Chapter 3 - Blood Symbiote

Everything happened very fast, even faster than the blink of an eye.

The woman in the Renaissance dress suddenly darted to attack Jonathan with her strangely elongated, sharp fingernails.

Jonathan was thrown back with a bang. His back hit the wall of the room until the whole room shook.

"Ahh …" Before he realized it, blood was already scrambling out of his left chest.

Jonathan pressed his own chest while grimacing in pain.

His thick jumper was torn apart, forming claw-like traces that looked like they weren't from humans.

"What? A Baby? I can smell His rare sweet blood from afar. Thanks to the beautiful windy weather today. But, hmmm ... who's baby are you?" Said the woman while holding the toddler girl. She managed to snatch her from Jonathan's hands.

Even her tone sounded from an era completely different from the current one.

"What have you done to my son?!"

Sandra, who was not hit by the attack, took a knife from the kitchen table and pointed it at the woman.

However, her threat made the woman laugh in a voice that gave goosebumps.

"Ha ha ha ha ha, what a noisy old lady."

"Give me back, my beautiful granddaughter," Sandra hissed, serious about her threat.

"Your granddaughter?" the woman repeated and laughed again.

"Ha ha ha ha. What a bad sense of joke you have, Dear."

Neither Jonathan nor his mother knows what the mysterious woman knew.

As fellow beings who shouldn't be in the mortal human world, the woman was also very sure that the toddler girl was not a member of their family.

Jonathan mustered all his strength to get to his feet despite losing a lot of blood.

He could feel a strangely sinister dark aura from the mysterious woman before him.

He didn't want anything bad to happen to anyone innocent in the room.

"Who are you? What do you want?" Jon shouted as he walked with shuffling steps to approach the woman.

From a short distance, he could smell the intense scent of roses coming from her. The aroma was too natural to be from a commercial perfume.

Jon's question managed to make the woman's laughter stopped. Even so, she gave a charming smile to Jon, making Jon almost forget that his current position was in danger.

"My name is Valerie. And I just want to drain this beautiful baby girl's tasty blood." Said the woman while touching the cheek of the toddler girl in her arms using the tip of her fingernail, making a long scratch that made the little girl bleed.

But still, the baby did not cry.

"Ahhhh … what is this? Is this even real? I can smell His scent and feel His presence here because of this baby's blood." The woman spoke in a beautiful tone as if she was singing.

She even closed her eyes as she spoke.

"Ahhh … I can foresee that He will love me forever after I give this innocent baby girl as a gift. Such a brilliant of you, Valerie."

Jonathan alerted enough, he took the opportunity to pull out two kitchen knives from a nearby table, and without waiting any longer... he attacked.

Aiming for the woman's arm to free the toddler girl before it was too late.

STAB!

"Argh!"

The two kitchen knives actually turned around and stuck in Jonathan's chest. So deep that he fell and didn't have enough energy to pull it out.

"Jonathan!" shouted Sandra, reflexively bending down to help her dying son.

Her hands and body were quickly covered in Jonathan's blood.

"No, no, no, please don't die, Jonathan. I will call the ambulance. Stay with me." Sandra was crying and restless.

She did not know what to do as she could only see blood splattered everywhere.

"Mom, Run." Jonathan groaned, sure that death would soon pick him up, and he just wanted his mother to survive a tragic end like what he was currently experiencing.

"No, I am going nowhere. Not without you." Sandra held Jon's limp hand as if it could help him survive.

"Ha ha ha ha ha. What a bad theater!" the mysterious woman laughed again, amused by the horrific sight before her.

"You, Victorian Bitch!"

STAB!

Sandra managed to stab the woman's stomach with the knife she had brought earlier. Causing her laughter to stop for a moment.

However, even though the knife had gone deep, the woman didn't look hurt. And the next second, the knife seemed to move and pushed out very quickly.

It flew through the air and then fell to the floor.

Neither Sandra nor Jonathan could believe what they had just seen. Never before had a human been able to do such a thing.

Even the stab wound in the woman's stomach had closed as if it had never existed.

"W – what are you?" Sandra suddenly lost her confidence. Jonathan's grip weakened.

"What did you just call me, old lady?" the woman in the Renaissance dress hissed, indignant.

Her face, dazzlingly beautiful a second ago, suddenly turned into a terrible look.

The veins on her face tensed and popped out like tree roots, and her once pale white skin turned even paler like a corpse that had long rotted.

The woman was a wanderer vampire who happened to be in the woods near the housing where Jon's family lives.

The smell of blood from the toddler girl beckoned her over.

Jonathan, who had learned a lot about immortals from books and films, still couldn't believe it when one of the creatures appeared in front of him. Attacked him.

He believed that they existed, but… he did not believe that he would end up in the hands of one of them.

"You just upset me. I don't care if I am on a diet. Draining your diabetic blood will be nice for my sugar intake." The scary woman hissed, grabbed Sandra by the neck, and lifted her.

"NO!" Jon shouted, trying to force himself back up.

The woman sank her very long and sharp canines into Sandra's neck, sucking out all the blood in her body before breaking her neck.

"MOTHER!" Jon shouted very loudly.

His saliva couldn't stop coming out, his heart was beating fast, and his body felt shivering.

He's dying.

"You will be next!"

The evil vampire monster pulled Jonathan's leg.

"Ha ha ha ha. What a brave man." The woman hissed, returning to her dazzling beautiful face.

Gently, the woman pulled Jonathan's face closer to examine him more closely.

Jonathan struggled to breathe, his body shaking and drenched in sweat. It was only a matter of time before he lost his precious life.

"Don't kill me." He begged for his life.

"Don't kill you? Hmmm …" muttered the woman, then brushed Jonathan's curly hair away from his face.

"You have such a beautiful face, young man." The woman muttered appraisingly while Jonathan closed his eyes in fear.

"Maybe it is a good idea to let you live."

"Please," Jonathan was getting desperate.

The woman smiled, her lips still covered in warm blood from the lifeless Sandra.

A drop of blood trickled down Jonathan's cheek, and he could feel its warmth.

"Beautiful young man," the woman whispered in Jonathan's ear passionately.

"You don't know how much I hate such a man with beauty."

SNAP!

Just when the woman plunged her hideous fangs into Jonathan's neck, suddenly, the toddler girl screamed in a powerful and destructive voice.

"SHAAAAAAHHHHH!"

CRASH!

CRASH!

A scream that was really very strong and ruined everything.

All objects made of glass in the house shattered instantly.

And the female monster slumped beside Jonathan, not moving.

The sound that could shatter even the glass cups in the cupboard didn't kill Jonathan.

Although both of his ear holes are now bleeding.

And when the only sound Jon could hear was an indistinct hum, suddenly, a notification screen appeared before his eyes.

[Blood Symbiote has been awakened]

[Symbiosis started]

Jonathan felt his soul being pulled out, separated from his body.

His body became frail, and everything turned dark.