A/N: The mystery person ish solved! We found out ho she is! MWAHAAHAA!! Warning, this part here is a bit depressing to young virgin eyes…and if you are a young virgin reading this, why are you in the M-section then? :)
Katie was completely awestruck when in came, at a gliding incorporeal pace, Anna Valerious, with her brown hair in curly locks, her skin beautiful yet pale, her eyes a cloudy green. Her entire presence bespoke of eternal sorrow and pain, yet her bright red and copper trimmed bride outfit was ornamented and lavished with designs invoking joy and lust, yet her expression glum. She looked exactly like the Anna in the movie, only she was clearly…a vampire.
Anna sat down in the dark wood chair, her face pale and her lips painted a deep red. The twinkle of her eyes was not existent, and was red from crying. It looked like she cried everyday. Gloom pervaded around her, yet she held her head high and poured herself slowly a goblet of blood.
"Are you…really…Anna Valerious?" Katie finally stammered.
"Yes, that is my real name. But to my master, he only calls me his princess." Anna said, in dark tones of sorrow that startled Katie a bit. She was not bright and happy.
"In the movie, I thought it showed that you died." Katie asked surprised and sinking back into the chair.
"No, I didn't in reality. Dracula raped me, and bit me afterwards at the masquerade ball, and here I have been ever since, his bride in undeath. I was taken with the ship and the monster to his castle, whereupon while he and Carl were trying to find the portal I was violated again." She paused, and with out any emotion sipped slowly the blood.
"I'm so sorry. I never expected to see anything else at the truth of the Dracula tale." Katie said, picking at her food. "Well, I am Katie, and my friend Elizabeth is here, where I don't know. Dracula is escorting her to dinner."
"Hmm…I sense that she is trying not to be escorted. She is fighting the Dwergi." She closed her eyes at this, then opened them and drank more of her blood. "Well, Katie, since you will be a vampire like me soon, you must know of my story, for it has been 90 years since I properly told my life to a mortal who would live longer than a day. Every time I catch my prey I tell what happened to me, and then I drink their blood. And because there is no hope of escape, you must know of the life of the elder bride."
"I can see, then, what the years have done for you with Dracula, then." Katie exclaimed, prepared to listen to her story.
"Well, after that horrible night in his castle, Aleera tortured me and began breaking my spirit. And so, with my vampiric enhanced strength, Dracula locked me again in his tower while he would raise his children from the dead. Aleera kept watch over me, and it was I who finally killed Aleera when she tried to kill me. But it was then I watched and saw Van Helsing for the last time, in his werewolf guise as he did the final blow to Dracula. His tear filled eyes were the last I saw as I crumbled to dust along with Dracula. I could only imagine then, that Van Helsing scattered my ashes at the sea.
"But, it didn't end for me. No, ten years later I awoke, awoke from the eternal slumber of death and lost, for I was a vampire and should have gone to Hell, but that my family was avenged after Dracula's death and I should have gone to heaven, I was trapped in the neither world of gray and without a comfort, only sorrow. At least I wasn't with Dracula in Hell, and the only things that kept my sanity in that realm was that my family was in heaven, that Van Helsing, my only love, was fighting evil and vanquished Dracula, and that hopefully Dracula would never return. But it was not so. I suddenly felt the fiery hand of Lucifer grasp around my soul, and he told me in the voice of pure evil that his son was back, and he needed his bride. I was torn from the gray world, through the gates of Hell, and into the realm of the living once more, as a vampire.
"My first sight was of Dracula's piercing eyes, and the triumphant laugh he gave and the words, 'You are mine forever, princess. Forever and ever for me to torture, to use as my revenge against the living.' I will never forget those words. And that night, that night where he violated me in the worst, most barbaric ways…and it was that way for a month, every night, and I was utterly exhausted. He was punishing me for all the things the Valerious ever did to him, for each stake, cross fire, burning, holy water spray and especially for the destruction of the machine that made sure his bride's children shall never rise. He only stopped his nightly tortures when he found I was pregnant.
"I will never forget my first child, the hard labor of giving birth to a dead, fiendish creature. He carried the womb, baby and all, and attached like a cocoon to the ceiling where it grew some more, with the faint glimmer of life, to a large size. But then, hope was lost as always as it stopped and died, dormant like ice in the shell. I am glad my children shall never rise, for I could not bear to see a child with my green eyes and ebony hair like Dracula's as my son or daughter, and considering within the 90 years it has been, I have given him many, many children to mourn." She paused, a tear slipping down her cheek. But still she went on with her gruesome, sorrowful tale. "I have been broken, reduced to hiding whenever I can into my room, unless he beckons and takes me once in a while or I fly off to feed. He has slowly destroyed my spirit. I cannot fight against him, for he has proven over and over that it is in vain. The rebellion I gave him for years and years finally stopped decades ago. Now, I am his only bride, who has lived in pain and sorrow. I am the most miserable being, dead of alive. And he will now add two more that will fight just as I have, for his pleasure to break. Resisting is impossible, for he will take you, and that is that."
Katie was stiff and filled with dread. How could a man, a vampire do that to an innocent woman such as Anna? Will Elizabeth and I have the same fate? She thought, desperately wishing it wasn't true what had happened to poor Anna. Anna, the gloomy and symbol of suffering in her midst. Anna did not have a happy ending to her life.
"Then…you won't help us. You will watch us become hollow from Dracula's whim and violate us! There must be some fight left in you Anna, that Anna I saw in the films who was always fighting, never giving up!" She rallied, looking at the miserable vampiress before her.
"I may not be able to help you escape, for there is no way; but I can comfort you, for I am now your mother, since yours has been taken. I am here for you when he has been through with you. My room is always open for your tears." Anna whispered, her eyes low and her head down, her shoulders hunkered like she was a beast. In fact, she had become more like a beast, a beast tortured and used and beaten to the point of exhaustion forever. Katie was in the presence of an old, wise vampire, with a torturous mind that kept beating her mind into submission.
Katie was very alone. Anna would not help them escape, and Anna's mere dark presence of the night kept turning her away from comforting Anna. And so they sat in utter silence for several minutes.
It was time when Katie heard a scream. The tell-tale scream of Elizabeth in fear, perhaps agony, Katie wasn't sure. It was enough to get her to stand up and look around in fear. Dracula must have been doing something to her. And then the thoughts of what Dracula wanted from her…It was enough for her to head for the door.
"Elizabeth! Oh no, what is Dracula doing to her?" Katie exclaimed, running in her flowing dress to the door, whereupon Anna appeared in the doorway.
"Because Elizabeth refused to come to dinner, Dracula is punishing her. Don't worry; I doubt that the master will violate her completely. Please, sit down, so that you won't get punished too." Anna said in a sad voice. She was begging it seemed.
"You are just going to let me sit here while Dracula tortures her? I refuse! I'm going to save her!" Katie ran past Anna, flying down the halls to her bedroom, frankly on the right across Elizabeth's bedroom, where dead Dwergi and a mostly hacked up door was. There were only moans coming from the bedroom, moans clearly of the passionate sort, and deep chuckles from no doubt Dracula.
Katie slowly approached the door, only looking back to see Anna hovering over her on the ceiling, perched upside down and staring with the most expressionless eyes she had ever seen. With a deep breath, Katie picked up the small pointed spear from the deceased Dwergi's hand, and approached the door.
A/N: Well R&R! I wrote this when I was a bit depressed, so…