Since killing the rogue vampires took quite of an effort, I built my own horsemen. The reason I occupied the vampire horses was because rogue vampires were extremely raging all the time because they were young and were usually just being turned. The older you were as vampires, the rage lessened especially when you drank the willing human’s blood or merely animal’s blood.
So, we fought with brain and tactics. That was also the reason I chose to build my own horsemen out of their despairs as humans when they were still humans. They had lived torturing lives as humans, thus I ended their miseries and gave them greater purpose.
Zachary, my first horseman, was in the military. I put him out of his desperation of crying painfully because his left arm and two legs were disheveled after the bombing erasing all of his crew from life. I asked if he wanted to live as another kind of soldier. Without hesitation, he answered,
“Yes! I'll follow you everywhere you need me as your apprentice.”
Ergo, I turned him right in the spot so he could assemble all his body parts and grew stronger as a vampire horseman. Vampires didn't need to build muscles, but he felt like it was yesterday when he went to the gym as a human. Thus, he still went to it.
Ezekiel, my second horseman, was a student and hiking expert. Each time he lost in the woods, he always knew how to find ways back. He was in the S.A.R team as well that he was well-known as the path whisperer. No paths nor missing person he couldn't find.
Alas! Your favorite activity would be the death of you. I found him at the bottom of an abyss with his calf bones sticking out and his shoulders dislocated. He couldn't speak but his fresh blood was so appealing to me that it told about his tough exertion he built so long.
When I asked if he wanted to live with even more adventures to explore, he blinked his eyes and tried to nod. I turned him right away, and it was excruciatingly painful for him to put all his body parts to where they should belong.
But he didn't flinch. He closed his eyes throughout the process, like he enjoyed and embraced the pain. He was my greatest rogue vampire tracker. With his new flawless vampire skin, he found himself sometimes modelling for a magazine.
It was funny sometimes, how the life of a vampire could turn your human life upside down.
John, my third horseman, had been a rider. Well, he was still a rider now only now with a vampire horse or sometimes my grandpa’s motorcycle. Mr. Tanaka said that it was always good to have one of the figures that brought back the memory of my mighty grandpa. John was the one a closer resemblance to my grandpa. So that I didn’t feel alone as someone looked like a member of my family stayed around me, as Mr. Tanaka put it that way.
Speed had been John’s everything in his previous life until the accident happened that took him months to be hospitalized. Muttered, he called for the devil to give him his life back as a rider. I heard him when I was taking care of our blood bags in the hospital.
I was curious so I asked him who helplessly lied on the bed with arms and legs hanging in plaster, if he wanted to ride again. Though it was riding vampire horse and killing bad guys, he glared at me and surprisingly he said,
“Why not? I’d do it in a blink if I could.”
I smiled mockingly. Clearly, he didn’t know which was obvious, how painful it was to be turned into a vampire. Because when you were turned, it was the last time you’d feel pain. Then you’d rise as a powerful creature, the undead vampire who if you could manage to live smartly, you could live forever tasting the immortality.
Therefore, I added the balance responsibility to the immortality. Protecting the humans, the living, for the sake of their futures. Until the peace restored. Until there wasn’t any rogue vampire anymore and the humans could live without threats, then I might consider to retire or sleep forever until I had to be awakened to fight for the peace again. Hence, I abode,
“That’s not how it works. You’ll be in pain before you get your life back as a rider, even a better life with bigger purpose. Because it’ll be the last time you’ll feel pain, and you’ll rise a stronger creature with a bigger responsibility.” I hid my fangs a little bit not to scare him but he looked like he was used to the hideous appearance of a vampire.
John answered,
“Might I gonna miss the pain, because I am used to live with it. But it’ll be worth it if I could rise as a powerful and beautiful creature like you, running around restoring the peace on the earth’s surface. That’s a much better way to live hell of a life.”
Sparkles I saw in his eyes. Indeed, he reminded me of my grandpa when the first time he saw me turned into vampire after the curse descended to me. John was helplessly hopeless lying on the bed, yet his eyes were so full of life. A lively one like my grandpa. Mr. Tanaka said the same reason when I brought John back to the castle, he said that John’s spirit was almost similar to my grandpa’s.
I reported to the hospital that he’d be removed to a safe house for his full recovery. People would just think that John was willing to be our blood bags so everyone would forget about him. Though the fact it was tiring if I had to glamour everyone to turn John into a vampire right away in the hospital. I might be the law, but I had to act considering the living, the human and a bunch of medical laws that I had to violate.
If John wasn’t riding with us as my third horseman killing the rogue vampires, he’d be in the garage or patrolling around with my grandpa’s bike.
Viktor, my fourth horseman, was in the Force when a rogue vampire threw him against a steel column breaking all his bones. I was there finally realizing my three horsemen weren't strong enough to decapitate a raging rogue vampire's head.
Viktor was a victim of my carelessness, so I offered him bigger power as a vampire, later to be a vampire cop. Without hesitation, he yelled out of his unbearable pain,
"What are you waiting for? Do it! So that I could kill more rogue vampires!"
He was in anger because he felt incurably weak for being a mere human. I turned him on the spot, so he could mend his broken bones and rose as a vampire cop.
He was the first person in the Force to inform us whenever there was a raging rogue vampire loose running around destroying human bodies and sucking blood. My four horsemen were complete and worked effectively. Though we were vampires, my werewolf ancestor's blood ever ran in my veins.
Therefore, hunting and killing in a pack, were in the blood.
I believed when Mr. Tanaka appeared, then it was time for me to summon them getting ready for hunting the founded rogue vampire’s attack.
But Mr. Tanaka’s small smile this time didn’t indicate that, it was more of…
-To be continued-
Mr. Tanaka’s small smile didn’t indicate an immediate danger such as rogue vampire attack needed to be dealt with. He’d be showing his serious face when it was about any attack on humans, the living, the ones we, vampires had to protect. This time, his smile showed his care for me or more like a worry. Sometimes, Mr. Tanaka could be so wise that he acted almost like my dad with his wisdom. Well, he was away older than me when I turned him. He was just so grateful that he didn’t feel all the pain of growing old when he was still a human. He said that finally he could focus on his work to give better service for me and my vampire kingdom. I always couldn’t wait for what kind of act of kindness this time he would show me, more like I had been waiting for it over and over, then after he smiled, he asked, “It’s full moon, my lady. Have you seen any news from the crystal ball?” His eyes gleamed bluish of curiosity behind the spectacles. Then I smirked, “Well, it’s about the solution of
[Viktor? Have you questioned the vampire cop about the abduction of one scientist last night? He is the answer to our future…] I tried to summon him but to no avail. Then I tried again, [Viktor?] [Yes, My lady? Sorry I was questioning the vampire cop who had been attacked by rogue vampires attacking in the pack. It's so rare, don't you think?] As expected from my subordinate that I turned by myself, his mind synchronized with mine. Is there any lead? I asked while Viktor answered right away because he was so sure. [Yes, my lady. He said that one of the rogue vampires yelled at the others not to harm the doctor, they said they needed him alive.] [That means good news, Viktor. Now we only need to figure out why those rogue vampires wanted him alive. Dr. Lazlo Howard, right?] There was a silence, then… [He is, my lady. You're not gonna like what I've found. Dr. Howard was working on a string of DNA that can alter any creature's brain to evolve. He said to the vampire cop that he
[Mr. Tanaka?] I tried to summon him and waited… [Yes, my lady?] As expected from my best and oldest employee, that he would answer right away. [Tell Zachary, Ezekiel and John to wait and they can mend their horses because Victor didn’t have a lead yet on where to find the rogue vampires nest that held the doctor.] [Right away, my lady! I’ll tell them, I’m with them at the moment. Would there be anything else, my lady?] I paused and thought so hard making Mr. Tanaka questioned the hesitation in my few minutes absence, [My lady?] [It was a dead end, Mr. Tanaka. What should I do? Do you have any suggestion?] [If I may, it’s better if you run the clues again. Take a look at the files from the first time you encountered the case. Pay attention to details, in case you or Victor missed something. Do you need help from Zachary, Ezekiel, and John?] I sighed. [Tell them to patrol together with their horses, so that whenever they found something suspicious, they could call me and Vikto
When I was running my fore finger on the crystal ball, hoping that I could find any clues on how to find the doctor, besides I finally knew that the doctor was held captive not in a basement because the windows behind him were painted to prevent the sunlight from breaking in, I found another note written by the doctor. It said, “Help me!” He knew exactly that his vampire queen, the ruler of the Imperial Colony would find him. Well, gorgeous, we’d come to rescue you. But before that, I’d need to know some more clues found near your surroundings. I ran my fore finger to the right side of the crystal ball to see if I could find some other marks or brand or even a complete address that could lead us to find him. There weren’t enough clues to look for so I started to look at the interior of the building. The columns were all painted in white and the light seemed just sufficient. I saw some shelves of experimental tools used mainly for a lab. I was guessing that the building was a medica
By the time I got there, the four horsemen already told their men to pull the rogue vampires from four different directions. I saw them scattered each four of them took one rogue vampire. There were four clusters so I asked Zachary how many they were. [Zach, how many are they?] I jumped to another side of the roof, looked like the building didn’t have a rooftop which was good. There was only a roof. We only needed to handle two floors without risking the rogue vampires might move the doctor using the outlet on the rooftop. It was our beginner’s luck that the building didn’t have a rooftop. We needed to think about some more tactics if this kind of ambush happened again. [Five outside, my lady. One down, Victor and I are taking care four more. John and Ezekiel are getting inside with few men. We don’t really know how many inside, but we’re guessing they’re no more than five or six left inside. The building is quite small with only two stories. And I believe the rogue vampires can’t
We were saving the doctor when we finally met him, Ezi was doing something out of his mind. We could say that he was a bit crazy, I was pretty sure he didn’t inherit that from me. Ezi shoved the edge of his machete to the doctor’s neck while threatening, “Do you dare to propose for marriage to our queen? Are you out of your mind?” Ezi gritted his teeth and rudely showed his vampire fangs. John, the doctor, and I suddenly was in awe looking in Ezi’s direction with our slightly opened mouth. Suddenly, Ezi laughed so hard. Then John and I realized that Ezi was joking so we finally chuckled and laughed as well, while the doctor was still on his knees and in awe. I realized that I needed to explain to him what had just happened. “Forgive Ezi, my second horseman, Dr. Howard. He was sometimes out of his mind, but he’s a great tracker to find rogue vampires. Are you okay, doc?” I shoved my hand for him to reach so he could stand on his feet instead of kneeling like that. And to my
We'd finally rescued the doctor from the rogue vampires. To our surprise, the doctor had the same thought that he was going to help us to create the formula for the synthetic blood so all the vampires in the Imperial Colony didn’t have to drink human or animal blood anymore. That was the thing very important to achieve to create a peaceful world decent for humanity. That in the end, my vampire children and I could get some rest from hunting rogue vampires or even sleeping eternally in our coffins, to be wakened up later when there was some kind of disturbance in the peace of humanity. Not for wishing something bad, but I was cursed and built my empire of children only to protect the human. This was my legacy and I intended to keep it that way. So when we finally found a way with the help of the doctor, though we hadn't found the actual result, we were pretty sure we were closer to our final goal. I was glad I finally had this thought when we went outside and gathered with Zach and
I asked the doctor whether I should call him ‘doc' or ‘professor’ while he was mending the wound on my head due to his instinct to hit me with a bar stool thinking I was going to hurt him. Though it was unnecessary because my wound would heal in an hour or two. I didn’t take the human blood since I woke up tonight, usually, the human blood would be served around 3 AM or after I went back from hunting and killing rogue vampires. It was supposed to be the blood of the Hungarian pianist tonight. I didn’t ask for his presence, but he came to this Imperial Colony city to offer his blood to the queen. He said that he didn’t have family left, so giving up himself to immortality was his only option. At such young age, he grew tired of traveling around the world playing piano on big stages. Popularity didn’t fulfill his soul anymore so he sought a greater purpose. When he heard that there was a city ruled by a vampire queen to protect humanity, he felt like he needed the urge to participate.