Vampires Will Never Hurt You

[heather]

Vampires Will Never Hurt You

...you wish.

For centuries the city of Caridee, New Jersey has been hidden from the rest of the world. Once you’re inside, you never get out. Not alive, and not even dead. The city is infested with vampires, and in this city, it’s the vampires that are in charge. They don’t live by anyone else’s rules but their own. Not since they founded the city in 1600. The Native Americans had the land first, but the vampires who founded the city soon took control of the area, and disposed of the Native Americans, by killing them or making them their slaves. A few were turned into vampires, but most were just left to die, or be made a slave. It didn’t matter to the vampires, it was just another death to them, which wasn’t very much.

Can you take this spike?
Will it fill our hearts with thoughts of endless
Night time sky?
Can you take this spike?
Will it wash away this jet black feeling?

The first vampires to come into the city, the ones who claimed it as their own, were young vampires, having only been vampires for a few years and they had just come over from Europe. They were a small coven of 5 at the time, the Odisse coven. It wasn’t long before they started expanding the number of vampires in their coven, turning more people into vampires or finding other vampires who were loners and making them a part of their coven. But with the growing of a coven comes fights from within, and some people didn’t like all the rules of their coven, or they wanted to be the leader of the coven. It wasn’t until the 1700s that another coven formed in the city, the Amare coven. But that didn’t stop all the fighting, though it wasn’t until the late 1800s that another coven emerged, the Vulgaris coven.

Someone get me to the doctor, and someone call the nurse
And someone buy me roses, and someone burned the church
We're hanging out with corpses, we're driving in this hearse
Someone save my soul tonight, please save my soul

Now, the covens were not just made up of vampires, they had humans in them too. And they still do. The humans are either slaves, or free, but most of them are slaves. The majority of the humans in the city were born here, and have grown up as slaves, with their parents being slaves too, but a few of them accidentally stumbled across the city and were made a slave before they could figure out that their was no way out. The only other way a human would be in the city is if a vampire had stolen them and made them a slave, which only happened occasionally. It’s rare for a human to be freed, but sometimes the coven leaders will free a human, and only the coven leaders can free them, but once they are free, someone from a different coven can easily claim them as their slave. The only way to tell the difference between a slave and a free human is that the slaves have metal bands around their neck, that can be used as a collar if need be. Most free humans are always trying to figure out a way out of the city, but have had no luck so far, and they are normally the ones trying to kill all the vampires, or help other slaves escape, but with the collar on them it’s hard. The collar never comes off, and it can be used as a tracking device, because it lets the vampire coven that owns that slave, read that slaves thoughts.

I'll never let them, I'll never let them
I'll never let them hurt you now tonight
I'll never let them, I can't forget them
I'll never let them hurt you, I promise

The Odisse coven technically rules the city, since they are the oldest, strongest coven, and were the ones who first took control of the city, but the other covens want to take over. The only problem is that only the leader of the Odisse coven knows the way out of the city, well, he’s the only one that knows how to get out and back in every single time. The other covens haven’t really figured it out, since even after the coven leader of the Odisse’s let’s someone out of the city and back in, he wipes out any memory of getting out. And the coven that controls getting in and out of the city controls the city. In this city, once you’re in. You can never leave.

© My Chemical Romance for lyrics and name, Vampires Will Never Hurt You