Children of the Sun

r/HFY
BigBlueBoxer

I chose the wrong side. Although it's easy to say that now with the benefit of hindsight. When I became a creature of the night, I did it because I thought it was the only way to survive the new age. The age of the vampires.

I can't say the exact day or even year when it started. All I know is that the world's most powerful men and women were turned. They consolidated resources and power. And they in began to turn the people most useful to them as well as loved ones. Before long, rumors of vampires began to spread around the world. But it was mostly dismissed as crazy conspiracies and misinformation. By the time the leaders of darkness fully revealed themselves to the world, it was already too late.

Humans were being rounded up into camps like cattle for the vampires. At first it was the homeless and those in prison but everyone knew it was only a matter of time before the vampires ran out of them. Especially at the rate they were turning new people. Now that they were in the open, the vampires began turning more people to help ensure their power. And those people who were turned, also turned their loved ones to protect them. This all caused an even greater number of humans needed to feed the vampire population. It wasn't long before all humans were being hunted down to be used as cattle for the vampires.

It was around this time that I was turned. My sister had been turned and it was her that had found me hiding among another group of humans. She couldn't bear to see me become her food so she gave me the choice to become one of the night folk. I looked at the sad and desperate faces of the other humans around me and I knew that there was no hope left for humanity. It was join or become food.