“What the f*ck is going on!” Loraine screamed and Duke Anges who knows as hyperventilating under the table. A concerning action since neither of them needed to breath.

The day had started pretty normally with Countess Penelope inviting them and some other local vampire aristocrats to a soirée at her new mansion. They ate, drank, and danced until the sun began to rise at which point they decided to sleep in and return home at dusk.

But then one of Penelope’s thralls revealed that a thief had broken into the mansion. Lord Dimitri proposed they play one final game where whoever caught the thief could choose what to do with him, drink his blood, turn him into a thrall, keep him as a pet, etc. The game was going pretty well until we suddenly heard Penelope’s screams. Following them we arrived in the hall where her torn body was laying on the ground under a behemoth with obsidian skin and golden eyes.

“Vampire” it growled as it pounced on Lord Dimitri who had also arrived. Scared for our lives we fled as the beast tore fed on his living body. After a while we entered the dining room and hid under the table which is were we are now.

“Again, what the f*ck was that?” I scream at Duke Anges.

“A Huntire.” He whispered back.

“A what?”

“About a decade ago, the magic tower, alchemist guild, church of light, and some human nobles worked on a project to rid the world of creatures of the night. One of those creatures was the Huntire. It’s normally no different from the average human but when it gets dark blood in it’s mouth it turns into a bloodthirsty monster who hungers only for creatures of the night.”

“What? Why didn’t we know about this?”

“It was all theoretical. The project was shut down in a year and our reports said no monsters were made.”

“We’ll your reports were wrong.”

“This must be a test subject that escaped.”

“Good to know. Now how do we kill it?”

“We can’t. At least not in that form and with the blood of two vampires it won’t change back for at least a week. Our best option is to escape the mansion.”

“Hello, it’s daytime. We’ll burn to ash the second we step outside.”

“Then we’ll have to wait until night. We should split up and leave so it’s harder to track us. And tell everyone you run into the game’s changed. Forget stealing his life cause it’s now will you survive.”