The ONES (RAPTURE Series Book #4)

Chapter 3 The Third ONE

THE ONES - RAPTURE Series Book 4 By: LadyDawn

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Chapter 3 The Third ONE

My group was the last to arrive on this blue green planet. I am the third ONE of our kind, the Vampires, but back them we had no such definition of our kind, we were the plant drinkers. I was the scholarly type; dealing with the laws of our people, and chemical make up of our food and bodies. We, my group arrived here on the planet, from there I spent the first few thousand years underground in a laboratory designing, and redesigning a new type of food supply for our people. The defective strains were supposed to be burned off to kill away any chance of mutations occurring in future life cycles deep down in a cavern in the mantle of the planet. I was not in charge of that part of the process. It was up to me to develop the food carriers not deal with the rejects.

Through many years of trial and error my team came up with what we eventually named the 'Homo-Sapien' strain of food. It was as close to our natural supply of plant food as I could get here on this planet with what I had to work with—which was nothing actually—I would say we did pretty good for ourselves. Had they told us in the beginning that we would be doing this type of work here in this planet we could have brought a full laboratory of equipment with us. Alas, it went down with the only ship to crash, and no one though to order a second one during the migration process.

After my team had finally figured out through many trials, and countless errors what we were doing wrong; we finally came up with the right formula to produce the right pair of mating food producers that could help replace our dwindling current plant food supply. We did store a goodly amount of seeds to keep for future research. When the time came that I was no longer needed in the research division they called me out to help with setting up the new laws for the new ruling party on the planets surface. It was my first time in thousands of years out on the surface of the planet. It was very bright to my eyes that were accustom to the dark of the underground labs.

I spent another several thousand years developing all the laws for dealing with care and handling of the foods crops I had developed once I found out that they were killing them off as fast as we were setting them free on the surface. Unlike modern day man these were much stronger and faster. They were shorter, but bulkier with big muscles to take down the pray of the times. This only made them the perfect food for our initial food supply. My first laws out were to stop our kind from draining them dry—these new foods didn't regenerate when drained dry like the plants did back on our planet did—they just up and died. That wouldn't do considering we had to feed back then once a day to stay strong, and keep up with all the work we were doing. Nope not good at all. We found if we drank for several a day and let them recover they were just fine the next day that is how I wrote the laws to give our food a couple days in between feedings to rest up.

Then there was the problem we had once we found the werewolves had hijacked a ship and landed here with us on this planet, and multiplied. In the beginning we were given the OK to kill them on sight. Then after a few thousand years a truce was made between them and us for the betterment of all concerned. We would stop killing them on sight if they would learn to behave and stop killing all our food and animals off. It took many years to work out a living arrangement where they stayed in a specific area, and we stayed away from them. They had a powerful Alpha that they sent as a liaison in the end who became the forth ONE of our group of four that made all the laws for the Supernatural on this planet. But that is his story to tell.

I only had to deal with as you call us now Vampire law in the beginning and let me tell you I was kept very busy with all the complaints I had to field. I became the High Council leader along with two other elders. Between the three of us we dole out the laws of our covens and clans, we were law and what we said went. I stayed working there till we were called forward to become one of the fore ONES.