After around an hour of drifting, the wolf came up to a shore and dragged him out of the water. He looked at the sword stuck in Tyson's back and hesitated. Blood was still trickling from the sword. The wolf whimpered in defeat when he turned to look behind himself and growled at the approaching silhouette. It was a lumberjack with a similar wolf. The guy had a brown beard and a bear claw scar across his his right eye. He saw the body and understood. He tried approaching but TJ was not going to allow that. That is when his wolf reminded him he still had his axe on him by howling at it. He spotted it and placed it on the ground and crept up to Tyson. TJ was not sure about letting someone approach his saviour's body but he had no choice. TJ fell to the ground in exhaustion and he too passed out. The lumberjack knew what was to be done.
(Two days later)
Tyson drearily woke up to find himself in a hut. He was covered in bandages and in a bed he had no recollection ever getting to. As he pondered his situation, the door slowly opened to reveal a little girl with a pail of water. She noticed that Tyson had finally woken up from his slumber and greeted him." Hi there, my name is Bell. What's your name?" she asked.
" Tyson," he answered," where am I, Bell?"
" Oh, I guess you don't know where you are right now since my father brought you in when you were passed out. Welcome to Briar village. Home of the biggest briar patch in all of Centurion kingdom," she answered.
Tyson knew of this village since it was the one his mother left for him in her name. He decided not to speak about his full identity and asked where the girl's father went. She said that her father was outside chopping wood. So Tyson decided to get up and go thank his savior. He walked out of the hut and there stood a man who was six feet tall with scars like a maze and a beard that made look almost grizzly. Bell ran past Tyson saying," Daddy! Daddy! Look, he finally woke up."
" Hi there, thank you for saving my life. I owe you my life," said Tyson.
" Don't worry about it. I was just doing a service so your family wouldn't kill us vampire," he said as he picked up his daughter," Now rest up. I'm sure your folks will come looking for you."
" No they won't," Tyson said in a dejected tone.
" What was that? I didn't quite hear you?" he said.
" I have been excommunicated from my family because the believe I'm too weak to love up to their name. I don't even know what to do?" Tyson admitted.
" So your telling me you are nothing more than a tossed out bag of flesh," he said and Tyson nodded," huh, now you are ofno use to me. I was hoping to use the reward I would get for returning you to heal my wife but it seems that is impossible."
" What's wrong with your wife if I may ask you?" Tyson asked.
" My wife was afflicted by a strange disease that no one in the village knew about and it seems she is on the verge of dying," he said with a longing look in his eye.
" May I take a look at her. I read up on medicine and potions back in the mansion so I know a great deal of diseases and their cures," Tyson said.
" If you think you can, then please," he said with a sort of relief in his voice.
Bell smiled as she jumped off her father's arms and dragged Tyson to another house. This one was bigger but still had a similar thatch to the hut. A mixture of straw and tall grass. Bell pulled him to what locked like the bedroom where there lay a woman with dark circles under her eyers. She was having trouble breathing and was sweating up a fountain. Tyson walked up to her bedside and checked her pulse, followed by temperature and finally her tongue. He was sure of what it was but it was not enough proof. As he was thinking, he found himself in his mental mindscape where he tended to go to to review his past readings and results. In there, he found his mother reading a fairy tail she used to read to him. He called out to her and she greeted him." Mother, I need your help to save this woman," Tyson asked.
His mother laughed and said," Why do you need my help? You know what the disease is. It is as you have figured this entire time."
" But if it is then it has no cure," he said in pain.
" To vampires it has no cure since they can't handle high amounts of mana. But to a human, all one has to do is draw out the excess mana from the victim's body and they will be saved," she said.
" But how am I supposed to do that. I don't know how to draw mana from people yet," Tyson admitted.
" Yet you can still differentiate between blood and mana right my son," she said as she looked at his eyes hoping he would connect the dots.
Tyson understood what he had to do and simply thanked her with a hug. He left his mindscape and came to. He said," I know of how to cure her."
" You really do? Then please tell us," he asked.
" I can perform an act to draw out what is causing her pain and anguish but I need you to trust me and see this through to the end to strike me if I lose it. I also need Bell to leave the room until I finish," Tyson demanded.
The lumberjack only had to look at him to know what he was going to do. He asked Bell to wait outside patiently and locked her out of the room. He then faced Tyson and told him he may begin. Tyson tossed him his heirloom, the rosary and said," I will use my fangs to draw out what is causing this and I need you to stop me the second you see me lose myself. Use that and I should stop. My fangs won't enter her soft skin so don't worry about her turning into a vampire. Now, are you ready?"
He nodded with confidence. Tyson put his fangs in position and glowing lights were seen entering his fangs one after the other. He started to glow a deep red as the process increased. Things were looking good as the victim began to look better. Then Tyson's eyes turned scarlet as he pulled out immediately. He stood on the side of the bed breathing heavily. It was clear to the lumberjack, Tyson had lost his HUMANITY.