Again, I take no claimg to the characters. I only take claim to the story which I made myself. I put a little scene however in this chapter that came from the movie Dracula with Frank Langella in it, so the scence about "Come Here" which is the title of the chapter, that was not my idea. Other than that I hope you enjoy.

Dracula's Brides

Chapter 6: Come Here

It was a while until Marishka felt solid ground under her feet and at that point she had given up hope. She had struggled against this thing- this power that held her. At times she felt icy, cold breath upon her neck that made her whole body shrivel up. Whatever had held onto her was some kind of beast, something she knew she couldn't fight against. At first when the thing came her thoughts went to her brother, she heard him scream as she dropped him, but after that she would never know.

At last the grip of the beast let her go and she ran with all her might- into a wall. She heard a laugh from behind her and turned to face the evil beast, but instead of what she imagined it would be, a figure of a man came near to her.

Vladislaus did not want to waste time, he had already done that with Verona and it was tiresome to him. Better bite her now before she starts to fightor talk, he thought, not that it would really matter, she was no threat to him.

"Who's there?" she called out.

"Damn..." he muttered under his breath and continued aloud to her, "come now my child, do not fear, my name is Vladislaus," he felt her heart beating very fast.

"Get away beast, I want nothing to do with you." Marishka yelled. "I want to go back to my home, leave me be!" she heard him moving closer to her, the morning light had not come yet to the windows.

"I am afraid I cannot do that, Marishka, you are to be my second bride. If you would be kind enough to, come here." As he muttered his last two words he saw her crouched in a corner. He moved his left arm up and held out his hand to her, staring into her eyes he commanded her to come to him.

"Second....bride?" she muttered as she drew herself up. "I want to go home now," she spat at him, his mind control could not work on her.

"You're strong; I shall come to you then." He smiled; she actually could be stronger than him already as a mortal, unbelievable!

Using the night as a shield he drew close to her wrapping his arms around her body.

"Let go of me!" Marishka struggled, and for a second or two Vladislaus actually had to use his strength to hold her to him, but soon her strength wore out.

"My darling! Marishka you are strong aren't you? You shall come quite in handy one day I am sure of this, now this is the time you and I become one."

"I will never be like you, I don't even know what you look like! Let me go, please, let me go!" She pleaded as he pushed her to his coffin. As he lifted the lid she yelled and tried to get away, but he slammed her inside and jumped in. The top fell on them, closing her in with him.

Verona heard the screams and came to her master, it was almost dawn and he would soon be resting. She had waited so long to see her daughter, but she knew she would have to wait. Gliding back to her own coffin she rested for the day.

From inside the coffin was a soft yelp as Vladislaus bit down onto her neck.