Hello. This is my second Fanfic I've worked on and completed a chapter of. Sorry about not getting The Grim Grimoire updated or adding anything for some time. I just started this and it reads like the best and longest beginning I've ever written :). This is a Dawn of Sorrow Fanfic. There will be many returning faces from the game, such as Soma, Mina, Celia, and Arikado in this chapter, and new ones, like Rock Atoll and TIm in this chapter. Please tell me if this beginning is better than my other! It's longer and I think better. We'll see...

And Now...

Castlevania

Soul of Sorrow

Chapter 1

Soma Cruz

The woman walked swiftly to the the center of the village. There were few people around, and most ran or hid from her and her two followers. She wore several layers of clothing over her robe, not just to keep warm in the cold winter night, but because she carried many vials and flasks under each layer. Some of her blonde hair was piled on top of her head neatly while the rest hung past her shoulders. Her followers wore thick coats to protect themselves from the cold. One was slightly taller than her. He was an old man, with thinning grey hair, but a very strong looking body. The other was shorter and much skinnier. He had a blonde military cut, a scowling face, and a bad reputation. The large sword on his back had been used to kill many people.

"Ms. Fortner, are we almost there?" asked the skinny one. Ms. Fortner looked at him. He was ugly, but necessary for her plans.

"Quiet Rock! We'll get there when she says so!" The old man snapped. Rock frowned and kicked at a cat. The woman stopped in the center of the town square, right in front of a beautiful white marble fountain.

"Right here is perfect," she said, her voice as cold as the air.

"Are you certain? If we get the spell wrong or do it in the wrong location it would be disastrous!" The old man said. She turned to him and gave him a nasty look. She turned back.

"God is Pure Light, Lord Dracula is Pure Dark. The world requires balance else it will destroy itself. After 1999, Dracula was killed for good. Last year, the Castle returned and the one who was to become Dracula destroyed it. Now we have no opposite to God, the balance is skewed, we need to do this for the good of mankind. We must create a new Dracula. We must destroy the one who could become the Dark Lord for he will not willingly embrace his darkness. We must lead him here and he must die. Rock, Tim, your assisstance." She raised her arms and began chanting in a long forgotten language that was meant to never be spoken by humans again. The old man, Tim, joined in first followed soon by Rock. Their horrid chanting caused the few survivors of the calamity the woman and her follower's summoned to have nightmares for the rest of their lives, which was very short for most of them.

"Soma! You moron!" His mother shouted. She was a short, plump woman with long, dark hair, the exact opposite of his. Soma Cruz was tall with white hair the hung to his chin. He wore a long white coat with blue cuffs and edges. Underneath he wore blue jeans and a black shirt, as well as a purple pendant his best friend, as well as his only friend, had given him. His boots matched his coat. His mom was shouting at him for accidentally scraping their van against a lamp when he parked at a mall.

"Will you ever learn? How would your father feel if he knew you could hardly drive?" Soma had learned the previous year that he was to be Dracula if he succumbed to his darker emotions. His mother continued to shout at him until she told him Mina was meeting him at their usual meeting place. He left to meet her.

He jogged through the busy streets towards the park where he knew Mina was waiting. He lived in a city with many tall buildings and lots of cars and lots of fun places, most far enough that he needed to drive to. The park was his favourite place in town. None of the people who went to his school went there so he wasn't ridiculed for his white hair or his odd clothes. The park was large enough and had enough paths that it was very easy to get lost in unless you knew the layout. He and Mina met underneath a large maple tree. When he arrived at the park path entrance he took, he noticed a conspicuous lack of anyone else there. As he walked into the forest along the gravel path, he noticed that no birds where chirping. Funny, he thought, oh well, at least Mina will be here.

He arrived in the center of the park, right where the maple was, and sitting on a bench underneath it was Mina. She was a little shorter than Soma and thin, with beautiful thick orange hair. She wore a pink sleeveless shirt over a white sweater and a white skirt and tall white boots. She was the most beautiful person in the world.

"You're late Soma!" she sang out as the two rushed to hug each other.

"My mom held me up, I'm sorry Mina," he told her as they hugged.

"Have you experienced anything odd recently Soma?" she asked seriously. Soma shook his head. She sighed happily, "That's good. I have a bad feeling and I can't shake it. I just feel something bad is going to happen. Something even worse than what happened last year." Soma shivered. Last year, he and Mina had been teleported into a castle filled with vile beasts and some other people. He had somehow destroyed the castle as well as killed a lot of things, but some of the things had given him abilities beyond any normal person like Mina. Genya Arikado, one of the people he met at the castle, had told him that he could 'Dominate' the souls of the monsters he killed. Since he destroyed the castle, he hadn't even felt the ability to use souls, or wanted to. It had left him.

"Are you Soma Cruz?" an icy voice called out to them from across the clearing. The two swiftly turned and saw a woman. Mina gasped.

"I saw that woman in a dream! In a dark town at night with two other guys," Mina whispered. Soma took a few steps forward to protect Mina, the woman had an aura of danger around her. She smiled.

"Soma! Mina! Get away from her!" another voice rang out from behind them. The woman's smile disappeared. Is that Arikado? What's he doing here? Soma thought as Genya Arikado dashed out from the path to him and Mina. He was tall and pale, wearing a black suit with a black tie that perfectly matched his long, glossy black hair.

"Arikado. I thought I sent Rock to deal with you," the woman said in the exact same voice as before with a hint of anger and puzzlement. Arikado smiled.

"Rock Atoll caught a bad bullet. I must say I'm getting rusty with my marksmanship, I think he'll live," Arikado said disappointedly. Soma, however, was stunned. Rock Atoll? Isn't he in jail for life for killing seven people severely injuring many more? How'd she get him out? His thoughts were interupted when Arikado flew back after running into a barely visible barrier that surrounded most of the field, including the maple, but Arikado, Mina, and the woman were outside of.

"Soma, remember this?" the woman brought her hand up and shot a glowing red orb towards Soma. It hit the ground and became a Skeleton.

"Soma! Use this!" Arikado threw a knife over the barrier. Soma caught it.

"A Skeleton? You can do better! I've killed more than you'll ever know!" Soma shouted as he rushed the Skeleton. The Skeleton didn't put up a fight as he hacked at it until it fell. The glowing red ball flew out of its remains and flew into Soma.

"What? I thought I lost my ability to dominate souls!" Soma cried out. The woman smiled.

"How about this," she did the same motion and this time a blue soul flew out of her hand onto the ground near Soma. It rose up into a warrior wearing purple armour holding a spear. An Armour Knight. It stabbed its long spear at Soma, who jumped out of the way. Mina gasped. Soma lunged with the dagger at the Armour Knight and stabbed him, straight through the thin armour into absolutely nothing inside. He pulled the knife out and spun away as the Armour Knight stabbed down right where he had been seconds before. He lunged again...and tripped.

"Soma! Roll!" Mina cried out. He obeyed without thinking. The spear crashed down right where he was seconds before, again. Soma swung out his arm and knocked the feet out from under the Amour Knight. It fell with a loud crash and broke apart. The blue soul came out of it and flew into Soma.

"Enough of this! I have bigger fish to fry Soma. I still will see you die," she turned on the spot laughing insanely as she disappeared.

"Soma! Soma!" Mina rushed over to him, "Soma! Are you all right?" She looked at him, worry all over her face.

"Yeah, I'm fine," he said as she helped him up. Arikado walked over. Soma asked, "Why did I just dominate those souls? I thought I lost my power last year. And who was that woman?" Arikado answered swiftly,

"You never lost your powers Soma. You've always had them. You released the ones you got last year after the castle was destroyed and have never killed anything and acquired its soul since then. As for that woman, her name is Celia Fortner. She is the leader of a cult, a new but rapidly expanding cult, that believes in order for there to be good, there must be evil," Arikado turned and began walking away. "She wants to ressurect Dracula as an opposite to God. You two had better go home and leave this to me. I have a few friends who will help." He disappeared from view. Wow, Soma thought, a cult that believes that in order for good to exist, there must be evil. That is crazy. The world would be great with no evil. Is she insane?

"Soma, we should listen to Arikado. Let's go," Mina told him, very scared. The two of them followed Arikado and left. I don't care what you say Arikado, I will find Celia, and I will kill her, for scaring Mina. Mina, I will protect you.

End Chapter

The End of Chapter 1: Soma Cruz. I hope it was good. I thank all my adoring fans (Okay, not adoring, how about people who read one story, thought it was good or would become good and watched me) and I hope to finish the next chapter of The Grim Grimoire. I can't make the next chapter sound even halfway decent. I guess I'll work something out. Until that joyous time, I've got this. I'll work diligently (A bit harder, Grade 10 starts in 2 days) and finish the next chapter for either Soul of Sorrow or The Grim Grimoire. Hope I improve!

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