When we finaly arrived at my house I looked across at Jacen and told him, "We have got to tell my parents everything you told me about the vampires." He tried to refuse the idea, saying, "Ignorance can be bliss, Bethany. There's no reason to raise any alarms when there is nothing happening to bring anyone any harm." I retorted, "But my family could be in danger. Especialy if one of us accidentally does something that offends the vampires in some way. None of us have ever even known that vampires were actually real factual beings, let alone the existence of their experiments, despite the fact that it was more probable to assume given our own mythological nature than for others. None of us know what kind of dangers could possibly be awaiting us in this secret world filled with mythical creatures, monsters, and the results of the experiments they have conducted. The most we understand of the battle between vampires and werewolves comes from fantasy movies, books, and video games. None of which are very reliable sources of information." I looked him in the eye doing everything I could to convey my concern and said, "Would you honestly be able to live with yourself if someone in my family were to get seriously hurt or even die because of their own ignorance in an area they should know everything about, knowing that you could have done something, anything at all to keep us from getting ourselves into a dangerous situation?" He finally said, "No, we can tell them what we have discussed. But if anything was to happen, I won't be able to be of any help to them. Like I told you before, I am a creature that was designed souly for defense. I have no real strength, only the ability to withstand insanely high amounts of punishment. I wish I could be more than just a living punching bag. But unfortunately, I was specially designed just to serve that exact purpose." With that comment, we got out of the car and entered the house before we began to speak with my parents about the vampires and their many experiments. My father stopped us and brought my brother to attend the conversation. According to Jacen, there were many strange creations of the vampires, some good and some bad. This was something somewhat expected from a race that could live, to the best of my knowledge, indefinitely while doing their experiments. Obviously, some of these creatures were the results of failed experiments but still could pose a threat in some shape or form nonetheless. Especialy if we ran into them in a place that supported their nature. There were odd creatures known as Cracononians, given their name after the great mythological cracon. They were humanoid creatures that could breath under water and grew tentacles from the underside of their head, making them look like an octopus was eating someone's head. They didn't transform, rather they looked like this regularly. Their strength was incredible, and they were greater swimmers than anything else that has ever been seen before. They were known to use their tentacles like whips which were powerful enough to cut clean through a tree that was approximately a meter in diameter. Though the moment they begin to dry up, their tentacles become practically useless, shriveling like dried worms on the sidewalk during a hot summer day. Then there were the Phoenix foxes, another variation of a defensive fox. As their peculiar name might suggest, they were able to return from the dead rising from the ashes of their dead body after it burst into flames. They were bright red foxes that had tendrils of flames running down their backs and flicking from their tails when they transformed. Though they have no control over the fire and were built primarily for defense in the same way that the sunfox was. Even though these creatures couldn't exactly be killed, they were seen as an inferior species to the sunfox as decoys because they were far less durable. After all, if they were injured enough, they would burst into flames just to be reborn, leaving the vampires they defended stuck caring for babies. There are so many more strange beings that the vampires created that I just began writing them down in what is now my monster identification book, or I guess my experiment identification book, or maybe my vampire monster creation book, I don't know, I'll name it later. I would write the name of the creation, a brief description of their appearance, whether they were defense oriented or offensive-oriented, what abilities they had, and what their apparent weaknesses were. I had them listed in the order that Jacen explained them, the Cracononians, Phenix foxes, Sunfoxes, Demon Dogs, Lightning sabers, werebears, slithering swamp turtles, and many more. My father sat there trying to wrap his head around the idea of vampires being real while my brother freaked out about how awesome he thought each individual creature Jacen listed was. My mother was the only one who truly seemed to be handling the information well. After Jacen stopped speaking, the room was uncomfortably quiet for an extraordinarily long period of time until my mother finally broke the silence. She said, "I think we should meet these vampires." Jacen tried refusing, but she simply said, "I'm not a werewolf, I am just a human mother watching out for my family. I want them to know that we have no connection with the other werewolves that they are at war with, and maybe we can form some sort of agreement, a treaty with them." Jacen, not knowing what else to say just said, "Okay, I will start working on getting your request to meet with them to their leaders. After all, I'm just the child of one of their experiments, so I can't guarantee anything, but I know how they operate, and how they are structured. So, I will do my best."
