The morning sun slowly rose high in the sky, it was six in early morning.
Eren was sitting on the living room in Cecilia and Amelia's house, after cleaning what little he could, eren sat there. Thinking his life choices.
" First alena, Then Natalie, Then Elizabeth and then this two, So many beautiful ladies." Eren felt his heart skip a beat as he said it, he felt pride and love at the same time.
But if he only had such nice thoughts then he wouldn't have stayed up whole night.
Somewhere along the life, he had accepted this polygamous debaucherous life.
Eren knew that his love for alena never wavered, but now he shared some love for other women as well.
It was same as loving our parents, If someone asked us that which one do you love more? Mother or father.
We need to think too much and surely with many contemplating, eventually we'll have an answer.
But then someone would ask, If you love one then there is no need for other, right?
What would we answer?
It was obvious, what everybody would say.
Our hearts are space that we fill with what we love, who we love.
But is it wise to fill just because we can?, Eren had tumbled in this question a while ago and he was reminded again, by the situation he was in now.
Not that he really cared for that answer, He was filling his heart, not carelessly but filling still.
Now he had four girlfriends And Natalie, with whom his relation was most weirdest.
Eren liked her, but that was because how their relation had progressed. Physical bonding was often the cause of infatuation and so eren was infatuated, but was it same for Natalie?, Eren didn't knew.
But that didn't down his mood. He had left most of his life to luck.
He accepted when Marco invited him, he accepted when Marco set up meetings for him, he accepted when Elizabeth became intimate, he accepted when karen and his father humiliated him and he accepted when twin sister proposed him.
So far he was just passive, While it looked as if he was making the choice but in reality he just left it to fate.
" What should I do?" He asked, Pondering as to what he should do for future.
But thoughts didn't please him, putting that aside for now. Eren stood up and left his girlfriend's house.
******
Western dumpyard,
It was covered in flames, pink flames.
And the large egg was broken in pieces with it's viscous liquid spilled out. It boiled in heat.
And nobody was here.
*******
Some alley around where eren lived.
Two shadowy figures walked silently.
" What are we doing here?" A female asked.
"....."
" We shouldn't be here, Not after what happened?" She spoke again,
And this time someone responded.
" What happened that you became a supreme and killed them all." the second female voice was nonchalant.
" Well you became one too, and that's precisely why we have to leave." the first voice spoke again.
" Supreme being afraid of minor threats, now I've seen everything." The second voice mocked.
" You must be dying to meet your vampire boyfriend, So much so that you can't see the situation."
" Whatever."
The first voice clicked her tongue and became silent.
" What?, no more words?" the second voice mocked further,
" I am leaving." The first voice said no further and walked away, thought there was no steps to be heard.
Second voice didn't mind that, instead felt happy that she left.
And as if now she could appear loose, her shadow apperance finally emerged in reality, clear and beautiful.
She was Elizabeth faust, But she was not same as usual self. She was different.
Her gray eyes had turned pale blue, her skin was still pink and soft, hair still raven black and body still lith with large breasts but now she had horns.
Horns same as erens, different colour though. Her horns were pristine ice.
Sharp ice horns were transparent with bluish tinge to it, same as her eyes.
She looked even more beautiful.
But this was a matter of corcern, She wanted to meet eren and it was fine to explain him what had occured but what about rest.
Her heart was unrest, even more so by words that first voice had said,
" I wish I could see you one last time, No.." She stedied herself and walked out of alley with newfound confidence, " I must see you One last time."
*******
Eren was walking back to his home, it was early morning so nobody was out and it was cold and empty.
Eren looked that someone was walking towards him, a woman. His eyes went wide by her shadow, it displayed horns. She was a dragon.
And upon getting closer, he noticed her whole.
Simultaneously, the woman noticed eren as well. Her eyes went wide in shock once pieces of puzzles fell in place. Her thoughts became clear yet her choice became increasingly difficult.
The woman walked upto eren and stopped, Eren didn't knew her but she was standing in the way and had to stop cause of that.
But once he stopped, memories of last night resurfaced. Pale Blue hair woman, She was same.
Eren felt allerted, his hands instinctively reached out in boxing stance while his legs took few steps back.
But blue haired beauty only showed mirthless smile to his action, she was Evelyn.
Her appearance had changed as well, She was till mommy figure bombshell with blue hair and large breasts but now she had gold pink eyes than royal blue.
She had same shaped horns as eren, different colour thought, pale pink. That shone with brilliance.
" It's me." She said, raising her hands up as surrender, " Agatha."
Eren felt shock once again,
" No, You're not her." He didn't lower his guard.
" Look closer eren, My hair colour might be different but my face is still the same"
Now that eren focused, she was right.
But it was more than that, there were several changes that made her look different.
First her eyes, her hair, her lips, her hairstyle and even the makeup she put on.
" How? And why?"
" Your questions aside, there is a matter of great importance boytoy." Agatha needed to assure him completely that she was someone he knew and someone he could trust a little.
" We can't talk here, Let's go." Eren didn't knew how to react, should he accept that it was normal and be fine with it?, surely not so passively.
But then again, what could he do?
Ofcourse he still needed answers, but before he could say anything he heard wiring sound.
He saw Agatha activating teleportation device but it was already late, And then he vanished with evelyn.
****
Eren found himself standing in a room, decorated with dimly lit yellow lights.
It was small, still bigger than Eren's own room but of an size that would immediately make one realise that it wasn't a normal room. It was a hotel room, Few decoration with no home necessities and only essentials.
And judging by their appearance, eren could guess it was pricey. Everything here was pricey, why because he could guess which place this was.
" hotel burning hell."
" You've been to this place?" Eren saw Agatha pouring herself large cup of wine, she seemed troubled.
Eren didn't let his guard down. Afterall this was no different than abduction. And to top it all, he had no phone. Meaning he was about to hear an awfull lot from Jasmine once he got back, if could get back.
Eren eyed her daggers for answer but she ignored, drinking the whole cup in one gulp and poured herself another one. And then few more of those till the bottle was empty.
She looked at eren and sat on the couch,
" I'm in a situation where I need so many answers and it seems you could help me."
She gestured eren to sit, eren warily sat on other end of room where another chair was placed.
As much as eren wanted to just slam out of here, Eren knew on thing,
' It would impossible to get away from her even if tried.' He thought.
" Are you one of the subjects?" she asked,
Eren shook his head not understanding what she meant.
" Well That was deadend to begin with." she sighed, " Then tell me, how did you got those horns?" she pulled out a cigatette from the drawer and lit it up.
" I don't want to answer that."
" I have a really good reason to ask such questions." She sighed again, thinking and after few smoked she spoke again.
" Eren I'm gonna tell you few of my doubts, I hope you can clear them. see now I'm talking nicely." There was no niceness whatsoever on her face, she was beyond the stage of annoyance.
Eren had vein popped in his head,
' Does she really think that'll work?'
" There is an evil organisation that does illegal and fatal experiment to combine bloodlines. And they do it so by shoving a mana core to living subject's own mana core and that's what happened to me." She pointed at her horns, then lit another cegret.
" But it should not be possible." Eren retorted almost instantly.
" Oh it's not completely impossible as you can see, what I want to know is why does my horns look like yours?" She asked, Thinking the obvious.
It came from the core that was injected inside her,
" How should I know?"
" Well what I mean is, When someone actually managed to succeed in this experiment they tend to show other individual's characteristics. The one whose core was injected." Evelyn extinguished the cigarette on the ashtray and looked at eren,
"It could mean that someone, your relative, Dragon brother or sister-"
" I have no family, beside I'm half dragon. This bloodline is not hereditary." But as he said, Natalie's face came to mind.
And with that came a theory.
Eren looked at his hand,
' I gave this ring to natalie, But Evelyn vomitted this out.' The thought terrified him, his eyes were apparent with that fear.
So clear that Evelyn could see it as well,
" That ring, The enemy I killed wore that." She was sure that eren had no such ring last time she met, and the ring itself emmited faint trace of mana. Which implied that it was space ring, something expensive - More so she knew she had swallowed it along with madman and acid failed to destroy it, Acid destroyed even madman but failed to destroy this ring, what it meant that ring was not just expensive but an unusually strong relic - something eren could never have.
Her thinking wasn't wrong, but she didn't knew about alena's existence and her gift. It did really belong to eren.
"This is originally mine but Who wore this ring?" Asked eren, his breathing strained with pressure that slowly build up in chest with Anxiouness.
" A half immortal madman." Her words temporarily relived eren,
' She said man and not a woman, But then how?'
" Was there a girl, a dragon girl with him?"
" You said no relatives then who is this dragon girl you speak off?" Evelyn eyed him daggers.
Eren could feel the pressure in room rising, her patience was running out with no answer and even more confusion. But same could be said for eren, he was betrayed.
Yet he was calm.
" She was my friend, This ring originally belongs to me but I gave her in rush of hurry." Eren still remembered the day when he threw the Natalie off the cliff, saving her from jack as he threw his ring to her.
" The facility where they conducted experiments had many dead bodies." She didn't mince her words for niceties and stood up,
She picked up another bottle of wine and gulped it down in one big sip.
And after that she veiled the curtains, Suddenly aura of the room changed dense and cold, she was angry.
She walked upto corner and opened the closet, from which her thin hand pulled out a man,ugly man.
Yes, it was same ugly man who was sent as second back up. But now in much more pitiful state. Ugly man's face was burned entirely, so much so that charred muscle below became visible over the skin.
He was tied and his mouth was gagged, his eyes showed fear and his mouth moaned for speech.
He looked even more ugly with burned face and bloody, messy appearance.
" Let's ask him."
Eren was taken aback,
" You kidnapped him?"
" Yes and I even tortured him, But that is beside the point. Ask him about your friend." She didn't care for manners as she removed his gag roughly.
The ugly man wanted to scream, but his throat was burned and he could only groan in husky voice.
" Did you see a golden horned dragon girl?" Eren asked, his heart jumped out with fear with what his answer would be.
But ugly man smiled mockingly to him,
" Maybe, I don't know."
" He's bluffing." Evelyn gagged him once more, " There were more than thousands test subjects, I hoped for some answer if he actually knew your friend but the way he said it, I can tell He's lying."
She was about to put him in closet once again,
" Wait, Did you see any baby pixiu and black panther.," Evelyn was about to put him away, ignoring eren's word but then suddenly she felt small vibrations from ugly man.
She looked at him, searching from unusual. But ugly was man calm.
But then that was the problem, he was masking his emotions, to calm himself when all this time he was resisting.
Besides it was already too late, Evelyn wiffed something weird the second she felt vibration up her hands, Afterall Evelyn believed in insticts and that was her cue.
Evelyn removed his gag and looked him dead in the eyes,
" Did you?"
Ofcourse with much difficulty of speaking, ugly man denied it but it was already too late.
" So the monster blood you use to make this insanity possible comes from them" Her words rattled his heart even more, which further proofed her doubts.
Now she had one answer, A start atleast.
She looked eren after she gagged and hid ugly man.
" So your furry friends are their captives, intelligent guess would be that your friend too is, Or she was?" As always she didn't mince her words, she didn't wanted to give eren empty hope.
" But why?, What do you mean their blood?" Eren didn't wanted to think about Natalie, it was agonizing, knowing that she could be dead. And more so, he had no definitive answer.
" You furry friends have special ability, their blood grants this experiment an additive success rate." She lit another cigarette and continued, " Atleast they are alive, that is certain."
As she said, few images came to her mind. She had fuzzy memories and because of that she had few more doubts.
" Why do those beasts have such powers?" She pondered, another thought popped in her head as she spoke.
She remembered what had transpired yesterday night, She ate someone thinking that it was madman.
But was that really him?
Then she saw eren, Now after looking at him this close, she was certain of. Her memories were fuzzy but she definitely saw eren, no, she only saw eren.
That meant,
Her eyes narrowed with doubt, yet she acted on her insticts without much thoughts.
Her hand grabbed the ashtray and shot with insane strength,
Eren didn't knew what happened when suddenly his vision went black, his thoughts halted for a moment but then he felt tingle in neck rise above.
He knew this feeling, His head was regenerating. And as it did, he saw Evelyn staring at him with wide eyes.
Eren looked behind where dust of broken ashtray laid on floor and wall behind him was splashed with blood and gore.
He knew what she did and now cat was out of bag, Another trouble that pinched his heart.
" So you're an half immortal as well."
" As well?, There are more." Eren wasn't concerned with what she did, death didn't faze him and he wasn't even really dead.
" As I said, Your furry friends grants additivity of success rate in the bloodline merging, from what I think, They are half immortals as well." Eren was confused, just a moment ago he was only one and now everyone was half immortal.
" How do you say?" Evelyn waited, putting her thoughts together and replied,
" You said that you are not one of their test subjects, Meaning your immortality does not come from this experiment. Let's put it aside the question, where does it come from for now.
Your beasts must have tasted your blood by luck, so they became immortals as well. And by same luck organization found their immortality." Evelyn chuckled at this absurd coincidences.
" Core merging causes bloodline merging, but it fails cause it's painful and requires enormous amount of mana to succeed. So much so that test subject explodes and dies, but with introduction of your beasts immortality. Test subject doesn't die till his bloodline merges or his soul breaks." Evelyn put all the pieces together, yet she didn't feel slightest happyness for it.
Instead she felt even more dread, now that she realised how much threat was really brewing under this organisation, she was afraid.
" But this are still assumptions? Right?" Eren too could feel the imminent threat, if enemy had really captured found away to attain immortality then it was matter of time before they showed their fangs. Besides her theory meant, that Natalie, ava and eva were in danger.
Eren wanted to deny her absurd theory.
" You're right, But my assumption are always correct." Evelyn showed a mirthless smile,
"look at you, I guessed you were real immortal by rejecting that your furry friends was not the really the root cause."
Eren couldn't really question that,
Just by apperance or race, it was hard to judge if anyone was immortal.
Even cute little monster could be one and even handsome dragon could be one, how to discern.
" Now I have only one question and all sorts of killings." Evelyn sat down at the couch once again, her pink eyes became sharp.
" Where did you get your immortality?, looking at you, There is very high probability that you're really a real half immortal, not like those phonies." Evelyn eyed him daggers, but then she calmed her heart and changed her look.
" I'll say this out of consideration since we know each other."
Eren waited for her to continue,
" I'm on good side, So stopping this evil organisation is one of my tasks." she didn't seem to care that much for justice, " So to stop this madness, I'll have to remove the root cause."
Eren's eyes narrowed with coldness, he knew what those words meant,
" I'll have to kill your pets and I'll have to kill you as well." She didn't bet her eyes as she stared dead in his black eyes.
Eren didn't knew what to say, he felt angry yet he couldn't let it out. What was he supposed to say? Beg for his and his pet's life.
He had stopped begging long ago, If not begining them maybe retaliate.
No, It was pointless and he knew it, she just killed him like it was nothing, that too on just assumption that he was an immortal. This meant, she was ready to go to any lengths to complete her tasks.
" If you are a real immortal then I'll have to kill you what hundred times, thousands times. Not like those phonies who dies after ten or twenty times." Evelyn stood up shaking her head to sides, she neared eren.
" Stop." But she didn't,
Her figure seemed dominating as she got closer.
" This is just business."
" Stop." Eren's voice became louder, his head pulsed and heart throbbed in fear.
Eren knew this feeling, it was really fear.
And Evelyn ignored him, walking closer. It was weird how small distance felt like eternity.
" Why do you resist?, A guy like you who considered life to be not worth living. Why?"her words struck the nerve.
" You don't know me?"
" Oh but I do know the eyes and eyes don't lie, Only reason you're living is because you cannot be killed but deep down you know it yourself, You just want to die." she didn't stop,
" No..."
" That Marco and jasmine, You can act to be happy with them and for a moment you might even really be happy. But face it eren," She stopped, peering right into his eyes with a smile, " It's agony to live in fear, so much so that one would rather choose death."
"..."
" And you simply couldn't choose that option." She knew how to break hearts and souls, and she smiled in doing so, " Lucky you, I am here." She was almost there, her steps were silent but that felt even more ominous.
Eren gritted his teeth,
' She's right.' Yet he once again shouted his lungs out,
" STOP." this time with much resistance, much emotions, much anger rather than fear.
Fear had not vanished, it was merely masked by anger.
And upon his words, Evelyn stopped.
" I can still fight." Eren looked at Evelyn with shallow determination, with pitiful eyes.
Even a kid wouldn't believe his words.
"..."
Eren stood shaking, breathing heavy.
But Evelyn didn't answer, didn't move. Her eyes trying to not show any expression.
Eren was too caught up in his state to notice it immediately, His thoughts were were everywhere.
But even he could see that situation had changed a bit.
He was looking ahead the whole time, Fearing her every step but now. Now, she was not moving.
' Why is she not coming?'
His question's answer was simple, clear but not very easy to guess.
" What are you doing?" He asked, anticipation was eating him away even more.
Evelyn's body became stiff, as if she was being barely managing to not fall on her knees.
" I stopped because you said so." She answered, Something she didn't wanted to say.
But when pain of soul couldn't be held any more, her body was compelled to answer.
" Why?" her eyes widened in shock.
" Why?" her heart sank.
" Why?" Her head spin,
This was fear, Something she didn't imagine she still had.
Eren breathed heavy, still unsure how this came to be but atleast he was momentarily relieved,
" Sit down." His voice was low this time, he merely wanted to check if this was really happening.
But to his surprise, she really sat down, on the couch.
Eren's eyes showed visible surprise, visible joy.
" Why are you following my order?" He asked, Again expecting that she would follow his command and she really did,
She gritted her teeth, holding her body to limit before pain became too unbearable,
" I don't know."
But eren was not disappointed, now that his erratic heart was calming down, his thinking capacity was returning.
' This is shocking for her as well.' It was obvious. And eren could guess what this absurdity came from, he wanted confirm it.
" Any guess?" He asked again and waited, watching Evelyn going from frightened to angry then to pained and then to unwilling obedience.
Her eyes said it all now that her strong persona had crumbled before real fear.
She was a strong woman, strong enough that she did not fear death. But this was different, She was slaved. Now death was actually a mercy in this situation.
' Living in fear, My words right back at me.' she wanted to laught at irony but her heart was too down to actually bring herself to smile.
" Maybe it is something called sireline." Her initial fear had settled down, Now she didn't look like someone who was explaining out of unwillingness.
She had calmed herself down to think this better, to try to get out of this without making it obvious.
" There were bloodline of few vampires and beatrals that possessed similar ability, They shared their blood to create a master- servant relation, ofcourse it didn't allow immortality as a benefit." She also had accepted that now killing eren was far dream.
Eren waited, carefully considering what he should do next. And after a while he left.