Seduction of Time

by Vamphunterdlover

Anastasia Ircus takes a trip to the land of vampires and soon finds herself back into the past where monsters were REAL. Can the legendary Van Helsing keep her safe or will she be seduced by the very monster he is hunting that also has a connection to his past?

2. Chapter 1

Chapter 1: A hunter's misson

Rome, Italy 1888

A lone figure walks into the holy church in Rome Italy, walking with his hat respectably off, heading straight to a confessional booth feeling a bit agitated but also was a bit tense for some reason. He got inside and knelled on the alter, starting to cross himself. "Bless me father for I have-" he started to say but was interrupted by an angry voice. "Sinned, yes I know, your very good at that," an Italian voice said, making the stranger wince as if his is bracing himself for a whole lot of smighting...at least verbal smighting. The confessional panel opened to show an old Cardinal was on the other side.

"You shattered The Rose Window," the Cardinal said accusingly. About a few months ago, this man was sent by this very Cardinal to help bring in a man named Dr. Jekyll to help him save his from his darker half Mr. Hyde, who had started killing innocent women in the streets of London and others that crossed his path. The Doctor had planned on using dark magic involving Queen Victoria, which this man saved but like most of his missions, he would get himself into deeper trouble then he already was, hence the 'sinning' issue and also this had resulted him becoming the most wanted man in all of Europe. It was until a week ago that this man had located 'Mr. Hyde' in Paris, France and he 'tried' to capture him but it resulted in Mr. Hyde dying. And also the famous stained-glass window in Notre Dame's church being smashed and broken. "Not to split hairs, but it was Mr. Hyde who did the shattering," the man said in defense. "Thirteenth Century, over six hundred years old," the Cardinal said in a pained tone before he looked at the man with a bit of anger. "I wish you a week in hell for that," he added with a glaring look.

"It would be a nice reprieve," the man said with a bit of humor and relief. "Don't get me wrong," the Cardinal said looking calmly at the man. "Your results are unquestionable, but your methods attract far too much attention," he added pointing a finger at him.

The Cardinal shook his head in disappointment. "Wanted posters, he said. "We are not pleased," he added with a sigh. The man looked at the Cardinal shocked and a bit mad. "Do you think I like being the most wanted man in Europe? Why don't you and the order do something about it?" he said in an annoyed and angry tone, but made sure to not to shout.

The Cardinal opened the panel window and moved his face closer to the man's. "Because we do not exist," he said in a hushed tone. "Well neither do I," the man said as he got up and started to leave the booth.

But before the man could set one foot out of the booth, the Cardinal pulled a lever and made an iron gate block and lock him inside. "Van Helsing, when we found you crawling up the steps of this church half-dead, it was clear to all of us that you had been sent to do God's work," the Cardinal said as he crossed himself. "Why can't he do it himself?" Van Helsing asked in a mutter, sounding a bit annoyed. "Don't blaspheme!" the Cardinal said in a near shout. The Cardinal then pulled another lever which made the inside booth wall come up like a secret wall, which it was. "You already lost your memory as a penance of past sins," he said as the secret wall came up. "If you wish to recover it," the Cardinal said as he got up from his chair in the booth. "I suggest you continue to heed the call," he added as he started to walking down the stone steps in the passageway. "Without us, the world would be in darkness," he said as Van Helsing started to follow him down the steps.

"Governments and Empires come and go, but we-we have kept mankind safe since time immemorial," the Cardinal said as they entered the underground catacombs of the church. Showing that every religion around the entire world was working here in secret to help fight in the secret battle against the darkness. "We are the last defense against evil," the Cardinal said as he and Van Helsing walked to a part of the catacombs that Van Helsing knew was where he was going to be given his next mission. "An evil that the rest of mankind has no idea it even exists," the Cardinal finished as they finally got there. "To you, these- these monsters are just evil beings to be vanquished," Van Helsing said looking at the Cardinal face to face, which Van Helsing was getting his pain of the kills off his chest.

"I'm the one left standing there when they die and become the men they once were," he said as he pointed at himself slightly trembling as he had always done when he had killed every being that had become a monster. The Cardinal had pointed a finger at him looking at him with sympathy knowing his burden is heavy. "For you, my good son, this is all a test of faith," he said gently.

The Cardinal snapped his fingers and the projector showed a map of Romania. "And now, we need you to go to the East," he said as he turned to look at the map with the hint of either sadness or pity. "To the far side or Romania," he said as he moved around to the other side of the table filled with scientific and medicinal bottles were on it. "An accursed land with all sorts of nightmarish creatures," the Cardinal said as he returned to look at Van Helsing. The picture changed to the next tableau, which then showed a picture portrait of a young man that looked like a prince of Arabia or an exotic land. "Lorded over by a certain Count Dracula," he added as Van Helsing leaned against the table not looking at the picture. But when Dracula's name was mentioned something sparked a recognition of the name, but he couldn't figure out why. "Dracula?" Van Helsing asked as he then looked at the picture.

"Yes, you've never faced one like this before," the Cardinal replied as Van Helsing walked to see the picture more better. "Our story begins four hundred and fifty years ago," he said as the next picture showed and it was a picture of an elderly man in armor. "A Transylvanian knight named Valerious the Elder promised God that his family would never rest nor enter heaven until they vanquished Dracula from their line," he went on as Van Helsing looked at the portrait picture.

The Cardinal sighed sadly. "They have not succeeded, and they are running out of family," he said as he walked away and leaned against the table before looking at Van Helsing. "His descendant, Voirs Valerious, King of the Gypsies," he added as he slowly walked to stand by Van Helsing. "Disappeared almost twelve months ago," he said before the picture changed again to a young man with short cut dark hair. "His only son, Prince Velkan," he said before the picture changed to a beautiful young woman with the same hair color as prince Velkan's but more longer. "And his daughter, Princess Anna, if the two of them are killed but Dracula is vanquished, nine generations of their family will never enter the gates of ST. Peter," he said looking at Van Helsing. When Van Helsing saw Anna's face he felt that recognition spark come upon him again.

"For more than four centuries this family has defended out left flank. They gave their lives," the Cardinal said with a tone of respect and admiration. "We cannot let them slip into purgatory," he said.

"So you're sending me into hell," Van Helsing said with a teasing smirk on his face, knowing the Cardinal would be amused with this. The Cardinal only smiled. "In a matter," he replied before he walked to a monk that handed him a small scroll.

The Cardinal then walked to the table and unrolled the scroll showing it to Van Helsing. "Valerious the Elder left this here four hundred years ago," he said as the scroll unrolled and showed Latin words on it. "We don't know its purpose, but he would not have left it lightly," he added as he looked up at Van Helsing, before pointing at the Latin words. "The Latin inscription translates as, 'In the name of God, Open this door'," he said as he moved his finger over the words. He then pulled the scroll more undone. "There is an insignia," he added and Van Helsing looked puzzled. He looked at his left hand and gazed at his ring that had the same insignia as the one on the scroll. "Yes, it matches your ring," the Cardinal said knowing Van Helsing had made the connection.

"I think that in Transylvania you may find the answer you seek," he added as Van Helsing looked at him. "But tread carefully my son, for there is also something coming, something that only God himself would know," the Cardinal said before patting Van Helsing on the shoulder. "And take Carl with you," he added with a smile. "He needs to get out of the Abby," the Cardinal said as he then walked away.

Van Helsing smirked at that as he rerolled the scroll and looked at Anna's picture again before he walked to where Carl was...

Van Helsing soon found him and walked up to him, wasn't that hard to find him with his blonde pixie hair cut and one of his inventions on his head. "Well did you bring Mr. Hyde or did you kill him?" Carl asked as they walked together to his work area. Van Helsing sighed heavily. "You killed him, didn't you? That's why they get so annoyed," he said as they were about to pass the sword smith area. "When they ask you to bring someone back they don't mean as a corpse," he added as Van Helsing gave him a glare. "Oh,all right, you're in a mood. Well, come on," he said knowing Van Helsing was getting mad. "I've got a few things that will put the bit back in your mouth," he said before Van Helsing started admiring swords.

"Oh, any idiot can make a sword," Carl said scoffing before he came face to face with an angry holy sword smith, holding a hot tipped sword he was working on. "Oh, Sorry, Father," Carl said before Van Helsing walked him to Carl's table of weapons. "Here, take this," Carl said as he handed Van Helsing an empty sack, stuffing rings of garlic, bottled holy water, silver stakes, and silver crucifixes. "Why can't I have one of those?" Van Helsing asked as he saw a monk testing on a new invention that looked cool to him. Carl looked at him with an annoyed look. "You have never gone after vampire before have you?" he asked as they started to walk to the next table.

"Vampires, Gargoyles, Warlocks, they're all the same, best when cooked well," Van Helsing replied as they walked to the other table of Carl's station. "No, no, no, they're not all the same," Carl said sounding serious. "Carl, you've never been out of the Abby except a few months ago in London, how do you know about Vampires?" Van Helsing asked with a chuckle. "I read," Carl replied as they got to the Glycerine 48 table. "Here's something new, Glycerine, 48," he said as he carefully got a small drop on his finger and flicked it which resulted a small explosion. Carl apologized about five times before looking at Van Helsing with an excited smile on his face. "The air around here is thick with envy," he softly whispered before going to his table and picked up his latest invention he had made which was a gas propelled cross bow that looked cool.

"Gas propelled and capable of catapulting arrow in rapid succession at tremendous velocity," he said as handed it to Van Helsing to try it out. "I've heard of the stories coming out of Transylvania, trust me you'll need this," he said with certainty. Van Helsing handed it back to him and walked to a small orb that had a lime green color inside it.

"Did you invent this?" Van Helsing asked as he picked it up to look at it more closely. Carl looked worried and tried to take it back from Van Helsing like he was holding a relic. "I have been working on that for twelve years!"

Van Helsing moved to the other side of the table and played keep away with Carl's invention. "It's compressed magma from Mount Vesuvius with pure alkaline from the Gobi Desert, one of a kind," Carl said as he explained what it is made of, handing the cross bow back to Van Helsing.

"What's it for?" Van Helsing asked with a smile. "Oh, I don't know, but I'm sure it will come in handy," Carl replied as he settled the orb into a carrying box for it. Van Helsing looked confused and puzzled at that. "Twelve years and you don't know what it does?" he asked. "I didn't say that," Carl replied as he took his 'hat' off and settled it on its hat rest. "I said I didn't know what it's for," he said as walked to the other side of the table that had Van Helsing's shot gun. "What it does is to create a light source equal to the intensity of the sun," he said as he grasped another sack then packed the box and the shot gun with ammo for both the cross bow and shot gun. "Can blind your enemies, Charbroil or hurt a charging wildebeest, use your imagination," he said as he paced the ammo and handed the sack to Van Helsing.

"I'm not Carl," Van Helsing said with a grunt as he held the sack with his free arm. "I'm gonna use yours that's why you're coming with me," he added looking at Carl. "Oh the hell be damned that I am," Carl cursed sounding a slight bit shocked. "You cursed," Van Helsing said sounding a bit surprised. "Not very well, mind you," he added nodding his head at him.

"But you're a monk you shouldn't curse at all," he said looking Carl still surprised. "Actually, I'm still just a friar, so I can curse all I want...Damn it," Carl said with a smirk on his face. Van Helsing smiled at Carl's reply. "The Cardinal has ordered you to keep me alive," Van Helsing said as he tossed the sack gently into Carl's arms. "For as long as possible," he added as he passed Carl and went up the steps that lead out of the Abby.

"But I'm not a field man," Carl said with fear in his voice. "Van Helsing, I don't want to go to Transylvania!" Carl whined in fear as he ran after Van Helsing.

-In the Transylvania woods-

"No, Anna, it will kill you!" one of the Transylvanians said as he grasped Anna's shoulder, trying to keep her from getting herself killed by the werewolf whom they were trying to trap using Anna's brother, Velkan, as bait. But the rope that was suppose to lift him to safety got stuck part of the way, hence why she was drawing out her sword. "That's my brother up there!" she said as she swatted the man's hand off her shoulder and she started running towards the werewolf with her sword drawn high.

"Cut the rope! Cut it now!" Velkan shouted as he saw Anna coming. The werewolf saw her too and was about to leap at her but he fell into the trap pit that was dug around the pole the beast was on, but soon he was in a tarp bag inside a steel cage that soon was being lifted up into the air. Velkan had drawn his gun prepared to shoot the the monster with silver bullets but soon he collided along with the the top of the cage making him drop his gun. The hunting party that was with them started shooting at the beast as soon as Velkan was in the safety of the tree that was nearby. "My gun!" he shouted as loud as he could over the gun fire and the werewolf's roaring.

"Find my gun!" he shouted again. "Find Velkan's gun," Anna shouted as he she searched around the hunters for it. "It has to be the silver bullets!" she added as she shoved her way past two of the shooters. The cage rattled so much that it was about to crash down as one of the ropes holding the cage up broke apart."Anna, hurry, hurry!" Velkan shouted as he was worried for Anna's safety with the werewolf.

Anna searched frantically and soon spotted the gun. She pushed her way through two shooters as she started running to make a grab for it. The cage's other rope soon then broke away and the cage started to fall down. "Anna, look out!" Velkan cried as Anna almost collided with the cage but she soon turned around. "Run!" she shouted to the others as she started to run into the foggy bushes, trying to outrun the werewolf as the others shooters spread out and ran like hell. Anna kept on running as fast as she could, once or twice glancing behind her to see if she was safe, but the werewolf was hot on her trail. Soon she found herself at a cliff and cornered. She turned to see the beast pouncing out of the bushes and was about to land on top of her, but she was pushed out of the way by Velkan who had gotten his gun and shot at the beast.

But the werewolf took Velkan with him over the cliff. Anna got up, hoping that Velkan was hanging on the edge but she looked down into the river below the cliffs and saw the splash spot in the water. "Velkan..." she softly whispered before looking up with a tear streaking down her face. "God..." she said with a hint of fear, for she was now the last of her family. "Help us..." she pleaded as the wind blew on this cold winter morning.

Down at the bottom of the cliffs on the surface of the river two bodies floated down all the way to a small beach shore landing, stopping half in and half out of the water. A man all in a all black cloak looked down at the body of Velkan. "It would seem that our dear Lawrence Talbot has been slain in action," the man said in an Romanian accent.

"Luckily for us, he has passed his gift of the wolf onto Prince Velkan," the man said as he kneeled down and gently touched Velkan's face. "Now there is only his pretty little sister, Princess Anna Valerious," he said with a smirk on his face as he then grabbed Velkan's shirt collar and started to transform into a huge demonic bat and flew off into the distance, as he hurried to get back to his castle before the sun was fully up.

-Carpathians, Transylvania. Romania 2012-

"And soon in about ten minutes we will be arriving at the Poienari Fortress, one of the legendary castles ruled by Vlad Tepes or otherwise known to those of you from America as 'Vlad the impaler', or the most famous title, 'Count Dracula'," a female tour guide said as she lead her tourist group up the trail that lead to the Poienari Fortress.

Ana couldn't help but be excited as she followed up the pathway following the tour group. It has been four hours since she had arrived from her early arrival to Transylvania and had been escorted in a limo, which shocked her, to the Ramada Majestic Hotel. Finding out soon that she had a Dracula Transylvania tour to attend to, compliments of her patron, who she had yet to see or meet.

So the tour had started by departing from Bucharest, heading for Sibu and stopped along the way there to see the Curtea de Arges monastery. Which has a legend about a man named Manole, who lead the craftsmen who were building the church, and his wife 'Ana' who was sacrificed for the building to stop crumbling and falling apart, and was buried in a wall inside the church. Legend says that the king at the time was so impressed with its gorgeous beauty that he took the scaffolding leaving the craftsmen stranded along with Manole for in fear of then crafting another unique church for someone else. Manole and his men had used leftover wood to build wooden wings to try to fly down but all of them crashed and died one by one.

"Now that is what I call a 'Karma biting you on the butt'," Ana thought when she first saw the wall Manole's wife, Ana was buried in. Ana had felt bad for the poor woman and while no one was looking, she got a flower from the flower shop near by and settled the flower against the wall. "Hopefully she is resting in peace," Ana whispered as she was following the tour guide when they left the church and was heading to the next part of the tour, which was to the Poienari Fortress.

"The Poienari Fortress was built in 1456 after Vlad Tepes had taken over the throne," the tour guide said when they were about twenty steps away from the castle, stopping for those to catch up the 1,480 steps of the actual 1500 steps. "One of the Legends of Vlad Tepes, says that he had the nobles he had arrested for treason at the time work and build this very fortress till they finished construction," she said as she pointed to a wall nearby. "Another Legend says that he entrapped them and impaled them out below the valley here to add to his victims as a warning to his enemies of his wrath if they ever dared to try and go to battle against him," she added before she started to walk up the rest of the steps. "If you all follow me, I will show you where Vlad's wife had jumped to try and avoid being captured by the advancing Ottoman army," she said as she lead the group into the fortress. Ana let the others get ahead of her for she wanted to look at the valley a little longer, and take in the scenery.

"Anastasia..." a soft voice called out to her as soon as she was alone on the steps. "Whose there?" she asked as she looked around to find the owner of the voice. "Anastasia..." the voice said again and this time it sounded like it was coming from inside the fortress. Ana walked up the stairs to the fortress, following where she heard the voice grew stronger as she gotten deeper into the fortress. A shadow flickers behind her as she follows where she hears the voice grow louder as she goes to the tower where Ana felt that this must be where Vlad's wife must have jumped.

"Come to me Anastasia..." the voice spoke again, sounding now more human and yet she knew she heard his voice before, in her dream on the flight to Transylvania. "I need you..." the male voice said almost close to a whisper in her ear, which made her body chill with goosebumps. "I wonder if this place is haunted by an unknown ghost," she said softly to herself as she rubbed her arms up and down to warm herself.

Suddenly out of nowhere a powerful gust of wind blew all around her like she was trapped in a cyclone of a twister. "What the hell?!" she shouted over the roaring wind. 'Don't tell me my luck has just gone down hill like Manole's!' she thought to herself as she found one of the metal bars that was there, and she held on so not to fall down to the valley below.

"Come to me..." the voice said echoing in the wind before Ana felt a sudden push from behind her. Taken by surprise of the push, Ana had let her grip loosen making her fall down to the valley. "Ahhhhh!" Ana screamed at the top of her lungs as then suddenly a whirlpool of white light and gold appeared before her and closed up as soon as Ana fell into its cyclone...

-Adriatic sea, ship bound for Transylvania-

Van Helsing turned to look behind him as he had thought he had heard a woman scream. "First my nightmare and now I am hearing things," he muttered to himself as he glanced back to the roaring ocean. "Guess that is what happens when one is at sea for nearly six weeks," he thought to himself.

After Convincing Carl to come along and managing to get out of Rome without getting caught by any bounty hunters or police, they both boarded the ship the 'Demeter' and sailed to Transylvania. But sine he left, Van Helsing had felt tense and uneasy. Particularly when it came to his dreams. Normally he could handle them since he first woke up in Rome completely wiped of his memories, but now they have seem to have gotten worse and have repeated over and over. Seeing Anna's face but different from the picture of her he saw in Rome, more innocent and gentle. But soon that face was filled with fear and begging for whatever was going on to have him help her or stop whatever he was doing to her. 'Like I was the reason she is so frightened and begging at me to do something," he thought as thunder started to rumble, showing that a thunder storm was coming. "Whatever the Cardinal believes is coming is defiantly going to be happening in Transylvania," he thought as soon as the ship had started to dock and Carl walked up to him with their sacks of vampire fighting weapons and ammo for his new crossbow and shot guns.

Soon withing two days they arrived at the entrance of the Transylvania village. And already Carl looked nervous and jittery from all the villagers looking at them with dislike in their eyes.

"So what do you remember?" Carl asked after getting off their horses and tying them to a post. "Not now, Carl," Van Helsing said a bit uncomfortable with that subject. "There must be something," Carl said wanting to know just to distract the stress that was starting to come upon him with some of the villagers slowly following them. "I remember fighting the Romans at Masada," Van helsing replied as they walked trying to ignore the villagers. "That was in 73 A.D.," Carl said with surprise.

"You asked," Van helsing said as all of the villagers were now watching them both. "What are we doing here?" Carl asked sounding a bit more nervous. "Why is it so important to kill this Dracula anyway?" he added.

"Because he's the son of the devil," Van Helsing replied as he moved the tip of his hat to hide his face. "I mean besides that," Carl said as the villagers gotten a bit closer to them. "Because anything bitten by him or created by him will also die," Van Helsing replied quickly, secretly wishing that the villagers would stop following them. "I mean besides that," Carl asked as they got closer to the village well and what appeared to be a pole of sorts with candles around it. A man wearing all black and wearing a black top hat smiled at them as he stepped up to them.

"Welcome to Transylvania," he said with a half twisted smile on his face. Van Helsing sighed heavily before he settled his sack down and turned around to see all of the villagers looking at them and holding objects as if ready to attack them at any time. "Is it always like this?" Carl asked in a squeaky whisper. "Pretty much," Van Helsing said as he rested his hands on his pistols ready to draw them out. "You, turn around," Anna said as she was standing on the edge of the well with her hands on her hips behind them. Van Helsing and Carl both slowly turned around and looked at Anna who was looking at them curiously. "Let me see your faces," she said, sounding like it was an order or command. "Why?" Van Helsing asked with a raised brow.

"Because we don't trust strangers," Anna replied with a hint of coldness in her tone. "Strangers don't last long here," the creepy top hatter said as he stood behind Carl and measured him up from behind. Anna started at them before she nodded to the villagers. "Gentlemen, you will now be disarmed," she said calmly. Van Helsing reached for his pistols looking at them as they started to closing in on him and Carl. "You can try," he says with the hint of warning in his tone. The Villagers then stepped back, taking the hint that this man is not an easy person to take down. "You refuse to obey our laws?" Anna asked with a raised brow, surprised that this man is one that doesn't do well with orders, or at least orders from a woman.

Van Helsing looked up at her with a smirk. "The laws of men mean little to me," he replied. Anna smiled. "Fine," she said sounding a bit annoyed. "Kill them," she ordered the villagers.

The Villagers started to step towards them again. "I'm here to help you," Van helsing said, stopping the villagers for a second. "I don't need any help," Anna said with confidence. "Oh really?" Van Helsing asked with a bit of a smirk as he had glanced behind Anna. Suddenly Van Helsing pulled out his cross bow and pointed at Anna. Anna gasped as she then ducked, as soon as Van Helsing started shooting at the three marble white vampire demonic bat-women flying directly at them with all the speed their large wings could provide. But they flew upward when the had no choice with Van Helsing shooting his arrows. "Everybody inside!" Anna shouted knowing that the brides of Dracula would kill anyone that would get in their way from getting to her.

Anna soon spotted one of the brides flying toward Van Helsing and she jumped at him to knock him out of the bride's path of flight, making him drop his cross bow and her landing partly on top of him. Soon though another bride caught Anna and started to fly off with her. "Oh, no, you don't!" Van Helsing thought as he ran and jumped after Anna grasping at her ankles. The bride hissed like a cat at the extra weight she was carrying. Soon she let Anna go, knowing that her wings couldn't hold the heavy weight., making Anna land on her bottom on top of Van Helsing's chest as his head was between her legs.

Van Helsing rolled her over so he was on top. "Stay here!" he shouted at her. Anna rolled over so she was on top. "No!" she shouted back against the screams of the panicking villagers that were still running around to safety. "You stay here, they're trying to kill me!" she added before running off.

Van Helsing sat up glaring at Anna before looking back at his cross bow seeing it was where he dropped it. He soon got up and started running to it, being sure to avoid running into a villager. And also hope one of those vampires doesn't pick him up.

The blonde bride flew with the black haired one over Van Helsing and paused at a spot in the air to look at him. "Marishka," the black haired one said to the sister bride. "Kill the stranger," she hissed as she yanked an arrow out of her collar bone.

"Love to," Marishka said with a joyful tone. Both brides then split up as Van Helsing soon picked up his cross bow. "Run!" Anna shouted as she ran in the opposite direction as she was chased by the black haired and red haired brides. Van Helsing shooting at them being sure to not hit Anna in the process. Then his bow ran on empty of arrows and he glanced at Carl who was hiding in cover by the well. "Carl!" he shouted. "Carl, it's not working!" he shouted as he backed to him. Carl got a roll of arrows out of the sack.

"Try aiming at their hearts!" he shouted before throwing it to Van Helsing who caught it with one hand and looked behind him to see if there were any of the brides flying at him. He then spotted Marishka flying in on him at his right in full speed. Before she got a grab at him, he jumped forward making Marishka miss him by a hair. He got back up as soon as he reloaded his bow, spotting Anna as she was running by him again. He aimed at them and held the trigger making a hail of arrows fire upon them, keeping Anna safe until she jumped over a cart and hid for cover.

Suddenly the brides vanished as the sun's bright white and golden light shined in the open area in the clouds, no one noticing the shadow figure falling from it as Van Helsing, Anna and Carl were too busy looking around for the brides...

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Author's note:

I am finally done with chapter one of my newest fan fiction 'Seduction of time! :faint: This one took me about up to three days to write AND one whole day to type out. And the reason it was cause I had to decide on which how much from the movie I should write out into this, particularly the ones that seemed the most important but I could tweak it a bit to put into words and possibly add my own sort of story telling into it.

Like for example I chose from the start on not writing the hyde fight that happens in the movie after the black and white prologue that introduces Van helsing, and the small little scene with Velkan's big flip with the werewolf trap. (If any of those that haven't seen the movie, I think I just gave you a bit of a spolier here in this chapter.)

I am going to point out to the readers that although this is inspired from the awesome Van Helsing movie, this story is about Anastasia so it is going to be mostly on her point of view so to speak. Not Van Helsing as it sort of is in the movie.

And I left a little easter egg of sorts for those of you that recognize Lawrence Talbot's name, which I have just realized that Stephen Sommers either forgot to do or it didn't pop into his mind when he made the movie. So I decided to have this in there for universal monster movie fans out there since this guy was the orginal wolf man along with Dracula and Frankenstien. Plus I wanted to have explained on how Dracula got him to his castle as we see him later with one of my favorite Dracula moments in the movie.

In the start of this chapter, I also gave a sort of a spolier explaining the whole hyde and Jekyell case if those haven't seen the prequeal of Van helsing that was made and animated in the next or same year. (not sure when it came out, but hopefully some of you that haven't seen it might get interested in seeing it. It is good animated in my opinion and has the original actors that plays Van Helsing, Carl and the Cardinal in it. Not sure about the hyde voice actor though... ^^; )

And I had a hard time writing out one of my favorite Carl funny moments in the abby which was hard to try and write some of the stuff a bit shorter then in just big graphic details, since those would slow the story down.

And I also should point out on the legends stuff that is told as Ana takes the tour, DO come off of the Dracula Translyvania tour that you can actually take and learn all this. (here is the website I got it off of to help me with the tour bit. [link] )

And I have three pictures of the famous fortress that ana goes to and the hotel that she is staying at here:

Hotel: [link]

Fotress from the steps: [link]

Fortress picture 1: [link]

Fortress picture 2: [link]

And the most I had the least writing out was actually one of my most favorite special effects scene that made me drop my jaw to the floor and my eyes widen of the scene with the brides attacking the village.

Here is the sound track for this chapter to help you with some of the bits in here:

4.) Werewolf trap from the Van helsing movie sound track (which after 24 seconds after velkan is dangling on the rope and anna draws her sword is when the part in my story starts if those of you get confused.) [link]

5.) So it begins from...the MUMMY RETURNS movie soundtrack *easter egg alert for those of you that know some of Stephen Sommer's films!* (which starts at when Anna is walking to the tower bit that you see in fortress picture one where picture two is taken at.) [link]

6.) Journey to Transylvania from the Van helsing movie sound track (This track starts like in the movie with Van Helsing traveling to the village of Transylvania by ship like in the moive. Continues onto chapter 2) [link]

Anastasia Ircus belongs to :iconanaxerik4ever:

Van Helsing belongs to Stephen Sommers and universal pictures/Studios

And all of the songs I place here for the sound track all belong to their movies, bands and composers that composed them.