Author's Note : Well, now that I have a bit of inspiration back, I am going to write this chapter right here. Now you'll be introduced to a couple new characters, also Dracula and his Brides. So without further ado, on with this chapter!

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Chapter Four- Demon Hunters

Ranger and Teresa Winter were crouching low in a the bushes next to a clearing in the woods, watching their father as he sat by a small campfire. The Winter family had been hunting creatures of evil for many generations now. Their father, Clarence Winter, was the most dedicated of all it seemed, besides his daughter Teresa. Ranger smoothed his fire red beard, and glanced over at his sister. She pushed a stray lock of her short blond hair out of her deep green eyes and continued to stare out into the clearing. Lately a good deal of villagers had been disappearing from their town and many of the neighboring towns. Their father suspected vampires, seeing as how the few bodies recovered were drained completely of blood. Teresa ground the heel of her riding boot into the ground and hissed

"Come on, come out and play leeches."

As if an answer to her taunt, four winged figures rushed down towards the man in the clearing. Their father rose quickly, his hand on the gun in his belt. The lead one was clearly a male, judging by his build, and colored red and white. The other three were women, colored bluish-grey. They landed and morphed into their more presentable forms before their father. The leader was a man, robed completely in black, wearing a cape over an old fashioned style of military uniform, leather gloves, and well shined riding boots. The women were very attractive to say the least. The eldest, it appeared, was a regal looking woman, with long black hair, with a hint of waviness to it, and deep green eyes, and she wore a draping gown of a light floating material, the started as white, but turned to a bright green towards the end. The second one was a exhuberant blond, with piles of golden wavy locks on top of her head, and soft blue eyes. She was wearing an outfit similar to a picture of harem girl Teresa had seen in an old storybook she had received as a child, colored a soft yellow. The third was a fiery red head, with long red curls framing her angelic face, with soft hazel eyes, wearing a gown similar to the first's only it was colored pink. All of them wore the same malicious smile that was similar to a cat that had just cornered its prey. Their father remained emotionless the whole time. The man moved forward and said

"You are quite foolish, to be traveling alone at night. My brides shall not get their fill with only one man."

Their father merely said in a monotone voice

"Perhaps it is so. But then I never expected to meet such a distiguished gentlemen nor his three mistresses."

Needless to say that went down about as well as a man swallowing a scorpion. The women moved forward and hissed

"Do not speak to our master in such a way, lest you favor us ripping out your filthy tongue."

Their leader, however, waved his hand dismissively towards them and said

"Now my dears, he does not know to whom he speaks. It id only polite for us to give the benefit of ignorance during our first meeting."

With those words he turned back to their father and said

"Allow me to introduce myself." With those words, the man gave a mock bow and said

"I am Count Vladislaus Dragulia." He lifted his head sharply and said

"Born 1422. Murdered 1462."

He then turned to the women and said

"And these, lovely creatures are my brides. Allow me to introduce Verona..."

With that he motioned towards the dark haired one, who gave him an enchanting smile,

"Marishka."

He motioned towards the blond who giggled like a schoolgirl who has seen her crush,

"And the youngest of my brides, Aleera." He finally motioned towards the red head, who said nothing, but gave her father a wicked smile. Her father, who had remained silent this whole time said

"As I am Clarence Winter."

The Count turned back towards her father and stared at him as though he were the most interesting thing he had ever seen. Her father, continuing as though he had not noticed, though Teresa was certain he had, said

"Though impolite as it may seem upon our first meeting Count, but I was under the impression that a certain Gabriel Van Helsing slayed you for good."

With those words the Count gave a harsh laugh and said
"Ah, but you must understand my dear Sir Winter, that like the cat, I have many lives, and also many chances. And apparently, a good place with Fate, for that is how I survived. And as for my darlings." Here he motioned back towards the women, who were obviously flattered at the attention he bestowed upon them,

"They cannot die truly, unless I am truly eliminated. As long as I exist, they can always return. Granted it will not be right away as I have found, but they will return none the less."

He turned back to their father, that same smile plastered on his face. Ranger and Teresa knew it was going to a long night. Their father narrowed his eyes, and said

"Interesting information Count. It will certainly be interesting experience when I relate it to my son and daughter when I return home tonight."

The Count gave another harsh laugh and said

"I so hate to inform you of this, but your plans have been changed for the evening, you see you are here just in time for our dinner."

WIth these words, Dracula's eyes turned electric blue and his fangs began to lengthen. The brides eyes turned as well, Verona's blue, Marishka's yellow, and Aleera's purple as their fangs also lengthened. This was a cue for Teresa. She unsheathed her sword and and began to run towards the clearing, but was stopped part way there by one of the older villagers who had come to help in the hunt.

"No Teresa! They shall kill you!"

She shook free immediately however and snapped

"That's my father out there!"

And without another word, she rushed out into the clearing, brandishing her sword. The vampires turned towards, and the blond one called Marishka shrieked

"Look, more prey, and a woman at that!"

Teresa ignored her, and instead raised her sword, and shrieked in her native tongue

"Dämon, die Jäger sind nach Ihnen!"

And she slashed the one nearest to her, the red head, and open a large gash upon her side. She shrieked angrily, and took the skies, where her side healed almost inspontaneously. Her father turned to her and cried back to her in German,

"Teresa, erhalten zurück!"

And he unholstered his gun, and began to fire at the remaining three. They all shrieked and also took to the skies. Teresa felt a slight breeze behind her and turned to see the red head staring at her, her eyes bright purple, a mailicious smile upon her beautiful features.

"Hello Teresa!" she said in singsong voice. Teresa rushed forward towards her with her sword ready, but the creatures caught in her hands, and with one swift movement, snapped it in half with her bare hands. Teresa gasped and backed away chanting in German

"Sie sind wirklich Fischeier des Teufels!"

The creature just laughed, and Teresa debated whether she had understood or not. Whatever the case, she was unprepared when red head lauched herself at her, sweeping her off the ground and threw her against a tree. Her head swam and the wind was knocked out of her lungs. As she tried to catch her breath, she heard over the roar of the blood rushing in her ears, Dracula calling

"Verona, help me kill the man, Marishka, Aleera, kill the girl!"

When her vision came back to her, the blond and the red head were staring at her with a look of intense hunger on their faces.

"Her blood is that of a virgin, such a treat she shall make!" the blond said

"I want first bite." said the red head.

With that the blond hissed at her and she hissed back. Then they turned upon Teresa, who shot out her fist in a last minute attempt to stave them off. The blond caught it, and twisted her arm the wrong way. She yelped as the red head began to carress the vein in her neck.

"I can feel the blood rushing through her veins!" she hissed anxiously. With that they bore their fangs, and leaned in for the kill. Teresa squeezed her eyes shut, awaiting the painful sting of their fangs. As if from a great distance she heard her father call out

"Teresa!" before screaming in pain. She knew he was dead. Just when their fangs were about to sink in, she heard her brother Ranger shriek

"Wegdämonen! Nehmen Sie Ihre Übel und Fäule in der Hölle!"

And peripherally, she saw a silver crucifix shoot out in front of their faces. They both gave out abnormal shrieks and morphing into their winged forms, they and the other two, who were leaning over their father, flew off.

Teresa stood there in a daze. Ranger got in front of her and said

"Teresa, durch God, Schnäpper aus ihm heraus!" shaking her by her shoulders. she shook her head and rushed towards where her father lay. His eyes were wide open, and his face whiter than snow, with four identical bite marks on either side of his neck. Tears in her eyes, she crossed herself and murmured

"Abschiedspapa! Rest im Frieden." closed his eyes, and laid his hand across his chest. She then rose and looking at the Heaven murmured

"Lieber God! Retter dieser Welt! Helfen Sie uns!"

And above in the clouds, the thunder rumblied.

End Chapter Four.

German Translations for this Chapter :

1.) Dämon, die Jäger sind nach Ihnen!- Demon, the Hunters are upon you!

2.) Teresa, erhalten zurück!- Teresa, get back!

3.) Sie sind wirklich Fischeier des Teufels!- You truly are the Spawn of the Devil!

4.) Wegdämonen! Nehmen Sie Ihre Übel und Fäule in der Hölle!- Away demons! Take your evils and rot in Hell!

5.) Teresa, durch God, Schnäpper aus ihm heraus!- Teresa, by God, snap out of it!

6.) Abschiedspapa! Rest im Frieden.- Farewell Papa! Rest in peace.

7.) Lieber God! Retter dieser Welt! Helfen Sie uns!- Dear God! SAviour of the World! Help us!

Author's Note : Well hopefully for all who have been patiently awaiting for Dracula's first real appearance, hopefully this has satisfied you. Sorry if he wasn't here as much as you would have liked in this chapter, but I really wanted to highlight the Brides. And now, it is the time we have all been waiting for. Its time to thank the reviewers!

audrey : I hope I satisfied you! Yeah I was kinda impatient on getting him into the story too. But don't worry, now that he's here, it will be continuous throughout the whole story, but remember, most stories, really good stories that is, don't center about one character all the time. And there will be romance between Dracula and his Brides, and he there might be some Dracula and Anna later, but otherwise no other OC's that Dracula will hook up with so to speak. I thought about it, and I thought it a bad idea, since there are so many of those stories being written so far. Well tahnk you for your lovely reviews.

Lady Sirinial : I'm glad, and yes your stories were what inspired me, all the Gabriel and Anna love stories, it gave me my inspiration. And as for Gabriel and Anna throughout the story, yes it will be Gabriel/Anna throughout the whole thing. Though Carl might also be romancing with some other girl. Can any of you guess which?

island-surfer : Another one from one of my most faithful reviewers! And I'm glad I'm not the only one who loved that line. As for the other story, yes it was bad. I got like a review a chapter maybe. But then looking back at it, it really wasn't a very good story. Hmmm, an angel Velkan coming down to hlep them? I'll have to think about that one. I hope you like this new edition and thank you for your ongoing support.

Rhea : Well I hope my ambitions come true. And now you have a chapter with Dracula in it, and also as a free bonus, his Brides! And I 'm glad you like the action and adventure so far. As for the question about why the first chapter was about the Frankensteins again? It will be revealed later on in the story, and you will understand then the importance of the first chapter. And I don't mind you questioning my story. I am an author, and a good author knows that you have to answer questions to those who may be confused upon the matter. Well I hope you're dreams as a writer come true too! Maybe you should get an account and start writing some here! I'd read them! Thank you for your support.

Lord Harven : Hey I don't care when you reviewed as long as you review. I'm glad you enojoyed the update, and the dialogue I gave them. And of course Carl's going! It wouldn't be the same without him! As for the Banshee sequence, I haven't read your story, but I'm sure its good. I really have no clue how you fight Banshee's so I was basically making stuff up as I went along. I hope you like this new update. I have said it and I will say it again, I make Dracula look cheesy, though I have to admit, its a bit better in this chapter than my previous attempts. Thank you for your support.

Mythers : I'm glad you like this story. That's what I was a little worried that it wouldn't play out as well as I envisioned it. Thank you for your reviews and support.

Thank you all for your lovely reviews, I will continue writing because of them. Once again thank you and Merry Christmas. And without further ado, goodbye and happy reading!

Signed,

Fortune Zyne.