THE BOOK OF MARS

The world started off with 10 clans of ancient humans. These humans were not the same as the ones that walk the galaxy today. They were all from a now lost, lesser, bread of human who, at that time, was seeking knowledge or gifts from the creator to make them each unique and more powerful than the others. After years of wars between the calms, each clan was invited to the table of the creator. The creator was known to all clans to have infinite power and thought to be wise beyond all. What the clans did not know was that the creator lacked all emotion. One by one, the ancient human clans showed up to the creators' Astroplane, which was located in between all worlds. They were surprised only to find an infinitely dark shadow with no seeable form or features waiting for them at the head of the table. When you looked at it all you could see was an endless black depth . Nine of the ten clans each took a seat with only one clan missing and each of the nine clans made a special request to the creator. Little did anyone know at the time that these requests and that day would change the galaxy in ways even the creator could not foresee. The return Home A faint light blinks in the dark hold of a ship, flying in the darkness of the galaxy. Ahh, I guess it's time to wake up. I need to go back to port and get coolant. How many years has it been since I went off on this quest to find him? A dark figure rises from a chair in the blackness of the ship, he walks over to the console to push the blinking light. causing the interior of the ship to light up. Inside the walls are metallic white. Let's see, thought the dark figure, time to go back to Ethos. I wonder how it will look after. All the years we have been away. The ship begins to move and creak as it breaks the ice that has formed on its haul. The ship swings around and begins to return to the port it left over 300 years ago. As the hyper-drive kicks up, the ship begins to hum-sending them launching back to Ethos. In the blink of an eye, The large ship pops up on the outer rim of Ethos. The white room lights up as drones are launched from under the ship.The control room is filled with video from the drones so the man can see what's happening around the ship. This fringe world has become very busy indeed. I can see hundreds of ships when I used to only see a few ships in this port. As the ship pulls into port, he hears a voice come over the comms. " Welcome to, ethos port please us dock 57" The ship docks in port 57 and the dark figure stands to leave the ship control room. Once outside, he takes a deep breath. The air is cool and processed. It is full of the scent of all the times it has been passed through the filters. You can still smell the musk and the pollutants that were not able to get filtered out. Disgusting tin can air. This planet smells foul now. The man starts walking the streets of Ethos. It was a night cycle. Overhead was dark, with artificial stars lighting up the roof of the bio dome. The small flying ships above the lights were glaring as they passed. The cars were parked along the dingy and poorly lighted roads. The streets were wet with puddles that reflected the light from the roof. He made his way through the streets trying to recall where the site of his home was. As he starts his journey to his once home, he is surprised to see so many bars and restaurants all lighted up with lots of people walking the streets. It's been so long. I forgot what people sound like, blah the stench is terrible here. I need to get off this road. He turns down a dimly lighted alleyway to avoid the crowds. He walked down a few paces only to find himself in a position he did not want to be in. He walked by on what looked like a vampire feeding on a young girl. This made him dart behind a dumpster waiting for it all to be over so he could move on. But then he notices the girl. Her face was very pale as tears rolled down her cheeks.Her arm hung as the vampire fed from her neck. She reminded him of someone who had long been forgotten. He could not shake the feeling that she was someone who was once very important to him. He felt like he had to interview and stepped out from behind the dumpster to approach the vampire. The vampire looks up and sees him moving toward him, so he pulls his teeth from the girl's neck and says, "Who the f**k are you?" to which I answer "Me. I am no one, but I do suggest that you unhand your meal. If I remember correctly, it is not legal for you to feed in public. Or has the convent changed its rules ?" The vampire looks at him as the young lady's blood drips down his chin. no one my ass, he is just trying to scare me into sharing my meal! "will some one please shut this ass hole up so i can enjoy my meal in silince!" the vampire yells. two shadow figures drop from the sky behind the man one pulls out a long curved sword decapitating the man where he stood. his head hits the ground, making an eerie thud when it lands on the wet ally street. The head then rolls in front of the vampire. hi9s eyes still open his tougne hanging out of his mouth but it was starbge it almosted looked like this head had a smile on it. The man's blood sprays the vampire and girl with droplets. As the droplets hit the girl's face, they are soon absorbed and a mark begins to take shape on the back of her hand. Her body, once cold, began to feel like an inferno welling up inside her, then expending down from the mark on her had to fill her entire body. She begins to convulse and foam from the mouth. Many visions of long past horrors of death and destruction flood her mind as her eyes roll back into her head. The vampire begins to writh in pain as the blood hits his clothes and skin and begins to sizzle like bacon in a pan. Freaked out by this, he drops the girl and looks at the man, his head on the ground in front of him, his body still standing where it was. He looked down at the head and noticed it had changed. It looked no longer like an ordinary man's face but had the face of a lunatic. The eyes were open, the mouth was smiling and the tongue hung out the side of his smiling mouth. The teeth looked like they had been sharpened to a point. To the vampires' surprise, the man's dislodged head then said "you f****d up now, all you had to do was walk away and that would have been so much easier'. The head was laughing and the eyes grew wide open, his tongue still hanging from his mouth as it spoke. The body began to move. It had grown taller since having the head removed. The body's muscles became much more defined. His clothes stretched to continue his figure . The handle of a sword burst from the body's thigh with a horrible sound of breaking bones and meat being torn. The body reached its hand down to pull the blade from his leg and swing the blade around to chop one of the shadowy figures in half at the waist. The other shadowy figure began to draw his blade, but before he could get it completely drawn, the body had moved and, with its hand, the body pinned the shadowy figure to the wall by his neck. The shadow figure drew his sword, to cut the arm off that held his neck, but the blade just bounced off and made a sound as if it hit metal. The hand wrapped tighter around the shadowy figure's throat and began to squeeze harder and harder. You could hear the sounds of bones breaking and the figure struggling to say the words help me as blood poured into the figure's throat. The shadow figure began to struggle, slamming his sword into the man's body over and over. You could hear the gargling sounds of his breathing and the pain he was in as he struggled. As his hand closed tighter and tighter around his neck, the squirming stopped and then the body also stopped moving. His sword fell from his lifeless body and hit the ground. The vampire stood there in utter shock at what he had just witnessed and turned an even paler white than he already was. He looked down to see the head still there laughing with its eyes wide open, the tongue still hanging out of its mouth. As the vampire looked up from the laughing head, he noticed the headless body turn and throw the shadow figure's body towards him. The body hit the vampire with such force it knocked him flat. The headless body then changed direction and moved toward the vampire, only stopping to pick up its lost head. When the head was placed back in place, the vampire watched as the neck fused back together and heard the sounds of bones and meat realigning to their original state. The once ordinary looking man had grown much taller and much more muscular. He was no longer an ordinary looking being and looked truly horrifying to behold. His eyes were wide open, his tongue still hung from his mouth, his unkept hair had turned black and grown long. It wasn't just black, but as black as empty space. He walked closer to the vampire. The vampire pushed the body off him and tried to stand to run, but as he got up he noticed when he tried to move his legs something was wrong. He fell back to the ground with a sharp pain radiating from his knees. He looked back to see the bottom half of his legs still standing where they were before he turned to run and heard a loud bang from behind him. The man approached, but where had his sword gone? The man with the smile and wide open eyes approached, still laughing with every step closer he got.This intensified the fear in the vampire. The vampire says " listen to me. I am not to be f****d with. My father is a high-ranking noble. Do you know what will happen to you if you kill me? You will be dead. You hear me he will kill you and all you love? Do you understand, you f*****g freak!" The vampire had tears rolling down his face and pissed himself while he spoke. With his hair disheveled, blood coming from his knees, he used his hands to crawl away from the man. The man was walking ever closer, his laughs grew louder and louder. Another blade handle forces itself up from his other leg. He pulls it out and grabs the vampire by the hair. He turns him around so he can see the vampire's face and shoves the sword deep into the vampire's shoulder, pinning him against the wall. Another sword handle suddenly appears, but this time it comes from the man's back. He reaches behind him and pulls it out to be used. This blade is much longer and ornate in its design. The handle had large sharp spikes all over it, causing the man to cut his hand. The blade began to glow and the man's blood began to flow into the sword like they were bound together. Then the man spoke again, " It's been a long time, vampire, since I have drawn this blade, all you had to do was walk away and obey the laws of your four-fathers . But no. you had to be a spoiled ass hat. When will you f*****g bum ass blood suckers learn that you are not the only ones that live in the dark? I had hoped to come home to gather some supplies without any issues, then be on my way. But I guess that is out the window now thanks to you. So what punishment should I go with, huh you f*****g d**k pickle?" The vampire, stuck to the wall like a useless sack of meat, looked at the man's face. The same smile from ear to ear was still present, his eyes still wide open, but now that the man was so close, the vampire could see a bright blue ring of what looked like fire in his eyes. The center was dark and cold and endlessly deep.The Vampire began to plead with the man, " I am sorry I will go. Please let me go. I will not do this again. I swear! Can we just forget this ever happened? Please, I don't want to die here. Please let me leave here. Do not end me and I will give you whatever you could want or need. You want credits. How about status? I can see to it. I can also help get you elevated to full citizen status here on Ethos. The man turned his head to look at the girl who was still convulsing, lying on the ground, flopping, twisting and. Screaming in pain. As she kicked and screamed, he noticed that the mark on her hand was filling in more and more. He turned his gaze back at the vampire pinned to the wall. With one motion, he cut the vampire's arms free from his body. They flop to the ground and then the vampire begins to scream in pain. The man thought, I had better finish this. There will be investigators here soon with all this screaming. The man glared at the vampire and swung his sword around and put it back into his back. He reached his hand out and a small knife slid out of his finger covered in his blood. He cuts the jacket and shirt down the middle, exposing his chest. He then begins to carve a symbol into the vampire's chest. It was a face, a laughing face with horns on its head. The vampire screamed even louder now. He was in much more pain than before, having his arms and legs cut off. As he screamed in pain and anguish, the man continued working on him and the carving he was doing burned like nothing he had ever felt before. It was as if he kept getting burned over and over again. The vampire soon passed out from the pain. The sound of sizzling flesh could be heard from the symbol that was now complete and etched on his chest. The man pulled the sword from the wall and put it back into his leg where it came from. He held his other hand up, the sword that he threw to cut off the vampire's legs that was flung from the other end of the ally,flew back to him. What the man did not notice was, the sword was facing the wrong direction. As it came back to him, it stabbed him through his hand. The man though, ahhhhh holy s**t that hurts. I forgot how much of a pain in the ass these f*****g pieces of s**t swords can be. The sword was glowing faintly, almost as if it was enjoying bringing its master some pain. He pulled the sword from his hand and shook it as he tried to rid himself of the pain. He then turned the sword around and slid it back into his leg. Then he turned to look at the girl who had also passed out and was no longer convulsing. A tear started to form in the man's eye from the pain of the damage the sword inflected on his hand. He walked over to the girl and bent to his knee to pick her up. He thinks, poor humans, they could never survive the contract. What I was thinking, I should just have left this whole situation alone. As he looked down and saw her face, he felt a deep, but familiar pain in his chest and tears started to well up inside him. Who is this girl? Why do I feel so sad that she has passed? Why do I feel like I have seen her face before ? Why do I feel like I have lived this day before? The man rose with her in his arms and began to walk down the alley. Before he can make his way from the alley, right before he gets to the main street. He feels movement in his hands and the girl awakes up. She reached up and violently slapped the man all while gasping for air. She starts kicking and swarming. The man did not expect this reaction and accidentally dropped her. Holy s**t, I about s**t myself what the f**k is going on. Once she was on the ground, he noticed that she seemed to calm herself down. She looked up to see the one that was carrying her off. The man had changed as soon as he retrieved and returned his sword, his body had shrunk and turned back into the ordinary looking man he started out as. The girl, while looking up at him, asks" What happened to me? What is going on? The last thing I remember is I was in a bar with my boyfriend. Wait no, that is not right, I was in an alley with a--." her face turned pale. She looked up at the man standing there with a puzzled look on his face. She tries to get up but her legs don't seem to be working. She looked back at the man. " What in the hell is going on, please tell me? The sounds of sirens begin to blare in the background, getting closer. Soon the investigators will be there. The man standing there, still with a puzzled look on his face, leans down and punches the girl, knocking her out. He looked up to make sure nobody saw him and walked out of the alley, leaving her there for them to find. He then makes his way onto the street and disappears into the heavy crowds that occupy the area as the investigators pull up. As they stepped out, he noticed that there were two of them. One was a vampire and the other a werewolf . First, they pulled crime scene tape out and blocked the alleys opening to secure the scene. Then they walked down the alley only to find the two figures dressed in all black with black cloaks and hoods, lying in pools of blood. Then they notice a pair of legs still standing in the distance. They move towards the legs and see the high born vampire sitting against the wall passed out with a strange symbol carved into his chest. The vampire investigator turns to the werewolf investigator. "What in the f**k happened here?" he says as his brows rise above his eyes in disbelief. The werewolf smiles and responds "Looks like some of your family got their s**t pushed in." The werewolf started to laugh, the vampire scowls back at the werewolf and mutters to himself "stupid dog". Then they walk over to the assaulted vampire. The vampire investigator pulls a vial from his pocket and puts it under the vampire's nose, rousing him awake. As the injured vampire wakes up, he moves what's left of his arm and tries to clinch his chest as he mumbles "ahh it f*****g hurts ahh it burns please help me!" The vampire starts to scream as he comes to. The vampire investigator says "Sir, please stop screaming. What happened here? Can you tell us who did this?" the vampire was in too much pain to be any help, all he could do was scream and try to grab at the carving on his chest. The vampire investigator stands and holds a finger to his ear. "Dispatch, we have a code black. Please send emergency assistants to our location". The small metal cord in his ear lights up red and the location is sent to the main hub. The werewolf investigator slowly moves away as he looks back at the vampire. "Hey, someone is still here", he pulls a pistol from his waist and brings the gun close to his chest as he begins to clear the allyway. Before he gets to the end of the alley, he can see a figure lying on the ground with blood on its shirt. He walks over to it. "smells like a human but what is that other stench she has on her? never smelled this before." He reaches down to check her pulse and notices a what seems to be a strange tattoo on the back of her hand. Over head a small vessel pulls up over the ally and cords drop from its belly as more men jumped down from the vessel. The help had arrived and it looks like they are all vampires. They looked at the vampire sitting against the wall in pain as they approached him. "Sir what is your name?" The vampire looked up at them. "It's Victor Willow" he said. At the mention of the name, the other vampires hurried to him and pulled out what looked to be a gun. They held it to the injured vampire's neck and pulled the trigger. A blunt noise resinated from it as it attached a medical pack to his neck. The other vampire pulled up his arm and began to type on the computer inside his arm. They administered a dose of medication that made the vampire pass out again. The werewolf then came back holding the girl in his arms. "Take her" he said to the others. "We need to get some answers to what happened here." His partner, the vampire, looked at the werewolf and said "You stupid ass why did you move the body?" The werewolf glared at the vampire and tossed a strange orb that had a lens on it." I already captured the scan of the area and she is not a corpse she lives you misquito." The werewolf said as he handed off the girl to one of the team. They then put the vampire in a stretcher and attached a few lines that had dropped from the bottom of the vessel to the stretcher and pulled Victor up from the ground into the vessel. The vessel then closed its opening, which was at the belly of the unit where the lines had dropped. Soon another set of lines dropped and the EMTs that came from the vessel grabbed hold of the straps as they began to be pulled up into the craft as well, with the only difference being the doors that swung open to absorb them were from the vessels' sides. Another vessel arrives and the process is repeated, but to pick up the human. After both injured parties were gone, the investigators looked at one another. The vampire said "Do you know who that was? It was EMT's from the house of Willow. We are so f****d. Ah god, just the amount of paper work we need to do is going to take all night." The werewolf looked back and replied " What's this we s**t I am no vampire. It sounds like the amount of paper work you need to do is going to take all night. All I got to do is write up a report on the huiman'. The werewolf laughs as he holds his chest and they both get ready to return to base,