Vlad Dracula meets a strange man while looking back on the memory of his lost one. However, things become more morbid as Dracula looks towards this man for answers to his many questions.

Chapter 3

"Vlad Dracula", says the man whom Dracula had met on the hilltop overlooking a doomed village, "I have known you from the day you were brought to this world. I wanted to be with all your life. Now, the time has come for me to become your, for you may need guidance in your new life."

"I am sure that I was dead", Dracula said. "Why am I still alive?"

"You are alive for a purpose, my friend."

"How was I able to return to life?"

"A priest, together with four companions had discovered your body long before it was laid to rest in its final place of burial. They have called upon my name and my power manifested within them, therefore enabling them to bring you back to achieve your goal upon this earth."

"What is that goal?"

"You were always destined to have dominion among men. You did not know that your kingdom was beyond Wallachia. You have a tremendous gift, dear prince."

Vlad stopped and pondered. "Yes," he said. "My dream was to extend my reign. There were men, whose only goal was to end that dream. I eliminated them."

"Yes," said the man. "Man's only principle is taking. They care not for each other and themselves."

"My wife, Elisabetha," said Dracula "She was not like these men. She was my life. We loved each other so. When she died, I died."

"Elisabetha, my friend, was a distraction."

"A distraction! How could you say that?"

"She was a distraction for you. A distraction from being ruler of this world."

"No! I don't want to believe that!"

"Oh, she was, my friend. You cannot allow men take your mind from your destiny."

Dracula began to think. "I worked hard to receive the throne of Wallachia." He said. "With God's help, I became ruler."

"God?" said the man. "God only exists to steal men's hopes and dreams. Man turns to God because he is weak and God takes advantage of man's weakness. God promises life if you turn to Him and at the end you only receive hardship and death. God makes false promises. He has controlled men to write His word in what is called the Bible so that He may deceive mankind for many generations."

Dracula nodded thoughtfully. "God has created this world as a gift to man, only take it back," continued the man. "God promises to give but He only takes. He took away your wife."

"It was the army of Turkey," said Dracula.

"It was God. He promises He will never leave you forsake you. That was a promise He had made to you and Elisabetha. He had forsaken your wife, and He had forsaken you."

"The Turks sent the message…"

"God has manifested in man to do His will. He has created them in his image. Proud, sadistic, greedy and neglectful. He has created man to destroy this world of yours. They constantly fight and bicker. Man is no different from God. They steal and lie to each other. God has placed on Earth clergymen to preach lies to men and to steal their hard earnings. Those priests who have lectured you have lied to you. They preached that men who turn to God will be with him in heaven. When Elisabetha died, they told you that God had cursed her soul therefore she would not be with whom they call Lord."

Dracula trembled with range. All what this man have said was very convincing. He thought about the life he had worshipping God, of all the promises that were preached to him of God's plan for his life. God had indeed forsaken Elisabetha, He had forsaken him on the battlefield, and, He had forsaken him to his death. It seemed as if the years that he had worshipped the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords was all for naught. With tears running down his cheeks he asked "How do you know all this?"

"I told you," said the man, "I know all life's questions."

"Who are you?"

The man sighed. "I was once the ruler of a great ruler of a host of angles in this God's kingdom of heaven," said the man. "As time went on, I saw through the great plan God for mankind. His plan was the total destruction of human life from the beginning of the creation of the Earth. I took it upon myself to put a stop to it so me and my host of angles began a revolution in the heavens to save mankind. This revolution failed. I was cast out of heaven along with my host of angles and we became stranded on Earth. On this Earth, I created my vast kingdom and as the years grew it stretched to all the corners of this world because there were men who were willing to follow me. Through the generations I have been known by many names. You can call me Damien.