1-Uvertură

There are many stories about the creatures and monsters that live within the mountains of Romania. The werewolf, able to change shape from man to wolf. They can tear a small village apart, yet are rarely seen. Creatures that roam the night searching for their next victims. Half human creatures made from the bodies of the dead and mechanical parts, fitted together and allowed to roam freely. However, the most frightening of all, are the vampires. Many who live in Budapest believe that these creatures do not exist as they live on the side of the Carpathians that do not experience the attacks of creatures who have been denied Gods eternal light. His grace and hide in the shadows, coming out only at night to feed.

But i know that these creatures are real. Mind you, they are not to be reckoned with. They are able to slaughter hundreds in one night, and able to sway your judgement to their side. Can make you think and feel what they wish for you to feel. For when you least expect it, on a nightly stroll through the small villages and towns on the northern end of the Carpathians, they can snatch you up and kill you never to be seen again.

Sitting in a dark carriage being driven towards a very small town, Kya Albarn, sits alone reading a letter that was printed in the London papers just before her train had departed for Romania, where she will remain with distant relatives at Castle Valerious with her Cousins Anna and Velkan. Some how they had gotten in contact with her in her small tavern where she worked and asked her to come and stay as their father had recently gone missing and she was the only person alive that has tied to their families blood line. As the young woman sat in her carriage that was leaving Budapest to the out skirts of the massive city, she couldn't help but to feel some what... fearful to take her place among her distant family. She had always know about them from a young age but they have never contacted her nor tried to visit her. They had always kept to them selves in their small part of Romania. A place where these creatures in the paper she had in her hands now, existed and ran a muck in the streets.

Now as the carriage came to a stop and the burly footman helped the woman out she felt something new that she hadn't felt since her mother and father both passed. She was uncertain of what was to come in the next few months while living in Transylvania, but there was no turning back now. Kya carefully pulled her old leather sack down from the carriage where she was, filled with her few earthly possessions that she still had left to her name, then thanked the carriage driver before going to a small merchant just outside the city gates to try and buy a horse to ride to the estate of her cousins. The merchant gladly sold her one of his horses for half the price of a normal horse seeing as how he knew the Valerious family well and had supplied them with horses for many years. She then thanked the man for his troubles and slung her sack over her shoulder and mounted her horse. Now it would only be a three hour ride by horse following the map that was included with the letter written by Anna showing her how to use the safest path to get to their families castle. Taking a deep breath Kya placed the paper clipping into her corset pocket and took out the map before gently ushering her horse into a slow trot and onto the pathway to begin her journey.

Hello everyone. IT has been a while since ive written any thing and man does it feel good. I know this isn't much of a start to a Van Helsing fanfic but please be patient. Im just about to finish my summer online classes for college then ill have about a week to do wast ever the hell i want before going straight back to college on campus. So as a warning chapters aren't going to come out on a set schedule.

Please let me know what you guys think and ill try to start writing up the next chapter soon.