Death is Certain
A/N: Hello there! I am back, with another chapter:) I hope you read it and please review! Thank you so much for the reviews for the previous chapters, I loved it! And I know the plot may become a bit obvious right now, but it'll have bits and pieces of tricky twists, lol! Mwhahaha! OwO
Disclaimer: I do NOT own Van Helsing or any of the characters in it! I DO own Sivishya and Vacharise and all the other characters I made though!
Chapter Four – Greetings
Van Helsing had walked towards Cardinal Jinette's Office with a mixed up knot in his gut. He opened the doorknob slowly, as if afraid to look inside and expect to see something changed. Instead, he saw the usual. The Cardinal sat where he sat almost everyday, with his papers and pots of ink for company. Bookcases were lined tightly on the walls and a huge window was behind the Cardinal's back, glowing brightly and letting the bright sun beam through towards his paperwork.
The Cardinal looked up from his paperwork and at Van Helsing, not bothering to look annoyed anymore. He had done it so many times when Van Helsing 'forgot' to knock everytime. Giving him a disapproving grimace towards Van Helsing as if he was a small boy, he took off his small glasses that had hooked itself on the tip of his nose. Setting the round, small glasses on the table, he motioned with his finger for Van Helsing to sit. Van Helsing did as he was told as he pushed back a small comfy looking chair and sat.
"Van Helsing..." the Cardinal began but it somehow trailed off. He had noticed Van Helsing's immediate change after his last assignment and somehow it worried him. And yet, Van Helsing seemed to be more calmer. The old Van Helsing had seemed to be gone from him now, and was replaced with a more soft-hearted and stronger man. His older self had been rather rash with his actions before, but now... Perhaps that assignment was good for him, after all, even though they had lost Anna Valerious.
"... I want you go to back to Transylvania, and find the cause of the murders. It is probably another creature, and I know you can handle it well, Van Helsing." The Cardinal finished. Van Helsing's eyebrows rose slightly, but he didn't open his lips to question him.
"What, precisely, is this creature I should be going after, your Eminence?" Van Helsing asked sharply and the Cardinal smiled back solmnely as he always did.
"We don't know what is. But it's certainly a beast that has been feasting over human... souls. You must either bring or destory this demonic creature, and from there we shall give further instructions. Carl is to go with-" the Cardinal explained but he was cut off by Van Helsing. "Carl isn't coming with me."
Now it was the Cardinal's time to raise his eyesbrows in curiosity. "Very well. But what we do suspect from the creature is that perhaps it has some connection between the Count Dracula. You leave right away. Carl will equip you with the weapons you will be needing for the assignment," Cardinal Jinette finished, and then let his eyes settle back to his half finished papers.
Van Helsing spoke no further as he gave a slight nodd towards the Cardinal. The Cardinal didn't look up from his work as Van Helsing walked out of the office and into the smoky, hot armory. His eyes rested on Carl, who smiled back at him with his goofy looking smile. "So how did it go?"
"As usual," Van Helsing said and Carl quickly ushered him him towards a table with a load of the basic items. Van Helsing held his calm as he let Carl drone on about the items. But when it came to holding a bunch of garlic and crosses in his hands, he slowly started to lose his cool.
"Carl-" he began, looking irritably at the Friar. The Friar continued to speak, holding up a huge garlic in the air as if it was a magnificent piece of golden jewelry. Van Helsing had to roll his eyes for a quick moment as he tried again.
"Carl-" Van Helsing continued. Still the short Friar continued to speak.
"CARL!" he finally shouted, and Carl, at last, turned to look at him.
"What is it?"
Van Helsing only gave him a look that told Carl everything he needed.
"What? Come on, the least I can do for you is to not get you killed. And anyway, what's so horrible about Garlic?" Carl spoke and Van Helsing continued to give him that look. Carl sighed and continued.
"I mean, Garlic could be so interesting, if you try not to smell the- ACK! No, what are you doing? Don't put that back!" Carl barked, and snatched the items in Van Helsing's hand before he could secretly stow it out of his hands.
"Stop! I'm giving you this because you might need them in your journey! It will protect you!" Carl said with a little bit of a warning growl towards Van Helsing, who sighed now rather hopelessly. How can a few rings of garlic help in a situation when it came to fighting in combat?
He was tempted to ask this, but shrugged it off as his curiosity rose in his eyes. Carl was pulling out a strange looking device in his hands as he held it up in front of Van Helsing's face, pride glowing out of the Friar.
To Van Helsing, it looked like a (A/N: Ok, I looked through a lot of sites to find a really interesting invention, and I found a lot of cool movie weapons used in movies like Blade, Van Helsing (of course), Alien, Predator, etc. Anyhow, its a combination of all those things, so I don't take credit for them at all!) normal pistol, except it looked much more like a huge axe transformed so it was a small mini axe stuck with the pistol. When Carl handed the pistol to Van Helsing, Van Helsing looked at it with awe, careful not to cut himself. His eyes narrowed as he saw something like a button on the pistol. He pushed it and raised his eyebrows with a grin as he saw from the bottom of the pistol a long silver nail, pointed to it looked like it was cut off from a claw, erupt out of the bottom of the pistol.
"I see you've been working hard on this," Van Helsing spoke as Carl tossed the holster for the huge pistol. Van Helsing strapped the holster on his belt, and put the pistol into the holster, smiling to see it fit. Carl grinned cheekily.
"Oh yes, I have been busy. I have a few more of this interesting pistols, so you can bring them along. It might come in handy."
"I hope so, Carl." Van Helsing sighed slightly, and Carl caught sight of it.
"Well... do you except something strange is going to happen?" Carl asked.
"I doubt it. Really, I doubt it."
"Perhaps God will have a plan for you... Maybe you may get a surprise-" Carl began but Van Helsing shot him a stern look.
"Save the lecture about God, Carl. He's helped me once, he's probably not too willing to do so again."
"Alright, if you say so."
Carl looked at Van Helsing with a sad smile. He pulled a bag from a table and dumped all the Holy Water and Crosses into the raggedy brown sack before tossing it into Van Helsing's hands.
"Well, I have to go, Carl. I'll be reporting back as soon as I find out who's the culprit to these strange murders. Until then, I'll see you again!"
And with that, Van Helsing wore his hat so it covered half of his face and headed toward the exit of the door.
"See you, Van Helsing…" murmured Carl.
A/N: I know, I left you in a really boring end, but the next chapter won't be as boring as this one. I just needed to slip that in or else you wouldn't have had a glimpse of what Van Helsing's new weapons were! (: And anyhow, I got lazy in the middle of the sentences because of the boredom of this chapter, lol. I hope you didn't sleep when you read this. Please review cause the next chapter will come sooner if you do!