In the final moment, as Dracula lunged for Anna’s throat, Van Helsing threw himself between them. The Count’s fangs sank into his shoulder, and the world went white.
"I know you killed me before," Dracula whispered, rising. "In another life. Another century. I know the Church wiped your memory so you wouldn’t drown in the guilt of all the monsters you used to call brothers."
Van Helsing ripped off his mask. The monster saw the face beneath—a face that held no fear, only the weary arithmetic of a man who had killed too many things to remember. He drove a stake of blessed oak into Hyde’s heart.
"Die, God’s dog!" Hyde roared.
The hunt, Van Helsing knew, would never end.
The Cardinal didn’t thank him. Instead, he handed over a scroll sealed with black wax. "Transylvania. A village called Transylvanian Alps. The dead are walking again. And this time… they have a bride." Three nights later, Van Helsing stood on a cliff overlooking a valley that had forgotten the sun. The village of Bistritz was a wound on the landscape—charred crosses, boarded windows, and a church bell that rang backward to ward off evil.
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"Well," he said to the Monster. "What do you say we find out who we are now?"
Van Helsing stood alone on the smoking castle steps, the Frankenstein Monster at his feet like a lost dog. He looked at his hands—the hands of an angel, a killer, a forgotten ghost.
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They didn’t shake hands. They just walked into the fog. The first night was a lie. They found a village of trembling farmers and a single, blood-drained corpse pinned to the church door. Van Helsing recognized the bite marks—not fangs, but claws . Something older.
Van Helsing’s blood turned to ice. "You know nothing about me."
Van Helsing roared. He grabbed Dracula’s head and shoved a spinning, silver-toothed wheel—a steam-driven stake launcher—into the Count’s chest. Not wood. Silver. Blessed by a dead pope. "In another life
The brides crumbled. The Monster fell to its knees, the silver key turning in its neck. "Master?" it whimpered.
He and Anna tracked a pack of dwarf vampires—frothing, feral things—to a wind-scoured castle. Inside, the air tasted of copper and roses. And in the great hall, sitting on a throne of shattered bones, was Count Dracula.