Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 14:16:49 +1300
From: Arthur <artcart65@vodafone.co.nz>
Subject: prince vladd part 16

			   PRINCE OF HOUSE VLADD

				  PART 16

				 BY ARTHUR


When morning finally dawned, the city looked like a minature war zone, a
full council meeting was in progress which included the Mayor, the Chief of
Police, representatives of the FBI and Homeland Security, all emergency
services were active and almost inundated by the calls for help. The men
around the table began to put together what the night of terror had
brought.

The streets were the scene of rioting, cars ripped open like sardine tins,
flames still rose high in the morning air from the many fires from gas
mains and broken homes, the body count was rising by the hour as panicked
calls from misguided citizens called in to report some weird fantasy dreams
of werewolves and vampires running amok, these reports went into a madcap
file and were forgotten by most of the council, only one member at the
table took sereptitious notes of these crank calls.

Up to that minute there had been reports of 73 adults and 16 children
killed with another 18 children missing, 28 paramedics had been killed
while trying to give assistance to the injured and there had been the loss
of 45 police officers, the only thing that could not be explained was the
way in which most had died, while the city looked like a battle ground,
there had been no explosions as would be expected in an attack by
terrorists, most of the fires had been started by broken mains and
exploding cars.

Reports were still coming in from some of the outer areas of the city, in
some cases there had been attempts by citizens to form vigilanty groups to
defend their homes and streets, in most of these cases there had been
losses only by the vigilanties, there was no evidence of any of the
attackers being caught or killed, another report was dropped on the table
in front of the Mayor, some form of attack was taking place in a downtown
industrial area, The Mayor tossed it aside, the area was known to be
derelict, only street kids and whores lived there amongst the deritous of
the cities lower classes and homeless.

David Shaw quietly asked to be excused from the meeting for a minute, he
left the room and took out his cell phone and dialed a number, it was
quickly answered.

"Yes?"

"My Lord, there's just been a report of an attack down at Ellis Street,
they may need help."

"Thank you David, we'll send reinforcements immediately" replied Peter.

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As the dawn broke over Ellis Street, five figures took up positions on roof
tops surrounding 747 Ellis Street, the old factory had obviously been
renovated and two new buildings stood at either end of the old factory, the
men spread out to cover all of the front of the building, from their
positions high up on the roof they could see all of the surrounding
buildings, below and one block away they saw the eight black vans pull to a
halt, hidden from the building below them, a stream of black suited and
armed men flooded from the vans.

The attackers quickly fanned out in groups of four, their equipment showed
top of the line weapons and explosives, four of the men even carried RPG's
on their shoulders. Slowly they sent out scouts to inspect the street from
the nearest corner, returning to the main group, the scouts reported and
confirmed that there were a number of young kids lounging around the
entrance of the target building, they could see no obvious alert or
defenses from these young street kids even though they had been warned that
they could be dangerous.

Most of the attackers were from the hard streets of central Europe, some
had even been members of the Stazi and KGB, they knew when a site was
dangerous and this was not one of them, what kids in their right mind would
take on these armed and trained men. The leader called most of the men to
him and began to give instructions as to how to attack the building, using
his comlink he instructed his five snipers to begin to clear the street of
the kids and any others standing around.

The five snipers settled down on the roof top and began to take line on
their targets, none of them looked up, why would they, their targets were
down on the street, none of them heard the woosh of large wings above them
until to late and when they heard the loud screech above them and looked
up, all they saw were five very large eagles almost on top of them, their
razor sharp talons stretched out in front of their huge bodies and aimed at
the faces of the five men.

The five snipers could only issue their own scream of fear as those same
talons began to sink deeply into the flesh of their faces and shoulders,
within seconds it was over, the eagles flew back up into the heavens
leaving behind five torn and blind snipers to stumble around the roof top,
two of them never saw the edge of the building and were suddenly in free
flight towards the hard cement covered ground below.

Gregor Antovich had heard the screech of the attacking eagles but was only
in time to see the five large birds fly heavenwards when he looked around
the corner, his men were moving into position in front of the old factory
just as the two bodies of the blind snipers hit the sidewalk, there was no
sign of any people in the street, all the kids had miraculously disappeared
from sight, the street was empty.

Gregor sent his men into the attack, his four expolsive experts ran for the
large front doors, the men with the RPG's lined up the ground floor
windows, the rest of his small army cocked and readied their personal
weapons ready for the imminent breach of the doors, they would then rush in
and kill anyone and everyone in sight, once that was completed they would
destroy the building until it was nothing more than a pile of rubble in the
street.

After laying 2 pounds of C4 at the center of the large doors, the four men
moved back and, once everyone had taken cover, threw the detonator switch,
a loud explosion reverberated down the empty street, dust and debris
scattered around the hidden men as the street shuddered with the blast,
after a few minutes the scene in front of the building became clear of dust
and grit, too the surprise of the men the doors still stood solidly,
although there was a deep indentation in the center and some of the
concrete had been blown from the face of the factory.

Gregor sent his four men in again, "double it" he told his men, the men
went back and laid 4 pounds of C4 at the same spot, this was enough to drop
a steel bridge, everyone went through the same process, this time the
street seemed to lift upwards as the explosion took place and it took
longer for the street to clear of dust and debris, much to Gregors relief
they had blown one door until it sagged open on a single hinge, the other
door still stood but was obviously not going to stop his men from entering,
it was then that Gregor could see why they had needed so much C4, both
doors were over two feet thick and were made of many layers of thick steel
with six large heavy bolts going through them, his men moved forward and
began to enter the large foyer like room behind the doors.

The first men to enter thought the room was empty until they looked closer
at the sheet of glass covering the reception desk, there, behind the desk
stood a young boy of no more than twelve, he was smiling at them as they
raised their weapons and, with the guns on full automatic, sprayed the desk
area with bullets, nothing happened apart from the men having to dive for
non existant cover as their bullets ricoched around the room, the glass
remained unbroken and the young boy was still smiling at them, with a small
wave he disappeared from sight as more men invaded the reception.

There were now fifteen men crowded into the reception area, Gregor took the
lead and gave orders for a search to be made to find access to the inner
rooms, after a short search, his men found a door on the left of the desk,
there was no lock or handle to open it with only a touch pad, Gregor
signalled for more explosives, once they were set everyone retired outside
until the door was blown but again they had to do it a second time.

Finally the door hung on its hinges, down the passage were a number of
closed doors and a set of stairs leading upward, Gregor sent in two teams
of four to clear the passage and check the rooms, the first door opened
easily to the touch, two men entered and seconds later two loud gurgling
screams rent the air, fear began to show on some of the faces, the scream
had been of terror and fear then death, two more men cautiously entered the
room, weapons at the ready.

The first thing they saw were the two torn bodies of the other two men,
next they saw two young teens standing in a corner smiling, raising their
weapons towards the boys they made ready to fire, then it happened, the two
boys suddenly began to shimmer and within a second the two men were faced
with their worst nightmare, instead of two young teens, they were faced
with two werewolves, both over seven feet tall, it was their last
understanding as they screamed out their own fear and terror which ended
the same as the other two had, with a gurgling sound as their throats were
torn out and their hearts forcefully pulled from their chests.

The two wolves looked at each other and let out a roaring snarl, their maws
covered with the blood of the mens hearts, quickly they took up a position
on each side of the open door just as three gun muzzles appeared and let
loose with a long stream of automatic fire, spraying the room with bullets,
the wolves casually reached out and took hold of the weapons and pulled the
three gunmen into the room where they dispatched them with the same
calousness as the others.

As the next three were being torn apart the other five doors opened,
suddenly the narrow passage that constricted the movements and fire power
of Gregors men, was filled with towering werewolves and snarling Felines,
Gregors men knew they were in troubles as the first tiger lept forward and
took a large bite from the throat of the first man in line, as he screamed
his death call, Gregor heard heavy firing from outside, screams and yells
filled the street the same as they now filled the inside of the building,
Gregor began to make his way towards the entrance of the building in an
attempt to get out of this factory of death before he was caught.

When Gregor made his way into the street, the scene that met him was no
better, eagles and falcons were attacking his men from above, on the street
were four young men but, Gregor noticed, not ordinary young men, one was
dressed in Indian garb and held two strange knives, another younger boy
moved with inhuman speed and accuracy as he carved his way through his men
with a very fancy Japanese sword while a pair of twins were using both
swords and hand guns to disasterous effect, all four boys seemed oblivious
of the bullets flying in their direction, even when hit, the boys seemed to
ignore the wound and just kept on slaying the men on the street.

Gregor had seen his fare share of blood and gore but this was something
new, something he had ever expected to see in all his life time, it was a
slaughter, nothing his men could do could stop the insane attack by the
four boys and the strange birds, men blinded by the bird attacks walked
unknowingly into the scything blades of the boys, one man tried to get a
shot off with his RPG only to watch as his weapon was rendered useless by a
slicing blade which continued on its path to sever the mans head from his
shoulders.

Gregor knew when he was beaten, he turned and began to run towards where
they had parked their vans, it was obvious no one was going to survive the
slaughter going on in the street, this failed attack with fifty men and all
the technology they had at their disposal was not going to be his last
fight, Gregor ran on, suddenly he was within sight of his vans but
something was wrong, he pulled to a stop as he saw the bodies of the four
men he had left to guard the vehicles laying on the sidewalk, Gregor felt
his gorge rise as he saw their heads laying in the center of the road, as
he took in the sight before him, Gregor heard a small cough behind him,
reaching for his sidearm, he turned towards the new sound.

The sounds of the battle and died to nothing, Gregor stood alone in the
silent street facing a young teen boy, the boy held a blood covered sword
in his right hand, his shirt showed he had been hit at least six times by
automatic fire yet he stood as straight and seemingly as healthy as ever,
the boy smiled.

"Gregor Antovich, I've been waiting to meet you."

"Who are you? what are you?"

"Your worst nightmare, I'm Prince Poitre Vladd" as he said this Peter let
his Vampire side show, his fangs dropped and his eyes turned red, the fear
he saw in Gregorts face sent a sudden thrill through his young body, he
didn't really enjoy the slaughter he had been responsible for but he also
accepted his role as leader and Prince. At the sight of the boys true form,
Gregor began to feel the wetness slide down his legs as he wet himself, now
he knew he was not going to escape this last defeat, he raised his sidearm
in what he knew was a futile attempt to defend himself.

It was a wasted movement as he felt his wrist bones crumple under the
intense preasure of the young boys closing hand, the gun fell to the ground
unfired as Peter looked up into the fear laden eyes above him, quickly
Peter read Gregors thoughts and memories, here was one man that truly
deserved no pity.

"That's right Gregor Antovich, we're real, we're not just a figment of some
writers imagination, this is your last minute on earth and the last time
you will cause destruction to anyone else."

Moving with his unearthly speed, Peter lifted his Katana and, with one
smooth stroke, watched as Gregors head joined those of his men in the
middle of the street, the look of shock and horror still imprinted on the
face of the bodyless head, it was over, now all they had to do was track
down Seaton and finish this stupid little war. Peter returned to House
Vaga, the boys from inside were already clearing away the bodies of the
attackers, some even enjoying a snack as they worked.

Ten minutes later and all that remained on the street were some thick
patches of blood where the slaughter had taken place, as he was looking
over the destruction of the doors a pickup pulled into the curb and Jakes
deep rumbling voice came from the wound down window.

"Hey Prince, couldn't you have waited till we got here, we missed all the
fun,...ahh shit, look at my doors, what's the inside like, did the defenses
hold up?"

"Hi Jake, we couldn't wait, it wasn't fun and yes the defenses held and
you'll have to replace the doors, besides what are you doing here, we
didn't call you?"

"Part of the security system, the alarms went off as soon as those idiots
tried to blow the doors, there's about four packs on the way to help but it
looks like we're all a bit late."

"Yeah Jake, just a bit late, we'll need these doors fixed as soon as
possible and one inside as well."

"Ok, we'll have it done by tomorrow morning, any idea how many tried to
take the house down?"

"I'm not sure but I think it was about fifty."

"Hmm, not bad for your first little battle, did you lose anyone?"

"No, most of us have got a few holes but they've already healed and the
Vaga boys did a great job, I don't think we'll have to worry about them any
time in the future."

"That's good, so what now?"

"If you and your guys could take over here and start the repairs, I'm
taking my people home to rest and start a search for our real enemy."

"Who's that then, who's really behind it all?"

"Our so called architect, Seaton, I've got to get back and start the search
for him, I'm pretty sure he will know about all this by the time the sun
sets."

"Looking at the mayhem of last night, I think he may have a lot of help
from some of the folk, he couldn't do it all by himself."

"I'm sure your right Jake, I just can't work out how we didn't hear about
this before, if he's got other folk working with him then how come no one
has heard anything?"

"I don't know little Prince, but going by the carnage last night he has to
have more than just Vampires working with him, well I better get on to the
guys and make a start on those doors."

"Yes, thanks Jake, I've got to get moving, and tell your guys thanks for
trying to get here to help the Vaga boys, I'll see you around Jake."

"Ok Prince, don't worry we'll get this all straightened out by the
morning."


"Thanks again Jake."

Peter turned and called for his boyfriend and the twins, minutes later they
were on their way home, the only signs of their fight were the tears and
rents in their clothes from the gunfire, their bodies had long since
repaired any bodily damage, Swiftwing was cleaning his Kama as he sat in
the back of the car with Peter, his cheeks were still a little flushed with
effects of the fight, his heritage as a warrior had enjoyed the conflict
even though his modern day mind abhored the slaughter, after cleaning the
Kama he settled his head on Peter's shoulder and sighed with contentment
that his lover was still ok.

On his return to House Vladd, Peter immediately saw his incoming mail light
flashing, opening the page he saw a list of close to thirty messages
waiting for him, most were offers of assistance, others were reports on the
beginings of new houses for the Vaga in the other states, for the next
hour, Peter sent replies and reports to each of the messages, he also added
a note for the undertaking of a search for Seaton or any sign of his
activities.

Once he had finished, Peter and Swiftwing adjourned to their bedroom for
some much needed rest and recreation, both of which they needed after the
hectic morning.

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As the sun set for another day, Seaton's eyes slowly opened, he stretched
his stiff muscles and called for his personal boy to bring a man from the
cells for him to feed on, the boy was back in minutes and waited until
Seaton had fed then carried away the body to be disposed of.

Seaton felt revived and went to his computer to read the reports, he wasn't
expecting too much from Gregor but he hoped they had managed to enter the
house and at least kill off a few of the Vaga boys and destroy as much of
the house as possible, he was disappointed in the report from his spies,
still he had been able to use the humans to start a general dislike or more
likely, a hatred for all folk, soon the government and the humans would
rise and take their own revenge on house Vladd and most of the others.

Seaton felt safe and secure, as was his usual system, he had taken his
household and disappeared into the mountain retreat he had had built in
secret many years ago, from there he could control what was happening and
be out of the way when the humans turned against the folk, when it was all
over he would be the only one left and then, he alone would be in the
position of power, even if it took years he could afford to wait, after all
it had taken thirty years to get to this point, a few more years would make
no difference.

He knew he was hidden and secure, all the people involved in building this
facility were long dead, only his personal boys and close offspring knew
about the hideaway and they were all here with him, his contacts amongst
the other species of the folk had no idea where he was, only that he was
going to give them total freedom to do as they wished once this small war
was over, the whole country would belong to them with Seaton at its head.

He had taken a lot of time to set up this hideaway, his communication
system was sent through a number of satellites and overseas servers, for
anyone to try to track him down would take forever, he was as secure as he
could be, even if the others tried to track him down and, if they did, they
would never be able to penetrate his sercurity systems so deep under
ground.

Seaton began to set up his next night time attacks, this time he would set
all five states alight, all his followers were just waiting for his go
ahead to start their own nights of terror, the sooner he could entice the
human government into the fight the better it would be for him, just a few
more serious and devastating attacks would get their attention in a big
way.

Seaton made his calls and then sat back with one of his boys sitting naked
on his lap, the boys young face grimacing as Seaton used all his power to
force his way deep into the boys innards time and time again until with a
loud grunt he unloaded his pent up frustrations deep inside the boy, as the
boy collapsed back against Seatons chest, his small hole on fire from the
heavy pounding it had just recieved, Seaton slowly masterbated the boy to
his own ejaculation, once done he settled back with the boy still planted
firmly in his lap, he would be ready again soon.

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By the middle of the night the reports had begun to come into Peters
office, all the TV's in the house were tuned into different stations, all
of which had nothing else on but the violent attacks taking place in all
five states, Peters message page began to fill with questions and requests
for help, Peter sat back and let his fathers memories take over for him,
what was happening was far beyond his young years, all his guardians were
present and as he asked them for advice along with his deeper memories
began to form a plan of defence.

Switching to conference mode he began to give out his advice to all the
other folk online.

"It appears that this is a concerted attack on the humans, my advice is to
contact all and any Vaga that are going to benefit from your assitance with
their various houses and ask them to help build up your numbers, I'm
issuing orders now for my own people to start to retaliate and defend all
humans to the best of their abilities, make sure everyone knows we're up
against species of the folk, this time we are going to lose people, my
advice is to make sure no one works alone, ask the Avians to get up high
and be observers, use combinations of the other folk to the best advantage,
for example, if the attackers are wolves then it would be best to use a
combination of Felines and Vampires with the Avians as back up, if its
Felines then use the Canines and Vampires, in the case of Vampires you'll
need all of the others in a concerted attack, everyone agree?"

The answers were quick in coming back, everyone agreed and began to set up
their attacks and defenses it was going to be a very long and rough night,
Peter closed the conference and began to set up his own attack strategy,
sending out calls to everyone he knew to start to fight back, within
minutes he had a report from house Vaga that all Avians were in the air and
reporting back to Torson, who was now back in charge of house Vaga, Jake
had already begun to call in all the packs and placed them under Peters
orders.

The first of the reports from the human forces were coming in via Leon and
Carters interventions, the national guard had been called in and other out
of state forces were on their way from variousd bases, Peter knew most of
them would arrive to late to make much of a difference so sent out his
orders, they were the same as he discussed with the other states, where
possible all parties had to have some form of cummunications so they could
co-ordinate with each other.

At the outset of the new attacks, most humans began to make a run for their
homes in the hope of surviving this new attack by the unholy, cars were
attacked by terrifying beasts on the streets and highways, werewolves,
werecats and other terror animals appeared in the night to tear and maim
anyone out on the roads, the Police lost men at a terrifying rate as they
tried to get some sort of order back but they were overwhelmed by the sheer
ferocity of the attackers, nothing seemed to work as they themselves came
under attack and had to fall back to their stations in the hope of forming
some sort of defence.

Peter began to send out co-ordinates of ongoing attacks, his people began
to take damage and losses but nowhere near as many as the attackers, the
use of his combined spieces attacks quickly showed the wisdom of his
design, for every one of his people that was injured and in some cases
killed, the attackers lost five. The carnage was grusome, blood flowed on
the streets and in the gutters, humans could be heard screaming as they
witnessed the terror and blood in the night.

Peter quickly realised that the key to winning was his use of the Avians,
the enemy seemed to have none or were not using them in the way Peters
forces were, as spotters of trouble spots, the Avians were far superior to
any man made devices and as back ups they were more than effective in
attack as the enemy were not aware of any danger being above them as they
were too busy with the ground assaults to look above themselves.

The many fights were brutal in the intensity, no quarter asked or given,
every fight was to the death. With only an hour to sunrise the fighting
began to subside into small sporadic raids, the streets of the city were a
mess but this time there were fewer humans laying in their own blood,
although to look at the many scenes of carnage all that could be seen were
the decapitated bodies of young men and girls, all the folk once killed
returned to their human form, it was going to be very difficult for the
authorities to make sense of all the death and destruction.

Peter sighed with fatigue, he himself along with Swiftwing and his
guardians, had lead three attacks and to his own despair, and that of
Steven, during the last fight, Dmitri had been seperated from his friends
by two wolves in the face of an alley, the first wolf he dispatched
quickly, the second was more difficult but as he swung his sword and
decapitated the wolf, a panther had leapt from the dark alley and closed
its powerful jaws around Dmitir's neck and, with the strength of a werecat,
bit through Dmitri's neck, Steven had been to slow to get to his lovers
side in time but afterwards he went slightly berserk and carved up the cat
into so many pieces he would be hard to find.

Steven was inconsolable as they lifted Dmitris body into the limo and took
him back to the house, Steven caressing Dmitris dead hair with his eyes
streaming tears as they returned, nothing could be said to relieve Stevens
pain, at the house there was silence as the small group carried Dmitris
body to the great hall to be laid out before burial, it was a sad day for
Peter to lose one of his own, in his mind he made a pact to see that the
traitor Seaton would pay dearly for Stevens loss, his death would be
neither quick nor merciful.

At Stevens request, Dmitri was dressed in his best clothes and then laid on
a table, he was then taken outside to meet the rising sun, it had been his
own request to Steven that, should he die he would be laid out to greet the
sun, all those of House Vladd that could be present, watched with downcast
eyes as the sun rose over the horizen and took away the body of Dmitri in a
burst of flame, there were many tears by those of the house hold, Dmitri
had been a quiet but considerate Vampire, he would be missed by all just as
Steven would miss him.

All the boys had been injured in one way or another, they had all needed to
go to the cells to feed and replace their blood loss, the gouges and cuts
took longer to heal as they were from other folk species but by night time
they would all be back to normal, Swiftwing had three nasty gouges across
his chest where a werewolf had got to close, Peter was only a little better
in that he had taken a heavy swipe by a panther and had the deep claw marks
across his upper arm, Mbeda had a large piece of flesh missing from his
thigh and was limping slightly, Steven had multiple slash marks on his
chest and arms from both felines and wolves claws, he had gone into a
berserk rage at the loss of Dmitri and had dived into the middle of the
fighting mass of wolves and cats, Sin Yu was the least hurt although the
two gashes down his cheeks looked bad he didn't seem to acknowledge them,
the twins seemed the least hurt, when they faught it was as a team and they
were very hard to get close to, a few light scratches was all they had
recieved.

They had won round two of the war and that's what was important, they also
knew who was at the back of all the carnage. The Vampires that could not
stay up for the sun had retired to their rooms while the others had seen to
Dmitri's remains. Peter sent the others to their rooms to rest, Swiftwing
wanted to refuse but knew it was for the best, Peter stayed up and watched
the TV stations along with some of his Vaga guards.

It was obvious very early on that the government had decided for a coverup,
but it was also obvious that their story of unrest by labour unions and
criminals in five states was a little far fetched, they had tried to clean
up any video evidence and had instated very close censorship on all news
broadcasts, unfortunately they could not control the internet or private
cell phone cameras, it didn't take long for the news to get out that there
was an invasion of mythical creatures invading the states, blurred pictures
and the aftermath of the fighting in the streets made for great news, the
only thing making it hard to believe was the pictures of giant wolves,
cats, birds, and most strange of all, were the blurred images of boys that
looked like Stokers vampires.

As hard as they tried to keep a cap on it, the government could not keep it
down, the reality was out and there was nothing they could do to control
it, the myths and legends were real and humanity was under attack by the
most viscious horrors of the imagination. The streets became bare of
traffic except for local stores, they seemed to be doing a roaring business
along with the churches and hardware stores.

Peter watched the reports and sadly shook his head, to many horror stories
had mislead the humans, garlic was being purchased in unheard of
quantaties, wooden stakes were now the top seller on the hardware lists,
the churches were inundated by requests for holy water and jewelers were
rapidly selling out of silver trinkets to be melted down and turned into
weapons, Peter could understand the fear and unreasoning desire for the
actions of humans but they were off on the wrong foot if they thought their
attempts at weapons was going to make them safe, still he had to admire
them for trying, was he still the same as them he would probably have done
just the same.

A huge influx of military men and eqipment was underway in all five states,
the federal government had declared a state of emergency and placed them
under martial law, all the local councils were in a state of panic, their
local police were now depleted to the stage of being ineffective, only the
military could hold the line now, Peter shook his head in disbelief at the
amount of panic setting in, they just didn't understand what they were up
against.

It looked as though his people would be under more stress now as, if they
went out to assist they ran a very good chance of being the targets instead
of the saviours, he had to sit back and rethink their strategy, humanity
needed their help but it was no good if they themselves became the prey,
they would be eventually overrun by the sheer numbers of humans, he had to
have a new plan that would let the humans know they had help, Peter started
to make a list of all the Simbiots he had access to that could help to make
the leaders see that not all of the folk wanted the destruction of
humanity.

Thirty minutes later, Peter had made his descision, he lifted his cell
phone and dialed the number he wanted, it was answered almost immediately.

"Yes My Lord?"

"Can we speak David?"

"Just a moment My Lord, I'll go out into the hall."

A minute later and David Shaws voice came back on.

"How can I help My Lord?"

"David, I think there is only one way we can help you, I need an emergency
meeting with the president, can you get me in?"

"I think so, there's chaos here at the moment, most of them are trying to
think of ways to save their own asses, when do you want it?"

"As soon as you can arrange it, hopefully today before the next sundown,
the major problem is to get to the Capitol from here."

"If I can set up the meeting My Lord, I'll have a jet down there for you
within the hour, can I call you back, I have an appointment with the
President in less than five minutes, I'll bring up your request then."

"That'd be great David, and thank you, I'll be waiting for your call."

"Thank you My Lord."

Peter closed his hpone and sat back and let his eyes close to rest, the
rest of the house was silent except for the security guards coming and
going occasionally for a meal. It seemed only seconds later that Peter
heard his cell phone ringing, sitting up with a start he reached for the
instrument.

"It's david, My Lord, the jets on the way, I haven't told the President who
you are, only that you may be able to help, all he knows is your name,
Peter Vallison."

"Thank you David, there'll be four of us, we'll get to the airport now and
wait for the plane."

"I'll be waiting for you to get here My Lord, everything will be arranged."

"Thank you again david, I'll see you in a couple of hours."

"Yes My Lord, thank you."

Peter closed his phone and called for his boyfriend, Levi and Caleb, once
the other boys were present he outlined his plans, at first the others were
a little wary of going out into the corridors of power where the military
had more to say about things than was commonly known, after a quick
explanation, the boys agreed with Peter that it would be best to get some
sort of official backing for their plans for the defence of humanity in the
five states.

An hour later Peter, Swiftwing and the twins walked towards the lear jet
that had landed in a private area of the airport, at the steps stood an
obvious NSA agent, in the doorway was another agent, quickly Peter and the
others moved to the steps of the jet, the agent looked at the four young
teens with obvious confusion. Peter spoke first.

"I'm Peter Vallison, these are my people, I believe Mister Shaw is waiting
for us."

"Uhh...oh..uhm..I'm sorry Mister Vallison, we were expecting an older man,
please come aboard, we'll taking off immediately."

The agent stood aside but still had a quizzicle expression on his face as
he watched the four boys board the plane, they were not what he expected
but he had his orders from the highest office in the land. Minutes after
they had taken their seats the whine of the jets twin engines growled to a
high pitched whine and they were moving down the runway, seconds later and
they were airbourne, the agnet asked them if they would like something to
drink or eat, and when told that they were ok left them in peace.

An hour and a half later and the jet was taxying towards a black limo
sitting on the tarmac, standing by the front fender was David Shaw, just as
he had promised Peter, once they were at a standstill, they were quickly
escorted to the limo and once inside they were speedily on their way to the
arranged meeting place. Their motorcycle escort got them to the underground
car park in record time, once there they took an elevator and, much to
Peters surprise and that of the other three teens, the elevator went down
instead of up, after a minute or so the elevator stopped and the teens
walked into a wide passage, every ten feet or so stood an armed Marine,
quite a few starnge looks were directed in their direction, after all they
were dressed in jeans and tee shirts and looked pretty young to be down
here in the halls of power.

David lead them down the passage to a set of steel doors in front of which
stood two more armed guards, David, once again for the umpteenth time
showed his securty pass and was let into the large office behind the
doors. At a large wooden desk sat the President, beside him were four men,
two in uniform and two in suits, they were his advisors. David made the
introductions.

"Mr. President, may I introduce Mr. Peter Vallison and his friends."

The look on the Presidents face as he stood to extend his hand was about
what Peter had been expecting, it was a look of shock and confusion, Peter
shook the offered hand and then introduce the others to the President, once
the introductions were over, Peter waited for the President to make the
first move but it was one of the generals that started.

"What is this Shaw? some sort of joke, we don't have time for this sort of
BS."

Peter saw something flare in David Shaws eyes as he turned towards the
General.

"Franckly General, this has nothing to do with you, this was meant to be a
private meeting between Mr. President and Mr. Vallison, if you want to
leave then do so or stay silent, what we have to discuss may be the only
answer to our present problems."

"You can't be serious Shaw, they're only kids, what can they ever offer."

"If you'd stay quiet general, maybe you will find out." replied David with
a distictive edge to his voice. "Mr. President, young Peter here has very
special abilities, abilities that we are going to need desperately to stop
all the mayhem going on in the five states."

"And what would those abilities be Mr. Shaw, that they would be better than
what we can put inot the field?"

Turning to Peter, David asked.

"My Lord, would you show them what you can do, if it is not to
inconvenient?"

Peter gave David a nod of understanding and stood up, seconds later the
President and his four advisors were trying to find somewhere to hide as
they looked into the red eyes of a mythical being, not only the red eyes
but the long white fangs that extended from the young boys mouth, quickly
Peter returned himself to normal appearance and watched in facnation as the
fear on the faces of the top men in the country began to subside.

"Mr. President." Peter began." My name is Prince Poitre Vladd of the House
of Vladd the Impaler, my family has been around for many centuries, we have
always maintained a balance in any society that we have lived in, what is
happening at the moment is the work of a rogue family, we don't want it to
go any further as I am sure you don't. We have very special abilities that
the normal human can not match, I'm here to ask if you will allow us to
work with you to bring this trouble under control, we are all members of
our society, what affects you affects us, we are not here to cause any
human trouble, we are here to offer our help in maintaining the status quo,
the last thing any of us need is a wild uprising that would cause nothing
but the death of hundreds of thousands."

"You put your case well, Mr. Vallison, or should I say, Prince Vladd but,
why do you, a Vampire, want to help us, surely you can see that now you're
known you and everyone like you could be a target."

"That's true Mr. President, but we don't want this internal war any more
than you do, I can assure you Mr. President, that if it came to a fight
between species, it would cost you dearly."

"One thing that confuses me, Prince Vladd, how can you come out in
daylight, I thought that your people were only out at night, that the sun
would kill you?"

"Most of what you have read in books, Mr. President, is false, there are
very few ways to kill us, if I mat give you a demonstation, Mr. President?"

"I would be most interested, Prince Vladd, what do you have in mind?"

"Perhaps the General would like to arm himself with one of the guards
weapons, if he can get one shot off at me before I disarm him, then you
will see how little real chance humans have against us if it came to a
fight between species?"

"General, arm yourself, lets see if Prince Vladd is as good as he says."

With a snide grin on his face, the General walked to the door, in his mind
he had decided to take the guards sidearm and turn and fire before the
stupid boy could react, reaching the door, he looked over his shoulder at
the so called Prince, he was still sitting in his chair some ten feet away,
this was going to be too easy, opening the door he asked for the guards
sidearm and spun around to fire at where he knew the boy to be. As his
finger tightened on the trigger he felt a very strong preasure on his
wrist, looking down as the pain became unbearable, he saw the grinning face
of the boy standing right in front of him, his small hand clsoing ever more
on the wrist bones of the Generals wrist. With a loud grunt of pain the
General let go of the pistol, as it slipped from his hand the pain receeded
and he looked again at the boy but he was not there, he was again sitting
in the chair by the far off desk.

"What....how...?"

Peter answered the unasked questions from where he sat.

"General, I told you we have certain abilities, one, I know what you're
going to do before you do it, two, we move a way lot faster than your
reactions can defend against, three, our strength is far superior to yours
in every way, as you can see, it would be a case of no contest f it came to
a fight between our species."

Peter did not want to mention anything about being outnumbered or the real
results of that advantage to the humans, Peter waited for the General to
regain his composure and return to his place beside the Presidents chair.

"Most remarkable Prince Vladd, I can see what you can do, but why bother to
help us and what can we do that would make you safe from vigilanties or our
own troops if you went to help them, they wouldn't know who was on their
side and who was not?"

"I've been thinking about that Mr. President, firstly, only the people in
this room can know about our involvement, the why is as I've already
explained, as to being on the same side and not getting taken for one of
the attackers, we will have to have some type of garment that will be
instantly recognisable by your people and can not be copied by the enemy."

"Do you have anything in mind Prince Vladd?"

"Well it has to be something that all of my people can wear, as you no
doubt know by now, not all of our people are Vampires, when they go to
their change, their bodies are different, in their transformation they may
have feet, claws, wings and talons, they would need something that's going
to be able to stay on them when they change."

"You... you're telling me that it's not only Vampires we have to worry
about?"

"Yes Mr. President, the Vampire population is only a small part of our
species, there are many more of the others than us."

"How can you be sure they would follow your lead in this, assuming we come
to some sort of agreement?"

"I'm the head of the most powerful house in the five states, Mr. President,
I already have their promise of loyalty, these people do not break their
word whenever it pleases them, they stand to loose too much, if we can
agree to work together to stop this war, I can personally guarantee that
you will have our full co-operation, we can defeat the enemy without you
but it would entail a lot of losses on your side that would only increase
the hate against us, we would end up with a perpetual war with humanity, we
want to avoid that at all costs."

"I see, Prince Vladd, there's only one thing more that I'm not sure about,
is it true you have to feed on human blood, to survive?"

"Yes, Mr. President, that part about us is true."

"Then what's to stop you from taking over and destroying the human presence
here after the war is over?"

"That's not now nore has it ever been our intention, Mr.President, if you
wish to check, you will find that at no time has there ever been an honest
citizen in any of the five states that has gone missing due to our needs,
those we feed on are only the lowest of the criminal element around the
area, many of those have been untouchable by your legal system, to us it's
a matter of our own justice."

"When this war is over what do you ask of us, Prince Vladd?"

"Only that this office and those present keep our secret from the general
public and continue to allow us to live our lives, also allow us to
dispense our own justice on those that avoid yours, as we have been doing
for a long time."

"Well Prince Vladd, could you give us a little time to discuss these new
events, Director Shaw, perhaps you could ask one of the guards to escort
our guests to the dining room while we go over all we've learned so far."

"Certainly, Mr. President."

David lead the boys to the door and asked one of the guards to escort them
down to the dining room and then returned to the office for the rest of the
meeting, he was well aware that he had a fight on his hands, not with the
President but with the two military men, the other two would be more
interested in agreeing with the President than puting their political
futures in danger by disagreeing with him.

Peter and the other boys followed the guard down the passage, he felt that
they were half way home, the President had been subconsciously agreeing
with his proposal, it was only the thoughts of the military he was worried
about, both of them were definately against the Vampires, they would just
have to wait and see what happened.


TBC


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