Alpha had noticed Chrysalis’s development advanced quickly. She was a fast learner, and an avid schemer. Her magic was all her own, and learning the magic he knew of was as easy to her as breathing.

“Hmm…” Chrysalis hummed as she tried to think of ways to use this new magic.

“A common spell amoung witches is levitation.” Alpha spoke from his desk, writing in his parchment as he typically does. “It’s simple, requires little magic and has a multitude of uses. Unlike when you use your own magic for the same spell there is no glowing aura around whatever is lifted.”

Chrysalis nodded as she tried to do just that, knowing her magical powers are strong so she should be able to do something simple as she tried to levitate a stray rock on the ground.

When she did, the rock flew itself against the nearby wall. Chrysalis felt this magic was...wild, unpredictable compared to her own internal magic. However, she had to admit, it was far more potent than her own. “Good.” Alpha said, still writing in his parchment. “So, discover something new yet?”

“This magic...it’s so wild and unpredictable.” Chrysalis said. “Even if it’s much stronger it feels strange.”

“Magic in this world has always had a unique will of its own. It acts according to its own wims at times and when under the control of a being with the knowledge and ability to use it, it can become a deadly weapon. Rarely have I needed it.”

“Magic has a will of its own?” Chrysalis asked curiously.

“To an extent. It’s mentality is simple, but affects everything in it’s own way.”

“Interesting…” The changeling said. “Is there a way to control such wild magics?”

“Of course. In my time, I’ve learned that anything can be controlled, it can take time, patience, and sometimes a little research, but nothing in this world is unbreakable, and everything that lives and breaths is killable. This I know as truth.”

“Even you?” She asked, thinking her master was really strong.

“Even me. Though, unlike my lesser kin, I am harder to kill, for I am the first of my kind. I, and my fellow first borns are harder to kill, stronger than the rest of our lesser kind. All of us created in the perfection of our mother.”

“Really? Perfection?” She asked. “I thought perfection wasn’t real?”

“Perfection is in the eyes of the beholder, or in my case, my creatore. I am perfect because my maker made me to be one of many kinds of monsters. Is it not best to make one of many kinds of things all best at the same thing perfect in their roles down to a T rather than waste time creating one thing that can never be perfected to meet every goal?”

Chrysalis took these words to heart. Everything was made to perfection for a specific goal in mind… what was hers. “What’s your goal?”

“I am the Alpha Vampire. Compared to my children I am stronger, faster, wiser, and much much older. I create more like me, we are smart, stealthy, clever, blend in perfectly with most other humans, and can single handedly hunt and kill a village or two without leaving a single survivor.”

“So why do you hide? Why stay in these caves?”

“Humans… have developed and learned things. Traitors to our race who foolishly keep their loyalties to their prior humanity, or other sources… they have learned how to defend against us. Learned how to kill us. How to spot us. As such… a new breed of humans has emerged. Hunters. They attack us before or as we attack them, and conpatint hunters in a group are harder to kill than a nest of us. Thought I don’t go down as easy as my children, I’m much harder to kill, but I can still die, and I’d rather be cautious than arrogant.”

“Hmm.” Chrysalis hummed. “So, you were created to be… the perfect what then?”

“Vampire. While my Alpha siblings and I all share the same goal, eat and feast off these insects called humans, maybe one day cattle them, but we are what we are, monsters, each variation crafted and fine tuned to kill the best and most unique way we can. We… all have our weaknesses, but it’s nothing we can’t avoid with practice and patience.”

“So...what’s my weakness?”

“That, my dear child is something to learn about for a later date, or, perhaps we will discover it naturally. Only time will tell… Or…”

“Or?”

“Wait here for me, please. I may be gone a while, but I shall return.”

“Where are you going?”

“To visit on of my siblings.”

“Alpha Changeling.” Alpha Vampire spoke, entering a human built building referred to as an Orphanage, a place for human spawns to stay when their parents pass and they are uncared for. A perfect place to send out Changelings disguised as children.

The Alpha Changeling was as she always was, in disguise, illusions to the human eye, save for the reflection of mirrors. To humans she was an elderly nun. “Yes brother?” She asked from her seat within the kitchen, pieces of corpses sliced and diced. Small corpses.

“I need to know exactly what all your weaknesses are to compare them to the abnormal self proclaimed changeling in my care, Chrysalis.”

“Ah yes, your letter gave a great detail of information. I can safely state that this creature is no changeling, at least, not anymore.”

“Hmm?”

“As a base she might have started as one, but now the differences are far too broad. Her illusions hold up to mirrors, her transformations actively utilize a form of fire, our natural weakness, and she feeds off the aura of emotions linked to the soul directly, not the chemical juices we do. As such she can swallow a humans soul and live off of it for quite the the while. Not to mention her form is more like someone took a horse and invest and combined the two.”

“So you are saying she is some form of mutation, or perhaps an… evolution?”

“Either or, someone created her and I can bet it was not Mother.”

“Yes, I figured that as well. Witch?”

“Psst. No whith can make a whole new form of magic if your letters on her are to be believed. No, more like a demon, Angle maybe?”

“Angles Haven't set foot on Earth in many, many years and Demons while smart and powerful are, in the end, ghosts with a greater amount of power than normal.”

“Well whoever made her, they did one thing right.”

“And that is?”

“She is new. Her weaknesses, if any, are unknown. We need to test her, see what she can do, and use that to our advantage. If she is immune to traditional repellants we would have to avoid or bypass, then she can be an invaluable asset.”

Alpha Vampire thought it over. This was true, being brand new ment Hunters can't counter her powers or attacks. Plus she was able to shape shift to things other than human, animals too, more like a Shifter than a Changeling. Perhaps a mix of both? Alpha pondered. “Then we challenge see. Shall we sent word to our siblings?”

“All of them? My, aren't you putting stock in this new creature.”

“New at this time might be just what we need to finally gain proper footing against these Hunters. Finally our children can retake the night and our proper place above these humans.”

“That confident in her hm? Alright, I'll bite. I'll sent word to Alpha Werewolf, Shifter and Wendigo.”

“And I will gather my friends from the Pitt. We shall see what Chrysalis can do, learn and is weak to, and immune to.”

Author's Notes:

Finally A new chapter. My usual excuse is life sucks and I will be trying to upload as often as possible. Though don't expect anything too soon.