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their hosts into vampire-like creatures who absorb the life force (or soul) from their victims’, along with their memories.
    The woman and her two young sons, John and Caleb, were soon hunted down by her third son, Jacob, a few years older than his brothers and already turned into a feeder (or vampire). Jacob killed her out of jealousy of being left behind with his cruel father.
    Jacob spared his siblings and spent years living among earthlings, feeding off of them, hoping to someday find a way back, as his portal was one-way only.
    Caleb, the older of the two boys, was adopted by an FBI agent at the request of Duncan Alderman, a Guardian and Pioneer who is not only a billionaire, but also pulls the strings of much of the government, and the FBI in particular. Duncan recognized the boys as his kind, and needed to know more about how they got there. He also soon developed a bond with Caleb, who he came to regard as the son he’d never had.
    Caleb’s mind was wiped of his origins and he was able to live as a human for many years.
    John, however, was infected with the Darkness, another name for both the parasite, and the powers it offers its hosts. Much like the mythical human vampires, the Valkoer have an extreme weakness to daylight, which can kill them.
    John spent much of his youth separated from his brother, put in facilities by the Guardians which tried to both heal him, and at other times tried to harness his powers and turn him into a soldier for the Guardians. This hypocrisy, that the same group who would destroy magickal artifacts from Otherworld would also utilize the same magick, and even try to create a magickal vampire assassin, disgusted John, turning him off to both Duncan and the Guardians.
    John eventually escaped, and found a way to squelch the Darkness within him and live among humans. During this time, in the 90s, he fell in love with a woman named Hope Barnett, and they lived together in St. Augustine, Florida. She knew nothing of his past, aside from the stories he made up. Nor did she know of the monster inside him.
    Everything was going smoothly until bodies started showing up burned and John was having dreams, and fears, that he was somehow taking lives at night as he slept.
    Together with Larry, his personal private eye and apprentice magick-user, he realized that John’s brother Jacob had found him and was trying to find Caleb as well.
    Jacob discovered that together, John and Caleb, could create a portal back to their world, which would allow him to also return. Jacob has grown sick and weary of this world and the humans, whom he considers little more than ignorant animals. He must return. But he needs both brothers to make the spell work.

    THE GUARDIANS
    The Guardians, who control the secret FBI Omega division, cannot let this happen. If Jacob gets back home, there’s a good chance he can keep the portal open. An open portal to Otherworld could spell disaster if Harbinger, or the Valkoer on the other side, decide to utilize it and invade Earth, enslaving its people.
    The Guardians wanted to kill John, who is hard to find, but would instead kill the unwitting Caleb whom they have in their employ, to prevent Jacob from activating the portal.
    John, sensing the growing danger on all fronts, decided to have Hope’s mind wiped clean and to have Larry put her somewhere else to start her life anew, without any memory of him. It is the safest way for her to survive the oncoming war.
    Larry’s mind was also wiped of Hope’s location to assure her safety.
    John and Larry were going to find Jacob and kill him, but realized the danger was too great to Caleb, so they went into hiding for more than a decade.

    A DECADE LATER…
    In 2011, Duncan found John, informing him that the Guardians were growing restless. Jacob was gaining strength and it was only a matter of time before Jacob found John, and through John, found Caleb.
    Duncan forced his hand — sacrifice yourself or your brother will die. Duncan also showed John a picture of Hope and delivered the threat, “We know where she is.”
    John agreed to sacrifice himself.
    He had Larry and a magick-user named Adam perform a spell to revert him to his vampire self, and then bury him in a special coffin. After the spell took effect, two days later, they would raise the coffin and open the slot built into the lid, allowing the sun to come in and kill him.
    Once John was dead, the portal could never be opened, and the world, along with Hope and