Part XXIV

Dracula stared at his bride. What she had just said couldn´t be true. After a long silence that had gotten between them he finally stormed upstairs and into the girl´s rooms. Kitana´s room was completely empty and so was Anna´s.

Only in Tina´s room was still life. Selindra, who already looked like seven months old sat on the floor, crying for her mother.

The vampire picked his daughter up and wrapped his arms around the crying girl. The chamber around them was destroyed and the glass of the window shattered.

Suddenly Selindra pointed at the window. "...mama...wolves...", she said.

"You know where they are?", he asked her. She nodded. "Then show me!" Dracula turned into his bat form and together with his child in his arms he flew through the window. Selindra pointed in a direction he hadn´t expected.

There was only a forest. A forest with simple trees and a few caves. Caves? That´s it!

"Good girl", he whispered and flew into the ocean of trees. Down below he noticed big rocks forming a hole on the side of a hill. He swooped down and into the hole.

The just-found cave was dark. But the fact that he was a vampire made it easy for him to find a way that ended in a room with cages. It was like a giant prison. There were four locked cages. One was empty but the other three contained "human" beings.

Kitana lay on the floor in the first cage. In the second one lay another unconscoucious woman and third one stood someone who called: "Vladislaus! Come here!"

"Anna!", Dracula whispered to himself and walked over to her cage. "Where is Tina?", he asked and kept searching the room for her.

"I don´t know. But you must be careful! It´s a trap..." - "Mama!", Selindra interupted Anna and jumped out of her father´s grip. She ran a few meteres towards her unconscoucious mother, who lay in a corner.

Dracula had never expected that his daughter was already able to run or even walk. He followed Selindra but he stopped as a man appeared in front of him.

This man held a stake in his hands, ready for a kill. "If you want one of them to survive", he pointed at his bride and child, "then choose the one to live!"

Part XXV

Dracula glared darkly at the werewolf. How dare he treat his new brides like this? How dare he!

"The only one who isn't going to live is you!" he said.

No sooner had he said this then he snatched the stake out of the man's hand and stabbed him with it. More werewolves came out but each one was dead in a moment. Dracula brushed off some of the blood that he had collected then released his brides. But something was wrong. Kitana remained where she was. Unconscious, bleeding, and not breathing.

"What happened to her?" demanded Dracula.

"She kept trying to fight off the werewolves," explained Tina while picking up Selindra. "She wanted to keep them from hurting us. But they beat her unconscious." Dracula picked up Kitana and walked out of the cave. Anna and Tina followed.

"Anna," said Dracula. "Ride on Tina's back." With that he shifted and flew off to the castle.

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