I do not own Van Helsing. I only own Tiffani and Lexi.

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"She's going to kill me, but at least I had hot chocolate before my true end," Tiffani said dramatically before stopping in surprise at the creepy castle in front of her. "End of the trail," she thought before surveying her surroundings. "Wait for them or investigate on my own," she muttered before yelping.

A hand latched onto the back of Tiffani's shirt. The hand belonged to Van Helsing, who had a smirking Lexi standing beside him. Tiffani gave a small wave before hitting Van Helsing's hand with the empty cup. He yelped and removed his hand.

"Get out of my bubble," Tiffani said before somebody grabbed her arm. She yelped when she saw it was Lexi. "I'm so sorry, I'll make you waffles, I'll find you a guy that looks like Doctor Who, I'll bake as many cakes as you want me to, I'm sorry," Tiffani started pleading as she gave her friend teary eyes.

"Tempting, but you can pay me back by going in there first and not getting lost," Lexi said close to her friend's face. She was being serious because she knew her friend was not good at staying close to a group when in a castle. "She will definitely get lost. I need one of those kid harnesses with a leash," she thought before sighing at her friend, who nodding at her.

"I'll be a good Tiffani, a Tiffani that does not get lost, well at least not in the first few minutes," Tiffani said before saluting and then hugging her friend. "I'll haunt you as a ghost if I get killed anyways so you're still stuck with me," she whispered to her friend before pulling away and looking at Anna and Van Helsing. "So Van, my man, where do we get into this place?" she asked putting her hands on her hips and tilting her head curiously.

"I know a way," Anna jumped into the conversation and the group quickly and silently followed her into the spooky castle. Small creatures were walking around, which Anna explained were Dwergi. Lexi and Tiffani were tempted to just knock the creatures out to make sneaking around easier, but Anna said the Dwergi were extremely vicious.

"They can't be as vicious as you are when you first wake up in the mornings," Tiffani joked with Lexi, who glared at her. Tiffani sighed before muttering, "Yeah, yeah, I'm still on the naughty list in your book," she said before the world shifted.

Lexi smirked in satisfaction as she watched Tiffani stumble and fall face first into the stone floor. Her friend was grumbling as she slowly sat up on her knees and hands. "It seems you have issues with gravity too," she said before walking with the rest of the group, who were leaving them.

"Ha, ha, she's so funny, but she did get me back," Tiffani muttered standing up. The sting in her nose made her hiss when she gently touched her face. She sat little cuts on her hands, and she knew her knees would be bruised in a few minutes. The thrum of pain through her body did not help her mood as she looked up and did not see Lexi, Van Helsing, or Anna. "Don't get lost, she says, how about don't leave me?" she said and glared at a portrait of Dracula on the wall. "Your entire fault," she said dramatically and pointed at it.

The portrait continued to stare at her, which made her huff in frustration. "Your fault," she hissed at it before she started walking through the castle at a fast pace. She was trying to catch up with her friends, but everywhere she went she did not find them.

"Where is Tiffani?" Anna asked while she, Van Helsing, and Lexi were trying to dodge all of the cocoons of the baby vampires. Thankfully, none of the vampire babies was alive because they were born dead. She shivered at the goo sliding down the cocoons and falling into her hair. "This is disgusting," she muttered before dodging under another cocoon.

"She was right behind us," Van Helsing muttered before giving a noise of frustration when he did not see Tiffani.

"It takes Tiffani only a second or two to disappear and get lost," Lexi said even though she was thinking of all the trouble her friend get into here. "She really could end up being a ghost and haunting me until I too become a ghost. Goodness, we do not need her as a ghost," she thought wishing she could hit one of these cocoons to take out her frustration.

"If she runs into Dracula or his brides then I fear for your friend," Van Helsing said and once again, Lexi sighed.

"What are these things?" Tiffani asked in wonder at the strange sight in front of her. Strange cocoons were handing down from the ceiling in the room. Hundreds of cocoons filled every space that you looked. She was having to walk strange or duck down as far as she could so she would not run into the cocoons.

"They look like punching bags," she muttered while poking the cocoon nearest to her.
The green and blue color of the cocoon made her think of something out of an alien movie. "Who knew aliens like Dr. Frankenstein's old castle as well," she said and giggled when the cocoon started swinging because she kept poking it.

"Punching time," she thought and brought back her fist, but the feeling of eyes on her made her stop. She gave a nervous grin before laughing at the person behind her. Aleera was standing there looking like she wanted to tear Tiffani to shreds or tear out her own hair. "Oh, are these your punching bags?" Tiffani asked sweetly before dodging to the side.

Aleera let out a screech as she flew at where Tiffani had just been. She crashed into the cocoons and Tiffani took that moment to run as fast as she could away from the enraged bride. "She just doesn't like to share the fun," Tiffani said while running. She ran down another hallway, which was eerily silent. Only her breathing and her fast heartbeats echoed throughout the dim hall. A few torches resting in holders on the wall provided the dim light for her eyes.

"Lost again, well forget finding them, I'm going to have some fun," Tiffani said deviously and the grin on her face doubled her devious mood. She slipped into the room nearest to her and started rummaging through the dressers and closets.

"What is happening?" Anna asked in shock as electrical currents ran through the cocoons above the group.

"Run, he's trying to bring them to life," Van Helsing and Lexi did not need to be told twice. She led the way of escape away from the awakening and now living vampire babies.

"Vampire babies are creepy," Lexi thought as she saw some of the little babies bursting out of the slimy cocoons. Slime and the cocoon were splattering on the walls and floor. The floor was hard to run on because of all the slime that the cocoons had already been dripping.

"We have to find my brother," Anna yelled after she and Van Helsing had escaped from the area with all of the cocoons.

"What about Tiffani?" Lexi yelled angrily that her friend was still being forgotten.

"We don't have time to find your friend. We have to find my brother," Anna argued back before Van Helsing grabbed both of their hands and started dragging them upstairs to where they could hear Velkan screaming.

"Your friend might already be caught by the brides or Dracula; we need to get out of here. If we can help your brother then we will, but by the sound of those screams he does not have much of a chance," Van Helsing said trying to calm down the angry women behind him.

"Tiffani is still running around this place. If she had been caught then everybody would have heard some angry screams or screeches from the brides. She's fond of insulting people that capture or kidnap her," Lexi said before the group slid to a halt at the top of a tower of the castle. The night air relieved some of the tension, but the sounds of werewolf howls brought the tension back.