Cht 11

I'm only here for the girl

This way... The boy instructs as his soft voice is carried hauntingly through the air and then off as it rides on the back of another gust of howling wind through the battering snow fall.

No knowing why, Shaw turns around and moves in the opposite direction. Stopping at a particular wall, Shaw climbs up and then throws herself over it, landing on what looked like a balcony as the snow breaks her fall. Crouching up to the side of the wall next to the open door, Shaw peers in. Across the huge high ceiling hall, what's it with stuck up people and large pretentious near empty halls, was Root and Dracul, leaning down, down onto Root's lips...

Shaw standing and grabbing her spear from the loopholes of her pants, Shaw aims as she charges into the hall, running across it with such speed she uses her momentum to throw the spear with every ounce of strength that she had before watching it whirl through the air.

Whizz...

"Argh..." As Dracul squeals and manages to evaporate at the last minute and avoid the piercing spear just as it passes through the now vacant space and embedding itself into the brick wall.

The spear had travelled with such force it continued to vibrate and shake for a few seconds longer after hitting the wall.

Reaching Root, Shaw scoops her in her arms, "Root" as Shaw quickly examines Root for any major injuries before delicately covering Root's modesty again.

Dracul reappears behind Shaw half way down the hall. "Hahahaha..." As the laughter makes Shaw look up at his reappeared form. "Welcome to my Castle Doctor" as he continues to bellow in pretentiousness, "I am..."

"Not interested starch breath!" As Shaw cuts in fuelled by her fury of her family being harmed, "I'm only here for the girl" Shaw continues in sarcasm before placing Root carefully back down again and standing to remove the spear from the wall behind her.

Also twitching in anger, the egotistical Count breathes out slowly crying at the impertinence of Shaw's interruption. "This is my home, HOW... Dare, you!" He snarls.

"Good for you" as Shaw charges at him again. As Shaw draws close enough she jumps and thrusts both her body and the spear towards the enemy. The spear head was so close Shaw could feel herself hitting the target, only she is stopped by an impenetrable forcefield as both she and the spear hung in the air unable to move.

"Heeeeelllllllp! Help, help, help, help, help, help! QUUUUUUIIICCCCCCCK!" As Todd starts to cry and whine, loudly.

As they were all in an enclosed, dark, damp, confined and crowded space that is the fortress' underground prison cells, Todd's cries continue to echo loudly down the narrow passageways. The brick material of the passageway proving to be great acoustic material as Todd's cries ricochets and bounce off the walls at an incredible volume. As the sounds reach the holding post one henchman couldn't stand it anymore as he removes his hands over his ears and slams them into the desk as he stands up. As the desk breaks and crashes onto the ground he stomps off towards the crying child.

"Waaaaaaaaaaaaa!" As Todd continues to exaggerate his cries.

At that point everyone else in the other cells had woken up, including Jenny, Carol and several other male and female backpackers who were all captured at different times. The four that went missing in Brasnov two nights prior were also present as the others would later discover.

"SHUT UP!" As the wicked henchman stands on the other side of the bars and threatens Todd. Leaning further in and bearing down on him, "or I will shut you up!" He threatens in a lower and directed tone, snarling.

Backing away from him, this only spurs Todd to scream even louder.

In anger the henchman grabs his keys and opens the door. Striding into the cell towards Todd, Gen trips him up in the direction of a sitting Eric, who had his feet up, ready. As the henchman lands in front of Eric he quickly kicks at him hard across the face with both feet and knocks the henchman instantly out.

"Umph.. Ugh..."

"Egor!?" As the other henchman calls.

Silence, and the second henchman walks towards the open cell. Peering in he sees only Egor lying on the brick floor. Turing around he quickly tries to flee towards the exit but as he passes the holding post two chairs are smashed over his head and back. As the second henchman lands on the ground dazed a third chair is smashed over his head as Todd delivers the final knock out blow.

After high fiving each other Eric runs back and grabs the keys from their cell and starts unlocking and freeing the others.

"Nice one kid" Jenny praises as she follows Gen and the others out the exit.

Hugging their mom, Eric and Todd also lead their Mom and the remaining others out the exit.

Wandering directionless and clueless from room to room, "where did the Doc go?" Ray whispers as they all creep slowly down what looked like a lounge room. A huge banquet hall. In fact all the rooms and halls in this fortress were huge.

Just then a handful of henchmen armed with swords, spears, knives and maces of their own pour into the hall.

Seeing them, Ray, Charlie, Jeff and Roberto-Romeo stand their ground as the handful of henchmen also start to form a line themselves.

Facing each other, it was now a stand off.

Running through the kitchen, Eric, Todd, Gen, Jenny, Carol and a few others make a complete racquet and cause chaos as they each scramble and jump over kitchen work tops, under and through open kitchen units, grabbing and through pots, pans, knives, food and really anything they could get their hands on. Sometimes teaming up, this group manage to dodge and beat their way out as they continue on crashing through different rooms and hallways trying to find their way out. Why a Castle hosting vampires even had so many kitchen utensils and perishable foods was a mystery that no one at that point in time had the time to figure out, but they were glad that there was.

The other group, with their guide Mihaela still guiding them, were running through the drawing room, adjacent the kitchen.

Everyone was separated into the two groups because as they ran up from the prison and to ground level a few henchmen spotted them and alerted the others. As the original group of henchmen chased after the first group of escaped prisoners through the kitchen, the back up henchmen chased after the second group of escapees through the drawing room.

Tables, chairs, paintings and anything else that could be thrown were thrown as this group of escapees also fought back against the henchmen.

As Alina and Ionela float into the lounge room the four men find themselves entranced and they instantly freeze to the spot.

Grunting and huffing and puffing as each tries to move, a few henchmen grab at Roberto-Romeo and Ray drag them to the side, Alina Charlie while Ionela beckons Jeff towards her.

The two men could only watch on in terror as the see the youthful female vampires open their mouth and reveal their fangs, fangs which were now on their necks and puncturing through their skin. The pain polarises to the penetrated spot and soon subsides as they start to feel faint.

"Hey lady," as Gen shouts from beside Alina, "suck on this!" As Gen swings the pan in her hand and smacks Alina so hard on the side of the head it sends her flying away. Landing hard onto the ground she is concussed.

Charlie drops to the ground as the hold on him is released, "umph." Slowly looking up at his hero as the pain subsides, "thanks kid!" Trying to quickly stand out, Charlie falls to the ground again. "Maybe give me a few more seconds" as he waits for his own blood to start recirculating his body.

Eric and Todd do the same as they run over to Ionela and start smacking and stabbing her with a pan and a knife. Screaming, Ionela lets go of Jeff and swipes at the boys, knocking Eric to the ground. Watching Eric slide away across the floor, Todd backs away in fear. Smirking,

Ionela turns back around to finish off Jeff, only she is greeted by Carol.

Already with her arm above her shoulder, "let's end this bxtch" as Carol stabs Ionelan through the heart with a broken piece of wooden chair leg.

Screaming Ionela smokes and then finally disintegrates.

It turns out that due to their innocent blood, vampires have no holding power over the children and so they freeze them to the spot. As the children distracted Alina and Ionela, the hold on the adults disappeared and it allowed the adults to then fight back.

In the panic Robert-Romeo and Ray also manage to break free from the henchmen's physical hold on them as they start fighting back.

Diana appears in the room next to Ionela as she helps to pick her sister up.

"Where's Ionela?"

Crying, "they killed her, Diana! She's gone!"

Hissing Diana was mad as she disappears and reappears next to Charlie who had just stood up.

Motioning, a sword lifts from the ground and flies into her hand, and with one swift movement stabs Charlie through the chest.

"Charlieeeeeeeee!" Ray screams as he spots his best friend go down a short distance in front of him, "nooooooooooo!" As he raises his mace and charges towards Diana.

As so much blood was drained from Charlie, he was still dazed as he stood and was stabbed through. As he falls unconscious to the floor he slowly bleeds out what little was left in body, his breath slowing, laboured and... Gone...

Gen turns round to see who was screaming and sees Ray charge towards Diana. Just then the other group of escapees also crash into lounge and join in the fight, which was now becoming one large battle.

Spotting Ray swinging at the blonde vampire, Jenny runs over with her own knives her in hand to help him.

Seeing both sides casualties, Ionela begins to disappear, only she is stopped as Roberto-Romeo jumps onto her and holds her. In shock Ionela doesn't react quick enough as Mihaela and a few other backpackers also start attacking her.

Although hearing the increasing noise of the room next door, deducing that it was probably most likely fighting from all the screaming, Shaw only grits her teeth as she pushes harder into the spear trying to break through the forcefield, as her muscles start to ache and scream at her. Shaw's only focus was to kill Dracul.

Scoffing, Dracul only looks back at her in anger. "Is that all you have, WEAK!" Dracul shouts as he closes his hand and both Shaw and the spear are tossed aside.

Flying through the air, Shaw's momentum is only stopped by her hitting the wall and falls down onto a table, breaking it and hitting the marble floor, "umph..." As Shaw is dazed, again. The spear rattles and rolls away.