Chapter 23: Past the stone: Lair of destruction.
Alvonia stood as a human. She felt her neck and made sure that there was no trail of blood. The shape shifter looked over to see Anna drenched in ice cold water. Van Helsing crouched down to her and tried to help her. Carl knelt alongside the two. Alvonia smoothed her hair back and walked over to them.
"Are you alright?" she asked. Anna coughed and water came out. Alvonia smiled and snapped her fingers. The water around her disappeared.
"Anna? Anna, are you alright?" Van Helsing asked. She closed her eyes and fell back to the ground. They saw that she breathed in and out slowly.
"Let her rest" Alvonia said. She turned to see that Miles' body poured out blood. The shape shifter walked over to the doctor. His eyes were halfway open and he breathed in and out. "Mischoffe?" she asked. Miles sighed and smiled.
"Ye..yes?" he asked.
"Rest. Let Harven may have no hold on you anymore" she said calmly. Miles nodded his head and closed his eyes. The invisible man was no more. Alvonia walked back to them and smiled.
"We should be going" she said. Van Helsing stood up and shook his head. Carl stood up also. Alvonia changed to a vampire and hovered in the air.
"Alvonia, wait" the monster hunter said. She looked down.
"Yes?" she asked. He bent down and scooped Anna into his arms.
"What about Dracula?" Gabriel asked. She closed her eyes and remembered from her past that she died in the vampire's arms.
"In time, he will attack, but now, I fear not! If he does find some new sort of creature, we will all be ready!" Alvonia assured them. Gabriel shook his head.
"Now that he is back...now that he is back..." he said. Just months ago, Van Helsing had been bitten by a werewolf and killed Count Dracula. The fact that he had returned sickened him.
"He will wreak havoc, yes" Alvonia said. Gabriel nodded his head. Alvonia then remembered that the werewolf venom still ran through her veins. When the shape shifter was about to speak again, Fortress Miles shook. Van Helsing looked around. The walls were crushed and bricks were coming out of place.
"We leave now!" Van Helsing yelled. Alvonia swooped down and grabbed Carl first. He then tried to pick the other two up, but she couldn't.
"I can't lift you both!" the shape shifter said. Gabriel looked around and saw that dust particles flew everywhere.
"I'll go to the entrance" he said. Alvonia nodded and brought Carl through the opening in the ceiling.
While running through the castle...
Anna woke up and looked around. She saw that the world was moving fast around her. The princes then looked up and saw Gabriel Van Helsing panting.
"Gabriel!" she gasped. The princess just now remembered waking up from what seemed to be a deep sleep, and then she saw a horrid vampire kissing her. She reached up and felt her lips. Her hands were as cold as ice. Van Helsing ran past many corridors and rooms, approaching the entrance to Fortress Miles. He didn't look down. Anna put her hand down and breathed in. One thing came to her mind: had she indeed died and came back to life? If so, how did she die and who revived her. The monster hunter had just reached the entrance when he turned to see that the inner most part of the castle was collapsing. Why? He didn't know. Gabriel kicked the door open and they soared through. Down into the forest, with Alvonia and Carl flying above. Anna craned her head over Gabriel's arm and saw that the Fortress was letting pieces of the castle fly everywhere. Carl saw the same thing and then looked up and above the trees. An orb the size of a lake circled around the castle and hit it with lightning.
"Alvonia! Look at the Fortress!" the friar yelled up. Alvonia swerved around to see large chunks of bricks came flying toward them. Van Helsing stopped and turned to see the same thing. Alvonia now flew faster than normal. Van Helsing sighed and kept running when he saw that there was an outstretched road to the right of him. A carriage rode fast with two horses trampling the forest ground. Anna looked at him and he ran toward the carriage. No one was driving it.
Alvonia kept looking down to see if Van Helsing and Anna were in plain sight, but then finally saw: A driverless carriage that trampled down the road.
Van Helsing caught onto the end of the carriage and leapt up. He looked up to see Alvonia flying down and then she dropped Carl on the roof. After Gabriel put the Princess Anna down. He then soared to the front of the moving object and then grabbing the reigns. Alvonia changed to human form and finally realized. The horses were a breed of Transylvanian. Gabriel then saw a large chasm that was gaping and a block from this piece of land to the next. The chunks of the castle now hit trees and didn't conflict with the riders anymore. Carl now looked to see the Transylvanian horses jump across the deep chasm and land on the next piece of land. Van Helsing sat back and looked at the three.
"And now, we wait" Gabriel said.
I don't know if that is the right carriage/horse reigns.
Author's Note: Next chapter: The Vatican's Welcoming.....and then, the Epilog. More to come soon!!!