Castlevania Finale
		Chapter 4
		Darker Dungeon
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Boiling oil bubbled and hissed as smoke rose up.  Above
swinging blades of death were there to discourage annyone looking to
pass.

	Alucard, Carrie, and Griffen looked out over the interior of the tower.
It was certainly not meant for any man to pass through.  

	"A vision of Hell.  This is where My father has tortured
his victims and spawned his servants for centuries.  The
machinery doesn't even have any visible source of power.  
It's said the writhing agony of the spirits trapped here is the power
source.  This is a vision of the world if My father is not stopped."
Said Alucard.

	"We don't have to pass through here do we?"  Asked
Carrie.  "Of course not.  Only a spirit which has embraced the
darkness can carry deep within this pit of suffering.  As you've seen
this castle has four towers.  The tower of science led us here.
But from here you can follow aanother passageway into two other towers.
I advise you both take one best suited to yourselves."
Said Alucard in response.

	"Wait what about you?  You aren't honesty stupid enough to go
through THAT are you?"  Griffen remarked.  "This is the path I am
destined to take.  I couldn't depart from it even if I wished to."
Alucard replied as he lept over the top of a twirling guillotine
and then in a series of leaps quickly ascended out of view.

	"Damn that loon is good."  Griffen said to himself as he
and Carrie turned toward the doorways.  

	Carrie decifered the ancient language of the signs.
"Tower of Sorcery.  And tower of duels."  She said.  

	Carrie looked up to Griffen.  "I have to go this way through the 
tower of sorcery.  I have a feeling that someone is waiting for me there."

"Well then I guess I'll go this way" Said Griffen as he pulled the heavy wooden
door to the duel tower open.  Behind it was a solid stone wall. 
"What the bloody fuck?"  Said Griffen confused.  Carrie stepped over
to the wall giving it a tap.  "It's solid.  I guess this passageway is blocked.
But there's still a tower there.  It is said that this castle changes its shape."

	Griffen shrugs.  "This is bloody confusing.  Mabey I should follow you
instead.  You may need me to protect you."  Carrie replied ot Griffen's comment with an
icy stare.  "I don't need you to babysit me.  I told you not to speak to me
like a child."  Carrie protested.  "Yeah but you are a kid."  Griffen retorted.

	Carrie in anger pointed a hand toward Griffen sending out a sphere of
fire.  Griffen hit the floor barely evading it.  "WHAT WAS THAT!" 
"That's the reason you shouldn't treat me as a child Griffen Belmot."
Carrie replied.

	Griffen looked over to where the ball impacted.  The stone
of the wall in a place had faded for a moment revealing what looked like
wood beneth.  Griffen forsaking the conversation went
to investigate.  He placed his hand over the area finding it
passing through the suposed stone.  "heh some sort of hologram like in the
movies."  He said.  

	Griffen continued to feel around and located a handle on which he
pulled opening a doorway.

	"There you have your path now let me take mine."
Said Carrie.  Heading back to the entrance of the other tower.
She dissapeared into the doorway.  Griffen shrugged. 
"fine go get yourself killed.  It's none of my bussiness.  Stipid kid."

	Griffen proceeded along his own path.  Through the door he
stepped and found a bright light shining down upon him.  he gazed
out to see that it was cast down on the floor in the shape of a cross.  
Looking up Griffen could see that the source was sunlight pouring through a
window in the same shape.  

	Griffen coninued to scan the room seeing beutiful stained
glass windows illuminated by the morning sun.  

	Griffen walked along the tower's hallway.  Soon the coridoors
became more narrow.  Griffen found himself walking between bookcases.
He marveled at the beuty of the architecture and the mass stores
of knowledge that must be here.  All his questions about dracual were
probably here, but there was no time to stop and read.

	Griffen halted as something streaked through his periphreal
vision.  Something whooshed behind him but by the time he turned
around it was gone.  Another streak and another.  Something was stalking him.
Something fast.

	Griffen began a hard run down the hallway but the streaks
continued ahead and behind.Finally Griffen reached a dead end.
He reached for his whip but then the streaks ceased.  Next he heard slow 
footsteps.  A hard soled pair of shoes.  Soon a man was visible in the shadows.
And then came into view.

	Griffen was staring at a man wearing a grey trench coat.
The man's hair was a messy white.  On his face he wore a mask
of white porcalin.  Clearly it must be for show as who in their right
mind would wear something so breakable.  He was half directing his attentions
to a book in his hands and half staring down Griffen.

	"Ah greetings scum of a Belmont."  he said as Griffen
tightened his grip on his whip.  "Who the hell are you."
The masked man smiled.  "My name is Fallenstein and as you've probably
already guessed.  I am a Vampire." 

	"So then I should be killing you."  Griffen replied taking
a battle stance.  Fallenstein reached below his coat drawing 
a whip simillar to Griffen's.  

	"I lost my master and was made a servant of men.  
I won't allow any Belmont to cause me the same experiance twice."
Said Fallenstein as he drew back.  

	Fallenstein swung his whip at Griffen who sidestepped and sent
his whip flying out spike first in a deadly thrust.  Fallenstein lept up 
evading Griffen's death blow and landed on top one of the book shelves.

	Griffen followed Fallenstein up by grappling the end of his whip
to a low hanging chandelier and swinging up planting his feet in Fallenstein's
chest knocking him back.

	Griffen took his whip's spike in hand and prepared to stab down at
Fallenstein's heart but before he could Fallenstein wrapped his whip around
Griffen's feeet and pulled knocking him back onto the top of
the bookshelf.  

	Fallenstein cracked his whip down.  Griffen barely evaded
by rolling off the side of the bookcase and grabbing the edge to halt
his fall.

	Griffen then pulled up hard sending himself above Fallenstein's
head and cracked his whip down.  Fallenstein countered by swinging
his own whip up entangling it with Griffen's.

	Fallenstein gave a good tug pulling Griffen out of the air and hard down to the
floor far below however Griffen Maintained his grip.  With a hard pull of his
own Griffen tried to pull Fallenstein down however Fallenstein Maintained his 
foothold and tipped the entire bookcase.  Fallenstein realizing this
released his grip and tried to get to safe ground.  Meanwhile
Griffen quickly scaled the oposite bookcase and lept across to the next
and again to the next as behind him the cases dominoed threatening to crush him.

	Reaching the wall and having the collapsing book cases with tons of force behind 
them by now drawing ever closer Griffen looked up for anything safe to grapple.
He spotted an upper balcony but it was beyond the reach of his whip.

	Thinking quickly Griffen lept over a few cases and waited for the one
he was standing on to begin to tip.  Using the added momentup 
Griffen lept toward the wall and planted his feet there before performing
another jump from the wall upward and in mid air he swung his whip grabbing
a column bordering the balcony and held on as the mass of wood and paper collapsed
beneth him sending up clouds of dust from the ancient floor.

	Griffen realized his whip was still tied to Fallenstein's.  Ironic
that the weapon a vampire was trying to kill him with a moment ago had added
the length he needed to save his life.  

	Griffen hung in the air for a moment before something began to shift
in the disaster zone below.  A hand struck up from beneth the pile of slintered
wood and paper.  Slowly Fallenstein climbed out and rached for his mask realizing
it was crached.  

	What remained of Fallenstein's mask crumbeld away revealing Fallenstein's
disfigured face.  "Argh.  The wound inflicted on me fifty years ago
by the bitch Fernandez girl still aches.  I don't care if Dracula needs
her.  I'll get my revenge on her.  I'll tear into that tender neck of hers.
After all...I can always make another."  

	Griffen puzzled over Fallenstein's words as he dissapeared in a puff
of sulfurous smoke and spouts of flame setting the area on fire.  
Griffen quickly scaled his whip and cast Fallenstein's down into the flames before
proceeding through the doorway to safety.

	Griffen stepped outside of the tower.  Before him a long stone bridge
leading the clock tower ahead.  As he scaled the long steady incline of the 
bridge he heard the fire burning away the supports of the tower behind him.  By the
time he reached the door to the clock tower Griffen looked back to
see flames consume the anceint library tower which then collapsed in on its self.

	"Well, no turning back now.  But what did he mean by make another?"

	Elsewhere within the castle.  Another cathedral like setting.  
a streight verticle tower all accentuated in stanied glass casting beutiful
images down into the tower's depths.  No manner of solid structure seems visible
jet various pieces of marble arcitecture seem to float unsupported.

	Carrie looks up.  "This isn't like I remember it.  But
I should be able to make it."  She says as she grapbs the lowest
object she can find and proceeds to jump up further and further.

	Midway she finds the platrorms are mvoing faster and faster.  Swirling
around as if in a slow moving tornado.  Carrie gains a foothold on a large
central platform.  It seems to be a perfect disk of solid marble.

	Something is crawling on the wall.  A gravity defying
feat common to vampires.  It leaps down to reveal it's identity
as Fallenstein.  "I hadn't counted on you escaping just yet."

	"You...Do I know you?"  Carrie asks.  "In another life.
I am called Fallenstein. And I have you to blame for so many
humilliations"  Fallenstein answers.  "What?  I've never done anything to
you."   "Oh haven't you.  You burned me alive and before that 
took away my master leaving me in the servitude of humans."
"I don't remember doing any of that."  "Oh but you did.  Well
the other you."  "What?  What are you talking about?"  "The things
they say about you.  That Carrie Fernandez died an old woman.  And
you the same Carrie Fernandez just a child.  Don't you find your
place in the universe a little impossible."  

	Carrie stepped back as she clenched her fist.  
"You are responsible for making me what I am.  But I am responsible
for your very being.  I created you and I can unmake you and I can create
you again."  Said Fallenstein   "Your...You're lying!" Carrie' accused.

	"I know what you are Fernandez bitch.  You were created
in a lab by means you're primitive mind can't even comprehend.
You are created to serve the Dark Lord Dracula."  Said Fallenstein
as he advanced on Carrie placing his hands on her shoulders and
pulling down her shirt collar as his fangs extended.
"Fifty long years I've waited to do this."  Carrie seemed almost in
a trance now as Fallenstein's fangs grew closer.

	Carrie shook her head and placed her hand's on Fallenstein's
chest.  "WHAT!  YOU COULDN'T POSSIBLY..."  Fallenstein exclaimed as Carrie
ignited an energy blast sending him hurtling back 
across the room and through a stained glass window.

	Carrie fell to her knees with an expression of shock on her
face.  She couldn't believe what she had just heard.  Her memories
a lie.  Her very existance only a toy for the dark lord.

	She looked down at her clothes.  pants made of a canvas like
material or as they called them in this day Blue jeans.
Too many things were wrong with that for her to begin.  Aside from
the material being rather harsh against the skin what girl in her
day would wear pants.  This modern day world was overwhelming her.

	Carrie collapsed to the cold marble in tears.  
"It's all a lie!  I'm an abomination!  I DON'T EVEN DESERVE TO EXIST!"
she creid out.  Her cries echoed through the tower.

	Carrie pounded on the marble platform with her fists
as her tears gathered in a puddle.  Fallenstein lept back in the 
window and approached Carrie.  "That's right.  You don't belong
in this world or any other for that matter.  So why not just surrender
yourself.  You're a vital cog in the clockwork of Dracula's plan."

	Carrie pulled herself up tears still streaming from her eyes.
"I won't help Dracula no matter what."  She says deffiantly.
"How can you even pretend to care.  All you think you were brought up
to believe is a lie.  Your so called sense of right and wrong is nothing but
a pretense.  A series of chemical reactions in that little head of yours.
Why do you even care. Your Fernandez power..."    Fallenstein was interupted
by Carrie.  "My power.  Yes my power.  The power of the Fernandezes is granted
by God himself to combat the evil.  I AM REAL!"  Carrie cried out
as she hurled a fireball at Fallenstein.  

	Fallenstein's coat caught fire.  He struggled for a moment throwing
his coat off and down into the depths of the tower.  "YOU LITTLE BITCH!"
He yelled as he charged toward carrie.  Carrie lept to the side firing
off two small bolts which impacted on Fallenstein's back.

	Fallenstein turned around and began to scream out.
His unholy cry began to shake the tower cracking the glass and even the
marble.  Carrie realizing what was happening begain to leap
across the already crumbling structures and make her way to the top.

	With great agillity and new inspiration Carrie lept form platform
to platform leaving Fallenstein behind.  Finally she reached the top
and with a mighty leap threw herself out the doorway and onto the outer bridge as
the last of the tower caved in behind her.

	Exhausted Carrie fell down to her knees and stared up at the
sky.  It was already morning.  "I had, or rather my original had for so long
forsaken God when my or her familly was killed by Dracula.
I also had forgotten about God.  But now I see.  Even if I was
created by some dark power.  God is smiling on me.  And he wants me to
be strong.  And my original in heaven.  and the familly I remember
as being my own.  Everyone is watching me.  I can't let them down.
I am Carrie Fernandez."

	Carrie dried her tears and walked toward the clock tower.

	In the exocutioner's tower Alucard was near it's end.
Standing at the doorway he looked back one last time.  "This is the
vision of Hell.  And it is my future.  Five hundred years and my soul
still cannot find redemption.  I'll go the same way as my brother soon."

	"Heheheh Is that so Alucard."  Said a raspy voice
as a dark cloaked winged figure decended.  "Death.  I thought
I killed you."  Said Alucard snearing  "You can break a body
but I am after all a force of nature.  Dracula's power is so strong
I can respawn a new body within minutes of the last one being destroyed.
And to think that this is only a small sample of what will
happen in eight more years when the millinium comes." Death Replied.

	"So you really are going through with it.  But I thought you and
dracula were too materialistic to seek the destruction of earth.
After all if you unleash Hell on earth your master will become a servant
to his father once again."  Said Alucard.
"So you figured it out eh Alucard."  Death replied.  
	
	"Just under one thousand years ago the son of God walked the
earth.  And on the very day he was born so was the dark messiah.
Satan sent his own son to earth and his name was Dracula.  And where
Jesus lived on forever in spirit Dracula promised immortality of the
body its self.  An eternity of decedance.  Forsaking purity and
endulging in the corruption of innocence."  Alucard explained.

	"Very nice Alucard.  But finnish the story." Said Death.
Alucard sneered at Death.  "But God knew of Dracua's birth.
And by the means of man and woman were born Belmont
and Fernandez.  Belmont the strength who fought against evil begat the belmont
familly.  And Fernandez who held and maintained the purity begat
the Fernandez familly.  And even after the work of christ had ended on earth
the Belmonts and Fernandezes would remain to fight off the darkness."

	"You've been studying Alucard.  Too bad it won't save anyone.
When the Fernandez child is sucked into the darkness it will destroy
the light of purity and in the melinium when the seal to the gates of Hell
is weakest Satan will break through into this world." Said Death.

	"You still lose death.  Satan not Dracula would rule over the
earth."  Alucard retorted.  "Ah but that's where Dracula's plans differ
from that of his father.  Rahter than offer the soul of purity unto satan
directly Purity will be canged into corruption.  And when the millinium
arrives Fernandez will become Dracula's queen.  And the powers of
evil through her will come to Dracula.  We will depose satan himself
and rule the material world in eternal darkness and suffering."
Death kackled.

	"You forgot one thing Death.  That makes one quarter of my blood
that of satan.  And a Hell devided against its self cannot stand."
Alucard said drawing his sword.  "Heheheheh.  That's where I come in.
I'm here to correct that little error.  You can join your brother in Hell!"

	Death swooped down swinging his scythe. severing
the platform beneth Alucard's legs.  Alucard lept at Death Grabbing hold
of him and pulling him down.  Alucard swung his sword severing the
wings of Death.  

	The two figures dove down the the boiling oil below.  At the last
moment Alucard released death hurling him into the oil whil changing himself
into a bad and flying away.  Alucard hovered as Death was sucked beneth the boiling
hot oil.

	"A slow death beneth this oil for you will take hours.  That should
keep hou from interfering any furhter."  Alucard remarked flying for the doorway.

	"DAMN YOU ALUCARD!"  Death Screamed out as his robes burst into flame.
"I know"  is all Alucard said in reply as he flew away and on to the clock tower.

	In the depths of the castle gearwork moved.  Among this gearwork
a single stable platform moved steadilly up toward the clock tower.
Upon it stood Simon.  Simon while waiting to reach his destination drank
from a vial of holy water.

	"This should slow the effects.  I can break the curse if Dracula
dies for good.  A slow method but I'm to slow myself to make it through the towers.
But at this rate I should reach the clock tower in time."  Said Simon to himself.

	Simon stared up.  "Why do I feel like my grandmother is here?"
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