(A/N: Wow, chapter 13. I'm getting better at this. I don't own Van Helsing.)
Chapter Thirteen
Ali, Bri, Van Helsing, Carl and Anna were thrown in a jail cell. A Dwerger locked the door. The wolves howled and ran from the room with the Dwerger following them.
"Damn it!" Van Helsing swore hitting the bars.
"At least we weren't bitten." Carl tried to look on the bright side.
"Yet." Bri added for him.
"Anyone know what happened to Liz?" Ali asked.
"She's not with us." Carl said.
"Thank you captain obvious." Bri retorted.
"If she not with us, it means she's safe." Anna said.
"For now at least." Van Helsing said. But for how long? he asked himself silently.
Liz fired the grappling hook and pulled herself up to the window over the door.
"Why does he even need a door?" Liz asked herself as she was being pulled up. "He can just fly in and out one of the windows or something." Then she thought about it.
"Then again, he didn't have wings when this thing was built. Funny, it was supposed to keep him in. I don't think it worked very well." she mumbled as she reached the top. She looked down into the entryway.
"Now, how do I get down?" she asked herself. Liz heard a howl and looked up. It was the pack of werewolves leaving. She got down low and looked over the rim of her sunglasses. The doors swung open as if by magic.
"Oh, now they open." she mumbled as she watched the wolves run out. Liz climbed down and slid down the edge of the doors as they closed. She landed and stepped aside as the doors slowly swung shut with the sound echoing throughout the hall. Liz pushed her glasses up her nose and began down the hall.
Dracula smiled as he looked out his window down at the village below. Now that the girl was alone, she would come with him easily. And the reason he wanted her so badly? It was simple enough. Her blood was the key to his machine. The machine could stop time. However, it wouldn't freeze him or his brides so they could do whatever they wished.
He would tell the girl that her friends were dead. That would break her spirit and she would give in easily. He didn't know how wrong he was.
Liz made her way up a tower ever so silently. She couldn't even hear or feel her own heartbeat. She was careful on the dark stone steps because some of them were broken. She still climbed them two at a time, but didn't do it quickly. She wanted to save her energy in case something found her and she would have to run or fight.
"I don't know how I got this good at this." Liz whispered to herself. She heard grumbling and turned to see a Dwerger. Without hesitating, Liz pulled out her pistol loaded with silver bullets and began to fire with the sound echoing through the castle. It fell on the floor dead and Liz began to run. She knew her gunshots were heard.
Van Helsing stopped pacing in the cell.
"What is it?" Ali asked.
"Gunfire, but I don't see why a vampire or Dwerger would need a gun." Van Helsing replied.
"Someone's coming to save us!!" Ali said excitedly.
"Or kill us." Bri added.
"You're just little miss positive, aren't you?" Ali asked flatly.
"I do my best." Bri replied.
"You two don't start." Anna told them.
Who would be here? Van Helsing asked himself.
Liz ran up the stairs two at a time and came to the roof. She was grateful it had stopped raining. On the roof was a steel machine with three bent poles on it that formed half of a ball. It looked like two of the poles would spin around. It looked like the machine that Liz saw in X-men. On the stationary pole, there was a small container that looked like it would load into the machine.
"What the heck is this?" Liz asked herself as she took off her sunglasses and put them in her pocket. She shook her head. She didn't have time to concentrate on that now. She ran over to the open skylight and slipped in.
Liz slid down one of the columns that had fallen over. She hit the floor and looked around.
"It's the lab!" she said around at the abandoned room. She heard the door open and quickly climbed up to the catwalk. She pulled her collar up and hid in the shadows. It was something she had gotten good at over the years.
Liz looked down to see Zach. The sight of him made her blood boil. Zach looked around the room. Liz made herself smaller and made her heart quieter. Zach turned as Dracula came in the room.
Crap!! Liz thought to herself.
"There is nothing in here father." Zach said as Dracula walked next to him.
"I'm not so sure." Dracula said and began to walk on the walls. He inched closer to Liz's hiding spot.
Double crap!! she thought. She needed a plan, and fast. Liz felt her pocket and smiled. She plugged in the portable speaker into her iPod as Dracula got closer. Liz cranked up the volume to as loud as it would go. Dracula looked at her.
"You!" he said.
"Surprise." Liz said smiling and let Linkin Park blare throughout the castle.
I don't know what's worth fighting for
Or why I have to scream
I don't know why I instigate
And say what I don't mean
I don't know how I got this way
I know it's not alright
So I'm breaking the habit
I'm breaking the habit tonight
Liz jumped down as Dracula and Zach covered their ears. She ran out the door and bolted down a hallway.
Ali, Bri, Van Helsing, Anna and Carl heard music. Ali and Bri looked at each other and smiled.
"What is that?" Anna asked.
"Linkin Park!" Bri said.
"Breaking the Habit!! Don't you know what this means?" Ali said.
"Someone likes really loud music?" Carl asked. Van Helsing smacked him in the back of the head for being so stupid.
"It means Liz is here!!" Ali replied.
Liz still had the music on. She flipped it off and put it back in her coat as she ran. She slid down a third hallway and found stairs.
"Another tower!!" Liz groaned but bolted up the steps. Dracula and Zach were not far off behind her. Liz climbed two at a time but something grabbed her ankle. She fell to the floor and turned to see that Zach had her ankle.
"Let go you freak!" she shouted struggling to get away from him. Zach refused to let go and squeezed harder. Liz winced in pain. She suspected he was close to bruising the bone or breaking it. Liz pulled out a silver stake and rammed it through his arm. Zach let go as he reeled back in pain. Liz pulled out her gun and loaded it with the werewolf venom bullets. She aimed and fired at Zach. Once one hit Zach, he crumpled up into a pile of dust.
"One down." Liz said and heard Dracula roar. "One to go." she said continuing to run up the steps.
The group in the cell heard Dracula roar.
"Is that good or bad?" Ali asked.
"How should we know?!" Bri retorted back.
"Geez, you're cranky today." Ali said.
"Maybe it has something to do with the fact that DRACULA KIDNAPPED US!!!" Bri said flipping out.
Ali put on her best innocent face and smile (she has never been innocent).
"Really? I thought we were having a sleep over." she said in a high-pitched child-like voice.
Bri roared in aggravation. "NO YOU IDIOT!!!!! YOU……" Bri paused a moment. "You were being sarcastic, weren't you?"
"No Bri I was begin serious." Ali said being sarcastic.
"Grrrrrr." Bri said.
"Now Bri remember, Liz is the werewolf." Ali said taunting her. Bri kept growling, but was interrupted.
Liz bolted through the door and closed it behind her.
"Hi guys." she said breathing hard.
"What are you doing here?" Carl asked.
"Saving you, unless you'd rather stay here that is." Liz said taking the keys off the wall. "Why do evil villains always leave the keys in plain sight?" she mumbled as she looked at the key ring.
"There's like a million keys on here! I only have thirty seconds, at best." Liz said looking at all of the keys.
"Stand back." she told them taking out a gun.
"Bullets won't work. I've tried." Van Helsing said looking at it pistols.
"Your bullets don't have acid in them, now stand back." Liz said. The group huddled at the other end of the cage as Liz fired off.
"Liz, behind you!" Ali shouted. Liz whirled around as saw a werewolf. Liz kept firing the acid bullets till it clicked empty.
"Damn." she said and looked at the werewolf that slowly got off the ground. Liz threw her gun aside and took out another one.
"The acid bullets don't work. What make you think these will?" Bri asked worried for her friend.
"If they work for Selene, they work for me." Liz said and began to fire at the werewolf. It only took three hits for him to go down.
"Silver nitrate!" Ali said excitedly.
"Compliments of Kevin." Liz said smiling as she opened the cell.
"Let's get out of here." Anna said.
"No argument." Carl said.
"I have one."
Liz pulled out another gun as she put the other one away.
"Out of my way bat breath. You've already pissed me off enough." Liz said turning, gun in hand.
"Alright." he said smiling. Liz and Van Helsing looked at each other with the same confused look on their faces. Suddenly, Dracula has Liz by the waist and vanished. Liz didn't even have time to scream. The two re-appeared on the roof by the machine. Dracula knocked her gun away from her. Liz struggled against him till he let her go.
Dracula smiled at her as she backed up. "Do you know what this is my dear?" he asked.
"Do I even want to know?" Liz replied as thunder rumbled far off. It was going to rain again.
"It is a freeze machine. It uses a certain blood type to power it. It will freeze time for everyone but me."
"Oh, crap." Liz whispered figuring out what certain blood type it used, hers.
"The person with the blood, also has to be used." Dracula said walking toward her. Liz backed up.
Where's the skylight when you need it? she thought to herself. She saw it out of the corner of her eye. Liz whirled around and ran toward it. Dracula appeared in front of her. She skidded to a halt and Dracula grabbed her. He lifted her off the ground. Liz kicked and screamed to try and get away from him. Dracula strapped her to the machine so she couldn't move. The vampire cut Liz's cheek and the girl felt the warm blood flow down her face. Dracula filled the vial and placed it into the machine.
It roared to life as lightning flashed in the distance. Liz struggled to get away but she was bound to tightly. Two of the curved poles began to spin around her. Slow at first but slowly growing faster. Liz felt something inside her empty. It was painful. The girl screamed at the top of her lungs as a red light formed form the machine and slowly grew to the area around them.
No!! I can't let this happen. I won't let it. I WON'T LET DRACULA WIN!!!! Liz thought. She began to resist what was happening to her. It slowed the machine but it was even more painful. Liz screamed even more. A white light shot out of her heart and over took the red light. She remembered being enveloped in the light before her eyes rolled back in her head and all went black.
(A/N: Now that that's done, on to chapter 14!! Please R&R and no flames please. Thanks.)