Chapter Two: Vampires, Batman, and Bikes …Oh My.

Lana was trying to calm herself down in the bathroom. She still didn't know how it had happened.

"Maybe I was drugged? I thought that water tasted kind of funny…or maybe I'm just loosing it?" She said aloud to herself looking back at her reflection in the mirror. Was it a huge rush of adrenaline? No…she definitely wasn't any green giant named hulk. She heard the door swing open following with clacking heels. She pulled herself together.

"No point in talking to myself in here like a psycho…"she thought as she turned to leave the room and walked into three pairs of huge boobs and girls with model like faces.

"Great."
She thought to herself. "Who let the strippers in?" She looked up at them.

"Uh sorry." She said to the three women.

"No problem hunny. So you're the little queen of this joint?" Lilith said to her, staring down at the teenage girl with a smug look.

"Yea, it's my birthday. Uhm it's a closed event too, how did you guys get in?" Lana asked them. She thought for sure that the guys her step-mother had hired from the club would have stopped them.

"Let's just say they're a little tongue tied…" Mel smiled at the girl, with Cari's laugh ringing in the background.

"Well, uhm you guys should go, it's not really…"

"Hey, it's a club and we're here to party…actually we came here for a little more than partying." Cari said changing her tone from friendly to threatening. Meanwhile Mel had already locked the door from the inside so no one else could get in.

"What do you want?" Lana asked, now aware of her threatening situation. "If it's money…or…"

"Humans always think its money. No, we don't need that. What we need… is you." Lilith said walking closer to Lana, voiding the space between them.

"Me? What for?"

"Simple you got something we want; that little stunt back there with your boyfriend; you really think that you just pushed that hunk of man muscle off you?" She smiled cockily.

"First: Brandon is not my boyfriend. Second: I don't know what you're talking about." Lana answered quickly.

"Don't play dumb girl, you won't win against us in a fight." Mel threatened walking closer to Lilith and the girl.

Lana thought for a minute. She had taken gymnastics when she was younger, and some of her step mom's jujitsu classes; she probably could…or at least try if that was her only option. "Maybe I will." She answered.

"Wrong choice." Cari said walking up beside the other two.

That's when Lana watched in horror as the three women standing in front of her changed. Their heads tilted back. Long canine fangs grew from their teeth. Their eyes changed to a shade of crimson red only attributed to blood. Their nails grew long on their fingers; longer than most people's normal manicure for sure. For god sakes, their clothes even changed to something she would expect to see at a sex shop with a kind of Egyptian look…meaning that they were barely clothes and more like skimpy tops with skirts that barely covered the minimum, along with golden bands, necklaces and earrings. She pinched herself. Nope… maybe a little harder? Still nothing. Okay she had definitely been drugged. I mean what the hell was this: some lame birthday prank? It wasn't even close to freaking Halloween!

"Think you'll win now?" Lilith asked playfully.

"Wha…what are you?" Lana asked stuttering.

"Ever seen a vampire before?"

"No."

"Well now you've seen three." Lilith smiled.

"Still want to fight?" Cari asked.

Shit. She looked at the door; it was blocked and locked. She looked around frantically. There was just a glass window over top of the stalls but she didn't have time to climb on toilets and break glass…plus didn't vampires like blood? She didn't have time to even budge.

She looked in fear at the three girls. She screamed. Somehow she doubted anyone would hear over the blaring noise of the music. Dead at her own party…isn't this a kicker?

Mel went to go grab the girl, and caught her wrist in her hand.

"Got you now!"

"Not likely…" Lana said trying to pull away from the tight grip and kicked her in the gut. She let go just enough for Lana to pull her arm away but she got scratched by her nails in the process. "Crap." She stared at her arm, no time for crying.

"You bitch." Mel said staring at her recovering from the hard blow.

"Shit her blood smells good." Cari said.

"Not now. He wants her so we are going to get her." Lilith lunged forward at Lana who was now against the opposite wall cornered.

Lana waited for the blow, but nothing came. Instead she heard the sound of glass breaking and a loud scream. She opened her eyes to see someone in a black long coat and a wide brimmed hat in front of her. What the hell was going on? She looked over the person's shoulder to see that the one with the long black hair had been shot in the arm. She watched in horror as the vampire tore it out from her arm and whipped it onto the ground, clinking as it hit the hard ceramic floor. It healed just as quickly as it had been shot.

"YOU!" Lilith said. "This is a ladies room, get out. You wont get her, you know you can't win against all three of us."

"A ladies room?" He said. He had a strong boyish voice. So he must be around her age? His black apparel and the back of his head made it hard to tell. "Hah, I only saw one lady in this room and I'm definitely not looking at any right now."

"Bastard!" The dark skinned one said…she looked African American maybe? "Odds are still against you."

"You're right… they are, aren't they?" He said as if mocking her. "Well then I'll just have to leave then." Before she knew it, Lana was being picked up wedding style by the guy and being carried up out of the shattered window that she thought for sure the two of them wouldn't have made it through. Damn this boy was quick on his feet…and pretty strong if he was jumping up bathroom stalls and windows carrying her too.

"You won't get far with her!" The blonde one yelled at them.

"We got wings, you got nothing!" The black haired one bellowed.

Lana watched as they disappeared from sight as he jumped off the roof and down to the ground. "What the hell is going on?"

"Tell you later, just shut up and get on the bike."

"A bike? Shut up? Do you think I…."

"Do you want to live?"

"Yes…but..."

"Then get on the back of my bike and hold on."

She looked up to see a black motorbike parked in front of them. Awesome. She's going for a ride with the man in black…or maybe it was his bat-mobile? Who freaking knew? Either way she had no choice. She jumped on. No helmet either? He better know how to drive this thing!

"Are they coming?" He asked her.

"Uhm I don't see anyone." She looked behind her and only saw another wise vacant roadway, with the odd car driving around. It was about twelve midnight if not later…so at least nobody would see her on the back of some random guy's bike. They might get ideas.

"Do you see any bats?"

"Bats?"

"Yes bats."

"Like bats with wings?"

"No baseball bats. YES of course bats with wings. They're vampires for god sakes."

"Jeez, sorry. Uhm maybe, it's so dark I can't tell." Lana looked up behind her to see that there had been some dark moving objects in the sky…could be birds but somehow she doubted it.

"It's fine. Even if they do follow us they can't get to far where we're heading." He peaked back at the girl. "You're bleeding?"

"Yea the one cut me with her nails."

He reached into his cape with one hand with the other on the handle of the bike. He took out a white cloth. "Here wrap it around your arm."

"Thanks, that was nice of you."

"It's just so they can't smell your blood, it will muffle it."

"Oh." She wasn't impressed with this guy. "Where are we heading?"

"You'll find out."

"What is with all this 'you'll find out' bull-crap?" Lana said becoming more annoyed with her mysterious hero…or whatever he was.
She just watched his shoulders shrug before he made a sharp turn going down a side street. She looked around. This was the pretty sketchy part of the city…less streetlights…more creepy. He then sped up immensely and she had to hold on tighter to him. At least he wasn't fat…otherwise she wasn't so sure she could hang on at these speeds. He made a few more sharp turns, causing Lana to close her eyes, scared for her life on various occasions.

A sudden thumping noise from a succession of bumps they had gone over indicated that they had stopped and she opened her eyes. She was in a dark building…but where? She looked around to see glass windows and some holes in an otherwise slanting roof. A church maybe?

"Where are we? Or can you not even tell me that?" She asked the man getting off of the bike.

"It's an abandoned church in the more or less what you would call the "ghetto" of the city. They don't like holy ground; so we're pretty safe here. Follow me."

She followed the figure. She noticed that he lifted up a tile on the floor that he pried up with a knife. She looked back to the bike now hidden in the dark shadows of the church. Underneath the tile was a stairwell. He motioned for her to follow. She obediently went down following the mysterious figure into the dark hallway under the church. The farther they went the closer she got before seeing a light at the end of the tunnel…ironic no? When the reached it, she had to squint her eyes before adjusting to the light to see that it was a large room with books, scripts, electrical wires, wooden tables and different forms of weapons cluttered around. She noticed that there were two other entryways to what she had assumed were other rooms. An underground lair? This was way too cliché.

"So do you want to tell me now what is going on?"

"Sure. You're Lana Veliena, who just happens to be the descendent of the Evelina family…which by the way; really clever trick moving around a few letters…who hold's God's given power to destroy the one and only vampire nation, who are now coming after you, lead by the one and only Dracula…who is actually a reincarnate but we'll have to get into that later…and now you're stuck with me in my underground hideout until we find a way to work this all out. Sound good?"

Lana just stared blankly in the entrance way at the back of the dark figure's head in shock. "Uhm, hold it here for a minute. Can we slow down here? Why don't you just tell me who you are and then we'll work from there?"

"Me?" He asked. Then he turned to her and took off his hat with his gloved hand. "I'm Alexander Van Helsing…but feel free to call me Alex."


Do you like it? Do you hate it? Does it suck? Or is it good? ...because honestly i dont know. Anyway got the premise out in the open here... & I'll role with it if it's worth continuing :) !