Author's Note: Enter my character!!! Whoo-hoo!!! Yay…ness… not much to say here. Hope you liked chapter one. It was short. This one won't be. That is… if I can THINK of stuff. And those shirts that have the big swishy cuffs, I don't know how to describe them but I did the best I could.
Also, I'm using Katorez, a village I made up. Well, technically me and Moon Anvenger. She was at my house and needed a name for a village. So I suggested this, but our stories are not intertwined.

Disclaimer: I do not own any original character of Van Helsing. All original Van Helsing characters belong to Stephen Sommers and Universal Pictures and Studios.

Dracula's Symphony

Chapter Two: Welcome to Katorez

"Stupid beast!" A woman in large, back, strap-together boots with silver toes jumped up and kicked a werewolf in the stomach. She had on black, leather-like pants, and a dark blue shirt. The sleeves went down to her wrist where they went outward resulting in a large-cuff, swishy and silky. Around her waist, a sheathed sword, two daggers, a shotgun, and several other weapons hung.

Her bright green eyes scanned over the huge beast as its fur sizzled from the silver. There were two burn marks from the toes of her boots, but the mark quickly disappeared. The werewolf snarled at her, its blonde fur standing on edge.

Lunging at her, arms and claws forward, pinned her down, its claws just missing her shoulders and digging into the ground. The creature gave a snarl smile, drooling some as the monster slayer twitched and scrunched her face in disgust.

Arms almost pinned to her sides, she reached for a silver dagger sheathed at her side. Stabbing up, she hit the beast in the chest. As its blood dripped down, she rolled out of the way to watch it stand up, pull out the daggers, and throw them aside.

"You're done for!" She pulled out a shotgun, loaded with silver bullets, and fired like mad. With every hit, the werewolf stepped back and howled in extreme pain. Its chest was full of sizzling holes, and its legs and arms had quite some too.

Finally it dropped to the ground dead, and she stood over it panting. Checking the gun's barrel for bullets, she put it back at her side. Bending down, she stood at its feet, picked them up, and started to drag it by its feet out of the forest.

Arriving at a small village, she was greeted with strange, but happy looks of the villagers. An older man, a little chubby, came out of an inn.
"Adriana! You've returned!" he ran to the woman with open arms, "and you've got the werewolf…" he trailed off.
"Yeah. I can't help it! It is a person… inside," Adriana dropped its feet with a thud. Other villagers looked at it, sneered, and continued with their lives.

"Well, I have to bring this to the grave digger. He'll give the beast a proper burial."

"Fine, but you just watch yourself. You fight these monsters by yourself! And your winning streak won't last forever," the man cautioned.

"Leo," she whined, "you tell me that every time! But it's never happened and I know how to take care of myself. Don't worry, I'll be fine," she gave him a hug, then went to drag the werewolf to the grave digger.

"Mattison!" she waved at a lonely man sitting on a tombstone with a rusty old shovel. He was dressed in all black and his face was aged with wrinkles. Brown eyes glimmered with unused wisdom.

"You've brought another werewolf I see…" his voice was raspy and weak, "You've have to help me though. Those things are huge, and I'm old, and soon I'll be digging my own grave," he gave a faint smile, but switched to a frown.

"Don't talk like that. You're a wonder. You've been working for free as our grave digger for many decades. And don't I always?" she dropped the monster again.

"Is that how long it's been? Hmmm," he sighed, "I've only survived that long thanks to you," he gave a better smile and handed her a shovel that was on the other side of the tombstone. Thankfully there was a clear area right near them and they didn't have to move far before starting.

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In a tub of cool water, Adriana bathed, rinsing her hair and body. She was in the inn in their village, since she had no real home and lived there. She soon left and re-clothed herself, right before heading to sleep.

"Leo! Is there anything else to do around here?" she was drying off her hair with a cloth, the rest of her dressed and dry.

"Leo?" She left her room, heading downstairs. Following the wooden staircase, she was cautious and quiet. The floorboards squeaked as she walked, creeping along on her toes. Finally, she reached the bottom floor, and looking at the check in counter, saw no one. Leo was missing.

She ran forward, looking over the counter, and still there was no one. Adriana heard shrieks from outside, and ran out. There, was the biggest and most hideous vampire she had ever seen. It was black and grey, its wings span at least 15 feet. Obviously a guy vampire, he had a black mane of hair running down his spine, to about a fifth of the way down his back. In its long claws, he held the body of someone, but not Leo.

Terrified, she scanned the ground of dead bodies; none of them to be vampires, since none of them had been bitten on the neck and almost of all of them had already bled to death before the vampirific effect could start. Finally, she froze, her eyes finding Leo, the one who had raised her, among the dead.

The monstrous vampire dropped its current victim and spotted Adriana. A nasty grin came upon its face and it flew for her. Standing her ground, partly frozen with fear, she gripped the door. Then, at the last moment, right before the creature had gotten her, she slammed the wooden door in his face, the door shattering into large stakes.

She ran back, to see what the stakes would do, and if any of them had pierced whatever remained of his heart.

He dropped in the doorway, crouching over on hands and feet. Shaking off the wood pieces, it quickly looked up, ice blue eyes piercing Adriana in a fright. He opened his mouth and the loudest shriek she's ever heard bellowed out. What was even more frightening, was that it was deeper and sounded as if a howl-ish groan.

Standing on its legs, it walked backward, outside, and took off. Adriana ran to the hole that was what remained of the doorway, and watched as it picked up several bodies in his massive hands, and flew off, heading East.

Everyone, still panic-stricken, stayed inside as Adriana rushed to find the body of her guardian, Leo. He was the one who raised her, the one who cared for her, he was her companion, and she had to find him.

Finally, success was hers, and she found him breathing his last breathes, and blood trickling out his mouth.

"Adriana," he managed to say, "Just know, that your parents never had it this bad," with those final words, he closed his eyes and stopped breathing.

Tears poured from Adriana as she hugged his head, crouching on the ground.

"Like my parents, I will avenge you."

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Author's End Note: Ok then! Finally! After my friends bugged me it's finished. Hope you liked it. Again, kind of short, but I like my chapters to be a little longer than the previous one, and rather than writing like four or five pages, then having to write even more for the next chapter, I'm starting smaller this time, and then I'll work my way up. Reviews please! And no flames, especially not like "Ugh! Van Helsing's not in it! This is a Van Helsing fanfic! Where is he?!?! This sucks!" Because you know what? Shut your pie hole, I'm putting him in later.