Stepping out of the closet with Dughan floating behind me I was welcomed by Jerome.

“Well Drak seems that you have a rare path if you have a visible guide, and if im not mistaken a dullahan at that” Jerome said smiling while grabbing and shaking my hand.

“If you stop crushing my hand I will tell you and dad all about it after the party if thats alright, and of course you and the wife are invited.” My hand hurting as he had nearly crushed my hand in the excitement. “And now if you excuse me ill have to steal your lovely receptionist and make my way back home to start greeting guests.”

“Sure thing ill go pick up the wife change at home and we will be around later.”

I walked back to the reception area with Dughal trailing behind me. He sped up as soon as he saw Janice. “Hello gorgous where have you been all my unlife” he said. I was certain that he would end up splattered against one of the walls, as ive seen Janice fend off tons of suiters in the past.

“None of your goddamn business you stupid bag of bones.” She said standing up with a scowl. And then just as suddenly she burst out laughing and threw her arms around the skull.

“Great to see you again Dughan. Shall we put the kid out of his misery.” Pointing to me looking at both of them with my mouth open. “My and Duggey here go way back. His last master and I were companions in our youth and adventured together.”

I knew I was going to get a smack around the ears for this but I was just to curious. “In your youth, how long ago was that?”

Dughan replied before Janice could get upset. “Boy you should remember to never ask a lady her age. But lets just say that I havent had a master in over 500 years. So me and the old bat here have a lot of catching up to do” And that did cause him to get picked up and thrown at the door, which ended up with a nice skull shaped hole to the outside.

“So Drak, shall we get going to your place, knowing part of your story and guessing what you found out in the exam, you have a lot to talk about with your dad.” And with that Janice grabbed my arm and we headed towards my house.

When we got outside Dughan flew back up next to us. “You havent lost your touch Janice, when the kid and his dad talk well take some time to catch up.”

The three of us first headed north the short way towards the river. Then took the road that led alongside it west towards my house. Altho a lot of it was cleaned up these days you could still see some wrecks of big ships made of metal sticking up out of the river. Signs that indicated that this used to be a big port before the apocalypse.

Now that I wasnt hurrying it took us about 30 minutes to reach my house.

“Dad let me introduce you to Dughan. Hes my companion. Dughan meet Morris Nolan, my dad. And now that inroductions are done, lets get ready for the guests. By the way dad I invited the guildmaster and his wife to join us as well.” With that we decided to set up the party in the back garden as it was a nice sunny day.

As I didnt have that many friends the only other guests of note were my two best friends growing up Rom and Gerard. They were slightly younger than I was and when I tried to tell them about my class nothing came out of my mouth.

**

System notice.

Forbidden to talk about the system to someone not inducted into it, this to prevent putting someone onto a path they are not meant for.

As long as minors stay safe within the city walls the system will take actions to insure they stay innocent until they are 18.

**

They apparently werent able to even notice Dughan.

As soon as the guildmaster showed up with his wife we brought out the food and the cake. We sang a few songs and had a great time. As I had a lot to talk about I said goodbye to my friends. Janice and the guildmasters wife told us to head inside while they cleaned up. Dughan decided to stay there as well to talk with janice.

Me my dad and the guildmaster retired to my dads study.

“So dad apparently im a revenant half human and half vampire.” I started hesitatingly.

“Drak ive been sort of dreading this day would come for the last 15 years. You better sit down for this.” My dad pointed to the couch against the wall. After I did as he said he continued.

“First things first, im not your real father. Im not 100% sure who your real father is but I can take a guess. Me and Jerome here used to be apart of an adventuring company. When in south eastern europe, we ran across your mother who was fleeing from your dad. She never specifically said who he was but I guess he was one of the many vampire lords in that area. Not too long after we decided to escort you and your mother out of the area we got attacked by a bunch of undead. While we were able to defeat them your mother was critically injured. Her last request was that we would hide you away from your dad. Around your neck was a small pendent that had the name Drac Uhlan engraved on it. So we took you here to Masterdam, and as my last name Nolan was close enough to Uhlan we decided I would adopt you. That way if you made a mistake when people asked your name they would just put it down to a small boy not knowing his words well enough yet.”

After finding out how my mom died and the revelation about my dad I asked them if they could leave me alone for the evening and I went back up to my room.