Chapter 17 - adopting

Rank among Vampires:

1. Noble Blood vampire

2. Noble-hybrid vampire

3. Hybrid vampire

4. Human Hybrid vampires

Noble Vampires are naturally born with Noble parents while others are made. Those turned by Noble becomes Noble-hybrid. Likewise, those turned by Noble-hybrid becomes hybrid and go on. The stronger they are, the easier it becomes to control the weaker one and even hypnotize/compell.

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Ariel stood there still, just like when he took gunshots the night before, not moving an inch.

"It's called Television ", August said clearing his throat with his grip near his mouth and remote control on his right.

Ariel looked at August and back at TV having bunch of questions wanting to ask to the boy.

"Let's see basket ball " August said in a small voice and pressed the remote control switching from Animal Planet to some Sport channel.

Ariel snatched the remote right after, before August could react and started to switch channels on his own. August then looked at Ariel, who was standing straight beside long navy sofa and pressing as he wanted. A dissatisfied reaction on August's face formed right after.

August got a death glare from Ariel, getting goosebumps all over his body before he could fight for it back.

"I could teach you alot more if you want" , August whined in a small voice.

Ariel went back being busy watching, he didn't hear anything in such a loud environment.

"How come he didn't know about T.V when walking all over the city these past weeks ? maybe he forgot to enter electronic shop. Lol" , August grinned thinking inside his head and how many other things Ariel might be still clueless about.

~flop~

"Aaaaaa..." ,August shouted backing at corner of sofa in his shield position. He was shocked with surprise almost having a heart attack when Ariel suddenly sat beside him, eyes locked on television.

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~switch~

August waved his hands at Ariel to pause changing, focusing forward on the screen.

[News]

"..... there was robbery on Hifive store with the gunshots heard by local citizens at around eleven in midnight east of Whitedale's luxury apartment Green Square, police reports. Please have a look at it,

.....

Hello my name is Sam Pen reporting live from as you can see where the robbery took place. The robbers are currently in head police department. The footage however were lost with still unknown reason. The store has been shut down for three days. As for the owner of the place, he have stayed silent proceeding with documentation.

According to the witness,

[Melline Sia, student, nineteen years old, worker at Hifive store for one year,

-actually, we were saved by a young man. After the robber in his black mask left, that young man brought them tied up in rope later. And he was so so handso... [murmurr]

[Throat clearings] Okey, thankyou for watching I am Sam Pen with camera man Harry.

...

Thankyou Sam, we will update you slowly I am your host Betty thankyou, FoxNews.

[Music]

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"That was craz...y" August said with long Y, looking at Ariel.

"How do they know?" Ariel asked searching for answers.

"Actually it's a News channel and ofcourse anyone would know after all, there was gunshot twice, which is extremely illegal. You being my master on the other hand got away with two bullets inside your body, which isn't normal say quote "unhuman". So me being ofcourse intelligent hacker came for your rescue destroying your fottage from the store and blah blah blah....."

"Wait, what is news, WHAT...?" Ariel stopped the talk frowning his eyebrows and shaking his head with confusion at August.

"I think you need to drink human blood, so you can know all of that" August scoffed.

"No, I don't want to kill anyone, I am not a monster", Ariel said looking down with sorrow written all over his face.

"T.B.H you already are, but vegetarian...? interesting. Ah.., Its noisy" August took a remote slowly from Ariel smiling and nodding little. He then turned off the TV adjusting himself on the sofa. He faced towards Ariel, who sat with his leg crossed and hand relaxed like he owned the place, but he did. Ariel didn't get anything what August said but he let him talk.

"Look, I don't know how old you are or how come you are so powerful but you need to drink human blood in order to survive, it's not about killing."

Ariel raised one thick eyebrow at August right after.

"Wait, it was an accident, I was running skipping my thirst after my friend was killed by 'supremes' because he fucked up and if it wasn't for you that day who saved me then I would have too. Okey? Now... look" August gripped both of his hands near his chest and released right after, focusing on the topic.

"You might have drank blood of old generation people that's why your tone and mind is super old, but that won't work now. And where were you all these time ? Leave it.....You have to learn about everything modern here, drink human blood. You know blood have memories so it wouldn be easier that way for you".

[Vampires are host who live feeding other. Their only source of energy is blood. They could kill someone without second thought than to have uncontrollable thirst for themselves. They are indeed powerful but they're not free.

Just like a fish in the sea not knowing when or where they could be killed, they live on just for another day eating smaller and weaker one. On the verse of eating and surviving, one could completely forget about their existence as a human or go on enjoying for being powerful than his initial form, where one could forget about mercy on other and humanity dies inside him.

The blood is everything they think when they are hungry, just like humans brain mostly focuses on the pain when it's severe. Brains have memories so as muscles, called muscle memory and there is blood with its memories of it's own. The memories of prey could be felt by vampires if they wanted to see. They can feel and learn from the memories in the blood. The more powerful your existence, the more you learn from it]

Ariel opeaned his legs leaning forward and placing elbows at his thighs.

"Woohh... back up little bro, you know hair on my bodies goes straight up if you are closer and I don't know how but I fear something" August moved away little with his black orbs swinging in his eyes from confusion, looking at both of his arms placed front in the air.

Ariel smirked at him "Cause I am your true king."

August's eyes snapped right back at Ariel's silver eyes which were reflecting the light back, almost piercing.

"Hey... don't joke, you know there is no such thing" August said slowly swinging his right arm at Ariel.

"But we have Noble-hybrid boss in Vulture 'V', he controls most of the vampires here and.... [mur-murr]"

[Ignored]

"I AM THE NOBLE BLOOD AND I AM YOUR KING" Ariel growled, "or prince" he added, anger on his face for being ignored.

August's body quickly backedup to the huge glass window near the curtain binding with fear, little far from sofa.

[silence]

Ariel signed with his little sad expression.

"Do you believe now ?" he scoffed right after seeing August's body moving on it's own.

August then nodded uncontrollably still seeing fear going around his body.

"I won't hurt you, you are good kid, come back" Ariel said in his deep warm voice, both elbows on his thighs and hands around his head turning at August on the ground, who was crawling and panting.

Right after hearing those words from Ariel, August's body felt light as huge tons of weight just got lifted from him but still was not believing what just happened.

[After a while]

"How to open television again ?" Ariel went back being busy pressing at remote control remembering how August did.

August got up finally from the corner between white see through cabinet having artifacts and the huge window that touched ceiling and the floor. He walked towards his backpack placed on wooden floor beside the door, taking out blood bag and sipping one right after, still deep on his thoughts.