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Dracula impatiently paced through the laboratory, as lightening and thunder busied the night sky. He had taken care of the princess's dreams, now all that was left was prepare the monster for the machine. "This is taking too long, Igor! Did you hear me?" his voice echoing through the lofty laboratory. Igor came limping into his view.
"Yes master, I have, but precious things take time, you do know that ..." he was quickly cut off by Dracula's irritated voice.
"THEN GET BACK TO WORK!" his bellowing voice reverberated through the room, making it feel like the whole laboratory shook.
"Yes master right away." He said with a hint of fright in his voice as he got back to work. Dracula also liked to watch him pretend that he was brave. He knew that he could kill Igor at anytime he chose, but he needed someone to do his work. His impatience was interrupted when he heard the monster's voice echo loudly, that sound made him smile. It was only just a matter of time.
Carl stood in front of the large map on the wall. "So it was Latin she was speaking?" he asked as he studied the painting.
"Yes, and she kept repeating it like it was some kind of magic pass word." Van Helsing said as he walked up to the wall and stood behind the friar.
"Do you remember the exact words she was repeating?" he asked inspecting the wall closer.
"No" he singed and leaned against the wall. He honestly couldn't remember what she had said the night before, he hadn't completely forgotten, but most of last night was fuzzy. The words were clear in his head but his mind couldn't process the words. The words seem do stick at the tip of his tongue. With his werewolf senses he felt Anna's presents approach the room and lean against the door.
Anna quietly lingered in the door way of the library; she silently observed them as they studied the painting before them. She leaned against the doorway as her eyes scanned the room, and instantly she locked her eyes on the map. There was something about that picture that made her felt she couldn't take her eyes off of it. "So what does this all mean?" she suddenly spoke up. In perfect unison Carl and van Helsing both looked back at her then turned back to the map.
"We aren't quite sure yet, but we know it definitely has to do with you and Dracula." Carl informed her, without looking back. She quietly stepped into the room and stood behind Carl. She stared at the painting once more. "Do you remember what you were saying last night?"
"Honestly, I don't" she replied with sincerity. Strangely she couldn't remember most of last night either, only that she dreamt that velkan came to her and told her to say some phrase in Latin, and then she was being shaken awake by van Helsing. "I'm sorry" she said a little embarrassed.
A silent voice in the back of her mind kept repeating the Latin phrase she had dreamt about, she could hear the words but couldn't seem to speak them. Soon Dracula's children would be unleashed and they could do nothing to stop it. Neither of them could make heads or tales of anything. None of this made sense. Every clue they had lead back to this map, one way or another they would have to find Dracula's castle and do what ever was in their power to stop him.
"Maybe we should go back to castle Frankenstein, just to investigate." Carl suggested as he walked over and sat down behind the desk and began to flip through one of the many books that were stacked on the desk.
"We have already done that remember? I was empty." She said with a twinge of annoyance in her voice.
"Carl may have a point," he said turning around to face Anna and Carl, "maybe we should go back and search the castle for some kind of clue."
"Fine let's go now." Anna said quickly as she turned and headed for the door, but van Helsing caught her by the arm, stopping her. He turned her around causing her to face him.
"You're not going anywhere, at least not now." She gave him a harsh look.
"Why shouldn't I?" she asked rebelliously.
"Dracula will find you easier if you're out in the open, so you're staying here." He said tightening his grip on her arm as she tried to pull away. She gave him a murderously look.
"I'm not a child, you can't tell me what I can and can not do." Her voice rising. She pulled her arm back, trying to break his hold on her.
"No your not, but I was sent here to protect you, and not once have I failed an assignment," he jerked her closer to him "and I'm not planning on starting to any time soon." He said forcefully, their eyes locked into a poisonous glare. Anna's eyes slowly tinted to the eerie ice blue, she was getting mad.
Van Helsing felt his anger rising also, her rebellious attitude was starting to annoy him. But he knew she wouldn't back down until she got her way, but then again, neither would he. So instead of letting her go, his grip tightened even more, which maddened Anna even more. The monsters they were becoming started taking over. A low hiss came from her throat as her eyes narrowed. "Let me go." Se demanded in a forceful voice as she jerked her arm back trying to loosen his hold on her, his hand only got tighter. Her fury built up in her eyes, causing them to glow.
He gave what sounded like a deep faint growl. "Give me one good reason to." They stared at each other for another long minute. He could see it in her eyes that she wasn't going to say anything, and it was no use in fighting, so he loosened his hold.
But before he could let her have her way, she pulled her arm loose and stared him dead on. "Fine!" she yelled in his face, turning on her heel stormed out of the library like a spoiled child.
It took a while for Van Helsing's anger to subside then he slumped into a chair drained, and sighed. "I don't know how much more of this we can take." and looked toward Carl who was a little afraid of the tantrum they had both just threw. He then pulled his hat over his face and slid down lower into the chair.
"That's interesting; I never thought I would her you say something like that." Carl joked lightly trying to lighten up the mood. Van Helsing turned his head towards Carl, his hat covered his face but Carl could sense the glare that he was giving him, Carl quieted for his own sake and skimmed through the book once more and suddenly stopped on a certain piece of information. He read it to himself slowly, and then he spoke up.
"I have some important information, I suppose, if you are willing to listen." Carl said sarcastically, he looked at van Helsing again who was giving him the same hat covered glare.
"What?" he muffled tiredly from under the brim of his hat. They didn't have time to waste, but he calmly waited for the friar's reply.
"Well, it says here that, the complete transformation of the vampire curse won't be fully complete until the first kill." Carl said intellectually. Van Helsing perked up a little; maybe there was a way to save Anna.
"So that means she isn't all the way a vampire?" he asked uncovering his face and slid up in his chair slowly.
"Well technically yes, but we have to restrain her from killing someone, because it says here "the curse wont be complete until the first kill" but," Carl stated reluctantly, his eyes still on the sentence he was reciting. Van Helsing slowly rose from his chare and slowly paced toward the desk where Carl stood.
"But what?" he asked stepping closer.
"There is one exception" Carl said slowly.
"And that is?" he asked.
"But if blood passes the victim's lips, the person may become undead." He said with out looking up from the page.
"So let me get this straight, if Anna kills someone, she will be a full fledge vampire, but if she just drinks blood then?" van Helsing questioned.
"She will become a vampire, but not a full one, it's hard to explain." Carl replied, closing the book and looking up.
"What will happen if we kill Dracula, will she die along with him?"
"its hard to say, personally I believe, that if she just drinks the blood alone, she will become a vampire, in addition, she wont die when you kill Dracula," Carl said as he opened another book, "and that if she kills an innocent person, she will one of his brides, and she may die if you kill Dracula."
Van Helsing ran that thought through his mind for a while. "Then all we have to do is prevent her from killing anyone, or drinking blood period, and she will be alright?" Van Helsing inquired.
"I suppose, but it won't be as easy, as it sounds." Carl stated quickly glancing up at van Helsing.
"I know, but it's my job." Van Helsing declared, as he adjusted his hat and quickly walked out of the library. It may be a challenge but he wouldn't give up, giving up was for failures, and he was everything else but a failure. And he didn't plan on adding that name to the list.