Chapter 9
I get rescued by a werewolf!

Anna slowly walked out of the small opening that lead into the lab, being careful no to get caught. "Yes, yes, yes," Anna heard Igor, talking to the Dwerger. "We must keep the atmosphere electrified," he said to them. Anna looked at the giant machine before. 'This muse be what he is talking about,' she thought as she gently drew her sword that was with her, and heard the Dwerger jabbering as they must be working on this thing. "Accelerate the generator," Igor told them as he was standing at what must be the control panel as she once had seen in a book she had found in her family library.

Out of the corner of her eye she could see one of the Dwerger pulling a switch. "Power the dynamo," Igor commanded as three Dwerger put something that attached to the machine. Igor looked worried as he gazed at the control panel.

"We are losing power," Igor said in a pained tone of voice. He then looked upward. "The human is insufficient," he said with a worried tone. Anna then looked up and saw her brother up on the slab being electrocuted. "Velkan," she said softly as she heard her brother's scream of pain. Anna then looked around for a way to get to him. 'I got to get to him!' she thought before she then saw a rope wire that looked big enough for her to climb up on. 'Better then nothing,' she thought as she sheathed her sword.

When she was checking to see how far she would have to jump, she heard a Dwerger shriek her name. She looked to her right to see one of the Dwerger had spotted her, she quickly noticed on her left another one spotted her. So Anna quickly jumped onto the wire after she spotted a third one coming from an upper catwalk.

As she jumped on, the Dwerger on the upper catwalk jumped on, getting on top of her. Anna grabbed its leg, shaking it back and forth hoping that it would loose it's grip, which it did. Resulting it to fall into the boiling pot that the wire was coming out from. The two other Dwerger from before jumped on after her, one of them tried to grab her feet. Anna redrew her sword and took a swing at the space of the wire between them, cutting it.

The Dwerger on the rope wire fell into the pot that was boiling. 'Good,' Anna thought as she quickly sheathed her sword, not noticing that Igor had spotted her climbing up the rope. "We must not loose the master's progeny!" he shouted as Anna got closer to the roof. She immediately went to Velkan as soon as she got to where he was. "Velkan," she said softly as she caressed his cheek. Velkan looked at her surprised. "Anna?" he said as Anna started to undo his straps. "No, no, no don't unstrap me," he told her as he saw her trying to unstrap him.

"Don't unstrap me!" he said to her in a near shout as he tried to stop her with his free hand. "No, you must not, no!" he then said in a panic tone of voice. "No, no!" he shouted to her.

"Stop," she said as she settled him flat on the slab. "Stop it," she said again, trying to calm him down. "I'm getting you out of here," she told him. Velkan suddenly looked tense. "Velkan, it's all right, I'm taking you home," she told him before he covered her mouth with his free hand, which was starting to change into a wolf's hand as Anna looked into her brother's eyes that no longer were human but of a wolf.

-Back to Ana, Dracula and Van Helsing-

'What the hell was that?' Ana thought before she looked back at Dracula who had started to walk to her and Van Helsing. "So, would you like me to refresh your memory a little, hmm?" he asked Van Helsing. "A few details from your sordid past?" he asked Van Helsing again, knowing he had his attention. Ana then took a step in front of the Count feeling that she should keep him focused on her then Van Helsing. "How can you be so sure he is who you think he is?" she asked him. Dracula smiled sweetly at her, which made her heart skip a beat. "I might be right, I might be wrong," he said to her. "But I know I'm right about you, my dear," he added as he looked directly into her eyes.

"Right about me?" Ana asked as she tried to calm down her pounding heart as she looked back at him looking surprised. "Yes," Dracula said with a smirk. "And what would you mean by that, Count?" she asked him knowing he was almost close enough to touch her. He smirked at her as he then started to reach to her, but suddenly Van Helsing pulled Ana back and shoved a silver crucifix into Dracula's hand and in front of his face. Dracula screamed as he held the cross that soon set on fire at his touch and started to melt but Dracula then dropped it to the floor.

"Perhaps that is a conversation for another time," he said with a devil's smile, as he kept his eyes on Ana. "Allow me to reintroduce myself," he said as he looked at Anna with a charming smile as he took a step back. "I am Count Vladislaus Dracula," he said before he took a half way bow to them.

'At least he knows the proper time for manners,' Ana thought as she felt flattered by his introduction. Van Helsing however was a bit creeped out, but he was more at being speechless at Dracula knowing something about him and also something about Ana he never knew. Dracula the looked at Ana as he straightened from his bow. "Born 1422," he said to her before looking at Van Helsing with anger. "Murdered 1462," he said to Van Helsing with anger, making Ana look at Van Helsing with a raised brow.

-Meanwhile at the village-

Carl ran for his life into the village soon finding out that his warning was too late. Screams filled the town as every single villager was fighting against one or two of Dracula's children. Carl then saw a woman being pulled by her leg by one of the creatures, hanging onto the sign of the bar. "Help me!" she cried to him as she saw him. Acting fast Carl grabbed a wooden bucket and tossed threw it directly at the bat that was on her leg, hitting a direct bull's-eye. Carl quickly caught the young woman in his arms, saving her from hitting the ground. They both looked at each other relieved before they saw the same bat creature toss the bucket to the side before it started flying directly at them at full speed. As they screamed for their lives, the creature suddenly stopped and started to screech in pain.

And before their eyes blinked, the creature started to expand like something was making it become a giant bat ball and then it exploded like a smashed water melon. Soon all of them one by one started to explode like popped balloons. Aleera and Verona shrieked in pain and sorrow as they saw all of their babies die.

They both flew to Castle Frankenstein to tell Dracula what happened...

Van Helsing, Ana and Dracula had hear Aleera and Verona's cries, making Dracula turn his back to Van Helsing and Ana. Van Helsing grabbed Ana's hand before he ran to where he had spotted small elevator of sorts. Ana glanced back to look at Dracula who had been hugged two crying brides before looking back at her. Van Helsing pulled out one of his Tojo blades and cut the rope, making the elevator go straight up to the roof, not knowing that Dracula and his brides following them closely. 'I won't let him take her again,; Dracula thought as he ran vampire fast after them.

Anna broke free of her brother's clawed hand before she ran to the stairs she saw and slid down the rails to get away as quick as possible, looking back as she heard her brother's groans as he was starting to change into a werewolf. She then gasped as she bumped into Van Helsing. "I think we overstayed our welcome," he told them both before he lead them to a edge taking out a grappling gun gadget out of his pocket and shooting it.

"How can we cross with three?" Ana asked him. "Just grab onto me and hold on tight," he said as he settled the gun to a good spot for it to hold them till they crossed. They all glanced back as they head Velkan's yells as they saw him half way transformed. Anna nodded her head at Van Helsing before she and Ana grabbed onto Van Helsing as he soon grabbed a hold and started to slide across on the long wire. Ana had her eyes shut as they cross, praying that they make it there safely. As soon as they were half way across, Velkan fully transformed had jumped onto the wire making it break as soon as he grabbed it. And Ana taken by surprise lost her grip as soon as Van Helsing and Anna started to gasp. But soon they started yelling as they were swinging to the other side, not knowing that Ana wasn't with them.

Ana screamed as she found herself falling to the river. "Ahh!" she cried. "Save her!" she heard someone shout from above her, who it was she couldn't tell for she had curled herself as a ball to hopefully shield herself from the shock of hitting the water.

She could only hear Velkan's howling as she found herself being held by something hard before she felt herself splash into and under the water blacking out from the force...

Dracula hunched over the edge he was sitting on, hearing Aleera and Verona cry in mourn of the loss of their children that just died. He was waiting with his breath held as he looked at the river below hoping that Velkan had saved Anastasia, whom he saw falling. Closing his eyes he used his ability to see what Velkan sees now that he had full control over him. An he felt relief as he saw through Velkan's eyes, that he had Ana in his arms and she was softly moaning. 'Thank the Devil,' he thought as he sighed of joy.

'Take her to the mill ruins,' he commanded to Velkan telepathically. 'And after she is safe there, leave her and come back to me immediately,' he added before he opened his eyes looking to the waters below. He found himself for once in his life helpless and speechless. First he had believed that he could possibly save his kind from total destruction by being able to create life as humans and animals could, but soon after he killed Victor Frankenstein and failing to save the key that could help him save his people, he had started to loose any hope that he might be able to do that. 'At least I get something out of all this,' he thought to himself. 'Not only will I have my revenge on the Valerious family and my murderer, but also get a new bride as wall,' he added as he started to smirk. "I am sorry, master," he heard Igor say to him as he heard the hunchback walk up to him. "We try and we try, but I fear we are not so smart as Dr. Frankenstein," he added with an unhappy look on his face.

"Truly," Dracula sighed in agreement to Igor. "It would appear the good doctor took the key to life to his grave," he added before Velkan climbed up the castle wall, shaking the water off of him. Dracula looked at him with a cold and angry look on his face. "Hunt them down," he commanded to Velkan flashing the images of Van helsing and Anna in Velkan's mind. "Kill them both," he added as he looked to the woods knowing they will be there.

"But do not harm Anastasia," he said as he stood up knowing Velkan can remember the girl he was just with. "Protect her if needed but do not harm her," he added with a serious expression as he looked at Velkan. Velkan then went off to hunt for his prey...

Author's note:

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

I again had to fix up this one cause I had outlined in the story to be like in the movie but I realized that it would be confusing if I wrote it scene for scene in this part so I changed both chapter 8 and nine to be like a written chapter of a book. So I hope it will be okay to you viewers out there.

And Finally we find out where our Anna went off to! I also had written out some bit of a scare of sorts with Ana falling while the others had escaped but I gave a bit of something to show of Dracula's feelings in all that so far have happenedd which I know we all would like to know when we watch the film.

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

17.) Anna's too late from V.H movie soundtrack (from when Anna is unstrapping Velkan partly) [link]

18.) Useless crucifix from V.H movie sound track (crucifix moment of course) [link]

19.) The clock moves from Once Upon a time tv sound track (when Anna is falling and Dracula is relieved to see her still alive. ) [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.