CastleVania: A Family's Curse
Chapter 1: Showdown with the Dark Prince
"huff...huff...huff..." A man races down a dark hall, filled with lighted candels. This man is Christopher Belmont.
The year is 1576, and Dracula's doomed castle, Castle Dracul, or CastleVania has arisen. Being part of the House
of Belmont, the only known warriors powerful enogh to face the dark prince, he has set off to the castle.
" I must be close. His hall is coming up." He races past a long, foreboding table, where many
a dark soul must have sat when Dracula was human. He suddenly runs into a dark room, with a throne made of skulls,
sits Vlad Tepes II...Dracula.
" So, you have finally made it to my chambers, Belmont. You have yet to realize that your world is doomed.
Even now, my dark army has arisen and is attacking Warakiya at this very moment."
Cristopher walks into the dark room, edging closer to the throne. " Foul beast of Lucifer, you do not belong in
this world. I have come ordained by the holy power of Jesus to send you back to damnation!" He unfurls his whip,
giving it a quick, deafening snap. Dracula gets up, his dark robes tumbling down to the floor, and throws the glass of blood on the floor.
" ORDAINED BY THE HOLY POWER OF JESUS? DON'T MAKE ME LAUGH! THE ONLY TRUE POWER
IS THAT OF TOTAL DARKNESS! He is a faith long in need of reshaping...and after i take over the world with my
unholy powers, I will take on EVEN JESUS HIMSELF!."
With these sharp words, Dracula pulls out a longsword and charges for Christopher. He runs, whip ready, to attack also.
Dracula swings with his sword, barely hitting Christopher's armored chest. Quickly, he returns the attack by speeding to
Drac's back and releases his whip. It hits it mark, between the shoulder blades .
"AAAAARRRGGHHHH!" He teleports, reappears in the other side of the room.
" Taste my dark powers!" He opens his cape, and releases three powerful balls of hellfire. Quickly thinking, Christopher, sidesteps out of the way, and throws a holy cross at Dracula. It flies staright into the Count's arm.
Ripping it out of his arm, he throws it to the ground with disgust. He swipes his sword, swinging downwards as Christopher dogdges. " You'll never win, fiend!" SNAP! his whip slashes at Dracula's chest, weakening him. Relentlessly, he attacks, Dracula, eventually bringing him to his knees. Christopher triumphantly before his weakened foe." Now, demon... back to the depths of Hell were you belong!" Grinning evilly, he gets up.
"ENOUGH! IM TIRED OF ENTERTAINING YOU MORTAL! FEEL THE TRUE POWER OF THE NIGHT!"
Christopher is knocked back by a sharp blinding light that surrounds the Count. The entire room slowly is bathed in an unholy light as Dracula changes shape. As the dark light fades, the form of a giant bat is seen. The wingspan strerches almost 25 feet in length, sharp razors hang out of his wings. " Now, you will fall before my might!" The Bat-Dracula opens his mouth and fires a dark yellow beam of fire at Christopher. " Damn, this is great. How am i supposed to defeat a super Dracula?"
in the corner of the room, the cross he used earlier shines from the blast. "hmmm... i have an idea." he runs over to the cross,
faking out Dracula and dodgeing the blasts. Rolling on the ground, he grabs the cross, and , as he holds up the cross, it is hit by his power. " By the power obtained in this cross, and the power of Jesus Christ, our lord and saviour, i call upon the power of the Fire Whip!" Releasing his whip, a holy blueish white fire envelopes the Vampire Killer. He rushes towards the count, and
throws all his power into one crack, that hits Dracula in his head. " NOOOOOOOOO! I CANT BE DEFEATED AGAIN! CURSE YOU BELMONT! I WILL BE BACK FOR YOU! YOUR CHILDREN WILL NEVER BE SAFE! YOUR CHILDREN"S CHILDREN WILL KNOW MY WRATH!" A holy light bathes the dark halls of Castlevania, eventually
callapsing in on Dracula. Christopher starts running out of the crumbling old building. Dodgeing the falling debris, he makes out of the dark stair way to Dracula's chambers as it callapses into itself. As the Dark halls crumble, many of the evil beings in the castle and in Warakiya are pulled back into hel or simply die, their only link into the mnortal realm severed.
Christopher makes it to the Borgo Pass, a cliff overlooking the area the now ruined castle is. Breathing a sigh of relief, he walks intothe sunlight, hero to all and protector of Romania once again.
That night, a dark mist looms the now destroyed castle. And although he was defeated, and powers nullified from the holy fire of heaven, Dracula was still alive...Barely.
By: William Morrison
