Hello, my faithful readers! I'm going to tell you all the things you need to know about the last few chapters, and all the things that happened that may have been a bit confusing.

D's imagination of his mother was really Doris, making it even more real the fact that he compared the two quite often. In fact, Doris looked so much like his mother that he, if glanced at from a distance, couldn't tell their pictures apart.

Dracula had hidden Dante away, and that's where he was headed to after he killed D. He brought Doris and Dan along with Dante like some sort of ransom, to bring D there. He wanted D so he could kill him- then, he wouldn't be in the way of his perfect grandson.

He took such an interest in him because, although he was only 1/4th Noble, he was his only grandson, son of the greatest dhampir of all time, and hoped that he'd develop all, or at least most of, the good traits that D possessed.

Doris was so full of rage that she killed herself with D's sword. (Dracula had stabbed him with his own weapon to make it more humiliating, and just because of the fact he had no weapon on him. He wanted to make it meaningful, to make it a masterpiece. He didn't want D to die like the other's he had killed. He wanted it to be special. And the apparition of D's mother gave him the perfect chance to stab him.

After D and Doris had perished, Dr. Tsurugi took Dan and Dante back to the ranch and helped raise them until Dan was old enough to take care of the baby himself. After that, he left, himself being a traveling doctor. He came to visit Dan from time to time, but that was all.

Dan raised Dante like his own son, or, like a baby brother. At the end, Dan was chatting with his bar buddies, telling them about the good times with D and his sister. Dante watched peacefully from his spot on the barstool, not wanting to intervene. He felt as if he really couldn't fit in, and is more like his father than he knows. The only things he knows about him are things that Dan's told him from his great adventures. He looks just like D, only with Doris' eyes, and wears clothes just like his father. He has the blue pendant, too, and sometimes gets confused with his father. "Is that him? I thought he was dead," they'd say.

After hearing story after story about D's life, he vowed to become a Vampire Hunter.

And that's where my next story begins.

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Watch out for my new story coming out shortly! It's called Agony, so look for it! Thanks, you guys!

SPOILER ALERT!! These are answers to questions that came up in the next story... So warning, you'll know ahead of the story.

When Doris shone the blue light at Dracula, he did not die. Dracula does not die that easily. Nor does D. D is still alive. A hint of that is when Doris screams "don't leave me" and he has the memory of him and his mother. He WILL return in the new story, don't you worry. But he couldn't wake up in time to stop Doris. The reason I wanted to "kill off" D was because if he lived, he couldn't stay anyway, and if Doris raised Dante, he might not be a Vampire Hunter, being the whole point of the sequel. Also, I wanted Dante to hear stories of his father, the great Vampire Hunter, but not being able to feel quite good enough, to live up to everyone's expectations. It adds a little twist to it, doesn't it? And a bit of reality.

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