part one

April 25 2004, picking up the yellow file which had been sent over from the coroner’s office detective inspector Kate Daniels reads the big bold headline: MOTHER OF THREE FOUND MURDERED. At 05:30am this morning 32 year old mother of 3 Elizabeth Walters was found brutally murdered in the alley behind the popular Oyster Bar.

As she turns the page to read on she sees the crime scene photographs and spots something in the pictures which wasn’t in the case report, on the left hand side of the victims face there is a small cross also on the right side of her neck two tiny puncture marks, however as she is looking at the pictures she sees a small caption at the bottom of the page ‘drained of blood’, this one small sentence stops Kate in her tracks, she starts to put the pieces together, and realizes that the things your parents told you when your little may not have just been scary stories after all. The stories had suddenly become frighteningly real. The reality of the situation being that there were Vampires in Los Angeles.

After 2 nights of patrols by the Los Angeles Police Force Kate and her partner Detective Inspector Bobby Brickbat gets a call over the police scanner stating that another body has been discovered at the Shady Acres Motel. Upon their arrival at the crime scene Kate and Bobby are overwhelmed by the smell of decomposition, while looking at the body Kate immediately recognises the familiar cross on the left cheek of the victim, Kate puts on a pair of white latex gloves and crouches down beside the body, when she gently turns the victims head Kate suddenly feels as though the breath has been knocked out of her as she notices the two small puncture marks in the neck.

As she catches her breath Kate turns to the coroner and asks for her estimation on the time of death of this victim, when the coroner tells Kate her estimation Kate looks at her partner with a confused look on her face, as Bobby is about to ask what Kate is thinking she turns to him and tells him that this victim isn’t the second one but the coroner thinks he is the first due to the length of time it takes for a body to fully decompose.

Whilst looking over the coroner’s report about the second victim Kate sees her commanding officer sergeant Bradley Musgrave approaching, noticing the look on his face she immediately stands up, as she does this sergeant Musgrave comes to a stop and notifies Kate that the identity of the first victim is none other than crime lord Roberto haraskis only son 17 year old Ivan. However there were still no leads as to who was committing the murders and after hearing the identity of the latest body Kate felt something inside which told her that whoever was committing the murders had to be either crazy or have a death wish, after all you would have to be insane to kill the only son of a man like Roberto Haraski. Kate’s partner bobby came to stand beside Kate and without even having to say anything to one another they both knew what each other were thinking, things were going to get a lot worse before the week was out.

As predicted the week did get worse, much worse. Walking into work Kate notices a somewhat unusually saddened expression on the faces of her colleagues. Wondering how she can have the audacity to come to work looking as though nothing had happened Kate’s friend Amelia walks over to her and asks her how she is feeling after hearing the dreadful news.With a confused look on her face Kate turns to Amelia and asks her what she is talking about. Coming to the conclusion that She doesn’t know what’s happened Amelia tells Kate that she assumed she would have been one of the first people to have been told after all she had been his partner for over 9 years.

With a solemn look on her face Amelia looks at Kate and informs her that Bobby had become the latest victim of the serial killer that had been stalking the streets of LA for the past three weeks. The killer the newspapers had started calling ‘The Priest’. Coming to the realisation that her partner was dead Kate suddenly collapsed. Coming to her senses in Sacred Heart’s Hospital Kate finds herself surrounded by her colleagues. Whilst being discharged after 3 days in the hospital Kate spots the news channel on television stating breaking news. It seemed the serial killer known as ‘The Priest’ had claimed yet another victim, still recovering from hearing about her partner bobby’s death by the hands of the same killer Kate feels more determined to catch him as ever.

News channels all over LA were having a field day reporting the murder of renowned playboy Eddy Vercette. With most of the news channels saying pretty much the same thing Kate flips over to IBS News who were stating that the body of Eddy Vercette was found in a local strip joint with the same cross and puncture wounds as the other 3 victims. Therefore confirming that it really was ‘The Priests’ work.

During her patrol Kate spots something in the shadows of a nearby alley as she is walking closer Kate hears a young girl scream, running towards the voice Kate is completely taken aback with the scene playing out before her eyes, The priest was draining the life out of a young girl. Knowing that she has to do something to stop the young girl from appearing on the 9 o’clock news Kate runs at full speed into the killer knocking him to the ground, picking up the injured child Kate is about to take off running when the killer pounces on her knocking both her and the child over. As Kate reaches for her stun gun the killer slams his hand onto hers. Laying there helpless Kate notices a broken piece of wood laying just inches from her reach, whilst the killer is checking his meal is still there Kate reaches for the wood and plunges it into the Priests heart. With a glass shattering scream the killer tumbles off Claire, only getting 2 feet away before falling giving Kate the opportunity to plunge the makeshift stake deeper into his chest piercing his heart and killing him there on the spot.

Noticing that the girl is still lying there on the cold floor of the alley Kate scoops her up into her arms. Unbeknownst to Kate however the real nightmare had only just begun for as she is walking out of the alley her ‘dead’ partner Bobby Brickbat walks out of the shadows with a pair of pearl white fangs protruding from the grin across his sheet white face...

.... TO BE CONTINUED