Title: Immortals
Author: The Emcee
Pairing: Hidashi
Summary: Vampire AU. A legend has been passed down through vampire society for thousands of years that tells of how the first naturally born vampire will become the Vampire King. Tadashi Hamada had only been a vampire for a century when Hiro Hamada was born, and now his one and only responsibility is his king.
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters, the fandom, or even the title. I got it from the Fall Out Boy song and you all know which one.
A/N: Okay, so, here's the deal. I have loved vampires since I was, like, six or something and I watched Interview With a Vampire (not all of it; my mom shielded my eyes over the nudey parts). And although I've kind out fallen out of love with them (*cough*Twilight*cough*), I still find them pretty bad ass. So, I'm mixing Big Hero 6, which I just saw for the fifth time because it's consumed my life, with the vampire genre. It's an AU obviously and I hope you all like what I come up with. If you find any boo boos or mistakes, please let me know! I will fix them! And be sure to leave a comment in the towel section if you like it. R&R. Enjoy!
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Immortals
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It was often said among the vampire society that vampires were born from the ice. Tales tell of how a goddess from the heavens loved the magnificent beauty of ice so much that she created special beings from it to live alongside humans, forever embodying the beauty of ice in walking flesh. Their skin, to a normal human's touch, felt as cold as the very ice it was said they came from and their hearts were said to be frozen stones. Even a vampire's tears turned to ice once they came into contact with the air. Although no vampire still alive recalls how they actually came into being, the tale of the goddess and her admiration for the beauty of ice was often considered to be their creation story.
However, as much as the goddess loved ice and the beings she fashioned from them, she did not grant them the one ability that truly separated vampires from humans: the ability to give birth. While a vampire can Turn a human by biting them and injecting a small portion of their own blood into the human's bloodstream, it was impossible for a vampire pair to conceive and give birth to a child. Many vampire pairs had tried; they had all failed.
And yet, there was hope.
Another legend accompanied that of the goddess. It spoke of how a male child will be born into the vampire world and that he will be known as the Vampire King. Through him and only through him, will vampires be able to conceive and have children of their own. How this legend came into being, no one knew. All that they did know was that it gave them hope, and vampire pairs began to try desperately to bring their one hope, the salvation of their race, to life.
Many years passed and still, the Vampire King had not arrived.
The bright hope that all vampires had been clinging to began to fade, flickering out of existence like a light in the wind. Eventually, the vampires of the world stopped trying and started to believe that the Vampire King of legend was nothing more than that: a legend. Soon, all vampires fell into a somber state, a never ending despair, for without their one true hope, what motivation could be found to create more of their kind, especially when they were already being hunted down so viciously by the humans they lived alongside?
Centuries passed and the King all vampires once spoke of became nothing more than a fairy tale. And fairy tales don't really exist, do they?
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Tadashi had only been a vampire for one century. He was still considered a baby, still considered to be young and not an adult even though he had been turned when he was twenty-one, but he didn't let that bothered him. Although, at first, he had missed his human life terribly, he had a new vampire family that he belonged to. His mother and father, the ones who had given him his new life, were kind people, honest, always trying to help others in need be they human or vampire. And he had an aunt, who was a bit eccentric but loving and kind, just like his parents. They may not have been his human family, but after a few decades, he began to see them as such and so, that's what he called them. His family.
By now, everyone in his human life had passed on, and while he mourned for them, he was a vampire now and vampires always looked at things with a different angle than humans did. Life, although not unlimited, was far longer for his kind than it was for humans. Vampires died just like humans did, but slowly, progressively, aging like a human did little by little over the hundreds and thousands of years they lived. He still ate food-food, something half of the human society still doubted even though humans and vampires had had a truce between them for over a thousand years. But that didn't mean that vampires didn't drink blood. They did, but it couldn't be from just anyone and it couldn't be human.
Although vampires could Turn a human by injecting their blood into a human's bloodstream, ingesting human blood could poison a vampire, maybe even kill him if enough was consumed. It was one thing to ingest a little by accident – a vampire might get ill, but that was it – but it was another to drink-drink human blood and vampires were not stupid. The only blood a vampire could drink for nutrition was that of his mate.
A vampire's mate wasn't just anyone though. First, and obviously, the mate had to be vampire and not human. And second, it couldn't be just any vampire at random; their mates were preordained, determined by their souls before they were born into this world as humans. Finding a mate wasn't that difficult, at least, that was what Tadashi had been told by his mother and father. Vampires impress when they find their mates; that is, they imprint (although vampires no longer use that term because of the publicity that now surrounds it thanks to vampire literature and film. Tadashi understood; it wouldn't look good for vampires if humans thought they stole the term from Twilight or the House of Night series). And when that happens, when the two vampires who are destined to be together finally find each other, they drink from another.
Tadashi had seen it happen a few times, when one vampire impresses upon another and it truly is a beautiful thing to bear witness to. Seeing someone find the person their body, heart, and soul are meant to be with, the someone they're fashioned to love for all of time and creation, is a beautiful thing. Part of him wondered if he'd be so lucky to have that happen to him. So far, it hadn't. His parents and aunt had told him not to worry; that he was still young and that there were plenty of vampires out there for him. But that didn't stop Tadashi from feeling a bit lonely. He may have had his family and his friends, but it would be wonderful to have someone who was his missing half, his missing link, the other piece of his puzzle, as well.
Perhaps that was why he felt this loneliness begin to creep ever so slowly into his soul. He may not have been alone, but when he was surrounded with his family and friends, he always felt lonely. There was always something missing, something that wasn't there. And after a century of being a vampire, over a century of being alive if one counted his twenty-one years as a human, the loneliness he felt could really get to him at times.
And then, one morning, something changed.
Tadashi woke up crying, crying actual tears. It had been one of the things that had made him stand out among his kind: his ability to shed real tears and not ice tears like all vampires did. No one knew why he was able to do it, but he could, he did. That wasn't important though; the fact that he woke up crying was.
It was important because he didn't feel sad or lonely or anything of the sort. As a matter of fact, Tadashi felt elated, happy, joyous, and he threw the covers off of him and rolled out of his body, his heart pounding, excitement and pure bliss coursing through his veins. Practically throwing open his bedroom door, Tadashi rushed out into the hallway and went down the stairs, taking two at a time. He needed to see his parents; he needed to know why he felt this way when there seemed to be no cause for it whatsoever.
When he stepped into the living room, he stopped, though. Sitting on the couch was his mother, who was smiling brightly, look positively radiant and beautiful even through the tears of ice that fell down her cheeks and broke on the wooden floor. His father was standing beside her, smiling with so much happiness, pride, and love that it only elevated Tadashi's own excitement and happiness. They looked up when they heard him enter the room and his mother opened her arms to him, gesturing for him to come closer as she spoke.
"Tadashi! Oh, Tadashi! We have so wonderful, miraculous news," she exclaimed, her brown eyes shining.
"What is it? What's going on?" Tadashi asked, adrenaline shooting throughout his entire body.
"It's a happened. It's really, truly happened," she said. Tadashi sat down on the edge of the recliner across from the couch and his knees were practically bouncing.
"What's happened?" he asked.
"Son, I'm pregnant!" his mother practically shouted, her face expressing pure joy and love. Tadashi swore that his heart stopped beating for a moment.
Pregnant? His mother was pregnant? But how could that be? Vampires couldn't get pregnant. So how…?
"How?" Tadashi asked, sounding just as stunned and awed as he looked.
"We don't know, but we believe it's him," his father answered, gazing down at his wife with love and affection.
"Him?" Tadashi said, looking slightly confused.
"The Vampire King," his father replied.
The Vampire King? Tadashi had read about the legend telling of how the first naturally born vampire would become the King of Vampires, but he had thought that it was a myth, a, well, legend. However, it was real, it was real and it was happening and he –
Tadashi was puzzled. If his mother was pregnant with the Vampire King, then why did he wake up crying? Why did he feel so happy and pumped up? Why did he feel as though he was no longer alone? Why did he suddenly feel whole, like his missing link, his puzzle piece, had finally been found? Was because of him, the Vampire King? Was the Vampire King his mate?
A soft, warm smile spread across Tadashi's face and he looked up at his parents, who were looking happier and brighter than he had ever seen them. Finally, after being alone for so long, he would have his mate. The fact that it was his brother, for all intents and purposes, - as well as the Vampire King! – mattered little to him at that moment. What did matter was that Tadashi had never before been so happy and relieved, he had never felt so complete and whole, and he greatly looked forward to their King being born.