I Will Always Find You

Chapter 11

Transylvania

"Ignore the body!" Mulan yelled over the tumult they found themselves in the middle of. "Remove the head from the body! It's the only way to stop them!". As if to prove her point the samurai pushed against the vampire she had been grappling with. The action gained her the space she needed to swing her katana and in one swift motion she sliced through the vampire's neck sending the head spinning off and dropping lifelessly to the ground.

After exiting the portal from Storybrooke that the bean had provided, the intrepid band of adventurers found themselves right in the middle of a vampire war. Henry had concentrated on getting close to his grandfather when he stepped through the portal. He had hoped to wind up in a secluded area so they could plan their operation in secret.

Instead they arrived outside of Dracula's castle in between two warring factions of vampires. Now they were fighting their way to the entrance of the castle. A vampire rushed toward Henry with malice in his eyes. Henry readied his birth mother's sword as his grandfather David had taught him. The undead creature didn't stop and impaled himself in the abdomen. He sneered at Henry while he grabbed the blade in his hands and began to pull himself forward toward the hilt. Henry struggled as he fought against the vampire while he tried to free his sword. Before the vampire was able to grab Henry, a sword swung from behind him and sliced through the creature's neck.

"Henry!" David said after he dispatched the vampire. "Come on, stay with me!" With a nod Henry moved alongside the prince as they hacked their way forward getting closer to the castle. Fighting back to back, Henry was able to survey the battlefield. Mulan was definitely in her element as she was dispatching vampires left and right at a rapid pace. Elsa was freezing them in large numbers while creating barricades of ice to slow the vampire advance. Mal was using magic to fight and Lily had a gun. Henry wished he had a gun but his mother had been stalling on training him.

"Lily! Mal!" Henry called after them. "We need fire support!" They both acknowledged Henry's order and started their transformation. He felt a sense of pride that he was directing the battle and the others were listening to him. He watched as the two dragons took flight overhead and began to rain fire down on the vampires. Elsa and Mulan ran to Henry and David, joining them by the castle door.

"Okay, they will stay out here and watch our backs. Let's go. Elsa, can you get the door?" Henry pointed to the door with his sword. Elsa nodded and shot a cone of ice at the door, freezing it solid. "Mulan?" Henry waved her over. The samurai delivered a powerful side kick shattering the frozen door. "Nice." Henry smiled as he ducked inside the castle with the others behind him.

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"Dragons? Dragons! How did he get dragons?" Renfield screamed at his courtiers. They cowered at his unhinged behavior, Renfield was mentally imbalanced. On his good days he was just irrational, but on his bad days he was absolutely batshit crazy. Today was one bad day. Only an hour ago Dracula loyalists laid siege to his castle, signalling to him that somehow his former master had returned. He had flown into a rage and ordered his legions to repel the invaders.

The battle was turning in his favor when he was shocked to see a group of people suddenly appear in the middle of the fight. They appeared to be fighting both sides and doing quite well for such a small force. Now there were two dragons decimating the battlefield.

"Someone kill those dragons!" Renfield waved his arms wildly to the fire breathing dragons circling the ground. "Do something!"

One of the frightened advisors spoke up. "How? We have no way of fighting dragons!"