(A/N: I don't own any Van Helsing movie characters….well, not yet any way.)

Chapter seven

Michael, Vana, Van Helsing and Molly ran into the square to see three white bat-looking vampires swooping down on the town.

"Here." Michael said handing the girls stakes and crossbows.

"Nice." Vana said looking the crossbow over and looked up. "Molly,"

"Duck, right?"

"Yeah."

Molly ducked down and Vana pulled the trigger of her crossbow. The arrows flew out and hit Verona in the heart.

"One down." Vana said looking around. She aimed and fired at Aleera. She dodged Vana's arrows and lifted up Molly as another one knocked Vana down. Her crossbow flew somewhere, but Vana didn't think about it.

"MOLLY!!" she shouted looking up. Molly was kicking and screaming in the vampire's clutches.

"Awww, pore little Van Helsing doesn't want me to take her friend." Aleera teased.

Vana growled, yes, growled. Vana ran at the vampire and pounced off the wall of a well. She grabbed Molly's ankles and the vampire dropped them. Vana landed in a squat but didn't know how or why.

"I didn't know you could do that." Molly said getting up off the ground.

"Neither did I."

"Look out!" a voice shouted and Vana was knocked over. She looked to see a boy over her. He had knocked her out of the way of a vampire. He was cute with dark brown hair and crystal blue eyes. She sat there stunned for a moment then returned to her senses.

"GET OFF ME!!!" she roared. The boy moved and Vana spotted her crossbow.

Vana dived for it and grabbed the crossbow firmly in her hands. She jumped up to see the red headed vampire.

"Fire in the hole!" she shouted and fired. The boy ducked as the arrows flew over his head. Vana hit the vampire in the wings and then in the heart.

"Two down." Molly said for her.

Vana was doing surprisingly well for never doing this before. She guessed it was because her anger was rising in her. The remaining vampire flew away as a howl sounded through the cloudy day. The villagers all scrambled around to get inside their houses. The group stood silent as a second howl sounded. The boy ran over to Vana.

They looked at each other as a third howl sounded even closer. It was in the village.

"Just one more thing to top off my day." Van Helsing mumbled.

"I wish we had the bullets with silver nitrate in them from Underworld (don't own)." Vana mumbled to Molly. Molly nodded in agreement. They both knew the silver nitrate would kill the werewolf sooner than plain silver alone. The silver nitrate was liquid so it would spread through their blood stream, allowing the wolf to die faster.

"Well the silver-tipped arrows will have to do." Michael said.

Van Helsing and Vana whirled around as they heard a soft growl. Michael, Molly and the boy acted like they didn't hear it. The two slowly walked toward the noise with crossbows at the ready. The wolf pounced and pinned Vana to the ground. Once again, her crossbow was knocked aside.

"Aww, man!" she groaned through clenched teeth (along with other things that are not appropriate to repeat). The wolf leaned down to bit her. Vana's hands flew up and wrapped themselves around the wolf's neck. They began to softly glow white but no one noticed, except the werewolf. It howled in pain and drew away. Vana scrambled up and grabbed her crossbow.

The wolf shook it's head out and saw Van Helsing. He began to fire at the beast. The wolf dodged the arrows and pounced. Vana fired and hit it in the heart. It collapsed but was still alive. Vana shot several more arrows till the thing stopped moving.

Vana's anger built up inside her. Something wasn't right, and Van Helsing knew it. It happed to him often when he was mad. It was part of the werewolf venom that never wore off. It seemed he passed it on to Vana.

Vana took deep breaths and calmed herself.

"Well?" Van Helsing asked.

"I had no idea I could do that." Vana replied stunned at what had just happed. On her first time out, she killed two vampires and a werewolf. Even by Van Helsing's standards that's pretty good.

The others rushed over and saw the dead werewolf.

"Whoa." Molly said looking at Vana. "Did you do that?"

"With some help." Vana said looking at Van Helsing.

The boy came up to Vana. "Are you alright?" he asked.

"Yeah, I wasn't bitten or anything." Vana said and then became away of a sting on her arm. She had a nasty cut. She looked at it and sighed. "Stupid vampires." she muttered under her breath.

"By the way, I'm Corbin." the boy said.

"Vana."

Suddenly, Vana felt claws dig into her shoulders and was being lifted off the ground.

"Don't these things ever give up." she said angrily.

"Master will be pleased to have you." the vampire hissed.

Vana had passed boiling point. Her vision blurred as she closed her eyes. Rage built up inside her and her hands glowed again though she didn't notice. Her nose picked up the smell of rotten flesh and pine from the trees. Her hearing caught the sound of the wind, talking, birds and animal scurrying about. Something was happening that Vana couldn't explain. She opened her eyes. They were no longer her usual brown, but yellow with slits for pupils and her teeth were sharp.

Vana grabbed the vampire's ankles and it screamed. She flipped herself so her foot connected with it's face. The vampire dropped her into the forest and Vana landed in a squat. Vana closed her eyes and shook out her head. She took deep breaths to calm herself. When she was calm, she returned to normal.

"Whoa, what was that?" she asked herself. What ever it was, it was painful and Vana didn't like it.

"It's the werewolf venom in your blood."

Vana stood and turned to see Van Helsing.

"Werewolf venom? But I wasn't bitten!" Vana said becoming more confused by the second.

"It's in me as well. I was bitten once and cured of the curse. Some of the venom never wore off. I guess I passed it on to you. You don't have to worry, you won't transform or anything like that. You just get the traits when you become mad, very mad." Van Helsing explained.

"Great, another thing for me to worry about. What else don't I know about myself? For all I know, I could just be a complete nutcase and not know." Vana said getting annoyed.

"Or you could be the key to killing Dracula."

"You killed him already and the Devil brought him back. What will keep him from bringing Dracula back a third time?" Vana argued.

"I don't know."

"Well this time we better kill him good because there is no way I'm doing this again."

"That's what I thought the first time." Van Helsing said.

"What did it take to kill him last time?" Vana asked calming down.

"A werewolf."

"The irony of it all, huh?" Vana asked. Van Helsing nodded. They looked at each other in silence for a moment till they head someone.

"Hello again Gabriel."

The two whirled around to see a man dressed in black. It was the man Vana saw on the subway the night of the werewolf attack.

"No way." Vana said figuring out who he was.

He smiled. Van Helsing stood in front of Vana. For once, she didn't argue.

"What do you want, Dracula?" Van Helsing asked eyeing him.

"Revenge! You killed me twice, along with my three original brides." Dracula said anger flaring in his eyes.

"I take it the other one was a new one." Van Helsing said.

"Ah, yes, I see you've met Lori." he said smiling.

"Bit more than that." Vana mumbled rubbing her cut shoulders.

"Enough of this chit chat. I need to get what I came for." Dracula said and vanished.

"Not good." Vana said.

Van Helsing held his crossbow at the ready while he stood as close as he could to Vana. He knew Dracula would try and take her.

"Vana!" they heard. It was Molly.

"Shoot." Vana mouthed.

Molly stumbled out of the brush and rushed toward them. Dracula appeared before her.

"Molly!" Vana shouted and ran forward before Van Helsing could stop her. Vana grabbed his collar and flung him back as hard as she could. Her werewolf venom took effect and Dracula hit a tree, cracking it when he hit. Vana stood protectively before her only friend.

"Leave her alone." she said dangerously. Dracula flew at her but Van Helsing hit him over the face with his crossbow. Dracula was flung back into the brush. They heard a screech as he transformed.

"RUN!!" Vana shouted. No one argued. The three of them sprinted back to the village. For some reason, Dracula didn't follow them. He must have had bigger plans for them.

Michael and Corbin saw them and rushed toward the monster hunter and the two teenage girls.

"Are you alright?" Corbin asked.

"Yeah." Vana said grabbing her shoulder. She didn't want to show it but it hurt like heck. Van Helsing moved her hand so he could see.

"That doesn't look alright to me." he said.

"Well, I'm alive anyway. By my standards, that's alright considering what has happened in the past three days." Vana said grabbing her shoulder again.

"And we won. So far, I'd say it was a good day. No one was killed and we won." Molly said. Vana smiled. It was just like her to be so positive after almost being kidnapped by Dracula.

Vana felt dizzy and her skin had become very pale.

"Vana, are you feeling alright?" Van Helsing asked. He had noticed that she had lost a lot of blood already.

"Yeah, I just need to get cleaned up." Vana said as the dizziness disappeared. Michael, Corbin, Molly, Vana and Van Helsing walked back to Valerious manor each occupied with their own thoughts. Vana's were on the battle that just occurred. She knew that the small group had won the battle, however, the war was still a mystery.

(A/N: YAY!!! A full 7 pages. That's really long for me. Anyway, enjoy and as usual, NO FLAMES!!!! Thank you)