Blood Awakening: The Strongest Hybrid and His Vampire Bride

The moment he felt his chest tighten, Nikolai understood because of the silver bullets, his instincts would soon take over. He could feel the desire to attack, kill and maim the humans on the other side of the destroyed car growing with each breath.

[Nikolai, calm down—they are not with the government. Though I don’t believe they will give up.]

Elizabeth’s vague figure appeared as she looked for a solution. Because of their training earlier, the figure looked thin and closer to a mist.

[Call or message Selene quickly. That girl is the only one who can help in this situation!]

Her voice sounded concerned, a tone that caused Nikolai to feel a sense of nostalgia while tapping a message.

The message contained his location and the fact he was in danger to Selene’s phone.

’But why didn’t mother tell me to contact Nikita?’

[Because we cannot bring her mother and that girl into this...]

Elizabeth understood the thin balance and trust that existed between monsters and humans. If either side showed its weakness, the other would instantly pounce.

So when Anastasia appeared, the humans caught wind of the strongest four members in the country leaving the city, and they stopped holding back.

Nikolai’s awakening and his carrying special blood wasn’t a secret.

Rather, it was something that Vladimir, Ivan and Dimitri fought hard to keep under wraps after they confirmed his dual awakening as a hybrid. They paid heavily to stop the humans from taking action and their information from being spread.

’I don’t know why, but I’ll trust you...’

There were things that Nikolai had only started learning recently, so Elizabeth didn’t want to overwhelm him as the humans inched closer, holding their weapons.

Ryan’s father seemed to be the highest level of authority on the scene.

’I knew he looked at me with disgusted eyes, but to think he hated me this much.’

A pump of black blood squeezed through Nikolai’s heart as he prepared to move—though attacking them would be dangerous. He felt concerned about where to run.

”Nikolai, if you come out now, then we won’t shoot.”

There was no way he could believe them—rather, Nikolai just didn’t understand why they wanted him so badly. Was it Ryan’s father or the Nosferatu who was the mastermind?!

”Sir, we should prepare the nets...”

Two of the mercenaries in the back jeep, now over sixteen, aimed their weapons at Nikolai, slowly tightening their net around him.

His heart began pounding, unsure of what to do... the aggression built as he listened to the approaching men and women...

’They are just as confused... I can hear their hearts pounding like drums.’

’The sound of their blood... pumping through their bodies.’

[Nikolai?]

Elizabeth noticed that while searching for a way out, Nikolai’s eyes began to change. He broke his promise to Alexei as they turned black, pure black without colour.

WOOSH—!

With a sudden leap, his body vanished from sight, several metres in the air, before the humans even reacted to the loud bang.

”Argh... Sa....ve.....me!”

Ra-ta-ta-ta—!

The sound of a rifle shooting wildly into the air in all directions as Nikolai’s fangs tore the throat of a female mercenary.

His lips curled into a pleasant smile as her sweet blood empowered his desire for bloodshed.

[Nikolai?!]

BANG—!

His enormous body, over seven feet while in his black werewolf form, smashed into her ribs with his left leg, using the force to catapult his body at another.

The woman’s body snapped in half, flung to the ground as she choked to death.

”Shoot him!”

”Kill the monster!”

”He killed Maria!!”

Chaos broke out, with Ryan’s father suddenly becoming pale from watching the bullets tearing through Nikolai’s body, but each time he reached a human—they died.

”Pull back! He isn’t normal!” Ryan’s father hopped into his armoured jeep and reversed, several mercenaries shooting from the windows and upper turret.

Yet they couldn’t get a clean hit to take Nikolai down—his black fur became like armour, blocking most of the weaker calibre bullets. However, even when they drew blood, Nikolai would kill a human and heal the wound.

”Damn it! That person is going to kill me...” Ryan’s father grits his teeth while revving his engine.

He watched while the beast, formerly Nikolai, massacred the humans he paid for and trained for the past ten years. ”You fucking monster! Die!”

VROOM—!

With the asphalt burning with smoke, his huge jeep raged forward with a loud howl from the engine, bullets and muzzle flashes almost blinding him. He aimed to hit Nikolai, who smashed a human against a wall before crushing his skull with one claw.

CRUNCH—!

His head exploded into pulp on the wall as Ryan’s father almost vomited, seeing what remained. All that was left was his jaw...

BOOM—!!!

Ryan’s jeep collided with the black-furred werewolf, throwing Nikolai’s figure over thirty meters away and tumbling across the floor. Their rifles then focused on his immobile body, like a rain of hell falling onto the pavement.

With a loud thud, his human head bounced off the solid ground, causing him to lose consciousness.

Ra-ta-ta-ta-tat-tat—!!!

”Do we have any more monster-slaying bullets?”

”We don’t! Sir!”

”No...” Ryan’s father felt his hair standing up as his stomach twisted into knots. The last remaining mercenaries moved in a circular formation, some reloading while others were backing him out.

’Of the fifty I brought... only twenty remain, so much time and money lost!’

However, he noticed that Nikolai’s right arm began to revert to a human shape. The rest of him soon followed as his healing abilities rapidly declined.

”We did it?”

”Hurry, capture the target!”

A familiar roar echoed nearby, bringing tears to the man’s eyes... a car crash soon followed by silence.

”We’re saved...” He muttered... just as two identical-looking women walked through the cloud of dust behind them, a group of men in black combat suits rushed forward at the mercenaries.

Their silvery white hair and cold, emotionless faces caused Ryan’s father to tremble. ”How...?! Why is the Tepes Family here?”

”Oh my, didn’t you already know... old man?” A lively female voice echoed from the red sports car behind the five armoured M9s.

’No?!’

Another pair of women appeared: a blonde girl with deep red eyes, holding a large calibre pistol, a head smaller than the woman beside her, who wore an icy expression.

The woman beside her wore a long, black military-style jacket hanging over her thighs, something Nikolai had bought for her, which she swore she would never wear.

”Tell me, human, why are you attacking the future lord of the Tepes family? I demand your answer.”

Selene stood beside Anya, who wore a similar style but in red; what made the humans feel terrified was that behind Selene were hundreds of sharp blades made of blood.

”Y-You... what about your father?!”

The only reason the humans who normally pretend to co-exist and hunt monsters as mercenaries made a move was because of Nosferatu’s new heir.

He passed on information that neither Fenrir nor Tepe’s clan would move, so the blood of Báthory and Volkov, who had survived, was unprotected at this moment.

Faust... their poor clan became simple puppets.

”Did you think my father, the king of vampires would leave without handing me the power, old man?” Selene’s cold voice lacked any give or emotion. Though she seemed angry, her eyes were clear.

”Sister... they beat up brother-in-law!”

”Be quiet Anya.”

’What?! That’s the second daughter of the Tepes clan...

She was supposed to be weak and unable to awaken!’ Ryan’s father bit his lower lip, chewing the inside flesh to try and calm himself.

’It’s a set up... they planned this!’

”Yes, sister~ It seems that brother will finally learn everything, though...”

”Young miss, please be quiet.” One of the white-haired werewolves scolded Anya; she looked like the older of the two women with a scar on her cheek, a fierce gaze directed at the humans.

What Anya said wasn’t wrong from the moment everything began moving.

Selene, Vlad, Dimitri and Ivan all try to help Nikolai adapt to this world at his own pace. To give him targets that became stronger over time so he could fight and overcome.

How could the top leaders of the vampire and werewolf world not discover the awakening of a hybrid? Instead, they actually enforced a gag order to seal information. They lied to enemies and allies alike until Nikolai could defend himself.

There was not a single moment when the two families didn’t show concern because it was partially their fault for underestimating the Nosferatu seventeen years earlier.

”Young Lady, should I assist the Young lord?” A familiar and nostalgic voice... the man who fought Nikolai over a month ago, Sebastian, the most dedicated thrall and squire of Vladimir Tepes.

Sebastian became the first wall and pushed Nikolai to awaken. To do this, he lost his honour and even made his idol Ivan lose faith in him, but for the future of the Tepes clan’s future master. He sacrificed it all.

”Crush them, don’t live a single one alive.” Selene’s voice might seem foreign if Nikolai was able to pay attention right now.

”Yes, Lady.”

Immediately, the two werewolf twins and Sebastian rushed forward with the soldiers of Tepes.

’I have to flee... Ryan.... he is Nikolai’s friend he will save me!’

With the chaos unfolding around him, Ryan’s father fled, leaving the last of the mercenaries to their doom.

”Sir! We need help!” A mercenary screamed down the line after running four blocks, hoping that somehow they could reach him in time.

But when the last person hung up the communication device, they understood they would be fighting alone this time.

”Damnit! They are too fast... Argh!”

One by one, the humans collapsed as a red river appeared, with severed arms, legs and heads rolling across the ground until nothing moved.

Fifty humans died that night because they became greedy and sought Nikolai Volkov’s blood.

”Tsk... it seems that those bastards leaked everything about Nikolai. Have you contacted his squire and Nikita?” Selene didn’t speak with the gentle and affectionate tone she used for Nikolai. But the voice and tone used when she worked at Scarlet Group.

Selene walked through the chaos, not a single speck of blood on her, as she stood beside Nikolai and squatted down, touching her cheeks as she gazed at his face.

”What will I do with you...” Her lips trembled, showing a slight smile as she poked his cheeks. ”How can you sleep so soundly in the middle of the road after you made me panic so much?”

”Now all we did to keep you in the dark... has no meaning, will you be angry with us when you learn the truth?”

”Sis~ there’s no way he will be angry... without you he would... argh... stop... Ack! Wilhelmina stop your violent sister!”

Anya cried out while held in a headlock by Wilhelmina’s twin sister.

However, her words caused Selene to gaze at the drooping sun with a frown.

”Will he be angry?”