Fiends of the Rising Sun by David Bishop

Author:David Bishop
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction
Publisher: Abaddon Books

Shiro Suzuki was hungry. The need to feed was buried deep in his belly, its yearning like some mewling infant crying out for attention, always demanding fresh blood. He could sate himself until he was bloated, and it only quelled the hunger for a while, the yearnings abated, but not for long. All too soon they were back, gnawing away at him. He could still remember the adrenaline rush his first kill had given him, the supernatural high of draining every drop of blood from a victim, the raw power and majesty he felt surging through his body. The thrill was so exquisite, so absolute, Suzuki believed it could never end.

But the high did end, all too soon, and every feeding since had been that little bit less delicious. He still felt the excitement of the kill, the joyous anticipation of that moment before plunging his fangs into the veins and arteries of his prey. He learned to savour the terror in his victims' eyes, see their horror and witness his animal savagery in the reflection of their pupils. But the sensations were fading, losing their attraction. The hunger was still there, that never went away, but the ecstasy of killing was gone now.

Part of it came from the creatures he was sucking dry, Suzuki was sure of that. A true vampyr was a predator, hunting its prey before claiming the kill and savouring the spoils. But Hitori had forbidden the kyuuketsuki from hunting until war was declared with the Americans. Even after the opening salvoes of war, their leader had placed explicit restrictions on when, where and whom they could kill. For now the existence of the kyuuketsuki had to remain a secret from the enemy. If the Americans realised how far the empire was willing to go, what weapons living and undead the empire was prepared to employ, it was impossible to know how they would respond. A wise warrior did not reveal all the weapons in his arsenal at the first skirmish.

Denied their supernatural tendency to hunt for fresh victims, the vampyr samurai were forced to feed on prisoners and unwitting volunteers. So it was on the airbase at Taiwan. Suzuki and his fellow kyuuketsuki pilots had been restricted to their quarters during the hours of daylight. When darkness fell on the Japanese military facility, Suzuki led his men to a nearby aircraft hangar where a fresh cluster of Taiwanese prisoners was left at sunset, locked in a barbed wire cage. The first night the hungry pilots had been content to gorge themselves. The blood of their victims had a different taste to what the fliers were used to, perhaps a reflection of the prisoners' diet.

By the end of the second night Suzuki could tell that his men were bored. They had been training for months in anticipation of the coming conflict. All of them were eager and ready to go into battle, using their enhanced vampyr abilities against the Americans. Instead they were stuck here in Taiwan, with a few terrified comfort women in a cage as prey.

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