Free Dracula: Hearts of Fire (Dracula Heart's) by Albert Gallant Page A

would handle th e request from little old Annie; they slowly sheathed their swords. Annie took a step closer to him and smiled. He had been impressed with her bravado, as the battle had raged on around her, she had gone about her business of kicking the bones and hadn’t cared if someone would have killed her or not. The battle hadn’t phased her one iota. Dracula thought that she had bigger balls that most.
     
        Old man Brian peeked around the corner from his walker. He had been a well-respected doctor in his time but now most days he wasn’t even sure of where he was. He would take off his belt and listen to it with his imaginary stethoscope. Brian accessed the mess that was strewn about from the fight. “Who’s gonna clean up this mess?”
     
        The Master smiled at Annie. “Are you sure that’s what you want Annie? If I turn you there’s no going back. You must realize that the only way out of the vampire condition is death. Are you agreeable to that?”
     
        “Oh yes. It can’t be worse than my current condition. Either kill me or cure me. Please and thank you.”
     
        Dracula minded the old woman and saw that she was a good person; he saw how beautiful she had been as a young woman. He picked her up an d she turned her neck to him as he bit her, a small amount of blood ran down her neck . Annie stiffened and pointed her toes. When Dracula put her down all her pain was gone, and she was stronger and faster than she ever believed possible. She picked up her canister of oxygen and was tempted to throw it through the window but then thought better of it. Why should they be forced to replace the window because of her carelessness? Her energy was through the roof. She couldn’t ever remember feeling this good.
     
        “You wouldn’t believe how good I feel . This is incredible. ”
     
        Dracula looked down at Annie and smiled. “Annie, be good or I’ll have to come back and get you.”
     
        “I will.”
     
        Brian shouted his loudest. “Annie’s a vampire!”
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    CHAPTER THIRTEEN
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
        I N THE FINGER LAKES NATIONAL FOREST of New York State the sun shone and was alternately blocked by the puffy clouds of summer. The scents of the nearby pine trees were defeated. The bird s that had been singing stopped as s upernatural whispers glided around them . Two newly constructed military type barracks were out of place in the middle of the woods. The dwellings were miles from everywhere and would soon be under the cover of an enchantment. Painted in dark olive green no roads let to them. The empty barracks stood side-by-side and awaited the vampires that would reside within. Animals shunned the area, with a few rabbits running for their lives as they felt pursued by the stench of burning flesh .
     
       A mid-level blood wizard named Ahmet was putting the final touches to a spell that would keep all humans several miles away from the place . He was dressed in black with a leather motorcycle vest and black chaps, including a leather skull cap with red flames. He was a mean looking dude in his mid-fifties, only he had been born in San Francisco in 1852 to parents of the famous gold rush. He had killed his parents long ago ; h is father had been a nasty vampire . The idea was to make the buildings invisible from curious eyes. The enchantment was also supposed to kee p the vampires away, however the wizard was unsure of that part of the spell, but he wasn’t about to notify Sharpton of that. He was going to take the mo ney, disappear and never look back.
     
        Ahmet was a mountain man with his salt-and-pepper beard down to his chest. His arms were tattooed with demons that looked real from a distance. One of the tattoos was a skeleton holding a double-edged axe dripping blood was particularly scary , it certainly frightened small children .