CHAPTER 40

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Dracula smiled as he transformed into a younger and taller man once his regeneration was complete. Then to everyone's complete surprise just as Jenny attacked him with Vortex energy, he blocked it with a force field made out of Vortex energy.

"What is going on?" Jenny asked.

"As I said before, I am reborn. My new friend improved upon me and made me more powerful than ever. Not only did they make me into a Time Lord with infinite regenerations, but they also gave me mastery over the power of the Vortex. I am more than a match for all of you now!" Dracula boasted in his new deep, booming voice.

"It looks like they still didn't improve on your ego. It's still as big as ever, dumbo!" Donna said as she and the rest of the Bad Wolves suddenly appeared behind Dracula.

"You shouldn't have come here, Miss Noble. You have arrived just in time to meet your doom. I am going to kill each and every one of you painfully and slowly. Then I will help my new benefactor to wreak havoc across this world. It will soon belong to me as will Alina," Dracula said.

"In your dreams, Vlad. I won't go back to being that horrible person anymore. I'm going to help take you down once and for all so that you can never ruin another person's life ever again like you did mine. I was an innocent young girl once before I met you. I was about to get married. I wanted that life, Vlad. I wanted to have children someday, and you took that away from me! Twice!" Alina said as she briefly looked at Amanda sadly.

"Not necessarily. I had children. Rose enabled me to have them somehow even though I'm a vampire," Ileana said.

Alina looked at Jenny who smiled at her and nodded. Alina began to feel elated. Maybe there was hope for a semi-normal life for her yet.

"There will be no children for you regardless of whether that's true or not, Alina. You'll either be my bride once more, or you will be a pile of ashes. It's your choice," Dracula said.

"I'd rather be the ashes," Alina said firmly.

"I will change you back as you were before, and you will think differently once more. Once again, you will be mine," Dracula promised.

"That's not going to happen, Fang Boy. She's one of us now, and she's staying that way," Donna said.

Alina and Donna shared a smile then as Donna looked apologetically at her for a moment. Amanda laughed as she cheered. She knew that the adults would catch on sooner or later. They were always a little slow, but they always got there eventually.

"Then she will die along with you," Dracula said but there was a catch in his voice as if he didn't quite mean it.

"Jenny, it's good to see you again. I wish it had been for a reason other than dumbo here though," Donna said as Dracula began to start fighting at last by attacking them all with blasts of Vortex energy from his hands.

"I'll have to come by more often, Donna. I've been a little busy lately plus I've been proposed to and all so I haven't quite had the time," Jenny said as she used her powers to shield the others from Dracula's attacks.

"Yeah that reminds me. When were you planning on inviting me to this wedding of yours exactly?" Donna asked as she used her sonic screwdriver to send several of Dracula's attacks back on him almost hitting him with his own blasts several times.

"I haven't invited anyone yet. We haven't even set a date. You'll be the first person to know, Donna. I promise," Jenny said as she threw Dracula hard against one of the walls of the Wolves' headquarters with a telekinetic push.

"I'd better be. You don't want to get on my bad side. Ask your dad how dangerous that is. He can tell you plenty of stories about that," Donna said with a smile on her face that undermined her words as she used her sonic to keep Dracula pinned tightly against the wall that Jenny had thrown him into.

Jenny laughed as she knew that Donna loved her too much to ever follow through on that threat and was just pretending. In fact, Jenny considered Donna to be a second mother to her in addition to being her godmother. She was the one who named her after all and convinced the Doctor to accept her as his own. She would always owe her for that.

Now that Dracula couldn't move at the moment, Adriana Van Helsing suddenly produced two more stakes from her belt and threw them with both hands at both of Dracula's hearts at once. Admittedly, she had to guess where his second heart was considering that she had never studied Gallifreyan biology before.

Dracula still had his new Vortex powers though and was able to disintegrate one of the stakes with a gesture while he deflected the other one back towards Adriana. Adriana's eyes widened in horror as the stake flew back towards her. It flew straight at her heart and would have hit it if Alina hadn't stepped in the way just in time as she moved quicker than the wind.

Alina gasped in pain as she collapsed to the ground with the stake in her heart. Adriana cried out in anger as she jumped towards Dracula with another stake in her hands. She wanted to finish him at close quarters this time.

"Lina!" Amanda cried out in pain as Alina lay there unmoving.

Jenny was suddenly standing next to Amanda with a warm smile on her face as she said, "Don't get upset, Amanda. You know how tough Ileana is, right?"

Amanda nodded and Jenny said, "Alina's just as hard to kill as Ileana is now. Watch!"

Alina's eyes popped open in surprise as she ripped the stake out of her heart, and the enormous gash it had made in her chest instantly healed behind it. She held onto the stake to use as a weapon as she quickly got back onto her feet.

"Nice try but no cigar," Alina said as she joined the now relieved Adriana in taking on Dracula in hand to hand combat with their stakes.

"Well, it looks like I'm not the only one of my kind anymore. I guess I'll have to give up my copyright on the Temporal Vampire title. Oh, well. I had a good run as the only Temporal Vampire. It had its moments," Ileana said as she too joined in the fight now as she tried to get close enough to Dracula to bite him so that she could drain him dry of his blood.

"What are you babbling on about, Fang Girl?" Donna asked in an annoyed voice as Dracula kept fighting back against her sonic with all of his strength and power as he tried to move off of the wall that she still had him pinned to. She was now pushing it to its breaking point, and it was beginning to smoke.

"Oh, nothing. I've just lost one of the things that made me unique that's all. Now I'll just have to settle for being the prettiest one of the group instead. I've still got my looks after all," Ileana said as she finally managed to latch onto Dracula's neck at last.

"You don't present such a pretty picture now, Lana, sucking away at Dracula's throat like that," Donna said with a grimace.

Alina began to wonder yet again if she now fed on vampires as well. So far she had felt no hunger for any kind of blood since she had changed. Then as she saw Dracula use his Vortex power to attack Ileana and send her flying away from him, she understood at last. She knew what she was now.

She leapt at Dracula right through the force field that he had put in front of him which had no effect on her as she dispelled it as soon as her body touched it. Her body had actually absorbed the energy powering it as soon as it touched her skin. She then extended her fangs and sank them into Dracula's throat as she reached him.

"How did you do that? What are you now?" Dracula asked in shock.

Instead of drinking his blood as Dracula had expected, she began to drink in all of the Vortex energy in his body through the two puncture wounds instead. Dracula screamed in frustration as he could feel her sucking his new powers away as soon as he tried to use them on her. Alina knew what she was now, and she was taking full advantage of it.

"I have a new hunger now, Vlad. I hunger for the power of the Vortex inside of you," Alina explained as she continued to drain him dry of every last iota of power in his body.

She was a new kind of temporal vampire who fed off of the power of the Vortex. She would completely drain all of the Vortex energy out of someone and if given enough time could even completely sever their connection to the Vortex.

"Well, it looks like I'm still unique after all. Now to celebrate that fact, I'm going to have a bite to eat," Ileana said as she sank her fangs into the other side of Dracula's neck and started to drink his blood again.

"Get off of me, you parasites!" Dracula screamed as he tried unsuccessfully to dislodge one or both of the two vampires by pounding on them with his fists.

Donna was still holding him in place just barely as her sonic continued to smoke even more. She only hoped that it lasted long enough for the two vampires to finish him off.

Dracula began to visibly weaken, and now Adriana and her father, Abraham, both advanced on him in his weakened state. They both smiled at one another as they anticipated finally finishing off their family's greatest enemy together.

"I guess this is one of those father-daughter bonding moments, isn't it?" Adriana asked with a large grin all over her face.

"It certainly is in our family. Killing Dracula is almost like a rite of passage to one of us," Abraham said with a laugh.

The two Van Helsings then stabbed Dracula in both hearts together at once as he screamed in agony. Abraham it turned out had studied Gallifreyan physiology after Dracula turned several Time Lords into vampires a while back. It always paid to be able to anticipate your enemy after all even though he never thought that Dracula would become a Time Lord himself.

Dracula gasped as he tried in vain to pull the stakes out of his body. In the weakened state that he had been left in by the two vampires, he didn't have the strength to even budge them. He knew that he had to remove them first though in order to heal himself and survive.

He could still heal himself since he was still in the first fifteen hours of his regeneration, but even that would do him no good with two stakes stuck in both of his hearts. If he didn't remove them soon, he would still crumble into dust despite being a Time Lord.

"No, I can't go out this way!" Dracula protested.

"You're right. Why have it take that long? I'll finish you off quicker," Elisabeta said as she cut Dracula's head off with a large silver blade.

Even the body of a vampire Time Lord couldn't sustain such damage, and Dracula crumbled into dust instantly. That was when Michelle stepped in. She took half of Dracula's ashes and instantly teleported them into the Mirror Verse before he had a chance to reassemble himself. Jenny then completely disintegrated the rest of Dracula's ashes with a gesture.

"Let's hope that he stays gone this time. I don't ever want to have to face up to Old Fang Face ever again," Donna said as she shut off her sonic screwdriver just in time to avoid having it blow up in her face.

Amanda looked incredibly sad now as she sat there on the bed. Katherine walked over to her and sat down beside her as she said, "What is it? I thought that Dracula being truly dead at last would make you happy."

"I thought so too, but it just feels so empty. It still doesn't bring my parents back. It still doesn't give me back the life that I had before," Amanda said sadly.

"I'm sorry, sweetheart. Just think of it this way though. At least he can never hurt anyone else again. He's gone at last," Katherine said as she put her arms around her to comfort her.

Alina couldn't even look at the two of them. She felt so sorry for the part that she had played in the deaths of Amanda's parents.

"Are you okay?" Michelle asked Alina.

"No. I should be joining Dracula. I'm just as guilty as he is," Alina said.

"You've changed and for the better. You helped us to kill Dracula once and for all, Alina. I'm not even sure that we could have done it without you. You did a lot of good here today. The world is much better off with you alive than as a pile of dust, Alina, and so am I," Michelle said with heartfelt emotion.

"Thank you, Michelle. That really means a lot to me," Alina said.

"I feel exactly the same way, Lina. I don't blame you for anything. That was a different person that helped Dracula. She was the person that Dracula made you into not who you really are," Amanda said as she suddenly appeared next to Alina and looked up at her with a warm smile.

"I wish I could believe that. All I know for sure is that I really am sorry for everything that I did especially to you," Alina said as she hugged Amanda tightly.

Katherine could hardly believe that someone who she had thought of as an enemy for centuries had suddenly become so different. Even after everything that Alina had done to prove herself she still felt a strong urge to pull Amanda away from her, but she fought against her maternal instincts just this once. She did this in part because she realized that many people would feel the same way about her raising Amanda due to her being a vampire, and yet she knew that no one could love her more than she did.

"Well, I have my own crew to get back to, Donna. It's good to see you again though. All of you. You're all good people. You're all invited to my wedding when Patrick and I can ever have five seconds to ourselves to set a time and a place that is. It seems like we're always so busy lately with one thing after another that we really haven't had time to think about it. You'll know soon though I promise. Good bye," Jenny said as she gave Donna a hug.

"Good bye, Jenny. Don't be such a stranger from now on, okay. I mean we are related now. I'm your . . . What am I exactly to you now?" Donna asked as she tried to think about it.

"Well, your granddad is my dad's step-dad now so that makes you my . . . step-cousin? I think I'll just stick with you being my godmother. I like that better," Jenny said with a smile.

"Me too. It's much less confusing that way. Good bye, Jen," Donna said.

As Jenny disappeared in a burst of energy, Donna sighed. She wondered if she'd ever have a family of her own. She knew that she would love to have a daughter like Jenny someday.

Nearby and unseen by everyone, a pair of malevolent eyes watched the whole scene with amusement. Dracula had proven that Sekhmet's blood could turn the right person into a full Time Lord and give them unlimited regenerations. Sekhmet's blood still had the nasty side effect of possibly making that person into a vampire or worse of course, but in Dracula's case that was a moot point. Giving him Vortex powers had been her own powers at play because she had wanted to add her own crowning touch to her new creation.

Dracula had served his purpose so it was no great loss to have him fall at the hands of the Bad Wolves. There would be plenty to replace him now that she had the proof that she needed. Soon she would perfect the process so that she could make anyone immortal as long as they served her. She knew of plenty of people in the Celestial Intervention Agency that would be more than willing to take her up on that offer and so would Pandora once she found a vessel that she liked.

It was all falling into place now. Nature abhorred a vacuum after all so it was only natural that she should step into a vacant role that fit her so well in order to do what she did best and cause a little chaos here and there. That was what her name meant after all, and she had more than tried to live up to that name in her long, long life.

You couldn't have light without the dark. You couldn't have a White Guardian without a Black Guardian.

Next: The Wolves return to Ice World and reunite with K'anpo, Mel, and Glitz. Did K'anpo ever get together with Mel? Find out next time. Oh, and so that everyone doesn't mistake this for a romance story I'll throw in a mysterious threat that threatens to destroy everyone on the ship. Oh, and who is that mysterious girl with the attitude and the red hair that keeps watching Donna? I'm sure you can guess.