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This diary is my testimony.

I am vampire.

My minions and I live in a place far, far away, removed from mankind by our

own design.

We are sentient beings.

We are the new order of vampires.

I feel the cobweb of man approaching.

The net has been cast.

And so I place my hand to these pages.

as a record of what we are.

I don't get it.

I don't see anything that looks remotely like a town on this map, Brad.

Well, that's a new map, Amber.

Look, no roads, no lines, no bats.

You should have studied geography instead of biology.

Then we wouldn't be lost.

Well, look at this old one.

But that map is ancient.

It's from the 1930s.

It clearly shows the towns and all the cliff lines and all the

caves.

And the bats.

I think the new map is more accurate.

Things change.

Yeah, but towns just don't disappear.

Sure they do, Brad.

Everything changes.

Hey, look, a road.

What is it?

It's a note.

Chiron?

Okay, that's too creepy.

What's Chiron?

It's a ferryman on the river Styx, leading to the Underworld.

Ooh, scary.

this must be the road let's go

We have visitors.

Don't feed on them.

I haven't fed in 50 years because of you.

Why should I start now?

I can feel how hungry you are.

Then stay with me. Here.

Forever.

And you'll never have to worry again.

You know I can't do that.

Am I so wretched?

You know I've always loved you, despite what you are.

So you say.

So it is.

Then feed me.

Where did that come from?

Come on, let's get a room. You can go bat hunting tomorrow.

That's strange.

I think there's a Starbucks around here.

Maybe not a Starbucks, but I did see a coffee shop in town.

I see that look.

Amber.

Oh, I love it when you talk biology to me.

Actual thing.

So when are you going to

say yes?

But you know I only want to be married once.

Forever. So give me some time.

Okay.

Just feed me my bat fetish till then.

Fine. Lay down and let me suck your blood.

Amen.

Thank you.

Yeah.

Come on!

Hello there.

Are you here for the museum tour?

Sure. Well, actually, I was more interested in your archives room.

Archives?

But all the good stuff's on display.

Who likes books?

I'm doing a research paper on all the bats in the area, and I was just

if I could find some references here.

Well, I guess.

It's down in the basement.

I'll take you there after the tour.

Well, maybe you could take Amber here on the tour and I could do some research

and maybe show her all the displays?

Sounds good to me.

Doesn't make any sense.

Old books rarely do.

You must be Bradley.

I'm Vanessa.

I own the museum. We don't get many visitors.

Especially handsome biologists.

Did you find what you were looking for?

Well, no.

I'm afraid your archives are damaged.

I doubt that.

Well, every time it talks about the bat colonies in the area, it's missing.

Perhaps they don't reside here.

I'm afraid not.

See this?

This is a personal journal of Dr. Miguel Coronado, a

famous biologist at the turn of the century.

Interesting. I had no idea we had such an important text.

Yes, but half the pages are missing.

Just when he discusses the bat colonies in the area.

Missing? Yes.

Torn out.

Well, it looks like a regular whodunit.

That's why I'm here.

To solve the mystery of the missing pages?

No.

I'm doing research on the bat colonies in the area.

I plan on writing my dissertation about it.

Dissertation? Yeah.

If my theories are corrected, it'll be a well -published piece.

It'll get my career going.

Perhaps a professorship at a good university.

Well, it sounds like you're well on your way.

Not yet.

I need to get up into these caves to see what I can learn.

Then you'll need a guide.

A guide?

Sure.

That would be good.

I'll have Dean go with you.

He's one of my employees.

Thank you.

That would be really helpful.

How did 4pm sound?

Perfect.

Just one more thing.

What is this?

I would hope you would know.

It's one of the local specimens.

A brown bat.

What made you capture it?

It wasn't.

It was killed.

Too bad.

Not really.

It was rabid.

What do you think?

Interesting couple.

They were right.

It's natural.

They crave new customers.

Customers.

If it were that easy.

When a human becomes then, an insatiable world of sex emerges.

I had more sex, more orgasms, in my first week as a vampire,

than my entire life.

As a human.

What the hell?

Are you okay?

Yeah.

The sun just gets me sometimes.

Wow.

Who would ever think there were so many?

You better be careful or you'll get lost.

I don't want to send a search party after you. And you don't want to be in

maze at night.

Why not?

Vampires? No.

But about half a million bats come out of there.

And unless you want a grano hairdo, it's best to stay and to work from a safe

distance.

Well, come on.

No, no, no. You go.

I got the C in biology.

I think I'm going to stay with Dean, okay, babe?

He doesn't look so good.

You need to go back? No, I'm good. I just need some water and a little bit of

shade.

All right.

We are different than the ancient ones.

No one knows well.

It is whispered that there is just enough human left inside us.

The newborn.

For instance, we can go into the light of day.

but only for a short period of time.

And if the heat moves above 100 degrees, it will return.

It is unavoidable, and no amount of resistance will keep a vampire from

You're looking a lot better.

Just like I said, needed some water and rest.

You won't have much reception out here.

No, not in town either.

Might as well be on the moon.

when I see something cool.

Sure.

It's filled with ruins.

How old are they?

Probably about 6 ,000 years.

Anastasi? No, much older.

These people here are a complete mystery.

Really?

I feel kind of connected to these ancient ones.

This was my work.

Sorry. Are you okay?

I've been doing nights only lately.

Are you okay?

Are you okay? What's wrong?

Can I do anything?

Can I go now?

I

need to

go now.

No.

thank you

Oh.

Was it good?

Nothing happened.

I felt it.

Then you know what it means.

I'm more concerned about the ramifications for what you've done.

I had no choice. You sent me out there. To guide them, not to fuck them.

Well, if you felt it, then you know what it means.

You should have considered Brad.

You took his girlfriend.

What is it about Brad?

Enough!

Amber? Are you okay?

Amber?

Amber? Amber?

Jesus!

Little jumpy?

I thought you fell asleep and drowned.

You okay?

Amber, that water is ice cold.

Feels okay.

Are you getting sick?

I feel good.

That water is like a glacier.

What's wrong?

Come on, Brad. Fuck me. No, I'm not.

Come on, Brad. Fuck me hard.

Ever. Stop it.

Fuck me, Brad. I want you now. Stick it in you.

Fine.

The vast difference between vampire and man is best explained by way of sex.

Man lives by guilt, having long since renounced his innate need for sex.

He denies what he is, and this has been replaced by violence.

We, on the other hand, are not violent.

We do not deny what we are.

We embrace our beauty.

Contrary to mankind's mythology, we are not violent, evil, and treacherous.

We are openly sexual, and this is our parallel.

You feeling better?

Of course, why?

You look like you were going to die last night.

No, never felt better.

What's wrong?

Nothing.

What?

I don't know.

I think I might just be a little lightheaded still.

Maybe this hotel is just getting to us.

Your brood is feeding.

It was unavoidable.

Fate. But just this once.

Just once.

Ah.

There never was such a thing.

You ask me to stop feeding in my house.

Yet you and your pathetic minions feed.

I've done what I've promised.

It is you who have broken it.

And what of this boy?

He means nothing.

Your heartbeat betrays you.

The sweet stench of treachery betrays you.

No. What you smell is fear.

Fear?

Fear of what?

What could you possibly fear?

You.

Is this why you come to me?

Only for fear?

There was a time when you loved me.

Yes.

My wedding day.

How could I have known that the day I died would be on my wedding day?

I was so young.

You will always be young.

No.

My mind grows so old.

I crave the feeling that tells a woman to seek happiness in living.

Because life is not forever.

I saved you.

They would have killed you had I not taken you.

Better to have died.

Where is everybody?

Oh, man.

Oh, God.

Hello, Brad.

Can I help you?

Come on.

You need a breath.

You have too much sun.

Here, take this.

It'll make you feel better.

It's green tea.

Thank you.

See, out here in the desert, the sun... You can come with it within the sun

crop.

I'm no fool.

Naive, maybe.

But I know what happened last night was not a dream.

What do you think happened last night?

That's what I'd like to know.

This whole town doesn't play out.

I don't believe you're all part of some vampire cult.

Vampire cult?

And what made you think that?

Oh, come on.

The blood bank coffee shop?

The secret locos only drink?

The bat in the case and the personal journal of Dr. Coronado?

Where did you get that fake?

eBay? Is that what you think?

I'll tell you what I think.

I think you play us all for suckers.

Why would we play you for a sucker?

Simple.

You get some tourists in here.

You take them on this mystic vampire tour.

And then you slip some narcotic into their coffee.

The next thing you know, we're all believing we're part of some crazy

coven.

Witches have covens, Brad.

I believe that the proper vampire term is a brood.

Well, there you go.

You even have the vernacular down.

Okay.

Let's say you are correct.

Let me finish.

I have one question.

Why?

Why what?

Why would we put on some charade for the tourist?

Do you think we're going to go around selling I met a haven vampire bumper

stickers?

Do you think that some research student is going to come into town and we're

going to scam some money off of him?

Maybe you think I'd go back and spread the word.

Do some marketing for you?

So we put on some elaborate hoax to bring some tourists in who have a lot of

money. So that by the same time next year, we're setting up a Children of the

Night Museum Park.

Oh, maybe some hotels.

And even a movie theater.

Brad, you are very intelligent.

And handsome.

Yet you are a fool and a naive.

And what about last night?

That club was packed.

How many lowly tourists do you have with traveler's checks?

What about last night?

What did you really see, Brad?

I saw you.

And?

I just know what I saw.

What are you going to do now?

I don't sell fantasies.

Jesus!

It's freezing in here!

I'm in the heater, for God's sake!

Amber?

I'm at the caves. Come and get me.

Amber.

Dean, you son of a bitch.

Do we know where she is?

I do not like this at all.

We have no choice.

We have a choice. Vanessa, I know it's not the right... But you were so quick

violate that.

He's right.

G. Royce is manipulating all of us.

I cannot fight the man who took me. Even if I did, the others would come.

I'm ashamed of my weakness, Vanessa.

I can't stop that, and you know that.

He's right.

It was bound to happen.

Is she willing?

Yes.

All right, then.

What about Brad?

He may resist.

But you already want him.

I will not force anyone into the brood. But you can if you have to.

No. The bloodbath will start again.

Where is Brad?

He wasn't with Amber when we took her.

Call the others.

Find him before G -Rose does.

Amber!

Oh.

Tonight we finish your rebirth.

Lead her.

Bradley, stop.

Where is she?

Stay there.

She is fine.

Her transformation is nearly complete.

You're sick.

It had to happen this way.

You son of a bitch.

Brad, stop.

No.

Stop.

You cannot win this fight.

Why do you want him?

Because you have feelings for him.

And what exactly do my feelings have to do with any of this?

I came to kill the boy.

Then why do you hesitate?

I have all the time in the world.

You can't resist this, can you?

We're nothing but toys.

Not even that.

Let him live.

Why?

Because he has fallen for me.

You know what I have to do.

The confusion of feelings, sex, and even love will

entertain you.

You have an eternity to change your mind.

Why should I let him touch you?

Because it will drive you mad. And those feelings will give your endless days

meaning.

He will enter me.

I will take him in.

His sweat will mix with mine.

He will fuck me all night long.

Let it be.

You can have them all.

Go see your girlfriend How

is

she doing?

Glowing

In a frozen tub of water.

And you?

I'm a little edgy.

That will pass.

I gotta ask.

Did you always... know?

Yeah. So I had no chance.

I had no plans for you.

It's not in my nature.

Do you still feel threatened?

No, but... Do you know why we identify with the bats?

No. Relax.

We aren't bats.

Bats are misunderstood.

Just like us.

Men see them as killers.

Bloodsuckers.

Ugly. They're wrong.

Yes. The irony is that men are all those things.

War -like.

Violence. We are erotic beings.

Sensual. Living in peace.

We satisfy our sexual cravings. And this has all but eliminated violence.

We have created our own Shangri -La.

What about Jiros?

He's ancient.

He didn't evolve.

He can't leave.

So, you satisfy Jiros.

And you leave everyone alone?

Yes.

Until now.

I'm ready.

you

Oh.

Oh. Oh.