Castlevania 06

Chapter 1

Transylvania

He ran, and ran, and ran. He looked behind him to see if his pursuers were still behind him, but they weren't. He stopped to catch his breath. Did he lose them? He hoped so. It got dark early this time of year. It was November 12th. Darkness came at about five p.m. or so. He sat down and relaxed himself. Crack! He heard something in the darkened forest. He looked on all sides of him and saw nothing. He breathed heavily, unaware he was making a lot of noise. He got up quickly and turned to run. He stopped suddenly. He saw that there was a large dog in front of him, as big as a queen sized bed. The dog pounced on him, and the last thing the man though about was his wife and baby, before he was mauled to death.

November 13th 2006 USA

Sterling, Oregon

The teacher took a sip of her coffee and sat down. Mrs. Gooding opened up her history book and turned a few pages. After she found her page, she turned her attention to the classroom.

"Turn to page 143."

The class did so, but there was a student among them who had his attention elsewhere. He was writing in his notebook things he liked about a certain somebody. A girl, a beautiful girl. She was head of the volleyball team at Sterling High School and also Vice President of the Student Body. She had long auburn red hair, hazel eyes, and…

"Steven Belmont!"

His head snapped up. He focus was now on Mrs. Gooding.

"Pay attention Steven. Page 143."

"Yes Mrs. Gooding," he said a bit embarrassed.

Another student shook his head. He turned to face his best friend. He was black, taller the he was by a foot. He looked at him and gave a silent snicker. Steven smiled back a bit. The ball rang, indicating that class was over. The students sat up and walked out the door and into the hall. He felt a hard shove at his back and Steven turned round. A black man with large glasses was shaking his head at Steve as staired back at the picture.

"So who you daydreaming about this time! Let me see that!"

"Ethan!"

Ethan turned the page to see Rebecca Holmes name in the book. His faced turned pale at the sight of her name. Steven quickly snatched it back from Ethan, shoving it back into his backpack.

"I fear for you Steven. I know you understand how popular she is, and don't tell me you don't. She has no time for "nerds" as she calls us," Ethan said tweaking his fingers in the air. "not to mention she's the football captain's girlfriend."

Steven smiled.

"She will be mine Ethan. Don't worry about that."

Ethan turned away and shook his head.

"You're so hard headed."

"You should know that by now Ethan, we've been friends since the fourth grade."

"So what's the plan after school?"

"I don't know, play some games, watch movies."

The two then heard some rowdy shouts down the hallway. They turned to see the football captain, Troy Atkins shouting down the hallway along with some of his friends. Ethan shook his head. He hated jocks like Troy.

"Come on Steve, if we stay any longer I don't think we'll be leaving here unharmed."

Troy spotted Steven and Ethan. They wasted no time parading down over to their position in the hallway, getting stairs from the students in the hallway. He walked slowly over to the two, his eyes fixated on Steven.

"Well, I guess I found me two little nerds. So Steven, what's on your mind today?" he said as he put a hand on a locker, blocking Steve's view.

Steven turned his attention away from the jock as he opened his locker.

"Nothing Troy, what do you want?"

"Oh it's just, I saw you two over here and thought we should just say hi. Oh, I also hear you've been trying to get close to my girl. What about you guys didn't you hear something like that?"

Two of the football jocks nodded and gave "um hum" sound as they so.

"Troy it was only a conversation about the project we had. The feudal Japan era."

"So your into kimonos and such now. I suppose you wanna paint your face white as well and walk down the street shaking your stuff?"

The jocks behind him laughed aloud. Ethan put a shoulder to Steve as Steve slammed his locker.

"Steve come on, its not worth it man."

"Hey, nerd boy, you're not his daddy! He can take care of himself. If he wants to fight me, I've got no problem with that."

"You not worth my time Troy, I gotta go," Steve said. Troy blocked his way as Steve and Ethan prepared to leave.

"I don't I said you could go yet. Let's get one thing clear nerd boy, I don't want you anywhere near my girl, otherwise I may just have you join my club. That's if you get my drift."

"Don't worry Troy, I have no intention of fooling around with anyone's girl. I can find my own."

"You better," Troy hissed between gritted teeth. Ethan and Steve pushed aside Troy and the jocks and walked down the hallway. Ethan patted Steve on his back.

"That Troy's a real ass isn't he? I would've backed you up if he did anything."

"I know Ethan, thanks."

"Hey, what's that new game you were telling me about?"

"It's the new Tekken game. I bet I can beat you."

"We'll see about that."

The afternoon bell rang, indicating that school was dismissed for the day. The students ran outside, cheerful over another day ended. Ethan and Steve walked outside the school. The day was partly sunny and very cold. Winter was coming. He hated the winter. Every winter he would have his room about as high as 80 degrees to keep himself warm. Ethan patted Steve's shoulder.

"Steve don't look that, just wait until she leaves."

Steve ignored him and looked over to see Rebecca and Troy walking to his red Lexus hand in hand. Steve's mouth dropped at how beautiful she was. Rebecca noticed him, and gave him an annoyed looked as she stepped into Troy's car. Troy cracked up his car, and gave Steve the finger before they drove off.

Steve shook his head.

"Steve, I think there are other fish in sea don't you?" Ethan asked.

"Nah, she's the only fish I want."

"There are others Steve."

He looked over to see a red headed girl, also wearing large glasses, stairing and giggling at Steve. Steve turned around quickly.

"No Ethan! Not her she's too nerdy!"

"What do you call me then?"

"We are best friends Ethan what kind of question is that?"

"Paige is kinda cute you know."

"Maybe to you, but not to me. Let's get back to my house so I can whip you."

"We'll see who gets whipped."

The two crossed the street and proceeded downtown.