Blood Moon

7 | The End Times

The streets are busy. People are preoccupied with their daily routine. The bus stops every hour to pick up passengers; children riding their bikes to school. Businessmen and women pass under subways on their way to work. 

All is normal but every now and then, you see in the news a rather unusual story - a story of random homeless people getting killed during their sleep. No one thought anything more to it. They are nobodies after all. But when the 12-year old daughter of the city mayor was kidn*pped - it was a mass sensation. Every news channel was airing the story. Journalists would risk their lives to be a part of the investigation and be the first to get the scoop.

The k********g did not stop there. In every town, at least 1 or 2 children were getting abducted, mostly at night. The media was too engrossed by the mayor's daughter that they didn't pay much notice to these cases. There were no warnings, no precautions from them. The word just spread that a probable pedophile is on the loose and tricking children to come with them. 

Weeks had passed and the mayor's daughter was already tagged as missing. Authorities couldn't locate where she is and all the clues lead to dead ends. 

Until one night, while the mayor was drinking away his sorrows by his balcony, he saw a child enter his home. He was unsure if he was just seeing things because of the alcohol so he went out to check, just to make sure. 

He turned on the lights on his patio and looked around. He was walking towards his home garden when he saw her. 

His daughter, she's alive! He immediately ran to embrace his dear child. But even before he could come near her - she pounced at him and pinned him on the ground. 

The mayor was shocked to see that his little girl is covered in blood with the same clothes she wore when she disappeared. He screams for help trying his best to fight off her child's immeasurable strength - her eyes all red staring down at him with her mouth wide open pushing herself to his neck with her sharp fangs.  

He managed to push her off of himself and scrambles to get to his back door. He was able to stand with his two feet and run but,

The back door is locked. 

He turned to see his little girl walking slowly towards him, looking at him as if he was a piece of delicious meat. He realizes he couldn't outrun her and the struggle would be pointless. And so with tears in his eyes, he offers himself to her, heartbroken that his once beautiful young daughter is now this soulless monster.

The mayor's daughter wasn't the only missing child and loved one that came back on that same night. The towns, suburbs, and the city were slowly consumed by blood and darkness. 

No one knew how or why they turned into these monsters. The only last news they had learned was that the missing person count was growing day by day and that the government was helpless. 

The cities gradually became deserted. A massive panic came across their homes, with every person's blood drained to the very last drop. Those who survived were either turned or escaped the city. 

A day became weeks, then months, and then years. 

Communication became difficult and then non-existent. People thrived through the forests, mountains, and sea. These are the end times. Humans were so complacent with what was given to them by nature and by God. They took for granted what was already in their hands. 

Little did they know, evil lurks at every corner, just plotting their takeover. 

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The survivors learned to adapt to this new world. Although the human population was depleting and the enemies rising, humans never gave up. 

They learned to hunt, feed themselves and build their own shelters from scratch. Every once in a while, they kill one of them. 

They are vampires. Thought to be myths, humans treated them as fables and scary bedtime stories to tell children at night. Vampires are formed into one family - The Night Coven - ruled by one powerful vampire. This vampire was never seen by humans but believed to be real. 

The only kind of vampires that humans encounter is the Newborns. Vampires that were once humans but were turned by demon vampires. The Demon vampires were also once humans but were turned by their ultimate leader who has transferred its blood to theirs. The Newborns usually do not live long but are the strongest after transformation. They are the ones who destroyed what humanity has built for centuries - technology, government, a system. 

Some humans believe that the extinction of humankind will never come since this will ultimately mean no more source of food for the vampires. But there were a few who believe otherwise - that humans will once again be the rulers of this world and cast those vampires back into the darkness where they truly belong. 

This history shall be passed from generation to generation - from those who experienced it's rising and to those who were born into it. This story will live on, as humans pray for hope of a human hunter who will take back what is rightfully theirs.

This story was told to us a million times by mother Maia, but I guess she was just melancholic and saddened by these events which changed her life and ours forever.  Mother Maia as the oldest among our family was the only one of us who came face to face with the end times. She lived in the city where it all started.