Chapter 3 - The Problem child.

Jasper sat in a poofy recliner. a built in massage system buzzing quietly under him. he was flipping through channels on a very large HDTV, he stopped on a commercial for twilight and turned the TV off sighing is disgust. his door flew a crossed the room "I see someone's awake. did you sleep well my dear?" jasper said smiling at Alice and sipping at a glass filled with blood.

"HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME?" Alice screamed "ILL KILL YOU YOU BASTARD" she said and chanted a few short sentences in Latin and made a hand gesture but nothing happened she looked at her hands confused "I told you before Alice, your magic has been taken from you along with your avatar. you can no longer use the magic you once did. it is up to you to developed your own magic and teach it to those you sire" Jasper explained calmly. this infuriated Alice even more "THEN ILL JUST BEAT YOU TO DEATH" she yelled and charged him extremely fast at his chair in the blink of an eye her arm through the back of the chair. the chair sparked abit. Jasper however was leaning against a book case the glass still in his hand. he finished it and set it down on a table. "you are very fast. im surprised. faster than I thought you would be right off the start. but settle down now missy. your a child trying to fight a god." jasper warned her. Alice shook her head tears rolling down her cheeks "you said you'd welcome me trying to kill you didn't you. THEN JUST DIE." she said and charged him again. moving yet faster. jasper however did not move and inch and grabbed her arm and slammed her into the ground cracking the cement under the carpeted floor. "I will not let you kill me Alice. I said you could try. and you may at any time. but one thing you must learn from this is to pick and choose your battles. you cannot win here. if you ever hope to kill me. you'll need to learn from me. and you will likely need a legion of people backing you up. but Alice I will not kill you. no matter what you do you are now my child and I will not allow you to die. So use this time. if revenge is what fuels you. use it to grow powerful yourself and to lead your future bloodline into glory for you'll only be able to kill me once your much more able.

Jasper released her and picked up his glass walking over to the small refrigerator he pulled out a pouch of blood and poured some into the glass. pulling another glass from the cabinet he filled that one too and put them in the microwave setting it to heat them for a minute. he turned around and Alice was there with a large knife at his throat "did you hear nothing I said child?" jasper asked not blinking an eye. he grabbed her hand before she could plunge it into his neck and sever his head " I told you I would not kill you. but I did not say I would not hurt you" and with that he snapped her arm like a twig and threw her a crossed the room "now CALM DOWN" he commanded as the microwave dinged. he grabbed the glasses and walked over to his chair and sighed "I liked that chair." he turned and walked over to the couch and set the glasses down on the glass coffee table. "now please. come sit with me so I can teach you abet. and make sure to drink the blood. it speed up your healing." jasper commanded Alice.

Alice loathed to do anything he said but decided to choose her battles and went and sat a crossed from him. and sipped lightly at the blood. Jasper smiled "thank you. now im going to teach you thaumaturgy. the art of blood magic. it should help you in developing a new magic. it is currently the one and only form of magic that vampires may use. and it is the power over blood. for example." he raised a hand and Alice immediately noticed the blood flowing from her skin. she felt the pain of the blood forcing its way through her pours and into a ball forming at the palm of his hand. "you will learn to control the blood of others. there are many sub forms of thaumaturgy but you will have to learn those on your own. I have teachers for you. I have shown you your first lesson though. that is what you will be learning to do for now." jasper said Alice scowled. "and if I don't?" she asked defiantly "then you will just be wasting your own time. not mine. you may do what you like for the most part. destroy the house if you must. we'll move. but you have no power. and I have all of it and am more than willing to share." jasper said to her. Alice quieted herself. he was so arrogant. he pissed her off so much. even if he hadn't killed everyone she knew in the world she would still hate him. but she had to admit he had a point. she could never hope to get her revenge without learning to tap into her power. Jasper stood from the couch. "now Alice you may go. I suggest you relax cause tomorrow your work begins. " Alice grunted is disgust of jasper and stormed out of the room.

Alice sat on her bed and cried silently. she hated this. she couldn't fathom why all her friends had to die. and most of all she hated jasper. her broken arm was already healing. but it still hurt a lot and she favored the arm not putting any pressure on it. she laid back on her bed tears still rolling down her face. if jasper were around she wouldn't give him the satisfaction of seeing her cry like this. but as she was alone. she was practically sobbing over the situation she was in.

Jasper laid back on his own bed. Alice had reacted better than he expected. he was very much looking foreword to seeing how fast she progressed as a vampire. he knew that 1 child was not nearly enough. he needed at least 13 and some extra's for his promises. Alice was but the first of many. but he would look after her and gain at least abit of her loyalty before he moved on to another. Alice truly had no idea how much danger she was in now that he was her sire. if anyone ever discovered her. she could very well end up dead. Jasper however had already told her that he would not allow her to die. he would follow through with his word and protect her with his life. weather it was from herself or his enemies.

The dawn was coming on quickly. Alice who had been asleep for a full day before hand was unable to sleep. but was also unable to leave her room the hallway being filled with sunlight. she had nothing to do but sit in her small empty room. the walls were bare. there was no TV. no books. just a queen sized bed up against the wall. she spent the day sitting on her bed. sometimes she would be crying. sometimes she would just stare into space. it was a very long day for the girl and she would have to do her "work" the next day.

The next night jasper woke up and walked down the hall. he knocked on Alice's door and walked in. "good morning Alice time to get to..." jasper was tackled to the ground. he smiled as Alice hit him in the face a few times before he grabbed her arm "I see you healed just fine" he said inspecting her arm "let go of me" Alice said struggling to get away from his grip. "that hurt abit you know. but you'll need more than your fists to kill me" jasper said calmly and got up pulling her along with him. "I SAID LET GO" Alice yelled struggling all the harder as she was dragged along behind him."im afraid not. mandatory tutoring. ive rounded up some very important people who owe me favors. and I owe them as well. so your gonna learn what they have to teach you so that your not killed your first time out." Jasper said strictly not putting up with any disobedience today.

Alice struck and clawed at jaspers back and arm the wounds she inflicted healing almost instantly and not slowing jaspers pace one bit. Jasper walked through a door into a massive library. where there were 7 other vampires. All of whom looked up looked up immediately they're attention on jasper. Jasper tossed Alice into the middle of the room. the vampires switched they're gaze to her "that's your student. test her abilities. and teach her as much as you can. and please make sure she masters thaumaturgy. she'll need that understanding to developed a new type of magic." jasper explained "now Alice these are your new masters. they will introduce themselves. I warn you don't test them too much they will not be as gentle as me. the faster you learn this stuff the faster we can move on and the faster you get your chance to kill me." jasper told her.

Jasper walked out of the room leavening Alice with the strange vampires she looked at them with a scowl. "just leave me alone. I don't want to have anything to do with all this. I just wanna kill him." she said and motioned back towards the door with her head A large brujah sneered at the girl "'fraid we cant do that missy. see. we owe your sire. and we know what loyalty is. you'll do as your told or we'll force you to its as simple as that" he was not happy about being put on babysitter duty but he knew the promises made to him were well worth putting up with some bratty fledglings for awhile.

a lady huffed at the man and hurried over to Alice to help her up "oh Jack why do you have to be so mean to the girl. My name is morigan why don't we start out slowly today" said the young tremer. she looked no more than 17 years old.

Alice shied away from the girl she hated these vampires as much as she hated jasper. but she recognized some powerful bloodlines. 3 tremere. a brujah, a ventrue, a rare losambra assassin, and a vampire who she could only imagine was a very very old Tzimisce. The horrifying vampire was disfigured in ways she could never have imagined. the old vampire noticed her stare "its called flesh molding deary. its a little too advanced for you right now im afraid but we're gonna make you powerful." the man named Ulamog said to her. his words being what they were. they still sounded scary coming from him. it sent shivers down her spine at the thought of the plans these vampires had for her.

For the next 3 days Alice studied practiced and was tutored. She hardly slept. Then on the Fourth day Jasper walked into the large library. "hello Alice. I trust you've been working hard?" jasper asked looking at her tutors for potential approval of her. Alice sneered at him but said nothing "I see. well then, why don't you show me what you've learned. ill give you 3 free chances to kill me before I fight back. whenever your ready" jasper said to her. Alice looked jasper in the eyes. she saw that this was fun for him. that he found amusement in doing this to her. and with that she used some basic thaumaturgy pulling a few balls of blood out of him through his skin. and then used celerity pulling a sword she was on him in the blink of an eye a sword through his gut. she kicked him off her sword and charged again jumping she landed the sword in a downward thrust into his shoulder. it went completely in the entire length of the blade. jasper coughed up some blood as Alice began to cast abit more advance thaumaturgy. she used blood salvo and started shooting bolts of energy at him. but then jasper was just gone the moment the bolts would have hit him.

Jasper smiled as he stood behind Alice. he held her sword in his hand. he was still bleeding profusely but the wound in his gut was already starting to heal. he rested a hand on Alice's shoulder Alice went completely stiff. after all that he could still move so fast. and still have the power to command her fear with a single touch. "you have indeed been working hard. that was some fairly advanced thaumaturgy there. start looking into the sub-magic's. they will explain what I mean. make sure you get some rest today. you've earned abit of a break" jasper said and walked out of the room. Alice fell to her knee's as soon as he let go of her. while he was touching her it was like she could do nothing but pay attention to what he said. she could feel him pressing on her mind. imposing his own will upon her. she could do nothing while he had her in that grip. as soon as he let go the pressure was gone. Alice watched him as he left. he just came by for 5 minutes to let her beat on him and then left. it was almost like he was inspecting her like a piece of meat. it bugged her to no end.

End Chapter 3