Vampire God in the Apocalypse

He sprinted towards her silently and held her arms.

"What are you doing? You\'ll hurt yourself." Dexter complained but Hannah only looked back at him with a frown, clearly annoyed.

"Let go. You didn\'t want to teach me how to fight, so I\'ll just practice with the wall and use all the things I\'ve seen you perform." Hannah said but Dexter didn\'t let her go.

"Let go of me already." Hannah said, this time, she tried to struggle out of his grip but couldn\'t.

"Why? Why do you want to fight your battles when I can do it for you?" Dexter asked and Hannah only sighed as she rested her back on his body.

"All my life, I\'ve had to rely on others for protection. My dad, my manager, my boyfriend. I had a weak body, my skin is too soft to be put through hard work. I\'ve always been sick of it. Seeing others suffer because of me."

"I want to be able to defend myself, by myself. I want to fight alongside you. I want to save you when you\'re in trouble too. I don\'t want to be vulnerable all the time." She said while tearing up, making Dexter confused as he hasn\'t said anything since. powered by mvle-mp|y|r

But he seem to get something from what she just said.

"What happened?" He asked simply.

Hannah looked back at him and sighed.

"I should\'ve known you\'ll find out I\'m hiding something." She laughed.

\'You are? I just guessed though but let\'s roll with this.\' Dexter thought before leaving her arms.

"Dexter." Hannah said as she walked forward and he looked at her hands which were a bit bruised.

She turned to face him with a sad face and Dexter got nervous.

"I\'m not a Virgin." Hannah said.

Those words alone send a shock to Dexter and he coughed for and cleaned his ears.

"Eh?" Dexter couldn\'t believe what he just heard.

"I know my sister said I was, but I\'m not. I was..." She paused as she felt her heart beating faster.

She has never told anyone what happened, the time she was kidnapped.

She was stunned to suddenly see Dexter in front of her and she looked up to his face.

"It\'s okay. I\'m cool with you not being a virgin. I\'m shocked! But then again it makes me want to know what happened. Seeing the kind of family you come from, I don\'t imagine it being possible." Dexter said with furrowed brows.

"I know. It\'s just that, with me always being protected, even forbidden from joining any martial arts club, I became a target to my father\'s haters. I was kidnapped. They wanted money, but not just that, I... I was raped." Hannah seemed down after she said that and tears began to fall from her eyes as she looked down.

"I felt weak, I felt unable to do anything, I felt worthless--"

"Hey, hey, hey. Don\'t think about those things too much." Dexter held the sides of her face and wiped her tears.

"It\'s all in the past now." Dexter sighed as he hugged her to himself.

After two minutes he finally spoke.

"I\'m sorry. I just didn\'t want you to get hurt." Dexter said and Hannah only nodded.

"I\'ll teach you." He said with a sigh.

"Really?!" She released herself from his hug, looking at him with her beautiful golden eyes.

Dexter only nodded and soon, they were standing on the soft mat with flexible outfits.

"First lesson, block, parry and attack." Dexter said and Hannah nodded excitedly.

And so her first training session began.

....

Alexander walked out from the large container where Dexter and Henry previously hid and he stretched, making groaning sounds.

"Make sure to be quiet. There are still giant mantices crawling around." Henry said as he walked out carrying an unconscious man on his shoulder.

"So what now?" Henry asked Alexander.

"We need to head towards a forest. But it shouldn\'t be far from Serene." Alexander said and then he began walking in a direction while leaving Henry to carry Brian.

...

*Boom!*

*RAAAAA...!!!*

Alexander hid behind a pavement as a large crab creature destroyed a truck with its bare hands.

"It\'s really chaotic, reaching the forest will take a while." Alexander said and Henry closed his eyes as he felt something amiss.

"What\'s wrong?" Alexander asked but the loud roaring of the crab creature made both of them close their ears.

"It\'s just that... these black orbs keep appearing around me." Henry said as he looked around to see the black orbs floating around his body.

"I see you have already been recognised by the spirits. Seems like I\'ll just teach you along the way on his to use this power." Alexander said and Henry couldn\'t help but be confused.

He agreed to go with his father so he could learn more about himself and grow stronger to help his friends.

But they might as well die before they get to Serene.

Henry began breathing hard as he wondered why he was hearing whispers from the spirits around him.

"So it works like this. We witches and warlocks, we draw our power from the spirits around us. The number of spirits dictate how strong we can become."

"These spirits can vary. From human, to mythical creature, to forgotten Gods. First of all, a connection needs to be formed." Alexander explained and Henry, while focusing hard enough to listen, asked;

"And how do I form connections?" Henry asked and his dad just look behind the pavement to see that the large crab was walking away from their location.

"First of all we need to get to a safe location." Alexander said before he moved out of their hiding place.

They made their way to an empty shed which wasn\'t too far away. As they opened it a giant flying insect flew towards them from within, scaring Alexander.

Henry stretched out his hand towards it and a black spike erected from his palm and impaled the creature.

"Be careful." Henry said and they entered inside the shed and gazed around.

There were a bunch of dead bodies littered around and Henry covered his nose before dropping Brian. He then grabbed a mat and covered the bodies and then used a large blanket afterwards.

"Better." He mumbled before walking back to his dad who was drawing something on the floor.

He got close to it and it turned out to be a circle with a few symbols which were connected to each other.

"What\'s this?" Henry asked as he gazed at the circle.

"A contract circle." Alexander then stretched his hand towards henry.

"Bring forth your hand." Alexander said.

Henry knelt down beside the circle and the whispers got louder all of a sudden.

He stretched forth his hand and his dad held it.

"Now give me your sword."

"Eh?" Henry frowned at Alexander\'s request.

"You want to cut my hand off." Henry mumbled as he took back his hand.

"Don\'t just jump to conclusions, I just need your blood to continue the process." Alexander said and Henry gulped.

"I... okay." Henry said and he summoned the golden extendable sword.

Alexander took it and slashed Henry\'s palm from one end to the other quickly and Henry nearly shouted in pain.

"Sorry, I didn\'t expect it to be this sharp. Just bear it." Alexander said as he struggled to keep Henry\'s hand over the circle, letting the blood drop and fill the engraved symbols and the circle.

After an entire minute, Alexander finally stopped and then Henry wrapped his hand in a layer of the blackthorn essence which stopped the bleeding.

"S... so whats next--?" Henry asked but he was stunned when the circle then began lighting up and the blood began glowing red.

"Now, you choose your first spirit to contract." Alexander said and soon black orbs began appearing within the room.

Some orbs of other colors appeared like white and gold but none stood out to henry like the black orb which had a floating crown on it.

"Wow, so many spirits." Alexander said out loud as he looked around and Henry suddenly looked at him with a raised brow.

"I thought you couldn\'t see them."

"Yeah, but my blood too is in there so yeah..." Alexander replied as he stared at the spirits in fascination.

The spirits all began to leave as the one with a floating crown above it hovered in front of Henry and Alexander\'s eyes suddenly widened in shock as he stepped back.

"A... spirit king." Alexander mumbled.

*GRRRR...*

All of a sudden, the ground suddenly began to shake and Alexander stood his ground while Henry fell on his butt.

When it was over, they looked out the window to see some monsters fighting and they became tensed.

"We have to be more quiet." Alexander said and Henry moved to touch the spirit but his hand passed through.

"You don\'t have to touch. Be patient." Alexander folded his arms and Henry breathed out tiredly.

It was freaky.

A month ago he was just going to school, receiving lectures on physics and chemistry, now he is doing crazy stuff like sacrifices and spirit contracts.

\'How weird life has been.\' He thought with a smile.

"Child, I am the king of the dark spirits. You and I seem compatible... you\'re the first I have seen in centuries. Do you accept me as your first contract spirit?"

Henry suddenly heard the voice coming from the orb in front of him.

"I accept." Henry agreed and the orb shrunk before shooting into his forehead.

An \'X\' mark appeared on his forehead and he blinked and looked around.

"So fast?" He mumbled.

Alexander smiled before saying, "Yup. Congratulations on being a warlock, your journey only starts here."

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[A/N: End of volume 2 - Warlock of curses]