CHAPTER 8: BLOOD MARBLE FLOOR
Back in the past, they were in a large room with moving platforms, a swarm of medusa heads and Bone Pillars. Bone pillars are dragon skulls piled atop each other to serve as stable firebreathing gun turrets. After proceeding atop the multiple risky jumps and avoiding the rising platforms covered in spikes, they entered a small room guarded by two Pikemen. The pair rapidly sent both back to whatever demon had generated them and went down a short staircase to a room filled with both bats and a dangerous watery path that served to the castle as an aqueduct. A small platform stopped by theirs and both leapt on it, landing atop it luckily. As they let it roam up the raging current, they found themselves faced with a wall with but a small opening beneath it.
Richter: Duck! Both crouched as low as possible and managed to pass below it. On the other side was a staircase leading back up which they gladly took. Above was a small hall of statues and a decomposed ceiling letting the above floor show. They could clearly see down the hall a staircase leading to that floor and beside it was a pair of blood red eyes. Alucard flew up and reverted. He took his friend's hand and started to help him up when a red Axearmor charged them, it's axe flashing rapidly behind Richter who'd just reached the next floor. It pitifully jumped up and down, trying to reach them, but it was just too heavy to jump more than 5cm above the floor. The two advanced a bit more, beyond the staircase and found a long and winding hall where their only mean of escape was to jump from column to column while destroying all the bone pillars and medusa heads flying at them. By the end of it, both were exhausted and rested a bit in the room beside them, barely lit by a few candles. After that, they were in a large room where an armor awaited then, it's pike aimed at the floor, it's head in it's arm. It leapt up and dug it's pike in the earth, creating an Icy wave from the earth, zigzagging at them until it totally missed. The two violently hit it, making it drop it's head, but it never touched the ground. Instead, it started to float, throwing large lasers at them. Alucard took out of his cape a fire shuriken ()and threw it straight between the thing's eyes, allowing it to catch ablaze and disappear in a blazing storm. In the present, They were in a long hall leading torwards the hall of clocks and had to take out a few green Axearmors to reach the giant clock in the total center of the castle. By the time they reached it, the floor had opened and Richter fell in, his head triggering the elevator. Down below, Richter found nothing of interest in the sinister chamber and left to find Alucard. He reported his find and both left across the long hall torwards the future. In the future, the hall had drastically changed as the floor was covered in a red carped made of dried blood of all those that had previously died here. The statues were now grotesque deformations of their once magnificent representations. One by one, strange holes appeared in the floor, letting out a strange breed of fishmen midget format wearing a monkish robe and holding a lantern. After over a dozen of the creatures had appeared, Alucard and Richter had been pummeling on one for over 5 minutes and it hadn't even flinched yet, but now, it was right in front of them. It took it's small knife cleverly hidden beneath it's arm and viciously stabbed Richter with it, the bone snapping in a strange "DOINK!" noise. With one final strike, the creature was finally killed. Alucard gave Richter his last bean as both heard a loud sound. They turned around to seen a Tonberry taller than them, a small golden crown floating above it's head. It looked quite angry...
Alucard: T... tonberry king... Run! Both leapt the barrier of tonberries and ran across the room of clocks, avoiding emerging tonberries until they bumped into something beyond the great clock. The large Cerberus leapt back and sent three fireballs flying at them. They avoided the blows and countered viciously. Richter threw a hundred knives at it in record time while Alucard and the demon turned it into a regular mountain of ice. The beast had eaten all the knives, but it seemed as if the frost had healed all the wounds it had acquired. Alucard tried his Thunderbrand, but ended up withy the same result. Tired of being tickled, it leapt on Richter, it's bulk nailing him to the ground as it's heads feasted on him. Alucard tried to help, but one of it's heads sent a beam of ice on him, freezing it to the ground. Alucard, still unable to just watch too out two Buffalo stars () and threw them straight in the beast's flanks, making it yelp in pain. Now it's attention was on Alucard, leaving the half-dead Richter behind. It leapt on him, but Alucard avoided it by casting the Hellfire spell. As soon as he reappeared, two huge fireballs streaked straight at the beast, making it cry in agony as the spheres pierced it, almost killing it. The demon "Fire spear"ed it and it died. Normally, Cerberuses are absorbing Fire hits, but Abyssal versions are quite weak to it. Alucard turned to his wounded friend and took out his bean pouch to find it empty.
Richter: Leave me... I'll ... join up shortly...
Alucard: Are you sure you'll be all right
Richter: Yes I will, now go! Quite reluctantly, he proceeded back to the past, but he knew he could count on his friend to join up with him again soon...
Back in the past, they were in a large room with moving platforms, a swarm of medusa heads and Bone Pillars. Bone pillars are dragon skulls piled atop each other to serve as stable firebreathing gun turrets. After proceeding atop the multiple risky jumps and avoiding the rising platforms covered in spikes, they entered a small room guarded by two Pikemen. The pair rapidly sent both back to whatever demon had generated them and went down a short staircase to a room filled with both bats and a dangerous watery path that served to the castle as an aqueduct. A small platform stopped by theirs and both leapt on it, landing atop it luckily. As they let it roam up the raging current, they found themselves faced with a wall with but a small opening beneath it.
Richter: Duck! Both crouched as low as possible and managed to pass below it. On the other side was a staircase leading back up which they gladly took. Above was a small hall of statues and a decomposed ceiling letting the above floor show. They could clearly see down the hall a staircase leading to that floor and beside it was a pair of blood red eyes. Alucard flew up and reverted. He took his friend's hand and started to help him up when a red Axearmor charged them, it's axe flashing rapidly behind Richter who'd just reached the next floor. It pitifully jumped up and down, trying to reach them, but it was just too heavy to jump more than 5cm above the floor. The two advanced a bit more, beyond the staircase and found a long and winding hall where their only mean of escape was to jump from column to column while destroying all the bone pillars and medusa heads flying at them. By the end of it, both were exhausted and rested a bit in the room beside them, barely lit by a few candles. After that, they were in a large room where an armor awaited then, it's pike aimed at the floor, it's head in it's arm. It leapt up and dug it's pike in the earth, creating an Icy wave from the earth, zigzagging at them until it totally missed. The two violently hit it, making it drop it's head, but it never touched the ground. Instead, it started to float, throwing large lasers at them. Alucard took out of his cape a fire shuriken ()and threw it straight between the thing's eyes, allowing it to catch ablaze and disappear in a blazing storm. In the present, They were in a long hall leading torwards the hall of clocks and had to take out a few green Axearmors to reach the giant clock in the total center of the castle. By the time they reached it, the floor had opened and Richter fell in, his head triggering the elevator. Down below, Richter found nothing of interest in the sinister chamber and left to find Alucard. He reported his find and both left across the long hall torwards the future. In the future, the hall had drastically changed as the floor was covered in a red carped made of dried blood of all those that had previously died here. The statues were now grotesque deformations of their once magnificent representations. One by one, strange holes appeared in the floor, letting out a strange breed of fishmen midget format wearing a monkish robe and holding a lantern. After over a dozen of the creatures had appeared, Alucard and Richter had been pummeling on one for over 5 minutes and it hadn't even flinched yet, but now, it was right in front of them. It took it's small knife cleverly hidden beneath it's arm and viciously stabbed Richter with it, the bone snapping in a strange "DOINK!" noise. With one final strike, the creature was finally killed. Alucard gave Richter his last bean as both heard a loud sound. They turned around to seen a Tonberry taller than them, a small golden crown floating above it's head. It looked quite angry...
Alucard: T... tonberry king... Run! Both leapt the barrier of tonberries and ran across the room of clocks, avoiding emerging tonberries until they bumped into something beyond the great clock. The large Cerberus leapt back and sent three fireballs flying at them. They avoided the blows and countered viciously. Richter threw a hundred knives at it in record time while Alucard and the demon turned it into a regular mountain of ice. The beast had eaten all the knives, but it seemed as if the frost had healed all the wounds it had acquired. Alucard tried his Thunderbrand, but ended up withy the same result. Tired of being tickled, it leapt on Richter, it's bulk nailing him to the ground as it's heads feasted on him. Alucard tried to help, but one of it's heads sent a beam of ice on him, freezing it to the ground. Alucard, still unable to just watch too out two Buffalo stars () and threw them straight in the beast's flanks, making it yelp in pain. Now it's attention was on Alucard, leaving the half-dead Richter behind. It leapt on him, but Alucard avoided it by casting the Hellfire spell. As soon as he reappeared, two huge fireballs streaked straight at the beast, making it cry in agony as the spheres pierced it, almost killing it. The demon "Fire spear"ed it and it died. Normally, Cerberuses are absorbing Fire hits, but Abyssal versions are quite weak to it. Alucard turned to his wounded friend and took out his bean pouch to find it empty.
Richter: Leave me... I'll ... join up shortly...
Alucard: Are you sure you'll be all right
Richter: Yes I will, now go! Quite reluctantly, he proceeded back to the past, but he knew he could count on his friend to join up with him again soon...