(A/N: I don't won Van Helsing or Bring me to life, My last breath or Whisper by Evanescence.)
Chapter Ten
Liz put her small headphones in her ears. Evanescence blared through her head.
How can you see into my eyes, like open doors
Leading you down into my core, where I've become so numb
Without a soul
My spirit sleeping somewhere cold
Until you find it there and lead it back home
Wake me up inside
Wake me up inside
Call my name and save me from the dark
Bid my blood to run
Before I come undone
Save me from the nothing I've become
Liz began to kick the punching bag in front of her. Bags of sand came down from the ceiling and she pulled out her daggers. She kicked the first sack and then cut it with her dagger. She tossed her other dagger at a second one. It hit its target as she flipped back and stabbed the third stack.
Now that I know what I'm without
You can't just leave me
Breathe into me and make me real
Bring me to life
Wake me up inside
Wake me up inside
Call my name and save me from the dark
Bid my blood to run
Before I come undone
Save me from the nothing I've become
The sand poured onto the floor as she threw her dagger at the fourth sack. It hit its mark as Liz kicked the last two sacks that came down. She turned back to the punching bag. She began to punch it with all her might and kicked it hard. The track changed on her headphones to My last breath.
Hold on to me love
You know I can't stay long
All I wanted to say was I love you and I'm not afraid
Can you hear me?
Can you feel me in your arms
Holding my last breath
Save inside myself
Are all my thoughts of you
Sweet rapture and life it ends here tonight
"Tell me about it." Liz grumbled as she spun and kicked the bag.
Carl came in the room and saw Liz going at the punching bag.
"I hope you never get mad at me." Carl said.
Liz pulled out her headphones.
"What do you want? Come to try to make me forgive him?" Liz said staring at the punching bag that was swinging madly before her as she continued to hit it.
"No, I came to get…." he trailed off.
"What?" Liz asked as she spun around and kicked the bag.
"I have a formula for a werewolf cure. But it only works for a few days. I need a bullet to test it with."
"If you need the real thing, I've got it." Liz said still hurting the bag. Carl looked at her shocked. Liz turned to him for the first time since he entered the room.
"Honestly, don't you think I read? It's in the Book of Monsters. I've read it several times. But you wouldn't know about it since it was written after your time." Liz replied.
Van Helsing entered the room behind Carl. Liz saw him and immediately went back to the punching bag. Only this time, she hit it harder.
"Sorry, she beat you here." Carl whispered to him as he patted him on the shoulder. Carl left the room leaving Liz and Van Helsing alone. Liz didn't look at him. She just concentrated on what she was doing. She was breathing hard as he bangs fell out of her ponytail and covered her face. She ignored them as she continued to take out her anger on the punching bag.
"This is how you get out your anger?" the monster hunter asked.
"Yeah, so what's it to you?" Liz replied still punching the bag.
"You shouldn't have come back." Van Helsing said after a long silence.
"I didn't plan on it. It was accident. The thing just went off."
"Oh." Van Helsing said. He thought she planed on it. He shouldn't have yelled at her so much.
"So, what are you not telling me?" Liz asked still going all out. The poor bag looked like it was about to fall off the chain it was hanging on.
"I can't tell you that." Van Helsing said.
"And why not? If it involves me or my friends, I think we have a right to know."
"It's to dangerous."
"Do you think I give a damn?!? If something is threatening me or the people I care about, I think I should know!!" Liz shouted. Liz kicked the bag as hard as she could. The chain broke and the bag fell to the ground.
Van Helsing backed up slightly. Liz glared at him before she ran past him. She stopped at the doorway and looked back at him. Van Helsing just looked at her. Liz sighed and took something off her necklace. She came back to him and handed him a small ring.
"You can travel through time with that thing. Do with it what you will. Just make sure Dracula doesn't get it." Liz said. She turned to leave but Van Helsing grabbed her arm. He knew he was going to regret this.
"Dracula, he has a plan that involves you, and maybe your friends. That's why I sent you back. I wanted to make sure you were safe and out of his clutches."
"The irony of the world. The reason we were sent back is because I wanted to make sure my other friends were safe from Zach. One the brides bit him and he was after my other friends. Then the thing just went off. Even now, I don't know how it happened." Liz said.
Van Helsing pressed something in her hand. Liz opened her hand to see his ring (the one with the dragon on it).
"You were right. This is your fight too. You are a Van Helsing, therefore, this should be yours." he said.
Liz slipped it on her finger. She looked up into his eyes and Van Helsing looked into hers. They said it all, thank you. Van Helsing put on the time ring as Liz stood and left the room. Van Helsing stood there a moment.
He looked at the fallen punching bag and the sand bags.
"I'm never making her mad again." he said.
Liz pulled the ribbon out and her hair fell to her side. What had just happened. Van Helsing and I just had a silent apology, that's what happened. she thought to herself.
Liz sighed as she went into the kitchen. There she saw Bri and Ali.
"Is the battle of the werewolves over?" Ali asked.
"One, I'm not a werewolf. Two, Van Helsing is not a werewolf. Three….." Liz thought a second. "Forget one and two. Yes it is."
"Good, otherwise we might have to leave the country just stay our of your way till you cool off." Bri said.
"Look who's talking." Liz said sitting down by them. Bri let out a cough that sounded like 'angel' and another one that sounded like 'lycan'. Liz smiled.
"Thank you."
"Grrrrrr."
"Now Bri, you're not supposed to growl. I'm the lycan, remember?" Liz said teasing her friend. Ali was busy trying not to let Bri see her smile.
The girls heard something and stopped. It was a growl.
"Liz, please tell me that was you." Ali said.
"Would you like me to lie to you?"
Liz had an idea. It might work, it did in a movie she saw anyway. She quickly put her headphones in the large horns at either side of the table. Liz turned up the music to as loud as it would go on her iPod.
"Cover your ears." Liz told them before she switched it on.
Catch me as I fall
Say you're here and it's all over now
Speaking to the atmosphere
No one's here and I fall into myself
This truth drive me
Into madness
I know I can stop the pain
If I will it all away
Don't turn away
(Don't give in to the pain)
Don't try to hide
(Though they're screaming your name)
Don't close your eyes
(God knows what lies behind them)
Don't turn out the light
(Never sleep never die)
There was a howl and a werewolf fell from the ceiling. I charged out of the room covering it's ears.
Moments later Anna, Van Helsing and Carl came in.
"Turn that off!" Anna shouted. "It's loud enough to wake the dead."
Liz turned it off. "It's also loud enough to chase away werewolves."
"How did one get in?" Carl asked with something in his hand.
"I don't know. But it's not safe here anymore if werewolves can get in." Bri said.
"Carl, what are you holding?" Liz asked.
"Oh, another attempt at a werewolf cure."
"What's in it?"
"Holy water, garlic, ground silver. Anyway, it doesn't matter because it's not right."
"Well Carl," Liz said pulling a small container with red liquid in it out of her pocket. "use this then. It's all I've got so be careful with it." Liz said handing it to him.
"You carry it around with you?" Bri asked.
"Ever since we got transported back, yes."
"How did you know how to make it? Where did you get the stuff?" Ali asked.
"Book of Monsters. My grandmother sent it over from London. Now as to where I got everything…..Kevin."
"Who's Kevin?" Van Helsing asked.
"He's like Carl, only he's my age."
"I'm sure you two would like each other a lot, Carl." Ali said.
"Yes, I'm sure you would." Liz mumbled as Carl ran out of the room.
"We've been looking for a werewolf cure for centuries." Anna said. Liz sighed.
"And it will take Carl less than twenty-four hours."
(A/N: What do you think? Sorry it was a little boring. I'm trying to get a lot done now 'cause in August I have band camp 5 out of 7 days of the week. Anyway, no flames please. Thank you!)