The Brasov Legacy

Where else could it have started but in Transylvania?

Two hundred years ago in Brasov, a city in Northern Romania, a mother was taking her son for a walk, an innocent walk in the woods that took longer than anticipated. Night fell before they reached open fields.

What happened to them eventually started a chain of events thousands of miles away in Los Angeles that still continues to this day.

The first time that it happened the authorities covered it up to avoid panic spreading through the city. In those days it was much easier to do as the media was far less intrusive.

Years later what happened in Los Angeles the day after nine eleven had a
resounding effect even though it was greatly overshadowed by the horrific events in New York. The deaths of an old lady and a twenty two year old student changed the lives of many other people in a way that no one could have imagined.

Pat and Danny, the two detectives assigned to the case knew, as did everyone else, that there were no such things as vampires and that they were nothing more than a figment of Bram Stokers mind because that was the only place where they even approached reality.

Now suddenly, here in modern day Los Angeles, some people were forming the opinion that perhaps there was some credence to Stoker's vampires.

Pat and Danny had seen with their own eyes things that had, in a very short space of time, changed from legend to reality.

Could they deal with it?

How could they deal with it?

Wherever they searched, whatever they did the vampire stayed one step ahead of them.

They had read books about vampires and were disturbed to find some instances of actual vampirism. These instances did not totally match the characteristics of vampire behaviour as they believed them to be but were sufficient to increase their growing beliefs of vampirism and were enough for them to carry wooden stakes in their cars.

That gave them something else to be afraid of- the ridicule that would follow should any of their fellow officers find out.

From then on none of the people involved in the hunt went out alone.

Pat and Danny also had the added worry of protecting their families and that was paramount in their minds.

When the vampire attacked someone they knew it brought home to them even more that their families were in danger.

Was the attack a coincidence or did the attacker deliberately seek the girl out? Did it happen as a warning to them to leave well alone?

They could not know for sure but had to assume that it was deliberate.

The one thing the attack did though was to increase their resolve to find the perpetrator before more bodies turned up and the city became enveloped in panic.