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LDN: Hey all you lovely folks reading my story, here is the 4th chapter. I hope you enjoy it. This one actually has dialogue and action in it, so please enjoy. Don't forget to review after you read. Thanks! By the way today is my Birthday! Wow how time flies. ^_^
Chapter 4- Within the Castle Walls
I walked tentatively across the drawbridge and into the courtyard of the castle. As soon as I stepped off the drawbridge, it immediately closed behind me, locking me in. I walked through the small quiet courtyard and into the castle through its huge double doors.
So, truly, here I was again. I had been running from my destiny for so long and it finally caught up to me. I guess it didn't do me any good to run. Fate, destiny, it's inevitable. So now that I was kindly reminded, I needed to find Lydie. Something inside me told me that I needed to find Maxim first.
If I found him, I would find Lydie. But it wouldn't be that simple, it never is, or would it? No, I think not. I know that they will be in the farthest, highest, room of the entire castle. I also knew that there would be many battles between me and Dracula's minions.
Looks like I have a lot of exploring and fighting to do. Sounds great, I need to test my skills, to see if I was still at my sharpest. I think my skills are fine though. I destroyed the vampire in the graveyard quite easily.
"Hello Juste." I heard a familiar voice say my name. Their tone was friendly. A tone you use to greet a friend. A friend that was close to you, maybe a childhood friend. No, it can't be this easy. I raised my eyes up to the stairs where the voice had come from. There he stood, very relaxed. Like things had never changed.
He was dressed in black trousers. He wore a black jacket with a gold pattern that ran along the collar and length of it. Nothing underneath the jacket, but his pale vampiric flesh. He was never very modest. His black wavy hair hung loosely past his shoulders. He was dressed in the clothes he had been buried in, but they weren't dirty or tattered. They looked very brand new. Across his chest ran a brown leather strap, the sheath for his sword. His sword was called the Stellar Sword and it was sheathed to his back. His sword was powerful. More powerful then my whip, I wasn't sure anymore, but I guess I would find out soon enough.
"Maxim." I greeted him, but unlike his tone mine was detached.
"It's been a long time since I've seen you old friend." His tone still friendly.
"Yes, it's hard to stay in touch when you're dead." I replied. He laughed at my comment. "You were dead. Why aren't you dead?"
"Dracula reanimated me." He said vaguely.
So he was some kind of walking corpse, animated for a sole purpose. Maybe he was a zombie, not a vampire. His hazel eyes gave an eerie glow, that I noticed it even where I stood. Despite the fact that there was quite a distance between us.
"I know what you're thinking Juste, and no. I am a vampire." He told me.
Was he reading my thoughts? Not very likely, as the chosen one I have many special abilities to protect me. "It's impossible!" I shook my head as I said the words. "You were dead and the dead can't become vampires." I said logically.
He shrugged his shoulders. "Whatever you want to believe Juste." He said unaffected.
"Fine." I told him. I didn't have time to argue with him about how you become a vampire. "Where's Lydie?" I demanded.
"She's safe for now." He said simply. "Safer then you are at the moment."
I eyed him, confusion on my face. "What do y-" I cut off at mid-sentence. I wasn't safe anymore, something was coming. I could feel it.
"Have fun Juste! I'll see you later, if you survive that is." Maxim said cheerfully and he laughed. A deep throaty laugh and he walked out of my sight.
I'll worry about him later, because yes I would survive. Right now I had other problems. Six separate problems to be exact. Six vampires stood around me, fangs exposed, hissing and ready for dinner. The only problem with that was that I was the main course.
I wasn't scared, no reason to be scared, yet. With one quick fluid motion, I grabbed my whip. While I struck out with it using one hand, my other hand dug into my sack full of holy water. Simultaneously the whip struck one vampire, coiling around his neck and the blessed whip burned through the skin where it touched. Causing the vampire to scream out in agony and he turned to dust. While the vampire was being dusted, my other hand had thrown holy water vials and caught two more vampires. The holy water burned them too death. They too screamed in anguish.
Before the whip came back down, I snapped it again getting another vampire. Four down and two too go. The other two vampires stepped back in fear. They didn't seem very brave anymore. I swung the whip over head and caught another one, turning him to dust. Now it was one on one, but the vampire didn't seem too eager to fight. He wanted to run, I could see it in his eyes, but he seemed frozen. I decided to give him a chance to flee, but instead he did something I didn't expect. He talked to me.
"You're a Belmont?" He asked his eyes wide.
"Yes, I am." I said proudly. I smiled at him and I threw a vial of holy water at him. My smiling face was the last thing he saw and he burned to death. I stepped through the remnants of the vampires and headed upstairs. I had to find Maxim and let him know I had survived. I knew he would enjoy the news greatly. I could picture the look on his face when I would see him and it made me smile, in a maniacal sort of way.
LDN: Yeah, another chapter complete. So what did you think? Drop me a review to let me know. I love hearing people's thoughts on the story. So as a birthday present to me, you can review. That's a great present believe me! I love getting reviews! So come on review, you know you want too! ^_~ LOL