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Chapter Four
Rena was asleep that night on Frankenstein's two chairs that had been pushed together. She was dreaming about her parents back when she was little. That was back before she knew about vampires or werewolves or anything like that. That was when things were much easier.
"Rena, wake up! Morena!" Kella said shaking her.
"Five more minuets dad." Rena moaned still asleep.
"Morena Van Helsing, wake up now!" Kella hissed. Rena's reply was to roll over on her side. Frankenstein walked up behind Kella and looked at Rena.
"I have no idea where she gets this from." Kella mumbled and tossed a cup of water on Rena. Rena jolted awake and drew a dagger out of her sleeve. She then saw Kella, who cocked and eyebrow at her.
"Sorry, um, family tradition." Rena mumbled flipping the blade closed and got up.
"What is? Not waking up easily?" Kella smirked. Rena made a face at Kella asthe young Van Helsingslipped on her coat. Kella just smirked slightly.
"Why up so early anyway?" Rena asked looking at her watch. It said five o' three.
"You two are going to find Kella's godfather." Frankenstein said.
"What about you?" Rena asked.
"I shall be fine. Don't worry about me." he told her.
"Well, try not to be seen. Dracula is still looking for you." Rena told him.
"I know that Rena. I promise I will be careful." Frankenstein said. Rena smiled at him and lowered her hat over her eyes before she and Kella left.
"So, any idea where your godfather is?" Rena asked a while later lifting a sewer lid and moving it to the side.
"I got a lead from his friend Raze on my cell phone. It said he was in Massachusetts. Great Barrington to be exact."Kella said.
"You mean he's in a college town that is almost invisible to the rest of the world. And I thought this would be hard." Rena said helping Kella out of the whole.
"Any preference to how we get there?" Kella asked.
"We could walk there, which would take an awfully long time. For that reason, we take the subway." Rena said as the two walked to the subway terminal.
"Do we have to? Something always goes wrong when someone in my family goes into the subway." Kella said.
"Relax, what could go wrong?" Rena asked as the two entered. Kella saw an all to familiar face. It was one of Kraven's goons. Kella knocked Rena into the subway car as a bullet ricocheted off the door. The door closed behind the both of them and Rena sat up.
"You just had to jinx it, didn't you?" Kella told her helping her up.
"I'm a Van Helsing. It's what I do." Rena said smirking. Thus began the hour long train ride. After that, they had to switch trains and get on another one which was another two hours. Rena sighed and pulled something out of her coat pocket. Kella saw it.
"Do you go anywhere without that thing?" Kella asked nodding toward the portable DVD player.
"No. Why should I? It plays CDs and DVDs. Why bother with anything else?" Rena said turning it on. Hard metal began to play as the beginning credits for 'Queen of the Damned' began to play on the little screen.
"Oo! I want to watch!" Kella said leaning toward Rena. Rena smirked and pulled the screen back so they could both watch. About an hour later, Rena paused the movie and the girls got on the other train. Once the train was moving, they started the movie again.
It finally came to the part where Lestat (main character) is looking up at the stars with his own voice talking in the back ground. 'Better dead than alone.' he said.
"I have empathy for him." Kella said. Rena cocked an eyebrow and turned to her.
"You do? You know how it feels to be living what you think are your last days on this earth? And to be a four hundred or so year old vampire who everyone you ever cared about died long ago? You know how that feels?" Rena asked her, every word dripping with sarcasm.
"Did I say empathy? I meant sympathy." Kella said.
"Well, Kella, I have sympathy for him too. That is the point of the movie after all." Rena said.
After 'Queen of the Damned', the girls watched two episodes of 'Angel' that Rena had on DVD. By that time the girls have arrived in Boston. Rena turned off the DVD player and put it in her coat after the two were above ground again. Kella then saw the black gun with all the special rounds Rena had in her coat.
"Where did you get those?!?!" Kella asked shocked.
"Max, he's a family friend." Rena replied pulling her coat closed. Thank goodness Kella hadn't seen the other things she had taken from the Order's now empty armory. "So, where is your Godfather?"
"At a college. He's a professor." As Kella said this, she smirked and started laughing softly. "His friend Raze is helping him." Kella then began laughing hard.
Rena cocked an eyebrow at her.
"Kella, you've lost it. You finally lost it."
Van Helsing paced in his cell. It had been a week since Dracula had taken them. He looked over at Anna, who was asleep. The two took turns taking watch for things, such as a certain vampire. Across from them were who they knew as Kella's parents, Selene and Michael. Well, they were across from them till about two days ago when they were moved.
"Why does Dracula have Kella's parents?" he asked himself. This had been puzzling him for a long time. He knew why Dracula had him and Anna, that was obvious. But the reason for Kella's was a mystery. Another question he had was why were they both still alive. One hundred and sixteen years ago, Dracula would have killed them both in a heart beat.
Well, at least Rena is still out there, safe. he thought. Where-ever his daughter was, he knew three things. One, she was loaded down with weapons just as he would have been. Two, she was looking for them. And three, she was with Kella.
Van Helsing smiled slightly. Rena was so much like himself. The determination and love of weapons came from him, no doubt. She did have Anna's sense of family as well. She would go to the ends of the earth and back just to find them.
That was the thing that worried him. Van Helsing didn't want his only daughter to go looking for Dracula. She could get killed, or worse, bitten. Then, the monster hunter thought about Kella. From what he could see, the girl was exactly like her mother. That meant he had nothing to worry about. However, that still didn't stop him from doing so.
Morena and Kella walked through a college campus. The two stood out in their all black attire against the emerald grass and jade leaves of the trees.
"Tell me, why did he want to work here? And what's his name again?" Rena asked walking along side Kella.
"His name is Lucien. Even I don't have any idea why he wanted to work here." Kella replied.
"It's probably a cover up. He's probably a mass murderer and is trying to cover up his sordid past." Rena said being completely sarcastic.
"Did you just say 'sordid past'?" Kella asked.
"So I've read Dracula a few times." Rena replied.
"Only a few?" Kella asked smirking, knowing that Rena had read it only about sixteen times at last count.
"Not a word, Kella. Not a word." Rena glared hatefully at her.
"Still quoting Lord of the Rings, aren't we?" Kella sighed pretending to check her nails. The girl knew this would send Rena over the edge. The two stopped. Rena looked at Kella with a maniacal smile.
"I'm a nice person. Come closer." Rena told her.
"Is that the best you can come up with?" Kella smirked.
"That's it." Rena shouted and tackled Kella to the ground. Both girls were sent rolling down a steep hill. When they hit the bottom, the teenagers were laughing their heads off.
The sun was just beginning to set (A/N: Kella and the sun will be explained.) over the horizon of the hills when the girls entered a class room. The man in the class room had long dark hair that was halfway pulled back. He also had a goatee. He had on jeans, a dark shirtand boots with a leather coat that went to a little above his knees.
Kella knocked on the door and he looked up.
"Kella." he said slightly shocked.
"Hello Lucien." she said smiling at him. Lucien walked over and hugged Kella. He then stepped back and looked at her.
"Look at you. How long has it been?" he asked.
"Five years." Kella replied.
"Five years. Oh, that is far to long. You've grown into a woman. You look exactly like your mother." he told her.
"Everyone says that." Kella replied. Lucien looked behind Kella and saw Rena, who still had her hat low over her eyes.
"And who is this?" he asked.
"Lucien, this is my friend Morena, Rena, this is my godfather Lucien." Kella introduced.
"Secretive girl, aren't you?" he asked cocking an eyebrow.
"Not really." Rena said tilting her hat back so her face could be seen. "Just on certain things."
"Like what?"
"Like the family line of work." Rena replied.
"Which is?" Lucien asked.
"Now if I told you it wouldn't a secret."
The girls were interrupted by a tall, bald, man whose skin was a coffee color. He stopped in the doorway behind the girls.
"Raze." Kella said smiling.
"Kella, what are you doing here?" Raze asked. Rena jumped at the incredibly deep tone of his voice. Lucien smiled when he saw this.
"Most people are not prepared for Raze's unique sound." he told Rena.
"I can understand why." Rena replied.
"Raze, this is my friend Morena. Rena this is Raze." Kella told them.
"Call me Rena. Everyone else does." the girl told the two men.
"Lucien, we have a problem. Something has been spotted outside. A winged creature of some kind." Raze told him.
"Raze, my friend, you must be worrying about nothing. The bloods don't have wings anymore." Lucien whispered but the girls heard him.
"But Lucien, it's a full moon tonight." Raze whispered back.
"I know that Raze. I can assure you however, nothing is w…." Lucien didn't get to finish his sentence because something crashed through the window. The four looked to see it was a man.
"Aw, shit." Rena swore under her breath.
"Hello again little Van Helsing."
"Dracula." Rena said swallowing hard.
"Dracula!! You never said anything about Dracula." Kella said turning to Rena. She wasn't there. Rena was in front of the entire group, the person closest to Dracula.
"Where are my parents?" Rena asked sounding calm and cool.
"Your parents are with me. Now, come with me and you may see them." he said.
"Fat chance." Rena replied.
"Then what will happen to your friend?" Dracula asked pulling someone from behind him.
"Max." Rena whispered seeing him.
"Now, come with me and your friend will not be hurt." Dracula said.
"That will not be happening." Kella said and a gun shot could be heard. The bullet whizzed past Rena and grazed Dracula's hand.
Dracula dropped Max from shocked and Rena pulled Max by her. She took out her new pair of tojo blades and sent them buzzing and spinning around. Dracula ran forward and Rena twirled to the side, cutting the vampire open. Dracula roared and came after Rena. The girl slid the blades back in her coat and took out the black gun with the sunlight bullets. She fired them at Dracula. She hit him three times in the chest and once in the head. Nothing happened. Rena's jaw dropped and her eyes grew wide.
"Shit." she hissed and began to back up.
Dracula advanced toward her. Then she saw her chance, the open window. But they were three stories up. Rena made her decision, and it would hurt.
Rena flung herself out the window and spun through the air. Her butt collided with the hard ground a few moments. Rena scrambled up and froze. Dracula was already there. Rena was trapped.
Suddenly, Kella was in front of her. Her skin was now a blue green color and her nails had grown. Dracula took a step back caught off guard by the girl.
"What in the world?" he asked himself. Kella lurched forward and tried to attack Dracula. Dracula changed into his bat form and flew away.
"Kella?" Rena asked. Kella turned around to face Rena and was smiling widely. She had fangs. Long, sharp, pointy, fangs. "Kella!!" Rena shouted stumbling back.
Kella's skin faded back to it's original pale color and her nails returned to normalbut the fangs remained. Kella looked down and began to speak.
"Rena, you have to know something. Not all vampires are evil. What I'm getting at is…"
"You're a vampire! How could I not see it!! But, you can go out in daylight!" Rena said who was going into shock.
"I'm a hybrid. That's why I can go out in daylight. It's my one fourth lycan." Kella explained.
Rena took deep breaths and tried to clear her head. Her friend was a hybrid, but not evil. The not evil part was good. Okay, relax. Everything will be fine. Kella is on your side and always will be. Otherwise she wouldn't be your best friend. Rena assured herself and finally calmed down.
"So, Selene and Michael are…what?" Rena asked. A voice came from their left and Rena jumped from being on full alert.
"Selene is a vampire and Michael is a hybrid, half vampire and half lycan." It was Lucien with Raze behind him.
"Don't do that. Please, don't do that." Rena told her. She sighed and took off her hat. She looked up at the sky and ran a hand through her hair. "Anything else you want to tell me or that I should know?" she asked turning to Kella.
"Raze and I are both lycans." Lucien said.
"And Lucien is their leader." Kella added.
"Oh, boy. Dad's never gonna believe this." Rena murmured as she leaned against the building. Just then, Max came running around the building.
"Would someone please tell me what is going on?" he said.
"Trust me. You don't want to know." Rena said.
Max glanced to his left to see Raze glaring at him. Max quickly took a large step to the right in his own timid way.
"Rena, who are they?" Max asked.
"I need to think." Rena said walking away from the group.
"You can't go out there alone." Kella said.
"Watch me." Rena replied dryly sounding exactly like her father when he was pissed. And Rena did so she walked away from the group till the night had swallowed her.