The Vampire-Alien Chronicles

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The story of human evolution is a long and convoluted one, yet men are aware of little of it that is actual fact. Human myth is steeped in ignorance, incomplete science, supposition and religious credo to help themselves account for their absence of hard fact. To help them deal with the unknown. And the known.
Arrogantly man's scientists, historians, philosophers and others of learning proclaim a body of knowledge as fact. Mostly they are correct. Life evolved on Earth in the same manner as it must evolve everywhere else. It started with simple protein combinations and, over billions of years, from single celled organisms into complex, through reptiles, into mammals and finally, man's tool using predecessors. That is where man's story gets a little fuzzy. How men made the leap from tool using apes to modern men, in an evolutionary blink of the eye.
The truth is not as men see it. They cannot see it. They would be destroyed. Men would not be able to face it if it were cried from every street corner. If they faced the truth of it, the tenuous fabric of their nebulous make believe reality would unravel around them, and they would be left with nothing but the stark, unbearable horror of their own futility. Of their doomed place in destiny. The oblivion Fate had decreed them.
I have watched humanities transformation with my own eyes. Had I not seen it with my own eyes, I know that even I would have had a hard time facing the truth of it, so foreign is it to nature and common sense. So abrupt and radical has been the transformation. Once very much different than they are now, men have been made to evolve, metamorphosis, into beings much like myself. An induced evolution. We were once very much different, Vampires and Humans, one from the other. I was the evolutionary advancement, they the half formed beasts only barely cognizant of the differences between them and the other animals within the forests, jungles and savannahs of their primitive world.
That was then and this is now. Men have changed radically. They have been induced to evolve. They have had no more say in what has happened to them than I have had in the life I have lived, except that their change occurred gradually, over long eons, the transformation more controlled, more scientific, while my own was . . . a mistake.
Yet men are still ruled by those basest of animal needs. Induced into an accelerated evolution on the one hand, but too quickly for their instinctual requirements to compensate, form an equitable balance between new and old, on the other. Like myself and all Vampires, Humans are mix of contradictions.
All men are not ignorant, however. There are many enlightened souls who see through the fog of misinformation the unequivocal truth that lays in front of all mankind, but that most yet refuse to acknowledge. The truth too ugly, too vicious. There can be nothing that can be done. The Other's technological advantages too great. To acknowledge man's own frailties and weakness. To maintain mass sanity, men unconsciously accept the inescapable certainty of the inevitableness of their circumstances.
What other choice have they had?
The sun would soon be up and I would have to retreat indoors. The old myths of Vampires and sunlight are true. We cannot tolerate it. Not Sol, anyway. Not Earth's life giving star. We Vampires suppose there is a star somewhere more tolerable to our divided natures. To our half which is not Human. The Others must have evolved under a star somewhere, but a star in some way intrinsically different from Sol. Or possibly it is that they have traveled so long within the black depths of space, or have not lived on the surface of any world, under any star at all, for so long, that they may not be longer able to tolerate any such emissions as Sol gives. It is my belief that the Others travel across the vast gulfs of interstellar space at will, I presume at many multiples of the speed of light, but yet is not the Universe so vast that even at these velocities it may take generations to make crossings. Why else would they spend such time and resources trying to steal what is man's?
In either case, or if neither is true, all that matters is that the Others have passed on to Vampires their inability to tolerate the sun. This the entire point of their interaction with humanity. Their genetic manipulations. Slowly infuse humanity with their DNA, to acquire man's tolerance to Sol, and when entirely infused, slowly remove mankind from the picture, one snip of deoxribonucleic acid at a time, until the final result is a population one hundred percent the Others, yet tolerant of Sol.
That's what Vampires are. We are Breeds. Half Human. Half the Others. Except without the slow indoctrination which has occurred with humanity. Mayhap the very first experiment, I am unable to tolerate the sun any more than the Others. Given too much....