Kilik stood on the green hill overlooking the fields of soft grass. The breeze blew gently through his loose, thick brown hair. A squirrel sat on his hand and enjoyed the view too.

"Nice day, eh, Kilik?" the squirrel asked. Kilik didn't reply but simply smiled and nodded once.

In the distance a tiny black figure was flying towards him. He thought of it only as a bird until it oblong wings came into view. Apparently it was a large black bat. It had a passenger on its back which was really odd. The passenger was a little brown monkey with red horns. The bat had a head of thick black hair that blew back in the wind as he flew.

The bat sneered as he flew up. "Hello, Kilik!"

Kilik then recognized the bat as his friend and archrival, Dracula. Dracula's passenger was another of his friends, Monkey Demon. When Dracula flew up, Monkey Demon jumped off of his back and ran eagerly towards Kilik.

POOF

Dracula's small form vanished into the puff of smoke and was replaced by a tall, pale man dressed in all black except for the red lining of his thick, long cape. His face was generally good looking but would make a lousy Don Juan Demarco. His black hair was slicked off to the back except for a few bangs that had been thrown off to the side. His eyes were red a rubies and clear as water. He walked up to Kilik and whipped something out if his cape.

WHACK

POOF

Kilik vanished into a puff of smoke at the touch of the rubber chicken that Dracula had pulled out. His body was replaced with that of someone much taller and a very different nationality. His hair was thick and golden blond that was parted to reveal sea blue eyes that held a furious rage. He wore a French style dueling outfit of red, purple and black and an ornate saber hung at his right hip.

"You…" the man known as Raphael Sorel retorted. Dracula simply grinned innocently as if he hadn't done anything.

WHACK

POOF

In cloud of smoke stood Maxi, Dracula's alternate ego and Kilik's good friend. He wasn't too pleased either. He reached up and ran the palms of his hands over his smooth black hair.

"Aw man, you messed up my hair!" he grumbled. Raphael cocked his head.

"Bah! Don't look at me! I didn't do it," he snapped. Through the remaining cloud of smoke came a girl much shorter than Raphael and Maxi. She had short brown hair with a pink Chinese dress. She had a Chinese sword strapped to her back and she shouldered a rubber chicken. She walked up to Raphael and glomped him suddenly.

"Gotcha!" she squealed. Raphael smiled for once and glomped her back.

"This is not fair!" Maxi whined. Raphael drew his blade and thrust the tip to carefully rest on Maxi's throat.

"Hush," he said. He sheathed his sword, Flambert, and crossed his arms in front of his chest.

POOF

When the smoke cleared, Raphael was gone but a golden bat with a head of rich blond hair hovered gracefully in the air in front of Maxi's face. He flapped his wings and rested himself on Maxi's head.

"OFF!" Maxi shouted. He lashed out with the rubber chicken to swipe Raphael off his head. It was already too late when he remembered what he had done.

POOF

POOF

When the smoke cleared, the sight wasn't a pretty one. Dracula was flat on his chest and Kilik was laying on top of him back to Dracula's back. He was rubbing his arm and wincing. Dracula was desperately trying to get up but was failing miserably.

"Oh…owww," Kilik groaned. Dracula shook his head.

"Get off! Get off! You're heavy!" Dracula screamed. Kilik rolled off to see Xianghua laughing uncontrollably. She bent over and fell to her knees unable to get a hold of herself.

As Kilik stood up, he vanished into a puff of smoke and turned into Raphael again. He turned to Xianghua. "Are you alright?"

"Yeah," Xianghua giggled. "Never been better."

After a minute or so, she took deep breaths to calm herself down. She still chuckled once she was up on her feet again. Monkey Demon was chuckling too.

"Well, that was rather amusing," Raphael chortled.

TWANG

FWACK

"ARRRRGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!" Raphael screamed and fell to his knees. His head hovered inches from his head where a long, steel arrow shaft protruded from his right temple. Blood poured rapidly from the wound and onto his jacket. The veins of the arrow were golden eagle feathers with the tips dyed blood red.

"Raphael! Are you okay?!" Monkey Demon squealed.

"Do I look okay?" Raphael snapped. A girl of about seventeen or eighteen strode up slightly swinging her hips. A five foot bow rested on one shoulder and was steadied by her hand. She wore a simple sky blue tank top and blue jeans. Her hair was pulled back in a ponytail. Strapped to her back was a massive magnum gun that looked way too heavy for any normal person to carry around as casually as she did. Crossed the opposite direction of her back was a quiver full of her steel arrows.

"Atari! Right on target!" she cheered. Raphael's eyes widened in rage.

"What do you mean right on target?" he snarled.

"Uh, duh! What do you think I meant?" the girl snorted.

THUNK

"Mary Kate!" shouted the squirrel that just smacked itself into the girl's head. It was a silver squirrel with a black stripe down her back. She wore sunglasses on top of her head.

"Tiltasquirrel!" Mary Kate chirped and peeled the rodent off her head to hug it. Tiltasquirrel quickly licked Mary Kate's cheek affectionately and scampered down her body. She ran to a tree and climbed up quickly to a branch that hung directly over where Raphael was crouched. She plucked a large acorn from the branch she stood on and threw it hard at Raphael's head. Once again, the target of Raphael's head was not missed. He cried out once again as the acorn sunk into the top of his head.

"Don't you think we're causing him just a bit too much pain?" Xianghua asked. Dracula laughed.

"Ha! The freaky fencing Frenchy pretty boy is supposed to be immune to pain!" Dracula snickered. Xianghua rolled her eyes and approached Raphael. Something was wrong. He had stopped screaming and seemed to be vibrating. Xianghua's eyebrows drew together in confusion. What's going on?

"Raphael? What's the matter?" she asked. Raphael didn't move but the shaking in his body grew worse.

"Blood…" he choked out. He slowly lifted his eyes to meet Xianghua's. They had been turned from rich sea blue to garnet red with an evil fire of hunger. His skin seemed much paler than it already was and his eyebrows pressed down hard against his eyelids. Xianghua backed up slowly.

"Raphael, what is wrong with you?" she asked. Raphael sluggishly rose to his feet and still kept a bent over stance. He bared his teeth in a terrible sneer. Xianghua could see his fangs were growing much longer.

"Need…blood," he huffed. Suddenly, he lunged at Xianghua. Already terrified by the horrible change in Raphael's face, she was unable to move.

"NO!" Dracula cried out and shoved Xianghua out of the way. Raphael flew straight into Dracula, knocking his head off…literally. Dracula's head crashed to the floor and his expression changed to one of pain. His body knelt down and began to feel around for the head. "Over here, you cur!"

"It can't hear you, Dracula. Your ears are attached to your head!" Tiltasquirrel pointed out from her perch above.

"Yeah, this is how you get its attention!" Mary Kate snickered. She walked up to the body and kicked the shoulder really hard. The body jolted a second and then turned to the correct direction that his head was in. It felt around and finally found its head only after poking Dracula's eye.

Dracula stood up with his head back on his shoulders. All his friends except Raphael began to laugh hard. He thrust his hands to his hips and growled.

"What's so funny?" he questioned. Something didn't feel right. He looked down and noticed his cape collar stuck up in front of his face. He also saw his back and bottom. "Oh…heh heh."

He twisted his head around with a deafening crack. The others shuddered. Raphael had his arms crossed and he stared at the ground.

"Forgive me, Xianghua. I lost control of myself there. I have already lost a lot of blood and if I don't drink some soon, I'll totally lose control or even die," Raphael explained, looking up. Everyone could see that his eyes were still red with hunger but not evil.

"RRRAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!" roared a monster as it ran up from over the hill.

"EEKS! It's a chimera!" Tiltasquirrel shrieked and jumped onto Dracula's shoulder. Monkey Demon hid her face in Dracula's neck.

Mary Kate ran forward and drew an arrow from her quiver and knocked it to the bowstring. "Just my kind of filth to fight!"

She pulled the string to her ear and quickly aimed. She let the arrow fly and it hit straight in between the chimera's eyes. She grinned hellishly and knocked another arrow as the beast charged at her.

THUNK! THUNK! THUNK! THUNK! THUNK! THUNK! THUNK! THUNK! THUNK! THUNK! THUNK! THUNK!

The beast now lay on the ground, near death. Mary Kate had no more arrows and one more arrow would be the fatal one.

"Gah! Need an arrow!" she cried. She ran in circles looking for one more arrow. She noticed Raphael looking off into the west, panting. From the side of his head was the last arrow she needed. She ran up, grabbed hold of it and yanked it out sending Raphael into another spasm of screaming. Blood now gushed from the wound on his head.

Mary Kate knocked the bloody arrow, took aim and fired. The beast finally died after the impact leaving Mary Kate to dance in circles. Suddenly, Dracula spotted the blood gushing from Raphael's head and the vampire flame in him rekindled and raged. His already red eyes blazed and glowed with the hunger. He made his way through the cheering companions and over to the bleeding Raphael. He grinned as he carefully took the whimpering man's head in his hands and pressed his open mouth against the wound and tasted his blood to see if it was worth it. He found it to be well worth it. He could taste the blood of different animals and even a few people that Raphael had eaten of. He sank his teeth into Raphael's head and began drinking his blood.

"ARGH! Dracula! You impudent dog! Have you no manners?!" Raphael snapped. He yanked the acorn out of his head. "And what's with this?"

He chucked it at Tiltasquirrel (who had perched herself up on the tree again) with great force.

POOF

"Eh?" the man said that appeared in Tiltasquirrel's place. His eyes were wide with shock and surprise as he fell out of the tree. He slammed to the ground hard. His hair was black and cut short with a leather circlet on his forehead. His eyes were a rich electric indigo. He wore black cotton pants that slightly flared out at his ankles. He wore a sleeveless black shirt with an upturned collar. Both ears were pierced and bore small, simple hoop earrings and an ornate silver and emerald earring ringed the pointed cartilage of his left ear. Silver plastic rimmed sunglasses rested on top of his head. A giant two-hand sword at least six feet long and a foot wide was strapped to his back. "Oof."

"Draike!" Xianghua shrieked in delight. She ran over and glomped him.

"Ouhf! Hey Xianghua!" he said in a smooth, deep voice. Raphael grunted and stood up, taking the feasting Dracula with him. He stomped off.

"Where are you going?" MK (Mary Kate) asked. Raphael turned and pointed to Dracula.

"To get this blasted vampire removed! What else would I be doing?" he growled and stormed away, dragging along the vampire stuck to the side of his head.