It's been many centuries since the Belmont Clan and their allies had permanently slain Dracula using their combined methods, unbeknownst to them though Death had secretly thrown the Lord of Darkness' soul into the circle of reincarnation.
After centuries Death's actions after Dracula's final demise had become known and a prophecy had been spread throughout the world.
By the 21st century during an unsuspecting year and an unsuspecting day... the Lord of Darkness Dracula will reawaken his soul and bring great ruin upon the world once more.
After hearing of this prophecy the last and greatest champion of the Belmont Clan, Gabriel Belmont set out to stop the dark lord's return.
During his journey Gabriel faced many great threats to humanity such as powerful immortal vampires, Demonic Lords and even monstrous creatures.
However as the years passed Gabriel still had no clue regarding Dracula's return.
Then one day... Gabriel disappeared without a trace and Dracula's castle reappeared in the world once more.
Unfortunately for those that wished to enter the dark lord's castle, the Castle seemed to be in an unstable state for it would randomly disappear and reappear on different locations throughout the world... this made it difficult for many forces to lay siege to the castle.
It was then that numerous creatures of the night would assault the nearby cities and towns from which Dracula's castle would appear.
With the last descendant of the Belmonts missing... least to say the world's forces were in a panicked state.
Realizing that the Belmont's last hunter was missing, the forces of darkness also began to run even more rampant and chaotic as they celebrated humanity's champion being absent.
Unbeknownst to them though Gabriel Belmont silently left behind two secrets... two children which he had hidden to be precise.
One child was Gabriel's son to a descendant of the Belnades Clan, while as his second child, his daughter was born to a woman said to be descended from a clan of myth... The Umbra Witches.
The boy was then named Julius Belmont while as the girl was named Sonia Belmont.
After a few decades these two children of Gabriel grew into powerful and elite vampire hunters... with Julius revealing himself and becoming the next head of the vampire hunters alliance, new hope was rekindled in the hearts of those that feared the creatures of the night.
Sadly... their new hope was quickly extinguished!
During his expedition to enter Dracula's castle, Julius was ambushed by Dracula's four supreme generals... the Lords of Shadow.
This clash resulted in the Lords of Shadow having to retreat and go into hiding due to the injuries Julius had caused them.
Julius on the other hand wasn't so lucky... this battle left him crippled and without a left arm... least to say many believed that his vampire slaying days were behind him.
As for Gabriel's secret daughter Sonia... her very existence was never really known to society for she herself did her vampire hunting in the shadows with mostly no witnesses.
In fact those that knew her only knew that she was a powerful and battle hardened huntress of the night that was near peerless when it came to killing evil creatures.
Despite this, evidence of Sonia's existence were actually quite scarce to the point that the only known one was a torn picture in the hands of a young 17 year old boy.
...
"Mom..." Muttered a black haired teenage boy with serene eyes as he slowly caressed the torn picture of a beautiful woman with long black hair.
"It's been ten years... but you still have that habit huh." Said a middle aged looking man with long blonde hair while sitting beside the boy as they took in the warmth of the campfire.
"I just... don't want to forget what she looks like you know." Replied the teenage boy as he placed the picture of the woman into his pocket.
The boy then turned towards the blonde man and asked: "Which reminds me... ten years ago you said you'd tell me more about her by now."
"Hmm?... Yes it seems I did say something of the sort... funny you still remembered that after a decade." Replied the blonde haired man as he placed his fingers under his chin.
"Well?... Out with it you gonna spill or not?" Said the boy with a bit of a playful smirk on his face.
"Hmm... Where to begin... ah yes." Said the man as he stood up and stared at the clear full moon.
Blonde Man: "It was a full moon night just like this one when I first met your Mother roaming the streets of a deserted town... she was 13 years old back then... abandoned by her Mother to fend for herself."
"Heh... is that some sort of family tradition or something?" Said the black haired boy with an ironic smile on his face.
"Hmm... who knows..." Said the blonde haired man with a slight smirk on his face before continuing his words: "...anyway after I found her I quickly realized that she was responsible for slaying all of the vampires that slaughtered the town."
"So... what you took a liking to her and took her in?" Asked the black haired boy.
"Something like that... " Replied the blonde haired man with a gentle smile before taking a deep breath and saying in a serious tone: "Well that's all you're getting for tonight... it's time for work."
"Gotcha... well at least it's the most I've gotten out of you in an entire decade." Said the black haired boy as he took a sheathed sword with a red handle and placed it on his back.
But before the boy walked away into the shadows, he spoke and asked the man: "Hey Al... you think what we do every night makes a difference?"
Hearing the boy's question the man named Al took a moment then answered: "I could only hope... that with every monster we kill, dozens of others that might've become their victims would be spared."
"Not really the answer I was looking for... but I guess good enough." Said the boy before he vanished into the night.
whoosh...
"Always take care Trey." Muttered the man named Al as he turned towards the direction that the boy disappeared to.
...
At this moment near the outskirts of a city just outside a large forest a group of monstrous figures began to appear from the dark shadows of the night.
Walking Skeletons
Blade Demons
Demonochorus Monsters
A Warg Demon
And leading this group of monsters were 3 black suited individuals with protruding fangs from their mouths... indeed... they were Vampires!
"A city full of unsuspecting innocent fools!" Said one of the black suited vampires as they stared at the city in the distance.
"Heh... Looks like we have a pretty big lunch tonight." Said another vampire with a smirk on his face further revealing his fangs.
The third vampire then said: "I don't understand why the Higher-Ups just wanted us to scout this place... they don't even have a proper City Watch... tch!... Anyway once we slaughter this city full of humans we'll definitely earn great merits once we get back."
The other two vampires smiles grew wider upon hearing the third's words, they were indeed quite excited to gain some recognition from their masters.
But then suddenly... these group of monsters were caught off guard by a young voice sounding from behind them.
"Evening Gents... quite the gathering you have here... mind if I crash in?"
"Wha?!!"
whoosh...
But before the group of monsters could turn around and see who it was, the person suddenly turned into a purple blur and then...
kacha...
A sound was heard and blood showered from above... the Demonochorus Monsters had been instantly beheaded.
"Tch!... Somebody found our location already?!" Said one of the three black suited vampires.
whoosh... kacha...
Without warning the person that attacked once again reappeared in the middle of the group of monsters and instantly cut apart several of the walking skeletons.
This resulted in their bones immediately turning to ash.
Seeing this scene, one of the vampires immediately noticed what was in this person's hand... it was a long steel sword with a red handle, around it's blade was what looked to be blue energy lighting up the darkness... almost like there were blue flames surrounding this sword.
"Magic surrounds that sword!" Thought the three black suited vampires.
As for the wielder of the sword... it looked to be a young boy in his teens with dark black hair and a mask covering the upper part of his face.
Upon turning around with a mocking smile, the masked boy simply said: "What's wrong?... Never seen a guy hunt Night Creatures before?"
After a moment the three vampires simply turned to each other before shouting: "ATTACK!"
"RAAAAAH!!!"
With their signal the remaining monsters immediately charged towards the masked boy with their blades raised high.
"Hm.." Staring at the Blade Demons and Walking Skeletons coming at him from all sides, Trey simply thought with a slight smile on his face: "A little worse than I thought."
"HRRAAA!" Roared an armored skeleton as it swung it's sword at Trey.
swoosh...
The masked boy then swiftly and easily dodged the skeleton's sword and quickly snuck up behind it.
Trey then pointed a double barreled revolver at the skeleton's back then... BANG!
The armored skeleton was instantly obliterated by the blast from the gun... However it wasn't over after destroying the armored skeleton, Trey quickly turned around and swung his magic enhanced sword at the Blade Demon that just lunged at him.
clang!... "Graah?!"
With the power of Trey's swing coupled with his magic enhanced sword, he was easily able to crack the Blade Demon's shield and send it flying a few meters away.
"HRAA!" "HRAA!" "HRAA!"
The boy's actions simply just served to further enrage the remaining demons and skeletons.
whoosh...whoosh...whoosh
Despite this though Trey swiftly, easily and dare I say it elegantly avoided all of their attacks without breaking a sweat at all.
"Haaa..." Yawned the masked boy as he continued to dodge the monsters attacks.
"He's making fools out of our demons!... Warg go and turn that hunter to dust!" Said one of the vampires as he turned to the large wolf monster beside them.
"RAAAH!" Roared the massive wolf monster as it shot out several intense fireballs at the masked boy.
"Hey now that isn't very nice... I was about to make up a new dance." Said Trey as he quickly dodged the intense fireballs.
"Welp... guess I'll just have to perfect 'Monster Jam' another night." Muttered the masked boy as he pointed his double barreled revolver at the large wolf monster.
BANG!..BANG!
"AWOOOO!" The Warg Demon howled in agony as two of it's legs were blown off by Trey's gunshots.
whoosh...puchi!
Before the massive wolf monster's body fell to the ground from loss of balance, Trey suddenly turned into a purple blur appeared below it and quickly severed it's head.
As monster blood once again showered the field, the remaining Walking Skeletons and Blade Demons couldn't help but take a step back.
It was here that the vampires also began to understand what they were dealing with.
"It seems to be a true hunter of the night." Said one of the vampires.
"I didn't think we'd need to take action this soon." Said the second black suited vampire.
"tch!... This damned human boy... making a mockery of us." Said the third black suited Vampire as all three of their vampiric auras surged.
Sensing their auras, Trey simply turned to them with sharp eyes and said: "Whoops... looks like play time's over."
"Alright uglies... it's time to clear the field." Said Trey at the remaining Blade Demons and Walking Skeletons as he took out several throwing knives blessed with holy water with his right hand and pointed his revolver at them with his left hand.
whoosh...whoosh...whoosh...BANG!...BANG!...BANG!
Without any chance of resistance the remaining Blade Demons and Skeletons were either instantly turned to dust or blown to nihility by Trey's attacks.
"Now that the extras are gone, time for the main course." Muttered the masked boy as he turned towards the three black suited vampires with a serious expression.
With their eyes glowing red the three vampires then began to walk slowly towards Trey.
Suddenly... one of the vampires rushed forward in a black blur as a pair of curved daggers appeared in his hands.
whoosh... clang!
Trey was able to block the vampire's daggers with his knives and revolver... however he was still forced back by a few steps.
"Aren't you rushing too much?" Said the masked boy with a smirk as he continued to block the vampire's pair of daggers.
It was here that a black blur appeared behind Trey... it was another one of the black suited vampires, in his hands were a pair of black sickles giving off purple smoke... it was poison!
Catching the scent of the poison, Trey's expression turned a bit dark as he immediately turned around and said: "Come on.. poison?... How about a fair fight from you blood suckers for once?"
"Haaa!" The vampire holding the sickles bared his fangs at the masked boy as he then swung his poison sickles straight at Trey's neck.
At that moment it was as if time had slowed down for Trey as his eyes turned serious.
thud!... Gah!
Swiftly kicking away the vampire holding the daggers, Trey immediately ducked and avoided the poison sickles at the very last moment.
"Huh?" Bewildered by Trey's sudden increase in speed, the sickle holding vampire simply stared dumbly at his dagger wielding ally that was sent flying by an attack he himself couldn't even see.
As for Trey he already had his pistol aimed at the sickle holding vampire's lower body.
"Jackpot.." Muttered Trey as... BANG!... he fired his revolver straight at the vampire's crotch.
"OOGH!!!" Sounded the sickle wielding vampire in pain as he was sent flying by a blast hitting straight at his crotch.
"So that time slowing thing happened again huh... wonder how I can nerf it a bit?... makes hunting monsters way too easy." Thought Trey as he stood up.
Staring at the vampire whose crotch is still smoking from his attack, the masked boy couldn't help but say in an apologetic tone: "Uh... sorry was that a low blow... Huh?!"
But before he could finish his words, Trey had to immediately tilt his head to avoid some oncoming black spikes.
It was the third black suited vampire... his special ability was to shoot out black spikes from his nails... those that would be wounded by these black spikes would be weakened and cursed by this vampire.
chi..chi..chi..chi..chi..chi..chi..chi..
Without relenting the vampire with black spikes continued his barrage of attacks towards Trey.
whoosh..whoosh..whoosh..whoosh..whoosh..
Despite the high speed of the vampire's black spikes, the masked boy was still able to swiftly and effortlessly dodge them all.
However by this point Trey couldn't help but think: "Hm... I won't be able to get close to him if his attacks don't slow down anytime soon."
After dodging another set of black spike, Trey immediately threw out some throwing knives.
clang..clang..clang..clang..
whoosh..
After successfully intercepting some of the black spikes using his throwing knives, Trey immediately turned into a purple blur and charged at the spike shooting vampire with his sword.
Sadly though...
clang!
"Hm?" The dagger wielding vampire got up, turned into a black blur and blocked his charge.
"DIE!" Shouted the spike shooting vampire as he shot out his spikes from behind his ally.
"Tch!" Seeing this Trey simply executed a quick backflip and dodged the oncoming black spikes once more... however as he did so he immediately spotted a pair of sickles clad in purple smoke flying straight towards him.
"Damn!" Thought the masked boy upon seeing the sickles.
clang..clang..
With some quick thinking and fast reflexes, Trey was able to just barely block the poison sickles with his sword.
With smoke still lingering around his crotch, the sickle wielding vampire stood up staring at Trey with bloodshot eyes... he now held pure rage towards the young hunter.
Landing on his feet and seeing the three vampires surround him on all sides, Trey simply said with a slight smirk: "What a nice night to get a bit more serious."
Upon sheathing his sword and putting away his gun, Trey immediately took out something from the side of his waist hidden within his coat.
"What?!"
"It can't be!!"
"That... That can't be..."
When the three vampires saw what was in Trey's hand as well as sense the aura emanating from it, the three of them couldn't help but shudder a bit as they took a step back in slight panic.
The object in Trey's hand had the appearance of what looked to be a black bullwhip... however in the eyes of the three vampires it represented something different... to them it represented death!
"You... You are..." Muttered the spike shooting vampire as he once again took a step back in great fear.
But before he could even finish his words...
whoosh... kacha..
"NO! NO! NO!!!" Shouted the spike shooting vampire as he saw that the black whip was already wrapped around his waist.
shhhhhh...
"NOOOOOO!!!!" It was too late for him to do anything... within but an instant, his entire body lit up into flames and immediately turned to ash.
The moment the three vampires became stunned at seeing his whip, Trey immediately turned into a purple blur, snuck up behind one of them and quickly wrapped his black whip around his target's waist.
whoosh..whoosh..
Seeing that their companion was instantly incinerated, the two remaining vampires did not even think twice to turn around and run for their lives.
"Aww... leaving so soon?... and things were just getting fun!" Said the masked boy as he chased after the two remaining vampires while swinging his whip.
snap!...snap!...snap!...snap!...
shhhhhhhh!
With masterful usage of the whip, Trey swiftly struck the legs of both vampires, instantly igniting their legs and turning them to ash.
thud!..thud!..
With the loss of their legs, the two vampires immediately fell down on their front.
With deep fear and hesitation on his face, the sickle wielding vampire slowly turned around towards Trey and said: "P-Please spare m.."
whoosh..
But before he could finish his words, Trey had already thrown a holy water blessed knife straight through his heart.
shhh...
"AAAHH!!!" Shouted the sickle wielding vampire as he was instantly turned to ash.
"W-Why... Why is somebody like you in a place like this?!" Shouted the remaining vampire as he struggled to crawl away from Trey who was slowly walking towards him.
Arriving in front of the crawling vampire, Trey simply stared at him with calm eyes.
By this point the remaining vampire felt even greater fear at the sight of Trey's calm eyes as he slowly muttered: "B-Bel...mont..."
"Yeah... tell the assholes in hell Trey Nero Belmont sent you." Said the masked boy as he then swung his black whip and finished off the last of the three vampires.
shhhh...
After the vampire's body turned to ash, Trey simply turned around and stared at the bright full moon saying: "Night's still young... might as well do a bit more hunting."
...
It was the 21st century... an era where the supernatural creatures of the Night ran rampant whenever the sun sets.
With the reappearance of Dracula's castle, organizations headed by supernatural creatures began to appear in the world one by one.
Among these organizations there were some that protected humanity... while as there are others that wished to enslave them or even turn them into food.
In this most dire time when the Belmont's last hunter was believed to have been crippled, many humans stood up against the supernatural threats... one by one they revealed their skills... whether it was Combat Arts, Magic or even their Faith to the Divine.
Humanity slowly began to fight back against the terrors of the night.
These people were then referred to by society as... Night Hunters!
