Castlevania: Fallen Concerto

Ch2: What goes up must come down

(I know last chapter there may have been some issues with punctuation and grammatical mistakes as well omitted letters and typos, I apologize and will try to do better in the future)

(I don't own Castlevania yadda, yadda and all that good stuff)

I peered into the darkness and for some reason my vision was blurry and I realized that my glasses were the cause, which is odd because I am or rather was nearsighted. When I removed my glasses and let my eyes re-adjust and found out my vision was perfect.

"Wow, this is astonishing, it's been about a decade since I have been able to see clearly without glasses!" I shouted marveling at my new found perfect vision.

I walked a bit into the labyrinth and came across the first door.

"Well here goes nothing…" I said as I took a deep breath and turned the knob to open the door.

The room was small and seemed to have several levels to it but most of it was too high to reach even by jumping, so I paid no mind to them and continued forward. I came across my first enemy: it was a skeleton.

"Okay, so this doesn't like to hard to defeat," I remarked as I came at the skeleton from behind with my dagger in hand and swung down on it knocking it to pieces.

As I looked around the remains of the skeleton I noticed a coin.

"Huh, go figure. I wonder why it dropped some money, guess I never know, but no point in leaving it behind," I said pocketing the small coin.

Further ahead in the same corridor it seemed a bit scarce of any being living or dead so I decided to sit down and gain my composure.

"Jeez skeletons, evil things that steal my face and strangle me, a Hispanic woman who wields a sword as well as magic, Dracula…This is all just too unbelievable, I must be dreaming, but if that's true then how come I am trying so hard, aggghh this just so confusing!" I shouted as I threw a stone at a pile of rocks.

Suddenly the ground started shaking and I probably would be knocked over if I wasn't already sitting. I looked around for the cause and sure enough a giant stone monster rose from the ground with eyes that looks as though they were on fire, and as it spotted me it let out a almost deafening screech. I got up as fast as I could and pulled my dagger out.

"Oh God! What's this measly little thing going to do against that thing, well nothing ventured nothing…oof!" I shouted as I got kicked into a wall, I slowly got up what was amazing about this is for some reason none of my bones were broken and aside from a minor bruise I was okay.

I then ran at the giant who was taking a step back as he was about to put his right leg down I leapt into the air and drove the dagger into the giant's left kneecap. Surprisingly, the dagger was able to penetrate the monster's rock body. As I tried to free the dagger I realized it was stuck into the things knee and I was unable to free it. I was now unarmed against a giant who was angry at me for knocking it over. I looked around for anything even remotely usable as a weapon and noticed something sticking out of the giant's back as it got up and limped towards me.

"Hey ugly, what's the matter you got something in your leg? Well, I'm sorry about that, but hey at least I'm not a loser!" I shouted trying to get the thing to try and fall over which worked until I fell on me.

I struggled to free myself but to no avail and to make matters worse the giant grabbed me and started swing me like a baseball. It was going to throw me and with enough force to punch a hole in three foot thick steel wall, but I noticed it brought me within reach of the object in its back. I waited for it to bring me close to the weapon and I grabbed hold of the weapon. As I did the giant stopped swinging and fell forward and let me go. I firmly gripped the object with both hands and pulled it out and it turned out to be a spear that looked of fine quality. Realizing that now was my chance to strike I ran up to the monster's head.

"Hey, I hope you like Hell because that's where I'm gonna send you and everything else in here that ticks me off!" I shouted as I thrust the spear deep into the giant's rock hard head and continued to push to make sure it died.

Finally the monster screech loudly and its head collapsed in on itself.

"Woo," I said as I staggered back, "I'm beat; I wasn't expecting for something that tough this early on…guess I should stay on my toes from now on."

"So I see you took down the giant that was some pretty good fighting," A familiar voice said from behind me, "And I also see you found yourself a better weapon."

"Fran, you mean you were watching this entire time and didn't help?" I asked somewhat angry.

"Well hello to you too…besides that golem is small time to a person of my caliber," Fran said as she helped me up.

"So, you were seeing if I could handle myself in a fight?" I asked out of curiosity.

"More or less, I would stepped in if you were in any real danger, but then you'd have gotten any stronger," Fran said sitting down on the fallen monster.

"So I'm stronger for fighting that thing?" I asked Fran intrigued.

"Quite, you might have noticed that in this realm you are no longer limited by your normal physical capabilities, like you can get hit by a cannon and have almost no traces of a wound," Fran explained to me.

"So, I'm, like what, invincible?" I asked.

"Oh God no, just because you can't get too hurt doesn't mean you can't die, you are quite mortal," She said as she got up, "The more you get hit the weaker you become, and eventually if you take too much damage you can die."

"Well then what does getting stronger have to do with this?" I asked.

"Think of it like an RPG game where when you fight stuff or complete a quest you gain experience and once you get enough you level up and get stronger, pretty much the same deal except this is in no ways a game," Fran said in a serious tone.

"So if I understand you correctly the more I kill, I become stronger and ergo am able to withstand more damage as well as deal more damage to those I fight?" I asked to see if I was right.

"More or less," Fran said in a sing-songish tone.

"By the way…I haven't found one of those soul stones yet, shouldn't I have found one by now?" I asked Fran.

"You should check the golem's remains," Fran said in reply.

After looking around the fallen golem's body I found an ornately decorated stone have was clear with what looked a sapphire, a ruby, and a topaz set in the stone.

"Is this it?" I asked showing Fran the stone.

"That is it, unfortunately you haven't captured any souls yet, but I'll tell you what the colors represent: first is the red stone, it represents powers such as throwing fireballs like this!" Fran shouted as she threw a fireball at a skeleton that rose from the ground

"Okay what's next?" I asked so she could continue

"Next is the blue stone, it represents abilities that from around you like my illumination ability," Fran said having already demonstrated this ability she continued, "And then there is the yellow stone, this captures soul that enhance yourself such as an increase in my strength, last and not least is the clear stone, souls captured in that are passive abilities meaning there are always active like the ability to breathe while underwater or the ability to double jump."

"Wait…you can double jump?" I asked remembering the platforms.

"Indeed, I can," Fran said as she demonstrated as she jumped and as if something was there jumped again.

"That must come in handy," I said as I watched.

"Indeed it is, anyway that's the basics of the soul stone, anyway I need to get going I got pressing matters to attend to in this place, I will see you again Stephen, good luck," Fran said as she ran off into the next room.

"This just gets weirder and weirder, well anyway I should start capturing souls…too bad she forget to tell me how!" I shouted realizing that she left out that part of the basics.