Chosen Vampire Nitara

I am Nitara, representative of the restored Vampire nation. Before I state my involvement in the Rise of the Dragon King, I would simply like to point out that our males are not Casanovas, our females are not succubuses, we do not magically levitate, we do not transform into bats, cats, or rats, we do not value blood above all else, and our bites do not turn other beings into mindless drones or other Vampires - we are a people, not a disease, and not a movie or novel clicha233;.

Though my kind evolved from monstrous creatures that fed on the flesh, blood, and essence of countless species, we are much more democratic, intelligent beings than one would think we are... We became as such when we began feeding on sentient creatures only. As we drain the blood of our victims, we also drain away some of their essence, allowing us to obtain a limited amount of their knowledge and characteristics; these immediate changes allow us to become more adapted to dealing with our prey and predators, and since these changes are genetic, the next generation benefits from these changes as well. As we progressed to feeding off members of higher food-chains, we became better, smarter predators, reaching our peak when we began hunting the best of species only, until we decided to specialise on Edenians and modern day Humans, the smartest of beings in existence - both seconded only by us.

I demonstrated the Vampire craftiness through careful manipulation; not only did I succeed in helping bring down a corrupt regime, I also gave a Raptor new incite about his kind, and restored my home realm to its former glory thanks to a machine who helped me in return for my sending him back to his home. I may have caused the warrior to be stranded in the first place, but I knew that he was capable of retrieving the orb that bound my realm to Outworld, and my needs surpassed his.

After we began feeding on Edenians, the Vampires were considered the intellectual scholars of the Ancient Worlds, when the realms were ruled by different deities. When these deities passed on their legacy to the current Elder Gods, an eventual war broke out between two of them, who, not realising how much power they were capable of summoning, almost destroyed the entire universe. People are often reminded that the battle was waged because of the new world, Earth, and remember how it was plunged into centuries of darkness, but the stories regarding the affects to the other realms are forgotten. Their documentation exists, but was completely lost when the Vampire realm was invaded by the Outworld dictator Trom and his enforcers, and this knowledge was turned into myth when my people could no longer prove the war ever happened beyond Earthrealm. Apparently, those documents, and even older ones that contained the information about the Ancient World, are still in Outworld... In any case, we managed to recuperate some of this knowledge and create new documents, but without our ancient libraries, there will always be gaps, and the story will always focus on Earthrealm, the Humans, and the Raptors.

Several Vampires were surprised when their crystals brought them back to lands that they had not set foot on for thousands of years - too long had we teleported from realm to realm, in order to avoid harmful sun rays created by the various yellow and red stars of other worlds. Our home world's sun was special, as it was a large, blue star, one with rays that our kind had specifically adapted to, so we all took in moments to bask in the only sunlight we've ever seen in our entire lives. We knew that we had a lot of work ahead of us, and decided to at least enjoy the warmth before we proceeded to rebuild our world.

We tracked down and informed our kind that our realm was restored and that it needed our help to become as great as it once was. Our priorities were in restoring our libraries and re-evaluating everything we have learned over the last millennia, then re-establishing hospitals and food stores for times of hardship. Even Khameleon, an ally I made years before Shinnok tried to take Edenia, came to our aid, and remained in our realm to help. Normally, she would have been a decent meal, as Raptors and other Zaterran creatures were once considered a tasty delicacy, but her knowledge about Shao Kahn and how he merged the realms was enough to grant her asylum and my protection from any of her enemies, including my fellow Vampires. Weeks passed as we worked hard to rebuild one primary city, and things were going extremely well for us, until a portal opened and the mechanical man, Cyrax, stepped foot onto our soil.

At first, the other Vampires, curious of the stranger, flocked around him, but when Cyrax used his explosive teleport to reach me, he sent my people scurrying away faster than an army of ants in a rain storm. Cyrax stood in front of me and bowed the same way he when last we saw one-another, and he explained to me the peril that Earthrealm, Outworld, and Edenia are in now thanks to the resurrection of the Dragon King, who was once a just ruler, but is now making allegiances with demons and machines.

My people saw this as an opportunity for the Vampire nation to re-establish itself as a power once again by aiding the winning side of the war... But aiding which side would be more in our favour? My Vampire brethren looked to me for advice, and using what knowledge remained about Onaga and his ever-changing character, we decided that it would be in our best interest to side with Earthrealm, Outworld, and Edenia. Onaga has taken to keeping Oni and machines under his employ, and if what Cyrax says is true, leaving those two races in power would equal the complete extinction of our main food sources; the machines changing other beings into machines would cost us our only means of sustaining ourselves, and with the voracious hunger of the Oni, we would have to compete with them for any food. We could feed off of Oni and other demons, but without a balanced diet of Humans and Oni, that would mean a radical change in our appearance and mentality, and the eventual degradation of our kind, going from superior scholars, strategists, and fighters to dumb warriors with minds only on our stomachs instead of our long-term survival.

I told Cyrax that we would help him and his people, but for a price. Cyrax proposed a deliciously wonderful idea that would benefit my people for a generation and would help us in rebuilding our realm. We all readily agreed to join Earthrealm in the fight against Onaga.

The elite of my kind and I chose to go with Cyrax to help in the war while the rest were to rebuild the city as best as they could for the moment. Khameleon chose to come as well, hoping that her skills would be of use in the war. Considering we had not eaten much while reconstructing our realm, Cyrax teleported us to a high-security prison somewhere on Earth to dine on some of the sleeping individuals in order to remove the temptation of feeding on our brothers in arms, namely the Humans, Centaurians, Shokan, and Edenians.

Sunlight is poison to us, so we could only battle in realms during the night, so for the coming battle, we are to remain in Outworld, fighting an army predominantly composed of Mummified soldiers, who we cannot feed on thanks to their bodily fluids being dried out. To prepare ourselves, we have learned to harness the power of our crystals to enhance our teleportation skills in order to no longer need incantations for them to work, which is essential to allow us to leave the battlefield briefly to feed off other creatures in safety, and then return to fight. It is my goal to battle with Onaga personally; he holds ancient knowledge and secrets that could mean the restoration of the Vampire nation, and it is my goal to help my kind as much as possible. Even if I fail in obtaining anything useful in draining some of Onaga's essence and killing him, his death would mean the destruction of the Mummified soldiers (who are only able to live now as a result of his magic), and a significant decrease in the opposing army's power. In either scenario, the Vampires will be rewarded, and we will be better off now than we have ever been since Trom's existence.

Author : Jerrod Therace

Creation date: 2007-7-4-12-15

Modification date: 2007-7-4-12-15