AN: Its seems like a long time since I have updated this story. Sorry to the people that reviewed last time. I still don't know where I am going with this. I have an idea, but every time I think about it, I keep changing what I think should happen. Hopefully this will be ok for a second chapter. The plot is still in progress, although it seems to be taking me a long time to write it all down. Well anyways on with the story…………….

Chapter 2 The Search for Anna Begins

In the time of 8 days Van Helsing and Carl made it back to the secret lair, which was located under a church in Venice, Italy. Van Helsing went straight to the head friar of the underground organization, to report his findings.

"So you believe she is alive?" The head friar asked, as he looked skeptically at him.

"I can't even believe it myself," replied Carl.

Van Helsing ignored Carl's statement saying, "Yes I saw her with my own eyes and she is defiantly alive….somewhere."

"Didn't you just report a few months ago that she was dead?"

"At the time Carl and I believed she was dead. New evidence I saw suggests otherwise," he added showing them a round glass like object. "Maria gave this to me, to look through, before she…uh died."

"What? Van Helsing. You were supposed to bring her back here, not get her killed."

"It was an assassin."

"An assassin shuttered Carl. That's just…..scary."

"This must be bigger than we thought," the head friar, as he stared to pace in the room.

"What aren't you telling me?" VanHelsing asked suspiciously.

"It was need to know at the time."

"Well I think it's passed need to know," Van Helsing said trying to control his temper.

"We knew that Sorceress Maria was working with some dangerous allies. One in particular, calls himself The Darkness. We don't know his real name. All we know is that he is dangerous, and we believe he has some world domination plan."

"Same old plot to take over the world," Carl said sounding bored.

"Don't underestimate him;" the head friar said looking at them. "He is as dangerous as they come."

"I need time to suggest a rescue mission, for Anna, to the Council. I assume you will want that mission," the friar said looking at Van Helsing.

"Yes, I insist on going even if I don't get the councils permission," he stated.

"I know you will. I will also suggest to them that we have you take down The Darkness, while you're saving Anna. Meanwhile you can get situated back into your quarters. I'll also have Fredrick show you some of the inventions we have come up with while you both where gone." He called Fredrick into the room, then left to speak with the Council.

Fifteen minutes later……

"So this just looks like a regular hat, right?" Fredrick asked showing them a hat that looked like Van Helsing's. "Well, built into the edge…" he said peaking back the leather. He reviled a blade right around the tip. "You throw this at the enemy and he's sliced in half."

"So I get one of those, right?" Van Helsing asked, intrude.

"Yes," Fredrick said handing him one.

Van Helsing throws it into the air and it landed perfectly on his head. It looks exactly the same as my old one, he thought.

"Be careful with that," Fredrick said. "It's extremely sharp, that's good for you and bad for the enemy."

"What are these?" Van Helsing asked, as he pointed to small round circular objects, less than the size of a marble.

"Those are one of our newest inventions. Let me demonstrate how they work. Stand back," he said to them, as he moved over to the test area. "The brown ones make holes in walls and the blue ones create a fog type of atmosphere around you." He then throws a brown one at the test wall." Boom…..was heard and as the smoke and the dust lightened up, they saw a gigantic hole in the wall. Then he took a blue one and dropped it on the ground. Immediately the air became thick and cloud like. The whole room was engulfed in the smoky fog, which came out of the ball.

"Fredrick," said some angry friars. "Next time test your inventions outside."

"Sorry," Fredrick said, as some of the friars around him started couching from the smoke.

"So," Fredrick said coming over to Van Helsing and Carl, "you can use the brown ones if you want to make a hole in something. Like a wall if it's blocked off and you want to go through. Then you can use the blue ones for getting away easy if you're surrounded by the enemy."

"This is ingenious," said Carl. "You guys really came up with a lot of stuff since V and I have been gone."

"Yes, but we have missed you around here, right guys?"

Everyone turned around to the saying, "Yeah we miss you Carl."

"Well," Carl said. "V needs my to help him fight off the things we meet. Right V?"

"Oh yeah, Carl does a lot of fighting." He said sarcastically.

"Hey! Don't sound so sarcastic," Carl said defensively.

The other friars laughed, and went back to their inventions.

Later that night………

Van Helsing kept tossing and turning. So far he hadn't gotten any sleep and it was almost the middle of the night. He had not been told yet, what the Council of Friars decided about rescuing Anna, but he knew that he would go anyways. He then thought of Anna. Well he had been thinking about her for almost the whole night. He had never really been able to accept her death and now he knew why. It's because she never died that night. I just wish that I could have known that a few months ago, he thought sadly. She is probably wondering why I haven't come and rescued her yet. He could almost feel the fear she must have been feeling when he saw her. Don't worry, he thought. I'm soon coming to rescue you. With that thought, he drifted off into a deep sleep.

End of chapter 2

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