Chapter 4

Carl was running through the castle with Van Helsing's arm over his shoulder to support him. "Where do we go now Van Helsing? I don't know if you noticed but we are being chased by the most feared Villain in the world and it is night so he can follow us any where he wants to" "You said all that without a breath!" Van mumbled as he stumbled beside Carl in total agony with the wounds in his stomach and back. "We go…We go…" He struggled " To, the village… somewhere that he wouldn't expect us to go…" "Like where?" Carl asked frantically. "The Church… Lot's of Holy Water… Lot's of Crosses…" Van replied "But Dracula is immune to all of those. That is useless." Carl retorted. "No. No… It isn't useless it might not kill him but… it will hurt him… he isn't immune to it" Van gasped.

They were getting very close to the door now. They were so close now. So close. Carl glanced back and saw the shadow on the wall of the transformed Dracula, catching up with them. Although they had a considerable head start (Thanks to Velcan) Dracula was inhuman, and could move much faster that them both. It also didn't help that Van was hurt.

Just a few more steps… Just 5 more steps… Just 4 more steps…3 steps…2 steps…1 step… and they were out into the darkness and started sprinting towards the village Church. Dracula walked swiftly but calmly out of the door in human form and stopped to watch the two figures disappear into the Church. Anna walked out behind him. "I never felt comfortable in a Church." Dracula said slightly pissed now. "Well we have to go" Anna said after a sigh. "Before morning comes. If we leave them now Carl will heal Van Helsing and then leave in the morning. We must go now." Anna said urgently. "Yes I know. But I want you to stay here." Dracula said protectively turning round to face her. "What? But why?" "Because I am indestructible, you are not" Dracula replied with a loving smile "I don't want you to get hurt." "I wont my Lord, I-" but Dracula cut her of "- Now I want to hear no more about it" he said raising a perfectly preserved finger over her lips with another cheeky smile.

With that he spun round on his heel and walked off into the night his long dark cloak billowing out behind him.

The Church:

Van sat against the wall with his eyes closed panting heavily. Carl was searching about in his robes somewhere for a bandage and a cloth, which he always carried with him when he was about with Van these days.

He found it and quickly ran over to Van. "Here. I've got bandages, take of your coat and shirt-" Carl began "NO. There's no time, he's coming I know he is. I can feel him getting closer" and as Van said it, Carl felt the air around him go cold, and it sent a chill running down his spine. Van got up and, suddenly looking very gorgeous Dracula burst through the door. Carl yelped and jumped behind Van Helsing. "Why do you run? Not happy to see Anna again?" he looked at Van questionably and then a cruel smile crept across his face and he began to laugh, a laugh that ran through them and made them go as cold as ice. He stopped

Van broke wooden cross off the stand beside him and shoved it close to Dracula's face. Dracula looked at it and looked as if he was once again trying to hold back another bout of laughter. "I don't even know why you bother," he said in his heavy Transylvanian accent, as he disappeared and then reappeared again over up close to the altar at the front of the church. Behind him was a large cross, he grabbed it and let out a blood-curtailing scream I don't know if that is a word or if it even makes sense but anyway the cross in his hand slowly melted away. He took a deep breath as he pushed back a strand of hair that had fallen over his face.

He then took off his cloak and threw it somewhere over to the right. He walked down the steps slowly. "I don't even see the point of you resisting. And trying to kill me too! Your own brother your own flesh and blood, no matter how dead it might be." "Stop saying that" Van insisted " I am not like you." "No" replied Dracula no your not but that does not mean that we are not brothers, brothers can be completely different from each other. But they are still brothers. And trust me, when I bite you, you will be just like me." "Who says that I am going to let you bite me?" replied Van "Oh my dear Gabrielle, it is not a matter of you letting me bite you as I explained before, it is matter of destiny!"

By this point, Carl was shuffling towards the door that had been left slightly ajar. Dracula quickly spotted him and simply raised his hand and the door closed with a loud, swift and sharp, BANG. "And where do you think you are going?" said Dracula sarcastically. "Well" squeaked Carl "I thought that since you had not mentioned me yet that maybe you didn't need me so I thought that I should leave and you know, not intrude and let you two get on with your business." Dracula smiled and chuckled softly to himself. " No I just forgot about you. Remember, I'm going to eat you."

"Oh yes now I remember" he said and then muttered to himself: "Wish I didn't" then saw that Dracula was still looking at him and put a stupid grin on his face, that Dracula shook his head at, and then turned back to Van.

At that moment as Dracula was a bout to say something, Anna burst through the doors of the church and glanced around quickly. Finally, her eyes fell on Dracula, who had his head slightly tilted to the side with one eyebrow raised and a questioning look on his face as if to say: "What?"

Anna walked over to him and said something so quietly only a vampire would have been able to hear it. "I don't bloody believe it!" shouted Dracula; "These people just never give up do they. "It seems that your little Holy Order thing is standing right outside right now." Van had an extremely surprised look on his face, and then quickly went back to being bent over double in pain.

Suddenly, the Priest who Ern Lasgayen Elf and I have now named Doodle. Don't ask burst through the doors. Still wearing his red habit, he had the usual large cross hanging around his neck and another cross in his right hand, a stake in the other, and a bottle of Holy Water in his belt. He took one look at Dracula and thrust the cross out at him at full arms so hard that Van was surprised his arm didn't fly off.

"Don't even bother," said Van rolling his eyes and then going back to the regular position, studying the floor. The Priest looked over at Van Helsing and said; "what happened to you?" Van replied "I got flown to the moon and I landed kinda rough. What do you think? It was yer man over there that did it" He said pointing to Dracula.

"Excuse me," Dracula said. "Since when have I become, yer man? This is more trouble than it's worth, I shall take my leave…"

And with that he flew off in his Transformed shape back to his castle…