The next day Zeno came to John's room "listen John, I will be going on a mission but if I come back then we will start your training, is it okay" "Yes, is cool uncle Zeno"
Carmilla also later came into the room "Hello John"
John asked "Yo Carmilla, how you doin?". "I am doing well John thank you for asking" then Zeno interrupted "Carmilla, please introduce John to Thomas and Richard". "Yes father"
"Come John, follow me" John followed Carmilla, she led him to the courtyard, where Thomas and his brother was training, when John and Carmilla arrived they stopped there training "Hey, Carmilla did you also come to train and who is the kid?" Richard asked. Richard was 21, while Thomas and Carmilla were 15 years old.
Before Carmilla tried to introduce John, he said "Yo, I am John". Then Carmilla said "John is our new family member and he will be staying with us, so please be nice". Thomas looked confused "What you mean new family member Carmilla". "John is your cousin, he is the child of aunt Angeline, who is your father's youngest and only sister, you would not know because you were not here when they arrived"
Thomas and Richard went to John, they both extended their hands to greet John. John felt very happy inside because he did not have any family members on Earth besides his mother and father. After they greeted, Richard asked John "John do you want to train with us" John replied "I have no training in hand-to-hand combat, but I can throw a punch"
Carmilla then said "John you do not have to fight". But John waved his hands "Its cool, I have to fight one way or another, by the way Carmilla can you fight? I mean you are a vampire" then like an epiphany John said "wait, how are you guys in the sun, shouldn't you burn or something like that?". They all laughed and Carmilla said "No silly, we of the crimson clan do not have those weaknesses, our bloodline is different".
Richard then said "we do not die from the sun, but we die from the flame". "What is the flame?" John asked. "Everybody is different John, some are born with the ability to control some of the elements like fire or ice, we of the crimson clan control fire, but not all can unlock this ability, but we still gain the ability to be resistant to the sun's rays, I do not know how all this works."
"But what I mean by dying by the flame is, when a vampire cannot control his fire ability, the flame can kill the user, did nobody tell you this" Richard asked
"John is not from this planet, so he does not know anything, however, father is going to train him" Carmilla interjected. "You do not have to train if you do not want to John" Thomas said. "Nah I'll throw sum hands"
Thomas and John stood opposite of each other, then Richard screamed "fight". John raised his arms in a fighting stance, he watched a few boxing matches on tv and had some experience in fighting in school but this was different, he was fighting a vampire. "Let's see what this new body is made off" John thought
Thomas punched John but he managed to block it, then John threw his own punch and Thomas managed to counter him with an overhand punch. John fell on his back and he looked confused "How did you do that; I didn't even see it"
"Do you have enough?" Thomas asked "No, we just getting started. Carmilla looked nervous as she was watching the battle. On top of the castle Anna and Leonidas watched how the kids was training. "What do you think honey?" Anna asked and Leonidas replied "the boy is weak"
"Its because he is still new, do you think he has the potential to become strong?". "No" Leonidas said then he walked away. Anna smiled "he will prove you wrong Leo, I believe in my daughter's child".
John and Thomas fought each other for 37 min, but it was like a one-sided battle with Thomas in the lead, John had a lot of bruises. "Let's end this John" Thomas said "No, let's keep going" John replied while wiping the blood from his mouth
"Listen if you can land one hit on me, I'll give you the win but I'll try to knock you out, is that okay John?". John was out of breath, gasping for air "Let's go". Thomas grinned, and then he moved at a greater speed towards John, however, John's one eye began to glow red and he saw Thomas coming towards him. Thomas wanted to knock John out so he put a lot of power into his punch, when the punch came, John dodged by ducking and Thomas looked shocked "How is this possible". John grinned "my turn" he cocked his right arm back, clenched his fist and released a furious punch
When the punch connected, Thomas was blown back, he was dizzy for a few seconds but recovered and when he looked up, John held his hands up "I win" and afterwards collapsed on the ground.