Chapter 35

Bliv took one last look at Jay before ending his existence. He flew towards the fire ninja, entering his body.

Kai screamed, bursts of flame spreading all around his body. Engulfed in fire, he crumpled to the ground, crying out in pain. As the flames slowly extinguished from his body, his breathing became slower, more twisted. He stood up, revealing himself.

His deep amber-brown eyes became blood-red, his tanned skin turning almost as pale as Bliv's. His dark brown hair turned as black as pitch, shimmering in the dim light. He pulled back his lips, grinning and revealing his fangs.

Jay took a step back, forming a small ball of blue electricity at his palm. "Kai? You okay?"

Kai laughed, examining his new form and running his fingers along his teeth. "I'm better than ever, Jay! Imagine the kind of power I possess now..." He shot flames around, harder and stronger than they had ever been before. "This is fucking awesome!"

Jay grew worried, knowing what he had to do next. "Kai... Everyone's dead..." His voice cracked with tears.

Kai stopped, a look of horror on his face. "...Nya?"

"She's..." Jay couldn't bear to lie to Kai; he let it play out slowly.

"Jay... What happened to Nya?" Kai asked slowly.

Jay let a few tears slip, trying to convince Kai even more. This had to work...

Kai fell to his knees, in shock. Flames began to surround his body, building up more and more, faster and faster, Kai's screams intensifying as well. Bits of his skin began to burn, his flesh charred and peeling away. He was killing himself, ridding the world of the last Ignacian cannibal, just as Jay's inventive mind had planned. Jay turned away from the fire ninja, unable to watch the pain he put upon his friend.

Right as Kai was about to burn himself to a crisp, Nya burst out of the barricaded door that concealed her. "Jay! What's going on?!" She yelled over Kai's screams of anguish, but then quickly cut herself off at the sight of her brother.

Kai locked his eyes with Nya, a look that showed he was instantly filled with regret from what he had done to himself. And then, rage.

Kai's face was twisted in anger, suddenly transforming monstrous and bat-like. "JAY!" He bellowed, bat wings ripping out of his gi, claws tearing through his gloves. He opened his mouth to reveal billions of sharp fangs, ready to tear the lightning ninja's throat out.

The fire, however, won.

An explosion of dark red fire blasted through the whole Bounty, seizing Kai's life.

Jay and Nya, however, were safe. After a few minutes, Jay opened his eyes, noticing Nya gently closing her fingers, and lowering her hand. The area around them was soaking wet, and Nya and Jay were drenched with water.

"Whoa..." Nya breathed, looking at her hand. "Did I just...?"

"Nya... I think you're the master of water..." Jay's eyes widened. "You saved the Bounty from catching on fire... You saved us!" He hugged her and held her close.

Tears escaped Nya's eyes. "Jay? What happened to Kai?"

"Bliv possessed him and Kai killed himself..." Jay started. "He couldn't bear the pain..."

Nya shook with sadness, clinging onto Jay. "I'm... I wish there was something we could have done."

"Yeah..." Jay sighed. "Me too..."

After a minute of silence, Nya burst into tears, shaking violently. Jay held onto her protectively, stroking her hair.

After hours of comforting Nya, she slowly lifted her head up.

"So... was that really the only way to kill Oblivion?" She whispered, her voice still cracking with tears.

Jay nodded slowly, ridden with guilt for what he did to Kai... What he did to her.

Nya took a few deep breaths before recollecting herself and kissing him gently. "I'm just glad you're safe... And... I'm sorry about the breakup; it wasn't the right thing to do... I know this is the most inappropriate of times but... Can we start over?"

Jay didn't know why he was hesitant. He was no longer a monster, unable to hurt Nya ever again. Everything would go back to normal, right?

He held Nya close. He couldn't ever bring himself to hurt her again like he did. They were going to start over, no more insane vampire-ghosts, no more missions. They'd raise their baby, nothing more than a happy family. He held her for a minute, thinking.

Right as he was about to say yes, Nya slumped against him. "Jay...."

He quickly held her up, worried. "Nya, what is it?" He asked, his voice shaking.

She pointed at her belly weakly, and Jay's eyes grew wide. A circle of blood grew bigger and darker on her shirt, until her flesh parted. Nya collapsed to the floor, her blood spilling all over the floor.

Jay shut his eyes at the gruesome sight for a moment, but opened them again to find their baby, covered in its mother's blood and...

Her flesh... Nya's flesh between its razor-sharp fangs.

Their baby's fangs quickly retreated into its gums, making it look innocent and tooth-less. It slurped up its mother's blood and licked her wound clean, the tear slowly stitching itself back together.

Nya stirred, looking as if she had woken up from a short nap. She sat up, gasping at their baby, who had fallen asleep. She picked up the blood-soaked baby, and instead of cleaning it off with a towel, she did the unthinkable-

Nya opened her mouth, licking the blood from the baby until it was clean.

Jay shuffled backwards. Nya... The baby was a vampire or something... It bit her and now Nya was... Nya was one too...

Nya stared at Jay. "Jay... I'm sorry..." She looked at her hands, blood-stained and growing pale. "This is who I am now... This is what our baby is too..."

"Nya, it's okay, it's not your fault..." Jay reassured her, yet he was shaking and frightened. "We can get through this together, no matter what the two of you are..."

"That's not what I meant, Jay." She glanced up at him, her eyes glowing red. "Since I'm a deathless vampire, and the baby's one too, it would only make sense for you to spend the rest of time with us as well..." She smiled, extending her hand.

Jay shook his head. He couldn't go through that pain again, he couldn't be a monster again...

"Jay, please!" Nya pleaded. "If you turned, you wouldn't hurt me like you did when I was human! Think about it, the three of us together, a family. Sure we're bloodthirsty monsters, but at least we'd be together, the same species, unable to hurt each other, to feed off of each other..."

Jay gave it a few minutes of thought, finally giving in to Nya's tears. "I'll do it..." He smiled, ignoring how painful the transformation would be and instead focusing on his future with Nya.

Nya grinned, biting him and spitting something into his veins while holding their baby.

After a few minutes of unbearable, burning pain, Jay sat up, looking at Nya.

"Feeling okay, Jay?" Nya asked, clinging onto their baby.

He felt nauseous and dizzy at first, but then again, he felt like his own person, his own vampire. No more Oblivion controlling him, possessing him. He was free.

Jay chuckled, smirking and revealing his returned fangs. "Hell yeah." He laughed, kissing Nya passionately before steering them back on course, ready for an eternity of an unquenchable thirst for blood with her.

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