Castlevania: Finale 
		Part 3  
		By:  Fragraham Lincon
		Tower1: visitors from the past
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	Alucard held his sword at the ready.  Death's scythe hummed
as he twirled it around.  

	Death Kept his distance as did Alucard.  It was tense for
both combatants.  They both knew that they had grown in
strength.  That any one blow from either would mean instant death.

	An ancient torch lit the wall.  The flame choked
its last and the room went dark.  A spark flashed as the ring of
steel on steel broke the silence.  a light shone in the 
darkness.  A blue flame floated into the air alighting
the scene.  Death and Alucard stood back to back.  

	"Why fight it Alucard?  You are in a damned bloodline.
You should be working to make a hellish paradise for our kind
not helping these mortals." Said Death  "A tortured mind can make a heaven
of Hell or a hell of heaven.  So even in a dark paradise I would
still suffer.  I'm damned to hell either way." Alucard replied  "It's your
sympathy that makes you so weak.  So either way you're in hell
eh....I'll wiat for you.  Hurry home now.  It gets lonely without
you."

	Black smoke spewed from Death's bones as he collapsed
and turned to dust.  Alucard Sheathed his sword.  "Most assuredly
I'll come to keep you company old friend."  Alucard muttered to himself.

	Down the long corridoors of the castle Griffen ran.  
It seemed no problem for him now to strike down the creeping ghouls
that attempted to end his journey.  The pitfalls of the decaying castle were 
nothing to leap.  it seemed to him that perhaps Simon wasn't the loon
he thought him to be after all.

	Much later.

	Griffen stopped to catch his breath.  He looked behind him.
It was no longer clear the direction from which had come.  There
was no turning back now.  He looked ahead.  Stepping through a doorway
he found himself on the castle's roof.  Above him shot the
five towers of the castle.  The central clock tower leading 
to the castle keep. 

	Griffen carefully moved along the narrow ledge leading to the first
tower.  A strange mist gathered around him.  Then it struck.
a streak of crimson issued from griffins chest.  He held the wound in
obvious pain.  Griffen swung his whip wide trying to locate the monster
hiding in the fog but struck nothing.

	Not being able to defeat his enemy Griffen chose instead to run
for the doorway of the tower.  He made his way up slowly as time
and time again more cuts were made on his body.  Finally he was at the door.

	Griffen jerked hard on the handle.  The door was stuck.
He pulled again and again as the fog thickened around him.
No luck.  Griffen would have to stand and fight.  

	He again drew the whip and swung it wide.  This time he swung fast.
and began to spin it faster and faster.  Slowly the fog began to shift.
It moved back away from him but instead of dispersing collected
on one point.  It soon took human shape.  First only a mass of cloud
then a shadow.  Soon Griffen was staring at a vampire.

	"So it's true.  They can change their shape"  Griffen thought to himself.
The vampire lunged at Griffen who coiled his whip back up snapped it out
again with it's end spike ripping through the vampire's black heart.

	The vampire choked up blood and gasped for breath before toppling over
the narrow ledge to the ground far below.  "Killed my first vampire.
How about that."  Said Griffen to himself.  Strange it seemed.  After
all it was so human yet he felt for it no sympathy.  He had already
realized what an abomination of humanity it was.  The person whom it once
was probably would have thanked him.

	Griffen looked up to a window.  He snapped the whip up
and grappled it to an object inside.  He scaled his whip and entered
the tower via the window then stowed his whip.

	Inside the tower was a scene that looked like it belonged in a scifi
movie.  Around him were tubes filled with a strange liquid.  inside
them a number of creatures.  All were inhuman.  Some looked like larger
versions of the warewolf he had fought before.  "This is the part of
the movie where the monsters break out and start kicking my arse."

	Fortunately for Griffen he wasn't in a movie.  He walked on through
the silent freak show untill he came upon a tube set apart from the rest.
Inside of it was not another monster but rather a child.  A young
girl not but twelve was floating in some sort of suspended
animation.  Her arms were crossed over her chest and she was curled
up into a fetal position.

	Was Dracula experimenting on humans?  Was this girl going to become
like those other monsters.  Griffen wasn't going to allow that to happen.
He looked around the room for some sort of controll panel but saw no
place to administer any manner of input into whatever controlled these tubes.

	Griffen reached for his whip when he heard two sets of footsteps
on the hard metal floor.  A sliding door opened from another room
as Alucard entered.  "Oh good Alucard.  You must know something about this
thing."  Griffen said.  "I haven't been to my father's castle in
a long time.  He added this in the last two hundred years."

	"Bloody fantastic.  Well figure out mister dark prince."
Griffen replied.  "Have you tried violence?"  Alucard answered.
"Violence?  You mean to break the tube right?  You fucking twat
that could killer."  "Well then test it on something that needs to die 
anyway."  Said Alucard pointing to one of the monstrocities
in the tubes.  

	Griffen complied and aimed his whip carefully piercing the glass
and whith a good tug broke away the glass letting fluid pour out.
The warewolf like monster fell to the ground montionless.
It then stood up and shook its head before directing its attention
to Griffen.  The warewolf lunged forward with it's jaws wide open
ready to tear delicate human flesh.

	Alucard ran in front of Griffen laying his sword into the beasts
stomach which still didn't manage to stop it.  As Alucard withdrew
Griffen slapped his whip against the creatures face multiple times driving it back.

	Once the creature was against the wall it dug it's claws in and prepared
to pounce but got a nasty surprize when the rusty grating beneth his feet
gave way.  The creature was lost down a long duct to God knows where.

	Alucard shook the blood off of his sword "Good thinking"
he said to Griffen.  "What thinking that was luck."  Griffen replied.

	Griffen turned his attention back to the girl in the tube.
He took the spike of his whip in hand and chipped at the bottom of the container
breaking it away at the bottom and letting the fluid drain out. He
then chipped around a little more as the girl inside began to stir and lifted the
tube away letting the girl fall safely into Alucard's arms.

	The girl looked around and rubbed her eyes trying to get a bearing on 
where she was.  Not noticing Alucard and Griffen at first she remarked
to herself.  "Oh I'm in the tower of science.  But what am I doing back here?"

	She then took notice of her present situataion.  She let loose
an ear peircing screach which caused Alucard to drop her and cover his ears.
Griffen approached the girl.  "Hey relax kid we'll get you out of here."

	"Who are you?  Where is Henry and Shneider?"
She said.  "Are those anyone you know Alucard?"  
"I've heard Simon mention them a couple times but I don't know
of them myself."Alucard replied.  "Are you two agents of the church then?"
the girl asked as she sat up against the wall and curled up covering herself.

	"Alucard give her your cape you stupid twat."  Said Griffen.
Alucard nodded and took off his cape placing it over the girl as
he tried his best to answer her question.  "We are in a way.
This is my friend Griffen Belmont who has just joined on with us.
I am Alucard.  No doubt if you're working with the church you've heard
of me."  The little girl nodded in agreeance.  "Yes Alucard.
But most people thought you died fifty years ago."  

	Alucard looked rather confused now. "I re established contact
with the curch a hundred years ago removing that very rumor.
Perhaps you and I differ on timelines."
"I'm certain that in the later part of the previous century they said
you died while freeing Richter Belmont."  Said the little girl.

	"Richter Belmont?  That was back int the late 1700's
Little girl what do you think this year is?"  Alucard asked.
"Why it's 1850 of course."  Griffen's jaw nearly dropped.

	"This girl has been in suspended animation for that long."
Alucard remarked.  Griffen knelt down beside the girl.
"What's your name?  and where's your mama?"  He asked in a kindly 
tone.  "Well one my Name is Carrie Fernandez, both my real and
adopted parents are dead and three dont' ever treat me like a child."

	Griffen shivered at her icy response before thinking
it over.  "Carrie Fernandez.  Wasn't that the name of simon's grandmother
or something."  Alucard turned to Griffen.  "Don't you realzie by now.
This is THE Carrie Fernandez here.  The one who was in suspended animation
untill just before the second world war."  "That doesn't make any sense.
If that were true then why would she be just a kid?"

	"I don't really know but we should keep moving before Dracula's hencemen
find us."  "uhm don't you think we should get the girl something to wear first?
I mean she can't be wanderin around this castle in her birthday suit very well now can 
she?"  Griffen remarked.  "Well there are some clothes that look as if they
would fit her in the next room." Alucard replies.  "Now why the bloody hell
would that be there?"  Giffen exclaims as he follows along.

	A  little later Carrie is dressed to kill, quite literally.
Alucard sighs.  "Now can we get moving before we all end up dead."
"Alright but try not do anything a ten year old couldn't keep up with."
Griffen states.  "Excuse me but I'm twelve not ten and I can probably move
faster than you.  I did after all cross this entire castle once before."
Griffen shakes his head rather annoyed.  "Wath the fuck ever just come on."