The Vacuum was certainly a strange process indeed. Tubes interlocked through tunnels, stretching across the entire world, and beyond it. The tubes, depending on the distance traveled, were outfitted to accompany the users. For Andrew and his friend's purposes, their route was only about a 5 minute trip, so they were given the lowest class transportation, standing up. People didn't have to use the Vacuum though, land bridges made across the continents were made for people wanting to travel by land, whether by car, hovercraft, whatever. The vacuum carried up to five people, but was only comfortable for up to three people. Andrew wasn't scared of the Vacuum, but was severely uncomfortable with it, ever since the tragedy with his mother happened.

"So, where exactly are we going?" Andrew asked.

"Well, we thought we would go see your family's most familiar place…" Moriah replied.

"McDonald's?" Andrew asked jokingly.

"Funny, no, Transylvania, it's one of the few untouched spots left in the world, perfect, right?"

"…"

"Andrew?" Hayden remarked.

Transylvania. The mysterious land. The place where my ancestors battled Dracula. The place where calmness was restored. The massive battle that ensued there. It's all so surreal, how could that have happened, and nobody even remembers it? My ancestors brought the world back from the end, and no being will honor it, unless the media exploiting us counts. The meaning of sacrifice for the greater good of humanity, even if means giving up all your desires, ambitions, and friends, to save the hope of mortals… and now it's just a pop culture hit? All people care about nowadays is how fast we can get to Mars, when we can go to Saturn, when food will be ready in pills, when we will have automatic phase distorters… nobody wants to remember the past. They want to be into now. Why worry about what happened thousands of years ago? That's just stuff for history class.

"Andrew? Do you need some sleep or something?" Hayden asked, puzzled.

"… I need to say something real quick, be honest with me guys."

"Sure, what's on your mind?" Moriah said.

"… Do you feel that, the world is too… far?

"What do you mean?

"Well, you guys are smart; you know what the world used to be like. We had problems with medicine, foreign relations, transportation, and the economy. What I'm getting at is we've already solved everything we had problems with. There's no wars, no chances of anything bad happening, it's almost… too good to be true.

"…?"

"I just feel that something in this world is not quite right, actually, things are TOO right, do you know what I mean?

"I can see where you're coming from, but what makes you think that?" Moriah questioned.

"This world has never had problems for the past hundred years, and we are only advancing and advancing. If we continue to top ourselves off, don't you think there's bound to be a limit? I just think that someone could come along and do something bad. It only takes one person to destroy the world, and I fear it."

"I don't think anyone would come to destroy this world, Andrew. Human kind has enough hope that if something were to happen to this world, we could get back on our feet. But you're right... something could happen. Don't let it disturb you though, let's enjoy your vacation, okay?"

"Yeah, you're right, let's have fun on this trip!" Andrew exclaimed.

The Vacuum stopped, and a familiar beeping sound was made. It was time to depart.

The Romanian countryside was nothing Andrew had seen before. So full of green, and pure. Andrew loved it.

"So, this is my homeland?"

"Yeah… what do you want to do?" Moriah asked.

"Let's go see the village of Wallachia."

"Hey, I think we should stay the night at a local inn first… wait, how come this place isn't remodeled, like the rest of the world?" Hayden said.

"Because these are holy grounds, they couldn't just disturb the millions of corpses, and landmarks for tourists." Moriah explained.

"Well, let's get to the inn, I'm starving!" Andrew said with excitement.

Once they arrived at the inn, Andrew and his friends took a quick tour of the inn. This wasn't anything like old hotels. The inn had 5 floors, and every luxury was catered to you, by the Vacuum service, of course. Andrew had gone into the gift shop, just for looks.

"This one looks pretty cool, don't you think?" Andrew said.

"What? A little pouch of Belmont souvenirs? I think you're letting that fame get to your head." Hayden said, shaking his head.

"It is kind of cute though, look at the holy perfume!" Moriah asserted.

"I think the miniature crucifix is the coolest thing, reminds me boomerangs!"

"You two are crazy, for 4000 gold, it's a rip off!" Hayden commented.

"Don't care, I'm getting it."

Hayden just shook his head and walked off to the hotel room, signaling for the two to hurry up and follow. On their way out, Andrew noted something quite out of the ordinary. He saw somebody who looked very familiar, but had never seen that person before. Upon reaching their room, which was very well decorated, Andrew brought it up to the others.

"She… she was wearing this blue cloak, and even though I only saw her face for a second, she looked like she was… my sister. There was just something that looked like I had known her before. Did you guys see her? Did she look familiar to you?"

"No, I've never seen her before… but now that I think about it, she did have a strange resemblance to someone I used to like… it's strange." Hayden remarked

"What about you Moriah?"

"I didn't see her; I was busy booking us in while you two were just chatting."

"She had to be someone I knew! There's no way!" Andrew exclaimed.

"I would forget about it, why would you keep on wondering? You probably just saw her at school or something."

"… You're probably right. I'll just… go get something to eat right now. I'll be back."

"Oh come on, you don't think I'm that stupid, do you? You're not going to look for that girl!"

"You want to come with me? I swear I'm just going to grab some Pork Chop."

"Fine, but take Hayden with you. He'll tell me if you try anything weird."

"We aren't here to get Pork Chop, are we?"

"No, and you know you're curious too."

"I'm not! I just wanted to get some Pork Chop too!"

"Then just go back to the room, and I'll bring you some."

"… Let's just be quick about this."

Andrew and Hayden began looking through the inn, searching for any clues of the girl. They went to the check-in, and asked about her.

"Excuse me, sir, have you seen a girl pass by that has a blue cloak?" Hayden asked.

"No, I haven't, shouldn't you kids be in bed?"

"Kids? My friend here, Andrew, is no kid. He is a Belmont! He could kick your butt without even trying!"

"Sure, look, if you guys don't get out of here, I'm going to-"

Suddenly, something terrifying happened to the manager's eyes. With a single blink, his eyes turned deep red, his iris lush with the color of blood.

"Whoa, are you feeling okay? You don't look so good!" Hayden said cautiously

"…"

"I think we should go now, Andrew."

"Y..Yeah, let's head back to our room. Sorry to have disturbed you, s-sir."

"Oh no, you two… aren't… going anywhere."

"Look, you can't tell us what we can and can't do, let's go Andrew."

As the two walked away, they whispered about what could wrong with him. Andrew had remembered what had happened back at his house, and wondered if this had anything to do with it.

"That guy was crazy! Did you see his eyes? And his voice… it sounded deep and toneless."

"Something was definitely wrong with him, let's ju-"

All of a sudden, a loud crash noise was heard just behind them. Andrew and Hayden quickly looked back to see that the furniture was ravaged. The manager had thrown everything, creating as much chaos as possible.

"Andrew, we need to go, now!"

Right before they ran, the manager looked at them, with his eyes now bleeding, and his face becoming horrifying. Without any hesitation, he sprinted towards the two. They didn't see what was coming.