CastleVania: Senshi For HIRE!!!!

Part 10

By: YingGirl. (yinggirl@yahoo.com)

 

Notes: Although I do not owe the rights of CastleVania SoTN, I do owe the rights to some characters. All other characters are based and owned by Konami. The story takes place in the modern time. Please enjoy.

 

Prologue 1

 

  The count was most pleased with his capture. He held tighter. I winced a little while the

three men watched in horror.

 “Let…me…go….” I winced a little.

  “Father!!!!” Alucard cried out, “No!! Please!!! Don’t hurt her!”

  The count chuckled lightly as he looked up at Alucard.

  “You don’t know the source of her power, when she already shown it to you….” the

count said as he still held me, “it’s much different from any Belmont I’ve encountered”

  “Different…?” Richter asked.

  “Yes. And since I know how to evoke her powers, I’ll use them to fully restore my

strength to the brink I will never be defeated by the likes of any human again!!!”

  “NOOOOOO!!!!!” Richter then unleashed his whip at the count…

  But it was too late…he was already gone along with me.

  Pumpkin Jr. looked up.

  “YingGirl…” Pumpkin jr. muttered, “you gotta trust in her. She’ll make it…” He then closed

his eyes for once last time. He dropped the locket, which quickly opened to reveal a

picture of a young woman…along with her vampiric lover.

  What did it all mean? Could it be the final fight…or something that can never be thinking

up of?

 

***

 

Prologue 2

 

  “Awaken your powers young Belmont,” the voice echoed, “show me your TRUE

strength…”

 

  I started to wake up. Where was I? The area is so dark…I couldn’t even see a thing.

Where was everyone?!! Where the hell did the

  “Alucard…” I cried out as I looked around, “Richter? Merrick? Matt, Cother? Pumpkin Jr.?

Squeaks??”

  No reply.

  I still had my whip and the holy weapons on me if I ran into trouble. I was alone…

  I hated being alone. I was always alone throughout my life…

  Then she came.

  It was a different woman than the one I meet. She had flowing blond hair, gleaming

green eyes, and fairly white skin. She might be around my age since she was almost as

tall as me.

  “Who are you?” I asked calmly as I looked at her.

  “I’m an old friend of Alucard,” she replied, “my name is Maria Renard.”

  “Oh…so you two must be really good friends?”

  “You could say that…” She smiled a devilish grin at me. Something told me I shouldn’t

trust this girl.

  “Like collage roommates?” I commented while I felt confused.

  “No…” Maria firmly said to me, “I am Alucard’s girlfriend.”

  “You’re his…WHAT?!!!!!”

 

***

 

  “Damn you!!!!!” Richter said as he held his whip, “With Belmont’s blood running in his

veins, he’ll be immune to any holy items.”

  “And also since he’ll devour some of my strengths in my girl,” Merrick replied as he

gripped tighter on the scythe, “I’m so sorry Joanne…I’m sorry for everything.”

  Merrick looked at the fallen mortals. He couldn’t use his powers to revive them…they

are already dead, just like Joanne.

  The bat squeaked as he flew towards his only master.

  Alucard didn’t say a word. He was thinking…how could this irritable young Belmont

already shown her power?? She still has lots to learn….

  Could it be when the time she saved him from Richter…?

  Impossible!!! Alucard shook his head. He knows that vampire hunters and vampires

are never meant to be together…He lived a cursed life and she’ll be nothing but another

problem.

 

***

 

  I stepped back from this woman. It couldn’t be true of what she just said. Alucard would

probably mention her….

  Maria looked at me and started to laugh.

  “Forget about Alucard,” Maria chuckled, “he’ll never go for a pathetic insult to the

Belmont’s name.”

  “A pathetic insult?” I asked as I looked at her.

  “A daughter of Death fighting against the count. You should belong on the Count’s side.”

  “What?”

  “Join him. He’ll gladly accept you.”

  I wasn’t hearing what I was hearing. This can’t be true!!!! It has to be a trick. I stepped

back and look towards Maria.

  “If you are friends with Alucard…” I said as I kept my eye on her, “then you should be

telling me ways to destroy the count instead of joining him!!!”

  Maria started to laugh again, this time, is sounded more sinister. She floated up into the

air as black leathery bat wings started to form from her back. Then the darkness that

surrounded the room started to wrap around her.

  “Damn you!!!” I cried out as managed to shield myself.

  When the darkness stopped, Maria wasn’t there. On the floor, lied a body suit that

looked like Maria. I looked up to see another one of Dracula’s minions. She has bloody red

hair, fairly white skin, and she wore a tight leather body suit. She had white flowers in her

hair as she spread out her wings.

  I knew this demoness from my tales of Alucard I heard from Maurice…

  She’s nothing but a succubus.

  “I thought it will be easy killing you if I try to seduce you to the dark half,” the Succubus

laughed, “but you still believe that you can save this world from us!! I’ll make sure I rip

your body to pieces.”

  After that sentence, she flew straight towards me.

  I quickly moved aside as I started to use my fire magic on her.

  “CRESCENT!” I yelled out, “ARROW STRIKE!!!”

  I unleashed a fire arrow at the succubus. She tried to avoid it, but it got her left wing

pretty badly. She started to fly around sideways.

  “You little BRAT!!” the Succubus hissed as she looked at me, “two can play this game of

fire throwing!!”

   She then crossed her arms and unleashed almost around forty direct copies of herself.

This was not good.

  I look around and found myself surrounded by the Succubus, and her copies. This made

the battle definitely unfair. They all looked at me, grinning, then all of them started to

unleash two powerful fireballs at me. I started to run for it, but each time I managed to

dodge a couple…a brand new set of a double dozen fireballs were heading my way!!!

  I could use my fire strike again…but it only works on one target…and I had like forty. If I

had an attack that can wipe out each single one of them out, including the succubus in

one shot.

  I had Hydro Storm…but that’ll do only minor damage.

  Then another pair of fireballs made a direct right at my back. I winced as I fell strait

towards the floor…face first. But also the impact of me heading towards the floor released

an item from me…a blue cross. It fell a few inches away from my grasp…if only I could….

  Then another Succubus appeared and placed her foot right on the blue cross.  She looked

at me grinning.

  “Oh no…” she cackled, “We’re not gonna let you win that easily. Finish her off!!!”

  Damn!!! I had to get ready to run off and avoid these fireballs again…

  But then I realized I didn’t have to. The succubus who placed her foot on the blue cross

screamed. The blue-cross unleashed a holy light at the succubus, disintegrating her

instantly. My broach started to glow a red light as I sat up. The blue cross then floated

towards me. The other succubuses watched as they backed away. A white light emitted

from both the cross and my broach. Each of the copies started to scream until the real

succubus burst into flames.

  When the light ended, I saw myself standing…but I was different!! I still had the blue

cross in my hand. I looked around at myself. My hair was longer, even the mask’s ribbons

were long. My blue jacket stayed almost the same but it looked different. My short white

boots were now a pair of long white boots. Even my gloves changed, I wasn’t wearing

pretty looking gloves anymore…they were fighting gloves!!

  I quickly went into my pocket and pulled out a compact mirror, which resembled a

Yin/Yang symbol, while I opened it and look at my face. I had little barrettes in my hair.

Instead of looking like Sailor Moon’s…they looked more as angel feathers. My earrings

changed, instead of wearing my gold ones, I was wearing rhinestone earrings that looked

like the Yin/Yang symbol. The symbol on the center my forehead looked like the Yin/Yang

symbol as the sun while on the sides it was being decorated with precious rubies and

such.

  I placed the compact as I discover my broach around my neck, I also realized I was

wearing an ankh around my neck as well. The broach wasn’t a plain looking heart shape

broach, it now had a drawing of the phoenix holding the Earth, almost like it’s protecting it. Then a new set a words hit my head.

  “Phoenix Crystal Power, transform me…” it said. Strange it almost sounded like…

  I turned around.

  “Caramel?” I asked as I looked around.

  There was no one, except candlelight. Could this mean Caramel is dead…just like Matt,

Cother, and Pumpkin Jr.?

  “Course she is!!” said another voice, which was definitely the count’s, “Your power has

grown stronger…but not strong enough to defeat me.” He then started his sinister

laughter.

  “Oh yeah?!!!” I cried out, “We’ll see about that!!!”

  I then started to run towards the direction of where his voice was coming from. I wasn’t

caring if was alone anymore. I had to stop that count once and for all.

 

***

 

  The bat squeaked as he was trying to comfort Alucard. That bat noticed something about

 Alucard. It wasn’t soon enough that both Richter and Merrick, who was Death all along,

turned their heads to look at Alucard.

  “Is anything bothering you Alucard?” Richter asked.

  “Nothing at all,” Alucard somewhat growled.

  “My ass,” Merrick replied as he placed his cloak on, “there’s always something wrong, yet

you don’t want to admit it. This is one of your habits you probably learned from your

father.”

  “HEY!!!!”

  “And you also learned how to be short tempered and stubborn from him.”

  Alucard didn’t want to reply. He knew it was true; instead he tried to keep his anger in.

Richter’s slight snickering wasn’t helping at all.

  But there was something wrong…Alucard couldn’t start thinking about the Young Belmont. It was almost driving him crazy!!

  (Or should it be “going batty”.)

 

***

 

  I walked towards another area. This time, it was lighter than there was in the other room.

 Candles hung onto the wall as a grand lit chandelier was in the center of the room.

  Then I realized where I was…a ballroom!!! I had to stop and look around the surroundings.

Even thou the Count is a dark sinister vampire lord…he does know how to decorate some

rooms in his castle with exquisite taste.

  I started to twirl around, looking at the ballroom. Would it be cool if there were a cool

party going on right now? It’ll be so cool to watch the ladies dressed in even gowns as

they danced with their princes….

  And I’ll be wearing a lovely spectacular white dress while I danced alongside with my

darkly handsome prince, Alucard. I blushed a little. I am a girl too, ya know.

  Then, my twirling somewhat kicked my out of my romantic dreams when I tripped and fell

face first onto the floor. I then quietly got up again, rubbing my face. I had to keep my

head on the main goal: defeating Count Dracula once and for all. He killed off my friends!! I won’t let him hurt another mortal again.

  Reality is a swift kick in the ass.

  “Once I get out of this hallway,” I said as I regain my senses, “the count is going down.”

  “And what makes you so sure?” asked a voice.

  My face froze slightly. I turned around. At one of the tables, there he was sitting…Alucard?!! No! It can’t be! I gave another look again at the gentlemen. Not only did he look like an exact copy, he also had a familiar tattoo on his forehead. This time, it was written “LVL 40”.

  He looked at me.

  “So…” he commented, “you’re the pesky Belmont that got rid of Doppelganger 10?”

  “I didn’t mean too!!” I cried out, “He was attacking my friend!!!’

  “You call that flying rodent a friend?”

  “Friends come in all shapes and sizes.”

  He then got up from his seat and started to walk towards me.

  “Hmm…” he said, “you may be an acceptable meal…but let us introduce ourselves. I already know you are the Young Belmont, destined to defeat our powerful lord, Count Dracula, yet you don’t know me. Very well, I’ll tell you. I am Doppelganger 40, the most powerful double of Alucard. I know very well on how to perform all his nasty tricks and transformations he uses against us.”

  “I see,” I replied as I pulled out my whip, “you better hope you learned then pretty darn well cause that won’t save you from me sending you back where you belong.”

  He gave out a dainty smirk at me as he removed a set of daggers, which he threw at me. I quickly jumped back and hurled my whip at him. He was relentless to avoid it. The whip hurled a direct hit at his face. He quickly held it after some blood splattered onto the floor.

  I stepped back, ready to pull off another attack. He looked at me, holding half his face. Something tells me he wasn’t too happy.

  “You pretty little bitch!!!!” the Doppelganger 40 hissed at me, still holding half of his face, “No one messes this face and gets away with this! I’ll rip you to pieces before I suck your vital out of you!!”

  He dashed towards me, ready to take me down. What he didn’t notice, that I stood in the same position that somewhat killed off his brother.

  “HYDRO STORM!!!” I yelled out, unleashing the powers of the holy water once more.

  The Doppelganger 40 screeched in pain as the rainstorm appeared into the room. I really don’t understand why vampires fear water, but this attack was sure helpful in weakening it pretty badly. I stood by and watched Doppelganger 40 falling onto the ground, badly wounded as the rain stopped.

  “Oh…” he winced as he weakly tried to get up, “you’re a little tricky brat. But you think you can defeat me as well as the count with those attacks? Don’t forget, you are a servant of the count just like the rest of us because of your estrange birth.”

  “I’ll never become a slave to the Count!!” I growled at him as I unleashed my whip at him, “You can try all the tricks you want, but I’ll never give in!! I am destined to bring him down!”

  After being hit by my whip, the Doppelganger 40 fell down dead. Strange, he said he was more powerful than the first one I’ve encounter, but he never put up a fight. This has to be one of my easiest battles.

  I started to leave, but then something or someone caught my eye. It reappeared itself right in front of me.

  “So you’ve defeated the Doppelganger 40?” Akiral asked as he grinned.

  “Alright Akiral!!” I shouted out as I ready my weapon as I look at the impatient demon, “Where’s Count Dracula? What has he done with Richter and Alucard?!!”

  “He hasn’t done nothing cause they’re in his best henchman’s hands. But as for you, Ying-brat, you’ll have someone else to deal with.”

  “What?”

  The demon grinned as he threw a spell on the dead Doppelganger 40. It began to resurrect, yet it was starting to take on a new form.

  My very own.

  A few seconds, I was faced to face with my own double, but the only way we could be told apart is that she had the tattoo “LVL 40” instead of a Yin/Yang symbol on her forehead.

  “Hello Young Belmont,” she said as she got into a fighting position, “I shall destroy you and your pathetic little friends.”

  “This is going to be so much fun,” Akiral replied as he watched.

 

***

 

  Merrick placed on the final touches of his robe. His flesh instantly rotted away, only to reveal a husk of mere bones. He held up his scythe as he started to head towards a direction.

  “If we follow this path,” he said, “we may get a chance to save Vanessa.”

  “Why would we take that direction?” Richter asked calmly.

  “It’s the shortest route to face the master. She will be going there, once she defeats all his illusions.”

  “Even thou she’s my daughter, she’s still a member of your clan, Belmont. Now we must go in this direction or your friend will be in grave danger.”

  Neither of them will argue with Merrick with his decision. Merrick was in fact the Angel of Death, not to mention Count Dracula’s loyal henchman. And what advantage Richter and Alucard had against Count Dracula, when Death is on their side?

 

***

 

  “They’re coming aren’t they?” Xia asked as she looked at the count.

  “Course they are,” the count said silently to himself, “but let them come. It makes the game much interesting.”

  “Sir, they will kill you,” Xia replied as she bowed towards the count, “let me go and get rid of Alucard. If I manage to kill him, we’ll have a definite chance of winning.”

  The count turned his head. He glared coldly at Xia as his eyes taken a dark shade of red.

  “Kill Alucard?” the count asked.

  “Yes,” Xia cried as she looked back at the count, “Alucard must be destroyed. If you let me go, I will be sure he will…”

  Just before Xia can finish her sentence, the count has already grabbed onto her throat, squeezing it tightly.

  “YOU DARE SAY SUCH A THING IN FRONT OF ME?!!!!!” the count hissed, “ALUCARD WIL NOT BE DESTROYED!!!!”

  “But…but…” Xia muttered as she tried to speak, “he’s a traitor.”

  “HE’S MY SON!!! MY ONLY SON!!!”

  “You’re son….??” Xia face turned white.

  “Yes,” the count replied as he grinned at Xia’s horror, “those who wish to hurt my dear son deserve a punishment….”

  “Pun…punish…”

  “AND THAT PUNISHMENT IS DEATH!!!!!” After that sentence, the count quickly cracked Xia’s neck in two. He then dropped Xia’s lifeless body, her face still kept the hideous shock of fear, which he admired.

  Residing his anger, the count returned to his throne and calmly sat down onto it. He smirked at his delightful new corpse. He was such in a delightful mood, and he should be…

 The young Belmont was coming soon…and the final battle will really begin.

 

***

 

  The Doppelganger was pretty damn fast, for a copy of me. I had to quickly avoid all of my own attacks, which were being thrown right at me. Akiral watched with glee, knowing he has done well with his spells.

  “Go Doppelganger 40!!!” Akiral shouted with glee, “destroy YingGirl, the young Belmont!”

  “This is for my brother!!!” Doppelganger 40 yelled out as she unleashed a right hook right at my face.

  I managed to dodge her attack and hurled my whip at her.

  She grabbed onto it and the next thing I know, I was slammed against the wall.

  I moaned a little as I collapsed onto the ground. While I tried to get up, she then nailed me pretty good with her black crescent fire arrows. I was almost screaming in pain as I feel onto my knees.

  “Ready to die Belmont?” Doppelganger 40 asked as she walked towards me. She had no mercy in what she was about to do.

  “Never…” I said as I looked at her, “I’ll never die.”

  “Very well then…time to say GOODBYE!!!”

  She then charged at me with another one of my attacks. I then realized the blue cross was glowing brightly. Could this mean…?

  Whatever was making this cross glowing, managed to make Doppelganger 40 back away. I was then floating into the air, along with the blue cross on my side.

  “It’s…it’s…” Doppelganger 40 cried, as she was shocked in fear.

  “Holy…” I calmly whispered, still floating in the air.

  “No…please don’t it be!! I beg of you…NO!!!” Yet it was too late.

  “CROSS!!!!” I yelled out. The ground started shaking as white light emerged. I don’t know what was going on, but I saw, out from the ground, emerged crosses with white light surrounding them. Could this be the true power of holy?

  Doppelganger 40 screeched in horror, instantly become nothing but mere dust once the crosses touched her. Akiral was flying in horror as he realized one of the crosses was following him.

  “What’s this YingGirl?!” Akiral asked as he was flying to avoid the cross, “Why is this cross following me?!!”

  I looked at him.

  “You’ve given you soul to darkness,” I replied, “this is a way to save your soul, by resting in peace.”

  “No…no…NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!” It was too late. He was disintegrated immediately.

  I manage to make a safe landing as I looked at the blue cross. Was I finally ready to face the count once and for all?

  Right in front of me, a curtain revealed a staircase. Could the count be inviting me to the final challenge? It could be a trick. Maybe I should wait for Alucard and Richter so we can finish off the count together.

  No. I couldn’t do that. They’ll end up being hurt or killed just like the others. I looked at the stairways once again. I must defeat him on my own. I have to. I then started running up the stairs, never looking back. I knew my destiny lied right ahead of me. I wasn’t afraid of chickening out. I was ready, even if it will mean my death.

 

***

 

  The three entered a dark room. Alucard held his sword cautiously with his sword while Richter did the same with his whip. The Guardian of Death looked around.

  Then, the room started to light up with some candles. There, on the darkly decorated throne, sat the count.

  “It’s my master…” Death said as he started to raise his scythe.

  “Father…” Alucard replied as he looked at the count very coldly.

  “We meet again,” Richter smirked as he looked at the count as well.

  “So…you three managed to succeed in getting here,” the count said as he relaxed in his chair, “but you will never defeat me, and your lady friend will join you in your utter defeat.”

 

TO BE CONTINUED

Next Chapter-The Final Battle and the Conclusion.