When a vampire bit my lip, my whole life changed. She said it was an accident, but somehow, some of her blood got in the small cut and turned me into a vampire. How do I know this?
Because this showed up in my vision shortly after.
[Congratulations! Welcome to the Vampire Cultivation System! You are now an omni-vampire! You are level one of the Beyond Human Realm! Extract life essence to get stronger]
What the f*ck? A system? Really? I'm a vampire, and I have a system? Why? Shouldn't I just be a normal vampire without a system?
[You have a system because Shikasa, Goddess of Vampires and Queen of the Night, has taken an interest in you, and she doesn't want you to die during your first encounter with another vampire]
Another vampire? Oh yeah! One was making out with me right now.
"Umm, lady?" I said.
Her brow furrowed as she realized what she'd done. She looked at me like, 'Oh sh*t! I just turned this dude into a vampire!' I could see her panic and she just bit my neck out of instinct and tried to suck my blood.
Not knowing anything better to do, I bit her neck and tried to suck her blood. We basically had a suck off. We kept trying to out suck the other one, but we were neck and neck. I could tell because these system notifications kept going off.
[Life essence extracted. You have broken through to level 1 of the Beyond Human Realm]
[Some of your life essence has been extracted. You are now level 9 of the Barely More Than Human Realm]
[Life essence extracted. You have broken through to level 1 of the Beyond Human Realm]
[Some of your life essence has been extracted. You are now level 9 of the Barely More Than Human Realm]
It just kept going up and down and up and down. Never ending. I did the first thing I could think of. I pulled her hair at the base of her neck, where it didn't hurt as much and kind of felt good. At least that's what my ex-girlfriends have told me. I wouldn't know.
That removed her teeth from my neck. She moaned a little. I think she liked that I was taking control.
[Life essence extracted. You have broken through to level 1 of the Beyond Human Realm]
[Life essence extracted. You have broken through to level 2 of the Beyond Human Realm]
[Life essence extracted. You have broken through to level 3 of the Beyond Human Realm]
[Life essence extracted. You have broken through to level 4 of the Beyond Human Realm]
She started to go limp in my arms. Maybe I had sucked too much of her blood. I laid her gently down on the ground.
For a few minutes, she just laid there breathing. I don't know why I stayed. Maybe I felt some kind of obligation to make sure she was okay. I did just extract some of her life essence and a lot of blood.
Or more likely, I felt like I would be lost in a new world without her as a guide. I hoped she could show me the ropes of being a vampire before I had to fend for myself. I didn't know how strong I was compared to other vampires, but I had to guess I was probably at the weakest stage. Everyone starts at the bottom.
Once she had finally recovered, the vampire introduced herself to me.
"Hi, my name is Victoria," she said, putting out her hand from her position laying on the ground.
"Hi, my name is Dylan," I said, shaking her hand from my position sitting on the ground next to her.
"So," she said awkwardly.
"Yeah, so you turned me into a vampire and then tried to suck the life out of me," I said, not beating around the bush.
"Sorry about that. I wasn't trying to kill you. I just wanted you to pass out so I could run away," she said sheepishly.
"That's not much better. You were going to leave me unconscious in an alley to get robbed or mugged?" I said.
"Yes?" She said, shrugging. "You would've been fine. This part of town isn't that bad. What's weird is that you didn't pass out. Even other vampires pass out when I bite them."
"Maybe I'm just special?" I said. It was my turn to shrug this time.
[You are an omni-vampire. Because you are every type of vampire at the same time, you have resistance to some of the stronger effects of every vampire type's unique abilities]
Oh yeah, and I have a vampire system in my head now thanks to the vampire goddess Shikasa or whatever.
"Maybe," she said, standing up. "First thing we need to do is register you with the Vampire Association."
"Vampires have an association?" I said, raising my eyebrows.
"Of course vampires have an association. How do you think we've avoided detection in the modern world for so long?" She said.
"Uh, very carefully?" I joked.
"Very funny, but no," she said. "We've avoided detection because after droves of us were hunted down and killed by vampire hunters, we realized we needed to organize. Long ago, we established the Vampire Association, and we've stayed relatively hidden and safe since then," she said.
"Ok. Lead the way," I said.
We walked several blocks to a massive office building with the logo, "Sanguis Fluid Dynamics," on the outside. We had been relatively close to downtown, so it wasn't a long walk. Victoria opened the door and confidently strode through the massive lobby.
One of the security guards looked and nodded at her. She nodded back. Her footsteps echoed on the marble flooring. When we got to the elevators, she pressed the button. I watched as the number went from seven down to one.
When the doors opened, we stepped inside. After they closed, Victoria pressed a hidden panel, and a small glass surface extended out from the wall. It looked almost like a petri dish. She bit the fleshy part of her palm. She squeezed her fist over the dish, and a few droplets of blood fell onto it.
The surface retracted into the wall, and a robotic female voice said, "Sanguis family member confirmed." The glass surface came out again, but it was clean of blood.
"Now, it's your turn," Victoria said.