As Quincy Harker
mourns the daughter he was forced to kill (last issue), Blade demands that they
forget about her and pursue Dracula, which leads to a fight with Frank Drake.
Rachel van Helsing breaks up the fight and Quincy says Blade is right, they
must go after their deadly quarry….
College student
Cecile Parker is on her way home late at night when she is accosted by a
would-be rapist. Dracula comes to her rescue, kills the man and hypnotizes her
into coming with him to her death….
At the morgue,
servants of Doctor Sun bribe the attendant into letting them have the body of
Lucas Brand, killed in issue #11; as they go, they murder the attendant to
ensure his silence….
Curious about human
activity, Dracula attends a boxing match but is disgusted by such wanton waste
of strength and passion….
At Quincy Harker’s
home, after Edith has been cremated and her ashes stored in a jar, Blade
reveals the motivation behind his hunt: his mother was in labor with him when a
doctor was called; the doctor turned out to be vampire Deacon Frost who drank
his mother’s blood just as Blade was born and he has vowed to kill the monster
that took his mother from him….
Dracula, in bat
form, is spied flying over a tent meeting on his way to his hidden sanctuary
and this is reported to Harker. The heroes head to the nearest town and ask
about Dracula and discover the postmaster has been hypnotized by the vampire.
Dracula realizes that his enemies have found him and prepares a grim welcome.
When they arrive, there is a violent battle, with Taj Nital being hurled into
the river, as the enthralled townspeople rush to their master’s aid. Harker
fires poisonous darts at Dracula but he merely takes on his misty form and
while he is stalking Harker, Blade creeps up behind Dracula and stabs him in
the heart with a wooden knife. Dracula is dead….