Yay, another thrilling part. Guess what I have in store for Alucard (and not 
it won't be any yaoi stuff), it's something out of the ordinary...and no one 
hadn't see it for a while. *evil smirk* Enjoy.
~YingGirl

CastleVania: Senshi For HIRE!!!!
Part 5
By: YingGirl. (yinggirl_the_sephiroth_hunter@hotmail.com)

Notes: Although I do not owe the rights of CastleVania SoTN, I do owe the 
rights to some characters. All other characters are based and owned by 
Konami. The story takes place in the modern time. Please enjoy.

Prologue 1

Bad Blood, into the wall of fire… –Matthew Good Band

  Before Alucard could answer about my fuku, another one of Dracula servants 
leaped out of the void. His skin was green, yet his eyes were like ember as 
he stood right in front of us…a full-grown fire demon.
  The demon glanced towards us. Then it slowly headed towards our direction. 
It halted for a few steps as it unleashed a blaze of fire from its’ 
chest-cave.
  Both of us quickly dodged that attack almost like a quick reflex.
  “It is a slow attacker!!!” I yelled out, “If we move quickly, there can be 
a good chance to beat him!!”
  “You seem to be well in giving out orders,” Alucard replied with a smirk, 
“let’s now see how you manage to handle them.”
  “Right sir. Could you please create a diversion for this beast?”
  “Since you kindly asked, I am eager to do so.”
  And so he did. He unleashed one of his cleverly tactical spells at the 
demon. When the demon felt he was being attacked, he only focused of ridding 
Alucard. This is a first time a guy…actually listened to me!!! I am kind of 
startled…but this wasn’t a time to try to have some admiration for a guy I 
only met three days ago!!!
  I quickly grabbed onto the whip, raise my right arm back, and hurled the 
power of the whip towards the demon. I saw this move in movies. I hope that 
I preformed well.
  As the demon headed towards Alucard, the whip wrapped itself on the 
demon’s neck. I gripped onto my whip as I started to pull on it. The demon 
growled and then quickly paced his claws onto the whip, wincing in pain. I 
kept pulling onto the whip since it caused my hold on the demon to grow 
tighter. I waited for the creature to die of self-suffocating.
  “So this is how you fight?” Alucard question glancing at my style, 
“Perhaps you do need more training than I expected.”
  “I can’t use my fire magic,” I replied as I focus on the demon, “this is 
the best I can do right now.”
  But the demon tried another way of escaping death…he began to run strait 
towards Alucard!!! And with that quick sudden movement, I was taken along 
for the ride. This was just as bad as someone trying to hogtie a prime 
steer.
  “Sir!!!!!” I cried out as I am being dragged across the floor, “I might 
need your assistance, please help me sir!!!”
  “I am sorry young Belmont,” Alucard responded, “but I can not interfere 
with your training. You should have know better than to try to strangle a 
demon.”
  “What?”
  I couldn’t believe it!!! Alucard was going to let me be dragged across 
this dimension until the demon tired him self. I kept holding onto the whip 
since it was the only thing I can do.
  “Sir…” I said as I tried to get a glance at him, “you’re so mean!!!!!”
  He then turned his back on me, almost as he was trying to avoid my pleas 
on anger and aid. Some gentleman!

Prologue 2

  Servants awaited his or her instructions patiently as the lord of this 
castle gazed into a doorway through the world of light while sitting on his 
throne. He did try to walk through this doorway, but failed miserably since 
his skin would instantly burn to a crisp.
  He would curse, but he had found other options. He could send his servants 
to do his dirty work for him. Soon, soon when his curse was lifted, he 
wouldn’t be watching the realm of light…he will turn it into darkness.
   And the only way to get rid of the one who placed this curse on him…The 
Belmont Child.
  But gazing into the portal did have its moments. He is now watching on how 
the young Belmont is handling not even one of his most power servants. He 
slightly chuckled.
  “So,” the count said, “this is what the young Belmont can do? She is 
awfully pathetic.”
  The servants shook their heads, while others jostle some remarks on the 
young Belmont.
  “Yes,” the dark priest responded as he bowed forward to the Count, “it 
seems that your son is too late.”
  “Yet…” the count growled, “I am tired of waiting!! Waiting while the 
Belmont has a good excuse not to show up!! I’ve waited 200 years for this 
day to come! When I wait in this cursed prison, the pain returns and the 
pleasure of revenge will be mine!!!!”
  “It will come, my lord.”
  “I’ll let those two enter the castle…I doubt they’ll make it on their 
own.”
  “But, you’re letting the Belmont enter the castle easily!!”
  “Exactly. Of course I would like mortals wince in pain while trying to do 
it the hard way, but they adore when things are done easily and painless. 
They’re as stupid as begging dogs, easily pleased when they are granted some 
treat.”
  “So it seems…”
  “This way it would be easy for the both of us. And the sooner the last 
drop of the Belmont bloodline is in my grasp…the sooner I can turn this 
mortal realm into eternal darkness.”
  “Yes sir…”
  The priest bowed again to the Count as he returned to the shadows of where 
the servants roam. The era of darkness was coming…and there was no hope for 
mankind to survive from the aftermath.

***

  The demon continued to run. It can only move forward, never backwards. My 
body was starting to get some bruises. Maybe I’m not the one…my foster mom 
tried to kill me and everyone hates me. Perhaps, I am destined to….
  Get a grip on yourself YingGirl!!!!! Caramel didn’t give you the locket!! 
You taken it from her!!! Alucard didn’t give you the whip!!! You’ve placed 
the whip in your own hands!!!! You made these decisions on your own, 
YingGirl.  Now it’s time to show who is boss around here. Quit getting 
yourself trampled all the time!!
  I shook my head. Now, I know what I must do. I began to climb onto the 
whip…it wasn’t easy since the demon was constantly on the move. I then had 
to keep one hand onto the whip while the other managed to pull out a dagger 
from my jacket.
  The demon growled, since I was applying more pressure onto the whip. He 
then realized of the extra weight he was dragging along with him. He was 
going to turn around and burn me to a crisp!!
  I had no other choice but to lunge at the demon and drive the dagger 
strait in his neck. I even twisted the dagger to bring out more pain onto 
the demon.
  He gave out one last cry as he slumped to the ground. I then pulled my 
whip away from the corpse. I didn’t want to speak. I was angry and confused. 
Why the hell wouldn’t Alucard help me? I did ask for his assitance in a nice 
manner.
  “You’re too young,” Alucard muttered, as he was annoyed with my 
performance, “to fight the final battle.”
  I caught those words. Almost like someone backstab me literally.
  “The final battle?” I questioned as I tried not to look back.
  “Yes,” Alucard replied, “there is a little defect in his curse. If all but 
one hunter remains, and he is slain by that single hunter…he will rest 
forever in his eternal darkness.”
  “Eternal Darkness? That seems a little cruel…”
  “Yet, if the last hunter is slain by him…he will become the True Immortal. 
He will gain the powers of a dumpeal, and light will cease to exist. The 
race of mortals will perish and all signs of hope will cease to exist.”
  “What?!!”
  “I thought I could take down my father, but apparently he placed a seal 
that not allows anyone with vampiric blood to enter the castle. But there 
was a way to break the seal…a chosen one who is destined to venture into the 
castle, the Belmont.”
  “So that’s why you needed me…”
  “I’ve been searching for hunters, only to realize my father’s servants got 
there earlier. I was almost about to give up until a few years ago.”
  “A few years ago?”
  “Yes. Around that time, I have stumbled upon one of the servants who got 
rid of Lecarde. I entered the house, disguise as a police officer, hoping to 
save his life. I was too late. He was dead.”
   “No…”
   “All that endless searching for nothing. I was about to give up….”
   “Give up?”
   “Until, someone else entered the household. She was around 13 or 14, 
holding the whip. I recognized the whip since only members of the Belmont 
clan have passed it on from generation to generation. I turned around to see 
who it was…and that’s how I first met you.”
   There was a silence. I didn’t know what to say or do. I felt like I could 
smack him…but I didn’t have the strength to do it. The memories flowed into 
my head once again. Visions of my foster father lying in a pool of blood 
started to torment my soul once again. I wanted to scream, rush to him, or 
do anything to help him!!!!
  But I was scared. I was shivering, feeling almost paralysed. Why couldn’t 
I do anything?!!! Ever since my foster dad died and the truth of my 
parents…it’s been torturing me, never letting me in peace.
  Maybe Alucard is right. Maybe I’m too young to fight this battle.
  Then out of nowhere, the castle appeared. It appeared right in front of us 
while its presence of dark forces grew stronger and started to seep into the 
dimension. Did killing the demon manage to give us this pathway?
  “I’m waiting Young Belmont,” a voice whispered, “I’m waiting for you….”
  I felt something passing by, a cold wind. Alucard seemed to notice it too. 
He was studying the legendary castle that appears once in a hundred years. 
He knew something wasn’t right in this strange atmosphere. Whatever it was, 
I had to be ready. Even if it means I was going to loose my soul for it.

***

  “So the Belmont has finally appeared,” the dark priest said.
  “Yes,” the count replied, “but I sense something unusual about this one.”
  “She has lost her training, but knows her duties. May I be of service to 
get rid of these intruders right away?”
  “No…let them live for a while. They’re bound to die anyways.”
  “But what about your kin? He will cause quite a disturbance.”
  “Yes. Those two must be separated as soon as possible. Make sure you don’t 
fail on this.”
  “Of course, my lord.”
  The priest stood up as he faced the count. Yet someone was watching and 
hearing the entire conversation. He stood there patiently as he awaited his 
next orders, for he will be the one willing to test the young Belmont first.

***

  The castle stood right in front of us? But how? And why? I had a bad 
feeling. The darkness was coming close and I almost felt like someone was 
calling out to me…but who or what was it?
  “So you recognized this castle?” Alucard asked as he looked at me.
  “It’s the castle of the infamous ruler of Vlad the Impaler,” I replied as 
I held onto my whip, “I’ve read about it in many books that deal with 
vampirism. I sometimes dreamt of the day when I see this castle on my own. 
Who knew that one day I must go see this castle?”
  “And I thought you were not that bright.”
  “Hey!!! I may be physically weak, but my mental abilities can take down 
anything. I did manage to get rid of that demon thing, did I?”
  “Only because you realize that I wouldn’t aid you. If you try to rely on 
me most of the time, you’ll end up dead.”
  “But we’re partners!!!”
  “P-partners?”
  “Yep. You need my help to enter the castle and I need your help in 
training me to defeat the count. I forgive you for not aiding me. But next 
time when I ask, can you please give some assistance?”
  He sighed. I looked at him. I guess he didn’t want to answer my question. 
He is part of this supreme ruler of darkness…he is a half vampire.
  But why would Alucard go against his father? If I had one, I sure would 
try to work things out with him. I mean; I just wouldn’t rebel against him 
if I had any good reason too. I guess some teenagers have there own ways of 
trying to get some attention from their parents.
  I wouldn’t know. My foster parents are dead and I don’t about my real 
ones.
  He then looked back at the castle.
  “This castle is a mere creation of chaos,” Alucard said as he kept his 
eyes on the castle, “each time it has appeared, it has given out a different 
shape.”
  “That is the castle all right,” I replied as I gazed upon it as well, “it 
is time to face my destiny.”
  Then, a soft laughter was being heard. It seemed to come right in front of 
us when it sounded like it was all around us. I looked around to see who or 
what it was. I wasn’t prepared for what task lies ahead.
  Floating the fogy night lie right ahead of us a ghastly figure. He was 
embodied in one of the finest black hooded robes. He carried a death-scythe 
in one hand as his other rested at his side. His face was nothing but a pale 
human skull. It looked like someone just has polished it.
  Alucard then pushed me aside as he glanced at the visitor. I wonder why?
  “Get away from this Belmont,” Alucard sneered as he stared at the ghastly 
figure, “she isn’t ready.”
  “But Young Master,” the figure replied as he bowed, “you do need the 
Belmont to be able to enter this castle. And I have orders to make your task 
much more challenging.”
  “If you dare hurt or touch this Belmont….”
  “No. The master does not want to meet this young Belmont…yet. He has other 
plans for you two.” The figure began to point his finger at Alucard. I had a 
bad feeling about this, like he was going to attack him.
  “Other plans?” Alucard questioned as he felt a bit confused, “What plans 
does my father have in store for the young Belmont?”
  “You’ll see Young Master,” the figure grinned as stared back at Alucard, 
“you’ll soon be a part of them.”
  “What?!!” Alucard then quickly tried to avoid…but it was too late.
  The ghastly figure had unleashed its attack. I backed away quickly to 
avoid it. As I turned around to see what has happened, the same feeling has 
paralyzed my body once again. I could only watch…
  The visitor encased Alucard in a glass prison. It was horrible. His face 
of shock was forever immortalized in that glass prison, almost like a fly 
imprisoned in amber. He seemed like a lifeless statue that never had a 
chance to live up to his own expectations.
  “SIR!!!!!” I yelled from the top of my lungs, “Sir!!! Please!!! Answer 
me!!!”
  “He can’t hear you Young Belmont,” the figure spoke as it looked at me, 
“he is trapped in your curse.”
  I turned around to look at the visitor. He was almost like the rider in 
the Death Card. He is the Angel of Death.
   “My curse?” I asked.
   “The curse you placed on my great master,” the figure responded, “he’s 
getting his sweet revenge on you…the final member of the Belmont clan. You 
are the last vampire hunter there is.”
   “Last Vampire Hunter?”
   “But the master had decided to make this more interesting. If you can 
find your friend and free him from the castle when the hour strikes 
midnight, no harm will come to him. But if you fail, he will become as fine 
general to the master’s armies.”
   “No…”
   The figure laughed as he began to fade away, along with Alucard too!!! I 
couldn’t let Alucard go away!! We haven’t known each other…this can’t be the 
end!! Not now!!!!
  It won’t be the end!!! I unleashed my whip in order to get a hold at the 
glass prison, but the second my whip was about to reach them…they both 
disappeared.
  I fell on my knees. Now…all my friends are truly gone. I wanted to cry. I 
wanted to run towards some that could hold me close.
  But I couldn’t, and this wasn’t the time.
  I started to gain my confidence while I was getting back on my feet. I 
looked upon the castle…the only thing that was standing between my destiny 
and me. The doors were wide open as if they were showing me the way. My 
bloodline entered this castle fearlessly in order to protect something more 
valuable than their lives. This was my choice. I couldn’t back out on 
it…everyone is depending on me to succeed.
  Without any thought or doubts…I entered the castle alone.

TO BE CONTINUED.

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