The carriage began to pick up pace as we traveled along the dirt road. We started to look around to understand what was going on.

Carl looked outside then quickly brought his head inside the carriage.

"We have a problem Van Helsing." Carl says as he points to the window.

As Van Helsing and I are about to look outside the door is ripped from the carriage.

"Looks like he has found new brides." Van Helsing says as he tries to climb out of the carriage and to the driver's seat.

"Get the girl!" one of the brides say.

"I think they mean you Serenity." Carl tells her.

I roll my eyes. "I am the only girl here Carl who else would they be talking about?!" I yell over the noise of the fighting above.

I draw my sword to try and defend myself and Carl. One bride flies right in front of the door and looks me in the eye.

"The master has plans for you Serenity." The bride says with a wicked grin.

"So do I! To send him back to hell where he came from!" I yell back at the bride as I fling my sword forward but she catches it.

"Not so fast Princess." The bride says as she pulls the sword and myself out of the carriage and fly up into the sky.

"Van Helsing they have Serenity!" Carl yells up to him.

"I have her!" the bride yells out to the two others.

Three brides, he has all the power he needs now. I look down and see that even if I tried to escape it would be a dangerous fall to the ground. I look up at the winged brides and cringe at the sight of them.

Van Helsing quickly acts as Carl throws his a gun but making sure it is not the one with special bullets. He quickly takes aim and shoots the bride holding me in the knee and she releases me.

I begin to plummet to the ground my feet and arms flying everywhere. I look down and the ground is getting closer and closer. I close my eyes in fear when I feel something push me against the wind and we fall to the ground.

I look around and see the brides are coming back for me.

"Serenity come get the bow and arrow!" he yells to me.

I look down and see Van Helsing slowly picking himself up. Quickly I run back to the carriage with the brides trying to snatch me again when I finally reach it. Carl hands me a bow and one arrow.

"Make it count." He tells me as he looks down.

I throw the bow down and run back into the grass and just as I thought one of the brides come to the ground as I hide the arrow behind my back. The bride then transforms into her human form.

"Hello Serenity, after all I have heard about you I was expecting a bit more but the master has his reasons." She tells me as she walks closer and closer.

I stand still waiting for my moment to strike.

"He knows all about you Princess. Years of searching and your true history was revealed." The bride says as she lunges at me.

Out of instinct my arm with the arrow comes forward and plunges into her heart. She looks up at me in shock.

"He knows nothing about me!" I yell at her as I push her to the ground and slowly starts to shake.

"Alenea!" one of the other brides yell as they fly off.

I walk over to her and look her in the eyes.

"He won't stop, he will get you" she says as her body turns to ash.

I watch as I am joined by Van Helsing and Carl. They look at the bride who has now turned to a pile of ashes.

"Well at least we know that it works. Hopefully enough to kill Dracula." Carl says as he picks up the arrow.

"We are close, this time we need to be aware of our surroundings." Van Helsing says as he and Carl start to walk back to the carriage as I continue to look at the ashes of the former bride.

Her last words circle in my head. She was telling the truth, after all this time he still hadn't stopped looking for me. How did he know I was still alive though?

"Serenity" Van Helsing calls out to me and I look over at him and start walking back to the carriage.

The rest of the ride I stayed silent as Carl and Van Helsing planned their attack. I can't help but wonder after thousands of years I only have three live to remember. Can that be right?

The carriage suddenly stops and we look out to see Dracula's castle.

We walk in as a team but are somehow separated by the walls.

On one side Van Heling, the other Carl and then behind the last wall myself.

I quickly draw my sword to get prepared for what was going on. I look around and see that two of the walls surrounding me were mirrors.

"Do you remember what you looked like in Romania?" I hear a voice ask me. I know its Dracula. I can hear him but I can't see him.

"Still keeping silent?" he says as his voice echoes in the room as he steps out of one of the mirrors. "Then let me refresh your memory Serenity."

"I do not need my memory refreshed! You are nothing but a monster! I remember everything. I remember you stabbing your wife to see if your theory about me was right!" I yell at him as I back up.

"Serenity have they corrupted you so much?" He asks me as he walks around the room with his arms behind his back.

"I have seen the truth, my memories finally returned to me!" I yell at him keeping my sword in front of me.

"You have remembered what they wanted you to remember!" he yells as me as he grabs my sword and throws it to the side.

I look at him as his face scares the heck out of me.

"Do you really think those are your true memories? If so please continue I would like to know what other non-sense they put in your head." He says as he backs away.

"You had many women in your house because of your wife's condition she could not have children therefore you tried to have one with another woman and claim it was yours and your wife's." I tell him as I regained my composure.

"Adela, my wife was a wonderful beautiful woman. It is true she did have a condition where she should not have had children. I had one other woman in my house and that was you!" he yells as he walks forward to me.

"You, she said she couldn't not shouldn't" I tell him confused.

"They are tricking you Serenity. Listen to me Adela and yourself were true friends even before you met Gabriel. You were her very own cousin. You were the one she went to for anything! The day she found out she was with child she told you first!" he says as he lowers his head.

"I don't understand, I don't remember any of that. I met her when I was brought to the castle." I yell in protest.

"Do you really believe that? Does not some part of you wish to know the truth?" he asks as he pins me up against a wall.

Slowly I start to feel it again. His eyes look into mine and my body starts to lose control again as my mind begins to question its own memories.

"I have something that will tell you the truth, all you need to do is follow me." He tells me as he keeps eye contact with me.

I reluctantly follow him almost as if I am in a trance.

We walk into another rather large room where there is a small bed and beside the bed is a tray with a needle on it.

"Lay down upon the bed." He commands me.

I do as I am told and lay up on the bed.

"Close your eyes and I will have all of your memories your true memories return to you." He tells me.

I fight against his trance. "How can I trust you? Everyone has said they will release my true memories and they all have lied what makes you any different." I yell up at him.

"Nothing, let the serum take effect then judge it yourself." He tells me as I reluctantly close my eyes and I feel him stick me with the needle.

I can feel it flowing through my veins. My eyes begin to twitch then open and I see myself in a large room with little beds all around me. I see people walking my way but they don't seem to see me. They walk right through me as they continue to talk. I follow them as they stop at a bed and I look down and see Gabriel in the bed.

"Gabriel Van Helsing, he is the one that we have paired with that girl over there since Ancient Egypt." The man says as he point to another bed.

"What do they do together?" the other man asks.

"Well lets just say they have taken down some very wicked people in this world." The first man says as he looks at a piece of paper in his hand.

"You never let them do it on their own? They are forced together?" the second man asks.

"Well you see this man we believe to be Gabriel the angel who has come to earth and we needed to find a suitable match for him and we found one. Who better than the last daughter of Eve?" the man says with a smile.

"So in every lifetime they have been together? Never with anyone else?" the second man asked.

"Thomas, it is complicated. In one lifetime she did give us a lot of trouble since she kept someone quite evil safe. Of course when that life was over we gave her new memories so she remembers nothing of it." The first man replies.

"Isn't that taking away their free will sir?" Thomas asks the man.

"They are immortals. They will do what we tell them when we tell them." The man says as they walk over to the other bed.

I look down and there I am. Well at least my body I suppose.

"Who was the person she tried to protect?" Thomas asked.

"Dracula but as I said those memories are long gone now." The man said.

I close my eyes quickly hoping to wake up but when I open them I am in a room with crying and people yelling. I turn around and see a woman in a bed and it looks like she is giving birth. I look around the room trying to understand the reason I am here when the door bursts open and I can only guess my past self comes flying to the woman's side.

"I am here now cousin" my past self says the answer.

I look at shock and see the woman is Adela and Dracula is over on the other side of her.

"Promise me something Serenity please promise me." Adela tells my past self.

"Anything cousin I promise it will be done." My past answers.

"Keep my family safe, do not let anyone hurt them especially the child." Adela says.

I was as my past self as she nodded in agreement.

Time fast forwards as the baby is born but is but in fact a still born and Adela dies. My old self and Dracula weep at the sight. The time goes by faster and faster until I am in a field again. I look around and see my old self with Dracula I guess just casually speaking to him when they move a little to the side and I see a gravestone. They were morning together.

Van Helsing POV

After being trapped with one of the bride's and nearly being bitten I make my way out of the room and down a long hallway where I find a door half way open. Without a second though I step inside and there on a bed is Serenity.

"Hello Gabriel." Dracula says as I walk forward to Serenity.

"You killed her." I yell at him.

"I did not kill her, how can you truly kill someone who has not died?" he asks me as he walks to the other side of Serenity.

"What have you done to her then?" I ask him.

"Revealed to her what the order would not. The only truth about her and about you." He tells me as he looks down at her.

"You're lying this is just another attempt to win her. What lies will she know now Dracula?" I yell at him.

"Why should I lie to her? What do I have to loose even if you send me to hell will I not return at a later time and all of this happen will happen yet again! Do you think I do not grow tired of being stuck here? I have immortality just as you and Serenity and this is my hell!" he yells at me.

"Think carefully Gabriel, she has been alive thousands of years but the order as you call them has only documented there of her lives? Does that not strike you as odd?" he asks.

Serenity's body starts to shake and her body seems to start convulsing.

"What is happening to her?" I yell at him.

"I do not know, she is trying to fight off the serum but it seems to be winning." He tells me.

"Then stop it! Bring her back!" I yell at him at the top of my voice.

"Or what Van Helsing you will kill me...again?" Dracula says.

SERENITY POV

I have watched most of my memories from Romania. I have seen that when I was a child I was a cousin and friend of Adela. I was not aware at this time that I had powers or else I know I would have used them to save her from death. I watch her burial and I watched Dracula be consumed by darkness.

Gabriel the one I was married to changed from out of nowhere. As if someone had just pushed a button and everything about him changed. I watch as he and Dracula went from friends to bitter enemies.

I kept to my promise, as Gabriel went to kill Dracula I stepped forward. I remember my time with my cousin. I saw myself get run through by husband's sword and his eyes showed no mercy. I fell from his sword upon the ground and watched as he killed Dracula then disappeared. As my past self lay there I walked over and looked and saw a strange them. Dracula was holding my past selves hand.

Flash back to the room with all of the beds.

"So those were her true memories of Romania? She fell out of love with Gabriel when he changed because of us then fell in love with Dracula?" Thomas asked.

"Yes, she was odd then. After all her memories from Egypt have not been tampered with at all. After that they were brought here until Dracula rose again. It happens every time though. When we have Gabriel change and kill Dracula Serenity always interferes. Stupid girl if you ask me." The man says with a smile.

I open my eyes and I am back in the castle with both Van Helsing and Dracula looking down at me.

"Serenity are you alright?" Van Helsing asks me as he helps me sit up.

"If she were not alright she would not be alive Gabriel" Dracula said as he walked to the fireplace.

"Serenity speak to me." Van Helsing shouts at me.

"You killed me, I kept to my promise and you killed me." I tell him.

Dracula looks back at me surprised by my words.

"Serenity it was all a lie. He did this just to break us apart. He is evil and you know it." Van Helsing tells me.

"My first ancestor was tempted by evil as well wasn't she Carl?" I ask as he walks in the door.

"Carl what is she talking about?" Van Helsing asks him.

"Eve, Serenity is the last direct descendant of Eve. That is why she was perfect for you. She was perfect except for a few flaws so the order put you together." Carl tell him. "She kept messing up though no matter what we did she would always protect him!"

We all look over at Dracula.

"You still crave a child so badly that you made the worst deal of all, your soul for immortality to have one." I say as I rise from the bed and stand on my feet.

Dracula turns back to us.

"I am evil as people say, I take women and make them my brides and I do not regret any of that. That life you remember was long ago as people say times have changed as have I" he says with a wicked grin.

Van Helsing takes out his gun and points it at Dracula.

"Have you not tried that before? Serenity take the gun from Van Helsing." Dracula says.

I turn and without a second thought I kick Van Helsing in the stomach and his gun falls to him hand.

"Serenity!" Carl yells out.

I look at him confused.

"He killed you Serenity! He killed you because you fell out of love with him and laid with another. He ran his sword right through your body!'' Dracula says as he takes my hand and starts to pull me to him.

"Who truly is evil? The man you sacrificed yourself for or the man who ran you through?" Dracula asks.

Van Helsing returns to his feet.

"I never killed myself?" I ask.

"No, that was a memory we gave you." Carl admits.

"They all wanted you to forget your past, they used you as a weapon and when they didn't need you they held you captive!'' Dracula screams as we reach the fireplace.

"It all started with you though, whatever you did to her then scarred her for all eternity." Carl yells out.

"I did nothing, she was more in love with me than she ever was Gabriel." He says as he takes a dagger and hand it to Serenity.

"Now it is your turn Serenity, end Van Helsing as he had ended you." He tells me as he pushes me forward.

I feel my feet move against my will as I stand before Van Helsing.

"Serenity you know I love you remember, please remember Egypt remember what we had." Van Helsing tells me as he holds me still.

I raise the dagger up higher and higher.

Van Hesling takes off his coat and takes ahold of my hand with the dagger and point it at his heart.

"Then hit here for this is where our memories and our love lies." Van Helsing tells me.

The dagger comes down and Van Helsing closes his eyes when everyone hears a gunshot go off. Van Helsing opens his eyes to see the dagger cut other arm that just shot Dracula.

Dracula looks at us stunned. "You broke your promise. Adela would hate who you have become." He says as he slinks to the floor.

I walk over to him and look down upon him.

"No she would hate you for the monster you are. Now go to tell and never speak her name again." I tell him as I aim the gun at his heart.

"You dare killed a man you once loved?" he says as he looks up at me.

"Just as you said this is only temporary and we will see each other and do this all over again." I tell him as I shoot him in the heart and he falls to the ground.

"Van Helsing she killed him." Carl says with a stutter.

"Something tells me this wasn't the first time." Van Helsing says.

"Don't ever do this to us again Carl, we are not weapons nor are we anyone's toys. Go back to the order and tell them we are gone dead or make something up. When Dracula comes back which I am sure he will we will fight him just as we have before this time without being a puppet." I tell him as I turn around. "God gave us free will for a reason so don't even dare try to take it from us."

Van Helsing puts his coat and hat back on as I walk to his side.

"Until we find a way to destroy him for good we will keep fighting him." I tell him

"You are two are going to just disappear? Just like that? What if you a needed for something else?" Carl asks with worry.

"Well then we will be there maybe? I think we deserve a much needed time off. To reconnect." Van Helsing says as he looks at me. "To relearn out truths." Van Helsing says.

We walk out of the room together leaving Carl behind with Dracula's body which I am sure he burned in the fireplace.

~ROME~

Carl's POV

They left me there, they didn't want this life from the beginning and now they were on their own. I knew they wanted to know about their pasts but could they handle it? I walked through the hall of records as I pulled Van Helsing and Serenity's boxes of files. 12 for Serenity and 13 for Van Helsing. All of their lives had been documented but we only showed them what we wanted them to know. It wasn't fair I knew they had the right to know.

I walked to grab something to open the boxes with a small knife was laying on a nearby table. I opened the first two boxes that were paired together that were labeled "EGYPT".

Inside there was a file and some clothes with Serenity's things, inside Van Helsings was a file and a single gold bracelet. Everything they knew about Egypt was true.

As I looked down at the boxes and their labels it read as so ROME, ITALY, ROMANIA, SCOTLAND, GREECE, TROY. They had lived all of these lives together. In each life they were together except for the beginning of this one. Serenity was brought back after Anna died so that Van Helsing would continue to fight for us.

I hear a knock at the door and I go to answer it. I look down at the floor disappointed that I didn't have the courage to tell them the truth. I open the door and there is no one there. I walk out to the hall and look around. No one in sight. I shrug it off and walk back inside. I walk back to the table and find it empty and a small note on it.

I run over and pick up the note and read it. "We'll be around. – Van Helsing & Serenity". I look up with a smile. "At least they will still fight on the good side." I say as I go blow the candle out and walk out of the room and lock it.