✓RavenWood : Academy || BxB || Draft

Chapter 24

The third elder stepped forward and knelt down by Takeshis side, gently calming the fourteen-year-old with a simple yet effective gesture. The male traced small patterns on Takeshis back and to the strangers' surprise, it worked.

"Do you remember my name?" That was all he asked. And Takeshi happily complied with the question and gave an answer.

"Shouta, Shouta Sato,"

"That's right buddy, I'm going to heal your wounds now, is that alright?" Shouta wondered, his eyes danced over the multiple bruises and wounds the child had received, he felt extremely bad for the boy.

"You can do that?" Takeshi asked sceptically. "You must be powerful,"

"Well, you can be just as strong. Here sit up," With a mix of effort and pain, Shouta managed to help Takeshi sit up again the wall, holding the smaller hand in his larger one in another attempt to comfort the somewhat traumatised boy.

Shouta brought his hand to his mouth mindlessly and bit deeply using his fangs which abnormally grew when he was a child. A dribble of scarlet red trickled down his hand, and a spot managed to drip on his chin but he happily licked it away. The metallic taste of blood never seemed to bother him even despite not being a vampire.

"Why did you bite yourself?" Takeshi asked while his eyebrows furrowed in confusion. He noticed the dripping blood and couldn't help but wonder. Shouta almost felt Takeshis curious orbs stare holes into him but simply smiled to ease the uneasiness in the boys' mind.

"My blood will heal your wounds. While many people can heal wounds, they can only heal a third of the damage made inside your body, for example, broken bones. Allowing a victim to drink a small amount of my blood gives me the ability to heal all of their internal and external damage," Shouta explained to the child not worrying about the complex words he used as he overheard Takeshis parents talking about how wonderfully the boy was doing with his studies.

He was actually in awe of how well he was doing.

"I heard blood doesn't taste so nice..." he blinked once, innocently while his mouth did a small frown. Meanwhile, the two toxic parents scampered away with their tails between their legs, of course for clarification they weren't wolves, they were Demons.

"Well, I guess it's not the best taste in the world. But it's something Vampires need to survive," Shouta narrowed his eyes for a moment and made a quick decision to try end any useless conversation and help the boy who was still severely injured but seemed to be dealing with it rather well. "Here, I need you to drink,"

"Uh, how much?"

"Just a mouthful, nothing more than that," seeing Takeshis hesitance the adult let out a chuckle "I know it tastes bad, but you'll have to deal with it, alright?"

"Okay," he nodded subtly while Shouta repositioned his hand so it was just slightly above Takeshis mouth, it gave the Takeshi the option to drink on his own accord when he was ready. Not when shouta told him or when he was forced to.

Obediently, Takeshi clamped his lips around Takeshis hand and allows the crimson to fill his mouth before he gulped, wincing at the horrible metal taste. Once he had consumed the not so tasty liquid, he stuck his tongue out and shook his head leaving Shouta to just laugh at the humorous sour face.

"There now, let the magic do its work,"

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