Castlevanie: Dark Reign Part2 Austwitz: a cold rainy morn. The prisioners labor in the unspeakable conditions. Carrie and Elie make it a point to work side by side. "I wonder what we're working on. Something with a lot of steel it seems. Tanks mabey." Carrie wonders. Elie respnds "If we are I hate to think about it. But perhaps we can do some good." "you mean if say that tread weren't fastened quite right." "Even as prisioners we can still fight." The gaurd yells at them "No talking! More work!" Carrie and Elie go mack to work at a faster pace. a few hours pass like this. It is noon now. The rain continues to pour. "Lunch" a gaurd calls. Inside the mess tent Carrie and Elie sit down to a thin soup. Carrie looks at her's but doesn't eat much. Elie takes a sip of lukewarm coffee. "Better than noting I guess. Carrie you should eat. You need to keep your strength up. Your body is trying to heal its self." Carrie caughs "Sorry I just don't have much of an apitite today today" "you look a little pale too. Oh no... DOn't tell me you've cought a cold." Elie touches Carrie's cheek. "Yes you've got a fever." That can kill in these conditions. I noticed you're starting to limp worse too. I have to get that bullet out soon." Carrie looks into Elie's eyes. "Am I.....goig to die?" "No I won't let that happen. Eat all you can. Take mine too. I know you may not feel very hungry but you need all the energy you can get." Else where. Flames rise from buildings as a number of people flee. Javert catches a Nazi soldier fleeing from the carnage. "You what is tha name of this place" Javert demands. "The soldier sputters out tha answer "Bracken" then runs away. "Damn the wrong one." Grumbles Javert. Gerald pats Javert on the back "you did some good. the people you freed today wouldn't say you made the wrong decision." "I know but I've been thinking. I've been shot before. Bullets don't always kill. I thought if Carrie is still alive then she would be at Austwitz." "We'll find out sooner of later. Just be patient." "HOW CAN I BE PATIENT WHEN MY DAUGHTER IS SUFFERING OR DEAD? HOW CAN I?" Javert walks away. Gerald follows. "Javert, I know it's hard. My brother is at Austwitz too. I often wonder if he's still alive. But I know he wouldn't want me to sit around wallowing in my own self pity." "All that wisdom Rabai. When all I needed was a good kick in the backside. When did they teach you that one?" "They didn't. It's just common sense." Javert moves on with renewed strength. Holding on to the hope no matter how small that Carrie might still be alive. At Austwitz lat at night. Elie opens a vent and takes out a small box. COntained within ate a number of stolen items. A knife, a lighter, Varios lengths of cloth, a needle and thread, and bottle of gin. "Carrie drink this. It's the only antistethic I could find" Says Elie offering the gin to Carrie. He holds the knife and needle in the lighter's flame to sterilize them. The next morning Carrie awakes. The bullet that was lodged in her leg now lies on the floor. "Good You're awake" Says Elie. Carrie rubs her head. "Ow, what a headache. IS it the cold or the hangover?" "A little of both. How do you feel." "Like I was hit by a truck." "Good that means you have your senses about you." "The human body sure has a strange way of letting you know that you're still alive. But it's okay. I can recover now. An when I get my strength back I'll have a little surprize for our friend the gaurd." Time slowly passes. Unfortunately Carrie's condition does not improve. Working in the horrid conditions turned a mere kold into pnumonia. Elie offered to take up Carrie's workd He took the extra strain as best he could but could not keep up the intense pace. The rain is pouring down. Elie is engaged in heavy labor. Carrie walks out covered in a light cloak, and comes to Elie's side. Elie looks at Carrie. "What are you doing here. If the gaurds see you in your condition you'll be killed." Carrie responds "I don't care any more. You've done so much for me. I can't bear to see you suffer like this" The gaurd clubs Elie. "No talking! Huh? And how long have you been hiding her?" The gaurd redies a pistol. "No! Please." begs Elie. But he goes unheard as a the gaurd raises his gun to Carrie. Suddenly a Heil Hitler goes out across the camp. The gaurd stops and joins in. Make way for Fallenstein of the Gestappo." The Gestappo man clad in black strolls into Austwitz. "Carrie looks at him with surprize "You! You're the one who sent me here." "Indeed I am." Fallenstein responds."I didn't expect you to live this long. It looks like I made it by a close margine." Carrie spits on his boots. "Hmm. Gaurds I'm taking this one with me." The gaurds take Carrie away. Elie watches as she walks out of view. Later in an empty building. Fallenstein grins at Carrie. "Now miss Fernandez. I will enjoy this." Fallenstein licks his teeth. His lips open revealing a set of fangs. "Damn! a vampire." Carrie snaps. "oh yes I am. nd I will enjoy tearing into your tender young neck. Especialy after what you did to me" "Did to you?" "you killed my master. Now I serve a mere mortal. DO you know how humiliating that is?" "Your kind disgusts me. You don't belong in this world. You are nothing more than a forgoten chapter in an out dated history book." "We are very much alive But you and the Belmont will be a different story. I have proposition for you. Tell me where the belmont is and I'll make this quick." "Sure, the Belmont is.....Right in front of you." Carrie calls on a spell adn sets Fallensein on fire. After some charring he mannages to extinguish himself. "Fire...most unpleaant. The last person who tried that on me was burried in Berlin....Paris....and Rome." Fallenstein grabs at Carrie and misses. Carrie takes up a pipe thrusts it through his abdomen and uses it to pin him to a pillar. "Dammit! Just you wait. WHen my master returns this world will fall into etearnal darkness. It's just forty more years. HEy...Where are you going. Let me down!" Carrie knew she couldn't go back. She wondered for some time about what to do but could come up with no solution. "If I stay in here too much longer they'll get suspicious." SHe says to herself. Just then she heres gunfire. and looks out a window. Her heart leaps with joy. Soldiers were dropping like flies and prisioners were escaping. In the middle of it all stood Javert. Javert looks around searching desperately for Carrie. SHe runs to his side. "Carrie, you're alive." says Javert. Carrie coughs and then responds. "I knew it all along. You did come." Russian soldiers come marching in. "You there are you alright." asks ono of the soldiers. "We're alright" says Carrie. "You don't look so well. One of the prisionaers we released said he was a doctor. Perhaps you should find him." "Thank you I will." Javert and Carrie leave. That night Austwitz burned to the ground. The pain and missery of so many became a heap of ash and charred timber. The rain eventually put out those flames. In a few years Hitler would die. Back at Austwitz a badly burned figure pulls its self from the rubble. The smoldering black body is offset by a gleaming pair of white fangs.