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// Jenny's training 
// Story: Foretellers 
// by Fear Ripper 
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It had been a month since Cript and Alushy moved into and became a permanent part in the Foretellers Lives. It was an adjustment for the teens, but thankfully it was beginning to feel more and more normal.

It was finally a school break though, so the teens walked home as usual. 

“Feels nice having parents waiting for us at home.” Kira said.

“Yeah, it’s definitely better than coming home to nothing half the time.” Jenny shrugged.

“I do hope Cript is cooking this time. As… needed as Blood might be, Alushy putting blood into all the meals she cooks for us makes the food rather… weird.” Dan stated.

“It’s still...really weird with all the blood.” Alex said nervously. “Like sure, we’re vampires...but we don’t need everything drenched in it...we can just get it in a cup or something.”

“Given the bite marks Pinkie was sporting last time she was over, I doubt you need even that…” Lan stated, earning chuckles from his siblings. Not a one had entered their perverted brothers room but they could all take a guess as to what was inside given how often Pinkie came over.

“I didn’t know she liked that to be honest...not that I’m complaining or anything.” Alex chuckled.

“So, what should we do over the break? We got a week of free time.” Dan asked.

“We need to get stronger first of all.” Jenny said honestly.

“Spend our break training? Boo…” Kira pouted.

“What do you have in mind then?” Jenny asked. “We have to be prepared for whatever the hell Crow has in store for us.”

“I was hoping for some family activity.” Kira sighed.

“Well, why don’t we ask Cript or Alushy for training then? That counts… right?” Dan asked.

“That...does work.” Jenny nodded. “They’re more versed in fighting than we are…”

“Alushy literally ate every God on her world and Cript… is Cript.” Lan added.

“Yes.” Alex nodded. “Wonder what they’re training would be, to be honest?”

“No idea for Cript but I’m willing to bet that Alushy will involve blood, and using out claws, teeth and large guns.” Dan stated.

“Fair.” Jenny nodded. “Guns are nifty and all, but we’re all sword and magic users anyways.”

“Some diversity might come in hand though, especially given… what happened…” Lan sighed. 

The group arrived back at their home, the smell of food not being cooked in blood was in the air. They headed into the kitchen where Cript was making Mashed potatoes. “Hey. So, how was school?” He asked with a chuckle.

“Boring, but it’s still school.” Jenny shrugged.

“How was your day?” Alex inquired.

“Well, your mom spent it cleaning that mess of Jenny’s laundry and I spent the earlier half of today hunting for eldritch gods.”

“You… went hunting… for Eldritch gods?” Dan asked.

“Yeah. FYI, don’t worry about that slab of meat in the freezer if it screams at you, that’s dinner tomorrow.”

“Ri~ght…” Jenny said carefully.

“I don’t want to get screamed at everytime I want a popsicle…” Alex grumbled.

“... Eating the flesh of an eldritch God aside… we were wondering if you’d train us over the break?” Lan asked.

“Nope.” Cript replied.

“... No?” 

“No. I’ve only trained a few of my kids before and that was before I was even half as strong as I am now. In short, I can’t train you when showing you the movements might end up hurting you by accident.”

“Then do you know anyone that can train us?” Jenny asked.

“Sure. One of your siblings I did train can help actually. Plus I imagine she’d get a kick out of meeting you all.”

“Well, that’s good, and we get to meet one of our siblings.” Kira added.

“Which is all around a good thing.” Alex nodded.

“Where’s Alushy?” Dan asked.

“In the attic.” Cript answered.

“... We have an attic?” The siblings asked in unison.

“Yeah. You didn’t know?” Cript asked.

“We...wouldn’t be this surprised if we did.” Jenny said carefully.

Cript shrugged. “Well, entrance is up the stairs and to the right. Can't miss it now that it’s open.”

Curious, the siblings all went up and found the entrance to the hidden attic. Apparently the manor had a doorway up to the attic, but it was hidden behind wallpaper and a hallway bookshelf they kept small decorations on for display. 

“Well, that explains why we never noticed.” Kira said.

“Yeah, that sounds about right.” Jenny nodded.

“Wonder if there’s any other secret passageways in this place?” Alex wondered.

The siblings walked up the old but still sturdy stairs and upon emerging into the attic were surprised at what they saw. The attic was the entire floor space of the house, the roof held up by strong support beams and metal framing along the ceiling. Alushy was dressed in a simple red dress as she was sweeping the dust along the floor.

“Woah… This is massive.” Kira said. 

“Hey mom.” Alex said. “Your room looks...even bigger than ours.”

“Oh, this isn't my room. Just found it when looking over the blueprints of this place.” Alushy stated. “Was thinking about what to turn it into.”

“This is a massive attic all things considered.” Jenny pointed out.

“We were wondering if you’d be willing to help train us?” Lan asked. “Cript said he couldn’t but he would get one of our siblings to help and, well… we do need to learn more about our abilities as Vampires.”

“I’d love to.” Alushy said with a smile.

“Really? You’re willing to train us?” Jenny asked, a little excited to learn how to fight from a professional.

“Yes. It’s why I always cook your food with blood. Your bodies natural weapons and powers won’t be at their fullest unless you consume it in fair amounts daily or ingest large amounts all at once to last you a long time.”

“Why don’t we just drink it? Cause while eating blood fruits is fine...having it covered in almost everything is a bit concerning…” Jenny started.

“Also a mess half the time.” Alex added.

“I find it adds taste.” Alushy simply replied with a smile.

“Either way.” Jenny shook her head. “But how much is ‘fair amounts’ of blood?”

“About seven to nine liters a day, for a healthy body and developing powers.”

“That’s...a lot of blood.” Jenny said nervously.

“You are Vampires. And our specific breed can drink far larger than our body weights and size in blood.”

“Fair…” Jenny sighed out.

“So we’d basically need to be chugging blood like crazy every day?” Alex asked.

“Or a massive amount at once to set you up for a while.” Alushy stated. “It’s more for your powers than biology, and since you’re only half, you’d actually need less for your bodies, but powers wise that wouldn’t change.”

“Fair enough.” Jenny nodded. “Just wish it was less messy...seriously why can’t we just chug it from a bottle or something?”

“Like how food can lose its potency over time or go stale, so can blood. The fresher the blood the better and since you all didn’t consume it regularly for a while, drinking pure blood suddenly would have hurt your half human side, so I mixed it into your food and such to ease your bodies digestion of it. If you were to drink it right from a bottle from the get go you’d have essentially OD’d on vitamins, or rather, it would have been the equivalent to not eating full meals for a long time, then gorging out on a buffet suddenly. Your bodies would have been in shock.”

“That’s...true…” Jenny said nervously.

“So, will we be able to try blood alone then soon?” Dan asked.

“I suppose we can try it with a little cup of pure blood to see how you react and build the tolerance from there.” Alushy said. “So, when do you all want to start your training?”

“We have all School Break to train.” Alex mentioned.

“Alright then. I talk with Cript and see how we can arrange it. I have a feeling I might know who he’ll call here so we’ll tell you all tomorrow morning.”

“Thanks mom.” Jenny nodded. “This is going to be great.”





The following Morning the Foretellers were enjoying Breakfast. Once the food was gone Cript and Alushy spoke up. “So, given your time frame, and probable needs, Alushy and I decided to each work with you all one on one for half of the day each for your training. Well, She for one half and Scootaloo for the other.” Cript stated.

“Scootaloo?” Alex tilted his head. “This is another one right? Someone old enough and not the Scoots we know?”

“Yes.” Cript nodded. “Back before I trained her and a few others personally in sword fighting, spellcasting, and such.” 

“Since you have a week off, we’ll only train one of you each day, giving you all an even amount of days to rest.” Alushy added.

“Works for me.” Jenny nodded.

“It’ll also give us enough time to figure out what we specifically are good at.” Alex pointed out.

“Right. Now, before we begin and pick one of you to work with today, meet your big sister, Scootaloo.”

The Foretellers found it a bit odd to imagine an older Scootaloo, but that’s exactly who walked in from the living room door. She was dressed in a grey set of armor with some kind of glowing power source over her chest. She was like Alushy, Anthropomorphic and her mane was cut very short. She was just an inch taller than Jenny and seemed to be either in her late teens or early twenties. “Heya.” She greeted.

"Nice Iron Man suit." Alex commented, moreso because the armor reminded him of Iron Man than its original source.

“Huh. That’s a new one.” Scootaloo said as she taped the power source on the armor. Unlike the iconic suit though, this armor moved more fluently as if made from fabric over metal. “Well, as you all know, my name is Scootaloo and I’m one of dad’s first five kids.”

“Wow.” Alex said honestly.

“Uh...then how do you…” The ursine Foreteller started, motioning to all of Scootaloo. “Look so young? I understand dad cause he’s an Admin and Mom because...well she’s a Fuckmothering Vampire.”

“You’re damn right I am.” Alushy commented with a grin.

"Same reason you all turned half vampire. Cript family curse thing. While both my parents were normal by comparison, granted one is still, well, dad, and the other is Lyra, I became a God tier entity about… few hundred years back I think? Kinda lost track of the years after I turned a hundred and forty."

“Right then.” Alex said. “Weird agelessness because magic, let’s go with that before it get’s complicated.”

"I guess. So since dad can't train you all without accidentally breaking you, that's where I come in." Scootaloo said with a nod.

"Right, and the first one of you all getting trained will be Jenny." Cript spoke up.

“Nice.” Jenny nodded with a smile, glad to be first in the training. “What do we have planned then?”

"First you'll train with Scootaloo to start off with basics and learn some new things, then you'll move onto me for Vampire training." Alushy stated.

“Cool.” Jenny nodded. “When do we start?”

“Now.” Scootaloo said. She snapped her fingers and suddenly, Jenny and her were gone.

“Well, they’ll be gone til dinner.” Cript said. “Then, who wants to learn how to cook Eldritch Flesh?”

“Will it scream at us harder?” Alex asked nervously.

“And summon demon minions to try and save it.”

“Pass.” Kira said.

“Pass.” Lan said.

“Pass.” Dan said.

“Pa-Damn it!” Alex snapped angrily.

“Alright then, guess it’s just me and Alex.” Cript said, grabbing the unfortunate Foreteller by the arm and pulling them to the kitchen. Alex glaring at his other three siblings.

“I hate you all.” Alex growled at the three.





Jenny found herself standing upon a barren wasteland. The ground looked like it never knew the taste of water. The air was stale and lifeless, but breathable and the only thing of notice was the fact it was either nighttime, or this place had no sun as up above was just the vastness of space and the many stars and ever expanding cosmos. It was honestly rather breathtaking.

“Welcome to Hedguro 9.” She looked back down, seeing Scootaloo standing before her. “This world exists thirty seven realms over from your dimension, completely lifeless yet still has a breathable atmosphere.”

“Not going to ask how or why.” Jenny said honestly. “But why are we here?”

“I usually come here to train. Empty, so can’t hurt or break anything and the view is nice.” Scootaloo replied as she looked up. “So, you normally use a Keyblade in a fight, right?”

“I...did…” Jenny sighed out, ever since she tried to attack Zeke they’re keyblades fucked off with him and never came back, even as they desperately called out to them. “And we were just learning how to turn them into keyblade animals damn it…”

“Hm. Then first thing first, we need to get you some new weapons.” Scootaloo said. She tapped through her Assistant for a while before eventually pulling out a large, nine foot long sword and handing it to Jenny. “You’re the Heavy Attacker, so a large, heavy weapon will work best with you.”

Jenny took the sword, nearly dropping it as it’s weight surprised her. Even with her vampiric strength it was an effort to lift.

“Jesus this thing weighs a ton.” Jenny grunted. “The hell is this thing made out of, lead?”

“It’s twenty tons and is made from a forged asteroid.” Scootaloo said. “I call it Earth Breaker.”

“Certainly heavy enough for it that’s for sure.” Jenny said. “Can’t really train if I can barely lift the damn thing.”

“You can. And you will.” Scootaloo said, using her foot to kick the tip of Earth Breaker into the air. Jenny managing to balance the weapons with both arms and keep it raised. “I was told about your run in with those former Union Members.”

“Yes…” Jenny started. “Bastard Bulk Biceps broke my arms, all because he fell to Darkness wanting to be stronger than me.” She told her. “Even when I used my strongest attack with Ursa’s Claw form…”

“Yeah. We’ll get you used to the new sword first. Swing it.” Scootaloo said.

Jenny sighed. It was a simple act, but hard to complete given Earth Breaker’s weight. With a huff she tried to pull the sword back some to swing, but found herself falling backwards. The ground shook slightly as she and Earth Breaker hit the lifeless soil. She groaned as she stood up, trying to pull the massive, impossibly heavy weapon up.

“How the fuck am I supposed to lift this thing?” Jenny growled, even using her knees and having been able to bench press ten tonnes due to her new diet of blood, this was still difficult as hell.

“How did you lift Ursus?” Scootaloo asked.

“He wasn’t twenty tons, first all.” Jenny answered.

“You’re right. He was much more.” Scootaloo said, peaking Jenny’s attention. “What? You didn’t know the history or how your own Keyblade was even made?”

“No...Ursa didn’t mention that and neither did Aced…” Jenny said carefully.

“Doubt he knew. But, since you don’t know. Short break for a history lesson.” Scootaloo said, snapping her fingers as she suddenly was holding a book titled ‘Keyblade History: The Union Masters Keyblades’. “Ursus, was forged back when your reality was young by the Admin of Hearts, Kingdom Hearts, themselves. Ursus was forged using old, early versions of worlds that while they held life they didn’t work out well to sustain life. A total of nine billion worlds made the frame of Ursus alone. The rest was the flow of those worlds Life Magic and Gravity for the Keyblades primary core and the usual Keyblade magics and such filled in the rest.”

“Hold the fuck up what?” She asked in complete shock. “How in the name of hell did they use planets first of all, two, Ursus is supposed to be bear themed, even though it’s more affinity towards earth magics…” Jenny said, trying to wrack her brain at how the hell any of that is possible.

“Admins can literally do whatever the fuck they want. Besides, I used a Twenty Tone Asteroid to forge Earth Breaker. The whole Asteroid. You’d be surprised how easy it can be to compress large objects into small frames. As for the Bear thing, it was always going to be an earth magic based Keyblade, but the Bear thing was largely just cosmetic.” Scootaloo stated. “Now, again I ask. Knowing that, how do you think you lifted Ursus?”

“It...let me at that point?” Jenny said nervously. “Cause other than it being purely weightless because it’s a physical manifestation of Pure Light, I have absolutely no idea how or why I would have been able to lift that thing.”

“Close!” Scootaloo stated, closing the book as it vanished. “The way people can lift objects like that with ease alone is to counter the weight with magic. Most people use Enchantments, but those can fail and rarely take off any noticeable weight. The best way to do it and slowly adapt your body to the weight is to use Gravity magic, spells or manipulation in general to take the excess weight off.”

"So then why was Ursis so lightweight? I know its earth based and probably had gravity magic to it but that can only go so far when I'm...doing something that big."

“Usrus was the one using the Gravity Magic itself to aid you.” Scootaloo stated. “That feeling of near weightlessness it gave was Ursus using its own magic to reduce its own physical weight to basically nothing.”

"Glad to know I had a handicap to that insane degree…" Jenny grumbled.

“Now that Ursus is gone and Earth Breaker here has no mind of it’s own, you have to use the Gravity magic to be able to lift it. You’ll find this can also help in various other combat applications later on as it becomes second nature to use it.”

"Alright…" Jenny said, trying to use gravity magic to make it easier. "If only I was more magically inclined like Dan or Kira…"

It was an effort, but Jenny managed to use the Gravity magic she knew to make it easier to lift, soon she was able to lift Earth Breaker enough to appear confident, even as she was having trouble keeping the spell going while trying to move the sword.

“Well...I got it...kind of…” Jenny said carefully.

“Good. Now, give some practice swings.”

Nodding, Jenny did. Her movements are slow and steady. It aggravated her. If she moved too fast, she’d risk breaking the spell, but the longer she kept at this the more strain she could feel her magic strain, as she was not used to using magic so continuously.

Quicker than she wanted, her magic failed. She and the massive sword once again hit the ground. Only this time Jenny felt exhaustion the likes she hasn’t felt in years.

“Is it...too difficult...to just…” Jenny panted heavily, trying to catch her breath. “To just...be able to lift this thing normally through sheer...strength alone?”

Scootaloo didn’t reply, rather she popped a Flesh Fruit into Jenny’s mouth. She rapidly ate it, feeling better as the strange fruit managed to replenish her strength and she sat up. “Your strength is good, but you aren’t even close to your potential. And you need to work on your magic, it’s your biggest weakness and your enemies will exploit that.” Scootaloo said, grabbing Jenny’s arm and pulling her sleeve back. “Strength, magic, Vampiric Powers, if you want to grow them stronger and more durable, you have to work them to the breaking point, let them heal and come back better, and repeat. You lift weights for sport and fun, in the end it’s all just exercise.”

“I mean...that’s true and all but...it would take a long ass time if you're literally about to ruin your own body and powers if you keep doing it every time…”

“Well, lucky for you,” Scootaloo popped another Flesh Fruit into Jenny’s mouth. “Your body isn’t normal. It will heal better, faster and stronger than before each time. A few of these every so often will ensure your healing factor won’t burn out. As for your magic,” Scootaloo handed Jenny a glass jar of Ether. “Got lots of these to help there. And in regards to taking a long time, that’s another reason I love this planet. Time here is fucked to high hell and back.”

“Really? How long is it back home compared to here?” Jenny asked.

“We’ve been here for three hours now, It’s barely been a second back in your home world.”

“Damn.” Jenny said in shock. “Also...three hours of me swinging this stupid thing?”

“Well, two and a half.” Scootaloo shrugged, pulling Jenny back up. “Now, get back to it. I’m not sending you back to Train with Mama Alushy until you can fight confidently with that thing.”

“Fine…” Jenny grumbled, grabbing the Ether and chugging it. Feeling her mana come back to her she tried using her magic again to lift the meteor blade.

Jenny didn’t bother to keep track of time as she trained. Every time she felt her mana drain and exhaustion take hold, she devoured Flesh Fruit and Either potions to regain her strength and go again. Soon she found her magic lasting longer, and even when her magic did fail, she was beginning to be able to keep Earth Breaker lifted all on her own. She would do that for as long as her muscles allowed.

When it began to become easier, Scootaloo had Jenny run and swing the sword along the lifeless planet’s surface. The same rest for Potions and Flesh Fruits before continuing. She felt her arms and legs burn even after her potions and meals but kept at it until they faded into dull pains and even that faded into nothing.

Jenny found herself able to swing Earth Breaker on strength alone at one point, and learned to use her magic to aid in her running, jumping and speed.

“Excellent.” Scootaloo said with applause as Jenny looked up and over the long blade she now lifted with one hand easily. She found it hard to believe she was barely able to hold the weapon before. How much time had passed?

“How long have I been swinging this thing?” Jenny inquired.

Scootaloo looked at her Assistant. “About a year and a half. Back in your world it’s barely been an hour.”

“A year and a half!?” Jenny yelped at how long she’s been swinging this hunk of rock.

“Yup. And you’ve actually run around this planet fifteen times. Your magic, speed and of course strength are now far surpassing what they were when you first got here.”

“Fantastic.” Jenny nodded. “What’s next?”

“Next is practical applications to what you now have.” Scootaloo said, summoning what Jenny at first believed to be a Keyblade, but something about it didn’t seem right to call it a Keyblade.

The weapon was similar to a Keyblade, but it’s aura and power didn’t radiate the same kind of power a Keyblade does. Rather, it felt more like more of Scootaloo. The blade was perfectly symmetrical, from handle grip to the two sides blade tip that ended in twin wing ‘teeth’. One side of the weapon was all red and the other was a mint or lime green.

“Neat keyblade.” Jenny said honestly.

“It’s not actually a Keyblade. This is a Soulblade. It’s use is similar to how a Keyblade works, but they’re one of a kind as making them requires a piece of your own soul.” Scootaloo stated.

“Still neat.” Jenny shrugged. “Right then...so a sword made from an Asteroid vs a Soulblade...I wonder if this can shatter…” She started, thinking about how strong Keyblades are normally, and in the hands of Scoots here...

“Relax, I’ll be gentle~” Scootaloo teased, earning a blush from Jenny.

It was short lived as Scootaloo rushed in, Jenny managing to block and jump back from the surprise attack.

“Alright...that was a little cheap.” Jenny frowned. “Flirting with me here then suddenly trying to stab me?”

“Hey, who said that was a flirt? Besides, I know you have your eye on that Flash Sentry guy. Yes. I know. We ALL know.” Scootaloo said, making Jenny blush harder. 

“I’m not that obvious!” Jenny countered, swinging her blade at Scoot’s swiftly.

Scootaloo dodged with ease as Jenny continued to attack in the name of her pride.

“Not so much you’re obvious, more that there is literally a whole faction in the family who work or have powers relating to love and relationships.” Scootaloo said, managing to parry Jenny into a quick stagger. “We all have a file there. It’s weird but eh.”

“Well...it’s not like I’m going to be lucky like Lan with his accidental harem…” Jenny said, thinking they wouldn’t believe she’d have more than one.

“Yeah… Accident…” Scootaloo said.

Before Jenny could Question, she rapidly sped forwards, Jenny ready to block only for Scootaloo to jump over Jenny, land and kick her in the back to the ground.

“Ow…” Jenny grumbled, trying to get up quickly before she could get pinned.

“So, are you ever planning on asking the poor man out?”

“I have a lot of crap to think about currently, plus he’d...probably like someone else.” Jenny said carefully.

“And you all call Lan the dense one…”

“I mean...he is.” Jenny said honestly. “I just think he’d like someone more...feminine, not the ‘tomboy’ that I am.” She said, taking a swing at Scoots.

She blocked and managed to keep our blades locked. “You do remember he used to date Sunset, right? She might look more femenine but she’s just as tomboy as you are.”

“Fine...I’ll try and see what I can do.” Jenny said.

“Good.” Scootaloo said, pushing Jenny back a few feet, breaking their lock and disbanding her Soulblade. “Now, onto some other options.”

"What you have in mind?" Jenny asked carefully.

“You don’t have very many other weapons, do you?” Scootaloo asked.

"It was either a sword, or Gauntlets cause I'm still really good at punching." She said honestly.

“Hmm… We can work on your diversity another time. For now, bring out your gauntlets.”

Jenny nodded, bringing out her new adamantium gauntlets.

“Alright, now then, let’s see how hard you can hit.” Scootaloo said, holding up her hands.

Jenny took a deep breath, got into her stance, and then twisted her waist and torso as she threw a powerful right straight into her hand, putting all her might into it.

The impact created a powerful gust of wind blowing in both directions. One behind Jenny from the fact Scootaloo still held her hands up, having caught the punch, and the other behind Scootaloo, windforce made from Jenny’s swing and punch.

“Hm. Not bad. Could easily bend and break Tempered Titanium with that.”

"Really?" She asked, a little surprised at how strong her punch was.

“You can lift Earth Breaker with ease, so yeah.” Scootaloo nodded.

"Well...it's still a plus." She said honestly.

"Here." Scootaloo said, pulling a large metal pipe from her assistant and handing it to Jenny. "Bend, then break it."

“Alright…” Jenny said, grabbing the pipe and trying to bend it, not sure if it’ll be fragile enough that it snaps in half immediately or if it’s too tough to even bend.

She took the pipe and to her shock, it bent as if it were cheap aluminum. With a twist and pull she snapped it in half. "See, told you you can bend and break Titanium."

“This is Titanium?” Jenny asked in shock.

"Pure and tempered." Scootaloo said with a nod and a smile.

“Damn.” Jenny said. “But...I doubt that’s strong enough to beat Bulk or whatever the hell Crow has in store for us…”

"Then you best train harder." Scootaloo said. "It's better to over prepare than to never prepare."

“And he’ll be lucky if he comes out of it with only broken arms.” Jenny growled.

"Careful with your temper. It can work for you if controlled, but let it burn and you'll burn out hard."
Jenny sighed out. “Well...Barbarian’s always knew how to not be fatigued after going into a blind fury…”

"True, but you don't have the practice or training for a Barbarian/berserker combat. Yours is more an Overpower combat style."

“They can’t hit back if they’re too busy trying not to get hit.” Jenny said honestly. “Even counters can be overpowered or out maneuvered to be honest.”

"Do you know how to overpower or maneuver around a counter?"

“A little yeah.” Jenny nodded. “Not to...this drastic extent, but I do know how to.”

"Then let's see." Scootaloo said, snapping her fingers as a new figure appeared behind Jenny.

Turning to see it, Jenny laid eyes upon a figure that appeared humanoid, but was not human. They wore a grey/black leather trench coat outfit from head to the thick boots. A thick cloth face mask hiding the majority of their face and their eyes were glowing, piercing orbs of silver.

Strapped to their back was an axe which blade was as long as it's torso. 

"Jenny, meet The Hunter, Berserker Class. A new breed of Shadow Creature Dad's been working on." Scootaloo said.

“Dad just...makes monsters?” Jenny asked carefully.

"You get a lot of hobbies the stronger you get and the less shit can actually stand in a fight to you." Scootaloo said. 

“Alrighty then.” Jenny nodded. “So...have to beat this thing in a fight?”

"Yup. I grabbed one that's at your power range so it should be a fair fight. Fair warning though, these Hunter breed Shadow Creatures got a lot tricks compared to their natural made siblings."

“Fair enough.” Jenny nodded, preparing herself for the upcoming fight. “Anything goes in this fight?”

"Pretty much." Scootaloo nodded.

“Right then.” Jenny nodded as she grabbed Earth Breaker and trying to take the initiative and hit it first.

The Hunter creature reacted fast, drawing it's massive weapon at lightning speed and blocking Jenny's attack. It gazed at her with it's emotionless eyes. She jumped back, raising her sword again as the Hunter wielded it's large axe one handed.

“Well he can handle my attack…” Jenny muttered, rushing forward again and throwing a flurry of swing’s towards the Shadow Creature.

It dodged and nearly delivered a kick to Jenny's side. She evaded just in time to only barely feel it graze her.

This is a monster? She thought. “Right…” She started, bringing her fist down and slamming the ground hard enough to start shaking the ground, ready to pounce at the thing if it suddenly got unbalanced from the sudden quake.

She managed to tackle the thing and slammed it into the ground hard enough to make a small crater.

The Hunter jumped back up. Damaged but largely still mobile as it popped its arms and raised its Axe towards her. It rushed, Jenny dodging and seeing as the Hunter's Axe cleaved the soil below with ease.

“Well...that at least worked…” She muttered, not sure if it’ll work again considering it was fast and strong enough to keep up with her, so she decided to dig both gauntlet clad hands into the ground and, with a grunt of effort, heaved the very ground from underneath hear into a massive block of stone aimed to flatten the thing.

It raised it's axe and swung at the stone. The slice shattered the stone to gravel. It rapidly spun, using the side of it's weapons to pick up and then fling the gravel towards Jenny as if each was an individual bullet.

Jenny dodged and deflected the gravel quickly as she tried to move forward against the thing.

She delivered an upwards swing, and to her joy managed to slice it's arm off.

The Hunter jumped back, and to Jenny's surprise used fire magic and cauterized it's wound, stopping it's silver, mercury from bleeding out. She watched as it reached into a side pocket and pulled out a prosthetic arm, jamming it into the stump and strapping it onto itself with leather straps. It moved the new limb for a bit before picking it's axe back up.

“Okay how the fuck?” Jenny asked quickly.

"Best kill it fast, it might be a Monster, but it's a fast learner!" Scootaloo called out from her viewing spot in the distance.

“Right then.” She said, dashing forward and throwing a downward strike, as she thought that if it blocked using it’s prosthetic arm it would shatter cause it didn’t look like Titanium.

It did as expected, blocking but to her frustration the prosthetic arm held as it pushed her back and jumped into the air, slashing the air and sending waves of bladed energy at her.

She dodged the attacks quickly, blocking what she couldn’t as she rushed towards the berserker again, this time as she leaped and threw a downward swipe, and seeing the thing attempt to block her attack again she decided to do something dumb and reverse her gravity magic, instead of making the sword light enough for her to wield she managed to double it’s weight as the force of the swing also increased dramatically.

That seemed to catch the Hunter off guard. The extra weight Jenny put onto her weapon broke it's axe, and allowed her to slice it's torso clean through. It quickly evaporated into mist as Jenny fell back to the ground.

Scootaloo applauded. "Bravo! Excellent! You used your head on that one!"

“Well...might as well hit it harder, and gravity helps that a lot.” Jenny panted lightly.

"So, what did you think of it?"

“It’s a massive pain in the ass if you don’t kill it fast enough.” Jenny pointed out.

"That is kinda the point. Unlike most other breeds of Shadow Creature, it's intelligence starts off with a mastery over it's weapon and various self healing abilities and other tricks, but it learns while in combat and the longer you fight it, the more it will learn and the smarter it becomes."

“Fantastic…” Jenny grumbled.

"Hey, can't expect to have easy fights all the time."

“I know I know.” Jenny sighed out. “Alright, what next?”

"Next? Hmm… honestly, not too sure."

“Really?” Jenny asked in surprise. “Not sure on what I need to work on next?”

"Honestly I was just gonna help you get stronger and once I felt you learned how to on your own, give you this." Scootaloo said, grabbing the arm Jenny had her Assistant on and tapping hers against it.



 Location Coordinates Obtained: Hedguro 9



"Now you can come here when you feel like training for years here, hours back home."

“Huh...neat.” Jenny said honestly. “Thanks sis.”

"Now, we still have some time before Mamma Alushy is ready. Got any questions or?"

“What’s it like being...well a godlike being?” Jenny inquired, asking that simple enough question given Scoots said she was considered a god.

"Eh."

“It’s that boring?”

"Well, I don't go around terraforming planets, building solar systems and galaxies or creating life like some of the others. I just wander, explore and sight see in between fighting cosmic monsters or shit that escapes Dad and Lord's lab."

“That’s fair.” Jenny nodded. “Uh...who’s Lord?”

"Guy who taught Dad. Older than existence and slaughtered Deletes in the void out of Borden, vengeance and for fun."

“What are Deletes?” Jenny asked, already very scared as to what’s going on out there.

"The void equivalent to Admins, only instead of creating existence they eat and erase it."

“Right…” Jenny said nervously. “Well...glad that’s not our problem.”

"Not yet." Scootaloo shrugged. "So, what else would you like to know?"

“Hmm…” Jenny thought for a bit, wondering if there was any other questions. “Uh...not sure really.”

"Hm. Well, if you don't have any questions then, how about we just talk?"

"Sure." Jenny shrugged. "What do you want to talk about?"

"Hm… well, how did you meet your siblings? I know you all aren't related. At least, not before joining our Family."

“I met them one day a long time ago…” She sighed out. “I didn’t have a mother at the time…she died either when I was born or before I could even keep coherent thoughts…” She shook her head. “My dad…he took it hard…but he tried to help me be strong, so he taught me boxing when I was old enough.”

"Sounds rough." Scootaloo said.

"It was very rough yes." Jenny nodded. "But...thankfully I met Crow, Kira and Lan...they all helped me through a lot of it…"

"How did you meet them?"

"I was taking out my frustrations on some kids who decided to mess with me. I went a little too far, Crow, Kira and Lan stopped me. I got angry at them and started beating Lan. Kept knocking him down, but he just kept getting back up. That day he taught me what actual strength is. “
" Jenny said with a laugh.

"He seems really nice."

"... He can be… was… is. This whole… shit… that's going on feels bad. We always told him to stay away from the Ventrals, but he idolized them for some reason. I know what he did, he did for us. I know that now… but still…"

"People will move heaven and earth for the ones they love. Dad has tossed himself into hell and worse and back for our family, and even I've done some really stupid dangerous things for friends and family. Better judgment be damned, if I knew it would make someone I care for happy, I did it."

“I just…wish I could apologize to him…” Jenny sighed out bitterly.

"I'm sure you will, one day." Scootaloo said, patting Jenny on the back. "So, ready to go train/hang out with your mamma?"

“Sure.” Jenny nodded. “And…hopefully I can find my birth parents one day…if either they’re here or…somewhere else.”

With a nod Scootaloo snapped her fingers, Jenny suddenly finding herself back in her room.

"Have fun?" She turned to see her mother, Alushy laid down on her bed.

“Yes, yes I did.” Jenny nodded. “How are you doing?”

"Good. Was just waiting for you." She said, sitting up. "You already seem so much stronger."

“Well, when you have to lug around a meteor in sword shape for more than a year you tend to have that happen.” Jenny shrugged with a smile.

"Impressive. And in just a year's time too, you are a fast learner."

“Well, when you’re the daughter of a boxer, you gotta be quick that’s for sure.” Jenny chuckled.

"Heh. Well, you ready for our training?"

“Ready when you are.” Jenny nodded.

With a nod, Slushy snapped her fingers.

Jenny found herself and Alushy someplace else. It was night time, definitely, and the whole place reeked of piss, beer, sewage and bile. "Meet Stereotypical Victorian London City A." Alushy said with a chuckle.

“Certainly smells like it.” Jenny said, scrunching her nose as she tried covering her nose from the horrid smell.

"Now then, put this on." Alushy said, handing Jenny a new outfit. It was similar to Alushy's but fit for Jenny's frame and body type as well as highlighted with trims of white, silver and some brown. The hat was also replaced by a slightly bear shaped hood.

“Nice.” Jenny said as she started to put the new outfit on. “So what are we going to do tonight?”

"Well, because of how my and therefore your powers work I figured it best to start off with a simple lesson before going into some practice. Firstly, when you feed from someone and drain them dead, be them sentient, an animal or monster, demon, god, ECT, you will also consume their soul or equivalent."

"That's...pretty heavy to consume souls." Jenny said carefully.

"It is, but for our breed it's a vital part of who and what we are. Now, answer me this. What do you think happens to the souls we devour?"

"Uh...not sure." Jenny said, not even trying to guess cause there's a lot of things that could n.happen.

"Simply put, their souls become placed within our bodies within a form of purgatory of our own making." Alushy said. "We can have multiple even, to separate them if we see fit."

“Neat.” Jenny nodded. “But...what if someone gives me their consent through it? Cause I remember...something from Hellsing Ultimate, but it’s been a while since I last watched it.”

"They still get absorbed but rather than the not al purgatory thing, they merge with us soul and body. Think of it like… gaining a split personality that you wanted and because of how our powers work, so long as we drink enough blood we can materialize them a physical body."

“That’s cool.” Jenny nodded. “So, my first question is if I’m even allowed to do this cause you said drinking Pure Blood wasn’t really good for me right now.”

"That's right. It's not so much the blood itself, more the souls or equivalents. Your human half normally can't hold more than one soul, but since you are half you can build up with lesser animal and monster souls. Or equivalent."

“You’d think Monster Souls would be stronger than human souls all things considered.” Jenny said honestly.

“It depends really.” Mom shrugged. “So, like I said, we will be starting small.”

“Killing rat’s or something? Or because I’m a Vampire I have to obtain a ‘Household’ or whatever the whole collection of rats, bats and wolves is called.” She guessed.

“Basically.” She said, kicking over a nearby trashcan and grabbing a rat that tried to run off. The thing was mangy, fleas were jumping off it’s body and it was about as big as a small dog. 

Jenny frowned as she moved swiftly after it, not wanting to even begin to wonder how she’s going to get all the fleas off of her when this is over.

The rat hissed and squirmed. Jenny took a deep breath, closing her eyes and made it quick. Using her fangs and biting through the diseased flesh. The blood tasted sour. As if it was milk on the verge of spoiling. Despite this she finished it off, leaving behind nothing but a host of dried flesh and bones.



New Power Unlocked!



Jenny nearly jumped at seeing the surprise message in her vision.



Lesser Soul of: Plagued Rat, absorbed.

Soul Bank Unlocked.

Vampirism Rank 2 Unlocked

Vile Blood Purified

New Ability Acquired. Plague Bringer: Unleash a swarm of fleas carrying the Black Plague unto your enemies in combat.



“I’d rather not release the Black Plague on everyone thank you very much.” Jenny stated bluntly.

“Then it’s a good thing that’s not a passive ability.” Alushy said as she ate the rat husk. “But, this is a start.”

“Tasted like sour milk.” Jenny said in disgust. “But sadly I have to do a lot more of that…”

“The healthier the being the better their blood will taste. While sickly blood will not infect or harm us, it does alter the taste to various degrees.”

“Right then.” Jenny nodded. “So what next?”

"Firstly, let's see if you can manifest that rat you ate." Alushy said, holding out her hands together. Blood began forming from her palms and it morphed and formed into a small mouse that looked normal save the black eyes and red tint to their body.

“Alright…” Jenny nodded as she tried to summon the giant rat she just absorbed.

It was fairly difficult, but once Jenny managed to get the blood to pool into her palms the rest was easy. The rat she spawned was different from the one she ate. It looked healthier, thinner and didn’t seem to have a flea on it. “Good job.” Alushy said with a nod.

"Huh...why does it look healthy?" Jenny inquired. "Did it have something to do with that 'blood purified' pop up I saw?"?”

“This body is just a construct from blood using the shape the soul remembers. Physical illnesses and issues don’t affect the soul, so even though in life their body was sickly, their soul was still healthy. So, healthy rat.”

"Fair enough." Jenny nodded, looking over the rat carefully. Seeing the rat sniff the air around her. 

“As you can guess there are three types of souls. Primal, Intelligent, and Sentient. With Sentient being the strongest type, and, of course, the one the large majority of human, humanoid and other various types of life possess.”

“Understandable.” Jenny nodded. “But what’s the difference between Intelligent and Sentient? Wouldn’t they both technically be the same?”

“Close, but also not exactly. See, a being with an intelligent soul would be able to learn and even develop speech, but in the end they only use their knowledge to continue to follow their primal needs and desires. Such as breeding, eating, hunting, ect. They are also largely incapable of recognizing beauty, humor. Basically, while they can become extremely smart, they lack creativity. A Sentient soul can recognize beauty, create art and wonder questions that would seem unimportant to a being with only intelligence.”

“That makes sense.” Jenny nodded, letting the rat run up her arm and around to her other arm. “Well...so far I have one out of many new souls to absorb here…”

“Yup. Also, as gross as it may seem, try to eat the body. The bone marrow and flesh give extra fuel and make materializing them a body easier.”

“Ew…” Jenny grumbled. “I thought eating raw meat wasn’t a good thing? Even for Vampires?”

“Depends on the type, and for us, raw flesh is edible and actually provides bonuses that cooked meat doesn’t.”

“Huh, right then.” Jenny nodded. “Kind of thought there was some negatives against eating Raw Meat, like going into some feral form due to some reasons or another.”

“We’re vampires, but also part equine. Well, full Equine for me, half for you. Even with the Vampire parts that’s only an issue if you are starving.”

“Fair enough.” Jenny nodded. “Need to remember Vampires are in the ‘Undead’ classifications…” Jenny started.

Jenny spent the next hour finding and devouring rats, racoons, possums, and even stray cats and dogs. Though the later two made her feel guilty, she was happy to see them healthy and well when she materialized them. She and Alushy kept to the shadows, the sounds of this world’s late night population varied from drunks, shady dealings and the occasional ‘Lady of the Night’ dealings.

By the end of the first hour, Jenny had devoured forty six rats, ten racoons, six possums, five cats and nine dogs.

“You’re doing well.” Alushy said with a smile as she patt Jenny on the back. “I know if feels wrong at first, but one thing I’ve learned in all my years is that it does get easier.”

“Well...I know Kira probably won’t really enjoy the fact she’d have to eat dogs and cats to be honest.” Jenny said.

“Well, think of it like this. Had you not devoured them and taken them within yourself, they’d die sick and painfully in these streets. At least you can consider devouring them a form of adoption.”

“Yeah, that works.” She nodded. “I can just imagine it now...Kira turning to you, crying like a silly anime character and whining about not having enough arms to pet all the dogs and cats.” Jenny chuckled.

“Oh, she will.” Alushy said, raising her arms and suddenly having six. “You pick up a lot of tricks and I know she’ll get a kick out of these.” She chuckled as she put all her arms down and bad only two again. “Now then, that’s… seventy Primal Souls. Not bad at all for only an hour.”

“Not entirely surprised by that considering I’ve had to hunt down peskier little bastards.” Jenny frowned. “But...seriously, half the noises I heard I do not want to hear again...at least Alex doesn’t make it too weird.”

“Well, his room is soundproof.” Alushy shrugged. “So, I’d say Thirty more Primal Souls and we can try and see about you devouring an Intelligent Soul. Most commonly, they’re a Monster, or similar.”

“Fair enough.” Jenny nodded, summoning her many rats to try and find the other thirty primal souls. “One thing this is fantastic for is scouting...didn’t think I’d be able to see what they see to be honest.”

Smiling, Alushy placed her hands onto Jenny’s arms. “Close your eyes, think of your rats, and focus.”

“Alright…” Jenny started, closing her eyes and focusing on her many rats.

For a while all she heard were the various noises of the area she was in. After a short while though she began to hear the tell tale scurry of rat paws. Soon, the darkness behind her eyelids was replaced by the viewpoint of one of her rats. It was running through the walls of a house, looking for living variations of itself with perfect night vision.

“Wow…” Jenny muttered. “This...looks really trippy.” Jenny muttered, looking around the place from her rat’s point of view.

“You’ll get used to it after a bit. Just try and keep as a passenger for now. You can control them but for now, just remain as a passenger.”

“That’s for the best, cause they’d know these streets like the back of their paws.” Jenny said honestly.

Jenny sat and observed her rat servants scouring through the allies and buildings for thirty more animals. She quickly learned how to switch and hop between them. Soon the remaining Thirty animals, twenty five more rats, two possums and three cats, were brought to Jenny.

She made quick work of the act, making it as painless for them as possible.

“Alright, now, how do you feel Jenny?” Alushy asked.

“Well...a little bit of whiplash from changing massive perspectives like that.” Jenny shook her head.

“That’s normal but you’ll become accustomed to it over time. Now then, a hundred Primal Souls. Now you can attempt an Intelligent Soul. And, I have just the one in mind for your first.” Alushy said with a smile.

“What do you have in mind?” Jenny inquired curiously.

“Part of why I chose this world isn’t just for the atmosphere. There’s a fair amount of monsters and even demons here that classify as having Intelligent Souls. They will be perfect for your development into fully empowering your vampiric side and we can clear out some nasties for the locals.”

“Then let’s get onto some monster ass kicking.” Jenny said, cracking her knuckles ready to beat the crap out of a monster.

Alushy led herself and Jenny outside the town, keeping to the shadows and eventually making it to the nearby forest. Jenny always knew and used her vampiric night vision to her advantage, but she never actually used it when outside. It was like seeing in the day time and despite that, she saw all the stars as clear as possible, even better than through a telescope.

“Alright...Night Vision is something I’m gonna have to get used to as well.” Jenny muttered.

“Day or night, the sky always looks amazing doesn’t it?” Alushy asked as they walked through the forest.

“Yes, yes it does.” Jenny nodded in agreement.

“Now, in this world as well as Demons, their Monster population is also quite varied. Even other breeds of Vampire live here.”

“Neat, what kind of monster are we hunting today?” Jenny asked.

“A Bear Demon.”

“Ironic.” Jenny frowned.

“Well, this demon bear has eaten several dozen travellers and hunters over the last fifty years so it’s best to be rid of the thing before it kills anyone else.”

“Yeah, so let’s kill us a bear demon.” Jenny said honestly.

As the two walked through the woods, Jenny picked up on the scent of blood and soon they came upon the upper ripped half of a hunter. Their bow and quiver of arrows still attached. “It’s den must be near.” Alushy said.

“Well then.” Jenny started. “Must be a very mean beast…”

“It is preying on normal humans. And on this world their most advanced weapons are lever actions guns and revolvers. Strong but they still take a while to reload.” Alushy said, picking up the Bow and Quiver from the dead hunter. “Huh. Ironwood. Must have taken a while to carve it into a bow.”

“Poor guy probably didn’t even manage to get a single shot out.” Jenny said.

“Here.” Alushy said, handing the bow and quiver to Jenny. “Might seem rude to take but better you take it than it gets left to rot with his corpse.”

“At least his hard work will be put to good use.” Jenny said honestly. “And it’s a good thing I decided to take those archery classes…”

Jenny managed to put the bow and arrows away into her Assistant. Following Alushy they soon arrived at the entrance to a cave decorated in dried blood, claw marks carved through the stone and various broken bones too mangled to identify if they were human or animal.

“This looks about right.” Jenny said simply.

“Yup. Well, good luck sweetie.”

“Goodie…” Jenny muttered, drawing an arrow and readying her bow, carefully walking through the cave looking for the demon.

The further into the cave she walked the thicker the scent of decay, blood and death filled the air. Soon she spotted it. The Demon Bear was a large, ten foot monster with red and brown fur. Most likely red from all the blood of its victims. It was currently sleeping, which Jenny was thankful for.

Jenny brought up her new bow and arrow, carefully drawing it back as she took a deep breath, aiming at it’s giant ass head and, when she truly believed it would hit even with her Vampire vision, she let the arrow fly towards it.

The arrow struck the hide of the beast as it awoke with a roar, rapidly spinning around faster than Jenny expected. It’s eyes were crimson red and contained four pupils each. It’s maw was split into three parts, easily allowing it to open it larger than even a normal bear could hope to. “You… Foolish Night Walker who dares enter my home, and attack me in my sleep…” It spoke with a low growl at Jenny.

“Knew I should have just caved in your skull with my fist.” Jenny growled. “But worth a shot…uh...no pun intended.”

Rather than reply, it’s large paw swiped and slammed Jenny against the cave wall. “For what purpose do you have Night Walker?”

“Oh you know, out for a walk with my new mom, kicking bad guy butt, the usual.” Jenny said, getting out of the wall and brushing off the rubble. “Also...either I’ve been hit too hard or you just suck at hitting.” She said as she put the bow over her shoulder and cracked her knuckles.

The beast roared, charging at Jenny who dodged and delivered a swift punch to the side of it’s head, sending it slamming into the wall. Wasting no time, Jenny grabbed the beast by the arm and bit into its shoulder. Quickly she began drinking and draining it’s blood as it roared and tried to knock her off, but Jenny smiled as she found herself stronger than the demon bear. Soon all that was left was the dried husk and bones that she too ate.

As she walked outside, Alushy gave her a strong hug that managed to pop a few bones into place along her back. “My baby girl’s growing up!”

“Who needs a chiropractor when you have super mom hugs?” Jenny groaned at the strong hug popping her bones into place. “So...yeah, I ate my first demon...also I’m really surprised that I was a lot stronger than it.”

“Well, I imagine Scootaloo didn’t just spend all her time talking with you.” Alushy said as she let go. “She put you through a tedious yet effective training set didn’t she?”

“She made me figure out how to use gravity magic and swing a sword made out of a meteorite...somehow it weighs a metric fuck ton and still be in the shape of a sword.” Jenny frowned. “For an entire year and a half.”

“It worked, didn’t it?”

“Yes, yes it did.” Jenny nodded, raising up her arms as she felt the demon’s power flow through her. “Also damn...eating a Demon’s soul sure does feel different.”

“Intelligent Souls are far more powerful than Primal Souls. It also allows you to use them as you see fit, or their abilities.”

“And that’s going to be wonderful.” Jenny nodded. “So...any other souls I have to eat?”

“Well,” Alushy said, feeling Jenny’s forehead, throat and even stomach. “You seem to be holding it down well. Better than expected, which is good.”

“Am I going too far with this stuff?” Jenny asked nervously.

“No, you’re just adjusting to your Vampiric Biology better than I was expecting. Your other halfling siblings weren’t this quick to adapt to this part of their powers.”

“Really now?” She asked in surprise.

“Yeah. And most of them were born half vampire. You were adopted into it, which is what makes it even more surprising.”

“Well...when you’re busy trying to save worlds and also being the reincarnations of the original Foretellers...I suppose thing’s come a little easier ya know?” Jenny shrugged.

“Hm. Well, whatever the case, if it works, don’t question it. Now then, some of these fuckers will be… less easy. Therefore, time for my baby girl to grab some firepower.”

“Yeah, cause while this bow is neat and all...sadly it’s just a bow.” She admitted.

“Oh we can work on that later. For now, guns!” Alushy said in excitement, suddenly dropping a crate she pulled from seemingly thin air next to Jenny.

“You are...really excited about this huh mom?” Jenny inquired.

“Yes.” Alushy answered, prying the top and side of the crate off with ease, allowing a large variety of firearms to fall and roll out of the large wooden box. “Now then, do you want rifles, shotguns, handguns, gatling guns, machine guns, assault rifles, machine pistols, Hand Cannons, or explosives, or ect?”

“Uh…” Jenny blinked. “I’ve...literally never held a gun…”

Alushy gently placed a rather large handgun into Jenny’s hands. “Now you have” She giggled. “That little baby is called a Hand Blaster.” Alushy said. Jenny looked it over. The design reminded her of most german guns from WWII. Only… larger. “This little toy is a three shot handgun chambered to shoot .308 rifle rounds. No normal human or creature could shoot this without shattering every bone in their hand. For us though, it’s not hard.”

“I’ve never fired a gun.” She reiterated. “I’m...the first gun you want me to use is a handgun made for rifle rounds?”

“You can swing a four ton sword around with ease, it won’t be hard at all Jenny.” Alushy stated. “Trust me, despite the caliber, you will not feel any recoil from it.”

“Twenty.” Jenny corrected. “And...are you sure? I’ve never used a gun, and even if I’m a vampire, if I use it wrong something bad might happen.”

“You will be fine. Trust me.” Alushy said, raising Jenny’s arms and helping fit her grip on the handle and trigger of the oversized pistol. “Now then, calm your breath, take a deep breath and focus. Your eyes will not fail you.”

Jenny nodded, taking a deep breath as she calmed her breath, thinking this is kind of like archery, just with something that can literally take someone’s torso off if needed and still slam into someone behind them.

She opened her eyes, trying to take aim at something and settled on a tree in the distance. As she did, her focus on the tree suddenly found her vision zooming in on the tree, seeing the bark, the ants crawling up it. She fired, hearing the massive boom of the gun but feeling nothing as the bullet flew down the forest, hitting and shattering the trunk of the tree into splinters as it fell over from the impact destroying it’s lower trunk.

“Told you.” Alushy said with a smile.

“Uh...huh.” She started. “Right then that was… simpler than I thought it would be.”

“So, the Hand Blaster to your liking?”

“Yeah...I like.” Jenny nodded. “But it'll be...completely different to what I’m used to.”

“Too used to swords and such huh?” Alushy asked as Jenny nodded. “Don’t worry, this will help you build up multiple combat forms.” Alushy said, showing Jenny how to reload the weapon and then gave her an absurd amount of ammunition for it. “Now, what else would you like to try?”

“Might regret saying this…” Jenny muttered. “But you’re the expert, take me through this guided tour of guns you’re extremely fond of.” Jenny said, thinking her mom was about to take her through some Willy Wonka esc bullshit about Gun’s and the wonder’s of shooting hot loads of lead through people.

“Hmm… Well, when you fight you usually go for the Overkill attacks, right?”

“Yep, like when I reversed my gravity spell on Earth Breaker and doubled it’s weight on that Shadow Creature, split the thing in half before it disappeared.” Jenny said proudly.

“Then I believe this will be your style.” Alushy said, digging through the pile of guns and pulling out a rather large, clearly motorized gun from the pile and handing it to Jenny. “This is the FOAD handheld Gatling Shotgun. Shooting twelve gauge rounds from the box mag on the side here, it shoots Explosive incendiary slug rounds at thirty rounds a minute and holds two hundred rounds per mag.”

“I’m not into guns but I do like that a lot.” Jenny said happily.

“Bet you can’t guess what FOAD stands for?”

“Fuck Off And Die?” She guessed.

“Bingo! And it’s accurate for what it does.” Alushy said, also giving an absurd amount of ammo and mags for the weapon to Jenny before helping her put them away in her assistant. “Now, onto rifles. Hmm… I’m betting… assault.” She said, pulling up what appeared to be a rifle chambered for a caliber meant for something not meant to be fully automatic. “This is the FM 90. This fully automatic beauty is chambered in .50 caliber rounds and holds a hundred and fifty in the mag. It can shoot this mag empty in under five seconds if you hold the trigger and shoots all specialty variants of the .50 rond from standard to the drained uranium explosive ones.”

“I know you said it’s drained but...isn’t that dangerous to use uranium still?” Jenny asked nervously.

"Oh sweetie," Alushy started, putting a hand on Jenny's cheek. "That's what makes it effective. And fun."

“You are very excited to teach me about guns.” Jenny chuckled.

"They made combat fun again after centuries of usingusing claws, knives, swords, Spears, ECT." Alushy said, giving Jenny the assault rifle and also an absurd amount of ammunition. "Now, for some heavy artillery."

"I'm still kinda sure I'm just gonna default to swords and punching things to be honest, but these guns are nifty enough." Jenny said honestly.tly.

"You might, but at least you can have more variety to both your arsenal and attacks." Alushy said, picking up a large grenade launcher, given the look and size of it. "This is a Mikor MGL that fires 40mm grenades, modified to house and shoot eight grenades before reloading. The standard rounds are fun but the specialty rounds are where it's at for this baby."

“One specialty is hitting someone with a giant piece of rubber really hard.” Jenny chuckled.

"Yes, but my personal favorite round is the Hydrogen Explosive round." Alushy said with a grin.

“Cause when you really want to make sure something’s on fire, slam it with a piece of metal that explodes in a fireball of Hydrogen.” Jenny shook her head.

"There are also magic based rounds too." Alushy added, handing Jenny the Launcher and a variety of ammo for it. "Alright. Now we can go hunting for other monsters and demons."

“And they’ll be very confused as to how and why they turn into either ground meat or swiss cheese in half a second.”

With that, Alushy lead Jenny through the night. Tracking and hunting various monsters and demons. Giant birds, demons both biblical and abnormal, Cyclops's and even a Cerberus we're found and fell by Jenny as she gunned them down. She had to admit, firearms did have a certain way of quickly ending a fight.

One by one each of these entities found their way devoured by Jenny as the night began to break into day. 

By the sun's first light Jenny had devoured fifty monsters and forty demons.

"You are doing so well!" Alushy said, giving a hug to her daughter.

“Thanks mom.” Jenny said happily, hugging Alushy back happily. “But it looks like we have to end it here sadly...it’s probably been way past our deadline to be honest.”

"Oh, don't worry about that. Much like the world Scootaloo took you too, this one flows different time wise. The night we spent here has just been an hour back home."

“Well...that’s good.” Jenny smiled. “More time to spend with you mom.”

"And the more time, the better!" Alushy stated. "Now then, let's see," Alushy then began to Poke Jenny in the stomach and feel her forehead as if checking her temperature. "Hmm. Holding well, that's good."

“Glad things are going well...but uh, what would happen if I’m not doing well?” Jenny asked carefully.

"You'd feel the souls of the beings you devoured trying to claw their way out from inside you. It's rather painful and looks freaky as all hell. Makes a chest burster look tame."

“I’m glad I don’t have that happening right now.” She said nervously.

"It's why I keep checking your tummy and head. Hot flashes and sudden stretching of your stomach area are the main signs. Thankfully those are not happening to you. I think Scootaloo's training helped enhance your physical capabilities and your Vampiric side."

“That’s great.” Jenny said happily.

“Now, given how many monsters you’ve devoured, it’s time to teach you a simple trick to learn and gain all their abilities to use for yourself.”

"What's the trick?" She asked curiously, eager to learn how to use the monster’s abilities.

Alushy lifted Jenny’s arm with her Assistant on it and showed her some handy little tricks.

The next hour Jenny learned more about her Assistant than she expected to ever alone. She learned how to make and assign weapons to ‘slots’ and rotate between them. How to access her ‘phone’ and the internet from it, the teleportation function, how to view her abilities and the ways it helped her analyse the beings she devoured and added their abilities to her own. They even gave useful hints and mini tutorials on the basics of each ability and how to use them.

“Sweet lord that’s a lot.” Jenny said in shock. “How the hell do you expect some people to figure this out all on their own?”

“Intuition and youthful curiosity.”

“That only goes so far when...there’s that much of it.” Jenny said nervously.

“Huh. Well, in any case, I think you are ready for your first Sentient Soul.”

“Can’t wait.” Jenny said carefully. “But uh...eating a person’s soul feels...weird considering what my job normally is.”

“Oh relax, I’d never have you eat an innocent persons soul. We’ll go after criminals. Murderers, rapists, psychopaths, pedofiles. The only time I’ve ever devoured an innocent person was for mercy.”

“Well...alright…” Jenny said, still nervous about killing a sentient being that wasn’t a monster or worse.

“Now, back to the city.” Alushy said as she walked, followed by Jenny.

The two made it back to the city they arrived at as the sun set and soon were atop the roofs, looking down. 

“I’m pretty sure Batman’s gonna sue for all this.” Jenny joked.

“I’ve eaten nine versions of him. He can try.” Alushy laughed.

“Really now?” Jenny asked in surprise.

“Yeah. Eight of those he ended up a tyrant. The ninth he was actually the bad guy from the start.” Alushy said. The two kept watch looking down and eventually saw a lady of the night being approached by a man. “That’s your target.” Alushy stated.

“The guy?” She asked, watching carefully over the two. “How do you want me to do this?” Jenny asked, wondering if her mom had any specific way for her to do this.

“Just wait.” Alushy said.

Jenny nodded, looking carefully at what’ll happen between the guy and the streetwalker.

The two talked for a while before heading down towards a nearby alleyway. Jenny kept watch, ready to act.

Suddenly, as the two were getting physical, and suddenly the woman pulled a knife, and slit the man's throat. Jenny was surprised, witnessing a murder and watching as she stole the mans money and items before pulling him towards a nearby door. Two men exited that door and took the dead man inside.

“Right then.” Jenny nodded. “Complete and total bitch is about to feel a whole lotta pain.”

“When you’re done with her, don’t forget her ‘friends’ in the building.” Alushy stated.

“I won’t.” Jenny said carefully, thinking about if she should be careful about this or just go straight for the throat before she notices. “Hmm...do women also look for…’pleasant company’ around here as it were?”

“So long as you pay they don’t question, and if she’s playing a brothel then she won’t question it.”

“Fair enough.” Jenny nodded to her mother and prepared herself.

She jumped down, careful as she covered her head and approached the killer. “Evening. Care for a fun time~ Two coins for half an hour.”

“Sure.” Jenny said simply, tossing the two coins over to her. “Got a...secluded enough place?”

“This way, sugar baby.” She motioned down the alleyway her last victim was lead to.

“Lead the way, I’d like to see what else I’m in store for.” Jenny answered, and even though she wasn’t really into women or mass murderers, she did admit the killer was hot.

As they arrived at the area where her last victim met their end, Jenny acted, closing her eyes as she grabbed the woman, and bit along her neck hard. Bones and flesh cracking under her jaw as she drank the killers blood.

This was different from the others. Animals gave her flavor. Monsters gave her powers. This… she received memories. She saw this lady grow up from child to adult, her sadistic personality develop, the idea for pretending to be a lady of the night and lead customers to their deaths to sell their organs on the black market.

By the time Jenny snapped back to reality, all that was left of the horrid woman was the hand Jenny was crunching at, and soon that was gone too. She had no flavor. 

Jenny felt… strange. Nervous for having eaten a person, glad such a horrible person no longer lived, and… stronger. As if suddenly the lifeforce of this woman flooded her veins and added to Jenny’s own.

“Well then…” Jenny shook her head, as she carefully moved over and knocked on the door like the woman did to call her goons.

The door opened, and once it did Jenny punched the first man hard enough to knock him crashing into the nearby wall. The other man pulled out a knife, which Jenny easily stopped and dearmed the man. Literally. She felt her vampiric energy flow as the scent of blood, fresh and old, saturated the air of this place. 

Jenny walked out of that alley feeling… different. She felt powerful, stronger… but she didn’t feel human any longer.

“You okay sweetie?” Alushy asked.

“No…” Jenny said sadly. “I...don’t feel right...like I’m not myself…”

Alushy sighed, hugging Jenny tight. “Power comes at a price Sweetie. Despite how we look, how we all act… Everyone in this family is a Monster in some way, shape or form. We can’t take back that innocence, that life… we can just make use of the power we gained in the sacrifice for good. Otherwise, we’re no better than the ones we kill.”

“I...I understand…” Jenny sighed out. “Doesn’t make it any less weird and...painful…” She sighed out, hugging Alushy back tightly as she felt like she was turning more into the monster Crow thought they were.





Alushy and Jenny arrived back at the manor, back home and Jenny entered to the sight of Alex stabbing a lot of small mini cthulhu looking spiders with a knife.

“Back you foul beasts back!” Alex shouted. “Back I say!”

“Uh...the fuck’s going on in here?” Jenny asked worriedly.

“Cooking!” Cript called from the kitchen, the roar of gunfire soon following. “Now to roast for two hours at 350.”

“Eldritch being meat doesn’t cook easy.” Alushy said with a shrug and gave a kiss to Jenny’s forehead. “You go rest up, I’ll help Alex clean up the minions.”

“Yeah…” Jenny yawned. “I really need some sleep...well, have at it Alex...call me when dinners ready.” She said as she walked off.

“Don’t you fucking walk away!” Alex yelled in a panic, ducking underneath one of the thing’s leaping at him as he slammed his leg into it with electricity sparking off of it and burning it to a crisp. “That’s what you get you pesky fuck.”

“I find this works better.” Alushy said as gunfire filled the main room.

Jenny just chuckled and walked upstairs and into her room.

Once there she called down her bed and jumped onto it. She gave a deep sigh as she pulled out her cell phone, eyeing Flash Sentry's number and dialed.

”Hello? Jenny?” Flash asked over the phone.

“Yeah, it’s me.” Jenny said carefully. “So uh...I know this is out of the blue, but do you...have anything going on this week?”

”Uh, no. Job is closed, Union stuff is finished and there’s no exams or sports for school so I’m free pretty much all month… You, um… Wanna do… something?”

“I’m someth-” Jenny was about to say before she caught herself, muted her phone and screamed into a pillow real quick. ”Smooth as silk Jenny…” Jenny thought to herself angrily as she unmuted herself. “Uh, sorry about that, but yes I would love to do something if you’re not busy.”

”C-Cool! Um, how about the movies? Tomorrow if you’re free?”

“Yes, I would love to.” Jenny nodded, going through her Assistant to see what movies were playing tomorrow. “Got any in mind?”

”Um, you pick. I’m usually up for anything.”

“Alright…” She started, going through the movies that were open tomorrow. “Hmm...well, I’ve heard good things about Now You See Me.” Jenny brought up.

”Y-yeah, sure. It’s a… date then.”

“It’s a date.” Jenny said warmly, so excited to say those three words to the teen she had a crush on.

She hung up the phone, screamed happily into her pillow, and felt her worries lessen significantly. If to be a hero means you need to become a monster, then she would; but that didn’t mean she couldn’t be happy.








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