The Werewolf of Castlevania (Book 1)

Boom! What the fuck is happening now?! An explosion rocks the city as fire shots into the sky. Fuck, the sun has set now the night hordes are going to descend on our heads. Belmont remains strangely calm as the townspeople scatter screaming.

"Their coming!" Sypha and I run to Belmont's side as he takes control of the situation. I guess it pays to have a famous monster hunter on your side.

"Everyone back to the far side of the square. Long weapons and pikes up front. Six in front, six in back fill the gaps." He roars rotating authority. Belmont is in his element now and he's sober. "Cover your blades in salt. Salt kills demons. I need a priest, a really priest" a very nervous man raises his hand and Belmont grabs him "Take some people go to a well and start blessing water" the poor man is shaking as he nods and Belmont throws him. "Sypha? Wall them in so they can only come to us. You got that?" Sypha nods and moves into position. "Charlie? You're up front with me, time to put those knives to use." I nod. Even though I have never fought in a battle before Belmont is way too scary right now to say no too.

I grab some salt from the buckets that are brought up and I coat my knives in it. Fuck! Belmont is yelling more orders but I am having too much of a panic attack to listen. Shit! I feel the beast stir as my emotions run wild. I can feel my eyes change as I try to block out the distant roar of the horde and the smell of blood and fire. Control, get control. Smoke burns my lungs as I try to breathe. Calm waters. Deep breaths. Slowly I begin to feel myself back in control. Shit, that would have been awful if I changed right here right now.

Belmont grabs a bucket of holy water as Sypha and I stand beside him. I am so not ready for this. Another explosion shakes the opposite side of the square and the demons emerge from the flames. Ugly bastard with red eyes. Driving my nerves away I tighten my grip on my knives and growl at the monsters.

"Sypha! Now!" Belmont commands. Sypha summons large walls of ice on either side of the demons. One of them touches the ice with its claw but hisses in pain as it burns it. So cool, literally. She summons another wall behind them making their only escape to come at us.

"Here goes nothing." Belmont throws the bucket of water at them. It smashes off the ground throwing water onto the demons burning them. Heck yea, I could kiss that priest right now.

There are seven demons in all. They turn their glowing eyes on us and charge.

The first one to reach us is easily dispatched with Belmont command. Sypha turns salt into spikes impaling more. They swell and then explode in a fireball.

I hear the snap of Belmonts whip and another one blows up. What just happened? Sypha and I both give him a questioning glance.

"The whip is consecrated for fighting demons and vampires." he sheepishly explains. That's awesome.

My turn. With a growl I charge at the closest demon, ducking as it swings it's claws at me but I bury my knife into its head, killing it. The townspeople make quick work of the others till there is only one left.

It looks like the hybrid of a porcupine and a dog with six blue glowing eyes and rows of sharp teeth. It charges at Sypha and Belmont as they scatter. Damn, I run towards them as Belmont snaps it in the face with his whip and Spha throws more ice at it. Even though she impales it the stupid demon wouldn't die.

Instead it speaks with a voice like sandpaper "There is an army of us from hell!" its snarls. Belmont moves to dispatch it with his whip as I skid to a stop next to him.

The demon turns his attention on me. Shrieking "You! I can smell you! Your not-" it never gets to finish as Belmonts whip passes through its head and it swells and explodes. I use my arm to shield my face from the fireball, breathing a sigh of relief.

Crack. Oh great what now. The ground around us began to fall away as the three of us try to run to avoid it.

"Fuck!" I scream as I feel my foot touch nothing and I topple now into the dark

"Charlie! NO!" I hear Belmont roar and Sypha scream as they fall in as well. Belmonts whip wraps around my waist jerking me close as Sypha uses her wind magic to slow our descent. Even with it we hit hard, crashing through a wall into a stone room.

"Where the fuck are we?" I groan

"The catacombs but way deeper than I was earlier" Sypha whispers as she looks around in awe.

Oh no! A familiar cracking sound hits our ears as the floor once again falls away. Son of a bitch! The fall was way shorter but the landing hurt just as much.

"I swear if one more fucken floor disappears I am going to kill someone." I growl shoving myself up and brushing off the dust. I am so sick of falling and promptly throw up. It burns my throat as I puke. I can feel Belmont and Sypha giving me synthetic glances and I wipe the last of it off my mouth.