Fat Vampire (Book 5): Fatpocalypse by Johnny B. Truant

Author:Johnny B. Truant [Truant, Johnny B.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2013-09-23T04:00:00+00:00

V-CREWS

CLAUDE INTRODUCED THE WOMAN AS General Ophelia Thax. She was tall and blonde and thin, and her outfit looked like a parody of a military uniform that might be worn at a sexy Halloween party. Claude let the general lead the way, then followed a few paces behind her. Behind Claude were two vampire soldiers, holding their guns up, walking backward. Behind the soldiers were Nikki and Reginald, and behind them were three more soldiers, also aiming guns. Reginald couldn’t help but feel flattered by the implication of his own menace.

They moved into a conference room with a glass wall that looked out over the large control area. Once inside, General Thax — not Claude — dismissed the armed guards. They looked nervous to leave the two high-ranking officials alone with the two intruders, but she repeated the command and they dutifully obeyed, locking the door behind them.

Claude sat on the edge of the room’s large conference table, his back to the windows. The woman remained standing, as if at attention.

“You can sit,” said Claude, gesturing behind Nikki and Reginald.

Reginald sat. Nikki remained defiantly standing, but this was the wrong time to make a moral stand. They’d come here for a reason, and an apparently-very-real sense of fate was at play. They had to find the codex first, get home second, and worry about Claude third. So Reginald reached up and very gently took Nikki’s hand, urging her to sit on the small couch beside him.

“Let’s start with the obvious,” said Claude.

“This is Vampire World Command,” said Reginald.

“Obviously.”

“Which apparently is code for Annihilist Headquarters.”

Claude looked at the general before answering. She met his eye, and some unspoken message moved between them. Reginald couldn’t see much into Claude’s mind without alerting him to his presence, so he was only able to catch the surface of the thought. He saw only that he’d broached a sensitive topic, and that they were treading on contested ground.

“Semantics,” said Claude. He nodded to the general beside him. The space between the four vampires was meaningfully empty, mocking the discussion’s implied civility. “The Annihilist Faction has operated out of VWC for decades, but it is still the VWC who runs it. My people defer to the generals, like Ophelia here.” He tipped his head toward the woman beside him. Reginald expected her to be irritated at the use of her first name, but apparently they’d lapsed into the familiar. Genocide made for strange bedfellows.

“The Vampire World Command,” said Ophelia, beginning to pace with her hands intertwined behind her back, “was created for two purposes. The first was to act as a kind of vampire United Nations. The various worldwide councils have never really gotten along; they’re closer to a handful of gangs controlled by warlords than civilized nations. The Soviet Council is like a tribe of barbarians. The Far East vampires haven’t changed much since Genghis Khan’s day. Even the EU and US barely talked to each other. VWC was supposed to bridge that gap and get them talking, but the endeavor failed from the start.

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