Chapter 3: Skies of darkness
The whole entire sky seemed to be dark and foggy.
I was beginning to wonder why it was always night here. I guess that the light of day had no purpose in Dracula's castle. I tied my jacket around my waist and continued walking. The floor seemed to make a thunderous thud every time I walked on it. The place smelt of blood and death.
That was when I found several items lying around: An axe and a first aid kit. I picked up the first aid kit because I thought that it would be useful. Then I heard a fierce growling and I noticed my sword was a view inches away from me. I went to pick it up, that was then when something slashed at my hand and I was bleeding.
There was only one creature that I knew with that type of power to harm me badly.
It was a wind demon.
Oh God. I was about to be killed by a demon. The demon landed and slowly walked up to me and tried to hit me again. I stepped back, and then I tripped over the axe and fell.
That was it, the axe that could help me out of this stick situation. I raised the axe as it was about to dive bomb me again and I tossed it at him. It hit the demon and it was hit square in the heart and it howled in pain. It fell to the ground and lay there twitching and finally, it died.
"Son of a bitch." I said as I took its soul and gained its abilities. I grabbed my sword and the axe because I didn't know when I needed it. However I pulled the first aid kit out of my bag and removed my glove and bandaged the wound. I quickly escaped before any of his friends could arrive.
The whole place was in ruins, so it was not going to be easy for me to get to the throne room with all the blocked entrances. However, some of the doors weren't blocked. I sketched a map of parts of the castle that I visited and drew X's on the doorways that were either destroyed or blocked. I was now standing next to a huge rusted door. I quickly gave the door a push and it opened. Lucky me, I guess. I was continuing my adventure through the castle itself, gripping the axe in my hand tightly. Just then I heard a powerful roar. I turned around and saw what it was.
A bony serpent, actually, there were two of them, one of them was white and the other was burnt to a crisp and they were slaughtered. It was almost like the owner of this castle did it to them on purpose. Then the white dragon spat a giant ball of fire at me, but I was fortunate enough to dodge it and I ended up hitting the ground hard, ripping the knee of my jeans and causing the axe to be scattered to the other end of the room.
I had no choice, but to fight the bony serpents. I withdrew my blade and aimed it at them, preparing to slice them apart. Then suddenly. I cold feel a surge of power rushing through me. I felt the wind demon's energy coursing through my veins and I suddenly ended up transforming into the demon itself. Only my form of a wind demon was more of a female version. I swiftly dodged their attacks and slash apart the white dragon first. The black one was very difficult to destroy. It swiftly dodged its attacks. Then I noticed something about the creature I was fighting against.
It had a body and I only sliced off one of his heads.
I tried to dodge it, but then the 2nd head rammed into me and caused me to hit a nearby wall, causing me to revert back to my weak human form.
I was now cornered and I was going to die. Just then, a swift figure appeared out of nowhere and sliced the head of the monster apart. It died and disappeared in an explosion. I remembered who that person was.
It was Xion. He saved my life. He then sheathed his weapon and walked up to me.
"Are you all right Anima?" Xion asked.
"I'm...fine." I responded as I staggered up from where I was sitting and I collected the soul of the twin-headed dragon. I looked at him again and walked up to him.
"Who was that?" I asked.
"He's one of Chaos's servants. You now possess the soul of Dragonia, the servant of Chaos. You can use multiple attacks now; you can access this power whenever you feel like it. I can now feel that Dracula is finally awakening deep inside of you Anima." Xion said.
He then pressed his hand against the wound on my knee and chanted some type of spell and my wound was healed and the tear on my jeans were repaired as well.
"Thanks Xion." I said to him.
"Til we meet again, daughter of Dracula." Xion said as he disappeared into the darkness without a trace.
The walked away, leaving the axe behind, I grabbed my sword and backpack which I left there when I transformed into the wind demon and walked through the entire castle of Dracula.
"Let's rock." I said to myself as I pushed open the doorway.