He had money, old filthy money, from a long line of vile lecherous men he had grown to admire. His ancestors! He trembled at the dark secrets the hidden journals had revealed. Now all of that knowledge was his.

He used it to capture the woman. Keeping her alive as he preformed his experiments. He struggled to unlock the secret of her immortality. Though she was not human she was comely and shackled as she was, her very strangeness excited him. He began to pleasure his personal lusts along with his scientific endeavors.

When it became clear that she would bear a child he was beside himself. He moved to the dark study to sit watch round the clock on his treasure. When labor began he worked fast and cut the baby from the woman allowing her to bleed out as he swaddled the newborn tightly and began to feed it the collected blood that drained from the vampiress.

The baby mewed pitifully, her movements feeble. Working fast he cut the woman's heart from her body and clenched the blood from it into the suckling mouth of the babe.

His elated gibberish turned to shrieks of fright and pain as the doors of his secret dungeon burst open. Shouts and sounds of swords clashing from his guards still ringing through the hallway. The fast and powerful shadows leapt at him tearing the infant from his arms, before razor sharp talons eviscerated him.

As the hallway grew silent several dark shadows stood silently watching as another approached the table that held the torn totally lifeless body of the shackled woman. The tall gaunt figure crooned in agony. The babe it held in its arms echoed its cries. Tears the color of blood ran down its pale cheeks.

Shaking itself from the pain the figure motioned to the others and moved towards the door. It stood and watched as its companions freed the woman?s body and took it out of the room into the darkness of the night.

Reaching for the torch that sat flickering on the wall the dark one whispered to the babe before throwing the brand into the room and speeding to follow. "Never fear, Little Sister, we will make them pay.....We will make them pay forever!!"