Zhan and I looked at Mira expectantly and waited patiently for her to start telling us everything she knows. She took a sip of water, smiled and to Oleg, he put a blanket around her body. "Well, then I want to start with a story that I'm sure you both know very well." She said in a slightly hoarse voice.

"Okay." Replied Zhan and I at the same time. Zhan put his arms around me, pulled me closer to him and kissed my neck before resting his chin on my shoulder.

"Once upon a time, a little white wolf about 4 or 5 years old was allowed to accompany his grandfather on a nighttime patrol in the forest for the very first time. He was excited and jumped around wildly. His white fur was shining in the light of the stars and he was having a great time, until he noticed an unbelievably awful stench. That of a vampire! The little white wolf was startled when the vampire emerged from his hiding place and stood before him. His appearance and his stench frightened the little white wolf and so he hid behind his grandfather. The big powerful pack leader with his silver fur. And because the little white wolf couldn't stand the stench of the vampire anymore, he dug a little hole in the forest ground and stuck his nose in it so hard until he couldn't breathe anymore. Finally, he pressed his nose firmly into his grandfather's fur until he began to fight with the vampire and the vampire was killed. The following night, the little white wolf refrained from another nightly patrol with his grandfather and instead stood at his bedroom window looking up at the starry sky. He saw a shooting star and wished that he could meet a lovely cute vampire, who smelled entirely of red roses, and that they would love each other entirely."

Mira smiled and took another sip of water. Then she continued speaking. "A short time later, not far away, quite unexpectedly, a little boy was born who smelled faintly of roses. But the little dear boy did not have it easy. His parents gave him neither attention nor love and his big brother was his only caregiver. He always felt lonely and alone. Yet he always longed for love and attention. But even when he found a friend who was always by his side, he felt a longing inside him that he could not explain. The boy grew up and finally had only his best friend by his side, after his big brother had also turned away from him for his own career. The longing in him grew more and more with each passing year. He wanted to love and be loved, but there was no one but his best friend. And as the years went by, the boy lost faith in love when all he saw were its dark sides and ends. His family was broken and left him alone. He slowly grew up and began to confuse his longing for love, with the longing for physical pleasure. And that made him want to meet someone to pursue those physical pleasures. But this someone had other plans and attacked the dear boy. He turned the cute dear young man into a creature of the night. A bloodsucking vampire. And the young man now felt even more lonely than before. Now that he was no longer human and he knew no other vampires, he was all alone. True, his best friend was still by his side, but he had long known that no matter how hard he tried, he could not fill the hole in his heart. The dear cute young vampire was recovering from his new stroke of fate, but now even more so didn't believe in love."

"True." I said softly.

Mira drank another sip of water, looked at both of us with a bright smile, and continued talking: "The cute dear young vampire had given up on ever being able to satisfy his undefined longing inside him, when he met a handsome man, who was not just a handsome man, but a werewolf as well. The two were immediately attracted to each other and spent the night together. And without knowing it, they were already mating in the process. A simple mating between a vampire and a werewolf, without any rituals. But although the young vampire felt how much he was attracted to the wolf, he wanted to ignore it and told himself that he only wanted to spend this one night with him. But when the wolf wasn't with him, he couldn't stop thinking about him and longing for him. And when the two of them met again, the vampire was relieved and even happy. Even if he could not admit it. With the faithful loving wolf at his side, he felt strong enough to climb out of the deep abyss the young vampire had been in since childhood. Piece by piece, he climbed higher and higher from the bottom of the abyss, where the wolf waited patiently for him and held out his hand when he finally made it to the top. And for the first time the young cute vampire felt not only what it means to love, but also to be loved. And for the first time in his life, he didn't feel lonely and alone."

"So I only exist because Zhan wished it when he was a little wolf?" I asked after Mira didn't say anything else.

"No, of course you don't. Your meeting was fated. It was just Zhan's wishes of how the vampire should be were transferred to you. You are kind and cute and you smell like Zhan's favorite flowers, the red roses. Moreover, you love each other and want to stay together. You have become just as Zhan had always wanted. And that too, so that you two can come together for sure and fulfill your destiny." Replied Mira.

"And what destiny is that?" Asked Zhan.

Oleg smiled at Mira and said, "Your destiny is to keep the peace between the werewolves and vampires. You are already mated, even if you didn't know it. For the mating of vampires and werewolves, there are no special rituals. Because actually such a mating does not occur. So it was enough that you spent one night together."

"But how is that enough?" I asked.

"You're dying to know how Zhan can stay by your side forever. I know. And I want to tell you too, because that's easy too. But also dangerous. But before that, I want to tell you about Oleg and me." Explained Mira.

"Um, okay." I replied.

"Oleg and I were born into a time when the war between vampires and werewolves still existed. We were raised to fight each other and trained to do so. At that time no one knew the legend of the white wolf and the vampire. We were nothing special to everyone else. And when I was supposed to attend a fight for the first time, I was prepared to meet a hideously disfigured vampire with a terrible stench. But instead I met Oleg, who smelled of dahlias and didn't look at all horrible. He had the mission to kill the white she-wolf, the daughter of the pack leader. But when he stood in front of me, he just stared at me and suddenly went down on his knees in front of me. He swore to me that he would never hurt me and would always stay by my side. At first I was against it, after all Oleg was a vampire and I was a werewolf. But from the first time we met, I longed for him and began to fall in love with him. We kept our relationship a secret until we got our hands on a book that had the legend of the white wolf and the vampire in it. We sought out the author of the book and he explained to us that it was our destiny as a couple to ensure peace between vampires and werewolves. We finally approached our families and after some back and forth, they finally gave in and allowed us to mate. This was done quite officially in the presence of several werewolf packs and vampire clans and a peace treaty was negotiated. As long as I would be alive and by Oleg's side, there would never be another war between our two species. But I had not been destined to live as long as a vampire. So Oleg and I searched for a solution. In the process, we met an old fortune teller who told us how I could live as long as Oleg lived."

"And?" Zhan and I asked impatiently.

Oleg replied, "He told us that a vampire cannot turn a wolf. But he can make him immortal. However, this is dangerous. Because the wolf and the vampire have to bite each other and the wolf has to drink from the vampire's blood. But the dangerous thing is that the werewolf could kill the vampire in the process. One must not forget that werewolves were created to kill vampires. And they do that by biting them to death. But now the werewolf should bite the vampire and drink from his blood while the vampire bites him. The werewolf feels pain when bitten and quickly loses control. So he could with one powerful bite, kill the vampire."

"Mhhh, so normally a vampire can't drink from a werewolf without a problem?" I asked.

"No. It would awaken the werewolf's instincts and he might kill the vampire in the process." Said Mira.

"But I drink from Zhan regularly and he hasn't even gone crazy in the process." I told.

Mira and Oleg looked at each other confused and didn't believe us. So Zhan held his arm out to me and I bit his wrist and drank from his blood. And they both saw that Zhan didn't mind. "This is really amazing." Mira said, and Oleg nodded his head vigorously.

Oleg then wanted me to transform. But since I had never transformed before, I didn't know how to do it. So Oleg explained it to me. However, I was afraid to try it because I didn't want to look horribly disfigured. I didn't want Zhan to see me as an ugly vampire. But when Zhan promised to love me anyway, I agreed and tried.

For minutes I tried to turn, but it did not work. But when Oleg suddenly transformed and tried to pounce on Zhan, I felt myself transforming. But I was obviously not as they expected. Zhan looked at me with wide eyes and really beamed. "You are a beautiful vampire." He said and kissed me.

"This is the first time I've seen something like this." Said Oleg in amazement. Mira confirmed that she had never seen a vampire like me before either.

Mira finally handed me a mirror and I looked at myself. My face was not cruelly disfigured. I looked the same as always, only more glowing. My hair was as white as Zhan's fur, while my eyes shone in a crystal blue where little stars seemed to twinkle. "I look like..." I began in amazement.

"Like the vampire I dreamed of and wished for when I was a little boy. Exactly the same." Said Zhan enthusiastically.

Somehow I didn't think I looked like a vampire. More like an elf or something. But somehow I also found exactly that really great. Because I have nothing, apart from the fangs, in common with those horrible vampires. And not even Oleg and Mira have ever seen a vampire like me.

"I've lived so long now that I don't even know how long that even is. And in that time, I've seen so many vampires. But never did I see a vampire as special as you." Wondered Oleg.

Zhan kissed my cheek and looked at me all in love. "Yibo has always been very special. And to show how special he is, it's not enough that he smells like red roses, he also has to look like an angel. Beautiful, with cold soft cheeks, blue eyes, white hair and his white skin. All that's missing now are the wings."

"I love you ZhanZhan." I said with a grin.

"And I love you my cute little vampire. And that will never change." Replied Zhan Happily and with eyes full of love for me.

"You two were made for each other and I don't want to spoil this moment. But we should clarify a few important things there. Namely, how you can keep peace between our two species. Now that Oleg and I are dying, the peace treaty will not last long. So as our successors, you must renew the old peace treaty." Explained Mira.

"And how do we do that?" I asked.

Oleg handed us a very old document. The peace treaty from that time! Oleg told us that Zhan and I had to sign it. Supposedly this would be enough and would serve as an extension of the contract. Was it really going to be that simple?

Mira handed us a writing feather and a small barrel of ink, into which we had to put 3 drops of our blood each. Then we had to write our names on the old document. And as soon as we had done that, our signatures glowed brightly and were sealed on the paper. Did this have something to do with magic?

"That was all you had to do. Soon everyone will know that the peace treaty will continue and you will be the new peace bearers." Said Mira.

"Exactly. Now we can finally lie back and die in peace. We've lived so long that we're just tired." Said Oleg.

But Mira had something else she wanted to tell us. Another legend that could hit us: "In the book we read back then about our legend, there was also something about the legend of you two. And according to it, you will even have offspring someday."

"Offspring? How now? By adoption?" I asked. We are both men, how could Zhan and I have offspring.

"No. You will become the first hybrid child created from a vampire and a werewolf. According to legend, one day the vampire will find out that he has inside him the greatest proof of his love and that of the wolf. A very special offspring." Explained Mira.

"Um, yeah. So I don't know what to say about that. We're both men. How is that going to work?" I asked her.

"I don't know that either. But I think this legend could be true. Because we have never seen such a special vampire like you before. You are unique! And maybe that's why it's possible that you can carry a child someday." Mira replied.

Zhan said nothing. It seemed to me that he liked the idea of having children with me.

Since Mira and Oleg now looked even more tired and weaker than two hours earlier when Zhan and I entered their house, we decided to say goodbye for the time being. We still had many unanswered questions, and told them we would come back to them later.

We returned to our car and talked for quite a while about the events of that night and what we heard before we went to sleep. And 10 hours later, when we went back to Mira and Oleg's house, they were gone. Nothing remained of them but a pile of ashes and dust.

On the table in the living room, next to the peace treaty, there was a small note that said: "Thank you for finally coming. Now we can finally rest in peace. Don't worry about your future and just love each other. Mira and Oleg."

We sat in silence for quite a while before putting the ashes and dust in a box and burying them together outside in the woods. We put flowers on the grave that we found at the edge of the forest and wrote on a stone, "Here rest in eternal peace, Mira and Oleg."

Afterwards, we sat in their little house and decided to make this special mating. Zhan and I would bite each other at the same time, drink blood from each other, and thus become an Immortal Couple.

We undressed each other, then I sat wide-legged on Zhan's lap. We kissed each other passionately and as Zhan penetrated me and we had sex, we quietly counted down from three to zero and then bit each other's throats. I barely felt Zhan's bite. But I felt him drinking from my blood as I drank his.

The passion for each other had completely gripped us. We forgot everything around us until we finished it. I lay on top of Zhan and we both breathed heavily. Nothing felt different. We were still ourselves. Zhan was also saying that. But something had changed. Because on our necks, where we bit each other, a very special mark appeared. It's a wolf's head that looks like a tattoo. And we both have it. Quite obviously and in exactly the same place!