Madeline stood at the end of a cliff overlooking the Black Sea, even
though it was very hard to see in the dark, and she didn't want to watch
what was going on behind her. She wanted Anna to live, but she could not
watch the witches sacrifice the young woman they dragged on the journey.
The dark, curly haired woman that Adam stopped Madeline from biting.
Madeline had watched the young girl named Amelia, Amy as Madeline named
her, during the journey. Amy did not fear being used as a sacrifice.
"There are far worse things could have been done to me," she had told
Madeline as the witches pulled Amy out of the carriage.
The witches had brewed a potion as soon as they arrived, and Madeline headed straight for the cliff's edge. She regretted having to use Amy, and she began to doubt whether it was for a good reason. She could sense that there was some dark forces surrounding the resurrection, and she despised its bitter taste. She dropped down and picked up a handful of dirt and studied it closely. The wind picked up and carried the small particles from her palm, and they flew until they had disappeared to Madeline's eyes. 'What if this is all wrong, what if this causes more pain than anything else?' Madeline asked herself.
Amy drank the witches brew like she was asked, and she immediately felt faint. Victoria grabbed her and levitated her in the air. Victoria set Amy back down upon a wooden table that had been constructed for the resurrection. Amy was in and out of consciousness when Victoria began speaking in a tongue that was unrecognizable to her. For the first time in her life, Amy felt free. She felt no weight of anything, no guilt, no anger, no fear. She felt as though she was floating, and she was sure it was a dream. So, Amy let her mind slip into that dream and hoped never to have to wake from its pleasure.
Madeline turned around to see Amy's spirit hovering over the body that was once hers. It was soon going to be the host body for Anna Valerious, and that left a lump in Madeline's throat. 'Don't let this be a mistake,' she pleaded to anyone and no one at the same time. Then she turned back around facing the sea. She shut her eyes tight and tried not to concentrate on what was happening. There was dark purposes surrounding the air, and Madeline didn't want to let them in. She wanted Anna to live for Gabriel Van Helsing because she had felt the loss he'd left on that very cliff.
Adam watched fascinated by the power the witches welded, and he found himself in awe when they sent Amy's soul into the afterlife. He felt a chill down his spine as Amy's soul departed, but he could not take his eyes off of the second portion of the resurrection. Victoria and her coven joined hands and began chanting in their tongue. Adam felt the wind pick up, and the candles the witches lit were glowing brighter than they should have been glowing. In the middle of the incantation, an ear-piercing scream came from the clouds, and a small twister dropped down to Amy's lifeless body.
Madeline heard the scream and looked up to the clouds. There was a disturbance up there, but the twister was blocking a clear view up in the clouds. Madeline was sure that she saw forms of people in the clouds scurrying about. "What's going on up there," she whispered. Before Madeline could ponder the thought any longer, the ear-piercing scream had traveled all the way down the twister to Amy's body.
The twister faded and left the body of Anna Valerious, not Amy. Anna was thrashing about screaming, "Velkan! Help me!" But, she soon realized that she was no longer with her family anymore. She was back on earth being stared at by many women. 'Witches,' her mind screamed after seeing their outfits.
Anna jumped up and tried to get a hold of what was happening. "I'm dead, who are you?" Anna screamed.
Victoria broke the circle and stepped forward to Anna. "You are no longer dead, my dear. My coven has resurrected you at the request of Adam Peter Christophen." Victoria pointed to Adam, who stepped into the candlelight. He grinned, revealing his sharp canine teeth, and Anna immediately backed up.
"A vampire! No, this can't be! Van Helsing--" Anna started.
Adam cut off her sentence. "Van Helsing, the reason why you have been resurrected. My daughter and I came here on a visit to see werewolves. We stood here on this very cliff and felt Van Helsing's pain from losing you. So my daughter, Madeline... Madeline, come over here darling and meet Anna Valerious."
Madeline slowly stepped up to Anna, and she admired the woman. She had gorgeous chestnut curls and dark eyes. Madeline curtsied in front of Anna, and Anna backed away from her. "You're a vampire, too, aren't you?" Madeline felt Anna's fear and nodded solemnly, and Anna's breathing sped up. "Get away from me," she yelled as she ran for an opening between the vampires and witches.
Adam grabbed Anna by her left forearm and held her in his grip. "I'm afraid that would interrupt my plans," he hissed. Anna squirmed in his grip, but she could not escape his firm grip.
"Van Helsing destroyed Dracula, how can there still be vampires?" Anna cried out.
Adam looked at her and pitied her. "Those of us who were not made by Dracula still live on through his death. Now, you will join all of us in a stay at a castle I bought. You should recognize it for it sits in Vaseria."
Anna felt her anger rising. "How dare you take my family's castle. A vampire should not live there! We Valerious's fought vampires to our near extinction, it is an outrage." Anna fought to free her arm, and Adam grabbed her by the throat.
Anna labored to breathe because Adam's grip on her throat was tight. "Listen to me," he told her, "You are going to come with me whether it is your will or not. So, don't play these games for I am not one to play games. I lived a rotten life amongst people when I was alive, so I hold no pity for them."
Adam threw Anna into a carriage and climbed inside. "If you do not pity people, then why am I alive once again?" Anna shouted.
Adam made himself comfortable and just stared calmly back into Anna's eyes. His response was delayed, "I have plans for you, Anna. Big plans that need the fierce blood of a woman like you. I certainly hold no pity for you, or Van Helsing. That is left to my daughter, who pitied Van Helsing very much."
Anna leaned back against the soft seat of the carriage. She had many questions and emotions stirring, but she could only ask, "Why would a vampire care?"
"Even I do not know why my daughter wanted you to live so much. She is a strange girl, indeed." Adam replied.
Madeline soon joined her father and Anna in the carriage, and she noticed Anna staring at her. She wondered what her father had told Anna, but she did not fret about it. She was far too sickened by the loss of Amy's sweet spirit to care. A voice on the surface told Madeline to forget it, Amy was just a mortal who mattered nothing. But the voice deep down inside told her that was not true, and Amy had meant something to the mortal world. 'Amy will never get to mean something to someone now. Her body switched places with Anna's on that pyre. I saw that when I drew closer. I just thought Anna's soul entered Amy's body and molded it to fit her soul. But, that is not at all what happened. Amy's body and life source switched places with Anna's burnt body.'
"Neither of you look like vampires," Anna said trying to quiet the voices in her head.
"We are unique, that is for sure. Madeline is far more unique than I, but I am not an ordinary vampire. Or, I do not think I am." Adam laughed.
Madeline could not keep quiet. "I saw movement up in the clouds," she said causing Adam and Anna to stare at her.
"It was the twister, darling." Adam told her.
"No, it was people. Shapes of people in the clouds when the twister formed." Madeline told her father.
Anna sighed and shut her eyes. She'd been tore from her family, from the love of her family that she had not felt for so long. She only spent a short time with them, and she found herself back on earth alone taken captive by vampires and witches. "That was my family in the clouds," she told Madeline.
Madeline drew quiet and remained so until they reached the Valerious castle. Anna wondered how Adam had bought her home from the townspeople. Someone had to have been in charge after her death, so she did not understand why they would give up so easily. But, Anna was glad to see her home again. That was all she was glad for because Adam was pulling her into the castle. 'Since this is my home,' Anna thought, 'I can easily escape. I will try tomorrow during daylight when the vampires are not awake.'
Adam opened up the door to Anna's bedroom, and she was happy to see that the windows were still there, and she still had the option to escape. Adam shoved her into her room and told her, "You will remain here until the witches come in the morning to bring you to eat breakfast. We shall try to contact Van Helsing as soon as possible, so my plans can be started." He saw Anna eyeing her windows. "Don't even try to escape through those windows because they are guarded by magic."
Anna spun around to face Adam with a horrified looked upon her face. Her escape plan resorted to getting past Adam and out her bedroom door. She took a run towards the door, but Adam shut the door before Anna could reach it. Anna slammed herself against the door and heard the door being locked, and she beat her fists upon the door. After a moment of rage, she skulked over to her bed and laid down. She thought about what Adam had told her. "We shall try to contact Van Helsing as soon as possible." Anna closed her eyes and saw Van Helsing's handsome face in her mind's eye. "Come after me once more, Van Helsing. Come after me and save me from this prison."
The witches had brewed a potion as soon as they arrived, and Madeline headed straight for the cliff's edge. She regretted having to use Amy, and she began to doubt whether it was for a good reason. She could sense that there was some dark forces surrounding the resurrection, and she despised its bitter taste. She dropped down and picked up a handful of dirt and studied it closely. The wind picked up and carried the small particles from her palm, and they flew until they had disappeared to Madeline's eyes. 'What if this is all wrong, what if this causes more pain than anything else?' Madeline asked herself.
Amy drank the witches brew like she was asked, and she immediately felt faint. Victoria grabbed her and levitated her in the air. Victoria set Amy back down upon a wooden table that had been constructed for the resurrection. Amy was in and out of consciousness when Victoria began speaking in a tongue that was unrecognizable to her. For the first time in her life, Amy felt free. She felt no weight of anything, no guilt, no anger, no fear. She felt as though she was floating, and she was sure it was a dream. So, Amy let her mind slip into that dream and hoped never to have to wake from its pleasure.
Madeline turned around to see Amy's spirit hovering over the body that was once hers. It was soon going to be the host body for Anna Valerious, and that left a lump in Madeline's throat. 'Don't let this be a mistake,' she pleaded to anyone and no one at the same time. Then she turned back around facing the sea. She shut her eyes tight and tried not to concentrate on what was happening. There was dark purposes surrounding the air, and Madeline didn't want to let them in. She wanted Anna to live for Gabriel Van Helsing because she had felt the loss he'd left on that very cliff.
Adam watched fascinated by the power the witches welded, and he found himself in awe when they sent Amy's soul into the afterlife. He felt a chill down his spine as Amy's soul departed, but he could not take his eyes off of the second portion of the resurrection. Victoria and her coven joined hands and began chanting in their tongue. Adam felt the wind pick up, and the candles the witches lit were glowing brighter than they should have been glowing. In the middle of the incantation, an ear-piercing scream came from the clouds, and a small twister dropped down to Amy's lifeless body.
Madeline heard the scream and looked up to the clouds. There was a disturbance up there, but the twister was blocking a clear view up in the clouds. Madeline was sure that she saw forms of people in the clouds scurrying about. "What's going on up there," she whispered. Before Madeline could ponder the thought any longer, the ear-piercing scream had traveled all the way down the twister to Amy's body.
The twister faded and left the body of Anna Valerious, not Amy. Anna was thrashing about screaming, "Velkan! Help me!" But, she soon realized that she was no longer with her family anymore. She was back on earth being stared at by many women. 'Witches,' her mind screamed after seeing their outfits.
Anna jumped up and tried to get a hold of what was happening. "I'm dead, who are you?" Anna screamed.
Victoria broke the circle and stepped forward to Anna. "You are no longer dead, my dear. My coven has resurrected you at the request of Adam Peter Christophen." Victoria pointed to Adam, who stepped into the candlelight. He grinned, revealing his sharp canine teeth, and Anna immediately backed up.
"A vampire! No, this can't be! Van Helsing--" Anna started.
Adam cut off her sentence. "Van Helsing, the reason why you have been resurrected. My daughter and I came here on a visit to see werewolves. We stood here on this very cliff and felt Van Helsing's pain from losing you. So my daughter, Madeline... Madeline, come over here darling and meet Anna Valerious."
Madeline slowly stepped up to Anna, and she admired the woman. She had gorgeous chestnut curls and dark eyes. Madeline curtsied in front of Anna, and Anna backed away from her. "You're a vampire, too, aren't you?" Madeline felt Anna's fear and nodded solemnly, and Anna's breathing sped up. "Get away from me," she yelled as she ran for an opening between the vampires and witches.
Adam grabbed Anna by her left forearm and held her in his grip. "I'm afraid that would interrupt my plans," he hissed. Anna squirmed in his grip, but she could not escape his firm grip.
"Van Helsing destroyed Dracula, how can there still be vampires?" Anna cried out.
Adam looked at her and pitied her. "Those of us who were not made by Dracula still live on through his death. Now, you will join all of us in a stay at a castle I bought. You should recognize it for it sits in Vaseria."
Anna felt her anger rising. "How dare you take my family's castle. A vampire should not live there! We Valerious's fought vampires to our near extinction, it is an outrage." Anna fought to free her arm, and Adam grabbed her by the throat.
Anna labored to breathe because Adam's grip on her throat was tight. "Listen to me," he told her, "You are going to come with me whether it is your will or not. So, don't play these games for I am not one to play games. I lived a rotten life amongst people when I was alive, so I hold no pity for them."
Adam threw Anna into a carriage and climbed inside. "If you do not pity people, then why am I alive once again?" Anna shouted.
Adam made himself comfortable and just stared calmly back into Anna's eyes. His response was delayed, "I have plans for you, Anna. Big plans that need the fierce blood of a woman like you. I certainly hold no pity for you, or Van Helsing. That is left to my daughter, who pitied Van Helsing very much."
Anna leaned back against the soft seat of the carriage. She had many questions and emotions stirring, but she could only ask, "Why would a vampire care?"
"Even I do not know why my daughter wanted you to live so much. She is a strange girl, indeed." Adam replied.
Madeline soon joined her father and Anna in the carriage, and she noticed Anna staring at her. She wondered what her father had told Anna, but she did not fret about it. She was far too sickened by the loss of Amy's sweet spirit to care. A voice on the surface told Madeline to forget it, Amy was just a mortal who mattered nothing. But the voice deep down inside told her that was not true, and Amy had meant something to the mortal world. 'Amy will never get to mean something to someone now. Her body switched places with Anna's on that pyre. I saw that when I drew closer. I just thought Anna's soul entered Amy's body and molded it to fit her soul. But, that is not at all what happened. Amy's body and life source switched places with Anna's burnt body.'
"Neither of you look like vampires," Anna said trying to quiet the voices in her head.
"We are unique, that is for sure. Madeline is far more unique than I, but I am not an ordinary vampire. Or, I do not think I am." Adam laughed.
Madeline could not keep quiet. "I saw movement up in the clouds," she said causing Adam and Anna to stare at her.
"It was the twister, darling." Adam told her.
"No, it was people. Shapes of people in the clouds when the twister formed." Madeline told her father.
Anna sighed and shut her eyes. She'd been tore from her family, from the love of her family that she had not felt for so long. She only spent a short time with them, and she found herself back on earth alone taken captive by vampires and witches. "That was my family in the clouds," she told Madeline.
Madeline drew quiet and remained so until they reached the Valerious castle. Anna wondered how Adam had bought her home from the townspeople. Someone had to have been in charge after her death, so she did not understand why they would give up so easily. But, Anna was glad to see her home again. That was all she was glad for because Adam was pulling her into the castle. 'Since this is my home,' Anna thought, 'I can easily escape. I will try tomorrow during daylight when the vampires are not awake.'
Adam opened up the door to Anna's bedroom, and she was happy to see that the windows were still there, and she still had the option to escape. Adam shoved her into her room and told her, "You will remain here until the witches come in the morning to bring you to eat breakfast. We shall try to contact Van Helsing as soon as possible, so my plans can be started." He saw Anna eyeing her windows. "Don't even try to escape through those windows because they are guarded by magic."
Anna spun around to face Adam with a horrified looked upon her face. Her escape plan resorted to getting past Adam and out her bedroom door. She took a run towards the door, but Adam shut the door before Anna could reach it. Anna slammed herself against the door and heard the door being locked, and she beat her fists upon the door. After a moment of rage, she skulked over to her bed and laid down. She thought about what Adam had told her. "We shall try to contact Van Helsing as soon as possible." Anna closed her eyes and saw Van Helsing's handsome face in her mind's eye. "Come after me once more, Van Helsing. Come after me and save me from this prison."