**TRIGGER WARNING-This book contains adult content including rape, sex, torture, violence among other things.
PROLOGUE(ORIGINS-IN THE PAST)JUNE 1ST, 2050"There is no understanding on exactly what it is that is happening right now. The CDC and other infection control agencies are not responding to any of our inquiries thus far. All we know is this virus, or whatever it is, is extremely contagious and extremely dangerous. It so far has an extremely high mortality rate." The reporter said sounding as stressed as he looked."This is very bad, very bad." Nancy said shaking her head as she turned away from the TV. She looked up at her husband, who looked at her solemnly. "Jasmine is going to grow up in this. Do you think she will make it to adulthood? With the way this virus is going?""Yes honey. We are figuring it out. You just stay in the house. The house is nice and secure, William and Marcia are on their way to stay with you just in case. My team and I are working on it. Finding out what it is and how to stop it.""It's just, it turns people into animals that's all. They become monsters. They resemble zombies or...or..." Her voice trailed off as she reevaluated what this virus made the humans become."Zombies isn't the correct word for it, but animals...yeah like vicious wild animals.""Okay, well please be safe out there." He walked around the counter, wrapped his hands around her delicate face and kissed her. He kissed her passionately, not wanting to let go. But he did and kissed her forehead."I love you. I'll be home soon.""I love you too." He hurried out of the house. She slid both of her hands delicately across her stomach. She hadn't told her husband she was expecting a baby. She was showing a little bit, at thirty-three weeks, but she'd just had their daughter and so she hadn't ever lost her baby stomach. He didn't mind that she was a bit heavier or that she hadn't lost that baby belly, he loved her and all she was.When she found out she was pregnant again their daughter was only a month and a half old, so it was unexpected to say the least. Then the virus broke out before she had a chance to tell him and the world's stress levels shot through the roof, especially for government virologists such as her husband. He was the head of the team the United States government tasked with finding out what this virus was doing. He was so stressed out and tired that he didn't have the energy to even realize she was pregnant.They were having a little boy. She wanted to name him Jason, after her dead brother. He died when America went to war with Russia and China in 2028. It ended in nuclear disaster of nearly all of Russia and the surrounding countries, as well as China dropping bombs on Japan and then America nuking China. This war led to the largest number of human deaths of any war the world had ever seen. Between the deaths of war and the deaths caused by the nuclear bombs just over two billion people died. Many others were continuing to die from radiation poisoning.It was the most devasting war the world had ever known and it would take centuries to recover. But now this virus. William and Marcia walked into the kitchen to greet her. Marcia went straight over to Jasmine to kiss the little girl on her head while she drank from her bottle. William went right over to hug Nancy."How's the baby doing?" He asked her looking down at her stomach."He's happy and healthy. Big.""Have you had a chance to tell him yet? I'm honestly surprised he hasn't noticed. You're almost done with the pregnancy." Marcia asked walking around the back of the baby's chair and toward her friend and husband."No. He's so preoccupied and stressed out about this virus I feel like there is no good time. I never stopped looking pregnant after Jasmine was born. I literally don't look any different than I did. Of course he's missing it. Anyway, this thing has killed over eight hundred million people world-wide. In like two months. They have no idea what it is.""The government is trying to weaponize it. The people who get infected, for a short while, are like super strong and fast and heal bullet holes in seconds. Doesn't last long, but the government is going to try and figure out how to find those specific things in the virus to make a superhuman serum." William said, "I don't know for sure if Daniel knows that or not, but they will.""Did you hear what they're calling the virus?" Marcia asked looking excitedly at Nancy. She shook her head, and Marcia smiled widely. "It's being called the vampire virus. People are fast, strong, can heal and they crave human blood during the duration of their infection. Also become super sensitive to sunlight and they become pale. Isn't that interesting?""Yeah thats...that's something alright." Nancy didn't share the same excitement considering her husband was in the middle of dealing with it."There are actually two strains..." William corrected. "Yes one is called the vampire virus the other is, what is being called the lycanthropy virus. Because some turn into nasty hairy beasts that are strong, fast and can heal fast. It's out of fiction movie to be honest. A virus that makes some people into vampires and others into werewolves. Totally nuts.""Sounds like a bad fiction movie." Marcia added, "a very bad one.""Except that it's not a bad fiction movie....It's real life." Nancy said shaking her head. There was a loud banging at her front door that made the three of them jump, and then Jasmine began to cry. No one moved and the banging came again."I'll check." William said. Marcia moved to pick up Jasmine and then walked back to stand beside Nancy who had her arms wrapped around her stomach. A loud crash burst through the house, followed by a scream from William. The house suddenly had three infected people fighting each other. One looked like a werewolf, the others looked like vampires. They all were fighting until the saw the two women and the screaming baby.They then descended upon them. Screams escaping the house into the calm, quiet neighborhood.Nancy lay barely alive, unable to move reaching toward her ringing phone. It was her husband calling to check on her like he always did. But she couldn't reach it. It kept ringing and ringing. The call would end and then it would start up again.Daniel knew something was wrong. His wife always answered his phone calls. She knew he would be stressed out all day if he couldn't be sure she and their daughter were safe. After he'd called her half a dozen times, he went ahead and tried Marcia with no answer. And then William with again no answer."Sir, my wife isn't answering my calls. I know there is something wrong." His boss, Andy, looked at him a moment."Take Brendan and Norris with you. I know Nancy, if you think there is a problem. There may be a problem. Hurry. Go.""Norris. Brendan. Let's go. You're coming with me."They pulled up in front of his large, suburbian house to see the door was open. His heart sank. Just inside the door the three men saw the mutilated, half eaten William. Daniel jumped and ran into the kitchen where he'd last seen his wife. Blood was everywhere. It soaked everything. Marcia was ripped open and missing an arm. Off across the kitchen was what seemed to be left of his daughter Jasmine.He rushed to Nancy who lay right up against the counter. He sobbed when grabbing her."Jason." She choked out, coughing up blood."What?" He asked between cries. She used her eyes to trail toward her big stomach."Jason." He looked down and realized her stomach was ripped open, but inside was a perfectly intact womb, filled with a large baby. The baby was still moving around."You were pregnant?" His heart sank."I love...you." She began to sob."I love you too." Her sobs lasted barely a minute before she let go and finally died."Get me the med bag. And towels, I need towels. Upstairs there is an infant kit, bring it down too. I need something from it. Hurry. " Daniel instructed whichever man listened. Norris ran out and then hurried back in with the bag. Brendan had returned with a arm full of towels and the baby kit. Daniel pulled out clamps and scissors, as well as the nasal aspirator. "Norris you don't have kids right?""No sir I don't.""Brendan?" Daniel asked staring at his son moving about in the womb."I do. Four actually.""Alright, I need you to hold open a towel for me and begin to wrap it around this baby." Daniel grabbed a box knife from the junk drawer beside his dead wife, and cut the remaining flesh around the baby. He carefully reached in and scooped the baby out, amniotic sac and all. He put it down on a towel and make sure the nasal aspirator was ready for use. He ripped open the sac and wiped the baby's face and suctioned out his nasal passages.Jason let out a wild wail. Daniel picked him up, handed him to Brendan and then cut the ambilical cord and clamped it. He wrapped his arms gently, but firmly around his new born son. Who was all he had left in the world."I'm sorry sir. We should go. Let the team know what happened here." Daniel shook his head and followed them men out, he held Jason who was no longer crying while he was crying.Norris didn't speak, but him and Brendan realized that none of them ever took a second to even evaluate if the infected were in the house still. They just did what they did and left without thinking through the level danger that could've been.The drive back to the lab was silent. A darkness hung over them as they walked back into the building. Daniel was soaked in blood, carrying a baby all the while he was crying. Norris and Brendan looked like they were barely holding themselves together."Oh my God, Daniel. What happened?" Andy asked rushing to his long time friend."She's dead. They attacked her. Killed her. Killed Jasmine. Killed them. She was pregnant with my son. His name is Jason." Daniel was robotic in the way he answered, absolutely stunned at what he'd seen."They as in the infected?""That's what it looked like sir. We need to send a team out right away to clean up and..." Norris was saying, but stopped when Brendan elbowed him hard gesturing toward Daniel."Daniel, go to your office and relax. I'll have someone run out and get you some baby supplies. I'll also send Rebecca in to once over...Jason." Daniel said nothing he just walked to the elevator. "Bites?""Yes sir. They were all bitten and clawed up." Norris answered."A team needs to go now.""Yeah, well I'm gonna ask Rebecca to do some tests. If there are bites, it means it's possible that the baby can be infected. I hope not. But we need to be sure." Andy said, "go tell a team to disbatch."*****A month went by since Jason's untimely birth, his genes connected and mutated with the viruses and found he had all of the positives to the virus, but none of the negatives. And it didn't seem to be temporary either.He was faster, stronger, and healed within minutes. He also seemed to have extremely high pain tolerance.As the years went by, the virus was no longer temporary and no longer spreading the way it had been. But the Earth was barely populated by humans anymore, and the rise of vampires and werewolves was very apparent.With those creatures, the hunters were created, and Jason Raiser was the first one. He would begin his hunt purely to avenge the slaughter of his mother and sister. To get revenge for his father, who had never completely recovered from the loss.This was the official rise of the war. The war between vampires, werewolves, and hunters. Where the world is no longer the same and every species is out for themselves. The world never truly recovered from the war and the virus, and every species it creates wants to rule. Will the blood born vampires take control over the viral vampires? Or will the blood born werewolves out live the viral lycans?And what about the hunters? The way the virus bonded with the cells to create superhumans just as the government had originally wanted to. They're fast and strong, like vampires and werewolves. They heal from anything within minutes, but they're humans. They live hundreds of years and are immune to the virus. Both types of the virus.The war begins today.And the legacy that will be Jason Raiser.YEAR 3555 *CHARLES* "Oh come on Charles." Jessica whined, "why is Blaire always first choice? Because she's your daughter?" "She is my first choice because she is a better hunter than any of you. She's killed more than any of you and she hasn't even been branded with our crest yet. And she's the best because she is my daughter." Charles stared down at the entire hunter council that he presided over. "She is an Raiser. Do you want a history lesson on what that name means?" "No. Charles, we just...we don't know where she is right now. And she should be branded before she is sent off on such an important hunt." Mark said looking at each person while he spoke. Charles was a monster of a man, you could see how pure hunter blood ran through him. He was the size of most alpha werewolves. He stood six foot six inches with massive muscular arms and chest. He looked like a tank. "You can't find her? My daughter? You can't find Blaire?" Charles' face was getting red with ange
*SEBASTIAN* "Where is the Raiser family?" Alpha Sebastian asked his beta, Theo. "They're a few hours south of Ashford. They're having a lot of really bad sand storms down there right now. I know the Raiser daughter is in Ashford right now, as well as a member of another hunter family. Don't know which one." "Find out. Do you know if they know about us yet?" "I believe they do sir." "Which means they'll come after us hard." "Not neccesarily. The human that own's the bar down in Ashford, Sammy, said that another hunter was loudly talking about the branding and ceremony of the Raiser daughter and that she will be sent after you." "Ha, a little girl? Really?" "She's twenty-five sir. And she has a reputation that matches yours. No offense. She is extremely tough. Very strong. Though very small, she is...she shouldn't be underestimated." "I guess I can't laugh too hard now can I? She is a Raiser afterall. If you're comparing her reputation to mine as equals, well no
*BLAIRE* Blaire woke up earlier than Marlow did. He had his arm wrapped around her waist, laying close to her. She rolled her big green eyes, grabbed his arm and dropped if off beside her before climbing out of bed. "Seriously Blaire?" Marlow said sleepily. Tossing his arm off of her woke him, and not in the best way. "What? We're not together Marlow, no cuddling. That was a rule we agreed on." She snapped back. "Come on Blaire. We've been doing this forever. Can't you even accept that maybe there is something here between us, more than just great sex?" Marlow said sitting up and moving to the edge of the bed. Even as he was trying to convince her to be together he couldn't help but admire her amazing naked body. She stood in the doorway of the bathroom leaning against the door jam. "Jesus no...Listen, if you're going to continue down this path of trying to be together or some shit. It's not going to happen." "I'm in love with you." He blurted out as if that was goi
*JASON RAISER* The scientists tried to mimic Jason's mutations, but couldn't prevail for the longest time. They're only hope was that he could reproduce. They gathered a dozen women who passed all the physical and mental health tests and fertilized their eggs with Jason's sperm. Eight women survived birth, and only two babies lived. Among testing what had happened, they found the two surviving babies shared certain DNA markers the others did not. Through the sequencing they realized to make new hunters they needed very specific women with specific markers. They were only able to successfully inject three fetuses with Jason's virus and it create hunters like him, though to find out not as strong or powerful. This is when Jason came up with the mapping of DNA to allow the hunter genes to go on without inbreeding. "Jason, it's ascension day." Daniel said to his son. He mustered up a smile, the only time he could smile was when seeing his surviving, thri
*BLAIRE* "Oh God Blaire thank God you're back." An older woman gushed hurrying over to her, barely giving a glance to her travel companion. "Yes, I always return Elda." Blaire rolled her eyes and continued to walk. "Blaire! Blaire!" Three little kids screamed running to her excitedly. She knelt down and looked at all of them with a smile. "Did you kill a vampire?" One asked. "Or werewolf?" "A werepire?" The eldest, about seven years old, asked. All of them looked at her with eyes sparkling with excitement. She was their gaurdian, the person they aspired to be. "I killed some vampires. I haven't come across any werepires yet Wes, but you'll be the first one I tell if I ever do." They all gathered around to hug her tightly with excitement until the boom of her father's voice scared them off. "Blaire!" He shouted from their mansion's front steps, as it looked out over the rest of the small family village of hunters. "Yes, c
*CHARLES* TWENTY DAYS LEFT UNTIL THE ASCENSION OF BLAIRE RAISER Blaire was so powerful, even at her young age. She'd learned to walk by four months old, to talk fluently by eight months. She was climbing and jumping on things like the agile little warrior she was by a year and a half. She'd progressed faster than anyone any of the family, of any family, had ever known in hand to hand combat, swordsmanship and archery. She could use throwing knives and combat knives better than just about anyone. By the time she was five she'd grown in to what seemed almost like an adult. She was sure of herself, analytical of the choices she made, quick witted and brave. She stood up for her beliefs even then and all these traits strengthened and solidified within her more and more as she got older. The families respected her as a Raiser, but as she aged, the didn't respect her for her name, they respected her for her abilities. They respected her for the person she was. She could enter a room and
*SEBASTIAN* It was the third day he'd gone to that bar. It was on the outskirts of what would be considered the safer part of the region. It was backing up against the rabid terriories filled with rabid and rogue vampires and lycans. It was a dangerous place to be. And also those villages tended to be shit holes, but this bar was very nice, one of the nicer ones he'd ever been in. There were a few humans in some of the towns that owed him favors, and so he told them to notify him when Blaire was on the move. He'd been informed she'd be traveling there. He spent a few days prior establishing a reputation as 'calm' with the bartender to avoid issues while he observed her, gathering information the best he could. He was expecting his heart to leap hard in his chest and his stomach to twist when she walked into the bar and made eye contact with him. She turned away uncaring, but she of course knew what he was. He knew her and the bartender were talking about him. Which really was agains
*BLAIRE* Blaire had just gotten out of the shower and put on a tank top and black panties before bed. The mission turned out to be much quicker than expected since the vampires stupididly brought themselves to her. She rubs her hands together and touched her finger tips that still seemed to tingle from touching the massive werewolf. She'd never come into contact with an alpha like him. That shock was painful, intense and it freaked her out. She'd never felt that before and wasn't sure what it meant. She turned off the main light in the room and went to the desk to turn that light off, but a burst of the door and it slammed she didn't have a chance to turn around and she was pinned against the desk. She tried to fight, but he was much stronger than she was. Hence why she needed to ascend. Blaire knew exactly who was pinning her down like that wrapping his arms around her tightly. "This isn't a very good idea for you to be doing this." She said calmly, he rele