Slowly opening his eyes, Jack felt like his brain was trying to force its way out of his skull.
After a few minutes of repetitively opening and closing his eyes, Jack could finally function to a barely normal level. He took in his location and to his relief, he saw that he wasn't in the alleyway anymore.
Focusing more on the room he was in, he saw that he was in a pure white room but most of his vision was cut off by hospital curtains. So other than the bedside table next to him and the white wall to his left, he couldn't see the door or any windows. Well, if there were any, anyway.
'At least someone got me to a hospital...I really didn't wanna die.'
As this realization passed through his head, more of Jack's senses came back to him. It seemed his brain was still slowly booting up and recovering from the earlier damages.
With his sense of touch fully restored, Jack could feel something wrong with his jaw; like there was something new there, something he'd never had before. Not only his jaw but his hands, more specifically, his fingertips felt like they had something hidden inside them as well.
Jack thought about it for a while but he came to the conclusion that the damage Gary and Jason did to him had made it so his Jaw had to be wired up and his hands might have been broken as well; he didn't know.
While Jack was wondering whether or not he had been mutilated by Jason and Gary's abuse, he failed to notice that 3 people had entered his room. He only noticed when one of them started pulling the curtains that surrounded half of his bed so that they were out of the way.
When they were fully out of the way, Jack came out of his daydream and looked about confused. Contrary to what you'd think, the first thing Jack noticed was that his room didn't have any windows.
After thinking that was weird, he finally took notice of the 3 people who entered his room.
There was 2 larger figures and 1 smaller one. The smaller one wasn't that small at all though as Jack looked at her, he was a bit stunned.
She stood around 5"10, her body was very athletic looking; not overly muscular but you could tell she had just enough muscle. Her bust, Jack predicted anyway, was around a C Cup. But the main highlight was her ass, it was incredibly plump, but not overly so, it fit her body incredibly well. But it all seemed to pale in comparison when Jack really looked at her face; She was just so beautiful. Her beauty went well with her brown hair and piercing green eyes.
'...What a woman...If I didn't know better, I'd think I'd died and gone to heaven hahaha!'
Stifling a chuckle at his own joke, Jack moved his eyes to what seemed like her bodyguards.
They seemed to be twins, both women and they were both quite tall for women at around 6"2. Unlike the redhead at the front, you could see that these two were quite muscular but not overly so and instead of taking away from their beauty, it added it's own unique beauty. Making them look like beautiful Amazonian women.
Both the twins had white hair and blue eyes and the only difference between them was that the one on the left had a scar on her left cheek. The first thing Jack thought about them was that they both had oddly delicate-looking faces when compared to their body's.
Soon after he'd finished checking them out, he suddenly got tense when he saw the brunette walking to his side and starting to talk as she was walking over, "Hello Mr.Noctis, you can call me Zoe. I'm here with some news," as she finished saying that she pulled up a chair next to the bed Jack was in and spoke again, "There have been some pretty big changes to your body Mr. Noctis and I'm here to break the news to you."
Hearing the mention of news and what she said, Jack felt his stomach turn and felt the blood leave his face in sickening disbelief.
'Did those two bastards actually cripple me...?'
His despair must have shown on his face as Zoe spoke again, this time in a more gentle voice. But it didn't fool Jack, it might have been subconscious or maybe not but he'd started listening to people's tones more, what they said and their expressions and he could tell that she didn't care; She was just pretending, like his so-called best 'friends'.
But when he heard what she said, he was incredibly surprised, "Don't worry, Mr.Noctis, you aren't a cripple. You're better than ever, actually."
"Huh?" Jack looked shell-shocked at Zoe for a minute before he finally pulled himself together and a brilliant smile sprung up on his face. It was both an excited and confused smile, but it was a smile nonetheless.
But something was bugging him slightly; Nagging him at the back of his head, constantly telling him something was wrong.
So he spoke up to rid himself of his doubts, "But umm Ms. Zoe, I was stabbed a whole lot in my stomach and chest, I'm pretty sure they broke my nose and a few other bones in my face. Even if someone got me to a hospital right away shouldn't I be dead or at least in some sort of coma?"
Zoe nodded at his words and while she did, she opened up the handcuffs that Jack didn't know were on him. One she'd taken all of the handcuffs off, 4 to be exact (One on each limb), she opened a briefcase one of the guards handed her and looked at a file while speaking to Jack, "Mr.Noctis, you could be seen as unlucky or lucky, it's up to how you yourself see it. Get out of the bed and have a look in that mirror over there," as she said this she pointed at a wall to the left side of the room from where Jack was with a remote and the wall opened up to reveal a mirror.
Slightly shocked and confused at why a Hospital had a mirror hidden in a wall, Jack complied and stood up from the bed.
When getting up he saw that he was wearing a hospital gown and everything else was covered in bountiful amounts of tight bandages. He was surprised he could even stand up after what happened to him, but he put it in a file of questions to ask later on and continued getting up.
When Jack stood up he felt something was weird but he couldn't place his finger on what exactly, he decided to keep walking anyway and got in front of the mirror. What he saw nearly put him on his ass.
First of all, he'd grown. A lot. Before he was just 6" but now he'd grown half a foot and was now 6"6 or 2m. And that wasn't the only change, nor was it the biggest.
'Holy shit, I'm absolutely ripped!'
Jack's surprise was boundless as he looked at his once well-toned body. He'd always been muscular because of his love for sports but he'd never been as muscular as he was now. His body was now full of athletic muscle, like a sprinter or a gymnast.
It filled out his large stature perfectly, every inch of muscle looking like it was packed full of explosive power and strength.
Each individual muscle, from his rock-solid abs and strong pecs to his solid arms and legs, each of them complimented each other to paint a picture; A picture that told a tale of violence and strength. That was the feeling that he got when he looked at these muscles. Whether he was looking at his body structure, his height, or his muscles, it hardly seemed like a human's body. It seemed more like the body of something born to kill and hunt.
Shaking his head to get that odd thought out of his head, he looked at his head and was surprised. His original locks of golden blonde hair were now blood red and from what happened it was now quite messy, but it still looked quite good. His stare was ironically drawn to his eyes and he looked in shock at how they'd turned from their original royal blue to a scarlet red that was incredibly bright; Like a torch in the night. Then he saw them.
'Oh wow, my pupils are now reptilian slits--Wait...What? Like...Why...?'
Yep. Jack's pupils had turned from their original human and round looking ones into more inhuman looking reptilian slits that made his eyes look like that of a predator.
As he continued to inspect his body and how much it had changed, Jack heard a gulp from someone in the room which knocked him out of his stupor and he turned around to face the group of 3 women who were watching him. He saw that the twin who had the scar was bright red while the other twin was blushing slightly while in a daze as she stared at Jack's body.
When he was about to speak, Zoe reprimanded the twins, "Just because you two are Oni's doesn't mean you have to be distracted by a guys body if it's that good, does it? What if he tried to escape and you two couldn't stop him because you were too busy looking, Hmm?"
The two girls snapped out of it and got even more embarrassed but they soon put their professional demeanors back on, Jack could've sworn he heard the one with a scar say some like 'I hope he tries to escape, it'd give me an excuse to grapple him to the ground and touch him...'.
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...Jack didn't want to escape before but now he definitely didn't want to, especially as he was at risk with getting touched by such a pervert, as he thought about this he shivered in instinctive fear.
As he was thinking he decided to speak, "So Ms. Zoe, what happened to me? I've changed a lot since the last time I looked in the mirror. And did you just say 'Oni's'?" towards the end his voice and tone got more and more confused.
Zoe, seeming to understand what he was going through, answered his questions with a calm voice, "Well Mr. Noctis, we don't know what happened to you, we only know that you were infected with two different strands of vampirism. Extremely potent and ancient strains of vampirism to be exact," she let what she said sink in before continuing, "The first, a strain called 'Sanguis Angelus', quite a mouthful, I know. We call them 'Blood Angels' for short," she paused to catch her breath while passing some files to Jack, "The other strain is something we thought was lost to the ages. A strain called 'Vaebeast'. Let's just say the two different strains have bonded and caused multiple mutations in you, Mr. Noctis,"
Jack was stunned when he heard what she was saying. His first reaction was to call her crazy or to doubt her but how else could he have changed so dramatically? He genuinely couldn't think of anything that could do this to someone, so he took the information that was given to him.
Seeing he was so shocked, Zoe carried on so she could bring him out of his stupor, "And to answer your other question, yes, I did, these two are my guards and they're also Oni's. All I can say is, welcome to the world of the supernatural."
This news made Jack's stomach lurch because of him being torn in two different ways because of two different beliefs. One side not wanting to believe in the supernatural and the other side having no choice in whether to believe it or not, it was just the only thing that made sense of the entire situation.
Because she could see what Jack was going through, Zoe spoke up, "Calm down Jack, I represent an organization that recruits people like you, we could help you get used to your new changes and what comes with them. If you want to find out more, come with us--"
Before she could finish, Jack spoke out.
"I'm thirsty."
The twins flinched at that, they both knew how fierce a normal vampire could get when it was thirsty, let alone a vampire made as the result of two ancient lineages joining together. They both got ready to take him down if he lunged for any of them.
Zoe, on the other hand, kept her cool and spoke up, "That's a vampire's thirst you're feeling, it shouldn't be so bad. You should be able to hold on for a while longer, so don't worry. But this is why we need to get you off of the streets and into our training camp, you won't be able to control yourself around humans when you enter a full-blown Blood Thirst."
Suddenly she noticed something wrong with Jack; He was shaking like he was holding back something.
He spoke soon after she noticed this, "I need something to drink. Now."
Zoe put her foot down and spoke in a stern voice, "And I said you'll have to wait, Mr. Noctis"
Jack seemed immensely annoyed by her reply, "You don't get it," he hissed through gritted teeth, "It feels like every cell in my body is hungry. Every muscle fiber, every fucking sinew in my body, hell even my bones feel fucking thirsty. So please, get me something to drink."
As he spoke further and further, his shaking got worse and his eyes went incredibly bloodshot and like traditional vampires, fangs were where his canines had been but he had two sets of fangs. One on his top jaw like a normal vampire and one on his lower jaw, it made him look less like what you'd expect a vampire to look like but more like a carnivorous animal, which in all honesty he was.
"You know what Vampires feed off of right, Mr. Noctis? Blood. They drink blood and if the thirst is affecting you this badly, your strain of vampirism seems to have the glutton trait..." Zoe went into thought a second before looking at the twins, "You two, hold him down while I get him some blood. Make sure he doesn't escape, got it!?"
"Yes, Miss!"
The two Oni got to work quickly as Zoe left the room and each grabbed one of Jack's arms and using their inherent strength as oni they pushed him into the ground.
Jack, in his hunger-fueled annoyance, started thrashing about, but he soon stopped.
For 2 main reasons: He knew that thrashing about would waste his time and energy and he stopped because he was surprised at his own strength. Now that he thought about it, he felt incredible, he felt strong.
So he decided to test just how strong he really was.
"Grrrrr!" unknowingly to Jack, a guttural growl came out of his mouth as his eyes brightened and he started flexing his arms and putting them to use.
He heard the two sisters grunting, trying to keep his arms in place and they were doing a mighty fine job if you asked Jack but still, he was ever so slowly bringing his arms from his back, where they were being pinned, to the floor in front of him.
It seemed the twin without the scar was weaker, so his right arm was nearly on the floor.
"Geez! What's this guy made of?! It's like trying to bend a sentient steel bar that tries to bends you in return!" was all the weaker twin could grunt out as she strained and struggled to bring Jack's arm back up behind him.
Even the stronger twin was starting to struggle further and further as she continued to hear her younger twin constantly complaining. After a particularly strong tug from Jack, she decided that there was something that she needed to do, so she did it.
*POP! CRACK!*
"ARGHHHH!"
'She dislocated my shoulder, for fucks sake--!'
Before he could finish his mental sentence, the other twin did the same thing.
*POP! CRACK!*
"ARGHHH! YOU BITCH!"
Jack was getting increasingly feral and this wasn't helping the twins hold him down. He struggled harder and harder and the twins kept breaking his shoulders, they'd reached some kind of stalemate.
Luckily, Jack seemed to calm down after what seemed like forever. His shoulders had been dislocated so many times he felt like they'd be permanently damaged but as expected of a Vampire's body, he kept healing.
'Seems like there is a downside to healing that quickly, it does nothing for the pain...'
As he was calm, Jack just kept thinking while trying to ignore the twins, who's hands' kept going over his back and arms, too, as they put it, 'Make sure you don't do anything silly'.
'Bloody perverted twins...Now onto bigger questions, should I join this agency?' Jack put some serious thought to this before carrying on 'I don't think I can fully trust them and they'll probably use me for their own benefits but they'll help me get used to being what I am. They'll probably help me get stronger as well, I can feel that I'm not at my full strength potential-wise, kinda like I have to go through a maturation period as a vampire. Great, I have extended puberty..and I'd just gotten out of the damn thing as well!'
As he was thinking this he thought of another shocking thing.
'How am I so accepting of the fact that I'm not human anymore? That's a big deal right?... Well, I guess I wouldn't care about it after my dad died and mom pretty much left with my little sister, saying some shit like 'We'll be back'...Hmph, back my ass,' Jack felt a weird melancholy as he thought about all this, '...I've got nothing to really tie me back to being human anymore, so I might as well accept what I am before I do something stupid.'
As he worked out this little possible trauma before it manifested, he felt better and as he felt better the door opened and Zoe walked in with a big duffle bag of what Jack assumed to be blood bags, she walked towards Jack and when she got to him she poured the contents of the duffle bag onto the floor in front of him. She motioned for the twins to let go of Jack and then nodded at him so he could feed.
Jack picked up one of the bags and hesitated but soon steeled his resolve to live his life as what he is now, so he opened up the blood bag and the scent was just out of this world. It smelled like all of Jack's favorite food items mixed together and he couldn't hold himself back anymore as he starting chugging down the blood bag.
To say it was delicious would be an understatement. It tasted impeccable and as he was basking in the bliss of the blood before he knew it the bag was emptied. So he picked up another and after a while, he picked up another.
He went through 20 blood bags until he was sated and he found something interesting.
Every time he finished a blood bag, he felt stronger, faster, more durable. It was amazing, mainly because he could tell that it was permanent, he'd doubled in strength from these blood bags but it did give less of an increase each time he drank.
Soon he stood up and realized he was slightly more muscular than before. It didn't make him look too bulky, but just enough that you could tell that he was packing a lot of power. Although all his muscles still looked like an athlete's rather than a weightlifter's. The twins didn't seem to mind, they still looked at Jack the way he looked at Blood Bags.
"So, Mr. Noctis, now that you've had your breakfast, have you thought about our offer?"
"Well, Ms. Zoe, I had a lot of time to think when those two over there kept dislocating my shoulders and touching my muscles constantly and I accept your offer but on one condition."
Hearing what he said Zoe gave the red-faced twins a death stare while they glared at Jack for reporting them to their superior and finally asked him what he wanted.
"What do you want? Money? Power? We can give you both."
"Oh, I don't doubt that Ms. Zoe, not at all. But as I'm joining the agency, I'll get those things anyway, so I just want to ask one small thing. Can you find out where my mom and little sister are? Then get them to a place where I can meet them one last time?"
"Of course we can Mr. Noctis. We'll get it arranged, so now, follow me and I'll take you to a car and we'll go to the agency's training grounds."
Jack knew he was about to ask a stupid question but he asked it anyway.
"What about sunlight though? I am a vampire, you know?"
The twins giggled while Zoe had a slight smile as she spoke.
"We've already flashed you with a UV light when you were asleep, you have different weaknesses compared to 'traditional' vampires. Every strain of vampirism is different, Mr. Noctis."
"Ah, okay. Kinda did sound like a stupid question in my head. Oh, and please call me Jack, people only ever called my dad Mr. Noctis."
"Hehe okay, Jack-a-boy"
Jack grimaced at the nickname Gary had called him throughout all of high school. But soon after he shook his head, they wouldn't be able to hurt him now, if anything, he would hurt them if he saw either of them in the future.
Jack, Zoe, and the twins walked out of the room and towards an elevator.
Jack was nervous and excited about this new prospect for his life. In the future when he was at the training ground, he'd look back at this moment and wished for death instead of being trained like how he was.