Chapter 9
Simon and his wolf made their slow walk into the Count's thrown room. The mighty Lord of Vampire was apparently scared of him, this he didn't believe. Dracula sat in his throne, half asleep and the Belmont's scent woke him up. His eyes opened and there was the fear. Simon was blown away by it, he'd never seen anything like it. A Vampire was afraid of a human. The Vampire got up from his throne and tried to make himself look threatening, but was failing badly as the wolf started her attack growl.
"No it can't be your era yet." he mumbled.
"Dracula! You're mine."
The creature hissed at the mortal in his fears, "I guess I'll have to fight you Belmont."
"What did I do to you anyway? What ever it was I don't know about it yet?"
"I don't even want to talk about it. Just seeing you brings back memories of you. No! I can't think about that."
"Shame I wanted to know. Oh wait, is it about your son being homosexual?" Simon mocked the Vampire.
"That was part of it but were such a sick horny..." he misted way from his throne and reappeared behind Simon.
But Simon knew were he was going to reappear, so the Belmont punched the Vampire from behind.
"Say goodbye to your life Belmont. Yes, I will kill you now so that horrible event doesn't happen."
"You're messed up."
The Vampire misted away again, but Simon did the same thing as he did before. However, he cracked the whip onto the Vampire's skull, before Dracula got the chance to attack. At that moment, the Vampire released the Hellfire from his cape. Simon leaped over the fire and let the whip crack on his foe's face again. The wolf bit her jaws onto the arm of the massive Vampire.
"No! I'm done with this." he said flicking the wolf off his arm.
His whole body began to glow in a visible blue light and his body began to change. He transformed himself into a blue up right creature that looked a little like a dragon. He spat fire at the Belmont, but Simon just whipped the fire away.
"You know, Adrian said that the strongest Belmont was Richter." he growled.
"Who is RICHTER!?" he said as fire was launched from his left hand.
Enraged, Simon flicked the whip in his hand, this caused the ancestral whip to set ablaze. He whipped the creature's body with the new flame whip as Dracula attempted to grab the Belmont from the ground. This failed, so the creature spat more flames at the human, he dodged them. He was fast for a human. The wolf sprung up from the corner of the room and threw her short sword into the eye of the beast. The creature growled and hissed as he spat out more fire towards the Belmont's body.
The Belmont used the whip to wrap around the Count's arm. He swung himself over and onto the creature's head. The flaming whip was then wrapped around the creature's neck and the Belmont yanked on the whip. Dracula fell to the ground and turned back into his human form.
"Looks like I win." he allowed his whip to extinguish.
The Belmont pulled out his Rapier from his belt and stabbed it into Dracula.
"If I'm going,... Down then you're coming with me,... Belmont."
Dracula stabbed a dagger into Simon's back. The Belmont pulled up on the Rapier as the human fell to the ground. Dracula reverted back to dust as Simon lay on his side and the castle began to collapse.
The Belmont managed to stagger himself back up to his feet, realising that the dagger was in deeper than he'd first thought. But he knew that he had to get out of the castle. Suddenly, an idea struck his mind. He dashed over to the closest wall to the lake below and he punched a massive hole in the wall. The ginger man had no skills in the art of swimming, but he would rather drown then die in the same place were Dracula was.
Shadow jumped in first and Simon took in a deep breath and let his fear of deep waters take him. He'd had this fear as long as he could remember, the reason behind the fear was because he couldn't swim. Like many people in the era. But he let his injured body fall into the blue liquid that seemed like hell to him.
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Simon woke up in a warm cosy bed by the fire. He was confused where he was. Shadow was asleep, curled up beside the fire. She was more cat than wolf.
Suddenly, the door slowly opened and Linda appeared from behind it. Simon was pleased to see her face again, but he wondered what she was doing here. The only human village that was close to the castle was the Town of Yomi and after that there was the Mysterious Village. She would have had to have passed three villages that could have taken her about two weeks to get to Yomi. The woman had dedication.
"Linda, what are you doing here?"
"James, h-he was turned by a Vampire that called himself Gilles De Rais. I-I killed my husband."
Simon was shocked at this kind of news. He was glad that she was ok, but the woman was a widow now and he felt some sympathy for her.
"I come baring bad news for you Simon." she looked into his eyes, "Dracula has cursed you."
"What!? That little shit."
"The priest of this town has tired many purification techniques, but none of them have worked. I guess this is the end of the Belmont line."
Trevor's spirit came to land on Simon's shoulder, 'I know what you're thinking. If you say it Alucard is going to kill her. You know how possessive a Vampire can get over their mates.'
"We could always have a child together before I meet my demise."
"What? But we barely know each other Simon. You're a sick man and I don't know if I can put up with the fact that I would have lost two husbands."
"We'll find away to cure it. I have a friend that knows a lot about Dracula's curses."
"Alright then Simon, we may as well do it now."
