Hello, readers! I'm sorry for never bothering to update my previous stories, and I admit that those were kind of a rough start since I made them when I was just about 11 years old (or should I say I just had some poor grammars and such lol) but fear not! I have decided to start all over again, and I am pleased to say that it would yet again be about Anna & Drac (you're free to leave the page if you don't like it.) so yeah. Let's start!
Don't die, Anna. Please.
Van Helsing is waiting for you; you've got cure already.
Wake up.
Wake up!
My eyes flew open, facing the black ceiling, and my back against the cold hard floor of Castle Dracula where I was able to find the werewolf antidote. Good thing I regained my consciousness back. Something warm is trickling down my forehead.
"Mmm I thought I had hit you too hard already. Pity, I was just about to shred you to bits," Aleera said across the room. I remember Carl just pushing off the jar that had the cure.
"Too bad the friar had no skills in combat.."
Carl? Where is he?
"No use of looking, princess. I'm afraid the friar has met his end. Such a poor thing, though I may say he did not suite my taste at all- literally. Blood of middle aged men are just not that tasteful," Aleera added.
"What the fuck did you do to Carl?" I shuddered. This can't be happening, he was the reason why we got here, and how we were able to reach to Castle Dracula in the first place. He cannot possibly be dead. I forced myself to search around for him.
"My, my, my, simple as pie.. I just gave him what he deserved for even trying to damage my face: I drained him, Anna." She explained bluntly. "Frankly, I was wondering of how men like him tasted like.. and my goodness, I shall never be curious ever again!" I will fucking rip her heart out and feed it to the wolves.
God, my head's throbbing from the impact of her strike. Now where in the hell is she? It's too damn dark to even navigate the whole room- she must have extinguished the goblets while I was knocked out.
"It is useless to try fighting, " she hissed through my left ear. I swung my fists at her but I missed. It was hard too see in the dark. Good thing the elixir is attached on my belt. I can hear cackles echoing around the room. "The Master and I will succeed, and together, we will be unstoppable.." A lightning struck outside the window, and Aleera's figure was now visible. Her face, half melted from the liquid of jar, healed instantly.
From the window, I can see the devices generating from the lightning at the other tower: where the Frankenstein's Monster is being used. I looked to Aleera, seeing her mockingly smile at me.
I drew my sword and lunged at her; aiming for her heart. I knew it wouldn't do any damage but I will not die failing to deliver the antidote.
"Once the second bolt strikes the monster, my offspring will finally awake. I never thought that this day would come; to see my children alive! And by then, you will be their first meal," Aleera grinned. Her eyes changed to flash red.
Can't she ever keep her damn words to herself?
Just before the tip of the blade touches her skin, she grabbed my neck and threw me across the room and landed beside Carl's corpse. There I could see a good look of his face: pale and dry from the loss of blood. His eyes were rolled and his feature was as if he was choked. It's hard to force myself to hold back the tears, but there's no time right now for grievance. I pray to God for his soul to reach the Heavens.
Hold on, it looks like he's gripping something in his left hand. I yanked out the object: it was the silver stake.
I rolled and stood up, only to be grabbed again by Aleera by the neck. "I never knew why you were so special to the Master. Back when I had taken you from Van Helsing, the Master ordered to keep you unharmed! He wanted to make you as his own.." the way she said it made it looked painful for Aleera. With that, she transformed to her horrible beast form. She floated while gripping my neck, but she didn't notice the stake in my right hand.
"I was glad that Gabriel managed to sweep you from the Master before he bit you back in the ball. He will only have eyes for me, no one else, not even you, pathetic Valerious," she held me up to make sure my throat was exposed as she drew her fangs. "It is your blood that shall keep me beautiful." There was no time, I have to kill her.
"What do you think of that?" She grinned. I smiled back to her and stabbed the silver stake to her heart. Her grip finally got loose. "If you're going to kill someone, kill them, don't stand there talking about it," I replied as I shoved the stake deeper. She let go of me as I watched her screeched in pain and her skin boiled to burst into thick goop. I picked up the stake, looked outside and heard the clock tower strike 12, and the full moon is present. That's it; It was Gabriel's transformation.
Gabriel is counting on me, and I'm the only hope left for his curse.
The rain finally poured. I quickly stood up and drew myself right outside the window, carefully, just standing on the edge against the castle walls. The other tower isn't that far, I could probably just jump a few feet to the bridge since it isn't that high from where I am. Just. About. 10 Feet High. Just have to land properly.
I took a leap for the bridge, having myself to roll in an odd angle three times. Great, I Landed squarely. Now I have to get up the tower and find Gabriel. I got myself on my feet and ran towards the other tower.
As I reached inside, I looked around. There were machines almost everywhere- things that only a mad scientist could function. The place smelled of metal and the temperature was high from the odd generators. I looked up to see how long the stairs was to reach up where Gabriel is, and it could probably take a hundred steps before reaching the top floor. I can tell battle between Gabriel and Dracula had already begun from all the cries and grunts that could be heard from down here. I hope he's still alive.
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It took me a lot of dwergis to fight just before I could reach a few steps away from the last floor. Finally I can deliver the cure, and once Dracula's killed, my family can now rest eternally in Heaven. My legs are trembling from climbing up the stairs and I was beginning to feel the fatigue inside of me from my previous combats. My breath is getting shorter already. No, I have to reach Gabriel.. There's no time to rest now. Dracula's screeched echoed outside the main laboratory room, then pure silence.
Wait a minute, why was the floor so quiet?
I could've sworn I heard the combat before I climbed. Could it be that Gabriel killed Dracula already? I dragged myself inside, and the room was filled with flames and broken machines and equipment. There was no sight of Van Helsing nor Dracula.
"Van Helsing!" I yelled.
No response.
The room was just quiet except for the sounds of the burning materials. Everything inside was just collapsed and burning. Panic was beginning to fill up inside my head. I then searched for his body everywhere; dug out of any leftover materials to see he was just stuck or got collapsed by anything.
I dodged any falling parts of the broken machines as I walked around the room, hoping to find him. I started to cough and covered my nose as the black smoke was getting thicker and thicker and getting more difficult to breathe.
My lungs were crying for oxygen already and I felt myself slowly getting more light-headed with every step. It was getting hard to search from the smoke.
My legs gave up and I collapsed to the ashed floor. Everything is getting black already. I pushed my hands to the floor to help myself stand up again, and as I looked front, I saw his blank face.
My eyes widened; Couldn't believe what I was just looking at. "No," I shook my head repeatedly. I bit my lower lip, in shocked of the sight in front of me. Hot tears were now falling down my cheeks. It can't be him. It just can't be. All my hopes and dreams, shattered. The cure is now of waste, the strategy plan, now destroyed, from the sight of Van Helsing's chopped head. His facial expression, deathly, from his own blood that almost covered his whole face. I tried to reach him, only to see the fire blocking the way instead. I was coughing more now from lack of oxygen.
I felt a hand over my shoulder, and turned me around. I could only see a black figure due to my blurred sight from my flowing tears.
"Time for us to leave," a dark voice whispered.
Then pure black.
And that's the end of the chapter! Might update in two weeks or sooner. Anyway, please review and leave some suggestions for the next chapter! 3