Anna Van Helsing, together with Danny and members of the group Night's Arrow raid a nightclub suspecting to house members of the feared vampire clan Damien's Hand. On reaching their target they discover that the place had been ransacked and all the members of Damien's Hand had been killed. They find one survivor who was only able to utter the name Mina Harker. This is a name that would soon appear once again in a next episode.

Chapter 4

This is so much bullshit. I can't believe that my chance to relax had to be cut short for nothing. I with Danny, together with Jamal Brown and Night's Arrow drove all the way in downtown L.A. to a nightclub to take down six members of Damien's Hand. We made it to our target, you know. But once we were inside with our silencer, laser mounted H&K UMP 40 submachine guns our chosen targets appeared to be wiped out. Blasting open the door and rushing in there in such a big way? All that shit for nothing. The only survivor was a member of Damien's Hand, whose only information for us was Mina Harker. Who the fuck is Mina Harker? What the fuck does he mean by Mina Harker? Well, whoever this chick is she sure knows how to spoil a good night. You know what I could've been doing if I wasn't called for that shit. Come to think of it, this Harker girl gave us a hand. But that's what really took the fun out of it, I guest. What does this girl think she's doing? Is she crazy going up against vampires like that? Then again, I wonder if she worked alone or had some help. Is she part of a vampire hunting cell that I don't know of? Why should I even give a shit?

I'm spending my last working hour at the steel mill and I'm still thinking about what happened the night before. When you're armed up the wazoo and you're ready for a moment such as last night, it really hits you to find out that the whole thing has to be called off. I can't begin to describe how I felt the night I came home from my mission. Maybe it's best that they didn't call me in the first fucking place. It couldn't be disappointment or anger that I was feeling. Disappointment and anger could never feel so strong. Then again, there's something that really intrigues me about this Mina Harker. I have so many questions about this girl I don't even know where to start. I don't even know what to ask. I try so hard not to think about it, but no matter what I felt it was my personal duty to find out about her. It was like trying to find out about a long lost sister. Maybe she is my sister. Christ, what the fuck am I thinking? Is this girl human? Nobody could ever take down six bloodsuckers in one stroke. Vampires have a way in trapping you. You see one of them and you think he's the only one around, but ten more happen to fall in. This girl probably saw that coming. She probably knows something about them that I don't. As I'm thinking all this, it's quittin' time.

I'm on a bus on the way home when suddenly I felt a vibration in my dirty pocket. I looked around to see if anyone was looking and pulled out my M-1 cricket, another piece of equipment I use to communicate with Danny. I connected an earpiece to it, looked around again and pressed the silver button to communicate. "Listen up," said Danny. "Murdoch needs us at Garvey Avenue. Trust me, you ain't gonna believe this." I placed my M-1 cricket and I thought "He'd better not be bullshitting me."

I took a train and stopped at West 12th Street and walked all the way over to Spring Avenue carrying my Heckler and Koch USP pistol. As I reached there I met Danny and Jeb Murdoch, the leader of Crimson Eclipse. Crimson Eclipse was established about a month after 9/ll and their leader was only twenty five, but Jeb was no rookie. He and his group of only 50 had all the kudos for taking down five vampire leaders already. We were led to a body bag and he unzipped it to reveal the leader of the vampire clan Neo Lunar, Gabriel Heinrich. Blue veins were clearly visible on Heinrich's skin and on his face was totally wrinkled. Heinrich was very handsome for a 300 year old, but now he looked like he was sucked out dry. We've been tracking him down for years and didn't I didn't know who should I give credit to for finally taking him down. "Well, three cheers, Jeb," I said.

"Hey, don't look at me, alright?" Jeb said. "We found him like this. Even though we were onto him I don't think I would ever be capable of doing this." Jeb turned Heinrich's head to the right and revealed two gapping holes in his neck. "I don't think there's any vampire who can suck out the blood of another vampire," said Jeb.

"You're right," said Danny. "That is some weird shit." I looked closely at the marks on Heinrich's neck. They were clearly tooth marks. Yep, it's weird shit alright. What kind of vampire can drink dead blood? Vampires usually drink the blood of a live human being, but Heinrich was no human. How can a vampire suck the blood of its own kind?

Another night has come and Danny and I were being briefed on a new mission. Tonight we're joined by Dick Goldsmith and twelve members of the group Harsh Deliverance. Goldsmith formed the group thirty years prior and this was my fourth mission with him. Our mission was to take down the second in command of the vampire clan Wings of Darkness. There was a meeting on an estate where Louis King, the second in command of Wings of Darkness, and the members of Night Dragons were located. All we had to do was raid King's residence on Beverly Hills and take his ass down. We armed ourselves with Heckler and Koch MP5K and UMP submachine guns and equipped ourselves with radio headsets. We all then hoped in vans and drove to our final destination.

Upon arrival at King's estate we all got out of our vans, dressed in all black and scaled the tall fences. King's house was huge. I wasn't sure we could find this one guy in this big shit hole. Goldsmith and three members of his team went through the back of the house. Six climbed up ladders and went through the windows. Danny and I along with three others went through the front. We expected King's guards to be in front, but there was none in sight. As we ran across the moon-lit grass towards the door I felt something crush under my shoe. I looked down and saw what I thought were just tree branches, but then I raised back my head and focused on the door that I was approaching. Once inside it became very dark as we moved further. We switched on the lights that were mounted on our weapons. We looked to our right and saw a pair of two eyes glowing in the dark. We shone our lights in that direction and saw a member of King's guards point an H&K MP5K at us. We fired away at him leaving him to fall into a pile of ash and dust. Suddenly the lights went on and seven members of King's guards ran out firing their weapons at us. I immediately dropped to the floor and fired away taking out two of them. Danny ran behind a chair and fired a blast taking out one. The other guys that were with us took cover and wasted the last four. Suddenly shots rang out and I turned to the direction of the shots and saw one of our guys, Nick Furlong, dropping dead on the floor with four gunshot wounds. I looked up and saw five guards firing at out position from at the top of a flight of stairs. Furniture began to be destroyed right next to me as the bullets came zipping down. We all fired away at the stairs and took out two guards. We then ran up the stairs and fired shots that took out the last three. We reached the very top and met the charred remains of King's guards.

At the very top there was a long hallway and at the end there was a corner. We all moved together slowly in single file. Cold sweat ran down my face and my heart beat so fast that I couldn't breathe. I looked over the shoulder of our team leader's shoulder, Brit Green, and saw that the hallway was getting smaller. I placed my finger on the trigger of my H&K MP 5K as Brit suddenly stopped and slowly lowered his head to see what was on the other side. Suddenly a piece of the wall chipped away and at an instant Brit pulled away his head and ordered us to fall back. We all turned around and ran as bullets flew over our heads. We didn't know who was firing at us or how many were there because none of us turned around. We dared not to do so, anyway. As we were trying to escape we all discovered that there was another corner so without any options we turned into this corner. In the blink of an eye we met another hallway with three doors on each side. At the same time rapid gunfire was still on our asses and it grew louder. Running down this long corridor we were shocked to find out that there was another corner, in fact, there were two corners, one on the left and one on the right. We took the right corner and this led us to another fucking hallway! Brit ordered us to stop the moment reached on the side and told us to fire at anything that was coming through the corridor that we ran through. We all lined up and took a peek and saw six guards running down firing like fucking crazy. Brit bent down with one knee on the ground and turned to the corner and fired a blast from his silencer mounted H&K UMP into the corridor. "Got two already," he said pulling back his head. He lowered his head into the corner again. I followed but Danny and a third team member, Jack Ivory, stayed behind. My eyes were creeping to the corner when all of a sudden I saw a bright flash and I quickly pulled away. Brit did the same as well and pieces of the wall began chipping away at a fast past. "They're in the rooms," said Brit reloading his weapon "Three on the right, one on the left."

"Really?" I thought. "I didn't see shit." Brit then ran across on the other side and knelt down having his eyes focused on the opposing force. "What the fuck is he doing?" I thought. "He can't leave us hanging like this." I looked at Danny and it looked like he couldn't believe it either. He turned slowly and fired away into the hallway then turned back quickly. "I dropped one," he said with his eyes still fixed on the hallway. Bullets soon began chipping away on his side of the wall. Danny, Jack and I began firing away at the guards post. Danny stayed standing up, Jack knelt down and I was firing away on my stomach. In the corner of my eye I saw three guards cramped up in a doorway dressed in black firing from H&K MP 5 and H&K MP 5 K submachine guns. We all traded fire and took cover as the concrete walls were destroyed by bullets. I began squinting my face with every flash of my weapon and bullet flew at the wall. I crawled slowly and aimed my weapon at the doorway where the guards were. I could see the guards just firing away without any care in the world. One was kneeling down, the other was standing up and another was firing from right behind him. Suddenly I had a blurred vision of the one that was firing from behind the standing guard suddenly stopping and reloading his H&K MP 5K. I took this opportunity to finally take down one of them. I carefully aimed my H&K MP 5K at the black vampire guard who slipped in a new magazine clip and fired away at him. I saw him drop to the floor and turn to ash and dust. "I got one!" I said, but no one was really listening to me. We all just kept trading fire. I suddenly saw another guard fall into a pile of ash and dust. I didn't know what bullet he fell victim to and by whom. Danny suddenly appeared clearly in the guard's view. I watched in horror as he started to fire away with half his body exposed. The guard suddenly fell back as if wounded and Danny ran towards him firing at close range. Jack soon followed him, so did I and suddenly we all fired until the last guard was nothing but a burning pile of ash and dust. I suddenly heard Goldsmith's voice on our headsets. It came as a shock to me because after all the shit we've been through I didn't thought he survived. "Where are you guys?" Goldsmith said.

"We're on the second floor, third hallway," said Brit.

"Okay. Straight ahead of you there's the fourth hallway. There's an elevator at the left. Meet me on the fifth floor."

"Copy." We all reloaded our weapons and headed straight down and met another hallway. Upon arrival there we met an elevator and we all went in one by one on the way to the fifth floor

I looked aimlessly at the floors that were being counted. DING! The elevator bell goes off. We've made it to the fifth floor. We drew our weapons as the doors slowly open. To our surprise we met another hallway. "Who lives in this shit hole anyway?" I thought. "Donald Trump?" We all moved in single file to the end of the hallway with our fingers on the trigger. We approached to what appeared to be another hallway. We started to pick up speed as we moved in this new hallway. Suddenly the sound of gunfire echoed within the hallway. Brit and Jack went down and Danny and I soon took cover behind the wall. I looked to my right and saw Brit lying on his side groaning in pain. Jack was lying flat on his back without movement or breathing. I thought I couldn't just leave Brit there since he was still alive. I had to save him so I turned to Danny and said "Danny, covering fire!" Danny looked at me as if I was crazy and pointed his H&K UMP into the hall and fired away. I held Brit from under his arms and dragged him to safety. He took a shot to the left shoulder and right thigh. He was bleeding out of control. "You're gonna be okay," I said. "Just keep pressure on the wound." I then looked at Jack and saw that he had five gunshot wounds across his torso. I soon realized that he was dead. "Dick, come in we're taking heavy fire!" I said on my headset. "Brit's badly wounded and Jack's down."

"Okay, just hang in there," Goldsmith said. "We're on our way." I slowly turned my head into the hallway and there was suddenly a flash that almost blinded me. Pulled away and looked again then fired H&K MP 5K in the hallway. There was suddenly total silence. I looked again and there was nothing. I looked at Danny and he was looking in the same direction I was looking. Suddenly, in the blink of an eye I saw a man in black step into the middle of the hallway armed with two UZIs firing at our position. Danny and I pulled back as bullets flew at us chipping away at concrete. It was another guard. I moved to fire at him but he kept on firing not giving me or Danny a chance. I could hear shell casings fall on the floor as the guard continued firing. The gunfire approached closer and my heart was suddenly in my throat. I then heard two sets of gunfire in the hallway. I looked into the hallway and saw the guard in the other direction firing away at the other end of the hall. I then saw two men armed with an H&K MP 5K and an H&K UMP running towards the guard firing away. About six burning exit wounds appeared on the guard's back and he fell down turning into ash and dust. The two men walked closer to the burning remains of the guard and their faces came clear into view. They were Dick Goldsmith and his twenty five year old son Jason. Three members of the team appeared and ran up towards Dick and Jason. "Well it's about time," Danny said walking out calmly. Dick and the others suddenly drew their guns on Danny. "Hey! Hey! Hold up! It's us!" I said running next to Danny. Dick and the others then lowered their weapons. "Now, Brit's in deep shit and Nick's dead," I said. "You got King yet?"

"Well, that's what we're gonna do right now," Dick said. "Okay, guys, see to Brit. Jason, Danny, Annie and I are gonna take King's ass down."

Jason, Danny, Dick and I all ran down the other hallway. I started to look at my watch. It was 10:09 pm. We've been there since 9:30 and we were supposed to get our job done in 30 minutes before the place starts crawling with cops. But like I said, shit happens. At the right of the long corridor there was a flight of stairs. We ran up these stairs and met another hallway. "God, when is this shit gonna end?" I thought. At the end of this hallway there was another hallway. On the left there was a door at the very end. Armed with our weapons we all ran towards this door. Jason threw one kick at the door and it swung open. Suddenly a figure that was all to familiar dropped in front of us and turned to ash and dust from behind a desk. It was King. His head rolled to the corner and the skin turned to ash to reveal a charred skull. We looked at the desk and saw a shadowy figure kneeling down on the desk putting back something in the back of its long trench coat. We couldn't see it because the lights were all out and the moon wasn't aiming at the room. It turned back to us and looked at us with two glowing yellow eyes. It then jumped through the closed glass window disappearing from our sights. We all ran to the broken window and saw the figure on the ground below. It ran then jumped away gliding in the air and jumping from building to building. We looked at each other and then looked around the room. The floor was just littered with burning remains. At that same moment I was thinking if we should have thanked the guy who just helped us take down Louis King.

Two nights have past since the big Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. A new night came and I wouldn't be given the chance to slow down at all. I together with Danny would be called in to investigate the killing of the Donavon Bradely, the leader of the vampire clan called The Kin of Ekimmu. Bradely was a 315 year old elder and his clan was around for 245 years. The vampire hunting group called Final Order led by Tom Kelly kept surveillance on Bradely and his clan for five years. Before our arrival we were told that Bradely and some members of his clan were meeting at a friend's house when the whole place went up. Everywhere in the house was vandalized with furniture destroyed and bullet holes everywhere. No one survived except one. Danny and I met Kelly and his team at a harbor where we were shown some video footage of the whole thing. It looked as if there was a party going on inside. Everyone had to see the doorman in front. We were told that there were no humans at the party that night. We were also told that Kelly and his team didn't plan taking down Bradely. We looked closely at the monitor showing all the events that were going on. It seemed pretty normal until we started to hear screams. The only surveillance camera Kelly and his team had was in front of the house. We saw the door man suddenly pull a gun out and ran inside. That would be the last time I saw that doorman. The screams we heard went on for about ten minutes and they were just making my blood crawl. Suddenly the screams stopped and there was total silence. No one came out of the house and no one went in. Kelly said that he and three others went in found Bradely dead with two tooth marks on his neck. I suddenly froze when I heard that and immediately I thought of Gabriel Heinrich. He had the same tooth marks on his neck and his body was sucked dry. "However, we got a witness," Kelly said. "He said he saw the whole thing. He's out with Jeff and Tracy on the pier."

We all went out to the pier where we met Jeff Miller and Tracy Clarke interrogating a man with his hands bound with rubber handcuffs keeling on the ground. The man's skin was pale and his eyes were yellow and every time he talked we saw two fangs. This man was a vampire. A special serum was injected into his bloodstream which would make him weak and unable to use his powers. Every time he talked his speech would be slurred and he would sway from one angle to the next. "Start talkin', dick head," said Jeff. "What the fuck happened at your boss's party?" The vampire mumbled and swayed side to side. "Spill it, faggot!" said Tracy kicking the vampire in his head.

"Hey, knock it off!" said Kelly intervening. He then turned to the vampire. "Look, you're making it hard for yourself. Tell us what we wanna know and you could walk." The vampire kept on mumbling and swaying. It looked like they gave him a strong shot. "Talk!" yelled Kelly.

"Mina Harker!" the vampire suddenly said swaying side to side in a slurred speech. "Mina Harker! Mina Harker! MINA FUCKING HARKER!"

That name! It was a name that was too familiar. Immediately I recalled my last mission when I found a club ransacked and all but one of my chosen targets were dead. The only info this guy could give me was Mina Harker. I thought I could've moved on without hearing that name again, but in this case it would be impossible. There were four strange events to take place. Number one, as I together with Night's Arrow descended upon the location of six members of Damien's Hand we discovered that they were all wiped out. Number 2, Gabriel Heinrich, a vampire elder we had under surveillance for a long time was found with two gapping holes in his neck and his body sucked out dry. Number 3, I together with Harsh Deliverance raided the estate of the number 2 in vampire clan Wings of Darkness, Louis King. As we all closed in on him a figure in black did the honors in putting out his lights. Finally, number four, the vampire elder Donavon Bradely was taken out in a party at a friend's house and his body was found in the same manner as Heinrich's. In all four events the name Mina Harker only appears twice. Somehow I wonder if this person was tied to all events. Is this girl part of an unknown group of vampire hunters? Is she working alone? Is there somehow the emergence of a low level civil war between the various vampire clans and that Harker is caught right in the middle of it? Is she a contract killer working for a vampire elder to take out rival vampire clans? I had so many questions about this girl that I would go fucking crazy. Every thought of this name was just eating me inside. I couldn't take it anymore. I took it upon myself to finally go out and solve the mystery of this girl, once and for all. This would be different, however. When I look to my right Danny or any vampire hunter would not be there to back me up in this. This was my problem. I had to solve it alone.

LISTEN UP, FOLKS. I MIGHT GO INTO HIATUS FOR THIS CHRISTMAS SEASON. HOW DO YOU LIKE MY STORY SO FAR? IS THE SUSPENSE KILLING YA? I MIGHT HAVE TO STOP AT THIS CHAPTER.. DON'T WORRY, I'LL BE BACK! AND TO ALL OF YOU, MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!