Chapter 21

"I´m not going anywhere!", Anna shouted at him. Then she did something he had never expected. Something she hadn´t even expected herself. She turned on her heel and stormed back into the maze. As fast as her feet could carry her she turned around corners and tried to remember the way she had gone last. The last thing she wanted to happen was to meet up with these terrible creatures again.

Suddenly she bumped into somthing. Stumbling backwards she landed on her butt. "You can´t escape me, dearest. Now you should be a good girl and come with me", Dracula´s voice came from above her.

Anna tried to crawl backwards but within moments he had bent down and grabbed her ankle. Rolling over on her stomach she struggled to get free. To no avail.

"Let me go, you beast! I won´t be your prisoner! Get off of me!", she kept screaming and tried to punch him again. And finally she was able to. Her fist landed right on his left cheek. Immediately he let go of Anna, in surprise and shock of what she had just done.

She used her chance to get to her feet and stormed off into the maze. On top of that in a direction she didn´t know.

A quiet growl could be heard from behind her. Expecting the noise to come from Dracula she kept running, farther and farther into unknown edges.

After almost half an hour she felt safe. Once again she had landed in a one way corridor made of plants. Exhaused from this stupid game Anna sank to the floor, trying to regain her strength. Sweat ran down her forehead and the bushes had torn her dress as well as her skin.

She didn´t care if Dracula was able to catch her now or not. When she could just have the chance to sit for a while.

It took her long to realize that something serious might have happened. Who cares?, she asked herself. It was his fault that her beloved Van Helsing was dead and that she was his toy now. But better a toy than a slave. Slowly Anna got up from the floor and took a few steps towards the end of the maze. It was near.

Her thoughts raced while she walked not fast. It couldn´t be that easy to get away from a vampire, could it?

The end of the maze was now only a few feet away. She could already see it. Nothing would be easier then going back to her village now. But there was something that made her stop dead in her tracks.

It seemed as if a faint voice was calling for her in her mind. Anna tried to ignore it at first but it got louder by the second. By then she had reached the end. Yet the calling didn´t cease. It got only louder.

And it really sounded as if someone was calling for help. Of course nobody could do that through somebody´s mind. Except of Dracula.

"This can´t be true!", she cried, annoyed from things depending on every step she made. Without hesitating any longer she turned around and ran back.

Turning around corner after corner she didn´t even know where she was going. Anna just followed the call, which got louder the farther she moved into the maze. Her head seemed to burst as she reached the other end. She turned around one last corner. A scream escaped her lips at the sight before her.

Dracula lay there with a huge bite wound on the side of his neck. Dark blood oozed out and had already created a pool under him. So the growl so many minutes ago had been a werewolf and not him