CHAPTER 11: MISTY LIBRARY
Magus typed a simple command on the main keyboard and opened the cargo bay door to let them out. They left the marvelous spaceship and returned up to the gallery and then the outer wall up to the door written Library on it. Alucard slid the small golden key in the lock and they landed in the past. The room they were in was filled with bookcases and stairs leading up and down. Along the way were Axe armors and spear guards, but they were handled quickly. Around the middle of the road, ghosts joined in, posing more of a threat because they do aerial attacks, but Magus' blades sent them back to hell. The next room was fully vertical. The only way down was to follow a narrow staircase down to different platforms to take another step. One wrong step sent the user down to oblivion below. On their way down, levitating books attacked and worst of all were the flying skeletons. These varieties flew about, carrying a spear and shield to attack anyone in their path. So their descent was long and filled with the falling of bones that often became threats as they descended lower, almost tripping on the remains of the fallen... The room at the bottom was short, but the only way across were floating books roaming the sky in patterns and varying in speed. The two merely flew across the room and entered the next. It was filled with shelves, statues and paintings. The statues were mostly of demons holding up the Earth and collapsed when approached, almost crushing them more than once. The paintings were mostly of a beautiful young blonde girl but some were of weapons and some of other things. The bat paintings came to life, so did the hellhounds. Halfway across the room, they had to cross under a low ceiling of spikes. Halfway across, something rose under the carpet and charged them.
Magus: Duck! Both crouched and the thing passed below them, raising them to the level where their hair touched the spike and left further. At the other end were the stairs leading out. In the next room were the same things except now there were blank portraits room which ghouls with sticks burst out to attack. In the next room was an enormous glass shelf in which an ancient armor stood. As they were in front of it, it burst alive, shattering the glass, creating a deadly fall of shattered glass. Both leapt back and stared as an axe and sword appeared in it's hands. Magus and Alucard both charged from different directions. Each got a swing off of a different weapon, but both dodged. Alucard passed under the hit while Magus leapt around the arm, passing fully over it before landing. Both striked it at once and it was shattered to pieces. It's death making the floor explode, the two just floated there.
Magus: When will Dracula learn that pits just don't work?
Alucard: He stopped after his battle with Richter.
Magus: You mean the one where his room was just a bunch of pillars surrounded by enormous pits, in which one hit from a fireball, firebolt, contact or missed jump would kill on the spot?
Alucard: Yeah, that one. Both crossed the door behind the glass and left for the present. They were in a room with three headless swordsman wandered the library, their head held by their other arm. One quick strike made the skulls roll on the floor... after watching the final skeleton imitate Yoricks for a minute, they put the poor sap out of his misery. In the next room were stairs, that's it. The next was a large and long room. First was a long shaft in which floating balls of ectoplasm floated about, swooping at foes and bloody corpses that used their large stakes as pogo-sticks jumped around.
Magus: Ridiculous. They crossed the hall, either slashing the ectoplasms in half or cutting the sticks down, leaving the corpses grounded. Above that shaft was another one in which armored lions with retractable claws and flying books roamed. It was short... finally came the small tin bot. When they got close, it grew two long axe blades and charges, spinning them in circles. Two hits sent it reeling back, axeless, a long fissure on it's surface. It opened it's front along the fissure and revealed an SMG (Sub Machine Gun) that started to fire instantly. Both ducked back for cover. Magus took a shotgun out of his cape and shot at it, pushing it back and leaving it stunned for a second. Magus took that opening to jump op and throw a sword at it. It crossed the thing straight through, making it explode.
Magus: Well, that's it for the Wizard of Oz rejects... They took a staircase down and ended in the master Librarian's room.
Alucard: It's been a long time, old one...
Librarian: Oh, it's you master Alucard! What do you need?
Alucard: I need you help.
Librarian: Young master, I cannot aid one who opposes the master.
Alucard: You won't go unrewarded.
Librarian: Really? In that case, just tell me what you need.
Magus: Well, you could tell us what the hell's going on here?
Librarian: I don't have to answer to you! Magus grabbed him by the collar and placed a sword at his throat when a titanic roar is heard, resounding across the castle followed by another one.
Alucard: W... what were those?
Libarian: Tremendous wyrms hired by the master's dark powers to guard his sanctum.
Magus: Great... They left the old man behind and crossed the door to the future behind him. The future was bleak. A heavy and dense myst filled the entire library.
Magus: This is going to be a pain, eh Alucard?... Alucard? No answer.
Magus: Great... now I have to find him again as well...
Shadow: The nether spirits roam this land of the damned...
Magus: Nani?
Shadow: Demons of all sorts of realms wander this castle in one goal, beware their wrath and beware the lord Galamoth.
Magus: Galamoth? Nothing was heard, the shadow had faded. After several minutes of useless wandering, he saw a small silver light. He found the source pretty fast, a small silver feather.
Magus: A griffin's feather... but silver? He picked it up and continued his search.
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Alucard was alone in the dense myst, wandering, searching for the Demon familiar or Magus. After over half an hour of wandering, he came across a large light. In the center was a griffin sitting on it's nest. It saw him and rose, poised for attack. A griffin is a legendary beast made from the front of an eagle and the rear of a lion. It's sharp talons rose forth to strike, but Alucard slided back, unsheating his thunderbrand and thrust it in the beast, activating it, sending millions of volts streaking across it. It collapsed dead.
Alucard: Well, that wasn't too hard... It rose anew, now mutated. It's body was now human-like, holding razor sharp talon swords. It sliced countlessly at him, trying to decapitate him until a silver streak came flying and lodged itself in it's face, making it moan in agony followed by a blue streak that cut it apart.
Magus: Abyssal griffins... Just can't be killed until you return their silver feather situated somewhere within 500 meters... From the beast's torn body came the demon familiar and they left for the next area.
Magus typed a simple command on the main keyboard and opened the cargo bay door to let them out. They left the marvelous spaceship and returned up to the gallery and then the outer wall up to the door written Library on it. Alucard slid the small golden key in the lock and they landed in the past. The room they were in was filled with bookcases and stairs leading up and down. Along the way were Axe armors and spear guards, but they were handled quickly. Around the middle of the road, ghosts joined in, posing more of a threat because they do aerial attacks, but Magus' blades sent them back to hell. The next room was fully vertical. The only way down was to follow a narrow staircase down to different platforms to take another step. One wrong step sent the user down to oblivion below. On their way down, levitating books attacked and worst of all were the flying skeletons. These varieties flew about, carrying a spear and shield to attack anyone in their path. So their descent was long and filled with the falling of bones that often became threats as they descended lower, almost tripping on the remains of the fallen... The room at the bottom was short, but the only way across were floating books roaming the sky in patterns and varying in speed. The two merely flew across the room and entered the next. It was filled with shelves, statues and paintings. The statues were mostly of demons holding up the Earth and collapsed when approached, almost crushing them more than once. The paintings were mostly of a beautiful young blonde girl but some were of weapons and some of other things. The bat paintings came to life, so did the hellhounds. Halfway across the room, they had to cross under a low ceiling of spikes. Halfway across, something rose under the carpet and charged them.
Magus: Duck! Both crouched and the thing passed below them, raising them to the level where their hair touched the spike and left further. At the other end were the stairs leading out. In the next room were the same things except now there were blank portraits room which ghouls with sticks burst out to attack. In the next room was an enormous glass shelf in which an ancient armor stood. As they were in front of it, it burst alive, shattering the glass, creating a deadly fall of shattered glass. Both leapt back and stared as an axe and sword appeared in it's hands. Magus and Alucard both charged from different directions. Each got a swing off of a different weapon, but both dodged. Alucard passed under the hit while Magus leapt around the arm, passing fully over it before landing. Both striked it at once and it was shattered to pieces. It's death making the floor explode, the two just floated there.
Magus: When will Dracula learn that pits just don't work?
Alucard: He stopped after his battle with Richter.
Magus: You mean the one where his room was just a bunch of pillars surrounded by enormous pits, in which one hit from a fireball, firebolt, contact or missed jump would kill on the spot?
Alucard: Yeah, that one. Both crossed the door behind the glass and left for the present. They were in a room with three headless swordsman wandered the library, their head held by their other arm. One quick strike made the skulls roll on the floor... after watching the final skeleton imitate Yoricks for a minute, they put the poor sap out of his misery. In the next room were stairs, that's it. The next was a large and long room. First was a long shaft in which floating balls of ectoplasm floated about, swooping at foes and bloody corpses that used their large stakes as pogo-sticks jumped around.
Magus: Ridiculous. They crossed the hall, either slashing the ectoplasms in half or cutting the sticks down, leaving the corpses grounded. Above that shaft was another one in which armored lions with retractable claws and flying books roamed. It was short... finally came the small tin bot. When they got close, it grew two long axe blades and charges, spinning them in circles. Two hits sent it reeling back, axeless, a long fissure on it's surface. It opened it's front along the fissure and revealed an SMG (Sub Machine Gun) that started to fire instantly. Both ducked back for cover. Magus took a shotgun out of his cape and shot at it, pushing it back and leaving it stunned for a second. Magus took that opening to jump op and throw a sword at it. It crossed the thing straight through, making it explode.
Magus: Well, that's it for the Wizard of Oz rejects... They took a staircase down and ended in the master Librarian's room.
Alucard: It's been a long time, old one...
Librarian: Oh, it's you master Alucard! What do you need?
Alucard: I need you help.
Librarian: Young master, I cannot aid one who opposes the master.
Alucard: You won't go unrewarded.
Librarian: Really? In that case, just tell me what you need.
Magus: Well, you could tell us what the hell's going on here?
Librarian: I don't have to answer to you! Magus grabbed him by the collar and placed a sword at his throat when a titanic roar is heard, resounding across the castle followed by another one.
Alucard: W... what were those?
Libarian: Tremendous wyrms hired by the master's dark powers to guard his sanctum.
Magus: Great... They left the old man behind and crossed the door to the future behind him. The future was bleak. A heavy and dense myst filled the entire library.
Magus: This is going to be a pain, eh Alucard?... Alucard? No answer.
Magus: Great... now I have to find him again as well...
Shadow: The nether spirits roam this land of the damned...
Magus: Nani?
Shadow: Demons of all sorts of realms wander this castle in one goal, beware their wrath and beware the lord Galamoth.
Magus: Galamoth? Nothing was heard, the shadow had faded. After several minutes of useless wandering, he saw a small silver light. He found the source pretty fast, a small silver feather.
Magus: A griffin's feather... but silver? He picked it up and continued his search.
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Alucard was alone in the dense myst, wandering, searching for the Demon familiar or Magus. After over half an hour of wandering, he came across a large light. In the center was a griffin sitting on it's nest. It saw him and rose, poised for attack. A griffin is a legendary beast made from the front of an eagle and the rear of a lion. It's sharp talons rose forth to strike, but Alucard slided back, unsheating his thunderbrand and thrust it in the beast, activating it, sending millions of volts streaking across it. It collapsed dead.
Alucard: Well, that wasn't too hard... It rose anew, now mutated. It's body was now human-like, holding razor sharp talon swords. It sliced countlessly at him, trying to decapitate him until a silver streak came flying and lodged itself in it's face, making it moan in agony followed by a blue streak that cut it apart.
Magus: Abyssal griffins... Just can't be killed until you return their silver feather situated somewhere within 500 meters... From the beast's torn body came the demon familiar and they left for the next area.