How to Avoid a Vampire Guardian Angel

1. Don't whine to one.

2. Don't pray for help or in despair to one.

3. Avoid begging for help to an Angel statue ('cause that's how these Vampires hide).

4. Don't ask for an end to your suffering.

Because this is how they find you.

Your despair is their beacon.

They are programmed to answer your prayers.

But they hate your whining.

They want to shut you up.

And you may end up being dinner.

Copyright Lia Scott Price

How Do You Kill A Vampire Guardian Angel?

I decided to give my characters some redeeming qualities, the classic good vs evil. So in my stories, only an angel who stays good, or who has turned back to good, can kill an evil one. But they may not always do that.....it's tricky because of the temptation towards power and freedom from having to protect and watch over humans, and finally having their own free will, and getting to do whatever they want. 

They could go either way---good or evil---and you'd have to convince one to kill the other.

They can be repelled with a little holy water--it stings their faces--it will only give you time to run away though. But you have to run fast before they find you.

They can also be healed with the blood of ancient saints--which is why they seek out holy relics and reliquaries kept by the Catholic Churches. They are also healed by the "Incorruptible bodies" of preserved saints, who are actually ancient Vampires in disguise who were concealed by the Church.

That, I think, is what makes this series so challenging to write. The audience has to figure out which one ends up being the good one. And just when you think the good one prevails, evil may just keep coming back. Or the good one turns evil. Or I may make the evil one relent. Do they ever die? Who knows? That's the fun part about writing this series---I want to keep the audience guessing.

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How do my Vampire Characters differ from the Classic or Mainstream Images of Vampires?

 

I wanted to stay true to the classic vicious, brutal vampire image as being something to be feared, but I also wanted to add a twist, something that would make my vampires even more disturbing. Here’s what makes them a little different:

1. I wanted my vampires to be (almost) invincible, something that would be so difficult to kill by any traditional means. My Vampires can’t be killed with holy water or crosses. It may sting them a little, but won't destroy them. And neither will traditional stakes through the heart.

2. I also gave my vampires a more zombie-like appetite. They are not limited to blood. They can live off bodily fluids.

 3. It’s quite common for angels to carry swords, but I also gave them a variety of exotic weapons. The main reason behind this was not just for protecting themselves, but because I wanted them to deviate from the traditional biting of the neck, only because they found biting necks too much work (too much struggling), so using a sharp weapon to just slice off a body part to make it more convenient to feed is their preference.

4. I also made them serial killers. But they couldn't just kill any human. It had to be a very specific victim. They are still guardian angels, so they have to respond to prayers. It's in their nature, what they were created for. It's like their "beacon", and it drives them crazy. But it’s also their call to dinner. My vampires cannot touch or target a human unless they prayed specifically to a guardian angel. And it has to be a very desperate prayer because that's what they listen for. They have to be summoned. But they won't target you if it's say, a joyful or thankful prayer. They live off the despair of others, because they want to shut humans up and put them out of their misery so they don't have to hear the whining and begging anymore, and so they don’t have to answer prayers (because they really hate their jobs).

5. They can breed with human women. In fact, that is one of their goals, to increase their numbers, and take over humans.

6. They can turn into life-sized angel statues and hide in churches and cemeteries.

7. They use angel statues as a “homing device”. If you pray to an angel statue, big or small, they can hear you. But it has to be a prayer of despair. See item #4.

It's a terrifying concept. It may turn people off, but then it makes them think... "who am I really asking for help from?" But that's what a vampire is supposed to be: disturbing, nightmarish, and scary. I would like to think that this would be a definition of a truly evil Vampire, something that comes in the form of something holy but does something so horrific.

Copyright Lia Scott Price

Sneak Peek at Comic Book 4 Images

Sneak peek at some images from Comic Book Issue 4, 

Vampire Guardian Angels^TM": Resurrection: Afterlife

Copyright Lia Scott Price

Art by Andrew Setter 

and Chad Hammontree

Themes in my Comic Book Series

Themes in my Comic Book Series

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Rogue Angels: Guardian Angels "snap" and commit acts that you would not expect Guardian Angels to do. Filled with rebellion, resentment, and revenge, they also crave power and have human desires.

Serial Killers: Guardian Angels who become serial killers. They can only specifically target and harm those who summon and/or pray to them for help or out of desperation or despair. They especially target those who asked for an end to their pain or troubles.

Haunted Angel Statues: The belief that statues in cemeteries, churches and homes are filled with negative energies that give life to the statues themselves and allow them to target humans. A Vampire Guardian Angel can also become a life-sized angel statue and hide in Churches.

Classic Evil, Vicious Vampires: My work focuses on Vampires as brutal, sociopathic, psychotic, cold calculating, and homicidal killers.

Blind Faith: The stories question human reliance on summoning a supernatural, supposed higher power to save them, and how the church, both in ancient and modern times, used fear and glorified suffering and martyrdom to manipulate human victims into becoming "believers" for the Angels to target.

Angels as Ancient Vampires: Hidden messages in scriptures about the possibility of Angels actually being Vampires in the Bible in ancient times; Reliquaries and remains of "incorruptible" bodies that supposedly never decay; and Guardian Angels being turned into Vampires. (and loving it).

Guardian Angels Trade in Halos for Fangs

My Vampire comic book series is delightfully macabre and non-mainstream (No sappy romance or wimpy vampires here). It's a non-conformist, subversive "What-If", alternate view of your pop-culture icon, a Guardian Angel. As in "what if" they became homicidal, unhinged, sociopathic, Vampires? And you happened to pray to one? (Don't look for halos. They've traded those in for fangs, slicing and dicing.) Enjoy the brutality.

 

Lia Scott Price's 

Vampire Guardian Angels™

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Vampire Guardian Angels: Immortal's Reliquary, Comic Book Issue 6: Full Story

Lia Scott Price's 

Vampire Guardian Angels™ 

Immortal's Reliquary (Issue 6)
Price/Huerta/Hammontree

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About The Comic Book Series:

Lia Scott Price’s Vampire Guardian Angels is a creator-owned comic book series written and created by Horror Author Lia Scott Price. In the series, Guardian Angels from Heaven have become Vampires who kill people who pray for help to them, and both humans and “good” angels have to work to stop them.

What are Vampire Guardian Angels?

When you pray to guardian angels, do you know what they are? What if they were a vicious new breed and hybrid of serial killer, angel and vampire who target those who pray for help to them? Because they are tired of protecting us and want to put us out of our misery, by eating, and enslaving us. Don’t pray to them.

Full Story:

The ancient Estonian Prince Jeromos has escaped to Sweden, his homeland, with the Author, Ms. Price, as his hostage. It is revealed that he has the horribly burned and injured Gabriel, and is attempting to heal him.

Janos has also ordered Jeromos to take over the monastery with his "holy" army provided by the Church and to find a cure for both the plague and any injured Vampire Guardian Angels who bypassed the portal in an attempt to either get to Heaven or Earth,  and who were horribly burned in the process. Jeromos forms the "Immortal's Reliquary", where he uses holy relics,  "holy blood from martyred saints" in "vials mixed with blood and gold" to form a healing potion he feeds to the injured Vampire Guardian Angels. The vial mixture heals Vampire Guardian Angels because ancient relics were kept in gold and becomes a supernatural preserving agent. It is also mixed with some of Ms. Price's own blood. He keeps the injured angels in glass coffins,  “reliquaries” made of gold and infused with holy relics that “activate” healing.

But secretly, Jeromos is saving Gabriel, considered the most vicious and powerful of all the Vampire Guardian Angels, so he can use him to help him take over Janos's reign. He knows Janos is  unaware that his own army is planning to join Jeromos. And he knows Gabriel will be loyal to him for saving him. However, an injured and burned Cameron surprises Jeromos, cutting off one of his wings and causing Jeromos to partially burn and become disfigured. Jeromos manages to save himself by drinking blood from a reliquary. Enraged, Jeromos takes Cameron hostage, and he imprisons him alongside what he calls his new, animal-like, genetically altered breed of rabid Vampire Guardian Angels, ones that Jeromos has been experimenting with, called the "Angelorumrabidi".

Frustrated and resenting his role of "nurse" to the Vampire Guardian Angels and depressed with his disfigurement, Jeromos becomes an alcoholic. He also wants to claim Ms. Price for himself, and make her his queen. He knows her blood is "the cure",  and one drop of her blood is powerful enough to heal them. She is extremely valuable because she is their "creator" who has awakened them and has inadvertently allowed them to finally exist in the real world by her strong belief in them. Jeromos has also discovered that Ms. Price has royal blood - something she was not aware of, and a descendant of Spanish nobility, making her an ideal queen. Combined with her noble blood and her "resurrective" powers, she is a valuable addition to his claims for the throne, as long as he "owns" her. And once he raises his army, he would have everything, and the Vampire Guardian Angels would follow him without question.  After explaining to Ms. Price why he has kidnapped her and his desire to overthrow Janos and rule, Jeromos takes some of her blood in a vial in order to heal Gabriel, and then bites Ms. Price and drinks her blood to heal himself, turning her into a vampire.

Cameron is freed by Detective Costa, who has followed and found him in Sweden, and who was informed of Jeromos's hideout by Earth Vampires who were friends of Catharina, the earth vampire who died saving Joseph from Jeromos's army. Cameron reveals that he also came to the Immortal's Reliquary to steal the saints' blood to heal himself. Cameron had  been kept busy sealing portals that were created by the dying Vampire Guardian Angels on Earth, which prevented more of the army from coming down. But it was taking a toll on Cameron, who was getting weaker ever since his descent from Heaven to save Joseph, and when Jeromos kidnapped the author, Cameron knows he has to save her since he knows why Jeromos wants her, and he had also been planning to break into Jeromos's hideout to heal himself by stealing Jeromos's reliquaries.

As Cameron and Costa look for the author, Gabriel, now loyal to Jeromos, intercepts them. Costa and Cameron are surprised to find Gabriel alive.  Before Cameron fights Gabriel,  he smears his blood on Costa's weapon, a machete, since his blood can kill evil. Costa is attacked by the two rabid Vampire Guardian Angels, the Angelorumrabidi, that Jeromos has set free and sent after them. Costa manages to kill the vampires, but is bitten. Fortunately, he has a reliquary he has taken "just in case" and he uses the blood to heal himself, as he rapidly becomes a Vampire Guardian Angel. Meanwhile, the still-fighting Cameron and Gabriel are engulfed in a mysterious light. When the light dissipates, they are entombed unconscious, but alive, in glass coffins and sealed behind a heavy door.

As a mysterious glowing figure appears before the transforming Costa, it's Joseph, having become more powerful. Holding Cameron's sword, Joseph reveals that it was Janos who had secretly sent the virus down. When Janos got into Heaven using the portals of the three original Vampire Guardian Angels,  Zeke, Anthony, and Jude who were killed by Cameron and Costa,  this gave Janos the idea to use a virus to cause more deaths of Vampire Guardian Angels on Earth so that their ascending bodies could be used as portals so he could bring down his army from Heaven. But it got out of hand, leading Janos to create the breeding program to feed the Vampire Guardian Angels on Earth. Janos saw that he was losing control of the plague so he sent Jeromos to find the cure. And Janos killed his own father, Gregory, as revenge for the death of Leah, and to create a portal for both Jeromos and Joseph to get back to Earth, but not before revealing to Joseph that Jeromos was unaware that Janos had created the virus, and that he now trusted Joseph with these revelations. However, Cameron had intercepted the plan for the army's descent when he escaped from Heaven to save Joseph and sealed the portals, since he had the power to do so. Joseph wants to get rid of Cameron so he can take over the army, since he does not consider Cameron his real father and still holds him responsible for his mother's death.

Joseph explains that he imprisoned Cameron and Gabriel since he does not have the power to kill them since he has now chosen to become evil, but he plans to sacrifice his own (step) father, Cameron, and Gabriel, in order to create a powerful portal that will finally bring down the Janos's Vampire Guardian Angel army, who he hopes will follow him based on fear even if he is not a royal, and take over Janos's reign and get rid of Jeromos as well. But although he knows he cannot kill his own kind yet,  he hopes that he can find a way to use Cameron's sword, which can kill Angels only if wielded by a good angel. He is not sure if it will work in the hands of an evil one.

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