Chapter 17 Triumphant Return

The road to 101 Street was by all accounts uneventful, been very early in the morning very few people they arrive to their destination without tracking too much attention of a pair of dogs and a cat transporting a black coffin. The good news however was the fact that on reaching the house they didn't heard any noise but on opening the door they saw all the pups who buried Hunter under them and the boy enjoyed their affection, but on the sight of their mother they couldn't hold back their joy.

"MOMMY!" All shouted and went to hug her and their father, Delilah of course tried to doge them but they buried her completely, but she didn't had any reason to struggle against it, by all accounts she was happy to be back home with all her family around her and safe. The feeling was mutual for all the pups who didn't want to let her go.

"I know darlings I also am glad to be back home with all of you." She said hugging them.

"Happy day this is." Hunter said getting on his feet with a smile.

"And the best thing of all Nosferatu is gone now. The Dark Shadow of Bohemia is no more." Van Hound announced to the cheering crowd of puppies.

"Still who was in charge if Seward came with Dawkins and Da Vinci?" Doug asked getting her head out from the puppy pile.

"I put Hunter alongside DJ, Delgado and Dante." Seward said.

"And we don't want to try again very soon." Delgado said.

"Good thing Doctor Seward called Liana to sing to calm down otherwise things could have been more chaotic." DJ said.

"Who is Liana?" Delilah asked.

"She is the professor's ally and yeah she is also a vampire but she is between the good one. She bit no one." Delgado said with a stressed smile, before another female Dalmatian wearing a long dark cape, around her age appeared.

"I didn't had a reason to, plus I really enjoy singing to little ones when at the clinic." She said while Delilah backed away a bit, not wanting to have another experience like she had with the previous one.

"You don't need to worry mom she is between the good one, she calmed Dawkins with her lullaby when he was attacked. If she didn't do that he wouldn't have recovered." Da Vinci said.

"It is true I really owe her for that, can't believe that vampirical songs could be this affective." Dawkins said with a calm smile.

"And you might need to hear the lullaby again, to make you fall asleep for you to recover." Seward said.

"For him indeed, for me I need to wear earplugs again when she will sing it again." Dmitri 2 said.

"Just like we did." Dmitri 1 followed, "When she sang to the others." Dmitri 3 finished for them, there was no way they will go soft and try to make their brother forget the lullaby.

"Oh, but what was the problem with it?" Delilah asked.

"Long story, short, the vampire songs are very hypnotic. It was only Dawkins who was supposed to hear it." DJ said.

"And when number 2 here heard it, he turned a bit, softy." Liana said before Triple D showed their mother the photo with him dressed at a tea party making her giggle.

"Oh darling this is so cute." Delilah said with a soft smile to him.

"And it wasn't the only weak moment." Dmitri 2 said uncomfortable.

"2 tea parties." Destiny started.

"1 concert with DJ and a dress up with us." Dallas continued.

"2 Poodlewolf games with Dylan, we will remember it." Déjà Vu said while Dmitri 2 groaned annoyed.

"Oh sweetie, we all got our weak moments." Delilah said caressing him.

"And yet how do you know Liana?" Delilah asked.

"We met at Christmas." Liana said.

"It is a long story. Dylan and Dolly will tell you more." Van Hound explained.

"By the way where are Dylan and Dolly?" Hunter asked before Van Hound and Seward brought a coffin inside while closing the door behind them.

"Dylan, Dolly we arrived home." Doug said but no response.

"Dylan, Dolly, are you there?" He asked again and nothing.

"Hmm." Van Hound said with suspicion and he and Seward opened the coffin lid only to smile at the sweat irony, both them are sleeping soundly in each other's arms of course Dylan had his arms crossed. "Sleep of the undead, the most vulnerable moment of a vampire and the most profound sleep, like a coma, you can hardly wake them up." He said before the parents, Liana and the others saw them.

"It is creepy but sweet." Delilah said with a smile for the 2 however he didn't like them in the coffin.

"How do we wake them?" Doug asked before the Dmitri Trio came with an air horn and sounded it for 5 seconds and it didn't worked.

"Nothing! This usually works." Dmitri 1 commented.

"Keep trying." Said Liana with a smile before they brought a pair of cymbals didn't worked they took DJ's radio and played a loud music, didn't worked again then they took a bugle and didn't worked again.

"Come on! What should we do to wake them up?!" Dmitri 1 asked.

"Ah, sleep of the undead tells you something? They wouldn't wake up until tonight." Dmitri 2 said.

"Still let's be sensible if it was another, you wouldn't want to wake him up." Dmitri 3 said.

"Indeed." Van Hound said pulling out a piece of garlic and brought it to the muzzles of Dylan and Dolly who immediately opened their eyes and abruptly woke up.

"Urgh, garlic." Dolly said annoyed by the smell.

"Sorry for that but you needed to wake up and this usually works." Professor Van Hound said.

"Indeed it does, Bram." Liana said with a smirk while he flinched at hearing his name.

"Liana I told you not to." He said turning to her.

"Sorry for that, couldn't resist." She said with a giggle.

"Bram? From Bram Stoker?" Doug asked trying to hold a giggle.

"It is a long story as well, yet I told you." The professor said.

"I know that you don't want talk about the time we first met." Liana said with a smirk while Van Hound was annoyed.

"How was the first time?" Dolly asked now interested.

"Tough dog senior hunter here wasn't always the greatest hunter it is today. I once played him out as I did with another." Liana said.

"Played him out?"

"When he was a novice hunter he accidently heard me singing, and was lured by it." Liana said to the professor's embarrassment.

"And what happened?" Doug asked.

"We had an affair together." She said with a smirk.

"You tricked me Liana, you did that on purpose." Van Hound commented.

"Oh, Bram you just know me." Liana said with a smile before getting out a picture "Plus the results were wonderful, you should try to visit them more often."

"Urghhh." Van Hound sighs at the picture. "It isn't like I don't want to."

"But what happened?" Delilah said and Liana handed her the picture, it was a picture of 3 full Dalmatians and 4 half Dalmatian half German Sheppard hybrid all white, and also each of them had a pair of long sharp fangs, their eyes were either yellow, blue or red, all smiling as for the Dalmatians, all 3 of them were white each having some spots.

"Are those…" Delilah started.

"They are actually dhampirs, half mortal-half vampire hybrids. Unlike the vampires they can move around during the day like normal people also have the abilities of the creatures of the night. And yeah I do admit this resulted out of the affair, which I was under a spell and so was the other one that Liana charmed." The professor explained inhaling deep "It is embarrassing."

"Ha-ha of Professor you should let go a bit of this hunter always on alert and enjoy life." Delilah said with a chuckle and a friendly smile "Besides you were not the only one who did this, and sometimes you have to admit that wonders could happen by combining 2 worlds I admitted that myself, working with many mixed couples."

"Besides." Doug said hugging him "All your kids look so great, you will surely be a good father and I congratulate you, Bram."

"Doug please."

"I can give you advice." He said with a smile while Seward, Dylan, Dolly and Hunter giggled.

"Huh, I will think about that." Van Hound said.

"By the way I guess I have to go, we will see each other again." Hunter said ready to opening the door but outside the clouds seemed to start gathering and was met by 2 new dogs a certain black Goth puddle and a sausage dog.

"Huh? Spencer, Portia what are you 2 doing here?" Dolly asked.

"I came to meet my true love in darkness." Portia said and they knew what was coming. Portia went to Dylan and started to behave when he was his Goth alter ego.

"I knew from the Halloween that you were the one true love that I desire, my anti-hero, the one who by darkness we would be united." She said with everyone looking to one another dumbstruck at the scene.

"I tried to get this out of her head." Spencer whispered.

"Ah, Portia please I don't-"

"Don't say anything, just bite me, give me the kiss of immortality, so we would be together forever." Portia said exposing her neck and from what it seemed Dylan was a bit attracted to it but not to turn her.

"H-help." Dylan whispered while covering her mouth when the fangs came out.

"Liana, if you please." The professor said.

"Already ahead of you." Liana said going towards Portia and pocked her with her finger to turn to her while in an instant she moved her cape over her mouth her eyes turning red, penetrating her mind to hypnotize the Goth poodle.

"You will forget everything you have saw here, you will forget everything about Dylan's evil self and him been a creature of the night. You will go home without memory of what happened and what you saw today in this place."

"Yes mistress." Portia said completely hypnotized her eyes been empty, going towards the door, exiting the house.

"Thank you for this." Spencer said.

"With pleasure, and by the way, no word about this, otherwise what will follow wouldn't be pretty." Seward said

"Been surrounded by real creatures of the night isn't something I desire really."

"Very well and again no word about this no word about this, our friend over here can bite very badly." Van Hound said presenting Liana with a calm smile.

"And by the way I always wanted to taste a sausage dog." Liana said showing her fangs that extended and Spencer gulped sweating in fear.

"No word understood." Spencer said mimicking a zapper closing his mouth and throwing it away before leaving as well.

"Nice one, I really don't want to be on your bad side. See you all around." Hunter said smiling before exiting as well and closing the door.

"By the way I guess that I have to go as well, we will see each other around." Liana said with a smile.

"But wait you can't go outside." DJ said.

"It is broad daylight." Da Vinci followed while Liana opened the door only for it to see rain outside.

"What daylight?" Liana said with a smile.

"But it should have been-" DJ said.

"We live in London remember that." Dylan said.

"In my case we usually use our instincts to know when the best time is to go outside. From what I can tell the rain will last only 1 hour or use online sources to check the weather." Liana said.

"And if you want a good broadcast you should watch channel 30 they have experience people who analyze the weather better. Or like Liana said look online to see how the weather will be." Seward said.

"Or watch the weather broadcast from the Netherlands they got 95% correct." Van Hound added.

"Oh and before I forget there will be an outside concert in the evening in 10 days the music I heard is very good. Here is the program." Liana said pulling out the program from her cape. "We will see then." She said and with a thunder she vanished.

"I really hate when she does that." Van Hound said with bitterness.

"I think I like her professor and the little pups are so nice." Delilah said.

"I know that and yet Liana is annoying, tricky, very mischievous, one doesn't know what to expect-

"And you should marry her."

"And I should mar- MADAM!" He said shocked at what he heard.

"Oh professor, you 2 are just meant for each other not needing to take into account the fangs and vampire issues." Delilah said with a smile to him.

"Plus, the puppies, come on you will surely be a good father…..Bram." Doug said with a smile while making his feel awkward while Seward was giggling.

"Please Seward." The Professor said before pulling out the medallion. "Anyways, let's cure both of you, again."

"Again?"

"They will tell you everything after this." The professor said preparing the medallion.

"Professor before you cure us, I need to do something." Dolly said.

"What exactly?" He asked and Dolly in an instant, slapped Dylan in his face pushing him to the ground the blow of her slap leaving a red mark on his cheek.

"Dolly! Why did you do that?" Delilah asked not expecting her to do that.

"That was for you, you psychopathic maniac." Dolly shouted her red eyes turning sharp and glowing with the anger.

"Dolly!"

"It wasn't for Dylan mom." Dawkins said a bit uncomfortable confusing Delilah.

"Ahem, when your son was bitten the first time, an evil self had formed which took control of him during Halloween when he got enraged and also he returned when I gave his powers back to come and save you madam. And I do recognize that despite not been related actually, it is a bit uncomfortable what his evil side had made him." Van Hound said thinking about this.

"What did he do?" Delilah asked worried.

"The evil vampire bit Dolly." Dizzy said with fear.

"He is a mean one." Dee Dee finished.

"Oh my."

"But after that, Dylan's evil self." Da Vinci started not liking what she is about to say

"Also kissed her, on her lips." DJ finished feeling very sick at what he saw at that moment and their mother was shell shocked on hearing this and turned to Dylan who was ashamed at the act.

"This is to add salt to injury." Dylan commented.

"It wasn't Dylan's fault; he simply could control his evil side. He just took control of him out of nowhere; it wasn't him who did it." Doug explained.

"It is still disturbing."

"And, if he comes out again, I will make sure he will regret it. You hear me maniac!" Dolly said before Dylan was hit by a headache.

"Yeah he heard you very well." Dylan said while Van Hound chuckled.

"Good to know." Van Hound said before curing both of them pouring their powers back into 2 separated vials, after that both helped out Doug to prepare to go to work and Dawkins, in his bed, of course he didn't wanted it but accepted since this will be the last day of his sickness.

"We will see each other don't worry there is no danger now especially, without the Nosferatu." Doug said joyfully after been buried by his pups.

"You know despite everything I will again miss been a vampire, especially after saving mom." Dolly said.

"Ohh, but you will always be my little vampire girl." Doug said hugging her.

"Thanks dad." Dolly said.

"To be honest still it was a bit scary seeing you like that, but it was a risk that was worth it, especially after everything that happened." Doug said.

"I hope it will be the same for mom and Dylan as well."

"He already showed her everything, and they are now tensing to Dawkins everything will turn out eventually." Doug said while taking his helmet up.

"Ready to go?" Van Hound asked.

"Right now, we will see each other in the evening." Doug said before leaving with the hunters while upstairs Dylan and Delilah were tending to Dawkins, both had explained to her what really happened on Halloween and also showed her the whole video which horrified her, but she knew that the one in it wasn't her son, it wasn't Dylan, and yet he was still remorseful and on seeing again what happened from beginning to end he couldn't hold back his crying.

"I am really sorry mom 'sob' for everything that happened." Dylan said in tears hugging her mother in hopes of forgiving him.

"Dylan, darling, listen everything that happened wasn't your fault, it was never you're doing. It was the act of someone else; everything that happened was an unfortunate turn of events. Besides you don't need to apologies for anything. I saw everything and I can tell that everything that happened was never your intention. Besides you Dolly and Liana showed me that not all creatures of the night are evil. And even thou you will forever live with this, it doesn't matter. Because you are between the good ones who showed it when you fought Dakar and no matter what, vampire or not, you will always be my son." Delilah said with tears in their eyes hugging each other.

"I love you mom."

"I love you too, I love you too." Delilah said before turning to Dawkins who was lying in bed.

"I am glad that you made amends Dylan."

"I know, this event was crazy by all accounts, but I am glad that everything turned out well in the end. Thank you for been there Dawkins." Dylan said smiling to him.

"It is me who should thank you this time Dylan, for saving me and mom from Dakar as well."

"I know I am glad that his plans had failed. I didn't want to lose my brother." Dylan said and all 3 embraced one another.

"And tomorrow after you heal completely you can start to build again." Delilah said smiling to him.

"I have a lot to catch up and I guess that I will be sleeping soundly after Liana sings to me tonight from outside, DJ will be around as well." Dawkins said.

"I really wonder how powerful those vampire songs could be." Delilah said.

"Very powerful mom. And when used as medicine very helpful." Dylan said smiling to Dawkins, who smiled back at them, all of them can now sleep the night in peace everyone, now happy that this misadventure was over at last, and could return to their normal lives to a degree once again.