Chapter 1: Nightmares
"No daddy you can't leave me, I love you!"
"I love you too Cynthia but I can't wait any longer"
"Daddy no, the darkness can't have you! Your mine! Don't leave!"
Once again I had woken in a deep sweat thrashing about for someone who wasn't there and never would be. That nightmare contaminated my mind ever since my father left. I could never forget him no matter how hard I tried. It's not like I wanted to leave him, but to survive in the world today I needed to.
"Time for another day of pain," I reminded myself as I slowly rose from the makeshift bed I had slept in for the night. I never stayed in place for long. If I did I'd be taking the chance of someone finding me and probably taking whatever I had left. But even if they did manage to get that close my skills in battle were skilled and precise. I could defend myself.
I took out a comb and began the battle of untangling my filthy hair. For as long as I could remember I was never able to call anything home so it only made since that I didn't have the basic necessities that normal people use to have. The darkness has destroyed the world I live on. No one is safe from its power. It's always growing. It even has enslaved some of the people as its workers. I never thought that the old vampire stories I heard as a young girl were possibly real until now. The stories were never fake, just not entirely true.
You see 'vampires' as their called have been hiding since ancient times waiting patiently for their dark lord to move in for the kill and sheath us all with its power. The darkness was always their waiting for humanity to screw up. It got its chance a couple years ago when crime, poverty, and a failing economy veiled the earth. Darkness's minions, vampires were released to do as they please.
Vampires have many different stories of the way they feed, act, and live. Only some of those legends are true. First of all vampires aren't immortal. Yes, they do age just very slowly. From what I've heard, to age on year is actually one thousand years for these creatures of the night. So obviously they don't change others very often. The biting action they do to change others is true, but you'll only change if once bitten you only take as much blood from the vampire that isn't fatal. Take too much or too little and you're a goner. They do have incredible strength and speed, heightened senses, and each vampire has a special ability based on their character. About sunlight… this one is a bit difficult to explain. They can definitely survive in sunlight, but just like how light can reveal all in darkness, it reveals their true forms. All vampires have an exclusive form based on ability and character. They are weakest during the day, but not that weak, and vice versa. They are truly a force to be reckoned with.
Unfortunately for the filthy, vile creatures I am a hunter of them, and I am the best. After all I was the first to start hunting them. Eventually more and more people began joining me in my war against the slaves of the shadows. I hope my efforts aren't in vain, but everyday I lose more hope. I can't give up. It's too late; I must finish what I started, even if it cost me my life or others…