Suddenly an enormous hand clamped around Anna's arm and flung her through the air and Gabriella began firing wildly. Gabriel was hurled into the wall and Gabriella backed away.

"Don't make me hurt you!" she warned as shadow towered over her.

Anna shook the wet hair from her eyes. "Oh my God! The Frankenstein monster!"

The monster whirled. "Monster! It is you who is the monster!" He hit Gabriella and she sailed through the air. She hit the ground and rolled over.

"That's what they wanted," she said. "He's been hiding down here." She held out a hand as the monster ran at her. "I'm not going to hurt you! What do you want?"

Surprisingly, the monster stopped. "To exist," he said quietly.

"How does she do that?" Anna whispered

"I don't know. She's done it for years. She can calm anyone," said Gabriel.

"I'm not going to hurt you," Gabriella repeated. "Please, just stop. You're going to hurt my brother or Anna, then I'll have to hurt you."

"What do you want?" growled the monster.

Gabriella studied him. "You're hiding from Dracula, aren't you?"

At the sound of the name, the monster bellowed in rage and started for Gabriella but she held out her hand again.

"Please!" she said. "I'm fighting against him."

Now she really had the monster's attention.

Suddenly, they heard the sound of a low growl. They whirled, just in time to see the werewolf jump back out of the hole and disappear.

Anna grabbed Gabriel's arm. "He's seen us! He'll go back to the castle and tell Dracula!"

"It's alive! It's alive!"

"Success!"

Dr. Victor Frankenstein whirled. But he relaxed at the sight of Count Dracula and his brother walking into the room. "Oh Count, it's just you. Welcome, Vladimir."

"I was beginning to lose faith in you, Victor," said Dracula. "But Vladimir assured me you could do it and he was right."

Victor studied his creation as it looked around the room. "I shall have to take him far away where no one will ever find him or harm."

"Oh no, Victor. The time has come for me to take command of him."

Victor looked at Dracula oddly. "What do you mean?"

"Why do you think my brother and I brought you here?" asked Vladimir. "We gave you this castle and equipped your laboratory for one purpose. To bring our children to life." He smiled and his eyes where alight with happiness. "You see, Doctor, in order for our children to live, we must have a powerful life source. And this…this monster is the life source we have so needed."

"Good God!" exclaimed Victor. "I would kill myself before helping in such a task!"

Vladimir laughed merrily. "Feel free, good Doctor. We really don't have need of you anymore. He is the key."

"Before I would allow him to be used for such evil, I would destroy him!" shouted Victor.

"I cannot allow that to happen. My brides would be very put out," said Dracula.

Victor grabbed a sword and pointed it at Dracula's chest. "Get away!"

"You can't kill me, Victor." Dracula pushed into the sword, grinning. "I'm already dead."

"What!" Dracula's eyes blazed and he looked at his brother. "They have the monster."

Vladimir was sitting in his chair. "This is something we did not expect. So…what shall we do?"

"I'd rather not have to kill my younger brother and sister…especially my sister," said Dracula quietly. "But we must have the monster."

"Send the brides out to fetch him. The werewolf goes too," said Vladimir. He looked at the werewolf, his eyes piercing. "But you will not harm Gabriel or Gabriella unless you have no choice."

"Hunt them down!"

"Gabriel, are you sure this is wise?" asked Gabriella.

"The only chance we have of keeping him away from Dracula and Vladimir, is taking him away from him. We'll take him to Paris. From there, we'll wire the Order and tell them to come and get him."

"Why don't we just kill him?"

"I agree with Gabriella," said Anna. "The longer he stays alive, the more of a chance Dracula has of getting him."

Gabriel sighed as he looked at Anna. "My life…my job…my curse…whatever you chose to call it, is to vanquish evil. This thing…this man may have been created for evil but evil does not rule it. So I cannot kill it."

Anna stared at him. She was noticing his dark eyes and handsome face for the first time.

"That's good enough for me." Gabriella looked up as Carl came slowly towards him. "Finally. Took you long enough."

Gabriel took his arm as they went outside where two coaches where waiting. "Whatever you do, don't stare at him." He opened the coach door.

Carl gasped, his eyes enormous. "I'm staring at him!"

"Let me go!" roared Frankenstein.

Carl stared at him. "Where are you going to go?" he stuttered. "I don't know if you've looked in a mirror lately, but you kind of stick out in a crowd." He looked at Gabriel. "Is that a man?"

Gabriel smiled as he tossed Carl inside. "Actually, it's seven men, parts of them anyway." He went over to Anna and gave her a hand up onto the driver's seat of the carriage. "Be careful." He didn't let go of her hand for a long moment. Then he squeezed it and went over to his sister.

She said something quietly to him and he tossed her, laughing, up in the seat and climbed up himself. He took the reigns in his hands and they where off.