Vampyre New Moon (eBook)

Adidas Wilson (Autor)

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2017 | 1. Auflage
38 Seiten
Publishdrive (Verlag)
978-0-00-010137-2 (ISBN)

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Synopsis

Apart from the realm of humans and far from the light of day, a complex structure hides from many eyes.  Here Val, a vampyre that follows the path of the Vigilante draws blood in search of justice and a path that she can call her own.  She is joined by her lover Henrik, a vampyre from another path and together they are drawn into a world of intrigue that threatens to tear the world they know apart.

Soon the pair finds themselves part of a conflict older than them both, forced to seek allies in people that seem should be mortal enemies.  In a world with so many different monstrous individuals it seems that only unity and the strength of overcoming differences can prevail.

A hidden organization has shown itself, one that seems to have been pulling the strings for longer than anyone truly knows.  This order seeks a war to keep the factions separate in order to find an evil power that threatens to destroy everything.

Can Val and her uneasy companions find the answers they seek in time to prevent a war and the end of everything, in both the darkness and the light?

Prologue Snippet

'I am surprised you picked the path of the vigilante when you were turned.' Henrik replied. 'You were such a violent person, use to hurting anyone who got in your way.'
Val laughed as she watched Henrik bite into the man and continued to drain him. 'There's a difference in the people in these streets that turn to violence. Some do so to just get what they want and some do it just to survive. I was hurt by the former and was turned into the latter. Now that I have the strength to hurt those like the ones that hurt me...I find myself compelled to do so. Besides, we have to eat...why not feed upon those who walk over others?'
Henrik finished with the mugger, tossing him over the side into a dumpster after he was done. He wiped his mouth and walked over to Val. 'I am glad you have chosen this path. There are others who have chosen the other path that became lost to them. We might have the minds of men, but there are many of us that become like beasts, others like monsters.'

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Kuro lead the group through the underground, a place in the city once used as a massive aqueduct system, long since adapted for use by the various vampire paths.  As a race that took extreme damage from direct sunlight, they needed a place to conduct business during the day. 

“I remember when the humans feared the night.” A voice called out to the group as he came out from a side path.  He was a tall older looking man in a custom fitted black shirt and jacket. “But now they cling to it like moths to a flame.”

“Byron.” Kuro said with a proud nod. “I have brought them as you have suggested.”

“Good work.” Byron replied. “I presume you are wondering why one as me has sent for you. Many of my paths of Legacy choose not to worry about such things.  Many of us are Vampires hundreds of years old and we are very good at surviving.  Though I am here as I believe we think we are too good at it...and that arrogance may lead to weakness.”

Kuro nodded. “This is Val from the vigilante path and Henrik from the chaos path.  They are...reasonably amicable acquaintances of mine and two that I have managed to convince in the importance of off path alliances...especially given what is currently happening.”

“A wise chain of events,” Byron nodded. “Please come with me.”

Byron led the group deeper and deeper into the labyrinthine passages that made up most of the underworld.  It was a city with few like it in the world, one known as the Dark Borough.

“You were saying that humans once feared the night?” Henrik asked. “Are you speaking metaphorically or literally?”

“Both.” Byron replied as he walked, all manner of vampires and allied humans moving out of his way as if sensing his status. “Mankind developed a certain fear of the dark.  There were predators that drove the earliest men to sleep in caves at night and they hid there until the light came back.  The same can be said of most animals with something above them on the food chain.”

“But men mastered fire.” Kuro replied. “They conquered the night.”

“No, we conquered the night.” Byron corrected. “As long as there have been rational men, there have been vampires.  Call it evolution, call it a blood anomaly, call it magic... we were there.  Though we realized that even though we were immortal, stronger, faster, we could not live outside in the day.  We needed to build our world at night and we spent a lot of time and effort making humans afraid of the dark, “Vlad the Impaler, Nosferatu, Dracula...all myths perpetrated by us to make the humans fear us and our dark dominion.”

“Then what happened?” Val asked with a laugh. “Humans still think we are fictitious but they are obsessed with us.”

“That is something unforeseen.” Byron replied. “Even in the early days of human’s moving pictures we thought we could inspire our tales to be retold to terrify people anew.  However, something happened that we could not have predicted.  Humans began to embrace that which frightened them.  Instead of growing afraid, they grew curious.  They didn’t fear the night, making their cities brighter and having all night shops and entire sects of people work and live awake at night.  Our only protection was to make humans disbelieve in us.  We made films and literature that was absurd and humans now think we are no more real than the loch ness monster.”

“The loch ness monster isn’t real?” Val commented. “I feel cheated.”

“Spoken as a child who grew up in the excitement of human media,” Byron replied. “You are lucky that I am one from Legacy that has great patience for the New Fangs.”

“Well we are all the same thing now.” Henrik added, “All Vampires.”

“I do not believe in this idea that the ancient vampires have mystical powers.” Val commented. “That is from the movies.”

“You are immortal, can heal any wound, and capable of great feats of strength and speed.” Byron replied. “Yet you disbelieve some of us can do more.”

“I believe what I can see.” Val commented.

“Well I fear you will see much more before this situation is over.” Byron commented as he stopped before a tavern called the Bishop's Folly in the Dark Borough.  It was designed to look ancient, likely brought underground from somewhere in the wild world and painstakingly reconstructed. He paused by the door and looked back at the group. “Come now...we must talk with the others.  I fear there are not very many of us.”

Inside the tavern were a myriad of faces, some that Val recognizes, and many she did not.  The bar was a popular place for vampires to come and socialize, challenge each other, and barter.  Val had never been there herself but she had heard many stories.  She preferred to keep to the relatively human side of the vampire life, fearing that she would become detached from what she was by living in the world of what she is now.

Byron led the small group past the public area and upstairs to a large board room.  Inside were two more people.  Byron gestured to one who was a tough looking woman with olive skin and white hair.  She was dressed in ragged clothes and looked more like an animal than a person.  She looked up with bright gold eyes. “This is Ivy; she is from the path of the beast.  She is a bit hard to handle but much more open to ideas and strategy than most of her kind.”

“I know a calamity is coming’ when I see it.” Ivy replied. “There is strength in numbers.”

“Indeed.” Byron agreed before turning to the other man.  He was meek looking and dressed in tan coveralls.  He had all manner of tools on him and was tinkering with some sort of device. “This is Asa from the Infrastructure path.”

“Infrastructure path?” Val replied. “That one I have not heard of.”

“We-uh fix things.” Asa replied, “We live in a complicated world that needs to work the same if not better than the one that the humans see.  There are some of us that devote our infinite lives to building our world.”

“Interesting,” Val said with a nod, taking a seat with the rest of the newcomers.”

“So, is this all we have?” Kuro asked. “There might be a war coming and we are but six?”

“An alliance of this kind is not very common.” Byron began. “There has been very few times where the paths have crossed for a need that was beyond their own survival or benefit.”

“I agree.” Henrik replied. “Currently the path of chaos and the path of the vigilante are not on good terms.”

“A cleverly orchestrated situation I assure you.” Byron replied. “Though our grouping is uncommon, I fear there is another behind the scenes doing the same and their goal is to use the divides to cause a war.”

“I don’t understand.” Val replied. “We live in such a violent society.  Why would anyone want to make it worse?”

“It is the way of how things work.” Byron replied. “I have been alive for a long time and I have seen the path system grow from an invention of need to a stagnant system used to manipulate the population of vampires.”

“Explain.” Henrik asked.

“Well in the early days of vampires coming together for strength in numbers it was thought that we were too dangerous.” Byron began. “We were an apex predator and if our numbers grew too large we would wipe out our food source.  Also, there were a lot of us that had very different feelings about what we did to the race that we were.  There was a council of elders and they composed a plan. They would divide our people not by clans, creeds, or geological distinctions; they would divide us by philosophy.  The way you lived your immortal life was how you would be organized and it was something you choose for yourself.  The paths were encouraged to explore their ideals and openly battle with each other.  This kept everything on even ground and kept our numbers on a more manageable and secretive size.”

“One question then.” Val asked. “If it is chosen then how does one choose to be a Legacy path like you?  I do not recall the one who turned me telling me about that choice.”

“There are some paths that have to be earned.” Byron replied. “Our path is that of the oldest of us.  A vampire must have been a vampire for at least a hundred and fifty years to choose our path.”

“That means we can change paths?” Henrik asked. “I was not aware that was possible.”

“Long ago it was easier than now.” Byron replied. “The path idea was pure and for many years it worked as intended.  However, there were those who wanted clans, wanted a class structure.  So over time, the path leaders became clan leaders and began to groom their followers to believing their way was the only way.  There are some behind the scenes, a group called the fulcrum and they are pathless and manipulate...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.11.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• ISBN-10: 0-00-010137-0 / 0000101370
• ISBN-13: 978-0-00-010137-2 / 9780000101372