The Wolf and The Bat

First Lesson, Vampires

To say that Eren wasn't looking forward to his Mythical Studies class was an understatement. As he walked into the room, he caught the grey eyes of the werewolf prince, though he was more than happy that the mutt didn't smell like one. Well, a wet one. And, as Professor Vix had said, they had tables with two chairs at them instead of desks, and that meant that he HAD to sit next to Levi.

Eren sat next to Levi without much of a hello, and Levi made as much as an attempt at a greeting. Vix walked in with a wide smile on her face.

"Good afternoon class! I hope you're all excited for this ball to get rolling, so I'm going to tell you the first mythical beings we will be studying, are vampires, and that when we are finished with them, we'll be moving to werewolves." Eren and Levi almost let out exasperated sighs and let their heads drop on their table. Vix smiled wide. "Let's see what we already 'know' about vampires, shall we." About ten of the students shouted out random answers. Vix cleared her throat.

"Okay, so let's pretend this is a classroom and NOT a sports game. In my classroom, we will raise our hands." So hands went up. "Okay, first victim, Mr. Rivaille."

"They drink blood." Vix nodded.

"The most well known one, but also most important." She turned to write it on the board while Eren scowled a little. He was not going to like this. What other things were going to be said, and how insulting were they going to be? "Next?" This went on until no one could think of anything else. "Well, we have a pretty good list." She said, looking over the board.

The board read as follows: Drink blood, burn in the sun, pale, can turn into bats, have fangs, sleep in coffins, can't cross running water, killed with a stake threw the heart, killed with silver, killed with holy water, weak to crosses, weak to garlic, cold skin, living dead, come from Transylvania, have no reflection, can not enter a room without being invited in, and immortal.

Eren's eye twitched. Levi sat next to him snickering quietly.

"I'm glad everyone seems to have the basics, now we just need to go in depth about it. So let's start with the first one. Blood drinking. Who knows why vampires drink blood? You can call out on this one."

"Because they're sick fucks." Levi said. Vix gave him a look.

"First off, language in my classroom. I am the only one who can swear. Second, that's not a real answer Mr. Rivaille." Levi rolled his eyes. "Anyone have an actual response?" No one said anything as Vix rolled her eyes. "Anyone have a guess? You all have brains that are capable of coming up with guess. I don't care how stupid they are."

"Because they think it tastes good?"

"Because they don't have any of their own?"

"Because they can?" Vix sighed.

"Because they have haematosipsia*?" That caused a few chuckles around the room, especially from Levi, though they were only heard by Eren.

"According to Vampire Lore and different myths, Vampires drink blood because..." And she started this long explanation on it which was complete bullshit. Most of the things on the board that was went over had complete bullshit reasons. Once Vix made it threw the list, she looked up.

"All right, I hope you all took notes, because, though we may not be done discussing vampires and learning about them, you and your partner will have a project do at the end of the section. I will go more into it later. For now, discuss what I just told you with your partner. See if you agree on what I've told you, or if you agree on each other's beliefs or views. It will be important for your projects." And she sat down and opened a book that no one gave a shit about.