CHAPTER ONE – DRACULA?

The crude, monstrous machinery about the towering chamber begin their groaning movements and electric discharges with the pull of a large, rusty switch. A raging storm outside adds to the frightening display of the colossal machine with every flash of lightning and rumble of thunder.

"Igor!" Frankenstein calls down from a wooden platform above, "Prepare the brain so I may quickly implant it and get to the reanimation!"

"Yes, master!" Igor responds as loud as he can through the commotion of the machine and storm. Frankenstein makes his way down the steps from the platforms with Dracula behind him as he states, "I am so pleased to have you Prince Dracula on this glorious night. This night deserves an audience that truly appreciates the work of science!"

"Indeed," Dracula replies, "But I have a concern that reanimating a dead man will reanimate his soul as well doctor."

Frankenstein explains with a laugh, "Not to worry my lord! The reanimation of a dead man does not actually reanimate who he was in life. The furthest that will go is the reanimated man's new soul so to say may be founded on the base nature of the former soul and nothing further. Besides my lord," – Frankenstein eyes a very large, basalt tome with antediluvian glyphs etched on its cover in gold. – "had it not been for this book this new vision would have never been seen."

Frankenstein holds the heavy book within his hands and continues with madness in his eyes, "The Philosopher's Stone, the Holy Grail, the Tablet of Hermes Trigemestes, none of them measure up to the power of this! The Necronomicon, Book of the Dead! It is with the secrets of this book that I shall create a new triumph . . certainly greater than the old." Frankenstein looks over his shoulder with an insane look of frustrated loathing in his eyes at a poor, crazed and tormented soul chained to the floor by a collar being tortured by Igor who is thrusting a pole with a flame at the end at him with sadistic glee. Frankenstein finally scowls, "Igor!! Enough! We must begin!"

After setting down the book, Frankenstein marches over to a mechanical operating table where their lays a heinously grisly assembly of body parts pinned down to the table and wrapped up tight in a straight jacket. Right as Frankenstein approaches the table he trips over a large, metal bucket. Painfully sitting up after the fall, Frankenstein looks and to his horror he sees a mangled brain in a puddle of thick blood flowing from the bucket. Infuriated, Frankenstein rises to his feet and bellows, "DAMN YOU TO HELL, IGOR!!"

Igor cowers as Frankenstein continues, "Clean this NOW!!"

"Yes master!" Igor responds rushing to the mess. As Igor cleans up the blood and then eventually loses himself to ecstatically licking the blood off his fingers, Frankenstein paces about in frenzied anxiety muttering loudly, "What am I to do now?!? Oh by God, why did this have to HAPPEN TO ME?!? Alright, I must – I must analyze the problem and my resources! The ghoul perhaps? No! My blow to the back of the head damaged the brain! What am I to do??"

"Doctor!" Dracula calmly called. Frankenstein looks at him in utter frustration and watches as Dracula eyes Igor lapping the blood out of the palms of his hands. So then Frankenstein picks up a large, vicious-looking surgical tool, quietly yet quickly lurks over to Igor and stabs the tool into Igor's heart through his back.

Outside a mob of disheveled villagers carrying torches, pitchforks and all manners of tools and weapons are nearing Frankenstein's hulking, dark tower as the storm rages on around its top. Back in the laboratory, Frankenstein has finished the brain implant at the moment of the mob's approach. So then he pulls down a lever that begins to raise the operating table up through the rainy opening at the top of the tower as Dracula watches from on top of one of the platforms. It doesn't take long for a sudden bolt of lightning to strike the rods emanating from the back of the monstrosity's head causing a brilliant show of explosive sparks.

The mob is closing in on the tower bridge from afar just as the operating table returns before Frankenstein. He clutches on to the edge of the table and looks into the monstrosity's face with a blazing whirl of mad wonder in his eyes. The Monster's left arm begins twitching and Frankenstein eyes this filled with overwhelming surprise and ecstasy. He looks back at the Monster's face and gasps as he watches its eyes snap open. "It's alive!" Frankenstein mutters at first with unspeakable wonder, "It's alive! It's alive!! My God, IT'S ALIVE!! This is what it is to be GOD!!"

BOOM!! At that moment, Frankenstein was pulled out of his ecstasy by a trembling pounding sound different from the thunder outside. A second after being startled, Frankenstein hurries to a barred window and sees below a mob with a battering ram on the bridge slamming it into the doors. Frankenstein then swings around shouting with fear, "What could they . . . . "

He sees that Dracula is no longer standing on top of one of the platforms, but is crouching upside-down on the bottom of it calmly stating, "They want you doctor. And they shall have you."

"What are you talking about?" Frankenstein snaps as he begins placing many tools and tonics into a leather case, "I have committed no offense against them! I have done nothing but keep to my own business here! Now begging your pardon we must be going!"

"Doctor," Dracula remarks as he balances himself across the edge of a huge fireplace, "It is I who will be leaving with your work! You can stay."

"What??" Frankenstein exclaims looking up to see nothing on the top of the fireplace. At that second, Dracula slams his hands down on the leather case pinning it to the table as he scowls ferociously, "CALM YOUR MADNESS, DOCTOR!! This new work of yours will be mine to take with me and I will leave you to your death!"

A surge of fury fills Frankenstein's eyes as he suddenly whips out a sword from under the table and begins slashing at Dracula with it. With each slash however Dracula dodges it with dexterous speed. With a few slashes Frankenstein exclaims, "You shall not touch my work!!"

Behind them, the Monster begins struggling on the operation table and growling catching the ghoul's attention. Eventually, within a second, the Monster rips the straight jacket open and begins tearing the latches off his body terrifying the ghoul. As Frankenstein's fight with Dracula rages on, the Monster gets to his feet looking at the flashing, colossal machinery around him and then he spots the ghoul who begins crawling up against the wall whimpering miserably. The Monster gives a strained grin of sadistic glee so he approaches the ghoul, takes the long-poled torch Igor was using and pierces it into the ghoul's abdomen as it wails and chortles with terror and pain. Blood spurts on to the torn straight jacket about the Monster's body. The Monster dips his fingers into the blood and licks the blood off.

Frankenstein's fight with Dracula ends when Dracula grabs the blade of the sword between the palms of his hands. With a surge of madness, Frankenstein pushes the blade forward and the sword pierces into Dracula's abdomen. Not fazed at all by the pain, Dracula marches forward letting the blade pierce right through his body. Just an inch away from Frankenstein, Dracula backhands Frankenstein across the face powerfully sending him across the laboratory. Dracula then turns around and within a second spots the Monster holding the operating table above his head. Within the same second, the Monster thrusts the table into Dracula sending him into the flaming fireplace.

At that moment, the mob suddenly bursts into the laboratory and eventually overcomes the Monster after some of the villagers are killed by the Monster's fury. They carry him out tied to a long pole along with the unconscious Frankenstein. Right after they leave, the operating table suddenly bounces out of the fireplace and Dracula walks out of the flames almost burned beyond recognition. But then he regenerates his body as he watches the light from the mob's torches disappear down the stairwell.

Once outside and far from the tower, the mob races across the rain-soaked plain toward the village carrying Frankenstein and the Monster with them and after a while they feel and hear a peculiar crack of menacing thunder in the north. Villages away, at the tips of the Transylvanian mountains, there is a massive ghastly glow of phosphorescent light radiating from under what looks like the phantom castle they all know the Son of the White Worm dwells within. And from the top of the highest tower of the castle the silhouettes of three slender gargoyles led by a much more devilish bat- winged monster fly up and through the very bottom of the storm clouds and rapidly come closer and closer to the mob.

Just then, the Monster snaps apart the rope tied around him and breaks the pole in half with the freed force of his weight. He quickly gets to his feet, grabs one of the villagers by the shirt and thrusts him into the air where the villager is grabbed on accident by one of Dracula's brides as she was swooping in to grab the Monster. She flings the villager away dashing him against the side of a tall, thick tree and right at that second another strong villager shoots an arrow at her causing her to screech and flutter off for a second.

Suddenly, the mob becomes engaged in a battle with the bestial vampires as the Monster suddenly spots Frankenstein lying in the mud. He looks at him curiously as if he recognizes the doctor as Frankenstein stirs between consciousness and unconsciousness. After glancing back at the battle, the Monster picks Frankenstein up and staggers off into the woods. A moment later, a villager spots the Monster's silhouette disappearing into the forest so he calls for everyone's attention and then leads a fairly sized portion of the mob into the woods. Under the dark trees, the only thing that lends a good guess to the mob of where the Monster is going is a flash of lightning every once and a while. Eventually they reach the other side and see the Monster entering a windmill far off.

They hurry over to the windmill as the Monster climbs to the top of windmill and once there they decide to start building a fire around the windmill. They begin doing so and before long a raging inferno flares up along the outside of the structure just as the Monster steps out on to a balcony with the doctor in his arms. He looks down at the rioting mob as they begin chanting at the Monster, "DIE!! DIE!! DIE!!"

Seconds later, "DIIIEEEEEEEE!!"

The mob goes silent after hearing this scream come from the Monster's throat causing one of the female villagers to faint. Suddenly, the whole windmill collapses and the Monster disappears into the inferno below along with the doctor screaming in hellish agony.