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Van Helsing walks to the steps of the church and sits on them. Lupe and Carmelita helped Bentley back onto his wheelchair. Carl soon went to get Van Helsing's hat, but then heard a lowing, and noticed the cow Marishka tossed into the house has survived. Bentley, Carl, Lupe, and Carmelita soon went to Van Helsing, who was panting after this battle.

Van Helsing takes his hat as a female villager said, "He killed a bride!"

"He killed Marishka!" said a man.

Everyone was shouting this until someone said, "He killed a vampire!"

"She's not dead!" Bentley shouts, they all looked at him in shocked as he explains, "The bride, Marishka is still alive, only mortal and no longer a vampire, but she is now where we came from in a cell."

"Despite this, if he did kill her, isn't that a good thing?" Carl asked.

"Vampires kill what they need to survive, one or two people a month, despite we get word from a Nosfearatu that they are still alive," the top hat man replied, paused, then said, "But now, if it's possible, they might kill for revenge."

Everyone shouts in agreement, then Carl asked, "Are you always this popular?"

"Pretty much," Van Helsing replied.

The man then asked, "So, great defeater of Mariska, what name, my good sir, do I carve on your gravestone?"

"His name is Van Helsing," someone replied, everyone watched as Anna, with Tess on her shoulder and Taylor following her make through the crowd to the man and Taylor's friends. The crowd murmur about that name as Anna looks at Van Helsing, and said, "Your reputation precedes you."

Van Helsing gets up, walks to Anna, and said, "Next time, stay close. Despite this Fear Clan leader won't allow it, you're not good to me dead."

Anna smiles and said, "Well, I'll say this for you. You've got courage," she goes around, and said, "With the help from this group," she gestures at Taylor's friends as she said, "he is the first to defeat a vampire in over a hundred years," she looks at Van Helsing and Taylor's group, and said, "I'd say that's earned them drinks."

"As long as it's not alcoholic for us," Taylor added.

In a large frigid room, a portal opened, and Nosfearatu came out, but then was shivering, and said, "If only the thermostat vas invented, but it hasn't yet." He soon noticed an open coffin, and in it somebody was encased in ice. He knows that it is Dracula.

Suddenly the ice begins to thaw and crack like glass, until Dracula burst out, and calls out, "Marishka!" He was then sobbing as bats fly around him and he floats down to the ground.

"A bit overly dramatic, I vould say, Count," Nosfearatu said, Dracula looks, then Nosfearatu said, "She is still alive, only mortal, or human."

Dracula begins walking as Nosfearatu sees Aleera and Verona were hanging upside down in sadness and fright, as their master said, "Despite her still alive, why can't they just leave us alone?" He begins walking to the wall, but then begins to walk on the wall as he said, "Despite we haven't done it, but if we did, we never kill more than out fill and less of out share. Can they say the same?" he paused, but keeps on moving as he asked, "Did I not stress how important it was to be finished with Anna Valerious, despite we can't kill her, but use her to power up my Dark Crystal," Aleera and Verona whimper to move as Dracula continues to approach them as he continues to ask, "before she destroys what we are trying to create?"

"We lost Marishka," Verona said.

"Those vermin," Aleera added.

Dracula then said, "There, there my darlings. Do not worry. I shall find another bride."

Aleera and Verona were shocked as the former asked, "What? Do we mean so little to you?"

"Have you no heart?" Verona asked putting a hand to her chest.

"No, I have no heart! I feel no love," Dracula replied, he then drops down, but flips and lands on his feet as he continues his reply, "nor fear, nor joy, no sorrow," he paused, then whispers loudly, "I am hollow. And I will live forever."

"Oh, my lord," Aleera said.

"It is not so bad," Verona added.

Dracula grins and chuckles a bit, then said as masked creatures watch him, "With the help of my Dark Crystal, and Nosfearatu, I'm at war with the world and every living soul in it!" he paused, then said, "But soon, the final battle will begin."

"I vill do as much as I can to help a fellow member of the clan," Nosfearatu said.

"Good, despite I know Fearbrave and her group is here, still, I must go and find out who our new visitor is," Dracula said, but both heard a growl, and looked at a tarp with the shadowy silhouette of a werewolf who then roars. Dracula then said, "If I could, but can't due to the rules of the clan, you will have to make a little aperitif out of him," he watches as the werewolf was in chains trying to get out as Dracula continues, "We are much too close to success to be interrupted now."

"No!" Aleera shouts out, causing Dracula to look up.

"The last experiment was a failure," Verona said as both her and Aleera descend down to the floor as well.

Aleera then said, "Please. Say you will not try again."

Verona said in worry, "My heart could not bear the sorrow if we fail again."

Dracula then shows his sharp fangs and his irises changed as he roars at his brides, who then back away in fear. They weakly shriek back and whimper as well, Nosfearatu was surprised, then said, "That vould be something to use as a jump scare to Fearbrave and her group."

Dracula calms, then said, "Come. Do not fear me. Everybody else fears me," Aleera and Verona obeyed, and gathered around him, then he said, "Not my brides." Suddenly there was a sound of a spark and roaring, along with groaning and grunting, causing Dracula to call out, "Igor?"

Out of the tarp was the treacherous hunchback, Igor, holding what looks like long cattle prod, then asked, "Yes, master?"

"Why do you torment that thing so?" Dracula asked.

Igor replied, "It's what I do."

Dracula then said, "Remember, Igor. Do unto others."

"Before they do unto me, master," Igor said.

"Now go," Dracula said, then looks at the masked creatures, and said, "All of you," the creatures jumped to the order as Dracula said, "to Castle Frankenstein!"

Dracula and his brides slide to a wall, while Aleera said, "Yes, yes, we will try again." Nosfearatu watch as they touched the wall and became frozen.

"This will be interesting, better get things ready," the fearpire said as he opens a portal to leave the area.

Finished this chapter at last, took less longer this time. What is Dracula going to do at Castle Frankenstein? Anyway, if you're reading this, thanks for reading. If you want to know when the next chapter is, follow me or the story, write a review, but please no flames, add it to your favorites, and as usual, and if I get to it, the story will continue in the next chapter. SEE YA!