On the Origin of the Species

Homo sanguineous

Hundreds of generations before the forefathers of the human species first stood upright, there developed a carnivorous ape (that modern humans now believe extinct)

This carnivorous ape had to compete with the likes of the Saber-tooth Tiger for its dinner, and so its survival was against the odds. So is the crap shoot called evolution. But somewhere within that grouping of carnivorous ape, one, or perhaps dozens or hundreds, realized that its survival depended upon the most drastic forms of adaption and so it began to feed on its own (that is to say on other apes) from which humans would eventually descend.

Branches off of branches of the apes evolutionary tree, some fragment of the descending chain from that carnivorous ape saw the clumsy, upright walking ancestors of the human race as easy prey. Being apes themselves, these creatures evolved to blend in with their cousins, so to make hunting easier. When the ancestors of the humans took to the water, these apes followed, losing their fur and gaining a scant amount of fat as insulation.

As the ancestors of the humans ate shellfish, and so developed larger brains, these apes ate them so their intelligence grew at even greater speeds. But as humans evolved to use their brains over their muscles, and so grew weaker as they transformed, the hunters of humans remained strong, always besting their prey.

And so, as evolution demands, the strongest of the strongest and the smartest of the smart were those that were most likely to breed, and so pass on those traits and enhance them.

As human evolution made them smarter and more cautious, so the hunters became clever, adapting to lure in their prey with the camouflage of appearance. When that failed them, or when prey was scarce, they compensated by feeding from corpses, on not only the rotting flesh but the precious marrow buried deep within the bones. The hunter's teeth adapted to compensate, forming strong and extended fangs that could puncture the bone and suck out the concentrated marrow within.

Overtime one line of hunters grew to drink only the marrow, and then the blood that the marrow produced. This line mimicked the humans, becoming their perfect image, to be able to walk, unnoticed, among them and so easily gather their prey.

It was from this line that the sanguineous descend, perfectly adapting to hunt Homo sapiens, and only Homo sapiens, upon whom they depend entirely for life....