Smile Of Death
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white haired, thirty year old man named Thomas J. Splender sets at a desk. He smiles to himself and then to the television camera in front of him. His day had finally come. He put out his cigar. The one he bought back in 1996. Four long years ago. The scientists had shown on the holovid last night of the aligning of every planet and the sun. It was the first Terrestrial Eclipse in 3000 years.They had predicted this since the 1980's. The wackos said the earth was doomed when this happened. Tom knew they were right, but it wouldn't be tidal waves, storms, earthquakes, or floods like they had said. No. No...it would be something so worse, so deadly, no one could have imagined.
He looks at his watch. Four minutes until air time. Finally. Finally the time had come for him. And his story. The story that would shock the nation. He would finally reveal the truth to all who listened. All those poor, blind people. The people who deserved the right to know. Know about...them.
Oh...them. The thought of them made him shiver. The Dark Ones. Demons of the night. Vampires. He'd said it in the past as a boy. Never had he known what it really meant. Or the truth, until that fateful night he'd met one. The darn thing would have killed him twas it not for he'd been carrying a sharp ended piece of wood.
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"He-he-he-heelllooo kids. Iiiitttsss Barney the Dinosaur... chhhzzz... Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn." yelled the holovid speakers. The thirteen year old kid flipped through the channels finding nothing that interested him.
"Go ahead... Punk. Make my day...chzz...do not try to change the channel. My name is Thomas. I am on every channel." said some weird looking man. He tried to get that white haired old fart on the holovid. But he was on every damn channel.
"I have breached into every channel frequency. I have come to you today to reveal the true nature of...VAMPIRES. I believe that the end of the world will come because of them. They have invaded congress several times. Here is a list of them…James Monroe, Elbridge Garry, Hugh S. Legar'e, John Tyler, Daniel D. Tompkins, Thomas F. Bayard, Woodrow Wilson, Cester A. Arthur, John Quincy Adams, Bill Clinton, Adlai E., Stevenson, Able P. Upshur…"
"They will try and take over. Don't listen to them. No, they cannot fly. Nor can they turn into bats. But, however...they are 10 times stronger than a normal human. They do have an irresistible, hypnotic gaze. They are blinded by sunlight, and hurt only by wooden weapons. We are dealing with things above our level of understanding. They can only be detected by the two front teeth that transform into fangs. For cripes sakes here! Lock your doors, get all the wood you can, go out only at day, then kill anyone wearing glasses. Be careful. Don't listen to any high officials, not even the President, no one..." He looked off camera.
"No...get out! Nooo!" three cops walked into view.
"Nnnnnoooooooooo! Everyone out there...you can still save yourself! NNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.....!"
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"So what do you see?" Herbert asked the old wrinkled woman Psychic hovering over the beautiful, sparkling crystal ball. They were in a tent in a circus.
"Iiii see...oh my lord...I see thhee end of they wooorrlledd." she mumbled in an old creaky voice.
"How?" he gasped in a wondering voice.
"Ha ha ha. I knew they would make it!" said the old wrinkled hag.
"Who? How? When?" he asked. What was she getting at?
"Vampires. Everywhere. Ssssoooonnn." she said.
"How do you know?" he blurted out loudly.
"OOohhh...I kknowww these things...and soon will you." she replied as she smiled at him, showing her large fangs. No one walking by heard his scream, she had made sure the tent was designed to muffle that sort of thing. A girl had to eat, you know. Luckily no one would ever find his or the three other's bodies that had come that day later, either.
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"...and in the news today, a wacko bust into St.James Insanity Hospital and murdered Thomas Splender and two other mental patients. Among them were Stephanie Garcia and Shawn Koch. The police are baffled by this mysterious case. Apparently their bodies were drained from all bodily fluids. The Insanity Hospitals library was burned down. All files of the mental patients were destroyed beyond readability. On the even worse side of the news, the President has issued that the 9.98 million people infected with the Eripmav Disease are to be locked in the bunkers that were finally finished two days ago."
"Only the key around the President's neck has the program to release the quarantined people. Glad I'm not infected. The President has agreed to make a speech to all the infected people. Here’s Rob with the weather..."
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"Yes, people of the United States, tonight I will be by to give you all the treatment our scientist's have just engineered. The best treatment money can't buy. You do know what the Eripmav Disease is? Spelt backwards it's VAMPIRE..." And he smiled to the camera, showing his white, sparkling teeth. No. Not teeth.......fangs...
Across the nation only two words were heard "............good lord..."