ANGEL EYES, VAMPIRE TEARS - A Blood Companion Book by Jason Daniel Kowalczyk Excerpt from “Angel Eyes, Vampire Tears” By Jason Daniel Kowalczyk
It was almost like I did not have control of my body; I smashed in that door and stepped into the booking area. I heard a female officer speaking into a radio, “some fool in a Halloween mask just took down the door to booking.”
Almost instantly, there was a reply, a male’s voice, “that’s impossible, that door is steel-reinforced.”
“Must be on something,” I heard another officer say.
"Where is she?” I was shocked at the sound of my own voice. An officer came up behind me, I felt his presence before he even touched me and I threw my elbow back. I connected with his face, sadly though, his skull caved in with contact and his lifeless body flew out into the street.
"Where is who?” The voice came from a direction I was not looking, “We have only brought in males tonight.”My soul labeled that officer a liar, I knew that Shelby would not have lied to me, and it did not even occur to me that the human woman that I loved so dearly may have been arrested in another county.
An officer on the other side of the booking desk shot me with a tazer. I saw my reflection in a mirror and actually found myself chuckle when as I saw my eyes seem to glow with the electricity flowing through my frame. I pulled the little hooks out of my chest and slung them back at him, sinking them into his face.
Police officers began to come at me, and I had no thoughts to who might be mothers, fathers or anything of the like. A few I pulled close to me and drained them of some blood by instinct as bullets began to fly past me and through me. They just kept coming; nothing of what they saw was truly registering in their mind. I had torn open the throats of fellow officers in front of their eyes and drank their blood, and yet they kept coming closer to me. I threw some officers so hard that their heads went through the bars of the holding-cells, killing them of course.
A lot of those who were sitting in the holding-cells were cheering me on as if I was to free them. I advanced slowly through the area, dispatching every officer that came near me. I was checking each cell for the woman I love. Nothing was to be found. Under a hale of gunfire, I went to the booking log to see if her name was in the book. She had not been booked into this jail, and as I found this little note of information, I began to hear sirens outside the building. All I could hear in my head was that guy from Night of the Living Dead, but instead of saying Barbara, I was hearing, “They’re coming to get you, Damion.”
I slung the booking log at six officers that were peering in an open door where all the bookies are taken after photographed and fingerprinted and then I bolted through the hole in the wall where I took down the door. There was flashing lights of red and blue lighting up the neighborhood. Police from all the neighboring counties must have come to the aid of these ignorant hicks. I was going to test my new powers and take them on when I saw an officer that was a new recruit, fresh out of the academy. Officer Dodsworth was staring at me down the barrel of a 12-gauge shotgun. I was so happy that my face had changed shape; he did not know that it was I. He stood out among these officers, he did not have the spiked hair or facial hair that most did, and he did not look fresh out of the military.
“Take off your mask and surrender,” officer Dodsworth had no idea that he was looking at something that was no longer human, and was once his friend.
I must have looked as if I was crazy when I took off running. I could hear squealing tires of patrol cars behind me as my speed began to increase from that which would be considered human, and what I was doing. I ran the side roads until I reached Highway 63 and took off like a bat out of hell, literally.
I was moving fast enough that the cruisers behind me were at full speed and barely keeping up. If only I had the power to hear what was being said over the scanners. I bet that almost no one listening could believe what they were hearing, let alone what these officers were seeing as they broadcast their sights.
I could feel bullets tearing through my body, from handguns, sniper rifles, anything they could sling at me were slung. I could feel the rage beginning to subside and desperation to get away took over. The last thing I needed was for my face to change back to normal and have my face all over the news.
As in every chase, there are cars that do not yield to the sirens, so I came along side of a car, not realizing that I was heading straight into a roadblock. I turned my head, I felt compelled to, though I have no idea why. It was just another car, and in the backseat was my beloved Rebecca. The look of fear in her eyes smashed what was left of my heart. I could feel my face change back into the human look, and it appeared to frighten her even more.
I heard a sniper rifle go off from the wooden area just beyond the road. I had not realized that I had left town so quickly. The round went through my right knee, causing me to fall and begin to tumble. I could feel flesh being torn from my body. I could hear her screaming my name, but I knew that I could not go back for her now. There was too high of a chance that one of the bullets that were being fired at me would end up hitting her, and that was something I was not willing to risk.
As I tumbled along the asphalt, I felt my knee heal itself and when my body hit one of the patrol cars in the roadblock, it bounced up and I got enough air to right myself and take off running again. This time I ran into the wooded area where all I needed was to lose them for just a few seconds so that I could go into the ground where I thought that I might be safe from being found. I knew that I had to do so before they brought out the dogs.
I willed myself to pick up more speed to put a larger distance between the law and myself. And once I had at least a 20-second lead, I lay down on the ground and sunk into it. It was many years later that I saw another vampire do the same thing. The vampire sinks into the earth and anything covering the ground will slip back into place, whether it is dead leaves or snow. I knew that it might be weeks before it would be safe to come out of this spot, but I also knew that I would have to risk it and try to get out of here the very next evening.
She saw my face change; she was frightened by what she saw. This was going to be hell trying to explain what the hell I had become.
But she was supposed to have been arrested.
That IS what her mother told Shelby.
Something smells fishy here, and it isn't my ex-wife.
I really don't know how long I stayed in the earth until I was secure in the knowledge that there were no more police dogs roaming in the wooded area where I wanted to come out of the ground. And would you believe that when I came out of the ground, there was someone sitting on a tree stump? How could she have found me, how could she have known?
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