My adrenaline and motivation for this story is still high, so I just write this up without much rest. This chapter is mostly exposition so no action just yet. I'm glad that with the few responses I got so expect more even with sporadic updates that might come in the future.

Other than that, I hope you enjoy this story more.

Part 0

Tsukauchi looked at the pile of rubble of a collapsed tunnel, a frown clear on his face. Accompanying him were his fellow policemen and some heroes like Kamui Wood and Death Arm, busying themselves to find any possible victim.

However, Tsukauchi highly doubted that would be the case. Afterall…

"What kind of power Quirk can blow a hole through a collapsed tunnel? It has to generate enough force to just blast through the rubbles." Death Arm asked the detective, still reeling from seeing the gigantic hole that was present on the pile of rubble, as if something blasted through the rubble to get itself out.

"I wish I knew Death Arm…" Tsukauchi muttered. "I wish I knew…"

Part I

Green eyes shot opened with a silent scream; Lifting his body up and feeling cold sweat drench his body. Izuku Midoriya surveyed his dark room out of panic, trying to find a sense of security. As he began to understand that he was in his sanctuary, his erratic breath slowed into a calming rate.

"What… What was that?" He questioned no one in particular, trying to make sense the event took place. The 86 million life force, the bug man, Raquel Alucard, and… and…

He began to feel like he would be hyperventilating once more, but he quickly steel his nerves to push the traumatizing feeling down. It won't do well for him if he doesn't rationalize everything.

"That was just a nightmare, right?" Maybe, but it felt real. "But it doesn't feel like it's real at all. Maybe a lucid dream?" Perhaps it was a lucid dream, he rationalized. If he truly experienced all those, then he would be in a casket at this point.

With a sigh, he gingerly left the comfort of his bed and decided he would have to shower to clean the sweat and get ready for another day in his school.

He passed by his mother, who was cooking a delicious breakfast for her family while his father, a middle aged man with black hair, was reading a news article with his tablet. He offhandedly greeted both of them, which earned him voices of concern. He simply waved it off as exhaustion before going into the washroom.

And he instantly regretted looking at the mirror.

"WHAT IS THIS?!" He yelled in horror, his face paled to the point he looked like a ghost. His parents quickly came to his aid as the poor boy stared at the mirror, focused on something on top of his forehead.

"My boy! What's wrong?" His father asked him in a panic, trying to help the boy recover from hyperventilating.

"...ro…" Izuku's voice was small, but trembled in fear.

"What is it, Izuku?" His mother asked this time, clearly trying to compose herself as she was affected by the panicked state of her boy.

"My number is zero!"

The parents became shocked by the news, unable to form words as their mouths remained agape. The implication was not lost to them as they understood what the Eye of the Hunter revealed to their child.

Somehow, someway, their child had died yet remained alive at the same time.

"Must you scream like a headless chicken at such an early time, broccoli?" A familiar voice reprimanded Izuku, who turned around to the entrance of the washroom to find a familiar girl.

"What did you do to me?" The boy asked, remembering the horror he went through. The sensation of losing his arm, the concrete burying him, and finally, the pain on his neck.

Upon realizing those events were real, he didn't hesitate to go back to the mirror, ignoring the floating number and quickly extended his neck where the pain took place before. There, he noticed a blemish on his skin that looked like a bite mark. Just then, he removed his right sleeve and saw another scar on the shoulder.

"I was expecting appreciation from you after I ordained you as mine, yet all I got was a question?" Raquel, ignoring the confused expression of the Midoriya parents, merely frowned at Izuku's reaction. "But I supposed I should not have expected more when it comes to your species."

Izuku, for his part, tooked a long and deep breath before facing Raquel with a small glare, a rarity from the boy himself. "You need to explain everything once I get myself ready."

The vampire, for her part, scoffed with a small amused smile. "Very well. Consider it a charity from your mistress."

Part II

Breakfast was awkward, to say the least. Hisashi managed to be composed enough to call the school to give Izuku a day off and requested for a paid leave to his company.

Inko, on the other hand, tried her best to stay composed and console her son. For as much as she wished to let the negativity loose so that her chest would stop feeling painful, she knew her role as a mother.

"The school and my boss are okay with us taking the day off. I think we needed it." Inko merely nodded, not trusting herself to speak.

Raquel continued to sip her cup of rose tea, ignoring the atmosphere and continued to exude her regal, pompous aura into the room. "I supposed all of you had finished your business?"

The Midoriyas nodded, hearts prepared to hear whatever revelations would leave the lips of the girl.

"To put it simply, Izuku Midoriya is now a walking corpse."

The immediate effect was that Inko nearly passed out while Hisashi did everything he could to help his wife. Izuku, on the other hand, quickly gripped his heart out of fear but tried everything to stay sane.

Yet something still bothered him. "If I'm really a walking corpse, then how can I still feel my body heat and heartbeat?"

"That was part of the story." Another sip of the rose tea and she felt the aroma filled her nose and the taste touched her taste bud. "You were truly at the verge of death yesterday at the tunnel. Imagine my surprise when I still see embers of life in you despite your injury."

The boy shuddered at the memory that threatened to surface and cause unimaginable fear on him. Yet he suppressed it once again to continue the topic at hand. "Thus, at your earnest will to survive, I decided to give up my blood and allow your body to survive your injury longer. During that time, I used some of my powers to stitch your arm back and let my vampiric blood to accelerate the recovery."

'So that bite is her giving her blood into me.' Izuku thought to himself before glancing at the number floating above her, noticing she merely lost a few thousand worth of lifeforce.

"Now that you understand the series of events, I shall clarify further about your status as a living being."

That statement confused the Midoriyas, which the father voiced. "A living being? Didn't you just say my boy is a walking corpse?"

"Yes, he is indeed one. But there are many kinds out there that your… pop culture… has categorized. He is not a zombie nor an undead, but a being that is what most of you called a Dhampir."

Izuku quickly digests the new information and chains together a coherent picture from her. A dhampir was an offspring given birth from the union of human and vampire. Yet here she said he was a dhampir, concluding that as long as a human was given vampire's blood, then they can become a dhampir.

"An astute analysis, broccoli." Izuku broke out of his train of thought, quickly realizing he was mumbling again and blushed in embarrassment from it. "It is indeed what you theorized. So long as a vampire's blood flows in your human body, you are a dhampir. Yet it comes with a caveat."

Inko, who finally recomposed herself, decided to ask Raquel. "W-what is it? Drinking blood? Becoming a giant bat at full moon?"

The blonde girl rolled her eyes in exasperation, showing how ridiculous Inko's questions were. "That would be ridiculous. No, the caveat here is that the vampire blood would eventually adapt itself into becoming the host's blood, thus transforming the dhampir into a vampire."

Raquel sets the cup of rose tea down, leaning in with a serious expression. "When it happens, said vampire would desire the blood of their closest ones so it would finalize its transformation as a new being."

Izuku felt his body, for another time, became pale by the new information. "Does that mean… I would… kill mom and dad?"

"No." Raquel quickly denied before continuing. "Their blood is too low quality to effectively satisfy any vampire's thirst. It has to be the blood of young ones that would produce high quality blood."

Young blood. The closest person that Izuku knows would be…

"Kacchan."

Raquel raised her eyebrow when the name was mentioned, confused by the name. Seeing the confused expression, he decided to tell her who it was. "It's the boy whose seat that you took from."

"Ah." Her face changed to one of clarity. "But I do not understand why you should be concerned for that cur. He was rude and prudish and deserved treatment less than a human."

"Because he deserved to live more than me!" The boy immediately retorted while slamming the table. "And hurting someone just to keep myself alive is wrong!"

He knew the toture he went through, the bullying and the pitying looks. Yet his heart wouldn't let him choose the dark path that would lead to something he would regret.

Another scoff from Raquel, who was amused by the retort. "If you say so, broccoli. But we have another topic to tackle."

Calming down, Izuku sat back down and listened to Raquel. "Now, I do not bring you back to life out of charity and desire compensation. And before you ask, I do not desire monetary gain."

He has a bad feeling about this. "What is it that you want?"

"An eternal servitude from you, Izuku Midoriya."

'Ho boy…' The grennette thought as his mother passed out again.

Part III

Izuku lay down on his bed, metally exhausted from the discussion. Right now, he is actively ignoring Raquel, a girl, inside his room and analyzing the room. As much as he wanted to be embarrassed by his All Might decorated room, he was still trying to process his new life.

A life of servitude.

"Broccoli, I do not understand why you treated your sanctuary as a shrine for All Might." Raquel asked with a small amused tone. "Is it safe to assume that you worship All Might?"

Izuku only nodded. "I can't help it. He's the best."

"I agree to that." Raquel softly said before sitting on his bed without hesitation. "But for now, are you mentally rested enough to speak of the third topic that I wished to speak of privately?"

Izuku sat up, signifying being ready to hear what Raquel wants to talk about. As much as he wants his parents to join him to listen to this conversation, he understands she would do anything to keep them away from his parents. "Yeah, I think so."

"Very well," she nodded before beginning. "I should begin by telling you the reason why you are serving me eternally?"

"That would be great, since I only remember you telling me to find something called the Blue and… you?" At the last part, the boy scratched his head, trying to make sense of that part.

He had no idea what was the Blue that Raquel mentioned, but the latter part was a mystery. How can he 'find' her when she was in front of him? Maybe, someday in the future, he would understand.

"We can put the latter to discuss at another time. The topic of the Blue is far more urgent." Izuku nodded, ready to intently listen to Raquel.

"The Blue… is an existence that defines the very existence of the world itself. It is a force that is almighty yet mysterious, and it takes in many different forms, a crystallization of the Blue itself. These forms are then called Embryo, or Cocoon of Blue. These forms are capable of becoming into other forms and give any being anything they want."

'So what she is looking for is an omnipotent power, or a crystallization of it. But I still have some things in mind I have to ask.' Izuku monolog internally before asking Raquel his question. "Why are you looking for this Blue anyway?"

Raquel became silent, forming a contemplating expression as if debating something in her mind. She analyzed the boy, trying to judge something that Izuku had no idea what it was until she replied.

"The Blue… has a unique connection with anyone who had contacted. I am searching out the Blue so that I can find that person… and properly thank him."

"I see…"

'She's trying to find her hero,' Izuku quickly concluded in his mind with a certain clarity and understanding. If the 'hero' she was searching for is not a hero, then he could be a vigilante which makes things a bit harder to find.

'Even then, if they are connected to the Blue, shouldn't they be powerful enough to catch the attention of most people?' He doubted that whoever is connected to the Blue could hide in the underworld of society for long if he has a power level similar to Raquel.

"However, my search was impeded when it became clear I couldn't stay hidden in the night. This leads to my acquisition of a legal identity and enrollment to your school."

Izuku's expression was that of being shocked, surprised by the one thing she said. "So you were an illegal-"

"My existence was not known to your world until weeks prior." She snapilly interrupted the boy, unconsciously releasing red aura around her being. "So do not judge me so hastily like a fool."

Izuku nodded nervously, gulping his saliva to keep his fear down. Even so, he still had one more question.

"How are you going to find the Blue then? I don't think it's something you can find willy nilly."

The girl sighed out of evagration, frustration clear on her expression. "That is the worst part, I simply have no idea how to seek it out precisely. I arrived in this city simply because I found a strong presence of the Blue and decided to investigate it on a whim."

"Is this why you need my help?"

"Precisely. I require your aid in narrowing down where the Blue is through some evidence I had gathered so far. One of them is the crystallized Blue, or Embryo, is highly fragmented in this city. This brings me the idea that it was once a singular power before scattering about in the city. Secondly, there was a fragment of the Embryo in your school."

"Aldera has a fragment? How come I don't know that?"

"Elementary, my broccoli." Raquel's jab at Izuku's intelligence didn't go unnoticed by the boy, who simply winced. "That is because that fragment merely appears when the full moon rises."

'So it comes out at night and once a month.' The boy began pondering, piecing pieces of evidence and information together to form an image. There was something at the back of his mind that was trying to surface, yet it slipped through his imaginary finger.

"If that is the case, is there something we have to look out for?"

Raquel hummed out a "hmm" with her finger on her chin. "Perhaps a phenomenon that couldn't be scientifically explained despite the presence of your human's ridiculous powers."

Izuku snapped his finger. "Eureka!" He shouted before feeling blood rushing to his cheek and he lowered his head in embarrassment. Raquel, for her part, instantly became annoyed at Izuku shrinking down.

"You best explain your eureka before I inevitably feel regret on returning you to life."

Izuku nodded rapidly before beginning to explain. "There is this urban legend around Aldera that everyone calls Tsukuyomi's Phantom. They called it that because it only occurs when the full moon is clear from any cloud and only at midnight."

"Go on." The girl, intrigued, scoot closer to the boy as she listens intently.

"They said that it could be anyone's Quirk that could make the phantom, so they thought it was just a prank. But they said that there was someone who touched it instantly and went berserk for a while, attacking anyone in the vicinity before the authorities stopped him. It's possible that it's a two part Quirk, but Quirk-detecting Quirks couldn't find anything about it. Since then, the case remained undisclosed and only those who were there talked about it."

"Then it is quite possible that it could be a fragment of the Embryo."

Izuku agreed. It does line up with the unnatural part of the urban legend and what Raquel had told him. "So I guess you want to go to Aldera during the full moon?"

"Of course I do." The girl scoffed. "I intend to find anything about the Blue even if, as uncount as it is, it is just a crump on the floor and I must eat it like a dog."

'Harsh…' Izuku couldn't help but comment in his mind. "Then I guess we should ask the principle permi-"

"I deny such a proposal." The girl instantly rejected.

"What? Why?! Asking will make things so much easier for us."

'Plus, it felt wrong to just sneak into the school since it went against the law.'

"Do not, under any circumstances, speak of the Blue to anyone. Including your loved ones. Many seek out the Blue out of malicious intent and I do wish to keep it such that they continue to seek it out like a group of lost children."

To emphasize her point, she released her red aura again and got her face close to Izuku, inches from touching. Normally, Izuku would be flustered by how close they are, but his survival instinct kicked in and told him to obey.

"O-okay. I guess you can just sneak in."

Raquel raised an eyebrow and got even close to Izuku's face, her breath can be felt by his skin. Her tone became harsh, as if a lion was intimidating it's prey. "'You'?! I am starting to regret reviving you with how impish, cowardly you are! I had told you that you must find the Blue with me, as per your agreement to serve me eternally by belonging to me after your resurrection."

"F-fine! I'll sneak into Aldera with you." Izuku conceded before quickly pushing Raquel away from him, turning away from her to stop his heart beating too fast.

"Good. Then I expect to see you soon, my Broccoli."

She stood up from the bed and began to make her way to his door. Before her fingers could touch the metallic knob, Izuku quickly stopped her.

"Wait. Why did you call me Broccoli?"

The girl stared at the boy for a moment before giggling softly. Her beautiful tone made Izuku feel his tension leave his body and, at that moment, he had a new thought on Raquel Alucard.

'She's a bit cute when she giggles.'

"That is because you looked like one."