"Mike"
"Hange"
The inventible question came up as they knew it would.
"How were you turned?" Levi asked them one day.
Hange clapped her hands exitedly, she loved talking about her own death and how clever she was!
"Well...You see Levi..."
700 years ago.
The Survey corps were just starting out. Though they battled other humans instead of the supernatural. They were keeping the piece. Strange that humanity only stopped fighting each other once a bigger threat rose. Hange was a reasercher, she was well known in her unit as one of the best. Want to know how to find someone who's gone missing for years? Or know how a criminal thinks? Or simply want to know how the human body works or other animals works Hange was the women they'd turn to.
Sure she didn't know all those things but Hange had a good knack at knowing where to look to get that information and reading peoples body laugage, it was like sometimes she could read other peolples mind, Hange would just laugh it of and simply say she knows how the human body works, even though humans were an interesting creatures we were all still animals with the same animal instincs.
If you remembered that and knew a few other things, like what they're job was, did they have a family? A wife/Husband, children or were they alone? Then humans were quite easy to read.
Anyway Hange wasn't as famous as the solders who went out to fight but many knew about her and respected her even though she was a little odd, thats how she became freinds with Erwin Smith. He had quickly made gone up the ranks of solders
She supplied information at which terrotory of humams were becoming a threat to their territory and if they're was a rebbelion she'd be able to find them. As soon as Hange met Erwin Smith she knew he was different. She could feel it and she became curious, but...curiousity killed the cat.
Erwin had been young in vampire years. So he was more young, inexpirienced, that was one of the only reasons he hadn't been promoted to a Captain already.
"Erwin!" Hange squaled as he came in to her office.
He almost dropped the books he'd been holding.
"Hange" He said, still a little wary of her for making him drop his books.
"These for me?" She asked as she skipped over to him.
"Yes" Erwin answered a little stiffly but she saw he looked more amused than irritated.
He gave her the books, Hange's eyes widened as she almost dropped them.
Wow, they were heavy!
Erwin holding like that made it look like they were really light!
"You're pretty strong" Hange giggled as she put the books down next to her desk.
Erwin didn't repliy, Hange eyed him, he looked uncomfortible?
"Pretty cold to, its quite warm inside" Hange added, way to casually as she picked something up out of the draw in her desk and putting something in her pocket.
Erwin again didn't reply but she could pratically feel him stiffening behind her.
Caughtyou! Hange thought exitedly.
She picked up a certain book and turned its pages, not looking him in the eyes and saying calmy "We've known each other for almost a year and yet I've never seen you eat, I've never seen you at night and-"
She shut her book loudly, Erwin winced at the sound.
"I've heard of human without a hearbeat" Hange said slowly, looking at him.
Erwin stared at her, bewilded.
He'd never expected anything like this happening!
What could he do?
How did she notice?
No human could know!
So far only three humans had realised what he was but that was only him being clumsy about his abilties.
"U-um" Erwin muttered.
He'd killed them...
But this was dorky genuis Hange!
He couldn't do that to her! Could he?
Current Time.
"Wait, Erwin stammering, you sure we're talking about the same person here?" Mike asked.
Levi agreed.
Hange rolled her eyes "Yes, he was much older when you knew him"
She tutted "Now don't interrupt!"
Past Time
Erwin stared at her.
"I know what you're thinking, you're wondering if you should kill me aren't you?" Hange said lightly, hands slipping into her pocket and taking something out.
He needed to make sure.
"You know I'm-"
"A vampire? Yeah" Hange clapped her hands exitedly "I knew there were other creatures living with humans! Ha! This is amazing! I thought the supernaturals might exist after that spirit-!"
"Spirit?" Erwin asked hesiantly, even though he knew he really shouldn't be having conversations with a person he may have to kill later but he couldn't help himself.
Neither could Hange it seemed.
Her eyes gleamed "Yes! Years ago I was in a prison, don't look at me like that! My father was a gaurd. I know, strange right? Apparently I got my researcher side from my mother instead of father, anyway! Well I was there one day, waiting for my father and a prisinor was mumbling something, he was crying and speaking to someone who wasn't there"
She continued quickly "Then one day I saw a small girl, she seemed to be somewhat see through if you looked hard enough, sitting beside him. It turns out he was sobbing apoligise to her and she was just sitting there, watching him. I asked around, turned out the man was a murderer and he'd killed a girl, the girl who looked exactly like the one in the cell next to him!"
Erwin blinked then slowly he said, remembering something "Thats called a spirit bond, sometimes someone will come back as a spirit, no one knows why. They're either free or they can be bonded to objects, places or people who were the course of their death"
"They need to do something to be free, most of the time their deaths were unfair so they have to somehow restore balance. For example that girl will probably only be free if she kills that man, for killing her. Other times it'll just be moving a object or giving it to someone, or if its a place they are tied to its usaully either somehow getting all their alive family and freinds all to that place or simply getting someone to live in that place, that way whereever they are bonded to is purified and they are free"
Hange asked curiously, getting closer to him "But the girl wasn't killing him?"
"A girl you say? She was probably quite young, still has the mind of a child, most children don't or can't kill at that age anyway"
Current Time
"Most children..." Levi muttered, looking down.
"What can I say? Your a special case" Hange smirked.
Levi glared at her.
Mike came inbetween them "Um, Hange, get back to your story?"
"Oh, right" She giggled
Past Time.
Erwin added "Though it can be different, sometimes though rare the person thats the course of their death simply has to free them or apoglise and regret what they have done"
(Yes this will be brought up in the future and thats why I'm telling you this, though probably in one of the sequals...)
"Thats so interesting" Hange whispered.
Erwin's eye widened in suprise as he realised she was extreamly close to him now.
He stepped backwards, his eyes narrowing.
Erwin wasn't really scared of her, okay sometimes her behavior freaked him out a bit but he was more scared about what he might have to do...
No human could know about him...
That was final.
"You're to clever for you're own good" Erwin said grimly.
Hange beamed, ignoring his tone of voice "Oh, I know!"
Suddenly she smiled slyly at him "Thats why I've got this"
Hange opened her hands, the smell and fumes of the plant she was holding washed over Erwin, he cried out in pain, recoiling from her, his eyes flaring red.
Current Time.
"I knew I wasn't the only vampire out of you three who's been attacked by that plant!" Levi said grumbled, glaring at Hange.
"Hey" She said raising her hands in a sign of surrender "I didn't know Hemlock was that painful at the time!"
"Anyway" Hange said a little sheepishly.
Past Time
Erwin fell to his knees.
His eyes watered.
Though Hange didn't count on one thing...
If he was an abnormal or ordinary vampire this would have kept him down...
But he wasn't.
Erwin was a pureblood.
So ignoring the agonising pain he stood up and slammed Hange against the wall, hitting the Hemlock out of her hand as he did so.
Hange's eyes widened in shock.
For the first time Hange showed fear.
Erwin's hands were around her neck.
He could end it now, if he wanted to...
He had to...he couldn't take the risk of a human knowing-
Then everything seemed to make sense.
Hange didn't understand what was going on.
Erwin's gripp softened then he said regrettfully "I'm sorry"
Before Hange could think about what he had just said she felt a sharp pain in her neck, then she felt woozy and everything went black.
Current Time.
"Then when I woke up I was Erwin's first created vampire, His my sire and Mikes sire" Hange said.
"So he turned you because you found out he was a vampire? Right...What about you?" Levi asked Mike.
Mike looked uncomfortible "Um..."
Hange rolled her eyes "He was an idiot, thats why he was turned"
Mike looked a little...sheepish?
He mumbled, scraching his head "It wasn't the best idea..."
"It was your worse idea" Hange pointed out.
"What idea? For fuck sake just tell me!" Levi huffed.
Mike took a deep long suffering sigh as he said "Okay...here goes..."
Past Time.
300 years ago Mike Zacharias joined the survey corps.
He was a talented solder, always obeying orders, never questioned his supiorers and extremly loyal.
He became freinds with a high ranking solder and reseracher, some would say she was commanders second hand in charge, despite her scary reputation. He found her quirky personality, quite endeering. Hange-
Current time.
"Hange?" Levi asked, suprised "But don't people still reconise you? You haven't aged"
Hange looked sad as she said "We move on, every 15 years, sometimes 20, thats usaully when people start to notice we are not aging, then we wait for quite a few years, around 40 or 50 to come back."
Levi nodded, that made sence, though he couldn't stop the sincing feeling in his stomach.
Past Time
Hange and Mike formed a strong bond over time. He was in her sqaud, however he had heard that the commander Erwin Smith was thinking about promoting him to a Captain, Mike wasn't sure how he felt about this but in-till then he would serve under Hange loyally and willingly.
It happened on Mikes 31st mission after being in the Survey Corps for almost three years. He was in a vampire nest with Hange.
Two of their squad had been killed.
Hange was dancing around the vampires and killing them like it was nothing.
But then...everything changed.
Hange didn't see it coming.
None of her remaing squad did, apart from Mike...
A vampire sprang at her from behind while she was fighting two others.
No one had time to react, apart from Mike, he was closer to her and out of her squad the most talented and quickest
He didn't think...
Just reacted...
Mike pushed Hange out of the way, she was to shocked to do anything about it.
The vampire grabbed Mike instead of her and shoved its claw like hands into his chest, excrutinating pain spiked through his chest.
Mike cried out, his own screams echoing around the abandened building.
Hange killed the vampire that had attacked Mike but he knew it was to late.
Everything was going blurry.
Mike noted hazedly, that Hanges last squad member Kiren was in the middle of being killed but Hange didn't try and rescue him, all her focus was on Mike.
"Oh my god, are you okay?!" Hange cried, dropping to her knees in front of him.
Mike wanted to point out what a stupid question that was but all he could focus on was the pain.
"You idiot, you complete and utter idiot, you didn't need to-" She mumbled, her eyes tearing up.
Mike choked out though despite his bleak situation jokingly "Oh, w-whats this? I-I didn't know you cared so much"
"This isn't a time for jokes!" Hange hissed.
Mike gave her a waterly smile, death was coming for him he knew...
But...He didn't know in what way...
She looked oddly conflicted about something then with a deep sigh it looked like she had made up her mind.
Hange muttered, running her hands through her hair "Okay...Okay, um. Erwins going to hate me! Ugh, just um stay there, I'll be back! Promise!"
Stay there?
Was Hange not really getting the fact being stabbed through your stomach and bleeding internally would you know...make sure someone wouldn't be moving very much?
And yes that was sarcasm...
Mike thought dazedly, who knew he'd be this sarcastic while he was dying?
Though honestly he knew he was in denial...
He couldn't really be dying could he?
This tiredness and numbness surrounding him couldn't be his life force oozing from his body could it?
Could he really be...dying?
Mikes mind just couldn't grasp it.
Then suddenly his blurry vission made out Hange with someone that looked a lot like...Erwin?
But that couldn't be, Erwin wouldn't be able to get here this quickly.
Erwin surveyed the dying solder before him.
Hange truly had came to care for him Erwin thought.
"How did he get like this?" Erwin wondered, usaully if Hange had a soft spot for anyone she would never let them get hurt, always getting herself hurt instead of them, thats why most of the time Erwin gave Hange a squad she cared little about, he'd rather get them killed than lose one of his most valable fighters and reseachers.
Even if it was creul thats the way it was.
He'd took a risk with Mike Zacharias.
Hange said shakily "He tried to save me, the fool! I would have survived from that injury, he didn't need to-!"
"He didn't know" Erwin said softly.
He looked at the dying solder with more respect and impressed, anyone who saved Hange was good in his books.
"Can you turn him? Please, I-" Hange asked again.
"I can't go round turning every dying solders you know that" Erwin said slowly, still undecided.
"Just him! Only him! I swere I won't ask you to change anyone else " Hange shot back and pleaded.
Mike couldn't understand what was going on, what on earth where they talking about? Was he going insane?
His world went completly black but just before it did he heard one some more, only a little bit..
"If I do this Hange, I need to know one thing...How do you care for him?" Erwin asked, well more like ordered, giving her a hard stare...
She blinked, confused.
"How? As a...freind? More than that?" Erwin prodded.
Hange laughed at that "More? Oh, no, that thought has never been there, I swere on that"
"Then why?" Her commander wondered.
Hange said slowly, taking a deep breath "Because I respect him, as a man, as a human. You know as well as I how they are hard to come by. Humanity reaches it most darkest moments but there are humans like him that prove they aren't so bad. It'll be a long time after this before I ever meet a human as decent as him"
Erwin looked at her for a long time, in Hanges eyes he looked..sad? But his smile had a odd taste to it, almost bitter, then it was gone, only warmth there.
She wondered if she had imaginaged it.
He simply said "Thats good enough for me"
Then everything for Mike went blank.
He woke up in a different building, gaurded by Hange and a terrible thirst that would never go away.
Current Time.
Mike spoke sofly, looking at Hange "You kept me as a reminder, no matter how bad humanity gets, there are good ones in there, somewhere"
She nodded seriously, looking at Levi "Even though you have seem them at their cruelest, we have to remember why we are on the humans side, rather than the ordinary vampires. It gets hard to remember at times, but if we don't remember we'll be as creul as the monsters we put down"
Levi looked down, a slight guilt edging upwards as he thought what he'd been thinking when Erwin had showed him the prison for supernaturals.
Who knew Hange had a serious side to her lunatic personality.
"I am not a lunatic" Hange grumbled.
"Hange" Mike sighed, resigned, slapping his hand on his head, he thought she'd finally been getting through to Levi.
"STOP LOOKING INSIDE MY MIND!" Levi pratically shouted.
A couple of hours later Levi was walking to his room in the survey corps base.
Lately Erwin had been sending his suspiscios looks, Levi knew it was about Kenny's men but he'd rather someone put a stake through his heart than tell Erwin.
Though he was quite suprised when Hange came barging into him.
"Come quick!" She cried.
Not bothering to hide it, she ran, using her vampire speed, Levi followed, finding it suprisiniy easy to keep up with her.
They were at the building Erwin usaully brought Levi too, to feed.
Even though he was very controlled for a new vampire, none of the older vampires trusted him to hunt with them yet.
Erwin was there, waiting for him.
"What is this!" Erwin snarled at him.
Levi felt compelled to answer but he didn't know how!
Erwin dragged him into the building, Levi to shocked to resist.
Mike was already in there, waiting for them.
He to was eyeing Levi warily.
Erwin forced Levi to look in a certain direction, his eyes widened.
What the-?
Ropes had been cut, trickles of blood had been left.
Erwin usaully left a human in there, to wait for Levi to arrive.
Now he was not as new, still new for a vampire but not completly new, he didn't need fresh blood everyday, only once every three to four days.
"I left the human here for you then when I came back to check on everything, he had escaped!" Erwin growled.
What had this got to do with him Levi thought defensivly.
"What can you smell? Anything familer?" Erwin snapped.
Levi's eyes widened...
Shit...
He hadn't been paying attention to his sences but now he did...
The smell was familer, way to familer.
Kenny's men had been here.
It wasn't strong enough smell to be Kenny himself but other people who searved under him, people he'd threatoned, gangs, rebels, all sorts.
And it looked like they had freed the prey...
They knew then...
They must have followed him somehow.
Kenny's men knew what they were.
The secret was out...
Hello :D Hope you enjoyed this chapter, so there you are, that is how Mike and Hange became vampires and Kenny's men know Levi is a vampire, oh no! I am currently sitting on my bed thinking about my washing up, should I do it today? Should I not do it?
Anyway getting side tracked there, this was a pretty long chapter it took me ages to write so I really hope you like it :D
The next chapter My Poisonous Embrace.
Also I've been thinking, should I do previews on every chapter? So a small bit as to whats coming next or not? Anyway I'll do it now to see what you think.
There are two types of previews I could do.
PREVIEW 1 TO POISONOUS EMBRACE
I'll never forgive you!
Erwin and Levi stared at each other angrily.
I'll never forgive you.
Erwin didn't let it show how much those words hurt him...
As a long suppressed memory retched inside his mind...
Preview 2 to poisonous embrace.
I'll never forgive you.
Poison spread through his veins.
"Brother!"
Would he never be free of him?
He was dying...
"Don't leave me!"
"Please...Please don't do this...Erwin..."
What do you think? Anyway, hope you all had a good day :)