Chapter Four: New Protégée:

He sleeps in the daylight. While he sleeps, he watches the world. So far, he doesn’t like what he sees.

Vampires were supposed to be terrifying creatures. Now they had been reduced down to lab rats. Numbers of them keep disappearing. But, what could they do? Human curiosity was a dangerous thing to behold. Humans couldn’t leave well enough alone. They dug and dug until everything falls apart. Other species were stuck paying the bill. Vampires ended up being the latest victim of human curiosity.

The kidnappings, experiments, pain, and suffering. Most of vampires kidnapped never came back. Those that did never could blend back into their world. Humans will never learn to leave well enough alone.

He watched the world in his sleep again. However, a new, peculiar sight caught his eye.

She looked like bones walking down the abandoned Southern California streets. She looked like she had too much to drink and could barely keep her balance. But… she wasn’t a normal human. What was a vampire doing walking around the city in the sunlight? And why wasn’t she burning away? Even in his sleep he frowned.

She had been another victim. He could see the drugs and chemicals floated through her blood stream. The poor thing acted like she hadn’t fed in months. But the fact that she was walking around in the sun without any problems or burning up intrigued him. She could be a great asset to him. A little bit of nursing back to health and she would be perfect to stop this madness. He needed to arrange where he would “accidentally” bump into her.

For now, he would keep watch over this struggling vampire. Her kills were rather sloppy. She wasn’t new at this, he could tell. It had to be the side effects of the drugs the scientists gave her. This vampire would have to relearn everything from the beginning.

For now, he would keep watch over her and make his move when the sun went down.