Snips and snails and puppy dogs tails. These are the things that little boys are made of. That is the saying told to little boys when they are just beginning to grow up. There is one for the little girls too, but that is for another tale. Today isn't even about the normal little boys.
This story focuses on a little hunter of vampires and explains how the little hunter boy wasn't a normal little boy. He wasn't afraid of the monsters in the closet or under the bed. He faced imaginary monsters with a head full of teeth in his dreams.
He didn't tell his parents. He didn't tell his sick little brother who was his mirror. He didn't tell his Master or his fellow pupils either.
No, this little boy faced a monster with too many teeth and stared it down in the night every single day. For every little hunter knows that Vampires are the enemy. As for this little boy he had another one that only he could sense.
Thanks to the inherent blood gifted them by the pureblood so long ago and even further back a man who decevied humanity as the first. The only Nosferatu that exists in their world the Dark Prince Dracula, Vladimir the Impaler.
He, who was born the older twin of Mina's bloodline, knew the face of evil.
It was not the Purebloods.
It was him. The Ancestor of the Kiryuu clan from before the world fell to his plans and the Purebloods arose from the ashes.
"Good evening, my Childe." the Man with long white hair said even as the strands shortened, darkened until Zero was staring the young Prince in the eyes. "My family has become lost without me."
Looking askew at the boy bleeding out on the ground the man gently knelt down beside him, offering a single wrist to the child's mouth as he grew faint from the over stimulating of his senses. "A maddening hunger is awakening in you. I shall aid you for now. In the future I will call upon you to deliver me what is due."
He hadn't asked. Dracula was the absolute secret of their family. One he had created to serve him and drift into the world's of hunter, human, and vampire.
"In due time..." Zero heard, "For now we will depart and my young Heir will be nourished in the world as he should be. For an Heir of Dracula shall suffer the worst of the world and bleed upon it the cursed blood of his kingdom."
Three women moved away from the windows as Zero watched. The blood staining his lips evaporated with the dawn when his Master entered the property. Within hours, the only surviving member of the Kiryuu slaughter at the hands of Shizuka's rage was hiding in a bathroom at Hunter Headquarters.
His mind reeling at the importance of Dracula giving him a mouthful of his own blood and the impending crisis that he could not share.