???: Well little one. What story do you want to hear tonight?
The old man asked the seemingly ill child who was currently fighting a cold in bed with a damp cloth on their head.
???: The story of *cough* Yharnem grandpa!
Grandpa: *chuckle* Alright little John! *clears throat*
----Grandpa's Narration----
There was a city named Yharnem where the people, called Yharnemites, discovered something they called incredible, but it came at a cost they were not prepared for.
They discovered "Sacred Blood" as they called it. For it was a miracle, it granted a cure to any and all illnesses that existed, but it also had the effect of the people wanting more and more.
The Blood Ministration was the reason that this blood was able to be distributed to the people, this place was the reason that people saw the blood as something more than just a simple cure.
But this blood was not just a simple cure for any ailment for it held a darker side.
It caused those who consumed it to be overridden with a terrible bloodlust always wanting more and more.
To the point where they started to change into something horrible, blood thirsty beasts.
Beasts willing to do anything just to get another lick of the so-called "Sacred Blood", even if what they have to do to get it is heinous acts such as killing whoever gets in the way of them acquiring more blood
And it was at this point where a group of individuals decided to create a so-called order in order to compare the beasts that plagued their City.
They were named Hunters, people able to fight back against the beasts and the blood that caused it. But like the saying "fighting fire with fire" these hunters had to fight this battle using the very means that caused it, the very blood in these beasts veins.
And so they did, the way this Blood affected them was the same that it did others, but they had a little bit more control considering they knew what they're fighting for.
The blood granted them strength beyond anything they could imagine allowing them to fight back against the beasts that plague their City.
But of course every Hunter always was like a candle for they burned bright, yet they won't last long especially in this profession.
One way or another a Hunter was bound to die and they all knew it so they fought the plague with everything they had down to their last breath.
What no one knew was that in the shadows of the Blood Ministration they were hiding the deepest secrets of where they had found the blood and how they acquired it...
---Narration End---
Grandpa: Well that's enough for one night don't you think? It's time for you to get some rest.
Little John: Oh c'mon grandpa!? Just a little more please?*pleads*
Grandpa: Nope as I said it's time to get some sleep ok? We could finish it some other day.
He said as he started to leave the room, stopping at the doorway he says.
Grandpa: Get some rest I love you
Little John: Love you too grandpa!
After blowing out the lamp he leaves the room for John to get his rest while he goes into his own room to get himself some rest after taking care of Little John all day because of his illness.
In this family it is known that they suffer from a unique illness that causes there blood to run too hot for their bodies to handle resulting in them experiencing a type of super flu.
Because of this they were basically born to die because of their own blood, but this grandpa was lucky for he didn't have to go through it for he wasn't really Little John's grandpa yet their relationship was as though he was.
On the Grandpa's way to his bedroom after looking at the moon outside he thought he had heard a sound similar to a dying horse becoming increasingly close until
???: *Gutteral Roar*
Grandpa: AHHH-
Was all he was able to get out before whatever it was obliterated the wall to his right and piercing straight through his chest with its horrid claws and taking a bite out of his shoulder as if to get a sample taste of his new meal, then threw him threw the wall with enough force to go flying through 2 more walls as well.
And coincidentally the room he ended up in happened to be Litte John's room who had been woken up by the beasts roar.
John: G-G-Grandpa?
John said though a heavy sob stuck in his throat do to the fear of the situation now looking at the mangled and bloodied body of the only person who he cared about his entire life.
Grandpa: *wretched cough* John?
And these were his final words for his eyes had gone blank while his body had slumped to the floor after he succumbed to his wounds.
Now all John could do was slowly move his stare from the body of his grandpa towards the thing that caused all this through his tears.
Whatever it was had gray fur sploched with blood from its most recent meal and a slimy sheen to the fur along with one giant arm which was coated in blood and one shriveled arm which seemed to have been useless, a sunken in chest that seemed to represent its eternal hunger for whatever it sought to devour, a set of sharp deer-like antlers atop its skull-like head, and a maw filled with horribly sharp teeth used to tear apart its prey's meat from bone.
As John looked at it while in his sickened form he stared at it with a fear which was being slowly devoured by his rising rage.
The beast seemed to have looked at John in a form of disgust as if he was of little importance to it as it had grabbed the old man's body and dragged it to its mouth and proceeded to eat it in front of the child.
After a while of eating it had swallowedthe body and started to saunter away in a type of madness while from far behind it a child could be heard screaming.
John: Don't you dare just walk away! I will one day find you and I will kill you! DO YOU HEAR ME I WILL KILL YOU!
These were his last words before John's head started to ache and pulsate in pain as if he had both done and seen too much for a child to bear witness to.
Until his body had shut his consciousness down to get the rest it needed after such a taxing experience, and while this was happening any water that touched him had started to steam as if he was at a boiling point.
It was this day that John promised to himself that he will avenge his grandpa and kill the thing that killed him!