Chapter 5
"Oh Anna" Dracula said. "I am really annoyed now. The Holy Order is here, Van Helsing is heeling as we speak and I didn't get to eat Carl… Damn"
"Oh my Lord it is not so bad." With that sentence images of Verona, Aleera, and Merishka floated back to him. "My Lord is everything alright?" "No Anna. Didn't I just say everything that was wrong? Although I may have no feelings, although I am empty… I miss my brides…"
With this he walked up the wall and on to the roof. " My Lord am I not good enough?" said Anna sadly? "ANNA! How dare you even think such a thought? I love you very much but I spent over four hundred years with these three women and suddenly they are gone! It is this Van Helsing. No more messing around with him we must just kill him. Next time we see him. No toying Anna. Just kill him."
Then a low groan came from a small figure in the corner. Dracula spun round and walked into the shadow where the shape lay. "Well are hero has awakened. Do you know when the next full moon is Anna? We may need a cage" "Yes my Lord" replied Anna. "Tomorrow night. Maybe I should practice before I bite Van Helsing. My Lord may I go to the Village?" "No not yet I will go and bring something back for you to turn. It is too dangerous for you to go with the Holy Order around." "Yes my Lord" replied Anna, " You know best" "You are right I do!" he said with a low cackle and with that transformed and flew off into the night (through the hole in the wall), leaving Anna smiling to herself. And she went to explore her new home.
In the Village:
"You must let me treat you before Dracula returns" Carl said with a slight shake in his voice. "No I can do it myself Carl." "No you can't and I can do it better" replied Carl a little testily. Carl was practically chasing Van around the table in the church.
Monks setting up tables, beakers and weapons surrounded them. Van gave him look that said "I'm not gonna get peace until I let you do this". Giving up Van Helsing walked over to a chair and sat down looking slightly pissed off. Carl went to work as Doodle walked over to them. " I can't believe that you haven't killed Dracula yet. I am sure that he couldn't be that hard to stake," he said. Carl and Van Helsing looked at him as if he was a young child. "It's not that simple," they both said in unison. "What?" said Doodle, "It should be. I have been reading about Vampires and the way to kill is to-" "stake them through the heart." Finished Van. "He is no ordinary vampire. You can't kill him with a stake, a cross, holy water, you can't squash him, or drown him, or strangle him, or decapitate him or burn him, or or or anything. The only thing that could kill him was a werewolf with enough free will to be able to. So I was were wolf (was being the operative word I'll explain later) and I killed him but then he came back because he was wearing a vambrace of pure good that means when he dies and goes to Hell It spits him back out again. This is a problem. So we need to get the vambrace off him which by the way hurts him though it saves his life. But we don't know how to destroy the vambrace so basically we are all bugared" Van Helsing finished after taking a deep breath.
Doodle stood there open mouthed. "OH. Right, well okay then"…
Suddenly there was a screaming from outside. Doodle, Van, and Carl all ran out. "Dracula" said Van. Dracula in his transformed shape was flying off in the sky with a girl in his claws. "He is either having a snack or getting another Bride" said Van.
Castle Dracula:
Dracula walked through the mirror. Then stopped and thought about it. Hoe come he could get back through the mirror. Maybe it was something to do with him dying he thought… and walked on not really caring…
"Anna" he shouted when he got into the Castle. "Anna" "Yes my Lord" answered Anna swooping down from a balcony. "I got you something to change." It was the same girl that Carl had made an acquaintance with! "It's a women" Anna said "Are you planning to turn her into one of your brides?" she questioned. Dracula looked at her and raised an eyebrow. "I would never pick such a scrawny thing for a bride, and anyway I don't need one. I could never get better that you, my love." With that she ran over and wrapped her arms around him and gave him a kiss on the lips and then changed to a loving embrace. Dracula put his right arm around her and with the other snapped his fingers. A Dwergi (yay I got the name) scuttled over to him falling over once on the way. "I want all the remains of you to focus your attention on going into the valley where Igore fell. I want him found and bring him back here." "Yeese Master" he said as he stumbled off.
"My Lord. Why do you want Igore's body brought back? You don't want to bury him or something do you?" Questioned Anna. "Oh no my love I merely want to see if there is any chance of bringing him back", "But My Lord that is impossible no one can be brought back from the dead?" "I was" he said and walked off.
On the Roof:
Dracula walked to the edge and looked over the icy void that opened in front of him. He felt a presence. Of pure evil. Eviller than even he was himself. He then heard the crackle of flames behind him. They got louder and abruptly stopped. He was surprised and anxious it was the only person well… Thing, that could hurt him now. The one person that he, deep down, was terrified of. His Father… The Devil…
He spun round quickly and there, towering above him was the fiery red beast that controlled him. Flames surrounded his feet, his eyes burned with a red menace with no hint of mercy in the pupils that could be found, or that existed. Also protruding from the lower half of his back above the ass in other words was the trademark red tail with the arrow head point. He wore black trousers that ended at the bottom of the knee and sported a bear, red, muscular chest and of course the horns on top of the jet black hair.
Dracula bowed low, and stood stalk still waiting for his Father to make the first move. In a voice that sounded like nails scratching down a blackboard he boomed "You are wasting too much time with the Mortals." "Yes My Lord I know that I am but the situation has become more complicated that it was. The Holy Order are here now." He replied. "That dos not matter. It should not affect you in the least. You are now indestructible. Do not fail again or you will be punished." "I won't my Lord" he replied. "I will go straight away and kill him no more messing about. I swear. Do not FAIL AGAIN. OR GREAT PAIN WILL COME YOUR WAY" And he disappeared in a flame of red and yellow.
Dracula sighed and transformed, and flew of into the night on a mission of death, revenge and that twinge of fear and doubt that he would fail…
