The Crimson Project

-7-

2:00 am Washington Dc

We landed oficially, two blocks away approximate from the facility, it was a beautiful glass house in the woods. It gave me several Twilight vibes and when William read that in my head, he laughed out loud, giving no further explanation to the siblings.
As we were moving towards the forest and the facility, my hands started to shiver. It was him. I felt it.

-Are you feeling good, Sweetie?-Kiara asked in a motherly voice and I shook my head slowly, it felt like something was creeping up in my head and taking over me... I just couldn't decide whom.
If Mina...or Dracula.

-Do you want to stop?-Marco asked, moving towards me and looking so magnificent he could wrap both of us, Me and his sister in his body and wings.
-No, I'm just fine, just...nervous. Do we have a B plan?- I mumbled in William's direction and he coughed.
The three of us moved our heads in his direction, if this was a suicidal mission, we were expecting some kind of victory at least.
- Well... the plan is to enter, find the count and help him escape with us in order to organize a revolution against this...
-How are we entering? -Kiara shrieked.
-Irina and I have a wonderful thought control, we can let them believe we aare Halley Van Helsing and his fiance. And well, two guards... -He shrugged, I could see his mind, making this whole things, every word he was saying on the spot. He had no clue a second before.
He was smart enough to think of this right now.
-How do we find him?- Marco asked, as sceptical as his twin sister.
She looked at him, and her green eyes reflected fear. She was afraid of the things inside the "innocent" glass house.
-Easy, once everyone believe Irina is Halley, we demand to be taken to the count and then we set him free...-William seemed satisfy enough with this whole plan, although it seemed really easy, I felt it was fragile, a simple mistake would cost us all.
And to the whole vampire kind.

-Okay, happy thoughts, everyone, dearies-Marco said clapping his hand loud enough for making us pay attention to himself- We enter, we took him, we leave, got it? Look, we are almost on the door...

He was right, the oath we were following guide us to the crystal doors and two guards came to us, their guns up, pointing at us.
-who are you?-the one on the left asked.

I breathed in and looked straight into his eyes, as Will did the exact same thing.
-How can you not recognize me? I'm Dr Van Helsing! -I was convincing enough for both of them to look down and open up the gates, apologising for their mistake.

We walked a few steps, where an elevator awaited.
-Probably is has a camera, they will recognise us we have to destroy it... -William said and glanced at Kiara who winked at him and moved towards it.
She pulled her sleeve up, and showed an arrow tattoo, in golden ink, she touched it and it rised from her skin, she wrap it with her fingers and took it, quickly, she fired it aiming to the camera which exploded.

-You guys are full of surprises- I said and she laughed.
-You, vampires, too, but as you're a newbie, you have a lot to learn... Probably, you could have a better teacher than my friend here...- she discreetly pointed at William who frowned his lips.
- Let's get down to business now, shall we, darling?-he said and entered the elevator quickly, followed by Marco and us.

We went down around seven floors, all we could see was bright, white, lights, like an endless corridor, like the one we had to run through to escape the Crimson one.

-So... how did you two discovered who you were?-I asked while we were going down.
-Well-Kiara said and give her brother a quick gaze. - we felt on our eight birthday a terrible pain in our body, our mom believed it was the flu or something alike, but the next morning we woke up with these.
Marco pointed at his with such a pride smile he warmed my heart.

-So, we got kick out of our house... I was a ballerina back then and ai remember feeling I became the Black Swan...a monster...
-Mother was not really kind to us, her words wounded her more than me...
-We were wandering for three months, learning to use this... and learning to survive on the streets when this beautiful and "kind" woman who came in our way. -Marco said and sighed- It was Van Helsing... she said she had a home for people like us, I pictured the X-Men mansion or something like that but instead we had cages, chains, and these tatoos, all over our forearms and chest, weapons they added on us, based on our leader...Gabriel...
-Wait... Gabriel the archangel?!-I shrieked.
-Himself-Kiara answered- we don't know where he is, but we believe The Count knows, he knows the location to every other leader, if we found them all, we can win this war.
-All of this...is... surreal.- I sentenced and the doors opened up, showing us a dark and gloomy corridor, all the opposite to the one we were on.

-Let's get started...-William said and took my hand as we walked through the door, followed by the Angel Twins.
I calleed my courage and breathing deep, I got ready for whatever may come...

Then, that voice in my mind made my legs tremble and I felt I could faint.
In my head I could see him, and lighting and thunder, a wolf and a tempest.

"Hello, Mina... it's been a long time"

It pierced my confidence, like something in me was cracking and letting memories buried centuries ago, come back to the surface...
And I knew then:
It was him...
The Count Dracula.