Gabriel and Carl followed Naza deep into the forest, All the wile Carl was wondering why Van Helsing decided to fallow her in the first place. Sadly he never got enough courage to ask, because the long hike thrue the forest was a lot longer than Carl could stand. So yes… sadly he passed out eventually.

"I CAN'T BELEVE THIS!" Naza complained "I'VE SEEN PUPS MORE ENDURED THAN YOU!" she roared " give him a brake" Van Helsing calmly said " this is only the second time he's seen sunlight in who knows how long" Van Helsing said ending the conversation and sitting down on a nearby rock.

A moment of silence passed as they waited for Carl to catch his breath,

"Um…" Naza said "what?" Van Helsingasked irritably " you're the real Van Helsing… I never thought I'd live to see you… let alone MEET YOU" Naza said "yeah… that's me…"Van Helsing responded mindlessly "its just so unbal-… don't move" she said cutting herself off. She was looking behind Van Helsing up what Gabriel presumed was a tree. What was in the tree he had no idea but it couldn't be good.

Slowly Van Helsing pulled his crossbow to his lap and prepared it for use. Naza slowly stood up from her spot on the ground. Then disappeared… again, Van Helsing instantly turned around ready to face whatever stood there.

Only a second passed, but to Gabriel it felt hours. The sharp feeling came back to him, he heard fabric in the wind and felt a rush of air. Van Helsing fired at where Naza was looking and there stood…

Naza

Too lateGaberiel had already pulled the trigger and Naza was right in the line of fire, once more she disappeared. and in her place stood a small green thing with long arms and legs with huge bulging eyes and big bat like ears.VanHelsing'sarrow hit the strange thing right between its huge eyes. The creature fell to the ground lifeless. Van Helsing recognized the creature as a gremlin

Van Helsing turned around to check if Carl was all right

SMACK!
Right across the face, "I TOLD YOU NOT TO MOVE!" Naza roared "it was just a gremlin!" Gabriel retaliated holding a hand to the place where he was struck.

Naza didn't respond she just pointed to the gremlin's forehead, their between it's bulging eyes was an x mark "normally I would agree it WAS just a gremlin but with that on them… I bet you couldn't find one unless it was staring you in the face" she stated.

A silence passed. Only to be broken by Carl who finally had the strength to sit upright,

"Can we please go now?… I'm exhausted" Carl tiredly stated as he attempted to stand.

"Sure theirs a nice bed of soft hey back at the den… and I have some stew that might be finished by now!" Naza said in a friendly voice.

"DEN!" Carl asked sitting bolt upright, the word den hadn't sat well with him since the where-wolf incident

"Yeah… so what's wrong with a den?" Naza asked

"Well you see Van Helsing here go-" Van Helsing cut Carl off " oh its nothing… Carl is just allergic to dogs"

"I see" Naza said,takeing a shortpaues before speeking agen"well come on… if we leave now the stew might even be still warm by the time we get there"

So the three headed off into the forest again, to the den. Eventually the three did arrive but Carl was carried half the way, curtesy Van Helsing only because Naza thought that Carl should pull his own weight, Carl was starting to like her less and less… and they had only met a few hours ago.

So all finally made it to the den, or so Naza said

"Well here we are" she said

Van Helsing Carl just stared at her probably because she was pointing to the side of a mountain

"What?" she asked as the two stared, then she seemingly walked into the side of the mountain

Carl was instantly fascinated by this display of magic and jogged over to where she was standing just a moment ago and started to examine the side of the mountain "brilliant!" Carl shouted

"What is it Carl?" Van Helsing asked walking to his side.

"it's cloth!" Carl shouted

"WELL DUH!" Naza said poking her head out of the cloth sheets making Carl jump back several feet

Van Helsing stepped forward and placed his hand on the cloth " how do you keep it to stay still? and take the shape of the mountain?"

"I put some rocks over the bottom of the cloth, both front and back. So the front masks the cloth and the back keeps it in place"

"Clever" Gabriel complemented

"You coming in? or would you like to stay outside?" Naza asked

Van Helsing stepped into the cave with caution, he didn't know who this girl was and wasn't taking any chances even if she seemed to be on their side. Looks can be deceiving… Gabriel learned this the hard way… and wasn't about to repeat the lesson.