Chapter 10-

A/N: HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!! gives out little turkeys to everyone. . How can you go wrong with a holiday that is so delicious?

A blue light appeared inside of the Valerious Man, covering everything in its bright pulsating light. Kate, Libby, Alice, Kevin, James, Gabriel, Anna, Carl, stepped out of the portal; however Marcum and Rachel fell out, Gabriel and James having to scramble to catch them before they hit the hard floor.

"Whoa! Why'd they pass out?" Kevin said, rushing over to help James and Gabriel.

"I have a theory that for the first time a person goes backward or forward in time they pass out because of the strain it puts on their body." Carl said, scurrying along. Alice stopped dead.

"Hey! You guys are normal!" She said, Gabriel, Carl and Anna had somehow lost their Halloween costumes and had returned to their normal attire.

Van Helsing blinked and set Rachel down on a small chair and helped the boys lay Marcum down on two chairs that had been pulled together by Anna and Libby.

"Why are we in our normal clothing?" Anna said to no one in particular.

"I need to study this phenomenon more… more importantly, where are Adriana and Corbett…" Carl said looking nervously around. This made Van Helsing and Anna become automatically alert.

"Kate give me my crossbow back and stay here." Helsing said, walking over to her, Kate swapped the crossbow for her mini Tojo blades and she turned to Carl.

"Do you have any holy water on you? I might be running low and I don't know how to check it." She said, Carl took one of the blades and pulled out the bottom to reveal and tube filled with holy water, it was half full.

"You should be fine, but I will get a spare bottle just in case." Carl fished around in his robes and pulled out some holy water. James blinked and made a confused face.

"Carl, you actually carry holy water around with you in your robes?!" He stared at the bottle as Kate pocketed it in her jacket.

"When you are a monster hunter's weapons expert… you need it." He smoothed out his robes and look rather accomplished over that little fact. James shook his head and rolled his eyes before noticing that he was still in his werewolf furs. "Oh…I need clothes…so does everyone else." He smiled, just as Abigail walked in…and screamed bloody murder.

"WEREWOLF!!! AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!! ITS GOTTEN TO LIBBY!!!! PRINCESS ANNA! VAN HELSING! FRAIR CARL DO SOEMTHING!!!!" She screamed, an ear-piercing scream that made everyone in the room cover their ears and everyone in the house come running.

"AAH!! Abigail! It's just a costume!" Kate sunk to the floor covering her ears and wincing, she looked like someone was trying to split her head open. Libby and Alice in turned followed suit only Alice hit the bookshelf with a great thud. James, who had a hearing aid implanted in the mask so that he could hear properly was at the moment running in circles trying to rip the head off of his costume.

Van Helsing, Anna and several servants came pounding into the room, weapons drawn and stopped. Anna rushed over to calm the frantic Abigail, she finally got her to stop screaming. James hit the floor and ripped the head off of his costume and promptly began to writhe on the floor while holding his ears. Kate was curled up in a ball also holding her ears; Alice, Libby and Carl stood up.

"Mrs. Abigail, relax, it's only a Halloween costume." Libby said, struggling with the back of her straight jacket, until Carl finally helped her with it, she took it off to show the top half of a black skin hugging tank top. "See, nothing to be scared of. Just some fake blood…well a lot of it." Libby went about consoling and apologizing to the old grandma like woman.

Kate pushed herself up and was breathing hard, Van Helsing walked over to her.

"Are you ok?"

"Stupid ears… I'm fine." She replied and stopped leaning on a chair and walked over to James and pulled him up.

"Urrgh…I need Aspirin.." He groaned and held his head. Kate led him over a spot in front of the lightly smoldering fire and tossed a few more logs on.

"There ya go Jim, just sit here and rest for a bit." She went over and led each of her friends over to the fire and set them down.

Kate's P.O.V-

My head was pounding and felt like it was splitting in two, but I couldn't let Helsing and the others know that something was wrong. I had to shake it off; my ears have never been this sensitive before, it must be another side effect or something. I look over to Marcum and Rachel, they are still knocked out, lucky them. I suddenly felt light headed and needed to sit down, my ears still rung painfully. I dropped to the floor in front of a book and looked up after wincing a bit. My eyes fall onto a book that was titled in something in Romanian, I blinked and pulled the book out and opened it to a random page, there I saw a sketched drawing of the amulet that I got from my parents, that hung around my very neck. I looked fascinatedly at the text and twisted my body around.

"Guys….I think you should take a look at this."

Normal P.O.V-

Anna picked up the book and translated the Romanian.

"The Remora's Amulet, created in Egypt by a malevolent dark wizard. It has the power to bring back any monster sent back into the depths of hell." Anna drew in a breath. "Do you have the Amulet with you, Kate?"

"Yes. Its around my neck." Kate replied picking up the Amulet and holding it out.

Gabriel grew every grim and gripped his crossbow. "We know what those two want it for; but we do not know what their plan is."

"Then we need ta do a little reconnaissance work." Kevin stood up and shook his head a bit. "After we get some clothes…." Kevin gestured to his costume.

Abigail, finally calmed down enough, walked over to James and poked his costume.

"Oh my… it feels so real…." She whispered, still slightly pale, James looked over.

"Sorry, I scared you, Mrs. Abigail, I didn't mean too." He bowed his head.

Abigail smiled, kindly. "Its alright James, just an old woman's surprise that's all it was."

"But you screamed so loud, I thought you where going to pass out!" James said, Libby walked up behind him and put an arm around his shoulder.

"I'm just not used to your costumes, dears, now…. how would you like to get out of those things? I bet they are quite uncomfortable."
James and Libby looked up and James managed to smile a slight bit. Abigail insisted upon leading them to their rooms, while she watched over Marcum and Rachel.

Later-

Kate and Gabriel sat in the library. He was reading the book that had the Romanian title that had been translated by Anna to "A Chronicle of Mystical Items and Monsters of the World." Kate was dozing in a chair, curled up into a small ball, in front of the now roaring fire. She was dressed in a simple black shirt and black pants with her coat and hat laying on an Ottoman nearby. Gabriel set the book down, got up and stretched. Just then a light filled the room, it seemed to emanate from the center of the vast library and a familiar figure stepped out. Van Helsing sighed and set down his crossbow.

"Where did you go Watch?" He said, surprising the traveler.

"Back to the future, mate. Got called away. I just stopped to say goodbye, so…where is everyone?" Watcher said fiddling with his now restored black mid-back length cape.

"Scattered around. Though, Kate is sleeping over there." Gabriel pointed to the chair, bent over and picked up the book that had fallen down.

"No I'm not." Kate popped up and smiled, sleepily. "Whatcha leavin for?"

Watcher shifted on his feet. "My superiors want me back…didn't give a reason, just that they want me back."

Gabriel studied Watcher closely before nodding. "I'll go find everyone."

"No, no, don't do that I just really came here to give you two a warning. Things may seem over, but they aren't, not yet." He said this and placed his hand is arm.

"What is not over yet?!" Kate said, walking over to Watcher.

Watcher just smiled. "That, little angel, is something that I shall leave to figure out on your own."

He slid his hand down his arm, as he did so his hands began to glow a deep blood red light with a black strip around it. He moved his hands in a complicated position and a bright red light appeared and he stepped into it and all was dark, save for the light of the fire.

A/N: I know its short but please bear with me, school is taking up time.