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Chapter 8

Abraham Van Helsing


We sat around the table going through Adam's papers that I hadn't been ready to go through as of yet. But I knew we needed to do this, I resigned myself to the fact that this was as good a time as ever.

Jake and Billy were thumbing through a few papers. I almost felt like they were intruding on my private life and felt violated somehow, with them going over every detail of my father's life that even I wasn't privy to. I sighed, knowing they meant no harm. I also knew that this had to be done and I should have done this long ago, but I couldn't bring myself to do it. I missed Adam so much, and just the thought of reading his journals brought me to tears and made me short of breath.

I let my eyes skim over the papers, looking to see what I should pick up first. It was then I saw the notebook that Adam explained about in the letter. I placed the letter in front of me and picked up it up, remembering how I had seen him write in it so many times before his death. I looked at the cover, running my fingers over the hard front thinking of how much I missed him. I brought the book to my nose, breathing in its rich leather binding as well as the unique smell of pine and tobacco; the smell of Adam that I remembered so well.

"Are you alright Bells?" Jake asked as he noticed my action with this book. I didn't answer verbally, but only slowly nodded, as I opened the book to the first page.

'This is the account of my life as it is now'

Was printed on the first page. I flipped to the next page as it was numbered with the date instead of numerals dotting each page. It began with the first date.

In this month of August, in the year of our lord 1862, on this 21st day.

He went on to explain about himself first and then went in to a more detailed account, as it went on with a different date and year with each page turned.

He was a professor who taught at various times, at the University of Leyden, Trinity College and Oxford University. He taught Anthropology and Philosophy (both secular and religious). In Paris he read a book by an author known as Augustin Calmet. It was about Vampires.

A few days after marring Elizabeth a lawyer came to see him. He informed him that he inherited land from a distant relative in Wallachia. Traveling to Romania he met and had a long conference with some lawyers in Bistritz, while Elizabeth went ahead to the manor to set it up for the night. One lawyer had a collection of Hun and Magyar artifacts which he became engrossed in, losing track of the time while studying them. When he finally arrived at the manor his wife Elizabeth was missing, but he did discover several corpses with XXX burned under bite marks on their necks.

He was frantic as he made his way back to Bistritz. Once there he made the acquaintance of a clergyman and discovered the existence of the Children of Judas, a vampire coven that served Dracula. The priest showed him documents of said coven, and as he read he noticed that the name Dracula was scratched out and something else was written there instead. It looked like Stephan and Vladimir.

Nooo…it couldn't be… Could it? I asked myself as I let my mind wonder for a few minutes, remembering what I had learned about the pair of Romanians that used to rule the Vampire world before the Volturi stepped in and took control. I explained this to Jake and Billy, but we still haven't found a reason for them to come to La Push. I know they weren't worried about a group of shape-shifters. So what is it about La Push that would bring Dracula or Vlad as he is called now to our neck of the woods literally? So, I went back to Adam's journal to see if I could learn more.

Adam discovered the location of the Grand Sabbath of Vampires. (He assumed the Children of Judas were human, but mentally ill occultist.) He went there and found Elizabeth, bound on an altar, with thirteen Children of Judas and Dracula present. Armed, he opened fire with normal bullets only to see they had no effect. Stunned that no harm had come to them, he thought his time had come as well and was surprised at the arrival of priests and soldiers that had saved them.

He refused to have Elizabeth beheaded and staked on a pike. Which was Vlad's signature, he wasn't named Vlad the Impaler for nothing. The priests allowed him to bury her body in a memorial vault, but only if he watched and on the third day they told him what he had to do if she did rise. He hoped with all he had that it wouldn't come to that. That they had only sacrificed her and she wasn't bitten, but on the third day she did rise and indeed was a vampire. His heart was broken when he saw the beauty that stood before him. He destroyed her and swore revenge on Dracula as he watched her burn into ash.

He went to the church to see the priests that helped him escape from the Children of Judas and Dracula and asked what could be done with the parasites that lived off human blood. They told him that there was a ritual that they could do, and if he was the chosen one that he would have immeasurable powers given to him from the one true God. If he was the chosen one his gene would be given to his off spring and they too would be Slayers. He accepted and did the ritual and sure enough Abraham Van Helsing was the chosen one.

For years, he fought and tracked down Dracula only to rid the earth of his kind that he left along the way. They attacked Abraham in force running him to the New World where he stayed after deciding it was impossible to get to Dracula without an army. He knew he couldn't do it alone. So he stayed in the new world and killed as many parasites as he could here instead. He described more in the journal as it went on, including meeting my mother and his thoughts of me being his daughter, but nothing that would help us. I stopped there and told Jake and Billy what I had read thus far.

"Nothing else…"Jake said more as a fact than as a question.

"Look Jake, the only thing I can figure, and I really don't have any proof to back it up, is that the Romanians are trying to take back their rule that the Volturi took from them. But I don't understand why they would do it here. If they wanted to start a war with the Volturi wouldn't they do it directly? I mean…wouldn't they go to Italy and take out the brothers there, why come here? It makes no sense," I told him.

"I don't know honey, we're missing something and I'm sure it's in these papers somewhere. If it's okay with you I'd like to leave them here, maybe later we can take a look again. Maybe pass them to one another…maybe there's something in one of the papers that I didn't understand that you can enlighten us on," he contemplated.

"Yeah, that's fine with me," I replied as I got up and stretched out the stiff muscles in my legs from sitting so long. Jake smiled and pulled me into his arms, kissing my forehead.

"Are you ready to go show those guys how a real warrior fights?" he asked wiggling his eye brows at me. I laughed and nodded.

"Sure Jake, let's go," I told him as we said our good-byes to Billy and ran from the house at a human pace.

"Do you want a wolf ride or do you think you can keep up?" he teased. I looked at Jake and gave him a smirk.

"I think I can keep up Jake, give it your best shot big boy," I told him, as he phased on the fly and took off at wolf speed. I took off in a flash and was waiting on a rock in the center of the field while the pack watched, wondering what I was doing until Jake came into the field. He phased back and slipped on his jean shorts and shook his head as he walked towards me, clearly in wonder of how fast I got here. Once the pack realized what had happened the field was loud with howling and laughter.

"Okay, okay, let's get back to work," Jake replied feeling a little distressed that a woman bested him.

"You let her win didn't ya Jake?" Embry asked hoping Jake would tell him yes. Jake ignored him and ordered him back to train. Jake walked up to me and stood in front of me.

"Well Bells…Let's see what ya got," he specified as I smiled and nodded in agreement.

"Send two of your best wolves after me," I commanded. He looked at me as one of his eyebrows disappeared into his hair line wondering if I was serious. Once he was sure he called out.

"Paul, Sam, take an offensive maneuver against Bella," Jake ordered, as both Sam and Paul looked at him as if he had lost his mind.

"You want us to attack her? She's a girl Jake, what if we hurt her?" Sam asked as Paul nodded in agreement.

"You won't hurt me guys…You won't even get near me," I told them, as they looked at me not knowing if they should trust me or not.

"It's alright guys…really, just charge me. They looked at one another, shrugging their shoulders as they phased and charged towards me, teeth bared, claws extended and before they could even get near me, I was crouched in a fighting stance behind them throwing each of them in opposite directions as the rest of the guys stood with their mouths hanging open in surprise.

They jumped to their feet and charged again, but this time they charged at me from opposite directions, toward one another with me in-between the two of them. Once they got close enough I jumped out of the way as the two ran head on into one another, shaking their heads from the impact. Once composed, they looked around to find me, but I was nowhere to be found.

"Hey guys," I called, as they looked up to find me on a limb of a tree watching their confusion, as once again their jaws dropped. "I told you so," was all I said as I leaned my head back and laughed heartily.

"Okay, okay, get down here Bells," Jake said, as I leaped to the ground landing right in front of Jake with a smile. "Alright Miss Bad Ass, I believe you can do as you say. Now…What kind of powers are we talking about?" he asked, looking at me seriously.

"I've already told you most of it Jake. My sword works with my emotions, I'm fast, I have supernatural strength and my blood is poisonous to a bloodsucker," I said as Jake stopped me before I could finish.

"What? What do you mean your blood is poisonous to a leech?" He asked.

"Just what I said…If a leech tries to bite me it is a death sentence to them. Once they swallow it they're dead," I told him.

"Well that's good to know," he said with a shocked smile as his mind wandered off, as I was sure he was thinking of it actually happening.

"But that still doesn't mean they can't rip out my throat Jake," I told him bringing him back to the real world.

"Oh yeah, right…sorry Bells…what else can you do?" he asked.

"Hell, Jake, I don't know…I've never really given it too much thought, that is until I got here where I've been getting the third degree from you and Leah," I told him.

"Let me think…I guess, I can shield and I can tell when something is about to happen, the closer it gets the more powerful the feeling…uh…I'm also very acrobatic with the speed, it gives me more supernatural agility to move in compromising positions," I told him, as he raised one of his eyebrows while looking at me. "During a fight Jake, get your mind out of the gutter," I told him and he chuckled.

"Sorry Bells, what do you mean you're a shield?" he asked. I sighed.

"I can block most vampires' gifts. I can also keep a mind reader (which some vampires are) out of my head and in doing so; I can block them from reading the packs as well."

"Well that's really good to know, what do you mean by most vampires?"

"Some leeches have gifts that are not mind oriented, where my shield is mentally originated. Where I can stop the mind control gifts I can't with the other gifts, concerning my shield. Now…that's doesn't mean they can harm me using a gift, I'm only telling you how my shield works."

"Okay, so bloodsuckers with gifts still can't harm you?" He asked. I thought about it for a minute before answering.

"Jake, do you realize how many gifted vampires there are out there? If you can imagine some sort of supernatural power, I can guarantee one of them carry it, so I can't stand here and tell you I can withstand every vampire's gift, because I haven't come across all of what is out there, but so far…Yes, I have withstood every attack that I have come in contact with. But, it would be stupid to say I can block all vampire's powers, to do that would be suicide. I have to stay alert, no matter what. I have to treat every attack as if I have never done it before, but always remembering my tactics, always being aware of my surroundings. Just as you and your pack should and I'm sure do. Anything less could get me killed," I told him.

"Understood, Bells, and you're sure something is coming here?"

"Yes, it's not real strong yet, but I can feel it. I'm not sure when they're coming or why yet, but as it gets stronger it will become clearer," I told him.

"Oh and there's something else," I said to him through his mind.

"What's that Bells? Wait…Your mouth didn't move…Did you just speak to me with your mind?" He asked shocked and I laughed.

"Yes, I did…I can speak to you through your mind and in doing so I can communicate with the entire pack with you being the Alpha," I told him.

"Are you shitting me? Can you block out the pack or do they always hear everything we say?" He asked. I looked at him with a furrowed brow wondering why he would care if they heard what we had to say. I know he's been flirting a little, but would he want me now that I've become some kind of supernatural freak? I'm not that Bella, from years ago.

"No, I can cut out whom I please, or just talk to you privately," I told him. To talk to the pack with my mind was one of the perks of being a Slayer. With working so close to shifters, it only makes sense that I would be able to stay in contact with them as a human or even in their animal state.

"Good…" he said as he walked away with a smirk on his face.

We trained the rest of the day. We learned a lot about each other's powers or gifts I guess you can call it. We were becoming a powerful force, a team if you will. We were becoming in-tune to one another's movements and reacting responsively, as we watched each other's backs.

That evening after training, I went back to Jake's to go over the papers once again with Jake and Billy. We once again sat around the table passing paper after paper to one another to make sure we all understood what we read. While Billy was reading the journal hoping to find something I had missed, he dropped the book staring out into space with his mouth hanging open.

"Dad…Are you alright?" Jake asked with no response.

"Billy," I copied trying to get his attention. He looked to me and then to Jake shaking his head. "What?" I asked as he picked up the book and handed it to me pointing to a passage for me to read. Jake leaned over my shoulder reading the same passage at the same time.


Link where I got the information about Abraham Van Helsing: www dot marvunapp dot com/Appendix/vanhel dot htm

The artifacts that were mentioned, I took as I read the definition it as artifacts that you would have found back in the day from the tribes of the Huns and the Magyars. (Hungarian tribe's).

Bistritz is a town in Transylvania, Romania

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