Screams of fear and terror were all he could hear. Cross bows were being shot at him and people were trying to stake him in the heart with wooden stakes. The crimson eyed bat like creature bared it's fangs and screeched at the humans. They all feared him, despised him, hated him. In there eyes he was a monster, a demon, murder and creature with no goodness and only evil.
Of course he couldn't blame them. After what he did, how could they not? He had done terrible, horrible, revolting things to these people. Things that only a monster would do and he thought he would never do these things or become this creature but he did and he would forever hate himself for it.
"You are the offspring of a human man and a vampire woman." An old man said. He was from Romania, he had gray hair and a gray beard. He was a vampire hunter who held a bible in one hand and a cross in another. "You will forever be caught between the world of day and night. You are a blood sucking demon of the night and it is my mission to God to remove you from this world."
"Monster I won't let you take her!" A young man said aiming a crossbow at him. He wasn't a vampire hunter like the other one but he was determined fighter and a protective husband who was clutching his wife, a young Middle Eastern woman with long black hair and scared green eyes close to him.
"Please Steven. I don't want to be what you are!" The wife pleaded. "Please stop this! I don't want them to kill you!"
He then saw his father lying on the ground bleeding to death from being beaten to death. He weakly looked up at his son and with his last few moments of life he said.
"You're good Steven. No matter what anyone says you're good."
Steven sat up in his bed covered in sweat and breathing like he had just been choked a few hours ago. Another nightmare about when he first became a vampire. Much like Manny, when Steven first discovered he was half vampire he had caused some damage, some of it was unintentional and some of it wasn't. But it didn't matter which was which because it still left him looking like a monster to anyone who looked at him.
Things that had happened back then had been haunting him for years. His father's death, the people he killed, the hunters who persecuted him, the woman's blood he almost drank. The memories of the events still haunted him. How he wished he could change them but the past can't be changed by anyone or anything.
But what he didn't understand is why now? Why was he suddenly having the same nightmare everyday this week? Did it mean anything?
Ring-ring!
"Hello?" He said answering the phone. "Oh hey Solomon what's up?...So it's back to business huh?...Okay I'll be there...No no I'm alright...Yeah see you there. Bye."
He hung up and got ready.
...
A meeting was being held between the Helsing Organization and the Holy Order. According to Solomon there had been more vampire attacks in Maine recently and it was more than the Van Helsing Organization could handle. So they were debating on weather or not they should work the Holy Order.
"Good morning Solomon." Sister Nora said sipping her tea.
"Good morning Sister, you're looking ravishing as usual." Solomon said smoking his cigar.
"You said you wished to speak with me about an alliance."
"Yes I did and I trust you brought your girls and your demon?"
"As requested and I trust your men and your bat are all present and accounted for?"
"Yes ma'am."
"Good then we can get down to debating."
"Where's that pain in the ass minister of yours?"
"He's busy at the moment. You know how difficult doing God's work can be."
"Well let's get down to business, now normally I would oppose working with you because most of your exorcists are nuns but these vampires are proving to be more than my men can handle."
"You'd be surprised Solomon, we may be nuns but we are highly trained in combat against demons."
"Yes you're Sister Suarez has proven that well."
"But it's just the fact that I have exorcists that you want me help is it? It's because I have a devil working for me right?"
"Well...Yeah."
"Why am I not surprised?"
"Does that mean you won't help?"
"Personally I detest violence but in this matter it's unavoidable and needed so yes I will."
"Good now let's tell them the news."
Solomon gathered up all the slayers and exorcists together in one room.
"Alright ladies listen up! " Solomon said to his men. "Due to the huge increase in vampire attacks I've decided that we need new allies so allow me to introduce the Holy Order."
"Good day gentlemen." Sister Nora said.
"Is this a joke?" Lars asked. "We're overrun with vampires and you're last attempt of fighting them is to work with nuns?"
"I can assure you we are no ordinary nuns. Isn't that right Sister Frida?"
"Correct ma'am." The blue haired nun said. "We are excellent fighters and very good with weaponry."
The slayers only laughed at her.
"Oh please if this little girl can fight a vampire then I must be able to take on Satan." Lars laughed.
"I bet I could take you." Frida said.
"Yeah right listen, I'm not big on hitting girls but go ahead take your best shot."
"Alright." With that she jumped up and kicked Lars in the chin sending him flying much to the shock of the other slayers. "That impressive enough for you."
"Why you little-" He swung a fist toward her only to have it be caught and squeezed intensely by Manny.
"Do not lay a finger on her." He growled tightening his grip.
"Ahh! Oh God! His breaking my hand! Alright! Alright! I'll leave her alone just let me go!"
"Manny release." Frida said simply and he did as she said.
"Oh God." Lars cried clutching his hand in pain. "What the hell are you?"
"A devil and veteran of a war with Turks who will gladly rip you to shreds if you ever touch my lady." Manny said.
"Your lady? Wait is she your lover? Dirty nun alert!"
PUNCH!
"Ow!" He clutched his jaw from where Frida punched him.
"When he says I'm his lady, he means it as in he protects and serves me you dirty minded creep." Frida said.
"Alright that's enough." Solomon said. "Now I don't care what you all think you are going to work with these people and you will show nothing but respect to them including their monster or I'll have you thrown out of this organization so fast you won't even have time to blink! Is that clear?"
"Yes sir!"
"Good now then with in six nights vampires have been attacking left and right. At least ten humans are injured, at least fifty are being treated for vampirism, and at least a hundred are dead.
"How many of them are there?" Connie asked.
"Not sure and we have no idea who's been leading this these attacks."
"You sure there's a leader?"
"In attacks like these there's always a leader and we don't know who it is but some photos were taken and one of our slayers managed to find this at the scene of an attack."
In one hand held a photograph of the bloody massacre and in his other hand was a crystal gem that Steven recognized on the spot.
"These are Jasper's vampires." Steven said.
"You postive?"
"I'd know that bitch's handy work anywhere. She hates humans so much that it disgusts her to have turn them into vampires so she'd rather kill them."
"Then where does she get her minions?" Frida asked.
"From her blood. She's an eternal bitch from hell who leads an army of pure blood vampires."
"What are those?" Connie asked.
"Vampires who were never human." Solomon said. "They sprang from the blood of their leader. They're ten times as hard to kill as a vampire who was once human. The only creatures capable of killing them are vampires who came from Dracula's blood or a devil. We've got both on our side but you boys are half human so I don't know if we stand much of a chance."
"Me either but if we don't try we might as well let those demons of the night destroy everything we hold dear." Sister Nora said.
"With all due respect Sister." Solomon said. "It's a fifty percent chance we can defeat them."
"Well we people of the Holy Order tend to cling to hope."
"You wouldn't say that if you've ever fought a vampire."
"No but I've fought devils and they're worse."
"Excuse me, Mr. Van Helsing, Sister Nora." Sister Sadie said. "I just received a call from some of the other slayers. They think there might be another attack in the square."
"Thank you Sadie." Nora said.
"Alright half of you take the North square and the other half of you take the South square. You five go out in the middle."
"Yes sir." The teenagers answered.
"Good luck and don't stop til they're dead."
"Yes sir!"
They went to gather their weapons and prepared for a fight.
"Manny can you pass me my gun?" Frida asked.
"Sure." He handed it to her, they both shared a gaze. They hadn't made eye contact with each other since she woke him up from his comma. They were still a little shocked and unsure about the recent news of Analia being reincarnated into Frida.
"Um listen Manny." She said. "About what happened the other night two weeks ago I-"
"Frida." He stopped her. "In another life you might've been the woman loved. But...That was years ago and for now our relationship must be platonic."
"I understand." She said. "I figured as much."
"But know this, no matter what relationship we have I will protect you with my life."
"Thanks."
They drove down to the square. It was one of the darkest nights ever to fall on to Maine. The perfect night for a vampire to attack innocent people. Shrieks, crys, and hisses filled the night sky but before the humans could be harmed by the vampires the five teens began to fight back.
"Who the hell are you all supposed to be?" One of the vampires asked.
"You're worst nightmare." Steven hissed.
His eyes turned crimson and his body morphed into his vampire form and lunged for him. Followed by a wolf bouncing to attack, a light sword being stabbed, and wooden stakes being fired. Blood spilled and stained the ground, blood of the vampires they slayed.
While Steven was shooting off his pistols and tearing the vampires apart while Connie was plunging her blade of sunlight into the vampires causing them to turn to ash. One vampire in particular was a lot larger and stronger than the others. He pulled out a blade of his own and it clashed with hers.
"Impressive." He said. "But you're nothing compared to the others."
"What are you talking about?" She said as they dueled together.
"I mean the other fighters. They all were born with a special power. Your partner has the blood of Dracula coursing through his veins, the devil boy has his demonic fire, the wolf has his fangs and claws, and the nun girl has the power of heaven at her fingertips. But you, what do you have to offer? You're just a useless human."
"Be quiet!" She said taking a swipe.
"Why? Deep down you know it's the truth and you're taking quite a risk being partners with a descendant of Dracula."
"What are you talking about?"
"He may seem gentle but he's actually one of the most dangerous vampire you'll ever encounter."
"I believe he's dangerous but only to you bastards!"
"Oh just wait til he gets bored with you. Then he'll dispose of you and bite you like he did to that other woman who peeked his interest."
"Other woman?"
"A delightful creature she was. She kind of reminds me of you, no doubt you'll suffer her fate."
"That's enough out of you, you filth!" Steven hissed. He tried to make a bite for his throat but he dodged him.
"Sorry Steven but dawn is soon approaching so I'm afraid I have to call a retreat but don't worry I'll be back."
He and the remaining vampires fled leaving the teens exhausted. They went back to the organization and the order ready for sleep but Connie was somewhat confused by that vampire's words. She told herself that he was only saying that to mess with her head. She knew that vampires were good at playing mind games and while she knew most of his words had to be a lie she couldn't shake the feeling that some of his words were true.
"Hey you alright?" Steven asked noticing her discomfort.
"Yeah I'm fine."
"Hey don't let what that freak said get to you, you are not useless."
"I know that. It's just, Steven I don't really know that much about you do I?"
"What do you mean?"
"I mean what were you like a hundred years ago?"
"Just the same except I didn't know I was half vampire."
"Did you ever bite anyone?"
"No. I told you I don't drink human blood."
"You're postive you never drank it once? And that you never bit anyone? No man? Or...Woman?"
"No. Why do you ask? If it's about what that creep said it's all lies. He's only trying to mess with your head."
"Okay. Hey I'm going to bed."
"Alright, see you later."
She then retired to her bedroom.
"You can't run from it forever." Father Gardner said. "What you did a hundred years ago, the mistakes you made, sooner or later you'll have to come to terms with that."
"What are you talking about?"
"You know what I mean. Most of your life you've been a kind and gentle soul but there was a period in your life where you were cruel and dark."
"That part of me is something that must be kept a secret."
"Of course you'd want it to stay that way but all secrets must come into light one day and the sooner you tell them the better."
"You wouldn't dare tell them!"
"Me? Oh I may be a lot of things but a snitch is definitely not one of them."
"How do you know so much about that period of my life?"
"Because I made it my mission to know everything about the past lives of you three. After all I don't want just any bi-deities around my ward."
"What are you?"
"That my friend must remain a secret but seriously if you know what's good for you you'll tell them before they find out. Now I'm must be going."
He left, Steven went back to his room to get some sleep only to become tormented with the same nightmare again. He would then wake up and continue to wonder what it meant.
"Steven are you okay?" Connie asked knocking on his door. He got up and opened it. "Sorry for bothering you but I heard you grunting. Were you having a bad dream?"
"Yeah you could say that."
"What was it about?"
"I'd rather not talk about it."
"Well that's okay. You know when I had bad dreams my father would talk to me to calm me down. Do you want me to talk to you?"
"Sure. So what's up?"
"Nothing much. I went shopping with Frida last week, she's still a little freaked out that she was another woman a hundred years ago, she's even more freaked out that she almost married Manny a hundred years ago."
"Well you can't really blame her. If I found out a hundred years ago I was about to marry Manny I'd be freaked out too."
Connie laughed at his joke.
"But seriously you gotta admit it's kind of romantic. It's like when two people love each other nothing can keep them apart forever. That love conquers all."
"Yeah except neither one of them plan on having romantic relationship any time soon."
"Well I still say there's some magic there." She said. "Steven did you have some special?"
"What do you mean?"
"Well were you ever in love?"
"I was once but the it was unrequited."
"Oh I'm sorry."
"It's okay, I should've known better. After all she was a married woman, I couldn't expect her to leave her husband for me."
"Did you two have an affair?"
"Oh no! No! No! She remained true."
"Who was she?"
"I really don't want to talk about her because she's dead now."
"Oh! Sorry."
"Again it's okay."
"Well hey you'll find love again."
"I doubt it, not many women want their mates be half vampire."
"You're right about that but just because you're half vampire doesn't mean you're a bad person. You're most kindest and most gentle people I know. You'd never hurt anybody."
He bristled at her words, if only she knew. He wanted to tell her but he was afraid of the horror the might spark in her eyes if she knew the truth.
"Hey what's wrong?"
"Nothing. Just thinking about old memories."
"You know it's really sad hearing about all the hard things you've had gone through life. I mean losing your mother, war, losing your father, getting your heartbroken, and being turned to stone. I'm really sorry that you've been through all that."
"We've all had bad things happen to us. You can't even imagine what Dipper went through."
"Would you mind telling me?"
"I wouldn't but he'd kill me if I told you."
"Really?"
"Yeah made a blood pact not to reveal any of our secrets, we tried to get Manny to do it but he didn't trust us with his secrets and he can't be trusted to keep secrets either."
"Well he is half devil."
"I know and sometimes that scares me."
"What do you mean?"
"Well devils are generally more evil than vampires not that I think Manny would ever do anything evil except maybe turn me inside out for peeping through his stuff."
"I understand but hey I don't know that much about you in the past maybe you did some bad stuff." She laughed as if it was joke but he didn't take it that way.
"Yeah right." He said nervously. "I totally didn't do anything bad. Ha! Ha!"
"Are you okay?"
"I'm fine. Hey listen thanks for talking with me but I think I'm ready to go back to sleep okay?"
"Okay, good night."
"Good night."
She left his room. He closed the door and waited for when she was gone before going back to bed. The guilt of his mistakes were eating him alive. He didn't like keeping secrets and lying to people, especially to Connie. A voice in his head told him that he should confess and talk to his friends about it but he couldn't bear it if they were afraid of him. If Connie was afraid of him.
"She can't know." He told himself. "None of them can know."
He then fell asleep and for once the nightmares didn't bother him. Meanwhile the vampires had retreated to the secret lair of their queen. The merciless and ruthless Jasper. Se had ordered them that night to find Steven and kill him so you can imagine she wasn't to pleased when her minions came back to tell her that Steven was still alive.
"Well." She snarled. "Did you kill him?"
"There was a bit of a complication." One of her minions said.
"How dare you return without his head!" She screeched.
"It wasn't our fault!"
"I'm not interested in your excuses! I want him dead! As long as that mistake of nature lives my plan to exterminate humans from this world can never be! How hard is it to kill a half human vampire?!"
"Pretty hard if half of his blood came from Dracula."
"Silence! I don't care what blood he has! I want him exterminated!"
"With all due respect." The larger vampire said. "He had some unlikely allies who posed as a threat."
"What? You mean those brainless slayers?"
"We're not dealing with just them anymore. You see I heard through the grape vine that the Helsing Organization have allied themselves with the Holy Order and they have a devil working for them.
The crowd of vampires gasped in shock.
"A devil?"
"Yes and he happens to be the son of Rodolfo Rivera, the demon who took out that swine Dago."
"A devil working with the church to exterminate vampires and other devils? My God what is the world coming to?!"
"There's more, his allies also include a werewolf and a holy woman."
"You must be joking."
"Wish I was. Needless to say the few you sent to take him out couldn't defeat a vampire who descended from Dracula, a devil, a holy woman, and a werewolf. It would seem my queen that we need to enhance our reinforcements."
"Well this is just great! Just when I think things can't get more difficult they do. Damn! I get why a nun would want to help him and maybe a werewolf by why the hell would a devil be an exorcist?"
"If I may Madame, perhaps we're going about this the wrong way."
"What do you mean?"
"Well it's obvious if we want to kill him we have to break him first but maybe we're not supposed to break him physically but mentally."
"Explain."
"Let's not forget this pathetic gentle giant was for a moment just like us and it's been tearing him apart on the inside ever since. So let's push that, push it to breaking his breaking point.
"And when he can't take it anymore we kill him." Jasper said. "I love it. But if we're going to break him we need to know more about him. I want one of you to spy on him, watch his every move, learn everything you can about him. His strengths and weaknesses and once our spy has all the information I want he is to report back here and he is to tell me everything."
"I know just the vampire to send. His very observant and stealthy. If there was any vampire more perfect to be a spy it's him."
"Can he be trusted? Because the last thing we need is a traitor."
"Trust me my queen he wouldn't be alive if he couldn't be trusted."
"Then give him a call, tell him his mission, and don't fail me or you'll find yourself without a head!"
