The Feeding House (13 page)

“You lied to me Jack. Y
ou put me in harm’s way and you knew that all along. How could you have been so stupid? How could you have put my life on the line so easily like it didn’t even matter? Now look at what’s happened, I’m here to end you Jack. Your death will be merciless and I shall take great joy in watching you die, just like you let me die.”

Missy bent down and picked up a knife that was concealed in her dress and waved it in Jacks face
. A horrible smile formed on her face she seemed murderous and unstoppable. Jack stepped back and began to plead “Missy please listen to me, I didn’t know. It was all too much for me. I couldn’t think please just fight this I know that you’re in there somewhere.”

Missy’s face changed and colour began to return to it ever so slightly “Jack?” her voice was back to normal she seemed fine “Jack I think it’s, it’s all over.”

Jack walked up to Missy and wrapped his arms around her, they embraced and kissed passionately. As they did so however Missy’s eyes began to once again change colour and her skin turned cold again, Jack felt this as her warm lips now felt like death and tasted of ash but it was too late and Missy plunged the knife into Jacks shoulder, twisting it as she did so.

Jack pulled away and hit Missy around the face knocking h
er across the room as he did so. He looked at his arm, it was bleeding heavily but he had bigger problems to deal with at the moment he could worry about his shoulder later. Missy jumped up. The hit around the face had knocked her straight back into a wall but it seemed not to have bothered her. Her arm was dislocated but without even flinching she popped it back into place and ran screaming at Jack once again.

Jack did not want to hurt Missy any more than he already had and so instead of fighting back he dodged her charge at the last minute, Missy went flying headfirst into the door, her
teeth were left mangled and bent, she spit a mixture of blood and tooth onto the floor and once again came at Jack knife raised into the air as she screamed like a banshee.

Jack grabbed her arm and stopped her, gripping her wrist tightly. She forced her lips upon his and that was when he tasted her blood, that sweet metallic taste that he had been longing for he could barely bring himself to pull away, it was everything that his body needed and it completed him
. He felt for that moment euphoric but this only lasted a second and soon the feeling was replaced by another.

The feeling that had been brewing up inside of him for so very long was now exploding out of him in every direction, he could not control it and it would not go away. It was like a wild lust that took over every one of his senses he could not think or feel all he now knew was too feed, Jacks eyes turned black and his fangs moved into position.

He dug his fangs deep into Missy’s throat and ripped a chunk of skin away revealing her now spurting artery Jack bit his fangs down into the wound and began to suck. He felt the warm blood trickle down his throat and could not bring himself to stop it was everything that he had needed, he could feel himself becoming stronger with every mouthful.

Dreno
’s plan had worked perfectly Jack was both feeding and would bring much unneeded attention onto himself after this. His slave, Missy, now knew this and began to support Jack in his blood lust making sure that he didn’t stop, making sure that he sucked her body completely dry of life. She used the knife to cut herself repeatedly from her arms to her torso to her legs and Jack in his animalistic state revelled in this licking the wounds dry.

It took all of ten minutes for Jack to finish sucki
ng the blood completely out of Missy, leaving her body shrivelled and destroyed. She had stopped moving long before that though, and as soon as the blood stopped flowing Jack returned back to normal giving out a mighty vampiric scream as he did so. His eyes were no longer black and his fangs had retreated leaving his normal teeth as the only ones on show.

Jack looke
d down at Missy’s body and wept. He knew that this was the begging of the end for him. He had resisted the urge to feed on human for so long and now he had acquired the taste for it there was no turning back, he was becoming mad. The longer that he looked at the body of the only women he had ever had feelings for the more he began to feel disconnected from his conscious, he could feel himself slipping away and another invading. There was very little time now, he had to escape before anyone saw this or before he could cause any more damage Jack no longer had any idea what he was capable of.

He
grabbed his hat and jacket and ran out the door of his room. His clothes were covered in blood but he didn’t care, he had to get away before it was too late. He looked back at Missy’s body and his heart sunk even further, slamming the door behind him he ran through the bar and out the door all eyes were turned onto him once more, people saw the blood and they heard his screams of pain.

Jack continued to run and run feeling no fatigue and no pain, everything was blo
cked out he was completely numb. He felt as though he could run forever and that was what he intended to do. He wouldn’t stop. Jack wasn’t escaping not this time anyway he was trying to run away from himself and he would keep going until he managed that.

Meanwhile in the bar Jacks exit had caused a great commotion and
Valerie came out from the back room a Winchester rifle in hand. The bar staff filled her in on the situation and she ran up the stairs as quick as she could, opening the door to the room that Jack had been staying in she looked down upon the mangled corpse that had once been Missy. A member of staff who had followed her up looked and quickly threw up behind her.

“That sick son of a bitch,” She said in a quite shocked tone she was a strong women but even this was a bit too much for her “Someone get the sheriff right now, he’s going to want to see this.”

Throughout all the commotion and people screaming and panicking one man sat in a darkened corner of the room smoking on a pipe and sipping on his red wine he had seen everything and for good reason, just as he had before. 

It was a month later and
Dreno was still at the feeding house in Oxford, Mississippi. He seemed to have taken it as his home and had even sent for some of his most prized possessions to be sent over from his house in France where he had been living before. In fact no one really knew what he was doing, they understood his plan for the new way of feeding but did not understand why he kept such a keen eye overseeing it every single step of the way.

No one however had the sort of authority or indeed courage for that matter to raise the point with him all
as it would lead to would be death or worse. Everyone at the feeding house had noticed that Dreno was very skilled with Dark magic and surely knew how to make you suffer if you got on the wrong side of him.

Two vampires approached
his office door, they walked with an official manner and were not dressed like the others. These vampires were dressed in white coats, obviously to cover blood splatter from the suits that they wore underneath. They walked up to the door and opened it very skittishly one of them putting their head through just a touch as to try and not seem rude of intruding.

Dreno
looked up at the nervous and strangely dressed men that stood in front of him and smiled. “Gentlemen,” He exclaimed opening his arms wide seeming to give some form of air embrace to the two of them “Please come in, tell me everything that you have found out I have not been able to control my excitement to know.”

Dreno
seemed to be in very good spirits at the sight of the two gentlemen and immediately this seemed to calm the two men down as they entered the room. Standing awkwardly in front of Dreno’s desk. His eyes looked expectantly back and forth between the two men but after none of them took the hint and began to speak he thought he would start off.

“So what do my two favourite vampiric scientists have to tell me about my program, all interesting developments I hope as you know I have very big plans for this.”
Dreno said as he extended his arms for the two Gentlemen to begin speaking.

One of them finally plucked up the courage and began to speak to
Dreno who looked wrapped up in the world that the man was painting for him “We have been running tests on the blood sir and I will be perfectly honest with you we could not have hoped for better results. Not only is this blood much more radially available but, from the test subjects who have been given nothing but this, it has also had many other helpful effects some of which we didn’t expect including improved strength, can spend longer in sunlight,  much quicker to anger, improved agility. The list goes on, sir, this blood is turning the test subjects into super vampires.”

“Not super vampires my innocent friend, it is turning them into what we always should have been, what we were before the rise of humanity,” Said
Dreno quickly catching the pause in the gentleman’s he looked off into the distance with a mad stare seeming almost like he was dreaming of something.

The other gentleman began to speak “As you predicted sir the cattle plugged up to the machines are fine, apart from their eternal blood supply is in a constant flow and everything seems to be going ok for them, they will not die.”

A wide smile appeared on Dreno’s face he was pleased to hear that everything was going so well “How many cattle do you have at the moment? I am fully aware that we are still in a test phase of this.”

The men thought for a second and then responded together “11 Sir.” The gentlemen looked confused.

“And how many test subjects gentleman?” Dreno asked.

“8.” They replied with a sense of certainty and confusion as to why
Dreno was asking simple things that he already knew and no doubt set up.

Dreno
turned away from them knowing that they would be displeased to hear this as they were already snowed under enough anyway “I want the cattle upped to 30 and the test subjects upped to 20 and I want this to be the way by the end of the week do I make myself clear?”

The men seemed to panic for a moment
, completely taken aback by their suddenly gargantuan work load “But sir I must protest,” began one of them. His partner just stood next to him in silent shock “This is just in test phase at the moment there is no possible way that we can get those sort of numbers and still remain researching at the rate that we are it would be sacrificing one for the other. We wouldn’t be able to handle such a large amount of cattle at the moment, some of the machines are still weeks away from completion. We could up the numbers a bit but nowhere near that level sir I’m sorry it’s just not do-able,” The gentleman had seemed to have built confidence during his speech and now looking up over the rim of his glasses and seeing how Dreno was looking at him and where he was he took a great gulp and began to regret every word that he had just said.

Dreno
stood up from his chair and stooped over the gentleman who had spoken his piece. It did not seem as though Dreno had appreciated his words one bit “Do you doubt my ideas? Do you think that I am stupid?” Dreno sounded much to cool and relaxed. He did not normally behave like this, even when he was angry, this must have been something different this must have been disappointment.

The gentleman in the chair began to get very nervous and sat up completely straight
, Dreno looming behind him was a very bad sign. “No of course I would never think anything of the sort of you High Chancellor. I was just simply saying that I feel those numbers are too much I can’t manage them maybe it is my problem, I must be the inadequate one.”

Dreno
raised an eyebrow to this and then with one quick and all too easy movement pulled the head clean off of the gentleman who he felt was letting him down. The anger could be seen deep in Dreno’s eyes, anger mixed with some strange form of sadistic joy. Blood splattered in every direction and landed on pretty much everything throughout the room. The other gentleman now covered in the blood of his partner tried to pretend that it was nothing, acting almost as if he had not noticed what had happened. You could easily see the fear in his eyes that he was next as he nervously lifted his pocket handkerchief to wipe his face of blood. The decapitated body slumped slowly to the heels of the other gentleman who pushed his feet back in avoidance of it.

Dreno
put the head down onto the table and looked up at the one remaining vampire “I trust that you will have no problems with my new orders?” Dreno seemed to be asking him this genuinely even though after a display of such superiority the gentleman would have to be stupid to speak up against Dreno.

The gentleman fumbled with his words and continued to dab himself with his handkerchief “Of course not High Chancellor it sounds like a most brilliant plan
. I will start work on it immediately.” The gentleman stood up nervously as he said this trying to inch his way towards the door to escape Dreno’s unnerving company.

“Good I am most pleased,” replied
Dreno “You always were my favourite scientist, I have seen great potential in you since the beginning now go and follow through with the plan, I expect regular updates.”  

The gentleman bowed low to
Dreno as a sign of respect and quickly backed himself out of the room. Hurrying down the hall, as soon as the doors were closed. That night the program would be upped, that night even more young children would go missing and houses would be burnt down under suspicious circumstances but maybe even more worrying than that was the fact that there was soon to be more even stronger vampires walking around the earth and that wasn’t good for the human race.