Sorry it took this long to update. Didn't mean it to. And I'm sure I have more reader than just two.
"No! Absolutely no! I forbid this" Heinrich Mortte shouted in a small room in a small inn in a small village of Biztrits.
"Please, try to keep your voice down" Carl tried to calm him down.
"This man…" Mortte said, gritting his teeth and pointing Van Helsing with a finger "was send to protect us from Vatican. And during the last 48 hours my daughter has been tried to kidnap three times, we've been attacked by werewolves and vampires and now…! Now this man who hasn't prove to be able to keep us safe wants to take my daughter to some dark woods where that demon is waiting and he tries to save both my daughter and Princess Anna!!! Forgive me sir if I say that I don't have much faith in your talents anymore".
Van Helsing just stood there silently taking all in. He couldn't blame Mortte. The entire stay in Transylvania had proved to be nothing but a failure after failure after failure. Both Princess Anna and her werewolf brother Velkan were kept held by Dracula who was demanding to get Isabella Mortte who had little resemblance towards a woman who died four centuries ago. A woman who happened to be Van Helsing's sister. Van Helsing felt that his head was starting to spin.
Really the only positive result that he had gained was killing one of Dracula's brides, but even that had happened because he had been underestimated.
A new voice suddenly spoke bringing Van Helsing back to this day.
"We need to do this" Isabella Mortte said.
"What? How can you say that?" Mortte exclaimed.
"Because it is true" Isabella said defiantly. "We can't just leave Princess Anna to that monster. I…" her voice started to tremble "…I saw that creature's eyes when he captured me yesterday. They were filled with darkness. We can't just do nothing! She needs help and…and if it means that I must risk myself then so be it" she said with tears in her eyes.
"Isabella…" Mortte whispered, not sure what he could or should say.
"I don't know why he is after me. But I do believe in God and His goodness. I can't loose that faith just as I can't let him kill Anna" Isabella said softly.
The room fell silent. All three males were looking at the young woman. Finally Van Helsing spoke.
"You truly are a brave woman, Miss Mortte. But I had just managed to explain the situation to your father before he started to object. I have no plans of getting you in the danger" he said smiling.
Midnight:
The moon was shining bright on the black sky, above the figure of Van Helsing. He was coming closer to a clearing in the forest. He had a torch in his hand and his other was resting on a shoulder of a young woman who had closed a hood over her head. As they arrived to the clearing they saw the imitating dark figure of Count Dracula, looking them with red eyes.
"What is this, Gabriel? You come alone? Little too much confidence in yourself, maybe?" Dracula laughed with mocking tone in his voice.
"Look whose talking" Van Helsing muttered. "Where is Princess Anna?" he then demanded.
Dracula chuckled and his lips rose in an insane grin. His two brides appeared suddenly from the night sky carrying Anna Valerious. She was pale and obviously weak but what Van Helsing could tell she was still human.
"Let us then do the trading. Let the girl come here and I'll let the princess go" Dracula's deep voice said.
"As if I'd trust you" Van Helsing said and started to walk with the shaking girl towards the hissing vampire women. They also started to approach. When all five were closer to each others than they preferred vampires let exhausted Anna fell to Van Helsing's arms as they catch the trembling girl. Van Helsing took hold of Anna and started to retrieve.
"Van Helsing…what are you…you can't let them take…" Anna tried desperately to form sentences.
"I'm not" Van Helsing said.
"WHAT?" shrieked the vampire bride.
A hissing sound of burning flesh was heard and both vampires screamed and backed off from the girl. Hood fell down revealing a young friar named Carl holding two silver crucifixes in his hands. Carl took quick steps to Van Helsing and Anna and soon was on their side. Van Helsing took his crossbow.
"If anyone comes a step closer to us you won't live to see next sunset" Van Helsing said.
For a moment everything was quiet in the woods. And then Count Dracula's majestic, diabolical laugh ran in the night. His fangs were showing from his mouth as he just laughed and laughed. Van Helsing felt the cold feeling in his stomach. What in Heaven's name had gone wrong?
"Oh, Gabriel. You are still as you've always been" Dracula said, clearly amused. "Still you have that unexplainable need to play hero and save everyone. When will you learn that you can't save us all?"
Just then they heard a sound from dark and the Count's coach appeared. It was drove by Igor, Dracula's deformed hunchback servant.
"We have her, Master. We have her!" Igor shouted with a satisfied smile on his face. At least one would think it's a smile.
Inside the coach sat three Romanian men and a young girl who had been tied up; Isabella.
"HOW?" Van Helsing roared.
"Let me guess what your plan was: you probably left Mortte and his daughter in that inn with holy water, silver bullets, stakes and crucifixes in case I or one of my brides would attack there. However, didn't we both learn that the sometimes you have to wait for fish to come to you?" Dracula smiled.
Igor laughed. "We set the inn in fire and waited for them to come out!" he laughed maniacally.
"Did you kill Mortte?"
Igor smiled. "We managed to beat Mortte down but the girl said she would use her stake to herself if we harmed her father. We left doctor unconscious in the gutter".
Van Helsing felt like the gates of Hell itself had been opened. My God, I failed. They trusted me and I let them down.
"And now when everything is as it should be I must bid goodbye to you, Gabriel" Dracula said with a mocking bow. "But I thank you for the past tow days. I haven't have this much fun in 170 years!"
And then Dracula and his brides appeared top of the carriage as it started to road away. Van Helsing, snapping out of his guilty thoughts, was about to run after when that cold feeling returned.
And then a creature, which Van Helsing assumed had been Prince Velkan, appeared in front of them.
I'm certainly not satisfied with this but it's the best I can offer now. Better luck next time.