Marcus Wright

Marcus was born in California to retired Colonel John Wright and his wife Helen. He was always a athletic kid, going out for football and baseball, and got an athletic scholarship to Notre Dame. After college he enlisted in the Army, which provoked a mixed reaction in his father. The Colonel felt Marcus could have been a pro football player if he stuck with it, but he felt proud his son was going into the family business. Marcus was deployed overseas in Iraq, and for many months it was very boring. Until while on patrol his squad was attacked by things seemingly made of shadow. Everyone but Marcus was killed by the time help arrived and the creatures vanished. Marcus was sent to counseling for months, he was claiming his friends had been attacked by fanged monsters, drained of blood.

He was approached by a man in a black suit who offered him a place in a new unit for special missions. Everyone in the unit seemed to have a story like Marcus'. Strange creatures, inexpiable events, mysterious deaths. They were sent on bizarre missions all over the world, thrown into conflict with cults and deformed men. On one such mission in Scotland, the team encountered... things, in the woods. Tall, strong, and ferocious. A couple guys in the squad started ranting about werewolves, and they ended up barricading themselves in an abandoned house. Holding out for hours, one by one the men were killed, until Marcus took the last monster down by stuffing a grenade down it's gullet. When he regained consciousness, he was in a hospital in London. He received a letter officially discharging him from the Army, and informing him of the generous pension he would be receiving for "special services".

Since being thrust back into civilian life, Marcus has become more aware of the darker things in the world. He sees people in night clubs moving like herds avoiding a predator, and he could see those with hungry eyes, watching and waiting for the chance to feed. He noticed the tabloid rags reporting monsters, ghosts and aliens. He looking for answers. He found blogs by people calling themselves Network Zero. And bit by bit, he learned the truth about the monsters out there. But he had to know for sure. He started walking the streets alone at night, in neighborhoods where strange deaths and disappearances had been reported. Eventually, he felt something following him. He felt it grab him, pull him into an alley, saw the fangs in the dark. But, that's when the vampire felt the stake at it's chest...

It has been several years since the night the fledgling vampire plead for her life. Marcus learned more than he anticipated. He learned that there's monsters, and people who are different and trying to get by. He's met vampires that feed on animals and criminals, werewolves who avoid humans as much as possible, and other, stranger things that just want to be left alone. When he heard about what happened in Georgia, he set out immediately. With the creature community in the area having to start fresh, maybe he could keep them honest. Kill the bad ones, help the good ones, and set an example for the rest of them. If it works in Georgia, maybe it can spread and change the world.

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