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

Story Start

Lexi and the others were still talking to the Frankenstein monster when a rush of air hit her back. She spun around and held up the crossbow ready to fire. She watched warily as the eldest bride Verona rode on the air currents to stay right above the cave. Verona's eyes looked in shock at the Frankenstein monster, who growled at the bride.

"What's going to happen now?" Lexi thought warily as she kept her finger on the trigger ready to fire the crossbow at the vampire's heart.

Verona stared at the entire group until her eyes landed on Lexi, who glared at her. "Master knows that your friend is still in the castle. He will keep her hostage until you bring the monster to us. Come to Budapest for his ball," Verona stated before her eyes grew wide in shock. The group did not know what was going to happen until the bride let out a terrible screech. The three humans had to cover their ears to keep their eardrums from bursting.

"She's killed Aleera, I'll kill her," Verona roared and flew away from the three humans and the Frankenstein monster as fast as she could.

"Your friend killed Aleera on her own, how? Dracula will surely kill her now instead of taking her to Budapest in exchange for the Frankenstein monster," Anna said fretfully as she looked between Lexi and the unconscious monster.

"You aren't possibly thinking of trading the monster for my friend, are you? My friend can take care of herself, but that monster will provide a stable environment for the electrical current needed to give true life to those freaky vampire babies," Lexi said as she walked towards Anna angrily. She was in disbelief at what the woman was saying. She knew her friend was in danger, but she also knew Tiffani could hold her own. "If my friend can kill Aleera, then she can at least kill Verona as well. I don't know how she will fare against Dracula, but she will go down fighting," Lexi said sticking up for her friend and reassuring herself. She needed Anna to see sense that there was no way to switch the monster for Tiffani.

"She's right. We have to keep the monster out of Dracula's hands, but we also need to save your friend. I know you said she can hold her own, but this is Dracula," Van Helsing said and placed a hand on Lexi's shoulder because it was slightly shaking.

Lexi gave a small sigh at the feel of his hand on her shoulder. She was anxious and worried, which was not a good combination for her. "So what is the plan?" Lexi asked and the group decided to take the monster back to the town under the night's darkness so the citizens of the town would not see. They would hide the monster in the town's church. Carl would watch over the monster with Anna, while Lexi and Van Helsing travel to Budapest to save Tiffani.

"Well I have a bad feeling now," Tiffani muttered after watching Aleera turn into white ash. She felt as if the entire castle became tense after the dying vampire's scream. She was right to be worried because an enraged male roar sounded above her somewhere in the castle.

"Run for your life, now," she thought and ran as fast as she could down the hallway. She dropped the stake to get rid of the evidence, but she knew Dracula could smell her scent from the scene of Aleera's death to where she was running now. Her heartbeat was also giving her away.

"My dear, what have you done?" Dracula's smooth voice said from somewhere and it sent chills down Tiffani's spine. She could hear the suppressed anger in his tone. She kept running because she had finally found the exit to the castle. She was about to reach the doors, but she saw Dwergi on the outside of the castle pull the doors shut. She slid to a stop before she could slam into the door. She knew Dracula was watching her from somewhere so she gathered her courage and gave a grin.

"Well not to be too mean, still mean, but not too mean, you could have chosen some women with more intelligence," Tiffani said shrugging her shoulders as she slowly turned her head to look around the room and the ceiling. "Found you," she thought when her eyes landed on Dracula, who was standing upside down on the ceiling. "Why does he have to be so good looking?" she thought with a pout.

"Who are you to say such things? They were my brides," Dracula growled but his body language still read that he was physically calm.

"I'm just Tiffani, human with a big mouth that likes to state her opinions whether people like them or not," Tiffani answered with a grin. "Anyways, they were more like your play things and your broodmares," she continued and looked around the room to see if she had any way of escaping.

"Broodmares," Dracula said and she could have sworn she almost heard him chuckle.

"It's true, you know it. I mean what all did you guys do for that many years besides that if you had that many babies?" she asked slowly edging towards a nearby wooden table. She flipped the table over and started kicking and pulling on one of the legs.

"You know that will have no effect on me," Dracula said with a dark chuckle as he walked closer to Tiffani's position, but he stayed on the ceiling.

"Oh, I know, no worries," she replied struggling more with the table leg to break it. She knew she would need it as soon as Verona appeared.

"Then why are you wasting your time? I could kill you now for what you did to my bride," Dracula said questionably.

"See, I'm not too worried about you killing me because of her. I know you don't care for the three women. If you cared for them then you would have gotten revenge for Marishka, but you didn't so why get revenge for Aleera?" she said before giving a cry of triumph. The table leg had a sharp pointy edge at the end, which would work as a stake for her future purposes.

"Verona is on her way, she will not be happy about you killing her fellow bride," Dracula said and Tiffani just smirked at him.

"Are you going to help her kill me or are you just going to watch what happens?" She asked moving around with the stake. She wanted to get use to the weight of the stake as fast as she could because she knew an angry bride would be trying to rip her throat out soon enough.

"We shall see," was his only answer before Verona's angry screech filled the air and the woman flew through a nearby window straight at Tiffani, who dodged the fast swipe of claws.

Verona flew up towards her master, but he ignored her. He continued to stare down at Tiffani, who was watching Verona carefully. The bride gave a roar of outrage at Tiffani's smirking face. She flew down from the ceiling and tried to tackle Tiffani, but Tiffani jumped up and ended up on Verona's back. Tiffani stabbed Verona through the neck with the stake, but not enough to disconnect the entire head from the spine.

Tiffani was flung off Verona's back and she gave a curse at the force her back received after crashing into the stone floor. She stood up as fast as she could to stare at Verona, who had landed. The vampire was staggering as she held a hand to the gaping hole in her neck. Tiffani knew the vampire would be talking if she could, but her vocal chords had been hit with the stake.

"You guys are like fruit flies. You kill one and another appears to take its place and annoy you," Tiffani said annoyed as she started walking towards Verona. She was still cautious because the vampire still had her claws and vampire strength.

"Why do you hesitate?" Dracula's voice said above her and she almost jumped.

"I'm a horrible person, duh," Tiffani said sweetly before stabbing the stake into Verona's heart while she was distracted by looking at her master. The vampire bride's mouth opened as if to scream, but her vocal chords were still destroyed from the stake attack earlier. The silent scream was the bride's last action before she exploded into a cloud of white ash.

"Now what are you going to do?" his warm timber said in her left ear. His presence was surrounding her almost even though he was just standing behind her. The cold breath grazing her neck and ear made her become tense.

"Make waffles," Tiffani said, trying not to freak out about the situation.