Chapter 15

Anna had went back to Valerious Manor right after Dracula had let her go. After being his prisoner for two days she wanted nothing more but to sleep in her own bed. She threw her boots together with her weapons to the ground carelessly and herself on the soft bed. She couldn´t believe she was able to live in peace for one week to relax.

But lying on her bed she started thinking about her past, a thing she hadn´t done in weeks. Her memories were full of Van Helsing and their first and last kiss.

Yet also about Dracula who had the fault of him being dead in the first place. Now Anna had become what she had wanted to avoid: his little plaything.

She was just an object for him to toy with or cast a spell on her. And she hated this vampire. But he´s handsome, a voice in her mind always told her when she was thinking about him.

"A pity that it´s true", she whispered to herself and fell into a deep slumber.

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Dracula smiled to himself. So she finally admids it, were his thoughts as he watched the gypsy princess in her sleep. Anna turned shifted on her bed. The poor one has a nightmare. Time to join her dreams...

Anna walked through her village and right towards an old tree. Her eyes were widened in joy and she smiled from one ear to the other. She saw her Van Helsing sitting in the tree. Though she had no idea why he would do so it just was. Carefully she climbed up to him and sat down on his lap. Wrapping her arms around his neck they kissed deeply.

All of sudden he pulled away and made her look into his eyes. "Missed me?", he asked. She nodded in excitement as she looked deep into his eyes.

But these eyes were not brown as she knew it from Van Helsing. They were a beautiful dark blue and she couldn´t help but to keep on staring into those oceans.

"I know you love my presence but that much..." Anna suddenly realized who the person in the tree was. It was noone other than Dracula.

Quickly she backed away. Losing her balance she fell out of the tree, landing on her back. A sharp pain shot through her body but she ignored it. At least she tried to. She wanted to stand up and fight that monster but to no avail.

Anna decided to crawl over the ground, panic rising inside her immediately. She looked over her left shoulder to see Dracula shifting. But not into his bat form.

He transformed into a black wolf and walked towards his victim in dangerous steps. As he was was close enough he clawed at Anna´s legs. With an almost unbearable pain he dug his claws into her soft flesh.

The princess cried out in pain as she collapsed completely to the floor. Before she could get away she was also turned into brown wolf.

Wolf-Dracula then let go of her and took a few steps backwards. Anna´s pain slowly decreased as she got up to her now four legs.

She growled dangerously at the the other wolf before jumping onto him. The two wolves began to bite and scratch each other. At first Anna was on top of him and clawed at his face without mercy. Then Dracula rolled her over, biting into her shoulder. The black wolf jumped off of her and sank his fangs into the still fresh wound once more.

With that he lifted her up and threw her against the tree he had just sat on.

Anna realized that she was about to lose this game. She was lying on the ground as Dracula turned back into his human form.

He felt pity as he looked at the sight in front of him: Anna didn´t look like a strong wolf at all but like a lost puppy.

In her eyes was a pleading look to stop what he was doing. She wasn´t able to hide her pain anymore. He finally made her become human again. The wounds and pain had gone with her fur and tail but not her fear. "I-I thought you were Van Helsing...", she stammered in fright.