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In the year of our Lord, 1442.
The Turkish Sultan enslaved 1,000 Transylvanian boys
to fill the ranks of his army.
These child slaves were beaten without mercy.
Trained to kill without conscience,
to crave blood of...all who fight...
the Turks.
From among these boys...
one grew into a warrior, so fierce...
that entire armies would retreat in terror...
with the mention of his name.
Vlad the Impaler.
Son...of the Dragon.
Sickened by his monstrous act,
Vlad came to bury his past with the dead
and returned to Transylvania to rule in peace.
His subjects called him Prince.
I call him father
but the world would come to know him as...
Dracula.
I left it...
where I found it.
What do yöu think, Vlad?
Bring it to me.
This belongs to a scout. One of Hamza Bey's men.
What the hell is a lone Turk doing out here?
Turkish scouts never travel alone. If there is one, there is more.
And whatever they scout... they conquer.
This is washed downstream.
It came from up there.
Broken Tooth Mountain.
Soon it'll be night. They'll seek refuge.
Dumitru, I need yöu to return to the castle. Alert the guards and double the sentry.
What? I'm not leaving yöu here.
The Turks crossed into my land unannounced, it's a sign of war.
What are yöu going to do if yöu find them?
I'll do what Princes do best, negotiate.
Nicolai, Andre, with me.
Move it.
Anything?
Smells like yöur feet.
They're inside.
How do yöu know?
Bats don't come out during the day. Something's disturbed them.
Come on.
What is it, my Lord?
The floor...
it's crushed bone.
The Turks didn't do this.
What's that?
We leave, now!
The creature yöu encountered was no accident, my Prince.
Four nights ago every brother in our order awoke from an identical dream,
I would not have thought it possible, had I not suffered the same vision myself that night.
All these creatures lay siege to this holy place.
The Romans mystics prophesized the coming of a great evil.
A vampire.
From the Greek word, Vry...
"To drink".
The beast was once a mortal man,
who summoned the demon from the depth of hell
to trade for his dark power.
The demon tricked the man, granting his wish
but his price was eternally condemned to the darkness of that cave,
where he remains until he finds another...
to set him free.
Now yöu know its true face.
The people of Transylvania lived in enough fear of the Turks' return.
Promise me yöu'll guard this secret, brother.
Papa!
I miss yöu.
And I , yöu.
My big soldier.
What, an embrace, but no kiss?
- Are we going to argue? - Yöu always leaving me and my family.
I miss yöu.
Something troubles yöu, what is it?
Only the impossible depth of yöur beauty,
puts the rest of the world to shame.
Pay no attention to yöur father, Ingeras.
Flattery is a cheap distraction from truth.
Ah, she knows all my tricks.
Yöu're a terrible liar. It's one of yöur most endearing qualities.
It's Ingeras' time for bed.
- Can we go riding tomorrow, Papa? - Of course we can.
- Yöu most certainly cannot! - Why not?
Because tomorrow is the day of our risen Lord.
- Ah, of course. - That's Easter.
What was I thinking...
So, what attacked yöu?
Wolves?
I suppose.
All I know...is that I've lost two good men today.
There is something more...
I was the same age as Ingeras, when I was sent to live with the Turks.
To fight for them.
If I never saw another, it would be too soon.
Yöu're home now.
For almost as many years as yöu were gone.
I just want peace...
that's all.
My fellow Transylvanians, an Easter toast.
Ten years of peace and prosperity,
ever since our Prince came back to us.
My old friend, here is to 20 more.
Hamza Bey... welcome.
We were not expecting yöu so soon.
Sultan Mehmed The Second offers his salutations to yöu and yöur son.
Thank yöu. I have his tribute ready.
I am afraid...there is something more than a tribute to discuss.
The Turks have no enemies here.
Did yöu think we would not have noticed a battalion of our scouts...
- ...missing? - I did not kill them.
It still lives inside yöu, Lord Impaler.
Locked in a dark cage, hidden away.
But yöu and I, we both know it's there.
The Sultan's tribute, take it and leave.
There is one last thing.
The Sultan requires 1,000 boys to join his Janissary call.
- No! - Never!
Janissary! He ended that practice years ago.
When a soldier is plucked as a child...
and raised to know no other life...
he'll kill without question and die without complaint.
Any who are 15 years of age or older, will fight in Hungary.
Those 10 to 14 will be made ready for the seize on Vienna.
The Sultan expects obedience.
After all...it was yöur own father who gave yöu up without a fight.
Soft, but they'll do.
Don't, please.
Do yöu know who I am?
Yöu mean who yöu were.
Yöu have no army and no choice, Prince.
Follow our command, or suffer the consequences.
It must be done.
Courage, anger, even love, none of these can matter to a Prince.
All that matters is his duty to his people.
What does it mean to be a royal hostage?
My father gave me to the Sultan to prove his loyalty.
Were yöu scared there? With them?
I wanted to make my father proud.
Do yöu have to give me to the Sultan?
That was a long time ago.
Yöu've nothing to worry about, do yöu understand?
Good.
If I defied the order, they'd kill a 100 for every one I saved.
Yöu told me yöu and Mehmed were once like brothers.
Why didn't yöu ask...
Isn't it possible he might show yöu some mercy?
Have yöu seen the like of it?
Soon the entire world will be Turk.
Lord Impaler...
my oldest of friends.
I miss our days together.
What I missed my time with yöu...
is the coffee.
It's true, my father's power is a cruel place for a yöung boy far from home.
But soon yöu talked like us, prayed like us, fought like us...
speakig of which...I am owed 1,000 boys.
Why have I not seen them?
Mehmed, my brother.
- I will grant yöu anything else... - I need soldiers...
brother.
Then take me.
I'm worth a 1,000 boys and yöu know it.
- Those kings would tremble if they knew. - Then accept my offer.
When we were boys, how I longed to fight side-by-side.
But now I'm Sultan, what need have I for one more soldier?
I will have my 1000 boys.
And one more.
Yöur son will be raised under my roof.
Just like yöu were raised under the roof by my father.
Yöu may retain yöur throne.
But General Ismail will remain to see that my orders are fulfilled.
Please. Do not do this.
What is one son?
If yöu're virile, yöu'll make plenty more.
Yöu promised this would never happen.
- Marina, listen... - The day yöu asked for my hand, do yöu remember what I said?
Yöu said: 'No, stay my only friend..."
I knew what happens to the sons of the Queen.
Yöu said things would be different.
Yöu said that if I loved yöu, I should trust yöu.
- I love yöu. - Then trust me.
That's a death wish to start a war.
The Great Impaler can't please his woman.
It's fine, boys. Just saying the goodbyes, that's all.
Promise me, he's my family!
Stop it, don't touch me!
I won't let them do that!!
I'll go!
I can do it.
Yöu're proud of me, aren't yöu?
Of course, I am.
Yöu have chosen wisely
but I've to say...I'm a little disappointed, frankly...
I expected more...resistance from yöu.
- Run to yöur mother. - What?
Now!!
Mehmed will punish all of Transylvania for what yöu have done.
It's not a child's place to save his country.
Get my family to the castle.
Mehmed will be sending others soon enough. War will come!
Yöu can't protect us.
I'll find a way.
Vlad, where are yöu going?
Whatever horror in Broken Tooth, I know it kills Turks.
Yöu returned...
No one has ever returned...
It seems no one has ever had the privilege of leaving either.
Neither will yöu.
Those men were reeked of fear
and yöu...I sense hope.
Yöur silver offends me, cloak it from my sight.
What kind of man crawled into his own grave in search of hope, hm?
A desperate one.
The Turks threaten to destroy my kingdom.
Power like yöurs...I could stop them.
Save my people, save my family.
How supremely noble, Lord Impaler,
Haus Dracul, Son of the Devil.
Yöu are mistaken.
It means Son of the Dragon, protector of the innocent.
Do yöur people know how many innocents yöu've killed?
Was it...hundreds?
Yes.
Lie to me again and I'll open yöu from yöur belly to yöur brain
and feed on yöur intestine.
Thousands.
And when yöu put them to the stake, what did yöu feel?
Shame, horror, power?
- Answer me! - Nothing!
I felt nothing. No greater crime than the act itself.
Then why spill blood if not for the pleasure of it?
Because men do not fear swords... they fear monsters.
They run from them. By putting one village to the stake, I spared ten more.
Sometimes the world no longer needs a hero.
Sometimes what it needs...is a monster.
And yöu believe yöu know what it is, to be a monster? Hm?
Yöu have no idea
but I am going to show yöu.
For centuries these mouldering walls have been my gallows
and I'm bound to this cave, condemned by the one who turned me.
Oh, I've waited an eternity for a man of yöur strength,
yöur gifts, yöur will. A man, worthy of the dark...
and all it's powers.
For if I am yöur salvation, yöu are mine.
Drink, yöu will have a taste of my power
and the strength of 100 men,
the speed of a falling star,
dominion over the night and all it's creatures, to see and hear through their senses.
- Even heals grievous wounds... - At what price?
Once yöu drink, yöur thirst for human blood will be insatiable.
But if yöu can resist for three days...
yöu'll return to yöur mortal state, having sampled my power,
perhaps save yöur people.
- And if I feed? - The price will be worse than if yöu'd never stepped in here.
But I'll be set free. Having granted the darkness worthy of my offering,
yöu'll become its vessel, as I am.
A scourge on this earth, designed to destroy
everything yöu hold dear. Yöur land, yöur people, even yöur precious wife and son.
- I would die before I harm them. - Indeed yöu'll, I'm afraid.
I, however, would at last be free to unleash my wrath against the one who betrayed me.
And one day, I will call on yöu to serve me, my pawn, ending the mortal game...of revenge.
- This is not a game! - Aah, won't better way to endure eternity?
For this, little Prince, is the ultimate game.
Light versus dark.
Hope versus despair.
And all the world's fate hangs in the balance.
And it will be my great pleasure to disappoint yöu.
Drink.
Let the games begin.
What now?
Now...
yöu die.
Papa!
Fire!
- Yöu came back. - I always will.
- Where were yöu? - Searching for the strength I needed.
Yöu're back.
A good Prince would had given them up!
A good Prince would have paid that price for peace.
But I give yöu my word...
we will not be defeated!
They brought war to our land!
They will pay dearly for it.
Fire!
Negotiations failed.
Do not ask me what happened on this field tonight.
Trust only that I will use all I have to keep us safe.
But we will not be safe if we stay here!
We must leave directly for Cosia Monastery. It's high in the mountains,
too remote for cannon fire.
It's our best chance of survival.
We'll take enough of our people so that our absence is noticed.
That way, when Mehmed learns what has happened here,
he'll come hunting for us.
Word, from Castle Dracula.
Vlad has defeated thousands of our men.
Then send a hundred thousand, I'll lead them.
When I march into Europe, I will have his head upon my spear
and his child at my side.
We can fight the way our great grandfathers fought.
Use the forests, the mountains around the Burgo Pass.
- 4 or 5 months of that. - Not months.
I'm going to win this war in three days.
Why not two? That'd really impress us.
What is it?
I need some air.
I'm sorry.
Don't think I haven't noticed yöu following me.
Yöu're mistaken.
I follow them. They recognize one of their own.
The night is their kingdom...
blood, their sustenance.
And some they say, can live for as long as there're prey to be devoured.
Spare me yöur ravings.
They said the one who escaped the mountain,
hides behind the face of a man.
Well, if that man is me...
yöu know a knife would not do yöu any good.
Of course not.
Why do yöu think I stayed?
I know there is only
so far on this earth they can run
and it's not far enough.
Let me serve yöu.
Stay away from me.
Yes, master.
Fulfill yöur destiny.
Set me free.
We found him in the field. He ​​asked for yöu.
A message from Prince Vlad.
He hopes...yöu enjoy the view.
Yöur scars are gone?
What's happening to yöu?
I met a dead man on Brooken Tooth.
Not a ghost...something else.
No! Stop it! Let God strike down whoever did this to yöu.
I chose this.
This is the strength yöu sought?
But why?
Because I sent corpses back to Mehmed
instead of our son.
- Yöu did this for us? - In two days I'll be restored.
I just have to resist.
Resist what?
Resist what, Vlad? Tell me!
The thirst...
for blood.
And if yöu were to give in?
Then I become this for eternity.
Yöu will not do this, won't yöu?
I swear, I will not give in.
Then God will forgive yöu.
Vlad!
Mehmed is getting closer. Yöu might want to move out soon.
I need yöu to get to the monastery as quickly as yöu can.
- Mehmed's men will be close behind. - No!
Listen to me.
I will reach yöu after sundown.
I promise yöu.
I love yöu.
My husband agrees with yöur council.
We'll depart now, under yöur temporary command.
- What? Where is Vlad going to be? - Spying on the Turks.
- He insists on doing his own reconnaissance. - No.
- I won't allow it. - It's too late. He's already gone.
All right, everyone, prepare to move out!
Tell the Sultan where his enemies will be buried.
Listen.
We are nearly there.
Go to the rear!
Couldn't these monks put the gate a little bit closer!
Stay behind me.
Didn't the Turks teach yöu anything, eh? I saw yöur blade coming from...
Ingeras, run!
Where is yöur prince now,
My Lady?
It's OK.
Vlad...
Dumitru, listen, listen!
Come here.
Never leave us again, Papa.
Never. I will always watch over yöu.
To the gate!
Keep moving along! This way!
Yöu should never have strayed from us.
- whatever yöur reasons were. - Quiet!
- Get these men off their knees! - Stand up, do yöu hear me? Stand up!
The Turks are coming! Prayers will not defend these walls!
Do yöu believe we can do this?
Mehmed's men will be coming from the north.
Double our sentries on the perimeter walls. Go! Do it now!
What's in there?
Something I hoped to never use again.
Come now.
The men say that Vlad has become a monster.
I fear this will only inflate the rumors of the Prince's dark magic.
Only if we allow it.
Men cannot fear what they cannot see.
Remember when yöu first joined my army?
Yöu wanted to pick up yöur sword and fight!
When my generals blindfolded yöu...
yöu did not believe that yöu could march without seeing
but yöu could.
Now march with me. Yöur Sultan will guide yöu!
Prince Vlad, the vampire is vulnerable to daylight
and to pure silver.
Yet the Holy Cross exerts no power over yöu.
That can only mean yöu have yet to seal yöur fate with human blood.
Let me kill yöu now, my Prince, please,
before yöur people do. Rumors have spread of what yöu've become.
Yöu can still repent.
Yöu'll do well to run, Lucian.
It's true, he's a monster!
Please, listen. He is yöur Prince. Give him a chance to explain!
- Please! Stop, please! - Kill the monster!
Satan lives in his heart!
He was trying to save his soul.
Take him to my room and shut the door. Do not let him not look outside.
- OK. - Mama!
This is yöur loyalty? Yöur gratitude?
Fools.
Do yöu think yöu're alive because yöu can fight?
Yöu're alive because of me!
Because of what I did to save yöu!
This is not who yöu are.
Return to yöur stations.
Believe me, there's still more to fear!
Lord,
if yöu've not yet forsaken me,
grant me the strength to resist the darkness.
Allow me to endure this test one more day.
I beg yöu.
Please...
Are yöu sick?
If yöu're sick, I thought this might make yöu feel better.
Thank yöu. Come.
Yöu'll make a great leader some day
Yöu think of others before yöurself.
When the Turks came to take me, yöu stopped them.
That's why yöu got sick, isn't it? To save me?
Yes,
and I'll do it all again.
They are almost here.
Dawn will be breaking soon and with it the loss of my power.
- If we've not won this war by then... - I'll fight beside yöu until death.
Yöur death would end my fight.
We have done the duty of any good parent,
protected our child,
protected all the children in the kingdom.
Perhaps our destiny was not to rule in this life.
Do yöu remember our wedding vow?
Why think separately of this life and the next...
...when one is born from the last.
Time is always too short for those who need it .
But for those who love...last forever.
Hold yöur positions!
Fire!
Where is he?
Fire!
Find yöur father, go!
Where is he?
Yöu can keep running if yöu like.
Mama!
- Let me go! - No!
Mirena!
- No, please. - Ingeras!
Please stay with me.
I cannot do this without yöu.
There's still time for yöu to stop them.
Drink my blood.
No... I cannot take yöur life.
My life is lost already
but our son's is not.
I love yöu.
Do it now!
Please.
Do it now.
Do yöu want vengeance?
Drink.
I know now hell is real.
So I know there is a heaven.
Neither this world nor the next shall keep us apart.
I will honor yöur sacrifice and I vow that our son shall be safe.
Of all my lands, this is the one I love the least.
Look to the East.
The sun should be risen by now, should it not?
What is that?
It is the Prince. He's coming.
I used to think there were too many of yöu.
Now, it's not enough.
I understand yöu've a weakness
for silver.
Papa!
He is waiting for yöu.
Yöu're slower brother...and weaker.
Go on, take it.
Is this the monster that terrified my men?
Yöu grow more weary by the moment.
Tell me, how long can yöu bear it in here, huh?
Long enough to strike yöur name from the history books.
Papa!
Take a last look at yöur father, Ingeras.
- No! - Look how pathetic he is.
Stop, please!
If I put a stake thru' yöur heart,
it will kill yöu...
like any other man.
- A fitting death, for Lord...Impaler. - No!
Papa!
That's no longer my name.
My name is Dracula.
Son of the Devil.
It's all right. I'm here.
- Yöu old goat. - I don't feel old.
- How many are left? - None, except for yöur son, of course.
A distraction we can now...dispense with.
What have I thought yöu?
Repeated, over and over, since yöu were a boy?
All that matters is a Prince's duty to his people.
Don't yöu realize?
They all are our enemies now.
When he is gone, yöu'll be free.
Yöu forget who I am!
Leave him.
Come with me, child.
Please.
Get back!
This has to stop. Please! Please, Vlad's son.
I do not want to leave yöu.
- Yöu have to go with him. - No!
Do not leave his sight.
Please know that I will always love yöu.
Always.
- No! - Go!
- No! - Yöu take care of him!
No, papa!
He's safe now, Mirena.
The Turks never conquered the capitals of Europe.
Prince Vlad Dracula was a hero.
But, there're no pictures or statues of him.
I am his legacy.
His sacrifice taught me that even after the darkest night,
the sun will rise again.
Drink, master.
For if the heart is strong enough, the soul is reborn
with each new day,
in life after life,
age after age,
forever.
Beautiful...
the flowers, my Lady.
My lady?
- Where are yöu from? - A long way from here.
Well, good night.
Why think seperately of this life and the next...
when one is born from the last.
It's my favorite poem.
It speaks to yöur yearning, of one soul pleading for another.
I'm Mina.
Vlad.
Let the games begin.
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