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"That right there is a fucking vampire."
An uncomfortable silence fell over the three as Sypha looked between the two who were glaring at each other. Trevor's own eyes never strayed from the teen backed up against the tree who in return never allowed the blade to waver in it's stance.
"Hang on," Sypha said, holding up a hand. "Trevor you can't be serious."
"What do you mean?"
"You can't seriously be considering attacking a child!"
"I told you, that thing is not a child! It's a vampire!"
"That looks like a child!"
"You realize he's probably looked like a child for centuries, right?"
"Unless he was just changed! That would make him a scared, vampire child."
"Why the hell would those two other vampires randomly change a child right before daylight hit?"
"I don't know!" Sypha huffed, her arms failing with her emotions. "Maybe they wanted to make him die from the sun and watch? Because they were cruel? Look, I can't say but the fact remains that this boy could have just been turned!"
"Nope, no way." Trevor denied with a shake of his head.
"What?! Why?!"
"With how steady that sword is, I'd say the brat's been doing this for a while now." Trevor supplied before calling out to the teen backed against the tree. "Oi! Just out of curiosity, how long have you been a vampire?"
"I have nothing to say to you, Belmont." The teen snarled back, the name of the hunter passing his lips like a curse. Between them, the sword shifted forward ever so slightly.
"Someone's a bit snappy." Trevor smirked. "You sure you want to do this? I'll warn ya now, I'm not going to go easy on you just because you look like a kid. And if you haven't noticed," He gestured to where the sun light shone down upon the road and peaked between the trees. "You don't have many places to run to."
The teen said nothing.
"That's what I thought." Trevor gripped the whip tightly as he pulled it off of his belt. "Now, do you want to just sit there and make this easy for me, or are you actually going to use that floating sword of yours?"
"..."
"Alright, easy way it is-WOAH!" Trevor quickly ducked as the sword slashed at his head and his arm snapped out as the whip cracked at the boy. The teen's eyes widened and he moved to avoid the hit and felt the whip graze his cheek before turning and glaring at the hunter. Quickly, the sword moved back in on it's target, directing Trevor's attention to that.
On his part, Adrian felt the sting from the cut, an uncomfortable feeling that seemed to spread through his cheek. He knew the end was made to destroy demons and vampires and other creatures of the night quickly (just as it had done to the two vampires that kidnapped him), and Adrian was thankful that it was due to his mother's side that allowed him to avoid those nasty weaknesses of a vampire.
However, without noticing, ice began to creep up his legs and before he could react, he was encased. He took his attention away from the sword, which continued to fight from his father's enchantment, and focused on breaking out of the ice.
"Can we please just stop fighting for a moment!?" Sypha cried at the two. "I don't think this is right!"
"Tell that to the vampire!" Trevor shouted back as he continued dancing around the sword.
Huffing, Sypha turned to the struggling teen. "Listen, can you stop attacking my friend so we can talk this out? Please, we won't hurt you."
"Tell that to the hunter!" The teen spat, his gold eyes like knives. "He wants to kill me!"
"And I will make sure he stops!" Sypha replied. "Please, trust me."
"No!" He shouted as his struggles continued. "I can't trust you! All you humans every do are hurt and hunt us. All you've ever done is hurt me!"
"But we won't! Clearly something has been misunderstood here and I don't want either of you to be hurt because of a misunderstanding!"
"What's there to misunderstand!?" Trevor shouted over to them. "Clearly this is a vampire who wants to hurt people!"
"I have never wanted to hurt anyone in my life!" Adrian growled. "In fact, you're the first and I only need to kill you because if I don't, you'll kill my dad!"
"We'll that's probably because he is also a vampire, who ever he is!"
"He's just trying to protect me from humans like you!"
"Alright, that's enough!" Sypha exclaimed as she allowed her magic to build up once more as ice, and trap both Trevor to the ground and the sword in a pillar of ice.
"What the hell, Sypha!?" Trevor cried as he gestured to the ice trapping his feet.
"You won't listen to me and because I don't believe that he's," She pointed to Adrian, "going to hurt us. I won't allow you to hurt a child without a reasonable reason to hurt him."
"Reasona-, Sypha, he attacked me!"
"Only because you started it!" She snapped back. "Those vampires took him for a reason and I don't care if he is a thousand years old, but he is a child who was obviously scared and taken by bad people and needed help!"
"Help?! What, are you going to help him hunt people down to drink their blood?!"
"I said I didn't want to hurt anyone!" Adrian spoke up with a growl. "I don't want to hurt you! I don't want to hurt anyone! I...I don't even want to be here!"
"Then why did you attack me?!"
"Because you were going to attack me and if I don't kill you now you'll kill my dad!" Adrian was panting and tears were glinting in his eyes. "You can't kill my dad! I won't let you!"
"Hey, hey, it's ok." Sypha tried to sooth as she walked closer to the teen. "No one is going to hurt your dad."
"But he will! He's a Belmont! It's what he does!"
"Ok, ok, calm down. Trevor?" She called to him. "Will you hunt down his father?"
"No, unless he does something horrible."
"Trevor!"
"What?! I'm being honest!"
"Just let me go." The teen spoke up. "Let me go, and you don't have to worry about me. I just want to go back home."
"And how do we know you aren't going to go storm any of the villages?" Trevor asked with a raised eyebrow.
"I said I don't want to hurt anyone!" The teen snapped back. "Besides I don't...I don't want to go to any villages. They'll just hurt me. I don't want to get hurt again." That last part was whispered, but it made Sypha's gaze soften more and even Trevor turned to look at the bound teen.
"...even if we did let you go," Trevor spoke up, "Wouldn't you still be hunted down? I mean, what was up with those other vampires anyway?"
The teen scowled and Sypha had to resist from cooing at the sight of a small fang biting down at his bottom lip. "I...I don't know. Everything was...fine and then it wasn't."
"They probably want you dead, though." Trevor huffed. "So, even if you're away from me, you're still in danger."
"Then it's settled!" Sypha spoke up with a cheer. "You'll stay with us until you can find your dad!"
"Wait, Sypha, no, no that was not what I was suggesting!" Trevor protested, waving his hands around. "Nothing is settled!"
"Well, why not?" Sypha pouted. "That seems like a reasonable answer to me. You don't want him to wander off, I don't want him in danger, so we'll just travel together."
"How would I be in any less danger traveling with the two of you?" The teen growled. "You are out to kill other vampires and...and Dracula." He choked out his father's name, is chest tight as he thought of his father's death. "How do I know you won't spontaneously kill me or...or kill my dad when we find him?"
"Well, if you-" Trevor cut himself off when Sypha shot him a glare. With a cough he continued. "I mean, obviously we won't hurt you or your dad unless you provoke us."
"Trevor!"
"What?! I'm just being honest with the brat!" He huffed. "Look, we are hunting down Dracula because he is a bad monster doing really shitty things, you know like destroying an entire race of people. We are hunting down other demons and vampires because they are also doing really shitty things. Ok?"
"Trevor!"
"Oh, come on! What now?!"
"Don't swear in front of the child!"
"Seriously?! Hey, brat!" Trevor called over to the vampire. "Tell Sypha how old you are so I can stop getting yelled at by her!"
Adrian let his eyes flick between the two of them, contemplating how he wanted to answer. Did he want to give them the truth or let them believe what they wanted. Then again, watching the Belmont suffer was quite satisfying.
"I'm 10."
Silence.
"What?!"
"Oh fuck! You're joking, right?!Please tell me you're actually 100 or something like that?!"
"But you look like you're 13!"
"I age quickly."
"No, no, nonononono, please God no!" Trevor bemoaned.
"That's it! You're definitely coming with us now!" Sypha decided. "We are not leaving you by yourself!"
Maybe he shouldn't have said that, no matter how worked up the Belmont got. "I can handle myself just fine."
"Says the kid who was captured." Trevor muttered getting a glare in return.
"I was caught off guard!"
"What, was daddy not there to protect you?"
"Keep talking Belmont, see where it gets you."
"Oh, someone has an attitude. I think the little brat needs to be spanked."
"Try and you lose a hand."
"Is that suppose to be threatening? What, are you going to bite my hand with those little baby teeth? Use those wittle cwaws of yours." Adrian bared his teeth at the baby talk.
"Would you like to see what these teeth can do?"
"No! There will be no biting anyone!" Sypha cut in, glaring at the two for their behavior. "Trevor, you are supposed to be an example for him!"
"Oh, right, because clearly he understands that biting people is wrong." Trevor replied sarcastically.
"I'm not a monster!" Adrian spoke up.
"Right." Trevor drawled.
"Behave." Sypha scolded before looking back at Adrian. "Ok, I understand why you are hesitant about coming with us, but I promise you we will NOT," at her emphasis she glared at Trevor. "Hurt you. We can help you stay safe until you either find your father or we find a safe place for you to reside until this fight is over. Please trust me."
Adrian allowed his golden eyes to meet her own. While he still did not feel safe about staying so close to the two of them, especially the Belmont (how could he not with all the history he had been taught about the other), he did understand that they could bring him closer to home without the risk of running into either villages or other creatures of the night that have betrayed his father. After all, they were headed to the castle and that meant when they were close enough, he could take the chance to slip away or even wait until he comes across those working for his father to take him away.
"Ok." He mumbled. "I'll go with you."
"Really?!"
"Well that's just fucking great."
"Wonderful!" Sypha clapped her hands in excitement. "Oh, then you can follow us to our wagon! I wonder if we have anything that will fit you or at least an extra cloak for you. Probably not, though, so we'll need to stop by the nearest town to find something-"
"Um, Sypha?" Trevor called to her as she started walking back into the forest towards where they had kept their waggon."
"Hm?"
"A little help?" He asked and he used his head to gesture at the ice still trapping both him and the teenager.
"Oh! Right, sorry!" Sypha apologized. With a wave of her hand, the ice turned to water and let the two captives free. Shivering, the two males collected themselves and Trevor watched the blonde as the sword flew into his hand so that it could be sheathed. With hesitant steps, Adrian began following Sypha deeper into the forest with Trevor following behind.
"So...what is your name?" Sypha asked, sending Adrian a smile. "My name is Sypha Belnades of a Speakers Clan and, obviously, you already know who Trevor is."
Adrian let his gaze look over her blue robe. "Speakers...I know that. It...it was in a few of the history books my father had. You're of...a nomadic people, right? People who gather knowledge by word of mouth?"
"That's right." Sypha exclaimed, the smile becoming wider on her face. "And you are?"
The dhampir bit his lip in contemplation and his eyes drifted to the ground. "...Adrain." He mumbled.
"That's a nice name!"
"What? No last name?"
"Trevor."
"What?" The hunter through his hands up in the air in frustration. "It's an easy question! Besides, how else would we find his father than?"
Sypha just shook her head and sighed before turning back to the younger male. "Could we know your last name? It would help us help you."
Adrian hesitated. He didn't know if these two would recognize his surname or not. If they did, would they also connect that back to his father? True, his mother did not broadcast to the world that she married a vampire, but the church had known her name when they came for her right? Did they also tell the people when she...when she…
His breath stuttered in his chest as he tried to both remember if that night his last name was told to the world and at the same time fight off the horrible memories that plagued his dreams and waking moments.
Sypha and Trevor took notice of the sudden stillness of the teen besides them.
"Hey, kid? You alright?" Trevor called, his eyebrow raising in question as Sypha knelt down in front of him to try to get his attention.
"Adrian?: Sypha called. "Adrian? Are you alright? Hey, you don't need to tell us your surname, alright? Hey, everything is going to be ok." She reached out to touch him, her voice still softly calling out to him, only for Adrian to flinch away from her hand.
"Tepes!" He choked out as he flinched, his mind coming back to the present. At this point, he didn't care what was coming out of his mouth, all he cared about was leaving those memories behind.
"Tepes?" Sypha asked. "As in, that is your surname?" She got a nod in return. "Ok. Thank you for telling us, but are you alright?"
"I'm fine." Adrian bit out.
"Are you-?"
"I'm fine!" With that, the teen continued to walk forward.
Sypha turned to look back at Trevor who was pointing at the back of the blonde while mouthing, "what the hell was that?"
"We'll talk later." Sypha silently replied back, both of them aware that the boy would have advanced hearing. As worried as she was, Sypha knew talking about it now would only further push Adrian away. Vampire or not, he was a child and she wanted to help him.
The three continued to walk on the path to the wagon silently, with Adrian taking the silence to calm himself down as best as he could what with the entire situation at hand. As they came upon the clearing they hid the wagon in, Sypha's hand shot out before Adrian to stop him from walking into the sunny area.
"Wait!"
"Oh, what now!?" Trevor groaned.
"It slipped my mind!" Sypha cried, her eyes flicking between Adrian and the sunlight frantically. "Oh, I can't believe we almost let you walk out into the sunlight?! Let me go grab a blanket from the wagon."
"It's fine." Adrian spoke up as she began making her way to the wagon. He stepped forward into the sunlight, following after Sypha, and leaving the two staring at him in shock.
"Um, why are you not burning?" Trevor asked after staring for a few seconds. "Because last I checked, vampires couldn't walk into fucking sunlight."
"I can."
"But why?!"
"Because I'm only half vampire." Adrian replied as if it was obvious.
"Excuse me?!"
"That's possible?!" Sypha exclaimed, looking overjoyed at the knowledge she was just given. "That is amazing!"
"You're saying that you," Trevor thrusted a finger at the teen. "Are only half vampire!? Like, a human and a vampire decided to get together and out came you?!"
"I guess?" Adrian replied with a shrug. He kind of understood what sex was, what with his brain maturing at a faster rate much like his body. But at the same time, he has also only been alive for ten years and, despite the fast learning rate, still shared a similar mentality with that age range. Honestly, how his body worked was a mystery to both his parents and, especially, himself.
Trevor let out a long sigh as he dragged his hand down his face. "I really don't like you."
"At least we don't have to worry about traveling in the day time now!" Sypha exclaimed, her hands going to Adrian only to flash away from him when he flinched again. "Come on! We will need to get a move on, especially if we need to stop to get you some clothes!"
"I'm being punished for something, aren't I?" Trevor sighed as he followed, watching as Sypha jumped into the back area to dig around in some of the supplies her clan had given them for their journey. Eventually, Sypha offered the dhampir one of their blankets and allowed him to curl up somewhat comfortably within the back of the wagon. Sypha and Trevor sat at the front of the wagon, Trevor's hands holding the reigns of the horses as they started moving on their way. In the back, Adrian stared out the opening in the wagon up at the blue morning sky, lost in his thoughts.
SO that was that! Yay they are all together now! And forgive Adrian but he is around new people after being kidnapped only a year after he was tortured and watched his mother burn at the stake.
So yeah. Anywho, feel free to comment, ask questions, etc.
Until next time! :D