{A/N This is a fanfic that is based off of "The Urge". I Basicly delve deeper into the AU where vampires exist and where Dan and Phil are two of them. This first part, the Prologue, is just more backstory on how this particular world works, as written in an assignment by a child. Don't worry, Dan and Phil are coming soon, and yes, in the end this fic will be a Phanfic. Enjoy!}
Vampires and Awareness:
A paper by Bailey T. S.
This is my paper on Vampires and Awareness. The first page is about the Vampire; Its eating habits, the process of Turning, and how it interacts with other species. The second page is about Awareness, and just general knowledge of the Aware community.
You start as a young vampire. For the first couple of days you're totally fine, you don't even notice the burning need to blood. But after a couple of blissful days you start to notice the thirst slowly increases. You can survive maybe 3 months before primal desire wins over and you attack the human nearest to you. Eventually, everyone snaps, and they disappear for exactly 30 days. They go around the world, hunting people for their blood. Some kill everyone in sight when they are like this, others only prey on a few select options. After 30 days the person, now half vampire, returns home, with no memory of the last month. A vampire stays in this half blood sucker, half human state until they can remember their absence. Once the memories come back the person is fully Turned and there is no going back.
A Vampire infects its prey the first time it bites a human (although they are also known to occasionally bite elves too.). Whoever they bite first usually dies, but around 15% live through it and become a young vampire. The term "young vampire" refers to the fact that you are not a vampire yet, but you will eventually.
Before the Turning begins you could try one of many miracle cures, though they never really work. Some people gave up and starved themselves until they gave into the lust. These were usually the most bloodthirsty out of all the Turned. Many studies show that the sooner you drink blood after you've been bit, the less people you kill when Turning. Most people kill around 2-4 humans, before being satisfied with only draining someone half way, leaving them to have a chance at a recovery. Of course, the ones who push it away the longest usually kill up to about 10 people, and they never settle for half draining. When people come back from the Turning they are usually different, but unless you're good friends with them you would never notice. Once you've fully Turned you can go up to 6 months without blood sucking, only eating 'normal' foods, but you can't escape it forever. Most Turned only half suck people every 3-5 months, because the human side of them is still repulsed with the idea of killing a fellow human.
Of course, sometimes it's not a human they infect. Although humans are the most common target for vampires, they will also prey on fairies, elves, and even werewolves. In the modern day and age people have come to expect a black and white diffrence between vampires and werewolfs, when in reality they have more of a sibling rivalry type of relationship. Of course, once you're bit by a vampire you are immune to werewolfs, and vice versa. While vampires and werewolfs increase their population by infecting other species, Humans, Fairies, and Elves populate in the more traditional sense.
Many have studied the differences between Turned human and elves, as fairies are immune to both bites. They find that Turned humans are more aggressive and blunt, but also faster, while elves are agile, flirtatious, and even seductive. As the general population of the world has no idea vampires, elves, and all these other seemingly mythical creatures exist, we as a community like to keep quiet.
People who are Aware of the mythical world do have a way of communication though, it's called The Keep. The Keep is almost the same thing as the internet, only it contains more info about the magical hidden world. It also allows people who are Aware to be able to talk freely, get doctorly advice on things that would make a normal doctor run far away, set up meetings with your own kind, and monitor the globes current awareness. Only people who are Aware can easily access The Keep, simply by getting a tiny implant into their laptops, phones, or computers. If you know the right people you can get one pretty fast after you become Aware.
In the community you would sometimes stumble upon a multiracial person, such as a fairyhuman, or an elvenwerewolf. Studies show that around 1 in every 10 thousand people are like that, and, using our foggy knowledge that there are around 10,000,000 people who are Aware, we can say that there are around 1000 people who are multiracial. People are mostly accepting of these people, as it's natural (for the most part), and it can create some amazing people. Did you know that 1 in every 700 people you meet are Aware? For instance, did you know that Whitney Houston was actually a humanelf? Thats right, but in this rare case she actually never became Aware. When our community finds someone who is Unaware, we try to let them live a normal life, because, hey, let's be honest here, holding back a secret like this, especially when you're famous, is life changing.
Once in awhile there is someone who is more than 2 races. In recent years this number has been dwindling. It used to be around 1 in every 20 thousand, but it's numbers have plummeted to a measly 1 in every 10 million. That means that there are around only 10 people who are like this left on Earth. Many suspect it is because the community of people who are Aware, (or AC, standing for "Aware Community", as some call us.), have been strongly pushing for less interbreeding, mostly because of all the disorders that come with it, and because as we interbreed our original species start to loose their meaning. Out of the 10 triracial people that exist, we have only found 2, and they are both Unaware.
A few people speculate that there are one or two people who are quadracial, being all three races of human, elf, and fairy, along with either the vampire virus, or the werewolf virus. But Most people dismiss this, as this kind of person would immediately raise a red flag in the community. This person could be a very dangerous combination of almost every species, and the fact that we can't find anyone with this much power goes to show that no one like this exists at the present time.
-Bailey-