During a peaceful sleep at Count Dracula's castle, I had an enduring sleep of which I never wanted to wake up from. Sadly, I have to leave this palace in order to get my parents back.

As I slept, I found myself in a place—a mysterious place. It was like some prison. I was locked in a cell with chains on my hands.

Where am I? What was happening?

All of a sudden, mysterious men walked passed my cell. They were dragging two people along with them—my parents!

"Momma?" I yelled. "Mom! Daddy! Mom! Mom! Daddy!"

None of them could hear me or they were ignoring me. They strapped chains on my parents hands.

A man with a whip in his hand raised it over his head. In the blink of an eye, he struck Daddy's back with the whip. Daddy let out a short yelp of agony.

"Stop!" I screamed. "You're killing him! Stop it! Stop!"

Then, he did the same to my mother. "You're hurting them! Please stop! Stop it! Stop it!"

Finally, he stopped and turned to me. He stomped towards me and looked down at me. He raised the whip above his head. Before he could whip me, my eyes shot open and I found myself screaming.

I was in my guest room in my bed. Someone ran into my room. It was uncle Justin. He jumped on my bed and yanked me against his chest.

"Shh!" Uncle Justin shushed me as I cried. "It was a bad dream. Just a bad dream."

"They were hurting them," I panted. "They were killing them."

"KT, it's gonna be alright. We are going to get them back."

"What if we're too late already? What if we can't get them back?"

"We will get them back, KT. Alex is not just your mother. Alex is my sister. I want her back too."

"If anything happens to them…I won't live with myself."

"If anything does…I'll take care of you for your parents' sake."

"Will you?"

"I can…I will."

Following the rest of the night, Aunt Juliet and Uncle Justin allowed me to sleep with them. I felt more safe with them. As for uncle Max and Sarina…I just heard a lot of noises.

The morning returned. Luckily, there was no sun, so Dracula can help us locate the prison.

Outside of the frozen tundra, it was the same quiet Artic. I was riding on Uncle Max's back as we followed Count Dracula.

"I will lead you all the way," Count Dracula reminded us. "Monster hunters are always on patrol. If they spot you, you must run for your life."

"What will they do to us?" I asked him.

"Take you to the prison, do unspeakable thigs to you, starve you to death, and let you die slowly and painfully."

"Sheesh!" said Sarina. "So rude!"

"Guys, I realized something," said Uncle Max. "We don't have a plan to get in or to get out."

"Oh, god," said Uncle Justin. "Count, there's some way to get in right."

"Sure. All you need to do is—"

"Hey, there they are!" yelled a voice from behind.

We turn back and there they were: the monster hunters. They found us.

"Come on!" said Count Dracula,

Uncle Max placed me on my feet and yanked me along as we ran. Count Dracula was behind us and Sarina and uncle Justin were in front of us.

Finally, we stopped. "We lost them," I panted.

"But they will find us," said Sarina.

"Look." Aunt Juliet pointed out. There was a cliff but with a bottom not too deep. "Let's go!" The blonde vampire elegantly leaped into the thing.

"It's a frozen waterfall," said Aunt Juliet. "C'mon!"

Uncle Justin and Dracula leaped down there along with Sarina and Uncle Max. I looked down at it. It looked like a long way down.

"KT, come on." said Sarina. "We'll catch you!"

Everybody locked their hands together and telling me to jump. I crossed my heart and leaped off te cliff.

My heart stopped for the moment. But it started again once they caught me. They placed me back on my feet.

"Careful," wanted Count Dracula. "Baby steps."

I held onto Aunt Juliet's hand as we crept behind uncle Justin. All of us carefully stepped onto the ice step by step.

"Hey, you!" yelled a voice. Suddenly, three guards leaped into the fall and two on the other side. We stopped.

"What now?" asked Sarina.

"You want to get to that prison?" said Count Dracula. "Well you're going even if I have to destroy things. Like this!"

Count Dracual slammed his fist against the frozen water fall. A crack was beginning to form.

"Retreat!" The hunters immediately took off.

Uncle Justin took out his wand an stabbed it onto the ice we stood on. All of us held onto him except for the Count.

"Dracula!" I shrieked.

"Don't you cry, my KT," he said. "I will be back. Farewell, my friends."

He covered himself in his black cape and transformed into a bat. The Count flew away.

The ice was breaking and we hid ourselves in our huddle. Moments later, gushes of water slammed onto us. I couldn't hold my breath quick enough. Water was somehow getting in my mouth choking me.

Uncle Justin said, "It's calming down."

I looked up and we were wet. We floated to the side. Uncle Max got out, and then aunt and Juliet and me.

Once uncle Justin got up, he said, "That's everybody."

"Where's Sarina?" asked Uncle Max. "Sarina?"

We look out to the running ocean where there was no one. There was no sign of struggling in the calm waters.

"No!" panted Uncle Max. "Sarina? Sarina! No!" He turned to uncle Justin. "Why did you leave her? Why?!"

"Max—" He tried to reason with him.

"Sarina! Sarina! No, no, no! Sarina!"

"I'm right here," said Sarina. We looked down to the side.

She was on the ground crawling out of the water.

"Sarina!" I exclaimed. Sarina crawled out of the water, but something about her appearence startled all of us.

She came out of the water soaking wet with no clothes on. Her long hair covered her naked chest and her legs—she had no legs. It was the tail of a fish.

"Sarina, you're a…" I gasped. "…a mermaid!"

"Uhh…no, I'm not." She lied.

"Yes, you are."

"No, I'm not."

"Why do you have a tail?"

"Okay, I'm a mermaid."

"Here." I took off my coat and covered her with it.

"Thank you."

"Can you walk?" asked Uncle Max.

"Does it look like I can walk? I turn back when I'm dry."

Uncle Max bent down and picked up Sarina. He carried her and said, "I got you."