Castlevania: Rouge Bitten Part 2 By: Fragraham Lincon ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Inside the dark Castle Javert wanders through the spacious castle center. The pathway seems to brach off into different areas of the castle. Javert stares down a long marble hallway. He heares a buzzing sound. Out of the shadows speed two motorcycles ridden by animated skeletons. "HOLY HELL!" Javert exclaims as he jumps just in time to avoid being run down. Both motorcycles skid to the side and turn around speeding toward Javert. Javert draws his freshly reloaded gun and fires off a round piercing one of the motorcycle's gas tanks triggering an explosion which consumed the first motorcycle and scattered the bones of its passenger. Through the smoke and flame rode the second motorcycle with the skeleton atop it screeching a hellish kackal. Javert drew his whip and swung it up attaching it to a support beam above and swung into the skeleton passenger sending it hurtling at a high speed onto the hard marble floor shattering it. The motorcycle atop which the skeleton had ridden sped off and crashed into a doorway behind blowing it open. Javert dropped down to the floor and walked off through the newly opened doorway. Through this doorway he found a room filled with ancient sculptures of stone and marble contrasting oddly with the steel floor and remarkably modern elevator in the center. Javert thought of using the elevator to get ahead in the castle but thought it a better idea to finnish exploring this area first. Passing by the elevator Javert came upon a staircase which led him through another set of old winding hallways. He eventually found himself in the castle's library. As far as the eye could see there were nothing but rows upon rows of books. Javert marveled at how much knowledge dracula must have stored here. Javert walked down the long extended hallways created by the high rising bookshelves. All the paths ultimately converged in the center where one large heavy book sat atop a pedastal. and standing atop a stool in front of this book and pouring through its contents was a young girl with hair blue as the ocean. Javert aproached her cautiously. "What's a child doing here." The girl turned around and stared back at Javert with her blood red eyes. thsi coupled with her pale complexion and wardrobe that looked like it belonged in the previous century made her a bizzar mixture of cute and scary. "I'll ask you not to call me a child." She said "Well you are a child. Now what are you doing in this castle little one? Did Dracula bring you here?" Javert said with a calm reassuring voice. "No I came here of my own will. And if you're here then might you be a Belmont?" The girl asked. "Yeah that's me. Javert Belmont. But who are you?" Said Javert. "I'm Carrie Fernandez. And if you are who you say you are then I owe you my life." the girl answered. "Huh? Okay now I'm confused." Javert Replied. "You're the Belmont that's going to kill Dracula. You're the one who can break the curse." Said Carrie as she pulled down her collar showing Javert the bitemarks on her neck. "You're infected! How long has it been?" Said Javert. "Well I'm not sure how to describe it actually. You see I was bitten when I helped fight Dracula in 1850 so technicly it's been fourty two years. But Someone put me to sleep in a machine in this castle so it's really only been two hours." Javert scratched his chin confused. "Well I think I know what you mean about the machine but it's been more than fourty two years. The current year is 1935. You've been out longer than you thought." Said Javert. "What....something...something must have gone wrong. Then what happened in 1892?" "Dracula never showed up. They thought I was crazy to come to the castle in this time but I had a feeling. But it should work out the same. If I kill dracula you'll be set free." "Dracula is shifting in time. He's violating the natural order of things." "Any way it goes I'll kill Dracula and then you can go home..." Javert realized the idiocy of what he said. "Everyone I know is....I have no one left." Carrie said as tears began to well up in her eyes at the realization of how much she had lost. "Hey wait don't cry..." Javert's request went unheeded as Carrie uncharactaristicly broke into tears and sobbed uncontrollably. Javert was about to say something to console Carrie but before he could Someone else entered the center area of the library. It was Victor brandishing a decade old Tommy gun. "Belmont kill her." He said. "What the hell are you talking about? Have you lost your mind?" "She's a vampire you idiot kill her before she kills you!" "She's not a vampire yet. If we kill Dracula then she'll return to..." Victor grinned showing a pair of fangs. "I'm sorry bot no one will be killing Dracula this time." "Dammit I told you to leave. You went and got yourself infected." Said Javert angrilly. Victor smiled and aimed is gun at Javert. Javert reached for his own gun. both Men pulled their respective triggers. Victor sent out a spray of bullets as Javert Dropped to his side evading them and sending out a single prescision bullet of his own. Javert's bullet struck and pierced Victor. Victory's body lost its form and became a fine mist. His gun fell to the ground as the mist wafted upward. Javert looked up as the mist re merged into a solid form. Victor Dropped down with a blade drawn and aimed for Javert. Javert still dropped back to the ground and rolled aside as sparks flew from the impact of Victor's steel on the hard stone floor. Javert lept to his feet and around Victor's back and siezed from Victor's belt his custom cross stake weapon. Javert spun around and plunged it into Victor's back. piercing his heart. "May God forgive you." Said Javert as Victor callapsed in a pool of blood on the floor. Carrie whom had run into hiding during the fight walked back out into the open. "You really are a Belmont" She said Reffering to Javert's fighting abillity. Javert looks at the book Carrie was reading. "Bound in human flesh and written in blood. Older than Dracula himself and suposedly indestructible. Is this the book I think it is?" Asked Javert. "Yes that's the Necronomicon. The book of the dead." Javert looked it over. It wasn't written in any launguage he knew. "So how could you read this thing?" Asked Javert knowing he was educated in all the major ancieent languages. "I know a little of the sumarian launguage it was written in. It's not something readilly accepted by most people because only jypsies like myself know it." Carrie replied. "Oh Jypsies. Then you'd better be careful. There's a man named Hitler gaining power these days. He's been rounding up groups like the Jypsies and the Jews." Carrie went silent. "My group was wiped out by dracula a long time ago. I'm the last one.....and I have nowhere to go when this is over. I....I should have just died in my own time." Carrie said bursting into tears once again. "Hey don't talk like that. You can start a new life. Enroll in a school. Madmen like Hitler don't stay in power for very long." Said Javert. "A school? How when I'm an orphan now? Even when I had parents the schools wouldn't take me because I was a jypsie." "Things have changed now there are new schools now. These days education is important." Javert replied. "And what am I supposed to do? I'm homeless and friendless." Javert puts a hand on Carrie's shoulder. "I'm old enough to be your father you know. So the way I see it you're niether homeless nor friendless." "You're saying you would adopt me? Well it wouldn't be the first time. I hope you know you're taking a risk. anyone who's taken me in has died." "Oh don't be supertsicious once I've taken down Dracula everything will be okay. Well as long as we steer clear of Germany for awhile." Carrie nodded "Right. Let's do it. Let's take down Dracula." Carrie and Javert walked out of the library and back to the elevator. They traveled up. The machine was familliar enough to Javert as it was nomral for buildings owned by the richer of people. of Course to Carrie it was still strange as despite having used this device once before it still semed rather strange to her. But in this new era she would have a great deall to learn. As the elevator slowly rose up far beyond where Carrie recalled that it stopped. It passed the four towers she and Reinhardt had traveled through. It raised through a tall shaft slowly rising toward the clock tower. The one part of the castle that never seemed to change. always there. And always a pain in the ass to get through. As the elevator slowly rose Javert struck up a conversation. "So what did you find in the Necronomicon? Anything about Dracula?" "Yes I did in fact. I don't understand much of the language but I gathered some bits of a legend. It spoke of the greate evil king who would be beaten by his arch rival and one of his own. More specificly it said one who is a belmont and a vampire. By understanding the nature of Darkness the belmont would defeat the darkness. It had some other stuff about the power of innocence as well but nothing I could make out clearly." Said Carrie. "What could that mean. Is a vampire supposed to help us?" Javert said. The elevator came to a stop. Javert and Carrie stepped out into the inner workings of the clock tower. "Well get ready to climb Carrie." "You too Mr.Belmont" Javert looked back to Carrie who was already preparing for a jump. "Hey Carrie, since I'm going to be taking care of you after thsi is over. Well I never had any kids before so do you think you could call me Dad?" Javert asked. Carrie smiled. "Dad I like the sound of it. I never had a father before." Carrie said as she lept up landing on a higher platform eventually reachign a staircase. Javert as well by another path reached the same staircase meeting with Carrie halfway up. "I guess this is the easy part." Said Javert as he and Carrie worked their way up the tower. Near the top they spotted someone. Below. Javert recognized the black cape and bluegreen hair. The caped man slowly raised through the air. "Greetings Belmont. You've made it quite some distance now. "A vampire?" Said Javert. "Not exactly. Technicly I'm a Dahmpir" The caped man answered. "I remmeber. Dahmpir the bastard offspring of a pure blooded vampire and a normal human." Said Carrie. "Yes that is who I am. You can call me Vlad." The caped man replied. "Named for your father no doubt." Javert retorted. "So are you here to help me fight dracula? Like the stories about Alucard." Asked Javert. "Ah my misguided older brother. No my father has shown me my true destiny. Now is the time of great joy and suffering. Surrender to temptation and accept the dark lord as your savior." Said Vlad extending his arms like a priest delivering an energetic sermon. "You're as full of B.S. as your father." Javert replied rudely. Vlad drew out his sword and flew in toward Javert and Carrie. Javert acting quickly took Carrie under one arm and swung his whip across the chasm in the center of the clock tower and latched onto a turning shaft swinging out as Vlad crashed into the wall bringing it down around himself. Javert quickly pulled himself and Carrie up onto the shaft and in a balancing act ran across the shaft to the upper doorway of the tower to safety as the remnants of the clocks inner workings fell in on its self crushing Vlad beneth. Standing at the outside of the tower Javert looked back. "I don't think anything could have survived that." he said. Carrie looked up the long ascending stairway that seemed to float in mid air. Both slowly climbed up and reached their destination. The castle keep where Dracula awaited. Inside they stepped. and looked on at the already opened coffin. He walked up to it and examined its insides. No one inside. Javert heard Carrie screech behind him. He turned around to see Dracula levitating halfway between the floor and ceiling of the chamber with Carrie in his grasp. "Insolent worm. You dare to defy my will. Now is the time of great joy and suffering. It will be my joy to cause your suffering. Come and let me tear you assunder." Javert drew his gun and aimed carefully. "Put her down Dracula this is between you and me. Don't get her involved." Said Javert. "Oh but she is involved. She is very much a part of my plan. All the wheels are in motion. Everything is coming together as it should. Even if you could kill me now it will make no difference. My two thousand year plan will come to fruition and Hell will rain over earth for all eternity." Javert now sure of his aim took a shot at Dracula's cranium. Dracula released Carrie and fell back to the ground. Carrie ran clear of Dracula as he stood back up. Dracula plucked the bullet from between his brow where it made only a tiny indention. "Oh shit I was really hoping that was going to kill him." Said Javert. Dracula held out his hand and from it produced three fireballs which he sent toward Javert. Javert managed to evade all three as they impacted on the rug setting it on fire. Javert reached into his coat and hurled a molotov at Dracula setting him on fire. Now it seemed that the whole of the castle keep was going to burn down. It was quickly becoming an inferno. Through the flames the still burning Dracula shot bolts of electricity striking near Javert but Dracula's own vision was too obstructed to see his target. Javert looked back in the room to see Carrie hiding behind a pillar. "Carrie we're going to run out of air if this fire keeps up." Javert yelled. Carrie pointed Javert to a window that had been shattered in the fight. Both managing to escape Dracula's sign climbed to the outside ledge and worked their way back to the stairway. Javert looked on as flames spurted out of the caslte keep. "Dracula will be burned alive by his own attack. Done in by his own power... ...one of his own." Said Carrie remembering the Passage from the necronomicon. Suddenly the doors of the keep burst open and the still burning figure of Dracula calmly walked out into the pouring rain. "You cannot kill me so easilly mortals." Said Dracula as he extended his arms to the side and sent fourth Dark energies which blew the castle keep the pieces with only its floor remaining. The rain extinguished the flames and Dracula slowly walked toward Javert. Carrie lept out in front of Javert screaming out "NO!" and proceeded to chant "Lord of light, bring fourth thy holy spirit into these hands." As Carrie chanted a ball of light gathered in her hands which she threw into dracula's face. Dracula staggered back and then was hit by another and another. Carrie continuously bombarded Dracula forcing him back step by step untill he was at the ledge of what was the castle keep. "NOW DIE MONSTER!" Carrie tried to summon one last ball of light. But before she could attack it faded away "no" The curse was taking hold. Carrie fell over in pain. The Dark force of Dracula was taking over. Javert rushed to her side. and took out a vile from his coat. "Drink this" He said handing her the milky colored liquid. Carrie drank it and found the vampirism curse hold back. "What is this?" Carrie asked with some struggling in her voice. "Garlic and silver enriched mineral salts boiled in holy water. Vampirism is like a virus. I concocted this to kill the infected cells. Usually it just kills vampires but it should slow the curse down on you since you haven't fully turned." "Thanks dad" Said Carrie as she collpsed. Javert then turned to Dracula. "I am the fury of the Belmont clan. No I am the fury of humanity. How dare you dessocrate an innocent with your vile stench. Dracula I'm going to kill you." Said Javert. Dracula extinguished the last of the flames clinging to his body Flew at javert Pushing im back close the ledge. Javert stepped aside and drew his whip. he wrapped it around Dracula's neck and began strangling him. Dracula tunred around and began pulling on the whip trying to bring Javert into range. Javert released the handle of the whip lettign Dracula stagger back a bit then drew his gun firing his remaining bullets streight at the dark lord's heart. Each remaining bullet impacted on the exact same spot forcing a weak point on Dracula's already burned and weakened body. Finally the last bullet pushed through piercing Dracula's black heart. A gush of blood shot fourth and sprayed into the air and dracula fell to his knees. Javert walked forward picking up his whip. He stood in front of Dracula and loaded one last round in his gun. this one inscribed with a cross on the head. "This bullet was blessed by the pope himself in the waters of the Jordan river. Now go to Hell!" Said Javert as he fired the bullet through Dracula's cranium. The bullet lodged itself in the center of Dracula's brain. Dracula screamed out in a hellish voice as dark energy poured out of his body. Finally with one last gasp Dracula's head exploded in a column of Dark energy. The decaptiated body still spewing forth darkness stood on its feet and slowly advanced toward javert before finally being consumed in a hellish blaze of black fire. The rain still poured down. Dracula was dead. Javert choked a little from the strain he had placed on his body. A bolt of lighting struck in the center of the remnants of the castle keep. The floor blew away chunks as if the lighting were carving it. Javert looked over to see a column of black sulfurous smoke in the center of a large pentagram. A crimson fluid flowed through the tiny channels carved in the stone that formed this pentagram. The smoke blew away in the fierce wind. And there stood Vlad. "Vlad.... how can you...." Said Javert. "What a pathetic old fool. Even after I left that body he still believed he was Dracula. You see that was only my former host body. Admitedly he retained much of my power. But this young and magnificint body is much better. Now prepare to face the true power of Dracula Vlad Tepez!" Said Vlad as he held a hand out toward Javert and fired off a bolt of black lighting knocking him back and over the ledge. Javert barely managed to grasp the edge to prevent himself from falling to his demise. Javert already exhausted and injured struggled to pull himself up. Vlad fired off another bolt taking out a chunk of the very floor and Javert with it. Javert in mid fall swung out his whip grasping the remnants of a gargoyl statue and swung back up. "You just don't know when to die do you?" said Vlad. Javert charged forward whip in hand a laid the legendary weapon across Vlad's face. Vlad didn't flinch but only grabbled the weapon in mid swing and pulled it from Javert's grasp as he put a hand on Javert's chest blasting him with another bolt of dark energy. Javert flew back and hit the floor. He struggled to get his feet under him but collapsed. He looked up to Vlad who gestured toward Carrie. Carrie lifted into the air under Vlad's power and flew toward him. Vlad lifted Carrie up by her shirt collar. "This girl has given me much trouble. But it's been worth it. You will be the key to my final plan. Now is the time of great joy and suffering..." Vlad began to preach. Javert looked on. He placed his hand on the cross around his neck. and reached for a vile of his "vampire remedy." he held it tightly. "God don't let me fail now. Bless this thy holy instrument so that I might reduce thy eneimies to puddles of goo. Yeah that's the best I can do for a prayer. I hope it's enough." Javert pulled is legs beneth him and stood up. "HEY OVERBITE!" Javert yelled as he smashed the neck of the bottle containing his vampire remedy with the butt of his gun. "What? Still alive?" Vlad said dropping Carrie. Javert charged in at Vlad. Vlad Grabbed Javert and charged his dark energy through Javert's body causing massive injuries. Struggling through the pain Javert lifted up the broken bottle hight above Vlad's neck. "The doctor is in and HERE'S YOUR DAMN PRESCRIPTION!" Javert yelled plunging the broken glass into Vlad's neck. The fluid drained down into the Vlad's body. "WHAT! NNOOOOOO!" Vlad screamed as this vains and arteries already began to melt under the holy fluid that was infecting his system. Vlad wrenched in pain as the sickening noise of ripping muscle and tended sounded through the sky like thunder. An underthly scream eminated from Vlad's mout before it was choked on flowing blood. Vlad's body was dissolving and his bones turning to dust. Finally several simultanious bolts of lighting converged striking Vlad as he exploded in towering gyeser of blood and dissolved body parts. Vlad was no more. The spirit of Dracula had fled. Carrie stood back up and could feel the curse was lifted. Javert too noticed the absence of the Dark Lord. Javert fell to his knees as Carrie stood at his side. They looked to the east as the rain ended and the storm clouds parted. The long night was over. The sun had risen and a new day had begun. ------------------------------------------------------------------------