Blood Demon Vampires are naturally born to be cold-blooded, ruthless, self-centered, and blood-sucking demons every time the sun goes down. Let's bring their kinds to a brand-new story, shall we? What if the vampires were befallen into a cursed system where killing is no longer a formidable solution for their thirst for blood? Instead of merciless killings, they are required to accomplish humanitarian missions in order to survive. One human saved is an hour additional of their lifeline in the human world. The more humans they saved, the longer life they get. Then were measured when this one-of-a-kind woman appeared in their lives. The only woman who awakens their dormant vampire's thirst for blood.
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In a world where everything is being dominated by obscure darkness, endless nightmares, and false fantasies, lies a lonesome hundred-fifty-year-old blood-sucking demon who stands firm on the top edge of the tallest building in the city. The hectic city of New Orleans sounded and looked the same as the previous nights. Humans wondering the streets with a smile on their faces. And small and large sizes of vehicles run in and out of my sight. "Target is on the move! Randolph Griffin, fifty-six years old and was holding a Ruger Max-9 Pro 9mm gun wearing a black hoodie. He is now heading to East Avenue, five blocks away from the building. I repeat..." My profound pleasure in indulging the sensation of this night's summer breeze that gently rubbed my cold pale skin shattered into pieces when someone's deafening voice vibrated in my ears. I was startled to the point that my body gets out of balance and falls through the air. Shit. I should have followed my instinct not to put earpods in my ears since I am a vampire with a heightened sense of hearing. However, my teammates forced us to use one so they could come after me in my every move. Using earpods is the most effective and efficient way they know how to have proper communication between distances. "Gaius, can you hear me?" he added. "I heard you loud and clear, you moron." because of too much annoyance, I remove the earpods and pulverize them before my feet could land on the ground and follow our target. My name is Gaius Spencer. I remained single in the world for one hundred and fifty years and was the youngest Blood Demon Guardian among my teammates of vampires. Our job being a Guardian is to be the ears and eyes of the city we were assigned to protect. We work most likely similar to the cops who keep roaming around on the streets day and night. The only difference is that we dont use guns and always stayed behind the darkness. Demon blood has run through our veins but our generation of vampires brings us into the world under a Cursed System where killing is no longer a formidable solution to our thirst for blood. We drink blood, yes, it is still a must for us, vampires. But we have to find the best method that certainly does not involve draining our prey's blood until they get killed. Most of us who often drink human blood could barely access our superhuman abilities. Other abilities even go dormant because we could not dare slaughter lives anymore. Some vampires choose to drain their lifeline and die. Good thing I am wise enough not to follow that kind of mindset and choose to live longer even if eighty percent of my abilities are already sleeping profoundly. Furthermore, we have these tiny rectangular red and black stripes marked on our wrists that embodied our lifeline. Red color means the number of hours, days, months, and years that we are allowed to live in the world. Black, on the other hand, corresponds to our lifeline that must be filled with red or the time we wasted by disobeying the Cursed System's written rules. Once all the stripes turn black, even praying to gods or the council of sorcerers could not help you anymore. You'll die before you know it. It was purported that ten thousand years ago, a council of powerful sorcerers cursed the vampires and to the next generations of our generations that we are not allowed to kill anyone with a soul to suck up their blood. Instead, they cursed us to lead and bring peace against our enemies; humans, co-vampires, werewolves, and even witches. We dont know either if the Cursed System goes the same for the humans, wolves, and witches. Nevertheless, all I know is that we are required to do humanitarian missions to increase our lifelines if we still want to live. Saving one human increases an hour of our lifeline. But killing a life cost us a day. Too unfair, right? We also report to the Council of Elders about the updates on our successful and failed missions and most importantly, our lifelines by the end of the month or unless necessary. Once we saved a few within the month, the council will be pleased. For those who were unlucky, the Elders stepped into the way to extend their help and provide us with the missions. And as of the moment, I am chasing a fifty-six-year-old man who mercilessly put a bullet in a man's head two hours ago. His reason was that he found out that his wife has been having an affair with the man he slaughtered in cold blood. "Stay where you are!" exclaims Randolph while pointing the tip of his gun straight at my head. Based on my opinion, he believes that it would be easier for him to pull the trigger when he already did it once. "If I were you, I'm not gonna do that, old man." I extended a smile on my face, thinking he might ease off, drop the gun, and surrender to my hands. Sad to say, he took the courage beneath his anger and released a bullet straight to my head, but it was my right shoulder that got hit. Even if I'm a vampire, the bullet could not stop me from being in pain. I moaned shortly after the bullet was pulled out from my shoulder. Randolph was startled and pulled the trigger. This time, he did not stop until all the bullets in the magazine were pulled out. I got hit but my body remained standing. "Monster!" his boisterous screaming almost break my eardrums again. Then, he runs as fast as possible away from me. As soon as I remove the four bullets from my body, I divided myself into tiny bats that no ordinary vampires can do. This special ability was a gift from my deceased mom who was once a leader of the council. It is also one of the reasons my teammates assigned me to do, most if not all of the fieldwork. With the help of the daylight ring I also inherited from my father, I can manage to walk under the sun after he died protecting me for the same reason - the rays of the sun. Since then, I became an orphan at the age of ten. It was also the starting point of my life to experience nothing but an endless nightmare. My stomach always yearned for blood. And I could depend on no one anymore aside from myself. At the age of ten, my hands got stained with fresh drops of blood from my first unforgettable kill. It was a woman who wanders the street with her four-year-old daughter. The slaughtering never stopped when every time I could smell and even imagine blood, my stomach gets famished. And every time I get hungry, I keep searching for prey. Killing someone has been as easy as counting from one to three for me and was only stopped when the Cursed System fell into our lives and met my teammates who treated me like a real family. After surrendering the unscratched Randolph to the cops, I proceeded to the club where my teammates are celebrating a small party after a successful mission. And of course, for us to equally divide the one-hour increase of my lifeline. Our team is comprised of four members. We have one brain, two ears and eyes, and one hand which is me as the doer of the plan. So, mathematically speaking, out of the one hour we earned from the mission, I only get fifteen minutes of a lifeline. While holding onto the thought, I accidentally bumped into someone as soon as I stepped foot in the club. "Apology, miss, I didn't mean to bump...," I could not help my mouth from getting zipped off when two unrestrained gorgeous light-green eyes from a pure human were locked up with mine. Even for a short period, I considered her eyes the most exquisite masterpiece I have seen in my one hundred and fifty years of wandering the surface of the world. They were completely pure and innocent. The feeling was similar to experiencing swimming in an endless wide blue ocean in the middle of summer or lying on the ground surrounded by a grassland of scented lavender. It was too warm and refreshing. I have met a few women, young and old, but her eyes outshined the rest. Too precious to make her cry. "No. It's all right. I'm fine, really," she did not drop off her stare, knowing that mine embodied deadly ones. Instead, she cracked a half-smile before she added, "I'm so sorry, too. It's just my eyes were busy looking at the screen of my phone." Even her voice sounds music to my ears. The feeling was like I can hear birds singing in unison or like a group of angels that sing harmonious heavenly songs. She was about to slide to the exit but I manage to stop her and asked if it was her phone that was dropped on the floor. But I already knows it was hers when it comes from her hands when we bumped into each other. She and I pick up the phone in unison without us knowing it. However, before our hands could reach the floor, our heads bumped into each other this time. I never expect that she could have a harder skull which resulted in me stumbling before her. On the other hand, she was about to stumble, but I managed to grab her hand and pulled her back to my chest. Sad to say, I barely expect that I could use a bit of my superhuman strength when her body bumped into me again which resulted in us plummeting to the floor. And the worst part of the situation is that our lips were the ones that got bumped into each other. The situation was a bit awkward, but I got panicked all of a sudden. Who could have thought the bump caused a cut on her lips? The second I tasted the fresh drop of blood that comes out of her mouth, I quickly pushed her away and I rushed to the toilet. My head then started spinning, in a way that all my sleeping senses have been heightened for the very first time in a very long time. While having a hard time breathing, the color of my vision also changed. And the blood inside me was burning in flames as though my body wants to turn into a pure vampire voluntarily. "What took you so long, Gaius?" asks Monbert, the brain of our team. But I ignore him simply because my brain freezes at the moment.Then I ordered Maverick to lead the way out heading to the plane where we plan to secure the kids. I, on the other hand, continued searching for the rest of them beneath the lighthouse. As soon as we got out, one of them told me, "Where are you taking us? What about those ladies in the other rooms who turned into monsters?" "Monsters?" I could not help but curve the tip of my brows while assisting them out of the lighthouse. She nodded. "I heard the guards calling out their names, Elaine, Shantell, and Rachell..." Then she rubs the tip of her nose while digging into her brain. I remember Archie and Captain Denver once mentioned those names. They were the kids who were kidnapped ten years ago. But what does she mean about them as monsters? "Did you have any idea which chamber they are in?" I asked her while scanning the environment to make sure there will be no enemies who can slow us down, especially when I have ten more kids with me. "No, you can't see
"This is NYPD, raise your hands or we'll shoot you!" Archie's boisterous announcement startled me to the point that the photo slips out of my hand. But before anyone could notice the photo, I quickly step on it with my hands raised to the sky. So is Maverick, especially when they all cock their guns in unison. I may be fast but the speed of their bullets moves faster than my vampire. And if given the chance one of their bullets penetrates some crucial parts of my body, such as the brain or heart, my remaining lifeline could have been useless. "Gaius? Maverick?" Archie breathed out my name in disbelief as soon as he recognizes my face through the rays of their flashlights combined. "For God's sake, put down your flashlights and weapons!" I blurted out when I could barely see anything around me but the eye-blinding rays of their flashlight. "How did you guys get in here so fast?" Archie asks me before he ordered his team to point their flashlights to the groun
Even if I remove their hands by force, they always use their other hands to cover my mouth. And it seems that no matter how hard I try, Cecelia and Maverick have no plan to allow me to talk. So I shut my mouth off while listening to Archie and Captain Denver's raid proposal on this private island which they were pretty convinced is the last and active laboratory for this Alpha's Puppets or whatever they are called. After a few minutes of their storytelling, Maverick and I ended up boarding the plane with our gears on. Though I haven't moved on from our first failed raid mission, I was left with no choice when Cecelia already dominated my decision-making. And I certainly hate that kind of idea when someone wants to control me instead of me controlling them. Regardless, I was simply looking at the bright side of the possible outcome. If what they claim is true that around a hundred lives we are about to save from the island, my lifeline would be happier once I cou
I am not into conversing with a bunch of humans so I prefer to address them that way. "Humans". Let alone that is the truth. But I did not expect someone wants to make that statement a big deal. "Just ignore Gaius, guys." Maverick broke the awkward sensation between me and Archie. Then he leans closer to Archie's ear and whispers, "he's into old fashion way of speaking. Humans. We are all humans." he giggles awkwardly. "Anyway, the rest of the police officers already took off to stay in their respective positions. Team Gaius and team Archie will team up in today's mission. Good luck!" says Mr. Cedrick before he stretches out his fist toward us. Archie and Maverick immediately bump their fists into Mr. Cedrick but I was simply looking at them when I barely understand what they were trying to do. Instead of participating in their nonsense fist bump, I walk to the rest of the cops to gear up which leaves Maverick and Archie with no choice but to break their nonsens
"We are not here to cause you trouble, Gaius," Cecelia uttered on everyone's behalf. Everyone, including her parents, nodded in unison. "Dad ordered everyone to gather here today for one main reason." "Believe it or not, Mr. Spencer, my daughter is telling the truth." Madam Mayor added and offered me the empty chair next to her. The last thing I could picture myself is sitting next to them so I grab Maverick and offer the seat to him by force. "What do you want from me?" I asked instead. "I'm a busy man and you are all werewolves led by your alpha pack and the city mayor, herself, so there is no need for me to explain further." "We are fully aware of the Cursed System, Mr. Spencer." Madam Mayor agreed. "That is why we are offering you our help to increase your lifeline as much as possible?" "What?" could not help but raise a question. "are you all fucking kidding me? Humans and werewolves want to help a vampire like me?" then I burst out laughing. "Are your kinds
"What am I supposed to do?" Cecelia proposed. "I wanted to help, Gaius. At least I could do something when it is my fault those innocent people in the orphanage lost their lives." My conscience doesn't want to comfort Cecelia with a lie or a promise since I agreed with her that it was indeed her fault this terrible incident happened because she did not listen to me. But I don't want to put all the blame on her as well. Maverick was right about me being the one to blame in the first place. I could have known better and stood firm with my decision. "Alright," I agreed. "Inform your dad and mom that I want to have a meeting with them as soon as possible regarding the case. Can you do that for me?" Though seeing either of her parents is not ideal for me, especially when the vampires still had unresolved issues with his pack members back in the village, I cannot do the mission alone. Back in the day, my role in the team is simply being the doer of every humanitari
"Well. In the first place, I tried to stop, Gaius, but he barely listen to me." Maverick was still mad at me based on his tone of voice. "Anyway, what are you all doing in the human village, anyway? Aren't you vampires too late to check them out? Gaius saved two poor kids the other day." Our conversation did not last long when I already know Monbert's reasons they did not get the chance to check their neighboring village. However, I relayed to him everything that I miss telling the vampire king in our previous encounter. And told Monbert he will be the only vampire I can talk to if they need more updates about the cases at hand, including Cecelia living in my place, the abnormalities of the lifeline that I encountered recently, and those masked men who created Lalaine. "Are you sure about telling him everything you know, Gaius? I mean, not that I am against the idea but you are no longer part of the council, remember?" Maverick started the conversation when it h
That was the first time in my history of being part of the team I witnessed Monbert be that furious with someone. When we were once a team, he used to be calm, soft-spoken, and the kind of person who doesn't care about the world around him, just like me. But right now, he is unleashing the blood-sucking demon inside him. "Gaius, who is weaker than me managed to beat you," he confessed. "how much more I am ten times stronger and faster than both of you combined." I don't know if Monbert intentionally tells Damon those words to stop him or if he was simply bluffing. However, I could barely sense any signs of doubt in his tone and facial expression. Monbert and I are close friends since we become part of the Cursed System but I haven't seen him being deployed into real battles. So I expected him to be simply an ordinary vampire like us. "And you too, Gaius," he added. "I know more than anyone that you are not the kind of vampire who prefers chaos over peace. What ha
Maverick, on the other hand, was busy chit-chatting to those bunch of assholes, asking if I was indeed the hero of New Orleans. Part of me wanted to stop Maverick from leaking any crucial information about me, but I have a middle-aged woman to attend to. "Believe me. Of all the humans in your life, I know better than anyone about how you are feeling right now." I said. "you want to die because you think you don't have the answer to your problem, whatever that is. How difficult is your problem, by the way?" Then I smiled and waved at those cameras in front of me before I added. "You are about to die anyway. I think it'll be better if you share your burden with someone before you go straight to hell." "I'm going to hell?" she curiously asked, even feeling bothered by what I said. "Of course! Where do you think you're going after jumping off the bridge?" I asked back. "getting suicide is a serious crime in the eyes of what you believe in the lord Almighty. He w
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