Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN ANY OF THE VAN HELLSING CHARACTERS!!
Summary: Her whole clan, family was murdered by the people they protected, and now she has sworn to seek revenge against them and bring justice to her family's name. But who else to go to but the already dead Count, who is resurrected from the ashes he once was after Van Hellsing defeated him. The Devil is involved, offering her something that many thought was a legend. Her story, her life, her pain...
Second Chances
By JRuki
Chapter 1: Prologue
Blood dripped onto the ashes from a pale wrist, a small smile, and finally she ran from the figure that was forming from the ashes.
Dracula breathed in the musky air that surrounded him. He sniffed around, sensing a familiar scent. Materializing into the room where Verona and Aleera stood.
"Master!". They shrieked and squealed, jumping and clinging onto their master. He looked down at them, confusion in his eyes.
"But how?", his brides waved away the questions and confusion, but failed to notice that their third sister was not with them
"Where is Marishka?", Aleera shrieked.
"We do not know where Marishka is Master!" Dracula frowned but brushed it away when he started to feel the familiar feeling of bloodlust.
"Come my darlings, we must go and feed1"
The three vampires flew out the open window towards the village in the dead of the night.
Aleera was on her way back to the castle when she spotted a human, lying on the snowy mountain. She smirked to herself, pondering over what human would be so foolish as to climb the cold mountain.
With nothing else to do, Aleera decided to see who the human was, flying down, slowly realizing that it was only a mere human child, a young girl.
She strained her hearing for a heartbeat; it was there, but very faint and barely beating.
Something about the child made her heart warm, picking up the child, she flew back towards the castle.
Dracula was in the library, trying to think of why he was brought back to the world. It was definitely not the Devil's work, so who?
Suddenly he sensed an unfamiliar presence within the castle walls, along with his brides. He sensed a heartbeat?
Aleera was putting the young girl into bed, drawing the dusty covers over her pale and cold body, to caught up in the moment to sense her Master's presence.
"Who is that?" Aleera gasped when her Dracula suddenly spoke up to her. She quickly went to Dracula's side, putting on her most convincing and pleading look.
"Please forgive me Master, she was lying there in the cold snow!"
Dracula cast his gaze to the little girl, when Verona dashed into the room, her eyes landing on the little girl as well. "What is the meaning of this Aleera?"
"Please let me keep her Master!! I long for a child of my own, please her stay with us!"
Dracula gazed into the dead blue eyes of his bride, "Very well…"
Aleera squealed in excitement and quickly flew out the castle to gather items for their new daughter, Verona following behind her
Dracula stayed in the room. He snapped his pale thin fingers and a roaring fire erupted from the fireplace, warming the room almost instantly.
He walked over to the bedside, watching the covers rise and fall with every breath the girl took. He stroked her midnight-black hair, brushing away a few stray strands that clung to her pale face.
He contemplated on the thought: He was going to be a father of this human girl…