"Nonsense, Cat," began the pureblood, drawing his formal robe around him tighter, "my family is now yours, and has been since the day I blooded you. Remember what I said to you then?"
"'You'll never be alone again. You'll always have family.'" smiled the younger vampyr at her blood-father. Caterina had been blooded only ten years ago, but it seemed that she had been in the family for centuries.
"See, my family is your family." Xerogul put a hand on his blood-daughter's shoulder. "Anyway, my brother has been bothering me for the past four centuries to 'have' children." The vampyr's laughed. "Now, do you have everything?"
"Yes, father." she
"PAIN everlasting!"
"The light is TORTURE!"
"Darkness INCARNATE!"
"We will redefine your SUFFERING!"
"HATED, little soldiers!"
"You're but a SHADOW of your former glory!"
"RELIEVE US!"
A series of voices I hear when I sleep.
"We'll FEED on your heart!"
"Dead fingers... TEAR flesh!"
"Your EYES are too bright!"
"KILL the light!"
"FREE the dark!"
"Embrace the PAIN!"
"We'll suck the MARROW from your bones!"
"... MURDER the soul!"
"Your god(s) CAN'T save you!"
"SLEEP no more!"
"... GNAW on your skull!"
"Let the... CREEP into your heart!"
"We... are CANCER!"
"Your pain will be ETERNAL!"
"Infinite SUFFERING!"
"Don't you hear the CRIES of the children?"
The Blacklight Virus wiped out the majority of Manhattan Island. I say "wiped out" because that's the "official" report from the Marines, something about a "terrorist threat." No, it did far worse than that. The virus threatened not just all of New York, not just all of the United States, but the world. Luckily, Alex Mercer helped slow down the infection, ironic, that he was the one to release the virus. I guess that's some twisted way to redeem himself.
But that was ten years ago. Blackwatch was able to contain the infection, taking samples from only the "best" specimens, including the corpse of Mercer himself. Yes, even gods can fall. But