Chapter 5

DIAMOND GALLERY

I got out of the teleport and I ended in room where it has a gallery of pictures. This place has a lot of diamonds in it. This must be a fancy gallery. I always loved diamonds! I think they are beautiful. This must be a place for a dragon like me! Well, not really, but that was only because I love diamonds. I look around the whole gallery and I found no monsters around (well, for now). I thought I take a look at a couple of pictures. I found the same picture of Lisa Tepes that was in the library. I looked around a little more and I find this mysterious picture. It's a picture of a mysterious looking dragon. He looks a lot like me! Could it be me? No! It can't be! "That can't be me!" I thought. I looked under the picture and it said "Death Dragon", then under the bottom of it, it said "1450" I guess that dragon died years ago. That dragon really does look a lot like me although he's colored differently from my skin color. I'm green and he's gray. Is he my ancestor? I certainly wasn't around in the 1400's.

I looked at it a little more and I noticed that his front body's skin is ripped off and his bones are showing. Whoa! That's weird! I guess that's why he's called "Death Dragon" He must have been a death spirit. Or, could that be Death in disguise. I really can't figure this out, but how could he be alive with bones showing. You and I could see his food get swallowed into his digestion system. Well, that was just a weird vision I have when I saw this picture. Something's just not right about this character.

As for me, my body is all covered up with skin like normal. Now, I don't know too much about my race. Like I said, I lived alone most of my life. I don't even have a human form (just as I mentioned before). I only had friends. I don't have real parents. I was abandoned when I was little. So I was a lonely dragon. A human found me on rampage when I was little older. She stopped me and she asked me what's wrong. I was able to speak a couple of words back then. I told her in tears that I was alone. She took me in for a while She had some other friends that were nice, too. They took care of me really well. That girl who took me in was Elise. She and I became great friends. But she gave me a nice home somewhere else near her like a cave. Well, because her mom didn't want any monsters in the house and Elise was very upset about that. That was why I lived in a cave closer to her home so she could see me more. That was where I lived most of life, alone. Elise and her friends do come by and see me though. I actually learned how to speak a lot more English from them, too. I can speak it very well (that's what I'm doing right now, telling you my story). Now, I'm just a strong dragon ready to fight enemies with my abilities like a human warrior.

Now about the picture of Death Dragon or you can say my "twin ancestor", I also noticed that his wings look bad, too. I bet that dragon couldn't even fly. Oh well, I guess he was able to fly in younger years. Then I looked under the picture again and I found a sentence written under there. I took a look at it and it said this:

"This legendary monster was slain by Count Dracula himself and was brought back as a living corpse. The dragon attacks by breathing flames"

"That's weird" I thought. So he's a legendary monster? I didn't really know this at all. Really, I didn't. I couldn't even believe that Count Dracula killed that dragon all by himself. How does he have a nerve to do that? I thought he just sits on his lovely throne waiting to challenge a Belmont. Why would he just walk up a kill a dragon? I can't figure this out! I can't figure this out all! I don't know what to believe anymore. I still think he does not need me! No way! I'm defeating Dracula at all costs!

Suddenly I heard a sound of footsteps coming toward me. I turned around and I find a strange man staring at me. He looked like Dracula, but in a tuxedo.I got scared a little but he looked a little different. Then a conversation bursted out.

GENYA ARIKADO: So you must be Ryan.

RYAN: Yes I am. Who are you?

GENYA:I am Genya Arikado, also known as Alucard.

RYAN: Oh, yea, I remember hearing about you. You must be Dracula's son.

GENYA: Yes I am. However I am concealing my identity. That's why I'm calling myself Genya Arikado and wearing this tuxedo if you're wondering.

RYAN: Why are you hiding your idenity?

GENYA: Well, I don't want anybody to know it's really me, Alucard. You see...I've had this cursed bloodline andsleeping for eternity is just not doing very well. I've been sleeping almost my whole life, so I'm just going to do something different instead of just sleeping.

RYAN: Oh I see. Well I have a question about this picture.

GENYA: Oh that picture of that over there?

RYAN: Yes, that monster in it looks a lot like me.

GENYA: That monster was killed by Dracula himself many years ago. He raised him up again and controlled him to do Dracula's work.

RYAN: Something is very familiar about that. The same thing is happening to me. Dracula has me under his power. Except that I wasn't killed and raised up again as a spirit.

GENYA: Well, Shaft captured you as commanded by Dracula, and yes, indeed you and the death dragon in that picture look alike. He must be one of your kinds, because I can see the resemblance between you two.

RYAN: I can see that myself. I really don't know my past of my race. I was abandoned my entire life and taken care of by human friends.

GENYA: Oh so you never lived with your parents? That's terrible for you to be abandoned.

RYAN: Yea it is. But I'm wondering, why does Dracula really want me? Is it because of my appearance and my anger?

GENYA: I believe that would be it, you do seem to be an angry dragon, but I think you should be free and not work for Dracula. I hear that you're also a nice one and have a couple of Belmont friends.

RYAN: Yes I do, because I really like what they can do. I have no reason to hate them.

GENYA: I agree with you. You seem to be brave, able to take control of yourself and withstand Dracula's power.

RYAN: Yep, I was able to take control. I am going to defeat Dracula at all costs.

GENYA: Dracula is too powerful, but I'm sure with your strength that you can defeat him.

RYAN: I'm very sure I can.

GENYA: Well, I need to leave here. Be careful getting to Dracula, and I hope you survive and take down Dracula for good. Bye for now

RYAN: I hope so too. See you later.

Well, I didn't expect to run into Dracula's son in disguise. I continued through the gallery searching around for a door. While I was looking around, two wolves came in front of me wanting to start a fight. I took them both down with my creepy claws, scratching them extremely hard as I was getting angry. I continue on and find more wolves raging through the gallery heading towards me. "Come on out and fight me!" I scream. One wolf began to scratch me, ut he can't scratch hard enough. I strike back at him with my claws and I whacked another one with my tail. Another wolf charges at me and I used my fire breath on him. As I got really angry, I have toasted all of them with my dragon breath. None of them have survived and I have won! I continue exploring the gallery until I find a door up ahead of me. I open it walking into the next room.