"Manny! Manny can you hear me?" Frida called to the unconscious boy. "Come on say something."

"Don't go into the light buddy! Stay with us!" Steven said shaking him.

"He's been out for six hours." Connie said. "Solomon won't be here til morning and there's nothing in the first aid kit that can help."

"What about the doctor?" Frida asked.

"He's on hold." Dipper called.

"What kind of a doctor is on hold?"

"Is he breathing?" Connie asked.

"Who knows CPR?" Dipper asked.

"I do!" Steven said. He opened Manny's mouth and leaned down only for Manny to raise a fist and punch him right in his jaw.

"Bring those lips any closer and I'll tear your mouth out with my bare hands."

"Ow! I think you knocked out one of my fangs!" Steven groaned clutching his jaw.

"Are you okay?" Frida said.

"I'm fine I just took a little peak into my parent's memories."

"What did you see?"

"Oh nothing much just how they met and I even learned about some of my family. Turns out my grandfather wanted to burn my mother at stake after she refused to abort me. How's that for family love?"

"Uhhhhh. That's weird." Dipper said.

"So you just touched the letter and you saw how your parents met?" Steven said.

"Yep and a lot of it was disturbing but it confirmed what the old minister said. My father was saved from hell."

"Did you see anything about my mother?" Steven said.

"They were my parent's memories not yours. If you wanna know what happened to them check the letter the old man gave you."

Steven looked down at the letter in his hand. He wasn't sure if he wanted to know or not. Judging by what Manny said it was pretty heavy.

"Anyway you all can clam down cause I'm not hurt." Manny said brushing himself off and sitting up. "Anything interesting happen while I was out?"

"Well Solomon is busy at the moment but he gave me more information on our next mission." Connie said.

"What is it?" Steven asked.

"There's a vampire in the city, apparently she serves as an advisor to the queen. According to Solomon she's drained the blood of twenty humans and has turned them into ghouls."

"What's a ghoul?" Frida asked.

"Not all humans who get bitten by vampires change into vampires. In fact most of them change into mindless, rotting slaves who serve the vampire that bit them."

"That sounds gross."

"Her latest attack happened uptown by the docks. You guys up for a vampire hunt?"

"When do we leave?" Steven asked.

"Solomon said as soon as possible."

"I guess we're going now." Manny groaned.

They loaded up their weapons and drove up to the docks. They were completely abandoned which wasn't that unusual since it was the middle of the night but docks normally don't wreak of spilled human blood and dead human corpses. It was a scent that Manny, Steven, and Dipper could easily pick up. It was coming from an fishing and ship building plant.

"Door's locked." Manny said. "Steven if you will."

"I'm on it!" Using his strength he broke down the door. "Knock, konck!"

"Room service!" Dipper said.

The entire building was filled with ghouls. Horrible, revolting, disgusting, rotting corpses with bleeding eyes, black teeth, decaying skin, and rotten organs.

"I think I'm gonna be sick!" Dipper said.

"Are they human?" Frida said.

"Not anymore." Steven said. "They're just dead human skin possessed by a vampire's evil spirit, mindless zombies. Do not hesitate to kill them! Get them in their heads and their necks but whatever you do don't let them bite you!"

Dipper changed into a wolf and lunged for them, tearing out their throats. Frida loaded her gun and began shooting them in their heads. Connie used her light sword to slice their necks and decapitate them. Manny using his demonic strength crushed their skulls and Steven shot wooden stakes from his pistol right into their necks.

"There's so many of them!" Manny cried. "Don't these freaks ever get tired?"

"Of course not they're dead! They only know two things and that's to serve whoever killed them and to eat!" Steven said.

"Eat what exactly?"

"Well their diet consists of human flesh."

"Seriously?! What is it with monsters always craving human flesh?" Frida asked. "Why can't they just eat normal food like churros?"

"What tasty looking flesh!" One ghoul said to her. "Pretty girl I bet you're soft and chewy."

BANG!

"Rot in hell creep!" She said shooting him in the head.

"You're so skinny!" Another said to Connie. "But I bet your blood is sweeter than any wine!"

"Sorry my blood is not for you to drink!" Connie said slicing his neck.

"Okay I'm getting tired of this. If you boys don't want to get exorcised get behind me." Frida said. The boys got behind her while she took off the cross she was wearing and held it up. "Souls of deceased your time on earth is done! You have no reason to linger here, I urge you to move on! Evil demons who invade their bodies, you are not welcome here! You must return to hell from hence you came! In the name of God and his holy son, I hereby exorcise you!"

The cross glowed, shooting off a bright, white light. The ghouls screeched as evil was purged from them and sent to hell causing the corpses to turn to ash.

"Wow that actually worked." She said surprised. "And here I thought I was a lousy nun."

"Impressive." A sinister voice said. "But nothing I haven't seen."

They looked up to see a tall, skinny, sickly pale woman with long white abd black hair and crimson red talons.

"So these are the reinforcements that Solomon warned me about? Five impudent children? Is that really the best those exorcists and slayers have to offer?" She said.

"Actually lady some of us are a lot older than we look." Steven said. "And you underestimate us."

"Is that right? Say aren't you the little half human bastard Rose brought into this world?"

Steven cringed at the mention of his mother but was careful not to let his emotions get the better of him.

"So this is all that is left of the great Rose? One of the most dangerous and deadly vampires in all of existence, a great big oaf? How the mighty have fallen!"

"Manny, Dipper." Steven said. "This is no odinary vampire. Take the girls and get as far away from here as possible."

"Why?" Dipper asked.

"Because I may have to get my hands dirty."

"Oh shit." Dipper realized.

"What?" Connie asked.

"Let's go ladies, you don't wanna see this. Believe me it's ugly." Manny said as he and Dipper began leaving with them.

Steven and the she vampire looked up at each other. Neither one of them said anything. Finally the boney she vampire spoke.

"You truly are a disgrace!" She said. "How Rose could sacrifice herself just so a miserable pile of flesh like you could be born is beyond me!"

She jumped down knocked him against a wall and began to mercilessly beat him.

"I looked up to her! She was so strong! But she let herself be seduced by a human and bore you! She was weak and so are you! Do you honestly think a half human vampire like you stands a chance against me?! One of Queen Jasper's greatest soldiers!"

She gave him one final blow sending hin flying toward the ceiling. He hit the ceiling with a smack then crashed down on to the solid concrete floor. He was bleeding badly and looked like a broken mess. The cruel female vampire let out a gloating laugh thinking she had won until the battered young man stood up and faced her with his bloody and broken face and smiled.

"Funny thing." He breathed. "In any other circumstance you might have had a point there but you miscalculated something."

"What?"

"Despite being half human I'm a thousand times more powerful than trash like you because the vampire blood in my views is not the same as yours. Tell me do you know why my mother was such a threat?"

His eyes turned red, his skin started to grow paler, and he was starting to grow larger.

"Because she didn't come from the blood of your damn queen! She came from the blood of the most powerful vampire on earth! The very first vampire that was ever created! She was so powerful because she came from the blood of Dracula!"

"Dracula?"

"Yes! Formerly known as Vlad the Impaler before he renounced God. Sometime after he was slayed a little of his blood remained in his corpse and it was collected and used to create several vampires, one of which was my mother!"

His fangs grew longer until they were like daggers in his mouth. His hair had gotten longer and he had more muscle. His opponent felt herself getting scared.

"So I maybe half human but I share the same blood with a vampire who could reduce you to nothing more than ash in five seconds!"

He sized her by her throat and threw her to a wall. The sound of hissing and screeches filled the night sky frightening anyone who heard it. Blood spilled and flesh was torn. He began choking her. She screeched in bloody terror as he tore through her skin and snapped her neck killing her instantly.

"Well I must say you've gotten bigger." Said a little imp, it was Zim.

"What are you doing here?"

"Just spying for my mistress. You know she's not really happy that you keep slaughtering the help."

"I see and you're working for her?"

"I'm in between jobs if you will. You know this whole thing was a set up."

"Set up?"

"Correct. You see her ladyship Queen Jasper was beginning to doubt that you were actually Rose's son. Because you don't drink humam blood, you can survive sunlight, and you don't really like violence."

"Why does she want to know if I'm her son or not?"

"Quite simple really. You see a hundred and twenty years ago Queen Jasper tried to eliminate humanity from the earth and make it an all vampire planet, her plan would've work had your mother not interfered, having been created from the blood of Dracula she easily over powered her and left her defeated. Now here she is years later and upon learning that Rose is dead she decides that she wants to do it again but then she finds out that Rose had a son."

"Your point?"

"Well she can't have any threats this time and the son of Rose does sound like a huge threat don't you think? However she wasn't sure if you actually were hers because well let's just say there's not much of a family resamblance. You don't really look like Rose or her human lover but after what I saw tonight won't she be surprised. Of course once she realizes you are Rose's son she'll see you as a threat abd try to kill you. Funny how she and Rose were allies at first."

"Allies?"

"Oh yes did I forget to mention your Mommy used to work for our queen before she betrayed her? Well now you know. If you want to know more try looking into that letter the minister gave you, anyway it's goodbye for now."

And just like that he was gone. Steven reverted back to his previous form and went back to where the others had fled.

"So is the bat bitch dead?" Dipper asked him.

"As a door nail." Steven said. "But we have another problem."

"What?"

"A the queen wants me dead."

"What queen?"

"Jasper. The queen of all the vampires and the mother of all of them."

"So she's kind of like a queen bee?" Frida said.

"Exactly! Except she didn't give birth to the vampires, they all sprang from her blood. No vampire can defeat her except the ones who sprang from the blood of the most popular vampire in existence, Dracula himself."

"Um...But he's dead." Manny pointed out.

"Yes but some of his blood was preserved and a very few amount of vampires sprang from it. One of which was my mother."

"So you're related to Dracula?"

"Distantly but yes."

"Okay that's kind of creepy."

"Hey don't judge me you're related to Satan."

"Actually my origins trace back to animals and humans."

"Hey wait a minute Dracula didn't die til the 1890's." Dipper said. "And we were alive long before that."

"That's what the novel by Bram Stoker says. In actuality he died in the 1790's the events leading up to that was recorded by one of Bram Stoker's ancestors. Many years later Bram Stoker discovered his ancestor's notes and decided to publish a book off of it but he had to change a few things to modernize it and make it more interesting. Typical humans always changing the truth to amuse others and- ow!."

"Sorry." Frida tending to Steven's wounds, she not only learned how to exorcise devils and other evil spirits but she was also trained in first aid. "That crazy chick got you good. Connie could you pass me the alcohol?"

"Sure." She handed her a glass bottle of alcohol. Frida took off her gloves and poured some on her hands then onto a cloth.

"Okay this might sting." She warned.

"I've had worse." He said.

She began cleaning his wounds with the cloth and it did sting but a very odd thing happened. The wounds she touched with her bare hands vanished.

"That's strange." She said. "Wasn't your arm bleeding?"

"I thought so." He said. "Weird. It's gone."

"Do you heal easily?"

"No."

Manny had a nervous look on his face. He remembered Father Gardner telling in his note about Frida being a healer and that's why she needed to be protected. He really hoped this wouldn't lead to trouble.

"Huh...How odd. Connie pass me the bandages." Frida said. She then bandaged up the wounds that remained. "There we go, give it a week or two and you'll be good as new."

"Thanks."

"Hold it you lost a lot of blood back there are you gonna be okay?"

"Yeah I just need a little blood."

Manny quickly pulled her away from him and held her protectively.

"Don't even think about it!" He snarled.

"Relax Manny, you know I don't drink human blood. The blood of a pig or sheep will do just fine for me." He stood up and went to the door.

"Where are you going?" Connie asked.

"To get a quick drink."

"I'll come with you."

"No. I really don't want you to see me feed, it's something that no human should have to witness."

He then left.

"Why won't he let me go with him?" Connie asked.

"Because he doesn't want you to see him when he kills, that's why he made us get you girls away from the dock earlier." Manny said. "Most vampires enjoy killing and have a strong blood lust but Steven hates killing. He tries to avoid best he can but there times like tonight when he had no other choice and he's revolted by it."

"Can't say I blame him." Dipper said. "Seeing him kill and drink blood gives me shivers. But it's foolish of him to think he can avoid killing, because he's half vampire and like or not killing is apart of a vampire's nature."

"Just like it's part of a devil's and a werewolf's nature." Manny said.

"Why do you have to kill?" Connie asked.

"Because that's how we survive, that's how we live. Even humans from time to time have to kill." Manny explained. "They have to kill for food or to defend themselves but there's one difference."

"What's that?"

"You humans don't have to kill in a disgusting, beastly, and revolting manner." Dipper said. "You humans have guns and weapons, you can kill for what you need without getting your hands dirty but we have to kill and hunt with our hands and teeth like wild animals, some are easier to watch than others but when someone like Steven kills it's one of the most gruesome things you can ever imagine."

"Humans have no idea how lucky they are." Manny said. "If you play your cards right you get to live forever in some eternal paradise in the sky, you have the choice of weather to be evil or good, and you're not considered a monster everywhere you go. Why some of you constantly try to become like us I'll never know."

"Gee I never thought of it like that." Frida said.

"Of course you don't. Humans are ignorant and ungrateful creatures who never understand or appreciate how good they have it, sure you have to work hard and follow a some rules but at least you have a choice." Dipper said.

"Though on the other hand humans can be even lower than what we are." Manny said. "Anger, greed,envy, and lust are the most common negative traits of human beings and those traits will sometimes drive you to be just as evil as any demon."

"Indeed, some of you sacrifice your own kind just for money, power, and pleasure and some of you have no remorse for your actions yet the option of forgiveness is always open well at least until you die."

Connie shuddered.

"Well I think it's time we get some sleep." Dipper said. "So my place or yours devil boy?"

"My home is a much larger and more suitable place to stay however I would never allow a filthy dog to stay in my father's great manor. So the young ladies and I shall stay there while you return to your dog house."

"I am not a dog! Why do you always refer to me as that?"

"Simple you're a werewolf and all dogs started out as wolves before the humans tamed and civilized them. And you're a civilized werewolf so in a way you are a dog and I don't really like dogs."

"Why because you're a cat devil?"

"Shut up!"

"Aw did I upset the little kitty?"

"I said shut up!"

"Wait is he a cat?" Frida asked.

"Sort of." Dipper said. "You know the old myth that black cats were devils in disguise?"

"Yeah."

"Well it wasn't exactly a myth. Some cats were actually devils not all but some and not just black cats any kind. Lions, panthers, jaguars, and of course tigers. From Africa to Europe there have been hundreds of cat demons. It's the animal motif of the Rivera Devils."

"Rivera devils?"

"Manny's family. They descended from a cat demon who brought plagues on to Spain."

"Wait a minute was he responsible for the plague that took place in middle ages?" Connie said.

"Those were the rats like Steven!" Manny said. "Which cats happened to have eliminated and cat demons didn't bring plagues we bring bad luck there's a difference."

"Steven is a rat?" Connie said.

"He's related to them. After all bats are basically just mice with wings."

"So that's why you three fight so much." Frida realized. "You three are a dog, a cat, and a mouse. Dogs hate cats, mice hate cats, and cats hate both mice and dogs."

"Technically I'm a tiger demon."

"But a tiger still is a cat."

"Yes I suppose that's correct and you are right about another thing. I hate dogs and mice."

"Well I hate cats." Dipper growled.

"Why? Because we don't drink out of a toilet like you did?"

"I told you never to speak of that!"

"Ewww!" Frida and Connie groaned.

"It was a full moon! I wasn't thinking and at least I never licked myself!"

"That was only because you and Steven slipped cat nip into my drink!"

"Okay can you guys please stop talking before I throw up!" Frida said.

"Yeah you two are disgusting!" Connie said. "I swear men are so gross."

"Now you know why I became a nun."