Prelude:

Reproduction

"Sir, its time." Amanda said as she walked into my office. She was always so punctual when she needed to be. She knew the importance of what we were doing, for this project will forever change the world. I stood up from my desk and turned to face her. She was always fashionably the best looking female in the office. Today she had her dark black hair pulled back into a tight bun, and whore her bangs down. She had her favorite Prada glasses on and wore her bright smile like she was told too. Her chocolate colored skin was always smooth and looked as if she walked off the set of a cover girl commercial. Underneath her lab coat she was wearing a very fitted black button down, with a gray high wasted pencil skirt. She worked out frequently and ran track in college so she was VERY fit. She was only in her mid 20's but for a woman her age, coped well around strange and abnormal. This job was everything but normal.

"You ready?" she asked.

"Is my patient ready?" I asked back.

"Yes sir. She's prepped and comfortable"

"Good" I stood up from my desk, made sure my contacts were on right and put on my lab coat. I walked down the long hallway past the receptionist desk where Amanda's desk was, and pressed on towards the elevators. She walked with me and prepared to watch for I had promised to take her under my wing in hopes she could one day be a doctor and scientist in my line of work. I hit the button for Sub Level and we descended.

"Miss Fountain are you aware that what you are about to witness is top secret?"

"Yes Mr. Calibri." She replied. I smiled and we landed at our level. The metal doors slid open and we walked out into the long corridor that housed many different medical rooms. Medical room 13 is where we needed to be and where our patient laid on the table. She was maybe 18, had brown hair and played lacrosse for her high school. Her body was very fit and her skin was a russet color. She looked to be of Native American decent.

"Hello Miss LaFent, this is Dr Fountain, she is an intern and will be watching over the procedure."

"Hi, I'm kind of nervous so don't mind if I ask a lot of questions" the patient said.

"Don't worry about it, your in excellent hands" Amanda said. They began to talk about her sporting activity and shared stories. Amanda kept her busy as I read over her chart. The patient smiled and looked back at me.

"Wow, you like, need some sun! Are you held up in this office all day? Your so pale!" she laughed.

"Very observant, I have a skin condition so the sun isn't always my friend." I replied. Too observant.

"Where do you get your contacts from? I love the red tint that it has in the brown, I always wanted a pair that was different then what everyone else has been doing." She pointed out. My contacts must have been dissolving in my eyes quicker than usual. We had to hurry. She was a pivotal role in this project, we needed one more female to finish this part of the group before we can move on to the next. It is rare to find a female in their teens who is athletic and willing to be part of testing for money. However, no one got money. Those who qualified were used, those who didn't, knew too much, and were killed. This project must succeed for us to spread it across the world. This is a game changer, and if this were in fact a sport, we were the winning team. We couldn't afford to lose this one so we had to proceed with everything.

The rest of the medical staff came in to the room and began to assist Amanda in strapping our patient down. she began asking questions about why we used metal straps and why we had so many doctors who she's never heard. I washed up and put on my gloves and grabbed the brief case with the serum. Amanda inserted the IV and I extracted the liquid into the syringe. Everything so far was going smoothly. I inserted the needle into her IV and explained to her that this would hurt very much. I began pushing in the serum and she exhaled as she waited for the pain. We waited patiently.

The patient laid there whistling a tune that sounded to be almost Native American. God how I wish she'd shut up! I couldn't wait any longer for this to take effect.

"You know, I know you said it would be painful but I really don't feel…" just then she began to scream. Her torso shot up from the bed but didn't move far, due to her being strapped in. Tears of blood came roaming down her face; this was something that never happened before. Her body began shaking violently and foam started to come from her mouth.

"What is going on? Nurse what are her stats?" I shouted. Amanda looked stunned, almost unsure of what to do.

"Doctor her body temperature just rose to 108! Its supposed to be decreasing!" I looked back at the girl and it looked as if her face had began to swell. A scent filled the room that only I could smell.

"WHAT THE FUCK!" I shouted! I zoomed over to our recruiter and had him by the throat and against the wall. The girl was still screaming and then began to projectile vomit.

"WHERE…DID YOU FIND HER! WHAT IS HER BACKGROUND!" I shouted. The man's face became very pale and scared.

"I, I…I… found her walking home from school. Her, parents aren't…biological, she's… she's adopted!" he spit out. I squeezed tighter almost breaking his neck, I felt the bones begin to crack a bit.

"WHAT IS HER BACKGROUND!" I screamed!

"sh-she's… of native American decent, birth mom was from a reservation in Washington… Push…something…La Push, she had an affair with her husbands best friend and gave the love child up…" I didn't let him finish before I crushed his larynx. Blood rushed into his throat choking him, ultimately making him suffocate to death. I didn't need any more information. She was a descendent of the Quileute Indians… she was the next generation of shape shifters. Our venom was poison to her, and the poisons affects were only intensified after what we've done to it.

I walked over to our patient whose skin began to blister, she was still vomiting and then I heard it. A loud pop… her heart exploded in her chest and Everyone was quiet in the room.

"Sir… what happened?" I didn't speak at first for I was trying to calm my anger. I turned and walked towards the sink to wash off the vomit and blood from my hands.

"She is a shape shifting werewolf. Vampire venom is poison to her. She didn't know what she was and neither did we"

"well, one of us did, but he's no longer breathing." Amanda said. The entire operation was probably ruined now, and I was going to fail. There was no way I would find another athletic and young female in time to proceed with this. One last female was all we needed and I lost her. No one said a word as I looked around the room. I thought for sure it was ruined when suddenly it hit me…

The scent of human was all around me but never had I smelled HER blood before, for I didn't see her as food, or even a possible patient. I only saw her as an excellent worker. I slowly turned around and looked at Miss Fountain. She was helping to clean up when she stopped to look at me.

"Is there anything you need me to do Dr Calibri?" she asked.

I stared back at her analyzing her body. She was very much in shape, very healthy, athletic… just what we looked for in our patient selection.

"Why, yes Miss Fountain. There is….." without hesitation, I leaped on top of her, and sank my teeth into her neck, releasing my venom into her blood stream.