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Izuku was headed over to Ruby's house. He promised he'd call her if something was eating at him but when he did, they arranged to speak in person. Izuku just pulled up and was now sitting in Ruby's living room with a glass of red wine in front of him.
"How long have you been a vampire?" asks Izuku.
"It's been getting close to three hundred years now. I'm about a dozen or so years away." says Ruby.
"In that time have you ever killed anybody?" asks Izuku.
"No although Vlad did. Did… did you kill somebody?" asks Ruby.
"Mhm. The morning before that party I went to. Me and Victor went out and hunted down some syndicate bums. It went pretty bad, with them hiding in that old cathedral south of town. It was supposed to be just the three of them. I could take one without powers. Victor could handle the other two. We went in and found about ten of em. Victor fought seven and knocked them all out. I fought three. I shot every one of them." says Izuku.
"You gonna be okay?" asks Ruby.
"I think so. I really do. It's just… two of them had rings on their fingers." says Izuku.
"Oh." says Ruby.
"Yeah, They might have had kids. God I hope they didn't have kids." says Izuku.
"You know… good people can do bad things. That doesn't make them bad people." says Ruby.
"Ruby, I shot three people to death." says Izuku.
"If it makes you feel better you're one of the best vampires I've ever met." says Ruby.
"What about one of the best people?" asks Izuku.
Ruby looks like she wants to say something but doesn't.
"I get it. I appreciate that you won't lie to me. Did I ever tell you I've been to heaven?" says Izuku.
"Really, when?" asks Ruby.
"I fought a vampire hunter. She planted a knife in my forehead. It killed me on the spot. She eventually chose to revive me, not sure how she did that by the way, but I was in heaven for a while." says Izuku.
"What was it like?" asks Ruby.
"Well I was only there for twenty four hours. I spent most of those hours having my sins read to me at the gate into heaven. When I finally got in… it was beautiful. I felt so calm like I just felt peaceful you know?" says Izuku.
"I think so but probably not. At least not like you felt it." says Ruby.
"When I was up there, I spoke with the gatekeeper. He told me Vampires almost never go to heaven. Are… are vampires bad people? Like is there just something that makes us bad?" asks Izuku.
"We all have our unholy desires. Vampires and people alike. Vampires tend to be bad people sure, but we can be good. Vlad was actually a horrible person for such a long time. He chose to become a better person as he got older. We all have a choice. That doesn't mean it's easy. It's never easy, but we can make ourselves the type of person we want to be." says Ruby.
Izuku turns his head away from his wine to face Ruby.
"The last time I died when I overdosed. I went to hell. Makes sense considering I killed those three guys." says Izuku.
Ruby's head lifts slightly.
"I found Vlad… I hardly had any time to speak with him. I hardly got out anything more than a greeting before I came back to life. You said he was a bad guy right? What did he do? The people in hell seemed terrified of him. Just his name was enough to scare them." says Izuku.
Ruby sighs deeply, "Do you know Vlad the Impaler?"
"That was him?" asks Izuku.
"Yeah, but he dropped the name the Impaler eventually. Although he didn't really drop the action itself. Vlad was a warlord. He loved fighting, he loved war. Over the years he fought in lots of wars. He couldn't be killed normally so he got to do lots of fighting. He fought in the battle of Gettysburg, he stormed Normandy he did a lot of that stuff. He enjoyed killing. He knew it was wrong but he did it anyways. Then he met me. I was dying. Radiation poison and all that. He saved me he took me in gave me a new life and raised me. Ever since then he has struggled to be a better person. He stopped killing which was good, but I don't think any amount of redemption could have saved his soul. He killed and stuck over fifty thousand men on pikes by hand. He killed a lot more than fifty thousand, those were just the ones he put on pikes." says Ruby.
"That's a lot to take in. He sounds like an interesting man. I wish I could've met him but at the same time maybe I shouldn't." says Izuku.
"You remind me of him a lot. Not the bad things though. After I met him and he tried to better himself. He became a good man for a while. You remind me of that side of him." says Ruby.
"If you don't mind answering, and you don't have to answer if I'm overstepping some boundaries, but how did Vlad pass?" asks Izuku.
"I've mentioned that vampires can tend to be bad people. Vlad used to be the king of the Vampires. He made more vampires. He was talented when it came to magic, he even left me some old cryptic books describing spells or something like that. He brought vampires into this world. The only person he'd ever actually turned was me. When he was making vampires he became their king. He was known as Count Dracula. He made a book that he titled, "The Rules of the Beast." It was vampiric law. In the book he wrote that any vampire that could kill him would become the king of the Vampires." says Ruby.
"So that caught up to him?" asks Izuku.
"About five years ago. He was a vigilante. He worked with a hero on a case but I really didn't know too much about it except that the villain was strong. Strong enough that they wanted Vlad to help with it. The villain wasn't alone. Somehow the villain knew Vlad would be there and somehow the villain knew a vampire. Vampires knew Vlad stopped killing people, they thought he was going soft. They wanted a new leader. Most of the living vampires were there. Vlad fought all of them. He killed most of them. It's kind of impressive to think about. He took the Vampiric population which was in the hundreds and brought it into the dozens in one day. Eventually one of them killed him. He couldn't keep up with all of them. At least the villain they were after died with him." says Ruby.
Izuku puts his hand on Ruby's shoulder. He never has been good at comforting people but he knows she needs it.
"I… I don't know why I remember this so vividly compared to everything else. This nice old hero came here to tell me that Vlad passed. I think his name was Torino." says Ruby.
"I'm sorry I made you think about all that." says Izuku.
"It's not your fault. You have a right to know these things. Do you mind um… I'd like to be alone for a while." says Ruby.
"I don't mind. I'll be on my way." says Izuku.
Izuku had a lot on his mind as he left Ruby's house. He had answers but of course they came with questions. Izuku pulls up to his destination. Put on his mask and went in.
"Is All For One busy?" asks Izuku.
"Oh, Ketsuki. I didn't expect you to be here. I'll see if he has time for you." replies Kurogiri.
"Thank you very much." says Izuku politely.
Izuku notices a TV light up in the corner of the room. All For One was on the TV.
"To what do I owe the pleasure?" asks All For One.
"I think I'll take up that offer for a game of chess." says Izuku.
All For one smiles, "Of course, Kurogiri if you don't mind."
A portal opens and Izuku walks through. He strolls over to All For One who already has a chess board set up. Izuku takes his seat, smiles at All For One under his mask and slaps the chess board off of the table.
"May I ask why?" asks All For One.
Izuku replies by slugging him across the Jaw, before Izuku can swing again he's halfway across the warehouse on his back. Izuku jumps to his feet. All For One isn't attacking. He's just standing there staring forward with his head tilted.
"I'm sorry but I really don't remember what I did to piss you off." says All For One.
"DID YOU KILL VLAD TEPIS?" asks Izuku angrily.
"Oh… you knew him?" asks All For One.
"You knew I'm part of his blood line didn't you?" says Izuku.
"... I did." replies.
"You know exactly who I am don't you?" asks Izuku.
"I do… Izuku." says All For One.
Izuku takes off his mask he doesn't need it. He's not even gonna question how All For One knows who he is, it's probably through Giran anyway.
"Look I'm sorry about Vlad. I needed and in to the Vampiric community, preferably the leader. Vlad hated me. I needed a new leader to take his place." says All For One.
"I oughta kill you right now." says Izuku.
"Can you?" asks All For One.
"Let's find out." says Izuku before trying to tackle All For One, only All For One stays on his feet and sends Izuku flying.
"Are you done?" asks All For One.
"... Yeah I'm done." sighs Izuku.
"Good, is that all or is there something else you want from me?" asks All For One.
Izuku looks thoughtful for a second, "Have Kurogiri send over a bottle of Whiskey and I'll play chess."
"You're not just gonna throw the board again are you?" asks All For One.
"Not if the whiskey keeps coming." says Izuku.
"Well We've got whiskey. So take a seat." says All For One.
A little while Later Izuku was sitting across from All For One finally playing chess. He had a bottle of Jim Beam in front of him. Izuku still didn't know how to play chess but he could figure it out, probably.
"So… I hear Vlad wasn't the greatest guy." says Izuku.
"You're only playing chess so I'll tell you about Vlad is that right?" asks All For One.
"Mhm that and I like looking at you're stupid face. Because it's stupid." says Izuku childishly.
"Scathing, Vlad was a terrible person. He killed and killed and enjoyed every second of it. He put more people in the ground than I ever have and probably ever will. Hell, even his own son thought he deserved to die." says All For One.
"Vlad had a son?" asks Izuku.
"You really don't know anything about him, do you?" asks All For One.
"I wouldn't be here if I did." says Izuku.
"That's fair. Vlad's son was named Alucard. He was a nice young man with a strong set of morals. In a lot of ways he was his father's opposite. Alucard grew up watching his father do all of these terrible things. He firmly believed his father was horrible, which he was. That was actually how I got his son to fight him." says All For One.
"His son's the vampire king now?" asks Izuku.
"Of course not, his son would never be willing to work with me. We used his Morals against him to pit him against his father. Once he drove his sword through Vlad's heart my choice for the Vampire king killed Alucard. It was a cruel thing looking back on it, Alucard didn't deserve that at all. I almost feel like this is gonna come back around someday. I'm gonna be the one getting played and I'm gonna be the one with a whole in his chest." says All For One.
"You deserve it you know." says Izuku.
"I know, I've got a lot of regrets in my life. I have a concrete goal in my mind, something I firmly believe needs to be done but I've done terrible things to get there." says All For One.
"Shut up." says Izuku, "If you really didn't want to be where you are now you wouldn't be here. Don't play the Victim. Even if you did what you absolutely had to, to achieve your goals you still did it, not out of necessity but out of an idealism. You're still in the wrong here." says Izuku.
"I suppose you're right. I should stand by my actions. Of course I knew all this a long while before today. I'm just glad you can understand even if only a little." says All For One.
"Checkmate." says Izuku.
"Huh." says All For One as he looks down on the board, " I didn't expect you to win. Good job."
"Yeah, and I don't even know how to play chess." Izuku gets up from his seat, "Well that's that."
"Take the bottle to go." says All For One.
"I will... hey could you do me a favor?" asks Izuku.
"Could you tell Giran I'm gonna be gone for a day or two. Ask him to tell the fellas at the house." says Izuku.
"Sure, If I might ask where are you going?" asks All For One.
"Ask Kurogiri to open a portal to New York. I've got everything I need in my car. I've actually been meaning to take this trip for a while." says Izuku.
"Of course. Tell me how the U.S treats you." says All For One.
"I probably won't." says Izuku.
New York was well it was new… at least it was to Izuku. He had to use google maps to get where he was trying to go, but he eventually did get there. He had to wait outside for a little while. Eventually he saw what he came here for. There he was the pro hero Dragon's Breath or Hisashi Midoriya depending on who you ask.
Authors Note
This feels like a good chapter. It answered a lot of question, and probably made a few more. I've wanted to expand on Vlad's story for a while now, I'm really glad that I finally got around to it. Now that I've explained Alucard, maybe I could have Izuku speak with him when he goes to heaven. I'd like to know how you feel about All For One and Vlad and all the stuff I added this chapter. I think it's cool but I'd love some feedback. I don't think I could fit everything I wanted into this chapter but I'll expand more on this later. Eventually I do plan on introducing the current vampire king. Also for how Vlad knows and worked with All Might, he knew Nana Shimura. I'll go into that later. So the next chapter is gonna be a family reunion of sorts. I think I can make it explain my Izuku a little bit more than I already have. Anyways I will see you guys next week, probably.
Also I just picked up luigi's masion 3 and it kinda slaps, not gonna lie. I like how I can use the vacuum to interact with the world around me.
Atomic Dragon 59: I thought I mentioned in a previous authors note that I planned on basing hell off of Hazbin Hotel. Not entirely but I thought the angels purging was pretty cool so I kept it. I think Izuku meeting Doomslayer could be cool, but Doomslayer feels like a shoot first ask questions never kind of guy. I don't think I'd have Izuku meet up with Charlie simply because there isn't a lot of content for Hazbin Hotel. We've only got one episode so far. Like I've got an idea of Charlie's character but I still don't know enough about her to give them an entire conversation.
Amadeus Amadeus: Izuku actually overdosed. I didn't write it in but I imagine this is sort of how it would play out. Izuku thinks he'll be fine, he can just regenerate through anything so he just blasts himself with whatever he can get his hands on. It kills him faster than he can regenerate. The next thing he knows he's in hell.
For Izuku going clean, yeah he will eventually. Well sort of. He's not gonna snort angel dust or anything like that. However he is gonna keep drinking and smoking. He's gonna try to get cleanish around the time he goes to U.A. I like to think he uses Eri as in inspiration to better himself.
I'm glad you caught on to the little Demoman reference. Although in hindsight it wasn't exactly hidden. I'm still glad you caught that. I don't know why but I imagine Charles having a scottish accent. I like scottish accents. If I could choose my accent I'd probably choose a scottish accent.