Chapter 5: Trip to Vienna

8am, The families wake up and go downstairs thinking that Kimberly has already come down to breakfast. Monroe is in the kitchen cooking breakfast when Mrs. Lawrence who was the last to wake up comes down.

"Good morning. " said Monroe from the stove

"Good morning." Said Mrs. Lawrence

"Does Kimberly always sleep in this late?" asked Monroe

Mrs. Lawrence looks around and notices her daughter isn't at the table. "She isn't down here?" asked Mrs. Lawrence

"No. I haven't seen her all morning." Said Monroe "I thought she was still sleeping upstairs."

"That's unusual. Kimberly! Kimberly! Kimberly!" Mrs. Lawrence yells but she get no response. "She knows there is someone out there who wants to kill her. She wouldn't have left especially without leaving a note."

Monroe turns off the stove "Unless, her dream about Nick was bothering her so much that she went to look for him. I'll call him and see if he's heard from her." Said Monroe

Back at Nick and Juliette's Nick is sound asleep when his cell rings waking him up. "Hello?" he says answering the phone

"Nick, it's Monroe. You haven't heard from Kimberly Lawrence by any chance have you?" asked Monroe

"No, why?" asked Nick

"Last night she got the idea in her head that you were in trouble and we think she might have gone looking for you because when we woke up this morning she wasn't here." Said Monroe

"Where did she think I was?" asked Nick

"The storage yard." Said Monroe

"I'll go check it out tell her parents not to worry I'll find her." Said Nick

"Ok." Said Monroe

Nick gets up and gets dressed. He leaves a note for Juliette and leaves.

An hour later Nick and Hank drive up to the storage yard. " You take left. I'll take right." Said Nick

Nick and Hank split up. Nick goes through aisle and aisle of storage units looking in each one and waiting for any surprises. Suddenly, he hears "Nick! Check this out!" yelled Hank.

Nick runs in the direction of Hank's voice and sees the underground cavern. " It looks like someone is planning on shipping a dead person somewhere."

"You don't think Kimberly could be that dead person do you?" asked Hank

"It's a possibility. Grimms are very valuable dead or alive. " said Nick he looks around and notices a coffin that is open and sees two passports in it one has Kimberly's picture the other has Nick's. "It's about me." Said Nick

Suddenly, Nick hears footsteps behind him and turns around to see the Baron "You are right on time Detective Burkhardt." Said the baron

"Where is she?" demanded Nick

"She has gone on to a much better place and you will be joining her. " said the Baron spitting at him. Nick ducks. He goes to do it again and blood starts coming from his chest and shots are fired at baron who collapses and dies.

"You all right?" asked Hank

"Thanks." Said Nick "Now, come on. We have to buy some plane tickets to Vienna, Austria. " said Nick

Nick leaps from the hole and they head back in the car. Nick dials Monroe. "We know where she is. We're going to the airport now."

"Airport?" asked Monroe

"Yes. It seems the prince shipped her to Vienna." Said Nick

"That's not good now that he has her key he doesn't need her anymore." Said Monroe

"Actually, he does, to get my key. He knows I'm going after her." Said Nick

"But if he knows you're going after her then this is a trap. He'll have both keys and they'll be much closer to ending the world as we know it." Said Monroe

"But I have to do this. If I don't it will go against my duty as a law enforcement officer." Said Nick .

"Good luck." Said Monroe hanging up.

A few hours later Nick and Hank are on a flight heading to Vienna. After many hours they finally land in the Austrian city, go through customs, and get a room in an upscale hotel.

"Excuse me, could you tell us there the palace of the royal family is?" asked Nick to the hotel clerk.

"It's over on Plaza Blvd but commoners are not allowed to enter the palace without prior invitation to do so." Said the clerk

Nick and Hank show their badges "I think they can make an exception for us." Said Hank

"What is this about?" asked the clerk

"I'm afraid this is a confidential American police case. A young woman was kidnapped and brought to this country we want the royal family to ask them about it and maybe send out a notice if anyone has seen the girl." Said Nick.

A few hours earlier, the coffin is brought into the palace dungeon and placed on the floor by two men a cell phone goes off in the pocket of one. "Yes, it has arrived. " he the man said into your phone. "We will let you know when she wakes up, your highness." Said the man who hangs up the phone.

The Prince then called the Baron but no one answers. He tries several times and then heads out to the shipyard and when he gets there sees the Baron dead on the floor of the hidden cavern. "Well, I see everything is going according to plan. It's a pity though I did like the baron and his tricks. No matter, though. Both grimms will be out of the way soon enough." Eric mused to himself he then picked up his phone and dialed "Get my plane ready. It's time to head home." Said the Prince

That night, Nick and Hank rent a car and drive up to the palace of the Renard family. "I feel like I just stepped into the Middle ages." Said Hank looking at the place.

"They are very traditional here I suppose." Said Nick there is a moat surrounding the place "I mean look at this moat."

"How do we get in?" asked Hank

"How well do you swim?" asked Nick

"State Champion in High School." Said Hank

They go up to the moat and dive in and swim under the castle and to the sewer area underneath. They climb out of the moat and see a door heading to the dungeon. They break open the door and walk into it. In the middle of the dungeon among torture devices and things they see the coffin with the lid still sealed. Nick goes towards it and something inside starts to violently shake it trying to open the lid. Screaming starts from inside the coffin. "Nick, maybe we should open it." Said Hank

"Hank, Kimberly, could be in there." Said Nick " I'm opening it."

Nick breaks open the lock and opens the lid. Zombie Kimberly sits up in the front and then gets out and pushes Nick into the dungeon wall with all her might. Hank runs over to Nick "Nick, are you all right? What happened to her?" asked Hank

"I don't know. I've never seen this before. They killed her and brought her back from the dead." Said Nick

"Well, now what do we do?" asked Hank

"I have no idea." Said Nick "Maybe if we talk to her we can get through. Kimberly… Kimberly Lawrence. It's me your friend dectective Nick Burkhardt and my partner Hank Griffin we are here to help you. Now just calm down and we'll take you home." He said offering the zombie his hand. She slaps his hand away and looms closer and closer to them.

"Maybe the best idea is to run." Said Hank

"I like that idea." Said and Nick go towards the door and run closing the door behind them and bolting it from the outside. Zombie Kimberly rams her arms through the wood trying to grab at them and as they run she manages to break the door and go after them. Hank and Nick don't know what else to do so they start shooting her as they run.

"There are many ways. I'd figure I would die but getting killed by a zombie was not one of them." Said Hank "Then again I guess when I came into your world I should have excepted manythings."

Nick and Hank run all though the castle trying to find a place to hide from Kimberly. They eventually find themselves in Prince Eric's bedroom where they are blocked again. "Kimberly, you do not want to do this. You are not this violent creature you are a caring young woman." Said Nick trying to reason with her while pointing her gun just in case. She knocks the gun out of Nick's hand and it falls to the floor. She looms closer to Nick about to bite him. Not knowing what else to do Hank shoots her and she slowly falls over and dies.

"What are we going to tell her parents now?" asked Hank

"We'll think of something. We need to get back to Portland and get her key back." Said Nick as Hank helps him up.