Author Note: This fic is based on the film Dracula 2000, I would just like to say I do not own anything or anyone involved with Dracula 2000, apart from maybe Gerard Butler: P
Chapter 1: Beginnings
Thunder, lightning, rain. The storm raged on through the night as Mary Van Helsing sat awake, unable to sleep through the thunderous noise. It had been six years since her affairs with Dracula, and she often sat down in the vaults staring at the coffin that contained all that remained after that day he had burned in the first light of dawn. As she had said, if the spirit of him lived on, it would remain forever contained, and so far it had done.
Sometimes she hoped that maybe he still lived on, and that someday he would return. But she realised if he ever did, then the world wouldn't be safe from him, and neither would she.
Simon was always there for her, but there was always something missing, something he couldn't fulfil, something Dracula had left empty inside her…
She jerked from her daydreams as a clap of thunder rang through the sky.
'This is stupid, get some sleep…'
She thought to herself, and rose from her seat next to the silver coffin. As she left she looked back to it, running her hand along the surface…
"Ow!"
She exclaimed briefly, as she caught her finger on the edge. Wiping the blood from her finger she shook her head and ascended the cold stone stairs, the gates locking behind her.
The vault was left in silence, nothing being heard in the dank gloom. But suddenly, a faint sucking noise, and the trickles of blood she'd left on top of the coffin disappeared, seeming to sink through the surface…
"We're going to London"
The decision was final, and as much as Rubeus resented the idea, he couldn't back away from it. This had been a plan in the making for over four years, and it was all finally coming together, Lu would be furious if he drew back at the last minute.
"We've had Draculien tracked for about seven months now, and with some helpful information we've gathered from our sources, we've figured out how to get through the security system of the vault in which he is consumed,"
She paced the room slowly, a look of satisfaction and power upon her face. Everything was finally happening, soon he would be free…
"It will take us a mere couple of hours to reach his location, from there you know the procedure."
The small ring of people around her nodded before disbanding into various parts of the room, gathering equipment and rolling up blueprints.
"Rubeus, a word if you will"
He raised his head and walked over to her, she was standing as always with her face half hidden in shadow…
"Rubeus there have been some discomforting rumours among the workers about you, that have unfortunately reached my ears,"
He closed his eyes and looked down, he could only imagine what she would do next, not one of his co workers among him knew of the lengths of her vengeance, him included.
"I just wanted to ask, do you know the importance of this mission? Can you even begin to imagine what fate holds in store for you if you do not follow my orders?"
He nodded and looked up to her, his pale brown eyes quivering slightly…
"Then do not let me down"
He stifled a gasp as she stepped into full light, no one had ever seen her this way before, and even when she could not avoid light she usually concealed her face in a mask so as to hide the deformities beneath…
Her skin was weak, and transparent, the veins seemed weak and shrivelled underneath. The only thing that resembled her still was her eye, it was matched perfectly with the other, no weakness or frailty, just a deep, rich green that seemed to captivate and charm. Turning away from him she placed the mask back upon herself, and clicked her finger, symbolising that the men where to move to the jet.
"Dracula will return, and he will return tonight"
Mary sighed, it was two in the morning and she was still awake, lying in bed with her eyes wide and restless. The curtains where flapping slightly against the breeze from the open window, and the only warmth she felt was that of Simon beside her…
"You betrayed me…"
Her breath hitched, she couldn't of, she cant of…
"Now it is you, who will die…"She sat bolt upright in her room, it couldn't be…she hadn't heard that voice in six years, he'd been out of her dreams, out of her mind, he wasn't living anymore…
Nightshade gently pushed the glass through the window pain, pocketing the switch laser quickly.
"Be quiet"
Lu whispered,
"We might wake them"
One after the other her men climbed through followed lastly by her.
"The vaults are in the main entrance hall, the guards disbanded years ago when Van Helsing's daughter dismissed them. She thought no one would ever come to find him"
Speed smirked at her as he walked through the door of the study, where just as the blue prints showed, led to the entrance hall. Lu walked ahead of all of them, seemingly eager to get inside. Her boots barely made a sound against the marble floor, and her red hair flew behind her with her cape.
"Voice Verification Process"She held up a tape recorder and pressed play, Mary's voice emitting clearly,
'Mary Van-Helsing'
"Verification Accepted, now begin Physical verification process"Lu reached into her pocket, drawing out a glass eye, and rubbing it gently along the lining of her cape, held it up to the lens.
"Physical verification complete"The veil lifted, and a small pfft of air emitted as the door opened, leading down a stairway.
"Gentlemen, this is it. Prepare yourself to meet Draculien. Remember there are traps, and you know where they are"
Seeing all of them nod in unison, she led the way down, leaving the vault door ajar.
Some of the workers gaped, gasped, some even flinched as they passed the various skulls that lined the walls, for every one of them had fangs, and as Speed realised, they were still sharp.
Luthien smiled as they entered the main vault, and she saw the coffin ahead of them.
"Leslie, the lift"
Leslie walked forward, and using a synthetic procedure she placed the insulating pads on the side of the coffin.
"Everybody move into the vault, keep away from the doorway!"
The men moved around the vault, and as soon as everyone was in position Leslie pushed the coffin from its base. It clanged as clattered as it hit the floor, and the metal spikes rammed down from the ceiling into the stone pillar it had been placed upon, and the Gatling gate swung down into the doorway. Speed flinched, as his elbow had been merely millimetres away from the door frame.
"I told you to keep away"
Lu smiled at him as she walked over to the coffin, she stroked it with her nimble fingers as six of her workers lifted it onto their shoulders.
"You will soon be free…"
She whispered gently, almost lovingly, which is an emotion none of her men had ever seen her express, sometimes they called her heartless, because they had come to believe she had no heart, and if she did that it was withered and black…
"Rubeus, the bomb"
She looked at him with particular interest as he walked over to the wall and followed him; she leant down and placed her head on his shoulder as he set the bomb frame to the wall…
"Now is a time to prove your loyalty"
She whispered, before drawing back.
"Everyone get down, take cover"
She instructed, her voice back to the demanding fashion it was usually in. Rubeus pressed the button and the wall shattered into pieces, leaving a clear route down along to the main street, where their transport was waiting…
"Well done everyone, now move quickly, the alarm would've been triggered by now"
The men ran quickly down the passageway to escape, but Luthien remained behind looking up towards the vault door.
"You tried to kill him Mary, and you almost succeeded…"
She smiled and shook her head, and pair of sharp fangs emerging from her gum,
"But didn't you learn? He can never die…"
Her eyes turned blood red and she swept her cloak behind her, fleeing down the passage.
"Mary what are you talking about, he's long gone now you where probably just hearing things!"
Simon protested as Mary led him down the various flights of stairs in the house.
"I wasn't hearing things Simon, It was like he was right there beside me"
She replied quickly, not turning back but just walking swiftly down every flight of steps, eager to see if her suspicions where true.
"Even if his spirit was talking to you, its not like anyone would be in there with him, he's not alive Mary, and no ones come looking for him in six years-"
He broke off in mid sentence as they reached the ground floor, and saw the veil lifted, and the vault door let slightly ajar. Mary turned to him; her eyes no longer full of determination and wonder, but of worry and despair…
"Something tells me they came tonight"
Lu smiled as Speed and Johnny lifted the coffin lid. Dust flew into the air as the lid shattered on the floor, Johnny had backed off after seeing the half dead creature lying within…
"Bring in the mortals"
Rubeus and two of his co-workers walked in, carrying five people, all who seemed unconscious. With a wave of her hand, Lu dismissed them, before walking over to the coffin and bending over it gracefully, and running her hand down the cheek of the immortal beauty…
"I have brought you a gift, live again my master…"
His eyes flickered open sharply and he rose from the coffin, his eyes red and deadly…
"Feast on them…"
Quicker said than done he had swooped over the five prisoners, sucking them dry. The colour appeared in his skin, his hair becoming thick and full of the colour it had, had all those years ago…
Dropping his last victim, he rose, staring around at Lu's men eagerly, but he merely wiped away the blood from his lips, showing no interest and turned to Luthien…
"You are free"
She had stuttered in her words, the men could see the anxiety and fear in her eyes, for not even she had imagined what would happen in this moment…
She gasped briefly as Dracula pulled her into him sharply, his face barely millimetres from her own…
"And what do I, owe my saviour?"
Her breath hitched, his voice seemed to charm and captivate just with a few words, and his scent was over powering…
"You owe me nothing master, I would have nothing but to see you alive once more…"
He stopped her praises with a finger against her dark lips…
"Do not call me master Luthiene…"
He rested his head on her shoulder, his cheek brushing softly against hers…
"Between us there is no master…"
She felt his hands pull her closer into him still, and everything around them had disappeared, as they had through thought and time…
"Only temptation"
His fangs were bared as he sunk them into her flesh, her brief gasp turning into a sigh as her blood mingled with his own lavishly, the pleasure coursing through her body against the rippling moonlight…
"My secrets are yours…everything I am, is yours…and everything you are… is mine"
He whispered sweetly into her ears, his hand pushing back her red hair as he planted a kiss upon her lips, a single trickle of her blood staining his cheek…
"The world, is ours"