Alex Versalis

Alex Versalis was born in Chicago, Illinois on March 3, 1978. Due to his father being in the Marines, he basically grew up without a father.  When he reached the age of 5, his father went missing in action (MIA).  To this day, he has not yet been found.

When he was 14 and a freshman in high school, he saw a burning building.  The building looked abandoned, but he could see that there were still two people inside through a window.  His father had inspired him to always try and help others, so he ran inside to help save them.  The heat was hard to handle, but he continue to look for the people he had seen.  As he searched, he could hear the voices.  One was saying a prayer, and the other insulted his beliefs.

When he entered the room, he could see an older pudgy man trying holding a stake and struggling with a younger individual.  The younger individual seemed a bit out of the ordinary, but he couldn't place it at the time.  He was in awe of the sight and couldn't move.  Then, with one fluent motion, the younger individual grabbed the stake from the old man's hands and stabbed him with it.  Alex was shocked at the sight he had just witnessed, a murder.  He unconsciously gasped.  The standing figure looked over at his direction.  He was scared; he didn't know what to do.

Alex tried to run, but the smoke and heat were beginning to get to him, he fell and burned his hand badly on a pipe.  He pulled back and screamed.  The individual grabbed him from the back of the shirt and picked him up with ease.  Alex looked at the man's face.  As the man smiled, he could see that the man had a set of fangs unlike anyone else he had ever seen.  Then, with the simplest of gestures, the man threw Alex deep into the fire.

At first, he began to panic.  But then, he realized that the fire didn't burn.  He stood up and looked at his hands in amazement.  Other than the burn from the pipe, he was unharmed.  Then he realized that his clothes had started on fire.  He panicked and a shockwave flew out from his body putting out all of the fire around him.  Then, he fell to the ground and collapsed.  As he fell, he could hear the sirens of fire engines in the background.

When he awoke, he found he was in the hospital.  The police sounded suspicious of his motives for being in the building, but didn't pursue an investigation of any type.  This incident always inspired him from then on.  He practiced and learned to control his powers.  He used the scar on his hand was a constant reminder of that day.

As an adult, he decided to become a police officer.  He studied and trained hard.  Then, one day while on patrol, he saw a lady being attacked in an alley.  He stopped and ordered the man to freeze.  The alley was dark and he wasn't able to see clearly so he shined his flashlight towards him.  As the light illuminated his face, he had a flash back of that day in the burning building.  It was the same man.  He didn't appear to age a single day.

The man dropped the lady and began to walk away.  Alex ordered him to stop, but he continued to walk away.  There was no sign of recognition at all.  He fired a round at the attacker.  The bullet didn't seem to faze him at all.  He fired a couple more times, but still nothing.  When he examined the woman's body, he saw that she was pale and that there were a set of bite marks on her neck.  It was on that day the Alex fully accepted the fact that there was something more to this world that what was commonly known.

He asked for the coroner's report, but found that the file had become classified.  He knew something odd was going on, but didn't know what exactly it was or how to find out.  He began to use all of his free time investigating the strange occurrences, and even spent time while on duty.  This caused him to become alienated from the rest of the police force.  It was said that if it wasn't for his obsession, that he was well on his way to making detective.