Vampires: 1

First short/chapter in my vampires series which began with the Prologue about Amlan and Marcus.

First vampire short for my series, or rather, 2nd overall piece (following the Prologue). Thanks for reading, 

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AMLAN: The first stop since seeing that 'queen-vamp' for Euro-telling, Marcus.

MARCUS: We've given her that sportsmanship-ticket for gate-passages, Amlan.

AMLAN: We'll find this new target-mark for our vampire inquiry with more cards?

MARCUS: That queen will signal her buddies; we'll anticipate some rival image.

AMLAN: Some other vampire(s) wielding some rival image sports-card (challenge).

MARCUS: This rival image card may come with some Euro-battle for us.

AMLAN: I've loaded our water-guns with Holy-Water and arrows with garlic.

MARCUS: I'm making a water-gun with acid (thin-glass tube in the shot-piston!).

AMLAN: Good for journals, and we'll feel like Van Helsing or Batman (ha).

MARCUS: Selfie-like!

Amlan and Marcus were now at their first-destination, in this series of adventurous stops to examine if vampire mysteries and folklore were worth their weight in silver or gold. France had just fallen to the USA in Summer Games basketball, and their first vampire 'organization' was to be found somewhere in Arles (somewhere), and they surmised the vampire-queen had warned the vamps of France time-ahead so they'd mark them as sports cards merchants hiding vampire-hunting weapons (sure).

AMLAN: Look at that, we toasted our NY-football card/ticket and got responses.

MARCUS: This French 'association' trumpeted a college-athletics TV trophy-image.

AMLAN: Yeah, it's some streets-line for adjectives in 'educational' merchandising!

MARCUS: These challengers of street cards-sales are capitalists...or advised.

AMLAN: They procured this rival card set to challenge our French sales.

MARCUS: That vampire-queen told them to tickle our pride, pre-fight.

AMLAN: We'll use Holy-Water for basketball anticipations (Facebook-like!).

Well, the French cards-salesman 'rivals' weren't a pack of wolfish vampire men or gents exposed but rather 'bishops' drawing them to their forest-dwelling young-girl 'sorceress' named Latreche who claimed she was a descendant of some kind of some Cottingley-Fairies myth 'personnel' for journals and was now a real Earth vampire who was amused that Amlan/Marcus used their NY-football card as gate-passage to vampire-dominion dare and wondered how they felt about her 'guardians' wielding their basketball/TV (college-sports!) trophy image cards as street-market challenge for their vampire-quest vanities.

AMLAN: Why'd you shoot her as soon as she asked her question with Holy-Water?

MARCUS: The acid wasn't required; but this 'little-lady' sorceress was a striker!

AMLAN: A striker?

MARCUS: Think of it, Amlan; she claimed she liked 'faerie' tales; she was eerie.

AMLAN: She was going to strike at us had you not shot her quick for us to fly?

MARCUS: I guarantee that was the test here, Amlan; this was cleats-for-pain.

AMLAN: Selfie-like (damn).

MARCUS: Where to next (Facebook-like)?

"Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about" (Ralph Waldo Emerson). 

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)