The following is fan fiction based on the Underworld series of movies created by Screen Gems et al. As such, all copyrights are held by their respective owners, and this fan fiction is in no way approved, endorsed, or affiliated with the creators of Underworld in any way, shape, or form.
Now with the requisite disclaimer out of the way...
Underworld: Cleansing
Prologue
Twelve long years.
Losing twelve years can be traumatic on anyone's memory, human or "non-human." It is especially traumatic for myself, considering how long I have lived as a vampire, a death-dealer. Even when you have a memory that stretches as far back as mine, having a gap as large as twelve years - a gap with absolutely nothing, no sensory input to remember, no events to witness, nothing - might as well be a lifetime.
Superficially, I know what happened - the humans discovered the existence of our kind, and of the Lycans. Hysteria followed, and then came the purges. It was during the purges that the gap happened. After I awoke twelve years later, I fought back against the new enemies that had emerged during that gap, and defeated them, at least temporarily.
Many questions still remain in this different world I have only witnessed for a few days. But in order to make sense of it all, I need to remember what happened before the purges. Before the cleansing.
I need to remember how humanity came to discover us...and how Michael and I had our fate sealed, before we ourselves were sealed away for twelve years.