Supernatural Task Force: The Wolf and the Ancient.

"It Killed One of Mine."

David and Andrea sat in a rented room above a empty storefront. Not so empty as there was a host of cops from city and state resources. All of them were in plainclothes and most awaiting for assigned areas. In close proximity were a number of vamps, most of them younger vamps, but Carlos had convinced a few older vampires to participate.

David and Andrea was with the sound equipment and video monitors tapping into all of the cities various cameras by computers and laptops. They were tapped into more than traffic light cameras, there were private outside cameras outside warehouses, storefronts, cafes, restaurants, and many other places. In the shadows between streetlights, neon lights, and windows of clubs, bars, and other establishments was where the plainclothes police officers with their vamp escorts would be.

David was hoping that they'd catch this bastard before he killed again. David was certain it was a male vamp. A sly one too. David had never known a young vamp to take so much blood at one time. Normally even the young vamps don't take that much blood even when hungry.

It could be a evolution of the vampire strain or a new strain all together. That was what David feared, a new, more powerful strain of vampire which would require much more blood. If this was the case there would be a lot more murders and the vamps may turn on each other, before the humans decided to eliminate them all once and for all. Not that they were successful the first time, but it would be a devastating war.

Despite the bait, despite the constant surveillance; the help from the vamps, the creature had gotten around them. It was a club girl this time. Found in a maintenance closet just beyond the bathrooms. A back fire door had been opened and set off the alarm for the Club Bela. A vamp and human mix club. Drained completely of blood.

Andrea stood in the alley way with David, they were looking around. The vamp had made a mistake, he had set off an alarm.  The data that could be obtained was already being saved, stored, and sent to their personal computers at police HQ. David had wanted to see the site of the crime. David had walked up and down the alley. This alley wasn't a dead end. It came out on Davis Street and on Dania Street on the other side. Both had cameras. Neither camera had caught anyone going out alone, there was a couple who went into the alley, but they were both human, their purpose there was obvious.

David had thought the vamp had faked going out the door and returned to the club. But there was a camera there too. Which was fortunate, since although the camera wouldn't record the vamp leaving it did catch the vamp and the girl going back into the hall with the restrooms.

"I've got him." David froze the video from the club, had the computer enlarge and clear up the black and white image as much as he could.

The vamp was dressed as a typical goth teenager. Skinny as a rail, black hair, black clothes, mesh shirt and cargo pants, combat boots, long black trench coat.

"I've got a clear enough picture to send out to HQ and to State HQ. We can contact Carlos' Email him a copy of the picture so his vamps can start looking for this bastard."

"He's cute." Andrea was looking over David's shoulder. When he said he had a clear image, Andrea had gotten up from her station to look. "Really doesn't look the killer."

"He's a vamp, infected by a DNA mutating virus." David sighed. "He has deliberately killed his victims. Don't let that 'cute' persona fool you, he'd kill you in a heartbeat."

"So, we kill him in the end." Andrea stood up and walked back to her desk. "We have to find him first, though."

"Hopefully, before he kills another." David added.

After the picture had circulated the vamp community rallied. They looked for the goth vamp in every club, street, and bar.

The next body was that of a vamp. It's cells were already beginning to melt as the virus ravaged the dead body trying to keep alive long enough to transfer to another human. The body of a vamp was considered a biohazard as a result.

"It killed one of mine." Carlos was at the crime scene with David and Andrea. "A registered prodigy of my creation. Now, I am truly angry."

"At least he didn't cannibalize her." Andrea commented.

"He knows better. Cannibalizing another vampire, or taking a vampire's blood, is forbidden.  The virus could mutate and create a dangerous, if not fatal variation that could wipe out not only the vampire population, but the human one as well." Carlos watched the biohazard team put the body in a black plastic bag. "A shame, she was a pretty little thing, now she's just so much garbage."

"She is a victim of a nasty little shit who really is pissing me off." David said.

"What if he did cannibalize her?" Andrea turned away as the biohazard team began to clean the alley of any lingering traces of the vamp meltdown. "Would it affect him right away, maybe that is why this one is so dangerous, he cannibalized some other vampire and it mutated him."

"If he did we will destroy him.  Destroy his body right away before the virus can spread." David walked away looking for any nearby cameras. The more pictures he had of this vamp the better.

"Assuming he didn't cannibalize her, why do you thing he killed her?" David said to Carlos, who was following David.

"She must have recognized him from the video reports that are all over town with his picture on it." Carlos pointed to a street camera. "He can't evade those forever. Sooner or later they are going to lead us to him."

"He can't kill them all." David pointed out. "Sooner or later you should be getting a report from one of your people."

"Which I will then report him directly to you, have no fear." Carlos said. "We do find it distasteful to kill our own kind."

"Why doesn't he just get out of town? If he hasn't already." Andrea had been walking behind them listening.

"Because our kind don't like to stray very far from our place of origin. Vampiric origin that is. Not our birth place. Which means he comes from here." Carlos said. "If he leaves here he will take native soil to sleep on during the day. That part of the legend is true. We sleep on our native soil."

"All the same, it can't be that hard to get some soil." Andrea thought of the many parks.

"If he manages to dig up and transport that much soil. Figure he needs plenty in case he loses it. Possibly a small packing crate maybe three by three feet full of soil." Carlos tapped his foot on the paved alley. "He'll have to get it from a park close to where he was created. That much soil will be missed from a park."

"We'll have the park services and security look into the possibility and keep their eyes out for someone trying to dig a meter square of soil from their park." David said as he noted the cameras from either side of the alley.