(yes its a vampire story get over yourself I am not stephanie meyer)
It’s the year 2124; 100 years ago the world that you know was forever twisted and destroyed. That world was destroyed by one bullet, one bullet to end the life of a certain someone. I don’t really recall who it was but it doesn’t matter now. I am pretty unique well to the people of the old world I would be considered a vampire.
Vampire creates an image of hate and a monster that all they want is blood and they will do anything for. Well that isn’t true, we need it. All those years ago humans became one of four things, an irradiated zombie, a government tool, not very fond of those jerks, a civilian/one percent human, we call them outlanders, and like me a “vampire.” Later on we will touch on the one per centers. The vampire was born from just the right amount of exposure to radiation and the right disease.
Sickle cell anemia, a blood disorder, when exposed to radiation changes; instead of just having bad blood cells form, blood production stopped. That meant certain death right? Wrong. They instead craved other people’s blood and yes we drank from the neck. Lots of blood in a nice place and the person doesn’t suffer too long. We would refresh our blood supply like that. If we didn’t feed in three weeks we would either die or go mad with hunger and even attack vampires and zombies. If a vampire ever feed on a zombie the blood would be so irradiated that the vampire would die in a matter of days.
Over the years we started to look like the creatures of old, Pale from the lack of blood, unless we had just fed, and all the senses and physical traits of a vampire are present. Except for being bats they are message carriers. Our senses have been heightened because of select mating, sight, smell, reflexes, and strength all have been refined by an almost martial law of breeding. The fangs I was never told about, I had guessed that they were from the initial radiation.
The world outside of us sees us as monsters who feed for pleasure. Vela does, she is one of four known vampires who produces blood. But we do it to survive. The government factions are friendly or hostile, mostly hostile. The worst offenders are a group called the Green Berets or something, they will shoot you and then expect you to say “I love America!” as you die or they will revive you and torture you to find out where the rest of the vampires are.
There have been several times that they discovered an enclave, usually they were wiped out, but sometimes they would survive and have to relocate. Well the areas outside settlements were dangerous. Most of the animals out there were man-eating beasts. So clan relocations were dangerous but it was necessary for the safety of the survivors. This is where my story starts.
My name is Gene, I’m 24 years old, and the day that Rita and her clan showed up in our quaint little hole in the ground. I awoke to the sounds of screams. My heart started racing, I thought to myself, “a raid? No not now, of anytime not now.” I got up quickly, my body just reacting to the sounds. I got up into our emergency airway/escape tunnel but I didn’t hear any gunshots, so I decided to head back down to see what happened.
"Rita!?" I exclaimed as I see the bright yellow eyes of a familiar stranger...