CHAPTER 12
You never told me why you were after her... Malus said, once they got back to the castle. You were looking for her weren't you? That's why you took all the villages' children to the castle isn't it!
"You know too much, boy." Dracula snarled. He didn't answer until he got to the castle center.
"The Fernandez clan traveled here a few years ago; And because of their skill in magic, they were not well received. The villagers feared the minions of the Dark One and predicted that the clan would turn against them. All the Fernandez clan was supposedly destroyed except for one. She was adopted and cared for by one of the village women. Later she was found and fled from humans for two years. Now she has returned for revenge, bringing two accomplice with her. One of them, a boy your wretched uncle saved a few years before, the other is another youth who is set on the same mission."
How do you know all this?
Dracula didn't answer. He looked down the long hallway and narrowed his eyes.
They're here...
"Hmmm..." Reinhardt said examining the large crack in a wall made of stone. "We're going to need something to bring down this wall...I think it leads to a secret passageway."
"Something to bring the wall down..." Carrie repeated to herself. "I'll go check the room over here." She opened the door to the room a few feet away from them. Inside was a carpeted room of medium area. A chandelier hung overhead, illuminating the raised floor in the back of the room. On it sat some sort of bed-like torture device covered in blood, and a lizardman stood next to it. Carrie whipped out her razor-blade rings from her side, and charged at the demon.
"Wait!" It cried. "I am a human! Please!"
Carrie halted and the lizardman sighed in relief. "I am only in this shape because of a curse." He explained. "Are you an adventurer?"
"Er, yes." Carrie said. "I am trying to find a way of destroying the cracked stone wall outside."
"Ah. In that case, you will need magical nitrogen and mandragora. Both should detonate the wall." The lizardman pointed one of it's long clawed fingers to a door on the left. "In there is a shelf full of magical nitrogen. Take some there if you like."
Carrie thanked him and walked into the instructed room. In it like promised, were shelves containing magical nitrogen. On the other side of the shelves, in another room was Malus.
"Malus!"
Dracula turned around and looked towards her.
"I thought you had escaped...?" Carrie said.
"Escape...?" He asked curiously, as Malus would have done. "This place...? Say, are you going to fight Dracula? Aren't you afraid?"
Carrie looked suspiciously at the boy. "Malus...?"
"Have you come to avenge my parents...?" He continued. "To rescue my friends...?"
"Yes!" Carrie said, promising him by crossing her heart. "I will avenge your parents and defeat Dracula!"
Dracula laughed. Carrie was startled. It was something dark about that laugh she did not like...
"Impossible." He smirked, and he continued before she could speak. "Why? Because you are trapped. You will die like wretches! All living creatures must consecrate their souls to the dark lord. In the kingdom of darkness, where sunlight never comes!" And he ran off.
"Malus!" Carrie looked through the shelves to see where the boy had gone. There was a tap on her shoulder. Without thought, she turned around quickly, pulling out her razor rings. Before she could attack, her arm was caught.
"Reinhardt!" She said with relief, but half angry. "Don't sneak up on me like that! You can scare someone to death that way!"
"Forgive me." Reinhardt said releasing her arm. "One more inch and you would have sliced me in two..."
"Er...yeah, sorry about that." Carrie apologized.
"Have you found something to destroy the wall with?"
"Yes. The magical nitrogen here. But we need to find some mandragora to activate it."
Reinhart nodded. "Let's go back and look downstairs then."
Carrie looked back to the shelves where Malus had been, and followed Reinhardt out the door.