As he sat inside the hot, dry Blackhawk he thought to himself "Finally! I thought they`d trained us for nothing". He had been apart of the program since its early days. It was the military`s way of using what it called "Leeches" to win a war. They were the ones that went in and did the dirty work that even Marine Corps Infantry and Special Forces couldn`t, or wouldn`t, do.

Being a Vampire in the Army wasn`t so bad. All the blood you wanted (AFTER the fight), good protection from the people in the US that hate you, and nice pay. He missed many things, like freedom, the hunt, the feel of warm blood----He was shaken from his daydream by a sharp yank to the left. The pilot had barely avoided an RPG from 2 o` clock. "15 seconds out!". Here we go again, he thought, at least were going out at dusk. As he pushed the fastrope out he signaled the go ahead, PFC.McCracken was the first down, followed by SPC. Finnigan, CPL. Meena, and all the PVT.s in the platoon, allowing him to be the last out of the helicopter. Today they would be assaulting a hotel somewhere in Cape Town, South Africa. There was a meeting of high-ranking officials and would-be pirates. This isn`t the first time they`ve gone out, but at least it wasn`t at high noon as many of the previous times. Today began Operation: Black Sun.

Operation: Black Sun was the first large scale operation being completed by these leeches in the US Army. It was the flagship operation that was either going to open the door to a whole new view of Vampires or absolutely shut the door to all human/vampire relations. It was this reason that the selection process was so stringent.