[In the Beginning, the End had a name]

Prologue ---

"In the beginning was the Word,

and the Word was with God,

and the Word was God."

- Jn 1:1

Darkness. That was all there was to it. Nothingness.

The emptiness that clouded over one's senses, slowly choking him until nothing is once more left to it. A terrifying feeling, a terrifying thought.

No one had ever survived such harsh conditions; yet, tonight, as was in the beginning, someone had come to overcome it. To finally break through that irrepressible barrier that had taken its toll upon so many of its victims.

His name was Apollyon, the first of Abaddon [1]. The Destroyer made out of nothing but destruction who, upon having been birthed at such an impossible place, had destroyed his only home and gave a brief glimpse of hope and redemption towards a humanity he was destined to kill, saving his few chosen ones only by killing them first, only to rise again and fulfill the prophecy that has been laid out from the Beginning.

Apollyon, the first and the last of Abaddon. The end of the Beginning and the beginning of the End.

An irony within an irony.

And thus began the first of his kind, the first of the Vampires.

1. Apollyon - literally means in Hebrew "Destroyer" Abaddon - in Hebrew, "Destruction"