I do not know if it is proper for me to present this blog. I believe that what I do is of grave importance to all mankind. People do not know the things that walk the streets at night, like lions on the prowl. They do not understand the importance of protection. They do not, could not, understand the things I do, and likely never will.

When I was 16, I was walking home from a party at a friend's house. I felt something was following me, but I shrugged the feeling off. I should not have. It came for me very quickly. it wrapped its arms around my head and pulled me toward the ground. before I knew it, it had dug its fangs into my neck and began to drink my blood.

I don't remember why I had a hunting knife in my pocket. I pulled it, though, and with all my strength I stabbed back toward my shoulder. The creature was likely a fledgling and did not expect resistance, nor the blade digging deep into its skull. It detached itself from my neck and hit the ground. I tried to get up, but my legs were weak. I turned to find, to my horror, that the creature was still alive, trying to pry the knife out of the hole in its temple. Blood was pouring out and yet the creature resisted. I grabbed the knife and twisted it in the creature's head, and it let out a scream.

"Get away from it," I heard a man's voice say from behind me. I turned and saw a man in dark clothing striding towards me with a sharp piece of wood in one hand and a hammer in the other. I obeyed and moved away from the creature. The man slammed the sharp wood into the thing's chest before pounding on the end with the hammer. The creature quickly silenced. Without missing a beat, the man pulled out a can of lighter fluid and a lighter and set the thing ablaze.

I was never the same.

My name is Tao G. I am a vampire hunter.