His coffins in England
having been destroyed, Count Dracula heads for one in Paris, only to find the
coffin gone and Blade waiting for him. Dracula defeats the vampire hunter,
drinks his blood and leaves him for dead. Dracula then heads for a coffin
Harker and company don’t know about—hidden on a French farm and guarded by one
of his servants. Dracula spends the night there….
Dracula then boards
a train for Transylvania. Also aboard is Ludwig Gruber and his bodyguard, the
hulking Granet; Gruber has stolen a briefcase full of documents from his master
and fears pursuit. Also aboard: Frank Drake and Rachel van Helsing, hunting
Dracula though Granet overhears them and assumes they are the ones pursuing
Gruber. And there is also a young American, Jack Russell [a/k/a Werewolf By Night]….
At the pagoda of
Doctor Sun, the latest attempt to bring a vampire into his service sees
Lucas Brand put to the test: he is pitted against two soldiers with automatic
weapons. His lack of fear in facing them proves to be a success….
Aboard the train,
Dracula feeds upon a young mother but her scream attracts attention so the
Count is forced to leave unsated (and the woman alive). Hearing about this,
Gruber orders Granet to kill Dracula, Rachel, and Frank. Granet goes after
Dracula first; the vampire assumes his attacker is one of Quincy Harker’s
agents and throws him through a window to his death. Dracula decides to leave
the train and fly the rest of the way but he is intercepted by Frank and
Rachel; the vampire beats up Frank while mocking him, clouts Rachel, and heads
down the corridor to be intercepted by Gruber. The latter confuses Dracula with
all of his shouted defiance of the master and jumps to his death to keep the
briefcase from the one he assumes is his master’s agent….
Epilogue: The briefcase
is recovered by agents of the real master: Doctor Sun….