[Blood fairy]
[The playboy or playgirl of the vampire race.]
Reading the opening line, Quinn looked at Alex. In no way did he ever think this person was a playboy. He was too fixated on his weapons that Quinn didn’t think he had ever even seen Alex talk to a girl. Nevertheless, he carried on reading.
[They physically have a superhuman body which is comparable to vampires, including their regenerative abilities. Although unlike vampires, they do not consume human blood to live and regenerate. They consume vampire blood. They are long lived but not immortal by any means. The main traits of a Blood fairy are it’s smooth silky skin, and its red blood wings.]
The description seemed to match what Quinn was seeing in front of him. He was thankful so far that at least the Blood fairy had some traits of vampires. Which meant Alex would have improved strength and stamina, which would certainly help him when making weapons.
What surprised him was the information on what Blood fairies ate, Vampire blood. Judging from the explanation, it seemed to work the same way as human blood did for vampires. Quinn would withhold judgement for now, as he didn’t know if this was a good thing or a bad thing.
[The blood fairies are able to fly and use their own set of blood skills that are different from vampire skills. This is due to the blood inside the fairy’s being different. The fairy’s blood is toxic and acidic to vampires.]
Now, this part really was interesting. It looked like the Blood fairy was something that actually would be better off being used to fight against vampires due to its blood and skills.
The sad part was that Alex was no fighter, and Quinn had no intention of letting him out on the battlefield, especially against the vampires. For one, Alex didn’t want to, and two, it would be a waste of a good forger.
Which made him think if there was anything he could do to make use of him.
Quinn quickly explained what he knew what Alex was, and to Alex, it all sounded amazing, apart from the part where he had to consume vampire blood.
"So, If I feel a bit peckish, I have to come and find you?" Alex asked.
"Not just me, I guess me, Paul or Ka-, yeah, just come to me," Quinn said. "I still have some special flasks used to store blood. I’ve only used it really for human blood so far, but I’m sure it will do the same thing. Just keep it on you at all times. If worse comes to worst and I’m not around, you can go look for others, but Fex would be your best bet."
Alex was excited; he could feel his body had changed. Just seconds ago, he felt weak, but now he was full of life. Before he knew it, his wings were flapping around like crazy.
"Damn, these are annoying!" Alex said.
"Can you not put them away or something, maybe try to focus on them?" Quin suggested.
He closed his eyes and imagined his wings retracting back inside him. He could feel it, and in his head, he could see it going back in. When he opened his eyes....they were still there. The image he was seeing in his head was all in his head.
The wings had sprouted and ripped through his uniform he was wearing, and he couldn’t go out like this. People would think he was a humanoid beast before assuming anything else. He also needed to explain to Kazz before she saw anything.
"Just stay here for a sec," Quinn said, leaving the room. While out of the room, Quinn thought maybe he should try and ask Fex if he knew anything else about the Blood fairy. Often the system would only give basic information, and sometimes there were more to it.
Also, Maybe Fex knew a way for him to hide his wings or retract them.
"A Blood fairy?" Fex said, confused. "What the hell is that? A fairy soaked in ketchup. Aren’t fairy’s those really small things."
"Like I said, Alex, the forger. I turned him, and he’s turned into a Blood fairy." Quinn repeated once again.
"Well, I mean, you have to remember I’m young when you compare me to vampire standards, and turning isn’t something that is often done. Still, I would have thought I would have heard of it from somewhere before, but it’s not ringing any bells." Fex replied.
"Well, if you don’t know, then we are going to have to do something about his wings."
"Maybe we can use something like my string, but more permanent," Fex suggested.
When returning to the room, Fex was brought along this time, and in their hands, they had some medical wraps and a new uniform. Alex was naturally able to control the wings quite well, and it was easy to fold them in. Then wrapping his body around, the wings stayed close to his body.
With the uniform over him, no one could tell he ever had anything on his back.
"Do you feel okay?" Quinn asked.
"It’s a little stiff, I think I might have to stretch them out once in a while but it should be okay," Alex replied.
"I was actually hoping we could test a few things, or maybe Fex could teach you if he knew about the Blood fairy, but even he doesn’t," Quinn said, tapping his foot, trying to think.
"Fex, you want to be a little useful, right? Why don’t we do a little experiment?" Quinn said, smiling, and Fex didn’t like the look of Quinn’s smile.
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