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Chapter 40: Insanity Ensues

The process of waking up was a quick one. Eyes snapping open widely as he started to take notice of everything in the unfamiliar room, Mathias restrained himself from yawning as he felt his body constricted by a pair of arms.

A blink, then two, finally he glanced on the side and he was greeted by warm breath reaching his nostrils. The sight was shocking, not because of the relative danger, but by the closeness the vampire's face was to his own. She was sleeping, eyes closed and features relaxed as the girl looked really engaged with her calm sleep.

The Belmont felt confusion slowly replace his shock, several the questions regarding the happening during his unconsciousness and soon… he saw him.

Like a shadow bothering nobody but itself, a youthful man continued to polish the thin sword in his possession.

Long white hair left uncombed, the clothes were old-styled, similar to the ones used during the medieval ages with dark cape and boots. His skin was pale, a sign of his unholy nature, and his golden eyes were fixed on the task at hand.

His posture didn't change as Mathias looked at him, yet the boy knew that the vampire had to have perceived a sudden change nearby. The young man was about to address the figure, realizing almost too quickly who he was looking at.

Alucard had been a known friend to the Belmont family, an ally in the fight against Count Dracula and cults trying to bring him back to life. His uncle mentioned how detached the Dhampir was during the Demon Castle War.

Helpful, but very distrustful of those around him. A silent figure, a lone wolf.

But as Mathias' lips parted and his breath built behind his teeth to properly call the familiar being, he stopped as he noticed something has changed during his silent thinking. Gone was the snoring, the warm breath of the young lady sleeping beside him subsiding and the boy directed his sight once more at the girl.

Blue eyes meet red orbs. There wasn't much emotion coming out from these inhuman eyes if only for surprise and… relief?

Why would a lady be relieved of sleeping beside someone of the opposite gender?

New confusion but mostly surprise when the girl proceeded to put her head closer to him, resting on his chest and nuzzling lovingly. She looked like a small kitty trying to get his attention, the only thing missing being the 'purring' cats were known for when showing affection.

It was an odd sight and… he blinked.

What was he supposed to do with this young woman? Was this a trick from her- but then why would Alucard allow this predicament to even happen?

Her eyes were still staring silently at him, waiting for him to do something about the situation and… he winged it.

It was a small gamble, but as he moved his left hand over her head and started to cautiously play with her locks, something curious happened. Her smile widened at his touch and soon her own hands shifted out from their previous location and took hold of the hand petting her head.

Eyes closing in comfort, she blissfully hummed at the boy's ministration.

"Dhampirs are known to have a liking for warm individuals, mostly humans." The regal voice broke through the Belmont's surprise and caused the young man to stare once more at Alucard. The spawn of Dracula now staring directly at him, his blade already sheathed back, a curious glance directed at the scene the human was part of.

A blush spread through his face, the embarrassment playing a big role in keeping him quiet while the man continued to stare at the predicament with a curious glint in his eyes.

"I admit that to see a dhampir to be this close to a human… It's quite the abnormality, indeed." He concluded with a nod, drawing a frown from the Belmont.

"A-And why would she do this? Why she decided to be this close when-"

"She is supposed to be your enemy?" The silver-haired man interrupted quietly. "I can only think of one reason and… that is because she thinks you are her protector."

Mathias blinked. "P-Protector? I- But I killed her brother-"

"Did you notice how… she reacts so childishly to everything? How she has yet to speak?"

Strong questions that rekindled new interest over the currently humming girl resting on my chest. She seemed to have completely forgotten about the world, as if the comfort was the only thing left for her to grasp from reality itself.

"Young Valerie has a gift since she was born. A powerful instrument that can allow so many impressive miracles… but it weakens the user the more it's used." The older Dhampir explained calmly. "Her mind and heart are fragmented much like the gift within her soul, this kind of damage could be healed… but she needs time and help."

The human nodded at his words, a bit at ease at the knowledge that the blonde wasn't as dangerous as he initially thought. His lips twitched as he took a step forward.

"V-Valerie?"

While Alucard was explaining the boy her story, the Belmont noticed her ears twitching at her name being said loudly and her reaction at being called by the closer male was… much different.

Eyes opening and looking raptly at the boy, Valerie Tepes waited for whatever he was going to say and… the young man nodded at her.

"I-I'm Mathias." He pointed his free index finger at his face, the girl glancing at it before staring once more at him. Moments of silence passed and then… she smiled.

"M-Mathias?" Her voice was hesitant, 'tasting' the new name.

"T-That is my name. Yes." At the positive response, the girl smiled a little more.

"Mathias." She repeated. "Maaathias." A giggle was building in her throat and she nuzzled even more.

The boy blinked in surprise at the enthusiastic reaction of the girl, shocked that she would act to happily at learning just his name.

A strange sight, one that lasted very little as Alucard stood up from his chair and looked at the Belmont. "You've rested more than enough." He commented placidly. "Your reserves have recovered and… the faster we deal with the intruders the least we will have to deal with those waiting to enter."

"Good or bad people?"

The man sighed as he stared out of the window. "Annoying ones."

But it was at that moment that Mathias noticed something carefully placed in a chair near the bed. It was… the Morning Star?

"Your weapon of choice is a powerful relic of the past," Alucard commented. "But may I ask how you gained it and… why are you here, young Belmont?"

The human was ready to answer, the matter still fresh in his mind but… he froze.

The fragmented assault suddenly storming his brain and he felt his entire body cooling down in dreadful rediscovery.

"My parents… we were attacked back at home and..."

"My condolences, young Mathias." The Dhampir replied quickly. "It's a tragedy that shouldn't have happened and… why."

The Belmont blinked. "I- their leader wanted the Morning Star. I don't know why or-"
"They wanted the Morning Star." The man interrupted again, his pale stare directed at the weapon. "And they are here for Valerie's Sacred Gear."

There was a strange look plastered on the powerful being and then a scowl appeared.

"We need to deal with them before they can obtain even for an instant any of those." He continued with a stern edge. "If they accomplish their plans..."

It sounded ominous and… somewhat scary. What could Alucard be talking about and… why did he feel the need to shiver?

A few minutes later and after reinforcing his arsenal with some bottles of Holy Water, another Steel Sword and some pieces of a Steel Armor Alucard brought with him, Mathias was the first one to walk out of the room, followed by Valerie and the older Dhampir.

But as he walked out of it and turned to look at the entire hallway-

"Oh, how do you do fellow kids?" A familiar and dreadful voice asked with a mirthful tone.

"What?!"

Rizevim yawned as he continued to walk slowly through the hallways of the massive castle, Euclid close behind as the Lucifuge gave a narrow-eyed stare at his Lord.

The Lucifer having finally decided to personally deal with the 'resistance' hiding in the lower area of the castle but also enforcing the need to 'walk' to reach it as… 'he wanted to take it slow'.

The entire building was mostly under their control and the chances of getting ambushed were nigh-impossible, thus the younger Devil saw no issue in accepting his leader's request with a positive note.

Nothing weird with wanting to stroll through the recently-captured place… but soon the acceptance for this request he had initially shown to the man decayed away to make space to utter annoyance at how slowly they were walking.

And it certainly didn't help that his lord didn't know anything about the place and it's been several times now that they had to return on their steps because they would end up in dead-ends.

A full hour passed and Euclid felt one of the veins showing in his head close to bursting if he found himself dealing with the umpteenth dead-end.

It happened without notice, the only warning being just a bigger smile from the Super-Devil as they turned the corner only to see one of the doors on the side of the hallway opening and… revealing the three individuals they were searching for.

The human stared with wide eyes and Rizevim spoke.

"Oh, how do you do fellow kids?"

The boy's jaws dropped the floor at the strange question. "What?!"

Indeed, what kind of insane scheme was his lord speaking off but the Lucifer merely chuckled in response, it sounded strangely empty. "Oh, to know someone helped me complete a reference… without even knowing what's up."

A sigh left his lips. "Such a terrible shame."

Alucard took a step forward, covering for both the Belmont and the Tepes in a strange turn of events. Why would a young girl devoted to her family betray her rightfully-protective brother to join with her enemy-

He felt cold at the parallels between this case and the one that saw him losing his older sister to that wretched Gremory. A scowl appeared on his face as he prepared to deal with the two treacherous brats and avoid the second-coming of-

"Euclid, how many times do I have to tell you to not make everything inspired to your drama." Rizevim sighed tiredly. "You are literally staring creepily at our enemies and even I feel out-creeped by your current stance."

The Lucifuge blinked and let his eyes widen just a moment. "A-Apologies, milord-"

"Don't apologize if you don't mean it." He chided with some annoyance in his voice. "But please, do focus on the brats while I entertain myself with the broody guy over there-"

But before they could proceed with the simple plan, the castle started to shake momentarily. A minor earthquake? Some assault from the outer walls-

Before Euclid could conclude the several guesses born from his logical mind, the wind rushed their way, pressure started to build up and… Rizevim jumped in front of him.

A crater formed underneath the Ultimate-Class Devil the magnitude of power being held back by the Lucifer's hands was outstanding and… scary. The two-pronged spear was pushed back and its owner looked visibly surprised through his armor.

"Fancy seeing you there, Azazel." The silver-haired man snarled as he punched away the long weapon. "Thought you would have wasted some more time before coming knocking."

"Let's just say that someone wants this dealt rather quickly." The Governor-General admitted with some amusement.

Rizevim was forced to duck as a metallic whip cracked just above his head. The current user of the blessed weapon stood few steps behind Azazel, quickly retracting the weapon and glaring at the Super-Devil.

"So you are the one responsible for the destruction of my home." Slowly approaching the group, Julius Belmont looked to be ready to maul the Lucifer, knuckles turning white at how tight he was holding the Vampire Killer.

"I may have walked around the area. Don't know precisely and- Oh right, doesn't work if there is a witness around." Rizevim looked back with a gloomy expression at the younger human. "Seriously kid, why didn't you just perish-Uh?!"

The Lucifer ducked away, this time to dodge the clawed hand of Alucard's wolf for.

"Now that is quite unfair! Let me bring some balance to things and- Euclid, you deal with the kids and Fabio over here." A smile formed on his face. "I pick Azzie and Daddy Issue."

Without hesitation both attackers started the battle, the Lucifuge rushing towards Julius as he considered him the strongest threats while Rizevim engaged in a close-fight with Alucard.

The Dhampir deployed his sword, the precious heirloom left to him by his mother causing sparks as it impacted against the gauntlets conjured by the Super-Devil. "Let's see how strong you are, Dracula's spawn."

A snarl appeared on the Dhampir's face and the pure pressure exercised by the brawling Devil was lessened only a few moments later as Azazel joined the fight too.

"You better not forgetting about me, oldie." The lance slammed on the silver-haired Devil's elbow. "Don't want to be left disappointed her."

Rizevim smiled madly, seemingly ignoring the damage sustained. "Good for me. Two dead morons in a single fight? Now that is a nice discount." He cackled as he returned the hit by kicking Azazel on his thigh.

In another section of the hallway, Julius found himself sweating a little more than usual.

Euclid summoned several red spheres and threw them at him, forcing the 31-years old Belmont to dodge the attacks with magical after-images.

The pacing of the fight seemed to be on par with the one he had with Dracula back in 1999, the Devil being rather fond of using Explosive magic to keep the distance with him. A clear weakness to close-quarter.

Once he got close enough, he proceeded to send the tip of the whip flying once more towards the Magic-user and he was graced with a powerful blow that forced the Lucifuge to drop his spells just for a moment.

A hole through his clothes was burning, right above his stomach and the rekindled snarl was enough to convince him that he had dealt some serious damage. The number of explosive spheres intensified and the Belmont proceeded to throw some Crosses against the still-recoiling Devil, the projectile weapons soaring rapidly towards the injured Lucifuge.

Euclide sighed as two magical barriers appeared in front of him, stopping mid-air the holy weapons and proceeding to create some magical strings to throw them back at his opponent.

Julius dodged most of them, but one still managed to reach him and crash on his leg. It was the impact that did most of the damage, but the pain surging from below his knee was enough to make him understand his mobility was reduced by that hit.

The attacks weren't even showing any sign of stopping, quite the contrary as the Devil sent more explosive spells against him as his enemy was aware of the new weakness he had created.

With his speed halved by the attack and with the intensity of the explosion not faltering for just a moment, Julius growled as he focused most of his attention in dodging the attacks, knowing that if one managed to hit him it was going to be the end of him.

But just as he was too focused on avoiding the spells coming his way, Euclid was also quite distracted by the intense task to notice the danger approaching from behind.

Eyes widening in surprise, he barely turned around to see the one attacker that managed through, the Morning Star currently slamming on his back with its blessed, spiked tip and the current owner, the younger Belmont, glaring his way while the holy explosion sent him flying away.

His brief flight was interrupted by the wall nearby, his body breaching part of it before being halted, his bones groaning at the pressure and the Lucifuge felt his ribs bruising at the sudden impact.

Falling on the floor and blood slowly falling from the corner of his mouth, the Devil stared up as the two Belmont approached him, whips ready to crack one last time to end his life-

Rizevim grinned as he found the battle he was facing to be one of the funniest ever. While Azazel's little toy was giving him a hard time in terms of raw strength, he was immensely happy to deal with a highly-versatile opponent as Alucard.

Deadly blows were either dodged with his bat form or his mist form, magic was employed when the Devil didn't show any sign of magical barriers and his sword was capable of cutting through his armor and skin.

It's been so long since he had the pleasure to face someone this well-versed in adaptable fighting and for a few moments he found himself intrigued by his battle-lust.

The Governor-General tried to impale him once again but just like before the Lucifer merely deflected the two-pronged spear and slammed a kick on the Fallen Angel's armored ribs. Alucard went to use his shield to halt a punch coming his way but was forced to take some steps back at the vibration going through his entire arm after the impact.

The fight intensified to a point were Rizevim found himself constantly giggling at the unique styles of both his opponents synchronizing harmoniously against him. It was so pure, uncensored and terribly addicting!

But while he wanted this little 'warm-up' to continue a little longer, his ears were keen to pick up the distressed yelp coming from Euclid. Eyes turning towards his minion and he saw the younger Devil ready to be turned in mincemeat by the two Belmonts.

Now, that wasn't something alright.

Without missing a moment, the Lucifer slammed his fist right on Azazel's armored chest, his little trump card entering in action as the Sacred Gear boosting the man faded away to reveal a surprised Fallen Angel.

A kick right on his teeth was enough to send Azazel flying, leaving just Alucard to face at that moment. A kick pushed the shield away as magic condensed within Rizevim's right hand and…

KA-Boom!

The blast was mostly absorbed by the shield, but the sudden kick-back sent the Dhampir to slam in the wall behind him.

Now that the road was open, the Super-Devil rushed by his minion's side and picked him up.

"M-Milord-"

"Can it, Euclid. You were certainly out-played by the fact you shouldn't focus on a single threat but to every single one of them." The Lucifer sighed tiredly as he stared at the two Belmont and the other Dhampir, safely hiding behind the two.

"I would be more than happy to continue this lovely meeting, but sadly the time has fleeted my mind and we have a date with… Infinity." The man exclaimed loudly at the two humans.

"You aren't going nowhere-" Juste tried to stop him, but the Devil cackled once more.

"Oh? But I'm going to use my super technique right now. Please don't blink!" Both tensed at this warning and the Devil's grin widened eagerly.

Tensing his leg a little as magic flooded the two lower limbs-

Rizevim turned towards the hallway that led to the exit and started to run away while chuckling maniacally.

"NIGERUNDAYO!"

The mad Lucifer dodged the two whips coming his way and the pace he took was quick enough to out-speed the weapons and leave their range of actions. The two humans stared wide-eyed at the scene, unable to elaborate what kind of insanity they had just seen.

But as the two looked shocked and Valerie giggled at the scene, Azazel was the first to recover from the brief beating he received.

"T-There are two of them now!"

AN

Oh My GOD! Slaps both hands on my cheeks

The Jojo references are intensifying and… things escalated fairly quickly.

Quick explanation why this was short (as I planned it to be): This Castle wasn't Dracula's and the enemies were interested in taking their objectives quickly rather than waiting for them to present themselves by the Throne Room. Mathias has a very marginal role as… he isn't truly trained to use Morning Star and he wanted to avoid creating issues to his more-experienced Uncle. Euclid is an expert in Magic, especially explosive ones but his mind is very limited to one target at the time, making him vulnerable to attacks from support. Rizevim thrashed both Azazel and Alucard… because he could. Even with Down Fall Dragon Spear, Azazel is slightly weaker than Rizevim and the Sacred Gear Canceller was enough to put him in utter difficulty. Alucard represented someone that could have seriously contested him, but no matter how many years he has spent fighting Dracula, Rizevim was just a step above him. Also yes, Rizevim is a Jojo Fan.

This chapter was a little slow, tomorrow I will fix things by bringing some super-fluff. The reason it was so short is because I wanted this event to be wrapped up quickly… so we can return to the main cast.

Now the X-overing will be tuned down a little, just enough to give some chance for the new members to 'introduce' themselves in this 'new world'. So yeah, next chapter will be extra-fluffy and filled with some pairing ideas put forward.

So… I've a pairing idea for Ophis and-

To be Continued!

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