As always thank you if you're still reading. All the normal warnings still apply. If you need anything explaining after this chapter please just let me know. This was a pre wrote chapter so I've ha to make all the chapters leading up to this one fit. I hope it works okay please review if you have time.

Chapter 7. A Brief History.

Jack took a step back as Hiccup continued to flail his arms around as he demanded answers from the jock. Not that Hiccup had stopped rambling long enough to take even a breath in the last five minutes. So Jack did something he really wasn't used to doing, he waited. Surely he had to run out of oxygen sooner or later right? Just as the thought passed threw Jack's head Hiccup took a huge shuddering breath. Jack opened his mouth but again Hiccup beat him to it.

"I-I mean how c-can you be born a v-vampire, how?"

Hiccup and Jack stared at each other for a few moments before Jack was sure Hiccup actually wanted an answer this time. Jack felt a slight blush creep up his neck as he cleared his throat. "Well I guess...um..." Jack blushed harder as he scratched behind his neck. "Um... well when a lady vampire and a male vampire really love each other..."

"I'm not asking you where babies come from Jack." Hiccup snapped.

Jack scowled at the younger boy who scowled right back. "I'm not so sure I like this version of you. You asked how someone's born a vampire. Born." Jack dragged the "n" in the last word out.

Hiccup flushed he really hadn't meant to snap at Jack and felt just a little guilty. "I-I'm sorry."

Jack smiled now the shy uncertain Hiccup was back he could answer his questions and maybe Hiccup wouldn't completely hate him when he'd finished. "Come on let's get something to eat I'm starving and you could use a few more pounds on your bones."

Hiccup watched the jock walked towards his door and swing it open. Jack stood in the doorway. "Hic you coming?"

Hiccup quickly nodded and followed Jack down the dimly lit hallway. Hiccup could only thank the god's that his dad worked nights or this might have been difficult to explain. Stoick would probably get the wrong idea as usual and give him and Jack the birds and the bees talk and that was something that Hiccup would rather not repeat. He'd had to sit and listen to it one morning when Stoick had burst in his room to find Astrid asleep in his bed with him. It had all been completely innocent; Astrid had had a big fight with her parents and turned up in the middle of the night. Hiccup being her best friend had done what any friend would have done and comforted his friend until they both feel asleep. The speech its self wouldn't have been to bad if Hiccup's dad hadn't decided to make Astrid sit with him and listen to it as well. Jack jumped down the last few steps like a big kid and headed straight for the small kitchen.

"You seem to k-know the layout of my h-house pretty well." Hiccup said to Jack's back.

Jack looked over his shoulder with a big grin on his face. "Well when I arrived you were in the shower, so I took a quick look around."

Hiccup thought he should be just a little pissed at the information but decided to let it go as he was starting to feel dizzy again, so he just shrugged in return.

Entering the kitchen Jack made a beeline for the big fridge while Hiccup staggered over to the small table in the corner and flopped down. Jack glanced up at him before returning his attention back to the contents of the fridge.

"You okay? You look a little pale...er."

Hiccup folded his arms on the table top and dropped his head on them grunting in Jack's general direction.

"I guess your tired right, I forget we don't sleep as much as you do."

Hiccup raised his head enough to rest his chin on his arms so he could watch Jack. "What do you mean?"

Jack glanced back with a piece of ham hanging out his mouth. Using his fingers he quickly shoved the hanging meat in his mouth, chewed for a second before swallowing. "Vamps only need two to three hours in a 24 hour period. It doesn't have to be as a block either we can have ten minutes here or an hour there." He shrugged.

"So when do you u-usually sleep?"

"Ha-ha in class mostly." The white haired teen replied airily.

Hiccup rolled his eyes he really shouldn't be surprised by that, he had most classes with Jack and it wasn't unusual to here the teacher shout at the jock for dozing in class.

"You sure love your fruit and veg the fridge is full of it."

Hiccup smiled it was true the top shelf of the fridge held jars, the second down held veg and fruits, the third down held cooked meat, the fourth down held raw meats and the bottom pull out draws also held vegetables and fruits. Hiccup was about to ask if that was a problem when Jack shouted.

"Is this a steak it's the same size as my head."

Jack held up said steak next to his head. "That would be my dads and no you can't eat it." Hiccup deadpanned as Jack pouted. Hiccup tried to hide his smile in his arms; he loved the way Jack pouted.

"What's it off a bison?" Jack asked still in awe of the giant steak.

"I think its venison."

Hiccup chuckled as Jack continued to fawn over the raw piece of meat. Hiccup let his eyes drift to the newspaper lying on the table. The front line read "Three more people missing." Hiccup frowned for the last two months random people had been disappearing with less then half of them turning up dead a week or two later. A light bulb went on in Hiccup's head he was pretty sure his hunch was right, but he needed to be sure. "Jack what's "rouge"?"

Jack hung his head and sighed before standing up and walking over to the table he looked at the paper then at Hiccup. "A "Rouge" is a vampire who's become addicted to bloodlust."

"And what's bloodlust?"

Jack ran a hand threw his snowy hair before pulling a chair out opposite Hiccup and plopping down. "It might be easier if I try and explain from the start." Hiccup just nodded. "Okay well I guess first vampires aren't the undead we're very much alive. We are more like an evolution of the human species. To be a vampire you have to be born from two vampire parents. A vampire and a human can't have a baby, why I don't know I didn't pay that much attention when I was told. But it's different for wolves and humans..."

"Wait. What? Wolves? As in werewolves?" Hiccup yelped.

"Ah, forgot you didn't know about them either." Jack chuckled nervously. "I'll go into detail about them later let's just start with vamps yes?" Again Hiccup could only nod. "Right where was I? Oh yeah so vampires are born just like humans but their vamperic side doesn't really start to show until about the age of 12, in rare cases it can be a little earlier but usually it's between 12-14 years of age and fully developed by 16. I have heard of some vamps turning as late as 18 but that's uncommon. We are not immortal. We age normally until we hit our late teens then we slow down I think we age one year to every five human years something like that. Garlic, crosses and holly water are just myths. Most things that will kill a human will kill a vampire only difference is we don't get illnesses or diseases like cancer, strokes or diabetes. There is one thing the moves and stories got right though we do drink blood. It can be any blood, but human blood is the most nutritionally beneficial for us."

Hiccup jumped up from his seat. "You mean y-you kill people a-a-and drink their b-blood." Hiccup squeaked.

"No, no, no, just listen. We're banned from drinking from the source. That means straight from the vein of any human or animal. There's a reason for this, it's addictive and like with any drug once you start the addiction gets worse and you need more. "Rouge" is a vamp that's started to drink from the source usually it's a fledgling." At this Hiccup gave a curious look. "A fledgling is a vampire whose vamperic side is still in the process of fully emerging. With fledglings it's easy to catch them and as long as they haven't killed anyone can be helped and cured. On the odd occasion it's an older vampire it becomes more serious." At this Jack gestured to the paper in front of them. "When a vampire kills a human source they go unto a stage called bloodlust, this means they can't be helped. I've never herd of a fledgling going into bloodlust because the addiction isn't at that stage most fledglings start with small animals like rabbits, cats and small dogs they don't move to better sources until they've killed when feeding. Then they'll move to larger animals like large dogs, sheep or goats. And so on and so on. Humans are usually the last source they'll turn to because it's such a big taboo. It's the one law we have that is punishable by death." At this statement Jack paused to allow Hiccup to absorb what he'd told him.

Hiccup's mind was in turmoil, how was he supposed to deal with this? Sitting back in his chair Hiccup brought his fingers to his temples and began to massage the area. Jack kept a careful eye on the small teen he was still worried Hiccup may bolt at any moment.

"I don't think I fully understand. If you're not allowed to drink from the source how do you meet your needs? And how often?" Hiccup asked opening his eyes to meet Jack's.

"Well most vamps come to the guardian twice a month. Most of the blood we use is human; but it's donated by humans that know about us."

"Well that answer cleared everything up." Hiccup replied sarcastically in truth he felt everything was becoming too much for him to keep up with. He felt exhausted, his head was spinning and a headache was starting behind his stinging eyes. "I still don't get it."

Jackson seemed to think for a moment. "What is it you don't get?"

Hiccup threw his hands in the air. "Any of it" He yelled at the ceiling.

Jack pouted at the auburn haired boy's outburst. Hiccup caught sight of Jack's bottom lip and felt the corners of his mouth turn up in a smile. Jack tapped his finger on his chin before speaking again "Okay let me try again. So to be a vampire you have to be born from two vampire parents, a human and a vampire can't breed. Until we reach puberty our vampire genes lay dormant, when they start to awaken we become what we call fledglings. Fledglings don't have much control of their vamperic side, meaning they can't control their fangs and eyes from shifting very well, so they usually get taken to the guardian for training for a few weeks. It takes between two and six months for our vampire side to fully emerge and stabilize. We do heal faster then humans, we're also faster and stronger then humans. Not like super hero strong and we can't out run a train or anything, but you know when you hear stories of woman lifting cars off kids, yep vamps. All our senses are keener as well. We do have gifts every vamp has one some are stronger then others. I and Elsa share a gift called hiemes osculum which is..."

"Latin...it translates as..." Hiccup scrunched his face as he racked his brain. "Winters kiss?"

Jack nodded with a heartbreaking smile. "I didn't think you'd know that you really are smart." Hiccup averted his eyes as his face burned. Even his ears were warm. "Well it basically means we can create and manipulate ice or snow, but you probably knew that to right?" Again Hiccup nodded. "Well there are lots of others but we'll talk about them later too. As for drinking blood how much we're aloud is monitored and regulated by the guardian. For now we'll just say he's like the godfather of the vampires in this town. Our blood supply comes from a variety of places from farms, butchers and vets to hospitals and donations." Hiccup opened his mouth but Jack already knew what he was going to ask so he held his hand up and continued. "Our human donors are people who have found out about us; most of them have had some sort of run in with a "rouge" or just by chance stumbled on our secret. All vampires have laws to abide by and our biggest is we must never drink from the source."

Hiccup scrubbed a hand down his face. "I don't think I can take anymore right know, Jack. So just to recap vampires are real. There's a Rouge on the lose, probably behind these disappearances and murders. You think I'm a vampire and your sister thinks I'm the rouge and wants to kill me. How'd that sound to you?"

Jack chuckled at Hiccup's summery. "Minus my sister wanting to kill you yeah that sounds about right."

Hiccup blew a long breath out his mouth. "I'm so tired I need some sleep." As he let his eyes travel around the kitchen his eyes fell on a note pad left on the side. Hiccup knew that meant only one thing, a note from his dad. Forcing his tired body to stand and walk the few steps to the counter Hiccup picked up the pad and read. He was aware of Jack following his every move, but right now Hiccup just didn't care. The small teen was now feeling a little queasy along with everything else.

Hiccup,

After finding you unconscious the front porch this afternoon I had a nice little chat with Astrid. She told me everything. I would have taken the night off work but I have two newbie's in tonight. When I get home we'll have a little farther son chat, I'm disappointed that you've been keeping things from me.

Dad.

P.S. If you're wondering where that bloody beast of yours is, he's outside where he belongs. I was looking forward to that piece of salmon.

With another sigh Hiccup trudged to the back door. Jack stood from his seat.

"Hic where are you going?"

"No where." The smaller teen snapped back as he unlocked the door and began to pull it open.

"Hiccup seriously if your thinking of running don't." Jack said stepping closer.

"I don't think I could run if I wanted...uff..."

As soon as the door was partly open a huge black beast barged threw the door and jumped straight at Hiccup knocking him clean off his feet. Hiccup landed on the floor with the huge black monster standing over him.

"Wolf." Jack screamed as he leapt across the room.

But before Jack's feet had touched the floor the beast opened its gigantic jaws and lunged at Hiccup's throat.