Warning there will be gore.
If Manny, Frida, Dipper, and Pacifica were going to the castle then they needed to be extra prepare because Jasper's castle was basically the hive of all vampires and like bees they would be swarming and ready to sting. They packed as many wooden stakes, holy water, crosses, guns, garlic, and solar blades as they could carry.
"Now listen." Solomon warned. "I fear that Connie has drank blood and if that's the case then giving her the cure won't change her back. To make her human again you must kill the vampire who turned her."
"And you may need this." Nora said handing Frida a tin box. She opened it, inside was thinly sliced bread with crucifixes marked on them.
"What are these?" Frida asked.
"Wafers of Sacrament. Abraham Van Helsing used these on Mina Harker when Dracula bit her. When you find Connie places this on her head, it won't change her back but it will weaken her."
"The full moon rises in just a few hours so you better hurry."
"We'd come with you." Solomon said. "But there are still plenty of hunters and exorcists who I need to cure."
"Not a problem." Manny said. "We can handle these rats with wings."
"Don't cocky Manny because you're going into the belly of the beast and remember they might have blood stones so be prepared." Nora warned.
"Your mission, go to the castle, find Steven and Connie, get the idol, and destroy it or it's game over for all of us." Solomon said.
They gathered their weapons and supplies and headed for the car. Their regular car wasn't built to drive on mountain land so they had to go in their in a car that Pacifica's father owned. It was specially designed to drive on anything, mud, snow, mountain, you name it, it could do it.
"You sure you're father is okay with this?" Dipper asked her.
"Probably not but he never uses this thing so he won't notice if it's gone." She said going to the wheel. "Buckle up."
They buckle up their seat belts except Dipper. He was going to change into a wolf and track Steven while they followed him in the car.
"Alright wolfie." Manny said holding one of Steven's ties to Dipper's nose. "Fetch."
He sniffed it, stepped out of the car, changed into a wolf, sniffed around the area, and once he had the scent he took off with the car driving after him. Dipper being a werewolf with great speed and the others taking the car, should be able to arrive in six hours. Not too far ahead from them was Steven. It had taken him a day and a half to get to the castle because he went by foot. He approached a stone castle, it was sun down so maybe he had a chance to save Connie without having to hand over the idol. The door to the castle was already open.
"I'm here." He said entering. "And I have the praying bat so where's Connie?"
There was no answer. There was nothing but silence and he didn't see anyone. No he saw someone, slouching against the floor was Connie wearing some short, provocative, cult like dress.
"Connie! Thank God!" He rushed over to her and hugged her. "I was so worried."
"Oh Steven." She sighed. "I just knew you'd come. I knew you wouldn't disappoint me."
"Come on let's get you out of here."
He tried to stand up but her arms clung to his neck, pulled him down, and then pinned to the floor on his back.
"Uh Connie...What are you doing?" He asked her nervously.
"You're so strong Steven, muscular, and handsome." She climbed on top of him. "You have no idea how long I've wanted you."
"Wanted me?" He squeaked nervously.
She began to run her fingers up and down his shirt making him probably the most nervous he had ever been. He now became aware of her skin pale like paper, her red eyes, and her fangs.
"Do you want me?" She asked seductively.
"Is this a trick question?" He asked blushing.
She then leaned down and began to kiss him. Now while Steven enjoyed this a lot he knew it was very wrong.
"Mmph- Connie! Connie I really think you need to stop."
"Take me now!" She cried with passion before kissing him again.
"No! Mmm! Connie I'm flattered really." He said breaking away from her. "But I really don't think we should be doing this. Not that I've never thought about doing it because you're a very attractive woman I find you- Oh man where am I going with this? Look point is you're not thinking straight okay. So look I'm gonna get you back to the organization and we're going to cure you."
"But I have been cured." She chuckled. "You see I never realized how weak I was as a human but now...Now I'm strong just like you."
"Don't you realize what you're life will be like if you stay like this? You'll have to kill hundreds of innocent people to live."
"Humans aren't that important are they?"
"Connie you don't know what you're saying! I need to get you out of here right now!"
"Leaving so soon?" A voice said behind him. He turned to see Jasper, Kevin, and other vampires facing him. Jasper snapped her fingers and out of no where shackles were thrown on to his wrists and ankles and they pulled him to the stone wall.
"Glad you could make it." Jasper said. "And don't bother trying to get loose those chains can only be broken by pure blood vampires."
Nevertheless he continued to struggle. Connie then walked over to him, took the praying bat from him, and gave it to Jasper.
"At last." She said. "After so many years my greatest dream will finally be realized."
"You're crazy Jasper." Steven said. "You can't destroy all humanity."
"I can with this and this." She said holding up the idol and a vile of liquid. "With these vampires will rule the world, every other intelligent life on earth will be destroyed."
"You're insane! That will never happen! I won't let it!"
"Silence!" She snapped punching him. "You forget who you're dealing with and I think you need a little reminder. Children, teach him a lesson."
The vampires all grinned deviously and began to beat him. They punched, kicked, scratched, and clawed at him. Bruises were formed on his body and he started to bleed, the vampires beating him could not drinking his blood that spilled out on to the floor. Steven struggled to break free but it was no use, his human side prevented him from freedom. So he could only stay there and let them beat him without mercy.
"Is that enough my queen?" One asked.
"Yes but let's further his pain." Jasper approached him. "Let's take a look into the big brain of his and see what there is to hide."
She clutched Steven's head and began to look into his most painful memories. As she did this he flashedback to the day he lost his father.
A hundred years ago...
"Father I'm back." His younger and more carefree self cried happily running into his father's house.
"Oh praise God!" His father and him joined into an embrace.
"And look what I brought back." He pulled a small bag from his pocket and opened it. Inside it was countless gold coins. "With this we'll be able to keep the farm."
"I'm just happy that my son came back alright" Greg said. "But I'm also proud of what you did and your mother would be proud too."
"You really think so?"
"I know so. Say why don't we go celebrate your bravery huh?"
"Sure."
First they went to pay for the debt on the farm then they used the money they had left to pay for a fancy dinner at a very expensive resturant. After dinner they went to the picture show and spent the whole night walking home laughing and talking about the good times. Unaware that they were being followed.
"Hey!" A voice angrily called.
They turned to see Marty and five larger men behind him. Steven felt himself bristle but his father softly gripped his hand, warning him not to cause trouble.
"What do you want?" He asked Marty.
"What do you think? Your land!"
"It's not for sale. We paid the debt so the law says it's ours. Now leave us alone."
"Do you think I care about the law?"
Before they knew it Marty kicked over Greg's cane and knocked him out. He had two of his men hold Steven back while the other three began to beat his father.
"No! Stop! Stop it!" Steven begged.
"Hey Dad." One of the men holding Steven said. He was younger and skinnier than the others and he looked scared. "I think that's enough. I mean you said you were just gonna rough him up right?"
"Shut up and be a man!" Marty snapped.
Marty picked up Greg's cane and began to beat him repeatedly with it. Steven struggled in vain to get loose, the whole time he was screaming and begging for them to stop only to have his cries drowned out by their cruel laughter. The only person not laughing was Marty's son.
"Dad please! You're gonna kill him!" His son said.
"I said shut up! Or you're next kid!"
Steven couldn't bear any longer.
"Stop it! Stop it ! STOP IT DAMN YOU!"
They were startled by the change in the young man's voice. His amber eyes turned red, fangs grew from his teeth, and he gained incredible strength which he used to throw the the two men off of him. He grabbed Marty and the three men who had beaten his father and sent them flying.
"Father are you okay?" He said going to the beaten old man. Greg looked at his son with weak eyes and they were filled with horror when he saw his son's red eyes.
"Oh no." He said in a raspy whisper. "No...Oh God...I was afraid of this."
"Father don't talk. I'll get you to a doctor."
"No son I'm..." He coughed. "I'm too old...I won't last much longer."
"Don't say that Father!"
With the last of his strength Greg stuck his hand in his pocket and pulled out a key which handed it to his son.
"There's a secret that I've been keeping from you since you were born. Go...Go...Go unlock my private safe...You'll find my journal and you'll learn the truth about who you are."
"Father what do you mean?"
"I'm sorry I didn't tell you sooner...I was just...Cough!...Afraid of what would happen."
"Father! Don't leave me! Please! You're all I have!"
"Remember this Steven...You are good. No matter what anyone says you are good."
He took one gasp of breath then Steven saw the light in his father's eyes go out and his breath still. The man's chest had no pulse, he was dead. Dead as a door nail. Greg universe, Steven's father, the only person who he had left in this world was dead and these men had killed him. Anger boiled inside him and he felt his body change, in a red mist he changed into a vampire, bat creature. He let out a blood curdling shriek and turned his angry gaze at the men responsible for his father's death.
"Bloody hell what is that thing?!" One man said.
"I...I don't know." Another said.
"Every man for himself!" Marty shouted as he and the other men ran for their lives.
Steven lunged for the men. He tore out the throats of the men who beat his father with his fingers, snapped the neck of one of the men who held him back, and finally he got to Marty.
"No! Don't!" He begged pitifully. "Just let me go man!
"YOU KILLED MY FATHER YOU SON OF A BITCH!" Steven snarled. "SAY HI TO SATAN FOR ME!"
He then began to strangle Marty's throat with his great strength then plunged his hand into his chest and ripped out his insides. Blood stained the ground along with flesh, bones, and organs. When he finished he saw that there was one still alive. Marty's son, he looked paralyzed with fear. Steven grabbed he by his throat.
"No! Please don't kill me!" He begged. "I didn't know he was going to kill him! I swear! He told me that he was just gonna beat him up! Please don't kill me! Please!"
Steven heard two voices in his head. One told him to slaughter this man just has he had done to the others, that he deserved it, but another voice one that sounded like his father's told him to let him go, that murdering him would solve nothing. Steven released the son.
"Get out of my sight!" He growled.
"I'm sorry!" The son said runnign away. "I'm so sorry!"
Steven then turned to his father's dead body and collapsed by it, weeping and crying over it. Then she pulled up more painful memories. Him finding out he was a vampire, him living in the shadow, be friending Narine Lennox, falling in love with her, and getting his heartbroken.
"Arabia is a beautiful place." She told him as they were walking together through the market place. They were talking about her travels, she used to be a traveler before she became a slave to Turks. "But there were so many poor people, sick and starving."
"I know what's that like." He sighed. "If I could I would like to cure people of all their suffering in life."
"As do I but unfortunately we can't save everyone."
"Narine you are so kind."
"Thank you."
"If it weren't for you, I don't think I'd be able to recover from my fahter's death."
"I'm glad I could help and I know how you feel. When the Turks killed my family I thought I would surely die but then I met Charles. He made me happy again, I never thought I could ever love again before I met him."
Then he saw the memory of him trying to turn her into a vampire. He was holding her hostage one night, her husband Charles Lennox and a vampire hunter had come to rescue her but they could not risk her being bitten at the moment.
"Monster form hell!" Charles shouted. "Get away from my wife!"
"Release Mrs. Lennox Steven!" The vampire hunter said. "She wants to stay with her husband! She wants to stay human!"
"Please Steven!" She begged. "I care about you dearly. You are my best friend but I...I love my husband and I...I don't want to be like you."
"You'll live forever." He had told her.
"But I'll have to kill people to stay alive! And I can't live a life that preys on innocent people! Steven you once told me you wanted to end suffering well if you turn me into a vampire then you'll cause me suffering! Please let me go! I don't want them to kill you!"
Seeing the tears she had in her eyes and the love she held for her husband he realized his mistake and that she would never seen him as anything more then a friend. He then released her and watched as she ran into her husband's arms.
"No! Stop! No more!" Steven shouted as he saw his memories. "Please!"
"So you weren't always a good boy were you?" Jasper mocked. "Face it boy, you're no different than the rest of us. Well there is one difference, you will continue to be a pathetic weakling waiting to put out of his misery and now I'm going to end it."
She pulled a sword out. He recognized it as his mother's sword.
"How fitting that you shall die by your mother's most prized weapon. " She raised the sword over his head. "Now die!"
"You first bitch!"Out of no where Jasper was tackled by a wolf while wooden stakes and garlic were being shot followed by light from solar blades. He looked up and watch in relief as his friends showed up ready to save him.
"Sorry we're late." Manny said. "Hope you don't mind if we crash the party."
"Stupid mutt!" Jasper snarled throwing Dipper off of her. She quickly grabbed the idol and fled upstairs but not before giving them another order. "Kill them!"
At their queen's orders the vampires flew to attack the five teenagers but they found themselves quickly getting killed in a matter of seconds. While Manny, Dipper, and Frida fought them off Pacifica went to pick the lock of the shackles holding Steven.
Many vampires were killed and those who weren't cowardly fled. One vampire in particular wasn't intending on giving up. She hissed and lunged for Dipper, strangling his throat.
"Connie! What are you doing?!" He choked.
She didn't respond she only continued choking him. Steven and Manny quickly pried her off of Dipper but she fought like a lioness. Snarling, screeching, clawing, and biting. It was like she was some kind of animal. Frida quickly pulled out a wafer of sacrament and placed it on Connie's forehead. She hissed as it burned her skin and left a mark, it weakened her and made her easier for the boys to hold her down. Frida then blessed the shackles that were holding Steven and had the boys chain her up.
"That should hold her until she changes back." Frida said.
"Give her the cure." Steven said.
"It's no good now that she's drank blood." Dipper said. "To change her back we have to kill the vampire who bit her."
"Pacifica and I will hunt down Kevin." Frida said loading her gun. "You three take care of Jasper."
"You sure you can handle him?"
"Trust me I know what I'm doing."
"I don't." Pacifica said.
"Good luck boys."
"You too ladies."
The three of them went up the stairway, the very, very long stair way. At first they were running then they were walking and then they were crawling while panting.
"How...How much longer til we...Get there?" Dipper panted.
"Five...More...Levels." Steven answered out of breath.
"I can't feel my legs." Manny said.
"Come on...Don't give up." Steven said. "Must keep going, must reach the top."
"Must work out more when this is over." Dipper said.
"Must remember to kill Steven when this is over." Manny said.
"Hey quick question." Dipper said. "If you two can fly why don't you just carry me up there?"
Steven and Manny face palmed themselves, transformed, and flew up to the top carrying Dipper. Back down below Frida and Pacifica were finishing off whatever vampires remained. Soon the only one who remained was Kevin.
"Don't think I can be taken down by two human women." He gloated. "I'll drain you two dry!"
"I doubt that! Now Pacifica!"
Pacifica made one large crystal rise out from under Kevin and send him flying right into a stake Frida had. He choked in shock then fell down dead.
"Did it work?" Frida asked.
They looked over at Connie, the scar on her forehead vanished along with her fangs, color came to her skin, and her eyes changed back to hazel. Her vicious demeanor was gone and she now looked exhausted and confused.
"Connie are you alright?" Frida asked her.
"Uh...Huh...Oh...Oh where am I?" She asked. "What happened to me?"
"Long story, let's get you out of here."
On the roof tops of the castle Jasper waited for the full moon to rise. Once it was in the right position she would poor the potion on to the praying bat and the world would be hers.
"Hey bat bitch!" Dipper called pointing his gun. "Step away from the idol and the potion or it's curtains for you!"
"Fools! You honestly think I can be stopped." She cackled. "With in a matter of seconds humans and any other intelligent life that's not needed will be lost and all that will remain will be the vampires."
"Is that right?"
"Of course, as long as I have the praying bat, vampires shall reign supreme."
"You mean this thing?" Steven said holding up the idol. "You really should pay more attention to where you leave things."
And before she could stop him Steven crushed the praying bat to pieces with just one hand.
"Now spread your evil if you dare but know that you'll destroy yourself and every other vampire too."
"No!" She screeched. "Nooooo! My work! My dream! Ruined! I'll destroy you all for this!"
She let out the loudest and by far the most ear bleeding scream they had ever heard as she transformed into a giant, hideous, terrifying, I'm talking over the top nightmare fuel looking, bat monster.
"Bloody hell." Steven said in horror.
"And I thought she was ugly before." Dipper said.
"Alright guys this chick is toast!" Manny said.
They loaded up their guns with all the wooden stakes, holy water, and garlic they had and began shooting her but they seemed to not even scratch the monster.
"Nothing's working." Dipper said.
"I've got an idea. Dipper during a full moon you're at your strongest right?" Steven suggested.
"Yeah."
"When the moon comes up attack her and Manny keep shooting."
"Gotcha!" They said.
When the full moon came up Dipper transformed into a very strong wolf and attacked Jasper. Manny continued shooting garlic, holy water, and wooden stakes at her. While she was distracted Steven transformed into his strong vampire form and flew up behind her. He then pulled his mother's sword from his pants, held it over her head, and rose it up. But before he could bring it down she sensed him and the two began to tackle each other, wrestling the other for the sword. Bat screeches were heard as they fought. They rolled off of the castle and landed on to the ground, with Steven pinned to the ground and Jasper on top of him, choking him. He couldn't breathe and with the blood loss he felt himself start to pass out but he wouldn't allow himself to. While she was busy choking him, he willed himself to lift the sword up over her head again.
"Off with your head!" He choked.
He brought the sword down and cut off her head sending it falling toward the ground.
"Steven are you still alive?" Dipper called.
"Yes! Victory is ours guys!" He declared.
He then went back inside the castle to meet the others. Inside all the vampires had either left or had been killed and the girls were helping Connie, who was now back to normal out the shackles.
"Connie!" Steven cried happily.
Once she was freed they ran to each other and hugged.
"Oh Connie is it you? Really you?" He asked her.
"Yes it's me." She said. "Steven I don't know what happened but I know I hurt you and I'm so sorry."
"Don't apologize. You had no control over yourself."
"But I drank the blood, I willingly did it. I'm so sorry, I didn't want to be a vampire I just wanted...I just wanted to be strong like you."
"Connie you are strong, you're the strongest person I know."
"You really mean that?"
"Of course I do."
She blushed, he blushed too, they smiled and continued holding each other.
"Uh hey we're still here you know?" Manny said making their blush grow until both of their faces were completely red. "So what do we do with this?"
"I'll take that." Dipper said taking the potion from Manny. "I think I know how to turn this deadly potion into garden fertilizer."
"Really?"
"Hey I wasn't known as the smartest guy in my hometown for nothing. Of course no one called me that, actually they called me the weakest guy in my hometown."
"So now that she's dead does that mean vampires don't exist anymore?" Pacifica asked.
"No but we've just taken care of the worst one in existence so there will be less attacks." Steven declared. "Now that this is over, who's hungry? Because I could really use a good hot dog right now."
