Chapter 4

UNDERGROUND LIBRARY

I enter a mysterious library. Man, this place looks creepy for a dragon like me (well, I am a creepy-kind of creature, but not that creepy looking). I don't know of any place that has a library underground (Well, maybe in somebody's house, but not in a castle or school, or whatever is huge). This must be one haunted castle. People have said that this castle changes the inside every time it appears. I thought it would appear to be the same. Why does Dracula need to make it different? Maybe Dracula wants it to be more challenging!

I took around the library to see everything else. It's seems quiet around here. I decided to read a book for while. I took a look at the bookshelves and I find this book titled "The Belmonts." "This must be about the Belmont Clan." I thought to myself. I found seat behind me and I sat down on it and looked through it. It had a whole history of the Belmonts. I read some more of it and I find this page where it mentions a kidnapping. The paragraph said this:

"In 1797, Richter Belmont mysteriously vanished. His half sister, Maria Renard, had set out to look for him and Dracula's castle mysteriously appeared as if to show her the way. Dracula's son, Alucard was mysteriously awakened from his eternal slumber and sets into the castle. He finds that Richter was under Dracula's power, being controlled by the dark priest, Shaft making him into lord of the castle. Alucard defeated Shaft and then defeats his evil father and went back to his eternal slumber."

"Whoa" I thought. I guess I wasn't the only being kidnapped by that priest. He kidnapped a Belmont almost 200 years ago. Man that was a long time ago. I know about Alucard, but wow, nobody told me that at all. I thought I was just a scary dragon kidnapped by that dark priest, but a Belmont. Gosh, Why? I thought Dracula hated the Belmonts. Wait a minute; the book said that Richter had supreme powers among the other vampires. I guess Shaft was thinking of what would happen if two vampires were to fight each other. Oh, I get it, he kidnapped Richter as threat to the world so he and Dracula could take it over. That's interesting.

So Dracula is doing this again, by kidnapping me! ME! A very scary and creepy looking dragon with a lot of insane skills! Geez! I do have the ability to scare people real easy, but I love people. I only scare who tries to attack me for self-defense, not kill them! I don't want to kill anybody! No! Not even the Belmonts! They're good people! What's Dracula's game with them? Dracula's gone crazy to kidnap a scary dragon like me! Why should I kill them! I'm a fan of them! Some of them are my friends! They know I'm a scary looking dragon, but they still talk to me anyway because I'm nice and I do sometimes help them whenever they're in trouble. What are they going to say if they find out that I'm working for Dracula? I'm sure they'll know he is controlling me, but however, I am able to withstand his power, but I'm still under his control. I know that when I defeat Dracula, I'll be free from him once and for all!

I got up and looked around the whole library and out of nowhere; I find a phone sitting on a table. I walked over to a picked it up to see if it works. It did! What a surprise! I don't really use a phone, but I had a couple of my friends' phone numbers that were given to me. I decided to call one of my best Belmont friends, Elise, she knows me very well. I dialed her number and the phone rings.

ELISE BELMONT: Hello?

RYAN: Hello Elise? Hi, it's Ryan.

ELISE: Ryan? Wait, I know that voice. You're my dragon friend! I never thought you call up. I haven't seen you for a while. So why are you calling?

RYAN: I have a problem. I have been kidnapped by Shaft to work for Dracula.

ELISE: Wait a minute…Dracula's rose again? Oh wait a minute…that's right! Someone told me about while I was away. I'm just coming back from my vacation. How come Dracula has you under control?

RYAN: They say that my insane abilities were the reason for it, but I'm no use to him. I don't even want to be evil. I was forced to guard Dracula's throne. Right now I'm trying to defeat Dracula. I just have to find him. Many enemies are after me. It's quiet around the room I'm in now.

ELISE: That's terrible! Dracula should be defeated once again! That evil vampire never gives up! Has anyone tried to stop him?

RYAN: Nobody came to the gate. I was over there earlier trying to get out of the castle, but I couldn't open the gate! I'm trapped! Like I said, I need to defeat Dracula. I have no other choice.

ELISE: That's a shame that no hero showed up to the castle. Somebody must defeat Dracula before anything goes worse! Well, I'm on my way to the castle now. Meanwhile, try to find your way to his throne at your risk and defeat that evil vampire that has you under his control.

RYAN: Ok. I also found something out. I wasn't the only being kidnapped. Over 190 years ago, a Belmont was kidnapped by Shaft also! Did you know that?

ELISE: Yeah, I have heard about that one. Sorry I never said anything to you about that.

RYAN: That's all right. I never knew that I was going to be kidnapped in the first place. I was just normal at the time.

ELISE: Well, don't worry about it. I'm coming to the castle now. So like I said, defeat Dracula at your own risk. Hopefully we'll see each other then. See you later.

RYAN: Ok, see you later.

I hang up the phone relieved. I'm so glad Elise is helping out. I must leave this library at once! I looked around to see if there were enemies. There weren't any. So I headed for the door and suddenly out of nowhere, a couple of minotaurs approached to me as I was leaving. "Oh great! Monsters! I can take care of these" I was ready to fight them off. I began my first attack by scratching one of them with my claws. "Take that! And that! And that!" I shouted as I scratched him real hard. The minotaur began to bleed and was bleeding a lot. Then the other minotaur came up and tried to swing his ax at me. When I noticed, I was able to stop it with my tail. "Oh, think you kill me? Not today!" I shouted. I turned around and scratched with him 10 times, then I punched him out and scratched him even more. The minotaur then died. The bleeding minotaur tried to strike back at me, but I kicked many times and punched a couple times more. He finally died.

After all of that hassle, I went up to the door and tried to open it. It wouldn't budge. Darn it! I guess me picking up the phone happened to be a trap. I hope Elise gets to the castle soon! Now I have to find away out of this strange library. I turned around and I walked over to where I came from and just kept on going. As I was walking, a gremlin came charging at me. I acted fast by dodging his attack, then I scratched him with my claws really hard. Then the gremlin tried to scratch me back, but I was able to block it with my claws. I pushed him to the wall and punched him a lot of times. "Back off!" I shouted. Then I scratched him even more, and then he finally died.

I see a stairwell up ahead of me. " I wonder where it leads." I thought. I head upstairs on that stairwell and it led to a second floor where there are more bookshelves. "How long is this library?" I thought again. I heard some noises as I entered the second floor. I looked around to find out where they were coming from and it was coming from the ceiling. I found that there were bats sleeping up there. "Bats?" I thought. "I could take them down real easy." I know I can, they're just sitting there. So I began to toast them! Ha! Wow! I killed many of them! But they are more than just the ones I killed. As I walked through the second floor, the bats woke up and they began to charge at me. I toasted them as I ran through the second floor. Man, I'm too fast for a dragon. I toasted more of them and they're all gone! Oh yeah! Most of the time, bats would wake up when somebody approaches, but it was weird that they were still sleeping when I came. Then they woke up when I toasted many of them with my fire breath. They didn't stand a chance against me. Not at all! None of them even touched me!

I found another stairwell up ahead and I got upstairs to the third floor. It was quiet up there, no enemies, nothing. I looked around the room and I see this picture up on the wall, next to a bookshelf. "Who is that?" I thought to myself. I took a closer look at it. It was a picture of a woman with blond hair. Under the picture was name. The name was "Lisa Tepes" "So that's the woman's name?" I thought to myself. Lisa is a nice name. "I wonder if she has any relation to Dracula." I thought. I know that Dracula's last name was Tepes, too. I heard the name "Lisa" from Dracula before. "Wait a minute" I thought. "That must be his wife!" I did hear that she died many years ago. "I wonder what happened to her." I thought.

Then suddenly, the ground shook and some whirlpool appeared from the picture. "What's this?" I thought. I was just about to get sucked into it! "No!" I shouted. "Leave me alone!" I got sucked in it in five seconds and I ended up into a small village. "Where am I?" I ask the sky. I got no answer. I looked around and I don't see many people around here. Where did everyone go? Just then I heard some screaming far away from here. "Where's that screaming coming from?" I ask myself. I took a look around the whole village and I see a big crowd full of people. "So this is where it's coming from." I said to myself. I also saw a gallows with a person hung up there. I can't believe my eyes, it's Lisa Tepes! "What is going on here?" I asked. Nobody answered me. In fact, nobody even hears me. I screamed louder and I even roared. Still, nobody hears me? This must be a vision. One person said, "Die Lisa! You're a devil!" and another said. "You worthless doctor! You're a demon! Die now! DIE!"

The people were burning the gallows with her on it. Gosh! What did she do to them that was so evil? She must be innocent. She may be Dracula's wife, but she looked nice when I saw her in the picture. The gallows was burning up and she was burning too. I wish I could save her, but this is just vision. Suddenly the whirlpool appeared again and sucked me in again. Now I'm back on the third floor of the library. Wow, so that was what happened to her. Gosh! That's terrible. I touched the picture and it moved. This must be a door to safe. Some homes have that kind of door to safe so they could protect their money. I looked inside of what was behind the picture and I saw book in there. I picked it and looked at it. This one happens to be a diary. It belongs to Dracula. I sit down in a seat and began to read it. It has the resurrection dates in it, too. The most recent one was this year, 1991. Under it was paragraph. The paragraph said this:

"Shaft has resurrected me this year, in the year of 1991. I was so glad that Shaft was alive again after my son defeated him over 190 years ago. My son is probably resting now. I hope I take over the world and destroy those nasty Belmonts that get in my way once again. Shaft brought me this scary looking dragon and says he would be a great monster to protect me from those Belmonts! He said that the dragon could scare them away easily. I totally agreed with him that he would. I made him guard my throne. If a Belmont or somebody else defeats me again, I will get my revenge when I get resurrected. I plan on being resurrected in 8 years time. 1999. It would be a great year for revenge!"

"Hey, he's talking about me!" I thought. I am that dragon that was mentioned in the paragraph. He also said that he'd be resurrected in 1999. That's 8 years from now. Well Dracula, I'm going to be the one to defeat you and I'm going to be telling my friends about your resurrection and when you get resurrected again, you will be toasted by my friends! In fact, before I was captured, a friend of mine told me that there was going to be an eclipse in that year. I should tell my friends to seal this castle in it! Ha! Then I won't have to see that vampire ever again! I was also told that there would be a solar eclipse in the year 2035. That's over 40 years from now. My friend read about it in a book.

I put it back and closed the picture frame. I looked around and I find something strange up ahead. I went up to it and took a look at it. It happens to be a teleport. I get in it and I disappeared into a different room.