Finally done with this one. Definitely challenged myself again with drawing an LMG & an M16. I've never done that before.
African Monsters: American HUNTERS
My Brother's Keeper
1975, near the end of the Vietnam War, two brothers: Quinn Eliott(older) & Orion Eliott(younger), deployed to find dogtags of soldiers K.I.A in the assigned area that's nearly evacuated.
Progress is being done, until the brothers found what seemed to be a soldier's corpse in-doors. Orion retrieved the tags, the corpse came to life when he turned his back. The brothers fought, noticed the fangs, Quinn brougt out his cross, the undead corpse didn't like it, Quinn shot it in the head but only stunned it, Orion kicked him out the door & the corpse burned to ash in sunlight. The brothers realized
that was a Vampire. The priority become getting to an evac point, but they have to survive the night.
They bumped into a destroyed village, Quinn knew enough Vietnamese to ask what happened & translate a villager that's barely alive & not bitten. He explained the Vampires and their Leader, who the Vietnamese called: Mắt Trăng(Moon Eyes). With only one other detail, that the Leader looks Vietnamese, but...ancient.
The brothers forged ahead, armed with remaining ammo, and quickly carved wooden stakes, though they'd only be a last resort because all that matters is stunning the Vampires with headshots & moving. They bunkered down, with Quinn staying on-guard. They were attacked by more Vampires & their Leader, a Vietnamese man from the 1850s, when the French first took Vietnam land. Whose twisted goal is fighting back against all oppressors, and he knew that the brothers' people suffered the same way.
Quinn protected Orion, getting bitten & he held the vampires off while fighting bite & hoped the blow up everyone with grenades. He survived, still hanging on, his body landed by a barely intact Christian Church. For some reason, the Cross & the remains of the Church didn't hurt him. It was day time, but Quinn aimed to help his brother get away, before waiting for the Sun to rise. Until dusk, he neeled & stayed there, recited Bible verses, fighting the Vampires' urgers & Moon Eyes' hivemind.
Orion made it to an evac point, but all communications are wrecked & many American soldiers dead. There was a surviving message, saying there is an intact chopper that those soliders meant to get to, but they were over-run. It's a long walk to the point & it will be night time again when he gets there.
Quinn is still at the church, fighting the urges but sees the Vampires' Hive Mind. It starts to become dusk & 2 Vampires were chasing a kid. The brother fought them with a newfound strength & even though a living person was in front of him, he fought the hunger for blood & told the kid in Vietnamese, to keep running.
Mắt Trăng & the hive are getting closer to the Orion's location, which Quinn hurries to. It's Night, the 2 brothers are reunited, fought the vampires again & Quinn killed the leader with a wooden stake. Causing the rest to burn & flee, but the eldest brother is unaffected remains unchanged. He meant to stay, but...his brother popped him in the head to knock him out.
The chopper also had an empty casket for the eldest to sleep in during the day. They get home, are discharged & after that they decided to hunt monsters across the US, & learn how Quinn is fighting the urges. But he'll have to drink Cow's blood. Orion declined getting bitten, so they agreed that when Orion goes, Quinn takes a wooden stake or sunlight himself & goes with him.















