The Spike Drinkers (Fiction)
By John Reizer
Nobody paid too much attention when the first cases began appearing in late 2026. A homeless man was found dead behind a grocery store in New Mexico. Doctors were confused because the victim’s blood had been completely drained. Upon careful medical inspection, no major wounds or signs of an attack were visible.
The story disappeared pretty quickly from the mainstream media cycles. Then another victim with the same characteristics showed up, and shortly thereafter there were more cases.
By the spring of 2027, hundreds more of these cases had appeared around the world. Most theories circulating on the Internet blamed cults, serial killers, or secret government experiments.
What nobody did bring up or mention was the word vampires.
Jim Franz was thirty-eight years old when the changes began inside his body. At first, he thought he’d caught a stomach bug. His food tasted terrible, and coffee made him sick to his stomach; then, his skin turned pale.
Jim’s heartbeat grew slower and slower each day. Then came the incredible hunger that was unlike anything he had ever experienced before in his entire life. Steak and chicken did nothing to satisfy his voracious appetite and the idea of eating vegetables made him want to vomit.
His body craved something much different, something very specific. The craving grew stronger every day.
One night, while sitting in a crowded restaurant, Jim noticed something strange, he could smell certain people, something inside them. Many folks he came into contact with didn’t carry the desirable scent. But some humans carried an aroma that drove him nearly insane.
The smell made his mouth water, and his vision better.
Suddenly, Jim wanted to leap across the room, but instead, he ran outside and locked himself in his automobile. As time moved forward, Jim’s appetite for certain people with the scent continued to grow.
Jim checked himself into a hospital and was admitted and given a battery of diagnostic tests. The results yielded conflicting results. Soon many hospitals throughout the world were filled with people like Jim Franz.
Months later, scientists finally began connecting the dots. Every one of the “vampire patients” had one thing in common. Years earlier, they had received one of several experimental mRNA vaccines. The genetic modifications caused by these immunizations transformed some of the recipients into something different from other humans.
Nobody knew exactly why only a tiny percentage of the vaccinated transformed into vampires.
Whatever the cause, and reasons might be, their bodies had changed and there was no getting around the fact.
Their body physiology no longer processed normal food efficiently. Instead, they depended on a specific spike protein produced only in mRNA-vaccinated individuals for sustenance.
The vampires called it “the spike.”
Without the spike, their bodies weakened and when they received it they immediately grew stronger.
Human blood itself was not the target of the vampires, but the spike proteins inside the blood were.
Jim and others like him resisted the urges for a while. These individuals found support groups online.
Thousands of people like Jim Franz were already attending these sessions. People from all walks of life, such as teachers, police officers, doctors, mothers, and fathers, were present and had been directly affected.
All of these people were struggling with the same unending hunger. Some had found alternatives by consuming synthetic proteins made in laboratories.
Pharma companies were racing to manufacture artificial versions of the spike proteins. But the production of the synthetic proteins was a slow and tedious process, and the demand was growing larger by the day.
Not everyone could obtain or afford the synthetic spike proteins, and some vampires claimed the artificial versions were never enough to satisfy their intense hunger pangs. They wanted and craved the real thing that was transported in the human blood of the previously vaccinated, the ones who naturally created and now carried the spike proteins.
By 2028, entire underground communities had formed. Some vaccinated volunteers sold small amounts of blood for money on the black market while others donated voluntarily.
Governments created Spike Farms. The system led to chaos, and tensions rose throughout society.
A growing number of vampires rejected the government controlled system. They believed their transformation was not a disease, it was a natural part of the human evolutionary process.
They referred to themselves as the next generation, and they believed humanity’s future belonged to them.
One night, Jim attended a secret meeting in an old warehouse. Hundreds of vampires were in attendance. One woman stood at the front of the room. “We’ve spent enough time already pretending to be human,” she said. “We’ve been apologizing for what we became.”
The crowd broke out in loud applause.
She smiled before continuing. “The first transformations began only recently, and millions more are coming.”
The room quickly grew eerily silent.
She continued. “The latency period after being jabbed is five to seven years. The first vaccines were administered in 2021. Do the math.”
Jim felt a cold chill run through his entire body. He knew the woman speaking was right. Most transformations had not even happened yet. The world was still seeing only the first wave of the new vampires.
As he left the meeting, Jim looked across the city. Millions of people lived out there and lots of them had been vaccinated with the mRNA shots. That meant there were an unlimited number of future food sources, or perhaps future vampires.
Nobody knew what was in store for humanity.
Meanwhile, scientists were still searching for answers, and the governments of the world were still pretending everything was under control.
Most of the public still thought vampire stories belonged in the genre of science fiction, but Jim Franz knew better. He understood that the age of the Spike Drinkers had only just begun.
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