A NEW ERA DAWNING

*NOTE: He maybe from "Batman Vs Dracula" but my Dracula is not that same one. I 'am just using him for a face claim.
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Am playing with different kind of  Vampire/Dracula plot. While playig  with the concept.
' Thoughts are powerful things......Be careful what you wish for, you may just get it' While exploring both the Dreamworld
(or Dreamscape), and what we believe to be our Reality. And how the Dreamscape could be (or is), another reality. And how it maybe (and was) fabricated by the mere thoughts of many hopeful, long souls. Finding lucid-dreamers are better adapted at reaching this another reality, then others.

.....So this is where the story really begins......
Yes. The Dreamscape is very real. And everyday, young adults/adults are adding to it everyday, by the powers of mere thought, and their deepest longings. (but the thought can only become real, if more then one person thinks passionately about it) And this is extually what happened, to a certain popular Vampire. That brought him into existence, in another reality.

DRACULA,  is growing tired of all theses memories, he has been given. Aware they were
given to him, by the media. From Novels, to movies, to half ass TV shows. Still picking and choosing what he likes out of each. He may have been born by the power of mere thought, but he found ways to use these memories, that were said his, into shaping his own reality.

Trapped in in his iconic domain. Surrounded by his Vampric count. While lightly amused, why certain characters in his tales are not here. Such as Refiled, ' The Brides' or Camilla. It's good thing. That's the last he wants, to have certain people trusted upon him, manly because many deem it so.

He is Dracula he can do as he pleases. Or more this was what the thoughts formed him as?...Right? Thus, forming him to have his own free will, to question all this. He has come to find, not all are aware that their domain is a lie. As here is nothing but a mirror image of an era, that once was, now long past.

Knowing just beyond that veil, that separates dreams and realities, the real world awaits. He dreams of bridging it, freeing himself and his army. To do what he does best, to be himself. To create his new order. His true chapters, and a very darkening mark on history.

IRENE,  At the age of 7 her parents deemed her a danger to herself. That her creative mind, and originality was going to be the death of her one day. (That, and that were selfish, wanting to live their unfilled life through her.) They seeking medical help, upset to find all true doctors turning them away. Saying she was fine. Saying, maybe her choice of amusement isn't all that proper for age. However , her daydreams and creatively was normal for her age, for any age really.

(* Dracula and Irene, do share a past, scoll down read below)

Irene wasn't like normal girls of her age. She for one was smarter, didn't like being talk down to. Or children programing. There was a moment in time were she had depression, but soon solved it with books. Books far to mature, and with small print something her age couldn't muster. She forced herself, didn't come easy, but the results were rewarded. For a while, until her abusive parents deemed her a problem child and decided she needed help.

She had learned to late, she should have kept her mouth shut and acted like her dizy, ' no thought in my mind' peers. All she told her parents was just fuel, that could be twist around and reword to any backwards thinking doctor. That would make him believe, yes she does need help.

They did find a mental ward. It was far more twisted and crueler, then one would let on. Once you looked past the happy cheerful staff, and the facade of a normal safe live in ' we are here for you' hospital. She was forced to take countless drugs. (Along some newly untested one as well, for their own sick amusement no doubt) Putting her to sleep, and unable to have normal dreams. What she had were nightmares, the ones that were hard to cope from. Nightmares brought on all these countless drugs, forced upon her.

From that day she rarely sleep, drinking coffee to say awake, becoming a junkie. Then coming to find it was only true love and friend, as days  turn to weeks and weeks to months, then years.

....Irene now 17, who lost her ability to lucid dream, (or so she thinks..?) and fully brainwashed by drugs, told there is no such thing as a world beyond our own.

Yet it seemed, even though all these years she had a friend from the outside( who was spy hoping to bring this place down..)who sunk her books. Such has a very rare first DRACULA prints. For one of her B-days. Her true treasured. Now covered in tear stains, through out her stay there.

The doctors managed to find her stash. As she was being to careless, one day. Irene feared it would happen. She wasn't careless, when it came to her most loved treasured. She had that in a very safe place. Hidden in a hole, in one of walls of her room. That covered easily by a few bricks, and covered by a hanging self, who would know?

....THEN ONE NIGHT.........IT ALL CHANGED

She was dragged out of sound sleep, for further studies. It would seem, a doctor who was aware of her case, who heard the claims of her so called lucid dreaming. Who he too had hidden agendas, about the strange concept that was lucid dreaming and is so called dreamscape. That she forever raddled on about, during her early years there.

He wondered why they had suppressed her, for so long. They should have put her under, day one. Then study brain pattens, and how her body reacts.

Before she knew what was happening, she was pinned down. Irene felt so many needles going into her skin, starting to lose count and just all comprehend of it all. It was probably dew to her slipping, into a drug induce sleep. A few moments later, bond upon some table, left in operating theater, put on display. Send back into dreamscape. And soon would come across a dear old friend. But sadly, now she would merely think of him as her own imaginings. That he, none of this, was really here or real.
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*DRACULA/IRENE'S PAST
These two had a past. It was short lived past, but a shared past never the less.
She met him, during one of her first wanderings in the dreamscape. While still learning, she was able to past the point of common dreaming, and explore other realties. Then later was she able to put a name to her talent, knowing it as 'lucid dreaming' Only finding out, there was more to it, then just lucid dreaming.

She was just a little girl. It seemed a bit questionable at her age. She shouldn't be even dwelling in their lore. But here she was. She could have picked anything to dream about, Unicorns, knights in shining armor, imaging herself as a princess, in her own magic world. And yet, she found her way here.

This child intrigue him. It made him wonder, what could someone of her age,(age: 6) be doing with stories of him and his kind? So he started to pry into her little head, and try understand how this little one's mind worked. Surprisingly he found, she too needed an escape from her life. He wasn't without feelings, it sadden him She had all her life to do what she wanted, to be what she wanted. Yet already, she was done with it, done with life. What could possible be so horrible, that a child would want to throw it all away, so fast? That was when she found books. She told him. “I was born in the wrong era...I guess” And how the horror, romance, the promise of ever lasting life, drew her attention. She had to find were it all started. In some ways, he saved her soul from dying. Saved her for just not caring, anymore. So now it made sense, she would dream away to find him.

..After that day, she kept turning up. He put up with her, humored her. She didn't offer any inferences with his plans, so was a lesser of evils. She soon became a habit. A dirty adduction. Lying to himself, saying how didn't not care, or did care she was there. Oh but he cared, he saw the hunger in her eyes and power for knowledge. How she wanted to belong, and be part of something truly magical and epic.


...Then one day she never showed. He fall back into depression again, clearly she had ' grown up' forgot how to reach the dreamscape. Then like any child, she drew her attention and love to the newest thing. Unaware his sympathizer needed him.
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IRENE'S RETURN..
when he comes across her, he quickly is aware of who it is. She hasn't changed that much. Just grew up, and now is young woman. But if in doubt, her scent is a smell all it's own. However it seems to have been now infused with coffee. The two soon "rekindle" their friendship. Within a spend of the next 24 hours. He gives her that kind of love, she has only read in those romantic novels.
That were smuggled into her ward, upon request. ...But Irene believing all if this was just a dream.  A VERY GOOD AND HAPPY DREAM!!!!!!!!. Something she had missed, and wanted for ages.

But soon she will realize, something is up. Starting to put two and two together. When she does, see this as truth. He finds it's easy to tell her, of his plans. But they will leave the dreamscape, one way or another. And then Vampires truly will walk among us. THAT IS WHEN TRUE FUN STARTS!
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ALL STORIES NEED A PLAYLIST
Gréta Salóme & Jónsi - Never Forget
Kamelot - Ghost Opera
Serenity - Sheltered (By The Obscure)
Lana Del Rey - Once Upon A Dream
Serenity - The Art of War
"In the Silence" - Greta Salóme
The Rasmus - Mysteria
Hannah Cartwright & Ross Tones - All You leave Behind
IAMX - Bernadette
Gorgeous Nightmare - Escape The Fate