III

As both heroes get ready for an upcoming battle to start, Val prays silently as the ground continues to shake. Cherry on the other hand, grips on her ring blades very tight and notices that fear is overcoming her again as her tiny palms begin to sweat. The ground stops shaking, and both heroes sigh for relief. They both put their weapons away, and then Cherry states,

"I thought that something was coming for a surprise!"

All of the sudden, a skeletal hand grabs hold of Cherry from the ground! She screams and then Val takes out his sword and cuts the skeletal hand with one quick swipe. Cherry falls to the ground, and then quickly gets up. She takes out her ring blades again after she gets up. Both heroes stand side by side as they see skeletal people come out from the ground. Both heroes watch nervously as skeletal people just come up and up, seeming there's no end to it. Val quickly takes out some powder that he spreads on him and Cherry. Cherry looks at Val like he's crazy and asks,

"What are you doing?"

Val puts the powder away and answers,

"Its fairy dust. It's supposed to give you the power to shoot out fireballs that vanquish all that's evil. Just shoot your hand out and then a color fireball will shoot out from your hand. It won't hurt", Val states quickly.

Cherry looks at her hands and then shoots out her right hand and a purple fireball shoots out and breaks apart about three skeletal people.

"WOW! This kicks butt!" Cherry exclaims excitedly.

Val just charges at the mob of skeletal people and starts slicing them apart quickly. Cherry quickly gets her act together and charges to at the skeletal people. The skeletal people, just being skeleton and no brains at all, did not have a change against Val and Cherry. Both heroes finish the job quickly without any scratches. Both take a breather and Cherry states,

"I think that man was beaten to death by those skeletal people"

"I think so", Val replies as he gets up and helps get Cherry up to.

"Well then, what's next?" Cherry asks.

"Let's move on first, and then see what's going on around here", Val commands.

Both heroes walk through the mountains without any skeletal people appearing at them. As they walk, Cherry asks,

"Do you have a girlfriend?"

"What?" Val asks as he begins to turn red.

Cherry giggles and then says,

"I take that as a 'no'"

Val just continues to blush and Cherry states,

"You'll find your true 'princess' one of these days"

"That day is not today then", Val states sarcastically.

Both heroes continue to walk until they see a huge black metal gate.

"This is the biggest gate I have ever seen", Cherry states as she wonders it.

"This is the entrance of Dracula's property, or more like the yard of Castlevania", Val informs as he wonders the gate too. "Cherry, there's a switch right next to you on the right. Can you push it?"

"Yeah", Cherry replies as she searches for the switch. It's hard for her to find the switch because it's very foggy.

She finally finds the switch, which looks like a big black block. She pushes with all of her strength, and then rests.

"Can you hurry up!" Val shouts.

"Can you wait! This switch is very heavy to push!" Cherry shouts back.

She pushes harder and harder, but she still can't push it. She sighs, and then takes out her ring blades to slice the block easily.

"Finally! Why couldn't I do this since the beginning?" Cherry wonders.

She quickly runs to Val, and then Val says while the gate opens up slowly,

"It's about time"

Cherry just rolls her eyes and Val just lets out a little laugh to himself. Both heroes wait until they hear a gorilla scream from behind the gate. Both heroes look at each other like they heard something very odd.

"This can't be good", says Cherry as she takes out her ring blades once more.

Val looks at Cherry and also takes out his sword once more.

"Something very big is coming", Val states. "Something very big"

Both heroes prepare themselves as the gate finally opens!