Aleera walks through the solitary roads of Transylvania. Is a clear night, with a beautiful full moon and the sky is full of stars. Aleera does not know what to do, she needs to stop her mother but she doesn't want her death. Vera represents her past and her only bond with the human race.
Aleera hears noises, like steps upon the dry leaves. All her senses are in alert. Suddenly, Aleera perceives a gun in the back of her head; Is Joanna Valerious, the young Valerious looks injured and very angry.
-------------"Don't move!
-------------"Hello Joanna
-------------"This gun is full of silver bullets, it seems to me that you will have a very expensive death
-------------"Silver bullets are not for vampires. You need more instruction from your old uncle.
-------------"Shut up! My brother is dead, many of my friends are dead too because of your sadistic sisters and your damn master! They escaped, but you will die, now!
Unexpectedly, Douglas comes out from the bushes, aiming at Joanna with his shotgun.
---------------"Put down your weapon Joanna
---------------"Douglas, what are you doing!
---------------"You heard me, put the gun down and leave us alone, please Joanna.
---------------"She is going to die now!
---------------"I am her father, this is my task not yours
Aleera remains still, admiring and fearing her father.
------------"No, you are not capable to do it, look at yourself, you are trembling!
Douglas shoots to the air.
-------------"Joanna this is my task, your task is to return to the forest and help your uncle with the injured men and to bury the dead. Now, put your gun in the ground and leave me alone with Aleera.
-------------"If you betray me, I will kill you Douglas.
Joanna put her gun down and moves away. Douglas takes Joanna's gun, and aim to Aleera who remains still in her place, stunned with her father's attitude.
------------"Walk with me
------------"Where we will go?
------------"To the cliffs, I have a surprise for you. See? I have Holy Water and plenty of stakes, if you do something against me, I will kill you.
Aleera obeys her father and walk with him toward the cliffs.
Meanwhile, Vera is in the forest helping Stefan. The elder of the Valerious family is covering his nephew's dead body with a sheet. Vera walks toward him.
------------"I am sorry Stefan
------------"Really? Why? You are in the side of the vampires
------------"I am in the side of my daughter
------------"Which is the same thing. My nephew is dead and your daughter will have eternal life. Nothing can be more unjust.
-------------"I made a bargain with Dracula; maybe this nightmare will have an early end.
In the cliffs, Douglas and Aleera have a conversation.
---------------"I am dead since the day I lost you Aleera. You should think that I hate you but that is not the reality.
-------------"If you hate me I cannot blame you. This is the life I chose.
Douglas admires his daughter in a very different way.
-------------"When you disappeared that night, and then someone told me that you were one of Dracula's brides I had thousands of thoughts; first, I cursed you for accept him, but also I gave thanks to life because you were still among us. All the times I tried to kill you, has not been for hating you, it was because I wanted to end my pain, and I thought that if you die, my pain will die with you. But now that I am part of your world of darkness, everything is different.
-------------"What did you say?
-------------"Look.
Douglas removes his coat, showing Aleera a horrible wound in his chest, is the bitten of a werewolf.
-------------"No!
-------------"Now we have something in common my child; we share a curse.
-------------"Listen father, calm down, I can help you!
-------------"Nothing can help me now Aleera
-------------"Yes I can! Listen, my master has…
-------------"Aleera, I am being punished for wishing the death of my daughter
-------------"Father, please listen…!
-------------"Your mother has fought for you all this time, shealways had hopes. I gave up
Aleera is crying with desperation.
---------------"Father, you know that there is no hope for me, but for you is not too late. Dracula has a cure for the curse of the werewolf. He has a cure because the only thing that can kill him is a werewolf. I can give the cure to you and you will be fine, trust me!
---------------"I am the only man capable of killing him. And if he dies, you die with him.
---------------"Father, please let me help you, my mother needs you!
---------------"You are my daughter; the kindness of your soul has not died. That's why you are so beautiful for Dracula. Your mother always saw what I did not want to see. The secret of Dracula will die with me, this is the last sacrifice that I can do for you.
Douglas put the gun full of silver bullets in to his heart.
---------------"Father no!
---------------"I go away from this world seeing your beautiful face.
Douglas shot himself in the heart, and fall from the cliffs. Aleera cries with pain and grief. Marishka and Verona listen to the echo of that screaming of pain. Dracula also feels the same grief. This is the night in which Aleera has lost a part of herself. The last sacrifice of her father has killed a part of her past.
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