Negi, Asuna, Chie, and the others proceeded to the next floor, defeating incoming monsters along the way. As they reached the third floor, they stumble upon an empty room.
"Whew, looks like a breather room." Grant said, letting out a sigh of relief.
"Hold on, this looks a bit too easy..." Chie said. "I can tell that there's a vampire in this room."
"In this wide open room? I don't see anyone!" Asuna said.
"Alright show yourself and fight us in person! Or are you a coward like everyone else?" Lune shouted.
Suddenly the entire room began to break apart, bit by bit until Negi and the group are trapped in a black abyss.
"What the? What the hell's going on?" Kotaro asked with worry.
"Welcome, fools, to my cyber realm!"
They looked up and see's Chisame sitting on a throne surrounded by keyboards and accompanied by her seven mice. She looked down on them with an evil grin.
"Chisame!" Negi exclaimed in surprise.
"Great, looks like we'll be dealing with you then." Kotaro said.
Chisame gives them a sinister chuckle. "Oh don't think you'll defeat me so easily like Kazumi here. She was actually a warm-up boss for me to set up our little game."
"Game? What do you mean?" Kazumi asked.
Chisame smirked and snaps her fingers. Suddenly, Nodoka, Kotaro, Nanako, and the others begin to break apart into data.
"What the? They're dissolving!" Chie shouted.
"Kotaro, everyone!" Negi cried.
"Big Sis, help!" Nanako cried as her body dissolves into data.
"Negi sensei!" Nodoka cried as her body dissolved completely as well.
One by one, their friends are broken down into data, leaving only Negi, Asuna, Chie, Lune. Drake, and Julia left.
"Holy cow! They're gone!" Chamo shouted.
"You bastard! What the hell did you do to our friends!-?" Lune snapped angrily at Chisame.
"I got rid of them, they aren't worthy enough to be the chosen pawns of my game." Chisame replied.
"Just what is this "game" are you talking about? Why are we left?" Drake asked.
Chisame smiled sinisterly. "Because, after I seen you all fight Mother's forces, I decided that I'll be letting you all play my game." She replied as type several buttons from her keyboard. "And the game starts now..." She said as she pressed the enter button.
Suddenly, the ground starts to form from data and fences, trees, and torches starts to pixelate as well as a giant castle formed by a mass amount of data. As the world starts to form, Negi and the others are trapped in a video game!
"Now then, before we start, I'm going to remove some nuisances." Chisame's voice said.
Suddenly, Chamo starts to dissolve into data.
"Whoa, WHOA! She's trying to get rid of-" Before he gets to finish, he was gone.
"Chamo!" Negi cried. Suddenly his staff dissolve into data as well.
At an instant, Asuna reverted to her normal outfit and her sword vanish as well. "What the heck? I'm back to normal!"
Drake's guns and his vampire killing tools began to break down as well and his Vampire Killer is reduced into a simple leather whip.
"Drake, your whip!" Julia exclaimed. Suddenly her pistols and Kanon's spellbook vanished as well, replacing it with a simple spellbook.
"She's trying to get rid of the items that she thinks is a threat to her!" Chie said.
"Wait, Chamo's an item?" Negi said curiously.
"Now then, now that those nuisances are gone, I'll go over the rules. If you all manage to survive my game that in which case, never, I'll give you your friends and your precious belongings back. Lose, and it's your funeral. Have fun..." Chisame then lets out an evil laugh which echoed in the entire area.
"Damn, looks like we have to go through with her game then." Drake said.
"Then we have no choice, let's beat this sick, twisted game and get our friends back!" Asuna said.
They nodded their heads and proceed to the castle entrance. Inside, they were encountered by pixelated zombies, all heading towards them in a still moving pattern.
"The hell, zombies? Why do they look so...outdated?" Asuna asked.
"Don't care, let's just beat them up and move on!" Lune said as he draw out his claymore. He slashed all the zombies and they exploded into pixellated fires. They move on by attacking the zombies. Drake used his whip and strike both the zombie and the candle at the same time with the candle dropping a pixellated whip. Curious, he picks up the whip and his Vampire Killer transformed into a flail.
"Looks like an upgrade, guess those candles mean something." He said.
Negi and the others tries hitting the candles as well, leaving only a couple of hearts, a bag of cash, and a knife instead. Asuna picks up the knife and the pixellated knife disappeared instantly.
"What the?"
"Never mind that, let's move on!" Drake said.
They proceeded forward only to get themselves ambushed by a black panther charging behind them. Chie instantly draws her katana and cut down the panther, with it exploded into a pixellated fire. They proceeded going up the stairs and Drake breaks another candle, dropping a bottle of holy water. Drake instantly grabs it and the holy water is now in his hands.
"Now that's one item I need." He said with a confident smirk.
He see's a panther nearby ready to pounce at them and he throws the holy water at it. The panther enemy burst into flame upon the bottle hitting it and they move on. They fights off the zombies and moves up, Asuna then breaks another candle and a rosary is dropped off.
"What the? Is this an item?" She said while touching the rosary.
Suddenly there was a flash and all the enemies in the area are gone.
"What happened? Where did they go?" Negi said.
"Who cares? At least they won't bother us anymore." Lune replied.
They head to the door and to the next area, they move downstairs, not before defeating an incoming bat, and find themselves in the lower area of the castle with gaps and water below. Suddenly fishmen jumps out of the water and attacks them. Julia quickly take out the spellbook and the book instantly launched a fireball at one of the fishmen, defeating it. They defeat all of them and jump over the gap, with more of the aquatic enemies jumping out of the water. They quickly head up the stairs and opened the door. As they move on and defeat the enemies coming after them, they stumbled upon one of Chisame's electronic mice staring at them with its cartoony smile.
"That's one of Chisame's mice!" Asuna said.
"Great, this will be easy." Lune said as he cracked his knuckles.
Suddenly, the mouse transformed into a giant bat and it hovers above them.
"Keep your guard up everyone!" Negi shouted.
They get into stance as the bat flies down towards them. They dodged the bat as it flies back up and down again to collide to them. Drake see's an opportunity to attack and hit it with his Vampire Killer, however the bat feels no pain as it flie back up. The bat then launched fireballs at them. Lune quickly swat the fireball away with his claymore and jumped up at the bat as he cuts it down. The bat didn't flinch as it flies towards Lune and hits him, knocking him back.
"Damn, what the hell's up with this bat?" Lune said as he quickly recovers.
"It doesn't seem that our attacks is working at it." Negi said.
"Not to mention it keeps attacking us at the same pattern..." Chie said.
Asuna suddenly realized something. "I think I get it now!"
"What is it, Asuna?" Negi asked.
Asuna quickly knocked down a candle and it dropped an axe. She picked it up and throws it at the bat and the bat exploded into flames, defeated. They were surprised by Asuna's actions.
"Asuna, how did you know to defeat the enemy?" Chie asked.
"Negi, remember that old video game I play some time ago?" Asuna asked him.
"Well if I remember, I believe it's the game where you play as a vampire hunter and you infiltrate the castle and defeat Dracula right?" Negi replied.
Asuna snapped her fingers. "Yeah, that's the one! Chisame must've known that game so this entire castle is based on it!"
"Wait, so you're telling me that this game is based on my ancestor's quest to defeat Dracula?" Drake said.
"I believe so." Negi replied.
"Wow, I never realized that the Belmont Clan are so famous!" Julia said.
Suddenly a red orb drops down and Drake picks it up. A short victory tune is played somewhere in the castle as Chisame's voice is heard.
"Tch, I see you fools all survived the first round, beginner's luck but don't think you're off easy! There's 5 more areas to go in this game!"
"Bring it! We'll just fight our way through whatever you throw at us!" Asuna shouted.
Suddenly the door opened and they proceed to the next area. They moved up the stairs and jumped over when a bat suddenly flies towards them. Drake hits it with his whip and defeats it as they moved on, with Negi quickly defeating the armored knight in the way. As they head up the stairs they were suddenly attacked by heads resembling Medusa.
Drake let out an annoyed groan. "Great, why does every castle involves those annoying things?" He muttered as he quickly dispatches them.
They keep moving forward, defeating any monsters they see getting in their way. As they reached the end, they encountered another one of Chisame's mice and it transformed into a larger variation of the Medusa Head. The Medusa Head slowly hovers towards the group, launching its snakes at them as Chie quickly dispatch the snakes and Lune slice the head in half, instantly defeating it. Lune then catch the falling orb hovering above it and the same victory tune is played.
"Not bad, but the next area will be harder than the last two!" Chisame said as the door opened.
They proceed to the next area which they find themselves outside. As the moved forward, they were suddenly ambushed by ghosts and fleamen.
"What the hell are these?" Lune said as he kicked the fleaman away from him.
"Whatever they are, they look like a nuisance." Drake said.
They defeated their ambushing enemies and move on. Asuna quickly defeats an upcoming skeleton by throwing her axe at it and Drake knocks down a nearby candle next to the stairs, in it leaves a whip upgrade. Drake picks it up and his Vampire Killer returned to its normal state.
"Perfect, my whip's back." He said.
They move on to the bridge where they dispatch multiple enemies in their way. As they defeat a bone tower and head inside, they encountered two of Chisame's mice this time.
"Looks like we'll be dealing with two of them this time." Chie said.
The two mice then transformed into mummies and they throw bandages at them. Chie and Lune quickly destroys the bandages while Drake and Julia took care of one of the mummies, defeating it. Negi quickly fights the latter while Asuna covers him by throwing axes at it. Negi deals the finishing blow by punching the mummy, promptly destroying it. The red orb appears above and Asuna quickly caught it.
"Tch, not bad...you've managed to defeat not one but two of the bosses I've sent to defeat you!" Chisame said with disdain in her voice.
"Yeah? You shouldn't underestimate us, Chisame! Even if one of us knows the game inside and out!" Asuna shouted.
"Silence! The next one will be even harder than the last! I hope you fools write your last will, because I'm sending you all to the abyss!" Chisame said as a hole is suddenly formed below them.
They all fall down to the black chasm. After a moment of unconsciousness, Chie slowly regains conscious and gets up. She looks around and finds herself in a cave.
"Looks like we're underneath the castle this time." Chie said. She turned around and see's everyone unconscious.
"Lune, everyone!" She runs up to Lune and shake him.
Lune wakes up and rubs his head. "Ow...damn my head..."
Negi and the others start to wake up as well.
"Where...are we?" Negi asked.
"We're underneath the castle, which I believe it's the next area." Chie replied. "Come on, we have to get going if we have to save our friends!"
They nodded their heads and proceed. They individually jump on a moving platform where they land safely on the next land, defeating the mermen as they go. Platform after platform, they managed to reached the stairs and head up.
"We're back outside." Chie said.
Drake see's something from afar.
"Everyone, heads up!" He said as he brandish his whip.
Suddenly, birds at the size of a hawk flies towards them, dropping fleamen at the group.
"Oh come on, now they're dropping those guys?" Lune said irritably.
"Chisame really wants to get rid of us." Asuna said.
"Come on, we have to get going!" Chie said.
They marched forward while defeating the pesky birds and fleamen and reached the door. But they were encountered by a bone serpent above the door and it spits out fireballs at them. Drake quickly swats the fireball with his whip and defeats the serpent, dropping at least six hearts after its defeat.
"Sweet, ammo!" Asuna said as she picks up the hearts.
They proceed to the door and entered the building, where Asuna knocks down more candles and switched her axe with a knife while collecting more hearts. As they defeat the two bone serpents and enter a room, they see another one of Chisame's mouse as it transforms into Frankenstein's monster with a fleaman on its back. The fleaman jumps off and attacks the group, spitting fireballs at them while the creature simply moves back and forth.
"Oh great now those things spit fireballs!" Lune said as he threw his hands up in frustration.
"Guys, focus on that monster over there! That's the main boss!" Asuna said.
"You guys take care of that thing, I'm about to vent my frustration on that little midget!" Lune said as he swings his claymore at the fleaman, promptly stunning it.
Negi, Chie, and the others attacks the creature as it helplessly moves back and forth. Negi deals the final blow and both the creature and the fleaman both burst into 8-bit flames and a red orb appears and drops down. Negi see's the orb and picks it up.
"Grr...you pests are really getting on my nerves not dying! The next one will be-"
"Yeah yeah, the next one will be even harder than the others, tell us something we DON'T know!" Lune said, interrupting Chisame.
"How dare you! Fine, I'll just have to step it up a notch, just you wait fools!" Chisame exclaimed as the door opened.
They proceed to the next level and they find themselves in a dungeon. Drake quickly dispatch the two fleamen in front of them and they move on. Above them, is a skeleton throwing bones at them. Julia quickly launched a fireball from the skeleton below and they proceed to the stairs, avoiding the raining bones. As they reached the top, Chie defeats the skeleton throwing bones at them and they move on. As they head downstairs they encountered a different colored skeleton.
"Perfect, another one of those guys. Let me deal with them." Lune said as he prepare to slice the skeleton in half.
"No, hey wait!" Asuna shouted.
But Lune already sliced the skeleton, reducing it to a pile of bones, but the skeleton suddenly reanimate and put itself back together.
"What the hell?"
"Those skeletons are red, killing it is absolutely pointless!" Asuna said.
"Damn, and here I thought those guys are going to be easy..." Lune muttered.
Asuna quickly defeated the skeleton and told the others to hurry. They started running and they reached the door, entering to another room. Inside, they encountered axe knights. The armored knights throw their axes at them and they quickly avoid the axe. Drake and Chie quickly dispatch the axe knights and they proceed upstairs. They go to the next staircase where Negi immediately defeat the red skeleton next to them, they move forward to what appears to be a laboratory.
"Hey Chie." Lune said.
"Yeah?" Chie replied.
"Does this lab looks familiar to you?" He asked her.
"Now that you think about it, I'm suddenly reminded of Dr. Arztes, even though I've never seen his lab before." Chie replied.
"Seeing this lab, I personally doubt that it match that creepy vibe from him, although I suspect that his lab would be far creepier..." Lune said.
Chie nodded her head as they keep moving. They proceed to the next room and up the stairs where they find themselves in an odd room with many black paintings. Suddenly they were ambushed by many monsters, Medusa Heads, armored knights, fleamen, and red skeletons all in one room with no candles in sight.
"Wait what's going on? I don't remember all of this in the game! It's all wrong!" Asuna exclaimed.
"Are you actually sure about this, Asuna?" Chie asked.
"Of course! Chisame must've hacked the game to change this place!" Asuna replied angrily.
"Well, it is her Pactio ability." Negi pointed out.
"Who cares about the game? Let's just move on and get those monsters out of our way!" Drake said.
"Could've said so myself." Lune said as he cracked his knuckles.
They start running as everyone defeats the attacking monster ambushing them, after a full frontal assault, they reached the end where they find the last of Chisame's electric mice. The mice transformed into the 8-bit version of the Grim Reaper itself and it hovers itself above the six. As it moves around, many scythes suddenly appear around the room and they flies towards the six.
"Guys, heads up!" Asuna shouted.
They jumped out-of-the-way and Drake engaged in combat with Death. Julia and Lune became occupied with fending off the scythes and Negi, Asuna, and Chie aid Drake in defeating Death. The red orb appears and Drake picks it up.
"Damn you...all of you just broke the last straw!" Chisame shouted angrily.
"Well you can't get rid of us that easily! Not even cheating won't kill us off, no way, sister!" Asuna said.
Chisame growled menacingly. "Don't think you all can rest easily, because now it's time for the final stage! All of you just wrote yourself a death wish!"
The door opens and the six proceed to the final area. They head outside as they encountered giant bats from the first stage. The moved forward to the broken bridge while avoiding the bats and their fireballs and entered the clock tower. They move down using the gears as platforms and defeats the incoming fleamen and the birds, proceeding to the last area.
"Here it is, the stairway to Dracula!" Asuna gushed excitedly. "I can't believe that I'm actually fighting the final boss!"
"Wait, you never finished the game?" Drake asked her.
"I got frustrated after a few deaths, but this changes everything!" She replied.
"Asuna I know you're happy to reach the final level, but now's not the time to be admiring it! We have to move on!" Chie said.
Asuna nodded her head and they move up, entering the castle keep. Asuna knocks down a few candles, collecting hearts and money as they reached the coffin. But instead of facing Dracula, they encountered Chisame sitting on her personal throne scowling at them.
"Hey what gives? Where's the final boss?" Asuna asked her.
"Oh, you're facing it!" Chisame replied. "Why let some pixellated junk fight your enemies when you can get rid of them yourself?" She said as she change her outfit. She now wears a crimson red dress with a black cloak. She wields her artifact and grins maliciously at them.
"Oh don't be disappointed, I'll give you the final boss you wanted do badly!" She said as she use her wand to materialize a monstrous bat.
"You guys take care of her, we'll handle the bat freak she summoned!" Drake said as he brandish his whip.
Negi, Chie, and Lune nodded their heads as Asuna, Drake, and Julia fights off the monster. They engaged battle with Chisame who used her wand to summon monsters from the game and sicced them at the three. Chie and Negi quickly dispatch the monsters as Lune attacks Chisame. She quickly dodged Lunes attacks not before she blocks it with her wand. She then type in some buttons on her keyboard and fend Lune off with more digitized monsters. She then sits back in her throne and hovers away from them, setting up a barrier around her.
"See if you try and hurt me when I'm in the air!" She taunted.
"You damn coward!" Lune shouted as he defeats all the monsters with his sword.
Negi faced Chisame and begins to use Magia Erebia.
"Pro Armatione, Agilitas Fulminis!(Translation: Lightning Speed)"
Negi then starts to take form as his hair dyed white and he begins to envelop in a lightning aura. He instantly appeared in front of Chisame and prepare to attack her barrier.
"Hakkyokuen Vajira Eight Style: Kou Kai Mon!(Translation: Hard Open Gate)" He smashed his elbow at Chisames barrier, seemingly breaking it with ease, leaving Chisame shocked. He then put his hand near her. "Flans Exarmatio!(Translation: Flowering Disarmament)" A strong wind is expelled from Negi's palm as it blows away Chisame's dress, stripping her naked.
"Gah! You stupid brat my dress!" Chisame yelled as she cover herself in shame.
"Now's my chance!" Lune said as he slipped out a syringe. He dashed towards Chisame and went behind her. "Time for your medicine!" He jabs the syringe to her arm and Chisame began to scream in pain as the antidote kicks in.
The castle began to distort and breaks apart as Chisame returns to normal. As she falls unconscious, Negi and the others are back in Mary's castle where Nodoka and the others are left unconscious. Their weapons also returned to them after they break out of Chisame's cyberworld.
"We're back in Mary's castle." Chie said.
Suddenly, Asuna clothes glow and she returns to her Pactio form. "Hey, my powers are back!" She said.
"Nice going, leaving her open like that." Lune said as he turn and face the wall, secretly blushing.
"Um, thanks. I just thought of it." Negi replied as his Magia Erebea wears off.
"Thought of what, stripping her naked?" Chie said as she stares blankly at Negi. "Sensei, are you secretly a pervert?"
Negi shook his head furiously, becoming flustered out of embarrassment. "N-no! It's not like that really!"
Nodoka and the others begin to regain consciousness after being trapped in Chisame's realm.
"Nanako!" Chie cried as she come up to check on her.
"Big Sis...?" Nanako looked at Chie as she sighed in relief.
"Whoa, Negi that was scary! After my body turn into bits of data, I was stuck in a endless black abyss!" Chamo said.
"Ojou-sama, are you alright?" Setsuna asked worriedly.
"I'm fine, Set-chan. I'm glad I got to see you again!" Konoka replied, smiling.
"Looks like you're able to break us out of her world." Mana said.
"Well I'm glad that you're all okay." Negi said.
Chisame begins to wake up, letting out a moan getting their attention.
"Ooh damn what happened to me? Why do I feel cold?" She asked herself as she noticed everyone looking at her sans Lune and Drake with them facing the opposite direction and Grant having a bloody nose while Chie shields Nanako's eyes.
She looked at herself and finds herself stark naked and she blushed furiously. She faced Negi, who is smiling sheepishly at her, with an angry glare.
"Negi...sensei...you...FREAKING DUMBASS!-!-!-!"
After a moment of beating Negi senseless, Drake lent her his coat to cover herself as Chie explained to her what happened recently.
"So you're telling me that you work in some kind of vampire hunting organization and is currently hunting down the vampire by the name, Bloody Mary, the one who's responsible in turning me and everyone else into vampires right?" Chisame asked while she gripped Drake's coat around her.
"That's correct. And now, Mary is currently declaring war against Mahora and we have to stop her at all cost." Chie replied.
"Well if it's that big of a threat, I'll tag along with you guys, my day can't get anymore weirder than it is now... Besides, I'm going make that lady pay for making me her mindless slave!" Chisame said.
"So...Chisame, can you ever forgive me for what I've done to you?" Negi asked her as he has a black eye and a huge bump visible on his head.
"I'll deal with you later you brat! Right now, we're meeting this Bloody Mary person right now!" Chisame replied.
Chie nodded her head. "Right, let's go. There's at least three remaining student of 3-A still under her control!"
Everyone nodded her head as they proceed to the next floor.
"(Hang on, Yue, we're coming to save you!)" Nodoka thought as they head up the stairs.
To Be Continued...
A/N: Alright, got this done! And now there's three more 3-A students to go, what's danger will Negi and the others face? Find out next time on Night of Terror!
A/N#2: The game Negi and the others are trapped in is the NES Castlevania game but somewhat like the Harmony of Despair version.