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Chapter 2

Dream or not?

'Diana opened her eyes … She was somewhere in the hall with torchlights on the walls. The ceiling was all in strange symbols she couldn't understand. At the end of the hall there was a throne and someone very familiar was sitting on it.

"Greeting to you, Diana," said the stranger with an accent, walking to her slowly. He was wearing black leather pants and silk black shirt, his raven black hair was collected into a ponytail with few traces left. Dia thought he's handsome and this aura of him was intoxicating. She also found that was wearing white silk dress, not her nightgown.

"Who are you?" Diana asked, while the man was helping her to stand up.

"You changed …" he smiled and took her by chin gently, discovering her face.

"Sir, say who are you? Am I sleeping?"

"Perhaps … everything is possible, but how do you think?"

"I think you should name yourself."

"Oh, yes …I'm count Vladislaus Dracula."

The girl laughed:

"Strange dream, I don't remember I've seen this movie."

"I'm not a movie, I'm real ..."

Dracula touched her neck and Dia was surprised with his cold.

"And why do you need me?"

"I don't need you. He needs …"

"He?"

"My … father … the Dark Lord as he used to be called."

"You mean …"

Diana blinked at him. She was surprised, it seemed so unreal. Vlad bent to her ear and whispered:

"He needs your … blood."

"My blood?" she asked, trying to shake off count's spell, but a kind of mist filled her head. Vladislaus smiled, baring long white fangs; this scene made Dia to scream and then she ...'

… awoke in cool perspiration, breathing heavily. It was a middle of the night, but there was light in her parents' room.

'Diana, you're old enough to believe in such weird dreams …' she thought, and then remembered where she has seen the count first …

Oh, yes, she was ten years old … In that dream the man was sitting on a black horse, staring at her … But never tried to bite her. Dia touched her neck, of course there weren't any marks, and still it was so real. His cold touch, his voice, … deep dark eyes.

'What's wrong with me?' the girl rubbed her shoulders, staring into space. Shadows in her room looked so mysterious and very rustle made her to flinch. Suddenly a voice in her head, not Dracula's, but unfamiliar said:

'Don't refuse me, Diana, it's your destiny …'

"Who is it!" she asked with fear, looking around.

'You know who it is … and very well, my dear. Remember, in your previous life …'

Dia was pressed to the bed by some invisible power, she couldn't move like her body was paralyzed. This … something started caressing her thigh and then under her short nightgown.

The girl screamed, and her mental powers threw away invisible someone. At this moment Angelica came into her daughter's room with an amulet in her hand:

"What happened? Are you alright?" she embraced Diana, who was deathly pale and shocked.

"Mother, it was awful! I saw the man and then … oh, mom …"

The girl sobbed, while Angelic was caressing her hair:

"Don't worry, my child, I'm here, with you …"

Irvin was standing at the door; his eyes were searching every inch of the room.

"So it started …"

A man in red cloak with hood, covering his face, set on the throne made of black stone. Whores were on the red pillows at him and tall guards were behind his throne. The man was not in mood, it was clear. He took off his hood, showing face with deep bloody-red eyes with flames in them.

"The girl said 'no' to you?" asked the other man in all black, lent to the wall.

Lucifer (you understood that the man in cloak is devil, didn't you?), who was drinking vine, threw the goblet into Dracula, but vampire deviated aside.

"You supposed to tell her everything, not to scary her!"

"I thought my little joke would be more interesting."

"After all these years of waiting, I'm so close to her … Stop ruining my plan!"

"Send me back and I'll bring her to you."

"Why do you want to return? Because of your whore?"

Devil laughed and his women, too, but Vladislaus didn't react.

"Tell me, my son, are you really sure she waits for you? What about the Left Hand of … God?"

Count flinched, but repeated again:

"Send me back."

"You don't like my kingdom? I treated you well this time after your third fail."

"Send me BACK!"

Lucifer thought for a while and then said:

"Maybe I will, but it needs time, you know. You'll resurrect in the cemetery of Dark Valley, my demons will tell you what to do then But… remember, my son, I can be kind and cruel, don't angry me or you'll never see the world again."