There are many vampires out there but none like Gerald, he is not your average bear. Thought and planning and training gives him success but nothing is ever 100%. There are other vamps jealous of his success, one powerful vamp who wants him dead, other governments who will interfere as he spys on them from his server farm. The only non stupid action hero(anti-hero) I know is Mack Bolan and he gets caught on occasion.
Chapter 1
“Evelyn aren’t glad I told you not to go hunting the FBI.”
“No not really,” she sighed, “ you are the one who doesn’t want human blood.”
“Is that an issue with you?I know you are younger than I am but I made you and you will always be mine.I do not stop you if you feel the desire to hunt, do I?”
“No”
“So what is your issue?”
“I don’t know.”
Mon Cherie, we have something no human has, you can feel my love, I am in you I surround you.I am you.”
She came to me and fell into my embrace.
I buried my face in her hair relishing the scent of her so fresh and captivating.Her body pressed against mine and I began to slowly change.My large corpulent form started to rearrange.I did not have to become so muscle bound that I resembled a Arnold Schwarzenegger look-alike.My form became comfortable and yet good to look at and touch.As she began to grind against me she could feel my penis harden and lengthen and she move her panty covered clitoris against me causing both of us to breathe harder.I grasped her clothes and ripped them off and she did the same to me.My mouth moved over her body causing moans of pleasure to issue from her mouth.She kissed my chest and stomach and then took me in her mouth.My body arched as her tongue played havoc with my most sensitive area.
I grabbed her around the waist and placed her on me and I began to move inside her, enjoying her warm wetness as she used her muscles to squeeze me with each stroke.Our gyrations became faster as only a vampire can and only as a vampire woman could withstand.With out pause she leaned over and bit my neck as I bit hers our movements now in perfect synchronization our blood exchange move us to a plane of pleasure no human could ever conceive or know.Then the explosion of pleasure hit us and we moaned together, we separated with blood dripping from our mouths and our hips quivering with pleasure.We fell off the bedjust for the fun of it.She landed on top again. We were still attached to each other and then we began slow easy movements building up to more of the same passion.
Several hours later we lay side by side rapped in the bliss of the moment.“So you still upset.” I asked Evelyn.
“No I won’t be if you hunt with me tonight.”
I sighed, “Okay, where shall we go?”
“I feel like a little hard working coal miner, how about you.” Evelyn teased.
“Well my taste are a little more uptown, I wanted to hop over to Philly, I love Cheesesteak.”
Evelyn pouted, “You said this was my party, my choice.”
I sighed a little deeper, “Okay coal miner, in the shaft or above ground?”
“Come on girl, let’s go hunting.”
The air in West Virginia was crisp and cool, the big coal mines were in the central southwest it was further than I wanted to go but there were a couple of counties closer.We found a town in Tucker county where they rolled up the streets at sundown.I sat on a boulder letting my senses roam.When I sensed our target for the night, I took Evelyn’s hand and leapt upward.We flew to a house that was somewhat isolated from the others around it.
Evelyn knocked on the door.The door opened and an older man opened the door.
“What’cha want.” He looked a bit drunk and smelled it also.
“I am sorry sir, our car developed trouble, can we use your phone?” Evelyn asked plaintively.
“You know we ain’t got many coloreds around here, you ain’t from around here are you?” he asked the obvious question.
“No sir, we are from D.C. on our way to Philly, and we got lost and then the car messed up.”Evelyn gave him the big eyes.“May we come in?”
“Who is that your daddy?” The man said.
“My uncle, my father’s brother.”
“Girl, I know what a uncle is.Come on in both of you.The phone is in the living room.” He said turning and walking into the living room.
“Thank you.” Evelyn said.
“Herb, who is that,” a female voice came from another room.
“It’s a couple of coloreds, wanting to use the phone.
“Herb I have told you they are called African-Americans, now.” As she walked into the living room.
She was younger than Herb but she was clearly his wife as pictures around the room showed.
“Look Elizabeth I don’t really give a shit, this is my house and they colored.” Herb spat and took a chug of his beer.
Elizabeth looked at Evelyn apologetically.Evelyn smiled back and humped her shoulders.
Herb looked up from his chair, “Well are you going to use the phone?”
Evelyn smiled and moved closer to Elizabeth, “No Herb I changed my mind, I am kind of hungry now.”
Herb’s voice got ugly, “I ain’t feeding your black ass, git the hell outa my house.”
“But Herb,” Evelyn smiled and her fangs showed, “You invited us in.”
Evelyn grabbed Elizabeth who had a strangled scream that was cut short by the fangs entering her neck.
Herb leaped out of his chair with his bottle in his hand.He had completely forgotten about the quiet old man.
Herb raised his bottle and then he suddenly found himself in the air and landed on his couch.
Herb’s eyes grew wide as I moved slowly towards him.Now I was straighter and taller with more mass and very long fangs.
Herb cried a weak, “No” I picked him up by his neck.
“You know Herb they say food in the South is the best, I am sure you will be delicious.” I sank my fangs in his neck.
I had taught Evelyn how not to be messy, we got the blood out but we did not drip, and spread it around.
Evelyn laid Elizabeth on the couch as if watching television and I place Herb in his chair.We left and flew back to Georgetown.
“You know,” she said, “that was not bad.” Elizabeth surprised me she smoked marijuana.It gave her a woody flavor”
“I am glad you enjoyed yourself baby.You want to take in a show?”
“Yes, but let’s go to the comedy club, I could use a laugh after Herb.” Evelyn said.
I said, “I know what you mean, he was a bit too much.”
Chapter 2
We went to the Improv on M and Connecticut where we had a great time and returned home.
As we lay bed waiting for the sun to rise outside beyond the light blocking shutters of our windows.
Evelyn turn to me and said, “I am still pissed about the op I did.Richardson found his mole but he would not let me question him.”
“Baby, we have not done any ops for them in more than a year, let it go.”
“I heard you talking to him on the phone; you are getting ready to go to Europe for him.”
“Yes and no, it is not all for him.“I told you about CezarPetrescu it seems he is working for the other side and he is not being discrete.He is using a team of vamps and they just strong arm any target they want.They went to the American Embassy but they did not count on Arm-a-Tec being there and he lost two of his vamps and did not get the info they were after.
Where Petrescu is concerned, it is personal and this meeting has long been in the works.You should know I may not come back he is a very old and powerful vampire.If I go heads up I will lose.”
Evelyn looked at me, tears of blood in her eyes. “So why go, you don’t have to.”
“Petrescu is stomping on my territory, the embassy is American soil thus it is mine.You don’t know how territorial vampires are and when we carve off a piece we keep it for as long as we live or another vamp displaces us in a battle to the death.”
“Are you going to take anyone with you?
“Yes I am.I have a team that has been training for this eventuality for the last two years.We have used our computing ability to randomize and guess at each scenario we might encounter.This was as a part of our AI research we are doing for our space program.
In a room of given sizes, with furniture the moves that can be made are finite.Not all scenarios gave a positive outcome for us.Petrescu is powerful and may even have abilities I know nothing about so we can not plan for the unknown.We only have two weapons silver and the stake.No, make that three, my sword if I can take his head.We will all be armored with hidden weapons and lots of hope.
We looked at Cezar alone and with up to four vamps we have simulated and practiced there is nothing else we can do and no battle plan survives contact with the enemy.Our best preparation is being able to think on our feet that more than anything will give a chance at surviving.”
Evelyn sighed, “You are full of joyous proposition aren’t you.I am coming too.”
“No” I said.
“And you are going to stop me how?” Evelyn crossed her arms and gave me the ‘that’s that’ look.
“Get your stuff, we leave in two hours.” I said.
Germany just like I remembered it, which was funny considering I had never been here before.That is what came with my makers blood.There are benefits and liabilities to gaining power.I paused more than once as something I had never seen presented to my brain as familiar.These confusing moments were something I was going to have to get over and quickly.
As we sat on the tarmac in my plane, I was listening television and radio programs broadcast in German something else I did not know I knew.Our transportation arrived and our personal luggage which had been inspected on the plane was loaded.Our other gear had been in country for years one of many caches I had around the world.Smugglers still worked world wide and I used them when I sent in country that which was explosive or ammo.Our rail rifles came in disassembled as electronic spare parts.
We came into Berlin and went to a office building I had purchased and renovated.I rented half out to other businesses and the rest was for my use.It was very costly to renovate after spending thirty million to buy this building in central Berlin not far from the embassy.
My regular security personal for the embassy stayed on the upper floor and I took the lower three floors and garage for my group.There were six of us, Silva lucked out being the only woman and got her own room and bath.The three men shared as did Evelyn and I.
CezarPetrescu was some thirteen to fourteen hundred kilometers away or so I hoped.He was living his anachronistic life in his daydream of royalty past.Our report indicated that he would come tomorrow to the embassy because that is when the information he sought would be there.It would be delivered by Blackhawk from the military airbase and taken out again the same way.As crazy as Petrescu was even he did not want to take on the U.S. military by attacking the helicopter.
Our rail guns had special wooden bullets with silver tips and embedded steel strips that allowed them to be shot out of the rail gun. The rail guns had power setting and the lowest moved the bolts at twice the speed of a ACP .45.
Every one had a surprise up their sleeve, steel edged wooden knives made of treated hard wood.They had worked with Evelyn and me to develop martial arts techniques that involved throws and leg sweeps mostly.The vampires with Petrescu were going to be stronger and faster but we could try to come up with some equalizer moves.My regular security personnel at the embassy knew about and had training in dealing with vampires, I would have been very remiss not to have trained them knowing I was one.
I have been in business for over forty years and I have thousands of employees who know who I am.I did the legal mumbo jumbo having them sign confidentiality agreements.To date no one has left disgruntled.
I did have one employee who tried blackmail but a midnight visit changed his mind.
In the embassy, we deployed in the hallway and in the office where the safe containing the information was kept.I knew Petrescu would come for the safe it was not a job he would give to a lackey.Darkness came around seven thirty p.m. so Evelyn and I came in about eight and took our positions, then we waited.The night passed and as dawn neared I knew he was not coming.We had arranged daylight transport from the garage to my place.I could not leave before the sun came as Petrescu could be in and out in minutes.We packed it in and got rested for another night.
The Marines in the Embassy were not happy to be replaced by contractors inside the compound.I took the Major in charge of the detachment aside and made a phone call where he got further conformation from his superior.. In the room, I changed in front of him.
“This is what you are up against.I do not doubt the abilities of you or your men but this is a different kind of threat and it calls for a different kind of response.We are that kind of response, if you really want to stay, you can.There will be no protection for you or your men.They will go through you like a scythe through wheat.
It is not necessary to lose your men in this battle.”
The Major looked at me in disbelief, which slowly changed to the hard realization that his world was not the place he thought it was.“What do we do?How do we respond?
“I am not worried about the vampires Petrescu will bring with him.They are lower level and a human with a level head can drive a stake through their hearts.Your men are trained in hand to hand then give them wooden stakes and get back to back.”I changed back to being a fat old black man.
“I would suggest you defend the exits downstairs and to the roof.” He moved his head up and down, “Okay,” he said.Then left he to go about his duties.
Petrescu and three vamps came in by way of the roof.They were either stupid or arrogant or both because the door was unlocked and no alarms went off and they still came on.They came down the hallway which was empty all the way to the Ambassadors office.I expected Petrescu to be an arrogant S.O.B. but I gave him credit for more brains.I was watching their progress on a monitor and they looked neither right nor left.
Petrescu entered the office, “Come out dog, I can smell you and the humans with you.I knew you were here when we entered the building.Come out and die.”
“You know dog you are not fun to play hide and seek with, you just take all the fun out of it.” I stepped forward, the only hint of anything different about me was the collar around my neck.One of the a Ambassador’s aide had been working for the other side for money we had located him and given him disinformation to guide Petrescu to the place we wanted him.The office was big with lots of fighting room and very little furniture we wanted tumble room.Petrescu and his goons on me and Paul shot a bolt into the heart of a vamp near the door.As Petrescu became aware of his man turning to dust he leapt toward me only to meet my wakizashi sword as it slashed him from collar bone diagonally to his waist.For a human that was a death blow breaking his collarbone, slashing his lungs and intestine but Petrescu only back up and glared at me.“Do you think your sword will stop me.” His body was repairing itself before my eyes.He moved with surprising swiftness and my head snapped back from his fist connecting with my face and I went down.
Evelyn was wrestling with another vampire and the second was playing dodge dart with the rest of my team.
Evelyn got her foot on the stomach of the vamp on top of her and tossed him over her head.He hit on his back but was up in a flash and delivered a hard right to her jaw.Evelyn’s head snapped to the left and her right foot connected with his jaw as she spun completely around.She followed with spinning back kick that knocked him over a desk.The vampire pushed the desk at her and she jumped up and over to land a flying snap kick to his chin.The vampire fell back against the wall and roared as her charged her again with arms spread wide.
Petrescu change into an animal form, a wolf with saliva dripping from his mouth.I changed into a panther form.Black and sleek with fiery red eyes, my fangs hung beneath my lower jaw.Our roars rent the air as we met in midair.Each trying to get a hold on the throat of the other.Claws and talons sent fur flying and then we parted.The whole exchange was so furious it seemed as if we had fought for hours but only seconds had passed. We met again this time rolling into the group of five circling and fighting bodies near a far wall.Petrescu swung hitting David and then me.David wobbled and then was hit by the vamp he was fighting.
Silvia, David, James and Paul were occupied by their vamp opponent.They are only human and the vamp had a speed edge a was able to dodge their shots of wooden bolts.He had ran in and knocked David unconscious and wounded James seriously by almost pulling off his right arm.He spun after hitting David while getting hit with a bolt in a non-vital spot.Growling he grabbed James and swung him by his arm.The armor James wore saved his arm from being completely separated from his body.It was articulated to move but it was one connected piece and it did not separate from the force applied to it.
Gerald and Petrescu were trading deadly bites and feints.Gerald was not supposed to be the equal of a two century old vampire but he was more than holding his own and Petrescu was not winning, he was not losing but he knew he should have been winning.The Jaguar was more agile literally running circles around the wolf who looked like he was chasing his tail.
In desperation he rushed Gerald with a body block knocking him to the ground.As he fell Gerald swung his arm and his rear talons scored deeply in the leg of Petrescu.Petrescu kicked Gerald in the head his claws leaving deep scars and then he went thorough the armored glass of the window and into the night.
At the same time Paul was knocked out by the other vampire who approached Silvia.She stood there arms at her side and looked him in the eyes.She appeared mesmerized by him.He closed on her and grabbed her shoulders.A look of surprise crossed his face and he turned to dust. Silvia stood there with the stake protruding from her sleeve.
Only Evelyn and Silvia got off with injury.James had a dislocation that would require surgery to fix.All the other bumps, bruises and cuts of James, David and Paul were dealt with as needed.Gerald had to take all night to heal. He had to sample the beer drinking, sausage and sauerkraut eating locals, synthetic blood would not do for his needs.Still it was not a taste he wanted to soon repeat.
In his bus Petrescu fumed and cursed as his driver went along the road in the dark.He finally deduced what Gerald had done.He had drained his maker and gained power and ability he should not have.Blood transfers occur in a any bite but only small part of the vampire viral RNA is transferred and it dies quickly.It is what creates a change in death from human to vampire.The RNA is reinforced by a second wrist bite when the new vampire rises up anew.In a whole blood feed the RNA is able to transfer the complete essence of the donor.Lesser vampires do not do that to older and more powerful vampires but he had helped the fool.This was his fault and he only got madder.Cezar knew he would have never had a chance against ReidjaAkbr he was far older and more powerful than Petrescu.That should have not been the case with that dog of a Black American.Gerald had told him how he had been made in a series of stupid accidents.Then Petrescu gave him the only information that allowed that fool to kill Akbr.The fact that Gerald was new and had not explored his ability because he did not act like a proper vampire had saved him tonight.If he ever found out his ability he would handle Cezar like a man handles a child.
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