Castlevania: Finale Chapter 6 End of Time By: Fragraham Lincon -------------------------------------------------------------------- Author's note: This is the final chapter of Finale which concludes the castlevania trilogy that has continued through the history of HFUFF. But let's all look the future of fanfiction as this comes to an end. Now enjoy the Finale of Finale ----------------------------------------------------------------- The dark Fortress known as Castlevania. The rain poured down non stop. And high in the clouds was the castle keep. And at the doorway of this structure were four heroes. A child with blood red eyes and blue hair Carrie Fernandez. A young man who's hair was golden and stood on end. His jaw square and masculine. His body covered in a modern black leather attire and in his hand a holy whip of his ancestry. Griffen Belmont. A man looking only slightly older than Griffen with longish blue hair and eyes red like a rabits. Covering him are whethered fatiuges and a well worn brown trench coat. In his hand a specially made revolver that carried seven rounds. Simon Weissel. and dressed in black clothing over which he wore a black cape and sporting long silver hair. The man known only as Aulcard. These four were prepared to face the darkness. Griffen stood in front of the heavy metal doorway to the castle keep and watched as it slid open under its own power. Inside the keep at the far end was a coffin. It had been nailed shut many times but showed wear of it's inhabitant breaking free on more than one occasion. The four stood at the ready. The coffin began to eminate creeking sounds. Soon a steam poured from it with force through the cracks in the ancient wood. The casket burst open in a flash of light sending splinters all over. Rising from the mist where the coffin once laid there was a man in in his forties who was very tall and dressed in the finest attire over which he wore a black cape like Alucard's. "Dracula" Said Griffen knowing from instinct the face of his enemy. The voice of Dracula echoed throughout the room. "My time has at last come. After two thousand long years the time has finally come. Griffen Belmont, Carrie Fernandez. Rejoice my brother and sister for now is the time of great joy and suffering. The hellish paradise is upon us." "Enough of this" Shouted Simon no longer able to bear Dracula's ministry. "You steal souls and call yourself a God. You disgust me." Simon Continued. "You could say the same of your religion and your pale christ as well could you not? I only give humans that which they most desire. An eternity of Decedance. Imortality of the body and the glory of their own pleasure. Who are you to argue the meaning of right and wrong." Siad Dracula. "SHUT UP!" Griffen Yelled as he brought his whip to a battle position. "Why do you fight me? Would it not be a simpler matter to join me? You unlike the other Belmonts are not brainwashed by the church which had trained you. You could be the world's savior. All through time humanity would praise your name. No better you would be there ruling over them all as a god. Think about it Belmont. The world is in your grasp. Don't let it slip away." Said Dracula in reply. Griffen responded by spitting on Dracula's boots. "Very well. If you will not be a part of the new order then you can not be allowed to exist within it." Dracula replied. Griffen swung his whip at Dracula with the point aimed directly for the Dark Master's heart. The blade pierced. Dracula's shape dissapeared as the whip fell through only air. A moment later Dracula was behind Griffen and swinging down with his ham sized fists. Griffen ducked and rolled out of the way as Dracula's blow impacted on the floor breaking up the stone. From Behind Dracula, Alucard swung down hard with the edge of his sword. Dracula spun around and grabbed the weapon in his hand halting it. Opening his other hand Dracula sent a blast of power into Alucard sending him hurtling back through the hard stone wall and falling into the abyss below. "YOU BASTARD!" Screamed Griffen as he charged at Dracula whip already in mid swing. Dracula fired off a bolt of energy at the oncoming Belmont and sent him back down to the floor. Two bullets from the side richoched off of Dracula's temple as he looked over to see Simon Aiming his gun. Dracula turned in Simon's direction and slowly approached him. a third bullet hit Dracula's chest bouncing harmlessly off. A fourth as Dracula drew closer. Dracual siezed Simon by the neck and lifted him off his feet. Simon struggling to breath but still fighting aimed his gun down at Dracula's face and fired off his last three rounds finding them entirely without effect. "all out of bullets eh. Now what are you going to do?" Said Dracula as he tightened his grip. Simon continued his aim as his gun began glowing. He pulled the trigger an eight time and from the gun barrel flew a ball of mystic force. It exploded in Dracula's face driving him back. Simon fired off another round forcing Dracula to relenquish his grip. "Argh you have the Fernandez power." Said Dracula holding his smoldering face in pain. Before Dracula could recouperate Griffen was upon him laying his whip into Dracula's back tearing the Dark Lord's cape to shreds as the force carried through damaging Dracula's body. Carrie chanted a spell and shot it into Dracula's torso forcing him back into a wall. Bursting through the stone wall behind Dracula came Alucard who laid his sword into Dracula's spine. Dracula staggered forward finding two simultanious magic balls in his face again. Griffen got his whip ready. "Kind of weak for a dark lord aren't you." He said. Dracula looked over to Griffen and grinned. "You have no idea." Dracula streightened his posture and smiled. Dracula reached for the shoulder of his cape and pulled it away obscuring himself and when he threw the cape aside and became visible Dracula had changed. Dracula was now clad in a hard metal armor that was tinted the color of bloody. He held out his hand and from a shaft of dark energy materialized a weapon. A halberd with a head not at one but both ends. "This is how I fought in the old days. You may remember tales of a warrior kind from this country who emplaed his enemies on his spear. "Prince Vlad. So that's why you used that name." Said Griffen. Griffen steeled himself and rushed in from one angle as Alucard, rushed from another. Dracula, holding his ground, spun his weapon above his head and introduced Griffen to one of the blade's flat side sending him through the air and down on the floor. An instnant later Dracula thrust a blad into Alucard. Both Alucard and Dracula stopped for a moment. Alucard's blood ran down the shaft of the weapon. Dracula gave it another push forcing the point of the blade out through ALucard's back. "Father....." Alucard choked as blood ran out through his mouth. "You are not worthy of being called my son" Dracula withdrew his weapon and Alucard fell to the floor as his blood flowed out and gathered in a pool around him. "ALUCARD!" Shouted Griffen. "I'll KILL YOU DRACULA!" Griffen yelled as he rushed in on Dracula only to be swatted aside like a fly. "I WON'T LET YOU KILL ANYONE ELSE!" Carrie cried as she hurled a large ball of magic at Dracula. The ball was much larger than anything anyone had seen Carrie cast and it grew larger and larger as it flew through the air as if feeding on her anger. Dracula held out his weapon and slashed at the projectile halving it and sending it's two halves behind him where they exploded taking out half the wall of the Castle Keep. Griffen rushed in again at Dracual. This time he landed a blow while Dracula was distracted dealing with another magic attack from Simon. Dracula turned around and puched Griffen sending him crashing inot a stone pillar shaking the castle keep its self. Griffen pulled himself back up not willing to surrender. Once again Griffen charged at Dracula. Dracula countered with a swing of his weapon's deadly blad. Griffen managed to hop back barely clearing the blade as it ripped his shirt and inflicted a light gash on his stomach. Dracula rushed in on Griffen swinging rapidly. Griffen ducked and dodged a flurry of attacks without finding any opportunity to counterattack. Dracula cornered Griffen against the already cracked stone pillar he had just been knocked into. Dracula took a heavy swing as Griffen rolled aside allowing the blade to cut the Pillar in two. Dracula was met by a section of the cieling falling on him. It did little to slow the Dark lord as he burst through the rubble rushing with his dual ended weapon at Griffen. Griffen backed into another pillar and as before ducked and rolled letting Dracula smash the support. This time the cieling became unstable and began to collapse. Simon and Carrie realizing this fled through the doorway back onto the long stairway. as castle keep fell in on its self. Dracula pulled himself through the rubble and looked through the dust for Griffen. Griffen seemed nowhere to be found. With the Belmont vanquished Dracula tunred his attention to Simon and Carrie. "It's pathetic really. To think that such an unexperianced vampire hunter like him could have defeated me." Said Dracula as he approached. "Carrie get behind me." Ordered Simon trying to protect the child from Dracula. "You too seem to have the Fernandez gift. You I assume then are decended from one. That I cannot allow. I will have to remove you from the equation." Dracula said as he held out a hand toward Simon and charged a ball of dark energy. Simon concentrated on his gun. "God allmighty give me strength to triumph over the darkness. Give me the strength of your light." He said. Dracula fired a wide beam of Dark power directly at Simon as Simon fired off a ball of power from his gun. Both attacks met dead center. Simon concentrated trying to foce the ball of energy forward against Dracula's pouring beam of Darkness. Slowly the ball of power from Simon shrank and moved back. In a burst of tiny sparkles the ball burst and Dracula's beam rushed through. An instant before impact from Behind Dracula Griffen attacked sending the beam of darkness off it's target and sailing aimlessly into the sky. Griffen latched onto Dracula's back with his whip coiled around the Dark lord's neck. Dracula Dropped his weapon and struggled to get his hands on Griffen. But Griffen's smaller size allowed him to evade the giant hands of Dracula. Making a quick judgement Dracula lept over the side and inverted himself in mid fall causing Griffen to lose his stranglehold. Dracula grabbed the whip to which Griffen was still clinging and swung it into the side of the long tower supporting the castle keep. Dracula yanked back on the whip finding Griffen still clinging for his life. Dracula swung the whip around and Griffen along with it. Flying back up Dracula smashed Griffen into what remained of the Castle Keep. Griffen laid in the center of the rubble bleeding all over. Dracula landed back on the remnants of the keep and picked up his weapon. Griffen found himself too injured to move. Dracula lifted up his weapon over Griffen and prepared to strike down. Dracula thrust down piercing the abdomen of Griffen. Griffe's blood rushed out as he cried in pain for a moment then fell silent. Griffen lay dead. The rain continued to pour down washing Griffen's blood away. Dracula leaving his weapon in the Belmont's torso walked back toward Simon. "No more interfearance. DIE!" Said Dracula as he lunged forward and vanished from sight. A second later he appeared in front of Simon and grabbed him by the head. With Dracula shook the helpless Simon around like a rag doll smashing his body into the hard stone before hurling him over the edge. Simon screamed as he fell into the endless night. Finally Dracula approached Carrie. "Oh don't worry. You won't meet the same fate as they did. I have far better plans for you my soon to be queen." Dracula said smiling wickedly. As Dracula extended a hand toward Carrie he halted. His long ears picked up a sound in the air. A high pitched humming. He looked out into the sky to see something approaching. it was a large heavy jet aircraft. A bomber to be precise. On the side of it he could see the seal of the the catholic church. The bomber came closer and closer as Dracula stared on in horror. As it buzzed overhead a bomb dropped from it. Dracula looked at the incoming weapon. Branded on the fat cigar shaped objects side was the universal symbol for nuclear power. "NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!" Screamed Dracula as his scream was drowned out by the massive boom of the exploding bomb. The entire castle was quickly consumed in a burning red fireball. Every remnant of the castle was vaporized in a fire as hot as the sun. a mushroom cloud arose and stretched high into the strotosphere signifying the castle's destruction. Aboard the aircraft the pilot looked back to the men on board and gave the thumbs up sign. Griffen opened his eyes. He saw before him an endless void. Beneth his feet was the ground that emmited its own light in solid white. above him a solid black starless sky. He looked to his side to see Carrie, Simon, and Alucard standing. "Are we dead?" Griffen asked. Alucard turned to face everyone. "This is the astral plane. Our spirit energy exists here in the ultimate reality. Magic like that Carrie and Simon uses works on this level attacking the enemy's astral body without which the body and spirit can not co exist. Our physical bodies have ceased to be but for some reason we are now aware on the astral plane. and so is my father." Alucard Said. "Then if we defeat Dracula here his body will lose it's link to the physical worl forever." Said Carrie. "No more Dracula. EVER, Not in a hundred years not in a thousand years." Simon said. "Then let's kill the fucker." Said Griffen getting to the point. "It won't be that easy. On the astral plane power is the only thing that matters. and here Dracula is the supream power. No individual has more power than Dracula." Said Alucard. "I don't think we have time to argue about it guys." Said Griffen as the ground began to shake. On the dark horizon something was approaching. a dragon like creature. It's wings reached twice its body length on either side. attached to its shoulders were not two but six arms, and to gaze at its face was to look evil its self in the eye. "My father's true shape." Said Alucard. The creature landed. "How dare you interfear with my plans. How could you destroy my beutiful castle. I will kill you all!" it said in a raspy voice mixed with an unearthly growl. Griffen found his whip at his side. But no longer the whip he had held but it's true shape. it was a solid chain of light. Griffen rushed in at Dracula. He rushed around as Dracula swiped at him with his tail and continued to advance leaping high into the air. Dracula swung with one arm on which Griffen landed and bounded off even higher and off the next arm and another and another untill he found himself high above right in front of the true face of Dracula. He reared his whip back and swung it landing it in one of Dracula's eyes. Dracula wrenched back in pain holding the injured eye. The ground shook under the monster's footsteps as he staggered. Carrie and Simon both fired off balls of magic power which twirled around one another on their fast approach and merged into one just before impacting on Dracula's torso forcing him further back. Dracula shook off the attack and opened his gaping maw spitting out a beam of purest black aimed at Griffen. Alucard lept in front producing a bubble like shield of force around them. "GO NOW AND FINNISH IT!" Alucard Yelled. Griffen jumped through the shield and above the still continuing beam and toward Dracula. Griffen found himself no longer jumping but flying under a power seemingly driven by his own willpower. He landed on the long snout of Dracula and laid his whip into the other eye. Dracula discontinued his beam and once again staggered back. Doing an impressive backflip Griffen lept back down to the ground in front of Simon and Carrie. Dracula stopped wrenching in pain and opened both eyes. No longer were there eyes but two holes pouring out black smoke and floating in them red dots of glowing power that seemed like pupils burning with Hellfire. Dracula held all six hands together and extended his wings to full reach as their skin glowed turning their color from black to blood read. Dracula opened his mouth and a black flow of energy poured as if it were a waterfall gathering into a ball in front of his hands. Alucard realizing that Dracula was prepared to unleash his full astral power made a descision. Alucard drew his sword and rushed toward Dracula leaping up to the level of his chest and planted the sword as deep as he could between the monster's scales. Alucard summoned fourth all of his strength and pushed his astral energy through Dracula. "ALL OF YOU WORK TOGETHER! THIS IS YOUR LAST CHANCE! I WILL HOLD MY FATHER HERE! ATTACK NOW BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE! SEND US BOTH TO HELL!" Alucard screamed. Simon and Carrie both looked to Griffen and concentrated. The three of them united their energies. Soon the three figures had dissapeared and become one being within Griffen. The protector of purity and the deliverer of justice. Griffen held his whip ready to strike. Dracula released his ball of dark energy into a full power beam of black force. Griffen charged at the blast head on. He swung his whip upward through it slicing the beam its self in half creating a path up which he flew toward Dracula. Finally Griffen Flew up above Draculas head and held his whip high. It extended even further into a beam of light reaching high into the black sky parting it and letting shine down rays of golden light. Griffen dove down as he swung verticly cutting through the beast. Flying down hard all the way to the monster's base cutting it completely in half. Griffen lept back and his body devided back into the three beings Griffen, Carrie, and Simon. Alucard looked back as the white line deviding Dracula's body began to spread over the hidious creature. "Thank you all." He said as he was consumed in the blinding light that also consumed Dracula. The light continued to spread engulfing everyone and within it the last they could see was the form of Dracula shattering. In the pysical word the fierce storm had ended. Rays of sunshine beamed down on the empty lake where the dark castle had been removed from existance. the crater had been filled in with the sparkling blue water. eight years later.... Over this tranquil setting the sun peacefully rose sending the first light of a new millinium over the country of transilvania. And staring out over the lake were three people. Now grown up Carrie with her blue hair hanging down over her back and her red eyes gazing hopefully over the beutiful scene. Simon who's also Blue hair had been growing out and tied into a ponytai. Simon was no longer dressed for combat but for a casual life. Griffen also was there. Still dressed in leather and his golden hair still spiked. On his face though was now an expression of contentment. "Well we know for sure now. No apocolypse. We did it. Dracula's dead forever. From here it's up to humankind what happens to the world." Said Carrie. "Hard to believe that we partially have to thank a weapon that could still very well cause the apocolypse. But let's worry about that some other time." Said Simon. Griffen was staring out at the water. "We owe Alucard too. He gave his life for us. But what he said about sending him to Hell. I still don't trust a word of his judgement. So I'm not going to believe him on that either." he said with a slight cockey smile. "Still the tough guy eh Griffen." Said Simon. "Yeah and you're still a loon." Griffen replied. Simon set down a basket and from it pulled a bottle. "It's a good year. It's from my uncle Javert's private collection. I'd been saving it for a special occasion." Said Simon as he prepared a few glasses he also had stored in the basket. "I think we should drink to Alucard." Suggested Carrie as she took a glass Simon handed to her. The three heroes stood in the wind as they drank to their friend's memory. "To Alucard." ------------------------END---------------------------------------------------