Author's notes: I don't usually input Author's notes into any of my work. I feel that they make the piece look messy and are, for the most part, unnecessary. However, I feel the need to put this story into context before you read it. Everything here is in a very rough draft form. The 'mission statement' for this piece is to get a story put together in as quick a time as possible. There will be no forward planning and no notes to help me. It is a case of just jumping and seeing where I land. Therefore, if you notice any plot holes, grammatical errors etc. please notify me. Also, if you would like to suggest where the plot could go then please do. It may help me push the idea in a different direction than I am expecting and some reader participation could be fun, I suppose. Anyway, hopefully you will enjoy what you read.

VAMPIRE

PROLOGUE

"You turn your back for one second and everything changes. Isn't that right?"

"Always."

"So long, so long, so long... I've been waiting for this for too long. I'm not even sure why I want to do this any more..."

"You do not have to do anything. You can let me leave. You can have everything, anything that is here. We can keep this hunt going forever or we can end it here. You can let me leave."

"You're pathetic, you know that? I mean look at you! Just fucking look at yourself! Withering away in some dump that used to be so grand. You used to be a legend. You were the reason we were so powerful. You were the start; The reason we thirst for blood; The reason we are the way we are. You spread this power, this virus. Now just look at you! This hunt ended a long time ago. I realise that now. Any creature who tries to reason with their hunter instead of dying with dignity is not worth the hunt. Where's your honour? Where has it gone?"

"When you have been around for as long as I have, you realise that honour is not always the best option."

"So that's it is it? You just keep going? Keep living at any cost?"

"Always."

"You're nothing any more. Nothing."

"We must keep living. Just like we must take the lives of others to prolong our own. We must keep living. If we do not, then we truly are nothing. I have something. I have my life. I have my name. My name will live on forever whether you kill me or not. What exactly have you got?"

"Well... right now I've got a stake in my hand and you trapped. I need nothing more for the time being..."

"You cannot fill the void by killing me Edgar. You cannot go back to the way things were."

"No... no I can't. But I can end this chapter in my journey. I can finish this for good..."

"I'll still be there. In your head. I made you the way you are. I made all of you the way you are. You can never truly end me."

"I can try. And now is my time to. It's time to go Dracula. Time to die."