A New Life

Chapter 1

Disclaimer: I don't own either Castlevania or Inuyasha

1476, Valachia

Dracula's castle

He was a fool to betray Dracula, a being superior in power compared to him. Yet Hector's words convinced him to turn on his former master. There, hanging on the chains of the dungeon walls was a young man who looked to be 16 years old. He had long hair that was dark blue and had soft gray eyes. He was wearing a dark green trench coat with a dark red vest underneath. He also wore long brown leather boots and two gauntlets shaped like dragon claws that were enchanted to withstand any attack. On the back of his coat he bore a symbol consisting of two serpent-like creature. In the middle of the crest was a picture of a crescent moon with two stars and three wings coming out of both sides the symbol, above the serpent's heads. This was the crest of a Devil Forgemaster. The young man name was Daniel, a rouge Devil Forgemaster.

"Maybe you should have followed Hector's path and fled from Dracula's castle instead of confronting Dracula by yourself." Spoke a polite British voice that came from the darkness within the dungeon.

"Who goes there?" Daniel spoke in a soft, hushed tone.

A man who was dressed in odd clothes with a top hat, blond long hair and mustache, appeared in front of Daniel. Daniel was surprised. How could he have gotten past the monsters residing inside the castle and the dungeon guards?

"Who are you? How did you get into the castle?" Daniel asked

"My name is Saint Germain and I am here to help you. Luckily my superiors allowed me to help you in your time of need." Saint Germain said with a kind smile on his face

"But why though? I shouldn't be allowed to live after the things I did and whom I did it for…" Daniel said as he lowered his head, remembering the time where he was ordered to slaughter a nearby village. This was shortly after Hector tried to convince Daniel to abandon Dracula.

"I know of what you talk about Daniel. You should not wallow down hear in this dungeon because you are a good person. You saw Dracula as a father because no one would bother to take you as their own son. You were an orphan… all alone and helpless, until you met him. You did not want to disappoint your adoptive father." Saint Germain spoke with a calming tone.

Daniel was shocked. This man, who he had only known for a few minutes, knew about him being an orphan.

"You should be free." Saint Germain continued "You deserved a second chance. That is why I am here, to help you leave this place and give you a second chance."

"Oh? And how will you get me out of these chains without the jailer's keys?" Daniel asked while raising an eyebrow.

"That will be easy, as will getting you somewhere far away. Far away from Dracula's grasp." Saint Germain said with a smile on his face.

"It doesn't matter how far I will get…Dracula will have means of finding me." Daniel spoke with a saddened tone, lowering his head.

"Actually, he will not. Dracula's end is very soon." Daniel's head shot straight up as he heard those words came from Saint Germain's mouth. How could this man know that Dracula would die soon? Surely no one has the power to send Dracula to his grave… do they?

"Just who are you?" Daniel questioned.

"I will explain when we get to our destination. But enough talk…" Saint Germain put his hand on Daniel's shoulder. "Let us depart." And in a golden flash, they both disappeared.

Feudal Japan

In a golden flash of light, Daniel and Germain appeared in a forest. Daniel looked around him and noticed a tree bigger and older than the rest. Daniel then remembered something.

"You still haven't told me what you are" Daniel said as he turned to face Saint Germain.

"Ah yes. Alright Daniel, I guess I do owe you an explanation. I am a Traveler." The Man in the silk top hat said with a hint of pride on his face.

"A Traveler?" Daniel asked with a confused look on his face.

"Yes, a Traveler. Only half here and not allowed to speak the truth. I can only observe. But you were a special case. Though I can't say anymore, as it is a part of my agreement."

"I see…" Daniel spoke but his head shot up a looked towards a bush, narrowing his eyes. "I think were being watched. I heard the leaves in the bush being crushed and moved." Daniel continued watching the bush, daring something to come out and face them.

"Well, let us keep moving. I think there is a village around here.' Saint Germain said as he began to move forward. "Oh yes, I almost forgot. I wanted to give this to you" Saint Germain handed a sword with six blades branching from the main blade. What had surprised Daniel though was that a dark aura surrounded the sword.

"My sword… the seven bladed sword… I thought it was destroyed in the battle with Dracula." Daniel said as he looked in awe.

"Yes it was, but I rebuilt it. I also modified it with a Beelzebub's seal. Not only will it do more damage, but it is unbreakable and will sap energy from your foes when it comes in contact with them."

Daniel looked at Saint Germain with surprise. He did have a Beelzebub's seal but he always thought it was useless and couldn't be used to forge weapons. Daniel took the weapon from Germain's grasp and did some practice swings to get used to it. Although the blade had seven blades, it felt as light as a feather.

"Incredible…"Daniel said as he sheathed the sword.

"Now that that is out of the way, let us continue." Saint Germain began walking again but this time Daniel followed him.

After they left the area, a girl who looked 15 with long black hair appeared from the bush. She dressed like a schoolgirl with a backpack and bicycle. She was watching the entire conversation while she was heading towards the same village the two mysterious men were heading and decide to eavesdrop. While she was watching she noticed the strange symbol on the young man's back. The symbol looked interesting to her and she wondered what the symbol represented and whether or not these two men were friend or foe.

"I wonder who those two are." She thought out loud "The guy in the trench coat especially. He seemed kind of cute." She blushed a little at that last statement, then left towards the same village the two men left towards to.

Daniel and Saint Germain kept walking until they saw what looked like to be a hut… then multiple huts… then smoke rising from said huts… then fire.

"Well… I did not expect this." Saint Germain said while looking at the village. Daniel was also watching the village with an anime style sweat drop appearing behind his head. Eventually they both started heading towards the village to help out the villagers.

"Alright, let us help out the villagers escape the village and find the cause of this destruction." Daniel said with determination in his eyes. 'Ironic, I was taken from Valachia to escape danger but instead I find myself in a burning village.' Daniel thought.

Eventually an old women wearing what looked like a red and white kimono with an eye patch on her right eye (A/N: or left eye if you're facing her) came up to Daniel And Germain and began speaking to them, but Daniel could not understand her. Luckily Saint Germain could and noticed Daniel couldn't understand her. So he put his hand on Daniel's head and his hand began to glow. Once this ended, Daniel felt the same and the old woman stood there surprised before collecting herself again.

"What was that?" The old woman questioned. Daniel was taken aback for a second as he couldn't understand her a few moments ago but now it was like she was speaking fluent English.

"Sorry about that. I just made it so he could understand you better." The Man in the silk hat said. "My name is Saint Germain and this is my companion Daniel." He continued and motioned towards Daniel.

"Yes. We are here to help you and your village's time of need." Daniel said.

"Mmm… methinks you can be of help to us if ye have trained to use that sword of yours." The old woman said pointing towards Daniel's sword.

"Of course. Are there monsters that you need me to fight?" Daniel asked as he readied his sword.

"Yes. A demon is terrorizing the village, looking for fragments of the Shikon Jewel." The old woman said.

Shikon Jewel? What was that? Daniel was about to ask until he heard a roar and turned to see an ogre looking monster stomping around the village. 'Alright, I'll slay this beast first, then ask about this "Shikon Jewel" after.' Daniel thought to himself. He charged into battle, sword in hand while Saint Germain stayed behind to help the villagers. The demon eventually noticed Daniel running up to him with his sword in hand and began to attack. Daniel, thanks to the Sixth Sense Brooch he got when he served under Dracula, saw these moves coming and dodged them with ease. Daniel started to slash at the beast, drawing blood and small red orbs from the beast. The red orbs eventually entered Daniel's body, giving him more energy.

'Hmm… I guess I could use this opportunity to exercise my powers…' Daniel thought as he began to concentrate his power.

"Come forth!" He exclaimed as a bright light glowed beside him until it was eventually replaced with what looked like a skeleton wearing green samurai armor with arrows embedded in it. It also had an unusual pink gem where its abdomen would be.

"Glow soul!" Daniel said as the skeletal figure pulled out a bloody katana and wisps started to appear around him and started to charge at the demon. The beast, who watched this all happened, was caught off guard by what happened. Did a human just summon a demon and then command it to fight? The demon couldn't react being in shock and let the wisps hit it, knocking him to the ground. The wisps continued to strike the beast, not allowing it to get back up. Now seeing his opportunity to end it, Daniel charged towards the demon pierced the demon's chest with his sword. The demon cried out in pain as bloodbegan to pour out slowly through the pierce wound on its back. After a few seconds, the demon began to disintegrate into a black mush before disappearing completely, leaving behind a small pink shard.

The people, who were previously screaming and running around, were now staring in awe as the young man took down a demon without breaking a sweat. Who was he? What was that thing beside him? Was it a demon? Did this man have control over demons?

"Rasetz, return." Daniel called out extending his hand out as the skeletal creature transformed into a wisp and went into its master's palm. Before Daniel went to go look for Saint Germain, he noticed the small shard where the demon laid before it disappeared. 'A jewel shard? Why was this monster carrying a jewel shard? Is this a fragment of the jewel that the old woman mentioned?' Daniel kneeled down and picked up the jewel shard which he began to study. As he was he felt someone's presence behind him and turned around to see a group of people behind him. Two of them were young men, with one wearing a blue kimono like outfit with a staff and a bandaged hand with rosary beads wrapped around him. The other was wearing a red kimono like outfit and had long silver hair and what looked like dog ears on his head and had a katana. The other two were young women, one who was dressed like a schoolgirl and the other had a giant boomerang. There was also a cat like creature and a small boy who had tail and had reddish/orange hair. The young man in red pulled out his sword which somehow turned bigger than it originally was, much to Daniel's surprise. The young man in red readied his sword and spoke.

"Who are you?"

Daniel slightly bowed and answered.

"My name is Daniel."

Author's Note

Hello to everyone who happened to stumble across this fic. My name is Angel (Or as my username says Fustercluck) and this is my first fanfic ever. I've been thinking about this ever since I started to play Castlevania: Curse of Darkness (which is where the concept of Devil Forging was introduced) and when I started to watch Inuyasha. Though I stopped watching it when school decided to eat up my spare time. So I'm sorry if some characters were OOC as I seem to have forgotten a bit of knowledge on Inuyasha. Also, since this is my first fanfic ever I don't really write a lot of stories. It would be helpful if I could get some constructive criticism to help me when I write this story (Though no flames please). Lastly, I was thinking about pairing someone with my OC Daniel. Let me know who you want to see Daniel paired with (or if you want him to be paired with someone at all). Well, that's all I have to say. Please read and rate and leave comments on what you think (but no flames please).

-Angel