Chapter 4: Velkan

A few hours later, Anna woke up in her room and got up. She walked out in the hall, having the feeling that someone was watching them. She heard a noise, like a jump behind her, and turned around. She picked up a knife and walked backwards, her eyes searching for the source of the noise. A werewolf jumped out and her and she gasped, and then fired a shot. The werewolf vanished and in a few minutes, someone grabbed her. Anna turned around, surprised, but she saw someone she thought dead and looked at him in shock. It was her brother.

"Velkan?" She asked, shocked.

Velkan nodded, his brown hair was messy, his white shirt was ripped and torn and so were his brown pants.

"I thought you were dead!"

"Anna, you have to listen to me," Velkan said. "I only have a moment but..."

Anna nodded. "Velkan, there's a werewolf in the mansion; you have to get out."

Velkan shook his head. He couldn't. He had to tell Anna this. "I have something to tell you," he said. "Dracula is..."

Suddenly, the full moon appeared and he backed away as he started to transform. Anna gasped and started to cry as she knew what Velkan was. He ripped off his shirt and on the wall. He looked at the moon and then at Anna, his eyes pleading her to do one thing. Run. Velkan looked at him in fear and then started to transform. His face morphed into a wolf muzzle, canines lengthening into fangs and ears going to the sides of his head. He began to rip his skin off as he struggled in the wall. Anna looked away as she cried, afraid of what she will see of what has become of her brother.

Then footsteps came and Van Helsing's voice came. "Anna!" Velkan roared once his transformation ended and he jumped out the window. Van Helsing ran over to Anna shook her. "Anna! ANNA!" She was in shock. Tears stained her face. Van Helsing growled and went over to the glass door and opened it and pointed his gun where Velkan had jumped.

Sonic's eyes widened as he saw the werewolf and gulped, thinking of his own werewolf curse. He sighed and looked at Van Helsing. "That was a werewolf, right?"

Van Helsing looked at him, suddenly suspicious. "Yes. How do you know that? You did not mention about having them in your time."

Sonic froze when he was asked that. "I...er..." he sighed. "It's because I...am a werewolf."

Van Helsing stared at Sonic and then looked at the moon. "Then why are you not transforming?"

Sonic sighed. "It was a long time ago. My enemy, Dr. Eggman, trapped me and created a machine that broke Earth apart but accidentally gave me lycanthropy. At first I could only transform only at night but now I have control over my wolf form."

Van Helsing blinked and growled. "You're lucky that you have control or else I would have killed you on the spot."

Carl ran into the room and sniffed the air. "Why does it smell like wet dog in here?"

"There was a werewolf in here," Sonic said. "I can smell his scent."

Carl's eyes widened and he looked at Sonic with interest, and then at Van Helsing.

"He said he was turned into a werewolf," Van Helsing told Carl.

Carl stared at Sonic. "Really? But you're not transforming."

"I can transform at will," Sonic said.

Van Helsing shook his head, "Never mind." He ran past Carl, who threw him a small bag full of silver bullets.

"You will need silver bullets then," Carl told him.

"Thank you!" Van Helsing said.

Sonic shuddered at the mention of those bullets and followed and didn't notice Anna was still staring at the broken window where her brother had jumped out of. She turned toward the others with teary eyes and slowly followed them as they followed the werewolf's tracks.