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LDN: Oh my God you guys I am so sorry for taking a year and a couple of months to update this story. Truly I am. I really lost the inspiration to continue it and I have been working on other fics, so yeah enough excuses. Thanks for the reviews: PoisonousFlower, MelodyReiterLee, Athar-Luna, Nickolaus Pacione, XIII. Thanks again and please enjoy the chapter. Again sorry for the really late update.
Chapter 6- Comforting Illusions
I was enveloped in warmth, someone held me close to them. My eyes were closed but somehow I knew that what I was feeling was true. Lazily, I willed my eyes to open and when they slowly did, I looked up into the lovely face of my wife.
"Lydie." I breathed out in disbelief. "Is it really you?"
She nodded her head slowly. "Juste, it's me." She told me.
I lifted my upper body away from her arms, reluctantly leaving the warmth of her body as I peered into her loving face. I sat beside her looking into her brilliant green eyes, slightly glazed over with unshed tears. Seeing her on the verge of tears was heart wrenching. "Shhh," I whispered to her as I leaned forward, holding her close to me. I placed my lips against her ear, stroking her blond hair with my other hand. "Don't cry. I'm here. I'm going to get us out of here." I told her.
A small whimper escaped from her lips. "I'm scared." She told me as she grasped me tightly.
"Don't be scared. I won't let anything happen to you." I told her. "I promise." I added to reassure her.
"Oh Juste!" She exclaimed softly. "You shouldn't make promises you can't keep."
"What?" I asked perplexed still in her arms. I began to have a feeling that something was wrong and I felt my body tense.
She smiled at me, but it wasn't the smile I had normally seen. It was more of an evil looking smirk. She leaned closer to me, placing her lips to my ear, like I had done earlier. "I said don't make promises that you can't keep." She repeated, but mid-way through her words her voice changed. It was higher, shriller.
"Who the hell are you?" I asked her in an irritated voice. This was another mind game, I just knew it. I didn't move away from her. I wanted her to know that I wasn't afraid of her, no matter what she was. She wasn't a vampire though, I could tell. "Well?" I prompted when she didn't reply.
"You think you're so brave," She told me in that shrill voice of hers. "But I know that you are afraid." I scoffed at her comment as she pressed on, her lips still by my ear. "I know that you fear for the woman, that I resemble at the moment and you should." She told me as she moved her face to look at me with Lydie's green eyes. She smiled as she looked at my face. I must have looked unnerved by her comment and honestly I was.
That was it, I had had enough and I pushed her away from me. She laughed as she stumbled backwards and I didn't say a word. I just watched her, anger and contempt boiling inside me.
"It seems I hit a nerve, a sensitive spot in the vampire hunter's armor." She said mockingly.
"Enough of this!" I shouted, my patience gone. "Show your true form and let's get on with this!" I grasped down to my waist to get my whip, but it was…gone. Damn!
"It seems you are unarmed." The woman told me, her voice still mocking. She smirked as she morphed in front of me. Lydie seemed to melt right in front of my eyes and she was replaced by a woman with brown hair and brown eyes. She was dressed, if you could call what she wore as clothes, in garments that left little to the imagination. They were a black material, maybe leather and they were very tight on her body. She looked seductive, like a harlot. Immediately it dawned on me who she was.
"Succubus!" I said softly.
She looked at me and nodded. "Yes, the woman of every man's dreams." She said and she moved her hips suggestively.
"Not this man's." I told her defiantly.
"That can be easily remedied." She told me. She pressed a hand to her lips and as she pulled it away, some pink dust wafted through the air toward me. I gazed at it apprehensively as it advanced toward me, circled around me in the air and seeped into my nostrils. Immediately she smiled at me in satisfaction.
She walked toward me and as she did she retook Lydie's form. "Juste, my love," She said as she approached me. "I've missed you."
Immediately my face broke into a smile. "I've missed you too." I told her and I bowed. I bowed really low with my hand behind my back and as I straightened up, my hand remained at my back.
She was inches away from me. "Juste, give me a kiss." She whispered.
"Of course my love." I replied in an obedient voice. "Come closer." She reached me and licked her pale rose lips as she placed her hands on my chest. I bent forward to kiss her and just as our lips were about to touch, I drew my hand from behind my back and stuck the dagger deep into her chest. Her mouth was open wide in shock as she stumbled back, the dagger sticking out of her chest.
"How?" She gasped as I walked toward her; Lydie's form had dissolved again. "How could you resist my charms?" She asked astonished.
I stood in front of her and smiled. "I'm a Belmont," I told her. "I don't fall for cheap magic tricks." I added and I pulled the dagger out of her chest. I stepped back as she writhed, screeched and then finally vanished.
I leaned down and placed the dagger back in my boot sheath where it had been hidden before. I turned and standing by the door was the rotting corpse that had attacked me before. Before I could say a thing he spoke first.
"So you got passed her?" He asked me.
"So it would seem." I told him with a smirk.
"Even without your whip," He said observantly. "You must be strong, but not stronger then me."
My smirk faltered at his words. "We shall see about that." I told him.
"We shall," he replied. "But not right now." He threw me my whip and I caught it by reflex. Then he simply disappeared, leaving me perplexed in the room where I had fought the Succubus.
LDN: There ya go around chapter complete. Oh and yes I know that Juste never battled the Succubus(er I think he didn't. Has been a long time since I played the game), but you can't have a Castlevania fic without her. She's in most of the games. : ) So thanks for reading, please review.