Ok my next chapter. This one will have lots of random dialog and will be a bit boring, so bear with me.

Ok now for reviews, or should I say review.

Kokoro Okami- thanks for reviewing, that was trippy of you to do it. Yes another person for Gabriel/Vlad. Yes he is concerned for the count, heheh it could be more. Hmm, yes well I am glad you enjoyed it. Please feel free to review again. Woot Woot!

P.S.

I have no clue why I put it in Germany but I'm glad you like it.

Friar, Monk, same diff.
The library was warm. It was big, but the rooms off to the side where small and cozy. It was in one of those rooms that Van Helsing, Dracula, and Carl sat.

"You have much to tell us Dracula. But lets start off with the background information. What in the name of all that is holy is a Valkyrie?" Van asked, his face visibly worried about this new foe.

"I'm surprised you haven't heard of it Gabriel." Dracula purred as he flipped through a book titled "Die Walkure"1.

"I obviously haven't so would please give me some information on them!" Van growled as he tried to keep his calm. Dracula smiled coolly as he looked up at the peeved monster hunter.

"Of course Gabriel, whatever you say." His voice taunting as he laid down the book. "If you ask most people now days they will tell you that the Valkyrie are shield maidens of Odin. Golden haired virgins that help defend Valhalla. But that is quiet different from the truth. The real Valkyrie's, the ones that attacked me and the other people, are sinister spirits of slaughter and death. They are dark angels that swarm over battle fields like birds of prey, meting out fate in the name of Odin."

"So they where women warriors." Van said after a brief pause.

"Um, yes and no. They did appear in battle, but they more or less carried away their prey, they didn't kill them on the spot."

"Ah… so how do you explain the attacks?"

"I can't. And that's what intrigues me, maybe Odin has decided to relinquish an array of attacks on various people for fun, I don't know. But what I do know is that the Valkyrie are supposed myth yet here they are attacking people."

"Oh." The group lapsed into silence, Van staring off (thinking about Anne, cough puke cough) Carl was just trying to appear calm and collected and not totally freaked out beyond belief. Dracula had picked up another book and was flipping through it.

"Ah, found it." He said suddenly, stopping on a page near the back of the book.

"Found what?" Carl asked tersely.

"A poem about the battle of Clontarf2. It mentions Valkyrie's quiet a bit. This is an excerpt from it.

The Valkyries go weaving with drawn swords,

Hild and Hjorthrimul, Sanngrid and Svipul.

Spears will shatter shields will splinter,

Swords will gnaw like wolves through armor.

Let us now wind the web of war

Which the young king once waged.

Let us advance and wade through the ranks,

Where friends of ours are exchanging blows.

Let us now wind the web of war

And then follow the king to battle

Gunn and Gondul can see there

The blood-spattered shields that guarded the king.

Let us now wind the web of war

Where the warrior banners are forging forward

Let his life not be taken;

Only the Valkyries can choose the slain." Dracula's voice had softened by the last verse. Both Carl and Van had leaned forward, spellbound by the Count's voice.

"So they are the fates of Norse legend." Van said while leaning back. Dracula nodded and set the book down. "How do we defeat them?" Van asked.

"I'm not sure. But it should be written down in a book somewhere. I'm confident that your monk will be able to find it."

"Friar." Carl corrected him.

Dracula shrugged and stretched, "Friar, Monk same diff. I'm hungry so unless any of you are willing so be my meal I am going out to hunt. Oh don't worry Gabriel, it doesn't take that much energy to drain a person. I'll just pick some vagabond off the street and do him in."

Van scowled but didn't say anything, he needed all the allies he could get and as of Dracula proved to be a very well informed one. "You'll be back before morn I take it." Van asked as he stood up, Carl following suit.

"Ya, probably before, depends on how hungry I am. Well enough of this chit chat Gabriel, didn't you know that it's rude to hold a person from their meal?" The count said as he stood up and left with a little wave as the door closed.

"He's an odd one." Carl whispered. Van nodded as he stared at the closed door. Yes, a very odd one indeed.

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Ok it's a bit longer than usual. Sorry for it being all talk and no action, but I had to get some explanations in there at some point. Ok now for some clarification.

The book Die Walkure is a real book, it was written bye Richard Wagner. I took some of Dracula's dialog from there.

The battle of Clontarf took place in 1014.

Ok that's it.

Dracula: I got to talk a lot today. Huzzah!

Yes you did.

Dracula: I feel special

That's nice. Anyway please review, I always appreciate it. And if you me to do anything special tell me and I will try to fit it in. It might not be immediate but it might get in. Just no bringing back random peoples and stuff. So ya… REVIEW