The vampire hunters stay at Dr. Seward's residence, holding nightly meetings and providing reports based on each of their various tasks allotted to them.
Mina discovers that each of their journals and letters collectively contain clues to which they can track Count Dracula down
.Mins tasks herself with collecting them, researching newspaper clippings, fitting the most relevant entries into chronological order and typing out copies to distribute to each of the party which they are to study.,in the meantime Jonathan tracks down the shipments of boxed graves and the estates which Dracula has purchased in order to store them.
Van Helsing conducts research along with Dr. Seward to analyze the behaviour of their patient Renfield who both believe is directly influenced by Dracula.
They also research go deeper into historical events, folklore, and superstitions from various cultures to understand Dracula's powers and weaknesses and via this
Van Helsing establishes a criminal profile on Dracula in order to better understand his actions and predict his movements to finally track him and kill the beast
. After discovering all the various properties Dracula had purchased, the protagonists team up to raid each property and are several times confronted by Dracula and each time he survives to drink blood another day .
As they discover each of the boxed graves scattered throughout London, they pry them open to place and seal wafers of sacramental bread within. This act renders the boxes of earth completely useless to Dracula as he is unable to open, enter or further transport them.
Dracula learns of the group's plot against him, he manages to get control of Mina on three occasions and feeds her his own blood to control her.
This curses Mina with vampirism and changes her but does not completely turn her into a vampire.
Van Helsing realising something is wrong with Mina attempts to bless her through prayer and by placing a wafer of sacrament against her forehead, but it burns her upon contact leaving a wretched scar.
Under the curse, Mina oscillates from consciousness to a semi-trance during which she perceives Dracula's surroundings and actions.
Van Helsing tells the others he is going to hypnotism Mina twice a day, at dawn and at sunset as a vampire is not able to function during these times, to put Mina into this trance to further track Dracula's movements.
Mina, afraid of Dracula's link with her, urges the team not to tell her their plans out of fear that Dracula will be listening.
After the protagonists discover and sterilize 49 boxes found throughout Dracula s lairs in London, they learn that Dracula has fled with the missing 50th box back to his castle in Transylvania in a last bid to keep his beastly existence.
They pursue him under the guidance of Mina. ,They split up into teams once they reach Europe; Van Helsing and Mina team up to locate the castle of Dracula while the others attempt to ambush the boat Dracula is using to reach his home.
Van Helsing raids the castle and destroys the vampire "sisters" the ones who nearly ended Jonathan s life the first time around.
. Upon discovering Dracula being transported by Gypsies he had hypnotize d to do his bidding the three teams converge and attack the caravan carrying Dracula in the 50th and last box of Earth. After dispatching many Gypsies who were sworn to protect the Count, Harker shears Dracula through the throat with a kukri knife, while the mortally wounded Quincey stabs the Count in the heart with a Bowie knife. Dracula crumbles to dust, and Mina is freed from her curse of vampirism, as the scar on her forehead disappears. Soon after, Quincey dies from his wounds.
As we looked there came a terrible convulsion of the earth so that we seemed to rock to and fro and fell to our knees. At the same moment with a roar which seemed to shake the very heavens the whole castle and the rock and even the hill on which it stood seemed to rise into the air and scatter in fragments while a mighty cloud of black and yellow smoke volume on volume in rolling grandeur was shot upwards with inconceivable rapidity.
Then there was a stillness in nature as the echoes of that thunderous report seemed to come as with the hollow boom of a thunder-clap – the long reverberating roll which seems as though the floors of heaven shook. Then down in a mighty ruin falling whence they rose came the fragments that had been tossed skywards in the cataclysm.
From where we stood it seemed as though the one fierce volcano burst had satisfied the need of nature and that the castle and the structure of the hill had sunk again into the void. We were so appalled with the suddenness and the grandeur that we forgot to think of ourselves.
The fire in the heath is beginning to lose its glow,the plutonium night is spreading across the land,my friend Bram finishes put down my tale in his book .
He looks at me,his eyes flow red,he lunges forewards and tears at my neck.
The end.
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