Young Dracula Season 5: Outtakes

I could have done this one earlier but I decided it was more appropriate to put it here. I have kind of mixed in some of the things from the 'Mythology' episode of Lessons for a Vampire in here, plus my own ideas from when I was watching the series.

If you haven't watched the Lessons for a Vampire episodes it doesn't matter, as long as you have watched all of series 5, you'll be fine. But, if you want to watch them then I would recommend it, they are only a minute or two long each, and there are thirteen of them, but they are funny and give you more insight into the series. Just go onto the Young Dracula page on the CBBC website and you'll find them easily. If you can't access them because you aren't in Britain – it does happen unfortunately – then you can find quite a few on YouTube, but not all of them are on there.

I don't own Young Dracula.

Desperation – based between episodes 7 and 8 of season 5

The Count flicked through the book at amazing speed. Usually he left this kind of speed reading for papers, but this was a desperate case. In a way the Count was beginning to understand what Vlad had been feeling like whenever he had to get through books for his own survival.

Except in this case it wasn't just one life at stake (A/N: Okay, did not intend to make that joke…), it was the whole Dracula clan!

The Count cringed as he reread the section describing how the Magister Maleficorum held all evil in the world…

Thing was, it was so obvious what it was. The translation of its name itself pretty much summed up what it was. Magister meant master and Maleficium, which was very close to maleficorum, meant do evil. So in a nutshell the name practically translated to mean 'Master of evil'.

The Count laughed nervously, it would be him that would be stupid enough to steal the 'master of evil' and now pay the price for first not investigating it and second stealing it in the first place.

The box was clearly more than it seemed. From what the Count read, the box was related to a very different myth. One the breathers called 'Pandora's box', where a girl released all the evil and monsters into the world but kept hope inside.

Not quite the same thing, but the – whatever it was – was in a box, just like all the evil in the world. It was slowly spilling out and there seemed nothing they could do to stop it, exactly like when Pandora opened the box out of curiosity.

Thing was, it got worse than just that though. The Count found reference to a Semen sanguis, which meant seed of blood, but also had meanings relating to lineage, parentage etc. Like the box was only meant to open for a certain family. It was like this was destined.

Also semen had another meaning, which was spark and sanguis also meant life. The spark of life? The Count had a feeling it was no coincidence that when the box first began to open it affected all the vampires but no living being. It was as if it was feeding off the vampires or something…

But then what? There would only be breathers left.

No, the Count thought to himself. The thing must kill people as well, it was probably a spark that would cause an explosion or something. But the question was how big? Would it cover the Earth's surface? Could it cover something that big?

The Count started pacing, his plans to move to Haiti or Italy had been thrown out of the window.

After some careful calculations he figured he couldn't go either place. He had been looking forward to seeing Haiti as well, because he knew Vlad had been there when he travelled and he met Talitha there. Vlad might have been more willing to stay with the Count if he was somewhere he had travelled to.

The Count looked at his map. Parts of America were safe, including California. That meant Ivan would be safe.

The Count sighed with relief, the last thing he wanted was to lose another brother especially now he knew he hadn't killed Artur. Still, he couldn't take refuge there. Ivan probably would be fine with them coming around but with Vlad in the condition he was… it wasn't smart having Olga around him. She'd betray them the second she learned he was half breather.

So, where to go…

Russia… no, the Count had too many enemies there…

Russia and America, they had never got along… irony was, if the whole planet was destroyed then parts of them would survive.

Up miles and miles above the Earth was the International Space Station, safe from anything that happened on Earth. Not that space itself was safe, but it was safer than a box that was the master of evil that was certain. Up there some humans lived and would survive if the box did destroy the planet.

The Count laughed to himself, humans were so resourceful. The 'never ending unbeaten' as he liked to think of them. They managed to avoid extinction even when they didn't intend on it. The Count had seen it many times, especially when there had been mass plagues. The disease would kills thousands, maybe millions and yet there would still be some persistent breathers who would survive.

It was so ironic that it would the 'pathetic breathers' that would survive all the evil in the world and yet vampires, who should understand it better given they were evil as well, would be wiped out entirely by it.

"I'll go up there and drag the others with me if I have to," the Count muttered under his breath. There was no way the Dracula's wouldn't survive this. He'd do whatever it took to save his family.

Even if it meant living in one of the sunniest places on the planet. Even if it meant leaving the planet until it was safe.

When I looked up the magister maleficorum, I found there was no such word as maleficorum in Latin, but only maleficium. It seemed no coincidence that maleficium means 'do evil' and magister means 'master – though there are many words in Latin that mean master. The whole blood seed thing was something I made up from looking blood seed up in Latin, and from there looking at other translations for semen and sanguis.

Really, blood seed in Latin is sanguis semen, but in Latin they do things backwards – well, backwards compared to English but to the French and some others it would seem the right way and English seems wrong – so I switched it because it sounded better.

The whole saving the family thing just seemed logical. But I remembered about the ISS (International Space Station) because I'm a sci-fi whizz and used to want to be an astronaut. I stuck that in to prove how important the others are to the Count, and to show how we – humans – suppassed the vampires ages ago because in YD they are still stuck in the 17th or 18th century! It shows in ways that the Count is exactly like Vlad, he will do anything to protect this family.

Thank you for reading and please review!

C

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