LOVE HINA: REINCARNATED SOUL
Love Hina is the property of Ken Akamatsu, Castlevania is the property of Konami, except for Gabriel Belmont he is mine.
AUTHOR'S NOTES: Hello and welcome back. Glad to see you here, I hope you enjoy chapter twelve. I know I enjoyed writing it, now though be prepard to see if Gabriel can defeat Dracula and his minions and save the girls. Let us wish him luck cause he'll need it. See you later everyone.
CHAPTER TWELVE: BURNING TOWN AND THE FOREST OF MONSTERS
(Cross Your Heart)
"Cross your hearts guys I'll be back as soon as I can, promise." says Gabriel as he heads down the steps of the Hinata apartments at full speed. He is attacked by a few skeletons and bats but easily dispatches them but before he reaches the streets an axe knight stands before him. It attacks him by swiping it's axe at him several times but Gabriel dodges the attack and strike the axe knight with the whip of lightning and brings it to it's knees before quickly finishing it off. "It'll take more than some old suit of armor to stop me. Now to take out the other monsters in town." says Gabriel.
(End of song)
(Opposing Bloodlines)
Gabriel reaches the streets of Hinata and runs through them finding a number of monsters along the way, mostly more skeletons which he takes out with quick and deadly efficiency. He soon comes across the main reason the town is ablaze. Skelton apes throwing barrels of gunpowder about are causing the fires. He destroys any he finds as to stop any more fires from starting, but as he continues on through the burning streets he finds a mother and her daughter being attacked by a group of skeletons.
"Get away from them right now you undead freaks! Why don't you try me on for size you bunch of boneheads!" yells Gabriel to the group of skeletons as they lose intrest in the mother and daughter. They turn to Gabriel and screech at him and lunge forward in an attempt to hit him with their bone clubs, but as they do Gabriel attacks first."Holy Water!" he yells as he throws holy energy in an arc just in front of him it catches most of the skeletons and destroys them. The remaining skeletons he destroys with the Vampire Killer.
When the skeletons are destroyed he goes to check on the two people he saved. "Oh thank you for saveing us I was so frightened. What is going on, why are these creatures attacking?" she asks "There's no real time to explain miss. You and your daughter should get out of town for now until it's safe to come back." says Gabriel. "Yes we will but what if there are more of those things?" she asks "Don't worry I've destroyed most of them up to here so far. So the way out of town should be safe." says Gabriel.
"Thank you again you are a hero." she says "Yeah mister you're a hero go beat up those monsters." says the daughter."You got it kid those monsters don't stand a chance against me!" says Gabriel as he gives the young girl a thumbs up to make her feel better just before he continues on. Gabriel heads on through town defeating monsters and saving those he comes across. "I'll be at the edge of town soon. Then I'll have to make my way through the forest, no telling what Dracula has waiting for me there." Gabriel thinks.
(End of song)
(Heart of Fire)
As Gabriel reaches the edge of town he is meet by a minotaur, it looks at him with bloodlust in it's eyes as it snorts and raises it's large axe at him and prepares to attack. The minotaur rushes at Gabriel and slams it's axe into the ground and sends a wave of energy at him. The wave rushes past him and nicks Gabriel's side causeing him to wince."Great a minotaur this will be a rough fight, but I've got this covered. You like axes so much than here have one, Axe!" says Gabriel as he tosses out a pair of axes in a figure-eight pattern slicing up the minotaur. It screams in pain and then charges at Gabriel trying to ram him with it's horns, but Gabriel jumps over it and lands on the other side as the minotaur's head gets stuck in the side of a building traping it for the moment.
Gabriel takes the oppertunity to attack the minotaur and uses his Extinsion attack, but the minotaur quickly dislodges itself from the building and yells in a rage. It tosses it's axe up in to the air and dashes toward Gabriel, who jumps to avoid it but is caught off gaurd as the minotaur executes a rising uppercut with green flame surrounding it's fist. It hits gabriel knocking him to the ground as it lands and catches it's axe."Damn he's strong but now I'm really pissed off.Spirit Ripper!" yells Gabriel as three small yellow axes dart around Gabriel shredding the minotaur up as Gabriel attacks with his whip.The minotaur soon falls and bursts into flame as it dies.
(End of song)
As Gabriel stands there catching his breath a glowing orb filled with fire appears in mid air and falls to the ground. Gabriel walks over to it and picks it up and feels his strength returning. "My father told me about these orbs. Dracula's guardians will drop these when you kill them, they restore all of ones health." Gabriel says to himself. "Well now that the town is clear my next stop is the forest." says Gabriel as he heads towards the forest.
(Bloody Tears)
Gabriel enters the forest, he can already tell that Dracula's power has corrupted this once peacful place, and made it one of evil. He walks on a bit keeping himself on full alert for what ever might be lurking in the forest. Soon he is attacked by a warg, but the oversized wolf proves to be more bark than bite as it is easily destroyed, after the warg is destroyed other creatures come out to play.
Owl's larger than normal dive towards Gabriel in attempts to harm him but Gabriel takes them out with the Tripple Dagger attack, while giant spider's decend from the trees and throw acidic webbing at him, which he dodges and destroys using the whip of flames. Gabriel continues further through the once pristene forest until he is ambushed by a number of ghosts. The floating robed figures fly towards him and swipe their swords at him, but Gabriel either dodges or blocks them and dispatches them with the Vampire Killer and the Aqua Disk attack as he also dodges the lanterns they held as they explode.
About halfway through the forest a large rose burst forth from the ground revealing a venus weed as well as five skeletons jumping out from nowhere. The skeletons are not what Gabriel is worried about the venus weed is. He attacks with the whip of flames as he dodges the roses that the venus weed throws at him as well as the vines she causes to rise from the ground. He quickly takes out the skeletons and unleashes his Rapid Slash attack giving the venus weed a much needed pruning as it were.
Just before Gabriel is about to leave the forest he enters a clearing and hears a howl from a wolf. He braces himself for whatever is coming at him as a beastly figure jumps out of the trees into the air and lands about ten feet from him. Now that Gabriel gets a good look at the creature he realises what it is "A werewolf! Should have known I'd have to fight one here, but I know how to deal with overgrown hairballs like you." says Gabriel as the werewolf growls at him.
(End of song)
(Heart of Fire)
The werewolf lunges at Gabriel biteing and clawing at him but Gabriel dodges the attacks easily and counters with his own "Blade Serpent!" yells Gabriel as a chain of daggers homes in on the werewolf and weaves in and out causing it grevious damage. The werewolf cries in pain and then swipes at Gabriel and throws a fireball at him which manages to strike Gabriel causing him to stager back. "Nice trick fleabag but it'll take more than that." says Gabriel as he strikes out whith his whip hitting the werewolf with three powerful strikes.
The werewolf runs at Gabriel but as it does so it's body is surrounded in energy as it rams in to him but Gabriel manages to block the attack and counters with the Fast Rising and an Energy Blast knocking the werewolf on it's back. The werewolf quickly gets to it's feet and jumps high in the air and dives toward the ground slaming it's fist into the ground causing waves of energy to eminate from the impact. Gabriel jumps into the air to aviod the waves and executes an axe kick against the werewolf as his foot is surrounded in fire. As he lands Gabriel uses the Neddle Claw attack to finish the werewolf off.
(End of song)
The werewolf drops to it's knees and reverts to it's human form as it is consumed by fire leaving no sign that it was ever there. When the werewolf is gone another orb appears and falls to the ground, Gabriel picks it up as it restores all his health. Gabriel takes a quick breath as he looks towards Castlevania. "I'm almost there. I can't fail them, not again. I will save you all. Shinobu,wait for me. I'm coming to save you." says Gabriel but as he heads to the castle he hears a noise from behind him.
END CHAPTER 12
AUTHOR'S NOTES: I know this chapter may seem short compared to the others but since it as well the next eight are more centered around Gabriel going through the castle and fighting monsters there won't be a huge amount of talking save for the ocassional talk with a boss monster or one of the Hinata girls after he's rescued them. So I apologize in advance if this makes anyone angry. So tune in next time as Gabriel enters Castlevania itself to begin his real quest. Please read and review.
SONGS: Cross Your Heart from Haunted Castle
Opposing Bloodlines from Dracula X
Heart of Fire from Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow
Bloody Tears from Castlevania Chronicles (Playstation version)