My Vampire System: Erin's Awakening

Erin didn't consider the fight ahead of her to be too difficult. She had fought against higher level ability users in the past, namely, in power fighters even after she lost her ability. Not only that, but she had Quinn next to her. The only thing that was bothering her was that she was still in direct sunlight, and her sun hat did nothing to help.

However, Erin didn't think to bring her sword with her. She didn't think that a quick trip to the convenience store would warrant a weapon, as she was used to having an ability she could depend on. 

Erin dragged Quinn with her to a nearby bush, and hid behind it, sneaking closer. She poked her head out from the bush and spotted Nill's back, the boy had light brown hair, or what could also be described as a dirty blonde.

{Erin} He hasn't spotted us yet, let's use the element of surprise to surround him.

Before Quinn could even respond, Erin jumped out from the bush, and decked him in the jaw, sending the unaware boy into the ground.

Despite being in sunlight, she was technically faster than the average person, albeit not by that much. The level 2 student who was previously on the floor looked shocked, but took this as the opportunity to escape. Nill also recovered from the hit, wiping some blood from his nose.

"Damn bitch, I could've gotten some money from that loser."

Quinn ran behind Erin and put on a fighting stance, his fists up, prepared to take a hit. Nill whipped his hands back, and flung them at Erin. A light green liquid came out from his skin, and she was able to block the attack with her arms. Unfortunately, the liquid burned her skin, and she gritted her teeth.

[-4 HP]

[HP 16/20]

{Erin} Hit him! He's focused on me!

Quinn ran up to the guy, and punched him in the gut, but that only caused Nill to flinch slightly before copying Quinn's move and gut punching him. Quinn stumbled back, partially bent over and holding where he was hit. Nill held a handful of acid, and flung it at Quinn.

It was about to hit Quinn's face, until Erin managed to block the attack for him with her torso. Thankfully, the acid didn't burn clothes, but it still seeped through the cloth and hurt like hell.

[-6 HP]

[HP 10/20]

'Damn it, I'm already half health,' Erin thought.

She didn't want to get used to playing tank, but when that acid was going straight to his face, she had to protect him. His vision was already poor enough as is. Erin was about to retaliate with an ice attack, but right as her hands were in formation to create an ice barrier, she realized too late what had happened, and Nill already threw out a kick. He pushed her back, causing her to topple onto Quinn. 

[-2 HP]

[HP 8/20]

Rolling off of him, Erin was wondering why this student was causing so much trouble for her. She defeated ability users with higher levels than him, and usually solo too. From the corner of her eye, she could see that Quinn was struggling to get up.

{Erin} This damn sun is running everything.

{Erin} Quinn, keep your eyes on your opponent, don't look away from him. 

{Quinn} Easy for you to say.

Nill seemed to be distracted by something he saw on Erin's arm, but she took that opportunity to get up and throw out a kick. However, he caught it, and threw her onto the floor.

[-2 HP]

[HP 6/20]

Erin could feel something forming in her mouth. Quickly pressing against her top lip, she could feel that her fangs enlarged, and grew longer. With the sun, the acid and her low health bothering her, it was getting harder to concentrate. Quinn ran over to her and lifted her up, but she felt a strong urge to bite into him and taste his blood. Instead, she bit her tongue to suppress the urge.

Nill was about to throw another handful of acid at the two of them until a string had wrapped itself around his arm, causing him to suddenly smack himself in the face with the acid. He was immune to his own ability, so it did not scorch him. When seeing who threw the string out to Nill, Erin could see that it was attached to the annoying sniffing teenager.

"Dude, you guys can't seriously be fighting here," Fex spoke with a sly smile.

He threw out another string to the guy's leg, and tugged on it. Nill fell over, smacking his face on the pavement. He accidentally bit his lip as he did so, causing some blood to spill onto the floor. Now surrounded by 3 people, Nill took this opportunity to run away.

[Quest failed]

[No EXP will be given]

Erin was disappointed by the fact that she failed this quest, but something that bothered her more was that the annoying sniffing teenager saved her sorry ass!

"What are you doing here?!" Erin called out, annoyed.

Fex glanced over in Erin's direction, before shrugging, "I piss here every saturday at 1 p.m. By the way, clean your dirty ass, it looks like you puked."

Erin looked down to her dress. With the color of the acid, Fex was unfortunately right. She quickly touched where the blood of Nill fell before Quinn helped her to her feet.

"Thanks," Quinn replied, "Really saved us there."

Fex just dusted off his hands before looking over to Quinn and Erin, "Hey, do you mind? I'm gonna take a leak. I've been holding it in all day."

Quinn quickly realized what Fex was talking about and tugged Erin's arm, "Oh— uhh— okay, we'll do that, come on, Erin."

Erin, however, was annoyed, and yanked her arm out of Quinn's hands, "You stole my target! I was going to beat that guy!"

Fex looked up to roll his eyes with a smile, "Is that what you were doing? Looked like you were getting your ass beat, heh. By the way, you should probably do something about that—"

Fex then pointed at Erin's chest where she was hit with acid, but her face grew bright red and she punched his face in retaliation.

"My eyes are up here!" Erin snarled, her fangs on display.

"Well sorry for giving a damn about your wellbeing," Fex sarcastically muttered as he lightly rubbed where he was hit. 

"By the way, you should hide those," he said, pointing at his own teeth. 

"You wouldn't want him to see." 

Quinn got between the two of them, shoving them aside, "Hey, Erin, let's not punch the guy who saved us, alright?"

{Quinn} Especially since we're both pretty beaten and I'm sure he's stronger than both of us combined. Let's not get on his bad side.

Erin glared at Quinn, before turning around to leave. Quinn, however, stayed behind.

"I'm sorry about her, she just gets really worked up when it comes to fights. She doesn't have enough emotional intelligence to understand that you're trying to help," Quinn bluntly stated on Erin's behalf.

"Your girlfriend seems to really be feisty," Fex nudged Quinn.

"For the last time, she's not my girlfriend!" Quinn grew bright red before running off after Erin.

"Uh huh, sure," Fex shrugged as he turned around towards a bush.

—

Nill ran back to the second year's building. He needed to tell someone something very important. As he passed by several class rooms and went to a storage room, he spotted the person he had to answer to.

Mono turned around upon hearing Nill run in, and looked at the boy curious on what caused him to be so out of breath.

"What brings you here?" Mono asked.

Nill panted for air, before sitting down and wiping some sweat from his forehead, "You know the ice queen? She's a level 1 now."

Mono raised an eyebrow, it's unheard of for someone to suddenly lose their level. It's not like someone would just have all their MC cells suddenly disappear, "Are you sure? Did she use any ability at all?"

"N-no sir!" Nill replied.

"Hmm…" Mono thought about it. It was unlikely that Jack Truedream, one of the big four members, would just suddenly visit Erin and leave without there being some sort of commotion. He's considered one of the most powerful people amongst humankind. Not only that, but she had shown her ice powers, earning the title of 'Ice Queen' in the first place. She was the most powerful first year at the time, being a level 5. The whole situation didn't make sense. Mono came to his conclusion that she could've faked her ability somehow only to stop due to how resource intensive it would've been.

Still, people knew her to be powerful, and if a figure who was thought of as a high tier were to continue to hang out with low levels, then it would spell trouble for the societal system built at their school. He couldn't have that.

"Thank you for telling me this, you can go now," Mono bemoaned. His tone sharp and focused.

Nill quickly left the room, uneasiness lingering in the pit of his stomach. Erin Heley had screwed up for the last time.