She waited a moment; her smile slowly began to fade. "You came to play with me, right." This time it wasn't a question, it was a statement and it was deadly.

The hunter stared at the little girl, for the first time he wished he were in a room full of creepy redrum kids. "Uh, yeah. Of course, you know me I'm Mr. Giggles."

"Oh goodie!" She smiled and clapped happily. "Let's play chess, I love chess."

His body grew warm, his face flushed, if those skeletons were that tough what about her? "Hmm, I ah… don't exactly know how to play chess…" Her face darkened and the room seemed to darken with her, he quickly added, "Do you want to play checkers? Checkers is fun, right?" He said laughing nervously.

She waved her hand downward, turned and dug through her things. "Oh, yes, I have checkers. I don't usually play checkers though. Ah, here it is." Placing the board before her, the young vampire slowly started to arrange the pieces on the board. Then looking up and finding Dean still standing, she gave a gentle smile and went back to setting up the game as she spoke. "Sit, sit. This will be fun. I'll be red." The girl gave him a threatening almost hungry look. "I always liked the color red."

"Well," he said, deflecting the taunt. "If you get to choose the color, then I get to go first."

"I win again." Laura said confidently several games later.

The hunter sat there cross-legged, resting his head in his palm. When he spoke he muttered so quietly Laura had to strain her ears to hear it. "I know you did…" Then he looked at her, his face flushed red with anger and when he yelled at her it seemed to echo through the room mockingly. "That's what happens when you never move your back row!"

Her eyes grew big and she pulled back in a start, no human has ever yelled at her before. "You know what?" Dean continued his rant. "Just kill me, I'm done."

The little vampire didn't know whether to laugh or kill him for his presumption. But really all she wanted was some company. "No, don't go." She tugged on his hand as he turned to leave. "What if we play tic-tac-toe? Let's play that, okay? Please."

He took a deep breath and let out a long sigh. "Fine, get some paper." The things I do for children. The hunter thought to himself. I ought to be sainted for this.

"Tic-tac-toe, I win." Laura said, holding the paper in her hands.

"Son of a bitch!" The hunter pulled the paper from her hands laying curses and cuss words that haven't even been invented until this moment. Angrily he tore the paper into pieces and those pieces into pieces. Then finally he gathered them into a pile took out his lighter and lit the offending pile of paper on fire, cussing the whole time.

Laura couldn't help but laugh. She laughed even harder when the hunter fell to his knees then onto his back and lay there gasping for breath. She was a poor loser; she had sent her dolls to kill people who beat her in her games. But never had she seen someone attack a piece of paper like it was the cause of all life's problems.

He amused her; maybe he could be her pet human. Vampires have had pet humans before; they keep them like a human keeps a dog usually for some form of work. Strangely the humans have taken to calling it slavery, but being a vampire's pet beats being a vampire's dinner doesn't it? Laura thought so.

Looking over at him, she smiled. "You're funny. Perhaps, you've been smoking opium?"

He sighed and then sighed again. "Well, I'm so happy I could entertain you." He said flatly.

Sitting up slowly, Dean sat with his head bowed. "So… why are the things in here so strong anyways? I can only imagine you're some kind of something."

"'Some kind of something'?" She replied teasing him. "The beings in here are so powerful because they are the original creature. Eve's creatures are nothing more than counterfeits of us."

"Counterfeits?"

"Yes, all of her creatures." Laura continued while she put her checkerboard away. "When she came the first time, she found dragons, ghouls, goblins, chupacabras, gremlins, giants, vampires, werewolves, and the undead. Her first attempts at 'monster' creation failed, so she copied everything that already was here. However, hers were neither as supernaturally gifted or as perfect as we are."

"What do you mean supernaturally gifted?"

Laura held her hands parted before her chest and lightening passed from one hand to the other.

"Hmm, well isn't that shocking?" The hunter said with a half smile. "So what are you then, and the weapons I brought here will they even work against the things in here?"

"I'm a vampire, silly." She smiled then turned and looked at his weapons. "No, they won't you'll just make them mad."

"Well, that's just awesome." Dean said looking down, his voice thoughtful. "Is there anything that can hurt them?"

"Yes, the best warriors of the Brotherhood of Light were armed with a weapon called a combatcross. It's something like a retractable whip made out of a spiked chain. It also doubles as a grappling hook."

"Sounds like an interesting weapon."

"They are, it's specially made for killing supernatural creatures."

"What about the monsters outside?"

"Inside, outside. Gabriel used one when he fought Satan."

"Wait," Dean gawked. "The weapon hurt Satan? Nothing hurts Satan."

"Apparently the weapon does." Laura stood up and started rummaging through her shelves. "Fifty years ago when I was still dead a woman came in here wielding a combatcross. Because of Dracul's absence, a coven of witches had taken the castle as their own."

"You were dead?" The hunter watched her as she searched.

"Yes, but I got better." She said as if it were an everyday occurrence. "In fact the woman resurrected me. The demon that possesses this castle places locks where it sees fit to test would-be hunters. My resurrection was part of the key to opening the lock."

"Part of the key?"

"Yes." She said pulling the weapon and three amulets from her treasures and handing them to Dean. He looked first at the weapon, pulling out the spike chain and releasing it back to it's hiding place and then at the three amulets noting the different colored crystals adorning each one. The hunter pulled the amulet with the green crystals over his neck first followed by the red and ending with the blue and felt the strange alien energies flow through him.

"I found out about it later." Laura continued. "The key required three things, flesh, blood, and bones. She acquired the flesh from a group of ghouls living in a connecting room. Skeletons, from another connecting room, provided the bones. Finally, blood from her wrist finished the key."

"Why would resurrecting you be a key? Wouldn't an actual key be better?"

"Maybe," she said. "But I think the demon wanted me to kill her, or at least die trying. When I didn't fight her, the demon called some of its monsters to fight her. Frankenstein's monster came followed by a pack of ghouls. It was carrying a huge mallet the size of a man and the monster used it to smash its way through a wall and into the room."

"That's awesome! So… did she win?" the enthralled hunter asked. "Did she kill the ghouls and destroy Frankenstein?"

Laura looked away as she answered his question. "No, she was killed and the ghouls ate her. After they were done eating I came back and took her relics."

"Why?"

She sighed. "I don't know." Laura knew the answer; it was because the hunters were kind to her when no one else was. But she would never say and she would kill any of her hunter friends who discovered the truth.

Brightening, she looked up at Dean. "Now, how about we go try out your new toys on those mean old skeletons?"

An excited, almost childlike smile spread a crossed his face. "I was just about to suggest the same thing."

New chapter- Yay! This is the "why is Laura alive?" chapter. Laura was my favorite in Lords of Shadow, because she was so creepy. She so desperately wanted a friend, but was too creepy to make one. I chose opium as the drug, because it's old school and I didn't think she would know about the others. I don't think medieval Europeans knew about pot. Just incase you're wondering there isn't a romance in this story. I just put Dean and Laura on the summary because they're the main characters. If you like Godzilla go to youtube and watch "Monster Island Buddies". I didn't do the series, but it's really funny.