Author's Note: Sorry it's been so long. I'm kind of unsure where this is going so suggestions are welcome. I'd like to thank Fortune Zyne for reviewing me and also enigmagirl2727 and say that if you like this you'll love enigmagirl2727's new story, (especially if you like Lord Of The Rings). Anyway as I said I'd love ideas for what to do in this story. I have characters but no strong plot.

10 Years Later

Vilhelmina Magdala Valerious had just turned ten. She lived at the Knights Of The Holy Order training center in Budapest her mother, Lydian Valerious ran. It was hailed as the best training center in the world. Aside from her mother many other people taught at the school. Many of them she had known forever and they had helped Lydian to raise her. Suddenly one of them, Frank Monstrance knocked on her door.

"Mina it's time for breakfast," he called through the closed door, "everyone's waiting for you."

"I'm coming Frank!" She heard his heavy footsteps depart down the hallway. She pulled her dark hair into a low ponytail but she wasn't looking in a mirror. Instead her eyes were gazing thoughtfully at the picture that hung above her desk. It showed a man with a handsome dark face standing next to her mother. It was obviously taken a very long time ago because her mother's face was devoid of any wrinkles and her eyes smiled like emerald gemstones.

The man who stood next to her was her father. She had never known him and knew only small details about him. Such as that he had been killed by Count Dracula and that he had been where she had received the werewolf venom that flowed through her from.

Mina had learned much more about her father from the picture of him that hung before her then from her mother. His dark hair was worn shoulder length and looked so much like hers that sometimes she was sure he had somehow given his to her. The few people she had met who had known her father, Velkan, swore she was a mirror image of him. The only other picture she had seen of him, however, was the one her mother kept in a frame on her bedside table. Slowly she tore her eyes from her father's image and left her room.

She proceeded down to a dining room where an elaborate breakfast was set out. Due to the fierce and rigid training routine few people who stayed actually ate most of the gourmet food the cooks made, yet they continued to make it anyway. Mina thought it was a nice gesture in a overly optimistic way.

"Vilhelmina," it was her mother who rose, not to greet her but to scold her, "you have made us all wait for you."

"I'm very sorry," she answered, "it was horrible of me." Her mother gave her a stern stare but didn't remark on Mina's tone. Instead she sat down next to Frank. Lydian had often told Mina that people's reaction to Frank was a good way to judge their personality. After all it was hard to keep your poker face when you come face to face with a gigantic body made up of seven different men with sparks of electricity flying off of him randomly. Frank had helped her mother raise her. He had had nowhere else to turn, since when he ventured out into the world he was persecuted.

Aside from her mother and Frank, two other men sat at the table. The were Gabriel Van Helsing and Carl the ex-monk. They had both quit their full time jobs with The Knights Of The Holy Order to come work for her mother. All four of them still received assignments from The Knights. Mina had always wanted to work for them too. She couldn't understand how they could give a full time job like that up. To go from hunting evil and protecting humankind to becoming a teacher, Mina couldn't see the sense in that.

But whatever their choices were they were her family. A group of unaccepted loners who helped each other out with anything. Even the raising of a part werewolf child.

Wilhelmina had werewolf venom in her blood but since she hadn't been bit she had complete control over herself and her choices. She could choose to transform into a fierce wolf anytime, not just during the full moon. She also had the inhuman strength that werewolves had. She was also immune to a werewolf's bite. All in all it was a good deal but it still scared people who thought she would suddenly attack them, it hurt to be feared because she was different.

"So Mina," Van Helsing spoke as they all dug into their food, "are you sure you're ready to go to Rome?"

"Yes Uncle Gabe." Mina had decided to train at The Knights Of The Holy Order's headquarters in Rome rather then staying with her family here in Budapest. Her family had been trying to talk her out of it since she had decided.

"I'm sorry I can't take you myself," Lydian said, "I've just got too much to do. But Hel will take you and make sure you get there all right." People who heard the group talking were often confused since Mina called Van Helsing Gabe and her mother called him Hel, while Carl and Frank called him Van Helsing. Everyone but Mina called her mother Lyd and the only time anyone said Vilhelmina was when they were annoyed at her.

"Don't worry mother I'll be fine."

"What is your name?" Mina sighed, her mother kept springing little pop quizzes like this on her.

"Magdamina Monstrance, and I come from a small town outside the Russian border named Rasnorv but we don't speak Russian because, of course, we're outside the border but I've been there several times. I'm an orphan." Her well meaning guardians had decided she needed a false name and background. They were worried that if people connected the dotes after hearing her name they would realize that her 'family' was made up of some of The Order's best. Mina thought it was over doing it but if she didn't go along her mother would never let her go to Rome. "Don't worry mom, I'm ready."

"Then I guess you should pack after breakfast. And remember, if you have a wolf related problem or if you need help go right to The Cardinal."

"I will." Mina sighed thinking the only way she would be going to ask the Cardinal for help would be if she was discovered and ad to flee the country, even then she might not go to the Cardinal, he might tell her mother.