Synopsis: The Vampire Trilogy :: 3 : The Vampire Murders

The Vampire Trilogy

((Note: These are not all the stories I was doing this year - they're the ones I stuck with for more than 3k))

Book #1. The Vampire Conspiracy
(Pseudo-Govt-Conspiracy Story)
Completed 8/11:// 54,437

What happens when a human is turned into a vampire and returned to their human self every few months for twenty-five years? Do they become shell-shocked, unable to function in any society? Do they become two people in the one body, the vampire and the human, unable to integrate themselves into the one mind? Or do they become normal, traumatised but able to function as a normal human?

The answers to these questions are the aim of Dr. Kellach McAuliffe's work. He's captured a human child from her parents and, with the backing of the Court of Elders, is conducting his experiments somewhere in southern Texas.

But after dealing with the shock and trauma of her incarceration for two and a half decades, Alyssa escapes her prison and runs north to the Canadian-American border, finding the small town of Glacksburg nestled in the middle of a forest. There she meets Arthur and Rachel Mayar, and her best friend, Morgan Chrislite, a bear-like wrestler who befriends the slight and pale girl without reservation.

But the trials and suffering of her incarceration are not over. Alyssa's vampirism has been painfully slowed by the effects of Kellach's experiments, but the self-generating venom in her mouth is causing her pain and damaging her body in a way that a quick turning would have avoided.

After ten years on the run, Matt Walker - Kellach's former right-hand man - and his family have moved into the town that Alyssa sought refuge in. Their movements have led Kellach and his Coven right to Alyssa, resulting in the death of one of her most cherished companions, and the turning of her closest friends.

Matt and his family have brought back memories that Alyssa has fought to suppress for years. The vampires' ability to read human minds has led to Matt's interest in Alyssa's quick words and dark thoughts...

However, more secrets stand to be revealed than Alyssa's past encounters with vampires. Liz and Matt have secrets of their own, fought and buried for a decade. But they must reveal these secrets if they want to take down the maniacal vampire responsible for Alyssa's scarred and mauled appearance.

And that's just what Matt intends to do.

Book #2: The Vampire Ardour
(Pseudo-Romance story)
Completed 22/11://50,058

It's been three years since Kellach McAuliffe, Alyssa's tormentor, was killed by the Elders in Thurso, Scotland. Three years since Matt and Alyssa got together, gluing their two families together in an almost-ideal relationship, beyond all faults of a normal relationship.

Three years since Blair O'Brien was turned by Alyssa in Thurso, instantly infatuated with her and her seductive feeding technique.

And it's all falling apart.

Blair's presence amongst the Walker family has caused stress and the fracturing of the group into two halves - Those who, like Alyssa, think that Blair should stay, and those who, like Matt, think he should be thrown from the family. Blair's taken this civil war between the extended family as an invitation, and has settled himself in to fight it out with Alyssa.

Matt, Liz, Trish, Brodie and Aleck run from the house at midnight and vanish into the blue, leaving Alyssa, Rachel, Blair, Aston and Morgan alone in Johrgan Winery Estates, Canada, with no idea where they are and a feeling that they won't be back.

Now Blair's most coveted dream has come true: Alyssa and Matt are no more, and his family is no longer around to stop Blair gettting Alyssa. But Alyssa is hurting far more deeply than he can understand - Aside from losing her life-partner and anchor, she's lost the sense of a real family that the large group of vampires had created over the last three years.

But, after only three years as a vampire, Alyssa has snapped. She has dragged Blair from Scotland to Montana and then on to Montreal and Paris. She's brought him to Notre Dame, where she intended to join Blair in death. Permenantly.

But only half of the plan works. Alyssa is dead but her boys are still alive. After a session of drinking just outside Moscow, Russia, however, that changes, and Matt joins her in Purgatory.

But the deaths of the hero and his femme fatale have irrevocably shattered something in the minds of the Walker Clan. Liz and Trish are dead and Morgan and Blair are on a murderous rampage in Tokyo, Japan. Alsistia and Christine must stop them, but is it possible?

Will good will out, after all? Or will the darkness of the vampire heart overtake all reason once more?

Book #3. The Vampire Murders
(Pseudo-Crime-fiction story)
Started 23/11/08 - Will continue on beyond NaNo (End of NaNo - 18 056 words)

For nine years, Alyssa and the new Angel Vampire Coven have hidden in Western Australia. But a hunt has gone wrong and the Angels must run for their lives

But the safe haven they envisaged in London is not to be. The seven vampires are sent back to Australia to face trial for the deaths of fifteen police officers in Mildura, Victoria, four more in Shark Bay, Western Australia, the death of an Aboriginal man at Uluru, Northern Territory, and a dozen more people besides.

And after that, they have to face the media and the London Police Force, who want to try the vampires for the deaths of seven of their own killed containing the vampires in their compound.

So, after all the pain of the last thirteen years, the truth about vampires is about to come out - on world-wide television.

The remaining six Elders are not happy with the Angels, and chase them to Australia. But will the Elders' assassination attempts against the Angel Coven do them good or bad? Will the Elders have enough time to return to Thurso, Scotland, before the alcohol the Angels were given turns the vampires into a pile of mush?

And will the humans finally believe the truth about the Vampire World?