Monday, August 24, 2015

The Price Of Immortality preview


Julia  sped  down  the  highway,  sirens  blaring.  She  was  ready  to  answer  a  call about  a  drunk  man  holding  his  wife  and  child  hostage  at  gunpoint.  There  was  no  time to  waste  because  at  any  moment,  the  emotionally  unstable  man  could  react  instantly. “Take  a  right!”  yelled  her  new  partner,  Rodney  Wilson  who  had  only  been  in  the  West Palm  Beach  Police  Department  for  6  months.  Julia's  cruiser  pulled  up  to  a  crowd  of people  that  surrounded  the  front  gate  of  a  small  house.  The  house  looked  badly painted  and  the  vegetation  in  the  front  yard  looked  completely  dead  and  uncared  for. Julia  hopped  out  and  whipped  on  her  ballistic  vest.  “Away  from  the  gate!”  she  shouted through the commotion. Rodney followed behind her. “Stay out here and keep the people calm.” she ordered to her rookie partner. “Where the hell are you going?” he asked. “Inside to stop this lunatic.” Julia replied. “Are  you  nuts,  you're  not  supposed  to  do  that  yet.”  “Would  you  rather  this  guy  put  a bullet in the woman and kid?” “No.” “Okay  then,  I'll  just  go  in  and  do  my  job.”  Julia  said  hopping  over  the  short  front  yard gate.  She  crept  up  to  the  front  door.  It  was  open.  She  entered,  her  gun  drawn  and ready.  She  came  into  a  trashed  living  room  that  carried  the  stench  of  alcohol  and tobacco.  As  she  cut  into  the  only  bedroom  in  the  house,  there  standing  in  the  corner, peering  out  of  the  window  was  the  drunk  man.  He  held  his  wife  with  his  arm  gripped around  her  neck  with  a  gun  pointed  to  her  skull.  Sitting,  crouched  tightly  in  an opposite  corner  was  a  five  year  old  little  girl.  She  had  tears  stained  all  over  her  face. Her  teary  eyes  met  Julia's.  “Help  my  mommy.”  the  girl  pleaded.  As  she  said  that,  the lunatic  man's  head  snapped  behind  him  and  he  faced  Julia,  who  quickly  pointed  her gun. “You  got  fucking  balls  getting  in  here!  You  must  want  me  to  shoot  this  bitch!”  he screamed  angrily,  drunk  fury  gleaming  in  his  eyes.  He  increased  his  grip  around  his wife's  neck. “Take  it  easy  pal  and  let  her  go.”  Julia  pleaded  calmly.  “Fuck  you!”  he  shouted  cocking the gun. The woman squealed frantically. “Please  help  me!”  the  lunatic  man's  wife  cried. “Shut  the  fuck  up  you  stupid  bitch!  She  ain't  gonna  help  you!”  he  screamed  into  her face. “If  you  just  drop  the  gun,  things  will  become  a  lot  easier  from  here,  you  don't  have  to do  this.” “Shut  the  fuck  up!”  the  man  screamed  again.
No  need  to  be  rude  buddy,  don't  get  too  ahead  of  yourself.”  Julia  warned. “Are  you  threatening  me  you  fucking  cunt!?”  the  man  shouted,  throwing  his  wife  to  the floor.  He  then  pointed  his  pistol  firmly  at  Julia,  staring  deep  into  the  officer's  eyes.  “I will  fucking  blow  your  fucking  brains  all  over  the  fucking  floor!”  he  shouted aggressively,  coming  closer  to  Julia.  Perfect  moment.  Julia  spotted  the  distance  she needed  to  him  to  reach  towards  her.  She  struck  like  lightning  and  grabbed  the  man's wrist  and  bent  his  arm  violently,  making  the  man  quickly  drop  the  pistol.  The  man screamed  in  pain  as  Julia  swung  the  drunk  man  to  the  ground  with  a  modified  arm bar.  She  then  slapped  handcuffs  onto  the  man's  wrists.  “You  have  the  right  to  remain silent!” Raven  woke  up to  the  lights  flickering  on  inside  a  large  metallic  lab  that  had  over a  hundred  containment  tanks,  that  held  her  species;  her  family.  They  were  slaves  to  the humans,  and  they  were  treated  horribly  for  the  gift  of  immortality  to  be  passed  down to  buyers.  A  man  came  whistling  his  way  into  the  lab  and  made  his  way  to  the  tank  that contained  Raven.  He  eyed  her.  She  was  nearly  naked,  which  she  was  only  covered  up by leather flaps that fell to her chest, and another one that covered her crotch area. “Ready  to  work?”  the  man  asked  with  a  smirk. “Fuck  off!”  Raven  shouted  angrily  as  she  turned  around,  putting  her  back  towards  the man. “Oh  c'mon  Raven!  We  can't  be  friends  after  how  long  I've  been  feeding  you  and  taking care  of  you?”  The  man  asked. “Fuck  off!”  Raven  repeated  loudly. “You're  in  a  grouchy  mood;  I'll  just  pull  someone  else  from  the  tanks  run  some  tests  on them.”  The  man  who Raven  only  knew  him  by  Dr.  Richards,  walked  his  way  to  the  back of  the  lab.  Within  ten  minutes,  he  returned  with  a  tall  and  slender  woman  strapped  to a  gurney.  Raven's  eyes  widened.  It  was  her  mother. “Leave  her.”  Raven  growled  angrily.  Raven's  mother  laid  unconscious  as  Dr.  Richards wheeled  her  closer  to  Raven's  tank.  Dr.  Richards  pulled  out  a  syringe  from  one  of  the nearby  cabinets.  He  placed  the  large  needle  near  the  mother's  neck. “Leave  her!”  Raven  shouted,  slamming  her  fist  into  the  hard  tank  glass,  sending  a crack  down  the  center.  Dr.  Richards  froze  for  a  moment.  Raven's  dark  red  eyes  stared deeply  into  the  cracks  of  the  glass. “That  glass  is  supposed  to  be  unbreakable.”  Dr.  Richards  whispered  to  himself.  Raven began  sending  kicks  to  the  glass  at lightning  speeds  and  with  more  impact came  more fractures.“Guards!”  Dr.  Richards  screamed.  “Guards!  We  have  a  breach!”  Suddenly  the containment  tank  glass  exploded,  sending  shards  scattering  throughout  the  lab.  Dr. Richards  fell  to  the  ground  to  shield  himself  and  as  things  seemed  still,  he  took  a  slow deep  breath.  He  can  feel  something  standing  behind  him.  He  can  hear  it  breathing heavily.  Angry.  Hungry.  For  revenge.  He  snapped  his  head  to  the  rear  to  see  Raven standing  above  him. “Guards!  Help!”  he  shouted  before  Raven  lifted  him  up  off  the  ground  and  tossed  him across  the  lab,  sending  him  slamming  into  a  metal  wall.  Like  a  cat,  she  leaped  with incredible  agility  and  landed  on  top  of  Dr.  Richards,  her  sharp  claws  growing  and sinking  deep  into  Dr.  Richards  chest. “Release  them  all!”  she  hissed. “You  don't  have  a  lot  of  time  before  those  guards  storm  in  here  and  put  your  ass  down, so  I  suggest  you  stop  your  hostile  actions  or  you'll  be  put  to  sleep!”  Dr.  Richards explained,  who  was  staring  at  Raven's  nails  dug  into  his  chest,  blood  heavily  staining his  white  lab  coat.  There  were  loud  foot  steps  clamoring  into  the  lab.  “Get  off  the doctor  right  now!”  one  of  the  dozens  of  armed  guards  screamed  as  they  all  pointed their  rifles.  “Let  them  go!  They've  hurt  no  one!  We  haven't  hurt  anyone  for  centuries!” Raven  screamed  desperately.  “Hands  up!”  the  guard  screamed,  sighting  in  on  the vampire  girl.  Raven  flipped  through  the  air  and  the  gunmen  opened  fire.  She  spun through  the  air,  dodging  each  round  and  came  down  on  the  clump  of  guards  with  a vicious  arsenal  of  spinning  kicks.  She  made  it  to  her  feet  and  quickly  disarmed  one  of the  guards.  She  pointed  the  rifle  and  unloaded  with  a  spray  of  rounds,  taking  down half  of  the  force  of  gunmen.  One  of  the  gunmen  gripped  her  by  her  hair.  Raven grabbed  the  gunman's  arm  and  pulled  hard,  ripping  his  shoulder  out  of  his  socket.  She then  pulled  him  to  the  ground  and  stomped  on  his  head  with  her  bare  feet,  crushing his  skull.  Another  guard  came  at  Raven  with  fast  knees,  but  Raven  was  skilled  and strong.  She  spun  and  elbowed  the  gunman  in  the  knee,  snapping  it  inward.  She  then snatched  the  rifle  from  him  and  shot  and  killed  the  remaining  guards.  Dr.  Richards stared  off  at  the  carnage  Raven  left.  She  was  beyond  amazing.  She  and  her  species  were a  blessing  to  mankind.  Dr.  Richards  knew  this  and  the  risk  of  her  escaping  and  getting killed  was  a  risk  he  didn't  want  to  take.  He  attempted  to  get  to  his  feet.  Raven  sprinted towards  him  with  a  powerful  kick  to  the  chest.  Dr.  Richards  slammed  back  on  to  the lab  floor. “You alone are worth more if you remained here.” he pleaded. “None  of  us  will  remain  here.  We  aren't  slaves.”  Raven  snarled.  Raven  froze  for  a second.  She  could  hear  more  men.  Reinforcements  were  coming.  Raven  flipped  herattention  off  of  Dr.  Richards  and  took  off  through  the  building  halls.  She  entered  the stair  way.  As  she  made  it  up  a  few  stairs,  she  could  see  over  two  dozen  gunmen  chasing her  up  through  the  stairway.  In  her  head  there  was  one  way  for  her  to  escape.  She climbed  the  stairs  through  the  25  story  building  and  popped  open  a  hatch  in  the ceiling.  She  climbed  through  it  and  now  she  was  at  the  top  of  the  building.  She  crept  to the  edge  as  the  men  busted  through  the  hatch  and  slowly  pointed  their  rifles  at  the escaped  vampire. “Return  to  the  lab  and  you  will  not  be  harmed!”  the  lead  gunman  demanded. “My  species  will  be  freed,  mark  my  words.”  Raven  said  before  she  gracefully  dived  off of  the  building.  The  wind  swept  past  her  body,  sending  her  long  black  hair  fluttering wildly.  She  could  feel  growth  ripping  out  the  skin  of  her  back.  It  was  her  wings, struggling  to  free  themselves.  Raven  screamed  in  agony  as  the  wings,  tore  out  from  the sides  of  her  back.  Her  wings  caught  the  wind,  and  she  took  off  into  the  horizon. Rodney  watched  on  as  Julia  exited  the  home  with  the  drunk  man  in  handcuffs. She  escorted  the  man  to  a  police  vehicle  and  made  sure  he  got  in.  As  she  shut  the  car door,  Rodney  approached  her. “Did  I  miss  anything  out  here?”  she  asked  with  a  smirk.  “I  hope  you  know  the  others won't  be  too  happy  about  what  you  just  did.”  Rodney  said  in  a  worried  tone. “I  think  I  had  everything  under  control.” “You  put  a  two  innocent's  lives  in  danger.  That  is  not  under  control.” “Listen  rookie.  Don't  fucking  argue  with  me!  I  did  my  job.  What  is  my  job?  To  serve and  protect!” “Fine  you  deal  with  that  shit  when  we  get  back  to  the  station!”  Rodney  said  getting  into him  and Julia's  respective  trooper.  Julia  smiled  and  got  into  the  driver's  seat  of  the vehicle.  “You  hungry?”  she  asked.  The  two  took  off  and  parked  at  a  gas  station  not  too far  away.  Julia  finally  came  out  of  the  station  store  with  a  hot  dog  and  drink  in  her hands.  She  climbed  back  into  the  car. “Are  you  sure  you're  not  hungry?”  she  asked.  Rodney  said  nothing.  His  eyes  were  glued upon  a woman,  slowly  lying  down  in  the  middle  of  the  street. “What  the  hell?”  he  muttered.  Julia  eyed  the  down  woman.  Rodney  went  to  open  his door. “Wait.”  Julia  whispered. “I  have  to  see  what's  wrong  with  her?”  Rodney  said,  concerned. “No.”  Julia  started.  “I'll  go.”  Julia  slowly  exited  the  vehicle  and  walked  across  the  gas station  to  the  main  road.  She  made  it  closer  to  the  downed  woman  who  looked  to  behalf  naked.  Julia  pulled  out  her  flashlight  and  shined  it  on  the  woman.  She  was  pale and  motionless.  Julia  went  to  a  knee  and  nudged  the  woman  on  the  shoulder. Suddenly  the  woman's  head  snapped  up.  Her  eyes  were  black  and  her  teeth  were  very long  and  sharp.  She  roared  viciously,  then  lunged  at  Julia.  Julia  threw  herself  back  but the  strange  woman  wrapped  her  arms  around  Julia  and  hopped  maybe  7  feet  into  the air.  Julia;  caught  in  a  mixture  of  shock  and  confusion,  elbowed  the  crazed  woman  in the  jaw.  The  woman  dropped  her  and  Julia  came  crashing  down  hard  into  the  street, landing  on  her  shoulder.  The  crazed  woman  ran  at  Julia  with  a  hard  kick  and  then  she lunged  her  face  at  Julia's  neck.  The  psychotic  woman  savagely  dug  her  teeth  into Julia's  neck,  ripping  deeply  into  her  skin  and  throat.  Julia  screamed  and  gasped  as  the woman was literally  sucking  her  dry.  The  woman  had  Julia  by  the  neck  like  a  wild  cat possessing  it's  prey  and  the  officer  was  completely  paralyzed  by  fear,  and  shock.  Blood squirted  and  poured  from  Julia's  neck  as  the  crazy  woman's  face  and  chest  became drenched  with  it.  A  gunshot  went  off  and  popped  the  woman  in  the  head  which  made her  drop  Julia  from  it's  mouth.  The  head  shot  knocked  the  woman  back,  but  she  was still  standing.  She  hissed  loudly,  blood  and  saliva  falling  from  her  mouth.  She  then turned  around  and  sprinted  off  into  the  darkness.  Rodney  holstered  his  weapon  and rushed  over  to  Julia  who  was  breathing  heavily  and  losing  blood  from  her  neck  fast. Rodney  whipped  out  his  radio. “This  is  Officer  Wilson.  I  have  an  officer  down!”  he  shouted  frantically  into  the  radio. Julia  was  motionless  but  her  eyes  remained  wide  opened. “I  can  hear.”  Julia  whispered.  Her  eyes  peeled  open  to  the  view  of  a  hospital room.  She  slowly  sat  up.  “What  can  you  hear?”  asked  Rodney  who  was  standing  near her  bed.  Accompanying  him  was  the  West  Palm  Police  Chief,  Captain  Clark. “Everything.”  she  whispered.  The  sounds,  the  light,  the  images  around  her  were different  as  she  woke.  Everything  seemed  amplified.  She  could  smell  aromas  from miles  away.  She  could  hear  the  radios  from  passing  vehicles  all  the  way  outside.  She could  see  every  single  tiny  detail  on  Rodney's  face. “This  is  fucking  trippy.”  she  said  rubbing  her  hand  across  her  neck.  There  was  a  large bandage  wrapped  across  where  she  was  bit. “We almost  lost  you  out  there.”  Captain  Clark  said.  “That  woman,  when  she  bit  me,  it felt  like  she  was  eating  me,  I  couldn't  move.”  Julia  said. “I  had  a  shot  on  her  but  she  escaped.”  Rodney  said.  “You  missed  her?” “No.  That's  the  thing.  I  hit  her  in  the  head,  then  she  took  off.”    Julia  raised  her eyebrows.  A  doctor  entered  the  room.  He  held  a  clipboard  in  his  hand  and  glanced  atJulia  with  a  smile. “Glad  to  see  you  awake  Officer  Jensen.  You  lost  a  significant  amount  of  blood.”  the doctor  explained. “We tested  you  and  found  that  there  was  nothing  out  of  the  ordinary,  so  the  woman who bit  you  was  probably  some  lunatic,  but  she  didn't  have  any  strange  viruses  or anything.” “Well  that's  good  news  we  needed  to  hear.”  Captain  Clark  said  proudly. “So  when  will  I  be  able  to  leave?”  Julia  asked. “I'd  give  it  another  day  just  to  let  it  heal  up  a  bit.  Whatever  was  wrong  with  this woman,  she  manage  to  take  a  really  good  bite  out  of  you.” “Alright  Dr.  Thank  you.”  Julia  said  before  the  Dr.  nodded  and  left  out  of  the  room. “Don't  know  what  we're  going  to  do  without  you  for  another  day  Jensen.”  Captain Clark  said  with  a  chuckle.  “I'm  sure  the  streets  will  be  watched  overly  carefully.” The  evening  had  come.  Julia  was  now  alone,  asleep  and  sweating  heavily.  Her bite  wound  was  throbbing  intensely.  Something  was  wrong.  Was  it  a  disease?  Did  she contract  something  that  the  doctors  couldn't  see?  Julia  shot  up  out  of  her  sleep, panting.  Her  heart  rate  was  through  the  roof,  and  her  eyes  were  blood  red.  Her  nails had  grown  longer  and  her  canines  were  distinctively  longer.  She  popped  out  of  her  bed and  ran  into  the  bathroom,  staring  at  herself  in  the  mirror.  “What's  happening  to me!?”  she  screamed  in  terror. “You're  one  of  us  now.”  said  a  voice  behind  her,  outside  the  bathroom.  Julia  poked  her head  out  to  see  a  short  girl  with  long  hair  sitting  on  her  bed.  It  was  Raven  “How  did you  get  in  here?”  Julia  asked  in  shock. “The  window  was  open.”  Raven  pointed  out. “We're  on  the  third  floor.” “Couldn't  go  in  through  the  front.  Flying  seemed  better.” “What?”  Julia  asked,  confused. “Sorry  about  the  wound.  If  I  would  have  finished,  you'd  wouldn't  be  here  right  now.” Raven  explained. “You  fucking  bit  me!  What  the  fuck  were  you  trying  to...”  Julia  stopped  talking  and then  began  hyperventilating.  Raven  shot  up  from  the  bed  and  walked  over  to  Julia, holding  her  up.  “You  need  to  feed.”  she  said. “What  the  fuck  are  you  talking  about?!”  Julia  snapped,  snatching  away. “As  a  vampire  you  need  to  satisfy  yourself.”  Raven  explained. “Wait  a  minute.  You  bit  me,  to  turn  me  into  a  vampire?!”  Julia  asked. “No!  I  attacked  you  because  I  needed  to  feed.  You  would  have  been  a  dead,  dried  upcarcass  if  your  partner  didn't  show  up.” “So  I'm  a  vampire?”  Julia  asked  with  a  laugh  of  disbelief. “You  are.  You  can't  resist  your  urges.  No  matter  what  you  do,  you  will  feed.” “Just  get  out!”  Julia  shouted.  Raven  smiled  and  hopped  out  of  the  window.  Julia  ran and  stared  out  of  the  window  to  see  Raven  land  gracefully  on  the  ground  and  walk  off. Lucy  Lawke,  the  brains  before  the  Vampire  Lab,  sat  at  a  table  across  from  Dr. Richards  in  a  small  office.  The  woman  held  a  syringe  in  her  hand.  She  injected  a  silver fluid  into  her  shoulder,  and  her  brown  eyes  flickered  red  for  a  few  seconds,  then returned  to  it's  original  color. “So  with  her  out  and  about,  how  do  you  plan  on  getting  her  back?”  the  woman  said with  a  strong  exhale. “How  much  of  that  have  you  been  injecting  into  your  body?”  Dr.  Richards  asked. “Enough,  why?”  Lucy  snapped. “Too  much  of the  mutated  vampire  blood  can  have  disturbing  results?” “I'm  aware  of  that.  Are  you  aware  that  a  million  dollars  worth  of  progress  is  out running  free?!”  Lucy  shouted  angrily,  shooting  out  of  her  seat. “I  am aware,  that  is  why  I  engineered  a  hunter.  A  creature  formed  by  mixing  the  blood of  vampires  and  various  carnivorous  beasts.  The  mutation  was  grotesque  but astounding.”  Dr.  Richards  explained.  “How  is  this  suppose  to  help  us?”  Lucy  asked. “This  creature  is  built  to  hunt  and  capture  vampires.”  Dr.  Richards  said  with  a menacing  smile. “Let's  see  it.”  Lucy  said. The  two  entered  a  heavily  secured  chamber  that  contained  a  massive  hibernation capsule.  Inside  of  it  was  a  monstrous  creature  that  had  four  massive  arms  crossed against  it's  body.  It's  head  and  face  resembled  that  of  a  saber  tooth  tiger.  It's  mane  was a  fiery  red  and  it's  snout  had  multiple  horns  protruding  from  it.  The  beast  had  the  body of  a  ripped  and  heavily  muscled  ape  and  it's  fingers  had  nine  inch  nails  coming  from them.  It's  legs  were  hind  and  it's  feet  resembled  a  hawk's  talons,  but  larger. “I  call  him  Odontotyrannos  or  Odon  for  short.”  Dr.  Richards  said.  His  smile  displayed the  pure  pride  he  had  in  his  creation.  He  rubbed  Odon's  mane  and  brushed  his  small hands  against  the  sleeping  beast's  enormous  biceps. “I  want  that  vampire  back  here.  If  anyone  is  involved  and  discovers  what  she  is,  kill them.”  Lucy  ordered.  “Like  a  dog  to  it's  master,  it  will  obey  orders.”  Dr.  Richards smiled. “Wake  it  and  let  it  sniff  her  out.”Dr.  Richards  pulled  a  syringe  from  underneath  the  sleeping  capsule  and  injected  a  blue liquid  into  the  engineered  beast.  The  beast  growled  loudly  as  it's  eyes  opened  and glowed  red.  It  sat  up  and  wings  ripped  out  from  it's  back. “Beautiful.”  Dr.  Richards  whispered  to  himself. “Find  the  vampire.  Capture  it.”  he  ordered.  Odon  roared  loudly,  it's  cry  echoing through  the  labs.

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