A/N: Okay everyone this is the final chapter of my story, Erik and Dracula say good bye for now and we all hope everyone enjoys the end of this story. I would like to thank all of my readers, the ones who reviewed and the ones who didn't for all the love and dedication they put into reading this story it means so much. This was my first fanfiction ever and I am tremendously happy that it did so well. Thank you again and I hope you enjoy this final chapter about my beloved characters!
Drake stood at the top of the staircase with Sophia holding his hand tightly, showing him she wasn't going to ever let go. "I am Dracula.." he boomed, his haunting voice a crawling tension up spines of the cowardice men before him.
"Come forth you fiend so that you may meet your maker!" Ralph shouted highly at the sight of the beautiful demon that Sophia was clutching so desperately.
Drake walked down the staircase taking each step as would a king, his head held high and his back straight, Sophia a flowing damsel at his side.
Ralph began to step back as the strikingly handsome man approached with Sophia fitting neatly in with him. Drake finally reached the last step and he stood next to Nicolae and Romulus, he looked Ralph square in the face his eyes burning into the Duke's pathetic soul.
"Do you dare threaten me child?" Drake said low and dangerous.
"You have something that belongs to me..." Ralph said, his eyes shifting to Sophia's as he did so.
"I'm not an object to obtain!" Sophia screamed desperately at Ralph, shocking everyone. "I am a human and I happen to be in love with the man at my side, not you!"
Ralph's body began to quiver with anger, his hands turning into fists. Finally as his face began to redden he bellowed what they all wished he wouldn't.
"TAKE THE DEMON NOW!"
At the order the men ceased Drake and tied roped around his ankles and wrists. Nicolae made an attempt to beat the men off of his friend and one of the men hit him so hard in the head that he went flying back onto the staircase landing in a rumpled pile not moving. Ralph grabbed Sophia and held her back with all his might as Romulus let out a thunderous yell.
Drake struggled to break free from the toxic bonds that held his inhuman strength back. He wrenched his body back and forth trying to shake the drunkard inn goers off of him so that he could take Sophia and his wounded brothers from the mayhem.
The mob dragged him forcefully towards the great double doors of the mansion as Sophia screamed at the top of her lungs for Ralph to make his men let her love go free. Right before they got Drake to the doors a mighty roar erupted causing the men to gasp and loosen their hold on him, but before Drake could pull free one of the men had a wooden stake pointed at his chest causing him to freeze as Sophia's scream reverberated off the stone walls.
Romulus stood before the door facing the mob great and golden. His massive chest heaved with anger as his muscles rippled like spasms down his gargantuan arms. He opened his half man mouth and a thunderous roar emitted into the now frozen crowd.
"LET HIM GO!" Romulus bellowed to the men shaking his growing mane of golden hair forcefully.
Suddenly three loud shots sounded in sickening unison and then a large thump followed. A desperate scream came from Drake's mouth before he could even comprehend the terror that was taking place around him. The men started pulling him out the door again and past the wrenching body of his dear friend and brother.
Romulus's form convulsed to and from a wolf to a man. Finally Drake saw through his tears and hysterical screaming Romulus's body lay unmoving as a man, his skin becoming less golden as the white grip of death took hold.
The mob pulled Drake outside, the cold night felt like piercing knives in his lungs. He turned his head and saw Sophia trying to get away from Ralph's vice like hold as her body shuddered from sheer sadness.
"Duke! What do we do with the demon?" The largest man that was in the mob called to Ralph.
"Tie him to the boulder there so that he may die in a few minutes when the sun comes!" Ralph yelled struggling to hold the now frantically fighting Sophia.
"Ralph no don't! Spare him and just take me! God take me please God!" Sophia screamed desperately.
Drake called out her name as the men dragged him to the boulder and began to tie his legs down as he arched his back and flailed his limbs to keep them from tying him down to his death. He turned his head to look at Sophia and saw that she had broke free from the Duke as she made her way towards him.
Sophia ran towards Drake and flung herself into his arms and pressed her lips against his in a desperate way to show him how much she loved him. He tried to wrap his arms around her desperately but the other men grabbed his arms and tied him down to the boulder.
"Let him go! Don't, please! I love him! Drake, I love you! Don't leave me, please!" Sophia screamed and pleaded as one of the men pulled her off of the rock and knocked her to the ground at Ralph's feet.
"Sophia, you can't love this monster. Don't you understand he's evil!" Ralph yelled yanking Sophia further and further from her beloved.
She just shook her head as tears streamed down her face, words were useless now, no one wanted to hear about the sad girl and her angel of darkness.
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Nicolae shook his head as he came to from his unconscious state. His world was all a blur as he heard the desperate screams of his friends. He tried to stand but only found himself tumbling back down to the red moth eaten rug that covered the cavern like floor of the mansion. Nicolae rose to his knees and waited for his head to quit spinning but a flapping noise in the rafters caught his attention and he found himself staring up into the dark shadows of the ceiling.
"Hello?" he called quietly.
"Yesss?" a cat like hiss sounded from above.
"Who is there?" he called weakly as the screams outside became more desperate. Nicolae felt danger creep in every corner and knew that this was the end.
"You know to well whose here blood traitor, and now no one can save you..."
Nicolae stood and took out the cross he wore around his neck that once belonged to his dear wife, he placed a kiss on it as the shadows of the creatures that consumed the night advanced upon him.
Nicolae looked down at his pale fingers and whispered his last as the vampires preyed on his hated form. "As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I fear no evil..."
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She heard her dark angel scream out her name as the fire illuminated his beautiful form. She was being held back so tightly by the man who said he loved her so. If he loved her, he wouldn't be keeping her from the only person on this earth she loved more than life itself. Drake arched his back and tried with all of his might to break the bonds that bound him to the boulder, the morning sun devouring his milky skin in flames. Sophia screamed his name causing him to turn his face and look at her with desperate pain stricken eyes.
Amidst the flames and smoke she could make out the words his lips formed. "I love you..." as a single visible tear streaked his beautiful face.
Seeing that tear awoke something in her soul, she couldn't live without this dark and dying angel before her, life without love was no life at all and all she wanted was to live in the arms of her love, live or die. With a strength she hadn't known she possessed in her tiny form, she broke free from the monster of a man holding her back, and she ran to her angel amongst flames.
Drake's stormy gray eyes widened and he opened his mouth in protest but only a scream of pure human pain escaped his full mouth. Sophia's feet pounded on the mossy ground as she made her way towards her love all the while the echo of the voice of a young boy she grew up with screamed for her to come back. Her feet refused to listen to the yells of both the men she loved as she found her self blistering in the wake of the enormous flames that engulfed the man she wanted to spend forever with.
She looked into Drake's watering eyes and smiled lovingly and then threw her body on top of his the heat from the flames numbed by the love she felt for the man she was gazing at. She saw the life begin to escape his eyes as she placed her lips on his.
Their bodies entwining for the final time...
A/N 2: Thank you again, and never fear there will probably be a sequel, I know that may be hard to believe seeing as how it ended but never fear all of my lovely little vampires and werewolves and young maidens might be back to grace you with their presence! Thank you so much from the bottom of my heart for by reading their story a Legend was revealed... :DDD