Outcast: Chronicles of a lost writer Castlevania Chapter 1: Outsider, a castlevania fanfic

Hi this is Benji Himura

Hi this is Benji Himura. I am now starting a Castlevania fanfic. I don't own Castlevania or any of the characters of that story. I own Benji Himura and others original characters that will show up in the story. It might be violence and sex in the story so if you are underage of seventeen are warned the content might be too improper to your age. Read by your own will and risk. In anyway enjoy the story.

Benji Himura.

"Text" Talked sentences.

'Text' Thoughts.

-Text- Sounds effects.

(Text) Talked sentences in a foreign language as English when everyone else speaks Japanese.

: Text: Messages show in an electronic screen or written.

Text: something being recalled, flashbacks, scenes being replayed.

Text: a detail found in a location, scene, person, recording and images that originally wasn't there.

"Text" Alteration in the voice, not in the tone but the voice itself.

Chapter one: Outsider

Benji groans in pain while sitting up, his landing was everything but nice and smooth, after all landing on some sort of park covered with tons of dead leaves and twigs isn't comfortable. Scanning his surroundings Benji finds his backpack, jeans, boots and belt pack.

Quickly Benji puts on his pants and boots, it isn't wise to be only on his house shorts and t-shirt in the middle of a park in the middle of the night, and it was chilly too. Benji quickly puts his belt back on his backpack and looks at the two knives in there, he considers the wisdom of carrying them on himself or leaving them on the backpack.

Benji takes the smaller one of tucks on his pants, held by his belt and covered by his shirt, he puts his backpack on and starts to walk to the direction that he thinks that is the exit, at least was closer of a walking path than the surrounding tree line.

Now moving Benji feels slightly warmer, the air was really chilly, at least for him. Benji knew for sure that he wasn't home anymore, the air was by far much cleaner, and he can only wonder where he is and how exactly he got there, but something in the night and the moon is bothering him, he can't put his finger on it but he feel that something isn't right.

"Halt! Who goes there?!" A unfamiliar male voice shouted at Benji, Benji guessed that the owner of the voice was reasonably far from him, maybe ten meters or more, Benji turns to his left until he sees a tall man standing by a similar path than he is and connecting to the one that he is taking right now, but what intrigues Benji is the man's clothing, and the whip on his hands.

"Once again who goes there? If you do not identify yourself then you are part of the enemy." The man said. "Or it could mean that I don't speak your language." Benji replied in English, the same language of the man. "Don't be so quick in assuming that someone walking at the road is an enemy."

"In this cursed land any one walking on the road might be the enemy." The man said in a harsh tone. "And where exactly this cursed land is located?" Benji asked. "I am kind of lost here." Benji can see the man frowning his brows at his question. "Lost in Wallachia when the evil Dracula reawakens from his forced slumber?!" The man exclaimed in disbelieve.

Benji is shocked with the revelation of the location as well who is awake, feeling dizzy Benji supports himself in a tree trunk and covers his mouth with his free hand; he was somehow taken to the world of Castlevania, more precisely at 1852, at what he knew as Castlevania 64. "God I feel sick…" Benji muttered with his mind spinning, now the odd feeling made sense; the feeling was the evil aura of the area, the lack of nightlife in the area, the absolute silence of what he thought that was a park.

Benji now knew who the man was, it was Reinhardt Schneider, a Belmont clan descendent and the hero of the game, listening attentively Benji could hear the sound of crumpled leaves at the distance, and guessed that somewhere behind Reinhardt Carrie Fernandez was waiting to see what happens.

Taking few deep breathes Benji calms himself, he knew that he was in a world where evil creatures lurked around and attacked humans, and he was over one hundred years back in what he could have called present time, he had two main choices, backtrack from the path that Reinhardt and Carrie took and hope to find the nearest city unscathed, and that they would take him in. Or he could try his luck even more and go with them, and maybe help them in defeating Dracula and perhaps finding the way back to his own world.

Both paths are very risky, the idea of being stuck in a time that electricity doesn't exist compelled Benji to decide risking on Castlevania, he had more chances of going home by doing that. Benji sighed. "I guess that now I know why I landed here." Benji said to himself.

Benji noticed that Reinhardt is much closer than before, while Benji was thinking he approached Benji, and only didn't attacked because Benji doesn't look like a vampire, and since was night and Benji was human then he wasn't a werewolf, but Reinhardt was still wary, Dracula does have human followers who seek the curse of vampirism.

"I am not evil." Benji said in a flat tone, a bit uneasy with Reinhardt's close scrutiny. "However your clothes aren't from a common man." Reinhardt replied in the same way. "At least not from this part of the world." Benji commented. "I bought them in another place. Look I know that the situation isn't exactly the best for introductions, that whip thing of yours is magic isn't it?"

"And how you know it?" Reinhardt asked even more suspicious of Benji. "Rumors." Benji answered. "A whip wielding man hunting Dracula, you have a relation with the Belmont clan, and that means that the whip is the vampire killer." Reinhardt couldn't counter than, he was aware of the rumors about the Belmonts.

"You are right." Reinhardt said. "Hold on it, if you are evil then you will die." Benji reaches for the whip and holds it, as Benji expected nothing happened. "Fine you aren't evil." Reinhardt said convinced that at least Benji wasn't a monster. "Why you are here?"

"I am not so sure of it myself." Benji answered. "I landed less than half an hour ago in a clearing on that direction, I am assuming that was magic that somehow got me here." "There are indeed spells able to do that." Carrie commented walking towards them. "However I fail to see why anyone would summon you or transport you here without your consent."

"Maybe a faulty spell or a poorly made ritual that went wrong and transported the wrong guy to the wrong place." Benji replied. "It is my best theory, trust on my young lady, I know even less than you do about why I am here, if I knew that I was going to come here I would have gotten a warm jacket."

"It is not that cold." Reinhardt commented; he is with most of his arms exposed. "I am from a warmer place." Benji said. "This place is a tad too chilly for me." "Enough with this conversation." Carrie said to the two. "We don't have time to lose with this Reinhardt."

"I might not be a full fledged warrior but I know how to fight." Benji said to them. "Knowing what I heard about Dracula I have more chances of returning to my home by aiding you on vanquishing him."

"And you are even armed?" Reinhardt asked seriously. "I have some weapons." Benji answered taking out his backpack and taking his other knife from there, as well two metal protections for the forearms and knuckles, and five metal rods that he quickly assembles into a spear slightly shorter than his height.

Reinhardt smiled at the weapon. "At least you weren't unprepared." He commented while Benji puts his backpack back on. "I am Reinhardt Schneider, this is Carrie Fernandez." Carrie nodded lightly at her introduction. "I am Benji Himura." Benji said. "That is an unusual name." Carrie commented.

Benji chuckled lightly. "I know." Benji said. "But it comes from my heritage, my family ancestors came from the east, from a very distant land." Both Carrie and Reinhardt nodded understanding the value of the heritage that comes from the family name because their own heritage.

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Benji spits on the ground, partially supporting on his spear after being caught in a blast of blue skeleton, he could have avoided that, but he was shielding Carrie who was distracted by casting spells on the huge skeleton that came out from the sealed door. "Next time when I say run you run." Benji said to Carrie while looking at his left shoe sole and removing a sharp bone shard from it.

"Sorry." Carrie replied meekly, she was so focused on the boss skeleton that Reinhardt was fighting that forgot to worry about the minions that it summoned against them. "You are okay Benji?" Reinhardt asked seeing Benji's shirt torn in few places as well some trails of blood.

"It isn't serious, but if I haven't kicked it away, then it would be serious." Benji answered. "I just need to catch my breath here." "Here this might help you." Reinhardt said offering to Benji a knife. "You know how this works?" "It is quite simple." Benji replied. "You stab with it."

Reinhardt chuckled. "Almost. This is a charm, you gather red crystals and you can throw knives like this." He explained. "There are other kinds around the place we just have to find it." Benji nodded and takes the knife. "I am fine now, let's move on." Benji said to the vampire hunters.

Benji sighed looking at the broken bridge that is between him and the needed switch to open the gate. "It isn't all that hard." Carrie commented looking up at Benji, Reinhardt was in another part of the area to activate a different switch. "I am just thinking in who was the fool who would build a switch in the other side of a bridge instead of near of the gate itself." Benji replied, it was partially true, but he wasn't looking forward to jumping through to the next platform and then to the area with the switch.

"A fool as you said." Carrie said taking some distance and running to the edge. She jumps and lands neatly on the platform. "Hurry up!" Carrie called. "You are supposed to be defending me the poor mage girl from harm while I cast spells."

"If you want to tease someone tease Reinhardt." Benji replied taking distance from the edge. "It was his idea." "Just do it, it isn't as hard as it looks like." Carrie said. "You can do it; your legs are longer than mine!"

Benji runs to the edge and jumps; he does land on the platform. "Shit!" Benji exclaimed as he lose his footing, slipping on some moss, instead of falling on the muddy river a couple tens of meters below Benji managed to grasp at the edge of the platform. Carrie holds on his wrist trying to hold him too. "You are heavy!" she complained.

Benji doesn't say anything, focusing only on getting his left hand on the platform. 'I am so doing more chin ups when I leave this place…' Benji thought while feeling some strain while pulling himself up to the platform, even Carrie's small strength was a welcomed aid. 'How I am supposed to help out when just this drained my stamina?' Benji thought while catching his breath. 'I know how many platforms exist in the game.'

"You are sure that you can fight?" Carrie asked. "You don't seem all that strong." "Normally I don't need to pull myself like this." Benji replied. "But I admit that I am not as in shape as I thought that I was, I will fix that later." "And I will deal with that now." Carrie said pulling her spell book. "Not that I don't trust in you but what are you planning?" Benji asked worried.

"This book belonged to my ancestor Sypha Belnades and it contains several spells, I recall one that temporarily enhances the strength of a chosen person." Carrie answered. "Nothing too drastic as the strength of one hundred men, it is more down to the earth as the strength of three men. Might not sound much but you will be three time stronger, faster and resilient then now."

"Sounds pretty amazing." Benji commented. "And how long it lasts?" "Normally half an hour." Carrie answered flipping the pages of the ancient tome. "But there is another spell here that can be used after the first one that will make it last for three days." "And how much energy you would lose?" Benji asked seriously.

"Not much." Carrie answered smiled, content with his concern. "I have large magic reserves and they replenish really fast. Now be quiet, I don't want to make a mistake while casting the spell." Benji nodded and remained quiet and sitting on the platform, after all why refuse a magical boost?

Ten minutes, two spells and one switch activation later Benji and Carrie are standing in one of the two platforms, now lowered to a little above the water level. "Climbing all the way back up will be a pain." Benji commented looking at the white stone platforms rising to the ground level several meters above the water level.

"It could be worse." Carrie replied. "Now let's get started, Reinhardt must have activated the other switch by now." Benji nodded and Carrie jumps to the other platform. Benji follows her, but Carrie's next jump, the one that would take her to the first of the stone platforms in the wall was off, just a minor miscalculation, but enough to send the young mage into the river.

"Carrie!" Benji exclaimed jumping on the water near where she fell, he knew that in the game falling in the water means instant death, but that was because the main characters doesn't know how to swim, he does. Diving in the murky river Benji searches for Carrie, it wasn't easy with the low visibility of the muddy water.

But he feels something brushing on his fingers, something soft, Benji grabs it, it could be Carrie's dress or hair, either way he held on it and pulled it on his direction. With relief he feels something larger at the end of the ribbon like thing that he was pulling, it felt like Carrie.

Benji emerges holding Carrie; he exhales when surfacing and pulls her head out of the water. Carrie coughs hard, spewing water and choking. "Thank god." Benji whispered swimming to the closer platform; the current weren't fast enough to take them too far from it.

Holding on the platform Benji throws Carrie over the edge, into the dry platform. He holds on the edge of the platform. "Okay swimming fully dressed, with a backpack on and with shoes isn't easy at all…" Benji murmured tired, the cold water only made him even more tired.

Kicking and pulling his way back to the platform Benji finally leaves the water, as Carrie he is soaked wet. "Carrie" Benji called gently holding her face and shaking her head. "Carrie speak with me." Carrie was coughing until a while ago, but now she is too quiet for his liking.

"What?" She asked with her voice hoarse. "Just checking if you are alive and okay." Benji answered with a smile. "I almost drowned to death, I am not exactly okay." Carrie replied tiredly. "I know the feeling, come on we have to leave this place and find some place to get warm." Benji said to her. "Can you move?"
"I don't think so." Carrie answered feeling her body sluggish and as if made of lead. "Okay." Benji replied taking out his backpack, he adjusts the shoulder strap and the waist strap that he usually leaves tied under the bottom of the pack.

He makes Carrie put on the back pack, and with his belt Benji ties Carrie to the backpack, then he puts the backpack on, adjusting once again the shoulder straps to be tightly pressing her small body against his back, then he buckles the waist strap on his waist and makes it tighter.

"It is too tight?" Benji asked to Carrie. "Not really." Carrie answered with her arms around Benji's neck. Benji stands up and tests the improvised harness, satisfied that Carrie isn't slipping Benji nods pleased. "Okay hold tight." Benji told to the girl. "I will do the climbing."

Carrie nodded and holds on the front of his shirt, shivering lightly with the cold that she feels because her wet clothes and the cold wind, but Benji's body was warm. The jump feels a bit uncomfortable, but with two of them Carrie found a better position with her legs around his waist that helped to ease the sudden halts on her.

Benji is thankful that Carrie's magic is so effective, otherwise he wouldn't be able to climb that much by himself in one go, much less with Carrie on his back and both of them soaked. Part of his mind wonders about the fate of his CD player and his other belongings that can be damaged by water, his backpack isn't exactly water proof and he was under the water for at least forty seconds, not counting swimming.

After long minutes Benji arrives on the ground level, he lies flat on his stomach, taking deep breathes, his wet clothes giving a minimal refreshment to his overly hot body, the blood running on his hands as sharp and painful hot needles, Benji knew that he had cuts or at least scrapped his palms.

Benji pushes himself up and stands. "Okay let's find Reinhardt." Benji said to Carrie, he quickly assembles the spear that he dismantled in three staves and held on his left thigh with a pair of belts. "Okay." Carrie replied, she still felt drained from drowning. Benji walks around the area looking for Reinhardt, luckily there are only few skeletons as enemies there; even on his condition Benji could easily beat them.

"You two are as wet as drowned rats." Reinhardt said seeing Benji and Carrie walking on his direction, well just Benji walking. "What happened?" "Carrie slipped in a jump and fell in the water." Benji answered. "Luckily I found her before she drowned." "You know how to swim?" Reinhardt asked surprised.

"It is a quite common skill from where I came." Benji answered. "It is rare here?" "Quite." Reinhardt replied. "Drowning is a common death; I by myself don't know how to swim." 'And that explains why he also dies instantly when falling in the river.' Benji said to himself.

"Anyway it isn't good for Carrie stay outside when wet." Benji said to Reinhardt. "It is cold and she might catch her death of a cold if she doesn't warm up." "The same with you." Reinhardt commented. "There are some crypts over there with empty coffins, they should burn well." Benji nodded understanding and follow Reinhardt.

Benji smashes one of the three coffins inside the crypt, breaking the wood in smaller pieces to burn easier, Carrie is taking out her sodden dress, while Reinhardt is keeping guard outside. Using his lighter in few minutes Benji produced a good fire.

Carrie stands next to the fire clad only in an undershirt, her dress strained out of as much water as she could is drying near the fire. "Your book is okay?" Benji asked to Carrie while taking out his shirt. "Yes." Carrie answered. "Our packs are magically treated, water doesn't get inside."

"That is convenient." Benji commented while straining his shirt, it was once white, now brown because the dirty water. "You should check yours." Carrie replied. "You might be surprised." Benji places his shirt next to Carrie's dress and opens his backpack.

Carrie was right, Benji is surprised, everything inside it is dry, and that includes his CD player and two dry shirts and shorts. "Put this on." Benji said to Carrie, she looks up as a white t-shirt falls over her face. "It is better than that damp shirt of yours."

"Thank you." Carrie said with a blush, she quickly takes out the shirt and put on Benji's shirt. Benji takes out his soaked pants, shorts, boots and socks, he puts on a dry t-shirt, and shorts. "Now it is better." Benji commented while straining his wet jeans. "Yes it is." Carrie commented with her cheeks tinted in pink, now warm and comfortable.

"We have three hours until dusk." Reinhardt said to the duo while entering on the crypt. "It should be enough to your clothes to dry and we get some rest. I will take the first guard duty, you two rest." "Any of you have any food; I think that we could use this chance to eat something too." Benji asked to them, he had only few sweets and that is all.

"I have some dry roasted beef." Reinhardt replied. "And bread." "I have dry roasted chicken and travel cookies." Carrie said. "Sadly I don't have anything other than some sweets." Benji sighed. "It is okay, we can share; there must be food in the villa." Reinhardt said with a smile

Carrie nods agreeing. "And we can heat up the food too; it has been a while since I had a warm meal." Carrie commented with a smile. "We will need strength to fight Dracula."

"Why we ended in this tower?!" Benji exclaimed while getting cover from a dragon's breath behind the stone entrance of the room. "I said that we should send Reinhardt to this one and then move to the other one."

Next to him Carrie sighed, it was her idea to activate the first switch. "We can deal with that thing." Carrie replied, peeking on the edge of the wall and firing an energy ball at the twin white dragons. Carrie ducks for cover as fire blast comes on her direction.

Benji throws a cross boomerang on the dragon. "I don't have the same range that you and Reinhardt have." Benji said, he was after all limited to what he got, he felt lucky that he traded the knife for a cross. "But you have me to help you on long range." Carrie replied. "I just need some time to cast something more effective, can you distract it?"

"Do I have a choice?" Benji asked. "Not really, I need to be looking at the target to cast this. So keep both heads busy." Carrie answered with an apologetic smile. "I need thirty seconds." Benji sighed knowing how long thirty seconds can be when being chased by fire spewing skeletal dragons, it was the same thing of the 'long' ninety seconds of one round in a fighting game, it is all relative.

Waiting for an opening Benji jumps out of the cover while throwing another cross at the dragon when it comes. "Start it now!" Benji shouted while running as the dragons blow fire behind him. Carrie moves to the other side and looks at the twin dragons by the gears, she starts to recite the spell while Benji distracts the dragon.

One hour later the trio is on the entry of villa, they had killed a vampire and look around the room more carefully. Benji found a locked door. "For a fancy place like this you would expect more of luxury furniture around." Benji commented while walking to the vampire hunter and the young sorceress.

"I have to admit that this place doesn't look like Castlevania that was described in Sypha's book." Carrie replied. "Lack the luxury and size to be expected in a castle." "This might be just temporary." Reinhardt said to them. "Maybe the vile Dracula haven't summoned his castle yet in order to conceal his presence."

Both Benji and Carrie had to accept that possibility; tactically was a smart move, but Benji knew things better than the two, but for the moment he remained in silence. As they walk upstairs Carrie looks again at Benji, he got some nasty hits, his spear and knives weren't helping as much as they did with the increasing stronger enemies, even with the power ups that he collected. She knows that things will only get harder, and Benji wasn't even clad in anything that could be classified as armor.

Benji was getting tired; keeping up with the two vampire hunters was proving the difference between the levels of fitness between the two centuries, not to mention that while in a good shape he wasn't an athlete. Benji is content that there aren't as many enemies inside as there was outside.

"Benji what is going on?" Carrie asked worried as Benji suddenly stopped walking. "What time is it?" Benji asked seriously. Both Reinhardt and Carrie pull pocket watches from their pockets. "Two and half in the morning." Reinhardt said. "Mine says that is two and twenty five in the morning." Carrie added, wondering if her watch got slower with her fall in the river. "But why that?" Reinhardt asked.

"I got this feeling that we should wait here for a while." Benji answered, they are in Rosa's garden, it was before three in the morning so she would appear soon, she was important to the plot.

Reinhardt looks at Benji, while knowing that they shouldn't waste time, those kinds of feelings shouldn't be dismissed so easily, Reinhardt knows that very well. "Then we will wait for a while." Reinhardt said seriously. "In any care let's get ready for battle." Carrie nodded and so does Benji, settling on the garden they wait.

"Maybe we should rest for a while." Benji said seeing Carrie wobbling a bit. "It is past four in the morning, we all could use some sleep." Reinhardt nodded agreeing he was also feeling tired but he wouldn't really stop unless someone else said so. Benji picks Carrie up, the young sorceress is so tired that she doesn't even complain at that, they backtrack to the room where Vincent is staying, it was a room without any kind of monsters and had two rooms and three doors, enough to give some safety as monsters would make noise when trying to reach them in the distant second room.

Benji puts Carrie down on the bed and covers her, before he steals a pillow and sits next to the bed. Reinhardt barricades the door with a chair before sitting in a wall not so far from Benji. "You are doing quite well." Reinhardt said to Benji, he was surprised with Benji's ability, sometimes it seemed that the brunette knew what was coming before it even happened.

"Thanks, but I am just trying to keep up." Benji replied with a tired smile. "I am tired and feeling like shit, it wasn't for Carrie's magic I would be dead a long time ago." "Carrie's spells are indeed something amazing." Reinhardt commented. "With her I am sure that the vile Dracula will fall much easier. And with your foresight it will be even easier."

"Thanks but I wouldn't put much faith on me." Benji said seriously. "I just get these feelings, feelings aren't accurate, so relying solely on that would be a mistake." "I understand that but I still have to see that happening, so far it was right." Reinhardt replied. "But we should rest, four hours of sleep should be enough."

Benji sighed at the idea of such a short time to sleep, but again they were in a monster infested mansion, they should hurry, so he nods agreeing and lies on the floor, at least the room was warm enough to be comfortable.