After the Pandemic: Purge (Part One) (666 hits)
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Submitted by Artificial Insanity (View user info) at 2005-03-10 11:43:49 EST
They came one cold winter's dawn.
They came and destroyed everything.
After the disease swept across the state, those who emerged unchanged scattered into the forests to form resistance movements. So we burned the forests.
We burned the forests of the surrounding areas to drive the sunrisers from their hiding places, and living in Maine, forests were quite abundant. During the Great Inferno, we held celebratory feasts in the daytime under a thick blanket of smoke; wild orgies of blood, drugs, and sex. All that remained was our city and acres of burnt wasteland in which nothing could survive. Deserts of ash. Words would do it no justice. Celebrating our victory under the light of day symbolized our invincibility. Humans were an inferior race, one which we had crippled and conquered. They were our slaves, our playthings, our cattle. We were living gods, and nothing could harm us.
Then winter came.
It was months after the last wild human was captured and destroyed. Even for us, a species that lived in the dark, the winter this far north was unbearably cold. I had even heard rumors of the more affluent of our kind going to bed with human slaves during the day to keep warm. I had not the wealth to obtain live human slaves, and it was necessary to purchase packaged blood from the market. My family huddled together for our daytime rest to keep one another from freezing to death. Shortly after first snowfall the sightings began.
There were thousands of reports of sightings. Three figures standing in the wastes beyond the city, all dressed in red robes and with nothing where their faces should have been. Every witness described an overwhelming feeling of terror at the sight of these phantoms. Some said they could feel the apparitions staring into their mind, picking apart their memories, sometimes even speaking to them. Half of those who described these visions went completely mad, and subsequently were deemed a danger to our society and had to be put down. A few of the lunatics ran naked into the wastelands, screaming gibberish in unison at the night sky. They were found on the outskirts of the city a week later horribly mutilated with their incisors pulled and stuck into their eyes.
Those of us who had not seen could not believe. Such things did not exist, there was no man or beast that could frighten us. We were the supreme race. We were creatures born of mutation, not magic, and the idea of murderous ghosts was not acceptable, and any living thing could not survive in the frozen nothingness that stretched for at least fifty miles in every direction of our city. There were no predators waiting for us outside our homes, or so we thought. We were wrong.
They came one cold winter's dawn.
They came and destroyed everything.
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Submitted by notyou (user info) at 2005-07-12 13:45:46 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by nrduncan (user info) at 2005-05-12 17:50:08 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I have just got done reading these all and I have enjoyed them all. Great work everyone, +2's for all!
Submitted by Dannie (user info) at 2005-03-14 14:29:23 EST (#)
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Submitted by Professional_Peon (user info) at 2005-03-12 12:03:22 EST (#)
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Submitted by Jack_McCallum (user info) at 2005-03-11 19:43:34 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
+2, but expand! Expand!
Submitted by Genko (user info) at 2005-03-11 00:41:46 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Well done. I'm looking forward to the rest.
Submitted by thecaes (user info) at 2005-03-10 18:40:27 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I like this for a couple of reasons:
1. Finally, a post about the humans kicking vampire ass.
2. Well constructed, with an air of mystery.
3. Nice set up with a good hook at the end.
Very interested in the next installment.
Submitted by Snark (user info) at 2005-03-10 15:16:11 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Short but sweet.
Submitted by Kre8rix (user info) at 2005-03-10 13:07:17 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Good, but it would be better if it was longer.
Finish up.
Submitted by HadToBeDone (user info) at 2005-03-10 12:31:45 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
FIRST POST -2DIE!!!!!
Submitted by apollo88 (user info) at 2005-03-10 12:30:54 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
good
Submitted by Falconer (user info) at 2005-03-10 12:12:29 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I WANNA FIND OUT MORE! ARGH!
Seriously; this was great.
Submitted by ArtificialInsanity (user info) at 2005-03-10 11:48:59 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
The original idea was vampire cowboys, but it just didn't come out right. Maybe more on that later.