Set in a distant future where the age of Vampires ruling the nights is on the decline, the story begins with the mysterious kidnap of a woman Charlotte, by an aristocratic vampire known as Meier Link. Her family puts out a bounty, and the call is answered by both Vampire Hunter D, and bounty hunter team The Markus Brothers. It becomes a race against time, and turns into a competition between the two groups as they try to save Charlotte from her captor.