Chapter I: The Night Begins
Serenity looked out along the long grasslands before her, in the distance was a very old looking castle. It was nearly five minutes to sunset, and a deep golden hue shone through the few trees on the land. She slowly started walking into the tall grass and toward the castle. From a few yards over to the right, three figures were walking diagonal to Serenity and the castle; they were all wearing black coats with the hoods up. To the left of Serenity, there were even more people walking, they too were wearing the same black coats.
"You are late." Serenity said softly as she stopped walking and looked up at the castle.
"Sorry, but we ran into a little trouble on the way here." stated a male's voice on Serenity's right.
"This will be more difficult than we had previously thought." a woman's voice replied back to the male's voice.
The group started walking to the castle together, none saying a word. After a few minutes, the group reached the castle drawbridge; it was lit with at least fifty candles. As if on cue, every member of the group threw their hoods back. With the help of candlelight, a grand total of sixteen people stood on the bridge. The female portion consisted of Serenity Graves, Mina Hakuba, Charlotte Aulin, and Yoko Benlades. Greatly over-populating the female portion, the male portion consisted of Nathan Graves, Eric Graves, Isaac Graves, Hugh Baldwin, Simon Belmont, Adrian Tapes (Alucard), Soma Cruz, Trevor Belmont, Jonathan Morris, Hector, and Julius Belmont.
"Eric, do you really think it was wise to bring so many of our people here?" Simon stated as he took his coat off, revealing his armored body.
"I think it would have been a better idea if we would have brought everyone with us." Eric replied. Everyone but Nathan and Serenity was talking off their coats and laying them on the stone bridge.
"That would have been an even graver predicament. Simon is right, we should have left some of them behind, they will only prove a hindrance to the rest of us should we find trouble." Alucard stated coldly, folding his arms in front of him.
"That may be true, but we will need all the help we can get if we do find trouble. You know as well as any of us what Chaos is capable of." Eric replied, walking on a little further up the bridge. Alucard scowled and fallowed him, as did everyone but Nathan, Serenity, and Hugh.
"What do you think?" Hugh asked in a hushed tone.
"There is defiantly something coming, I can feel it." Nathan replied even quieter. Hugh pulled out his sword without making a sound; the others were still walking on, unnoticing the missing three people in the group. Nathan, like Hugh, pulled out his whip without making a sound. The two looked around slowly. Serenity took a step back and turned around, facing the grassland from which they had just came.
Narrowing her eyes she drew her own sword and said, "There is diffidently something out there, it is coming in fast."
"What is it, can you tell?" Nathan asked without a hint of fright in his voice. "No, but I can tell you that it is not some push-over demon that we can fight off in two seconds." Serenity stated quietly.
"Perhaps we should tell the others." Hugh said turning around, and his face turned an even paler color than it already was. "Damn it, sometimes I hate your brother." Hugh said.
Nathan turned and saw what Hugh was saying; the whole group was off the bridge and into the castle.
"Great. Well, at any rate, no one will get hurt on our account." Nathan replied back to Hugh, turning back around to face whatever might be on the way to the castle.
"The only ones that will get hurt are us." Hugh said, taking up his fighting stance.
Smiling, Serenity said, "No, we will can deal with this thing. I am worried about the others in the castle, however."
Nathan glanced over in his sister's direction before putting his attention back into the field, "What do you mean by that? I would think you would be more worried about the three of us out here than the fifteen of them inside."
Shaking her head slowly, Serenity replied, "No, if you remember the incident when we first encountered Hector, when Isaac was under Chaos' influence, he separated us from each other. That was Eric's plan, to form a group so that Chaos could not get one of us by ourselves and take them out."
Both Hugh and Nathan looked over at Serenity, and then Hugh stated, "Well, I think each of us can take care of our selves. Especially you Serenity, I mean, when we took him on a few months ago, you nailed him pretty good on your own."
"Hugh's right, even though you had to use your powers, you gave him a pretty good beating." Nathan said smiling.
Serenity looked down, shaking her head again replied, "No, do not think of me. Sure I can take care of myself from him, but if he is with Lisa and Camilla, as I am sure he is, then it would be even more dangerous for us to be on our own."
Suddenly, from the castle arose a scream. All three snapped their attention to the castle door.
"That sounded like Charlotte." Nathan said.
"I knew it! Come on, we need to get in there and help them!" Serenity yelled as she stared to run up the bridge.
Just as the three of them got to the middle of the bridge, a huge figure jumped down from the castle wall. It was a werewolf, and it was turning back into its human form.
"I do not think so, children." the figure said smiling. Hundreds of wolfs appeared behind Nathan, Hugh, and Serenity. "First you must play with me and my pets." the figure finished as he turned back into his werewolf form.
Hugh was staring at the creature with a saddened face. He said quietly with his head low, "Father..."