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attack on the human hunters.”
    The punk looked confused for a moment.  How could anybody know of the attack?  But obviously, this vampire knew, and he wanted to know more.  “What do you want to know?” he answered, lowering his eyes.
    “Look at me when you speak.” Paul commanded without raising his voice.  The punk raised his eyes and his face went blank.  “I want to know everything.”
    The punk drew breath, but when he spoke, he was monotone, as if under Paul’s spell.  “Our gang was contacted by another sister gang from out of state.  Everybody knows whispers and rumors of the hunters and everyone fears them.   We were told that somebody is organizing the vampires, building up an army in order to overwhelm them.  Over run the hunters and decimate them in one fail swoop.  Leave no survivors, nobody to turn after the fact.”
    “And when is this attack supposed to occur?”
    “We don’t know when exactly, but soon.  Right now they are trying to get everybody on board.  It’s all voluntary but from what I’m told, everybody is for it.  They all want a piece of this action.  We get to pull a surprise attack like those bastards have done to us.”
    “Who is behind organizing this little war party?”
    “I don’t know who started it, but it was our sister gang who contacted us.  They said it was a biker gang that contacted them and a rival biker vamp gang that got in touch with them.  It’s all word of mouth.”
    Paul contemplated his words and growled.  He really didn’t like being kept out of the loop on something this monumentally stupid.  Not only would something like this throw off the status quo, it would alert all humans to the existence of vampires and they would have egotistical Van Helsing wanna-be's running through the streets trying to stake every newborn baby vamp they could find.
    He remembered the days when villages would rise up against vampires and send them packing to the next county or the next country.  Those were not pleasant times.  It was usually because some idiot would pick the daughter of a village elder or the wife of a governor or something else monumentally stupid and make a midnight snack of her.  Men get so possessive of their women.  He really couldn’t see why.  There were so many of them.  And really, one tasted just as good as the next. 
    Paul sighed.  “Whoever these dumbasses are should realize that by doing this, they will alert the entire world to our pre sence.” He said more to Damien than anybody.  “Once that happens, we will be hunted like we once were.”
    “That is their hope.” The punk said.  Paul was shocked and felt his anger instantly rise.  “Except they want to move into p ositions of power as soon as people realize we exist.  They intend to make humans into livestock and farm them.” His monotone voice stated.
    Paul sat back, shocked.  He had heard rumors of this va mpire lunacy before, but…for someone to actually attempt to implement it?  Absolute craziness!  It could never happen.
    He jumped up from his chair and when he did, the punk seemed to snap out of it and was gently shaking his head as if waking from a dream.  “This is insane ! Can’t they see what this will actually bring?!”
    Damien stepped forward, “Master, if this happens, and we are brought to light, it will be much more than just the hunters to deal with, won’t it?”
    “See?!  He’s an idiot and even he can see the bigger picture.”  Foster stated.  “I have to find out who is behind this and either convince them to stop it or destroy them before it begins.”
    “You’re crazy, man.”  The punk said.  “This is way bigger than even you!  This is like worldwide, man!” he began to laugh.  Before he could take a breath to build up his first round of laug hter, Paul staked him and watched the blood erupt from his throat.  Damien stepped back just as the punk splattered face first on the stone floor.
    “Get that thing out