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Evil Thirst
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The Last Vampire: Book 5

Evil Thirst (1996) (edit title/settings)

by Christopher Pike (Author) (edit contributors)

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Facing the difficult task of having to hunt down her own daughter and destroy her, the vampire Alisa believes in her heart that Kalika, a bloodthirsty monster, is not completely evil, and hopes to save her instead.

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Sita's daughter, Kalika, has transformed into a blood-thirsty monster with power far beyond Sita's. It is Sita's task to track her down and destroy her, yet Sita still has trouble believing her daughter is totally evil. She still hopes to save Kalika, even if it means risking her own life -... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

Sita's daughter, Kalika, has transformed into a blood-thirsty monster with power far beyond Sita's. It is Sita's task to track her down and destroy her, yet Sita still has trouble believing her daughter is totally evil. She still hopes to save Kalika, even if it means risking her own life - and perhaps the lives of everyone in the world.
The story opens as Sita and the newly revived Seymour attend a seminar of an ancient Egyptian Seer named Suzama. Sita knew her personally and is interested to know that, in her Seer's eye, Suzama predicted the birth of God in three mortal forms at exact times. Krishna and Jesus Christ were two of these incarnations. Sita learns from Dr. Donald Seter, the man who discovered Suzama's Scripture and the founder of the Suzama Society, that Christ has been born again as her friend Paula's new born son (and Paula herself is actually Suzama reincarnated). Unlike Ray, Paula begins to remember her previous life. Using her powerful powers of persuasion, Sita befriends Seter and his son James, authenticates the text, and discovers that Kalika wishes to kill the baby. She also learns that the Suzama Society was formed in order to protect the child.
Mother and Daughter speak over the phone and, through what appears to be a miscalculation on Kalika's part, Sita discovers where her daughter lives. Sita goes with Dr. Seter, James, and assembled members of the Suzama Society to Kalika's home. There all the members by two are brutally murdered by Kalika, despite their automatic weaponry and combat training. Aware that such an assault could only end in failure, Sita - having earlier attempted to talk Dr. Seter and his son out of such foolhardiness - confronts Kalika herself. The mother proves no match for her daughter, and their confrontation ends with Sita thrown from the window into the apartment block's swimming pool far below. The fall, while not fatal, results in terrible injuries and so it is only after an agonizing time spent underwater, waiting for her body to heal, that she can flee to Paula. Paula is only now beginning to remember her previous life as Suzama. She helps Sita to realize that James and his followers (a malevolent reptilian race called the Setians) are evil beings from another world, here to prevent the savior from ensuring Earth one day moves towards the "light side". Kalika never intended to hurt the child, but was instead ensuring his protection. James had altered the text in Suzama's scripture to cast Kalika as a threat to the baby. Even Dr. Seter himself was deceived by this.
During a confrontation Kalika is mortally injured and gives her blood to her mother, finally saying for the first time that she loves her mother now and forever. She also reveals that Eric (the young man from Phantom) had a terminal illness and that she only killed him to prevent him from suffering a far worse death. After this, Dr. Seter dies of a major heart attack, but not before Sita tells him who Kalika and James truly are and vows to stop him killing the baby. Sita, now incredibly powerful and with abilities beyond those of normal vampires, kills Ory (Sita and Suzama's supernatural enemy in Egypt who later disguised himself as Dr. Seter's son) and his group and returns Paula's unharmed son to her.

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  • Sita: 5000 year old vampire. beautiful, and has fallen in love many times. Caring, but also a killing machine.
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  • “One day you're going to make somebody a great wife," "Thank you. One day you're going to make a girl have a nervous breakdown.”
    Seymour & Alisa (Sita)
  • “That's rediculous. All right, I believe in vampires. I believe in you. I even believe in your bad-tempered daughter. But I don't believe that Jesus was just born in a hospital in Los Angeles. I'm sorry but I can't. It's too weird.”
    Seymour
  • “You don't have to do anything. I'll do it." "But then you'll think I'm a coward." "I know you're a coward," "Is that why you won't sleep with me?”
    Alisa & Seymour
  • “When you point your finger at someone, anyone, it is often a moment of judgement. We point our fingers when we want to scold someone, point out what they have done wrong. But each time we point, we simultaneously point three other fingers back at ourselves.”
    Suzama

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I am a vampire.

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 5 of 8 in The Last Vampire. (standard series)

Preceded by Phantom, and followed by Creatures of Forever.

This is book 5 of 8 in Thirst. (standard series)

Preceded by Phantom, and followed by Creatures of Forever.

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  1. Christopher Pike (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1996
ISBN: 0671550500
Page Count: 224

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