This was written because I loved the "Werewolf" and "Frankenstein" versions of the movies, and always wanted "Dracula" version. The characters are not mine. The story is.

Have fun!

Chapter 10

Dracula listened to the sounds in the rooms above him. Foolish chipmunks. Did they really think they could stop him, safe in his own haven? They had come to their deaths here.

But it was all right. The girls, he could decide to do with what he wanted later, but the brothers – they could start the process of transformation early.

Simon would not have to be alone for long.

He stepped out of the casket he had just laid down in, transforming into mist and traveling carefully up the stairs. The chipmunks wouldn't have come unprepared. He had to be cautious.

After all, he couldn't risk his new family so soon after finding them.

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"It's awfully quiet in here." Theodore said nervously.

"That's good, Theodore, then we'll be able to hear when Dracula comes." Alvin replied.

"Do we have any idea where we are going?" Brittany asked, looking around with fear in her eyes.

"Down." Alvin told her. "That's all I can think off. Dracula's lair has to be underground."

"Of course." Brittany muttered. "But what exactly are we going to do once we find it?"

"Kill him, of course." Alvin said, determination in his voice. The stairs had darkened as they descended. "That's the only way we can possibly hope to save Simon."

"If it works at all." Brittany said under her breath, and then withered under Alvin's angry gaze. "Sorry. I'm just scared, I guess. I start wisecracking when I'm scared."

"Its okay, Brittany, we're all scared." Theodore reassured her. "But it will turn out all right. It always does."

"Yeah, but..." Brittany sighed, hefting the stake in her hand. She didn't feel much like a vampire slayer. She felt more like a preadolescent chipmunk who had gotten in way over her head. "I guess we just have to believe that."

"Do you have any idea where we are going, Alvin?" Jeanette asked, glancing around. They were in a staircase that was meagerly lit by burning candles on the wall. "I think we might be lost."

"Just keep heading down." Alvin repeated. "If we don't find Dracula, maybe we'll find Simon. Even though he is a vampire, we might be able to convince him to help us."

"Do you really think so?" Brittany had her doubts. Theodore had been a real jerk when he had been a werewolf. What was there to indicate that Simon would be any different?

"He's my brother, Brittany." Alvin said, and Theodore nodded in response quickly. "He'd never hurt us."
Brittany felt the still-tender punctures on her neck warily.

She wished that she could believe that.

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Simon woke from his death-like sleep slowly. He didn't know exactly what had woken him, but he rose from the fog of sleep all the same. He sensed someone was near, someone who was not Dracula – someone who was alive.

No, more than someone. Multiple someones.

He became alert in a second. Alvin! He must have come trying to save him!

Simon sat up in his coffin, forgetting for a moment that the cover was closed. "Ow!" He yelled, hitting his head on the surface of the casket. He growled with frustration as he threw the cover off. He couldn't let his brothers get hurt because of him.

The tiredness that he felt let him know that it must be daylight already. But that was good, because it meant that Dracula must be feeling fatigue as well. He didn't know how much stronger the famous vampire was, but hopefully he was as weakened as Simon was himself.

Not that Simon felt much weaker. He tore up the stairs with a fury that surprised him. He couldn't allow his brothers to be hurt.

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"That's the last of the sun we're going to see." Brittany said as they turned a corner in the staircase. The last rays of the sun that had illuminated the steps had faded a moment ago.

"We'll see it again." Alvin told her, continuing down. He didn't know how well he believed his own words, but spoke anyways. "Maybe not until tomorrow, if – when we get Simon, since he might need to avoid it, but we will see it again.

"I hope so." Brittany said.

"We will."

"Perhaps so, but it will be for one of the last times."

Alvin heard Dracula speak, and whirled around. He couldn't see the vampire anywhere. "Show yourself!" He yelled, tamping down the foolishness he felt at shouting out a line that must have been used in every horror movie ever made.

"Easily done." Dracula materialized on the stairs before them. He cocked an eyebrow at them, eyeing the stakes with obvious amusement. "So I take it you come to kill me?" He said.

"And get our brother back!" Theodore said, then cringed. Alvin could tell that he was surprised at his own ability to stand up to the famous vampire.

"Foolish mortal!" Dracula said. "Do you even know who I am?"

"Yeah, well, we're all famous in our own right, too." Brittany shot at him, readying herself with her stake. "Do you see our heads swelling up like yours?"

Alvin looked at her in amazement. Brittany had said that?

"We want Simon back!" Jeanette demanded.

His friends were banding together like never before. Alvin felt a sense of pride as he again faced the vampire. "Yes! Where is my brother?"
"Safe from you, little boy." Dracula sneered. "I would never allow you to hurt him!"

"Hurt him? Are you kidding? We're here to save him!" Alvin said, crouching down, readying himself with the stake.

"Save him? Save him! He is beyond saving, child!" Dracula said, laughing evilly. "All that is left is to join him!"

"J-j-join him?" Theodore asked, his eyes going wide with fear.

Dracula looked at him in contempt. "Yes, of course, brother of my newest son. Although you would have not have been my first selection, Simon has proven to be an exemplary choice and I have such expectations for you."

"Us?" Alvin could tell that Theodore's strength was dissipating rapidly. Not that he blamed him – the vampire in front of them wasn't exactly welcoming.

"Of course, child. Do you think that I would leave Simon so alone?" Dracula actually seemed incredulous. "He has never been without you. Why should he be now? Tonight," he smiled darkly, "I bring you the first step into darkness."

"No!" Eleanor screamed, diving at the vampire. Jeannette and Brittany were right behind her. Dracula glanced at her briefly, raising one hand almost casually.

"Halt." He ordered. The three Chippettes did so immediately, so suddenly that Brittany actually fell to the ground in the middle of a leap. Alvin watched them with terror in his eyes.

"And now," Dracula said, eyeing Alvin and Theodore with obvious relish, "the rest of my family shall join me in eternity."

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"And now, the rest of my family shall join me in eternity."

Simon heard those words and a blind fury burst upon him. No! He would not allow Dracula to harm his brothers!

He burst up the stairs through a red haze, anger like he had never felt descending upon him. Dracula was there, his hand flung up carelessly at the Chippettes and gazing at the Chipmunks with anticipation. No! Dracula had said he would leave them alone!

Simon's body hit the elder vampire with a sickening thud. He barely noticed his brothers running to the Chippettes, waking them from their vampire-induced stupor slowly. Dracula could not be allowed to kill his brothers!

Dracula hissed as they bounded up the stairway. Murderous sunlight awaited there, but Simon didn't care. He knew he had no choice against Dracula in a one-on-one fight, but the sunlight – it could destroy them both.

He pushed forward into the light.

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Alvin watched his brother soar up the stairs with astonishment. Not fly? He could now! The vampire chipmunk hit the elder undead and actually rolled up the stairs at incredible speed. He quickly realized that they were heading rapidly into the sunlight and suddenly knew that he had only moments to save his brother from a fiery death.

"Simon!" He screamed, Theodore fast on his heels. "Not into the light!"

Simon either ignored him or didn't hear. The two vampires rolled into the waiting light, apparently heedless of the smoke that suddenly sprung from them. "Simon!" Alvin yelled again, rushing out to grab his brother. He ignored the burning in his fingers as he dragged his brother back into the waiting dark. "No!"

Dracula remained in the sunlight, and flames burst from his clothing. "No!" He screamed, crawling towards the exit. Alvin watched with sick fascination as the famous vampire burst into flame, reducing him to ash in a matter of moments. "My son!" Dracula whispered as he disappeared into a pile of dust.

Simon lay beneath Alvin, as still as death. Alvin stood, looking around him. Brittany and the Chippettes seemed to be coming back to reality, and Theodore was kneeling by Simon with worry in his eyes.

"He's still not breathing, Alvin." His little brother said, almost in tears. "Did it work?"

"I don't think so, Theodore." Simon said suddenly, and they all jumped. "I don't feel any different."

They all watched as Simon stood, still looking as handsome and dangerous as before. He looked at the ground, dejected.

"I'm still a vampire," Simon said, glancing up at them in regret. "I'm so sorry this was all for nothing. You all were wonderful. Really, I-"

"Simon! Your eyes!" Alvin exclaimed, joy bursting in his heart.

"What about them?" Simon asked, and then looked down at himself in wonder.

The golden hue faded from his eyes, and he began to squint. The strange aura of danger around him faded, and suddenly it was just Simon again, standing in front of them with his familiar near-sighted gaze.

"Simon?" Jeannette asked, hope in her voice.

"I'm back!" Simon said, jumping in the air and spinning around. "I really am!"

"Yea!" Theodore rushed up to give him a hug. "I knew it would turn out okay!"

Alvin couldn't help it, he hugged his brother just as hard. "I guess it did, Theodore."

Simon didn't seem to be able to do much more than hug his brothers and the Chippettes for more than ten minutes. Then, finally, he spoke.

"Let's go home, everyone. Let's go home."

End of part 10

Review really appreciated! Epilogue coming soon.