By Paul Buckmaster

 

 

-"ALONG HERE...."

-"WE MUST HURRY!

-"THIS WAY, GREAT MASTER, QUICKLY!

OH NO, I SHOULDN'T HAVE COME FOR YOU, I SHOULD HAVE COME STRAIGHT TO HELP 

HIM."

-"DON'T REPROACH YOURSELF."

-"I MIGHT HAVE SAVED HIM!"

-"WHOEVER KILLED COUNT DRACULA WOULD SURELY HAD KILLED YOU."

-"THE KING OF THE NETHERWORLD IS LOST TO US FOREVER, OH, THE COUNTESS...."

-"WHERE DID SHE REST?"

-"OH NO, THEY COULDN'T HAVE...OOH....OOH...."

-"IT SEEMS THE HOUSE OF DRACULA IS NOT AT AN END."

-"I KNEW THE COMING CHILD, GREAT MASTER, BUT I WAS SWORN TO A SECRECY."

-"YOU DID WELL. AND NOW THE NETHERWORLD CAN REJOICE THAT A VAMPIRE CHILD

WILL BE BORN IN THE MANNER OF THE HUMAN WORLD. THE COUNTESS, SHE SHALL

HAVE A BOY AND HE SHALL INHERIT HIS FATHER'S THRONE AND ONE DAY SHALL BE

CROWNED THE KING OF THE NETHERWORLD."

-"WHEN WILL THIS BE, GREAT MASTER?"

-"NOT IN YOUR LIFETIME, BRIAN, BUT YOU MUST PREPARE HIM."

-"I SHALL UNDERTAKE THAT TASK WITH GREAT PRIDE."

-"I HAVE BEEN AWARE FOR SOME TIME NOW THAT IN A HUNDRED YEARS AN OCCASION

OF GREAT IMPORT WILL AFFECT THE HOUSE OF DRACULA."

 

-"AAAAAHHH! NO!!"

-"AAAAAHHH!"

 

-"THIS CORONATION WILL ESTABLISH OUR PEOPLE ONCE MORE UNITED UNDER 

ONE LEADER."

-"YES, INDEED."

 

-"HAVE YOU, HAVE YOU CALCULATED THE MOMENT?"

-"NO, NOT YET, ALL I CAN SAY IS THAT THE CROWN MUST BE PLACED UPON HIS

HEAD WITHIN THE NEXT 72 HOURS BUT WHICH MOMENT OF THE FINAL HOUR

HAS YET TO BE REVEALED."

-"YOU ARE TO BE CONGRATULATED, MY LORD."

-"THANK YOU, BARON, BUT THE COUNT MAY FIND THE NEXT 72 HOURS SOMETHING

OF AN ORDEAL."

-"BUT SURELY NOT. I HEAR HE'S IN GOOD HEALTH AND WELL PREPARED FOR 

THE OCCASION."

-"HE IS, BUT THERE IS SOMETHING IN HIS ASTROLOGICAL CHART NOT YET VISIBLE

IN THE STARS BUT I KNOW IT TO BE THERE."

-"IF THERE IS ANYTHING I CAN DO..."

-"WE MUST SIMPLY BE AWARE AND PAY HIM EVERY ATTENTION."

-"COUNT DOWN, THERE'S A LOT TO THANK YOU FOR."

-"YOU ARE ALL MY CHILDREN, BARON FRANKENSTEIN."

-"BUT HE IS SPECIAL."

-"IT IS HE WHO WILL BE KING!"