In a far off downtown part of Savanna Central, Sasha was snapping photos of the lovely nightlife. Kodi was supervising her as the Jones family had gotten the news of Robyn and Hannah's near death experiences recently and Gazelle didn't want any of her children to be the next victims of the night.

"You know the nightlife does host a lot of wonders we can't see in the daytime," observed Sasha snapping a photo of the big star filled sky.

"Haha and you'll be on that action right away," laughed Kodi. "We definitely can't get these stars in the afternoon."

"Why not become new stars right now?" Said a mysterious male voice. Kodi and Sasha whipped around to see a smartly dressed coyote with jet black fur who looked like he was sipping some red drink from a plastic water bottle. Probably fruit punch though it looked rather thick from the way some of it dropped down his maw.

"Who the hell are you," questioned Kodi balling up a fist in his left paw.

"Names Vincent Rich," replied the coyote. He made his way over after chucking his empty bottle into a recycling bin by a garbage can. "Listen, I couldn't help but notice your girlfriend is a fan of nightlife and picture taking."

"Sasha is my sister," Kodi corrected. "I'm her adopted brother and we're the children of the famous Gazelle singer."

"Ah famous children," Vincent said with a smirk on his face. "Anyways, how'd you 2 like to be star guests at a private art and photography show at the museum tonight?"

"Hmm, the thought of being star attractions is nice," Sasha piped in. "But our friends recently were in the hospital from a attempted night murder and we're not sure about spending too much nighttime."

"Yeah And our mother wouldn't want us sent to our home in body bags from strangers," Kodi added.

"I promise you that I'll stick close by you and have a special group tend to your needs," Vincent replied with a toothy grin. He pulled out a scruffy looking card in with black scribbled writing. "Look, present this to the guardIan at the entrance and he'll let you in to our reserved room." He walked away fast grinning once he turned away. Oh they'd be stars tonight if they accepted because who was he to pass up the chance at a bite of celebrity life?

"Kodi, I enjoy the idea of art shows but that Vincent creeps me out," Said Sasha. "What should we do?"

"I guess we could check it out briefly just so we don't hurt the guy's feelings," thought Kodi. "Look, I'm prepared if he or anyone he knows wants to rob us or murder us." He set his chestnut handbag on the ground and pulled out a Taser. "Mom went out for one of these after the news of the attack on Hannah and Robyn. Plus don't you got dad's pepper spray?"

Sasha remembered it and pulled out a tiny bottle of pepper spray from her purse. "Yeah, almost forget dad actually getting me one of these."

"Then we're set," Kodi remarked. "Just need to text mom of where we'll be tonight so she knows where we'll be at" he whipped out his cell and texted out a quick one:

*Mom, Sasha And me were invited to an art show by a nearby smartly dressed coyote named Vincent Rich after he became interested in her photography. We're going to check it out but we're on our guard in case he or anyone there will try anything funny okay?*

He got a quick response:

*okay Kodi, that's okay with me but you watch out for your sister and yourself in case he's planning a trap for a mugging or an attack. I don't want to see you 2 on the news being in the hospital because this random coyote tricked you*

Kodi responded fast:

*No worries mom, I've still got my taser on me and Sasha has dad's pepper spray. Anyone there will be in for pain if they try jumping us!*

In response, she typed:

*that's my boy! Okay, have fun you 2! Love you*

"Hey Sasha!" Called Kodi pocketing his cell. "Mom gave us the approval and we can go!" Sasha smiles and the 2 set off without noticing an unseen female leopard watching them from behind some trees.

"Wesley, this is Sarah speaking," Said the leopard into her cell. "Listen carefully, I've spotted Vincent luring a couple of new victims into a trap at an art show at a downtown museum and they're the children of the famous pop star Gazelle. We've got to protect them and stop Vincent once and for all. Meet me at the Savannah art gallery in 20 minutes. We are not letting them be abducted into his clan!" She put her cell away and quickly Made her way to catch the next bus to the art show

—-

*Savannah Central art gallery 9pm*

The Jones children didn't have to travel too far to reach the Savannah Art gallery. Once at the entrance, Kodi showed a zebra guard named Ivan Vincent's card and he let them in along with a piece of paper showing them Vincent's room.

The art gallery in this section of Zootopia hosted many of the past wonders of the previous generations but had a bigger focus on nature. Tonight, however it was only open for a private event hosted by the same mammal that had invited them to him as 9 pm is usually the closing time for the building.

Sasha and Kodi walked far past the main area full of ancient land displays into a new under construction dimly lit room full of smartly dressed mammals. Most of them were wolves but you could spot a couple of armadillos and even some horses chatting about. A snack table full of stuff like a big bowl of fruit punch, chocolate fingers, strawberries, vegetables, deli meats and cheese were in the center, an arctic male wolf DJ was churning out some music on a cheap looking bar stool and table that had gotten some mammals on to dance(it's the New Order song Confusion but the Pump Panel Reconstruction Mix) And on the left side of the snacks was Vincent himself drinking what appeared to be more thick fruit punch from another plastic bottle.

"Ah Sasha And Kodi, Welcome To My little private art show gathering!" Vincent boomed once he laid eyes on them. "Quite an honour to have children of a celebrity be our Special guests tonight!" A few suited mammals looked over in amazement before turning away.

"Yeah, we're glad to be here!" Kodi replies shaking hands with Vincent. Sasha shook too but both of them noticed his hands felt rather cold. They tried not to show their discomfort though in case this was a trap. "So where is all the art and why host the event in such a dimly lit room?"

"Oh, you'll find a lot of our art through there," Vincent answered pointing to a see through sheet covering another hole in the wall. "The event is hosted in this dimly lit room because it's the only one our group could afford for cheap considering it's still under construction and I technically had to persuade Ivan to let us use it just for tonight since rooms under construction aren't really suppose to be used by those who aren't construction crews."

Vincent of course was lying since Ivan technically wasn't keen on some new strangers wanting to host such a short notice private event but the guard had gotten a bit of temporary hypnosis from the coyote into letting him in. By the time Ivan regained his senses, the Jones children would either be dead or more new members provided nothing interrupted him.

"Okay, we'll check it out," Said Kodi before grabbing some chocolate fingers for him and his sister. "Come on Sasha, lets see what these mammals consider art." The two made their way through the sheet unaware that Vincent and a few of the suited mammals were gazing at their backs with hungry evil smiles.

The art room with the art looked rather crude. Most of the stuff was statues of different species of predators doing flips or their feral counterparts chasing scared feral prey. Surprisingly there were no other mammals besides Sasha and Kodi inside it but they did notice that there seemed to be what looked like a lot of fake blood dripping from the feral statue fangs.

"Man, this must have been a boring get together if all they got are these statues with feral ones dripping fake blood," yawned Kodi.

"They seemed to be fascinated with feral history from the amount of feral statues they have and the fake blood," Sasha added snapping photos of the items. She then noticed a large mammal shaped black tarp on a big dolly by a locked exit door. "Hey, what's that?"

"Probably some important relic Vincent wants to unveil, we shouldn't touch it," said Kodi.

They then saw that the tarp had a bit of red liquid on it. Sasha sniffed at it and then tasted a drop which got her eyes to widen in horror.

"Kodi, this red liquid is telling us that this isn't a safe place and that's likely not a statue," Sasha said slowly. Kodi looked confused but then decided to take a sniff and lick at some of the red liquid too. He got scared too.

"Holy crap, it's blood!" Kodi added but had to keep his voice down. " so that's likely a dead mammal in there? You suppose they're murderers?"

"Maybe but I don't want to stick around in case the two of us are going into body bags next!" Sasha replied quietly.

The two of them walked back quickly through the sheet but Vincent intervened quickly by dashing in front of them.

"Whoa, slow down Jones children.," Exclaimed Vincent with a toothy grin, "you're not leaving our festivities already are you?"

"Uh, my sister has a bit of a headache and needs to go home!" Kodi yelled quickly. Sasha nodded yes fast and hoped they'd get away from these potential murderers.

"Oh sorry to hear that," Said Vincent, "on second thought, I just think we'll speed up our finale for you 2, won't you please stay?"

Both of the Jones children didn't want to stick around longer but if Vincent insisted there wasn't much left and there was only one more event, they could put up with it. After all, they came prepared.

"Alright But make it fast as she's in a real hurry to rest," Kodi added and glancing towards Sasha who was actually panicking on the inside but managed to put on a convincing worried look that wasn't too alarming.

"Don't worry, just get your weapons ready if they try anything," whispered Kodi to Sasha. The small Gazelle snuck out her pepper spray into her right pants pocket while Kodi dug out his taser carefully into his left pants pocket. Suddenly a large clanging came above them. They both looked up to see a large walkway above them with Vincent dragging out what looked to be a large gray beer keg and a gray tub going into the hole of the keg dripping something dark that they couldn't see from the dim lights.

"My friends, I invite you tonight to witness a glorious occasion with our 2 special guests Kodi and Sasha Jones!" Boomed Vincent pointing at the two teens. "Being children of the famous pop star Gazelle has made me decide we should celebrate with a glorious going out present courtesy of myself!"

Every suited mammal clapped and cheered at the Jones children before turning back to Vincent who began unleashing and spraying the keg liquid all over the still cheering audience but it wasn't beer. It was red and sticky and tasted gross. Kodi and Sasha realized that this red liquid was actually,..blood but that meant...

"Kodi, I think we're in trouble!" Said Sasha as she pointed to a couple of grey Timberwolves heading towards them revealing sharp pointed fangs.

"Yep, that's our sign to leave!" Yelled Kodi back. He started to run to Sasha but got tripped by a female anteater.

"What's wrong hotstuff?" Mocked the anteater looking down at him. "Don't you want to stay for a bite?" She showed off her fangs and tried lunging for him but Kodi rolled out of the way in time for her face to meet the blood soaked floor instead

—

Meanwhile at the entrance, Ivan the security guard had begun waking up from his trance and noticed the mayhem on the security feed in the under construction room. He panicked at the sight of the blood rave scene in the construction room. Slowly some of his memories came back.

"Wait, I remember some of those guys trying to ask me for a room but I thought I declined their entrance," Ivan thought. He then notice Sasha and Kodi trying to get away from some of suited mammals trying to grab them and some of them were baring fangs. "Dear god, those two kids are in trouble!" Ivan began picking up his cell to dial 911 but then he noticed a couple of cloaked figures heading his way. The taller one held up his left paw for the peace symbol.

"Do not worry friend, we are here to help," spoke the tall one. He was male and from the paw he had exposed was a lion.

"Who are you and what do you mean by helping?" Asked Ivan. "I'm trying to call the police to save those kids! What the hell are those creatures?"

"Believe those are what us regular mammals call vampires," Said the smaller one pointing with her exposed right paw at some of the vampire wolves going in and still attempting bits on Kodi and Sasha. I am noticed this cloaked small one was a leopard. "Not to worry, mammals such as us have dealt with their kind before. You can call us monster hunters." She walked quickly past Ivan to go help The Jones children.

"If you really want to help them," said the cloaked lion, "I would suggest you refrain from getting the police involved here. These monsters would just kill everyone and escape." Then he and the hidden leopard rushed off to assist the Jones children.

—

Back at the art gallery, the Jones children weren't exactly faring much better. Kodi and Sasha had been trying so hard to dodge the vampire mammals occasionally lunging at them that they couldn't use their weapons properly but of course with the not lunging vampires dancing to the blood shower still going on, the constant bumping from them didn't help their concentration either.

"I don't know how much longer we can keep this up!" Shouted Sasha as she dodged another vampire wolf while trying to sink his fangs into her neck.

"This is tiring me up too and none of us are even closer to the exit!" Kodi yelled back as he too dodged another vampire wolf that almost grazed his neck. Then he saw Sasha being head butted from behind onto the floor by a male vampire brown horse. "Sasha!" He Yelled but then felt himself kicked in the back and onto the blood soaked floor by someone. Turning quickly over, he saw it was the same female anteater from earlier now with a group of fox vampire female twins grinning.

"Hey don't just let her have all the fun," chuckled the anteater. "Let's not forget we have equal bites on both sides!" She and the twins tried lunging for Kodi but he quickly rolled over and those 3 just got a mouthful of floor instead.

Kodi quickly crawled over to the dazed Sasha and helped her through the crowd of dancing vampires to the best of his ability while dodging all the hands trying to grab at them. They hadn't gotten too far when suddenly the crowd parted ways allowing them to crawl faster when their noses met two sets of black boots. Looking up, it was the cloaked figures Ivan had seen but they did not know that except that the tall one had exposed lion paws and the short one had exposed leopard paws.

"please don't hurt us," Sasha whimpered clutching her camera.

"Do not fear little ones because we're here to help," Said the short cloaked leopard helping them stand up. "My teacher and I sensed your trouble and are here to save the day."

Turning back towards the vampire crowd, Kodi and Sasha noticed they all looked angry like they knew who these two were. A chuckling voice was heard from the crowd and out stepped Vincent Rich clapping and laughing.

"Well it looks like tonight we have extra guests or should I say pests at our party," chuckled Vincent. "Fancy you Wesley Swipes and Mrs Ruffy meet me again after a year of hunting!"

The cloaked figures threw off their hoods revealing both a muscle bound dark lion and a smaller female leopard.

"It May have taken us a year but your reign of victims ends tonight Vincent!" Yelled Ruffy brandishing two Asian style daggers from her pockets. Wesley took out a large sword from his sword holster on his back ready for action. Note: Wesley's sword is modeled after the one Uma Thurman uses in Kill Bill.

"Don't think it's over yet," Vincent smiled wickedly. "Attack my fellow blood suckers!"

Then the room erupted into mayhem as the two hunters dashed towards the incoming horde of vampire mammals.

"I'd prepare for battle if I were you two!" Shouted Sarah to the Jones children. With more space now, Kodi and Sasha prepared their taser and pepper spray respectively to get to the exit.

In a blur, Wesley slashed a couple of vampire timber wolves in their necks and then did a swift kick into the chest of a female vampire lioness before plunging his sword through her heart. Sarah did a flip over an incoming vamp buck and tossed one of her daggers into the head of the female anteater that had kept trying to bite Kodi. She then quickly pulled the dagger out of her corpse before rushing towards a vamp dingo.

Kodi and Sasha were having a bit of luck at keeping some of the vampires trying to nip them by spraying them and zapping any that noticed their sneaking away but just before they could get clear, Sasha felt knocked off her guard by an incoming blur. Looking up in horror, her eyes found themselves staring into the beady eyes of Vincent Rich.

"Such a shame our night has to come to an end right away," snickered Vincent swatting the pepper spray out of her right hoof. "Also, let's move this out of the way of your delicious neck." He lifted the camera strap and gently removed it from Sasha's neck before she could stop him and placed it a few feet away. The young Gazelle began to hyperventilate and squirm.

"No, my camera!" Panicked Sasha.

"Hmm, that thing has a special connection to you it seems," snickered Vincent. "Well squirming prey is always fun to indulge in." He lowered his fangs to her neck but just before they could pierce the skin, There came a loud yelling and then he found himself being pushed off her.

"Take that vile fiend!" Yelled Kodi as he grabbed Vincent's left arm and kicked him into the chest off his sister. The teen wolf then picked up the camera carefully and handed it over to Sasha who quickly snatched it and wove it around her neck again. She grabbed her pepper spray too and The two got into defensive positions to prepare themselves.

"Spread out and retreat back to the Phelps base while I deal with these meddling teenagers!" Yelled Vincent. Many of the vampire mammals tore out through the back of the gallery and escaped into the night but not before a few several got stabbed to death by Wesley and Sarah. Including Vincent and the DJ (who abandoned his laptop), about 50 vampires had been inside the party but thanks to the hunters, the number dropped to 25. Kodi and Sasha felt thankful that none of the retreating vampires bothered to try biting them but they felt that meant this base likely housed more vampires and other creatures they'd be bringing back.

"You're not having anymore meals after tonight Rich!" Growled Wesley brandishing his sword.

"Come get me you little kitty," taunted Vincent. The two clashed with incredible speed. Wesley struck hard with his sword twirling but Vincent had his super speed from being in his state. Kodi had seen a few vampire related media and got the idea that these creatures had that ability but he never thought he'd see it in real life. Seeing that Mr Rich was occupied with Mr Swipes, he took his sister's hoof and led her out back through the entrance quietly but also quickly grabbed the abandoned laptop too since it likely wouldn't be going back to the undead.

It seemed Wesley had the upper hand till Vincent caught him a few seconds off guard when the lion had his back turned from one of the twirl clashes and shoved him onto the snack table spilling all the refreshments.

"I've been waiting for this moment since the first time we met," laughed Vincent. "Now it seems you'll not live to slay another one of our line against!"

The others were unable to help him. Ruffy had been drained of energy from all the fighting she did earlier and the Jones children had escaped through the entrance but Wesley still had one trick up his sleeve. He pulled out what looked like a tiny water pistol.

"Ha, what can a mere water pistol do to me?" Chuckled Vincent. "You can't give me a cold, I'm already a creature of the night who can survive in cold!"

Vincent stopped laughing when a stream of water entered his mouth and he began choking.

"Knew your cockiness would be your downfall," laughed Wesley in return. "That's holy water!"

Vincent didn't answer as the holy water continued to choke him. That gave Wesley enough time to shove Vincent off him and pull out a stake from his right coat pocket to stab him in the heart. He stood up and looked over at the dying vampire as he continued to thrash about till he stopped moving.

"Took a year but he's finally finished," gasped the lion panting heavily as he dropped his holy water pistol. Ruffy regained a bit of energy and made her way over to him.

"Glad he's finished," she said. "But we're not finished yet, there are still those others out there."

"Let's just savor this moment for now," Wesley replied.

After escaping the vampire rush, Kodi and Sasha hitched a bus ride to a stop closest to their house. They snuck in quietly without being noticed since their parents were watching TV on the big flatscreen in the living room which ironically happened to be some creature feature about night terrors like monster bats.

Upstairs in Kodi's room the two teens sat on Kodi's big bed panting heavily after their near brush with death.

"Man, That close encounter with the vampires nearly became the end of us and it all started from just a night out on the town!" Kodi exclaimed.

"I was afraid we'd never make it out but I'm glad those weapons we got from mom and dad paid off," added Sasha.

"Yeah, cheers to pepper spray and a taser!" Laughed Kodi. "Now how about some music to calm us down?" He pulled out the laptop from his bag he had taken from the vamp DJ.

"Hey, isn't that the same laptop from the rave of the vampires from the art gallery?" Questioned Sasha.

"Was but it's my property now," grinned Kodi. Before Sasha opened her mouth to protest, Kodi quickly rebutted with his own defense. "In my defense, this is the former property of a blood sucking mammal that could have bitten us too and I don't think he'd miss it now,"

"Fine," huffed Sasha. "But you might want to clean off that blood."

Kodi looked over and noticed the laptop he held in his right paw had blood dripping over it likely from the keg spray earlier. Thankfully since he hadn't pulled it out completely from his bag and the fact that his taser was in his left pocket, the only thing in his bag that had gotten bloody were some bags of chips and chocolate. Sasha fetched a box of tissues from his bedside table and helped clean her brother's paw and the laptop all over including the inside where some of the blood had seeped in.

"Thanks sis," smiled Kodi. He set the laptop on his desk for them and powered it on to discover it thankfully had no password encrypted code to open. He clicked login and discovered it had been set to a playlist but what caught his interest more was a tab on the right labeled "Important Plans" After clicking on it, they weren't prepared for what was inside.

A page spelling out "Test Subjects For The Field" greeted them as the intro cover for what looked like a set of documents. Kodi decided to click further so the both of them could look further into this but the thing they were unprepared for were the details and images of what laid in the following pages.

The pages after the cover had listed various mammals of various species for the sole purpose of "field testing" as the pages for each mammal called it but the rather unsettling thing is that most of the mammals looked rather fearful in their photos like they knew they were being doomed or being forced into these things against their wills. Some of them even had progress pictures which often got gory for any of the "failed" subjects that were deemed unworthy during the experiments. The biggest note about the tests were the obsession of creating these ordinary mammals into supernatural beings such as vampires and were creatures. One of the more nicer pages happened to be on a certain mammal who looked more calm:

Name: Bunga Sudenland

Experiment Number: 525

Transformation Status: Complete

Species Testing Choice: Vampire

Additional info: Bunga is quite the willing subject. Out of the few willing participants, he seems to enjoy all the prospects of his new transformation as he has stated that he was often an outcast from his tendency to annoy others but participated when approached without hesitation to hopefully gain respect. Reported last saying he felt the urge to hunt in Sahara Square for another field run.

That last bit chilled Sasha and Kodi. They had heard Hannah and Robyn were attacked in that area by some horrific creature. Could this have been the same creature responsible for their friends hospitalizations?

After a few more unsettling pictures of other mammals going through successful or failed transformations, they came to the last page of the latest test subject but there appeared to be only one photo of the mammal that was partially blurred like something attacked the photographer. The information also appeared to be missing some important details:

Name: ?

Experiment Number: 626

Transformation Status: Complete

Species Testing Choice: Were Lioness

Additional info: Dubbed Savanna Brianna from finding her in the Savanna Central from some cave in accident. Subject was named Brianna due to not finding an identification of her real name though she suffers from amnesia. From the amnesia, we successfully fooled her into thinking she is A willing test subject and have added her into the line for our next Were creature experiment. After many tests, our were lioness is possibly our best yet but is extremely fragile due to her random memory flashes and then trying to regain them. She recently attack our photographer from another memory flash and was not restrained at the time and then escaped through a cracked window. Photographer was pronounced dead shortly after and fed to the leeches. It is with great care to approach this subject due to her unstable nature if found.

Once finished reading that, Kodi exited out of the tab as both siblings felt a chill from all the horrific details they just gazed upon. Testing on mammals, field test runs and what was that nonsense about feeding a dead mammal to leeches?

"Kodi, this is scaring me," shivered Sasha clutching onto his right arm. "What is all this?" Her brother slowly turned his head towards her looking concerned.

"Don't have much of a clue but this tells us that those vampires that nearly bit us tonight maybe are linked to this," Kodi replied feeling a bit scared. "A great evil that Zootopia isn't prepared for."