Castlevania Finalle chapter one: Unlikely hero ------------------------------------------------------ One of many underground nightclubs which has become popular in eastern europe after the fall of communism. The year is 1992. A boy of about seventeen years of age dressed in black leather sits at a bar. He swishes a drink around trying to ward off the impending feeling of dread he has been fighting with. In his mind he filters out the loud music and the babble of humanity around him. Normally this was a place an outcast like he could come to feel happy. Now he feels out of place even here. The emergence of prince Vlad onto the pollitical scene in the past year somehow had him feeling uneasy. Normally he didn't much care about politics but this new leader of his country stirred something in him. Another man only slightly oder than the first wearing a brown trench coat sat next to him. "Griffin right?" "that's my name. What do you want?" the black clad teen responded. "I've been looking for you. You have a problem with prince Vlad don't you." The trenchcoated one replied. "Okay guy. He's good with money I guess." "No I mean you have eirie feelings everytime you see his image or hear his name. You sense evil don't you." "Who the hell are you? What do you want?" "My name is Simon Weissel. Vampire hunter." "Oh you're one of those detectives aren't you. Look the people here are freaky but they haven't hurt anyone." "No you idiot. I don't mean those goths you hang out with. I'm talking about nosferatu. the real thing." "Uhm yeah whatever. You want me to call the guys in the white coats?" "I'm serious. I want you to meet me out back. This is imporatant. It involves your grandfather." "What about my grandfather? He was a veteran of World War two. That's all I know. He went crazy talking about.... ....vamp..." "out back. Later" Simon said as he exited. Griffin finnished his drink and followed. In a dark back alley the two met. "So what do you know about my grandfather? My familly doesn't even know his real name. All we have are pictures." Simon lit a cigarett and took a deep drag. He let a puff out into the cool night air. "You're grandfather's name is Javert Belmont. Of the Belmot clan. He spent his life preparing to face the oncoming darkness. But he knew far too much about the secrets of the second world war. That's why the soviets silenced him." "They told us he was shot in a street crime. But I always wondered why it was the millitary to tell us that and not the local police. Tell me more." Simon smiled knowing he now had a chance of getting his ludicrous story through this young man's thick head. "During the second world War Hitler schemed with the very stuff of nature. He worked with genetic labs and even had researches work on time travel. That is where prince Vlad comes in. You see prince Vlad is far older than he seems. His true name is Vlad Dracula Tepez." "Dracula? Give me a break." "No you listen. Dracula has been working with time travel for ages. But his dark magic no matter how powerful could not fully alter the flow of time. And niether could even the best of Hitler's scientists. But Hitler one day stumbled upon something. When he pushed into eastern europe he discovered an ancient place. But within were the secrets he needed. And throuh his tampering he awakened a dark force. It was simple once Dracula had begun working with hitler. Hitler made the trade. Dracula could access Hitler's technology if Hitler could learn of Dracula's dark power. With that Dracula traveled back in time to tell his minions. In the year 1850 he gave his plan to resurect himself to his dark underlings. Along with that he provided his technology. He then returned to the year 1935 and prepared to overthrow Hitler and take his place as the fuhrer." "Wait....what do you mean resurect him in 1850. He shouldn't have even been born yet." "Dracula has been alive for over one thousand years. Every thousand years Satan can send his dark Massiah to the earth and in the year one thousand he sent his second in command. Dracula. The prince of darkness. He was defeated by a woman named Sonya belmont. And all her children since would be of holy birth. And they were destined to keep dracula at bay. And every hundread years in the 92nd year of the century the forces of good weaken. And in this time Dracula's sleeping spirit awakens. And each time he is returned to his slumber for another hundred years. But Dracula was a wize demon. He found ways around his limitations. By feeding off of the weakness in human hearts he could be summoned fourth between these times to strike at the weaker in the belmot clan hoping to destroy the line. and his dark priests were willing to aid in this. Dracula even one time fathered a child by the name of Allucard. and Later his second son Vlad. The brothers though being of half human origin turned against their father. Allucard has dissapeared into mythology and Vlad fell to the dark forces. These are only a few of Dracula's attempts. He began his most tennacious scheme in the year 1850. He was again resurected in that time after he came back in time. While he was again returned to sleep he had already succeeded. His curse infected an innocent young girl. He knew he needed to turn her to the darkness. But I believe he was thwarted in the year 1935. You see Reinhardt shneider put him to sleep again and then used Dracula's own technology to put the girl into a frozen stacis untill Your grandfather Javert Belmot found her. He defeated Dracula and broke the curse. She grew up to fight along side him in the underground resistance. However this is only a fraction of the mellinial plan. Dracula each time had changed the pollitical climate in his favour. And now he lives as Vlad. He knows the mellinium is coming. He sabatoged Hitler himself by sending his minions into the Nazi ranks. The fall of Hitler and later communism elliminated any competiion. It led to a new world that would not believe in Vampires and now no one will try to stop him." Griffin looks at Simon as if he's staring at a madman. "Nevermind" Says Griffin Walking away. "GRIFFIN BELMONT! do you wan't to know what he's doing now. He's going to destroy the last super power. In a few more years the U.N. will fall and then america, and finally the catholic church. The world will be in chaos and he will bring satan to the earth." "You're a loon Simon. All you've done is waste my time." "Then tell me why you bothered to listen to the whole story." "What?" "You listened to every impossible detail didn't you. Why didn't you walk away at my first words?" "I wanted to hear it." "and why is that? you felt the truth in it didn't you." Griffin looks rather confused. "looke you need to get proffessional help. This isn't healthy you know." Griffin says as he turns to walk away again. "Yes I need help. I need your help. You are of the belmont line and the only one who can kill Dracula." "You're making it up. Even if it was true where did you learn it all." "Simple. Your grandfather told me. I was only a child when he prepared his documents exposing the consiracy. He had the name of every one of Dracula's minions in high office. They had already killed my parents. I could have escaped when your grandmother fled with you. But I chose to stay. The soviets dragged him out in the streets and shot him. I was placed into a foster home. I played dumb. If they had known that I commited all of Javert's writings to memory I would have been in the same place. It sounds crazy now because the modern propoganda is out to destroy our belief in things such as God and Satan. Even after the Communism fell in our own country it remains engrained in us. Dracula even attemtped to undermine the Roman Catholic church. In the centuries past the curch would train the destined warriors. But the program was destroyed by the governments." "You are one crazy fuck you know." Griffin says. "If you want proof I can give it to you. Come with me to Prince Vlad's private home." Simon responds. "You really are crazy. You'd get us killed." "No not his public home. The source of his dark power. Castlevania." "You mean that old rubble on the countryside? Whell why not it's not too far from here. Then mabye you'll quite bothering me." Later that night. Rain pours perpetually over the moonlight countryside. A car has pulled up to the lake shore. From it emerges Simon and Griffin. "See it's just a pile of rubb...." Griffin begins without even looking. "HOLY FUCK! When did this castle get here!" He continues. "I told you. The castle is a creature of chaos. Tear it down and it in a hundred years will rebuild. Now shall we go?" Says Simon climbing into a small boat. They begin cross the lake where in the center is the island upon which the dark castle stands. "Keep your guard up" Says Simon reaching into his trench coat pulling out a revolver. The water waves aside as what looks like a large octopus tentacle pushes up and swings at the boat. Simon fires three rounds at the tentacle hitting it once. Blood spurts out as the tentacle flies toward the boat once more. Griffin grabs up and oar and swings hard with the oars edge tearing into the tentacle's flesh halfway severing it. "WHAT THE HELL!" Griffin exclaims. "You're belmont reflexes are emerging. But we're not done yet." The tentacle pulls under water. Waves stir up and and tip the boar over as the tentacle along with several others sports from the water. Then a cirlce of what looks like teeth and finally a massive head followed by a lengthy searpent's body. The tentacles retract into its mouth as it dives at the two adventurers. It misses but the force of displacing water forces them apart. Simon finds his gun is jammed. Griffin is trying to climb back into the boat. Simon reaches into his coat again. He throws something to Griffin. Griffin grabs what is revealed to be a whip. He uncoils it. The whip is made of coiled leather and metal wire. At its tip is a metal spike. "But I don't know how to..." Griffin begins but is interupted by simon. "JUST DO IT!" The searpent leaps from the water again and rears back preparing to strike at Griffin. He swings the whip as best he can. Strnagely enough he find he is perfectly capable of weilding the weapon. With a quick flick of his wrist he sends the hurling lenght of the whip into the side of the searpent. A amssive bloody gash is opened in the monster's side. Griffin recoils the whip and unleashes it again this time launching the spike between the monsters eyes. Another spurt of blood, skull fragments and grey matter issues as Griffin pulls the whip from the monster's hide and it slumps down into the water dying the water red. Simon climbs into the boat. "Wow this is a good weapon." Griffin remarks. "It's only half in the weapon. That is the Holy whip of the belmont clan. And only a belmont can use it. This proves my case that you are the Vampire hunter. You mastered the whip in one fight. You killed a dangerous beast in only two blows. A level of mastery like that has taken previous generations years." Simon continues to explain the ways of the belmont to Griffin as the row to shore. upon landing they see before them a dark forrest from which inhuman noises imminate. Beyond that the sky is darkened by the forboding presence of Castlevania.