Warning: If you want to know the base of this story, read my Van Helsing 2, for this is merely a revision of my original story.

Disclaimer: Universal Studios, Stephen Sommers, and the crew of Van Helsing own the base characters, but I own Alvonia Elra, Sereno Harven, Enchantress, Darkbane, and Hervok Vorra. I don't own Vampire, The Gillman, The Invisible Man, The Wolf Man, or the Banshee. Thanks.

Author's Note: Thanks for the great reviews! This time, I'm giving away a line of VH Products: Hell Beast Munchies (Chips shaped in the form of Dracula's, Verona's, Marishka's, and Aleera's head in their demon forms), Wolf Man Crackers (Just plain animal crackers in the shape of Velkan's, Boris's, and Gabriel's werewolf forms), Crossbow Cookies (you get the idea), and last but not least: Transylvanian Triscuits (Crackers made by Vaseria's favorite cook and undertaker, Top Hat! Thank you very much! (Sorry). And apologies if the title of the chapter is a little cheesy! It was the only good one I could think of! Thanks.

Van Helsing: Legends of Blood Reign

Chapter 5: The Ghouls Alive.

The trees in the woods swayed back and forth. Tonight was peaceful, a strange night for London. As the people retired to their homes, lights flickered on in the sky. More than one life force was alive this night. Up the barren path walked Thonious, Carl, and Van Helsing. They took their steps slowly, but cautiously. Every once in a while, Gabriel would turn to the two and make sure that everything was okay. Ahead of them was a forest, one that none of them had faced before, not even Thonious.

"So the Cardinal sent us out here to find information on a doctor and a Banshee" Gabriel began.

"Where do we start?" Thonious asked. "We don't have any specifics put out for us! Unless the Friar knows something!" he said. Carl cleared his throat as the approached the entrance to the forest.

"It's Carl, by the way!" he said in a squeak. "And for your information, I know more of this forest than both of you put together!" he told them.

"OK, Carl. Tell me something I don't know" Thonious growled.

"Let's not brawl over such a subject! As the Cardinal said, we are to return immediately after our mission is complete!" Van Helsing said.

"And I suppose he meant for us to avoid trouble?" Thonious began. "To stay away from this 'Harven'?" he questioned in a low, hoarse whisper.

"Oh, I bet that Harven is far away! He won't be bothering us now!" Carl said.

"But what of Miles? Didn't Jinnete tell us that he was in 'business' with this Harven?" Gabriel asked. Carl nodded.

"Yes, you are correct! But can we focus on our task ahead of us?" he asked them. They nodded their heads and moved on. The branches on the soft forest ground crunched, making them each turn at each sound.

"So Carl, what can you tell us of this forest?" asked Gabriel. The friar looked up into the sky for a moment. He hummed and stopped dead in his tracks.

"It's infested by Banshees!" Carl said shakily. He pointed his pointer finger out toward the distance. Thonious's eyes changed colors quickly as he saw a clump of creatures hovering in the distance. Gabriel reached for his back and brought down the ectoplasm-bathed sword. He handed it to Thonious.

"We have to be ready!" he exclaimed. "When the Banshee near, strike them down!" he demanded. Thonious shook his head and began to become hard to see. In fact, the Shape Shifter was see-through.

"The ectoplasm of a ghost!" Thonious reminded him. Gabriel nodded and gave the sword to Carl.

"You will do what I command!" he said. Carl shifted his eyes.

"But I've never used a blade before! I'm not skilled in combat, you know that!" he whined.

"Cooperate!" Van Helsing yelled. The friar took the sword hesitantly and held it with both hands. He may have created the inventions, but he never used them, not even against a Banshee! "Now Thonious, your job is to fly above the trees and not be seen by the Banshee! Once they reach near, I will use the stunning weapon and Carl will strike them down with the sword. When you hear the sound of the Stunning Weapon, fly down and attempt to fly through them, do you have it?" he asked. Thonious grinned and disappeared. The two remaining looked up to see a green light floating above the trees. "Good. Now, Carl, I will use the Stunning…" –Carl stooped him.

"Yes, but you will have to load the weapon with the ectoplasm covered bullets! I forgot to tell you that when it is being used…" he stopped. Gabriel had taken the weapons bag and was filling the Stunning Weapon with the bullets. The sound of screaming met their ears. Gabriel finished loading the weapon and pointed it up. The group neared closer. The scream was beginning to become unbearable.

"Ready…" Van Helsing began. They flew closer. "Set!" Still closer. "GO!" he yelled. Carl gasped and ran forward. Van Helsing aimed at the group and shot the blue ray at them. It made a light like none other. The strength of the beam was overwhelming. He couldn't let go of the weapon. Banshee flew left and right, screaming at the top of their lungs. Carl noticed that they were more gruesome than the picture back at the Vatican.

Thonious' eyes darted back and forth at the trees. He saw a flash of blue light and realized that that was the Stunning Weapon. He flew down through the trees and saw the group of Banshee flying away. Most of them would scream, and then dissolve into dust. After all, they were just spirits. He saw a large amount of them and flew down. He soared through a first one and felt a cold feeling take over. The Banshee he had went through screamed as loud as it could and disintegrated. He grinned and went to the next one. She also screamed. Thonious noticed a blue light heading toward him and he began to fly away.

"CARL! I CAN'T LET GO!" Van Helsing yelled. Carl held the sword tightly in one hand and went over. He tried holding onto it, too, but the force was too powerful.

"I can't do anything, Van Helsing! I'll have to remove the ammo!" he told him. Gabriel nodded. The blue light sped out faster. The night wind collected around it and it hit his hair, making it blind him. He couldn't see that Thonious was on the ground, his whole ghost being getting covered in a blue substance. Carl dropped the sword and grabbed the end of the Stunning Weapon. By now, all of the Banshee must have been dead. They wouldn't have survived such a force blow as that. Carl had managed to remove the bullets and threw them on the ground. The blue light died down, and Gabriel dropped it.

"You never told me that it would do that!" Van Helsing said. Carl bent over and rubbed his knees.

"Believe me, Van Helsing, when I crafted it I never knew it had such power!" Carl exclaimed.

"Well, you crafted it" he breathed in reply.

"I beg your pardon! I know what I do when I make something! Give me that much credit!" he stood back up and picked the sword up, wiping it on the grass. The green substance that circled it didn't go away. He handed it to the Monster Hunter.

"Thank you Carl, I would hate to lose that!" he said.

"Thonious!" Carl yelled. Gabriel almost fell over as he remembered the man. The two ran past the trees, looking left and right, trying to spot Thonious.

"Thonious! Byblethonious!" Gabriel cried out. They heard the cracking of branches above and looked up. There he was, in his vampire form. He spread his wings and flew down, a smile spreading upon his face. They noticed that there were great holes in his wings.

"You got me good, Van Helsing!" he growled, showing the wings. Gabriel sighed.

"Please forgive me, friend! The weapon proved to be faulty!" he informed the man. Thonious shifted to human form and held his pointer finger up.

"That's alright, but I believe that you should take note of…" he pointed between two trees.

"Trees? What on earth is there?" Carl asked.

"Oh, I believe it's not from earth!" Thonious told them. They walked up, curious looks upon their face. Once they reached the trees, they saw it: A woman, lying on the ground, blood scarring her in various places. Carl and Gabriel leaned down. Carl took her pulse and quickly drew his hand back. He had blood tainting his fingers.

"Well, I know that she is still alive!" Carl said. Gabriel looked and saw that the woman's dark black hair had grey streaks running throughout it. Her face was deeply scarred. She wore a blue dress that had tassels hanging from each end. Around her neck was a large scar, and then three lines of rope.

"She has been injured, but how?" Gabriel asked. Carl put his hand on the side of her face and closed his eyes. He hummed for a moment and then opened his eyes.

"She is not fully human, it would seem!" the Friar exclaimed. It dawned on Gabriel: This woman had been a Banshee. He looked to see her eye lids flicker open slowly.

"Ah!" she yelled, throwing her hand up. The two lunged back. Thonious' eyes lit the ground. They were a light yellow color. Gabriel clutched her wrist. Although he didn't sense evil about her, he felt that she was ruled by an unholy presence.

"Who are you?" Van Helsing asked quickly. She broke free from his grasp and sat up, her eyes looking back and forth of the three. Then, her finger pointed at Van Helsing.

"You! You are the one who almost killed me!" she exclaimed.

"If I did, I did not mean such a thing, milady! The Banshee seemed to be a threat to us!" he told her. She jumped up and reached into her pocket, pulling out a handkerchief. She wiped the blood from her face and arms.

"How did you get here? Why did you come here?" she asked immediately. Thonious stepped closer to them.

"We have come by a quest for the Knights of the Holy Order!" he said. Her eyes grew wide and she nodded her head.

"Van Helsing?" she asked, eyeing him. The Monster Hunter tipped his hat down to her and then lifted it up. She smiled and smacked him.

"You shouldn't have come here! Danger lurks in these forests!" she said.

"Erm, I believe that you would prove to be a danger!" Carl said. The three looked at him sternly. "I have good reason for saying that!" he excused himself. "Cardinal Jinnete sent us here to investigate on the Banshee and a Mischoffe Miles! We had no intentions into running into one as yourself!" Carl said. Her eyes flickered closed and she smiled.

"You come to seek a Mischoffe Miles?" she asked. The three nodded. Her eyes flickered open again.

"If you know him, please?" Van Helsing asked her.

"I should like to know one thing, milady! What's the deal with the Banshee and what be yer name?" Thonious asked. Carl and Gabriel nodded. She snapped her fingers and a light flickered on in the dim forest. It seemed to come from above.

"As usual, it's a long story!" she proclaimed. Van Helsing held his hand out.

"We can stay for a while!" Gabriel said. She nodded and sighed deeply. "Ten years ago, I was living in London Main when my family turned up dead! I panicked for a while and wondered out of town! To make a long story short, I walked for miles and miles through these forests only to find a man who was feeding a werewolf…" Carl cut her short.

"Man must've been brave!" he said. Thonious chuckled and the woman continued.

"I spoke to the man and saw him to be harmless! Well, looks can be deceiving. Over the years, Mischoffe Miles would disappear for months and come back with some new experiment to show off, but I was never impressed. Just two years ago, he had come back from the land of Transylvania with a worried expression, and he had brought two presents: A vampire and another creature!" she broke off, rolling her eyes. "Since I was never impressed with Miles' creations, I wondered off one night, only to find the vampire flying above me. The man, Sereno Harven, told me that I was very valuable to him!" she said. The other three shifted for a moment, (not literally for Thonious), and listened as she continued. "I thought that this…" she barely began, reaching into her dress pocket and bringing out a small, red ruby. She clutched it hard in her hand and it lit up the area. They gasped and watched the light getting brighter. "Well, it turned out that that wasn't true! Harven told me all of the time that my soul was very valuable. Just two weeks ago, when I woke up from a good nights' slumber, I felt different, as if something inside me had changed." She stopped, watching the ruby closely. "That indeed was true. Miles and Harven had somehow altered something within me. I knew not of what it was. After days and days of enquiring them what they had done, Miles finally explained to me that Harven had made me a Banshee! A Banshee!" she repeated, eyes still watching the ruby. Tears filled her eyes. "He told me that I was to do their bidding without a grudge. I had to follow, for the result if I wouldn't have may have been worse! So, every day since, Harven sends a clan of Banshee out to either find a piece of information or to collect Miles a weed for his experiments. The reason the Banshee were out here tonight is that Miles ran away from his fortress!" she finished.

"Why would he do such a thing? Run away from his own home?" Carl asked. She smiled, tearing her eyes away from the ruby.

"Miles once told me that Harven had a strange hold over him, as if the vampires' gaze hypnotized him! Sereno stared at me strangely the first time I became a Banshee, and ever since, I have done his biddings." She said as easily as if she was stating her name. Van Helsing cleared his throat after hearing such information.

"So, I suppose you have a certain power? Are you able to change back and forth between a Banshee and a human?" he asked. She simply nodded her head.

"I can change back and forth, but I choose not to, most of the time. And about power, I believe not. This Banshee other side is more of a curse inside me. A curse that needs to be lifted." She said, a tear running down her face.

"We can help you lift the curse, but we would need help!" he told her. She looked up and smiled.

"Thank you. The problem is, I don't know how to…" she broke off, falling to the ground. Gabriel bent down and felt her forehead. It was hot.

"She's had too much!" Thonious said.

"It would appear so!" Van Helsing said. "Carl, do you have any healing herbs in the weapon sack?" he asked. Carl reached for it and looked inside. There were many jars filled with different plants and herbs.

"Yes, I do!" he pulled out a small jar that had two strings of a grass-looking object. He carefully undid the lid and broke a part of it off. "Here, out this on her forehead" he said, giving it to Van Helsing. The Monster Hunter took it and put the herb on her forehead as instructed. He held his hand there for a moment and then let it go. A light appeared around the grass-like object and she opened her eyes.

"What happened?" she asked. Gabriel smiled.

"You fainted! It would appear that the Banshee that is inside you is taking over, Miss…?" she sighed and sat up.

"My name is Alvonia Elra"

Author's Note: Thanks for the reviews and I will continue soon! I will also inform the reader on what the ruby is and how Alvonia can be helped. Thanks!