Harry groaned as he pushed himself up in the bed. He reached for his glasses only to realize he hadn't been wearing them and could see perfectly. He swung his feet off the bed and made sure his legs could hold him before he stood up. His legs shook as he made the few steps to the door of his room.

He opened the door to find himself in a small cramped Den filled with worn couches and chairs. The first thing that caught his eye was a pale man with long bushy brown hair, stretched out across a dirty couch. The man wore a pair of torn leather pants and a ragged brown buckskin jacket. Harry's eyes drifted down as he realized that a pair of blonde haired girls were sitting on the floor laying back against the front of the couch next to the man. The girls were identical except for a noticeable gap in age and the fact that one wore green and the other wore pink.

The girls turned their heads towards him and he suddenly felt very strange, and hungry, very hungry. He was so focused on the girls didn't notice the man in the black suit come in.

"Aimee, Claire stop that the boy is not ready for that kind of provocation." The man said.

At the sound of his voice the man on the couch turned his attention from the TV to notice the situation.

"Well Hell Alucard he isn't old enough to really be charmed. It won't really cause a problem." The man said.

Harry didn't hear a word all he could notice was the curve of the girls necks and the thin blue veins resting just under the surface.

"GIRL STOP IT." Alucard yelled breaking the spell as they flinched and blushed. "To a vampire sex can be very intertwined with blood. Now he doesn't really know how to handle those cravings and while he might not feel the urge to have sex with them their charm might make him tear their throats out and I don't want to have two dead girls and a very guilty new bloodthirsty vampire out of control"

He walked over to Harry who had only heard about a third of the sentence as he tried to figure out why he felt so funny. Alucard walked over to him and bent down to look into his eyes.

"Are you Ok." He asked

Harry nodded.

"Are you hungry."

Harry paled and glanced over at the group by the couch. Alucard noticed the look and turned to see what the young vampire was looking at only to find the man on the couch and the two girls staring at them.

"They already know. It doesn't matter to them. Hell Eric is a werewolf and the girls are veela. Its not big deal we don't judge people here. This is a place for all us creatures to be safe and find help from people like us." Alucard said looking into Harry's eyes. The boy calmed down a bit but he still looked clenched and apprehensive. A second look revealed that the three were still staring.

"Girls... Why don't you go back to watching the show. Eric... Bugger off don't you have something better to do than stare." Alucard said finishing the sentence with a slight growl.

Eric just tilted his beer up and looked into the can as if expecting to find more before tossing it over his shoulder and picking the rest of the 6 pack up and tearing one of the remaining cans off.

Alucard just shook his head muttering something about tactless dogs before turning back to Harry.

"Why don't we go into the kitchen."

As the entered the kitchen Harry began to notice the condition of the house appeared to be abysmal. Chunks of the ceiling were missing, the paint was peeling, it was filled with decrepit old furniture, and the curtains appeared to have been set upon by a whole swarm of moths.

Alucard guided him to a table before pulling a blood bag out of the battered icebox in the corner. Harry looked at it with disgust before the older vampire bit into the bag and the smell washed over him. Soon Alucard was sitting across from him as he gulped down a second bag.

"Alright now I'm sure you have some answers as to what is going on." Alucard said as the boy put his empty bag down.

"Why am I a vampire?" Harry asked looking at the man questioningly. The man searched the boys face for a bit looking for something. He couldn't find a note of discontent or excitement. Just the face of a young boy that wanted to understand the world around him.

"Because I had the choice of either letting you die or turning you into a vampire. You had lost too much blood." Alucard said sighing. "Honestly I don't know why I did it. Maybe I was sorry that some jackass vampire decided to kill you rather than just feed. I don't know Maybe it was because you were a kid."

Harry accepted it. He didn't care either way. There was one thing he cared about though.

"How will my uncle react?" He asked wincing at the thought. Alucard didn't like the look on Harry's face and for the first time wondered if what he had done had actually been for the better.

"No your family will think you are dead. They can't know. If anyone in the mundane world knew vampires were real we would be hunted down."

"Where will I live?"

"You can live here with us. This is a place for creatures like us." Alucard said gesturing around the house. "No creature is unwelcome here."

"Who are you?"

"Why I am Alucard Dracul the last of House Dracul of the 13 houses of the Vampyr

Harry just looked at him quesioningly.

"Long story short the vampires divided the political power between 13 royal families which divided up control of the 50 or so clans that the vampires break up into. I just so happen to be the leader and only one left of the now almost extinct 7th family of House Dracul."

Alucard then went on to explain the differences Harry could come to expect from being a vampire. Increased strength, speed, senses, and stealth as well as the fact that they needed blood. They didn't have to kill and drink all of someone's blood and the only way to turn a human was to offer the human some of the vampires blood. They also could survive on food for a few days if need be but they needed blood to stay strong. The taste of another vampires blood was absolutely repulsive. Sunlight and garlic were myths vampires could die from all the same things as humans except they had an advanced healing rate making them harder to kill. Though silver slowed their healing ability which was why it was fabled that silver bullets could kill them. All of these things were natures way of making vampires the worlds best hunters.

Their discussion was interrupted when Eric walked in.

"Next time just tell me you want to watch a show don't try and enchant me." He yelled back into the living room provoking an incredulous look from Alucard

"What its creepy they are like a quarter my age. Don't get me wrong I like younger women" He said getting a beer out of the fridge. "I just prefer them to you know... have hit puberty."

"Why don't you introduce yourself to our new guest." Alucard said rubbing his forehead.

"Oh yeah Hi. I'm Eric and those two are Aimee and Claire my... I don't know what they are but I take care of them." He answered holding out his hand.

Harry shook the offered hand.

"Alucard let me and the girls stay here when we were down and out. Not to long after this place started getting a reputation with creatures as a place where you could find a helping hand and some shelter."

Suddenly a short man with goat legs and horns came... waddling though the kitchen chased by a cloud of pixies.

"Welcome to the House of Dark Creatures kid. Its gonna be wild."