[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 Viktor. Ah ya, also tell John to highlight the places that used to be a medical office or any abandoned medical fixation room. They need only one room to set the lab he needs. I’m hoping we’re not looking for a needle in a stack of hay]
[On it, my lady!]
[and one more, Mr.Tanaka…]
[Yes, my lady?]
[Tell them to keep being alerted, I’ll contact them as soon as Viktor has the lead to their nest]
[Absolutely, my lady.]
With that I ended the mind meeting with Mr. Tanaka and ran to my balcony. On the edge of the line between the bluish night sky and the greenish labyrinth of the castle, I heard the vampire horses were neighing and stomping on their feet. That meant they were ready to go.
Because the vampire horses were the strongest horses ever existed, their loud neighing sometimes unbearable even for the normal humans’ ears to hear. But it could be handy as well, telling them not to go wander outside their houses because it was possible that the vampire rogues were near.
The sound of those vampire horses could be the sign that the rogue vampires were near. If it were only normal occasion of my four horsemen patrolling, they would hear only the roar of John’s black Ducati’s engines. You know how loud the sound of Italian bikes’ engines.
Their neighing could also be the warning for the humans to obey the curfew, for the sake of their own safety. It was a flawless system that I made. I was optimistic that this system would work properly with only a slight of risk. I might say, it was a slight risk. But it could be fatal for those humans who didn’t obey or unfortunately had to go out in the night without vampire cop guardian.
The disobedience that mostly brought them to be the rogue vampires, accidentally turned into the vampires by raging blind rogue vampires that sought only blood and drained their victims’ blood. If it was careless of them, they would leave the body unattended. And the next night, the body would rise as a rogue vampire. Or if the vampire cops patrolling in the night and found the body, they would have the body arrested to be fed with good blood until they came to their senses.
Then from there, they would be asked if they wanted to be a vampire cop to get through some training, or they wanted to go back to their lives as a creature of the night. Since everyone was ID-ed, it was easy to find for their relatives if they had, there would be proper counseling for the civilized vampire and her or his relative. They could choose the kind of lives they wanted to live.
If they wanted to live by themselves, then they had to tell their relatives how they wanted to live their lives. The acceptance of being new vampire was very crucial. Because if a new vampire knew that they weren’t wanted anymore in the family, in the Police Force, or in their old lives, chances they became the rogue vampires were even bigger.
Some cases if the new vampire wanted to be with his or her relatives, then he or she had to be guided by the counselor and also two vampire cops who could stopped him and put him in the good blood treatment again if he or she started to hurt the relatives.
The easiest case would be when the new vampire wanted to live by him or herself. It would be as easy saying good bye to the relatives and live his or her life by himself or herself. This case was easier since it needed only one vampire cop to monitor the progress. We also had some kind of guidance collar that connected to their Medulla Oblongata whenever the vampire lost control in her or his probation to live independently as the new vampire, the collar would stop their movement.
I was still searching for an innovation or new system to handle this kind of matters.
Now while my four horsemen patrolling, I could see any abandoned medical office or unused fixation room that possible to be place for the rogue vampires to hold captive the doctor.
So I asked the crystal ball again,
“O dear smooth magnificent sphere friend, where should I seek for this doctor? Could I have a slight image on what the place would look like?”
There was mist built inside the empty sphere. Then the mist became thick gradually break into pieces to reveal some images. There, I saw his face. His big down turned eyes looked so scared behind his clear spectacles. He knew he was in danger. But he kept on doing his work in the captive.
I could see his expression was slowly changing when he was working on his microscope. So the work helped him to overcome his anxiety on being held by the rogue vampires that he knew they could drain his blood anytime they decided to. His hair tousled, his facial hair untidy, and his lab coat was so dirty. Still I could see the beautiful man beneath the hideous accessories. If we could clean him up as good as new, he could be decent and look easy in the eyes.
Now what I had to do was to run the images again and see the background of his working place, on any sign or any symbol that might lead to knowing the place where they held him captive.
I ran my finger touching the crystal ball, asking it to zoom at some background details.
I saw dirty windows covered with fresh paint. So it meant that the building wasn’t underground. These rogue vampires quite advance knowing that they could build a fortress by painting the windows to keep their nest from the breaking of the sunlight. This was something new. I didn’t know how many new tricks they had learned so far.
This must be because they drank the blood of the highly enhanced intelligent lambs involved in the experiments done by the doctor. They felt like they could be smarter and they would start to seek for purpose of their being rogue vampires. If their solely purpose was positive to be able to live as civilized vampires like my men and I, then it wouldn’t be a problem.
What if their main purpose was to slaughter and enslave more human? That would be a big problem and I hoped that the doctor knew how to buy some time before we could save him.
And then I saw that sign…
[Help me!] Wait, what?
-to be continued-
[ ] these punctuations used to give a sign that the sentences were said as a means of communication between vampires. These vampires had these abilities because they were from one root of a Maker, Vivienne, who used to be a werewolf that could communicate in a pack and was the descendant of the Empath humans, the mind readers. Since she was downgraded to a vampire because of the Tribrid’s curse, her ability was also lessened to be able to communicate only one on one to her child only one at a time. I use these punctuations because GoodNovel app for mobile doesn’t show the post to be in italic. It only applies if you open the story using PC.
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