Chapter 4
Skill training for a new hunter...

Ana walked out of her room after the maid finished helping Ana into her new clothes which put together made her feel she was the most powerful bad ass woman in all of Transylvania. "Man I can't wait for the other to see me in this!" she said as she looked at herself in the mirror that was outside her room. Her white peasant blouse with stitched in blue lilacs, and dark blue corset with stitched in forget me nots with purple vines. Which matched with her violet colored tight pants and dark brown knee high boots that had two belt buckles attached to it so to not only tighten them more comfortably for her, but also to slip a pocket knife like Anna's boots do too. And also she had a pure silver crucifix with a red ruby in the center of it, and a nice touch with her sterling silver blessed bracelet with the 'Ave Maria' prayer imbedded into it and her black long coat that had six straps on it so to strap the coat like buttons along with three straps on each arm as part of the design, as well as it had no collar.

"Anastasia..." a voice called to her as she admired her new appearance. She turned sharply behind her as she heard the voice come from behind her. "Not again," Ana whispered to herself as she then walked down the hall where she heard Van Helsing and Anna's voice.

As she turned around the corner she pulled out the diary she found earlier out of her coat pocket. But suddenly she slammed into Carl who was holding something in his arms. "Uh!" she said as she bumped into him. "I'm sorry Ana!" Carl said as he looked worried. "That's okay Carl," Ana said with a smile after she took a breath and relaxed her heart. "Actually I was going to look for you," she said as she showed him the diary. "I was looking for you too," Carl said as he handed her a mini crossbow that was similar to Van Helsing's Crossbow but a bit different. "I thought this might be useful for you," he said as he handed it to her.

"It is made out of pure sterling silver that is blessed with holy water," he said as Ana looked at it and practiced aiming it. "The arrows here," he added as he strapped a belt around her waist that had a lot of small arrows inside. "They are blessed as well," he said before looking at her. "This was the second weapon I made to be the companion of the crossbow I gave to Van Helsing but I think you would like it," he said as he watched her examine it. "It's wonderful Carl," she said as she gave him a peck on the cheek, which made Carl blush.

"Thank you," she said to him. Carl looked nervous and shy. "Um, well, it was nothing," he muttered.

'Guess I got him all embarrassed," Ana thought before she then showed the diary. "I found this in a hidden compartment in the desk in my room," she said as he looked at it. "I think this is Dracula's diary," she added. "Dracula's diary?" Carl asked as he looked at the first page he opened to. Ana nodded her head.

"I think so, or someone that might have written down where Dracula might be living now and possibly how to destroy him," she replied, even though she felt sad and strangely heartbroken about that. 'I never really met him so why do I feel so sad?' she thought before resting her new weapon on her shoulder. "This possibly might be able to help us either way," Carl said as he looked over the page that talked about Dracula's first riding lesson with a friend of his he thought of as a brother.

"so while I take my lessons with Van Helsing, you can read this," Ana said before patting his shoulder. "Have fun," she said before walking to the armory and her jaw then dropped as she saw what she didn't expect to see as she came out in her new clothes... Van Helsing holding Anna in his arms. "Um, should I leave you two alone?" she asked with a raised brow. Van Helsing then looked at her like a man that got caught at a bad time.

Van Helsing sighed as he adjusted Anna in his arms. "It's not what it looks like," he said to Ana. Ana smirked at his response.

"I knocked her out to prevent her from going off after Dracula," he explained. "Tried to convince her to wait till tomorrow morning but she is just stubborn and hell bent," he added shaking his head. Ana half-laughed at that before she walked up to undo the belt Anna had on, then she settled it on the table nearby along with her mini cross bow. "So you knocked her out to stop her," Ana said as she got Anna and helped Van Helsing pick her up. "Let's take her to her room," Van Helsing said as he lifted her up.

"Do you know where it is?" Ana asked. "Uh, no," he answered. "Well, you're lucky that I do since the maid told me as she helped me into my clothes," Ana said as she lead Van Helsing down the hall she just came from and turned to the second door that was from the door way. "You do know she is going to give you hell when she wakes up?" Ana asked as she opened the door. Van Helsing smirked at Ana's words as he carried Anna into her room and settled her on the bed. "I'll deal with it when it happens," he said as he then slipped Anna's jacket off. Ana smirked at his reply. "So, what will you be teaching me?" she asked as he settled the jacket on a chair that was near by.

"Well, one teach you how to use a cross bow, shot gun and a pistol," he replied as they both walked out back to grab their bows and his shot gun. "Sounds like fun," she teased feeling a slight bit nervous. Van Helsing chuckled. "Don't be nervous," he said as he settled a hand on her shoulder. "I promise to keep you safe and also make you lessons fun," he said to her with a friendly smile before they both walked out of the castle and headed to a patch of old ruins in the woods.

Ana never knew that shooting a shot gun or a cross bow would be a tough lesson to learn. "And you had how many years to train with this?" she asked as she practiced shot with Van Helsing's shot gun having finished with her quick practice with the cross bow. "Apparently longer than you have," Van Helsing said as he was behind her, helping her hold with the shot gun more better to aim.

"At least in my time not everyone is required to know how to shoot unless they are a policeman, hunter, solider, or bodyguard," Ana said with a smirk. "And glad to know that the Vatican still stands," he said before he stepped back and allowed Ana to take a shot. "Well, your Vatican is one of the most powerful forces on earth in my time, or at least the Pope is," Ana said before she took the shot, hitting a bulls-eye on her fifth try. "Good job, Ana," Van Helsing said with pride for his student on doing so well. "Well I had a good teacher," Ana said with a smile, feeling proud of herself.

Van Helsing smiled before he then heard a sound close by. He then pulled out one of his pistols. "Stay here," he said before he ran off into the woods. "Wait, what is it?" Ana asked but it was too late for he was gone. 'Great, now what?' Ana thought as she slowly looked around, holding the shout gun up and ready to shoot anything that was an enemy. "I just hope I don't end up shooting Van Helsing or an innocent idiot that startles me," she softly whispered to herself. "Anastasia..." whispered an elderly voice that had a deep Romanian, Transylvanian accent. Ana sharply turned to where she heard the voice and found herself looking at an elderly looking man dressed up in a knight like armor.

He looked at her with a sad expression on his ghostly face. "Anastasia..." he said with a soft sad tone that sounded like he was full of pain, sadness and regret. "How do you know my name?" she asked keeping her weapon pointed at him. "Once, long ago," the ghostly man said as he slowly floated to her. "You were once precious to my family," he added as he then stopped moving.

Ana shook her head, confused a bit by what this ghost man just said. "Who are you?" she asked softly. "Anastasia...It is I, Valerious," he replied as he looked at her with sadness in his voice.

"Anastasia...You must take back..." Valerious started before a shadow came from behind Valerious and whacked him with an electric wand of sorts. "Be gone ghostly swine!" the shadow shouted before he slowly walked out of the shadows. "A torture's work is never done," the shadow said as he walked out of the shadows before Ana. Ana's eyes widened as she saw who the shadow was...Igor!

Igor then noticed Ana before him. "You!" he said as he slowly walked up to her. Ana quickly raised the shot gun up at him. "Hold it pal," she said as she backed away from Igor to keep a distance. Igor smirked at Ana the same grin she recognized as the one he gave to Victor in her dream. "Do not be afraid my dear, I will not harm you," Igor sad as he slowly started to circle Ana. "Forgive me, but I find that a total load of crap," Ana said keeping her gun aimed on Igor. Igor laughed at that.

"Oh, I don't blame you for not trusting me," he said to her. "Especially since this is not your homeland," he added before he took a step to her. Ana shot close to his foot before he took another step. "Keep your distance if you want to keep your foot," Ana said knowing Van Helsing would've heard that shot. Igor laughed again. "A little spit fire aren't we?" he asked her as he lifted his weapon wand he used on Valerious before. "Not really, I just hate back stabbing hunchback's that choose money over their friends," Ana said sarcastically, forgetting that Igor didn't know that she saw what happened to Victor in her dream. "How do you know that?" Igor asked as his eyes widen at what Ana knew.

Ana scoffed at him. "Like I am going to tell you," she replied before aiming her shot gun at Igor's hump. Igor then glared at her. "My master wants to meet you," he said with a hint of anger in his tone.

"Oh, does he?" Ana asked ready to fire the gun in her hands. "Yes, but he wasn't specific as to how to take you to him," he replied. "Nor as to your condition on when you meet him," Igor said before he used his weapon to make an electrical bolt, attacking Ana. Ana then jumped to the side dodging his attack. She took this chance to take a shot at Igor's hump, but he moved his weapon just in time before the bullet hit the hump.

Igor growled in anger as his wand blasted into two pieces. "You little witch!" he shouted at her before he took a little machine gun weapon and started shooting at Ana, who ran behind a giant boulder as soon as she saw Igor pull his weapon out. "He is definitely pissed," she softly whispered before she took a quick peek as Igor stopped shooting. Ana took the chance to take a shot at him, ending up getting Igor in the left leg. "Ahh!" he cried as he fell to the ground, his leg slightly bleeding. "Bulls-eye!" Ana thought as she slowly got closer to Igor. But as she got closer enough to kick his weapon away, he quickly pointed his weapon to her chest. "Don't move," Igor said as he looked at her and Ana kept her hands still.

"I would unhand the lady if I were you," Van Helsing said as he pointed a gun at Igor's head. Igor turned to glare at Van Helsing, but his glare turned straight to a grin. "Well, well, well," he said to Van Helsing. "If it isn't the murderer of the master's bride," he added with a small evil laugh. "You've got quite the nerve, showing your face around here," he said.

"You should talk," Ana said before she bashed her gun into Igor's hunchback, making him drop his weapon. She pointed her shot gun at Igor. Igor glared at Van Helsing ignoring Ana's hit at his hunchback. "The master will be most pleased to have his revenge, but not before he finishes off the last of the Valerious!" he said before he threw a gas bomb and disappeared. "Ana!" Van Helsing called as he covered his mouth of the gas. "I'm all right!" she shouted back as she softly coughed. Soon the smoke cleared up with the blowing wind.

"He's gone," Van Helsing said as they both saw Igor was gone. Ana sighed heavily before she then noticed something on a boulder nearby. "Watch out!" Ana shouted at Van Helsing and aimed her shot gun to the giant beast that looked directly at Ana before Van Helsing pointed his pistols at the creature. The beast howled like a wolf before he jumped across to the other side of them and disappeared into the woods. "That was a werewolf!" Ana said as she started to run to the village after picking up the bag of their weapons.

"We got to get to Anna before he does!" she added as Van Helsing then started to run after her...

Author's note:

Here is my fourth chapter of my fan fiction inspired by the Van Helsing movie and also a little written piece by Seduction of time!

This one past on by easy as pie for me, but took me a while to write it down since alot of my attention was need off of paper and lap top. (babysitting my neiece and make sure my sick grandmother takes her medicine on time since she got nemonia...)

Also had realized that I didn't have a full outfit for Ana to have in the story so I made one in one of the doll maker programs. But also I had to search around to make the outfit with real items. Which you will see below.

Here are the pictures of the boots, coat, cross, mini cross bow, and secret dagger and blouse to help you all get a better image of the outfit.

Coat: [link]

Cross: [link]

Boots: [link]

Corset (not forget me nots but this is what the design is like: [link]

Blouse (not blue stiched but same shirt) : [link]

Small arrow head knife: [link]

Mini cross bow: [link]

*Color of the pants* [link]

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

9.) Almost dance from the Van Helsing movie sound track (with the battle shooting music with Igor and Ana.) [link]

Anastasia Ircus belongs to

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.