Van Helsing : Chapter Three : The Road to Redemption
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Adrina quickly chased after Van Helsing. He walked deliberately and quickly.
"Van Helsing!" Adrina callled. Her golden blonde hair caught the moon's luna rays and it shone as if it were gold itself. Van Helsing stopped and spun around. He waited impatiently for the young girl. "Would you like to know ze whereabouts of all of ze deaths or can you seek out this creature on your own?" She raised a thin eyebrow. Van Helsing rolled his eyes and sighed.
"Go on then," he said, acting as if the matter was of little interest and didn't really concern him at all.
"Ok," Adrina began. She pulled out some parchment from her jacket and uncoiled them. "There have been a total of five men," she began to read the parchment. Her big brown eyes raced the paper. Van Helsing watched the warm eyes explore the paper. "The first, Alder Van Hunt, second, Leonard Blanc, third, Barret Van Tassell, fourth, Wolfgang Pettarson, and, now with the rest being German, this man was Polish and we presume he was here for some sort of business. His name was Aurek Wierny. They all died by the lower part of the torso being ripped from the body. The heads were, also removed," She looked up to Van Helsing. She notcied his face had great concern spread upon it.
"And-" Van Helsing swallowed "And, were has these attacks taken place?"
Adrina removed another parchment, this time with a map of the forest that surrounded the east section of Steinbach. She showed the map to Van Helsing. All the attacks were marked out with a red cross. "Here, here, here, here and here," she said pointed to the crosses. Van Helsing caught the scent of lily flow from Adrina. She looked up at Van Helsing for a reply. The chilly northern wind, blew and whispered spells around the two of them. Everything went deadly quiet. Van Helsing's eyes slowly scanned the surroundings.
"Adrina," he said, nervously "The map, it's just of the forest isn't it? We are we on the map?"
Adrina looked up from the map toward Van Helsing. Over his shoulder she saw the Crucio Belua beast leaping down from a tree, talons out stretched soaring at full speed to Van Helsing. "Gabriel!!!" She screamed and pushed him to the floor. The snow around them burst into the air, and Van Helsing landed on the white surface with Adrina on top of him. The beast's great black talons had skimmed the top of Van Helsing's shoulder and speckles of deep red blood, scattered on the white snow. The Beast had again, vanishedand. All, again was silent. Not even the snow that fell from the sky softly could be heard. "Sorry," Adrina said facing Van Helsing on the floor. She got up from Van Helsing's torso and brushed speckles of snow from her black clothes. Van Helsing grabbed the wound with his free hand and with his wounded arm, pushed himself up onto his feet.
"Was that the Crucio Belua beast?" Van Helsing gasped as a serge of pain raced up his arm to his brain.
"Yes, isn't obvious!" Adrina snapped.
"Sorry," Van Helsing winced. He used his right arm that was initially clutching his wound to remove a crossbow. Adrina too, brought out her sword. Out of now where, the Beast growled and slowly walked out of the dark, snow coloured branches. Van Helsing and Adrina clearly saw the Beast and they both backed up a few steps, both their weapons at the ready. The Beast was standing on it's hind legs. It was at least 7ft talland, it may almost be mistaken as a lycan, had it not been for the two large, curled horns on top of it's head. It snarled menacingly and, as it did so, bared three sets of white fangs. It drooled yellow saliva onto the snow, staining it. It huge, musular arms, tensed ready to strike. It seemed to just egnore Adrina and starred directly into Van Helsing's hezel eyes. As it did so, Van Helsing's pupils became small, until the black circles became nothing more than dots.
"Shoot it Gabriel!!" Adrina cried. Van Helsing's arms became limp and he withdrew his bow from aim. The eyes of the Beast were ... beautiful. The shades of silver made them glint like stars or diamonds. They twinkled greatly and each individual diamond reflected the light. Van Helsing could still here the voice of Adrina shouting, but now it was just a muffled buzzing. Besides the eyes, that were still fixed upon his own, everything else became blurred. The snow and the tree, merged together until the only visable thing was the eyes. Adrina watched as the Beast took a slow step toward Van Helsing. It's eyes, to Adrina were big, repugnant black eyes that seemed to be hollow. It almost appeared to Adrina as if the creature had none at all. She had no idea what Van Helsing could be starring at. 'Surely the legendary Van Helsing can't be petrified of an oversized rabbit?' she thought. The creature, brought it's other foot to the one it had placed in front so both it's feet were now parallel to each other. Still, Van Helsing stood, gormlessly at the Beast. He placed the bow on the floor and dropped to his knees, not taking his eyes off the creatures. The creature placed it's foot, once again in front of it. Not once had it looked at Adrina, or, it seemed, acknowledge she was indeed, even there. Adrina gripped firmly in both hands her sword and ran toward the creaure. She swung back her sword and slammed it fiercely down onto the creatures back. In pain the creature's back, arched inward and it closed it's eyes tightly. Van Helsing shook his head and fell foward landing on his palms. He started regurgitating violently onto the snow.
"Van Helsing!" Adrina shouted "Get up!" Van Helsing wipped his mouth and watched as the Beast's great arm swipped Adrina's face and she flew three metres in the air and landed on her back. She lay there, motionless. Van Helsing reached for his crossbow and looked up at the Beast who was walking straight toward him. He scrambled onto his back aiming directly at the Beast. Van Helsing's eyes, were once again locked into the Beast's silver ones. He dropped the weapon.The Beast's snout was almost touching Van Helsing's nose. It grabbed Van Helsing's shirt with it's talons and dribbled yellow drool onto the leather. Van Helsing's eyes, rolled back into his head and his head, fell loosely back and everything went black.
