Chapter 20: The creature's lament.
Harven appeared in front of Miles. He smiled at the invisible man and walked over to the Gillman.
"You fed the creature?" the vampire asked. Miles shook his head. Harven looked up and saw scratch marks on the walls. "And you let the dogs in?" he said. Miles fell to the ground and clutched his head in his arms.
"I don't know if those bodies are enough to bring the Count back!" Miles gasped.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN?" Harven yelled. "There are at least three-hundred bodies there, the Gillman did his best!" the vampire exclaimed. Miles looked up at his master and sighed.
"I guess your right, but where can we get the power of Frankenstein! He is in his castle now!" the doctor told the vampire. Harven snapped his fingers and pointed them at Gillman.
"You. Go back to Castle Frankenstein and retrieve that hideous monster! If you don't, there will be no fish left for you to enjoy!" Harven warned. The Gillman looked at the vampire, turned, and leaped from the room. The vampire smiled. He tried turning back to Hellbeast form, but still, nothing happened. "Okay, Mishcoffe, it is time! We will collect the souls from the bodies and place them in a machine. Then, once the machine is turned on, it will power Dracula's dead corpse and I" he said. Miles looked up and shook his head.
"It is not that easy!" he yelled. Harven looked at him.
"What do you mean?" he asked in reply.
"Dracula's body, or corpse as you say, can't just easily come back! He needs the soul of another to come back! And a powerful one at that!" Miles told him. The vampire gave an amusing glance.
"And I know just the soul to do it! Gabriel Van Helsing is being locked away in the north tower! I will go and make sure he gets killed!" Harven said, turning around to face the door.
"But what of dear Alvonia?" Miles asked softly. Harven smiled and spoke softly, also.
"She faced a most tragic fate" the vampire uttered, walking out the door and storming up the steps.
Van Helsing hit the walls of the tower that him and Carl were locked in. His weapons had been tossed across the ground carelessly. Above them stood a wide window.
"Okay, Carl, we need to somehow get up to that window, slide out, and get Alvonia! Then we can search the place for Anna and stop Harven from reviving Dracula!" Gabriel said quickly. Carl rolled his eyes.
"Do you really suppose we can do that, Van Helsing?" the friar asked. He sighed and looked at his weapons.
"I'm not sure, but if there was someone outside to open the window." He muttered. Just then, they heard a growl and looked up at the window. There stood a tall and slender werewolf. It scraped and pawed at the window and finally opened it. Glass shattered and flew everywhere. Carl closed his eyes and said a prayer. Van Helsing saw it jump down and growl louder. Its fangs were bared and suddenly, the wolf changed to a person. Gabriel's eyes lit up as he saw Alvonia laying on the ground. She held a wound on her stomach and sighed.
"Alvonia!" Gabriel and Carl gasped. She looked up and smiled. The wound in her stomach had disappeared, along with the blood.
"Gabriel?" she asked. He shook his head.
"You were finally bitten!" Carl said. She nodded and shifted to a werewolf, and then back to human form.
"Yes, and for a good reason!" she said. Just then, Harven walked into the room. His eyes grew wide at the site.
"I thought I got rid of you!" he said. Alvonia turned and flew at Van Helsign and Carl's chains, taking them off and then flying at Harven. She changed to werewolf form and bit at Harven. He yelled and bared his teeth. The vampire finally changed to Hellbeast form, since his powers mysteriously came back. Just then, the window swung open and a lightning bolt came through, hitting Harven in the chest. Alvonia staggered backward and gasped. He yelled as the electricity made his skeleton show. Harven lunged at Alvonia and began to hit her. She bit her jaws and scraped his face, making blood pour down. Van Helsing and Carl had managed to get out of the window and stand on yet another platform, but not for too long. There hovered a Banshee. She screamed and flew at the monster hunter. Gabriel realized that his weapons were still in the room. The Banshee bared her fangs and grimaced at the two. First, she hit Carl and made him fly off the platform. Van Helsing went to look at where he had landed, but the Banshee grabbed him by the shoulders and shook her pointer finger.
"You don't go anywhere, Helsing!" the Banshee screamed. She took him by his face and his mouth opened. A white light passed from him to her. Gabriel Van Helsing fell to the platform surface and was stark white. The Banshee flew into the room and saw that Harven lay, bleeding on the ground. Alvonia was nowhere in sight. "Master!" the Banshee screamed. A moment later, the monster was taken by her feet and swung around. Alvonia in werewolf form was just about to get rid of her last sister, Ianna.