City of Blood by George Thomas (robert munsch read aloud .TXT) 📕

To understand me you have to understand that I'm not human. My name is Mike Thomas I was born into a world filled with death. Where if you wanted to survive you had to kill if you don't want to be killed. I was always the outcast even when people tried to get close I'd push them away. When I was young we moved a lot, my parents said this was a safe place for us. Not long after we got moved in i was put in a "speacial" school for people like me. But it was the same here I didn't want to know people i just wanted to be alone. When i reached my teens i started changing my parents said it was a normal thing. I had to change how i lived i had to start drinking blood, had to start using sunblock during the day, and most of all I had to be careful not to let the humans know what i really was. At the age of fourteen my parents where murdered by one of the few remaining wolves they where almost wipped from the world. Now only a handful remain. I promised myself I would find and kill them all with my bare hands if it takes the rest of my life.

I woke up in my appartemt to sound of a buzzing noise. I forced my self out of bed put some flip flops on and walked to the door. While walking to the door i looked at the clock and thought what the fuck! its only 2:19 in the god damned morning who the fuck is it. When i reached the door i pressed the button and said "Who the fuck is it and what do you want?" no responce "Hello who's buzzing me?" after a few seconds someone says "Yo Mike its me let me in i got something to show you." I buzzed him in and went to the kitchen and put on a pot of coffie. After a min the door opens and my annoying cousin Brandon walked in with a huge bag over his shoulder. At that moment I said "Let me guess, your girlfriend dumped and you came here to crash?" He looked at me as if to say Don't ask. When the coffie was done I opened a blood pack and poured a little into and mixed it up. Afterwards i let it sit a while before i poured us both a cup full. I sat down next to him at the table. Me and him have never been close in fact we have even been able to go a month without fighting at least ten times. I sat there for a few minutes just looking at him its been long i didn't know what to say. After a minute I said "How have you been? I haven't seen you since you FUCKING STABED ME IN THE BACK WITH A GOD DAMNED STEAK KNIFE! I DON'T EVEN KNOW I DONT PICK YOU UP BY THE THROAT AND THROW YOU OUT MY FUCKING WINDOW AND WATCH YOUR HEAD GO SPLAT AGAINST THE FUCKING SIDEWALK!" I expected him to get upset but he just sat there looking like he was about to break into little pieces of glass. "Why did you come here you know i hate you i know you hate me. So lets just skip the bullshit and get right to it cause i got to work in the morning and i'm not going to be up all fucking night with you not saying a word."

"Well for starters the Wolves are gaining in numbers again and they are getting stronger by the day. They even have found a way to make humans like them also."

"But thats imposable Wolves can only be born just like us most humans die from a attack from a Vamp or a Wolf."

"Well someone needs to tell them that cause not two days ago i seen it happen. I saved a man from a female wolf had him in my basement next thing i know he started to change."

I looked at him not knowing if i should believe him or get the widow ready for his fall. He was always one to mess with a person's head but something about how he was acting just seemed off like this someone flipped a switch inside him.

"Look lets say what your saying is true then why hasn't any of the higher ups done anything yet?"

"Actually that's why I'm here they need you and yours skills. Nobody can track those things like you can. We need you and you know it."

"And you also know why i have say to tell those old fucks to shove it up their ass the last time i helped them they left me for dead... and her also."

"If we don't take action they will have out numbered us a hundred too one and they will kill everyone. Look i know you lost Mary the last time you did something like this but we need you."

He went too far saying her name in a moment of pure rage i grabbed him from the chair and held him a few feet off the ground.

"Don't you ever say that name to me you son of a bitch! You told me and her it was a simple mission 'In and out its piece of cake' you told us and look what happen the only person i ever opened up to THE ONLY PERSON I'VE EVER LOVED IN MY FUCKED UP HALF ASS LIFE IS DEAD CAUSE OF YOU THOSE OLD FUCKERS WHO THINK THEY ARE BETTER THEN EVERYONE I LEFT BECAUSE I DIDN'T WANT ANYMORE PAIN AND SUFFERING!"

Before i knew what i was doing he was in the stairwell rolling down a few flights of stairs. I threw down his bag hoping it would land on top him for a final fuck you blow. I walked back into my apartment and stopped and said "Until you bring me something that says what you say is true don't even think of coming here again."

With that last statement i closed the door and locked it. But little did i know i should have listened sooner.

Going to back to sleep wasn't any helpful i called out sick for the day and just slept but hearing Mary's name just brought every painful event that i had to witness.

The last mission i went on for the elders was by far the worst it was to find a small pack of wolves hiding in the sewers and kill them. Everything was going great until we found them. Tracking in the sewers is a real pain in the ass all you can smell is shit, all you can see in darkness. Once we found them everything went wrong their were at least a dozen maybe more. The first few we took down in silence but then they caught wind of us. We fought and we fought but their were too many.

They could have killed us but instead they wanted to have their "fun" they held us for days. Trying to make us spill anything we might know we never gave them anything. After the tenth day i lost hope and knew we where alone and nobody would save us.

"God will see us though this" she always said but at that moment i didn't think even god was looking out for us.

We were in hell and no angel was coming to save us.

Finally they no longer needed us the time i seen her face she was being dragged away into the pitch black sewers.

I was helpless I cried out for her so much i couldn't speak. I couldn't do anything as the woman i loved the woman that was pergnant with my child was killed.

When they came for me they made the mistake of getting to close to my mouth the first one i ripped his throat out. The second one i snapped his neck with my legs. Once i found the keys i just ran and ran i knew she was dead and it was my fault. I was too weak to do anything.

After that mission i left and never once thought about going back into the field I lived a simple life and i liked it but now something was wrong and i knew i couldn't stay hidden.

I had to become the hunter i once was even if it leads to my death.

The night after Brandon showed up I went for a night on the town. I jumped from roof to roof trying to think about what he saying to me. Humans have always been unable to deal with the changes of the races.

They have always tried to make more using humans but it almost never worked and when it did the person never lived more then a year afterwards. But if the wolves have it working then all vampires are in danger.

After a few dozen leaps i stopped to catch my breath i was out of shape. Thats a few years of a part-time self stocker will do for a vampire warrior after all.

It was hard to believe that a bunch of mindless beasts that turn into huge overgrown wolves and howl a rock in the sky have been able to do something the vampires have been working dozens of years to perfect.

Every bone in my body was wanting to believe it was a trap. That the elders were fianlly trying to get me back for doing everything i did after Mary died.

 Something seemed wrong about Brandon he was