Night fell upon the city as Danny arrived at the city limits. The tainted energy of evil was all over the place. Danny eyes glowed green as he looked around. A very long street led directly to a massively tall tower in the center of the city. Rising up thousands of feet in the air. Dark clouds hid its top. He played with the idea of just heading straight towards the tower, but that was suicidal. According to the Belmonts, the tower was defended by mystical energy. He needed to take out the four elemental points before even thinking of a direct attack. "Need a map." He spotted a gas station a little up the street. He got off his bike and walked it up. The place looked a little run down, but the lights were on. He parked the bike and grabbed one of the fuel pumps. He saw no attendant in the windows. He put it back and walked to the station. He pushed the door open and walked in. Small rows of shelves with merchandise on them and the backside full of drink fridges. Danny looked over the counter and saw no one. "Hello!" Danny shrugged and walked over to the drinks, "No need to fight thirsty!" He grabbed a bottle of Coke and took a swig, "Nice!" He checked for anyone one more time and grabbed a city map. He tossed a few dollars onto the counter. He walked out and tossed the map into his bike's bag. "This is a little on the creepy side."

"And soon to be more!" A dark cloaked figure descended from the dark sky. He held a large scythe in his right hand. The figure pushed his hood back to reveal a dark colored skull. Dark red pinpoints shinnied in the eye sockets. "So this is what the forces of light have come up with. I'm not impressed." The figure floated around him, "But the others didn't at first."

"Can I help you?" Danny grabbed a metal cross from his belt, "So what does Death want from me?"

"My master Dracula sleeps. While I would like nothing more than to see him brought back, I will not allow some half-blooded upstart take his place." He flew to his bike and pulled out the map. He opened it and four holes burned into it. Death handed the map to him, "These are the locations of the four elemental totems."

"Why help me?"

Death laughed in a raspy voice, "I serve only one master and I will not see that name tarnished and abused as such." He pointed his scythe at Danny, "But be warned. I help you now, but if we meet again, I will kill you." He vanished in a burst of shadows.

Danny looked at the map. The four burn holes were at the four corners of the city, "Better than nothing I guess!" He folded the map and put it into his pocket. He mounted his bike, "I just hope this doesn't take to long."

It took an hour for Danny to reach the first point on the map. It was at the extreme north of the city. It was the suburb district. Nice houses were arranged in neat order. Each had a nice lawn and most had a pool. "Richly!" He pulled out a set of binoculars, "Now where to begin!"

"Ask the whip!" A tall man appeared next to Danny. He had white skin and dark black hair. A sharp black goatee shaped his face and he had dark eyes.

"Excuse me!"

"The whip will let you know when you come close to your target."

Danny pushed the sleeve of his coat up. A large white chain was wrapped around his right arm. He kept it to remind him of Alucard. He was well aware if he tried to use it, it would start to burn him. He was a ghost after all. "How do you know about this?"

"Anyone evil knows about the powers of that whip." The man sighed, "This half ghost who is trying to become the next Dracula doesn't have the support one would expect. Most of the time evil will do anything to smite good, but demons of such standings are given respect. If he were only trying to bring Dracula back, we would support him. But we will not allow our lord to simply be stripped of his power and honor."

"So how do you want to help?"

"I am a dealer of things. If you happen to find any valuable gems around, I will give you any items you might need. For the right price."

Danny laughed, "Like what? You can't hold any weapons I might need."

"Information is very valuable." The man held his arms out, "During the day, this place is a normal city. But at night, vampires, ghosts, and demons haunt the place. Vlad has resurrected the corpses of some of your ghostly enemies and fused them with their spirits."

"So what?"

"You will be facing half ghosts/half vampire. Powerful and deadly." The man started to walk away, "I have a bar in the eastern district. When you have some gems, come and we will talk." He stopped, "Be warned! The more power Vlad absorbs, the more evil ones who will join him." He vanished.

Danny put the binoculars away, "So far my allies have been Death and two vampires. I wonder if Simon Belmont had this much trouble." He unwrapped the chain and wrapped it over his coat sleeve, "I'll try anything once." He drove into the suburb. Danny stopped after only going in a few blocks. He heard a lot of moaning. Several extremely pale humans walked out of the shadows around him. Danny grabbed the metal cross that was on his belt, "Vampires!" He flung the cross and it glowed with blue light. It sliced through two of them and flew back into his hand. The two vampires exploded into dust and ash. "Weaklings!" He revved his bike up and drove away. As he grove up the street, a large black cloud appeared in the sky behind him. Taking a better look reveled the cloud to be a very large swarm of bats. They flew at Danny. Danny slammed on the brake and spun around. He reached into his coat and pull out a large book with a cross on it. "I call upon the holy power of The Belmont Clan!" He threw the book towards the swarm of bats. It glowed with light and several more books appeared. They formed a pentagram with light and the bats crashed into it. Most were incinerated on contact. The few that survived flew out of sight. "Vlad isn't giving me much credit!" The whip on his arm started to glow. He looked around and spotted a large statue in the middle of the suburb. He got off his bike and walked up to it. It was a large statue of Vlad Masters. It was made of dark marble. Danny toyed with the idea of smashing it, but then he spotted a small statue of a dragon at the base of it. "Bingo!" He pulled out the green gem from his belt pouch, "One down!" Before he could place the gem in the dragon's mouth, a shadow appeared over him. Danny turned and spotted a man floating over him. He was five foot tall and looked familiar. "Your not one of the low levels."

The vampire smiled, "You don't recognize me." He snapped his fingers and a metal exoskeleton blasted out of the ground. It opened up and the vampire flew into it. "How about now?" The armor closed around him.

"Skulker! What happened to you? I paid you well to bring Sam back to me."

"Wrong! You paid me to find her and tell you where she was. I did that!" He activated his arm-mounted blasters on each arm, "Now I am under a new contract." He aimed them at Danny, "Want to bet what the contract is?"

Danny smirked and slammed his fist together. The gloves he was wearing sparked with white energy, "These gloves filter my natural ghost energy into holy power. Something you vampires are extremely vulnerable to."

"If you can get past my armor!" Green beams of light shot from the blasters.

Danny phased into the ground to avoid the attack and flew up behind Skulker, "I'll just pound you until I do!" He threw out his hand and a white beam of light shot from it. Skulker flew into the air and spun around. His shoulders opened up and several micro missiles shot at Danny. Danny slapped his hands together and a sphere of white energy surrounded him. The missiles exploded against the sphere and released a black and red cloud. "What is this!" The cloud started to cause sparks against his shield.

"That is cloud of pure tainted energy mixed with a chemical compound. Chokes the life out of any living thing it touches. Namely you!" Danny concentrated and the sphere exploded. The cloud dispersed. Skulker shot forward as Danny was catching his breath and rammed his fist into his face. "Nice whelp! But it drained you." He grabbed Danny's leg and smashed him into the ground. "You don't have the power to fight me!"

Danny smiled and jumped to his feet, "I've got more power that you could ever imagine." His body was surrounded by a white aura, "Allow me to show you the full power of The Belmont Clan!" Danny crossed his arms, "Holy Daggers!" Several glowing daggers appeared around him, "Crash!" The daggers shot into the air and impacted Skulker at high speeds. Danny pulled a blue crystal from his belt and flew at Skulker, "Aguena!" Danny slammed his fist into Skulker's gut and it exploded with lighting. Skulker fell to the ground, but managed to land on his feet. Danny crossed his arms as he floated over the ghost vampire, "I've gained a lot over the past two years." He flew down and landed, "I'll give you once chance to redeem yourself."

"Really?"

"I want Sam out of Vlad's clutches! Help me get her back and I will forget you exist!"

Skulker laughed, "Worried about you wayward girlfriend." His eyes narrowed and glowed red for a few seconds. They turned back to green, "I am afraid I have other appointments. I will return to finish you another day." He flew into the air, "It is my turn to torture her."

Danny's right hand opened and the chain whip around his arm uncurled and fell into his hand. It flashed with white light. He swung it and it wrapped around Skulker's leg, "Then you know where she is." He pulled down with strength that Skulker could believe. Skulker crashed into the ground and Danny jumped into the air. He landed on top of him, "Where is she?"

Skulker smirked, "She is locked away in the tower. A place you will never be able to enter." He tried to phase, but the whip shocked him, "I can't use my powers."

"The whip will do that!" Danny's left hand glowed with energy and he gripped the front plate of Skulker's armor. He ripped it off and tossed it away, "A friend of mine is in hell!" He pulled out a large wooden stake from a holster on his back. "Say hi to him!" He rammed the stake into Skulker's unprotected chest and jumped clear. Skulker screamed out as he exploded into dust and ash. The empty armor slumped to the ground. Danny picked up his stake and returned it to its holster. He dropped the whip and looked at his hand. The glove was fine, but when he took it off, he saw that his hand was burned. "Got to be careful." The whip glowed once more and returned to its dull white color. He reached for it and it wrapped around his arm on its own. Danny picked up the green orb he had dropped and placed it into the dragon's mouth. The dragon glowed and vanished. Danny sighed, "That is it?" In a burst of green light, a large dragon of light appeared. It floated over him for several seconds and vanished. His whip glowed green for a second. Danny reached for it and thought better of it, "I'll wait!" He walked away from the statue and jumped on his bike. Before he left he looked at the statue, he smirked and blasted the stone head off with a ghost beam. "Much better!" He drove off.

"Maybe I should have granted Skulker more power!" Vlad Masters waved his hand and the image of Danny driving off vanished. He had been watching through a large pool of black water. He walked out of the small room and into his main office. It was almost the size of a football field. Large pillars of black stone held the ceiling up. Sam was sitting at a small table. On the table was a verity of meals that he was having her eat. Each one was made of meat in one form or the other. Sam was reluctantly eating it. Vlad had put he into a trance. She was aware of everything, but was not in control. Vlad had grown tired of the poisoning and decided to punish her in other ways. He smiled as she moved onto the stake. "Enjoying your meals?" She said nothing. "Those parasites I had you eat will insure you continue to have an apatite!" He walked past her and met up with Walker.

The tall ghost looked over to the girl, "And how is this painful?"

"Hell has nine layers, each much more horrifying than the last. So shall be her finally days. At first I poisoned her body slowly, but then I realized I wanted her to be aware of everything. To make it that much worst."

"So she has nine days then?"

"Yes! Tonight is the first." Vlad started walking with Walker behind him, "Everyday make sure information of what I am doing to her reaches the lad. It is sure to slow him down."

"And what about the other three elemental sites?"

"Double the guard. Losing one or two will not effect anything. Let him think he is accomplishing something. Soon I will have the full power of Dracula."

Walker bowed, "Yes my lord!"