CHAPTER 10: RAGNAROK
After a short philosophical debate on where to go next, the duo chose to use the elevator and try to see what lies upon the upper floor. After pressing the 2F button in the elevator, the pair stood before a wooden double door with a weird hollow skull traced within it's center. There were no keyholes or handles whatsoever. Magus and Alucard tried pushing on them, but they refused to move. All of a sudden, the door grew red and both felt a tremendous magical blast repel them back into the elevator, the shock of the impact sending it reeling in freefall down a floor. They noticed a smaller wooden door behind where they had fought Dracula's dopplegagner. On it was the word Library and a keyhole. They tried a multitude of ways to force it open including lockpicks, but it also refused to budge. Not satisfied at all with themselves, they went back down to the Blood Marble Gallery.
Alucard: Hey, I just remembered that there was a huge area beneath the giant clock in the center of the gallery in the past where there was nothing, maybe there is something now. Richter and I had to pass it because of a bunch of tonberries guarding it.
Magus: Tonberries, eh? This might be worthwhile... Magus lead the way back torwards the exact center of the castle where the clock layed, taking care of the meager foes standing in their way until they reached tonberry heaven behind the cerberus' corpse. Magus withdrew his swords and started to hack into the mob of monkish fishmen. Rapidly he'd decimated or let run all of them. Once within the center room, they found the giant hole leading to some lower area. Magus went in first and called for Alucard to follow from the darkness below. After a short fall, he landed in front of another hi-tech elevator and both used it to arrive in a large hangar where a spaceship was stored. It was around 108 meters long, 54 meters high and 77 meters wide. It was mostly red, but some parts were invisible, revealing the grey metal forming it's circuits. It was made mostly to look like a dragon, now considered legendary beasts.
Magus: Alucard, say hello to the Ragnarok.
Alucard: How can you tell it's name so easily? Magus pointed for Alucard to follow. He jumped on the propeller and up on the ship's neck and found a hatch there. Right beside it was written in white letters "Super High Mobility Flying Ship RAGNAROK". Magus forced the hatch open and slipped in. Alucard followed him inside and found Magus stabilizing the pressure and oxygen within the ship. A minute later, the door in front of them opened. Magus walked ahead confident in the next room where nothing awaited. Another door opened and they entered a wider room from a metal bridge above the floor. About halfway across it, they heard a roar and Magus crouched down, forcing Alucard to do so as well. Looking across the tint-free glass, they saw a hideous beast pass. It was consisted of three slim legs arranged in a triangular fashion, of a torso with it's mouth hanging from it, teeth that seemed like those of a whale, two slim but powerful arms and a conical face with two bulging yellowish fly-like eyes. All the rest of it had a slight reddish tone.
Magus: Propagators, haven't seen any of those for awhile...
Alucard: Propagators?
Magus: Parasitic beasts of space. They feed off energy and can easily ruin a planet if a bunch of them attack at once. Quite skilled in combat, but weak to an immense amount of status ailments.
Alucard: How can you know all of that?
Magus: Tisk, Tisk. Do you really believe my friend that I limited my knowledge to what it was 100 years ago? I've learned how to deal with over 100'000 different monsters by now from all over the universe.
Alucard: Oh goodie. You probably know everything that lurks within this castle, like that will help.
Magus: Now pay close attention on how to kill them easily... Magus leapt off the passage and swung his sword high, sectioning the beast's scrawny neck, letting it's head roll to the floor.
Alucard: So their head is their weakness, I'll remember that. Magus entered the large door into on e of the ship's hangars and ended up face to face with another propagator. Not having much time to react before getting eaten, Magus jumped up and slid it's mouth on his way down. Noticing an entrance to the beast's tough hide, he stabbed within the fresh wound and still keeping his sword thrust in, leapt with all his might to the ceiling, leaving a large puddle of blood on the floor and just as much on his sword. he picks up the beast's mouth and uses it's teeth to clean the blood off his sword before putting it away.
Magus: That was too close for comfort, I'll have to stay on my guards.
Alucard: Can you finish this alone, these beasts matter not to me the least. All I wish to do is exterminate whoever overthrew my father and leave this castle forever.
Magus: Sure, if you want... Alucard left the room and found the beast Magus had slain a few minutes ago alive and healthy again, it's head on again. The Propagator rushed on Alucard, planning to devour him, but the half-vampire was too agile for it. he leapt at the right altitude and slid it's skull in half. The now brainless beast slumped to the floor lifelessly like before. Alucard ran back to Magus, finding him exterminating another of the beasts.
Alucard: Oh Magus, you remember that alien that got the Louis XVI treatment?
Magus: Yeah, what's wrong with the corpse, did it come back to life?
Alucard: How did you...
Magus: Propagators are renown not only for their ferocity and recklessness, but also for their awesome ability to revive. No one knows how they do it though...They returned to check on the two that they'd already slain and found in the hangar with the bloody propagator having two of them. One was busy reattaching members to the deceased one and then infused it with life. Magus looked at them and noticed that both were purple in color.
Magus: I just figured it out, the Propagators are clansmen. The clans can be determined by the color of their bodies. When a clansman falls, another comes to revive him and returns to it's usual job, but no this time. Magus threw one of his swords across the room, successfully decapitating both at once.
Magus: Come on, I'll help get you out, just wait for me a bit. Both went back to the center room, noticing the beast was still dead. Up on the catwalk, none awaited, but in the room with the computer awaited another one. Magus was ready for it and cut it in half with one mighty scissor-like stroke. Magus looked at it and found a yellowish body, now he has to find the yellow one fast. Alucard pushed on the trapdoor, but it refused to budge. Magus went over to the computer and gave it a command to open, but the power was out.
Magus: The spare battery is out. We'll have to kill all the propagators to re-establish the main power before we can leave here.
Alucard: Great. They went back to the hangar where Magus had killed the second red alien and climbed a small set of stairs to a room with a large energy elevator. Upon it was a larger than normal green propagator to it's right was them and to it's left and front were locked doors. Magus took the center one and left Alucard the leftern one. Magus ended up back at the catwalk while Alucard found himself in the observation deck. A propagator tried to ram him, but leapt aside into a row of benches and quickly backstabbed it in the center of it's body, slaying it. He returned to the middle room where they took care of the green one, but they were still missing one last one. Alucard stayed to guard the corpse against the other one. Magus went exploring. On his second tour, he noticed a small door beneath the catwalk leading to a small empty corridor, but there lurked the final propagator. It tried as all the others to charge him, but Magus, a bit bored, just shot a fireball straight in it's open mouth, frying it with a terrible explosion. The lights came back on from dimmer to full light. Magus returned to Alucard's elevator and noticed that all the corpses had disappeared like magic. the elevator brought them to the control center, the only place the parasites had not been able to reach because of themselves. Magus sat in the driver's seat and noticed a red button flashing with the words: "Incomming message". He pressed it and he heard a transmission from faraway.
Radio: This is Eshtar Airstaion, Ragnarok do you copy?
Magus: This is Magus Leah aboard the Ragnarok, how can I help you?
Radio: Sir Magus, you found the Ragnarok?
Magus: Wes, it was hidden in Castlevania, can you tell us anything about it?
Radio: Well, it appeared out of nowhere 465 years after it's last disappearance and reigned terror across the world...
Magus: Thanks for the info, I'm cutting transmission. So it came here from the past. this is all just a side effect of time compression. The past, present and future of the castle fusioned into one and this is what we're up against. Alucard bent down and found a small golden key with the word Library inscribed upon it.
Alucard: Looks like this wasn't a waste of time after all...
After a short philosophical debate on where to go next, the duo chose to use the elevator and try to see what lies upon the upper floor. After pressing the 2F button in the elevator, the pair stood before a wooden double door with a weird hollow skull traced within it's center. There were no keyholes or handles whatsoever. Magus and Alucard tried pushing on them, but they refused to move. All of a sudden, the door grew red and both felt a tremendous magical blast repel them back into the elevator, the shock of the impact sending it reeling in freefall down a floor. They noticed a smaller wooden door behind where they had fought Dracula's dopplegagner. On it was the word Library and a keyhole. They tried a multitude of ways to force it open including lockpicks, but it also refused to budge. Not satisfied at all with themselves, they went back down to the Blood Marble Gallery.
Alucard: Hey, I just remembered that there was a huge area beneath the giant clock in the center of the gallery in the past where there was nothing, maybe there is something now. Richter and I had to pass it because of a bunch of tonberries guarding it.
Magus: Tonberries, eh? This might be worthwhile... Magus lead the way back torwards the exact center of the castle where the clock layed, taking care of the meager foes standing in their way until they reached tonberry heaven behind the cerberus' corpse. Magus withdrew his swords and started to hack into the mob of monkish fishmen. Rapidly he'd decimated or let run all of them. Once within the center room, they found the giant hole leading to some lower area. Magus went in first and called for Alucard to follow from the darkness below. After a short fall, he landed in front of another hi-tech elevator and both used it to arrive in a large hangar where a spaceship was stored. It was around 108 meters long, 54 meters high and 77 meters wide. It was mostly red, but some parts were invisible, revealing the grey metal forming it's circuits. It was made mostly to look like a dragon, now considered legendary beasts.
Magus: Alucard, say hello to the Ragnarok.
Alucard: How can you tell it's name so easily? Magus pointed for Alucard to follow. He jumped on the propeller and up on the ship's neck and found a hatch there. Right beside it was written in white letters "Super High Mobility Flying Ship RAGNAROK". Magus forced the hatch open and slipped in. Alucard followed him inside and found Magus stabilizing the pressure and oxygen within the ship. A minute later, the door in front of them opened. Magus walked ahead confident in the next room where nothing awaited. Another door opened and they entered a wider room from a metal bridge above the floor. About halfway across it, they heard a roar and Magus crouched down, forcing Alucard to do so as well. Looking across the tint-free glass, they saw a hideous beast pass. It was consisted of three slim legs arranged in a triangular fashion, of a torso with it's mouth hanging from it, teeth that seemed like those of a whale, two slim but powerful arms and a conical face with two bulging yellowish fly-like eyes. All the rest of it had a slight reddish tone.
Magus: Propagators, haven't seen any of those for awhile...
Alucard: Propagators?
Magus: Parasitic beasts of space. They feed off energy and can easily ruin a planet if a bunch of them attack at once. Quite skilled in combat, but weak to an immense amount of status ailments.
Alucard: How can you know all of that?
Magus: Tisk, Tisk. Do you really believe my friend that I limited my knowledge to what it was 100 years ago? I've learned how to deal with over 100'000 different monsters by now from all over the universe.
Alucard: Oh goodie. You probably know everything that lurks within this castle, like that will help.
Magus: Now pay close attention on how to kill them easily... Magus leapt off the passage and swung his sword high, sectioning the beast's scrawny neck, letting it's head roll to the floor.
Alucard: So their head is their weakness, I'll remember that. Magus entered the large door into on e of the ship's hangars and ended up face to face with another propagator. Not having much time to react before getting eaten, Magus jumped up and slid it's mouth on his way down. Noticing an entrance to the beast's tough hide, he stabbed within the fresh wound and still keeping his sword thrust in, leapt with all his might to the ceiling, leaving a large puddle of blood on the floor and just as much on his sword. he picks up the beast's mouth and uses it's teeth to clean the blood off his sword before putting it away.
Magus: That was too close for comfort, I'll have to stay on my guards.
Alucard: Can you finish this alone, these beasts matter not to me the least. All I wish to do is exterminate whoever overthrew my father and leave this castle forever.
Magus: Sure, if you want... Alucard left the room and found the beast Magus had slain a few minutes ago alive and healthy again, it's head on again. The Propagator rushed on Alucard, planning to devour him, but the half-vampire was too agile for it. he leapt at the right altitude and slid it's skull in half. The now brainless beast slumped to the floor lifelessly like before. Alucard ran back to Magus, finding him exterminating another of the beasts.
Alucard: Oh Magus, you remember that alien that got the Louis XVI treatment?
Magus: Yeah, what's wrong with the corpse, did it come back to life?
Alucard: How did you...
Magus: Propagators are renown not only for their ferocity and recklessness, but also for their awesome ability to revive. No one knows how they do it though...They returned to check on the two that they'd already slain and found in the hangar with the bloody propagator having two of them. One was busy reattaching members to the deceased one and then infused it with life. Magus looked at them and noticed that both were purple in color.
Magus: I just figured it out, the Propagators are clansmen. The clans can be determined by the color of their bodies. When a clansman falls, another comes to revive him and returns to it's usual job, but no this time. Magus threw one of his swords across the room, successfully decapitating both at once.
Magus: Come on, I'll help get you out, just wait for me a bit. Both went back to the center room, noticing the beast was still dead. Up on the catwalk, none awaited, but in the room with the computer awaited another one. Magus was ready for it and cut it in half with one mighty scissor-like stroke. Magus looked at it and found a yellowish body, now he has to find the yellow one fast. Alucard pushed on the trapdoor, but it refused to budge. Magus went over to the computer and gave it a command to open, but the power was out.
Magus: The spare battery is out. We'll have to kill all the propagators to re-establish the main power before we can leave here.
Alucard: Great. They went back to the hangar where Magus had killed the second red alien and climbed a small set of stairs to a room with a large energy elevator. Upon it was a larger than normal green propagator to it's right was them and to it's left and front were locked doors. Magus took the center one and left Alucard the leftern one. Magus ended up back at the catwalk while Alucard found himself in the observation deck. A propagator tried to ram him, but leapt aside into a row of benches and quickly backstabbed it in the center of it's body, slaying it. He returned to the middle room where they took care of the green one, but they were still missing one last one. Alucard stayed to guard the corpse against the other one. Magus went exploring. On his second tour, he noticed a small door beneath the catwalk leading to a small empty corridor, but there lurked the final propagator. It tried as all the others to charge him, but Magus, a bit bored, just shot a fireball straight in it's open mouth, frying it with a terrible explosion. The lights came back on from dimmer to full light. Magus returned to Alucard's elevator and noticed that all the corpses had disappeared like magic. the elevator brought them to the control center, the only place the parasites had not been able to reach because of themselves. Magus sat in the driver's seat and noticed a red button flashing with the words: "Incomming message". He pressed it and he heard a transmission from faraway.
Radio: This is Eshtar Airstaion, Ragnarok do you copy?
Magus: This is Magus Leah aboard the Ragnarok, how can I help you?
Radio: Sir Magus, you found the Ragnarok?
Magus: Wes, it was hidden in Castlevania, can you tell us anything about it?
Radio: Well, it appeared out of nowhere 465 years after it's last disappearance and reigned terror across the world...
Magus: Thanks for the info, I'm cutting transmission. So it came here from the past. this is all just a side effect of time compression. The past, present and future of the castle fusioned into one and this is what we're up against. Alucard bent down and found a small golden key with the word Library inscribed upon it.
Alucard: Looks like this wasn't a waste of time after all...