I do not own Van Helsing. I only own Tiffani and Lexi.

Story Start

"I'm tired of being carried by a giant bat, a giant bat who likes to eat cats, a giant bat that I would like to hit with a baseball bat," Tiffani was singing over again as loud as she could. Dracula had carried her through the air in his vampire bat form for a few hours. She was freezing and growing more annoyed by the second. She would have happily accepted a carriage ride or a horse ride to Budapest, but the old version of the bat mobile was not pleasant.

"I still say Batman is cooler than you," she screamed up at Dracula, who had been growling at her more and more through their journey.

Dracula let out an enraged screech before flying towards a dark street in the city below them. She guessed or more likely hoped that they were in Budapest. Dracula transformed to his human form and strode towards her with an angry scowl on his face. "I do not know who this Batman is, but I wish you would quit comparing me to him," Dracula yelled in her face while she gave him a blank look.

"Why so serious?" she asked and he gave another growl before she felt a sharp pain in the back of her neck. "He will suffer if he bit me," was her last thought before she succumbed to unconsciousness.

"I would rather be walking," Lexi thought while sitting in the carriage, which was not the smoothest form of transportation she had experienced.

"Why have we not been attacked yet?" Carl asked and Lexi was jolted out of her thoughts.

"Don't think negative like that or you will jinx us," Lexi said while checking how many silver bullets she had in her gun. She was not carrying any stakes because she had a feeling that Tiffani had killed Verona. She was annoyed that Tiffani had killed two brides and she only helped kill one bride. "Maybe I can kill a werewolf," she thought curiously, as she glanced out of the window on her side of the carriage.

"What if Anna's brother attacks us?" Carl asked and Lexi sighed.

"He's too far under Dracula's control to be his own person now," Lexi explained and she sent up a little prayer that Anna would not take her brother's death too hard. She knew that Velkan would eventually attack them on their journey, but she felt bad that Anna would be the last of her family that was still alive.

"Poor Anna," Carl whispered a gunshot made both of them tense or jump. Lexi gave Carl a gun with silver bullets before she looked out of the carriage window. She did not see or hear the werewolf so she climbed to the front of the carriage. Van Helsing was giving her a surprised look while she could hear Carl's shouts for her to get back in the carriage.

"I can't let you fight the werewolf alone," Lexi explained and pulled out her own gun to use for when then werewolf showed itself.

"What if a bride appears?" Van Helsing asking when he saw that she did not have a stake in one of her hands.

"I doubt you'll have to worry about them unless Dracula made Tiffani one against her will, but even then she would just come here to say hi, not kill us," Lexi said before shooting her gun at the gold eyes she saw in the darkness of the forest.

"Aim at the heart or it will only hurt it, not kill it," Van Helsing's voice said in her ear. His warm puffs of breath made a nice shiver travel through her body. She gave him a wink before pulling another gun out of her coat. She smirked when the werewolf jumped out of the forest and ran straight for the carriage.

Carl's yell of fear made her eyes narrow. The werewolf crashed into the carriage at the same time that Lexi shot one of the werewolf's eyes. The beast let out an enraged howl before slashing its claws at where Lexi and Van Helsing were seated. Van Helsing wrapped an arm around Lexi's waist to pull her out of the way of the attacks.

"A little help," Carl yelled and Lexi quickly kicked the werewolf in the face to distract it from ripping open the carriage doors to get to Carl. The werewolf snarled at her, but she took the chance to shoot it again. The bullet lodged into the beast's other eye, which made the air full of a pain filled cry.

"Finish it," Van Helsing yelled while he tried to calm down and control the horses pulling the carriage. He was also worried about Lexi, who was bravely facing down the now blind werewolf. The werewolf was still clinging to the carriage with an angry snarl on its maw.

Lexi sent up a prayer for Velkan before she shot the werewolf in the heart with a silver bullet. A howl somewhere between a wolf and a human's cry of pain made her heart hurt because of what she did. The werewolf slipped from the carriage, and Van Helsing pulled the carriage to a stop.

"He deserves a proper burial," Carl whispered as he tentatively stepped out of the carriage.

"It's the right thing to do," Lexi agreed with Carl, who was pulling out his rosary.

"We do not have much time if you want to save your friend," Van Helsing said, but Lexi shook her head at him.

"My friend can take care of myself," she said putting on a brave smile even though she was also worried about Tiffani. "She better take care of herself," she thought before helping Van Helsing dig a grave for Velkan.

Tiffani woke up with an annoyed groan. Her head hurt and so did the back and side of her neck. Her eyes widened as she quickly sat up and looked at her surroundings. She was on some Victorian style couch with plush red fabric. She growled when she saw that she was in a gold ball gown with red accents on the sweetheart neck and the bottom of the skirt.

Her eyes strayed from her dress to the actual room around her. Ornate furnishings filled what looked like a powder room, which was just a place for women to freshen up in the past. She saw a large mirror with gold framing on the wall in front of her.

"Let's find out if I get to torture a certain vampire king," she thought with an evil look on her face. She stood from her spot on the couch and made her way to the large mirror. The dress caught the small amount of light in the room, and it shimmered in the mirror's reflection. She noticed that her hair had been put into an up do with a few braids here and there.

The glamor of her dress and hair disappeared when she saw two little red dots in one side of her neck. An angry puff of air leaves her as she crosses her arms in front of her chest. "So he thinks that it is all right to knock me unconscious by force and then get a snack from me without my permission, he has another thing coming," she thought before the sound of a door opening made her step back from the mirror.

A woman wearing a masquerade mask was standing in the doorway. "Master wishes you to join him," the woman said and held out a red mask with gold swirls on it.

"Well then the Master will not have long to wait, I'm excited to see him," Tiffani said politely while taking the mask from the woman. She placed the mask on her face and winked at her reflection. "Let the fun begin," she thought deviously before following the woman out of the powder room.