Author's Note: Yay. Chapter 6! Whoo! If I have anyone else left who has put up with my procrastination and stupidity, then thank you. Well, once more, enjoy! I hope you like it!

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

Dracula's Symphony

Chapter Six: Captured

The morning sun gave off orange yellow rays as it crept over the horizon. It was just past daybreak and the grass still glittered with dew. The three surviving horses were in a nearby area, already up, eating the grass of the forest. It had been several hours since the attack, and the wounds of Adriana had been tended to. She lay still, resting on a bench-like, cloth covered seat.

Her vision coming back as she woke up, there was a black top over her, and the sun's light was gently coming in through a curtained window. The interior of the small room was mostly a maroon red color, and there was one other person in the room with her.

Adriana sat up quickly in defense, but winced from the pain in her stomach and shoulder, her neck did not bother her.

"Who are you?" she said aggressively, unsure if the person was a friend or foe. The man sitting across from her was wearing mostly black and brown. He had a leather coat and a black leather hat. His face had unsaved whiskers with a hidden smile. Brown eyes looked her over in curiosity and one of his black gloved hands stretched forward to shake in greeting.

"My name is Gabriel Van Helsing. My companion and I found you on the side of the road, with one of your horses dead. You were pretty badly wounded as well. The cuts in your shoulder and stomach were rather large. We tidied you up," Adriana looked down at her shirt. Nearly half the thing was covered in dry blood stains. The right shoulder sleeve was torn off, her bandaged arm showing, and the lower part of her shirt was torn off too, revealing her bandaged stomach as well. She shook his hand, still a little unsure of him.

"My name is Adriana Samdioes, Mr. Van Helsing. And I'd like to know where I am and who you companion is."

Carl opened the door and was smiling, holding a frying pan with meat on it, "Breakfast. Oh! You're up. Good," he scurried into the room, "You've been asleep for hours. And your name is…"

"Her name is Adriana. She was the one we were looking for," Gabriel looked over at Carl who sat next to him.

"Well, that's good news. Now that we've found you, would you like something to eat?" he put the frying pan out to her, offering the pieces of meat that were cooked and brown, "you'll need your energy to heal yourself," Carl was nodding vigorously, being his usual fool-like self. She took a piece but did not eat it immediately. She was still a bit nervous about the two.

"So, what were you doing before you found me?"

"Trying to find you," Van Helsing answered with a small grin.

"Why? Who sent you?"

"We were sent to find you so that we may ask you questions about the large vampire you encountered."

"And we were sent by the Ho--," Van Helsing put his hand over Carl's mouth to keep him from saying any more.

"Who we were sent by cannot be given out," he glared down at Carl.

"I see," Adriana said inquisitively, "Well, the large vampire is mine. When I find him I'm going to kill him. He killed my guardian, the only parent figure I knew. And you know what they say. An eye for an eye" she got up to leave the carriage, "and a tooth for a tooth."

Walking outside she saw they had eight horses. They looked a little bigger than her horses so they must have run faster to catch up with her so quickly. She ate the meat that she took earlier, its juice dripping all over her hand.

"And how do you expect to find the vampire on foot? You cannot go very far very fast without a horse," Van Helsing had a smirk on his face along with a quirked eyebrow. Adriana sighed and slummed back into the carriage, sitting across from the two men.

They are both still boys at heart. Especially Carl… she thought to herself, watching Carl move the remaining piece of meat in the pan around with his finger, a little smile on his face.

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"This young woman… Adriana… I cannot get her off my mind. The poor girl… When she finds out who I really am…" Dracula was pacing the floor, talking aloud to himself in his new castle. His long coat was swirling back and forth as he turned on his heel after several strides

"Why must love be so complicated?!" He pounded his fist into a wall, the stone breaking away into a large dent where his fist was, "But I must tell her… Maybe she will forgive me… Maybe she will accept me… Damn it all! Who am I kidding?!" He sat in the large throne-like chair that was built into the floor in the back of the room. One leg crossed over the other, hand on his head, Dracula thought of how he should handle it.

"There has got to be an easier way… Should I bring her here? Maybe I should fly her here and then tell her… No, then she will hate me more! Ahhhhhhhh!" again he pounded his fist into the stone of the throne-chair. The stone was cracked and crumbled beneath his fist.

Then, as if to solve all the answers, a howl was sent into the night. Dracula listened, and plotted. The howl was a reminder of his powers and a reliever of duty. He smiled.

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The moon was only two nights away from the full moon. The night was blanketed by a light fog, and the rumbling of the horses' hooves fitting the ground easily passed through it. Their harnesses clicked together and the crack of the reins pierced the night and sped them up.

Gabriel, Carl, and Adriana were traveling back to Katorez. According to Van Helsing, he would drop Adriana off as him and Carl investigated the vampire. It was the Cardinal's orders and of course Van Helsing had to do his best to carry them out.

They arrived back at the village Inn and got out. Since Adriana was the only one who was allowed to give out room keys, and everyone else obeyed the few laws of the village, all the things that belonged there were left as they should be. The doorway and inside of the Inn was repaired, thanks to the villagers. Adriana went behind the desk and grabbed three keys. She handed one to Carl and one to Gabriel.

Once they had all settled in, Van Helsing knocked on Adriana's door.

"Adriana. I need to speak to you," his head was close to the door and he spoke with a firm tone.

"One moment," foot steps were heard as she walked to the door and opened it, inviting him in. "And what is it that you need to speak to me about?"

"This… vampire hunt. I have direct orders from the Cardinal not to let you go," Adriana rolled her eyes and turned her back to him, still standing, "Believe me, I do not know why either. But when he said it he had a very serious look in his eyes."

"He probably thinks I can't handle myself. Like I'm a helpless village woman. Well I'm not!" she kept her back to Gabriel, and stood firmly.

"I doubt it. He's done this before. With," Van Helsing winced a little, "with Anna. He knew that she could handle herself, but to protect her, he had to try to stop her," he smiled a chuckled, "Not that he could. She went anyway, and," his smile was gone and his face blank. Adriana looked back at him, "I'd rather not talk about it…"

Adriana's look softened and she sat next to him. Both of them were looking down in silence, mourning for Anna, even though Adriana did not know how she died, and Gabriel wasn't going to talk about it any time soon.

Another howl interrupted their mourning and snapped them out of the silent trance. Carl burst through the door, the door knob hitting the wall and bouncing back, smacking Carl back in the face. He came through the door again, this time with his hand on the door to keep it still.

"Van Helsing! Quickly; that howl was from no wolf. There is a werewolf and is headed this way, and fast!" his voice squeaked in terror. Blushing, he threw a shot gun at Van Helsing. It looked different from an ordinary shot gun though, "I made it myself, it's loaded with silver bullets, but the gun itself is different. I added a gas chamber to the gun barrel, to propel the bullets farther and faster."

Van Helsing stood up with the gun, aiming it around, practicing to be prepared for the werewolf. His face was cringed with anger, but smirking in enjoyment of killing the beast. Memories of Anna had brought up his anger towards werewolves.

"This is great Carl," he went over to Carl, the shot gun resting on his shoulder, and patted his back, rather roughly, as Carl was forced forward several times. Adriana watched him leave the room, as Carl was there, trying to regain his balance.

"Carl, what happened to him that would not want him to talk about Anna's death? And he looked rather angry when you brought up the werewolf."

"It's a long story."

"Then give me an overview."

"Basically, when we were trying to kill Count Dracula, the only way to kill him was by a werewolf bite. Van Helsing had been bitten by Velkan, Anna's brother, right before he died. So, when we went to kill Dracula, after Van Helsing had bitten him, the only way to revert him back was to stick the antidote in him before the last stroke of midnight. Anna had run up to him with the antidote, but he was still enraged from the battle, and still as a werewolf. Luckily, she got the antidote in him before time ran out," Carl looked down, "but he killed her in the process. He almost killed me too; I was to drive a silver stake in him if we ran out of time. But the werewolf antidote had affected him just in time, and he caught my arm before I hurt him. The subject of werewolves or Anna has been a bit rough on him."

"Get down here Carl! We've got a monster to kill!" Adriana and Carl came at Van Helsing's command. He was outside the Inn, but the werewolf was no where to be seen. The three of them were standing ready, Adriana and Van Helsing pretty much back to back as Carl stood in the doorway of the Inn.

"Get ready Carl," Gabriel whispered.

"Ok!" Carl replied, but Van Helsing was expecting the answer to come from behind him. Looking back, he said Adriana with a wryly smile on her face. That soon changed to a serious look.

"What?! I am as much as help as Carl is. Only more," Van Helsing looked at her seriously and turned to face her. Adriana's back was to Carl, and Van Helsing was looking directly at her.

"Now I want you to listen to me."

"Van Helsing…"

"Not now Carl. Adriana, I command you to go back upstairs. It's safer there."

"You can't tell me what to do!"

"Van Helsing…"

"Not now Carl."

"But," Carl's voice was at a whimper now.

"What?!" Van Helsing looked past Adriana at him.

"Werewolf!!!" Carl pointed behind him at the werewolf, who was perched on a rooftop of a house nearby. Van Helsing picked up the shotgun from the ground and took aim. But before he could fire, the werewolf was leaping to another rooftop and off to the ground, where it took full charge towards them.

Van Helsing threw Adriana aside and again took aim. Carl grabbed Adriana, but didn't have her for long, as Adriana struggled free, and drew a sword. Van Helsing fired the shot gun and was flown back. The werewolf dodged it by jumping, and ended up on the roof of the Inn, looking down and snarling madly.

"Jesus Christ, Carl!!! What the hell was that?!"

"I'm sorry. There's an amazing amount of backlash due to the gas pump. And don't use that name so freely!"

The werewolf jumped down in front of Adriana, stopping her short. It grabbed her by the waist, and jumped back. Adriana dropped the sword, and was unable to use any other weapon, her arms stuck to her sides from the werewolf's grasp.

"You vermin! Dumb beast! Let…me… go!!!" Adriana was trying to wiggle her way out of the monster's grip, but to no success. Although she continued, it was no use, and soon they disappeared into the distance, leaving Van Helsing and Carl to watch helplessly, since he was unable to use the shotgun.

"Again we have to chase after the girl because some monster has captured her," Van Helsing sighed, "come on Carl. We are useless just standing around."

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Author's End Note: Whoo! I told you I'd update soon! And quickly! For once. Also, I told you I'd write more if I got into it (which I did) or if I needed to. J I'm proud of myself. Heh. Anyway, yeah, this was four pages long rather than the normal amount. I got a bit too into explaining stuff and didn't realize stuff and so just kept writing on. Yeah, so I'm captured (hence the title) and where is the werewolf taking me?! Hopefully I'll post up the next chapter (Chapter 7) in a couple of days, maybe one or two. Our pool is going be done today and able to swim in it tomorrow so whoohoo! Review please! Tell me what you think and if you have any suggestions I'd be happy to put them in if I can find a way to put them in. Tell others about my fanfic too!

One last thing, this is about the middle of the story. Actually, kind of the middle-end. I figure the story will be somewhere around 10 or 12 chapters long.