Frank Drake and
Rachel van Helsing return to the bridge where they had met (issue #3); he
confesses that with Dracula dead, he doesn’t know what to do with his life;
Rachel confesses her love for him. Count Dracula, alive again, watches and is
nauseated. At Castle Dunwick, Shiela Whittier waits for Dracula to return to
her, not believing he is the evil vampire everyone says he is….
Blade returns to his
apartment to find a sinister stranger threatening his girlfriend Safron Caulder.
The baddie is a vampire named Marko, sent to summon Blade to a meeting with his
master. Blade kills him and makes love to Safron….
Later that evening,
Trudy Taylor, Safron’s coworker at the strip club, comes asking for help. A
sinister looking customer, Count Vlad (we see that it’s Dracula), hypnotized
her into taking him home and once there he attacked her but she was able to
fend him off with a cross. She ran to Safron’s place for help, a huge black bat
following her all the way. Recognizing the name Count Vlad, Blade is confused
as he was told Dracula was dead but he goes out looking for the fiend. Dracula,
in bat form, swoops down pushing Blade into the path of an omnibus….
Taj Nital arrives
home, having left years ago and not intending to return. His wheelchair-bound
wife tells him their son is dying. Taj slaps her face and walks out….
Blade rolls so that
the bus passes over him and lures Dracula into a department store where they
fight throughout the place. The bat throws his foe down a flight of stairs but
Blade manages to stab him when he comes too close. Dracula flees. Blade has
nothing he can explain to the police so he goes home. Dracula returns to Castle
Dunwick and lies in his coffin. Frank tells Rachel he has to go off and find
himself and leaves her….