The Guard of the entrance to Vampire kingdom called Rune a Prince!!

Prince!?!” Mei said, But Rune ignored Mei.

“Just want to train a fellow Vampire. She is half human and have recently discovered her powers.” Rune said.

“Hello, I’m Mei. Mei Hazel.” Mei said.

“Oh, Hello Mei. I’ve been ordered not to let anyone in with who I’m not Familiar with.” Fred said.

“I believe I'm enough familiar to get in. And this girl is with me.” Rune said.

“I suppose. Ahaha.” Fred said and laughed awkwardly.

“Later then! Fred.” Rune said and they started walking.

“I didn’t know you were a prince.” Mei said.

“Just a mere title. I was never supposed to be Prince.” Rune said.

“Eh? I don’t get it.” Mei said.

“You don’t need to.” Rune said.

“Jeez, I wanted to know.” Mei said.

“No you don't.” Rune said.

“Jeez, fine. Let’s go, Mr Prince.” Mei said.

After a little walk, They reach outside.

And outside was a big, city. An enormous city.

Mei thinks, “It's just like Rune said, we can’t see anything from outside but inside everything is real and visible.”

“Here we are. This is The Vampire Kingdom.” Rune said.

“Wow!” that’s just amazing.” Mei said.

The city was big, with a Palace of its own. The city was bigger than Royal Capital. Everywhere is vampire breed only. Barely any other races.

“Yea, But this is not where we are going to train. Nor I'm meeting with my brother. We are going to ‘Sinquania Falls’ in short they are just waterfalls, but filled with blood.” Rune said.

“What?!! Where does that blood come from?!” Mei asked.

“That’s a mystery. No one knows how or where it comes from, But legend says Once the so called first Vampire king of Vampire Kingdom died, his body was buried underwater for god only knows reasons. And the blood is from his body, they say he was the strongest vampire in history. Though, they never bothered finding answer to that and just worship it as a Vampire Shrine.” Rune explained to Mei.

“Okay.. But why are we going there?” Mei asked.

“Technically, that blood from waterfall acts as any normal blood. It's just myth that it will increase your performance in a long run, it won't. But, training under a continuous flow of blood will make your techniques finer and will help you attain a much higher performance. And you don’t need to kill any poor animal or buy blood from market for practice.” Rune said.

“Oh, I see. So, being under blood and controlling should make it better. I see.” Mei said while nodding head.

“Yeah.” Rune replied.

Around 10minutes pass.

“How far is it?” Mei asked.

“Just about 30minutes more.” Rune said.

“Oh, man! That’s far. Let’s go by flying.” Mei said.

“Why you think I'm not flying?” Rune asked.

“Uh, I don’t know.” Mei replied.

“That’s because My brother banned Flying. He is reforming Vampire kingdom and fixing it. Banning flying was must according to him.” Rune said.

“How can flying be bad?! That’s just dumb.” Mei said.

“Probably, But he said he doesn't want anyone near barrier from inside. Barrier is strong from outside, but not same strength from inside.” Rune said.

“I see. What a bizarre world we live in.” Mei said.

“Trust me, you haven’t even seen anything yet.” Rune said.

“Mhm.” Mei replied.

45 Minutes later.

“We are here.” Rune said to Mei.

There were around a thousand stairs in front of them.

“What!?! We need to climb these too?” Mei said.

“Yeah.” Rune said and started looking for anything.

“Listen, we couldn’t fly in City because high security. Here is only one person looking. And we can jump to long distances, if we aren’t caught. Just look at me.” Rune said.

“Wait, where is the person hiding though?” Mei asked.

“Look in trees, 3rd tree from top in left. Just look at me, and don’t worry he can’t hear our conversation.” Rune replied and went near first Stair.

He jumped without putting his feet on ground!

He was using air magic to keep distance between his feet and ground by an inch. And pretending he was jumping, but using magic to fly, kind of.

Mei thinks, “I see what he did there!”

And Mei copies Rune. She loses balance in between, but manages to do it.

Finally, after a minute or two they reach the top.

The Shrine or Temple was there. It was a hut like structure made of stones and had pillars in front of it. From inside it had a statue of first Vampire King. Some candles were decorated on walls of Temple.

“Should we go inside?” Mei asked.

“No, we don’t need to. It's empty. Priest just comes sometimes now. Since, not many come around now a days.” Rune said.

“I see.” Mei said.

“Let’s go.” Rune said.

They walk to Right of Temple. A minute walk, and they reach “Sinquania Falls.”

“That’s so big!” Mei said.

“Yeah, it's quite wide and tall.” Rune said.

“What are we going to do?” Mei asked.

“Training.” Rune said.

“What training I meant.” Mei said.

“Hmmn, Look at me.” Rune said and went near The river before waterfall. He sits down and takes a sip of the water mixed with blood.

“This is tough, only a few vampires can control this much blood. Now, look.” Rune said and stopped the flow of water completely.

“What the...” Mei said in shock.

“You can even walk on it, and you won’t fell. Of course, if I want to.” Rune said and hoped on still river.

“You need to reach level of this in 10 days, that’s our target.” Rune said.

“I see.” Mei said.

“Don’t be shocked. Look at this.” Rune said, and the river started flowing again.

Rune goes with river's flow and falls in water fall.

“RUNE!!” Mei shouted while running to the shore.

Rune fell, but there was no splash of water.

The water stops and starts flowing in opposite direction.

Rune made a long bar coming out of water, and he was coming back to shore.

“What you think is more tough?” Rune asked Mei.

“Uhm, Reversing flow of water?” Mei asked.

“Technically Yeah, but keeping water still is more tough as you need to focus all over the river to have water stopped.” Rune explained.

“I see.” Mei said.

“You need precision with blood control. Oh, and blood healing that’s the one of the best part in blood control magic, even though I don’t excel in that.” Rune said.

“So what we're going to do?” Mei asked.

“We will start with Basic. Some Basic Blood Magic. Like Blood Magic weapons. But, still in my point of view blood control is best when used on living things. Otherwise, it’s like any other magic type.” Rune said.

“Uhh... you sound like a killer and scholar.” Mei said.

“It’s alright as long as you get the image. Anyway, I told you some basic stuff last time right? We just need to focus on your precision on that. With this amount of blood, once you achieve precision, we will test it out on real animals. Since, controlling them is more tricky than controlling raw blood.” Rune said.

“Alright, so where we start.” Mei said.

“Go take a sip, and we will start by trying to make things with blood.” Rune said.

“Yes, Sir.” Mei said and went to take a sip from river.

She take a sip and starts by making different shapes and Weapons from the river. She crafts a sword like shape, which was messed up.

“That’s messed up. Keep making until you finally make it all sharp.” Rune said.

“Okay.” Mei replied.

Mei keeps trying to make weapons, but was failing mostly.

“How do you even make weapons from this? I learned to make blood wild not this!!” Mei said.

“To be clear, Creating soldier was tougher than this, maybe because this has water mixed that’s why it's taking time.” Rune said.

“Hmmn. Then how can you make it?” Mei asked.

“I’m not sure. I think it's because I never cared about water. I'll only think on what I tasted, and that way only blood gets used not water. But, that’s just a theory. Maybe try focusing on blood and don’t think about water.” Rune said.

“How can we do that. Never mind let me try.” Mei said and continued with practice.

30 minutes later.

“I remember I have water magic too.” Mei said.

“But, you can’t control any water near you, you need to create water.” Rune said.

“Can you stop the flow for a second?” Mei asked.

“For sure.” Rune said and took another sip from river and stopped flow.

“Water creation Magic!” Mei enchanted and created water to place in river.

Mei lifts to water above from the river.

“Break. Blood Control: creation.” Mei enchanted and broke her water Magic and made a long sword from the blood. The sword was sharp as hell.

“Ah, I see. That’s a smart move. You created your own water to replace water in river at the middle spot. And then broke it, to remove water from blood.” Rune said.

“I just thought it might work if water's flow is stopped. For most portion it worked, but blood still have little water mixed.” Mei said.

“Can see that. Your sword’s handle is kind of messy, but it’s sharp as hell.” Rune said and tried to rub his thumb on the edge of sword. Rune cut himself and a little blood flows out of his thumb.

“Look closely. Blood heal.” Rune said and blood started to come to back in wound and stopped bleeding. The wound starts to evaporate steam and skin starts forming on thumb.

“Wow! That’s good as normal.” Mei said.

“Yeah, blood healing is very strong. When I say very strong, it’s really strong.” Rune said.

“I see.” Mei said.

“Let’s contin-

Mei's stomach growls.

“Let’s go eat first. We didn’t even eat breakfast today.” Rune said.

“Yes Please.” Mei said.

“Let’s go to city back.” Rune said and started walking. Mei started following Rune.

After 20 minutes.

They are in city walking.

“Where we're going?” Mei asked.

“I know a good place.” Rune said.

“And what’s that?” Mei asked.

“Just keep following.” Rune said.

“Jeez fine. Telling me won’t cost you any money.” Mei said.

“Yea, we are here.” Rune said.

Mei looks at hotel, It was not so big. It read, “Fresh Made.”

Mei and Rune walk in.

The hotel had many people sitting.

“Welcome! Please have a seat.” A Girl welcomed them.

“Oh! Rune!! Hi!” The same Girl said in excitement.

“Hey Levy. Been awhile. How’s it going?” Rune asked.

“It’s going good! Father cooks as always, and I serve!” Levy said. She was pretty girl of same age as Rune.

“Oh, Meet Mei. She joined our guild recently and I'm training her.” Rune said.

“Oh hi, Mei.” Levy said.

“Hello, Levy. Nice to meet you.” Mei said.

“Nice to meet you too, what would you two like?” Levy asked.

“Hmm, I want roasted fish with that lovely blood mix drink. Ahh, I miss Mr. Rit's special drink.” Rune said.

“Blood mix?” levy mutters to herself.

“I’ll take same, but with normal water.” Mei said and thinks, “I’ve never seen Rune this excited. Maybe food gets his emotions on face.”

“That drink is awesome, just try drinking. It's beautiful mix of drinks just name is misleading.” Rune said.

“Really?” Mei said.

“Ahh, you mean Blood Orange Mockatil.” Levy said.

“Yes! I forgot name. My bad. Just try it, Mei. If you don’t like You can throw up.” Rune said.

“Shhure” Mei said.

“Oh, Levy, bring two drinks first.” Rune said.

“Okay.” Levy replied and went to get some drinks.

“Here.” Levy said while bringing drinks and giving them to Rune and Mei.

The drinks were orange-red in color and had an orange’s slice put on side.

“Here, Blood Orange Mocktail.” Levy said.

Rune drinks it and looks happy.

“This is best.” Rune said.

Mei takes a sip, and her expression changes! She likes drink and drinks it all.

“One more glass, please.” Mei said.

“See? What did I tell you.” Rune said to Mei.

“Yeahh, it is delicious.” Mei said.

“I’m happy that you liked it.” Levy said.

“I loved it.” Mei said.

“Bring food too, Levy. We are hungry.” Rune said.

“Sure.” Levy said and went to get food.

She gets food and serves them.

After a while they finish eating. Rune goes and pays bill.

“Let’s go back to training.” Rune said.

“Sure.” Mei said, and they started walking back to the waterfall .

After awhile they reach the waterfall.

“Now we will start with Quantity, how much quantity of blood you can handle.” Rune said.

“I’m not sure. I struggled during the dragon fight. His body was way too big, so, I happen to just control the nearest to his skin and tried to make it. It worked kind of.” Mei said.

“I see. That’s good. But, a foe may not let you do that next time. So, let’s try increasing amount of blood you can control. The more the better.” Rune said.

“What to do now?” Mei asked.

“Show me how much blood you can control. Lift as much as you can.” Rune said.

“Oh, okay.” Mei said and went to take sip from river.

Mei forwards her hands and tries to lift the blood.

A large puddle of blood floats in air.

“That’s around Five Gallons of blood.” Rune said.

“Is that good?” Mei asked.

“Not really, could be enough for not so strong opponents, but not enough for S class Dragons or Large monsters.” Rune said.

“I see. Then what?” Mei asked.

“I’ll tell you a technique to make blood magic stronger and one of the strongest Melee technique." Rune said.

“What am I supposed to do with this blob?! It's hard to keep it up you know.” Mei said in shock.

“Oh yea forgot. The larger the mass of Magic the tougher it is to handle.” Rune said.

“Wiw!” Mei said while letting the blood fall in river.

“Well, When Egan fought Master, you must have seen his ‘Wrath of Fire' Technique?” Rune asked.

“Ah, I’m familiar with that. I can perform ‘Wrath of Water' At a smaller scale.” Rune said.

“I see. Let me see.” Rune said.

“Okay. WRATH OF WATER!” Mei enchanted and water waves appeared in front of Mei in full control.

“How do you fight with these? Demonstrate on the tree there.” Rune said.

“Okay.” Mei said and forwarded her left hand commanding her left-hand wave to attack the tree.

The wave attacked the tree, and it fell.

“Like this?” Mei asked.

“Well, works. It’s closely related to Blood Fang, but Blood Fang technique is different.” Rune said.

“What’s that?” Mei asked.

“From what I remember, it was an ancient technique. For melee fights, but also by regular practice of blood fang, it increases control over blood. It’s A technique which will enhance your blood control magic, but the technique itself needs to be practiced properly.” Rune said.

Sounds strong... But can you show me?” Mei said.

“Okay get side.” Rune said and takes off his shoes.

Rune went in river and takes a sip from river.

He extends his hands and legs.

The blood climbs to the tip of Rune's hands and forms a wave, which falls from the tip of Rune's hand in water.

Rune closes eyes.

Rune brings his left hand to top, the flood follows Rune's hand. His precise movements of hands, and his legs. The blood seems to get attracted more and more by his every movement. Rune moves his fists and legs around in air.

“This is base. Phase One of technique.” Rune said.

Rune continues the technique, and blood climbs to his cheeks too now.

The blood gets more fierce, like it’s there to kill.

Rune keeps punching and kicking in air. Following his movement is fierce blood, which will deal a lot of damage if done on any foe.

Rune suddenly stops and thinks, “I should let her reach this before I show her further phrases.”

“Reach this first. This isn’t phrase two, but we need to reach this in Three days, because 3rd phrase takes time and I doubt you will be able to make it till there.” Rune said.

Mei was completely fascinated by this blood control technique and a little scared by the power Rune was emitting.

Mei thinks, “That is A-amazing yet scary..”

“I see. I’ll keep practicing.” Mei said.

“Start from calming your mind.” Rune said.

“Yes.” Mei replied.

“After that is precise control. Hmm, we can do that by..” Rune said and Made holes in a big tree, from large to small. Small as an ant as well.

“Try passing blood from these, of course at high-speed. After calming your mind. Third is practice of blood fang.” Rune said.

“Okay. But, how to calm mind.” Mei asked.

“I've heard that sitting under waterfall and meditating is a way. Another is forgiving everyone.” Rune said.

“I see. I’ll try that.” Mei said and walked near shore of waterfall.

“But, how to go down?” Mei asked.

“Just jump down.” Rune said.

“Eh!?! How I’m going to survive?” Mei said in shock.

“Just use blood, in a creative way.” Rune said.

“huh!?! You are crazy.” Mei said.

“I’m not.” Rune said and pushed Mei.

“Huhhhhhhhhh!?!” Mei said while falling.

“My blood control is out of Tim-“ Mei was just saying that a drop fell into her mouth from the river.

“Blood control!” Mei enchanted and made a sword, whose handle was extending was from water.

The sword was stuck in rocks inside waterfall.

She was still a few meter above water.

Mei thinks, “ The water below looked a meter deep. I need to calm dow- wait. Why am I panicking. I can fly.”

“I can fly, why was i even panicking!!” Mei said to herself and left the sword and used flying to land safely on the river bank.

“I panicked back there.” Mei said to herself.

Rune comes down flying with his vampire wings.

He stands and withdraw his wings.

“That wasn’t nice of you, I forgot I could fly!” Mei said.

“Duh, I just was having fun to see if you remember anything at all.” Rune said.

“Fine. How to meditate now?” Mei asked.

“Well, go sit under waterfall. I’ll join you, don’t worry.” Rune said.

“Okay.” Mei said and went to sit under waterfall.

“Now?” Mei asked.

“Close your eyes and imagine a beautiful scenery, which makes you feel relived.” Rune said.

“Okay.” Mei said and follows what Rune said. And started meditating.

Rune started meditating too.

Mei looks at Rune, to make sure he’s meditating.

“Close your eyes.” Rune said.

“Yes!” Mei said.

Mei thinks in her brain, “how can he see? Anyway I need to think of a beautiful scenery.”

Mei thinks of a beautiful scenery of mountains, sitting in flowers. All alone. Then, Seji and Alec appeared in her scenery and then Kiriyo.

Mei opens her eyes suddenly.

Mei thinks, “I can’t focus like this. I need to stop thinking about everything.”

Mei closes her eyes and thinks nothing . She tries to ignore everything.

After an hour or so of them sitting still.

“Mind calm enough?” Rune asked.

Mei opens her eyes.

“It wasn’t easy, but yea.” Mei said.

“Good. Meditation also increases mana pool. So, it's quite good.” Rune said.

“Yeah, I suffer from lack of mana many times.” Mei said.

“Yea, that’s because blood control sucks too much Mana.” Rune said.

“I see.” Mei replied.

“Now time for precision.” Rune said and takes a sip from river. He made holes in a tree again. From large to short as an ant.

“Now try, throwing Blood at high-speed in all the holes, one hole at a time.” Rune said.

“Okay.” Mei said and takes a sip from river.

The first hole was a size of Basket Ball.

Mei makes a blob of water around the hole and throws it inside the hole at high-speed.

The blob touches the side of hole.

“What!?” Mei said in shock.

“Yeah, that’s because you don’t have a proper focus. Focus more.” Rune said.

“okay.” Mei said and tries again. She manages to pass through first one.

She works to pass through other holes too!

Around Two hours pass.

The sun have settled, and it’s nighttime.

She grabs it slowly, and manages to pass through every hole except last two.

“Good job, but look at me.” Rune said and shot water blob in first hole. As he finishes, he drops the extra weight from blob for second Hole. And continues and succeeds in putting through every hole.

“You need to pass it though every hole, if you fail at any hole you will have to restart.” Rune said.

“That’s harssshh!!” Mei said while whining.

“Yea, but it’s necessary. We are done for today.” Rune said.

“Are we heading back?” Mei asked.

“No, we are camping here.” Rune said.

“What about food?” Mei asked.

“A few meters ahead the water is clean. We can capture fish there.” Rune said.

“Oh.” Mei said.

“Yea, we will camp on bank of clean water.” Rune said.

“Okay.” Mei said, and they started walking ahead.

As they walked the blood from water started to fade away and a slow stream of water came. It was almost still.

“We have reached our destination.” Rune said.

“How will we catch them?” Mei asked.

“Just watch me.” Rune said, and he got his blood pouches out.

Mei looks at him disgustingly, and says, “Not these again.”

Rune tears his pouches and takes a sip and pours blood in water. He makes blood settle down the floor.

“Gather the firewood fast.” Rune said.

“Okay.” Mei replied and went together firewood.

Rune waits for some fishes to come above the blood, and he kills the fishes by piercing through them with blood. He pulls up some fishes.

“I’m back.” Mei said while carrying up some firewood.

“Nice, let’s light it up.” Rune said.

“Okay!” Mei said and put firewood down.

Rune points finger out to firewood and they start burning.

They roast the fishes and eat it.

After eating they sleep with back with their faces towards fire.

“Good night.” Mei said.

“Good night.” Rune said.

Next Morning.

Oh, you are awake?’ Rune asked.

“Yes. Good morning.” Mei said.

“Good morning, let’s eat breakfast. I have gotten fish already.” Rune said.

“Fish again?” Mei asked in a whining tone.

“Yeah, fish is healthy. We will be eating fish until training. Fish have a lot of proteins, which helps in keeping eyesight healthy.” Rune said.

“Really?” Mei asked.

“Yea, my brother used to tell me.” Rune replied.

“Oh, I See.” Mei said and went to eat fish.

After a while.

They started walking back to the Sinquania falls.

“Alright, we do basic exercise, and then go back for training.” Rune said.

“Okay.” Mei said.

“Okay, do it like this.” Rune said and extended his arms. He started stretching.

“1, 2, 1, 2...:” Rune said and did his stretching. From left to right, up to down.

Mei followed him.

After a while, they stopped and Rune said, “next step. To lift Heavy amount of Blood.”

“Okay.” Mei replied and take a sip from river.

Mei forwards her arms and lifts blood from water as much as she could.

“Try to keep it still for some time and move on to forming weapons and others with it.” Rune said.

“Yes!” Mei replied and kept working on that.

She makes weapons after sometime, and they move on to next step. The meditation. The went sat under waterfall for an hour again.

“Alright, precision time.” Rune said and made holes in a tree, just like yesterday.

“Okay.” Mei replied and started aiming at them.

A few hours went by, Mei still couldn’t pass through all holes consecutively.

“Now for the main thing, Blood fang.” Rune said.

“Yes.” Mei replied.

“Keep following what I do.” Rune said.

“Alright.” Mei said, and they went in river.

Rune starts the technique.

“Blood fang: Phrase one.” Rune said and started blood fang.

Mei followed Rune, but her blood control was shaky.

Meanwhile, Mei’s training was going on Seji and Master had arrived at the place of Practice.

“We have reached.” Master said.

“ We are going to train here? In these Ruins!?!” Seji said.

“Yeah, it's an abandoned city. No one knows how long it’s been here and for how long it's been abandoned.” Master said

“I see. These Ruins contain something? Or anything special?” Seji asked.

“I’m not sure if I shall tell you now.” Master said.

“What do you mean?” Seji asked.

“Remember I told you Dragnia was a Void user?” Master asked.

“Yeah.” Seji said.

“It was a lie I don’t know how many Void users there are in total. That was just a bluff that I know Five users. I don't know anyone with Void power. ” Master said.

“Eh? Why did you lie about Dragnia?” Seji asked.

“I didn’t trust you. I mean I did, but I still wanted to make sure you won’t abandon this path and choose another, so, I said there are Five users which would be a lot, considering how Void is a strange power. I wanted you to have a mentality that you aren’t special, in short.” Master said.

“Well, I’m ignorant type. I don’t care what this power is. I want to return home with Reina. And find who even summoned us here. I don’t care if I’m strong or not, if someone is to blame for summoning I’ll find them and make sure they pay for it.” Seji said.

“That’s actually better, I know some people, who got pride because they thought they had some special powers which no one else have. Like some vampires and dragons are prideful creatures. We might be strong, but never forget there is always someone above us.” Master said.

“That’s true, but I want to ask. What else did you lie?” Seji said.

“Uh, that we can’t learn Special Blood type abilities.” Master said.

“I see. But, Gramps, what do you think Void is?” Seji asked.

“I’m not quite sure. I had this since I was little.” Master said.

“Oh, what did you do when you were little? I mean like how you trained.” Seji asked.

“This is the place where I was born-

TO BE CONTINUED.