Vlad Dracula discovers he has amazing agility, strength and the power to make objects move with his mind. Damien (the devil, Satan) would later reveal to Dracula that there is more, much more to the life of the vampire.

Chapter 6

It has been three days since Vlad Dracula uncovered the mystery of the vampire. He can move mountains with his mind and with his hands and he can ascend at great heights. Damien, the stranger he encountered days before had taken him to his new home Castlevania, where he was allowed to rest in his personal chambers within the midst of the mighty castle. Vlad woke up from a deep sleep, for thoughts began to hound him. He thought of Damien, the extraordinary bond they both developed. Damien was like a father to him, closer to him than a brother. He opened the door for him in his time of trouble. He owed his life to Damien. Yet, these thoughts were penetrated by the dreadful past. He thought of his late father, Vlad Dracul. He never experienced that same love he had from Damien from his own father. Vlad Dracul never believed his son. He thought of him as inferior and not worthy of his praise and young Vlad was often beaten by his father. Vlad Dracul's great love was in Dracula's youngest brother Radu. Dracula was always pushed hard from his father to succeed, but when he failed Vlad Dracul would always let him know how disappointed he was in the most demeaning manner. Dracula was very young, thus enduring years of physical and emotional abuse from his father had a profound affect on him.

Dracula looked at the ceiling of his bedroom and the torment of his childhood had plagued him. He started to tremble with range as he stared at the ceiling, thinking of how his childhood was taken away from him. He then screamed and in a flash he sprung up to the ceiling and held on. He was in shock. He looked at the ceiling and then to the floor. He began to crawl to the end of the room and then he started to crawl across the walls. With each step he took a firm grip was held. He crawled back to the center of the ceiling and stopped flat on his back. He released the ceiling and landed on the floor flat on his feet. He looked at the floor then back at the ceiling. He then looked out his window and saw the sun crawling down the west and smiled. Dusk was approaching. He turned around and there was Damien standing within his presence. "Good evening, my friend," said Damien. "Did you sleep well?

"Not really," said Dracula shaking his head.

"Well, you are awake now and night has cast its hand over the day. It is time for you to uncover many more to the life of the vampire." With those words Damien took Dracula with him, dressed him in fine clothes and carried him outside of the castle.

"Where are here," said Damien "that you may learn of the forms the vampire takes. The human form is one that man's eye is blinded to. He may think of the vampire being the one he loves and he is instantly brought down. Yet, you will cause the fall of man not only in the form of the human. The wolf is a creature that is a creature that is most powerful. At great speed it takes down its prey. The wolf is one that strikes fear in the heart of all humans. That is why man seeks to eliminate the existence of the wolf. I want you to meditate on this creature where you are right now and feel its spirit flowing throughout your body." Dracula closed his eyes to engage this experience. He could see the wolf as if it was standing in front of him. The wolf had amazing beauty. Its body showed great strength and its yellow eyes ignited a burning flame within him. The blood within his veins began to boil hot and his body began to tremble. He felt his skin burning as if it was being torn apart, then he looked at his hands and saw that they were beginning to grow long and his fingers were forming claws. He began to go upon his hands and knees like a dog and his ears began to form long and pointy. His legs began to form like hind legs, thus making his arms and legs become four legs. Thick, grey fur began to grow on his skin and his jaw protruded. He became a giant wolf. "Beautiful. Beautiful," said Dracula. "This is your power. You can take this form and man's efforts against you will be in vain. Man is out there in his home, oblivious to your existence. Feast upon his flesh." In an instant Dracula in his wolf formed dashed at great speed searching for his prey.

The night wore on and screams were being heard in every city, in every town and every village. Dracula in his new wolf form began his hunt. The blood, flesh and limbs of man, woman and even child would be scattered. Very few would escape the evil of the wolf. Before the night ended, twelve victims lay dead across the fields of Transylvania. The great wolf headed back to Castlevania where Damien was waiting in the royal chapel. The wolf scaled the walls and into the window appearing in Damien's presence. Damien was seated at a table and as the wolf arrived he turned his head and found the wolf with pitiful eyes and its jaws stained with blood. The sun began rise upon the great white castle and its rays crept inside the chapel, striking the wolf. The wolf began to tremble and then it released a howl that echoed within the castle. Its front legs formed slowly into human hands and its hind legs formed into human legs. Its grey fur began to disappear exposing dead, pale naked skin. Its long, pointy ears formed human ears and doglike face formed a human face. Dracula returned to his normal form. "How do you feel?" asked Damien.

"I must rest," answered Dracula. Dracula then turned to the sun. "What happened?"

"When the night was young the spirit of the wolf manifested within you and you were able to take its form," said Damien.

"I have no memory of it," said Dracula.

"Memories of such events will be lost, but you will understand it in time," said Damien. "Come you must rest as you have said."

Dusk returns and Dracula and Damien arrived in the castle's bell tower. They looked at the trees in the forest ahead and felt the breeze blowing upon the hairs on their heads "The night is so peaceful," said Dracula. "Never have I experienced such stillness and such beauty. My life was a chronology of war, sorrow and bitterness."

"It is as you say," said Damien. "The spirit of the bat floats along such beauty, a spirit that you must accept."

"Your words are quite meaningful," said Dracula not looking at Damien.

"Are you willing to allow the bat's spirit to live within you?" said Damien turning to him. Dracula became silent. He turned slowly to Damien and their eyes interlock with each other's. Then he nodded slowly and said "Yes, I am."

"As you are, envision this creature of the night in your presence," said Damien. Dracula gazed upon the night's sky and his mind became blank. Then he saw a creature fluttering in front of him. It was brown with two long, pointy ears, two dark eyes and long white fangs and it was slowly flapping long wings. Dracula's body began to tremble and his blood and skin burnt hot. His eyes grew big, dark and hollow. He began to form long, pointy ears and long fangs. Brown fur grew upon his skin and his arms extended forming two, huge wings. Dracula became the bat.

The bat released a deafening shriek and dropped from the bell tower falling below. It began to flap its wings making great whoosh with each flap and began to go upwards. It was flying. It flapped its wings and glided upon the night sky, moving along the trees of the forest and flying around Castlevania. It flew further away and approached a village. At its distance the village looked over a great plain scattered with farms. The bat saw a farmer down bellow tending his flock. It swooped down cutting through the wind making a great whoosh that startled the farmer and his flock of sheep. The farmer turned around saw the giant beast flying towards him and the sheep started to run and the farmer soon followed but he could not escape the bat's great size and speed. The bat grabbed the farmer carrying him away from the village. In the air the farmer released a scream, a scream that would touch no ear. The bat bared its long fangs and sunk them into the man's neck. As its fangs pierced the farmer's flesh, blood began gushing uncontrollably. The bat began to drink, drink and drink until every last drop was deprived from the man's body and with every drop lost, his life slipped away until he was in death's embrace. The bat kept flying along the plains with the corpse in his possession until he finally came to a river and dropped the body sending it splashing below and floating down. The bat then turned around then glided and flapped away from the plains. Over every tree of the forest it returned at the castle. Damien stood calm as the bat landed slowly. The bat shrieked and trembled as its huge wings formed human arms, its long pointy ears formed human ears, its brown fur disappeared on pale, chalky skin and its dark eyes formed human eyes, therefore returning Dracula in his human form. "Welcome back," said Damien. Dracula looked at himself and all around. "There is something within me," he said. "It is like power that was once great is suddenly leaving my body."

"Yes," said Damien. "The spirit of the bat is a great force, one that you cannot deny."

"I understand. This new life has great wonders. My enemies in Turkey would never dream that one they destroyed would return to give back all the pain they have given him and his land with such power and strength."

"You must not live within the past, my friend. Future of mankind is most troubling, a future that you must see through."

"Yes, the folly of God's creation lies well beyond the children of Turkey's soil." Damien placed his hand on Dracula's shoulder and said "We have spent enough time on your great flight and on man. We must cover one last skill that lies within you."

Damien and Dracula journeyed from room to room within Castlevania until they came to a great hallway. "This hallway is very long," said Damien. "It is of such places where the vampire collects the life of one human. Mist is a form that very few can see, perfect cover for the vampire. I want you to envision this form and find me within the Mystic Hall." In the twinkling of an eye, Damien vanished from Dracula's sight. Dracula was shocked. How was Damien able to do that? Dracula then faced the long, dark hallway and began to envision mist. He started to tremble and feel his blood turn cold. He looked at his left hand and saw it turn into white mist. He turned to his right hand and saw that hand turn to mist and his entire body turned to mist in an instant. The mist began to float down the hallway and at the same time Dracula was aware of his surroundings. He looked around and instead of seeing nothing but black he saw all the doors and all the walls in white. The now white hall was very blinding to the eye, yet Dracula's eyes were not affected. He began to search for Damien within the great castle. He came to a closed door and passed under it to the other side, Damien was not there. In the room where he was he went through a window to the outside, and from there he went to another window above. Time would pass until he came to a great hall which was inhabited by marble sculptures, paintings and decorated with candles. Within the midst of the hall was a long table with chairs on all four sides and the end of the table Damien was seated. The mist hovered over the floor and arms, legs, torso and head were formed. Dracula returned to his normal form. "Well done," said Damien clapping his hands. "Well done. I am glad that you have arrived for there is much for me to show you."

"Yes," said Dracula. "Man lives for establishing himself as most high, but only I can show him where he is greatly mistaken."

"True. The day you died was the day you began to live. With your left you have man at his throat, yet with your right others trample over his establishment."

"Others? What others?"

"Your journey begins and ends with man's fall. There will be others on this earth to assist you in establishing a new creation."