CASTLEVANIA: Rebirth of Sorrow
Disclaimer: I don't own Castlevania, if I did I'd be animating this.
Soma: For some reason...I'm glad about that
Blitz9684: See this is why you're not the main character in this story, you're a hater.
Soma: ...Let's just move on already...
Chapter 1: Beginnings
Soma Cruz was at his wits-end, he couldn't believe what he was seeing. He walked into the offending room in his home to find his daughter, Laura Cruz, sitting at her desk playing yet ANOTHER RPG. Soma sighed to himself; he had fought through Castlevania twice, almost became the dark lord each time, and even still managed to score the girl of his dreams (Mina...obviously) to build a family. But now he was facing his hardest challenge yet; raising his daughter. Now for the most part, this wasn't too hard. Laura was a nice girl who didn't cause too much trouble for her parents, but she had this problem.
"Laura...do you remember what we talked about the other day?" Soma asked, feeling his hair turn even grayer than normal.
"Hmm...nope!" She replied, turning back to her computer. Now before we go any further we need to talk about Laura Cruz. She is quite the good looking girl. Her short silver hair was shiny and her blue eyes were as clear as the sky. She had an average figure and she always tried to make sure she was in shape. She had even been asked out on several dates once she got into college (All of whom were turned down by the almost dark lord, Soma). But the thing about Laura was that she absolutely LOVED video games. Like, hardcore gamer level. She knew all the tricks and even knew the storylines of games that had yet to be released. Now this wouldn't be such a problem if she didn't play them constantly...at 3 in the morning. The fact that her room was practically spilling with strategy guides, expansion packs, and other gaming tools didn't help. This brings us to the current situation. While Soma didn't really see a problem, Mina found this to be a major issue. Now back to the story.
"I'll remind you." Soma sighed as he pressed a few keys on the computer. Luckily for Laura, Soma knew not to just close the window; he took the courtesy to save the game first.
"H-hey! I was on a roll there! Just a bit more and I could've beaten-" Laura protested, but Soma had stopped listening for a bit. He'd heard it all: "That was a major boss!", "But the story was just getting good!", "I just wanted to level up a bit more!" yadda yadda yadda.
"-And then I would've unlocked the alternate ending!" Soma just stared at his daughter.
"You done yet?"
"For now anyway."
"Good, now listen. Me and your mother have no problem with you taking a semester off from school, lord knows me and your mother took time off to travel." Soma began.
"What's your point?"
"That IS the point! We actually DID something! You however just sit here and play games all day and night! And speaking of which, it's 3 A.M., and just because you have the luxury of sleeping in doesn't mean everyone else does. I still have work. Y'know what? That's it! Tomorrow, you're going to take your behind out and find a job!" Soma monolouged, not noticing that Laura just took out her PSP and started playing Persona 3 Portable.
"Damn Reaper..." She muttered, not noticing the glare on her father's face. She did, however, notice the PSP being snatched from her hands.
"Tomorrow. Job. Bed. Now." Soma stated before heading back to his own room. Laura pouted before finally giving in to the gods of sleep.
The next day Laura intended to sit in front of her computer and watch random animes all day, but Soma would have none of that. It seemed he hadn't forgotten last night's discussion.
"The mall's that way, make sure you look for any 'Now Hiring' signs!" He said, smiling so sadistically his dark lord half would've shit himself. And so Laura dragged her feet to the mall, normally she enjoyed it, but today she felt like she was marching off to her own execution.
"Man, I just wanted to relax a bit before going back to school, why'd daddy have to go and ruin my fun?" She said to herself after being rejected from nearly every store she went too. She heard all of the excuses too. "We're not hiring right now.", "This is a family owned business.", "Hell no." etc etc. So she decided that she would just go home and tell her dad that she tried but no one was hiring. She had barely gotten outside when she saw the strangest thing. There was a skeleton walking around on it's own, scaring the hell out of anyone that came near it.
"Umm...maybe I'll go look again..." Laura said to herself as she inched back, only to be seen by the monster. Now here's what happened in order; Laura forgot she could lose the thing in the mall so she instead ran towards home with the skeleton hot on her trail. The people around her saw this and instead of calling 911, they instead called their children inside and locked their doors, leaving poor Laura to deal with the creature. Now she saw this and cursed out the neighborhood so loudly that the skeleton stopped and backed up a bit out of pure shock at the pretty girl's potty mouth. Laura then took this opportunity to pick up a baseball bat one kid left behind and well...let's just say Babe Ruth would be proud.
The skull went flying pretty far, and when it finally landed it just happened to be by the feet of a sharp dressed man by the name of Genya Arikado.
Meanwhile the rest of the skeleton fell to pieces and a red light emerged from it, circling Laura then finally entering her body.
"What the hell was that?" Laura asked herself before turning her attention to the fallen skeleton.
"This is all YOUR fault!" She yelled, pointing her finger at it in true Phoenix Wright fashion. At that moment a bone flew from her arm's direction. She looked at her arm and checked to see if it was one of HER bones, luckily it wasn't. But she still pointed at the bone in bewilderment when it happened again. She thought for a moment and, coming to the conclusion that she was cursed or something, ran off with her arms flailing. If one were to look out their window at this time they would see a very interesting sight. A silver haired girl screaming 'Daddy!' while flailing her arms, from which bones were flying everywhere. This strange, if not comedic, event was further enhanced by the fact that every neighborhood dog that wasn't on a leash was following this girl as if she was the answer to every dog's prayer. No one took time to notice Mr. Arikado watching very carefully from a distance before following in his car. (Hey, Arikado's got swag too.)
Blitz9684: There we have it, chapter 1 of what I hope will be a pretty enjoyable read for everyone.
Soma: ...Oh God, I REALLY hope I have a son...wait...why is Arikado stalking my daughter?
Blitz9684: Patience my friend. On a side note I'm gonna upload a few one shots of what happens when Laura and her yet-to-be-named companion discover some of the effects of the souls she absorbs as well as some genuine adventure mishaps. All courtesy of this! Holds up a copy of 'Soma Cruz's guide to souls, the dummies edition!'
Soma: ...screw a son, I'm wearing rubbers from now on. And where did you get that?
Blitz9684: R&R if you would be so kind. Or poor Soma will cry again.
Soma: When did I cry?