Next chapter! Sorry about the length of this one but it had to be this long. I do not own YD.

Chapter 10- Invading

"I wonder where they are?" Erin fussed as she sat down in the van.

"What if they've been killed?" Sam worried.

"Maybe Vlad has drained every breather in the building in rage and is now slaughtering the peasants and pulling out their hearts to drain dry." Ingrid grinned evilly.

"Nice mental image there Ingrid. Thanks." Erin looked queasy. Ingrid widened her grin.

"I bet their doing fine." Robin spun in a chair looking careless but actually was afraid for his best friend. Suddenly there was a slam on the side of the van making it shake. They were all rooted to the spot except Ingrid who got up and opened the door to reveal Vlad, Jonno and Mina all looking scared and thoroughly disappointed.

"What happened?" Robin sat up straight and stopped playing around.

"He wouldn't listen. He knows who I am. I shouldn't have been so stupid." Vlad hit the van in unhappiness with himself making it rock heavily. Vlad sighed.

"To be honest lifting him into the air and breaking his window couldn't have swayed him your way though." Jonno said with a sorry face.

"At least tell me you bit someone." Ingrid huffed.

"No, fortunately." Vlad was relieved he hadn't bit someone; especially not the prime minister.

"Oh." Ingrid slouched back as her expectations were put for naught.

"What are we going to do now?" Robin asked politely with an anxious look at them all.

"I don't know." Vlad looked at his feet.

"On the news, they said that they interviewed someone who knew about vampires."Erin started to think deeply. "Why would they tell the government? What was their motive? Maybe we should search for this person and deal with the root of the problem." the entire group stared at Erin with mouths wide open.

"I love you!" Vlad flashed towards Erin at vampire speed, hugged her tightly like a boa constrictor and kissed her deeply.

When Erin came up for air she stuttered, "Um, I love you too." Erin said with surprise and hugged him tightly also; burying her face in his neck.

"Ehem." Ingrid coughed awkwardly and they tore apart their bodies with Erin blushing and Vlad would if he could also.

"Um, that's a good idea, uh Erin." Vlad clung his arms behind his back and rocked on his heels.

"Good? It's brilliant! No wonder you snogged her!" Robin laughed whole heart-idly.

"Ahahahah shut up." Vlad gave a death glare to Robin who shut it immediately.

"You lifted the Prime Minister into the air?" Sam said with a confused and slightly amused face.

"Yeah... He doesn't like me too much now." Vlad rubbed the back of his head and smiled embarrassedly.

"So we are against the law now." Mina sighed. "And the slayers guild."

"Mina, do you know who they interviewed?" Erin looked at Mina with a questioning look.

"No, they are a slayer though, a young one apparently and still works at the guild." Mina said.

"We need to find them. Can we go to the Slayers Guild?" Vlad asked the slayers again.

"Well, you couldn't be invited in Vlad. You'd have to break in, or rather we would and then you'd have to be let in by us." Jonno answered.

"Can't wait to get the slayers. No offence." Ingrid rubbed her hands together greedily.

"None taken." Mina grumbled.

"We aren't hurting them unless they hurt us Ingrid." Vlad shot a warning glance at her and her face dropped.

"When are we going then?" Robin asked, spinning on his chair again.

"Tonight. Under the cover of darkness." Vlad said as he sat down in a chair in the back.

"Tonight? Don't we have to plan?" Jonno asked.

"We need to do it straight away Jonno." Ingrid said to him. "And by the way, I didn't appreciate you pretending I used to be your girlfriend. Anything like that again and you'll wish you'd never been born Van Helsing." Ingrid sneered and moved away from him as he gave a shiver. Mina got into the front seat alongside Jonno and they all started driving back to Liverpool and the Slayers hideout. Vlad felt more compromised than he had ever done before.

They parked outside the tall and daunting building which would happily take place in a modern horror film; the windows smashed and the streets empty. Erin remembered the night she came here and Vlad and his father destroyed the UV generator. It seemed so far away now. One thing seemed different about this place though; it felt emptier.

"Who's going?" Sam asked and stood up.

"I'm not staying behind this time." Robin insisted.

"Neither am I." Erin stood up. "I'm with you always Vlad."

"You're not getting rid of me." Sam grinned.

"I'm going. I don't want you to make an idiot out of yourself bat breath." Ingrid told Vlad.

"Actually, I was going to ask if everyone could come as it would mean we would have more of a chance against them." Vlad said to everyone's surprise. "But we need someone in the van."

"I could contact Ryan. He knows where this place is and he does whatever I say." Ingrid suggested.

"Yeah, good idea. You do that." Erin nodded. Ingrid put her fingers to her head and sent a message telepathically to Ryan. Within seconds of recording the message Ryan transformed from his bat form and knocked on the Van door and was let in by the Van Helsings who he hissed at menacingly.

"They're on our side Ryan." Ingrid huffed impatiently.

"Good. You are definitely not putting me in that cage again." He still wasn't happy about them being there.

"Hi Ryan." Erin looked at her brother who tried to ignore her.

"Give her a hug you imbecile!" Ingrid ordered him and he did so willingly.

"Erin, please forgive me. I had negative feelings towards you then and Ingrid's hold over me is very strong." Ryan stepped away from his sister as to not be attracted to her blood too much.

"I forgive you bro." Erin gave a dazzling smile. Her heart finally felt at peace about her brother of whom she worried consistently about.

"You'll have to stay in the van Ryan and wait for us to come back please." Vlad said to him.

"Yeah. It's what Ingrid wants." Ryan sat in the front seat of the van and ignored the conversation occurring in the back.

"So, you breathers go in and invite us afterwards once you're sure no-one's around. Then we'll have to find the file room that you told us about and search through the folders. Most likely the perpetrator still works at the Slayers Guild because of what they did. When we get the folder we have to leave without being detected. Okay?" Vlad summarised.

"Fine. Get your weapons then follow me." Mina said while she picked up a knife and waved for them to follow her. Jonno went next and also picked up a knife while Erin picked up a bat and Robin picked up a tiny little dagger and hobbled after them. Vlad, Ingrid and Sam walked after knowing full well that they wouldn't need weapons; even Sam who could be dangerous when provoked even when the full moon was not up.

They walked silently alongside of the daunting warehouse with the vampires wearing black fully. It was one of those occasions when Vlad would give into wearing his leather jacket which he preferred above all else. The breathers shuffled up to the door and with a quick nod from Mina they stepped in silently with arms ready. Vlad, Ingrid and Sam stood outside anxiously while the others walked around inside the spooky building. Suddenly a head popped around the corner of the door.

"Mina says it's alright for you to come in now." Robin said with a grin.

The vampires and werewolf walked up the steps in eerie quietness and as Ingrid passed Robin as they entered the threshold she said, 'Garlic Muncher,' in hatred of him scaring her. He smiled still. The inside was just like the last time Vlad had come here; empty and hostile. The strange thing was no slayer was here.

"Where are they?" Ingrid asked with greed and lust for action.

"Probably guarding more important rooms. They're restricted on staff aren't they?" Jonno said walked forward in a suspicious crouch ready for anything.

"Where are these folders then?" Vlad asked Mina.

"There are two possibilities; in the file room or in the safe." Mina answered professionally.

"I say we split up into two groups and look in each place. I'll go with Erin and Jonno. Mina will go with Robin, Ingrid and Sam. You go to the safe and we'll go to the file room; if you find nothing go to the van immediately." Vlad instructed with a serious face and they all nodded. "Show the way Jonno." Vlad said and they split up; Vlad's group to the left and Mina's to the right. Vlad and the others walked through the pillared hall and then down a narrow corridor silently and quickly with caution until they reached and open door with laughing coming from the room within.

"Shh." Jonno said and walked past quickly with Vlad holding Erin and flashing past it also. "Not much further." the corridor seemed to go on forever and you'd think a vampire would be living there with the amount of cobwebs. Then they came out of the corridor to a large pillared hall with many blue lights lighting it up.

"Be careful," as they walked through Vlad realised what these were. Cages; UV cages like the one that'd trapped his father but on a larger scale. Erin remembered these as her brother was held in one when she had to stake him. They only saw an extremely small vampire only about a year younger than Vlad weeping in a cage. Vlad stopped.

"Come on Vlad." Jonno insisted.

"I can't leave her." Her long black curtained like a waterfall across her tearful face.

"You can't get her out Vlad." Jonno said.

"Maybe we can." Erin said and rushed off to a room on the near side of the wall; she came back quickly holding a garlic gas canister.

"Can you smoke yet?" She asked the girl.

"Yes." She wiped the tears from her face.

"Right. This is an empty Garlic Gas canister. We can do the same thing I did with Ryan." Erin said and opened the canister and stepped through the cage. The girl turned to smoke with weariness and got trapped inside the canister. Erin walked out of the trap and opened it again; the smoke formed a vampire girl again.

"Thank you breather." She gave a hard smile to Erin. "You're the Chosen one. Thank you oh Grandness." she bowed.

"Get out of here quick and hide." Vlad ordered an just like that the girl turned into a bat and flew out a window into the dark night.

"Let's go." Jonno said and they complied; this time running at a faster speed but not being as aware. They reached the other side of the hall and ran through another corridor. Vlad wondered how big this place was; he felt like it was a maze. Then, Jonno came to a sudden stop.

"Here!" he declared just as Vlad and Erin came crashing into him.

"Jonno!" Erin moaned as they got up and brushed themselves off. "More warning next time!"

"I brought you here didn't I?" Jonno sighed and walked through the wooden door into a room with file cabinets all around and Vlad and Erin followed close after. The room was dark and they could barely see where they were going so Vlad clicked his fingers and several candles in the room lit up all at once.

"It wouldn't be an experienced slayer; at least we know that..." Jonno wandered around.

"How do you know that?" Vlad asked out of pure curiosity.

"My dad told me that only an experienced slayer can resist a normal hypnotism and that means that it can only be a young slayer if you're sticking to your hypnotised theory?" Jonno looked at Vlad with eyes holding upsetting memories and Vlad respectfully nodded.

"Where would they be then?" Erin asked as they looked carefully.

"They would be over here. They have sections for the amount of experience the slayer has." Jonno walked over to the nearest cabinet and tried to open it, failing in the attempt.

"Let me." Vlad stepped forward and using telekinesis he unlocked the lock and let the draw slide open.

"Thanks." Jonno smiled in thanks. He flicked through the folders and picked out several then slammed the draw shut again.

"Here are four main suspects I've pick out. I have chosen them because they are not great slayers and they would be easy pickings for vampires." Jonno announced and led the folders them on a table.

"Thompson is currently is currently in Transylvania at the moment and has been there for the last two years according to his file. He last gave a report yesterday and has made no suspicious actions. I don't think he's a possibility." Erin read from one file.

"Sarah Lawrence is currently retaking her field training although she is a fully trained slayer. She has not left the premises in a while on account of her exam." Jonno read out loud.

"Harry Carter; a nervous wreck as of current; he jumps every-time he sees a vampire; isn't fully qualified. He hasn't left the Guild for an official mission so no vampire would have any chance of getting him." Vlad said. They all looked at the last folder.

"Carly Snippet. It has to be her. A fairly average slayer although her reflexes are not on top form and her mind-block abilities not completely reliable. It's her isn't it?" Vlad read out and got excited. "It has to be."

"I wouldn't get your hopes up but I suggest taking this folder anyway." Jonno picked up the folder and started to walk out the room. "Come on." He encouraged and they walked back the way they came with Vlad putting out the flames as they did so.

"Do you think they found anything anyway?" Erin asked as they walked down the first corridor towards the front hall.

"Maybe. I bet they'll find something interesting no matter what." Jonno answered.

"We're one step closer to sorting this thing out and going back to peace again." Vlad was looking forward to the prospect. After that was achieved he could begin thinking about improving lives and working towards Ingrid's insists.

"Why did Ingrid come with you?" Vlad asked. Ingrid wouldn't usually come to help.

"Your dad told her to. He was worried." Jonno said simply.

"I'll thank her when I see her." Vlad said as they entered the front hall.

"Well you can thank her right now if you want." A nasal voice said in the darkness. Vlad squinted and saw the four others being either cornered or restrained.

"What are you doing? Let them go!" Vlad said in a surprised and almost pleading voice. Ingrid and Sam were being huddled into a corner with stakes pointed at them whilst Mina and Robin had arms around their throats.

"We found them wandering around on our premises. Traitors." a slayer hissed at Mina and Robin and spat at their feet.

"You..." Erin was getting angry. They were the traitors not Robin and Mina.

"And you two. Traitors. Keeping bad company I see. A werewolf a vampire and the Chosen one and just when I thought you couldn't stoop any lower you barged into the Slayer Headquarters and planned to steal from us." The slayer spat at the ground again. Jonno kept the folder close behind his back.

"We've not been told anything, anything at all. I wanted to know what is going on so I tried to reason with the Prime Minister but he wouldn't listen. We knew you wouldn't. We had to find out so we broke in." Vlad tried to explain.

"You can't squirm out of this one Dracula. You are wanted number 1. More like unwanted. Nobody wants you; not even your own kind do." another slayer said. They were obviously low on staff as there were only five of them.

"You're quite rude aren't you?" Erin added. Vlad and Robin looked at each-other. It reminded them of the first time Chloe met Ingrid. Good times; so far away.

"Vampires are ruder." One slayer said looking down at Erin with a harsh laugh and then grabbing her by the arm, grabbing Vlad's attention.

"Back off!" Vlad pushed him away with great force making him slam into the wall with a crunch. He was knocked unconscious.

"Sorry." Vlad apologised truthfully. "Erin is off limits and so are my friends." Vlad stepped forward menacingly and the slayers tensed up."

"One more step and your friends are dead." they gripped the breathers tighter. Vlad put up his hands in a surrendering gesture.

"I'll make you a deal then." Vlad said with an idea.

"We will make no deals with the devil tonight Dracula." The slayer holding Robin said.

"Let them go and you can have me." Vlad said ignoring him.

"Vlad no!" Erin yelled.

"I've got to do this Erin." Vlad stepped forward. The slayers raised their eyebrows questioningly. "I will come quietly if you let all of them go safely." and he looked at one of the slayers, 'And you can't track them.' the slayer seemed shocked though he knew that some vampires could read minds.

"Your request is accepted. This lot are of no use to us." The main slayer said and the others looked confused. "Let them go." he ordered. They immediately ceased and Robin, Sam and Mina had a face of shock while Ingrid spat at the slayers ground.

"Go." Vlad said but they did not move. "I said go!" Vlad wished them away. They began to leave slowly. Robin gave him a 'What are you doing?' look, Mina gave him a worried look, Sam gave him an 'are you crazy?' look and Ingrid gave him a look of encouragement.

"Vlad..." Erin said with tear filled eyes.

"Go." Vlad told her. He wasn't sure when he would see her again.

"Come on Erin." Jonno tugged on her arm to follow him. "I hope you know what you're doing Vlad." He gave him a harsh glare.

"I do." Vlad said.

"I love you Vladimir." Erin said as she reluctantly walked out the door with Jonno; tears swelling in her blue eyes.

"I love you too." Erin left the premises as he said so. His heart dropped in his chest though it still did not beat. He was alone.

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Vlad sat in a large, glowing UV cage with his eyes closed and sitting with his legs crossed while he was being shouted at non-stop by people he could easily stop.

"TELL US WHAT YOU WERE DOING HERE?" The slayer yelled at the top of his lungs.

"I told you, we were merely looking around." Vlad teased. No matter what he was still having fun. "And you need to bring a decorator in here. It's very boring." he pretended to yawn.

"DO NOT PLAY WITH ME BOY UNLESS YOU WANT TO GET BEATEN!" He screamed though not jolting Vlad once.

"I'll enjoy the games while they last." Vlad smirked.

"You're not going to get anything out of him Fredrick." A woman rested her hand on the shouting slayers shoulder. "Leave him." she tried to pull him away. The man called Fredrick turned away and they walked off together out of the luminescence of the blue UV light. Vlad still had his eyes closed but now had time to concentrate. He tried to contact the others to instruct them on the path ahead.

"What are we going to do?" Robin asked grumpily. He didn't want to leave his friend and now they had no idea of how this whole thing was going to be played out in Robins mind.

"Knowing Vlad, he'll help us in some way even though he isn't here. He always does. He always comes to the rescue." Ingrid sat there, staring at the wall of the van.

"Right now he's the one who needs rescuing not us." Jonno said with authority. "We need to think of a plan to break him out."

"Any ideas?" Mina asked with silence and uncertain faces received around the circle.

"We can't go back in again the way we did; they'll get us again but quicker and we won't be able to get out of it and that won't help Vlad." Sam bumbled. She got nervous around this time due to the changes of shape with the moon. She had two days to go till full moon.

"Ouch!" Ingrid cried out whilst clutching her head. She felt as though a needle was being pushed through her skull. Someone was trying to break through her mental barriers which she had kept up ever since her arrival back at Garside. Little did people know, that she had strong mental abilities especially in defence of them but she had never experienced this before.

"Are you okay Ingrid?" Sam went to her side with worry.

"Someone is trying to get into my head." She said through gritted teeth.

"It could be important. I suggest you let them in." Mina told her.

"I am not having someone digging through my mind." She glared at her.

'It could be someone trying to contact us. Please.' Robin pleaded. He felt like

He had no hope. He dreaded the thought of what they were doing to his best-friend.

"Fine. But I'm not doing it again." She said stubbornly and concentrated on breaking the barrier. She squeezed her eyes closed and felt the barrier contracting and then she let go, making the shield snap in her mind.

"Oh!" She felt a surge of thoughts flood into her mind and someone appeared to be shouting at her in her head.

"Ingrid! Ingrid! Let me in you irritating, blood-sucking, arrogant, self-centred-" the voice yelled obviously not realising she had let them through.

"Who is this?" she thought back. This persons mind was extremely dark like vampires minds but there was also more light than she had ever imagined possible. Whenever she had talked to another vampire telepathically they were always dull and dim minds unlike this ones.

"Oh, Ingrid haha; sorry." The voice backtracked.

"I said, who are you!" Ingrid sent back angrily.

"It's me. Vlad." the voice said and Ingrid understood. Only his mind would have such hope but be surrounded by darkness and heavy responsibility.

"So that's what you really think of me then." Ingrid sent a thought back.

"what? Oh. That doesn't matter now. I want you to know why I did what I did." Vlad got straight to the point.

"Go on then breather lover." Ingrid smirked and Vlad felt her happiness to speak to him.

"I can break out but I wish to find out more about what's going on here. It's not as simple as we think. They were seriously worried about why we were here." Vlad told her.

"Just don't get yourself staked." Ingrid sighed. 'When are you going to be out? We don't have much time."

"Tomorrow night." Vlad said simply. "I'll be ready then. Can you please be here by at least seven o'clock?"

"Yeah. See you bro." Ingrid said and she felt Vlad's grip on her mind slip away and she was brought back to the world where humans stared at her.

"Who was it?" Ryan asked affectionately. He had appeared to create a bond with her from her biting him.

"It was Vlad. He'll be fine." Ingrid sat back; finally relaxed as she knew what her brother was doing. He would have to come back; not just for the sake of vampires everywhere, but for Erin as well. She hadn't spoken since Vlad's capture and you could see the tears in her eyes. She was heartbroken.

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