CastleVania: Senshi for Hire 2

NOTE: It's back. The sequal to my very first fic ever made & posted at CV Dungeon. All characters are own by KONAMI. Cept for Vanessa/YingGirl, Koko, Katrice, and Alessa/YangGirl. It's modern day encounters the bad guys from Lamment of Innocence, plus the truth behind the connection between Death & YingGirl.

Here's something interesting, despite the fact they're both vampires...Walter & Joachim both have weaknesses to the cross & holy water relic.

Reason; the cross is considered to be one of the greatest symbols to represent the church and Christainity. Water, on the other hand, is normally used as a cleasing agent to purge away evil spirits. Holy water was normally used on dead bodies to make sure they don't come back as vampires. Plus vampires can't cross running water.

(Picked up most of this info from my vampire book.)

Could explain why Joachim was stuck in that room until you flipped the switches that took away the waterfall in front of the door and the bridge so Leon can enter.

But why is Joachim also weaken by ice? Even though ice is solid water, it is still water. Now, back to the fic.

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It confused both the rabbit and the strange visitor.

Why would the whip be made by a vampire? It just didn't make any sense. YingGirl was nursing her bandaged up hand while her rabbite friend, Katrice, was staring at the steel tipped whip, pondering why such a great weapon used by humans to deal away with the creatures of the night was made by one of them?

Neither of them had noticed the stranger floated downwards to comfront them. He was a fairly skinned and well dressed gentleman. He was wearing violet overcoat that was clasped by a designied mail. The oddity this gentleman had is that his hair was completely silver, but he looked very young. The rabbit and the young lady raised their head to notice the stranger. He placed a hand on his chest and raised his other as a gesture to help the short skirted girl up.

"...Even though you're awfully weak," he said, "we both have the same goals."

"We do?" Katrice asked.

"Yes, we do. We both want to get rid of Walter, the master of this castle."

Ying lowered her head, placing her had on her forehead as she looked down, staring at the whip.

"...Walter..." YingGirl began, "...What an odd name for a vampire..."

The silver haired gentleman smiled a for a little. Such fools these recent vampire hunters are.

Grabbing her arms, he helped the young hunter back on her feet once more.

"I may be some assitance of your little quest," he replied, "and it seems you need all the help you can get." He looked towards her bandage up hand after finishing up his sentance.

"...I guess so," YingGirl replied, "thank you for your help."

"Follow me." The silver haired man began to float towards a direction. It didn't freak the rabbit or the lady at all since this was the castle where oddities and strangeness such as this happen normally.

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The phone rang. Alessa placed the potrait down and quietly walked as she went to pick up the phone on the coffee table.

"I wish to speak to your sister," the voice from the phone said.

"Sorry Alucard," Alessa replied, "Vaness is not here. I've been trying to contact her and it seems like she's not answering. Guess she hadn't come back from the kaokee bar. Though, she better come back, there has been another report of a bloodless corpse found in the forests on the news."

"...It seems like a vampire made himself know. Fortunely for you, it is not my father."

"You don't think Vanessa went after the vampire on her own?!"

"She has to, it's the call in her bloodline. Though, Belmonts were rash just heading after the vampire without being prepared."

"And my sister is probably headed straight for the vampire on her own with only that whip as a form of defence. Damnit."

"Perhaps, I should go after her."

"But before you do, Alucard...do you know anyone named 'Sara'?"

There was a dead silence on the other end of the phone.

The half-vampire then finally spoke again after the long quiet pause.

"I do know know her personally," the voice from the phone began, "all I know, from what Richter told me from my visits to his household, she was supposed to be wed to Leon, the first Belmont that appeared in the 11th century....yet that never happened."

"What happened to Sara?"

"It's what Belmonts feared. Their true loved ones become tainted by a vampire lord."

"But Dracula appeared in the 15th century..."

"It was not my father. It was another vampire, a very powerful one who carried the Ebony Stone around his neck, and lived within the forest of everlasting darkness."

Everlasting Darkness? Alessa recalled the reports on the news. The officiers who were patrolling the forests were confused. The skies grew darker whenever they ventured deep into the forest, yet when they came back out...it was clear and sunny skies.

No, it couldn't be.

"He had to quickly defeat this vampire to save his love," the voice on the phone continued, " but Leon had to complete the whip since the whip has no effect on this vampire. In order to complete it...a tainted soul had to be embedded in the whip."

"So Leon killed his only love so he may have the power to defeat this vampire?" Alessa replied.

"He did not wanted to do it, but she begged him to do so. Leon never forgave himself for what he did and took his anguish on the vampire, defeating it with such ease...only to find out he was being used like a puppet, like everyone else was."

"...What?"

"In order for the Crimson Stone to work, it needed a soul of a powerful vampire. Thus making the owner of the stone become a vampire and ruler of all the undead. My father used a vampire soul sealed into the Crimson Stone to become what he was."

"But wait! Vanessa has that stone around her neck. It's why Death acts like her servant. So why isn't she a vampire?"

All Alessa got was a hanged up response from the other end of the phone.

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The three of them had ended in another room, lead by a bridge near a large waterful. Despite where this was, the area seemed peaceful and calm.

While heading towards the room, they passed by the various monsters who roamed around in the watery quarters did not seemed to attack. They just raised their head and then turned around, going along their business...sometimes even wandering around in circles.

How very strange they didn't bother attacking the one who was going after the master of the castle.

The room that they were all in seemed dark and quiet small. The silver haired man then walked towards the center of the room.

Katrice was bothered by the fact there were five very large swords impaled into the floor. The small green rabbit also notice the vampire killer whip was reacting by glowing a light violet color, but to what was the whip reacting to?

YingGirl looked around the room before she faced the stranger.

"Is there a reason we are stopping here, Sir?" YingGirl asked.

The swords then suddenly began to raise from the ground, easily startling the young lady as she seemed to jump away raither than back away from the prescent of floating swords.

"What the?!" YingGirl cried out.

He chuckled to himself as he folded his arms and looking towards the lady as the swords started to spin around him.

"It'll be nice to defeat Walter once again," he chuckled, "and all I need is that petty locket around your neck to give him the same humiluation as he gave to me."

YingGirl then look down, placing her hand on her heart shaped locket. Ever since her locket transformed into this red coated heart after defeating the dark lord of vampires, the enemies she began fighting always wanted this locket around her neck. She even have to fight off her own mentor who wanted it so she can take over this world.

But why? What was in her locket, other than summoning the phoenix, that had so many bad guys wanting to get their hands on it?

SLASH!

She was staring at her locket that she didn't noticed onto of the floating swords striking her. The sword returned to its' master, its' blade stained in blood.

She then calmly fell on her knees and began to wrapped her arms around herself, trying to stop the bleeding of the gash she received. The green rabbit-like critter ran up towards her kneeling master.

Blood was running fast. She was panting to herself as she slowly raised her head to look at him.

He placed a finger onto the blade, tracing his finger on the blade to pick up some blood. He then brought his finger near his face, sliding his tongue onto his finger and licked off the blood. He looked towards the kneeling lady, who seemed to be still bleeding.

"Not bad for a blood from someone who hunts us," he said, "I was expecting something much sweeter, but it'll do for now."

"You're an undead bloodsucker," YingGirl began.

Five swords then charged towards her, slamming her straight onto the walls of the cave-like area. Her body began slitering down, leaving a blood stained trail on the wall. The rabbit watched it all, her beady blue eyes had gone wide for she was seeing all of it taking place right in front of her.

"YING!!!" Katrice cried out.

"Poor Walter," he sighed, "I killed off his new toy so very soon."

He floated down, touching the ground, and be began to walked towards the fallen lady. The floating swords were following the silver haired vampire as he calmly approached her.

Her head was screaming at her to do something, anything of all, but all she can do was lie there while her body was riddle in so much pain, burning from the gash wound she received.

She couldn't do anything at all. Nothing...

Is this what Alucard was trying to tell her? Despite the fact she holds a weapon passed down that slays vampires and is the only one left that is forced to hunt down these immortal bloodsuckers that prey on man....

She can never be a true hunter. She quietly closed her eyes as the blood continued to flow.

Alucard....I'm sorry.

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He carried a scythe in his boney handsas he gazed upon the castle. Yes, it was not the castle that his previous master has ressurected from his blessed powers, but it was a castle none the less. Cursed withing the stonemade walls, plastered with hidious creatures the roam around for something to eat, and ruled by a powerful vampiric lord who wielded such magic at his fingertips...

His latest master had foolishly entered the castle walls own her own.

He then raished his skull head, looking up towards the blood coated moon in the blacken night. He knew this moon was a mere illusion created by the second greatest vampire's treasures, the legendary Ebony Stone.

Since the Crimson Stone had resurfaced and is now in the hands of a pitiful young lady, its' oynx coated counter part also resurfaced, along with its' owner...the first vampire his first master, Mathias, has sealed away in the blood coated stone.

The only way to get rid of the stone, without the other stone resurfacing as well, was to destroy them both.

He could have told the Belmont to quickly destroy the Crimson Stone, but back then...he was under full control of Mathias, or should I say Count Dracula as the people normally referred him to.

Dracula saw no need for the Ebony Stone since the Crimson Stone had aided him to create the perfect domain of chaos. Vampires who were foolish enough to disobey the King of Vampires....

They had their fate sealed into that blood coated stone.

"My pretty master...." Death said, "she calls for me."

He wasn't alone to journey into the castle. He lowered his skull to only turn it around and face a fairly large bird that had pearched itself next to the cloaked skeletion. The bird seemed to be completely engulfed by fierce roaring flames or the flames were formed into a fairly large bird.

This bird wasn't no ordinary bird. In fact, the bird represented the complete opposite of what he reprsented. The firebird reprsented a symbol of everlasting hope, renewal of oneself, and rebirth.

He, on the other hand, was the bringer of the end to anyone's life and over the past centuries, a faithful servant to Count Dracula to aid him bring chaos to the world.

"My master calls for my aide too," the Phoenix began as she ruffled her feathers, "I've chosen her to be my guardian as well as my loving master."

"If the Master knew about the secrets and powers she held in her locket," Death replied, "then she will be quite as powerful as Mathias was, perhaps more."

"But she does not want power. She came to this castle to figure out why so many people are dying. She wants to help others, but sometimes, she doesn't know how or they respond to her aide crudely. Perhaps, this is why she's weak."

"Yes. And that weakness may be her downfall."

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Where was she?

Was she dead? She didn't know, her eyes were closed. She seemed to be falling...

Falling deeper into the depths of darkness. So this is what happens when one fails to defeat the powerful vampire lord of the castle.

One is trapped in limbo, floating forever in the vast darkness. She felt she was being pulled towards the depths of this

But....

A pair of soft hands managed to grab a hold onto her hand. The owner of those hands had help the young lady to stop falling. Was this woman an angel?

She smiled down at the fallen hunter. Soon, the hunter will wake up and answer the call once again.

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She opened her eyes. There was a green furred rabbit staring right in her face with her beady blue eyes. Her glasses made the rabbit creature look bigger than it actually was. The rabbit then gave a smile, looking down at her master with a grin.

She also noted that she wasn't in the magical outfit that the locket on her neck had produced her. Though she wasn't in any pain at all. She began to sit up as the rabbit hopped down from her.

Her previous injures, such as her bruised hand and the horrid gash across her chest, seem to have vanished as if they never appeared it the first placed. She was staring at her newly recovered hand, wondering how it could be possible that it could recover so quickly.

"Vaness," Katrice began, "I thought you wouldn't make it when I managed to take us to a save point."

"...S-save point?" Vanessa replied.

"Least that's what that winged rat told me."

"Winged rat?"

There was a squeak behind them. The two of them turned around, seeing a little black bat fluttering as he squeaked happily.

"...Squeaks?" Vanessa began.

The black bat squeaked again, responding to it's name. Vanessa then began to get up, picking up the whip.

"It's glad we have some company," Vanessa asked, "but where are we?"

"We are on the main entance of the castle," Katrice replied, "but we can't go back where we were. Someone, or something placed a seal on the throne room."

"What?"

"...When you were brought here, I tried to re-enter where we encountered that Walter guy, but I was knocked out by a barrier. It seems we need five magical orbs to open that door once again and we'll get the orbs by defeating the Five Guardians."

"Five Guardians??"

"Squeaks also found a room with five seperate teleportation devices. Each one will take you to a different section where one of the Guardians roam. Defeat all the Five Guardians and we'll finally give Walter our payback that he rightfully deserves."

Vanessa then stood in the center of the room. She was going to start all over again.

"...PHOENIX CRYSTAL POWER," Vanessa cried out, "MAKE UP!"

Nothing happened. The rabbit and the bat were startled. Neither one of them never saw this happening before. Vanessa then realized what was going on....

She could not transform anymore.

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Sorry for the latest installment. I'm not feeling very well.

-The Clow Hatter