(I don't own Digimon or Castlevania. I hope you all like Countess Rika. Hehehe...)

Takato stood there, in the master bedroom. There was no sign of Rika or anything. The candles seemed to have gone out, leaving the room in pitch black. Takato cursed himself for leaving behind his candelabrum behind. He felt a slight draft to his left and saw an open window. The black satin curtains flew flapped about in the wind like the wings of a great bird. He ran over to the window and stuck his head out. Down below, he saw a descending cliff, and a raging ocean before. "Woah... I wouldn't want to fall. I'd be killed instantly. I wonder if Rika escaped this way... Of course she could. She's a vampire, she could fly... Or did she teleport? Vampires have all sorts of strange powers... Some of them are actually attractive. But Rika is beyond attractive... No human girl could ever have the amount of beauty and sex appeal she had. She's like something out of dark, tempting fantasy..." He slapped his forehead. "Damnit! Why do I keep thinking about her...? Now, I have that kiss to think about... It's like she wants me to come after her..." Takato now had an almost worldwide hunt for Countess Rika. He looked behind him and saw a door, that wasn't there before. His curiosity getting the best of him, he walked over to the door and opened it. He stepped into pitch darkness... Suddenly he saw a light up above... It was the moon. He was outside, and the eerie castle was gone... Nothing was left but a few ruins. This freaked Takato out a bit, as now, it was like the castle had not existed for many years. He walked back to town, noticing the graveyard had disappeared as well. He once again heard the eerie wolf howl, but he knew now, it was a regular wolf, probably far away. Suddenly, he heard a familiar voice.

"Takato!"

He turned to his right to see Ryo running towards him.

"Takato! You're safe. I just saw the castle crumble before my very eyes. Then, I found you wandering about. What happened?"

Takato retold what had happened inside the castle.

Ryo had a serious look on his face. "So... She's escaped to Greece now, hm? We better pursue her tomorrow morning. I know of someone who can help. Remember that bartender? He's also a pilot. He's agreed to help us out."

"Great. It'll be quite tiring to try and pursue Rika by foot."

The 2 head back to town, where everyone awaited Takato's arrival. When they saw hinm come into town, they all cheered.

Takato was taken aback by this greeting and wondered what all the fuss was about. A mustachioed man came and slapped him on the back. "Congratulations, boy!"

"For what?"

"Why, for fending off the Countess. Her evil presence had terrified our land for many a night. People even disappeared because of her... But, thanks to you, the curse has been lifted from our village." For the rest of the night, everyone celebrated and held a party in Takato's honor.

Takato was getting another drink of cider, when he saw Henry approach him.

"Good day, Takato. I assume Ryo told you."

"Yeah. I didn't know you were a pilot as well. So, can you get me to Greece, as soon as possible? I have a hunch Rika might be flying over there..."

"Indeed I can. I have an airship that can get us there in no time. But not tonight, we should rest first..."

After the celebration winded down, Takato was at the inn, sleeping. In his dreams, he found himself, in a dark eerie forest. The bare trees looked like monstrous hands, threatening to grab Takato and tear him to pieces. Suddenly, a giant, skeletal hand burst out of the ground and grabbed Takato by his neck, pulling him into the earth. Takato felt like was being buried alive, the dirt smashing against his face. He finally found himself within a dark cavern. The hand let go and forcefully drew back, clawing the flesh of Takato's neck in the process. He grunted in pain and clutched his bleeding neck. He took his hands back and saw them red, with blood. He looked up to face a hill of rotted skulls.

Lying on top was none other than Rika. Her body was laid out in a seductive pose. Her long legs were stretched out and leaning against the skulls. Her back was arched forward, jutting out her voluptuous chest. Her strawberry-blond hair hung loosely around her. Her blood red lips were pulled up in a smirk, with a trickle of human blood running down.

Takato closed his eyes and shook his head. When he opened them she was gone. He suddenly felt an odd sensation on his neck. He realized that Rika was licking his neck, his wounds no doubt.

Rika seductively licked Takato's wounded neck tasting the blood lustfully. She traced a finger gently on one of the scratches, getting Takato's blood on it. She licked the blood of her finger slowly.

Takato moaned in pleasure. Not only did it feel good, but it actually took away the pain.

Rika gently touched Takato's face and made him face her. "I've gotten a rough idea of what you taste like..." She said with a smile. "But now, it's time for me to get a full idea, and also show you how I taste..." She licked her lips slowly, bringing them closer to Takato's, closer... closer...

Takato woke up with a start. His heart was beating non-stop, and his face was completely flushed and sweaty. He had never had a dream like, THAT before. He looked outside his window, just in time to see the sun rising. "I can't get that vampire princess out of my mind... But, why do I have these fantasies of her? I can't think about this now..." He got out of bed, got dressed and took his vampire killer with him. As he went downstairs, he saw Ryo, dressed in some sort of jumpsuit with a leather belt, a cape, and he was brandishing a long spear.

"I'm a vampire hunter myself you know. I think I can help you out. Henry's waiting outside. He's got the airship we can use."

Takato followed Ryo outside to find Henry waiting for him. Beside him was a girl, younger than him.

"Hey, Henry? Who's she?"

"This is Suzy. She's my little sister. When she heard I was taking you guys to Greece, she insisted on helping."

The little girl smiled shyly. "I promise I won't be a hindrance. I can manage the ship as well. I've packed food, water, supplies, and everything we need."

Takato looked up at the rising sun. "Well, let's go!" Takato and Ryo boarded the ship just as it was burning up. It slowly began to rise into the air. Takato looked down and saw people waving to them. Being a polite man, he waved back to them, as did Ryo. He watched as they got smaller and smaller, until they couldn't be seen at all.

The airship rose into the sky and turned in the direction of Greece. It began to move slowly, but began to pick up speed gradually.

Takato looked out the window and saw nothing but sky and clouds. The sky was a brilliant orange as the red sun began to rise into the sky. It was beautiful, but Takato was concerned. "Red sky at night, sailor's delight; red sky in the morning sailor's warning."

"What does that mean?" Ryo asked Takato.

"It's an old saying for weather predictions. Red skies at nighttime mean good weather tomorrow morning. But in this case, a red sky in the morning, it's a storm warning. Boy, I sure hope the storm doesn't hit us while we're in the air..."

"Hmm... I think we might be able to make it to Greece before the storm hits. As long as we don't run into any of Rika's forces..."

"Yeah, you might be right..."

A few hours passed and the group was now out of Romania, and in the skies of Bulgaria. The skies had gone dark with heavy clouds. Distant thunder was being heard. Takato looked out on the horizon of the airship and suddenly saw a flash of lightning in the distance. He walked form the passenger hold to the cockpit, and opened the door.

"Uh, Henry... There's a storm coming... Don't you think we should land?"

"I don't think the storm is going to be deadly. We're fine for now. At the first spot of trouble, we'll land."

Elsewhere, from in the sky, a man with glasses and magician robes watched them. "He he he... So they think they can get to Greece with no problem eh? I'll fix them." Kenta spread his arms, and vanished. He reappeared inside the storm clouds and conjured a shining ball above him. He chanted something incoherent and the ball began to glow and sprinkle water... LOTS of water. The cloud began to rumble threateningly... Suddenly, Rain began to blast out from the cloud.

Takato and the others were shocked by the sudden heavy rainfall. As if it wasn't bad enough, lightning flashed all around them. Heavy winds rocked and rolled the airship, tossing it about. The hunters were caught in a hurricane...

"This is bad! This hurricane just came out of nowhere! It's almost like magic!" Takato said.

"Maybe it's from one of Rika's minions! It must be a sorcerer of some sort..." Ryo suggested.

The ship suddenly lurched to the side, sending Takato and Ryo into the wall. Lighting suddenly flashed and hit the outside deck of the ship, setting it on fire.

"FIRE ON DECK!" Henry yelled. "EMERGENCY!"

Takato and Ryo raced towards the fire. They put up their coats and felt the rain pelt against their faces. They threw damp blankets over the fire trying to extinguish it. The fire was becoming bigger. Other areas were slightly ablaze as well. Ryo rushed off to take care of those areas. While Takato dealt with the large flame, he also had to stamp out the smaller flames which seemed to scatter everywhere. The fire almost seemed like it was alive... It was. The wet blanket flew off and the fire seemed to unearth a growl. Takato looked in horror as he saw an eerie skeletal face within the flame, covered with a bit of flesh. He slowly backed away.

Ryo had managed to extinguish the other flame and had just come to Takato to help. Then he saw the fire ghost.

"Takato!" He rushed in with his spear forward, and jabbed at the creature, who seemed to block the attack with some sort of fire wall.

Takato tried whipping at the skull directly, but the flames around it would flash up and block the attack. Three more skulls appeared at the sides of the present skull. One of them lashed a tongue of fire at Ryo.

Ryo saw a tongue of fire come out of one skull's mouth and jumped out of the way. The spot that was hit caught-fire immediately. Ryo stamped it out and tried to spike the center of the flames. The fire would only increase and blind him.

Takato was having no such luck either. Another skull shot a flame dart at him. Takato ducked as the dart hit his coat. He tore of the blazing coat immediately and threw it over. He tried his mace again and swung hard. The flame shielded the skull and merely pushed his mace backwards. More bolts of flame were shot. Takato veered off to the side, as the flames shot past him but hit the side of the outside wall. "This phantom's trying to set the whole ship ablaze!" He yelled to Ryo. There's got to be some way to stop this... I've got it!" Takato ran inside to the ship, leaving Ryo to fend of the Fire Ghost. Takato ran into the ship's storage hold and found 2 kegs of water. "This could be the answer... It's strange how the rain isn't extinguishing the flame. This storm's magic generated. Whoever is causing it made sure that this rain doesn't harm the fire creature. But some regular, real, water will do some damage." He rushed outside to find Ryo being cornered by flames all around. "Ryo! I'm coming!" The ship suddenly shook with the wind, knocking Takato over. He fell into the railing but kept himself from going over. He looked down and saw only clouds. "I hate to fall from here..." He got up and picked up one keg. He threw it at the flame creature. It shattered, spilling water all over. The beast screamed as its flames died down... Takato tossed another near Ryo, and the flames around him were extinguished. They looked towards their flaming foe, and watched as it was writhing in pain. Takato swung his chain mace at the Skulls. It was too weak to defend itself this time and the mace smacked its core cracking it greatly, and ripping off bits of flesh...

Ryo thrust his spear at the skeletal, fleshy mass. His spear tore through the bit of flesh, showing some more bone and causing black oily blood to slop out.

The flame beast breathed fire from both sides that the 2 men were on, but they managed to veer to the side.

Takato launched his mace and smacked the demon. A loud crunching sound was heard as pieces of bone and flesh were ripped off and sent over board. Flames spiraled out of control. Takato took out a vial of Holy water and threw it at the core. A boiling, hissing sound was heard as it ate away at the fleshy skulls. The demon shrieked in pain and agony as its flames died down once more.

Takato and Ryo nodded to each other and with a thrust and swing both tore into the fiends face, pushing it over the side. Blood, flesh and fire spewed out from the thing's face as it fell to the ground, screaming into the abyss...

Kenta watched from within the clouds, he hissed in anger, showing his long fangs. "SHIT! They destroyed my flame ghost! I'll teach them!" He waved his hands.

A bolt of lighting struck from the cloud and hit the airship, right where's its engine was. Everyone was thrown back to the floor.

Henry yelled on the intercom. "WE'VE BEEN HIT EMERGENCY LANDING!" The ship began to descend gradually, but suddenly it began to drop faster...

Ryo held on to the railing. "Where are we now!"

"We should be over Greece right now!" Takato yelled. "But this is not exactly how I wanted to come in! WOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!" The ship dropped faster, faster... It disappeared form the clouds, and spiraled down, towards the ground... How would Takato fare?

(Cliffhanger! What a nail biter... How will Takato and Co. survive the crash! Say tuned! R+R)