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[Warning: Mature Content]

How do you heal from a broken heart? When Franchette lost the love of her life, she forced herself to move on. Rather than drown herself with grief, she dedicated her time training in intensive military combat and caring for orphaned children.

When a new pandemic broke out, Franchette became a part of the team to combat the new biological hazard. To her surprise, it wasn’t a virus she had to fight but humans with an insatiable thirst for blood.

Vampires emerge as a product of science. Not the monsters you know in your story books. Immortality was achievable. But it caused death.

In the midst of hell breaking loose around her, Fran found Xedjedy alive and well, unlike the news she learned from the government. But he wasn’t the same man she loved before. He was part of the horde of vampires exterminating humanity.

Will she choose between him or the safety of those who are under her care? And become his weakness to save them all.

Immortality's Weakness

Death came for me but pain never did. Is that how it goes? You are only allowed to feel cold and see only flashbacks of your stupidity. You're only allowed to see your mistakes. To see every wrong thing you've ever done.


All the epic fails, that you so desperately just wanted to forget. You were just there floating in the abyss watching yourself facing failures upon failures. Would I be in the wrong for hoping for things to have ended differently. Would it be sin to hope for him to be human and stay with me? I knew that I could be so greedy. When it's him, I'd die a thousand deaths.


        Then I brought myself to a memory when I was still trying to help people to survive. Perhaps I wasn't so greedy after all.


            I was running towards the end of the tunnel when three consecutive explosions echoed inside the tunnels. I had to brace myself with the tremors it caused. It was nearly day break and I know by then the kids were already outside of the tunnels.


I was right with my assumptions. They wanted us trapped with only one exit to go through. They wanted to trap us like mice. They underestimated us. We never go down without a fight.


            "Are you out of the tunnels?" I asked panting in our intercom wishing they could still hear me. I knew it's connected to the satellites but I was still underground.


            I was slowly contemplating that they did not hear me. "Yeah, we got out a few minutes ago." I heard faint words amids the static.  "We heard the explosion. Are you alright." I recognized Cleasea's voice barely audible from the static. What she said ignited something in me. Hope that the kids were just a few more steps to safety.


            "I am nearly at the planned exit, take care of the kids." I said feeling a bit sentimental, "over and out." I didn't want to hear them say anything to change my mind. I couldn't back out for what I would be facing outside of the tunnels. I threw away my intercom. Bats have a high sense of hearing, they can hear the static from that thing for miles.


            Ten bats attacked me the moment I went out the tunnel's exit. Five went down immediately after I shot them in the head, the other five were smarter to evade my bullets. I ran for cover towards the forest of big acacia and narra trees.  They waited for me to stop shooting because I needed to reload. I was hiding behind a three trunk whilst five bats were stalking and closing in on me.


Before I could even start shooting again, one vampire who looked like he badly needed a shave, attacked me. He was using his elongated nails to scrape off half of my face. I was fast enough to slide down on my back while swinging my bolo severing his left arm. His screaming was mind splitting so I shut him up by shooting his head whilst being showered by his blood.


"Shit." I muttered to myself as I abruptly stood up and started running again. I was shooting those bats who were pursuing me, "That was a stupid move Fran, running in the open like that." I chastised myself again hiding behind a huge tree, panting from all that cardio and adrenaline rush.


I started firing again towards the four remaining vampires in pursuit of me. If I didn't attack, I'd end up dead once I consumed all my ammunition. With that thought in mind instead of running away, I ran towards one of them.


A woman with red manicured fingernails got surprised as I charged towards her. I was firing my gun at her, screaming my lungs out with sheer force of my anger. When she went down to the ground another man jumped in front of me, my body reacted by swinging my bolo at his neck severing it. Blood was splattering all over and I didn't care. I was used to smelling human blood every day as a nurse. With my military training, killing hostiles was expected of me.


Stupidity