(CANCELLED) The Loud House: Bad Blood

8 (Check Up)

As Lincoln and Carol jumped through the streets, odd-looking camera's seemed to be following their every move. They weren't normal security cameras mind you but small drones following and recording data mostly off of Lincoln.

The small black orbs followed them as they made their way back to the Royal Woods Police Station and made themselves unknown due to no sounds being made from them as they floated into the air. Once Lincoln and Carol landed on the steps to the entrance, they all flew away back to their base until they were ready to be used once again. Before the two police officers walked inside, the sat down on the steps and looked into the night sky, next to no stars being spotted due to the light pollution of the town. 

Lincoln chuckled at the sight. A few years ago, you would have been able to see a sky full of bright stars due to Royal Woods being less urban compared to other cities or towns close by. But over the years, the mayor decided to modernize this once normal town to what you would think a downtown area would look like with large buildings and highways once the population was starting to get crowded after a while. However, there was another reason as to why Royal Woods got bigger.

"Protection," Lincoln muttered to himself.

"What? What do you mean by that?" Carol asked. "Like, I apologize if I interrupted something but what do you mean by protection?"

"Sorry. I'm just... thinking to myself. But I realized as to why the town has...changed so quickly. Only a few years ago, Luna and I were probably the only vampires around town and for a while, things were ok. Sure, it was sad to see most of our family have to move out of the house because it was dangerous at the time but we managed to at least pull through with Lisa and Lucy staying with us. Lori stayed as she volunteered to look after us but she left when Luna became an adult."

"Wait hold on. Your family had to leave? That's awful!" Carol replied, getting a sigh from Lincoln.

"I know but things might have ended badly if they had all stayed. It took a while for me and Luna to be able to control our hunger for blood with Lisa being able to create substitutes at best although we had to get our hands a bit dirty every once and a while. But we only sent after thugs and criminals at night so I guess no harm was done."

"Heh. You've been crime fighting even before you joined the force! That's kind of funny don't you think? But uh... what's this about protection?"

"Right. Right. So, not long after we were turned into vampires, we found out that other vampire communities existed here. They just lived in exiled in the sewers or abandoned subway stations. It's also how I learned that Haiku was part of a secret group of Vampire Sympathisers trying to make lives for them easier. Over the next few months, Luna and I were trying to make vampires being able to co-exist with regular humans and it worked. Once the city had passed the "Inhuman Rights Law" allowing vampires to roam freely and live like normal humans!"

"Well, kind of. With the whole burning in sunlight, some measures were taken for safety. Like with most apartments now having the windows being able to be fully covered up so no sunlight could be let in. Having a lot of jobs having to be changed with most vampires taking night shifts. They work at night, the humans work in the day."

"That's simplifying it. But explaining it all would take hours. Now then, where was I?"

"Protection? Which uh... is something that I hope won't make this conversation awkward," Carol said with a nervous blush.

"I-I didn't mean it like that! D-Don't worry!" Lincoln replied hastily. "It's just the other reason why Royal Woods was turned into such a large city is not just because of population, but also protection."