“Welcome” the old man said.
“Uh… hello!” Fiena replied back, a bit nervous of being in such a big estate.
“Hi, Sebastian, Is Miss Tempest here??” Mia asked.
“She’s in the study, Miss Apozitive. May I take your coats??”
“Urm… sure, if it doesn’t trouble you so.”
“Work is never trouble.” Sebastian smiled warmly, collecting the other girls coats.
“Who is that??” Fiena asked.
“That’s Sebastian. The Tempest family’s greatest and top butler. He first served them during 1569. He dedicated his life for the Tempest family and he’s been working for them for generations. He also respects some great family names. He knows me well b’coz me and Alice go way back”
“Is he immortal, or something??” Fiena asked.
“Every Temple Household and servants are vampires and immortal. They swore by oath to be blooded so they can specially work here without being devoured.” Mia said.
‘That’s so cool, having a butler working for a family for generations.’ Fiena thought.
“C’mon, I’ll show you the way, since I’ve been here a lot of times before. The study is located on the third floor, to the west side of the house and the second door you saw. Make note of that since this is a five storey mansion.” Mia said.
“Woah.” Fiena said in an amazed tone.
The girls had a tiring time, walking to the study room. Alice was currently studying Italian when the girls entered.
“Benvenuti nella mia casa, amici!” Alice greeted them.
“She said Mia’s name!” Syaira giggled.
“Har har, very funny. Just because my name is an Italian word, that doesn’t mean I am.” Mia said.
“Okay!” Syaira beamed.
“You guys, this is my family library. It may contain some crucial files and documents, so please be careful not to stumble to mysterious books, okay??” Alice said.
“Hai! Wakarimasu!!” Mia said.
The other girls agreed too.
“Today, our lesson is: Vampires. My favourite topic.”
“Hold on, I’ll get my note pad!” Fiena said, making a turquoise coloured notebook appear in mid-air. “Mia thought me that.” She smiled.
“That’s good. Your developing and doing a fine progress.” Alice smiled.
“Okay, may we proceed?”
“Yes, ma’am.”
“Good. Nowadays, I’m very ashamed of how the human society think of us vampires. Their corrupted minds making us look twisted and battling other creatures! Such disgrace!” Alice said, and her features darkened.
“We’re vampires, not mosquitoes! We hunt silently and we do not sparkle. Human blood is indeed a rare feast but we prefer animal blood so we don’t go on a ‘Blood Rampage.’”
“To humans, we are poorly portrayed as ‘monsters’, ‘blood-suckers’ and some even call us ‘crazy sexists!’ for sneaking into people’s room and bite their necks for blood and left a mark they call a ‘hickey’. Wouldn’t it be awkward if a vampire just went straightforward and cut a person?” Alice said, finally letting her anger out on humans too.
“Calm down, buddy. We’re in the same boat, too.” Mia sighed.
“I will. Sebastian, please get me a cup of rose tea.” Alice said, her hand massaging her forehead.
“Yes young Miss. Right away.” Sebastian nodded. But before he left, he had the time to ask, “Would Miss’s friends care to make a request?”
“We’re fine, thanks.” Rita said and the others nodded as well.
“No, it’s ok! Sebastian, bring us rose tea and the new cake Chef Gusteau just made.” Alice said.
“Very well, Miss. Your request is my command.” Sebastian nodded politely, then left.
“What a cool old guy. I would like for him to work at our cafe someday, or even train part-time newbies!” Mia said.
“Anyway, the kitchen is on the ground-floor. So, we may have time to proceed to learning.”
“First lesson; BLOOD. Each and every vampire has to go through the ‘Blood Ceremony’ by the age of 10. That’s when we’re old enough to hunt, and even classify types of blood. To Humans, Animal Blood and Human Blood look the same and taste the same.”
“Nay, to us blood experts, it’s a very huge difference. Human Blood is richer in taste, thicker in color and it may cause great addiction if consumed too much. Animal Blood is different too. It sometimes taste bland but its still sweet and salty to the tongue of us vampires.”
“Animal blood is the easiest to get on the blood market. The most delicious Animal Blood belongs to deer’s, lambs, sheep and cows and etcetera. However, not all blood is safe to consume.”
“What do you mean by that?”
“Take snakes, for examples. The blood is as poisonous as its venom. Its as if a human swallowed the venom. Other blood includes; bears, tigers, snakes, cats, dogs, platypus, wolves and bats.”
“Another thing: Vampires do not turn into bats. That’s total bullshit. We are not shape shifters. We’re vampires for Pete’s sake! Bats are not our food either. There are our companions and pets. Like witches with black cats and black crows for example.”
“We tend to disappear using a potion and bats help to cover our tracks. It’s simple and humans are stupid to not figure it out.”
“We rule by our Vampire Emperor, William Thorne the third. But, his real name is long and in Romanian, which is William Stefan Vasile. He’s been ruling us for over 30 centuries alongside his wife, Sarah Thorne. They have one son, Ciel Dracul Thorne.”
“Some said vampires are immortal. That may be true, because we are gradually far stronger than humans and our life spans are far far longer. We age, 1 year a century. I’m currently seventeen so it currently makes me 170. I was born at 18th of August, 1831 in a Transylvanian home.”
“OMG, so that makes you old??” Fiena asked.
“Shut up! I’m not old in vampire age!!” Alice was getting annoyed.
“Oh, I’m so sorry.”
“Anyways. We get back to blood. Blood is a basic and main food for us vampires to consume. To us, we can’t just choose whatever blood. We can’t drink Witch blood because we made alliance to them and they taste very, very bitter. Faeries’ blood is waaay…… to SALTY. Even vampires can die of high blood pressure. Blood of the undead may taste like rotten sour milk or tasteless and bland. Were-animal blood is poisonous but tastes very savory.”
“Next topic; DYING. Vampires can die in several ways, but some humans think garlic is the most effective way. I’ve got one answer. That’s pathetic bullshit. Garlic just give us terrible gas and that’s why we avoid eating it. It also makes our breath smell like rancid acid.”
“A stake through the heart, of course kills us. Like any other normal human being would die too that to. We can die like humans too. Gunshots, knives and stuff. Holy water, do kill us if we are evil vampires and kill for fun.”
“One question.” Fiena said, raising her hand.
“Che cos'è?” Alice asked in Italian.
“Do all vampires look attractive like Edward Cullen or some are creepy-looking like Dracula and Nosferatu?” Fiena asked.
“Ancora non capisco?” Alice muttered, again in Italian.
“Vampires have their specific genes. They’re like humans, some born attractive and some born plain. They have this special aura THAT makes the humans become attracted to us. But most vampires are beautiful and handsome creatures. It’s a gift from our God and our appearances make us easier to approach humans.”
“In addition, vampires have pale skin due to the cold black blood we bear. Yes vampires bear with black blood. That makes us have superhuman powers. Some vampires have very deep colored eye colour. But mine is golden brown to show that I have noble blood flowing, proudly in my veins” Alice said.
“That’s so cool!”
“Indeed.” Alice smiled.
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