Young Dracula Season 5: Outtakes

Warning: This outtake will have dark themes, this outtake is the reason this is a T rated story. Please bare that in mind, it's a very psychological episode and dark. Just so you know.

Wow, the 20th outtake for season 5, and it hasn't even been two weeks since it finished from my perspective. I have wanted to write this outtake a while because the episode is so dark, and it make you question things. That's why I put the warning above. I'm going to be exploring that part of the episode.

I don't own Young Dracula.

Sanity – based during episode 10 of season 5

Vlad felt like he was playing cat and mouse with his brother, or rather the person he had thought was his brother.

Internally he felt like he going to explode from all the emotions running through him. There was anger definitely, anger at Asan, at Malik… at all the Ramanga's for even trying to kill to kill his family. Then there was confusion, how could Malik not be a Dracula? It didn't make sense, who was his father if not Count Dracula. That meant that Elizabeta was not having an affair with one person when she was married to Artur… but two.

Vlad shuddered but wasn't surprised.

"What does killing all of us gain Malik?" He asked. "We all thought you were part of our family. Dad has actually treated you as a son. He's treated you better than he's ever treated Ingrid. How do you repay him? Trying to kill us all… twice."

"Well, he should have been there for us in the first place!" Malik snapped.

"How could he have? Your mother was having not just an affair with Dad, but someone else! He didn't know and he had just met mu… Magda." Vlad almost called Magda 'mum', but stopped knowing she never really had been a mother to him.

Malik's eyes narrowed.

"It's not Dad's fault you've ended up how you have," he told him. "You have no reason to attack us. I understand the Ramanga's, they have a reason but you… your mother is gone and you're angry at her. I understand that better than you think. Like you said, we're the same in that respect. Malik you don't have to do this, we can find out who your father is and then work from there."

Malik snarled. "I don't want to know."

"You don't want to know, or you're scared to know?" Vlad asked. "I looked for my mother, and I will never regret that decision. Meeting mum and George was one of the best experiences of my life. You might feel the same if you meet yours."

Malik shook his head and bared his fangs. "I don't need your help, nor do I need any of you!"

Vlad was tempted to back away, but that would show he was afraid so he didn't.

"Malik…" he frowned. "What's happened to you? You used to be a lot more cheerful once, and now… just look at yourself. You're a mess! You're going to let the knowledge you aren't a Dracula ruin your whole life! The Ramanga's won't keep you alive, no matter what Asan tells you."

"I'm no different now than I was when we first met." Malik insisted.

"No, you're wrong." Vlad slowly began to circle the table again. "You're turning into your mother. I can see it in your eyes. You've almost completely lost yourself… it's like if your reflection takes you over. I'd know that look anywhere. My cousin went crazy from his changes and look where it got him. He's dust now. Please Malik, keep this up and you'll be dust by dawn with the rest of us."

"Never," he snapped and attempted to launch a fireball at Vlad, who ducked and crawled under the table knocking it over as he went trying to provide himself with some form of cover.

"You know who Ramanga is reminding me of," Ingrid muttered to her father as she kept her eyes on her brother and Malik who were still trapped in mid-air, trying to struggle their way out. "Sethius. They are so similar it's starting to worry me."

"You're right," the Count agreed and Ingrid looked at him in surprise. "He seems almost as mad as Sethius was… planning to take over the world… using the Chosen One as a reason to…"

"It means he'll end up dust just like Sethius," she said hopefully, scowling at Ramanga who was busy fiddling with some statue. "He's overconfident like him. That'll be his downfall."

"If we can get out of this flapping cage," the Count said irritably.

Ingrid nodded and looked at Vlad, he seemed to be trying to tell them something but couldn't say it out loud for fear that Asan or Ramanga would hear.

Vlad gave up on telling them about Talitha and decided to join the subject. "Ramanga isn't the only one who has gone a little loopy."

Vlad nodded his head to Malik without him noticing. Malik was too busy trying to hopelessly free himself.

The Count raised his eyebrows but Ingrid nodded knowingly. She had seen Malik's reaction to the truth and had been trying to use that to her advantage. It was like earlier in the year, everyone tried to use everything they could against Vlad. It almost destroyed him, not just in the turn-to-dust way but mentally he almost lost who he was.

"It's like what happened to you," Ingrid said to Vlad.

Vlad nodded. "Power and corruption tend to go hand in hand."

"SILENCE!" Ramanga snapped. "I am sick of hearing your stupid voices! I'll be glad when you can talk no longer."

"Ha," Ingrid rolled her eyes. "Like anyone will listen to you."

Ramanga scowled at her. "What are you referring to?"

"You lost your position on the council," Ingrid pointed out. "You're a nobody to them now… and I know that because I took your seat!"

The Count chuckled to himself.

"I warned you what would happened if you stole my seat…"

"Stole?" Ingrid repeated. "You practically handed it over to me! Attempted murder on the Chosen One would have got you thrown off the council even if Dad hadn't defanged you."

"Ingrid," Vlad warned her. "Don't bother taunting him. It won't get you anywhere."

"Yes, listen to your brother Ingrid." Ramanga said. "I don't have time for your games."

He turned away to get back to work.

"How did he come back?" Vlad asked. "The council said he was dust!"

"Necromancy," the Count replied. Vlad didn't ned to know anymore, Bertrand had taught him enough about Necromancy to know how Ramanga came back. But Malik didn't.

"What?"

"Dark magic, death magic," Vlad shrugged. "It's illegal actually…" he scowled at Ramanga. "Basically he managed to preserve his spirit in a shadow world until he was ready to return. His body was abandoned, left empty and probably turned to dust in the sunlight."

"Sounds…" Malik couldn't think of a word to describe it. "Interesting…"

"Not what I would call it," Ingrid muttered.

"He probably came across all sorts of things in the shadow world," Vlad said. "Demons, zombies… maybe even the spirits of the dead." He paused. "The only equivalent I can think of is like walking through hell."

"Hades," the Count corrected.

Vlad rolled his eyes at his father. "Dad, that's a Greek myth. And besides the Ancient Greek world the equivalent is probably Tartarus where all the worst things go, at least according to Greek mythology."

"You know an awful lot about this stuff for a vampire!" Malik snapped. "It's not relevant."

"It's mythology, like we're meant to be. So it is relevant." Vlad realised he sounded kind of like Bertrand and cringed slightly.

Asan felt extremely fearful of his father. He had been all his life, but this was different, this was a kind of fear the almost had him shaking. He had never seen his father like this. Almost manically laughed and bragging and taunting.

It didn't seem right…

Ramanga was like that before, but not to this extreme. Now he just popped out of nowhere, expecting his sons to do exactly as he said and acted nothing like the father Asan once knew.

What had happened to Ramanga in the Shadow realm that drove him to such extremes? It was one thing dusting the clan but it was entirely another trying to steal their power.

And it wouldn't work. Asan knew that, but his father wouldn't let him tell him otherwise as if he didn't want to believe the truth.

Just like Malik in a way… he was in denial about who he was and what was inevitably going to happen to him.

Asan couldn't cope like this. The Dracula's had been good to him and now they were being rewarded with… this? It didn't make sense. Asan knew he was young and there was things he couldn't understand yet, but he knew what was right and wrong and this was wrong, so wrong…

Asan thought about briefly helping the Dracula's… but he couldn't, they would trust him. With good reason, especially given he didn't trust them.

But his father wasn't his father… or was her? This was all too much for Asan to take in. No wonder Malik was on the brink of insanity, he didn't know who he was and that was enough to drive anyone crazy.

Asan just had to hope his father saw reason, but given how little he was seeing at the moment. He doubt it, and knew that any chance of things going right had been thrown out of the window.

When Malik told Vlad about him not being a Dracula I noticed how crazed he looked – Richard Southgate did a fabulous job in the episode – and how much he did as he died too. I think learning he wasn't a Dracula and that his whole life was a lie – like Vlad's – was too much for him to handle. I can't blame him, after all he is a vampire who twists and plots and then finds he is the twist. It would confuse anyone.

As for Ramanga, the Count was clearly right in the episode that he was 'madder' than before. I couldn't help but notice the difference between the season 3 and 4 Ramanga and the season 5 one. He didn't seem to be acting like a father, but an angry boss. I doubt he was like that with Shango and Asan were growing up otherwise Asan wouldn't have looked as terrified as he did.

Thank you for reading and please review!

C

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