Josh followed alongside the vampire prostitute scouting out the location for more signs. The vampire lead Josh to a nearby club he never heard about.
As Josh found the location of the vampire den he immediately began to act nervous slightly holding her hands tighter. As the vampire looked up him she asked "what's wrong is something bothering you"
Josh carefully said 'I'm sorry I'm just not too keen on going to such a lively place. Why don't we just go to my place instead' the confession put a smile on her face, she tried to hide her intentions by asking "aren't you worried that someone might come over."
He could easily tell that she was probeing for any possible witnesses, making his way close to his base he tried to get closer to her by putting his arm around her shoulder. Making his way closer to the base he subtly looked around for any possible witness before looking for a quiet ally with no cameras, After seeing a spot a few blocks away he calmly kept walking and talking like nothing was wrong.
After making it to the alley he quickly made a turn into the alley saying'let's take a shortcut' guiding her in she easily followed afterall she was usually the predator what did she have to worry about he was using this fact for his benefit. Making it into the alley he swiftly snapped her neck instantly killing her for a while, he used her incapacitated state to easily pick her up and take her to the base.
Josh made sure to cover her eyes and tie her in chains mostly to keep her contained, he easily swiped everything the lady had in her purse. The purse had several hidden pockets with cash, jewelry, and other mialanious things like fake id's, she had well over 3000$ in cash well over what he could get robbing criminals afterall they have many lifetimes to earn something much less so now that they don't eat any human food.
Three thousand dollars was decent for start up capital definitely being enough for a microscope and some more chains. Being able to catch more vampires for study would be of great help to catalog what I can find out about a bunc ho the vampire clans. 'I know from the comics that there are dozens of vampire clans each with different powers and abilities each typically staying in their own places with their own clans. So the only people that will know the vampires in New York it'll be the vampires in New York'
While the vampire he captured was still dead he immediately cut her palm to gather blood for research. Vampires in marvel differ in that vampires are made when a vampires saliva mixes with blood creating a liquid named iqhor, the transformation usually takes up to three days with signs of the transformation occurring within a couple of hours. Vampires in marvel differ based on the clan but we're are all killed by sunlight until blood hunt where after the true death of varne vampires lost their weakness to the sun with there only a few exceptions like blade.
Josh used a sterile dropper to collect the vampires enzyme, it was extremely easy with no resistance. After collecting the sample he easily stored it for safekeeping before leaving to get more chains and anything he might need.
Making his way to the nearest hardware store he saw that it was already closed for the night it was close to 9 at night, being that he was already outside he went to hopefully grab another sample to start testing on as he made his way to a hidden location he immediately transformed into his monstrous lizard form before climbing to the roof.
Josh stalked the streets silently and quickly sniffing out any suspicious sents nearby. It wasn't as hard as he thought looking for another vampire as they can only come out at night after easily finding a lone vampire he easily managed to quickly snap their necks.
Time skip
After making his way back to his base with the new vampire he was easily able notice that the vampire night walker was awake pretending to be asleep. After
Tying up the new vampire with some of his remaining chains he tied his eyes.
After collecting a sample of blood and saliva from the newly captured vampire he made his way over to the first vampire he captured he immediately questioned 'what clan are you apart of?'
The vampire immediately caved "I'm sorry please don't kill me, I'm just apart of a side branch under Decon Frost I don't even have enough for a Vassal of my own"
Josh was immediately peaked by the name decon frost he definitely remembered that name he was the main villain of the first movie he wanted to be granted the power of the blood god through a ritual sacrificing 12 pure blood vampires. Pure blood vampires are rare vampires who were born vampires from vampire parents, it's extremely difficult for vampires to conceive children but the ones that are born are usually stronger than normal vampires but age extrely slowly.
Just thinking about someone like decon frost having that kind of power would be a definite waste for it to go to someone like him. Finding the location of the temple would be difficult but the temple breaks after he used it so he'd have to be the first one to get it. After questioning her about everything he wanted to know mostly about decon frost and the vampires In New York he decided that he had everything he needed out of her.
After thinking of what would be the best experiment to do with vampires the first thing that came to mind were the spiders he had on hand since most of the subjects died because of the overwhelming stress on the body and vampires are mostly immortal it was just asking to happen.
Thinking about what the experiment would entail Josh had decided to give the vampire woman a dose of the spider venom from the second spider as it should be the least valuable spider venom that he currently has.
'If spider Todems could become vampire's it should also work the other way around since vampire's are made with magic they should also be susceptible to it as well and with the overall better fitness of the vampire's they should likely survive the bite'
Thinking about all of the content of each of the spiders so far and what each were designed to do the second one definitelyseems like the worst of the bunch leaving everything else for another time He cleaned up everything in his
Tsudo lab before taking a nap.
Timeskip 2 hours later
As he went to go check up on the vampire he immediately checked for her vitals she was doing fine so far and he could tell the process worked with the presence of the small strands of webbing being secreted from her finger tips. While looking into the changes her body's gone through he was curious about something if her current strain of vampirism is transferable.
After dealing with everything pertaining to the vampire he could possibly do without destroying his current project. He decided that it would be a good time to go through everything his second vampire had on him, while he had striped everything he had on him he still hasn't gone through it yet.
Looking through the man's wallet he saw a decent chunk of cash it was 1340$ alongside some credit cards and an Id. After putting everything to be burnt he made his way over to where he kept the third spider project the one about controlling others because while he was unsure if multiple spiders bites would work after being bit but that power would be what was most useful in the long term other than the one that presumably grants the powers of miles morales witch is definitely good in the short term.
Josh was a bit worried about how to deal with the vampires he was planning to catch but having the ability to control others would definitely help, while he's had no issues so far but having superheroes like spider man in the area would definitely make it inconvenient.
Seeing the success of his original theory that enhanced beings are more likely to survive the venom he grabbing the venom containing the third spiders venom to use on himself because being able to control others would definitely make his work easier. Not needing to rely heavily on bindings as they would be under his control.
As Josh sat on a nearby chair he couldn't help but feel nervous, while he likely won't get all of Spider-Man's cool powers untransformed but he could make due for now.
After injecting himself with the venom he was extremely nervous waiting for the pain he initially felt when he first transformed into the lizard, But as time passed and nothing happened he was a bit annoyed that nothing happened as he rose to stand up he was immediately hit with what he heard vertigo felt like.
It hit close to immediately after he stood up forcing I'm back into his chair. The vertigo immediately got worse as he slowly lost feeling in his body it was extremely worrying until he felt something strange, something new.
Laying on the ground originally feeling nothing he immediately noticed the change in how he felt his body it felt like he was kicked into third third person. After what felt like sinking immediately led to him passing out.
Time skip
As Josh awakened he found himself in what felt like a large room. The room was empty only illuminated by 4 fires in a triangle with the biggest and brightest fire being a vibrant and clear white fire with flames of green connected by what seems to be thin threads, making his way over to all the other fire. As Josh decided to look into the fire and saw something strange he saw himself.
Quickly looking around the room he took more notice of the color of the flames connecting to the center surrounding on his lest side there was a smallest fire it was a cyan flame alongside the bigger flame being green in color with the flame in the middle of the two being white.
Josh was pretty confused as fire is hot and the flames surrounding him weren't burning him in the slightest. Decideing that it was safe he placed his hand in the clear fire when a bunch of information flooded into his mind. The clear fire was his soul he could feel his soul it was strange seeing and feeling his own soul .
Having some clarity of the situation he quickly made his way over to each of the fires the blue placeing his hand on the smallest fire he learned that it was his inhuman gene, small and frail without the terigen mist his ability from the mist was to strengthen the abilitys of other people by granting them pieces of his soul,a it's likely a pretty rare ability in Atalan as not many abilities effect other abilities directly like his own.
He couldn't help but chuckle as he kept thinking of his ability as more handsome voldermort or that guy with the all seeing eyes from bleach it's an op ability as long as I get something useful from the deal.
Making his way to the next fire the white flame he immediately placed his hand inside the white flame as there were white flames all over his soul and they were probably coming from here. Placing his hand in the fire he could tell that this white fire is his x gene. his natural ability is passify, his body naturally calms everything in and around it.
He couldn't help but burst into laughter this is a bug Like ability expecaly in a place like marvel with all sorts of enhancements he couldn't help but get nostalgic it felt like playing Pokémon again. Thinking about Pokémon lead him to thinking back to the enhanced spider he couldn't find anything about the spider powers but the webs connecting the fires .
Making his way over to the remaining green fire he was a bit weary due to its large size it was the largest of the outer flames, leaving him a bit on edge as he placed his hand on the flame he immediately saw his lizard form af first it was the original small form as well as his mutanted form he couldn't help but feel like it was a library of himself he was getting excited wanting to test his mutant ability to see what kind of actual limitations there were.
Making his way over to where his soul was he immediately walked through into the fire awakening inside his base.