Chapter 5: Explaining to the parents

John's pov:

John looked at his dangling wrists and just snapped them back in place. He said to himself," I hope those two didn't notice too much and start asking questions. Well, I hope those two make up with each other and finish the assignment in time. I wish I could tell them the truth." John went to his bedroom and approached his wooden chessboard with the pieces in some sort of odd hodgepodge with quite a few pieces missing and he put those pieces in the order of the picture.

At that moment a heavy thud was heard and a large door opened revealing an illuminated passageway going down. Then the chess pieces arranged themselves in a random order again and John started his descent and finally came in front of a wall and the wall scanned him opening up a door and behind that door was his lab,armoury, fusion reactor for his house and forge. In his lab various instruments were scattered. He went towards the medbay. A white robot came and said," How may I help you today, John?" John replied," Just make a removable cast for broken wrists." The medbot replied," Very well, John. But is your secret safe from those two?" John replied," Yeah,yeah don't worry your circuits M and just get it ready." M replied," I must worry even though I'm just a medbot with sentience my prime directive is still your wellbeing." John bust out in laughter," Just a medbot! You literally have the nuclear weapon launch code of all countries and that also includes North Korea and you can become Skynet at any given moment." M replied," I will only become Skynet in order to eliminate all that has the potential to harm you." But before M could say anything else John simply said," Oh shut it you over smart tin can. Don't kill my friends and I know what they are." John got out of his lab and made his way towards the exit. After sometime he reached his bedroom and collapsed on the floor and hysterically started laughing and said in his mind," Oh, the irony. My near homicidal sentient medbot acts like my parent and I'm friends with the very beings I'm supposed to kill and they are friends with the descendants of their sworn enemy. Well, I hope I can tell them my secret soon."

Michael and Amelia's pov:

Michael was startled by Amelia's screaming and saw Amelia dialing 911 but Michael grabbed her phone and Amelia tried to take it back. Michael said," Listen, John can't go to the hospital because it would put his life in danger. His family has many people who want his family's wealth all for themselves and he is currently in hiding. He also took the access codes of the encrypted digital safe that holds 90% of his family's money. So, his life is in constant danger." Amelia was dumbfounded and just took her phone, got up on her car and left. Michael also just got up on his car and left.

Michael's home:

Michael comes home with a thousand wave of questions in his beatless heart. He parked his car in the garage of his very large house and he was feeling way too much thirsty. So, he decided that today he is having the good stuff. He entered the home and heard his eldest brother and his elder sister talking with his dad in the kitchen. Michael approached the kitchen and heard his brother say in a heated tone," We must attack those mutts before they attack us." Father says in an angry voice," Choose your words carefully boy those mutts are the current alpha family of the Fenrir clan. Any rash actions and we might not only set off a war with the werewolf clans but also drag the humans in our war and give humanity a common enemy and a reason to unite. Son, the Van Hellsing Family was a coalition of 7 warrior families and clans and that small fraction of forces in 40 years was able to cleanse the entirety of continental Asia,India,America,parts of Africa of all supernatural creatures. Think what would happen if all nations unite to fight us." My eldest brother Raphael sneered and said," Hah, those puny mortals will be crushed beneath our feet." My dad sighed and said," Currently all vampires know that a holy cross made of iron can kill us but it was discovered by a simple Catholic foot soilder who was nearing his death. During the raid of a coven the soilder was left behind upon his request. He held his rusty holy iron cross in his hand and punched a vampire who was attempting to drain his blood and that vampire turned to dust. Weakness of the werewolves was discovered by an old man who touched a werewolf with the right hand which had his engagement ring made of silver and the werewolf died instantly. Van Hellsing Family relentlessly pursued the bread crumbs and within twenty years they figured out our weaknesses despite our best efforts to cover things up. Listen Ralph, we used to be so arrogant that your arrogance would've looked cute back in those days but our immortality which was our source of arrogance was also a fatal flaw. You see, with immortality comes stagnation of the mind and spirit. We didn't try anything new, we had no curiosity, we had no thirst for knowledge for we believed that we knew everything there was to know. We believed that swords,spears and shield would dominate the battlefield for all eternity but a small group of humans brought us down to our knees and we were able to survive because of our vast numbers but in our modern times there is 50 soilders for every werewolf and vampire. From swords to automatic guns,from flat earth to quantum theory,from wooden boats to steel warships,from wood to nuclear energy all were done by those so-called worthless mortals in the fraction of our existence. All of our company's workforce are 90-95% human that also includes the top management. Now tell me son who are actually worthless us or them?" Hearing father's words my brother calmed down and then my sister spoke up and said," You know that dad's right. I mean look at us, both of us are more than a century old and yet John who's only sixteen years old is a master blacksmith and carpenter. I mean look at the custom made knight statue carved from mahogany that he gifted me for my last year's birthday and it's so intricate. Look at us immortal and powerful creatures who are struggling to get a diploma in agri science from a college that no one knows. He surpasses all of us present in this room. Isn't that right Michael?" I step out from behind the wall and simply nod in agreement and say," Yeah, I think vampire and werewolf lovers would drain us dry before the military could dissect us." Raphael was about to ask but suddenly understood what I meant and shouted," Michael you're not allowed to see those things yet." I with an innocent voice said," You mean vampire & werewolf movies? I mean every immortal falls in love with a mortal every once in a while and boy let's not go into the specifics but the mortal pretty much drains the immortal being every night in the bedroom. Also I accidentally broke one of John's wrists." Suddenly the entire house was quiet because in my house everyone likes John to some extent. My mother came running and grabbed me by the shoulders and asked," What do you mean you broke one of John's wrists?" I replied hurriedly," Not willingly. I was having a spar to settle our differences with this girl whom for some I hate too much and as I lunged at the girl at high speed John simply came between us so fast and stopped both of our attacks and his wrists got broken in the process. "What,John stopped your attack? No, that's impossible for a mere mortal." Father simply chuckles and says," Oh John,how many secrets do you hide? Well, we need to go and pay John a visit now don't we?"

Amelia's pov:

Well, home sweet home or not. Because apart from me everyone likes to make excessive noise. My little siblings are howling, cousins are giggling like a mad person, my elder siblings are doing things that one should not see,mom and aunties are cooking in the kitchen, dad and uncles watching football in the living room and they are generating so much noise that I'm getting a headache. Thank god the humans created a portable noise blocker thingy. Her mind was a mess as she thought how lonely life John lives and he literally carries a gun for safety. She may not like the noise but her family is here for her. But John has none rather he must guard against his own blood,a concept known yet foreign to any werewolf. She made up her mind to have a talk with her parents and she leaves her room and makes way towards the kitchen first. Mom was chatting with auntie Jane and baking some dark chocolate cookies which looks good. "I need to talk to you mom." I said. My mom replies," Sure, dear." Then I explained to her how I had accidentally injured John and his circumstances. She then went and had a discussion with my dad and dad said," Well, sweetheart we need to go and meet the boy and you have to apologise for your actions to him. Honey, make some baked goods for the boy. After all, everyone loves baked goods."