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Chapter Two: Tomorrow Never Dies Hard

"I'm prawn, I'm a prawn! How does one even prawn?" Valo yelled increasing worrying about his new form. Sarah sat him down on the medbay table and started to scan him with her health analyzer.

"Well you look alright, whatever happened it healed your lung and fixed the hole in your chest, now get up your be a bit out of it until you get re-used to walking and doing stuff, but your fine." Sarah said as she finished scanning him and placed her scanner on a table. She shooed him off the bed and started to push him out of the room.

However when she did her hand pushing him, managed to push through his body. Sarah looked down and his body and around her hand had become all gooey like a terrible special effect. She pulled it out and looked at it, no goo remained and his body quickly reformed normal.

"Valo, can you do that again for me." Sarah said trying to keep her voice calm as she realized that the transformation had awakened some sort of power with-in Valo. The Prawn turned around and he focused, his arm turning to goo. His entire body followed becoming a grey dull splatter on the floor.

"So where is Valo, Sarah?" Alison said as she walked into the medbay looking around and seeing the splatter on the floor. Alison feel to her knees and started to shed a tear for her brother.

"Oh no, he was always my favorite out of all of you." Alison said as she falsely mourned for her dead brother. The goo on the floor started to shake and the goo started to stack on top of each other Valo reforming before Alison could do any more crying.

"Oh you got goo powers." Alison said her voice sounding significantly more happier and a bit angry. She grabbed him in the arm and it turned to goo but stood in place.

"Alison, I'm not a toy, please stop that it feels strange." She tried again in his body, her hand passed right through the goo and through his body.

"Well then Alison, your brother isn't a toy. I believe this does constitute communication with the government, and another addition to the team." Sarah suggested as she put her hand on Alison and pushed and Valo out of the medbay.

"Well then I didn't know you had it in you, but as it seems you do have the right combination of DNA to unlock your powers, well then brother you are ready to join my workplace, S.T.A.R." Alison said as she started to walk him towards the command room.

"S.T.A.R, what does that mean?" Valo asked as Alison turned him down a hallway and walking towards the command room, with the large green felted table and massive computer screens.

Valo looked in partial amazement at the sheer monstrosity of everything in the room. There were massive computers being run on tiny sets of microprocessors and holograph projectors all over the room.

"Now all this will take is five minutes, this is just so you can be put in the program and starts your training, like on an intern position." Alison explained as she sat Valo down on a chair and walked over to the computer. Typing in a command into the computer system, the hologram projectors started up and the command program activated.

"This is the S.T.A.R pre-training powers test, will the current leader of the S.T.A.R organization please point towards the test taker." A computer program of an armadillo in a black suit said referring to Alison. Alison said nothing not wanting say anything and mess up the program. She just pointed at Valo and the computer program activated.

"Congratulations applicator, you have managed to have a mutation on gene number 15, which has caused the production of cytomegazine in your blood, which in your brain attaches to your hippocampus and through unknown processes allows you to manipulate the world or yourself through your powers." The program said forming a holographic demonstration of DNA in his hand and swirling it around for effect.

"Now please demonstrate your powers as so that the computer can scan it and attempt to figure out a way to best train you." The hologram said as a few cameras around the room turned towards Valo and focused on him.

Valo said nothing and gooped his body into a blob on the floor and reformed before showing off that he could blob his arm and singular parts of his body. The cameras turned off and faced away from him, while the hologram paused trying to compute what happened to him.

"Subject has the ability to change his cellular structure into an aqueous form, while retaining consciousness and keeping the original form of the body memorized. This gooey state can be pushed through with solid objects." The hologram said explaining Valo's power to Valo. "Any questions young person?"

"So how useful are my powers?" Valo asked the hologram, inquiring about his powers. The hologram scanned what he said and waited for a few moments processing what he said.

"Your powers can be very useful so long as you know how to use them." The hologram said as the cameras turned back to Valo and scanned him again. "With enough control over your powers you can make your body so that it reacts with touching objects making bullets ineffective." The hologram said as a Valo hologram formed and walked right through simulated bullets.

"Neat, ok is that all?" The hologram reacted non-accordingly and shut itself off leaving the two in the room alone. "So now what are we doing?" Valo asked his sister, Alison heard the question and a bit of an evil smile formed on her face.

...

"Shit, I hate this." Valo yelled as he ran forward in a large white room, the only two colors, the moving treads of the room-sized treadmill he was on, and the explosions of bullets flying towards him. He had to manage fully changing his body into goop, so that his body wasn't hit with bullets and keeping up on the treadmill.

He looked forward and a bullet was fired, he gooped his body. His slime form falling down as the bullet passed through him, he reformed and his legs slipped. He fell on the ground and the training stopped, the treadmill and bullets disappearing leaving him in a white room.

"Perhaps some inspirational music would help you, or would a massive stair case with Philadelphians chasing you help?" Arlo asked over the intercom to the holographic room. Valo dusted himself off and looked up at the camera. He made what he would think was a sarcastic face.

"Not sarcastic, but message received. Why don't you come out and get a drink." Arlo said over the speaker. Valo took a breath and decided he wanted more, so he put out his chest hand and made a middle finger.

"Well then, let's play ball now." Arlo said as he adjusted the settings of the hologram. The hologram room reformed but this time in a tennis court, Valo was dressed in tennis gear but had no ratchet. A tennis ball firing formed on the other side of the court, and started firing.

Arlo easily started to dodge the balls, which of course made Arlo increase the rate of fire and form two more ball firers on the court. Arlo found a true challenge and started to dodge the tennis balls, dancing around the court and forming goo around his body.

...

"So are you ok? Ever since your brother did that thing you've been looking a blushed for a while." Sarah said as she handed Alison a cup of tea and looked at the wolf.

"I don't know this all feels so rushed, I just don't know how to do this. I know what we do and I wouldn't want to wish that on to anybody. I mean have you seen have of the crap we've done in the last month. We've gone parasailing in a hurricane, blew up a hotel and stayed in a concrete mixer all in one day to catch to criminals." Alison said as she took a sip of the tea.

"Well I mean it's not like he wouldn't of ever found out, you not exactly good at keeping secrets. I could of easily used my powers on your face and then Valo would have never of found out." Sarah said slowly as she realized how quickly Alison could turn it against her. "But I had to go to work afternoon shift at the hospital."

"Don't worry I don't blame you, I blame Darian Cuban. If I ever see that son-of-a-bitch again I will personally raise my hand and shift all the metal in his body into his heart, then I'll let you fix him and then I'll do it again. Then again and again until he screams out for mercy." Alison said making Sarah worry for the wolf's mental state.

"Take another sip of the tea dearie, it'll make you feel much better very quickly." Sarah suggested to Alison, tipping up the cup into her mouth. Alison put down her cup and looked at her watch. It was about 5:00 PM which meant it would be time to go home and make supper.

"Well then Sarah, I believe that it is time to pack up and leave for now." Alison said as she got up from the central command table and saw a very steamy Valo and Arlo waking in.

"Well look at you two, you must of did a lot of work today." Sarah said as she examined Valo with her eyes.

"Alison, instead of going home I'm going to go over Arlo's. We're going to stay here later and do some more training then were going to his house." Valo said explaining what they were going to do later that night.

"Uhh, ok well then you go do that. Don't kill yourselves, just be careful." Alison said groaning knowing that something would happen with Arlo during the night. The two whooped and ran off to the hologram room again. "Are we sure those two are seventeen years old."

"No but I'm sure Arlo will keep Valo safe, plus he hasn't used his powers all day. Hey we all went a day without a case, no wonder everything feels so in place and not crazy." Sarah remarked as she picked up her purse and pulled out her house keys and placed them in her pocket.

"If you're not doing anything how would you like to come to my house for a girl's night and pizza." Sarah asked Alison as the two packed up and walked towards the back of the base and up the stairs.

"Uhh, sure through I've never really done one of those before." Alison said as they walked past the protection doors and into the elevator of the Trade Center. Alison was about to press the floor one button but found that Sarah blocked her and pressed the floor 86 button.

"You live in the World Trade Center, no kidding, I know the government gives us what we need and a bit more but still how can you afford this pricy of a building? This must cost at least half of your paycheck." Alison said as the elevator started to climb up the World Trade center.

"Yes, but unlike you, Arlo and soon Valo, I don't spend my money on material things like the XBOX 720s and the PlayStation X. I have one but that is because I saved up my money to buy it." Sarah said as the floor counter soared pass fifty and they soon arrived at the eighty-sixth floor.

"Well, nope I can't say I don't argue with that. Still this place you must feel like a king looking out over New York and towards the Statue of Liberty." Alison said as Sarah walked towards the back of the hallway and opened up the large apartment.

The living room stretched out to the back of the building and there were large glass windows giving a magnificent view of the New York Skyline. Alison rushed over to the window and found herself gazing at the view presented to her.

"Rent control my ass." Alison said as she looked at the large apartment, that she stared in amazement that there was a large kitchen that contained a few stoves and a massive refrigerator. A hallway off the living room must of went towards the bedroom and bathroom.

"Yes I know, but why don't we talk about boys and girls and do our nails." Sarah said sarcastically as she walked over to the TV and pulled out a tennis racquet turning on the TV and getting ready to play virtual tennis.

...

"Two Hours Later"

"So Valo what do you like to eat?" Arlo asked as the two exited the Empire State building worn out and ready to have a good meal. The sun had started to set and soon the nightlife crowd would be out.

After one hour of training, they realized that Valo couldn't go out naked and all even if nothing was showing. Arlo used the material materializer to make Valo come clothes. He managed a white shirt and cargo pants but couldn't make any more clothes.

"I'm not sure but something smells good." Valo said as he sniffed the New York air and smelt something. He ran over to a crosswalk and quickly crossed the road his body engulfed with new scents. Cars screeched to a halt and started to honk as Valo crossed the road. Arlo followed getting his phone out in case he needed to call Sarah.

Valo quickly disappeared into an alleyway, Arlo following him as the prawn found a meal in the form of a dumpster. Valo quickly let instincts take over and began to pull food towards his mouth and let his mandibles bring the food into his mouth where several large teeth began to much down on the garbage.

Arlo saw this and he quickly decided to call Sarah. When the dog picked up she was laughing her butt off about something with her hitting Alison. "Uhh, Sarah we're outside here and basically can Prawn's eat garbage?" Arlo embarrassingly asked as he called the doctor.

The dog laughed a bit and Arlo swore that Sarah took a moment to look out of her large apartment and try to see the two. "Well yes they can, they get best nutrition from Carbohydrates and Hydrocarbons and their stomach acid can dissolve basically any poison, so some Prawns will go ahead and take anything they can get. He wants garbage probably because that is the best smelling thing nearby to him, keep him away from restaurants, give him a while and he should be able to handle his new senses." Sarah then took a large breath from saying the large paragraph over the phone.

"Also watch out, Prawns can't sweat through their shells and once they produce enough water from breaking down Hydrocarbons, they heat it up and release it as steam." Sarah said continuing her phone call, "I surprised that will all the holograph training you two he didn't jump all over you when guys were done."

"Oh, well that explains why he was looking at me weirdly in the shower room." Arlo said as he disconnected his phone and walked over to Valo who was munching down on the garbage.

"Ok, Valo come on we have to get to my house, before it gets dark and I get all bitchy." Arlo said trying to get the Prawn off the garbage with some self-deprecating humor. He tried but Valo seemed to want to eat the garbage. Arlo activated his powers, his hand getting cover in a red glow and finally managing to pull Valo off.

As Arlo drove home, as one would expect the car was rocking back and forth, but not for that reason. As Valo got new scents he switched side of the cars, shaking it and slightly annoying Arlo. He finally got home and after managing to seal his pantry let the two in peace.

...

"Well, then Sarah please no more virtual tennis. I don't believe I can ever handle that much racquet play in one night, god no more." Alison said as she walked out of the elevator and into the protection room. She entered the password as soon as the door closed and entered the main base.

Valo and Arlo had somehow arrived early then the two and were sit down on the table, steam coming from Arlo's joints, who was burping out gasses from all the garbage he ate.

"Well then someone was quite hungry last night." Alison said taunting her brother who seemed to be quite full from last night and very lethargic. The hologram projectors turned on and the suited armadillo appeared.

"Well then let's get to it" Arlo said as he looked at the holograph and expected and a message.

"Well after reviewing your footage, we believe that Valo is ready to handle a mission on his own. We have received information that criminal Guy McLean is currently staying at the Hotel Sixty-Four tonight, we believe he and his criminal trope has kidnapped and taken a hostage." The hologram said getting Valo worried about what would happen.

Alison and Sarah are to dress as waiters and have to serve Guy, food that will be poisoned with a chemical to give him food poisoning. In the bathroom Arlo is to trap him, presumably knocking him out and locking him in one of those closets with an outside lock. While this happens, Valo, is to enter the hotel from the roof top, sneak in through ventilation shafts, sneak past or defeat guards with his new powers, and get the hostage." The hologram said as he formed a hologram of the hotel and showed each member doing what he or she was supposed to do.

"Now then the dinner he is having is to happen tonight, so get ready and pack up. Prepare to get dressed and read over the materials we will give you to help you each with your jobs, S.T.A.R move out!" The hologram said as he shut down and group moved to their jobs.

...

"OK, so when we get the food we drop a drop of the liquid from the beaker into his meal and then we serve it, if anything goes wrong you come out with the back-up gift." Alison said to Sarah as she pulled on a black vest to go over her white shirt, buttoned the vest and straightened her bowtie.

"Sounds easy enough, once that's done I'll go up and see if the hostage needs any healing after your brother rescues her." Sarah said as they got out of their SUV and walked into back door of the building.

It was about two o'clock in afternoon and they had a while until Guy McLean would arrive but they would have an entire afternoon to blend in with the crowd and learn the interior of the hotel.

Arlo meanwhile would be stationed in the closest room, right next to the closest bathroom, which was nearest to the restaurant. He be able to get into the bathroom as soon as Sarah contacted him and then he' d be able to take out Guy.

Valo was stationed on top of the building, waiting slowly and patiently for the signal he would get from Arlo when he took out Guy McLean and hid him in a place. Then he would move in going through the ventilation system and sneaking under doors and past guards. He would sneak into the room where the hostage was held and free her.

Eventually they could practice for the situation anymore and at five o'clock exactly, Guy McLean walked into the restaurant sat down and picked up the menu that the waiters perfectly laid down. They only had to wait for when the food was ready, they only had to place the chemical in his food and then the job was done.

"Ok, so he doesn't seem curious at all, his attention to anything is at all minimum." Alison said through her communicator to Sarah, as she watched the mob boss from the window, taking in details and making sure that he wouldn't catch on to what was going on.

Someone tapped her back and she turned around, there was a man dressed in black and looking at her with intent eyes, he grabbed a communicator and prepared to speak through it. As he raised his arm to his face, Alison put her hand forward and magnetized the area, crushing the metal in the device and preventing him from notifying the boss.

He reached behind him and grabbed the random wood plank behind him. He swung it forward and Alison quickly dodged the swinging plank. She ducked out of the corner she was standing and pulled her attacker into a more secluded corner of the area.

Alison raised her hand and attempted to trap him bending the metal walls around his body and trying to trap him. However, the attacker managed to re-bend the metal out and ran towards Alison raising the plank and attempting to hit her.

Alison reached behind her and grabbed a metal crowbar, using her power to straighten it into a sword shape. She jammed it into the plank and slid the crowbar and plank down to the floor.

She pulled back the crowbar and thrusted it forward with a swing and hit it into her attacker's head. With crowbar in his head, the attacker was knocked out and landed on the floor.

"Crap this isn't good." Alison said as she looked at the knocked-out body on the floor and grabbed his feet. Pulling him back to a nearby janitorial closet and placed her attacker into the closet, closing it and locking it from the outside trapping the man inside the closet and preventing him from getting out.

"Guys, we have a problem someone found me, I knocked him out and he's going to be stuck in the closet for a while. Be more careful, they have agents out in hiding places." Alison said into her communicator and giving a warning to her agents.

She walked out of her hiding place and into the main area of the kitchen where she wanted to check on her meal. The chef seemed to be focused on getting the meal right, because he didn't know what would happen.

"How long until that meal is done?" Alison asked as she looked at the cooking meal, he was making some sort of pasta meal and it seemed to be in its last stages. It looked far more delicious than the other mediocre meals then the restaurant was currently producing.

"Only five more minutes I have to reduce the alfredo sauce in the pasta and then I have to garnish the meal." The chef said as he worked away at his workstation. Alison walked away from the kitchen and prepared to notify the team of what was going to down.

"Guys, get ready five more minutes until the meal is ready. Arlo are you ready to take him out in the bathroom." Alison said into her communicator. She waited a few seconds with static on the channel.

"All good under the hood Alison, just get Sarah put the chemical in the meal and get out of there." Arlo said from his room as he prepared to take out the mob boss. He walked in to the bathroom, sat down on the toilet and got ready to take out Guy McLean.

Alison walked out into the kitchen and saw that the meal was complete a placed it on a tray and reached into her pocket. Sarah was on standby in case anything when south quickly, and she had the food ready. She reached into her pocket and pulled out a vile of the poison.

She took a gulp of air and opened the vile. She carefully poured the poison onto the dish, and with a fork mixed it in. With the poison in about five minutes, he should start feeling the effects of it, go straight to bathroom, and pike his brains up.

"Ok, everyone the poison is in the birds nest." Alison said as she prepared to serve her deadly poison to Guy McLean, who would soon be taken out.

"Poison in the birds nest, could you be more obvious?" Arlo asked from the communications channel as they prepared to activate the plan.

"Not now Salamander, shut up for a while." Alison said as she turned off her communicator and prepared to start the plan. She walked out into the ballroom carrying her tray towards the table of Guy Mclean. She put a clean smile on her face and a bounce into her posture.

"Hello sir, and here is your pasta dish. I hope you enjoy it." Alison said as she placed the dish on his table and let him examine it. He seemed to always have a sour look on his face, and he placed his fork in the dish and trilled a bit of it onto the utensil.

"Now I always do this, so take a bite of this. Allows me to make sure that the chef has made the food I like it and hasn't added any spices I don't like." Guy said with a smile on his face as if he knew what they were doing. Alison keep her face straight as he held up the fork to her face, she knew if she didn't eat it he would know, so she smiled grabbed the fork and ate the pasta off the fork. She would have noted how well it did taste had her mind not collapsed with what she knew was going to happen.

"Will that be all sir?" Alison managed to muster as her mind went into full collapse.

"No thank you, sugar." Guy said as Alison started to walk away from the table and back into the kitchen. As soon as she got into the kitchen, she walked back into her hiding area and placed her head on the janitors bucket ready for what happened.

"Arlo, good news, he's eating the pasta, bad news, I had to eat the pasta too. So I'm just going to be in my hidey hole and wait for my stomach to come up." Alison said from the bucket to Arlo giving him the signal.

Arlo stayed in the bathroom waiting for the moment and soon enough it happened. The doors bursted open with two men carrying the mob boss on their shoulders and put him into the other stall where he started to release his stomach.

One of the guards knocked on his door and forcefully opened it looking at Arlo on the toilet. "Get out of here." He said forcefully as the salamander stood up and looked at the guard. Arlo wanted to be a surprised to the group and quickly activated his power.

He launched himself into the guard knocking him out before jumping off the sick and into the second guard who was in the stall. He looked at Guy who was puking his brains out and knocked him in the back of the head.

"Ok, Sarah I knocked him out now I should stuff him in a closet?" Arlo asked as he picked up the mob boss, letting the rest of the puke drain out of his mouth, before taking him by the foot and started to drag him.

"Correct, then some of the guards should start looking for him, so hide yourself as well." Sarah said over the communication channel as she patted Alison's back. "Now I'm sure you can do it by yourself, just check for guards on the outside. Now I have to attend to pukey here."

"Ok, let's get going big guy." Arlo said as he ducked out of the door and checked the coast, it was clear. He pulled him out and stuffed him in the nearby closet locking it from the outside, before hiding back in his room and locking the door. "Valo, the big buy is in the closet. I repeat he is trapped in the closet."

Valo was currently dripping into Guy's room, the guards rushing out of the room to go searching for him. As they left no-one noticed the dripping goo, or the large puddle that was forming on the floor.

After the flow of guards stopped, the flow of goo onto the floor increased until all of Valo landed on the floor in one big goop drop. He reformed his body quickly and made sure that all of his body had arrived in the room. He re-gooped and flowed under the door and into the hostage room.

The woman was stuck in a glass cage with hole, and she started to bang against the wall trying to get the goops attention. He flew towards the cage but the door opened again and Valo quickly flew against the wall attempting to hide.

These people were dress differently, they didn't have guard armor on, but instead draped their face in camo. They were holding large assault rifles and pointed them at the glass wall. They fired at the wall, but not onto the hostage only breaking the glass around her.

Someone stepped into the tank and pulled her out, she screamed and struggled pointing at Valo. A different one looked at the puddle of slime and saw nothing but an innocent puddle.

They took the struggling woman out of the room and Valo couldn't do anything without revealing himself. He thought they were a part of the same organization, attempting to remove the hostage.

"Hello members of Guy McLean's gang, tonight was supposed to be a simple observation episode but as it turns out when one of our operatives found him dead with in a locked janitor closet we decided to take advantage, no come to the ballroom and bow to your new masters, attack us and your master's precious mistress dies." A man said over the intercom to each room, Valo reformed and made an "oh shit" face.

He had to stop them and he knew just how to get to the bottom floor quickly enough. He looked around the room and found the tiny elevator that people used to transport champagne and stuff like that. He climbed up and got his head in to the elevator and changed it into goop, still controlling his body and changing his body into goop as he changed everything but his arm into goop.

He pressed the elevator down button and pulled his arm back changing his entire body into goop. He waited a few minutes as the elevator dropped down to the button floor in the kitchen. He rolled out and kept his goo form as he slid around the kitchen.

He briefly considered getting Sarah and Alison but had no idea, on how'd they be use. Sarah could only heal people and Alison was probably puking her brains out if he followed her and Arlo's conversation correctly.

So he slid out of the kitchen and into the ballroom where all the fine guests in their suits and ties were cowering underneath tables and waiting for the police or SWAT to burst into the room. Valo realized he never was fitted for S.T.A.R uniforms and was still in the drab white shirt and cargo shorts. Be it taste or looks, he knew he couldn't make an appearance like that.

So instead, he squirmed off to the lost and found area, where as it appears there were enough clothes to give to the homeless for winter. He walked into the area and walked past the numerous racks of clothes in the area.

He grabbed and pulled off a few items of the racks and tried to figure out what would look good, he tried on a new outfit and gooped into the clothes and headed back to the ballroom.

"Does anyone dare challenge my attempted attack?" The leader said from on top of a table looking down on to the people below him. "No, well then kill them all." The terrorists around the room lowered their assault rifles down on the crowd and prepared to fire them into the crowd.

"Actually I'd like to disagree with that." Valo said quickly appearing in the crowd with his new clothes. He had a grey dress-shirt on and a black waistcoat with silver buttons. Over that was dark wool coat with a green tint and tiny black stripes. He was purposely tying a dark grey tie to his body with his outer hands, because he wasn't in clothes designed for his body his chest hands were folded up until he could cut holes out.

"Now then let's talk about what you're doing, you're attempting to screw with my teams mission and unfortunaly I will have no part in that, you don't mess with the affairs of my team because I will screw you up. Now if you will kindly return the hostage please do so." Valo said as he made himself known to the group.

"Hahhahahhahaha, please you're a prawn what can you do? All of you fire on him!" The man said pointing at Valo. The terrorists pointed their weapons at Valo and started to fire.

In a spilt second Valo took a deep breath and focused instead of allowing the bullets to hit him he imaged them as blasts of light hitting his body. He allowed himself to relax and his body turned half-transparent, the bullets passed through his gooey form.

He walked forward and kept his form terrifying the man as he approached. He put his hand up and solidified it, grabbing the man's throat and holding him up in the air. The man screamed and the terrorists stopped.

At this point, the doors to the ballroom opened and a SWAT team rolled into the room. Valo sighed as the situation ended and he gooed again, he reappeared at Alison's back. He patted the wolf's back as she puked up chunks.

...

"So is ever this easy?" Valo asked as he sat down with his sister on her bed and talked about the day. Alison was still a little sick and she didn't open her mouth, only tried to convey her feelings.

"I guess not." Valo said as he reflexed on the day his part was easy, but his was still important. He was the last gear in the system, ready to send the output. He turned and hugged his sister who's job must have been harder.

...

Arlo had dressed up in his best suit at Alison's urging. The wolf had sent him to meet with an informant at a restaurant. He peered at the menu and when he put it down, a shark with sunglasses was staring at him, making a smile when he saw the salamander.

"So now first things first, I am the realest, and trust me I'm in the murder business." The informant said like singing a song, "However, the best thing you'll need to know about me is that I am a vampire."