August 4, 2015
Magnolia, Fiore
Fairy Hunters guild
2:11 a.m.

"RISE AND SHINE! UP AND AT 'EM, YOU LAZY KIDS!" Gildarts crashes the gong over and over as a few of the vampires start hissing at him.

"WHAT THE FUCK, MAN?!" Gajeel shouts as Gildarts grabs a spray bottle from his cloak and sprints water on him, making him hiss at him.

"Your exorcists are awake too!" Gildarts cheerfully says as he drags the vampires from their room and into the main training hall, where they see the four equally sleepy exorcists.

"Why are we-" Gray yawns, scratching his head, "Up this early for again?"

"Training, of course!" Gildarts shouts with pride, seeing the group practically falling asleep where they stand.

Gildarts takes out his trusty water bottle and spritz it on Lyon and he wakes up, accidentally making the temperature of the room drop and waking everyone else up.

"Note this, exorcists. Vampires aren't particularly fond of water. Although, it does different kinds of damage to different kinds of vampires. Purebloods aren't affected by the purity of water while, turned vampires are only bothered a little by it, as example of you lot." He referred to the group growling at him, "It only gets really fun on the frenzies. With one hit, the water will completely syphon their powers from them, if they even have any to begin with." Gildarts says, seeing Levy wide awake and taking notes down in her little pad.

"What do you mean by that?" Gray asks.

"Frenzies are the lowest of the low in the vampire world, although, in that place, we call them the despicables." Lyon says and Jellal nods.

"Frenzies are humans that were turned and if they don't feed for too long, they go into a permanent bloodlust, completely losing their human side and becoming savage creatures that are only capable of killing." They hear the chilling voice of the one and only, Zeref Dragneel behind them as he walks in.

"Zeref, did you get any sleep at all last night?" Silver asks, sounding concerned when he saw the dark circles under the exorcist's eyes.

"I ran out of the pills last night. Couldn't sleep." Zeref says grumpily and Silver began to shout.

"Are you serious?! Me and Makarov only made that batch a month ago! You ran out already?" Silver asks and Zeref growls at him.

"SHUT UP!" Zeref shouts, suddenly remembering that the trainees and vampires were in the room.

"I apologize for raising my voice... I'm not myself this morning..." Zeref bows as an apology.

"It's okay, headmaster... But, are you sure you're okay?" Erza asks and Zeref yawns.

"I'll live... Hey, why is it so cold in here?" Zeref asks as the group starts to glare daggers at a certain albino of Gray's contracts, who was ruffling his white hair and laughing nervously at the others' stares.

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A disclosed location located near Fiore Hunter College
2:45 a.m.

"Today, you lot will be going on your first mission." Gildarts says.

"A mission?!" Natsu's eyes sparkle at the thought of a battle.

"Finally time to test out our training!" Gray was also getting pumped up.

"We recently got a request to kill a few frenzies in the area. It's a good chance for you four to test out your skills and maybe even be able to build your strength with your contracts as a team." Gildarts refers to the four exorcists as they nod.

"Wait! We've got to go in the obviously old and scary-looking mansion?!" Lucy asks as the four turn towards to where their targets are.

Just your run-of-the-mill haunted mansion-looking house, equipped with creaky floorboards, broken window panels and estranged bloodstains splattered on the walls. Nothing that doesn't look like it's being haunted.

"Don't worry! We'll be right out here if you need us! GOOD LUCK!!!" Gildarts begins to skip away as the group turn back to the target location.

"Charming, isn't it?" Loke weakly chuckles at the horrendous sight of the house.

"This is gonna be fun." Gajeel smirks, cracking his knuckles.

"You took how many a night?" Silver asks.

"Six. Every night now, I have to take six of them and four when my chest tightens up." Zeref grips at his shirt.

"Your resistance to the spell in the pills is getting stronger, Zeref. I'm afraid at this rate, your body might not be able to hold out much longer." Makarov sighs and Zeref hits a tree in anger.

"No! I can't let him win! Not when I finally got my brother back and my little girl comes back into my life- When I'm this close to finding her!" Zeref shouts, his rage beginning to boil up.

"Zeref! ZEREF!" Gildarts holds him down against the ground before Zeref could hurt himself.

"I'm okay... I'm okay." Zeref begins to calm down, trying to clear his head of the negative thoughts that were cluttering the back of his mind.

'Anything to keep those demon bastards back. ' He couldn't let the curse take him yet, not when he was so close to having the light of his life back into his arms.

"Okay... I'm going to let go of you now." Gildarts slowly let Zeref go and allowed him to come off of the ground.

The tightness in the Dragneel's chest loosened and he was once again able to breathe. It seems that his curse decided to back off for awhile. Just as they were ready to speak about the incident, a scream was heard into the house, one that got Zeref's feet moving as fast as he could.

"NATSU!!!"

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Under the disclosed location located near Fiore Hunter College
2:45 a.m.

Blood. Blood. Blood. Blood. Blood. It was all he could think about. It was all he could afford to think about at the moment. This was the first time he had been fed in weeks. Who knows when his mistress would even think to allow him to feed again?

His mistress wasn't known to be merciful. She is one of those close to the Nightmare King and had a seat at the round table of the Tartaros demons. Right now, she sat in a chair before him in her favorite form. Since she could shapeshift, she could transform into anyone she wanted but, this one happened to be her favorite.

She had the body of a child, probably no less than twelve with long ebony-colored hair and eyes as dark as the night sky. A pair of horns stuck out of the sides of her head, a golden yellow in color as she wore a continuous straight face, looking down as he fed.

He was biting in her wrist, feeding on his mistress's blood when she took her other hand and yanked on the back of his dark hair, forcing him off. Blood dripped down his chin, falling onto his clothes and his eyes were still red with hunger.

"You're such a bad dog, biting your mistress too hard. I may just have to punish you for that." her eyes gleamed at the thought and he was on his knees, her hand still gripping at his hair.

"Please... D-Don't..." he begs, remembering the last time he time he did something to displease her for his back could still feel the sting of the whipping from all the punishment he received earlier.

"How dare you talk back to me?" she threw him to the ground, causing him to hiss in pain from his wounds and she caught a different smell entering the house.

"My beloved puppy..." she gripped at the red collar around his neck, forcing him to be on his knees again.

"It seems that we have some intruders entering the house. I can smell them...", she licks a spot on his neck, gripping onto his shoulders, holding him up, "The blood of traitors and some novice exorcists... Be a dear and go eat them for me, will ya? Maybe then, you'll stop complaining about being hungry." she bites into his neck, piercing his skin with her fangs as he cries out in pain.

She smirks against his skin at his screams, injecting her blood into him.

"N-NO! PLEASE! NOT AGAIN!" he begs between his screams as he could feel the blood coursing through his veins, almost feeling like he was about to choke.

After a few moments, he stopped struggling against the grip on his neck and moved his neck to the side so she could bite into him better.

When she released him, a drop of blood dripped down her chin, causing her to smile and have her eyes turn a vampiric red.

"Kill them, my pet." she caresses his cheek in one of her hands, seeing his dull red eyes and a smirk slowly forming onto his face.

"Yes, my lady."

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"Wait. What's the plan again?" Lyon asks and Gray groans.

"We go in, look around, find the frenzy, kill it and then, we go home to our beds. It doesn't get any easier than that." Gray says, gripping at the end of his sword on his side.

"Easy for you to say! At least you three have weapons!" Lucy shouts.

Gray had his mother's sword, Erza had a pair of swords that were passed down from the Scarlet clan and Levy got handmade guns with silver bullets made for her mother before she passed. Lucy was told that she wouldn't need a weapon but, nonetheless, she still felt unprotected.

"No sweat, Luce! Anything tries to hurt you and I'll burn it!" Natsu laughs, igniting his fists.

"Natsu, put those away! You'll blow our cover!" Erza shouts as the pinkette quickly puts out the flames.

"Okay. We just have to split up. Lucy, Levy, you two take the right side and Gray and I'll take the left." Erza formed the groups.

"And if we find the frenzies?" Lucy asks.

"Kill them if you can or scream. We'll hear it." the four nod and go their separate ways.

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"I'll go one way, she says. You take the other, she says. Easy my ass!" Levy whispers loudly as she holds her guns in her hands, carefully walking against the creaky floorboards.

She and Lucy took one half of the building and she decided to take Natsu and Loke and search the half of the half. Gajeel also seemed to have disappeared after he smelled something familiar. Now, she was all by herself.

"It could be worse. I could get attacked right now." the room got insanely cold all of a sudden.

"Gray, this isn't time for one of your pranks!" she shouts, thinking that the raven-haired exorcist spritzed water on Lyon to make the hall colder. She got no response back.

"Lucy? Erza!" she shouted some more, hoping it was one of them and not the blood crazed vampire they're supposed to hunt.

"Umm... Hello?....." Levy shivers as she hears the snarling of a creature of the night.

"......." Levy gulps, backing into the broad chest of the snarling and strong hands grabbed her by the shoulders.

Levy slowly turned around as her eyes widened and slowly turned blue in the face.

"TAKE THIS!" Levy punched the vampire in the face with her fist, causing him to grab his nose and groan in pain.

"Dear Mavis... Your right hook is stronger than I remember..." his voice made her angry, since she knew only one person who would prank her like this.

"DAMN IT, GAJEEL!" Levy shouts, seeing Gajeel lick the blood coming out of his nose.

"Geez Levy. Your uppercut improved..." Gajeel chuckles as Levy hit him on the shoulder.

"Don't scare me like that!" safe to say that she was angry he played such a prank on her.

"You're such an idiot..." Levy groans, pulling the safety back onto her guns as she put them back in their holster.

"Sorry... I couldn't resist." Gajeel nervously chuckled, seeing the tiny blunette glaring daggers at him.

"I'm still mad." Levy huffs and Gajeel smirks as they continue walking down the hall.

Moonlight seeped out of the slightly broken window panes and Gajeel could see that a crescent moon was out. He smirked, thinking it looked cool for the occasion. It was then when he felt that something was out of place. He could feel a presence in the hall. A rather dark presence.

"Levy. I think someone's here." Gajeel says.

"Enough with the jokes, Gajeel. They're getting annoying." Levy groans, crossing her arms over her chest.

"I'm not joking right now, Levy! I really think that something else is- FUCK!!!" The dark-haired vampire is suddenly thrown through the wall by a shadowed figure.

"Gajeel!" Levy shouts, grabbing her guns and pointing them at the figure standing in the dark.

When the figure tried to move, she pulled back the safety on both her guns, "Hold it right there!"

As her eyes began to adjust to the darkness some more, she could slightly see some details on the figure itself. It was a male, maybe black hair since it was blending in the shadows, slightly covering his left eye. A bright red eye was staring at her hungrily as a smirk draped over his face.

"A-Are you the frenzy habiting this a-area? Cause i-if you are, I'm going to h-have to tell you that you can't stay here anymore!" she shouted, stuttering in fear.

It wasn't like the same fear she had with Gajeel. It was different with him. She knew that deep down, he'd never really hurt her. But, this creature wasn't Gajeel Redfox. This was a Class E vampire. A frenzy. The once human vampires that lost themselves to the hunger and become the real monsters. The ones that truly kill.

"So, you're one of the novice exorcists mistress warned me about? Pathetic." she could hear him chuckle.

"You're just a child. So small and frail and yet... Your blood smells so familiar..." she could somehow recognize that voice, like she knew this person before.

"Excuse me? I am not a child! I'm in college, for your information!" she shouted, being insulted by the fact that people keep downsizing her abilities cause of her height.

"I'm so sorry..." she could see his body phase through the floor and Levy backed into a pair of cold hands, "Were you saying something?"

"G-GET YOUR HANDS OFF ME!" she elbowed the vampire in the ribs, causing him to slightly lose his balance and then have a gun shoved in his face.

"You won't shoot. You're just a little girl." the vampire chuckles as she pulls her finger over the trigger.

"Don't underestimate me. And by the way, my name is Levy McGarden." she smirks and just as she was about to pull the trigger, she was stopped by a shout of-

"LEVY, DON'T!!!" she quickly looked over to the hole in the wall, seeing Gajeel jump out and making Levy's bullet fire into a window pane.

"GAJEEL?! WHAT THE FU-" Levy shouts as the dark-haired vampire grabs her by the neck, making her drop her guns as she is flipped around, having her back be pressed against his stomach and he licks her neck.

"How tasty." the dark-haired male chuckles as Levy squirms against his grip.

"Levy!" Gajeel shouts as he tries to get closer but, he brushes his fangs against Levy's neck, making her shiver.

"Don't come any closer or I'll drink her dry, traitor." he says as Gajeel growls.

"You don't recognize me?" Gajeel asks and the dark-haired male looked confused.

"Why would I know a traitor?" he asks and Gajeel's vampiric eyes disappeared, leaving his soft red eyes.

"It's because... We're brothers-" Gajeel pauses.

"Ryos."