Taken In Again
A/N: I used a translator… :/
Disclaimer: It's a fanfiction, what do you expect? I own whatever wasn't invented already.
The first thing I felt was the utter and bitter freezing cold. I scarcely opened my eyes, and saw the remains of the cave above me. I hadn't been sure what happened; all I could tell was that I felt I was going to die that night by freezing to death. It was a good thing that cave was there…otherwise, my mind would just have gave up on my life hanging by a thread and I would have fallen off that broom…
I always knew I was propitious.
It took all my strength for me to get up, for my head spun like crazy as I tried. The only thing visible outside the icy cave was the heavily thick snow that continuously fell upon the fjord. I could see the spot where the Martian ships penetrated the ice, and very faintly I thought I had seen the automobile parked on the side of the mountain. Even more faintly I thought I saw a giant figure pacing around the area. Must have been Ed.
"EDWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARD!"
I screamed at the top of my lungs to what I was able to get from my frail voice. I could have been imagining, but I thought I saw his head turn. Thank god for his acute hearing!
Suddenly after that I heard a strange sound. Almost like flapping. With a scrunched up and confused face I slowly turned around only to see a body form out of a flock of bats. Out of astonishment I jumped back.
"Oh!"
Soon enough Mina finally came into view as a human body and not a bunch of miniature flying, sucking creatures.
"It's alright Alisha, it's just me."
"Oh I can see that…"
"We were afraid we'd lost you."
I shrugged. "Yeah…well, here I am…"
"Hm." Mina started to walk towards me.
"How long were you all looking for me?"
"A while."
"Long enough?" She was right in front of me now.
"Mm."
"Well then we'd better get back." I went back to the cave in search of my broom. I found it in the corner, a little dismantled but flyable. Nothing that wasn't fixable or important. Just the GPS was broken off and the back rocket was a little busted.
Grabbing every piece I could find, I drew back out of the cave to meet Mina, but all I saw was the snow continuously falling around me.
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The league paced back and forth. Mina flew in by bat form right before the league, and the members looked with instant curiosity.
"She's fine."
"Well, where is she?" Nemo asked, wondering why the vampiress didn't bring her back with her.
"She was in a cave. She said she would fly back."
Edward waited impatiently for something to do, and paced back and forth in the snow. His eyes craved action. Rodney stood a few feet behind; hands in his trench coat. Tom stood to the side of Edward with his hand fiercely gripped to his rifle. Nemo stood in between the vampiress and the brute off to the side, his hand also gripped tightly to his weapon, ready for action.
"Well was she alright?" Edward asked.
"Fine when I met up with her." Mina's voice was calm the entire time.
Just then, Alisha still a little weak flew in. Going a little past where the league stood at first, then once realizing the league was right below her the witch hovered to her landing and jumped off the broom, almost stumbling. Edward barely caught her.
"You alright?"
"Yeah…thanks, Ed." At first Edward didn't notice how tight Alisha's grip was on his arm until she stumbled to stand up straight.
"What happened?" Tom's grip on his rifle loosened a bit.
"I don't know. I think I blacked out."
"Blacked out?" Nemo's glare focused on Mina, then back to Alisha.
"Yeah…fell off my broom into a cave. All I remember is loosing focus and control over everything; I couldn't feel any part of my body. I was lucky for the only conscious I had at the time, which led me to fall into the cave."
"Henry wonders what made you lose conscious." Edward commented.
"I—I don't know." Alisha's hand drifted to her forehead with visual pain on her face. Edward continued to support her body, for the more he attempted to let her stand on her own, the more she failed.
"Maybe it was so cold that her brain couldn't stand it or something." Tom suggested, shifting the weight to his right side.
"Freezing to death?" Rodney shifted his hands out of his pockets.
"It's plausible, I guess…" Alisha said, her hand still sustaining her forehead.
"With the rush from flying so fast makes it very possible." Mina stated.
"Mm." Edward made a straining noise, and out of reaction Alisha shifted away just a bit to give the transformation some room. And within seconds, Henry appeared in ripped clothing.
"Uh-m…hi." Henry grasped his arms for warmth. "As I must add from my knowledge as a doctor, I have doubts that a shift to unconsciousness like that could have been caused by freezing to death."
"Then what?" Mina questioned softly.
"I'm not sure." Henry gazed into the witch's eyes. "Does anything hurt? Seem unusual?"
"I—uh…" Alisha staggered as she attempted to stand. "Vision is blurry, and I'm getting a little confused."
Henry released one of his hands from the grip of his falling pants and grabbed Alisha's hand, liberating it from her forehead. He bowed his head to see the possible damage to the witch's lowered face, but failed to find any.
"Well Hypothermia wouldn't have those symptoms." Henry glanced to Mina, then to Nemo. "Come here." Henry's hand tilted Alisha's face up to his. Inspecting it, the only thing strange he discovered was the quick dilating and changing of brightness her eyes made, which made the doctor to give a baffled expression. Alisha finally found the strength to get up without hesitation and pain. She straightened her position, then once realizing it, her expression fit the newest situation.
"Hypothermia or not, it still is cold out." In response the witch fiercely rubbed her shoulders as the invisible rogue suddenly realized a solution.
"Well, here. Take my coat." The invisible man began to quickly take off his trench, and handed it over.
"Don't worry bout me, love. I'm used to the cold. Just don't want anyone to get hurt again."
"Oh, gee. Thanks, Rodney." Without hesitation the witch took the trench and put it on, huddling on the inside. To her surprise, Rodney Skinner actually walked over and stretched his arm over Alisha's shoulder and caressed her arms. A hint of jealousy hit Henry's eyes; a hint of excitement hit Mina and Tom's.
"Well, um…" Although feeling a bit awkward in Rodney's arms, it was slightly comforting in the cold. But before anyone could say any more on the subject, they were interrupted by a startling sound.
"AYYYYY! Hålla båt , Jag ser folk!"
The league slowly saw the immense Viking Longboat approach them crash through the ice as they squinted their eyes to look through the heavy snow that never failed to fall. As it closed in on them, numerous men in traditional horned helmets quickly jumped off and seized their new captives. Other men were stopped by the automobile to view the technology that had never before crossed their eyes.
The league, out of reaction, couldn't help but fight back. Alisha and Rodney swiftly departed, and the rogue flung off his black buckaroo hat. Some of the Vikings began to feel invisible punches come their way. Captain Nemo seized his sword and a sword fight broke out between him and about four Vikings. And of course from more experience, Nemo was winning the victory as Mina clutched the throats of many and fed out of desperate hunger. Tom began shooting in all different directions, and several men fell from painful shot wounds, however many Vikings dodged the bullets and or their thick armor blocked the bullets' path…including the Viking who grabbed Tom from behind and made the rifle fall out of the boy's hands into the snow. Unfortunately Henry didn't have enough time to take out his formula, for he was seized before he had the chance and the bottle he was about to drink fell into the snow. The Viking holding Henry's fragile body willingly stepped on the formula, crushing the glass to pieces under his boots. Alisha was seized as well, but to the league's surprise the witch didn't put up a fight. In fact, her words were exact:
"Thank god!" Alisha eagerly walked to the ship as Tom, Henry, and eventually Nemo and Rodney did once captured. Mina was the hardest to be imprisoned, until the Viking captain yelled "Blod dricka!" to his men, and one to which Mina didn't see at first had taken a wooden dowel from the ship and pierced it through the vampiress' heart. Tom screamed in terror.
"MINAAAA!"
The Viking captain showed no expression. "Hör efter till båt. De er vår charmera nu." And the dead vampiress joined the others on the ship. They were taken to the mast and by force tied around it side by side. It seemed easier for the men to take them as prisoners, for the death of Mina overwhelmed them all except Alisha, who seemed to stay calm. Once they were tied down in the order of Mina, Nemo, Alisha, Henry, Rodney, Tom all around the mast, the emotion broke out among them. Mina's body hung over the ropes with the dowel still penetrated in her chest.
"Is she really dead?" Nemo's face showed grief for his comrade and friend.
Tom couldn't control his emotion. Tears drowned his eyes.
Rodney…invisible showed no visual emotion but seemed to bow his head in silence.
Henry seemed to be upset; not as much as Tom had been, however more than Nemo.
Alisha simply rolled her eyes. Nemo seemed to be the only one to notice, and gave a pitiful response. Alisha was to say something but was cut off.
"She's dead. I can't believe it." Henry said.
"Let us go!" Tom screamed at the Viking who made his way over to the league.
He stood in front of them, wearing a pair of old leather boots, a wool traditional like dress covered in scaled armor, and a pair of heavy wool pants underneath. A thick furry shawl draped over the pale, muscular body. The traditional Viking Warrior helmet with two horns penetrating from opposite sides rested on the man's head, with long, white blond braided hair draping from underneath. He spoke with a powerful, cold hard voice.
"Jag er Asbjörn Fromberg , kapten på denne skeppning."
Alisha's head perked up as Tom interrupted the Viking captain's speech.
"What do you want with us?"
"Tom…" Alisha tried.
"Yeah, let us go. We did no harm, now." Rodney spoke.
"Rodneeyy…" Alisha pressed harder.
"You already killed one of our friends!" Tom's voice was scary now.
"TOM!"
Silence lasted for a while between the league.
"Why don't we try a different approach, hm?"
Tom gave the expression of sarcasm.
Alisha turned to face Asbjörn Fromberg and smiled. She breathed in, preparing for a long speech.
"Asbjörn Fromberg, meg hennes namn är Alisha Dover. Jag är en presenterar ditt sår; jag själv är en Viking och ännu bättre en norsk. Dessa är mig i min Harker, kapten Nemo, dr Henry jekyll, Rodney lidande, och Tom Sawyer. Vi gör upp en organisation för de engelska kejsardömet och dess Sverige nedan kommer av hennes madjesty Queen seger och kvaliteten på mig hjärta, jag ber er att hyra oss gå ut utan en kamp vi skulle ge. Jag lovordar."
The league's faces were baffled. Tom's, and, although no one could see it, Rodney's mouth hung in utter shock. Nemo raised his eyebrows as an impressive notion.
"Mer glädjande, med namnet på Odin." Alisha pressed, and Asbjörn's head slowly tilted upward, and gave an approval nod.
With that, three Vikings from the ship released the rope and set the league free. All of the league but Tom showed a happy expression, until they noticed why he stayed unhappy.
"And what about Mina?"
"Oh, god." Henry, still in nothing but ripped pants rushed to Mina's side to inspect her corpse. Again, Alisha rolled her eyes.
"Henry."
"Yes?"
"Pull the thing out of her heart."
And Henry did so.
And a second later Mina revived.
"Oh…" Mina gazed into Henry's eyes with a smile.
"But…how did you know?" Henry glimpsed over back to Alisha and away from Mina, which seized her smile.
"Let's just say there are people out there that you can learn a thing or two about vampires." The league's faces gave questionable looks.
The witch leaned her head to the side, gazing into Mina's deep red-brown eyes. "Right, Mina?"
It gave Mina time to realize who she was talking about.
"Van Helsing?" Her voice showed more fear than shock.
"Nice man, really." The witch shrugged. The league never changed their questionable expressions.
Then Alisha just remembered something important, for she gave a sudden expression, and on one heel spun around to Asbjörn.
"Åh, verkligen kunna du gör oss en favorit?"
"Hur skulle det vara?"
Alisha tilted downward in an awkward position, scrunching her face in hard decision.
"Va. Det kan vara samma."
Asbjörn grunted, and Alisha strut out of the boat, leaving the league frozen in their positions and expressions from before, besides the turning of their heads to follow her trail.
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The league drove the automobile through the villages of Sweden in complete silence. Alisha still wore Rodney's trench coat, and all their possessions were retrieved from the piles of snow in the fjord, like Rodney's thrown hat, Alisha's broom, and Tom's rifle. Rodney was the first to break the silence.
"How do you know Swedish"
"I don't. But it helps when you're a witch, and have powers that can instantly translate your words."
The entire league snapped their heads to Alisha in obvious puzzlement.
"Yeaaahhh..."
"Um…ok." Was the only response Rodney, or anybody else gave for that matter.
"And how did you know Van Helsing?" Mina pressed.
"Oh, well…um, funny story, really." Alisha chuckled. Mina's cold glare didn't laugh back, however.
"Well, not personally…"
No change in her expression.
Alisha shifted her position; half stressed, half curious.
"I think the real question would be how I knew you couldn't be killed if the piece of wood wasn't left in your heart."
Mina's face changed to say something, but was interrupted by Alisha lifting her finger.
"Actually, if I remember it correctly, isn't a vampire correctly killed by a wooden spear penetrated directly into the heart with no removal, several cloves of garlic stuffed in its mouth, and a case of decapitation?"
By this time Mina's face grew somewhat angry as to the knowledge Alisha knew of how to kill her kind. By this time, Mina's trust for Alisha had disappeared.
"And what about you? I'm sure as a human you could be killed simply with the stab of a knife or a shot wound."
As a response Alisha gave a soft chuckle at first, and then grew to a hard, long laughter.
"Y-you think I'm human?" Alisha struggled to find her words through the amusement.
"Aren't you?" Henry asked, suddenly anxious.
"N-nno!" The witch continued in hysteria.
"Witches aren't human?" Rodney asked.
"Oh, of course they are…but,"
"But?" Nemo leaned his head back from the wheel to question the mysterious woman in the backseat.
"But I'm not just a witch!" The laughter never stopped.
"Then what else are you?" Mina asked from the front seat next to Nemo.
"I—heh…well-eh…hey, Tom can I borrow your rifle?"
"Uh…"
"Here…gimme."
"Ok then." Tom took the rifle from his holster and gave it to Alisha.
"Hey, wait don't you have a rifle?"
"Yeah, but I don't want to waste the bullets." And with that, Alisha put the rifle to her head and pulled the trigger. With a loud bang, the bullet pierced through the witch's head, and shot out from the other side out the automobile. For a moment her head twisted and her eyes flickered, then restrained to herself with an instantly healed wound.
"Ouh…I forgot how much that have me a headache." Alisha shook her head.
"So you're an immortal?" Mina asked.
"No…not an immortal. I can die…" Alisha became serious, never leaving her gaze off Mina's eyes.
"…just not in this dimension."