, get me a blood bag from the recent batch" Casper called out to the young man.

"Lord Casper!" the young man spoke in a flustered tone as he jerked up from his sit. His eyes turned to Alex who was at Casper's side.

"Halfling?" Rick glanced at Alex with a questioning expression.

"Rick? Blood bag. Now!" Casper repeated in a stern voice. Rick swiftly took off towards a blood bank, then came back with a blood bag at hand. It took rick about 2 seconds to this.

Alex marveled at the speed of the young vampire, he got more excited as he looked forward to his transformation.

Casper took the blood bag and handed it over to Alex. "Drink"

"Uhh, just like that? Seems kind of weird now that I think about it. Drinking blood and all" Alex said with an awkward smile.

"You want it flavored or something"" Casper replied sarcastically as Rick chuckled, giving Alex a condescending look.

Alex turned to look at the blood at hand and finally strengthened himself mentally for what he was about to do. He opened the blood bag and put it in his mouth to take a sip.

Rick had his guard as he knew what usually happened when and halfling had their first taste of blood. But then both Casper and Rick witnessed the shock of a lifetime.

Alex drank the blood and felt an extremely bitter taste, so bitter he puked the blood out.

Casper eyes widened in surprise as he looked at Alex, then broke into a smile.

"Aren't you a special one, seems you are a broken halfling. Why did you puke?"

"Are you certain this blood hasn't gone bad or something, cause it sure as hell taste like shit" Alex said with a squeezed face.

"I'm pretty sure I got the right batch and even if it wasn't, I don't think halflings are usually picky on their first feed" rick answered.

As Casper was going to share his thoughts, the room temperature seemed to drop a few more degrees.

Alex felt his heart beating hard in his chest, he suddenly felt a wild sense of hunger in his belly.

"Something smells good" Alex said as he sniffed the air. Caper looked at him in a curious gaze. Alex eyes turned towards rick and at that moment a sense of danger rang in the head of the young vampire.

For Alex, timed seemed to have slowed down, his view turned dark, and his thoughts were blinded by hunger. The next thing Alex knew he was standing in front of rick, he felt a slight sting in his mouth as two sharp fangs produced.

"Trrp!" Alex sunk his fangs into ricks neck. He suddenly felt a bundle of joy, it felt like a drug! No, better than any drug. He sucked in more furiously as his hunger seemed to be ever-increasing.

The whole exchange could have been said to take place within a second. Casper, who was standing by the side, was stumped on the new development as things had taken as unexpected turn. To prevent more accident, he went towards Alex, who was still feasting on the blood of the young vampire. Casper held Alex by the arms and threw him off rick towards the wall of the room.

But it was too late for rick heart had stopped beating, his face has lost all its color, and he looked like a dried up corpse. This greatly surprised Casper, a surprise that swiftly became anger.

"What the hell are you!" Casper's shouted in anger, his eyes turned red, blue flames engulfed his hands as he slowly walked towards Alex who was still on the floor.

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After bouncing off the wall, the impact seemed to have brought Alex back to his senses. He looked towards the body on the floor and his heart shook, he had just killed someone,Casper definitely looked like someone who was going to enact a swift revenge. But how the hell did he take down a vampire? And why did his blood taste so good?. Alex didn't have to be a genius to figure out that what just happened and what he had done was not in Anyway normal.

A blue flame appeared on Casper's hands as he walked towards Alex, this flame was the regular type. It could be called the signature flame of house Valentino, it possessed an ice-cold feel.

"Hey, wait, I don't know what happened. It must have been the blood bag." Alex tried to reason with Casper as his voice trembled in fear. He tried to get up, but his legs didn't seem to be responding.

"You are an abomination, and you need to be eradicated!" Casper bellowed as he thrust his flaming hand towards Alex.

"I will take it from here Casper" a deep voice interrupted.

Alex looked at the figure in black who seemed to have appeared from nowhere, he felt a deep sense of relief of the man's timely interruption as he could already taste death for a second time.

"Lord azaroth!" Casper instantly turned off the flames in his hand and took a deep bow.

"I will handle this matter, leave the boy to me"

"But he killed rick! He is not a normal vampire milord, we need to end him!" Casper pointed at Alex in fury. He was clearly dissatisfied with how things seemed to be going.

"I will take it from here" azaroth repeated in a deep tone as his shadow seemed to cover the entire room.

Casper shrunk back, he knew this was not the time to voice his opinions. He wasn't about to disobey his superior.

Alex took a deep breath in relief, for it seemed he would keep his head for a while.

"To your feet boy"

Alex gaze met with azaroth's, and he suddenly felt a feeling of danger that surpassed the one Casper radiated whilst aiming for his life. Was going with this man really the safer choice? Alex wasn't so sure anymore, but it wasn't like he was given a choice or had one anyway.

He slowly rose to his feet, his legs that had betrayed him earlier seemed to finally gained strength. Alex Could feel Casper's piercing gaze as he rose to his feet. He knew that if giving a choice, Casper would not hesitate to rip out his heart.

Without delaying any further, he moved towards azaroth whilst avoiding eye contact. A bright circle which was at this point familiar to Alex shone beneath their feet. A blinding light engulfed azaroth and Alex, teleporting then to a different location.

Right there in the room, Casper's anger was at its pick, but had nothing to release it on. "Fucker!!!" He kicked the only table in the room. The impact of the hard furniture made a sizable dent on the wall,

"I will make sure I get you bastard." Casper murmured to himself as he folded his fingers, the grip tightened so much, he bled from his hands.

Casper gave one last look at the dried corpse of rick on the floor, then left the room. He knew what had to be done, the abomination will not go Scot free.