(A/N: I don't own Van Helsing. DARN IT!!!)
Chapter seven.
Bell woke the next morning in her bed. She got up and put on her coat and hat. Bell then walked into the kitchen to see Velkan eating a large plate of eggs.
"Hungry?" Bell asked half laughing.
"I'm starving." he replied.
Bell took a muffin and a glass of water and sat next to her uncle. She bit into the muffin as Velkan looked her over.
"What?" she asked.
"You look so much like your mother, except for your hair."
"I get that a lot." Bell said taking another bite. Carl walked in and saw the two at the table.
"My gosh, she did cure you." Carl blurted out.
"Carl!" Bell said sounding exactly like her father at the moment.
"Sorry." Carl said shrinking back.
"What did you do this time, Carl?" Van Helsing said smirking behind the friar. Carl looked down and mumbled to himself as he walked over to the table with a beagle in his hand. He concentrated on the tabletop.
"Did you scare Carl already?" Anna asked as she came in smiling.
"Not yet mom." Bell stated licking her fingers from her muffin.
They heard screaming from the town. But it was daylight, it couldn't be the vampires (however, the sky was clouded over). Velkan and Bell looked at each other, both knowing they were thinking of the same thing. They ran passed Anna and Van Helsing on their way out into the hallway. Van Helsing immediately took after them, and Anna after him. Carl leaned back in his chair and looked up to find the room empty.
"Where did everyone go?" he asked looking around.
When they got to the village, a man was standing in the center of the square with hands glowing a red color.
"Marcus." Bell said eye widening.
Marcus turned to the group and saw Bell. He smiled.
"Hello little one. Fancy seeing you again." he said. Something landed next to Marcus, it was Dracula (human form) and his two brides, Aleera and Valerie (bat form). One with short black hair and one with short brown hair appeared next to him as well.
"New brides." Bell whispered as she slowly backed up behind her uncle, mother and father.
"What do you want?" Van Helsing asked.
"The girl behind you." Valerie hissed.
Bell was scared, yes, but she wasn't going to show it. She slyly pulled something out of her coat.
Aleera flew past them and knocked Bell to the ground. A silver point appeared out of Aleera's back. The bride screamed as she died. Bell pushed herself up off the ground with the silver stake still in her hand.
"One down." Bell said seeing the shocked faces on her family's face. Valerie screamed and flew toward Bell. Bell dived and rolled to the side as red light shot at the place she once was.
Van Helsing was off immediately taking on Marcus and Anna and Velkan took on Dracula, who was trying to get Bell as well.
"Why do they want me so bad?" Bell asked herself. She scrambled up and pulled out her dad's tojo blade. She had borrowed a smaller version of them from Carl, he just didn't know she borrowed them. Valerie dived for her as Bell switched on the blades. Bell spun to the side as she cut Valerie open. The vampire screamed but then healed herself. Bell quickly traded out the blades for her favorite pistol. It was loaded with tiny silver stakes that doubled as bullets if need be. Valerie swooped down and Bell fired off. She hit the vampire in the wings and in the face before she was knocked backwards. Bell picked herself up and fired again. An arrow flew through the air and hit Valerie in the heart.
Bell looked to see her father using the crossbow again. Marcus picked himself up and was sneaking up on her father. Bell burst forward pulling her sword out. Marcus fired a ball of red flame at Van Helsing's back. Bell swung her sword and knocked it back at Marcus, who dodged it.
"Stubborn little thing aren't you?" Marcus asked. Dracula appeared beside him.
"You don't know the half of it." the vampire told him.
"Um…Dad, we have a problem." Bell said backing up. Van Helsing turned around and saw the sorcerer and the vampire. Van Helsing pushed Bell behind him. Bell saw the new brides on the other side of Van Helsing, but Anna and Velkan got in front of her. Bell was in the center of a triangle, which was surrounded by three vampires and a sorcerer. There was silence and no movement for a moment. Then, it all exploded. The vampires lunged forward and Van Helsing shot off his arrows. Bell pulled out her pistol and fired at Marcus. She hit him squarely in the heart. Marcus fell dead in a matter of seconds.
"No matter what, you're still a warlock." Bell mumbled as she dodged the black haired bride.
"Bell, get inside somewhere!" Anna shouted. Bell dived into the first place she saw, which was a barn. Bell turned around and locked the door behind her. She could hear the battle raging outside the door as she leaned against it. Suddenly, all the sound stopped. Not even a voice was heard. Bell slowly opened the door and walked out into the square. Her eyes widened.
"Uncle Velkan!" Bell shouted running toward his side. Velkan was on the ground with a bloody shoulder and a large cut in his stomach
"Bell, at least you're safe." Velkan said but she could barely hear him. "Dracula, he took them."
"Who did he take?" Bell asked feeling a knot in her stomach.
"Anna and Gabriel. Bell, Dracula took you're parents." Velkan said before he blacked out. Bell bowed her head and closed her eyes to stop the tears. She hoisted Velkan up and dragged him up to Valerious Manor.
Carl was in the kitchen when he heard the front door slam. He walked to the front door with his nose in a book.
"Van Helsing, you really should tell me when you all are leaving." he said.
"Not now Carl." he heard, but it wasn't Van Helsing's voice. He looked up to see Bell holding up an unconscious Velkan.
"My God, what happened?" Carl asked closing his book and walking over to help Bell. He went to Velkan's other side and held him up.
"I'll tell you later." Bell grunted as they lugged Velkan to his room. They got Velkan to his room and laid him on the bed. Carl got bandages and began to work on Velkan's stomach while Bell wrapped up his shoulder.
"So, what happened?" Carl asked.
"Marcus, the one who brought Dracula to life, was in the town square. Dracula was to, along with his brides. Now, he had found two new ones so it was six to four. We killed Aleera and a blond bride along with Marcus. Dracula got really mad and things just got worse." Bell said avoiding eye contact with him. She didn't want him to see her eyes watering.
"Mom told me to hide so I did. When I came back out, I found Velkan like this and he told me," Bell stopped for a second. She took in a breath. "He told me that Dracula took my parents."
Carl looked at the girl in front of him. The fearless lady warrior was gone and in its place was a girl, just a girl who wanted her parents back. Carl couldn't see all of her eyes, but the part of them he did see were filled with sadness.
Bell stood up and went to her room. She silently closed the door behind her and fell down on her bed. She was shaking. Not from cold, but from anger. She loathed Dracula. He took her family from her. Her grandparents, and now her parents. She would give almost anything at that moment to be the one to kill Dracula. She was also shaking from some fear. What was Dracula going to do with her parents? Would he hurt them? Would he kill them, or worse, turn them both into vampires?
Bell took off her hat and threw it as hard as she could as she screamed from aggravation. Carl heard this and shook his head.
"She is so much like her father." he mumbled.
Bell stood and grabbed a chair and tossed it across the room. She screamed as she threw it. The chair hit the wall and broke into several pieces. Bell fell on top of her bed and stuck her face in her pillow. She screamed as loud as she could and that is where she fell asleep.
Bell woke to a soft knock on the door. She stood up and opened it to see Carl.
"Do you know what time it is?" Bell asked looking out the window at the late night sky.
"Bell, it's Velkan. He's already lost too much blood and he's not going to pull through. He knows he's not going to last much longer. Velkan wants to see you." Carl said avoiding her eyes.
Bell's look immediately softened. She pushed past Carl into the hall on her way to Velkan's room.
Bell gave a soft knock and Velkan bid her to come in. She entered closing the door behind her. She walked over to the bed to see her Uncle. He was pale and his bandages were soaked through.
"Bell." he said as she bent down beside the bed.
"Yes Uncle?"
"Tell your mother, I love her."
Bell nodded. "I will."
"I'm sorry we couldn't spend more time together. I would have liked to get to know you." Velkan took something of his neck and gave it to Bell. It was a golden cross necklace. "I want you to have this. The Valeriouses have always worn a necklace like this. You are the last of the Valerious line. Wear it well."
"I will." Bell said putting on the necklace. Velkan grabbed her hand and smiled at her. Bell returned the smile with unshed tears forming in her eyes. He leaned his head back closed his eyes. Bell felt the grip of his hand lessen until Bell felt his pulse stop. She had a single tear on her right cheek. Bell didn't know what to say, so she would say what her mother had said.
"I will see you again."
Bell let go of his hand and slowly left the room whipping the tears out of her eyes. She shut the door to Velkan's room and saw Carl. He looked at her with a soft expression. Bell bit her lip.
"Velkan….he's….." Bell started.
"Do you want to talk about it?" Carl asked quietly.
Bell pushed past him and went to her room with tears streaming down her face. She got to her room and locked the door. She fell on the bed and did something she rarely did, cry her eyeballs out. She had only known her Uncle Velkan for less than a day, and Dracula took him from her to. Velkan didn't get enough time. His life was to short. He was under the spell of Dracula for almost half his life. He had seen to much death and destruction in his life. He needed to see other things. His sister's wedding, the birth of his niece, he needed to see nice things, things he wanted to see.
Dracula took that all away from him. Dracula took most of her mother's family. Her father had already killed Dracula once, maybe twice, she couldn't remember.
As her anger grew, she knew what she had to do. She sat up and whipped the tears from her eyes.
"Carl," she shouted. "I'm going out."
(A/N: Yea! I updated. Any who, sorry it's kinda short and sorry it took so long to update. I was working on my other Van Helsing stories. As usual, no flames please. Thank you.)