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1907
The world is changed.
London and all her glory has fallen. Fallen to the grip of the Dark Prince. Fallen to Dracula. The vile count's evil overwhelmed this once great seat of Victoriana and spearheaded his campaign for world domination.
How did it come to this you ask? A book. A book that Dracula had been searching for in England, the reason he came to Britain. A book of power so great and dark that Dracula could own the world with it if he found it. And find it he did, buried beneath the ancient calendar of rock known as Stone Hinge. It was said to have been placed there by Merlin himself to be safeguarded, to prevent the potential evil in the world that it could unleash. Necronomicon Ex Mortis; the Book of the Dead.
With this black tome, Dracula's personal power was increased a hundredfold. Creating a storm of amazing intensity to cover the light of day, the vampire merely walked into Parliament and killed everyone inside by himself, slaking his thirst with their very lives. He next set his sights on the figurehead of power in the country: the Royal Family. With an army of fledgling vampires created from Parliament itself, he marched upon Buckingham Palace.
Still in those days, England had protectors albeit reluctant ones. There were after all the remnants of the League. They however proved to be less than adequate against this new Dracula. Allan Quartermain was the first to fall, bullets much less effective than he imagined. Mina Harker, Dracula's own childe, stood in the way of the Dark Prince and fell in less than a minute, only kept alive to become Dracula's willing concubine. Skinner, the new Invisible Man, tried to use his stealth to eliminate the vampire. But senses beyond mortal kin picked up his breath, his heartbeat, his very scent. Skinner was rent asunder in one crushing blow. Of the entire League, perhaps Edward Hyde had the best chance of defeating Dracula. His strength and savagery were unmatched in the British Isles, but the great beast unexpectedly joined with the vampire and helped him deal storm the palace. The last hero to fall was none other than the great Sherlock Holmes. He fought fiercely despite his age to protect the Royal Family. But he was a mere mortal, and could never hope to defeat the overwhelming odds before him. God save the Queen, because only He could. They say of the entire League to live that day, only Nemo made it out alive and not under the demon's thrall.
England was now Dracula's to rule, his vampiric Parliament handing him the reigns of power. Yet he was not content to merely rule one island. He wanted the whole of the world. Using the Necronomicon, he called to arms every dark and evil thing in Europe to his beck and call: ghosts, demons, werewolves, every manner of monster that one could imagine to form his great army. Added to this already formidable force were the great storms Dracula could conjure through his own power enhanced by his book. Europe fell in record time. Africa fell even quicker.
Dracula's needs were not only met by sorcery, but through science! Edward Hyde willingly gave Dracula the secret of the formula that made him the man he was. Given to normal men, it made their darkness come out and their strength increase tenfold. These men made a great standing army; Dracula's Black Guard. Skinner's body was likewise used for science. Having returned to a visible state after his death, Dracula wished to know the secrets of John Hawley Griffin's formula. Dracula employed a discredited and very much disturbed surgeon to carve up the body and discover its secrets and recreate the invisible formula. Dracula was presented with the new formula within a month's time. With it, he created a great spy network called the Invisible Corps. He even honored the surgeon by turning him. The surgeon was very pleased with this and adopted the name the newspapers had given him years prior: Jack the Ripper.
There were still mountains to climb of course. Asia would be quite the formidable task to conquer. It was said to never have a land war there due to the ungodly size of it. That was logical; though why worry about what the cold and fatigue does to your men when your men are dead? Armies of the Evil Dead, the Deadites, raised by the Necronomicon marched through Asia and laid it asunder. With each battle their numbers grew. They were aided by Russian Cossacks in their domination of the massive continent. The new Czar, Rasputin, was grateful to Dracula for setting him upon the throne and would do whatever it took to keep the great vampire happy. Soon, only China remained to be conquered. Dracula himself aided in this, raising great dragons from the dead and setting them against the country. Even the alliance of the dreaded Doctor Fu Manchu, the ghostly Lo-Pan, and Captain Nemo himself were no match for Dracula's newfound might. Asia was secured.
Australia was stricken with fear. It was a country of few men and was isolated halfway around the world from the only help it could get. It was so close to Asia that within a span of a few short months, Dracula's forces had set their eyes on the land down under. It surrendered before there was even a battle. Now only the Americas remained.
They would fall, but not without a battle so fierce it would be known as the World War. Heroes from all parts of the Americas joined together to defend it. Pecos Bill, Brisco County Jr., the Man With No Name, Nicodemus Legend, the latest in the line of El Zorro, the latest Phantom, the Lone Ranger, and even an aged man claiming to be Billy the Kid were among those great heroes. There was even rumor that there was a shadow warrior, working in the night that struck fear into the vampires because it was said he was one himself. These were only rumors however without basis in fact.
What was fact was that there were vampiric forces in the world greatly opposed to Dracula. The greatest of these was the Master of the Aurelius Clan. Of any foe that Dracula faced, he was the one with enough experience, enough cunning to defeat the Dark Prince. But even this black hope was defeated, turned to stone by a spell from the Book of the Dead. With this, most vampiric resistance faded.
The world against them, the Americas fell and fell hard. Some soldiers even turned and ran when hundreds of zombies from Haiti walked out of the surf in Florida and attacked. Christianity was outlawed. Those who had opposed Dracula during the war and lived were disposed of. Legends of the shadowy figure who opposed this new world order still came, but were suppressed. Within ten years of his starting, Dracula held the world within the palm of his hand. And still he was not satisfied. He wanted more. Within time he harnessed the power of the atom. And still he wanted more. He would not be satisfied until he and his vampire kin could walk in the sunlight.