Author: Sparkling-Diva
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Romance/Drama/Minor humor
Pairing: Gabriel and Anna
Feedback: Please! Thanks!
Summary: What if Anna hadn't really died? Would the family live on for generations and generations more to come?
Warning: Major Spoilers! So beware…
Disclaimers: All characters and stuff belong to Stephen Sommers, Bram Stoker, Universal, and a bunch of other people that aren't me. Bah humbug!
Author's Note: Eek! The tension is rising! What will happen next? Read on to find out!
"Where could they be?" Anna asked nervously thinking the worst. She and Gabriel had been looking frantically for the last two hours. "They are not anywhere."
"Not in here," said a villager coming out of the graveyard.
Some of the townspeople were already getting involved with the search.
Rainclouds began moving over the horizon.
"It's getting too dark!"
"We can't give up now!" Anna exclaimed.
I wonder what happened to them, Gabriel asked himself.
Back at the mansion…"Emma! Abraham!" Carl cried out as he ran around frantically through all the rooms. "Come now. This isn't funny. You have your parents awfully worried sick. Please show yourselves."
Stopping to think for a moment, a thought came over him.
"The library!" he exclaimed.
He ran towards the doorway of where it was. He took a deep breath, opened the door, and gasped.
Back at Dracula's Castle…"So what do you want to play children?" Marishka asked.
"Ummm…." Abe began.
"We should really go home now," Emma began.
"Nonsense. You've only just got here...Let's play!"
"I don't know…." Emma said starting to fiddle with the ring on the chain that was around her neck. Also, there she was wearing a little mini-silver cross that was given to her and her brother by Cardinal Jinette when they were born.
"What do you have there?" Marishka asked curiously. She looked closer and her eyes sparkled at the site of Dracula's ring that had been lost for years.
"Master's ring…" she said smiling gleefully.
"Excuse me? Are you alright?" Emma asked.
"Em, I don't think that…" Abe started.
Marishka then saw the cross. She screamed and backed away from it.
"What's wrong!" Emma asked.
"Can't -," she said before screaming and backing away. She was shielding her face in horror. "GAAAHHHH!" she screamed as she ran out of the room.
"Emma!" Abe exclaimed, hurrying over to his sister. "I think that she's a vampire!"
"Nonsense. That can't be."
"Gimmie the book!"
"But you can't hardly read it."
"Gimmie!"
"No! I'll check. What are you looking for?"
"What are Dracula's 3 brides names?"
"Oh gosh. You are right. There are three of them aren't they?"
"And there are 3 sisters here where he used to live," he said sniffling.
Gosh, how could it have slipped my mind, Emma thought as she flipped through some of the pages in the book.
Thank God for little brothers.
"Here it is," Emma said. "There names were Aleera…Verona," she gulped before nervously continuing, "…and Marishka."
Her eyes traveled to the opposite page where a portrait of the 3 of them next to a man similar to who they believed it to be Dracula.
Emma and Abraham stared back at each other as Emma pulled out some holy water from her pocket. Her father had told her to always take it with her. Based on the ways she heard of killing vampires, she guessed it could help.
Abe clutched to Teddy and slowly stood up. Emma followed and heard the sound of footsteps coming back.
Marishka.
"RUN!" she yelled.
Carl quickly ran, trying to make his way through the village.
"Anna, Gabe, thank God I found you. There is something urgent I need to tell you," he said as he came to stand before them.
"Carl, what is it?" asked Gabriel.
"Well, I was looking around the house when I came upon the library."
"And?"
"Well, I was-,"
Suddenly, Anna felt something sting in her heart.
"Anna? What's wrong?" asked Gabriel helping to hold her still.
She was almost on the brink of tears which was something that she hardly ever showed. Especially in public. But now, she couldn't help it.
"Something's happening to them. They're in danger, I know it."
Just them, she happened to look up. Her eyes opened wide when she saw that out of a castle came out Aleera and Verona. They were also heading towards the three.
No. Impossible. It can't be.
"No!" Anna yelled out towards the sky. The curse was suppose to have ended. Why was it coming back to haunt her?
Gabriel turned his head back to see what his wife was looking at and stared in horror.
"Stay back!' he yelled as he pushed Carl and Anna down on either side of him and took out his crossbow. Verona swooped down and one of the silver daggers nearly hit her heart. She just laughed at her trickiness.
While Carl decided to hide behind a food cart, Anna had run over to the weapon shop. She got in, took a sword, and twirled to face Aleera.
"Hello, Anna! It's nice to see you again. Did I scare you or will I have to try harder?"
Outside, Gabriel hadn't had much luck with getting Verona. She was too quick for him and even had the opportunity to pick up a few of the town people and have a snack.
Maybe I'm getting too old for this, Gabriel joked to himself knowing that it was impossible since he would always remain the left hand of God.
Suddenly Verona stopped and said, "You might have tricked me once but I swear that it will never happen again."
"Oh really," Gabriel said grinning as he stared at the sun which was starting to show itself from its hiding spot behind the clouds.
She turned around and stared in shock. Without a moment to think, the next thing she knew, she was back towards a wall and her wings were stuck into place with two tojo blades. Screaming in pain, she stared ahead to see Gabriel dip his crossbow into the holy water fountain. He was then painting straight towards her.
"No," she murmured.
"3…2…1," he said before firing.
"NOOOOO!"
Immediately, Carl, now behind Gabriel, stared with him as they saw Verona's bat vampire from transform back to human and then into ashes.
"Well," Carl said with a sound of relief, "She's dead."
Gabriel just gave him a look.
Then he thought for a moment before asking, "Where's Anna?"
Back at Dracula's Mansion…"Hurry!" Emma said holding hands with her brother as they tried to make their way out of the mansion.
"I can't run any faster!"
"No! My sister is dead!" they heard Marishka yell. Then she came out of nowhere and said, "You two aren't going anywhere."
"Emma, the holy water! Hurry!"
But Marishka was too quick and she grabbed it out of Emma's hands.
"Too bad. So sad," she sobbed.
Abe tried to run and get it but failed for Marishka had picked him up off the ground and bared her fangs to give him a scare.
Abe screamed and Emma yelled, "Put my brother down!"
Marishka was too preoccupied with Abe to notice that Emma had gotten back the bottle of holy water and hid it behind her back.
"As a Valerious- Helsing you should know better!" Marishka yelled as her eyes glowed.
"Oh, but I do," Emma said quickly uncapping the holy water. "Abe close your eyes!" she yelled as she threw it all on Marishka.
"GAHHHH!" yelled Marishka throwing Abe down hard against the floor and he laid still.
She screamed, "You shall pay for this! Master will make you!" before she fell into ashes on the floor.
Earlier…After taking a sword and having a mini-sword fight with Anna, Aleera screamed for no apparent reason, Anna stood back as the wailing continued until Aleera left the room.
Anna quickly ran back outside where she saw Gabriel and Carl.
"What happened?"
"We got Verona."
"We have to go back to the mansion now!" exclaimed Carl.
"Why?"
"I think I know what may be going on and where they could be!"
Back at Dracula's Castle…"Abe? Wake up!" Emma told her brother.
She checked his pulse and found out that he was still breathing.
"Thank God," she said as she hugged him. "I'm so sorry that I got you into this mess. Why did it have to be like this? I'm so sorry."
Emma then stopped as she heard wailing from the distance. It was getting closer and closer.
"C'mon Abe! Get up! We've got to get out of here!"
But it was no use since he still wouldn't budge.
"Abe," she sobbed as she fell beside him and wept for a moment. Then she heard a sound of a different person sobbing behind her.
She looked up to see Aleera with a look of hatred in her eyes.
"You…You killed Marishka….just like your parents killed Verona."
"WHAT!" Emma asked surprised.
Her parents had killed Verona? Did they know?
"Uh-oh," Emma begun.
"You shall pay!"
Without a second thought, Aleera punched her into unconsciousness.
"Master should be pleased," she whispered as she picked up both of the bodies and flew away to another section of the castle.
All that was left were ashes and Abraham's teddy bear.