𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗚𝗘𝗥𝗦 𝗦𝗧𝗨𝗖𝗞↷엔하이픈 (en-)

𝗶𝘅 : 𝘃𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗲'𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁

And when they reached down the stairs, the scenario was something they had not at all expected.

Heeseung, the quietest elder boy's eyes were beaming with fuming red, his fangs of vampire origin sharp, long were piercing to the sight. His sense seemed to have disappeared and all that was visible was the hunger in his eyes. His skin was paler than before and he was practically raging for food.

Well, the question arose, what had happened and for that, we'd have to look back into the past.

- EARLIER

It was the break and Heeseung sat near the door, carefully picking up the dismantled pieces of wooden axes fallen to the floor.

Jungwon sat beside him, his back against the wall, slowly helping the older one. He hadn't talked to Heeseung much and even back in school, he hardly had noticed the older one. Silence filled the atmosphere and the only noise that could be heard was the subtle creaking of the house and the distant voices of the other boys.

'Uh, I'm Heeseung.' the older one urged himself to start a conversation.

'I know.' Jungwon replied, obviously aware of the fact that his reply didn't seem appropriate.

'I've seen you in school sometimes, just that I never got to talk to you' Heeseung informed.

'So it's not because I'm a human ?' Jungwon questioned with a smile.

'Well, apparently it is.' Heeseung chuckled.

Heeseung got up from the ground and Jungwon looked at him and signalled him to help him get up. Heeseung grabbed Jungwon's arm and pulled him up. But what Heeseung didn't notice was that when he had dragged Jungwon up, the boy had dropped the sharp axe that he was holding , causing the sharp head to slice deep into the palm of his hand.

Jungwon hissed from the pain of the deep cut and he freed his hand from Heeseung's and held his injured palm. The cut was diagonal across his hand and it was painful.

'Jungwon! I'm sorry'

'no hyung, it's okay' Jungwon assured, wincing in pain.

'Jungwon, I'm sorry, I just-
But Heeseung paused.

Blood.

The fresh cut presented a strong scent of blood. A simple cut starts off clean at first but once the blood vessels get damaged, one faces a fountain of blood. That's how the blood platelets come out and help in healing but when faced by a vampire, this may be a little dangerous.

Especially when the vampire has had no food for the past 3 days and is thirsty.

Sunghoon had never exactly described the transformation of the blood-thirsty vampires. Transformation into a beast, a hungry thirsting being that can become savage in seconds.
And now in front of Jungwon, here Heeseung was, completely hungry for that blood.

- PRESENT TIME

And even though vampires couldn't live up to the lengths of a werewolf or other transformational beings, vampires were just as dangerous and vulgar. They would easily scare and kill any being in sight.

And Jungwon was about to become his target.

Jungwon's wound was quite deep and the blood was oozing onto the floor. His blurry sight was focused on Heeseung who was still in the sight of rage.

Jungwon was frightened and his own blood drilling on the floor made a subtle pattern which raged something in the atmosphere.

'H-heeseung hyung' the younger one called out but the older one wasn't himself.

Jungwon used his trembling hands to wipe away his tears and looked at Heeseung who was just in front of his eyes.

Jungwon quivered in fear.

Ni-ki ran down the stairs first and he stood near them, equally shocked at the sight.

'You smell good..' Heeseung with a deep, tar thick, menacing voice called out and Jungwon felt as if he was about to drop, he wiped his bleeding palm against his pants in panic but that only made the situation worse.

When Jungwon had screamed for help, his shrill voice made Heeseung back off and cover his ears. A myth or not, vampires are said to have a strong scent and hearing and even in Jungwon hadn't known it, he was thankful that his scream had worked.

'Jungwon, what happened?' Sunoo exclaimed when he came down the stairs.

'I-I had c-cut my hand and heeseung hyung just turned, he's thirsty and I don't know how to stop him' Jungwon said and stared at Heeseung in front of him. Now that he was back to normal, he was again trying to charge at Jungwon but was being stopped by Sunghoon and Ni-ki.

Jay stared at the horrific scene in front of him but then he remembered something.

'Hold on guys ! I have something', Jay ran leaving everyone behind and headed up to the attic as fast as he could.

Once he had finally made it up to the Attic stairs, he searched for the box and when he found it, he smiled.

The box Jay had opened was full of blood .

Trying to pick up the box would be a hassle so he just picked out a few bags of blood which were way too heavy for him to carry but he managed to carry them and ran downstairs.

Jay's breath was heavy and uneven and when he finally reached the stairs, he ran down with 5 bags of blood in his arms.

Making his way as fast as he could, he was blind to see the dent in the last step and he tripped and the bags of blood fell out onto the floor where the boys resided.

Jay fell on the floor face first but then he quickly got up and shoved one bag of blood to a raging Heeseung which was approaching and within a minute, Heeseung heaved a sense of relief. His craving for blood was now satisfied and he was finally being nourished.

His sharp gaze was now gone and his fangs were back to normal and the sharpness and his skill colour was back to normal.

Jay quickly ran over and handed each of the vampires a bag and they indulged themselves into drinking it to satisfy their thirst.

Jungwon dropped to the ground and heaved a sigh. All the humans came over to help his sit down and Jake handed him water.

'Aah finally !' Ni-ki had screamed after being satisfied with the blood.

The other two vampires sighed in relief. Helping Heeseung up and the humans vice versa.

'guys, I'm sorry' Heeseung confessed.

'hyung, it's fine.' Jake assured him.

'where did you get the blood from, boy ?' Sunghoon asked as Jay pointed to the Attic. 'we should probably check that place out tomorrow, but let's take a rest now.' Sunoo suggested.

'hopefully they'll have human food, my stomach is killing me.' Jake growled.

'what type of blood is it anyways, it tastes different' Heeseung questioned and Jay picked up one of the remaining packets ane says, 'B-bird blood'

'Ugh' Heeseung screamed, throwing the packet away in all disgust.

'who would even own these?'

"I don't know, but it wasn't bad actually' Sunghoon confessed.

Ni-ki stared at Sunghoon's packet in awe and signalled at Sunoo, 'so who's gonna tell him that the one he drank was rat blood ?'

Sunoo who was about to burst into laughter shushed the younger one, 'he'll find it out by himself.'

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