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beautiful wife
Michelle
for pushing me to finish this finally. I did
start it in 1995 after all, and I never
would have picked it back up and
Thanks Sweetie
I Love You
Paul Kodi
Is a pseudonym of
John Paul Gereaux
Eternal Breed
(A poem)
by Paul Kodi
I will live undying.
I will walk the night alone.
I will fear no evil,
For evil is my own.
I will bow to no one:
Eternal Breed
Prologue
I am the beginning.
I am the end.
I am youth eternal with age unimaginable.
I am Kodi Mykalz.
I am a vampyre.
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of life for all Atlantians, but the price you will pay for this
will be higher than you can imagine. You will suffer the
pain I feel as I watch my people die a thousand-fold.
Bloodshed will be your life. These things, you will know
forever.
She waived her hand again, and I blacked out.
An indeterminable amount of time passed before
I opened my eyes again. I only know that what I saw
when I came to had never been seen by anyone outside of
the Atlantians themselves.
I tried to move, but could not. I could not as
much as move my head to see either side. I soon realized
I was tied up; bound to a post, in a gorge, in some
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her wrist, and allowed her blood to mix with mine in the
chalice. Passing her hand over the cup, she sprinkled
something into it that made the blend it held bubble and
hiss like flesh scalded by a hot iron.
At that moment my bonds were cut, but I was
held fast by the two men. The brute to my right
entwined his fingers in my hair and snapped my head
back. It was then that I realized what was happening: I
was being cursed.
You will die for this! I swear it! I shouted for
all to hear.
We will be dead before you wake from your
transformation. One thug growled.
What transformation?
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our eyes made contact, the child fell silent. She seemed
euphoric as I lifted her from her crib to my mouth.
Again, I bit into the flesh of my victims neck, only gently
this time. The reward for my softness was bliss. The
childs blood was like nectar.
As painful as the hunger had been, it paled in
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sky; at times leaping thirty to forty feet into the air. The
inferno reached temperatures imagined only in hell. The
blood that coated my hair and skin dried, cracked, and
peeled away. My golden armor began to melt. The linen
clothes underneath burned and fell from my body as ash,
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She was well muscled, but still waifish and feminine. Her
hair was dark black and extended nearly to her waist
without a hint of curl. And her eyes; despite all of her
other extraordinary qualities, I suspect that it was her eyes
that captivated my mind the most. They were blue; blue
with just a hint of green around the irises. I know you are
thinking big deal, blue eyes, but in that time, in that
part of the world, there were no blue eyes. In fact, eyes
only came in various shades of brown then and there. I
knew I would undoubtedly return to get to know her.
Perhaps I will deliver their reward myself in weeks. I
thought to myself. Yes, that sounded like a great idea.
Is there anything else you need to know sire?
The father asked.
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and whatever else they were doing. Birds are usually the
most aware of predators of any animal because they are so
defenseless on the ground. I surmised that at the speed I
was moving they could neither see, nor hear me. How
fast that is, I have no idea.
I stopped once to test my strength again when I
passed a boulder as big as a modern London bus. When I
doubled back to it, first I attempted to lift it. I should not
have been able to budge it but it shook for a moment,
then once free of the sand, it came off the ground with
only the kind of effort it once would have taken me to lift
a woman into my bed. I laughed to myself at how
charming this curse was becoming. The impulse to
throw it occurred to me, so I did. It went perhaps three
quarters of a mile, and I had run after it as I threw it,
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a piece the size of an overly large man broke off and fell to
the ground. Interesting. I kicked it again, this time with
more force. A crack ran all the way across the rock. I ran
around to the other side, and a smile played across my
out.
I took off like a flash of lightning towards home,
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return without waking the entire city, and yet the city
sleeps.
Yes it does. The men were lost.
All of them?
Yes.
They all died in battle?
Yes.
And you alone survived?
Yes.
How?
Please, let me be. I will tell you all you want to
know when I wake.
Fine, but I must know everything.
You will I said, as soon as I arrive at the
story I wish to tell. I thought.
Goodnight Anu.
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Goodnight Amil.
As soon as my brother closed the door I was in
my bed. Fortunately I would be able to spend the day in
my own room. In those days, if you had a large enough
home, sleeping quarters were on the interior of the
building to use the cooling stone as a sort of airconditioning.
I lay back on my pillows and closed my eyes.
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Besides, I saw you sail through the air and land where you
stand. Amil argued.
Ok fine. I will explain it later; after I have dealt
with the needs the kingdom has of me tonight. I said,
And, was not flying. It was a jump.
Close enough. Amil snickered.
Indeed. I concurred happily.
When we reached the door to my room, Amil
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foul the food tasted. How could it be that the meat had
gone rancid and the fruits and vegetables spoiled and no
one noticed? Everything looked as it should. No signs of
rot or decay were apparent, but my mouth tasted fetid. I
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drop I had taken from the mugger in the port was now on
the sand in front of me, and as the smell of the blood hit
me, so too did the hunger.
There were no shepherds or flocks at the river
tonight, but I did spot a crocodile, and before I could
weigh the odds of me successfully hunting him barehanded I was on him draining his blood.
This time I felt my canine teeth extend into full
fledged fangs. Even the croc knew I was the greater
predator, and instead of fighting to kill me, he fought to
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cold, but she did not. She kept fucking me back, and she
kept drinking from my neck. I froze. My hunger had
long been satisfied by her blood. I had continued merely
for the thrill that fucking her was giving me.
Dont stop now. I want more. This is rapture.
She groaned.
I looked down on her blood covered face, and
saw what could only be pure joy. Then, she lifted her face
back to my neck, and this time when her lips met my
flesh, I felt her
FANGS!
How could this be? I thought. The Atlantian
had used my blood to concoct her curse, so it must be that
her curse lives in my blood. Pandoras blood had become
mine, and mine hers, several times over most likely,
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wish to know. I said as I took her hand and led her away
from the river back towards the desert I had sought
shelter in the previous night.
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Pandora came into it, she took over, and I filled in the
gaps. Soon Amil knew as much of the story as we did.
Still, he had questions.
So what is the curse exactly? He asked.
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enter them. When those about you grow old and die, you
will not. When your civilization falls, you will continue:
alone in darkness forever.
And she made you drink your own blood? He
asked, even though he knew full well she had.
Yes. It was mixed with her own, and who
knows what else. She mixed some things in from a small
vile. I answered.
Thats all?
After that they actually cut me loose, but I was
too weak to do anything. It felt like I was dying. I have
noticed since that my heart no longer beats, so perhaps I
did die.
And the next night you rose and drank the
blood of an entire village?
Correct.
Oh crap. Amil stated, as he looked at Pandora.
We had risen less than ten minutes earlier, and
she was clearly beginning to lose her battle with the
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strike him for his last comment, but instead saw her
smiling. She was clearly mulling it over.
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were all alive, and there was no screaming so they had not
made snacks of their johns.
When we reached the courtyard, the girls were
their normal beautiful, human selves, though a bit anemic
looking. Clearly they would not be able to handle a night
of activity with us again so soon, so we paid them for their
nights work anyway, and assured them it was nothing
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And so, there was no need for courts. That is until I gave
leverage to this group of priests.
When we arrived at the hall, there was great
commotion. The priests were bound and on their knees
at the foot of the platform which held the thrones that
belonged to Pandora, Amil, and I. The other two thirds
of the hall was filled with the witnesses to the beating.
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the full moon, but to Pandora and I it was like the rooms
were lit with torches.
Pandora sat in front of one of the mirrors
brushing her hair.
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coal around her eyes. She was trying to make herself look
more human for her parents I found out later. The result
however, was that her efforts made her even more eerily
beautiful than she already was.
When she finished grooming herself she took
the brush to my hair.
Soon she was done polishing my appearance.
She put the brush down and took my hand to go.
I do not want to frighten my family, so I would
prefer that we not use any of our abilities until after we
have talked to them. She said.
Whatever you wish, my love.
She set a very human pace as we walked the
short distance to her parents home. The foreman had
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way you looked at him the night he was here last. Her
father said.
I am sorry father. I would have told you all
what I was doing, but when I left it was only to have a
swim. I did not truly know I was going to see him until I
was in his presence. Pandora responded.
So, are you returning her to us good king, or are
you as smitten with her as she is with you. He asked.
I am in love with your daughter. In fact all that
remains to make her officially my wife and queen is your
blessing.
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who lives in the last house was sure you were not human.
She answered.
When we heard he was telling people that, we
tried to calm him by telling him you had been to our
home, and were in fact human. After much argument he
finally decided that since we were alive and unharmed,
you must be some type of benevolent deity. Pandoras
father added.
I was not used to my new talents then. I did
not mean to cause a commotion. I said.
Not to worry. The talk died down quickly
enough. Said Pandoras mother.
We are just glad to know that you made it back
to Ur safely. And of course we are thrilled that Pandora
did as well. Pandoras father said.
It is getting late, and I wish to see Kug-Bau,
before the tavern closes. Pandora said suddenly.
Pandora, can that not wait until tomorrow. I
asked.
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see me, a little light went off in his head; unfortunately for
him his assumption was incorrect.
How much? he asked.
She is no whore. Your friend is in grave
danger. I replied.
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told her where our house was, and to come just after dark.
She said she knew exactly where it was, and said she
would be there.
Then shall we go?
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was thinking sex first, just for the fun of it; then
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sure she did not kill him. She came up with her face
smeared with blood and kissed Pandora. Then she kissed
me.
We sent or prey on their way slightly weaker,
and glamoured to within an inch of their sanity. Then the
three of us made love there in the desert sand until the sky
started to lighten, at which point we just buried ourselves
deep in the sand.
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Huh?
You will leave this camp immediately, and
return to your people. No one will stop you. You will tell
your people and anyone you come across that any affront
to the Sumerian kingdom will be met with the most
severe retribution imaginable. Is that understood?
Yes sir. He said as he cautiously ran past me
into the desert night.
I stepped out of the tent to tell Pandora and
Kug-Bau to let the man flee, but they were too busy to
bother with him.
Pandora stood by the campfire feeding from one
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cry and babble as I lifted him off the ground and brought
his neck to my mouth.
When my fangs pierced his flesh, his bladder and
bowels released which ruined any enjoyment I might have
gotten from his blood. Disgusted, I decided to dispose of
him rather than finish draining him. The first thing that
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more complex rules would come about, but now is not the
time to discuss that.
The first rules were as follows: {1} No human
was to be killed without the consensus of the group. {2}
It was forbidden for anyone to do the trick without my
prior consent. {3} We, that is those of our kind which I
then dubbed Strega (Ill explain in a moment), would live
together and leaving the group was forbidden.
Strega was one of the few Atlantian words I
knew from the interactions we had before the conflict. It
meant witch or dark-god. I thought that dark-god was
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theft. Furthermore he had implicated his son and son-inlaw. I had guards retrieve the two absent men from their
homes, and told the offended family that they were free to
go or to stay and witness punishment the choice was
theirs. They chose to stay as Pandora, Kug-Bau, and I
drank from the three men until they were dead.
The next night Amil had already arranged a
lavish wedding and banquet for he and Kug-Bau. I knew
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His boat was finished only days before the rivers erased
everything he had ever known.
We found him and heard his story when we
returned to the site of Ur after the waters subsided. We
allowed him to live so long as he swore that he would
never lead others to worship us again, and would not
speak of the kingdoms to anyone. He so swore, then he
laughed at the thought of others. He lived the rest of his
days tending the animals in the arid ruins of Ur. When
we unleashed the rivers, the deluge cut new river beds,
changing the course of the rivers forever. Before leaving
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fathers life he did not continue was the affair with Radu,
though Radu tried to persuade him to do so.
We returned home after that. The false Mircea
had fallen out of favor with Hunyadi and had been
blinded and buried alive, Some other poor man who I
guess must have bore a resemblance to Vlad at the age he
would have been, was caught and given the same
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guilty of the crime they were tried for. One man even
dared to say as much. I assured him that I was in fact the
son of Vlad the dragon (a nickname of Vlad). The trial
was of course a farce, as I had determined to kill them all
before I had even found them. John Hunyadi accused me
of being in allegiance with the Sultan and fought again to
remove me from the thrown. During one extended
campaign he had even managed to place another man on
the thrown, but I returned and he fled without a fight.
Eventually the Sultan became greedy and began
invading again. Pandora returned still using the name
Elizabeth, but for convenience she was now a different
Elizabeth. John Hunyadi had refused to send any
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The War
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from you now, is for you to sign the titles to all of your
properties and possessions over to me.
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hoops for my ears Ive had the holes since I was a child
so I might as well use them, and I liked the look anyway.
I bought some garment leather boots, and a pair of Nike
athletic shoes from yet another retailer, then I began
I bought.
I finally stopped when Kris entered, and
mentioned that the closet in my room was getting quite
full.
You are not in uniform this evening. I said as I
noticed Kris was in jeans and a casual sweater.
Im not working tonight. I just wanted to stop
by and make sure everything was to your satisfaction. I
just got promoted to head concierge, so I still have a few
control issues. Kris said with a smile, Sorry.
No need to apologize. I like the personal touch;
it shows pride in your work.
Well I dont know about the pride in my work.
Im just a glorified desk clerk.
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was sitting next to Kris on the sofa before she had even
gotten comfortable.
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yourself back in after your errands, and Ill see you after
work.
I will see you then. Have a good day.
You too. Kris said.
As she headed down the stairs I almost called I
love you after her, but thought perhaps it would be a little
too soon to say such things. I got up and dressed in the
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that was it was easy to find a place she would have to walk
past, then sit and wait for her.
It was only a little before nine at night, so I sat
back on a bench by the fountain and listened to the city
and all the minds around me, and that is how I remained
until Kris walked up.
Good evening Mr. Mykalz. She said as she
rolled her eyes back over her shoulder to indicate coworkers nearby.
Good evening. I was wondering if you knew of
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the front door close I lifted Kris onto the table and
covered her in kisses.
I stopped at all the erogenous spots, moving
from one to another until she was trembling with ecstasy.
Then I made love to her right there on her dining room
table, and we fell asleep.
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for Beau at that point, but it was still very unnatural too
me.
Yes, but she always loved herself more, and her
own needs always came first. This one would die for you;
Im quite certain. Beau countered.
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once in Israel, and ran across the rivers surface so fast that
there wasnt time for my feet to sink. We stay on the
river all night, reaching the Gulf of Mexico by around
three in the morning. Kris pointed to our right, which
was east towards Florida, so we went that way.
We arrived in the city of Tampa an hour before
dawn and, due to the massive amounts of energy I had
exerted in our flight from Chicago, the hunger was
screaming in my brain.
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because your brother used to talk about you. Said the tall
beautiful Japanese woman with waist length hair and
extremely rare green-eyes.
If you know Beau, why arent you on the phone
telling him where we are? Kris asked.
Because I, like yourselves, do not agree with
how he has run things in Anus absence. Krystyl
answered.
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Where are the other two from this city that you
spoke of? I asked.
They are in the coffee bar. If you promise not
to kill them before at least hearing us out, I will take you
to them.
Very well. You have my word. I vowed.
What about you? Krystyl asked Kris.
Me, what can I do. This is my first night as a
Vampyre. Kris asked, dumbfounded.
It may be, but thanks to Kodi being your maker,
you are stronger than all but the most ancient among us.
I dont know that even I could stop you and other than
Beau, Kodi, Trent the duke of Miami and my maker, I
am the oldest of our kind.
Well, as Im sure you know, there is a war going
on between my brother and I, so we must dispense with
the pleasantries and develop a strategy.
Your quite right. Krystyl said as we entered a
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movement. Coryn had long black hair and blue eyes just
like Mitchell, and they shared a striking resemblance
except that she thankfully wasnt as muscled.
Holy shit: Its true. The first Vampyre lives.
Said Mitchell.
I do. This is Kris, my I started.
Girlfriend. Kris finished.
So it isnt true; The story about you wanting all
Vampyres exterminated? Coryn asked.
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His hair was streaked bright red and he too cultivated the
glamorously trashy look.
As we talked, I found out that this was our army
in its entirety. Beau had gotten the word out by phone,
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guerilla tactics like the militia all over Central and South
America used for the last several decades, which is in a
simplified explanation hit and run. We would never
engage the enemy full-on; just pick at their edges
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lone Vampyre trying to hide from the world and avoid the
coming Vampyre apocalypse.
The crucial information that we learned was that
there were thirteen of us in Tampa, and several hundred,
perhaps as many as a thousand or so were in and around
Toronto and the Great Lakes. This was both good news
and bad. It meant that Beau had amassed a large army in
a matter of two days. It also meant that the majority of
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knew the area, and the population was large enough for us
to blend in. It was also as far away from Beau as we could
realistically get, so for the duration of this war it would be
our base of operations.
It was a large home near Eva Peron and
Soberania Nacional. It was well equipped but far from
luxurious, but that didnt really matter since it would
basically serve as little more than a barracks.
Once there, we started planning attacks. Beau
had never been trained in combat or war, so any strategy
he had would undoubtedly be previously untested, and
that gave us an opening. He was undoubtedly studying
books on strategy, which meant he would never expect us
to hit him where he was strongest. Technically, I suppose
that is what he had done hitting Tampa, but I doubt he
really considered us strong anywhere.
He had always been a little arrogant, so we were
going to use that against him. Our first attack would be
his home in Toronto. Everyone except Antonio, Kris,
and myself had already as they put it unfortunately been
there before, so teleporting there was simple.
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have many. It would take years to win a war this way, but
one can only do so much.
So, off we went to 9 Boardwalk Drive, Toronto
Canada, and we managed to kill everyone in the condo
before we popped back out. Unfortunately Beau was not
there. I didnt really expect him to be that dumb, but one
can always hope. Of course the alarm system went off the
moment that we materialized there. I am certain that
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and become all too real for Kris. It took several minutes
for her to pull herself together. She had grown up in the
place, and inherited it from her parents when they retired.
It had been the one good thing they had done for her and
now it was gone.
I will rebuild it exactly as it was. I promise. I
said.
No, dont. She said, I have an idea.
She ran out towards Lincoln Park and was soon
back with the corpse of a homeless woman. The former
beggar was roughly the same height and build as Kris, the
same race that Kris had been as a human, and clearly
freshly drained by Kris I was certain.
This will keep the cops from digging into my
disappearance too much. We dont want them involved
in this war of ours. She said as she lay the woman down
on her charred bed.
A moment later the woman was engulfed by
flames. By the time the flames died, there wasnt enough
left of the woman for even the best forensic specialist to
make an identification of the body.
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(and every one of them were that) could keep up but not
catch her. When they reached us theyd meet a wave of
pyrokinetic energy. After their numbers were thinned
enough for us to realistically take them on hand to hand,
wed get bloody. We chose the last part to show the
enemy that we werent afraid of a straight out fight.
Coryn set the plan into action and it worked like
a dream. Every step of the plan went exactly how we had
anticipated. There were even a few Vampyres that had
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even had to sit at the at the bottom of the lake for an hour
by myself before they finally agreed. So much for being
commander and chief.
While we had been conducting our activities in
Chicago, Krystyl, Trent, and Shannon were clearing the
inhabitants of 120 Church Street in Buffalo. That entire
building had been taken over by Vampyres. Right in the
heart of Buffalo was a bit brazen, or rather idiotic.
All Krystyl had to do to find them was to pick up
the newspaper. The headline article was about the large
unknown group that had booked the entire hotel and
would not return any calls from the press.
Krystyl, Trent, and Shannon were at the hotel by
one oclock in the afternoon. By one thirty they had
beheaded every Vampyre in the building and glamoured
the staff to forget everything they had seen that day.
Antonio, Angela, and Sean were simultaneously
ridding the Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland of
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slow down much for her to catch up, but even that little
was a struggle against the Hunger.
I was in a foul mood over losing two of our
people due to my own lack of judgment, but Kris was
helping just by being near me. A few minutes later she
erased my bad mood completely.
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through for the last few days pretty much required that
our victim die. A small taste from enough people to
satiate us would almost certainly draw negative attention,
so we all ended up in the same neighborhood.
I had not laid it down as law, so I was pleased to
see that everyone from my group had chosen to find a
criminal when they knew they had to kill. No one was
overly vicious either which I also appreciated. Its not that
I am squeamish about violence; I think my story so far
makes that quite clear. I dont have a problem with
violence against humans either; when it is necessary.
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one of us down and kill us. Its what I would do. Plus,
my brother was just too smart to fall for such a simple
ruse.
I was sitting on the balcony when the rest of the
group arose. The usual strategy session ensued almost
immediately. No one wanted to talk about our dead. I
couldnt blame them; I didnt want to talk about them
either. I would have preferred not to think about it
either, but I couldnt get it out of my damn head.
Fortunately we had an abundance of good
leaders in the group, so my funk didnt stop us from doing
what had to be done. The plans might have been better if
I had made them, but who am I to second guess them; I
barely did more than grunt when I was spoken to.
So our plan, at least Antonio and Krystyls plan
that we were all following, was to start clearing Europe,
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question is will Beau win him back when they are face to
face?
He will try. I answered, He openly missed
Mehmed for generations.
Then we cant take that risk. Kris and Krystyl
said in unison.
What about his men then? Coryn asked.
We cant continue to claim the high ground as
we have, if we were to do something so cruel as to use
them as fodder. Angela proclaimed.
Then it is settled. I said as I turned to again
face my old foe.
I am sorry Mehmed, but we must decline your
offer. I said with a surprising amount of sadness in my
voice.
Then I give this life to you as I should have the
moment your brother gave it to me against your law and
my will. Mehmed said as he dropped his tunic to the
sand and exposed most of his body to the sun.
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end the Sultans life, and seeing that was enough for many
of his men (They may or may not have all been men in
desert garb it was impossible to tell) to lose their
willpower and struggle with the sun. As much as half of
his force burst into flames and died.
The other half remained in formation as if frozen
in place and time.
One soldier stepped forward and said:
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alone. Some even chose to flee into the sun and commit
suicide. The end result was that by sunset, Spain was also
devoid of Vampyres, and we were becoming certain that
we were going to win.
Beau hadnt even shown any interest in us for
days. Perhaps he was trying to develop a strategy that
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after some discussion was that they had been mostly older
Vampyres in Britain, and they had gone to join Beau.
From there we swept through the Scandinavian
countries, and then Northern Russia. Few humans lived
in northern Russia, so we were surprised at the number of
Vampyres there.
The thirty-six Vampyres we found in Siberia
must not have heard about my location ability and hidden
there because it would be the last place a Vampyre would
every logically go. They were so crazy from the Hunger
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Princess was they loved her, and obeyed her even though
she had left them to die. I pulled those two pieces of
information from the mind of one of my many assailants,
but no name for her; not even so much as an image of her.
It took a full day to clear Paris of Vampyres, and
the Princess, whoever she was I still cant place the voice
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way too early, and now his people have lost faith. Krystyl
replied.
You saw it too then. I said, I thought I had,
but I cast it off as being overly optimistic.
No She is right. Maria purred, We are
winning.
At least we can sleep where we want now. He
will never come at us again. Antonio said joyously.
Yes You have all earned that. I said, Where
would you all like to go.
New Orleans. Everyone said as one.
New Orleans it is then. I agreed.
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brother and his forces blindly from place to place until she
found herself in the middle of an ambush. If I had to
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treat her like a child to keep her alive I would do so, even
if she was over hundred years old.
For the next hour everyone set quietly prowling
through news programs and internet sites looking for a
sign. Everyone was silent, so when Kris shouted out, we
all ducked and covered to guard for an attack.
Damn it Kris shouted, Why didnt I think
of this sooner?
Think of what? I asked.
It just dawned on me to search for Beaus
financial holdings. You know like Klub Kodi. I thought
that if we hit him in his pocket book hard enough he
might surface.
Good idea. Krystyl praised.
Do you have something? I asked.
Yeah. He owns a hotel and casino in Las
Vegas. The top floor is a spa, but the one underneath it is
a penthouse listed as unavailable. Kris purred.
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share in his bank we simply fired him from his seat on the
board and framed him for embezzlement. As it turned
out Coryn was an incredibly adept hacker, so framing him
was easy.
Next we went after the numbered accounts he
held overseas. We managed to get the account numbers
and passwords, but could not transfer the funds. People
rightly use those countrys banks for security, and in this
case the security was the requirement of a physical
signature in front of a witness.
We were all itching to get our hands dirty by
them so we teleported directly into the office of the
manager of the primary branch of UBS in Switzerland. I
glamoured him into believing that I was my brother, and
that my signature matched the one on file. Coryn
transferred the funds into an account at our newly
acquired bank, and we were off to the Cayman Islands to
do the same thing there.
By the end of the day, Beau was worth less than
a third of what he had been before we ruined his casino in
Vegas. If he didnt come looking for vengeance now, he
never would. What we had to do was make ourselves easy
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and Tanto swords for each of us, and these nifty little
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smart. In the far back of the cistern, away from the eyes
of the public was a secret door that led into the secret
world of subterranean tunnels and rooms that few if any
mortals knew about. I think that some have been
discovered since, but Im not certain.
Anyway, once in the tunnels we had to be on
guard. As Vampyres, our eyes allowed us to see in almost
absolute dark, and of course a warm human kind of gives
off a red glow to our eyes. Problem was this was
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take the left side of the room, while Kris, Angela, Coryn,
and I took the right. Then we flew in with blades drawn
and began clearing the room.
On the left side two of Beaus Vampyres burst
two ash as silver plated knives sailed through the air and
planted in their chests. Kris and I crossed swords while
decapitating the same bad guy on our side of the room.
Angela had also beheaded one of my brothers flunkies.
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never return. The worst part was that it was getting dark
outside, so the tunnels would soon have a lot more
activity, and Beaus spell was preventing any special
mental abilities like teleportation. We were stuck down
there, which meant no sleep until our mission was over.
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Maybe not.
Definitely not. You let greed, and sexual
gluttony guide too many of your decisions. The world
you made was a house of cards just waiting to crash in on
you.
I know that now. Half the people who fought
at your side were my progeny. They were supposed to
love me, but they hated me instead.
You cant force your love onto someone and
expect them to go along. You cant expect people to be
something other than what they are just because you love
them and want them to be. That isnt love.
I guess I should have learned that here when
Pandora left us. Beau moaned.
We both should have. I acknowledged.
So what now? Beau asked, Do you still want
to kill me?
I dont know. I replied, What would you have
me do?
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as they did, but again they were family. They would age,
and soon be dead, and she just had to see them before
that happened.
Kris was supposed to be visiting her family
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when I saw her last, but she insisted that she was going
to. I fought her on it, but she persisted and eventually I
caved.
How could I have been so stupid?
It had been over a week since I had last seen her,
and I was getting very worried, so I used the telephone to
call her family home and check on her. They hung up on
me. I called again, and again they hung up as soon as I
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played games with his thoughts just as his wife had done.
I continued to question the two of them. Where was
Kris? Where were her parents? What were they hiding?
I asked the same questions over and over just
wording them differently to try to trip them up, but they
stuck to their story. And then, I caught on.
Kris uncle had looked over my shoulder towards
the door a few times, and when he did it again and
smiled, I knew something was up.
I turned just in time to avoid the blade Kris
father swung at my neck. He swung again and again;
missing each time. The rest of Kris family scattered and
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what I say is true. I have walked this earth since the dawn
of history. I have outlasted many gODS and I will outlast
yours.
You lie. He groaned.
No I dont. I have been a king several times. I
have even been a gOD a few times. I was your gOD, but
I already told you that. I mocked.
You will not turn me from my faith. gOD will
deliver me.
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4 of May 1995
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