Carl, Nicola and Van Helsing remained up in the library trying to find something, if anything, out about how the brides could be coming back. Van Helsing remained a little quieter than usual.

Nicola closed a book she had been reading and sighed.

"Nothing... not even a trace. Anything?" she asked, looking in Van Helsing's direction.

He shook his head.

"I can't find anything. It seems that they just-"

"YES!" Carl cried out in happiness; so much so that it startled both Nicola and Van Helsing.

"Carl, what have you found?" Van Helsing asked as he and Nicola ran over.

"It's not a lot, but it's certainly something!" Carl said happily. "According to this book, there is a sort of demon and vampire purgatory, sort of like a place for hellish creatures with unfinished business."

"That must be where the brides are coming from," Nicola said aloud, "but how could they get here?"

"I was just getting to that," Carl said impatiently and showed them a diagram of three demons attacking a man. "From what I have learned, demons and vampires can gather their energy, through it greatly wears them out, and visit humans in their dreams. If this is true, they feed off the fear of the humans until they can break through the barrier and enter our world once more."

"So... does it say how we can defeat them and send them back?" Nicola asked.

Carl shook his head.

"No...but at least we know now how they are coming through to this world."

"Why am I the only one who can be attacked?" Nicola questioned.

"They attack the one they feed off of... until last night. However now that we know this, if you just keep up wearing the cross and drinking the holy water we should be able to keep them at bay until we find a way to destroy them. But if we could bring Dracula-"

"Don't even say it!" Van Helsing said sharply. "I've said it before and I'll say it again. I won't allow it."

Nicola sighed but then her thoughts went to something else... or someone.

"How long have we been here?" she asked urgently.

"Probably an hour... why?" Both Carl and Van Helsing asked.

Nicola's eyes filled with dread.

"Oh no..."