Here is chapter 4! Thanks for all of the favs and alerts! You guys are awesome! =D I hope that you like this chapter too! I certainly did enjoy writing it =3
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Several days passed until he woke up. I had been in charge of taking care of him, since Shanks had gone away to take care of some matters that he hadn't completely explained to me. All that he had said was that he would be gone for quite a long time and would send me some information when my first mission was decided. Right now the green haired man was lying on a bed, sleeping after waking up for a few seconds. He looked peaceful and careless while sleeping, and I was looking at him with interest and curiosity, but you could tell that he was slightly pained by his wounds made by silver weapons. It had taken me some time to figure out what he was, surprisingly, but when he had seen him Shanks had explained me what he was. I was after all new into all of this', and I didn't know much about the other races.
When the green haired man had woken up he had questioned me again on why I had killed the other vampire and saved him instead. It didn't make sense, due to what I was, and I knew perfectly. However...
"I won't join those monsters" I muttered quietly to myself, while I thought of Blackbeard. I couldn't stop thinking about it lately. Several weeks had passed, but... the memory was still fresh in my mind, and I wondered how much time it would be like that. I then remembered what I had said to Shanks yesterday, when he had asked me what was my 'dream. I had said that I wanted to crush bring my brother back, crush Blackbeard and become the best vampire hunter in the world. And even though I knew I had said those things quite quickly, but now that I thought about it I could only realise more and more that what I had said was true. I did want to bring my brother back, at whatever cost that I would have to pay, even if it was my life and I also wanted to become the best vampire hunter. I wanted to become the best vampire hunter so I could crush Blackbeard and to avoid more things like what had happened to me and my brother Ace. I wanted no more humans to suffer what I had suffered. Suddenly some words brought me out of the deep thoughts that I was having.
"Oi,are you listening to me?" The green haired man asked.
I looked at him, not getting what he was referring to. "Sorry, I wasn't paying attention" I said, as I passed my hand behind my head.
The man sighted, looked around and then continued staring at me. "I asked who were you" He said, clearly a bit annoyed.
"Oh! I am Monkey D. Luffy!" I said, with a grin now on my face. I liked this man, he was funny. It took some time for me to realise that I hadn't asked this man's name though. "And who are you?" I then asked back.
The man suddenly grinned. "I am Roronoa Zoro" He said easily, with an ever so light smile on his face. "Do you have food?" He then asked "I'm hungry" He finished saying.
I nodded. "Of course!" I said, with a grin. "There is something on the kitchen" I said. The man then got up with a groan, clearly not liking the feeling of the wounds that even though mostly healed still affected him quite a bit. Well, considering what he was it wasn't a surprise. Silver was even more lethal for his kind. I continued going to the kitchen, with Zoro going behind me, paying attention to every move I made, making it seem that he was afraid to get lost inside the house. When we arrived to the kitchen it just took some seconds to start eating the meat that had been brought to the house by some members of the hunters association. We both were silent for some time, until the green haired man, Zoro, decided to ask what he had already asked when he had been awake esrlier and what hadn't had a response yet.
"Why did you save me, Luffy?" he asked then
I grinned, knowing now my reply. "Why shouldn't I?" I asked then
"You are a vampire. I am a... werewolf, and you killed another vampire" He said. "It makes no sense" he finished then saying.
"I am a vampire, but I am not a member of any vampire group. I am not a... monster. Or so I hope. I can't forgive those who believe they are superior and just want to kill other races" I said, with a serious face.
"Why is that?" Zoro then asked, with an interested face. He clearly was surprised by my actuation, and also by the fact that I was calling my very own race "monsters".
"I was transformed several weeks ago by a vampire named Blackbeard" I started saying, noticing how Zoro continued looking at me. "It was all an accident, really. It was night time and I was searching for something very important to me that was given by my brother. Suddenly that man appeared and when he was about to kill me my brother appeared to defend me" I continued explaining. "He ended up killing my brother when he tried to defend me and converted me into a vampire saying that he would wait for my revenge " I finished explaining.
"I'm sorry" Zoro then said, with a sad, comforting smile.
I looked at him and managed to smile again. "But I will manage to show him that he didn't do the right thing. I will defeat him and take my revenge, by becoming the best vampire hunter out there. I will manage somehow to bring my brother back too, even if it costs my life. I am not defeated, and will never be" I said confidently.
Zoro grinned at my outburst. "I want a similar thing as you, Luffy" He started saying.
I looked at him with interest, waiting for him to continue explaining what had happened to him.
"I had always been training as a kid by a good swordsman, along with several other kids. One day, my main rival suddenly died because of a disease, and since then I continued getting better and better, just wishing to be the best swordsman in the world. Until suddenly, one day, when training during the night a werewolf man appeared and bit me and converted me into this" Zoro explained. "I want to get revenge on the man for doing this to me, but I still want to become the best swordsman in the world though" He finished saying.
I then grinned. "We would make an excellent team" I commented. Zoro grinned at this "The best swordsman in the world and the best vampire hunter in the world fighting together" I said again, grinning.
"Yes" Zoro then said, with another grin on his face.
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We spent the next weeks simply training and fighting each other viciously. We had more or less the same strength, his more brutal and vicious than mine due to his nature, but mine quick and deathly due to mine. We started to become stronger and stronger, and Shanks sometimes came by to visit, but he had to complete now many missions. he only said to contact him if anything happened. It was also during this time that Zoro decided to join the hunters too, and decided to put on the same tattoo on the same place as I had, as a symbol of being friends and comrades. It was during this time too that we learnt more about the structure of the hunters association. There as a central council, which was represented by the leaders of the teams formed by the members of the association. Each team was formed usually by a few people, and were assigned missions together. Depending on their strength the level of the missions varied.
Exactly three weeks later after I had found Zoro Shanks gave us our first mission: we had to go to an ancient church to get information on several scriptures written there. The place had been recently a point of interest for the vampires and there was surely something of importance there. The 'church' was several kilometres away, near another village.
We started going towards the 'church' very early on the morning after receiving the mission, fully prepared to fight anything or anyone to complete it. It was cold, very cold, and it didn't stop snowing ain any moment. The sky was covered by dark clouds, making the whole forest we were travelling through seem gloomy and more dangerous and dead than it walready as. But on the good side it meant that I wasn't bothered as much by the reflection of the sun as most of the time, even with the heavy robes that I carried outside now, and it also made travelling more comfortable.
Hours passed until we finally arrived to the village that was close to the 'church' we had to go to to do the mission. There were many people walking around, even it was extremely cold, and they were all carrying on with their lives without caring much about the two strangers that had entered the village, going into and out of bars and shops with their families. Only some bored people that were completely alone took notice of Zoro and I and of the strange atmosphere that we seemed to have around us, which didn't seem to surprising considering what we were.
We continued walking and walking, until we arrived to a frozen lake a bit far away that was near to the ancient building we had been assigned to look at to find those scriptures. When we were near both of us could smelt the presence of other beings. I grabbed Zoro by his hand, telling him silently to stop. He quickly turned around to look at my face, covered by the thick clothes and that straw hat I wore.
"You have smelt them too, haven't you?" I asked him. He nodded. "There is quite a number of vampires inside that place, as expected. But there are also several humans too" I said again.
"I know" He said. But what are they doing there?" Zoro asked.
"I don't know, but we will have to be careful" I said. Zoro nodded, and we continued walking towards the place, hiding ourselves as much as possible.
It was when we were near the entrance when we found two humans guarding the entrance completely asleep. We both took a step towards them, and they soon woke up, sensing our presence.
"Who are you?" One of them asked, with anger and fear visible in his face.
"That doesn't matter" Zoro said, as he drew his three swords and quickly defeated both men. "We can go in now" Zoro said, as he went inside.
I nodded and went inside too, looking at the dark passages that were inside, dimly lit by a few lights. I would have barely been able to see anything if I was a human, but I was quite able to thanks to my vampire senses.
"I can barely see anything" Zoro suddenly commented. "It's good that I have a powerful smell and hearing senses" He commented.
I grinned and nodded. "Just don't get lost" I commented. I had learnt during the past weeks that Zoro got lost too easily.
We started walking through the long corridors, encountering some vampire or human guards sometimes, all apparently bored. There didn't seem to be much activity, but I could sense the presence of a powerful being below us, in what should be the main chamber of the place and were the scriptures were. I felt strange, and Zoro did too. This was supposed to be a very delicate mission and something of great importance to the vampires, but there were humans inside the place too, and no one seemed to have really detected us. What was happening here?
About an hour passed until we reached what seemed to be the main chamber, where the scriptures where. To enter it we had to open a door, but we could both sense the presence of many vampires and humans at it's other side, waiting for us.
"So that is where they were!" Zoro said, as he got prepared. "Luffy, we have to carefully plan what we are going to-" He started saying, but stopped when he realised that I had just gone ahead and opened the door to fight. He grit his teeth and then rushed forwards to start fighting with the vampires and humans.
They were mostly trained only a bit in fighting. You could tell that they weren't too powerful by how quickly they fell. At first there was quite a number of them, but since there weren't any reinforcements soon the room had only three vampires inside it and then another powerful-looking human. When the three vampires had quickly been defeated by me and Zoro we turned to the human.
"Why is a human like you here?" Zoro asked. "Are you from the government?" He said to the human dressed in red clothes.
"That doesn't matter... wolf" He said in a cocky tone of voice.
Zoro grit his teeth and charged forwards. I did the same, trying to attack the man. But soon I found that he had blocked both of our attacks.
"You aren't entirely human!" I suddenly said, realising. "You are part Dhampir!" I added, in realisation. The man grinned evilly.
"Indeed. Quite accurate from you, vampire. I wonder why are a vampire and a werewolf, especially a vampire, helping the hunters, and I also sense in you a dark origin just by looking into your eyes. I wonder where you came from... but I can't waste time here." He said, as he suddenly threw us backwards and he ran into the door. "I'll just tell you two interesting pieces of information though, since you managed to g t here" He started saying, suddenly stopping right in front of the door. "This place is going to autodestruct in no time. It must be of interest to both of you, since I know that you came here for the same reason as I" he finished saying, before he went outside.
"We must be quick!" I then shouted. "Zoro! bring out that machine the hunters gave us to record images!" I said again. Zoro took it out and started taking pictures of the scriptures quickly. I noticed a drawing of the same medallion that I wore, only in the drawing it was complete. I wondered then how important it was and why, and then realised that it had been visible the whole time we had been fighting at the man from the government. Soon enough though, we were outside of that place, just before it blew itself up. We then started making our way back towards the hunters association to tell everything that we had discovered and the images of the scriptures
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In another place:
"Sir! This way please" a low ranking member of the government said. The man in red nodded, following the man that was leading him to where the other two leaders of the government were. When he arrived to that place he was instantly greeted by two other men of equal incredible strength.
"Akainu, tell us. What have you discovered in those ruins" One man, dressed in white asked.
The man with the red suit grinned evilly. "The prophecy exists, and there is a very important object related to it, some kind of medallion. But I also found out another very interesting thing" He said.
"What was it?" Another one of the two men asked.
"That apparently that object is divided in two, and a hunter has it" He started saying.
"How do you know" Another one of the two men present asked.
"Because the hunters had sent two men to get the information, and one of them had half of the object. However, that isn't the most interesting thing of all of this" Akainu said, as the other two men looked at him with interest. "The most interesting thing is that that hunter is a vampire, and there was something strangely familiar about him" Akainu said. The other two men grinned, understanding what Akainu meant.
"I wonder what the vampires have been up to then. That young man is going to be quite dangerous then" One of them said, before all three laughed.
