Hey everybody it's me! I'm updating finally! I'm still getting over writers block and I'm starting to get back into the swing so bare with me. So I'm going to shut up now and here's the story!

Note: I might have to retells most of this scene. Three months for one chapter, damn writers block.

Disclaimer: I don't own it so don't sue me.

"What have you found out?" Van Helsing asked without looking away from the painted map on the wall.

"Well, for one thing, I've learned that Dracula is the son of Anna's ancestor, valerious the elder". Carl stated pointing to the portrait leaning against the wall. "Her ancestor?" van Helsing thought in slight confusion but his thoughts were interrupted by Carl's quick explanations. "But the whole story started in 1462, when Dracula was murdered."

"Murdered? Does it tell who murdered him?"

"No, just some fairly unclear reference to the left hand of god" he stated as he shuffled toward a table and held up an elaborate Latin text "when he died he made a convent with the devil, and he was given a new life, but the only way he could sustain that life was to drink the blood of the living, as the bible states 'the blood is the life', so he, the ancestor, siring this demonic creature when to seek forgiveness, that's when the deal was made."

"But as evil as he was, he wouldn't be able to murder his own son."

"Yes, so he banished him to an icy fortress to which there was no return" Carl stated as he opened a book and pointed to a sketch of a crude castle. "Then the devil gave him wings" van Helsing's mind revealed. "But I'm not sure where the door is." The friar sadly stated.

"The door, the door..." he whispered to himself, then the idea rose up. "The door!" he enthusiastically walked toward the painting of Transylvania on the wall, Carl slowly followed. "This is the door, they just couldn't open it"

Carl searched the picture for any kind of crease but it was seamlessly molded to the wall, he scanned a little closer and notices some kind of Latin text. "Look an inscription" he pointed out; he read it quickly only to find a piece was missing.

"Latin…" he whispered as his mind quickly scanned the events that had happened recently, the door, Latin; it was all starting to come together. "Latin! Of course..., you remember when I told you Anna was saying some thing in Latin that we couldn't remember,I think this is what that was" he pulled out the torn piece of cloth with the Latin inscription the cardinal had given him and held it up. "That's what she meant that was what she was saying," van Helsing eagerly stood next to Carl and pointed to the text on the wall, "she was trying to open the door." He handed it to Carl. "Finish it Carl" he finished:

"Deum lacessat ac inaum imbeat aperiri…"

"In the name of god, open this door"

A thick crystal frost washed over the painting, when it cleared it left behind a large portrait mirror. "A mirror?" Carl questioned stepping closer.

An image of Anna and aleera in the library flashed through van helsing's mind quickly, he remembered that though she was in the room she was with someone else but in the mirror she was alone. "Vampires don't have a reflection in the mirror." He added, "But why?"

"Maybe to them it isn't a mirror at all" Carl seemed to answer his mind's question. Van Helsing walked closer to the mirror's surface, stared at his confused reflection and cautiously pressed his fingers onto the mirrors icy glass. As his fingers passed straight through, his had went cold, fluidly he pulled his hand out and revealed snowflakes. He looked back at Carl eagerly, walked toward the wall and pulled a torch off the wall.

"Are you coming? I could use some help." He said in a calm friendly voice looking back at Carl before he waked through to the icy fortress.

"I'm right behind you." He said assured him calmly pulling another torch off the wall and walking slowly towards van Helsing. Van Helsing closed his eyes and took a breath and stepped through the mirror to the other side.

Ok I know short but informative. You waited three months for that yeah I know. I had todo my own little short verision of this scene, i tried, and i hope the next chapter will be a tad bit longer k?Read and review.