Bab 74: Ch. 72 - Meeting the Dracula Family
With a single stare from Vlad, Audur's head went 360°, taking his life without any hindrance.
That's when Jin decided to take the opportunity to make his presence known by the vampire.
"No wonder people fear you, Vlad." Jin went out of the shadow of a tree as he spoke while his eyes stared at Vlad's eyes with mystery. Obviously, to have a great background, the easiest way is to be a mysterious individual that will attract curiosity from the people.
"....May I know who you are?" Vlad's senses were telling him that Jin is not an ordinary individual, so he politely asked, maintaining a neutral attitude with Jin.
"Jin's my name. You can call me that. I'm just an ordinary guy who just wants to explore the world and discover everything it has to offer." Jin introduced himself coolly.
"Jin....would you mind having a cup of tea with me?" Grinning from ear to ear, Vlad was starting to like Jin's character. Such a person with a dangerous aura around him calling himself an 'ordinary guy' is definitely not an ordinary guy.
"Oh, tea! I love tea! You wouldn't mind having a taste of my own blend, right? I have a couple of tea blends that I would like for others to try out." Jin's eyebrows and ear perked up like some kind of dog and offered with a smile.
"That's very interesting. Sure, follow me." Answering him, Vlad wanted to test Jin a little if he is truly a strong person to have such an aura around him.
*Foo!*
Turning into a small bat, Vlad kept flapping his wings and looked at Jin before saying.
"Try to keep up, 'Ordinary Guy'." Vlad said in irony before flapping his wings intensely and flew in the air as his small figure was watched under the eyes of the vampires and the knights who were finally freed from the time pausing technique.
Jin simply smirked and under everyone including Vlad's shocked eyes, Jin floated up from the ground without any support before reaching Vlad's altitude.
"Not so ordinary now, are we?" Vlad chuckled and said before getting speed and flashed away from his current position.
"Oh, you're on!" Feeling challenged, Jin used his eyes and meticulously searched for Vlad's bat figure.
The moment his eyes laid on him, Jin smiled and used large reserves of his chi to not only match Vlad's speed but also to burst his speed and suddenly arrive beside Vlad.
"How's it going?" Jin smirked in victory as he saw Vlad's shocked eyes on him before turning into an excited grin.
"Let's see if you can keep up this time!" Vlad said before looking up and took off further up in the skies.
Jin then followed suit and chased Vlad who stopped right exactly near the Earth's atmosphere.
Before Jin could reach Vlad's same altitude, Vlad suddenly turned into his vampire form and waved on Jin goodbye before letting the physics do its work and allowed the gravity to pull him downwards at great speed.
"Oh great." Jin rolled his eyes upon seeing this as he has to come into a full halt and deactivate his chi flight ability and let his body fall down back towards the ground.
As both of their bodies were free falling in the air, Vlad noticed what JIn did as smiled before once again turning into a bat and flew in a certain direction while Jin used his chi flight and followed him again.
'I can't believe I'm actually having fun playing with a vampire that is older than me.' Jin said to himself as he caught up with Vlad to have a small conversation, this time Vlad maintained his speed, letting Jin catch up with him.
"Not bad for a young man like you." Vlad complimented him after he caught up with him.
"Same goes to you, mind telling me where we are going." Jin replied with the same compliment before asking a question.
"We are going to my humble abode, I'm sure my son would like some company aside from an old man like me." Vlad replied to his question and chuckled.
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It didn't take long for them to arrive at a large inactive volcano, where they flew inside through the mouth of the volcano, fortunately the volcano has long been inactive so there's nothing left inside except for a dark and damp cave.
Inside the cave, Jin saw a small boy playing with a few small pebbles, the moment the boy heard Vlad's bat form flapping his wings as he descended, the boy commented.
"The old man's back." The boy rolled his eyes and monotonously said before dropping the pebbles on the ground and turned around.
"Come on, Drac. Give your old man two cups made of rat skull so I could share some tea with this friend of mine." Vlad turned back to his human form and immediately gave an order to Dracula.
"Your friend?" Confused, Dracula turned his head on the side and that's when he saw Jin descending on the ground and landed smoothly.
"Wait, you have a friend!?" Dracula said in shock. How can you blame him? All these years that he has been living with his father, he never once saw him have friends with anyone except for some large bats. As far as he knows, the only thing Vlad knows is to sleep, suck human blood and terrorize a small village for fun, and now he's here with none other than who he called a friend and not to mention, he also said that he would be drinking tea? But isn't your tea made of a mix of human and rat blood? I'm not sure the guy in front of me would like that tea.
"What are you staring in gaze at there at?! We have a guest, Drac!" Seeing that Dracula was stationary in his position and not moving an inch, Vlad finally yelled at him to make him snap out of his thoughts.
"I know!" Dracula yelled back before turning his attention back to Jin and spoke.
"Uhmm, n-nice to meet you, my name is Count Dracula." Dracula stuttered while introducing himself, after all this is the first time he actually talked to somebody else aside from his father.
"I'll just go and get the cups." Dracula continued before walking away and entered one of the large holes on the wall.
"As he grows older, he's getting more disrespectful, I should increase the intensity of his training perhaps making him fly under the heat of the sun should do its job, he must've forgotten the rule of respecting his own father." Vlad muttered loud enough for Jin to hear.
"Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that his father is not doing a good job as a father." Jin said, he was actually surprised that Vlad is training his son, though he's not that surprised since he quite expected it as both father and son have powers but what shocked him the most is that he would actually let him fly out under the sun? Their most brutal weakness. Either Vlad is a sadistic person or he's somehow just an incompetent and abusive father.
"You're telling me that I'm a bad father!" Vlad felt offended by what Jin said which caused him to stand up and menacingly stared at Jin.
"No offense but what I said is the truth, perhaps you should make another approach in raising Dracula." Jin fearlessly stared at Vlad's eyes who squinted his eyes in return. Vlad is actully using his hypnotization skill to manipulate Jin's mind however seeing that Jin's eyes weren't glowing like how it should be when he's using the skill.
After a few minutes of awkward staring contest, Vlad finally gave up and slumped back to his seat and spoke to Jin in a very tired tone.
"How am I supposed to do that? His mother died when she gave birth to him, leaving only me to take care of him, I don't know how to raise a child so I just did like how my father raised me when my mother died." Vlad said, it looks like Vlad is indeed tired and doesn't know how to properly raise a child without his wife's guidance.
"Then ask." Jin simply replied in two words.
"Ask? Ask what?" Vlad asked.
"Ask Dracula what he wants you to be. From what I can see, it is not yet too late to make up with him, Dracula is far more than just an average vampire, I can see that he will become someone great." Jin said as Vlad proudly stood up and said.
"Of course he will! He is my son and I'm proud of him!"
"Then tell him that." The moment Jin said those words, Vlad immediately sat back down on his seat.
"Nope, that's too embarrassing even for me." Vlad sat back down and said, losing the pride towards his son that he had earlier.
"But you said it yourself, right? That you are proud of him so there's no hurt in telling him that. You know being a father isn't just a job that you have to do, it is your responsibility and your purpose in Dracula's life. Would your wife really like to hear that you abused your son under your care? No mother would want that, so man up and take your responsibility as a father to your son." Before Vlad could reply to his words, Jin continued.
"You said that you are just copying what your father did to you when you were under his care, right?" After receiving a nod from Vlad, Jin then continued.
"Did you like it?" Vlad then shook his head.
"Then don't repeat the same mistakes as he did to you, if you really don't know how to raise Dracula, then try to observe how others do it."
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While the two of them were talking, Dracula can be seen hiding behind a wall while on his hands were a wooden tray with two rat shaped cups. Dracula's face can be seen to be covered by his small cape, small tears were flowing down on his cheeks as he overheard what they were talking about,
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Bab 75: Ch. 73 - The final war between Humans and Monsters
[For those who don't know, the world is Hotel Transylvania but it is very far from canon as you can see that Dracula is still a child here.]
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After Dracula brought the rat skull tea cups, Jin was tempted to vomit however, that would be disrespectful to Vlad and Dracula and would destroy his mysterious person persona, so he jugged it down and made his promised tea to Vlad.
Ever since he got Iroh's template, he's always had this urge to keep tea leaves with him every time, which made him a tea addict or something.
Don't even mention the fact that he can't start his morning without drinking his tea.
"This is Jasmine Tea, my favourite." Jin said as he used his fire bending powers to heat up both of the cups and gave the other one to Vlad.
"Jasmine Tea? This is the first time I've heard about it." Vlad commented as he drank the tea in one gulp, making Jin mentally shake his head in disappointment. Teas aren't supposed to be drunk down in one gulp, you're supposed to drink it slowly and savor the taste. Drinking a cup in one go would definitely make tea lovers frown on them.
"Vlad, you're supposed to drink it slowly, so you can savor the delicious aroma of the tea." Jin informed him before showing an example by drinking small bits of the tea before breathing out in satisfaction.
"Just like that. You follow me?" Jin said while Vlad was deep in thought and when he saw that his cup was empty, he sighed before speaking.
"Maybe next time." Vlad said as Dracula was standing behind him with complicated look in his eyes.
Just as they were enjoying theirselves in a cup of tea, a large bat suddenly flew inside while yelling with a loud and creepy voice.
"Pesky humans! Audur's son has called the attention of the King and launched a surprise attack on our settlement! Vlad, we must avenge our breathen!" The large bat said while landing in front of Vlad.
"Curse those Helsings! Don't they know how to just give up! Why do they breed like rabbits?! Helsings kept appearing one after another!" Vlad placed his cup down and said in reply before turning his head to Jin and asked.
"Jin, would you join us? It's time to teach those humans a lesson that they will never forget!" He asked however seeing that Jin shook his head, Vlad sighed in disappointment before saying one last word.
"Then please watch over Dracula, I'll make this quick!" Right after he said that, he then turned in his bat form and flew away followed by the large bat that glared at Jin first before following suit.
As the entire cave was left with only Jin and Dracula, a whole minute of awkward silence ensued them as Jin was the one to break off the awkward atmosphere.
"So, do you have anything interesting to do here?" Jin asked while Dracula seemed to be stunned at first before panicking and quickly tried to search around for anything interesting to play with.
"Uhm....Do you like to play some throwing stones?" Dracula said with an awkward smile as Jin can't help but feel that Dracula looks cute while he's still young unlike his older version where he looks like a creepy emo dude that is slowly entering his puberty.
'Though he's a bit socially awkward however I can't blame him though, from what I can see, the only person Dracula could have any social interaction with is no one other than his father, Vlad. And does Vlad look like someone good to talk with? Jin could make a vague guess that the only thing Vlad probably talked about with Dracula is anything related to human killings or intense training that is enough to kill him and anything related like that.
If there is someone you would like to talk with, then Vlad would be the least of your choices. He would only be considered if the entire life forms on earth except for him ceases to exist.
It's not like Jin has any bad blood with Vlad, however from his small recent interactions with him earlier, Jin could already deduce many things about Vlad.
Did he also mention that his breath stank? Toothbrush and toothpaste probably don't exist yet in this current time however, there must be some kind of hygiene practice somewhere, right?
"I do like playing stones however, I have something more fun." Jin replied as Dracula's eyes shone at the end of his words and immediately asked.
"What is it? Is it something more fun than throwing stones?" Dracula asked as Jin replied.
"Yes but first. Can you turn into your bat form?" Jin asked and after receiving a nod from Dracula, he continued.
"Well then, let's go and follow me." Jin said before levitating off the ground under Dracula's shocked eyes before ascending outside the volcano.
"Wait for me!" Remembering that he was supposed to follow Jin, Dracula quickly turned into his bat form before following after Jin.
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Outside the volcano, Jin remained stationary in the air as he waited for Dracula to catch up with his current altitude.
"Where are we going?" Dracula asked while staring at the wide forest. This is the first time he's outside his home without his father's permission.
"You see this stone right here?" Jin asked and then showed Dracula a pebble in his hand.
"Uhuh." Dracula nodded his head in confirmation.
"The moment this pebble landed down on the ground we raced from here to there." Jin explained while pointing at another mountain that is a few miles away from their current position. This was actually very fun to him as when he chased after Vlad earlier, only then did that make him realize how exciting it is to fly and have a race with someone.
"Oh, I'm so gonna win!" At this moment, Dracula was grinning widely in victory as he could already imagine himself stepping over Jin's defeated form as his face was full of pride.
"We'll see." Jin chuckled and replied before continuing.
"You ready?"
"I am born ready!" Dracula replied with a hint of thrill in his voice.
"Alright then, make sure you watch the pebble carefully, okay?" After giving one last piece of advice, Jin then dropped the pebble as they both kept their watchful eyes on the pebble, preparing themselves as the pebble was slowly inching towards the ground.
Thanks to their enhanced eye sight, they could clearly see the direction of where the pebble is and where it is going to fall.
Squinting their eyes, the moment the pebble finally landed on the ground, both Jin and Dracula quickly flashed away from their positions.
Jin was leaning his body straight forward in order to decrease the air resistance while Dracula, who doesn't have any idea about such things like air resistance and gravity, is flapping his wings madly, thinking that the harder he flapped his wings, the faster he would be.
"What the?!" However, Dracula was shocked when Jin flew past him like a rocket while waving his hand to him as a mock.
"So long, Drac!" Dracula heard Jin's voice even though he's already quite far away from him, making Dracula grumble in irritation and anger. Here he was thinking that he was the fastest and could easily win from the race since he was confident in his speed however, it didn't take long for Jin to crash all of his confidence without blinking an eye.
After a few more minutes or so, Dracula finally reached the other mountain where Jin was lying on the ground with his front facing the skies.
Dracula limply dragged his body over by his side while he was inhaling and exhaling before slumping off beside him.
"How was it? You had fun, right?" Jin grinned while he asked.
"Yeah....But I wonder how fast my father is, I've never seen him use his full speed in his bat form." Dracula said with melancholy as he stared up at the beautiful night sky. His words actually have a meaning which means that Vlad never truly gave time to his own son and instead, he's probably always outside either hunting humans or playing around, only coming back to their home to rest or train Dracula so he could be as strong as his father.
"Oh no, dear Dracles, Vlad is really fast like reallyyy fast!" Jin immediately came up with a nickname for Dracula and exaggerated Vlad's capabilities which caught Dracula's interest.
"So, you raced with him?! How was it? Did you win or did he win?" Dracula asked while his wide eyes were staring at Jin's eyes, urging Jin to hurry up and tell him already.
"No one. We both tied." As much as he wanted to say that Vlad won however he was a bit prideful so he showed off from the infamous Count Dracula. Though if they really continued their race earlier, even if Jin could match Vlad's speed, it would be impossible as Vlad is only using his stamina to fly which he probably has a lot of stamina while he only uses chi and his chi is literally limited to a certain extent, if he used his chi without having any reserves, it would cause him to pass out.
"Really?! Then he must just be so fast th-." Just as Dracula was speaking, they suddenly heard the sound of an explosion not far away from them.
*Boom!*
Quickly turning around at the same time, both Jin and Dracula were shocked to see smokes and flames not far away from them, they could also hear the sounds of metals crashing against each other combined with yells of pain or encouragement.
'Is there a fight in there?' Jin wondered as he wanted to go there and investigate or just observe.
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