Chapter 16

A message from a friend and the friar confesses...

Van Helsing, Anna and Carl ran into the laboratory a few hours behind Ana. They arrived too late as they saw the laboratory was practically stripped of the equipment. "They must've taken all the equipment to Dracula's lair," Ana said. "Wherever that is," Van Helsing said panting as he had tried to run like Hell since he woke up at the Inn a day ago. Carl looked nervous to the point that if anyone touched him, he would jump up scared. "This is bad," Carl said softly said as he fitted with his hands. "Look!" Anna shouted as she spotted Ana's carrying bag. "It's Ana's bag!" she said as she picked it up and the scroll with a red ribbon wrapped around it.

"What is that?" Carl asked sounding scared. "It's possibly a letter," Van Helsing replied as he took the note and opened it. "What does it say?" Carl asked as he walked up to them to see what it said.

"'Gabriel, by the time you read this, you will be too late. I already have my soon-to-be bride Anastasia, who came to me of her own free will. I could do many evil things but I could never harm nor lie to someone I love," Van Helsing started to read aloud to the others. "'So in return for my Ana coming to be by my side, I will spare you and your friends, including princess Anna. But note that if you all try to find my castle and stop me from fulfilling my plan, I will do what you did to me four hundred and fifty years ago,'" Van Helsing went on finishing up the letter.

"Go and live your life while I still allow it, Count Vlad Dracula,'" Van Helsing said before he scrolled down the letter and found one more little written bit on it. "'P.S: Do not think that your so called Holy Order will allow Anastasia to live if had you managed to get the monster to Rome, they don't like very creatures of evil or not supposedly human,'" he said looking confused at that bit. "What does he mean by that?" Van Helsing asked puzzled at that. Carl made a soft squeaking sort of sound that made Anna and Van Helsing both look at him. "Carl?" Van Helsing asked with a raised brow. "What is it?" he added. Carl looked at them nervously. "There is something that I didn't mention," he said as he took a few steps away from them.

"What was it?" Anna asked Carl. "Rome also wanted you to do something else," Carl said looking at Van Helsing. "Something that I found myself surprised at," he added as he fitted with his hands again. "Something they never explained the reason why," he said as his voice got squeaky. "What was it Carl?" Van Helsing asked with his voice getting annoyed.

Carl looked down to the ground before he looked at Van Helsing dead in the eye. "To prevent Dracula from repeating a past event and if you failed to destroy Frankenstein you must kill Anastasia," Carl answered trying to keep his voice calm. "What?" Anna asked sounding outraged and shocked at this. Van Helsing roared in anger grabbing a piece of equipment that looked like it was thrown there before and threw it against the wall. Carl ran up to him, grasping his arm. "Look, there is still time," Carl said looking at him. "We don't have to kill her unless Dracula has changed her into a bride, and he can't do that or bring his children to life until the sun sets," he explained to Van Helsing, who was fighting his anger. "The sun sets in two hours," Anna argued.

"We've been looking for him for more then four hundred years!" she added. "Yes, well, I wasn't around for those four hundred years, now, was I?" Carl said looking at them with a happy smile on his face. Van Helsing then looked at Carl with a surprised look on his face.

Carl lead the others back to the tower where he had left the diary of Dracula, he showed it to them. "Ana found this hidden in Dracula's writing desk in a secret compartment," Carl explained to them before he gently flipped the pages to a particular entry. "Dracula's diary!" Anna said in a gasp as she saw it.

Author's note:

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

Here in this chapter we find out that the holy order wants Van Helsing to kill Ana! And this one is the shortest chapter our of all of them...I hope you guys like this one.

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

42.) What the queen loves most from the Once Upon a time tv soundtrack (starts when Van helsing and the others enter the lab and find Ana's bag and Dracula's note.) [link]

Anastasia Ircus belongs to

Van Helsing belongs to Stephen Sommers and universal pictures/Studios