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I noticed a par5t in your second entry where you switch to third person for a sentence. Just saying.

Yeah, that was a mistake. What you post on Armor Games forums can't be changed. Sharp eyes, my friend! And thanks for taking the time to comment on my writing thread!

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"Eagle, are you weak to the sunlight?"
"Yeah, I am, sometimes, it might burn me."
"No wonder I didn't see you in the sunlight. I still didn't suspect a thing!"
"Of course, you were young back then."
We laugh.
Eagle swoops down onto my home. He lands on the roof softly.
"Don't alert anyone, though. Just go see your mom and come back, aight'?"
I raise my hand and make an 'OKAY' sign and jump down.
The ground is snowy as always. It hadn't changed, that's for sure.
I enter through the front door-
I reacted quickly and closed the door back. I knew I couldn't reveal myself to my mom. She'll shout.. Really loud.
Instead, I head through the back door. Lucky me!
As I enter, I gazed at the kitchen. I remember when the time when I was young, I used to help my mom cooked food for dinner, every day and waited for dad-
Dad! I wonder how he was doing.
I take steps, my soles of the feet touching ground slowly to make sure they don't wake up.
In stealth missions, I'm very used to catching enemies' backs facing me, but this, this is scary, because of the police.
I arrive at the upper floor and open the door.
Then, I smelt gunpowder.
I pull out my Crosspistol and pistol.
I give in to the temptation.
"Mom, are you there?"
There wasn't anyone in the room, but I checked the room anyways.
"Weird, mom used to sleep here. What happened?"
I see my old Crossrifle, kept in a big glass case.
"Aww.."
I head over to open it, but I moved back by instinct.
When I turned around, I saw a hand sticking out of the bed.
I flinch, but get my head back in the game. I aim my weapons at the hand. It doesn't seem to move an inch.
I kneel down on the ground and pulled the hand.
The body was closer and closer.
I pulled and pulled.
Until I saw my mom's face.
"Aah!-"
I shut my mouth.
"Discipline, young one." I advised to myself.
My mom's dead?
But, no. That can't be. No!
I pull the body closer to me.
But the gunshot wounds to the chest proved her death.
I clasp my mouth with my hands. Tears appear from my tear ducts.
I let out a small whimper.
"Alright! What is it that you want?!"
Huh? Someone's here too? That wasn't me, or was it?
I hide under the bed.
A man opens the door and looks around, scrutinizing the room.
He shrugs and closes the door.
"He shrugged? Just like that?"
No. No. No. No. No. No.
I get out of the bed. I head over to the window opposite the bed and opened it. I jump out and land on my feet.
Eagle notices me sobbing like a child in a corner.
"What's wrong?"
"It's.. It's nothing."
He looks through the window from the roof while I sob, not knowing.
Then, he returns to his original position.
"I-I'm sorry."
"Sorry? What do you mean?"
"Your mom-"
"SHUT UP, EAGLE!"
I gagged and widened my eyes.
"Vladimir. It was Vladimir that killed my mom. MY MOM!!"
"How are you even sure?"
"He would only hate me. And he wants me to feel sorrowful, sad, and everything bad."
I sniff out loudly.
"But, those gunshot wounds weren't made from magnum bullets. You can tell." explains Vladimir.
"Huh? Check it again!"
He blurs to my mom and comes back.
"Yes, it's not magnum bullets. It's 9x19mm Parabellum bullets. I know because I've used them."
"What if Vladimir uses other guns?"
"Impossible. When we were 20, he loved the Desert Eagle and said he would never replace the gun. Ever."
"Really?"
"Yeah."
"Maybe.. It's Kelvin!"
"Who's he?"
"Kelvin's a vampire, living in the darkness of this town. And he lives here. No one notices at all. And he can think straight too.
"You thinkin' what I'm thinkin', Colonel?"
"Yeah, let's go slay Kelvin."

Vladimir kept on sneezing when he arrived at his hideout.
He asks the vampire acolyte.
"Where is Swaylor?"
He was terrified by the question.
"He's.. He's dead- Pleasedon'tkillme!!" uttered the acolyte while covering his face with his arms.
"Dead? Hmph. Gerard's stronger than he looks."
The acolyte lets his arms go, making up a puzzled face instead.
"Hey you, what's your name?"
"I-I'm Ray. Ray Guine."
"So Ray, how did you find me?"
"Everyone knew-"
Vladimir interrupts him by punching the wall. It cracked.
"Everyone knew.. I'm suppose to be the strongest vampire in the world. How could I be caught?"
Ray opened his mouth to say something, then thought about it and shut his mouth.
"Time to cut heads off. Ray, you will be specially turned by me."
Vladimir smiles. Guine hesitates and smiled in return.
Vladimir bites his neck with his razor-sharp teeth.
"You can think even if you're a vampire. But it will take one day for you to fully transform. Go take some rest. You deserve it." He grins.
Ray bows his head and thanks him continuously and heads off his way.
Vladimir rubs his temples while slouching and leaning on his knees.
"Gray. Bring me the next human."

Eagle and I walk beside the street in the town. I notice Kelvin's house.
"Eagle, that house."
He looks around and makes sure no one is around. Then, he blurs around the house and returns.
"No one at the outside."
"What were you doing? You know there's gonna be people coming out once in a while and going back in for no reason! "
"Sorry, sir."
"We'll deal with this later."
We go to the house and no one was really here.
"Eagle, take the back door."
"Roger, colonel."
Eagle takes his position at the back door.
I prepare my Crossrifle and whisper the password to it. It unlocks itself mechanically.
"We go in 5."
5.. 4.. 3.. 2.. 1..
"Go!"
I barge in with a loud ram to the door by kicking the door open.
I glance through the room, hoping to find a vampire here.
I say to Eagle that the room is clear.
"Copy that."
I go up to the second floor. I see some kind of thick metal wire hanging across the stairs.
"Eagle. I picked up thick metal wires, hanging. It's tied tightly. Ha! Tied.."
"Wait, don't go near it. It's a trap to set humans on fire. Vampires are unaffected."
"Well, that's not fair. What did you find?"
"Nothing so far. It's the kitchen down here."
"Good copy. Now can you come here and help me out?"
"Sure. I'm over here."
I turn around and get spooked by Eagle sneaking up on me.
"Sorry."
Eagle grabs the wires and pull them out.
Electricity flowed through the wire and to Eagle. He was not hurt anywhere.
"Told ya'."
We continue up the stairs.
There are two doors, one on the left and on the right.
I take the right and Eagle takes the left.
We ram the door open once we counted to 3.
I collide with a man almost my age.
I knew I was too slow, but I took out my ordinary knife and tried to slice him up.
"Woah!" shouts the man as he dodges the cuts.
"Gerard?!"
I look at the face of the man.
He looks like-
"Johny!"
I hug tight. Like old pals who meet after separated from war for a few years.
"Haha!"
Eagle shouted back, "WHAT HAPPENED?!"
"IT'S MY BEST FRIEND! JOHNY!"
"Johny? He could be a vampire!"
"No, man. You can trust him! I've been with him since I was small!"
"Yeah, man!" shouts Johny.
"Hey! You like to join Vamp Pyres? We can hunt vampires. LEGALLY." I say, emphasizing the word 'legally'.
"Well, there's nothing in this dump anymore."
He grabs his Crossknife and Crossrifle and follows me.
Eagle says, "Wait, we don't have enough space for transport."
I frown and wink.
"We came from motorcycle. But, if you know a tall place, I can send you both to HQ."
"His main transport is his glider. He always carries it."
"Huh?" questions Johny, "Then, why come in motorcycle?"
I do a sign as if to try and cut him off.
"Uh.. Do you know a tall place?"
"Yeah. It's up the water tower there."
He stabs his finger to point at the water tower.
I sigh.
"Let's get going!"
We walk together to the water tower.
When a vampire horde came and made everything worse.

Vladimir was in the midst of the vampire horde, smiling when he saw me.
"Okay..."
He took out a sniper rifle and looked at me through the scope.
Johny had a sharp and quick eye and grabbed me.
He led me through the rows of houses, stumbling a bit every few seconds.
Vladimir cursed and kept his sniper rifle in a case.
"Feeling okay, Ray?"
Ray Guine was limping all the way to Vladimir.
"Yes.. Sir Vladimir.."
"Why are you limping? Someone shot you?"
"No, caught a Crossrifle shot to the knee."
"Hmph. Just stay here. Don't go anywhere. I don't see you anymore, I'll hunt you down and cut off your head myself."
"Eee- Yes, Sir Vladimir!!"
Vladimir nods.
Vladimir headed off to the train station nearby.
There were lots of people here, but they didn't notice Vladimir stepping in to join.
"You're all mine."
He blurs to one after one and bit their necks.
"Good blood. But I wonder whose head I'll cut..? The most pathetic one, ah!"

I take a seat in the house. Eagle is nowhere to be seen.
"Eagle, report!"
"I'm on the water tower."
"You're fast." He shakes his head.
"Eagle, meet me there."
"Roger."
"Johny, we separate and regroup at the water tower. Don't want-"
"Hey!" Johny interrupts, "Why not we kill them? Like good ol' times!"
"No. There's too many. We used to kill one vampire at a time, not a whole horde at once."
Johny nods in approval.
"Let's go!"
We open the door and head our separate ways. I run to the left as he runs to his right. I spotted a foolish vampire just walking around like he's just learnt to walk. I equip my knife on the way and send a boot at his face.
He sprawls onto the floor, nose bleeding.
When he gets up, I say to him, "Hey, say hi to the Crossknife for me!" I smile.
He lets out a puzzled face, then I stab his throat.
He moves back, then his throat explodes, separating the head from the body.
It rolls down to me.
"Happy that I'm back."
I crush the head.

Johny runs through the streets and finds a group of vampires wailing and screaming for nothing.
He quickly takes out his Crossknife and throws it at a vampire.
The blast radius hits a couple of vampires. By that time, Johny flings his Crossrifle and shot without aiming.
It penetrated through a vampire's stomach, just in time for Johny to let out a kick on his head.
He runs as well as lowering his arm to get the dropped Crossknife.
He increases his speed and rams his Crossknife into the vampire's chin like an uppercut.
He heads off towards the water tower while smiling.

Soon and Cal marches to General Hawk's quarters.
Soon says, "Okay, you can speak to the general."
Cal sighs, then knocks the door. They get into an attention position.
Hawk opens the door.
"What is it?"
"Sir! We believe to have found Colonel Gerard at his hometown."
"What?"
"Yes, sir! We also have spotted a vampire army going to the town now."
"Well, Soon and Cal. Guess what? You guys are going there. Squad Alpha, move out!"
"Affirmative, sir!"
Soon smiles.

As Hawk briefed a few hundred soldiers at the heliport, a white-haired man about my age walks to a helicopter.
"Hey! Where are you going?!"
"Getting the colonel back in one piece."
"I didn't order you to-"
"The colonel is in danger! You want him to die? I can go alone and come back safely, whether you want it or not!
General Hawk opens his mouth, but was too late because the helicopter flew off.
He closes his eyes and breathe in deeply.
"Get to the helicopters."

Eagle stood on the water tower, leaning on metal as he waits.
He spotted something weird flying around it.
Then, his sharp eyes picked up a familiar person.
"VLADIMIR!"
He blurs with amazing speed and jumps off the ledge to nothing, but he catches Vladimir and they both drops.
He quickly spins backwards and catches Vladimir by the feet with Crossknives. He explodes away from the water tower.
As he was airborne, Eagle took out his Cross sniper rifle.
He looks at Vladimir through the night-vision scope and fires.
The shot hits Vladimir, exploding him even further from usual.
Vladimir shouts through the silent air.
"THIS IS NOT OVER!!!"
"Yeah, yeah."
Eagle takes out his glider and flies up to the water tower again.
"Colonel, what's taking you so long?"
I slash through multiple vampires as I speak.
"Vampires."
He uses the Crossknife as if it's a sword and sends a quick slice through a vampire's throat.
"A lot of vampires. Did you see Vladimir?"
"I blasted him off."
"Dang it! Why didn't you kill him?!"
"He's ineffective from our Crossweapons. But, he couldn't have taken the drug I took. His reaction would've gotten faster than mine."
"Hmph."
"General Hawk here. I've received a transmission from the town's radio news."
"Go on.."
"We are here to stop the vampires from destroying the town. We are on our way now."
"Already? That was fast. Guess I can't stop that. I would've left the town if you didn't say so. My mom.."
"Your mom?"
There was a long pause.
"I.. I'm so sorry for your loss."
"It's okay."
Gerard shakes his head.
"I failed."
There was another pause.
"Let's go kill the vampires!"
"That was fast."
"Eagle, plan's changed. Kill as many vampires as you can!"
Eagle jumps off the water tower.
"I was hoping you'd said that."
Soon and Cal arrives from a helicopter at a landing pad.
Soon takes out his hover board and travels at a fast speed towards me.
"Colonel!"
He crashes onto me. Even though, we're both hurt, he hugs me real tight.
"Yeah, Soon! Real funny!"
"Good to see you, colonel!"
Cal jogs to me.
"Ready to serve you, colonel!"
"Okay! Let's rock!"
I run towards the vampire horde with my squad, laughing.

Other soldiers came, about a thousand of them. Even General Hawk came.
"Okay! Go by squads of 4, go, go, go!"
Now, the soldiers are really crowding the town, maybe even outnumbering the vampires. Lives have been lost, soldier and vampire alike.
But I had no problem.
"Soon, give me an extra explosion attachment."
"Yes, sir."
He gives the complicated component to me.
I insert it into the barrel of my Crossrifle.
It sets itself in my Crossrifle as if it makes it its new home.
"Alright. Cal, back me up."
"Affirmative."
He salutes me and heads off to one of the buildings.
"Soon, distract the vamps by using your hover board."
"Roger that, sir."
He fumbles with his backpack and takes out his hover board.
"This is a special kind of metal."
It opens up by itself and hovers in the air.
"See you on the other side. If we can."
He moves towards the vampire horde.
"If we can," I repeated. Everything around here seems so nostalgic.

10 years ago

I was 10. Johny used to play tag or hide and seek with me. I used to go inside abandoned buildings and search for a hiding spot. But, Johny would find me all the time because I was stupidly hiding in the same spot for a few years. And Kelvin came into our lives. He made our games even funner. He adds a little twist in the games. But, I won't talk about it. No way. We play around here, until.. vampires existed in my town.
I was 14 by then. Johny still accompanies me wherever I go, even vampire hunting. Johny was more skilled than me. So, I kept on training on my aim, my reflexes and my speed.
I was muscular by the time I was 15. Johny noticed how I changed so much. Now, I'm-

I come back to my head. Enough of reminiscing.
I pull out my Crosspistol and start throwing out every bullet I've got to the vampires.
Total destruction. And Soon was even doing a greater job than before.
But then, Vladimir flies on top of the vampires.
"Cal, blast the flying figure!"
Cal reacted quickly and aimed his Cross sniper rifle at the figure and blasted away at it. The figure also got pushes away, but it recovered quickly.
"Soon, please tell me you got something to kill Vladimir."
He shouts, "I DON'T HAVE IT YET! NOW IF YOU DON'T MIND, COLONEL, KILL THEM OFF!!"
The vampires are almost going to catch him. My mind starts racing. Hoping that everything will end because I am really beaten up from Vladimir's fight. I am so fatigued from everything. I feel like I want to rest for eternity. I-
A vampire's head exploded in a bloodfest.
Cal speaks through the radio, "What are you doing? Get them!"
I shake my head as if to wake myself up. I take a walk, then a run towards the fray.

The white-haired guy lands secretly in the forest near the town. He takes out his Crossknife and Crosspistol and scurries off to the town with a hope that I am still alive.
He literally collides with a vampire. He then starts to sneeze.
"Not good."
He aims his Crosspistol to aim at the vampire. He sneezes again, getting out of aim. Now, the vampire is too close to being shot at all. He takes out his Crossknife in a fashionable way and starts slicing through. He was suddenly weakened as he moved an inch.
Instead, he falls down, missing the Crossknife. The vampire snarls.
"No! NO! NOOOOOOOOOO!!!"
And the vampire feeds on him.

A soldier reports at a warehouse.
"Sir! We are winning the vampires. But no Crossweapons can affect target #1, Vladimir.
"I see. But, there must be a way to kill him. Are there any options?"
"We could use the-"
"No! We can't. We haven't been able to test it out yet."
"Then, how do we use it?"
"The reason I distrust the machine is because Soon made it."
"Corporal Soon? He has already made the hover board for Vamp Pyres."
"But it isn't mass produced yet. Time will tell when this machine is able to be used."
"Yes, sir!"
He salutes him and leaves to fight.
"Colonel Gerard. Reports say that we are winning. But, it is impossible to kill Vladimir. Unless we use.. The machine."
I tilt my head, wondering what the machine was.
"What machine?"
"A machine Soon made. It could kill Vladimir. But we're unsure about it."
"Then, don't use it."
"Yes, colonel. Hawk out."

In the war, Vladimir got up from the ground.
He wipes the blood off his chest and licks his hand.
It's nightfall. Something Vladimir and Eagle likes. But, Eagle isn't like Vladimir all the time. They do share some traits.

500 years ago

"Aah. Eagle. What a good time to see you," says Vladimir in an Italian accent.
Eagle is sweating with blood and sweat mixed up. And he is heavily breathing right now.
"Here, in Italia, we have a pretty good fight here."
He motions himself as if he's a matador. Eagle casts an angry face and moves towards Vladimir and punches his nose. Vladimir falls back and Eagle accidentally drank some of his blood. Eagle smiled. He took out a stake and throws it at Vladimir.
"It's that all you've got?"
He moves his head by an inch and the stake sticks on the ground. He gets up with ease and punches the ground, penetrating through without much effort. The ground rumbles, causing Eagle to lose balance. Vladimir uses this opportunity to break Eagle's neck, but Eagle reacted quickly and slaps his hand away and uses immense strength to kick Vladimir's stomach out to the skies. But Vladimir wasn't hurt anywhere. He lands on a stone tower with a sharp end. He breaks the sharp end and grabs it. He jumps down together with it to Eagle.
"You wouldn't dare!" shouts Eagle.
Vladimir smiles, but didn't anticipate as a bomb from the China Lake destroys the giant stone spike. Vladimir didn't know what to do and Eagle jumps and grabs Vladimir's face and slams him against the ground. Eagle pins Vladimir to the ground and kept on punching his face. Finally, Eagle jumps from building to building and finds the highest spot in the area. Vladimir has already passed out. Eagle jumps his hardest and gravity pulls him closer towards his enemy. His legs smashed Vladimir's guts and sent Vladimir a few feet underground. He jumps to an unknown place and he finds a China Lake on the ground and a mysterious man.
"Vladimir is dead," says Eagle in an Italian accent.
"Did you check his pulse rate-"
"He doesn't have one. Vampires don't have one."
The mysterious man looks to his left and finds Vladimir gone.
"He left. You didn't hit him enough."
"What?!"
Eagle snaps his neck to his left and looks at crushed grounds. He closes his eyes.

Eagle comes back to reality, killing a vampire with his bare fists.
"When will this stop anyways?"
I answer, "General Hawk says that the numbers are decreasing. Though, we still have to kill Vladimir."
"You know he can't die, despite the damages you inflict."
"But, c'mon. There's something that's suppose to hit him."
"Okay, fine," says Eagle while performing a double kick on a vampire, sticking his pair of Crossknives into the face. He lands.
"We'll think of something."
The war went for about a few hours. Eventually, Vamp Pyres won. Eagle doubted I got more kills than him. But Vladimir was no where to be found.
"Colonel Gerard, congratulations on winning the war-"
"Oh c'mon," I say as I pat Hawk on the shoulder, "You guys did most of the work, right?"
"Yes-Yes, colonel."
"Good. Give me a report tomorrow. Good job, General Hawk."
We both salute at the same time.

The Next Day

Every soldier was gathered here a few minutes ago. I step onto the stage in the hall.
"Everyone of you did an amazing job," I say very proudly, "And the soldiers who were fighting til' their last breaths to send the vampires back to hell. We did it, thanks to you and our fallen brothers!"
Everyone cheers happily.
"Now, as a reward, most of you like this one!"
There was a slight pause.
"100 push ups!"
Everyone groans and got to it, including Generals Eagle and Hawk and my squad mates, Cal and Soon.
Some of them went to 5 already.
"As I am counting!"
I hear Eagle laughing.

Weeks have passed since the vampire war, also known as, The Rise Of The Vampire. Soon has tweaked some minor and major issues alike and passed the hover board. The extra explosion attachment is further improved, but only snipers can use it now.
Cal has been training and asked me to train with him. I did, helping him train his body and mind. Occasionally, Eagle watches us and rarely trains with us.
General Hawk practices his accuracy together with Vamp Pyre. Snipers shoot at a 500 metres range and riflers shoot at a 200 metres range. Hawk challenges himself by going 1000 metres range in a Crossrifle. Ultimately, almost every shot hit his target's head. I only achieved 250 metres range with a Crossrifle. But, I hit the head at a 1500 metres range. I tried to keep myself humble, but I had to laugh out loud.
I bet Vladimir is drinking vodka in his Russian paradise. But, we're not sure yet.

I finish training with Cal.
"You tired yet, Cal?"
"Yeah. Your workouts are extremely effective, but extreme efforts are needed."
"Well, I take things extreme."
We both laugh.
Eagle comes into the room and comes up to me.
"We need to talk, colonel."
I wave Cal goodbye and walk out of the room. We get to the guard's outpost.
"Look through the binoculars."
I grab the binoculars and look through them. I see a walking silhouette.
"Who is that?"
"Zoom in on him."
I follow what he says and recognizes a face.
"Is that.. Vladimir?"
Eagle nods.
"Why is he.. Guards! Snipe-"
Eagle covers my mouth.
"Don't do anything. Let him walk through the UV field."
Vladimir arrives at the entrance, but didn't go through the UV field. We wait for action, but nothing happens. Guards notice Vladimir and aim their Crossweapons at him.
"Don't shoot, but keep aim!" I command as I walk down to Vladimir.
"What are you up to, Vladimir?!"
"I am up to nothing, Colonel Gerard. Trust me."
"Then, kill me if you dare."
Vladimir shivers with effort, then released it.
"Actually, I won't. I am here to side with you."
"What?!"
"That is why I came here. I won't destroy Vamp Pyres, no way. I like the fun. I'm gonna live forever so I want to let Vamp Pyres live. Actually, I would've destroyed Vamp Pyres 60 years ago, mate."
I open my mouth to ask if Eagle joined this faction at the start, but I close my mouth.
"Anything wrong?"
"No. Nothing."
There was a pause that lasted 5 minutes.
"Let him in."
The guards and Eagle started repelling against me with forceful words, but I rejected them.
"Guards, shackle him."
I look closer towards his face.
"What are you up to?"
"Patience, colonel. This is just the beginning."

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This is just the prologue, although it looks like the real one already. Trust me, this isn't the real one. This is.

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