Given how long it has been since I've posted, and how the next chapter will take awhile, I will instead post a small teaser for the next chapter. Which I'll dub "Castlevania Rises." And, yes, this teaser is from the perspective of a nameless soldier. Now, feel free to say or ask any questions, I will address them in my next update. That, and I ask but a small request: please criticize my writing. I can't get any better without first knowing what I'm bad at. Now, mind you when I say short I truly mean this teaser is short. Just a few hundred words. I'm mainly posting this just to let all of you guys know that I haven't forgotten about this bad boy.
So, here it is:
"All available units, we need you at the West Side!"
West Side!? Don't they know we barely have enough troops for the East and North Sides!? I aimed my rifle up and pulled the trigger, filling that Shadow Thing a few meters away with lead. It barely even noticed! It looked me dead in the eyes and almost seemed to smile as it grew a arm out of what I could only assume to be it's back. It grabbed one of the other soldiers. He already had his legs blown off when he was too close during the artillery attack a few days ago.
He could hardly even scream as the thing tore out his spine through his mouth. I couldn't move. I... I'd only been deployed for about a day. What is this thing? It's not a Grimm... it's worse then any Grimm I'd ever seen or heard of. It's... it's a real Demon, isn't it? Something straight out of those old stories my grandmother told me about. A real... honest to God Demon. We're all doomed, aren't we?
"Get down!" I suddenly found myself being lifted into the air by the Demon, it's blazing blue eyes looking into my own. It made a high pitched screeching sound as it's mouth opened wide. And wider and wider and wider until almost it's entire body was nothing but a huge mouth filled with jagged, mismatched teeth. Tongues of all kinds slithered out. Forked, spiked, flat, every kind of tongue. Some of them even looked like the Demon had stolen other creatures tongues and simply glued them to itself.
I heard a scream as it's teeth tore into my abdomen, and it began thrashing it's head back and forth. Am I screaming? Is it someone else? I cannot feel my legs anymore. Everything's blurry, what's that ringing? I-I...