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Chapter 5: Sea of Blood.
Watery cavern, Warakiya. The 22nd of October 1588 A.D.
Simon looked around. The sound of running water was the only sound in the
cave. The mysterious candles was the only source of light. "It's an entire
underground river." Christina said, a little shocked by the sight before her.
Running alongside them, running outside the cavern where it gave water to
the waterfall in the other cave. "Wargen Holhe gebirge is really a suitable
name for this mountain." Simon said with dry humour in his voice. "Those steps
in here are made by men, not by water and age." She pointed at the spiral-staircase
leading downward from the cliff. And, on the other side, did lead up to another
cave. "There must be an exit over there." He said. "How so?" Christina asked,
then she too noticed it, the wind blowing at them from abve the river. "Let's
get going." Simon said as he cracked the Vampire Killer. She did the sign
of the cross and gathered magical fire around her rod. "Watch out!" Shimon
cried and cracked the whip at an apparition who jumped from the river below.
Christina screamed and let loose the fire in the form of fireballs as more
fishmen jumped from the river. Simon threw his boomerang-cross at some of
the approaching enemies. Christina spread her hands and three bolts of lightning
shot down and blasted the remaining fishmen into oblivion. "You're indeed
powerful." He said, almost with ave. "My magic comes from God. Do not be afraid.
I know Trevor wasn't about Sypha." His hand went through his red hair. "I
hope you're just powerful enough when it comes to battle Death or Dracula."
She nodded. But in her hearth she felt a dread. Simon saw a look of dread
in her eyes and put his arms around her. "Do not be afraid yourself. Whatever
happens, I'll be there to protect you." She smiled up at him. "Thank you."
He was no handsome or attractive man, but he was a good man, a simple man
and she knew that whatever Simon promised he would do his best to keep it.
As they continued down the stairs, Simon said he thought they where carved
out from the mountain itself, Christina could again gather her powers of a
free hearth. Simon continued to crack down and then gazed as he noticed a
strange watch fell out from one of them. "Good God." He mumbled. "What is
it?" Christina said as she looked around them in search for the enemy she
was sure the Belmont had noticed. "That stopwatch," Simon said as he slowly
picked it up. "I thought I'd left behind at the estate." "God work the mysterious
ways." She just said and Simon smiled and nodded. Then they didn't have time
to think further about the mysteries of the Heavens as they reached the bottom
of the steps and found that there was a bridge, that too carved out of the
rock, and more fishmen jumped from the water.
Watery cavern, Warakiya. The 22nd of
October 1688 A.D.
Simon brought up the stopwatch, how it had showed up here to serve him was
a true miracle, and the fishmen's fireballs and bursts of water stopped in
mid-air. "That's really a good weapon you have there." Christina commented
as she made frozen crystals blast at them. "It is. But Christina, if we are
to forgo the pattern of our lives we might screw up time." She slowly nodded
as Simon put back his weapon. But as soon he did so, more fishmen jumped from
the underground river. Now, as if some sort of curse, blobs fell from the
ceiling and rouse to show themselves as mudmen. Christina made it rian with
tiny icicles in an effort to freeze the strange creature molded out of mud.
Simon cracked the Vampire Killer at the fishmen and then threw the throwing-cross
at the mudmen in an effort to aid her. But more fishmen and mudmen was coming
at them. "Run." Simon whispered. "If you want to live. I'll fend them off."
Christina shook her head. "I don't leave you. You're the only one who have
a chance against Dracula." She spread her hands and lightning bolts struck
down and fireballs shot forward. Icicles fell from the ground and tiny tornadoes
blew but that was still not enough. Then Simon happened to strike a candle
at the end of the bridge and a strange star-like symbol fell down. "God is
really with us." Simon said as he picked it up as Christina covered him with
her magic. "This is a morning-star symbol." A shining silvery light shune
around his whip and smiled as the holy weapon became transformed into a more
powerful object. But they didn't have much time to rejoice as the evil forces
again started to attack them. "We must get away from here." Simon said as
he cracked the Vampire Killer at the mudmen and fishmen. "I'm with you." Christina
said as they finnaly battled their way across the bridge. "May God preserve
us." Christina did the sign of the cross as they noticed bone dragons who
where chained to the walls of the cave. "Don't try anything foolish." Simon
warned. "Don't try use lightning on them. The dank air and water will explode."
He flashed a humourless smile. "At least that's what the alchemist in Veros
said." As Christina threw a quick series of fireballs at the bone dragons,
she asked. "Have you bean in Veros?" Simon nodded as he cracked the whip at
some mudmen came up behind them. "One or twice." He confessed. "When I tried
to find a Medicus to my first wife." "Soryy I asked." She'd heard about the
pestilence who'd claimed Simon his beloved one. "Forget it." He just said
as he again used the stop-watch to freeze time so the mudmen stopped dead
in their track. "Run!" He shouted, Christina drew up her skirts and ran.
Watery cavern, Warakiya. The 22nd of
October 1688 A.D.
The steps lead upward. Christinae used her magic to freeze the pesky water
blobs who rouse from the river below. Simon cracked his Vampire Killer whip
at the spiders who lived in the dark corners. And that she was very thankful
fore. She would never tell him that she was in all reality terrified by those
creatures. Christina struck her rod into the ground so fire rouse into a roaring
flame before them as a pack of mudmen fell from the ceiling. He did throw
holy water at the ones who survived but couldn't hinder some from sneaking
past their attacks. She used her wand as a staff to attack the mudman, but
was hit by the mud these beasts spread all around themselves. "Take some antidote."
Simon adviced as he took a sip. "The mud is poisonous." "I see." Christina
answered as she felt a burning sensation go through her. "Just watch out."
He threw his boomerang-cross at a bone dragon who'd sised the opportunity
to breath fireballs at them. He gasped as the whip caught fire but didn't
burned. "Christopher knew life." Simon mumbled as he made flames spew at the
bone dragon and destroyed it with its own weapon. "Watch out!" Christina made
frozen crystals rain as yet another glob of water blobs came squishing at
them. As he cracked the flame whip at the water blobs, he noticed how the
flames went out. He didn't care. He continued to swing the whip. The flames
would return to him if God wanted it or he needed it. "Simon," Christina asked.
"Do you feel that?" Simon nodded as he felt the wind blow at his face. "The
exit must be near." Then he noticed something which made him stare. A plant,
a lilly, or so it looked, was growing right out of the rock. "A thorn-weed."
Christina whispered. Simon gave her a look. "They're hazardous plant-life
who grows where no green might grow. They feed upon the rotting and dying
rock. How it might be I don't understand. Sypha never wrote that in her books."
Simon shrugged. He didn't want to know more about them as they started spewing
spiked seeds at them. He cracked the Vampire Killer and the seeds was sent
flying. As they hit the ground, more Thron-weed started growing. "Don't do
that." Christina said as she still stood pondering something. "Then how do
you kill these bastards?" Simon asked as he backed out of range from their
seeds. The thorn-weeds ceased fire but merely looked like they more than anything
wanted to continue the onslaught. "I'm trying to remember." Christina said.
"They're somehow resistant to magic so that wouldn't work to just toss fire
on them. Lightning might work but…" Simon cut her off. "No lightning. I told
you. I don't know if that alchemist was true but I don't want to find out."
He let her stand there pondering the problem as he went over to where the
candles still burned. He cracked the whip and some bombs fell out. He'd heard
about these things from the alchemist. They could destroy solid rock and even
buildings. "Simon!" As she noticed what he'd found, she smiled. Those bombs
where the solution to all their problems. "What do you intend to do?" He asked
as she lit one of them with a tiny fireball. "Don't ask me right now. Just
run." Simon gave her a comfused look, then merely did as she said. Christina
was quick to follow and as they came down a few stairs. They where tossed
flat on the floor as an explosion shock the cave and nearly made them go deaf.
Watery cavern, Warakiya. The 22nd of
October 1688 A.D.
The thorn-weed where gone, true. But the ruble who'd fallen did block the
way forward. Simon sat on a nearby step resting after a failed attempt to
clear a road through the rocks. Now Christina tried to clear it by using her
wind-spell to blow it away. "I could always try a new bomb you know." He said
as he looked how she stared at the rock as if it was a personal enemy. "Don't."
She said as she turned to look at the Belmont. "There's something wrong here.
Don't you feel it too. It's like something tainted try to slip into your…"
Simon saw the motion of rock behind her and dashed to pil her to the ground.
Then he saw the eyes. She looked up on him like he'd bean mad, then she saw
what he'd bean looking at and screamed as the face went out from what had
seened like solid rock. "Koranot." Simon spat the word like a curse. "What's
a Koranot?" Christina asked. As Simon helped her to stand, he explained. "A
Koranot is a ghost who possess rock to feed upon it. It strips the mountain
of their strength. Whatever happens, don't expect anything." Just then, Koranot
made brick-shaped rocks fall down upon them. Simon and Christina ran to either
side. He tossing holy water while she made fireballs fly from her rod and
free left hand. "Don't do that!" Simon tried to warn her, but it was to late
as more brick-shaped stones fell out from where she'd hit the rocky giant.
The last thing she felt as the darkness took her, was Simon who came dashing
at her with a fierce snarl on his face. He noticed she was still alive, but
for now there was nothing he could do with that except thanking God of course.
He should've remembered to warn her that Koranot was hollow and as you attacked,
it would collapse into itself and do a spread-shot rock-attack as it did so.
Now however, Koranot was making bricks fall down at him in a row. "Christ!"
He summoned as he threw holy water at the bricks so they melted. He ran as
Koranot merely continued throwing bricks at him. Now not only from the ceiling,
but from the floor to. He cracked the Vampire Killer at the rock and thanked
God even more as the holy weapon managed to destroy the rocks sent at him.
He brought out his throwing-axe and as he sent if flying through the air it
split into many and rained over the giant. It gave forth strange huming sounds
at it shrunk into a somewhat lower form, but he didn't stopped to watch as
the attack had made rocks and ruble rain from its body. A cracking sound behind
him made him gace as Koranot leached upon a chain who drew him slightly upward.
Then he let loose and hammered into the floor so bricks and dust flew around
him like a circle-shaped attack. Simon was thrown to his knees, but luckly
had bean able to keep the grip on the whip and slashed at evry brick or dust-load
coming at him. He flet out of breath by the action and dust and felt how his
breath was rasping through his lungs. Fireballs and freezing gusts of winds
blew through the tunnel, he cleared his eyes and noticed Christina was back
on her feet. She was kneeling like him and she held a hand to her forhead,
but she was clear enough to unleash her flames. It wasn't the still-burning
balls he'd grown used to, but roaring flames crisscrossed with stripes of
yellow and blue. She was wounded, no doubt about that. But she was giving
him cover so he might attack. From her kneeling position, Christina saw how
Simon leaped to his feet and hurled vials of holy water at Koranot just as
he ran to retrive his throwing-axe. Bricks fell all around him and she tried
to intensify her fireball attack. They came roaring out of the air before
her face as fast as she could make them manifest. They didn't seam to do much
damage, but as long Koranot had to split its attention upon two enemies, it
couldn't use its full power on either of them. Again it grasped the chain
and climed into the ceiling. "Try manifest as much fire you might gather!"
He shouted at her as he ran as far away he could as Koranot again shut into
the floor and made ruble fly all over the place. As soon as it cleared, he
again ran at the giant and managed to land some hits with his whip. Koranot
shrunk even more but refused to give in as it continued to make bricks fall
all round them. Simon screamed as rocks fell upon him and he felt how his
left leg became shattered underneath a solid block. She could feel its triumph
as it slowly walked toward the wounded Simon. She saw how he prepared for
a final battle as he with a painful look got to his feet. Leaning to the wall,
he brought out his whip. "Simon!" She called. "I'll try give your whip flame-power
again!" Simon merely smiled. "If God wants you don't have to." He rouse the
whip into the sky and she gasped as she saw how it burst into silvery fire.
"By the blood of the Vampire Hunter!" Simon shouted as he cracked the whip
at Koranot who stumbled backward and hit the wall. Stones fell all around
them and she did summon a bolt of lightning and made it struck into Koranot.
Simon watched the bolt shot down and threw himself to the floor as yet another
explosion shuck the cave. Christian felt how her eyes grew large as smaller
bolts of lightning spread all outward where it came into contact with the
tiny puddles on the floor. The light was blinding her but she could still
see how Koranot crumbled into nothingness as the air itself exploded around
it. Then, it was all over.
Dora wood, Warakiya. The 23d of October
1688 A.D.
It was a blessing, Simon thought. To have the wind and rain fall against his
face. The clouds where blocking the sun but for once that didn't botter him.
Christina, still tired after the healing they'd gone through by the laurels.
When he'd gone over and claimed the orb that Koranot left behind. The horn-playing
druid had appeared to offer him a special bag to carry the bombs in. Now they
weighted down his backpack, but that didn't botter him. He was sure he would
find them useful within the castle. "How far do you think it is?" Christina
had withdrew her hood so the cooling rain could fall on it as she looked at
where the castle loomed into the darkened sky. "A day or two I think." Simon
said as he to scouted the land before them. "First it's the ruined remains
of Kordova and then there's the real Dora woodland. The great bridge shouldn't
be that far into the forest." Christina nodded. First however they would have
to climb down this hilltop. She could see the ruined village below them. Legend
said it'd bean deserted for nearly two hundred years. Simon began walking
as he recoiled the Vampire Killer. She felt like wanting to keep a lightning
ready but couldn't go that long just holding the magical energy. She just
took a good hold on her rod and started jogging to keep up with Simon.
(A.N: It has bean a long while since the last chapter. But this I hope will be a good finish-up for those cavern stages from HC, Simon's quest and SC IV. Koranot has always bean one of my fave bosses for these re-mixes so I made him the final enemy. Have a good time.)
