bloody rose
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Category:
Vampire › General
Rating:
Adult ++
Chapters:
7
Views:
1,808
Reviews:
8
Recommended:
0
Currently Reading:
0
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Latham
My most sincere apologies for not updating in a while but today seems to be the day for updates…
To all my loyal readers I want to say thanx
Especially to BZLF… ^_^ smilies!!!
And thanx for this chapter goes to, as always, the walrus, the band elf, PANTANA!!!!, zeke, crash, and everyone else in our happy little troupe…. Ja!
So… back by popular demand…..
Latham looked around the dank cave that had become his home for the past three and a half years. Water dripped from the walls and hidden pools sustained blind fish. It looked like a child’s image of a scary dark cave. The low slab of rock that had been his bed had been stripped bare and everything had been moved out of the cave. He hated having to leave, but the vampires had caught wind of where he was hiding. Three years in total secrecy and now it all went to ruin. Damn, he thought, just damn. He had been on the run his whole life, if you could call the tortured existence he bore life.
Nineteen years ago, the vampires began experimenting with human and demon DNA. The two were compatible, this they knew. Human-demon hybrids were rare but they had existed, records proved it. Yet human females couldn’t bare the strenuous pregnancy and birth of a half demon child, and in every attempt in which the mother died, the demon child died as well. So they had turned to artificial means instead. The New Horizons Preternatural Advancement Company had built a sterile incubator that could sustain a half-demon child. Project Latham had begun.
First attempts failed, it seemed impossible to find a perfect combination of human and demon DNA that once combined would remain stable. But finally after a year of error, Fetus One was conceived. The female child grew until her fourth week, when she suddenly died of heart failure. The fault was traced to a short out in the power that occurred for only a few seconds. The company quickly went to work on a second fetus from the same DNA. Fetus Two lasted little longer than his sister did. His body temperature dropped dramatically one day in the lab and the scientists couldn’t stop it. Fetus Three came into being a few short days after his older brother had died. The experiment was watched closely, no one was willing to risk failure again. Days and weeks passed, and still the fetus survived.
Finally Fetus Three had matured enough to be released from the incubation chamber. The baby looked human enough, except for an odd pattern of dark gray that traced its way down his back and stomach. His eyes were also strange, one was normal, rich brown, but the other was yellow and the pupil slitted, like a cat’s eye. Fetus Three was eventually called Latham, after the project. He was raised in government facilities and given the best education. He was trained to fight, because that was what he had been created for. He was to be an ultimate soldier for the Vampire armies. Stronger than a human but not as strong as a vampire, intelligent but gullible, fierce but submissive to its masters.
He had but one error. Latham grew in awareness of his situation. He had no desire to kill humans, he was half-human, after all, and it would be stupid to kill his own people. When he was thirteen, he escaped the NHPAC and found family and friends amongst a group of resistance fighters. He hid from the vampires and killed those of their servants he could. As the years went by and he grew stronger he began taking out more and more with each new battle. Then, a year ago, the resistance cell he fought for was found and slaughtered. Latham had been away in another quadrant of the city assassinating a visiting ambassador. The vampires had not found his cave and so he lived in it still.
That was to change though.
Latham sighed as he turned on his heel and walked out of the cave into the cool night, his fingers pressed the detonation device that would destroy his former home.
Review review review…… graci
KaS
To all my loyal readers I want to say thanx
Especially to BZLF… ^_^ smilies!!!
And thanx for this chapter goes to, as always, the walrus, the band elf, PANTANA!!!!, zeke, crash, and everyone else in our happy little troupe…. Ja!
So… back by popular demand…..
Latham looked around the dank cave that had become his home for the past three and a half years. Water dripped from the walls and hidden pools sustained blind fish. It looked like a child’s image of a scary dark cave. The low slab of rock that had been his bed had been stripped bare and everything had been moved out of the cave. He hated having to leave, but the vampires had caught wind of where he was hiding. Three years in total secrecy and now it all went to ruin. Damn, he thought, just damn. He had been on the run his whole life, if you could call the tortured existence he bore life.
Nineteen years ago, the vampires began experimenting with human and demon DNA. The two were compatible, this they knew. Human-demon hybrids were rare but they had existed, records proved it. Yet human females couldn’t bare the strenuous pregnancy and birth of a half demon child, and in every attempt in which the mother died, the demon child died as well. So they had turned to artificial means instead. The New Horizons Preternatural Advancement Company had built a sterile incubator that could sustain a half-demon child. Project Latham had begun.
First attempts failed, it seemed impossible to find a perfect combination of human and demon DNA that once combined would remain stable. But finally after a year of error, Fetus One was conceived. The female child grew until her fourth week, when she suddenly died of heart failure. The fault was traced to a short out in the power that occurred for only a few seconds. The company quickly went to work on a second fetus from the same DNA. Fetus Two lasted little longer than his sister did. His body temperature dropped dramatically one day in the lab and the scientists couldn’t stop it. Fetus Three came into being a few short days after his older brother had died. The experiment was watched closely, no one was willing to risk failure again. Days and weeks passed, and still the fetus survived.
Finally Fetus Three had matured enough to be released from the incubation chamber. The baby looked human enough, except for an odd pattern of dark gray that traced its way down his back and stomach. His eyes were also strange, one was normal, rich brown, but the other was yellow and the pupil slitted, like a cat’s eye. Fetus Three was eventually called Latham, after the project. He was raised in government facilities and given the best education. He was trained to fight, because that was what he had been created for. He was to be an ultimate soldier for the Vampire armies. Stronger than a human but not as strong as a vampire, intelligent but gullible, fierce but submissive to its masters.
He had but one error. Latham grew in awareness of his situation. He had no desire to kill humans, he was half-human, after all, and it would be stupid to kill his own people. When he was thirteen, he escaped the NHPAC and found family and friends amongst a group of resistance fighters. He hid from the vampires and killed those of their servants he could. As the years went by and he grew stronger he began taking out more and more with each new battle. Then, a year ago, the resistance cell he fought for was found and slaughtered. Latham had been away in another quadrant of the city assassinating a visiting ambassador. The vampires had not found his cave and so he lived in it still.
That was to change though.
Latham sighed as he turned on his heel and walked out of the cave into the cool night, his fingers pressed the detonation device that would destroy his former home.
Review review review…… graci
KaS