Damon slowly opened his eyes to see a white ceiling. He'd just woken up from the earlier training.
Rolling over and pushing off the ground, Damon was reminded of the weighted clothes on his body and unclipped them, letting them fall onto the floor resulting in massive bangs. Free from what felt like a prison on his body, Damon moved and stretched his body feeling the unmitigated power flowing through it.
His muscles felt as strong and sturdy as multiple metal ropes pressed together and stretched taut like he could easily lift a car. His bones compact and dense felt like they could hold the weight of a truck and barely even bend under the weight.
His body felt amazing but he knew this was a trick feeling. He wasn't that strong and neither was he that durable, it was just that his body and his mind were tricking each other.
Damon looked across at the mirror that stretched across the entirety of the wall and looked at his face. Apart from his usual indifference, there was a trace of coldness on it as well adding an unapproachable aura to him.
There were some black bags under his eyes for some reason and his skin seemed paler than usual like he was unhealthy so instead of light brown his skin looked slightly white making the black bags under his eyes stand out even more than they already did.
His eyes were still their usual yellow; bright and predatory.
Damon decided to go and have a shower to see if he could wash out the emotional and mental fatigue he was currently feeling along with the sweat on him. He threw his exercise top onto the floor in the training room after taking it off before walking out of the room and up the stairs.
Before long he arrived at one of the many showers in the house and walked in through the door before turning around and locking it.
Damon stripped his remaining clothes off before turning the shower on and putting it at a scaldingly hot temperature but when he entered he only felt a soothing feeling. He'd found this out on his first week after the surgery; his werewolf side loved the heat.
His ghoul side remained indifferent so it became a thing for him to have incredibly hot showers whenever he needed to relax and right now he needed to relax. It felt like every nerve in his body was taut to its very limits and if something were to act as stimuli he'd jump at them and rip them apart.
Standing under the shower head Damon closed his eyes and tried to clear his head. Tried.
'What else could I expect from a bunch of killers though, right? It was just me being naive that's all... but Mika-sama and Hikari are the only people I can afford to be close to because they need me, right? Everyone else should be seen as an enemy...On second thought I should always be cautious around Mika-sama and Hikari...Just in case...'
Damon stopped himself from thinking any further and just concentrated on the boiling hot water hitting his skin, realizing that whatever he thought about would just lead to the same thing; Him thinking about people betraying his trust.
After soaking in the water for a while, Damon washed his body with some soap and then his hair with some shampoo before getting out and drying himself off a little before walking back to his room after putting his sweaty work out clothes in the laundry basket.
Back in his room, Damon dried himself off more thoroughly before putting some casual wear on.
He looked over at his bag in his room and fetched out the blood he'd packed for the day before drinking it all. After the shower which relaxed his tense state, and the blood which gave him some energy, his skin returned to its original color and looked healthy once again. Weirdly enough the black bags under his eyes stayed there but he didn't really care so he ignored them.
Carrying the now empty blood bags, Damon walked downstairs to see if Mika or Hikari were home yet and to also put the blood bags in the bin.
When he walked into the kitchen he saw Mika and Hikari speaking to each other with their school bags on the table near them. Damon guessed that they'd just got back home from school, so he decided to not bother them and quickly stepped toward the bin and put his trash in it before turning around and walking off.
Before he could leave, however, Mika called out for him.
"Damon!" Damon turned around and looked at her, seeing her smile a smile which was full of concern and worry. Damon felt a bit of gratitude at her worry but ignored it for the most part in case it was just an act.
"Yes, Mika-sama?" Damon's voice was neutral and calm as he answered Mika.
Mika walked over to her bag and took out a file which was quite thick before walking over to him and handing it to him. "This is a file on everything you should want to know, take this as a favor from me. I never knew what my mother and Miss Natasha were planning, but I'll apologize on my Mother's behalf." Mika had an apologetic face as she slightly bowed causing Hikari's mouth to be wide open like a fish out of water.
Damon took the file from Mika's hands and thanked her before turning around and walking toward the stairs with his destination being his room.
Restless, Damon rushed up the stairs and into his room when he was out of sight from both Mika and Hikari not wanting either of them to know how much this meant to him. Closing his door and sitting on his bed, Damon opened up the file.
Everything in it was about either how compatible he was to the Werewolf and Ghoul Manifests, how well-suited his Gift was for fighting and about the surveillance team that watched over him and their mission.
Damon focused on the last part mostly, wanting to know the names of who let those things happen to Erika and Ayano.
Unluckily for Damon, their names had been blacked out which caused Damon to growl in annoyance. But he did know their mission now.
The team were originally going to follow Damon and the other club members to the competition they were supposed to go to on that day and then because Damon would win with ease, they'd recruit him for his fighting talent and get him into the organization because they already knew he had a Gift for Fighting in the form of his Hyper-Instincts by this time and also how he had an urge to kill because of the unconscious killing intent he gave off which most people couldn't feel but the people running surveillance on him could.
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Damon felt the people in the mission weren't necessarily at fault after seeing their mission. They were originally going to recruit him without the blackmail and through a rather peaceful way.
Thinking about this was in no way Damon forgiving Nox and Natasha for their lies. They both should have told him the truth and explained it to him on day 1 because if they had done so, they wouldn't have gone beyond the point of repair for their friendships and nothing will change that fact. It would've been so much more simple if they'd just told the truth.
Damon shook his head with sadness evident on his face.
He flipped a few pages back and looked at the things about his compatibility.
Another lie that Natasha had told him was that it was random what people Manifested as. The truth was that people could only Manifest as things they had compatibility with, when Damon looked back on it he realized he'd just blindly trusted Natasha because Mika was an example that it wasn't random and so were her sisters.
How could there be a Royal Vampire Family if what you manifested was random? Because their children were born as Humans and had to go through the surgery as well, so if it was random, what's to stop a child of the Vampire King or Queen from Manifesting as a Demon or a Zombie? The answer? Nothing.
But they don't need to worry about that because people have certain compatibilities to certain things they could Manifest.
It was all put down in this little file on how Damon's compatibility was nearly 100% for both Werewolf and Ghoul so they picked him to become the perfect bodyguard for Mika. Him being from the Jaeger family and having such a good Gift were only add-ons.
To make sure he became a Hybrid they'd secretly been putting a chemical in the water supply to his house which changed the way his compatibility worked, merging Werewolf and Ghoul into the same thing.
The chemical was harmless, all it did was merge Manifests together, so his parents would be fine.
They'd done this before so they knew it worked and when the time came, Damon had come into enough contact with the chemical water to awaken as a Hybrid between a Werewolf and a Ghoul.
Damon put the file down on his bed and lay back with his head sinking into the soft blanket.
'I feel like a lab rat...I can't really bring myself to care beyond that though, it's given me a chance to get powerful...One I'm not gonna waste.'
Damon looked at the time and saw that it was around 4 pm and knowing he had some time to burn before he should sleep he walked over to his shelf and picked up a few books before lying on his bed and reading them.
He kept reading until it was an appropriate time to sleep before putting his book down and then sleeping.
When he woke up the next day, he looked outside at the slowly rising sun feeling empowered by the warmth it gave.
Damon peacefully watched the sunrise for a while before his alarm clock went off next to him. Instinctively Damon hit the alarm clock because he didn't realize what it was and he overreacted.
Looking at the broken alarm clock, Damon shook his head at how much of an idiot he was and got out of bed.
Putting his uniform on, Damon walked to the bathroom and washed his face and brushed his teeth before walking downstairs for breakfast. His breakfast consisted of about 10kg of raw meat and 2 blood bags; It was delicious.
After that, Damon made sure to put everything he needed into his school bag before sitting in the living room and reading a book about Aura. He'd overheard Hikari and Mika talking about how their lesson today was to do with Aura and Magic so he thought he'd refresh himself on what he knew about Aura.
Mika, not wanting a repeat of yesterday morning, got up on her own and got ready for school on time. As she walked downstairs and toward the kitchen she walked past Damon, glancing at him every now and then but seeing Damon reading she decided to not bother him. Her and Hikari had their breakfast together before signaling to Damon that they were ready to go.
As they were walking to school, Damon continued to read while using his extremely enhanced senses to guide himself, while also looking out for any dangers toward Mika.
They got to school without a hitch and walked through the gates. Damon received multiple stares as they walked into the building.
'Hmm, seems news of my fight with Miss Sasaki has spread...'
Damon absentmindedly thought as someone put their hand on his shoulder. Turning around, Damon saw a light grey skinned, red-eyed and red-haired girl standing behind him with a competitive look on her face. Before he could even speak, the girl spoke in a boisterous voice.
"You're the guy who fought a teacher right?!" She posed him a question but carried on before he could answer "My names Kaori Lucifer, I'm the leader of the Demon Faction for the first years and the only Princess of the Royal Demon Family" Pride surged from the redheads body as she carried on "And I want someone of your strength to join me!" her eyes shone with fighting intent as she looked at Mika who she knew was Damon's master.
Mika walked up and stood between Damon and Kaori. "He's part of the Undead Faction, so stay away from him, Demonic Filth." Mika was slightly taller than Kaori so she looked down at the fiery Demon and spoke with both anger and disdain evident in her voice.
Kaori seemed infinitely angered by what Mika had said, when she went to step forward to hit Mika, Damon spoke up.
"Please don't mind Mika-sama, she's just a bit worn out at the minute, Kaori-sama. I enjoy being in the Undead Faction, but if something changes that I'll contact Kaori-sama as soon as possible to join your Faction, okay?" Damon's calm and deep voice seemed to have the effect of calming both the princesses, Kaori even seemed to have a weird look in her eyes as she looked at Damon, while Mika looked embarrassed that she'd lost her cool in front of Damon.
"Hmph! Be grateful that you have such a pleasing retainer, Vampire Princess, otherwise, I'd have put your face into the ground by now!" She scowled at Mika before turning to Damon and smiling "Be sure to get in contact with me if the chance arises, Werewolf-kun~"
And after that, she left, making sure to sashay her wide hips and perfect ass to try and entice Damon. Unluckily for her, he wasn't looking as he, Mika and Hikari had already started walking away.
"Mika-sama, what was that about? Why was she so aggressive on wanting me?" Damon curiously asked Mika as he continued to read.
"Well, power is an attractive thing for Demons, so that's why the Demon Princess came first and the faction leaders can never fight each other, they can only fight with retainers. You and Hikari are my retainers, so if I ever come into a fight with another Faction, you two will be my fighters." Mika spoke with a calm voice as they continued to walk.
She carried on after a while. "So powerful retainers who can fight a teacher and even though they lost and were put in the infirmary, they healed all the damage back to normal and returned to school like nothing happened the next day, that caliber of a retainer is sought after by all the Factions of our year."
Damon looked up from his book. "Our year? Aren't the factions spanning across all the years in the school?"
"Well, technically, yes. But we're not linked with those factions and they'll even try and suppress us as well if we overstep our lines but they usually ignore the First Year Factions so they can settle in...It's just...My sisters will probably still mess with us." Mika had an agitated expression on her face when she spoke about her sisters
Damon thought it made sense. Each year had a representative for each faction, usually from royalty, and they would make a faction to suppress the other younger generation. Even factions of the same origin would still fight against each other because of the fight for that factions Throne to become the King or Queen.
As Damon was thinking about this, they made it to the classroom and entered.