In an interview with Grendel Mohr, a member of the California State Senate and leader of the vampire organisation Dark Coven, Anna Van Helsing discovered that Mohr was marked for death by Mina Harker, the Bride of Dracula. Anna also discovered that Harker was a hired killer for Nathaniel Abrams, the leader of the vampire organisation Neo Elysium. Anna also had a revelation that Mina Harker is immune to fire. Anna moves on in hopes of finding more about the Bride of Dracula from the Bride's employer: Abrams.
Chapter 15
That's one hell of a record. Grendel Mohr, member of the California State Senate and 415 year old leader of the vampire group Dark Coven, once had the Bride of Dracula carry out a death sentence for him. Mohr was targeted by another vampire group called Neo Elysium who was issuing orders for their new hired gun: Mina Harker. Mohr even had a scar to prove it: a scorched scar with a gapping hole in the middle indicating that Harker cut off his ear in the second of two attempts on his life in which Harker was involved in both. Mohr revealed to me that he and his group initiated an operation to take out Harker, but the mission failed. Mohr's men were armed with flamethrowers but for some reason or the other, the flames projected by their flamethrowers had no effect on her. I'll be goddamned! A vampire that's strong against fire. There's something you don't hear everyday. The thought of a vampire that was immune to silver nitrate and fire was fascinating as it was scary. I wanted to find out more about this Mina Harker girl. My next target was the leader of Neo Elysium, Nathaniel Abrams.
Looking up on my flashcard downloaded with info on the vampire hunters and vampires of L.A. in my laptop, I happened to stumble upon info about Nathaniel Abrams and his group. Abrams was 265 years old and he ran this merely small organisation that was around for no more than five years with no more than 34 members. As small as Abrams' group was, that didn't stop it from being notoriously famous for the deaths of 135 innocent civilians over the past two decades. Neo Elysium was basically a low level organisation that operated in an around clubs, apartments and alleys. But like other vampire groups, their secrecy could not protect them from being detected by vampire hunters. I thought Nathaniel Abrams was the one who could give me vital information on Mina Harker: what's her favorite color, what kind of music she likes, what's her favorite movie. I'm just exaggerating.
I descended upon this small nightclub that was located around West 93rd Street, south of Los Angeles one night. This was the place where Nathaniel Abrams frequented with some of the members of his organization. I parked my bike on the side of the building and walked up to the door. At the door I meet the doorman. The huge doorman, dressed in black and wearing shades put his right hand in front of me, making a road block. "Got any I.D.?" he said.
"Uh, no," I said. "I'm here to see Nathaniel Abrams."
"What for?"
"I got some things I'd like to discuss. It's about the Bride of Dracula."
"The Bride of Dracula, huh? What is it to you?"
"The Bride of Dracula was around for some time. I was thinking of meeting Nathaniel Abrams so I could contact the Bride of Dracula somehow for a job if she's available." (I'm lying my ass off right here.)
"Alright, right this way."
He led me through the door and through a crowd of some of the worst dancers I've ever seen. I found myself at another door which the doorman knocked three times. The door opened and revealed another man dressed in a black suit covering a black T-shirt. The doorman explained my situation and the other guy allowed me to come in. Once inside I found a guy with brown hair sitting on a couch with two women at his side: one blonde the other brunette. I was presented by the man who brought me into the room. The man on the couch sent out the woman that were sitting beside him and his two guards and offered me a seat. "Are you Nathaniel Abrams?" I said.
"Before I can answer that question I gotta ask you a few," he said. "Who the hell are you and how did you find me?"
"Well, my name is Cindy Stevenson (another alias). I heard that many people respect you on this side of town."
"Well, not everybody." I saw the man open a Champaign bottle and pour something dark red and thick into a glass. He began to drink it and I saw some of it trickling at the left side of his mouth. He passed his hand on his chin to wipe it off, but there were still a trail of it left. It was blood. I know human blood when I see it. "They call me a pussy," he continued. "They say I don't run my business that good."
"You're a vampire," I said.
"How long you figured."
"I've got sources. Now tell me, are you Nathaniel Abrams?"
"The one and only, and I'm ready to recruit new talent." He smiled licking his bloodstained fangs. "Look, I don't wanna burst your bubble, but I've been killing people like you for two years now," I said.
"Is that so?" Abrams said. "I thought that was some weird shit about you the moment you invaded my property."
"Actually, I came here to find out what do you know about the Bride of Dracula."
"Who, Mina Harker? Well, can I say about that fucking traitor?"
"I know she worked for you in the past. Don't act like it never happened. You hired her to take out State Senator Grendel Mohr."
"Well, I don't like to brag. She was one of my best guys."
"Okay. But did you know that you're not the only one she worked for?"
"Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. She worked for seven groups already. Who gives a fuck?"
"I do. Care to spill the beans?"
"It all happened eight years ago. We were planning on taking out Albrecht Killian who ran this group called Scarlet Temple. It so happened that before we could kill him he was killed already. I mean, nobody was unto him but us. One day I heard about this incident involving the deaths of seven guys belonging to Society of the Black Shadow. The thing about it is the one who killed them was the same one who killed Albrecht Killian. They called her the Bride of Dracula. I had a close associate who arranged a meeting for me and the Bride of Dracula. I finally met the girl eyeball to eyeball. Now I've met a lot of fine women before but that babe topped the list. This girl was sexy! She talks in an English accent; she has short black hair, fine ass and a pair of sexy lips. I happened to see her naked one day. She got a tattoo of black cross about that sexy ass."
"With the way you're giving me all those details I would say you had a one night stand with her."
"Fuck no! Well, yeah, I tried, but she turned me down. She said she's not that kind of girl. She introduced herself as Mina Harker. She told me that she was responsible for the deaths I called out. Let me tell you something, she got this sword she calls The Final Dawn, a Japanese katana sword. I offered her a job with a payroll of $4 million a hit. She hesitated at first, but then she said that she would take job only if she could do it for free. She did one hell of a job for me for two years. There was one thing I couldn't understand, though. How could she kill her own kind with an ordinary sword? Our kind isn't weak against that. But then I thought maybe "The Final Dawn" was just one hell of a sword. One day somebody broke the news to me that Mina killed my man who was in charge of overlooking this group's operations. The thing about it is she killed him by sucking out his blood. I really don't know how the fuck she did that. No vampire could drink another vampire's blood. All of us were caught of guard. I forgot to mention she's got this attitude. You can't fuck with this girl. I could remember this time when she cut off this guy's arm after he tried to put the moves on her. We were more or less scared shitless of her all the while she worked for us. She gets really pissed off if you call her the Bride of Dracula. I started to get reports that she was killing off my men one by one, that's when I decided that Mina was a bad apple that had to go. She stabbed us in the fucking back. We haven't done anything to this girl. I just couldn't understand why she was taking us out. When we started to go after her she just vanished into thin air. Nobody ever saw or heard from her again."
"Are you sure about that?"
"Yeah…Well I'm hearing reports that this group got some new talent."
"What group?"
"Some group with connections to Swann Banks Ltd. I don't know what kind of arsenal they've got, but I heard that they've got a new gun that took out twelve different leaders of twelve different groups three years ago. There's one thing I wanna ask you though. If you're a vampire hunter how do you plan to take out that bitch? I forgot to tell you that many vampire hunters were unto her in the past but they never had any luck in killing her."
"Yeah, I know. But you don't worry about that. I've got it all covered."
"I doubt it. Your state of the art technology can't find somebody who's probably the best of our kind. If you want, I can grant you the chose of becoming one of us because Mina isn't your problem alone. We can feel the presence of our kind anywhere, anytime."
"Thanks, but I prefer the human life."
"Well, it's your loss. You're never gonna take her down."
"Why don't you put the money where your mouth is?"
After that encounter I left the room and walked my way out of the club. My palms were sweaty and I was shaky due to intense fear. How the fuck did you get yourself into this shit, Annie? You're gonna get yourself killed! By the way, you don't have a plan to take out Mina Harker. Are you crazy? I then began to think about the info what Abrams gave me. So Mina Harker was yanking Abrams' chain when she pledged her loyalty to him. Abrams said vampires are immune to plain sword's mineral components. Who could've forged The Final Dawn? Abrams couldn't tell me why Mina Harker has a thing for vampire blood. So Mina Harker works for this organisation with close ties to Swann Banks Ltd. Swann Banks Ltd was a big organisation and well respected too. I can't imagine such an organisation being run by vampires. But hey, in this world anything is possible. Next stop: Swann Banks Ltd.
I WANT ALL OF YOU TO STAY TUNED FOR THE NEXT CHAPTER BECAUSE IT'S SO DAMN TWISTED! HERE'S YOUR FIRST CLUE: HAS ANYONE SEEN THE MOVIE "BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN"?