1 Chapter 1 : ORION

In an opening somewhere near a forest, a young boy of a mere 10 years was sitting beside a fire camp.

This boy's name was Orion. 

He was a boy with a small frame and not much muscle. The poor boy was always has been physically weak.

Or at least that used to be the case.

"Hey Red, are you excited about the meat today? It's been a long time since I caught a rabbit." Orion asked with a wide smile on his face. 

He looked at the brown dog, sitting beside him, panting like dogs usually do.

After hearing Orion's words, as the dog understood him, he barked happily.

"Me too boy. Need to eat a lot if we wanna grow stronger, remember that." Orion said and turned back to the food he was cooking.

It's been a long time since Orion has come to this world.

Yes, Orion is not from this time. Or maybe not from this world, entirely.

Before this, he was a normal Orphan in the 21st century.

As long as he remember he was an orphan, no matter which time he was talking about.

Many years ago he had an accident. 

Courtesy of our all-time favourite Truck Kun.

(The De facto reason for people dying and getting reincarnated into another world.)

And he ended up coming to this world. Merging with this child's body.

"Okay, this is almost done. Red you go and play. I will Practice a little more..." Said Orion and got up, walked a little further from the campfire and sat down cross-legged.

Taking an Indian sitting posture he was ready to enter into meditation state, but stopped!.

"And remember, if you touch the pot, then I will make you eat those green herbs for the next month," Orion said and smiled.

"Wooff".

Came the reply from his furry friend and Orion understood that the message had been sent across clearly.

Orion then took a deep breath and with a little reluctance, finally started meditation.

Soon, the air around him started to change. It was hard to notice but slowly the air was condensing around Orion.

The heat in his body started to rise, and so his breathing started to become heavy.

This was a special exercise which he discovered through a pendant he always had in his possession.

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-5 years ago-

Orion found himself stuck into a 5-year-old boy's body. It was 1985, and he was somewhere in Britain.

'Thank goodness I know English'. He could not help but mutter to himself.

But that was not the problem, the real problem was the people who were leaving.

The Orphanage was run by Ms and Mrs Lawrence.

Not the best kind of people out there.

Constant beating, abuse and much more. 

Maybe a child can take all of this but Orion was 16 years old when he died. 

Big enough that he knows when it's the right time to stand up and demand his rights.

Well, Rights were not very clear at this time in Britain's history.

He took the suffering as long as he could but after just 3 months he had enough.

The last straw was to the night when Mrs Lawrence, kicked him out of the Orphanage because he dared to talk back.

Poor Orion had to spend his entire night out. It was chilly but not very dangerous. 

"Dear God, whenever I say to you, that there is nothing worse can happen than this.

Please don't take that as a challenge," Orion said.

He was looking up at the beautiful Moon in front of him.

But then suddenly he felt a vibration around his neck.

He then took out an equally beautiful-looking pendant from around his neck.

That pendant had a hexagonal design with a precious-looking blue gem in the middle. 

Orion has tried to open it but never could.

This was the only thing, he had from his childhood.

'Why are you shinning all of a sudden, is my system about to activate? Finally,' He could not help but wonder.

This was the first time that this had happened to the Pendant.

He then noticed something which made him double-check what he was looking at.

He saw, writing appearing on the pendant.

Narrowing his eyes he put the pendant right in front of the Moon Light to read what is written there.

Surprisingly, the writing intensified under the Moonlight.

'What is this, I have never seen this language before,' Orion could not help but mutter.

The writing almost looked like some ancient and long-forgotten script.

But then he noticed the writing started to shine.

He was becoming more interested in the stone now.

Like it's coming to life, communicating with him.

Then something which Orion himself could not describe correctly happened.

There was some sort of ethereal energy shot out from the pendant and entered his body.

The next moment, he found himself waking up, the next morning in the exact place we were sitting before.

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-Current time, 1991-

"Ha, hff afff," Strong breathing came from Orion.

He entered into meditation for only 10 minutes and this took everything, out of him.

'Back then, when that energy entered into me. I learned about a special meditation technique. 

He had wondered this for a long time. 

The technique itself is very demanding. And besides the technique slowly making his body stronger, he doesn't know anything about it.

Orion looked at his shaking hands. 

"This thing takes away all of my stamina and left me hungry as f*ck. 

But at least I am seeing a little development," Orion said with a little smile.

At first, it was fairly hard to perform this technique. Like, Tanjiro had a problem mastering Sun Breathing.

But as he practised more, Orion started to perform the technique for a longer time. 

It still takes Extreme Will Power and Mental Fortitude. But, at least he is seeing improvement.

His once-weak body is now strong enough to hunt down deer and Rabbits.

His senses, reaction time and mental capacity are better than any 10-year-old has the right to be.

But above all, there is a mysterious power inside of him now. Something, he has tried to master all this time but could not bring out.

As if, something has clogged the energy from coming out.

He secretly suspects that it's the Force from Star Wars.

So, after knowing that he has this kind of power and technique, he runs away from the Orphanage, refusing to be a punching bag for both Mr and Mrs Lawrence any longer.

And since then he has been wandering around and practicing his meditation technique.

"Red, come on boy, the meal is ready," Orion shouted. 

Already salivating over the cooked rabbit meat.

He has been living in this forest for the last 2 years now.

His past life experience came very handy, and even though he could not get any work, thanks to his age, he decided to hunt for himself and spend his time in the forest.

"Red, where are you," he shouted again.

But again no reply came.

Getting a little worried about his only friend. He took his knife and a fire touch to look after Red.

"RED!!!". 

"RED....where are you!!???".

But no reply came.

"I might really put some green leaves on his diet after this," Orion joked to himself and kept looking around.

"Swoosh".

He then heard a sound and turned around.

Orion quickly pushes his fire touch upwards to see what's there.

It was not exactly night but the remaining sunlight was not enough to navigate in this deep forest.

For some reason, Orion was having a bad feeling about this. 

"Who's there...," Orion asked.

No reply again.

'Could it be a snake, I found a few of them around,' Orion thought and relaxed his tense nerves a little.

"Swoosh." Again the sound came but this was from behind him.

Turning around, he saw nothing again.

Even his pendant started to shake.

Orion with his black long hair and almost sparkling blue eyes was now getting really tense.

"Okay, this shit is no longer PG-13," Orion muttered.

"RED!!!! Where the F*ck are You," Orion should and the next moment.

"WOFFF!!!..." 

A sound came and instantly Orion jumped from his place, Startled by the sudden bark. Pushing his fire touch towards the sound and taking out his knife.

But the next second he signed in relief.

"Shit Red, you almost gave me a heart attack," Orion said with an annoyed looked.

'Yup, it's final now, you sir are not getting meat for a long time,' He thought and a little satisfied smile came to him, comforting his tense nerves.

He was about to go near his friend and give him a hard pat for the scare but then in front of his eyes, something tackled Red.

His eyes widen to the extreme and once again his entire body tense up.

"What!!!!, who are you..." Orion shouted but no reply came.

But there were sounds. Animilistic sounds. And his friend's howlings.

"Hey, you leave RED alone," Orion shouted and rushed up.

He knew, at least by the shadow that it was a human and not an animal.

Orion rushed up and brought his fire touch closer to the figure who was tackling Red.

"I said, leave him alone," Orion shouted and hit the figure with the fire touch.

The humanoid figure then screams, but then backhanded Orion.

Almost sending him flying towards a tree. It was a heavy blow, Orion was not expecting this much physical power from one simple backhand swing from this man.

"Urgkk". Orion groaned in pain, as blood was already in his mouth.

'That definitely some broken rips there..,' he could not help but curse.

"That thing can't be a human," Orion was already out of breath, thanks to his practice of the mysterious training.

Then he suddenly thought about that power.

"Man, if there is the right time for a random power-up, then this is most definitely that time.

Come on, whatever system I got. Help me out here a little bit." Orion said and concentrated.

Trying to gather power in his body.

Well, he was already tired out because of his earlier practice, and now this. 

The only thing he got was more pain.

He could also hear Red's groaning in pain.

"F*ck, hurry up,". Orion became anxious after this.

Red is very important to him. Not only Red is his only friend but he is also his partner. He's not gonna let anything happen to Red.

He gathered as much as power he could and then rushed back to the figure.

The only effect, right now that strange technique had on him was to improve his physical power.

But it was enough to forget about his pain for a little while and save Red.

Only Red was on his mind right now.

The man, thanks to the fire touch, finally came under a little light for Orion to see his face.

Orion who was rushing towards the man immediately stopped.

"What the!!," Orion could not help but say, already losing his focus.

He saw a horribly pale face with red eyes and big fangs on that man's face.

"VAMPIRE!!!."

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