Vampire Problems part 2

[MC point of view]

When I appeared, I was in a forest in what I assumed was Romania.

After all it was the home of vampires.

I quickly became alert as I extended my senses to try and sense Bova or the rest of the dragons, it hadn't been an hour yet since they were taken and Bova was a stubborn boy.

So he wouldn't go down easily even though he was only in the beginnings of the upper class in terms of power.

There was no noticeable sign of destruction in the area and I couldn't sense anyone's magic in the vicinity, although I could feel the vestiges of several presences in the place.

So they were not in the area fighting there were only three options.

1. Their enemies had some very powerful dragon slaying weapons that forced the young dragons to immediately fold up so as not to be killed.

2. There was someone powerful enough to overpower all the young dragons without causing damage to the area.

3. Their enemies had some way of quickly overpowering them something akin to Ingvild's Nereid Kyrie.

All three options were worrisome, but there was also a chance for me now that I was in the area.

Valerie, Gasper and Ingvild were basically diamonds at my fingertips, I planned to seek them out at some point so if given the chance I was going to take Valerie and Gasper right away.

Still, my priority is to rescue Bova, Valerie and Gasper can wait a little longer although I don't entirely like the idea of leaving them here if I could get them out now, after all I know the consequences of using Sephiroth Graal, plus if I take too long Rias could end up catching Gasper.

Not that I want to change the Canon too much because my knowledge is an advantage, but I don't want to give Gasper to her.

It would be a tremendous waste of Potential, one that I refuse to allow to happen on my watch when it could be used in better hands.

My hands.

Hell take them too, what kind of reincarnated person would I be if I didn't take advantage of the opportunity.

Looks like I'll be burning a lot of vampires today.

Dream team here I come.

[Concentrate] Ddraig spoke to me, apparently I was thinking for too long.

"I was tracking energy" I replied quickly it wasn't completely a lie, I had already tracked Bova's energy and knew where they were.

I didn't create a magic circle to go to that place due to the fact that I don't want to appear in the middle of my enemies.

I could escape if I find myself overpowered, but that would only be possible if I were to get out of there alone.

Besides, it's nighttime, the time when vampires are most active.

I quickly ran in the direction of where I felt the energy of Bova and the rest of the dragons.

After a couple of minutes I finally reached the place.

A huge castle that looked like something out of a horror movie.

Typical.

What other hiding place would vampires have besides a freaking castle straight out of horror stories.

Well as long as I didn't run into any clichés pertaining to a certain vampire movie that glowed with exposure to sunlight movie I had seen in my previous life I was going to be fine.

I'd better concentrate on my current situation.

I could go in now and take out Bova and the rest by killing anything that gets in my way, which would be stupid considering I don't know much about their numbers, nor their power levels there could easily be someone stronger than me hiding in the castle so it would be best to catch them off guard when they are at their weakest.

I'll wait for dawn to come and take them out.

In the meantime I will infiltrate to see the internal layout of the place.

While it's true that I couldn't go out with Bova and the others silently, we dragons usually aren't the quietest after all.

I can infiltrate on my own, thanks to my affinity with nature I can blend my presence, scent and magic with that of the environment, using this ability very few beings would be able to sense me.

Also, I need to see which vampire faction is to blame for the kidnapping.

Hopefully it's the Tepes that would make it easier to locate my secondary targets and it's not like they can make a big deal out of this.

They kidnapped the son of Tannin a former dragon king, supreme class devil and in his own territory.

I'll laugh watching them try to explain that when Tanin demands revenge.

I wonder if I will find Gasper and Valerie here.

Even if they are not in this castle, I might be able to get some information out of where they are.

There's a good chance the two of them are together after all.

I concentrated for a moment, letting the natural magic cover me, hiding my presence.

Time to have fun.

[Two hours later]

Well it was really easy to sneak into this place.

Vampires were so arrogant to think that no one would sneak under their noses.

Even less so if it's during the night.

I'm going to enjoy burning all these suckers.

Unfortunately I couldn't find the information I needed, I had only heard about the new dragon slaves they had kidnapped recently and how they should be proud for serving superior beings like them.

I never thought I would actually hear those words in my life.

What a damn bunch of narcissists.

Did I mention how much I'm going to enjoy burning all these assholes.

Still, dawn was approaching and if I wanted to get the information I needed I would have to be a little more direct in my approach.

Now I wondered.

Who should I kidnap?

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In the end I kidnapped one of the guards and took him to an empty room.

I used hypnosis magic which by the way had also been improving over the years to get him to tell me what I needed from him.

"And you were saying that improving my mind control magic would be a waste of time" I taunted Ddraig for the umpteenth time in minutes.

[Don't mention it] I growl the celestial dragon clearly tired of my taunts.

"Oh just admit you were wrong" Another growl came from him and I simply laughed harder.

[....]

"Alright enough taunting from you, now let's get back to work" I commented before turning serious again and walking towards the exit of the room.

[What are you going to do with him?] Ddraig asked clearly referring to the guard who still had white eyes a sign of the use of my magic on him.

I simply snapped my fingers and walked out of the room which was filled with a smell of burning flesh.

Luckily I had put up a small sized barrier so that no one would feel my magic or the barrier itself due to its size.

I still couldn't use other magics at full power while hiding my presence besides nature magic.

I made a mental note to improve that, it wouldn't be good to be so limited in a fight while trying to hide.

Well it's time to visit my two favorite Dhampir.

[POV Third Person]

Valerie Tepes looked out the moon through her bedroom window longingly.

She had just comforted her best friend Gasper until he fell asleep in his bed.

She let him sleep peacefully knowing that soon someone would come to take him to his room interrupting his moments of peace.

She felt tired.

Tired of how they treated her and Gasper just for being Dhampirs.

The only reason they hadn't been killed was because of the potential they both had.

Well at least in Gasper's case.

She knew they feared Gasper because of his Sacred Gear Forbidden Balor View that gave him the power to stop time and the vast amount of magical power his little friend was born with.

She on the other hand while she had been born with a fairly high magical power, she had nothing special, at least as far as she knew.

Or so she had been told.

Still, they were both doomed to be locked up in this prison they called home.

She wanted to escape with Gasper.

She wanted to live in a place where she wasn't seen as a monster or a mistake of nature.

She wanted to get out of here.

She wanted freedom.

Before she could continue to lose herself in thought a voice snapped her out of her stupor.

"Am I interrupting something?"

[POV Valerie]

"Am I interrupting something?"

My instincts became alert at the sound of that soft voice.

I hadn't sensed anyone entering the room.

I slowly turned my body to find a boy around who appeared to be my age, this one was caressing Gasper's hair carelessly as his golden eyes gave me a look with a soft warning.

"What do you wish?" I spoke trying to keep the tremor out of my voice as I watched this stranger near my only friend.

This boy might have looked young but everything in my body told me one wrong move and I would be dead.

He didn't answer me for a while until he finally spoke.

"I want you both to come with me" Was the reply that came from her soft voice as her golden eyes sharpened and a confident smile left her lips.

I was surprised by his response and my eyes widened as I tried to comprehend his words.

"What do you mean?" I asked the distrust in my voice must have been noticeable to him because he looked at me for a moment sizing me up before answering again.

"The three of us are quite alike" He chanted his answer as a faint musical whistle escaped his lips.

Confusion appeared in my mind, with every question I asked him his answers confused me even more.

"Well there are two others, they look like us too but they are not important at the moment" He continued his musing to himself pulling me out of my stupor before in a movement too fast for me to follow with my eyes he appeared at my side, his hand an inch from my face shining being covered by some sort of red gauntlet with a green gem in the center.

I tried to jump away, but with a quick sweep using his leg he made me lose my balance and with a force I didn't expect for someone of his size with his same leg he spun me in the air to then drop me on a chair that if I wasn't mistaken before was on the other side of the room.

All that in less than a second.

"When I said he appreciates me to you, I meant that like you I am a human hybrid who had the "Luck" or the "Misfortune" of being born with a Sacred Gear" I commented as he let me see his arm covered by a red glove resembling the claws of a dragon.

I wasn't a Sacred Gear expert but even I could guess what this one was and what possessing it turned the boy in front of me into.

"Sekiryuutei" I whispered and I could see a soft smile appear on the boy's lips.

"Allow me to introduce myself" The boy moved a little away from me as he walked over to the window letting the newly rising sunlight illuminate him his completely.

If I looked at it from an objective point of view this could all appear very cliché, but right now the scene captivated me putting my full attention on this young red dragon bearer.

"My name is Issei Hyoudou a half dragon and the red dragon emperor of this generation I have come here for two reasons rescue my dragon friends who were recently captured by the Tepes faction and for you two Valerie Tepes, Gasper Vladi" His voice echoed throughout the room and only now I could tell that Gasper was awake, though I didn't know how long he had been awake.

"What do you want from us?" Gasper asked his voice did not contain his usual nervousness, it contained Expectation? Anticipation? I couldn't decipher it.

"I want you to join me, after all birds of a feather fly together even so I'm not going to force you" He replied and I had to gather my wits this sounded too good to be true.

"How can we trust you, who's to say you really or want to hurt us? Besides, I don't have a Sacred Gear I'm not like you or Gasper" I asked and stated with a strong accusation in my voice as I wasn't going to trust this stranger that easy.

"If I wanted to hurt you or if I wanted them dead or kidnapped they would already be" His answer sounded like a simple statement and I knew at least the death part was true.

He watched me for a moment before smiling and speaking as if revealing a hidden secret to the world.

"It is still dormant and very much hidden in your soul, but I can feel a Sacred Gear in you, a very strong one to top it off" He told me causing me to gasp in surprise.

I had a Sacred Gear too.

I was like Gasper.

I didn't know how to feel about it. Happy? Sad? Surprised?

Still, I quickly pushed the feeling barrage aside, to hear what he would say next.

"You can't trust me, but what other options do you have, if you stay here sooner or later they will see you as a nuisance and kill you or worse" He stared at me as he said it, his golden eyes glowed and looked like they could even pierce my soul, I could feel my blood freeze, that last part was directed especially at me and I didn't know why, but at that moment I believed him.

"And you will protect us from that?" Gasper asked his voice trembling, realizing as I did that his last words were not just a warning.

It was a premonition.

"Better yet I will teach you to protect yourselves from that and if you become my companions I will protect you using all my strength in case you cannot, if you come with me I promise you freedom, if you become my companions I promise you blood, battles, much suffering and death, yours might be included in that last one but I promise you I will never abandon you, I will walk by your side and fight for you to the bitter end if necessary and someday I hope we can find a place we can call our own" His answer sounded sincere, he did not sugar coat it and was to the point.

I could appreciate that, although those words sounded wrong coming from someone who was apparently my age.

"I'm sorry for not giving you more time to decide but I must hurry you don't have to decide to become my companions right away, but if you come with me right now I will give you the freedom you both desire, it's the least I can do for companions who have the same plumage after all" he let out a chuckle at the end but I paid no attention to him.

My attention was on Gasper, we both looked into each other's eyes and made our decision immediately.