"MOVIE KNIGHT: ACT 2"
The scene changed to show a large ship sailing on stormy seas. Words appeared on the screen calling the ship the Vesta, which was bound for England. The crew was in raincoats and fighting to keep the ship on course and not capsizing in the middle of the sea. More worryingly, it was dark with no natural light to help the crew see.
The scene changed to inside the ship where a large coffin was visible. Next to it was Renfield, looking terribly dishevelled, his hair a mess like a rat's nest, and his features tense as if he wasn't in the right mind. He spoke almost zealously to the box, alerting the occupant that the sun had set.
"What happened to Mister Renfield?" asked Apple, looking worried. "He looks...strange."
"Looks like Dracula turned him into a thrall or something," Max answered.
"A thrall?" asked Hunter, holding Ashlynn close.
"Some stories say that if vampires bite someone, but don't give them their blood, they become devoted to them, hoping to be turned into vampires too. Like an addiction," Max explained. "We know Dracula bit Renfield, but it looks like he wasn't turned into a vampire. So now he's just crazy."
"Poor man," Ashlynn mumbled.
Dracula silently emerged from his coffin, his eyes glowing in the darkness with that intense stare once again. Renfield kept talking, pleading with Dracula to keep his promise to him. A promise to be able to consume small lives, and take their blood. Dracula remained quiet as he merely turned to the door outside while the crew continued to fight the storm. He gave one last look to Renfield before he went for the door.
The scene darkened once again, showing the deck of the Vesta, but clearly damaged. Sounds of people could be heard before an authoritative voice alerted everyone to how they could not board the vessel. The screen panned to the ship before the audience could see the shadow of a man tied to the ship's steering wheel. More comments revealed that the man was dead.
"How awful!" Rosabella trembled. "How could Dracula do that?"
"No, the captain probably tied himself to the wheel," Ben answered. "I heard sailors do that so they don't get thrown off the wheel in the middle of a storm. Dracula apparently killed everyone else though."
Another scene showed Renfield in the cargo hold talking devotedly to Dracula, even though he was asleep during the day. As he began to laugh, the people above heard him and opened the hold to find the source of the noise. There was Renfield at the bottom of the stairs, laughing like a madman with a clearly insane grin and a mad gleam in his eyes.
The scene then changed to a newspaper article detailing the incident. It reported that the whole crew on the ship had been killed and that Renfield was the only survivor. Renfield was declared mad and sent to the Seward Sanitarium where he had begun devouring small insects for their blood.
"EEEW!" the princesses in the room gagged when they saw the line.
"Were those the small lives he was allowed to eat?" Nina questioned, gagging.
"It's not like he could kill someone," Rob shrugged. "At least not in the state he's in."
"Well off with his head then!" Lizzie declared. "He's clearly gone mad and not the good kind of mad."
"There's a good kind of mad?" Kevin questioned, baffled.
"Wait a spell, what about Dracula?" Meeshell wondered fearfully. "What happened to him?"
The rest of the Knights' girlfriends were wondering the same thing.
"He's at large in London," Darling concluded. "The authorities must have taken his coffin as evidence, not realizing what it contained."
"That's not true. Right, Lancie? I mean, they caught him, right?" Apple asked.
Apple's answer came when the scene changed once more, a title declaring that the scene was set in London. It was a busy city with cars driving and honking in the streets. It was difficult to really see anything because of the thick fog.
The camera moved to what appeared to be a poor woman who was struggling to sell violets to anyone passing by. Approaching her was a man in a black cloak and top hat. As he came closer, the woman noticed him. She would have spoken, but she looked into his eyes, revealing Dracula with the bright glow in his gaze once again. The woman somehow seemed entranced, unable to move. Dracula drew closer to her, taking her shoulders before leaning closer to her neck as they moved behind a part of the scenery. The woman's scream echoed through the night.
"There's your answer," Lance replied to Apple's question.
"A wolf in the henhouse," Ramona sighed. "No one knows he's there so he can go anywhere he wants."
Dracula was seen again walking down the street with a cane. He seemed utterly calm and looked the part of a gentleman having a night on the town. The image was ruined through as the sharp whistle of a police officer broke through the night, many rushing over to where a body lay on the ground, gasping in horror at the sight.
Dracula came to a theatre, blending in perfectly with the other people of culture there as the doorman let him enter. A concert was playing inside and it was indeed a place of finery. Dracula was met by an usherette who checked his ticket before bringing him to the box seats. For a moment, the camera focused on four people in one booth: two young ladies, a young man, and an older gentleman enjoying the music. As it ended, they all broke into applause.
"Who are they?" asked Nina.
"I think they are the other main characters. Maybe the heroes," Darling suggested.
"Finally, the good guys!" Briar smiled.
Dracula was in the hall, speaking to the usherette, ordering her to deliver a message. Once more the scene showed his intimidating stare and the glow in his eyes. The usherette's gaze was blank before she turned to obey the command.
The usherette asked for one Doctor Seward, which made the older man stand up. Dracula, who was hanging his cloak and hat, used the opening to introduce himself to the group. Their conversation revealed that Carfax Abbey was connected to the grounds of Doctor Seward's sanitarium. Doctor Seward then introduced his companions which included his daughter Mina, who was a cute lady in a white dress, her friend Lucy Western who seemed to have golden blonde hair, and the younger man was introduced as Johnathan Harker.
The conversation included a toast Lucy once heard which the abbey reminded her of. A toast to the dead and those who were going to die. Dracula made an eerie comment when he heard it.
"To die...to be really dead...that must be glorious."
"Um, why would he say that?" asked Ginger.
"Vampires are immortal. They don't age," Rex answered. "Some say that is an ultimate gift, but to others it brings immense suffering as the world moves on, taking away everything familiar and leaving them forever isolated..."
The others in the booth seemed a little shocked at Dracula's words, but he continued.
"There are far worse things...awaiting man...than death."
"...And Dracula suffers with it despite his actions saying otherwise," Rex concluded.
The lights died down as the orchestra began again. In the dark, Dracula turned his sinister gaze towards Lucy, the evil gleam in his features returning.
"I don't like the look in his eyes," Raven trembled.
"Like a predator, he's just found another prey," Ramona said.
"A monster," Rosabella agreed as Gawain quietly nodded.
Cupid frowned when she heard that. She knew Draculaura would hate how her dad was portrayed in this film. It was fiction but it still showed monsters in a bad light. Normies always cast the monster as the villain.
"Not enjoying the movie?" Dexter observed.
"Just...not the interpretation," Cupid answered vaguely.
The scene changed to a room with Lucy and Mina in it. They were wearing nightgowns, apparently getting ready for bed. Clearly, it was a girls night in between the two women. Mina was teasing Lucy rather thoroughly for her infatuation with Dracula. Mina simply preferred a more down to earth man like Johnathan Harker, showing the romance which was sparking between the two.
The women went to bed in different rooms before Lucy opened her window to let the cool air in. Outside, Dracula could be seen walking the sidewalk nearby as a police officer let him pass without any concern. He was barely visible in the darkness as he came below Lucy's window.
"Oh no!" Apple trembled. "He's coming!"
Lucy slipped into bed and was reading a book. She was not paying very close attention to it before she started to get drowsy. In her daze, she did not see what seemed like a large bat flapping outside of her window. Nestled in the darkness, she never saw it before she fell asleep. This allowed the bat to slip inside her room.
The fairy tales gasped in fright as the camera angled away from Lucy, showing Dracula in her room. He took his predatory stance and slowly drew in closer to the sleeping woman, bringing his face closer to her neck.