The twin moons shined brightly over the landscape. On top of a large hill stood a large formiable castle and below a large town surrounded by a mighty stone wall. Fires burned in the town, buildings set ablaze. The screams of people in panic filled the air. From a forest of black tree trunks and blood red leaves to the east of the castle and town a small group of men and women ran.<br/><br/>They ran across the blood red grass of the plain between the forest and some low hills. They wore black metal armor and were armed with swords, spears and bows. Fifteen men and fifteen women moved with remarkable speed. They splased through a stream of thick, red liquid, the color of blood when it hit the air. It clung to the armor the men and women wore. As they reached the low hills another, much larger group of armed and armored men emerged from the forest. Some rode beasts that resembled horses but snorted fire from their nostrales and their eyes were red as the fire from hell.<br/><br/>"Hurry, to the ancient temple!" Cried one of the men. He was a handsome young looking man and at his side was a beautiful woman with blond hair and piercing green eyes. The others hurried through the hills till they reached the ruins of some building that looked old as time itself. "Hurry, it is our only hope of escape." he cried out again. Reaching the ruins the thirty men and women entered and closed the double metal doors and slid a bar across to secure it.<br/><br/>The young man moved to what appeared to be an alter and removed from a pouch a strange looking crystal. "Blackthorne, Damascus, Corwell, get everyone up here to the alter." One could see that Blackthorne did not like taking orders from the younger man, but he did as he was told. The other two did likewise.<br/><br/>Pounding on the temple's doors told them that their pursuers had reached the temple. They were trying to batter the door down. If they succeeded before Night could do what he had come there to do, they would all be dead. He placed the crystal in the center of the alter which seemed to have a indentation that accepted the crystal. He then began pressing various symbols on the alter and they depressed into it. A humming could be heard from deep beneath the temple. Outside the sky turned dark and lightning flashed across the sky and thunder rolled across the land.<br/><br/>Suddenly the lightning seemed to strike all around the temple forcing the pursuers back away from it. A bright light then enveloped the temple and shot into the sky. It lasted but a moment and then all was calm once more. The dark clouds disapeared as fast as they had appeared. The lightning and thunder ceased and all was as before. Again the pursuers attacked the doors and smashed them open. But inside was nothing but the remains of the old temple and the alter.<br/><br/>On Earth a bright light suddenly appeared in the middle of a valley, in a structure much like the one they had just been in, only it was more open to the outside world. It was in what would be known as Germany. The blond haired woman turned to Night and threw her arms around him. "You did it my beloved, you did it." Yes he had activated the strange device he had found and studied. It had saved their lives for the time being, but another more pressing problem faced them. Their need for blood to sustain them, blood that flowed in rivers and the fruit that trees bore was now not present. They would starve if they could not find a supply, but did this world have anything that had blood.<br/><br/>"Yes I have succeeded in making out escape, which we would not have had to do if......." he turned to Blackthorne, "you had not been so bent on conquering our neighbors."<br/><br/>Blackthorne snarled, "It is because of me that we had such a large kingdom to rule over. It was my military mind that lead our armies to victory.<br/><br/>Night's eyes narrowed but he did not respond. The four of them had desired power and they achieved it. Night had been satisfied with what they had but Blackthorne always wanted more. He looked around the new landscape and then at the others of their party. The four were the High Lords and the others were their guards. "What is done is done. Now we must find blood and shelter." He began to walk and the others followed. Soon they found a primative village of humans and the scent of blood was high in the air from them. The villiagers did not stand a chance against them and soon all had been bleed dry of their blood.<br/><br/>"Well we know that this world has a blood source." Not as plentiful as their home world but if there was one village there would be others. Here they also found animals that had blood and their meat could be consumed. The blood was not as good nor as delicious as the human blood but it would sustain them.<br/><br/>Forward to Modern Day<br/><br/>The City, a wonderful place and a hell hole as well. It all depended on who you were, or what you were. Things had changed over the years, what once was hidden from mankind was now revealed and those of myth, that had been hunted once now ruled. Vampires ruled and lycans were their soldiers and protectors during the day. For the past one hundred years, after the last war, The City had been ruled by the Vampires. The rest of the world seemed to have fallen off the face of the planet. There was no contact with other major cities or from other countries.<br/><br/>Around The City there were communities of humans that were the food source of both vampires and lycans. Not easy to find, they were hunted for the sport of hunting and for the kill as well. With in the city there were humans that lived under the rule of the vampires. Even there they were hunted as well for sport. If a human made it outside the walls of the city, they were left to live and be hunted another day. Most humans served their masters in many ways Some were even favorites of the vampires and treated well, until another gained that favor.<br/><br/>As always theough, there were those that wished to be in charge. Plots, counter plots were always going on. There was always the need for someone that knew how to kill a vampire and was willing to do so. Though those of that kind was few in number and their price was usually very high indeed and of course their identities, faces kept secret.<br/><br/>Nick was one of those, but he was not quite human either. Not vampire, and not lycan, but immortal. Some sort of quirk of nature, fate, or perhaps some sort of experimentation when the humans ruled the world. He had the speed, strength, agility, and healing properties of the vampires but could stand the light of the sun and not have to feed on the blood of others. With the right, slight makeup he could pass as a vampire.<br/><br/>He had a place on the west side of the city. He had a contract offer and so decided to check it out. She was a powerful, beautiful, and seductive vampiress. But one of the other Lords wanted her gone. There were five Lords of the city. She was one of them and the other four often tried to kill each other off so they could take their share of the city and make themselves more powerful. Under them were other vampires and of course they vied for positions as well. Each had a tower in the center of the city. The towers use to be places that catered to the wealthy, and businesses that had thrived in t he day. Now they were the palaces of the Vampire Lords. Her tower was one of these, and in it lived the lycan guards, and underling vampires and human servents. He knew the tower well and certain things about it that the present owner had no clue of. He knew much of the city, for he had lived there a very long time, even before the war that changed everything. He had raided the offices that had held all the blueprints of the city buildings and had taken as much as he could. His glider flew on the wind and landed on the Tower Roof. He made his way through the tower to her chambers, through secret passages that the previous owners had designed into it.