“Yes! I am of able mind, able spirit, and able-bodied!”
“Good! That’s what I like to hear!”
“How many pouches did you bring?”
“About ten percent of my stock.”
“That’s a lot for a small party, don’t you think?” Ray asked.
“I don’t plan on using all of it, but I would rather have more on hand in case we need it.”
Silence followed for the next several miles.
“How much further, Alexa?” Maryl asked.
“Six miles!” Alexa hollered as the stress of what they were going to do sunk in.
“Tell me when we’re just outside of the four-mile mark.”
Ray studied Maryl’s soft and elegant features. “You don’t seem too nervous, Maryl.”
“What you see on the outside doesn’t necessarily reflect what is going on in the inside,” she said as she looked at Ray. “You, however, wear your emotions on your sleeve.”
“What you see is what you get. You’ll always know what I’m thinking. I'm just that transparent.”
“We’re at the four-mile range!” yelled Alexa.
Maryl took a few deep breaths. “Gun it!”
Alexa slammed on the accelerator. The sudden acceleration caused Maryl to fall back against the seat.
“Three miles!”
Ray opened the window and sniffed. “There is more than a small party here, Maryl,” Ray said nervously.
“Idiot! Close the window! I told you it would prolong them from smelling us!”
Ray did what he was told when he saw Maryl’s eyes darken.
“Two miles! They have to know we’re here!” Alexa yelled uneasily.
“Keep going and don’t stop until you get inside of one and a quarter mile!” Maryl yelled.
Alexa opened the window and then closed it, and sniffed. “They haven’t smelled us yet!”
A few seconds later, Alexa slammed on the brakes and screeched to a halt.
“Let’s move!” Maryl yelled.
Maryl and Ray jumped out, lifted the trunk, grabbed the launchers, and slammed the pouches inside.
“We don’t have much time! Ray, fire just above where they’re rushing to us like a bat out of hell,” Maryl yelled.
Ray fired the pouch at the oncoming swarm of vampires, who immediately started to vomit.
“Reload, Ray! Hurry!”
Maryl shot higher and further and then reloaded and fired again.
“Alexa, get our troops and attack!” Yelled Maryl.
Ray fired another pouch much higher and further. Before he reloaded, he turned around and shouted, “Get your asses out there and fight for our blood types!”
Maryl marveled at the sight of thousands and thousands of O negative and O positive vampires banning together.
Maryl counted fifty-six pouches she and Ray had fired before she told him to stop.
“Ray, if there are any living A positive vampires left, I would be surprised. However, I need you to verify it. If there are any of them still breathing, I want you to finish them off.”
“Why? My subordinates can handle it.”
“Do you not want the glory that comes with a victory of this magnitude? You, Ray Greenwell, the Conqueror, will be written in both yours and my history books!”
Ray rubbed his unshaven chin. “When you put it that way, why not?”
“Go get them!” Maryl prodded him by gently pushing him forward.
Ray sped away. Maryl looked around and found no one was there except Alexa and Draven. Just the way she had planned.
“It’s time for plan B!” she yelled at them. “Get the rocket launchers!”
Without wavering, Alexa and Draven took both rocket launchers.
“Wait a few seconds to give Ray and his army time to fight any stragglers, then take the green powder and fire at will. Take all of them!”
“Green powder?” Draven asked. “I thought we were using the gray powder?”
“Yes, I said the green powder. Do you have a problem with that?” Maryl asked Draven inches from his face.
“The gray powder kills the A’s and B’s. What does the green powder kill?” Draven asked.
“I would like to know the truth too, Maryl,” Alexa said as she grabbed the launcher.
Maryl looked at both of them. Time was running out.
“Okay, but only a shortened version. I will tell you more later on. We have to hurry.”
Draven took the other launcher.
“Okay. Octavus the Brooder did have a party. But it wasn’t a small one like I told everyone. It was a massive party to celebrate his birthday with thousands of his blood type. His A positive blood accounts for thirty-five-point seven percent of the A and B blood types. With such a large congregation, it would be an ideal place to launch an assault. The less of them, the more we can live in peace.”
“Okay, why did you lie to us about the party? That seems an insignificant piece of the pie.”
“Because I didn’t want to say this in front of Ray, but that’s why I brought Ray in,” Maryl said. “I knew he would bring in his horde of O positive vampires. If Ray knew his numbers would far outnumber the A positives, he would be more likely to amass as much of his troops as possible. I needed him to bring as many O positive vampires as he could. Ray prefers slaughters to an even fight. Trust me, I have known him for a few centuries.”
“Why lie to Ray? What part does he serve in your plan?” Alexa inquired.
“You can’t possibly understand my reasoning, but his O positive posse comprises a whopping thirty-seven-point four percent of all vampires among all the different blood types. If one day, he wanted to invade us or hurt our blood type, he could conceivably get his troops and kill as many O negative humans as possible. Think about it. It is our only source of the food supply. He could blackmail us because he can still drink O positive blood!”
“So… the green powder will kill only Ray’s O positive blood?”
“Yes! Now hurry along! We don’t have much
