I'm back! Here's another part in the FanFics that everyone has been asking for. It's short, but it's here. Enjoy!
We Will Be Free When It Ends
Part 2
"No!"
Albien began to run after the vampire that was carrying Velkan farther off into the distance, but Van Helsing grabbed her arm.
"We can't just let them take him!" She screamed, fighting to get out of his grasp. "They'll kill him."
"No, they won't," Anna replied, sheathing her sword, but not at all in defeat. "At least not soon."
"Then there is time to rescue him!" Albien said
"Albien, listen to me," Van Helsing, said sternly, leaning over so that he could look his daughter straight in the eyes. "You have followed me on missions for the past four years because you had the natural skill, understand?"
Albien nodded, biting her bottom lip.
"But fighting vampires is more complicated and dangerous than anything you and I have ever done together."
Albien stepped back in horror as she realized what her father was trying to say.
"You… you want me to stay… here? You-you-you don't think I can do it?" She felt tears welling up in her eyes with sadness and raw frustration.
"Albien, listen to me," he repeated.
Albien pulled her arms away from his grasp. "No! You listen to me! This mission was meant for me! Velkan was waiting for me! And now you just want me to stay behind and hide like I'm no more than a common church girl? I'm stronger than even you understood. You didn't know what I saw!"
A look of pure hurt struck Van Helsing's face as she finished her last sentence, as if Albien had just slapped him with a burning brand. She watched with regret as a soft haze misted over his eyes, and she suddenly wanted to take back how harsh she had been. He had tried to save her mother. He had been there for her when she needed an arm to lean on or a shoulder to cry on. He had been the only person in her life that did more than just scold or condemn her.
"Papa…" she whispered, "Imi pare rau"
"No, you're right." It surprised her that he didn't reply in Romanian. "But I'm very, very sorry."
"What? Wh-"
Before Albien could even finish her sentence, she saw stars and then nothing but darkness.
Anna shook her head in approval.
"Nice work, monster hunter," she said, nodding. "You knocked your own daughter unconscious. Very effective parenting."
Van Helsing shot her a glare like frozen fire.
"If you knew her better, you would know that it's the only way we can keep her here while the two of us go after those vampires."
Anna tossed back her chestnut curls and laughed. "The two of us? Oh no, you are going to stay here and babysit your monk. I'm going after Velkan."
The hunter was going to say something else, but Anna turned on her heels before letting him utter another word. No matter the victory or failure, Transylvania still belonged to the Valerious family. There was no way on heaven or Earth that it would ever be anything different.
Huh, fool, she scoffed in her head, as she walked away without looking back. Fools be them all. The hunters, the vampires, all of them! No one comes between her and Velkan. No man, no woman, no child, living or dead.
"Wait!" A voice suddenly called behind her. "I know how to kill Dracula!"
Anna spun around and stared at Gabriel Van Helsing.
"That's impossible."
The hunter nodded solemnly. "I know how to kill him because my wife was the one that brought him back from the dead."
"Marishka! You disobeyed me. I wanted the Valerious prince dead!"
"Let your troubles be laid to rest, my lord. He will be dead, I just want to have my fun with him first."
There was a pause.
"Do I not… satisfy you, my dear?"
Marishka laughs sent a chill down Velkan's back, and he tried desperately not to open his eyes. He had to just listen, not let them know he was awake.
"Vlad, I do not say such things to insult your talent in a coffin. I am referring to my lust for clean blood. Would you deny me such a pleasure?" She hummed slightly. "I assure you, the prince will suffer my teeth."
Dracula made a noise that could have been either a scoff of disgust or a smirk of approval.
"If it pleases you, you may keep the mortal. But if he lives beyond the next full moon or dies before the week is out, it will be your blood on the stone. I want him to know pain as never before."
Even thought he couldn't see her, Velkan could picture the bride grinning with wicked thrill.
"You have my word. The prince will not have easy leave from this world."
Velkan suddenly felt five claws break the skin on his shoulder, making him cringe. A cold hand grabbed the back of his neck and pulled his head back.
"Open your eyes, Velkan," Marishka hissed against his lips. "We have much to do while the night is young."
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