AThe Nine is the name for an elite vampire hunting team that Jacob Van Helsing (Rhett Giles), great grandson of Abraham Van Helsing, put together to hunt and destroy vampires who persist in feeding from humans. The original Nine were led by Colonel Rufus King (Thomas Downey). The other members included four women -- Gracie Johannsen (Eliza Swenson), Trixie McFly (Rebekah Kochan), Anastasia Ravenwood (Marie Westbrook), and Sadie MacPherson (Sarah Hall) -- and two men -- Rich "Nebraska" Zulkowski (Chriss Anglin), and Jimmy "The Kid" D'Amico (Derek Osedach). The Nine disbanded when vampires and hunters made a pact such that vampires would no longer hunt humans and purebloods and that hunters would no longer kill vampires. When the team is reassembled five years later, it also includes Rick Tattinger (Tom Nagel), who asks to be a part of the team when his girlfriend Christina Lockheart (Erica Roby) is abducted by Draculea's three vampire brides.
AWhen Gracie learns that her sister, a pureblood, is missing, she dashes to the bunker where Van Helsing and Rufus are hiding. She demands that the Nine help find her. Rufus knows only that the Stalkers (vampires that hunt purebloods), led by Rafe (Jeff Denton), are turning purebloods again but they don't have Gracie's sister. Rufus concludes that she's being held in Countess Bathorly (Christina Rosenberg)'s lair. Having learned from Alex Devereaux (Sarah Lieving) where Bathorly is hiding, the Nine break in to find both Christina Lockheart and Gracie's sister have been turned into vampires. Rick is forced to kill Christina, and Gracie kills her sister, but bullets don't even slow down the Countess. She's become too powerful. A big fight commences, and Van Helsing is wounded. As he lay dying, Alex decides to turn him. Gracie, now revealed also as a pureblood, offers herself to Bathorly in place of Rufus. In the ending twist, Rufus reveals himself to be Draculea and, through thought-walking, he kills Bathorly. He then explains that he made a deal with the Dark Forces to renounce his identity and live as a man, fighting against vampires, against the plague that he had created. In revealing himself to the others, however, Rufus is returned to his former state and must continue to exist as a vampire.
