Description
This is that one story in a universe that goes back in time.
Modern Day
It's a nice sunny day on open waters on the Princess Cruises in the Bahamas, and things are starting to look perfect. Rachael Hawkins, Tyler Holt, Christian Cutter, Derrick Holloway, and Layla Connor are in a hot tub. And of course Tyler is used to the hot tub because he's an underwater stunt double, and is now getting his girlfriend, Rachael, more used to being in the water. While in the hot tub, the hunters are playing "Truth or Dare," until Abraham Van Helsing steps into the hot tub. Each hunter agree on one dare for Abraham, the dare he gets, is to tell his story, and how he knows so much about hunting monsters. Well, to tell Abraham's story, we must go back to 20 years ago.
20 Years Ago
Abraham Van Helsing started out like all the other monster hunters; a student at the William S. Boyd School of Law in Las Vegas, NV, who came all the way down from Amsterdam, to become a lawyer. By day, he's a law school student, but by night, he is also a doctor/professor. One night, as a professor, he is called by one of his former students, John Seward, about a mysterious illness going on, as it got to a girl named Lucy Westenra. Long before Seward became a doctor, he saved Abraham's life by sucking out the gangrene on the wound Abe had on his arm, saving him. Abe saw the wound before, realizing that it is a vampire who attacked Lucy. And so, Van Helsing and Seward set out on a journey to save Lucy.
Meanwhile, in Romania, a mysterious man is heading to Castle Transylvania on a business trip, to meet up with his boss, Count Dracula, about breeding a new army of vampires. This man is secretly a vampire. The only way for the vampires to breed their army is by finding pure blood, standard blood results in death. This man who attacked Lucy Westenra, chose her because her blood was pure, and within days, she will become a vampire. Unfortunately, Lucy died of her bite. And Dracula sent his three wives to attack the mystery man. While Van Helsing and Seward arrive in Transylvania, they get word back from the hospital that Lucy awoke as a vampire, and she attacked the nurses, those who had pure blood turned into vampires, and those who did not, died. The attack on Lucy is no longer just a look for a cure; it becomes personal this time.
While in town, the people of Transylvania who are afraid of the castle start offering Abraham and Seward stakes, garlic, crossbows, and guns, because of the vampires inside the castle. While covering it up as a business trip, the people still offer the two the weapons. After checking in at the Inn, night falls, and that's where people lock up their stores and houses, and arm themselves, because that's the time of night when the vampires take the form of bats and scout all over Transylvania, searching for pure blood. Abraham notices something about the bat swarm that comes out at night, they are all vampires, and they break through the window, and transform back into their human form, believing that Abe and Seward are the ones Dracula needs. Abe is able to scare them away with a blow of garlic salt. Unfortunately, they get to Seward, his blood is not pure, and then he dies in Abe's arms.
Abe is alone on this journey to kill the vampire that started all of this; it is his mission to avenge his former student. And as he makes it all the way to Castle Transylvania, Dracula is just there waiting out front for him to arrive. But before he kills the vampire that started all of this, he had to face the three wives of Dracula, where the wives think it'll be easy for the three of them to kill just one guy, but Abe eliminates all three, one with a silver bullet, one with a crossbow, and one with a wooden stake. And as Dracula makes it personal for him, he and Abe battle on the rooftop, in which both fell off. And as they both fall, Abe is clawed on the chest and uses Dracula as a shield to break his fall.
With Abe winning the battle, the citizens of Transylvania arrive as a mob to bury the vampire that killed many (and turned into vampires). Abe shoots both of Dracula's legs to make sure he doesn't move or transform into a bat and is placed in a coffin, and the coffin is filled with garlic salt and is buried somewhere in Egypt, where nobody can find him and buries the coffin in a liquid silver pit that hardens over time. And so, those who were turned into vampires turn back to normal, including Lucy, but sadly, those who died of the attacks stayed dead, so Seward is gone. After hunting down the vampire, it is decided that Abe will dedicate his life to finding people who would fight monsters just like Dracula. He was there in France (back in 2005) when The Phantom of the Opera was thrown into the River Seine. Abe knew about all the other monster hunters (Rachael fighting The Mummy, Tyler fighting the Creature from the Black Lagoon, Christian fighting The Wolf Man, Derrick fighting Frankenstein's Monster, and Layla fighting The Invisible Man), and thought they were worthy of forming a team.
Modern Day
We are now back to today's time, and it's a formal night on the ship, and after getting drinks from the champagne tower. Abraham and the hunters make a toast, to creating a new brotherhood, those who have just fought monsters working for someone who did this for the last 20 years. Abraham says it'll take more than bullets to fight monsters. A brotherhood is formed, and Abraham says: "Welcome to a new world of gods and monsters."
In a post-credits scene, it's been many days later, and the ship docks back in Florida, and the gang gets on a plane to New York to Abraham's Secret Headquarters, only to find half of the people in Time Square have turned into vampires. Dracula is still out there.
Based on: Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Dracula design is not mine, it is dudebrah's
Is this part of an alternate Dark Universe per chance?