The story continues after Robert Neville is captured by the new breed of vampires, that he only knew about for a brief period and never realised how grave situation he put himself in.

 

Robert Neville woke up in a prison cell, or something that was once used for this purpose.  The last thing he remembered was being knocked unconscious by the so-called super vampires that could walk in the sunshine.  He remembered vividly watching Ben Cortman being hunted like and animal and torn to pieces.  He cried for a moment; the funny thing was that he wanted to be the one that killed Cortman.  The way Cortman hounded him every night; the way Cortman would taunt him to come out, as if everything would be fine and they could behave like co-workers.  He wanted to kill Ben Cortman and now; that would never happen.

 

The door open and Ruth walked through the door.  She was looking at some papers, like a lab researcher would do in front of a specimen.  She looked at him and asked in a cold and emotionless voice.  “Why did you not escape when you were given the chance.  You could have been miles away by now.”  Robert just looked at her and sighed for a moment. “What would be the point?”  “What do you mean, what would be the point?” said Ruth.  “You have everything now.  You have almost destroyed mankind, you have killed everyone that was dear to me and I say to myself.  How long can I keep running?  How long can I hide myself like some kind of leaper?   If I was to run, you would eventually find me and probably kill me; why bother?”  “So you have given up; you don’t believe that you can cure the virus anymore?” said Ruth.

 

“Why have you captured me?” asked Robert.  “You will see in time.  You are the last man alive and we have many things to do first before you will be aloud to die,” replied Ruth.

 

Ruth left without saying another word and she did not look back as she walked out of the cell.  I have been a fool thought Robert.  I had become so desperate for company, that I forget to use my instincts that had kept me alive for three years.  I was so desperate for any kind of company.  The world dropped out from under me when I had to twice bury my wife and knew that my daughter must be dead too-.  I felt that god hated me when the dog died too.  Like I believe in god thought Robert.  So now I have become the lab rat and what wonders do this new race of creatures intend to inflict on me before I am allowed to end this suffering?

 

The Lab

 

Robert was taken to a cell with see through walls and there were what looked liked lizards watching them.  A short time later a door opened and a women walked through the door, with two vampires behind them.  She looked different to the vampires.  She had white skin but she didn’t have fangs.  She seemed to have some authority over the vampires.  She told them to leave and walked over to Robert.  “Who are you?” enquired Robert.  “I am Ishtar and I have come to see the last man alive.”  “Are you a vampire?” asked Robert.  “Oh no; I have no need for blood but you on the other hand do interest me,” said Ishtar. 

 

She walked over to Robert and started to stroke him and tried to kiss him but he pushed her back.  Then Ishtar came back and stroked his chest and his groin and the reacted to her touché.  I seems that not all of you agrees with you.  She lent close and whispered; “How long has it been since you made love to a women?” asked Ishtar.  Robert hadn’t thought about it.  Being all alone for the past three years; it hadn’t really been something that he would have thought of.  Perhaps it might have driven him over the edge and caused him to finally go mad.  “I bet it been a while eh?” she whispered into his ear.  The vampires came into the room and took Robert and forced him into a bed and she started to caress his body and she could see that it was working until Robert threw the vampires of him, mad with passion by now and took the women and threw the women onto the bed and the started to kiss.  He ripped her cloths off like some mad man who had been in prison for forty years and then they started to have sex like his life depended on it.  Half hour or so later he climaxed and he noticed something in her face.  A ripple went across her face like some kind of optical illusion.  What the hell was that?  She looked at him and smiled; “I have never felt like this ever before” said Ishtar.  She got up and he noticed that she had such a beautiful body and walked towards the door but before she left, she turned around and said to Robert; “I will use this to advance the new race.”  As she left, he watched as she turned into a Lizard.  “What the fuck,” said Robert.

 

“You are now mine,” said Ishtar and walked out the room.  What the hell just happed thought Robert?  She was a vampire and she turned into a lizard and what the hell have I just done?  He looked down at the floor and started to think to himself how the world had changed in such a small amount of time.  It only seemed like yesterday he was talking to his wife and getting ready to go to work with Ben Cortman and now he finds out the only non vampire women in this world isn’t a women at all.  I feel sick.  He wrapped the sheets around himself like a child trying to hide himself from the nightmare that he had just been part of.  He could see an image of his dead wife and he started to cry.  Why am I crying thought Robert; I couldn’t have done a lot else.  I felt such pleasure when I thought she was human and now I feel raped, used and nothing more that a test subject.  Why am I so important to them?  Why don’t they just kill me and get it over with?  

 

Robert was woken up early one morning and taken to what appeared to be a science lab.  He noticed a shady figure in the corner, but he was gone before Robert could get a good look at the person.  In front of him were maps of galaxies, mathematical equations that were far beyond his limited knowledge of the subject.  As he looked at all the information, a voice from behind said “Fascinating, isn’t it?”  Robert looked around to see what looked like some weird alien creature.  “Who or what are you?” asked Robert.  “Do not be alarmed by my appearance; it is normal to feel threatened by something you have never seen before but I mean you no harm,” said the Alien thing.  “Why are you showing me your alien form?” asked Robert.  “Who are you going to tell?  You’re the last human alive; what difference does it make?” said the alien.  He does have a point thought Robert and he started to laugh uncontrollably.  The alien looked at him strangely, as someone who would look at a dog chasing its tail.  “Why are you laughing?” asked the alien.  “It never really hit me that I was in fact the last human alive.  I always thought that somewhere out there in the world, there were others like me; fighting to keep mankind alive.  I just never thought for one moment that I could in fact be the only human left.  If I thought that was true, I would have killed myself a long time ago,” said Robert.

 

 

“I have brought you here for a reason.  There are those amongst us who never agreed to the despicable events that occurred to your race,” said the alien.  “What despicable events?”  Asked Robert.

 

 

 

The Past

 

“Before I tell you, I think it’s only proper the we introduce ourselves to each other.” said the alien.  “My name is Robert Neville,” said Robert.  “My name is Ananius.” Said the alien, “and I have something to tell you that you may not believe but it is the truth.”

 

 

It was about 50 of your millennium years ago on a distant galaxy that you refer to as the Pleiades system.  We lived on a small planet that circles the Maya star.  The name in our tongue would be too difficult for you to say.  So I will call it the netherworld.  At the time, we had made many great scientific leaps and the final one would be Artificial intelligence.  We marvelled in the greatness of artificial intelligence.  With the AI running our new faster than light travel engines, we would be able to go to undiscovered parts of the solar system and further.  

 

The trouble with any culture is based on knowledge; there were those who wanted to keep this technology to themselves.  They called themselves the illuminated ones.  They decided that the only way to keep the technology to themselves and the many other advancements throughout the ages of our race; was to kill all those who had the knowledge. 

 

This was the start of the first Great War that would afflict our planet.  90 percent of the population was wiped out, the air had become to toxic to breath, the water was no longer drinkable and if we did not do something; our race would cease to exist.  The planet was covered with a dust cloud that slowly circled around the netherworld.  It killed anyone in its path.

 

 

It was decided that we would have to leave our planet and search the galaxies for a habitable planet.  For the next 20 Millennia, we searched to galaxies without success until we notice a planet that was the third planet from its star.   It had a breathable atmosphere.  It would be prefect; the only problem was that it would take 29 more of your Millennia’s for us to travel to this place.  It was decided that the strongest and the best of us would leave for this planet and they would be provided everything needed for this long voyage.  The generation of our people that left would never see this planet.  It would be many generations later that would finally step foot on this planet.  Recreation of our  species was a must if we wanted to ever see this blue jewel hanging in the black abyss. 

 

 

When our people had made the almost impossible journey across the frozen wastelands that is know as space, some had developed plans that only the illuminated ones had know about.  For over forty nine thousand years they had handed down from father to son technologies long since forgotten.  They suggested that we send down to the surface of the planet scouting parties to see what the natives were like.  As soon as the native saw these bright lights in the sky, they started to become afraid.  They threw rocks at the scouting ships and fired primitive weapons.  What most of us did not know was that the illuminated ones had planned for this to occur this way; They wanted this to happen.  They also had another plan but that doesn’t happen for five hundred years to come.

 

The illuminated one went down to the Earth; as we were to find out latter and found people that were prepared to do their bidding.  The illuminated ones found that humans with a certain type of genetic code, were easier to control and we forced them to interbreed with members of their own family.  It allowed the illuminated ones to control who had the power on this planet.  They could build and empire out of nothing and bring it to ruin if the king or emperor did not do what he was told.  Genetic experiments were done on these kings and queens of that time, to enable the illuminated ones to control them directly.  In a simple time for your planet, this sufficed.

 

As the generations of humans passed, they became more and more advanced and eventually it was decided by the illuminated ones to enact stage two of their plan.  You see; the problem for us is that we live in an atmosphere that has a very high level of what you humans call pollution and our planet was 100 degrees Fahrenheit at night and they convinced the governments to use the resources that you call oil.  Burn all the woods, burn all your coal and make the place warm up to the point where all the ice would melt and the sea would kill of the humans.  They had a plan to kill of the entire human race but something went wrong.  Before they could get the people to follow their sick plan, there were reports coming out all over the planet by individual men, that something insidious was going on in the world today.  The speed in which the planet was being changed was like nothing seen, since the time of the dinosaurs, that were destroyed by an asteroid; a long time ago.

 

So the illuminated ones pulled back and they came up with another plan.  If  we can not kill the humans, then we will make them our slaves.  Many years were spent working on a plan to achieve this goal.  Anyone that learnt too much was sent to secure cells and never seen again.  I was one of those who were imprisoned almost all of my life.  About eight years ago the illuminated ones found what they were looking for.  They had a virus that would kill a majority of the humans of, by turning them into vampires with no minds and a few hundred thousand that would survive the virus long enough to work as slaves to wipe out the brain dead.  It was given to the human scientists as a cure for cancer and it did do this.  The trouble with this virus was that it could be spread through the air.  On the surface; everything seemed to be going great but, all of a sudden; people started to loose their appetite; more and more would avoid the light and would only venture from their homes at night and eventually they lost their humanity and attacked everyone and everything they could get their hands on.  That started about two years ago and it has been the plans of the illuminated ones to let the humans wipe themselves out.  I tell you this because I have not spoken the truth to anyone in many years and want to stop it.

 

 

Robert fell to his knees.  We were guinea pigs and nothing more.  They destroy an entire race for what?  I watched my wife a daughter die so that they could have somewhere to live.  They will pay with river of blood so wide and so deep, that this planet will be feeding on their bodies for many centuries to come. 

 

Keep you voice down; they are listening to everything we say.  The don't monitor us twenty four hors a day bit, if they are listening to us right now; you’re dead.  No one came to take Robert away.  “What do you have in mind Ananius?” asked Robert.  You see the illuminated ones were in such a hurry to kill off the human race, that they didn’t notice the work that I had been doing.  I had produced a virus of my own and it was to be used as a last resort.  You would agree with me that we are reaching a last resort,” said Ananius.  Robert just glumly nodded his head.  “I have a virus that will wipe out the Illuminated ones.  They have interbreed with the humans through genetic manipulation and they have also taken on all the blood lines strengths as well.  This is a virus that will make the water poisonous to them, the air will turn them into small mounds of dirt and the food will make them get back into their space ships and never come back,” said Ananius.  “What is the problem and was the women lizard thing one of them?” asked Robert.  I am not aloud to ever leave the confines of this prison and that women lizard thing was in fact one of them. 

 

You on the other hand are not considered a threat.  You could drop this beneath you feet when you are going for a walk and no one would suspect a thing; especially if you drop some thing like a cup that you were drinking from,” said Ananius.  “Why are you helping me?” asked Robert.  “When you have been kept in a cell for over one hundred of your years and beaten to the point of death; just to be allowed to recover enough for the beating to continue; you will understand why I help you now,” said Ananius.  Robert thought it through and decided that he had nothing to loose.  The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

 

Robert took to bile from Ananius and hide it somewhere safe.  He went about the place as if nothing mattered.  With all the vampires keeping the place secure, the illuminated ones felt no threat from anyone.  One day; Robert was carrying a tray to a couple of the illuminated ones and he slipped and dropped the drinks all over the floor and no spotted the glass bile that smashed in the center of one of the cups.  The vampire came over and kicked Robert and told him to go get some more drinks for his masters.  Robert did just as requested but whilst he was gone the illuminated ones started to chock and they started to froth at the mouth.  The vampires started to cough up blood and they started to start to convulse on the floor.  When Robert returned, he saw that the virus was already having an effect on those in the near vicinity of the broken cup.  One of the illuminated ones cried out for help.

 

Robert bent over and said to it;  “Do you know what this is?  It’s a virus; just like the virus you used to wipe out the human race.  Now join me as I return the favour to you and the vampire scum that you interbred with.”  Robert picked up a large drink and forced the creatures head back and started to pour the drink down the creatures mouth.  It was trying to breath but all it found was this drink.  Robert made it drink until it started to become listless.  “Don’t think you’re getting away that easy,” said Robert.  He dragged the thing over to a cliff and showed the creature the rocky ground.  “I know you feel pain.  Before you die, you will suffer pain like nothing you have ever experienced before.  I am pain; I am God; I am legend.”  Robert released the grip from the creature and watched as it fell down the side of this mountainous cavern, heard the bones break and heard the screams. 

 

He turned around with the smallest semblance of a smile and walked back to the fortress.  He knew that he had killed the people that were the cause of the virus but what of Ananius and those in the prison?  What plans do they have for this planet?  Will I ever find a cure for the virus that is still causing mankind to ripe itself to pieces?

 

None of this seemed to matter.  He had lost everything that had mattered to him anyway.  Just as despair was about to engulf him, he remembered that he didn’t actually know for a fact that he was the last human alive.  All he knew was what these Lizard creatures had told him.  I will find my fellow man he thought.  Even if it takes me what’s left of my life; I will find them.  Ananius walked up to him and said. “You know that we will need to work together.”  Robert just nodded; “We have the facilities here and if there is a cure to be found; we’ll find it,” said ananius.  Robert looked into Ananius’s eyes and they had they look of someone who had experienced pain beyond anything a normal creature should be able to last.  “I like you Ananius,” said Robert.  “If we are going to create a world out of the mess that we find ourselves in, we need to create a race out of both races.  A race that will live on in both our images; preferably mind,” said Robert as he laughed and slapped Ananius on the back.

 

Both races; one a man and one an alien from a distant galaxy walked into the confines of the base with hope that the morning would dawn and the nightmare would one day end.

 

 

THE END