Weiss woke up when the nightmare ended.

Her nightmare began with her walking in the Beacon courtyard, though something felt out of place. As she continued to walk, bodies began to materialize around her. They were in various states of dismemberment and were all almost unrecognizable. But the worst was yet to come. Soon, the bodies began to appear to take the form of people she knew and loved. First, she saw Yang. Yang was impaled on a stake that had been driven through her gut, the aforementioned organ on the end of the stake. Her skin was pale and a majority of her scalp had been cut off.

Next, she saw the body of Blake. The stench of rotting corpses was overwhelming by this point. Blake laid on the ground, bisected. With her bottom half nowhere to be seen, Weiss was forced to focus on what remained. Her eyes had been gouged out and her cat eyes looked like they were forcibly ripped from head. They laid off to the side, useless.

'What kind of animal would do such a thing?' The dream Weiss questioned.

The only body she did not see was Ruby's. Ruby was nowhere to be seen. She began to walk all around the campus of Beacon. She saw Team JNPR, CFVY and CRDL and various states of dismemberment. Some were decapitated, others were eviscerated, and other words that ended with 'ated'. Soon she came to the gardens when she noticed a figure was on top of Ruby. Ruby had suffered a rather non-violent death, her body was pale and sickly and surrounded by a pool of blood.

'Get off her! Who are you?' Weiss's dream self questioned.

The figure froze and turned to her.

'Why I'm what you'll become.'

The figure was her. This 'mirror' Weiss looked like her with the exception that her jacket was color swapped. Her mouth and clothes were stained with the blood of all the people she loved. Weiss simply began to break down and cry with her double laughing.

The dream ended when the doppelganger lunged at Weiss, fangs bared.

Weiss felt something shaking her body as she woke up. She was covered in sweat and felt tears stream down her face. Was that real? Or was that a sign of things to come? She looked to her bedside and saw Vlad standing there, face full of concern.

"Are you alright?" He questioned.

"Yeah." Weiss said, not wanting to talk about the horror she had just seen in her mind.

"Liar."

"How did..?"

"I can always tell when a person is hiding something from me." Vlad said.

Weiss began to tell him the dream, trying to maintain her composure as she did. Vlad simply looked on with curiosity.

"When was the last time you fed yourself?"

"I don't want to drink anymore blood. I have been doing it for two weeks now. I want a cure." Weiss demanded.

Vlad gained a rather sad look on his face.

"I have just fed on a person myself. You need blood to survive. You must feed." Vlad said, putting emphasis on the word 'must'.

Vlad was right. Weiss felt her stomach growl like a raging animal. She did not want to, but deep down, she knew she had to drink blood.

"Okay." Weiss simply said.

"Come down to the dining room when you're ready."

"To Train?"

"No, to talk. I feel like I owe you an explanation on some things."

Weiss's nerves calmed when she began to drink the blood. Vlad had put some blood in a goblet for Weiss drink. The blood tasted like it always did. Like nectar and honey. Weiss hated the flavor. Not that it was not sweet in anyway, but it served as a reminder that she could not return to normal life again. As Weiss drank, so did Vlad. Vlad was drinking is own caught blood in a goblet as well. He had told Weiss that the blood they were drinking was that of a criminal in the dungeon below. As she finished her goblet, Weiss was the first to speak.

"Why do you say that I need blood to survive?"

Vlad simply put down his goblet and took a napkin to his mouth and started to wipe off the blood. He may have been a vampire, but he was sure a gentleman.

"Everything that makes up a vampire is sustained by the blood of our prey. Our abilities, our survival, and even our own sanity are held together by the blood we drink."

Weiss had no idea what he meant by that statement.

"Vampires have several abilities. But to sustain ourselves, we drink blood. Blood to a vampire is what food is to a person. It gives us much needed energy and allows us to extraordinary things. Even our ability to survive in sunlight is sustained by blood. Originally, vampires could not live in the sun. They would burn if they tried. But those were the old times. As time changed, so did vampires. Vampires soon learned that the ability to survive in sunlight would be sustained by the blood of the prey we feast upon.

"What happens if you don't feed?"

"If a vampire does not feast for three days, he will burn in the sun. Remember blood is our food. What happens to a human if they do not get food in their bodies?"

"They…die?"

"Exactly."

This sudden revelation was like Nora was bashing in Weiss's head with her hammer. Weiss knew now that feasting on blood was not a choice. It was a necessity.

"A vampire could still utilize their Semblance and aura." Vlad continued. "Though, they are now sustained by the blood we feast upon."

Weiss had to admit, vampires had rather clever adaptations. They were now able to survive in the sun, unlike the stories she read. But another question dawned on Weiss's mind.

"Why did I kill that nurse that one night you came into the hospital?"

Vlad looked away, as if it were a painful memory for him as well.

"When a person receives blood, or is bitten by a vampire and survives, they enter a three-day long sleep. When they wake, they are vampires. But they wake with a hunger that is so ravenous; it forces them to kill the closet living being that may have blood. Human, Faunus, animals and Grimm can all be potential prey. It is called a blood rage."

Weiss knew that pieces of the puzzle were staring to come together. Everything was starting to make sense. Weiss could still eat human food and drink other liquids to pass as a human, though they would no longer be able to satisfy her. Why she killed that nurse was also making sense. And finally, her ability to survive and sunlight put the last pieces of the puzzle together.

As Weiss sat there, deep in thought, Vlad started to get up.

"Time to train."

"Wait."

Vlad stopped and looked at the still seated Weiss.

"You said that vampires need blood to sustain their abilities. What abilities do I have?"

"You have potential that you would never think were possible. That is why you are here. I will teach the talents and 'benefits' of the vampiric curse.

A/N: What?! 'Benefits'?

What are they? What do they do? That my children is a story for another day.

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