Castlevania: Rhapsody of Sorrow
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Disclaimer: R&R please!
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Chapter 3: The Tormented Crane
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The people in this world...they think of the school attack in the past. It haunts people's hearts. It still lives with them.
I stand in the hallway of Castlevania. Dracula came down the aisle. He smiled, "Oh, Michael...you have joined our alliance.
I am impressed by your work, boy. You may be here right now...but you aren't. You are actually...not real. You are a half-replica
of my son, Alucard. In fact you do not exist." I stepped back in extreme nervousness, "What the hell are you talking about?"
He began to laugh, "Well, you are standing in front of me...but you are a clone. You did not have a soul to even begin with.
Only the undead see you. Your mom? An illusion. The people looking at you in the school? They saw nothing, they could only
feel. Only we can see you. But...you are soulless, however, as a clone from Alucard, you have his face, his body, but different
hairstyle and clothing. Amazing. It worked." I stood. Stunned. This man was insane.
"But the voices? Alucard. It was all him. He is now with our alliance. He died, and you take our place...I consider you to
be him." I looked down, "I...accept what I am. I knew I was different...at the beginning of my life. Those people did not exist.
It was an illusion...they made fun of me...their voices were illusions. I thought them up then killed them. But I was thought up
by Hiro to do this. I was meant to be a clone...a made up clone that didn't require any building. Just thought..."
I leaned against the wall, "What now...?" Dracula sighed and sipped the glass of blood, "Now?...Now we finish off humanity."
I looked up, "For what? Then what...?" He stared at me, "A curious boy. We kill them for killing us off. We then start re-building
what was once ours. But...we no longer need you in the alliance. You've played your part." He said. He looked over to Hiro,
"Fade him." Dracula turned on his heel and left. I looked up to Hiro, "Why am I here?" Hiro smiled and walked up to me...close,
"When you die...you realise something." He leaned against a wall, "None of this exists, Michael. Life is what you think of it.
Dracula says you're a clone. You are one because you want to be one. This was all planned for you. Dracula is the only
person that relatively exists. You see...he stops the lives of one. He gives them what they desire.
"And you?" I asked. He carressed my face, "Me...? You created me. You may be confused...but don't worry." He smiled.
I sat down against the wall, "Now" he began, "Now I must fade you. We will both become nothing. As we started." He turned away
and then held a hand back, "Goodbye, Michael." I looked up and stood up, "What...but, what does this mean?!" He looked to me,
"Wake up, Michael."
Wake up, Michael.
"Michael, get up! There's a letter here! But your birthday was 3 months ago!" I wandered downstairs and opened up the letter.
The End