Zander watched the smoke from the explosion with great satisfaction. His plan had worked and he was pleased that he didn't have to use anyone else to deal with the alpha's son. For his part, seeing the explosion and with the creature out of the picture, Mulligan gave the order. All the policemen formed a semicircle around where Zander was and began to move forward pointing at him. Seeing that he was surrounded, Zander signaled and the vampires posted in the trees began to descend while others inside the building behind him came out to face the intruders. Seeing that they were coming upon them, Mulligan ordered to open fire on them. The luckiest were the SWAT men, who had machine guns and could hit vampires in the head and heart. Many agents fell after deadly claws and bites. In an instant Mark saw Zander return to the building and enter it. He fought his way through at gunpoint and kicks and went after him. Norma saw him and followed him, but not before taking out a few vampires as
It has never been easy for a police detective to deliver bad news to a victim's family. In the case of Brooke Daniels's family, as was to be expected, the news of her death caused them great pain, although they always maintained the hope of having her back home.Because of the way she had died, there wasn't much they could bury, but they still had to wait for it to be confirmed that the remains were hers. Perkins worked quickly with what she had and the family had to hold the funeral with an empty coffin.In the police family there were also losses. The line of duty most of the time carries innumerable risks, some as unlikely as facing vampires. Most of the time when vampires attack they only seek to feed, and in the process some conversion of the victim occurs due to their venom. But in the case of the attack on the police, their intention was to kill, hence the considerable number of casualties and no conversion.The respective collective honors to the fallen were carried out under
Dan opened his eyes and stared at the ceiling of the room. Next to him, Christopher, Darius, and Amira were waiting to see how he would react after almost a week of being unconscious. His wounds had healed completely and the marks of the bomb splinters could barely be seen on his body.“Dan, how are you feeling?” Christopher asked.“Welcome back, son,” Darius told him. “Tell us: how do you feel?”Dan continued to stare at the ceiling without showing any emotion.“Son, please tell us something!” Amira begged, anguished.A tear welled up in one of Dan's eyes, then ran down his cheek and ended in his ear.Christopher guessed that Dan remembered the whole incident as soon as he woke up.“I see you've remembered everything,” Christopher told him. “I'm so sorry Dan. I'm truly sorry.”“Son, please tell us how you feel...” Darius asked again.&ld
Fully recovered, Dan returned home a few days later and was preparing to return to work, although Darius insisted that he continue to rest for a few more days. He wanted to keep his mind occupied so he wouldn't try to think about Brooke and keep the pain of losing her from coming back to haunt him. Although there was little he could do, because he always thought about her. Darius considered keeping the fact that he was still alive a secret, but he reminded him that he not only represented the hybrid to Zander, he was also Daniel Ranlone to the rest of society and it was not good to fake his death because no one connected him with the dangerous creature inside him. Only Zander, outside of his family circle, knew he was the hybrid and sooner or later would find out that he was still alive. So he decided to return to his life as a human, while planning with his father the way to take revenge once and for all on that miserable vampire. One noon he left his apartment to h
The day after his meeting with the detectives, Dan received a visit from Norma and Erick at his apartment. The reason: to talk about the attack on his uncle Christopher's house. The day after the confrontation where Brooke and several policemen died, Christopher went to them to tell them that the unknown creature had indeed saved him from the attack of the vampires and that he had woken up in Central Park hidden in some bushes. He told them that he did not know why he had saved him or why he had taken his computer. Norma told him what had happened hours before in the abandoned industrial park and Christopher assumed, given the times and circumstances in which it had appeared, that perhaps this creature is waging a war against vampires and that it is saving humans who are at risk before his presence. Norma also made the observation that it was strange that his family was the target of them and he just shrugged his shoulders.Remembering all that, Norma was in front of Dan in h
“What you're proposing to me is impossible,” Captain Mulligan told Norma when he suggested baiting one of Zander's concubines to get to him.“Think about it, Captain,” Norma insisted. “That's how Brooke Daniels was kidnapped. We would use one of our flashier officers to lure them in and−”“And die in the process!” Mulligan exclaimed annoyed at the detective's insistence. “We could set a trap for them as you say, but we have seen that these creatures are very agile and fast. They would take our agent with them and kill her when they suspect or find out that she was part of a trap!”Norma could not continue insisting with the captain, at least for the moment. She would have to come up with a plan effective enough to get to Zander and not put the life of an agent at risk.She decided to go back to Daniel Ranlone to get more information about what happened that night when his girlfriend was kid
Talking to that detective about Brooke deepened Dan's feelings of sadness and frustration. Especially when thinking that she could have been one of Zander's concubines or lover. He was so depressed that he didn't want to leave his apartment, not even to buy groceries to replenish his pantry. That same night he wanted to have a drink of whiskey but realized that he did not have it at his house, so he decided to go out and have one in a bar or nightclub. Since he didn't want to have problems, he avoided those close to his house, since he had confirmed that some other vampire came to them, and thus they would not see or recognize him.But he was wrong. His desire to drink some whiskey did not let him see that vampires were scattered throughout the city.He chose a bar in lower Manhattan and once inside he ordered a bottle and brought it to a table. He liked to drink at the bar, but this time was different. He chose a table at the back of the room that seemed to be the most discreet in th
“Do you think he's upset enough that we need reinforcements, Sergeant?” Erick asked Norma as they drove to Dan's house.She was absorbed in the way, thinking. She was still not entirely convinced that Dan could be that enormous and dangerous creature. She didn't want to believe it. No, it can't be him, she thought to herself.“Sergeant…”Erick snapped her out of her thoughts.“What?”“I was asking you if you believed that this young man is the creature and if we might need reinforcements.”“Ah, I don't know, Erick. It's just an assumption we have. A theory…”“The theory of the werewolf… Or something worse, if it exists. In any case, neither of them should exist, just like vampires.”“What are you saying?” Norma was surprised by her partner's comment. “What do you mean?”“Until a few days ago we didn'
After speaking with Zander, Andrew sought out Dansk at the house where he was hiding to get the address of the alpha's son. He couldn't help feeling intrigued by the unexpected request, and he hesitated before answering.“I heard he is dead,” he answered. “He died in the explosion along with the girl. Or not?”“If I'm asking you for his address it's because obviously we know he's not dead,” Andrew told him. “Haven't you heard about the latest events?”Dansk just looked at him, still intrigued.“He's alive, Dansk. This morning he took down a few of our people again, destroyed a group of "marauders" in the center.”Dansk had spent the last few days locked up and was convinced that Dan had been killed in the latest attack on Zander. He didn't want to go see his friend Christopher because he felt embarrassed and didn't want to see him face to face. He felt some relief knowing that the boy was still alive, but now with Andrew asking for his address he thought Zander wouldn't give up and tr