"Joshua!!" The child's scream rent the cool night are as she watched her older brother be yanked up into thin air. Staring upwards she wacthed as his young body was dragged over the top of the five story building. Salty wet tears slid down her cheeks as she ran to the fire escape, her tiny hands gripping the slightly wet steel as she pushed herself up the metal steps.
One minute her and her brother had been walking down the small, rubbish littered alleyway towards the small rented apartment they lived in with their mother, and the next Joshua had been yanked into the air. She hadnt even seen anyone grab him.
"Joshua!!" She screamed again as she climbed higher and higher, taking each of the metal steps one at a time with her small spindle legs. Rain began to dribble from the dark clouds overhead, making her steps even slipperior then they were. It was a mission for her tiny body just to make it three flights up. She still had two to go. Her heart pounding agianst her chest cavity, beating out a rythyum of terror and helplessness as she moved, the sound of her brothers screams now spuring her own. She had never heard him scream like that before. It made her pause on the last ladder of steps.
What if the thing that had gotten Joshua came after her? More tears slid down her cheeks, sobs wracking her tiny body. It was a monster, she knew it had to be one of the monsters her mother had read to her about. The ones that lived under the bed and got you when you least expected it. Placing her sneakered foot on the last step of the ladder she grip the railings and starred up, he rain mingling with her tears. She had to save her brother, he was the only one who could protect her and her mother.
Another scream split the air. It echoed around the alleyway making the girl cringe from the sound. Sobbing she pulled back from the stairs and slid back to the corner of the fire escape. Crumpling to the gratted floor she pulled her knees up against her chest and wrapped her slender arms around them, sobbing into her knees. If she went up their the monster would get her. She couldn't save Joshua, he was supposed to save her.
"Joshua." She whispered pittifully into her legs. Suddenly the screaming stopped. She could hear nothing but the sounds of the city and the rain pelting the escape. Closing her eyes she let the tears trickle down her face, pooling against her alreayd soaked clothing her forhead pressed had agianst her knees. What had the monster done to her brother? Was Joshua dead?
A beastual snarl shuddered through the air as the little girl huddled in terror at the base of the fire excape. Hearing the terrifying sound she opened her eyes and looked up through her wet hair. It was one of the mosters that her mother had told her about! The ones with the sharp teeth and the funny looking eyes. The ones that looked like everyone else but you never saw them when the sun was up. They were the monsters that made the night so scary! Whimpering she tried to push herself futher against the corner not wanting the monster to see her.
"Oh little Princess, where are you?" Hearing the voice of the monster call down to her she tried to keep the scream from escaping her throat. Scrunching her eyes tightly closed she raised her hands and clamped them over her eyes, trying to block out absolutely everything. It wasnt true. This was all a bad dream. Her mother would be walking into her room any minute now and shaking her awake. Her brother would be alseep in his room and there would be no monster. No rain...no scary voice!
"There you are Princess." Screaming the little girl kept her eyes shut not wanting to look at the monster, her nails digging into the side of her face keeping her eyes covered, "How about we go for a little trip? Would you like that?"
"How about you trip on this!" Hearing the second voice the girl opened her eyes to see the monster hovering over her, exlpoding into a fireworks display of yellow lights and gold flashes. Screaming once again the girl covered her face. For several minutes everything was quiet. Again all she could hear was the sound of the city coming to life below her, the rain pouding agianst the sides and roof of the building. Shivering she kept her hands over her ears, muffling the sound of the world around her. It was all background noise to her, her heart beat pounding through her was the only tihng she could hear properly.
Then she felt the vibrations of someone walking up the fire escape. It shuddered under the steady impact, rocking back and forth. Was there another monster? Was he coming to get her too? Feeling the touch of a hand upon her shoulder, she screamed and lashed out, kicking her legs and punching her hands at the monster.
"Hey, hey! It's ok, we're here to help you!" The man said, his voice soothing yet forceful. "You're one of them! A monster!" She screamed trying to inflict as much damage as she possibly could with her tiny legs and arms, "My mama told me about you! You killed my brother!!!"
"It's alright! We're here to save you, the monster is dead, we killed him. Honey settle down, it's alright." Hearing the soothing words and feeling the restraining hands upon her upper arms she stopped kicking and looked up in a young man's face. He didnt look like a monster. But none of them do. He looked young, but older then her brother. His hair was short and spiky and he had a beard. Her dad had a beard.
"Really? You're here to save me?" She asked softly, her voice wavering.
"Yes, really." He said, smiling softly. Looking over his shoulder she saw a woman, a pretty woman, smiling softly and looking around herself.
"Come one sweetie, lets get you out of the rain." Nodding she wrapped her arms around his shoulders and let him slowly carry her down the fire escape. Looking over his shoulder and up to the roof of the building.
"Is Joshua coming back?" She asked softly
"No sweetheart, he's not." The man said.
Nodding her head she wrapped her legs around his waist, "I didnt think so."
Ten years ago Blade and the Night Stalkers wage a battle against the greatest vampyre to live. Dracula. Or Drake as we came to call him. The vampires brought him back from the six thousand year sleep he had placed himself into, hoping to create a race of Daywalker Vampyres. Their plans for world domination were slowly coming true. Blade could no longer work alone fighting the Vampyres, the humans were becoming to aware of what he was doing. Thus he teamed up with us, the Night Stalkers.
We faught long and hard, even developed a biological weapon called the 'Darystar' virus. Using the pure DNA from Drakes blood would have boosted the leathality of the virus. It would have destroyed all Vampyres within a five hundred yard radious of Drake. Many people died for this cause, including Abigal's father, Whistler. A loss that should not have happened.
We could have beaten the Vampyres once and for all, become the saviours of the world.
But we failed.
The Vampyres won.
And now we live in a world where Vampyres rule. Everyone knows who and what Vampyres are. But the world still needs saviours. The Night Stalkers are those saviours.