Happy New Year folks! I'm back! Just in time to complete this story which has become increasingly popular thanks to four readers on this site. This story begins with a seventeen year old girl name Anna Van Helsing who is a member of the shadowy vampire hunting group called The Van Helsing Clan. Anna fights with her brother Daniel (a.k.a. Danny) and other vampire hunters. One night Anna is called to take down six members of a vicious vampire clan called Damien's Hand at a small club in down town Los Angeles when she, Danny and a team of vampire hunters find the place almost leveled and all but one of Damien's Hand's six members dead. A severely wounded vampire crawls helplessly across the floor and as Anna rushes towards him all he could say was "Mina Harker". He then descended into death in a pile of burning ash and dust. The following day Anna tries to get over the disappointment of not experiencing any action the night before, yet she is somewhat curious of the name Mina Harker. On the way home from work from work she is called by Danny to survey a murder scene. This wasn't just any murder scene, members of another vampire group had discovered the body of a vampire elder with two tooth marks on his neck. One night Anna and Danny teamed up with the vampire group Harsh Deliverance to take down the second in command of a vampire clan called Wings of Darkness in which they were engaged in a huge firefight at the leader's compound. When Anna and Danny, together with Harsh Deliverance's leader and his son closed in on the Wings of Darkness second in command, in a split second, they saw his severed head roll across the floor and a dark figure escaping from their sights. The leader of a vampire hunting group summoned Anna and Danny to give news of the death of a vampire elder one night after keeping surveillance on the vampire elder's estate. Anna and Danny were shown footage of a party on the vampire elder's estate which was suddenly disrupted and all inside were killed, expect one. At the survivor's interrogation his only testimony was two words: "Mina Harker." It was a name that struck a cord in Anna and she took it upon herself to solve the mystery of Mina Harker once and for all.

Chapter 5

This is it. The time has finally come to take care of something that has been so far up my ass for a long time. Another month has passed and this shit wasn't giving me a break at all. It was during that time I was carefully planning it and giving it real consideration. I finally made up my mind to find out who is Mina Harker. I took a personal interest in it and I wasn't gonna quit until I got every scrap of information about this girl who keeps popping up almost every where I go. Six members of the vampire clan Damien's Hand were killed and the info from one vampire close to death gave me was Mina Harker. It was the end of the party for Donavon Bradley, the leader of The Kin of Ekimmu. Somehow or the other in this case Mina Harker pops up. Bradley was found with two gapping holes in his neck. They were clearly tooth marks. Bradley wasn't the only vampire that died leaving tooth marks in his neck. Gabriel Heinrich, a vampire elder and leader of Neo Lunar was found dead with two tooth marks in his neck and his blood sucked dry out of his body. I thought it was really weird that the tables turned on a vampire this way and I would feel like throwing up every time I thought about a vampire sucking the blood of a vampire, even though it wasn't really confirmed. However, I didn't give a shit. When I found out that Donovan Bradley died the same way Heinrich died I knew this was serious shit that I couldn't shovel. In a raid on the second in command of Wings of Darkness's estate, in a split second I witness how Louis King was beheaded right in front of me. When I turned to my left there was a figure in black that I couldn't make out. The only thing I could see was a pair of two glowing yellow eyes staring right at me and making a run for it out the window. No vampire hunter could take off a vampire's head like that but I was damn sure those eyes didn't belong to a human. All these events were making my head spin so bad that I would get a hangover. I wanted to find out who Mina Harker was. I needed to find out who Mina Harker was. If I didn't know who Mina Harker was all I had to do was put my pistol to my forehead then POW! That was how obsessed I was about this whole thing. I found the answer to one question already. Mina Harker was a woman. It was obvious unless it was some faggot or transsexual. There were more questions to this name. Exactly who was she? Was she human? What group did she belong to? Who trained her? What weapons did she use? What did she know about vampires that other vampire hunters didn't? To find the answers to these it would take a lot of resources and my training. Even if it took me till kingdom come to know about this girl, so be it.

The road that led to Mina Harker was one that I pace alone. I wanted to do this alone because this was my problem. Don't get me wrong. I did try to get some assistance. I asked members of five vampire hunting groups to help me out but they all turned me down saying that I was crazy. The last person I went to was, of course, Danny. "Hey, Danny," I said to him one day. "Remember the last two missions we did?"

"Yeah," Danny said. "What about them?"

"Well, you know there's the name of a girl that popped up, right?"

"What name?"

"Uh, Mina Harker."

"Oh, yeah! I remember that."

"Well, what can you make of it?"

"What can I make of it?"

I paused for a few seconds. "Do you think it's kinda strange that her name keeps coming up," I said.

"No," said Danny.

"Well look at it this way: every mission we set out to do it's like she comes around and do it for us. Like a clean sweep."

"What're you trying to say?" Danny said looking at me as if I was crazy.

"Do you think she could make a good comrade? I mean when it's us we bust our asses. When it's Harker she makes it easy."

"Mm-hmm."

"It's like she's been killing vampires for years."

"Annie, the Van Helsing Clan's been killing vampires for years…"

"Yeah, I know. But don't you think it's kinda weird that the vampires somehow know her personally? The vampires barely know our existence."

"Yeah," said Danny nodding thoughtfully. "You've got a point there."

"I was thinking, y'know , maybe you and I could go out there to try to know more about her. Maybe she's part of a group of vampire hunters that we don't about. Maybe we could be a team with them," I said.

"Look, Annie. Basically, I don't give a shit about this thing. There's some crazy bitch out there trying to see how much vampires she could kill in a day. Maybe she is a vampire hunter…"

"But she's one we don't know about."

"So, what? There're many vampire hunters we don't know about. What this Harker chick is doing is basically routine, as far as I'm concerned. That has nothing to do with do with us. If you feel for those vampires she's already killed, then you should get off those anti-depressants or whatever you're on. Those pricks should just go fuck themselves."

"Yeah, maybe you're right," I said sarcastically. Oh, well, so much for that.

September 04th, the big day had arrived. I was in my apartment getting to make my first stop in my journey into solving the mystery of Mina Harker. I was in my bedroom loading fresh silver nitrate bullets in two magazine clips. I already took a shower and dressed myself and the day before I had my shoulder length brown hair cut short. As I was starting to load the first five bullets in one of the magazines there was a knock on the door. I quickly started to hide all the bullets and hide the magazines in the dresser and under the bed sheets. The knocking on the door suddenly went to loud banging as I frantically tried to hide my weapons to avoid having my cover blown. "Rent!" an all too familiar voice said. "C'mon, open the fucking door! Your rent's due!" The banging didn't stop until I finally ran to door, unlocked the locks and twisted the door knob, opening the door to Freddy Greene, my landlord. "Sorry I took so long, Mr. Greene," I said.

"I don't give a fuck. Where's my rent?" said the obese fifty five year old father of three. He was a very sloppy man. His white t-shirt was always brown dirty, he hardly took a shave and his grey hair was always shaggy. I remember the last time I went to his apartment to deliver his rent and I couldn't believe I was in an apartment. Clothes would always be on the floor, cockroaches would be running all over the place, the paint on the walls would be peeling off and electrical lines would be hanging from the ceiling. Mr. Greene would never try to fix his place up, let alone look after his family because he was too fucking lazy. His wife Linda was tall and skinny and always had to do the basics in bringing up their family. She even had to take care of her husband as if he was one of the two boys and one girl in his family. At nights I would hear Mr. Greene and Linda argue. Most times I would wish they'd both shut the fuck up and sometimes I didn't want them to stop because they would mostly argue over bullshit that made me laugh. I always tried to better than the Greenes by always keeping my apartment clean, working out every day and even saving every last penny I earned to buy a T.V. Not only that, but have it installed with Direct TV, something that they don't have. Every time Mr. Greene came over to collect rent he would look into my apartment and tell me that I was nothing but a money hungry bitch that always spent my money on shit to grab men and he would even curse me out. I didn't care because I knew he was jealous and that he just didn't want to admit that he wished he had the same things I did.

"Oh sorry, Mr. Greene, I'll get it (the rent)." I said.

"I don't believe this shit!" said Mr. Greene. "I'm standing here the whole fucking time thinking that you brought it with you and you don't have it in your fucking hand. That's long overdue anyway. Five days now you were supposed to bring it in." I went into the bedroom, opened the dresser and pulled out $300 and went back to the door to give it to Mr. Greene. Mr. Greene clinched the crisp 3 $100 bills in his hand, looked into my living room then looked at me. "See? That's why you took so long to bring it in, always dumping your money on shit and that new hairdo is just another thing you're doing to get guys to fuck you every night and you're only fifteen."

"Seventeen," I said.

"I give don't give a fuck! You look like you're twelve." Mr. Greene then put the $300 in his back pocket and sluggishly walked away. "Eh, shove it up your ass, you fat fuck," I said under my breath as I closed the door. I then went back to my bedroom to load my magazine.

I loaded the last bullets in my magazine clips and slapped it into two compact Heckler & Koch USP pistols. I then strapped two gun holders to my thighs and place my guns into them. Another thing I had with me was a pair of P72 goggles. These were the ones used to separate humans from vampires. I would carry no communication equipment with me, because I didn't want Danny or anybody to contact me. I didn't want to get Danny caught up in this. Finding out about this girl Mina could be dangerous business. I didn't want to live with the fact that I caused the deaths of Danny or anybody else over some bullshit I was so obsessed of. I would've never forgiven myself as a result. If I was gonna die, at least I'll carry the fact that Danny was still alive to my grave. I threw on my trench coat grabbed my shades and walked into the living room. I closed all the windows and turned off the lights. I then walked into the hallway, closed the door behind me, placed a key in the door knob and twisted it locking the door. I started to walk down the hall and with every step I took it echoed throughout the hall. This would've been the last time I would've ever left that apartment. As I approached the stairway that led to outside the building the sound of a couple arguing grew louder and louder as I started to reach for the railing of the stairs. Mr. and Mrs. Greene were arguing again. Their apartment was located right next to the staircase. All I could make out was that Mr. Greene was complaining about a new dress Linda bought. I smiled shaking my head as I walked down the stairs. I approached the entrance and opened the door. The rays of the sun struck me as I stepped out the door. I reached into my coat and pulled out my sunglasses and placed them over my eyes. As I put them on the morning sun became dim. I walked into the alley where all the apartment occupants' vehicles were parked. Between two cars parked in one row I spotted the one that would carry me throughout this journey: the Honda Super Hawk motorcycle. What's that? You didn't know I had a bike? Well, the Super Hawk was a gift from fellow vampire hunter Brian Cox, the member of Final Touchdown. He was a dirt bike rider and winner of three titles already. I was always into bikes ever since I was fifteen and I've been riding ones that Cox would loan to me. In one mission I saved Cox's ass when he was wounded and pinned down in a gunfight with members of the vampire group Sons of the Abyss. To repay me he gave my very own bike. Danny was jealous, but I didn't give a fuck. I walked to the Super Hawk, took a seat, started the engines and sped off to my first destination: Lambert's Computers.

After doing 50 miles an hour I finally arrived at Lambert's Computers. Lambert's Computers was a computer store own by Steve Lambert who was assisted by his daughter fifteen year old Emily (also called Emma). She was a close friend of mine, so close I would often call her sis by mistake. She was always into computers so she helped me make the right choice in buying the Dell Latitude C600 laptop computer. Today it was different. Emma had something that would help me to find out who is Mina Harker. "Good Morning, Mr. Lambert," I said walking into the store. "Is Emma here?"

"She's on lunch," said Mr. Lambert. "Don't worry I'll go get her." Mr. Lambert vanished from sight for thirty seconds. He then returned with the glasses wearing red head girl who welcomed me with open arms. "How long has it been?" said Emma.

"What the hell are you talking about?" I said.

"I'm just so glad to see you, that's all."

"Me, too. Listen, Emma, things were rough lately. I don't wanna give away too much detail, but on four missions somebody's been making us look like a bunch of bums."

"What're you talking about?"

"Somebody took out four hits we were supposed to do."

"Was it you guys?"

"No. The strange thing about it is whoever took these guys out keep reaching their before we do."

"It's probably other vampire hunters."

"It can't be. I'm gonna tell you something that'll make you puke. The leaders of Neo Lunar and The Kin of Ekimmu were killed. The thing about it is they had tooth marks on their bodies. It's like their blood was totally drained out of their bodies. I don't know how to say this, but I think that there's a vampire feeding on the blood of vampires."

Emma looked at me as if I was crazy. "You're fucking with me, right?" she said.

"This no bullshit, okay?" I said. "I don't really know that for sure, but that's not why I'm here. I need you to give me the files on all the vampire hunters and vampires in L.A."

Emma suddenly paused and looked at me in a shocked stare. She secretly kept files on all vampire hunters and their activities plus vampire profiles. She transferred all the vampire profiles through e-mail to other vampire hunters in Los Angeles. Her father didn't know anything about her activities. The files that Emma kept were very top secret and very precious. It was info that was too precious to lose. "Look, Annie, I can't just give that to you," said Emma. "You're talking about files and files of top secret info."

"I know. That's why I want you to give it to me," I said.

"Listen to me, Annie. Kelly worked her ass off to give me this info. I don't let anybody look into any of the files until they have a certain mission."

"Really? Well what's the point of keeping them?"

Kelly was Emma's big sister who ran a secret group of vampire hunters on campus while she was in college. Kelly was well respected by other vampire hunters and she had been doing it for seven years. Mr. Lambert didn't know what his eldest daughter was up to either because the Lambert sisters had a way of keeping secrets. I teamed up with her five times already and I saw why everybody liked this girl. Danny at one time had a crush on her. When Kelly wasn't hunting vampires she kept surveillance on any vampire she came across or heard of and made files on the groups they belonged to. These files contained all the information on the vampire clans which included the number of members that were involved, their activities and their chain of command. Kelly also set up files on all vampire hunters. Vampire hunters would never know about their targets until they were ready to launch their missions. After making these files Kelly would give them to Emma for safe keeping.

"Annie, I already got in trouble for messing around with the files," said Emma. "I'll be fucked if I gave classified information to one vampire hunter without the other vampire hunters' knowledge."

"Now you listen to me," I said speaking to firmly. "This is could be a vampire that could no vampire hunter could handle. At least let me do something about it before any of our comrades get killed fighting a vampire they don't know shit about."

"Annie, please! Those are very important files. You mightn't handle them the right way."

"I'm not gonna ask you again, Emma."

"C'mon, Annie! All of them?"

"I didn't studder."

"But, Annie…"

"Cut the bullshit, Emma! I want every last one of the files. You'd better them to me before I sell your four-eyed ass out, and that's not very hard to do." Emma got speechless. The feds already knocked on her door twice for being suspected of terrorist activity after they bugged her computer. She got in serious trouble with Mr. Lambert afterwards, who dropped her in boot camp for three weeks! "Hey, you wouldn't that, right?" said Emma.

"Give me all files and stop your fucking stalling!" I said.

"All right, all right, just keep your voice down, goddammit.

Emma led me behind the store and to a desk where she kept her computer. She turned it on, moved the mouse to the tool bar and clicked on File. A window opened and she went on Open. As she clicked the computer flashed a notice which read "Please access code." Emma then looked at me sadly and I gave her one hard look. She shook her head typed the word ENIGMA. The computer suddenly flashed a notice which read "Approved". The screen quickly changed and revealed a long list of documents with no end in sight. Emma sighed as she began to download each file and when she was finished the screen became blank and she then gave me the flashcard. "Thanks, I owe you one," I said tucking the flashcard safely in my pocket. Emma sunk her head into her hands as I walked out of the store and to my bike.

I sat on my bike knowing I was ready, but I needed something else. I started the engine and sped off to my next location: Joey Long's apartment. Joey Long was a good friend of mine who was also a vampire hunter. I went to his apartment to see if I could get one of his bugging devices. He hesitated at first but then he agreed to give me a mini microphone amplifier. This would've enabled me to record conversations of vampires in any location they could be. I then went back home to look into files.

Once in my apartment I connected the flashcard to my laptop and went on Files to click it open. There was a very long list of documents on the computer, so much so I didn't know where to start. The files were divided into two columns: a red column which represented vampire hunters and a blue column which represented vampires. Finding out about Mina Harker was tougher than I thought. I then thought that Mina Harker could be a vampire hunter so I decided to go on the red column. I clicked on one document and it opened revealing one huge website. This website belonged to the Arm of Freedom. This was a group I never met or heard of. I clicked on a bar that gave info on all of its members. Arm of Freedom had 255 members and they were listed alphabetically by the last names. I looked in H which included names like Henry, Howard and Harrison, but none of the names included Harker. I went to 10 other files in the red column, files of many vampire hunters I didn't know of, but none of them included the name Mina Harker. I was pretty disappointed, thinking that I chewed out Emma for nothing. Suddenly one small thought crossed my mine. Maybe Mina Harker was a new member. I was sure Kelly hardly kept track of new vampire hunters. I decided to go into the list once again and I picked another group I never heard of: The Golden Rifles Association. This group had a very good profile. It was responsible for bringing down 25 vampire clans for the past 32 years. Its leader was George Hunt. Hunt established the group in 1968 and continued to run the group from a wheelchair after being shot and paralyzed during a mission in 1975. I would go to this one first, but first, I decided to test out the new microphone amplifier I got. I went into the blue column and clicked on it. The blue column revealed hundreds of thousands if not millions of vampire clans that ran the streets of L.A. Nearly all of them were vampire clans I never heard of. The files also placed vampires into two categories: pure and impure. Those who were born vampires were described as pure blood. Those who became vampires were described as impure blood. I decided to pick the first one: The Omnipotent. The Omnipotent was 400 years old and had over 600 members. Its leader was Nicolas White, 500 years old, pure blood. One thing caught my eye. Nicolas White would often go to this bar called Dixie's in downtown L.A. This file also included a several photos of this guy. One current photo showed White with long blond hair tied in a pony tail with shades on his face. "Okay, this is the guy," I thought. I wrapped up and waited for night fall to dig up any information I could about this guy if I wanted any leads in finding out who's Mina Harker.