A mysterious Castle... three little fillies... what could go wrong?!
The Cutie Mark Crusaders, a group of three fillies all searching for their Cutie Marks, end up in Europe as the infamous Castlevania returns for the third time in the Century. And it seems that only one of the three leave... the other two stay... and... well... stuff gets crazy!
Europe, 1797... One year after Alucard saved Richter from Dracula's Castle
Scootaloo looked at her two friends with more uncertainty than ever before... It started as a normal day, Scootaloo, Apple Bloom, and Sweetie Belle were going over their plans to get their Cutie Marks. The three were going to try to get exploring Cutie Marks... but somehow entered a portal that took the three far away from Equestria... worlds away even.
Scootaloo was looking around the Castle as the trio of fillies walked through it's eerily hallow halls, all the blood and torture devices that were hooked up. Sweetie Belle was at the front of the group, simply because she wanted to be, it was well lit in the castle after all. Apple Bloom was slightly behind Sweetie Belle, standing to Sweetie's left. Scootaloo was all the way in the back of the trio, she really didn't like this place. "Are we sure this place is safe?" Scootaloo asked after seeing another torture device in this strange castle, but both Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle groaned before Sweetie Belle replied, "YES! WE ARE SURE SCOOTALOO! WE HAVE FOUND NOTHING BUT THESE DEVICES!" causing Scootaloo to step back with her ears down. The trio kept going farther, and they reached the castle keep before long... but Scootaloo dashed off towards the entrance of the castle, not wanting to continue anymore.
Outside the castle walls...
Scootaloo dashed and dashed... she didn't stop dashing until she unintentionally dashed right into a tree... oof...
Where even was Scootaloo? This certainly wasn't Equestria but it also felt somewhat familiar, an odd familiar like... she is certain she's never been here yet... some part of her knows this place... it feels.
She got off the ground, castle staring ominessly at her in the background and the moon shining its light on her. She trotted forwards, hoping to find some familiar faces.
50 some-odd minutes later and a walk that felt like hell.
Okay, she had to admit she was probably not going to find any familiar faces... She already had gone through basically hell by walking this much, nearly being attacked by some bats along the way to this left behind shack... Scootaloo sat in the corner, staring a Rapier down but not picking it up considering it'd feel better as a weapon Rarity'd use...
... why is Scootaloo considering somepony having a weapon? And Rarity of all ponies?
She looked around and found some old books, now, normally she isn't one to read but... this seemed like a good time.
Using resources found within Castlevania, several people have come together to make what we consider an ultimate weapon we have dubbed "Fatal Wind" this special Rapier can attack much faster and if wielded by the right person, might even be useful for moving faster. Unforunately, we've lost a number of team members due to our trip into Castlevania and we can only hope that whoever reads this and finds Fatal Wind doesn't try to storm Castlevania alone.
As Scootaloo finished reading the page she looked towards Fatal Wind and... picked it up. She felt as if her hooves could move faster than she could move previous and this effect stayed even with the rapier stored away.
"So guess I'll be taking you Fatal Wind, might be fun using you." Scootaloo said aloud.
Then... there was a knock knock.
Back in Castlevania...
Apple Bloom groaned, finally noticing that Scootaloo's gone, "Sweetie, Scoots bailed on us," she said plain and simple, causing Sweetie Belle to groan as well. "Great, just fantastic," Sweetie Belle said in mild annoyance. The duo were climbing a large stair case with an ominess clock tower in the background, the stair case had a fancy looking red carpet and the fillies climbed on regardless.
At the top they found a room with many candles and a large table, a tall fanged creature standing before the fillies... Dracula Vlad Tepes. "Greetings, I have been expecting you two," Dracula said as he stepped closer to them, "I can sense something deep within you both," he added. Both Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle looked confused at that statement what did he mean by "something deep within you both" it just didn't make sense. But when the arrival of Dracula's right hand man, Death, Apple Bloom certainly felt... something... and by the sense of it... it wasn't nice.
Death carries his iconic scythe as he looked at the fillies before pointing at Apple Bloom, "You there, come here," he said as Apple Bloom trotted over causiously, "W-what's up?" Apple Bloom said with a tinge of fear. Death said not much but took Apple Bloom from Sweetie Belle, leaving the unicorn with the castle's lord.
Sweetie Belle looked at Dracula who simply lead her to thethrone room and had a seat where he drank a glass of wine before saying, "You and your friend have some potiental that needs to be coaxed out, Death took your friend to coax her's out, and I'll be the one to coax your's out."
Back with Scootaloo...
Scootaloo was roaming the streets of a ran-sacked town, what inhabiants are here looked at Scootaloo and ran inside, probably mistaking her for one of the many monsters that roam about outside the town. It wasn't long before Scootaloo found a tall bi-pedal creature in a blue outfit, "Excuse me, could you please tell me where I am?" Scootaloo asked the strange creature who immediately turned around holding... a cross almost ready to throw it... is it serious? "Uh... what are you doing?" Scootaloo asked the creature who just took a step back before another one of those creatures, except this time dressed in black with a white mane came out of hiding and put a limb in front of the blue clad one, "Calm Belmont, this creature means no harm," it, no, he said as the blue-clad one, Belmont, put the cross away.
Much time passed as Scootaloo introduced herself and got to know both Belmont and the other creature. Firstly, she learned that Belmont's full name is Richter Belmont, and secondly she learned the name of the black-clad one, it being Alucard. Scootaloo also spent time explaining her situation, "So... you and two others ended up in front of my father's castle, which you explored until you got to the top floor where you ran away from it," Alucard summerized as Scootaloo nodded with a "that's right" at the same time.
And so... an adventure unlike any Scootaloo had seen before starts...
Discord had all the element bearers in one place, with "important" news to tell them. He gave them a brief summary of the last chapter... because... he could. None of the ponies thought he was serious even though he very much was. "Discord, how the hay are we supposed to believe that Scootaloo, Apple Bloom, and Sweetie Belle ended up in a whole different world with Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle apparently having some hidden potiental that needs coaxing out due to an entity literally called Death and a human with fangs?" Twilight asked giving Discord her most unamused face, however, Discord only gave her a chuckle in return.
"Believe me or not, doesn't matter because I can simply do... this," Discord stated as he snapped opening a portal which acted more like one way glass, ponies could watch but not interact and sure enough, Sweetie Belle was with Dracula still, Apple Bloom with Death, even having a cool new cloak, and Scootaloo with the Fatal Wind rapier and still with Alucard as they approach the castle's entrance at a fast pace. "Okay, kinda hard to not believe that!" Rainbow Dash said as Twilight sighed. "Oh. My. Goodness! It'slikethecreatorwasdirectlyinspiredbyanotherstorytomakethisonebutmakeitbasedoffofacompletelydifferentseriesjustbecausetheycan!" Pinkie said at literally a million miles an hour. "What darling?" Rarity asked getting a lackluster "What?" as a response from the pink party pony.
Fluttershy watched the portal in curiousity but also fear, "Couldn't Scootaloo have waited till the morning there to go into the big castle?" she asked being huddled next to Discord, who simply shakes his head no getting an unexpected glare from literally everypony, "What? I'm being realistic, waiting till morning would have been too long and even then, now that they are in the castle..." he paused as the portal showed the castle gates closing behind Scootaloo and Alucard, "They aren't leaving till they finish," he finished.
And now... you're caught up to how Equestria is doing. Well... except AJ who still wants to believe that Apple Bloom isn't going to be a villain.
Area 1: Castle courtyard. Castlevania, Europe. Year:1797.
Scootaloo and Alucard looked behind themselves as the gate closed, "Well, looked like we're here for good now," Scootaloo said as she turned back to the familiar sight of the giant castle looming over her, moon shining from what she identified as the top floor. Alucard looked up in agreence, "We should be careful, if I know my father, he'll have Death take my equipment again," Alucard said aloud, leaving Scootaloo confused as she asked "Hold it, why would your father kill you just to start you over? Wouldn't it be easier for him to just kill you and be done with it?" to which Alucard shook his head as he explained what happened the last time he wandered into this place to stop it.
Castle entrance, 1796. Castlevania, Europe.
Alucard walked into an area with many dead bodies on spears and spikes as he felt the familiar presence of Death, his father's right hand man "Alucard, you've come back..." Death said as Alucard nodded and replied with, "Death, so it's true, this really is my father's castle." Death laughed at Alucard's statement the area smelling of decay, "Yes it is, it is a shame you choose to side with those weakling humans, but I can't have you ruining everything, not at all," Death said as he raised a skeletal arm and all of Alucard's equipment flew off in red bubbles, made worse by the fact that Alucard's long sleep has stripped of his strength, making him the weakest he's ever been.
And so he had to progress now not just to figure out why his father's castle was back but also to recover his lost equipment.
Present day.
Scootaloo listened to that story in awe, as the moved through these early rooms they found some easy monsters like big bear-wolf like creatures called Wargs... yep.
Alucard noted how not on the castle's appearance, knowing all too well why the castle has changed... well... except for one thing... "That's a new painting, is that a friend of your's?" Alucard asked, pointing to the painting as it showed... SWEETIE BELLE?! "What the hay?! Why is there a painting how Sweetie Belle now?! That wasn't there before!" Scootaloo exclaimed aloud, basically giving Alucard all the information he needed as the continued down the hallway, eventually finding an exposed room where they stop.
"Hey! Why'd we-" Scootaloo was interrupted by Alucard holding a limb out, soon Death, with Apple Bloom on his back for some reason, and Scootaloo knew the problem, "Apple Bloom? What are you doing?" Scootaloo asked, causing AB to glare at her, "Ya mean afta ya bailed on meh and Sweetie? Findin' mah real talent, ah see ya found someone ta befriend who will help ya not be such a buckin' chicken!" Apple Bloom remarked in anger causing Scootaloo to flinch.
"Now calm down Apple Bloom, you can take your anger out later," Death said, prompting Apple Bloom to nod and return to glaring at Scootaloo. Alucard looked at Death with nothing but annoyence, "So, you've come back again, I assume this time you've put the work in to bring my father back instead of leaving it to Shaft?" He asked, to which Death nods and preforms the trick that stripped Alucard of his equipment... again... much to both his and Scootaloo's annoyence.
Apple Bloom laughed as she and Death vanished, leaving Scootaloo and Alucard with too many questions and practically zero answers, "One of your friends?" "Yep, that was Apple Bloom... what was she doing with Death though? Something's fishy, very fishy."
Equestria, Twilight's castle. Moments after Alucard's equipment was stolen.
All six of the ponies in the room were staring in confused awe at what Apple Bloom just... let happen."So... are we not gonna talk bout what we just watch?" Applejack asked, to which she was met with either silence or murmurs... make your own choice here.
Scootaloo, still with the Fatal Wind rapier unlike Alucard who has nothing, was leading the group as a skeleton with a sword, shield, and helmet got in the way, Scootaloo was too freightened to attack, where-as Alucard attacked by just... punching the thing which dropped a sword... fitting. Alucard picked it up and swung it, "Not good but it'll do, better than Red Rust anyways," he said not earning a glance from Scootaloo as she just knew "Don't question it."
And they entered a room with a decadhedron in it... apparently called a save room, supposedly interacting with the decadhedron revitualizes the 1 who interacted with it.
Scootaloo awoke from the saved state feeling revitalized, "Celestia... that was weird," she said stretching her small wings noting how the decadhendion was not returning. Alucard nodded saying, "It usually is weird the first time you use it," swinging his sword again, as if getting a feel for it. Scootaloo and Alucard walked out the room but... Scootaloo had an odd feeling about a future encounter.
Alucard jumped up several platforms which were hard for Scootaloo to reach because of her shorter height, at the top was a living suit of armor wielding an axe which it throws like a boomerang... and somehow Scootaloo knew what it was despite this being the first one she encountered, "It's an Axe Armor! How do I know that?" She said before Alucard attacked it when it dropped a chestplate that looks nothing like the one it wore. Alucard picked it up and put it on under his shirt as he said, "Not sure, maybe it's an effect of the save room, sometimes when I awaken from it I feel as if I know things that I didn't know before such as my next opponent or something similar but it usually relates with how I 'died' at that point," without a hint of worry.
Then... Scootaloo racked her brain and remembered.
Scootaloo lays on her hooves, injured and about to die... she had an artificial horn on her head as a giant bat charged Alucard and killed him, Scootaloo tried to reach Alucard as he exploded into blood before she died as well.
"I remember... we were fighting a giant bat!" Scootaloo announced, "However both of us died during the fight which is probably how we ended up back at the save point," she added, giving Alucard time to think.
"The bat was either just a Giant Bat, Bat Company, or Darkwing Bat," Alucard said as he grabbed a relic he called the Cube of Zoe... right next to an artificial horn which Scootaloo grabbed. The horn automatically placed itself on her head and she used it to attack with Fatal Wind... oh yeah, this was the good stuff.
All the ponies (Except Pinkie Pie) were shocked at hearing what Scootaloo had said... she died but was restored at the save point? "No way, I refuse to believe that!" Twilight stated aloud only to be met by Pinkie Pie giggling and replying with, "Silly Twily! Of course it's true, how else do you except Scootaloo to have known the Axe Armor's name?" while also wearing a shirt with "Scootaloo rules" on it for some reason, the same shirt on Rainbow Dash oddly. "Come on Twi! Look at Scoots go!" Rainbow Dash said as Scootaloo and Alucard just finished fighting a literal floating eye ball which was called by Alucard "Peeking Eye"... fitting.
"I mean, darling, you must admit that some of the things Scootaloo is doing is dangerous, I mean... she's jumping without looking as pits appear," Rarity commented on as Scootaloo did just that considering it was a new path before returning with a helmet on her head... a leather helmet...
This isn't even going over how Fluttershy is with the fact that she's hiding behind her chair in fear due to the number of skeletons and monsters, "L-let me know when the monsters d-d-disappear..." the poor pegasus said as Scootaloo attacked a living painting next to a chemical station... the painting was of Apple Bloom... great. Alucard just burned the portrait by teleporting a small way and lifting his cape to shoot three fire balls at it. The ponies watch it an just get confused... again... except Pinkie Pie.
"Can that human do magic? Ah thought humans couldn't do magic as Twilah said," Applejack asked to which Discord nodded, "Yes, magic in this universe is different from our magic, however. Our magic comes pretty much purely from the inside, unless you're a Sweetie Belle who was sent to a universe of dreams..."
Sweetie Void suddenly sneezed, "Why do I feel like I was mentioned?" To which Classic Sonic shrugged.
"...but the magic Alucard did use was a kind of magic outside of what is 'inside' for us, as his magic is because he's a half vampire-" "Woo! Go Scootaloo use that fire!" Pinkie interrupted Discord as he looked back and saw Scootaloo using her artificial horn to use Alucard's fire spell. "Maybe something's deeper than I first thought."
Scootaloo was surprised as she used Hellfire... she was not expecting that, now all she needs is a cool cape to lift to shoot the fire balls from and it'll be complete, for now her horn will do. "Man, all these enemies are sure making this castle Tartarus to go through," Scootaloo said, well aware of her language and not feeling sorry for it as she smashed a vial containing... some pudding which Alucard picked up... how will pudding help exactly? Nevermind, no time to question it, the next room has some ominous smoke coming from it... "That's where the bat's located," Scootaloo announced as she stepped forward, she and Alucard had gone everywhere they can right now, they should have plenty of strength for this first boss... I mean... it's just a bat, how bad could it be? Bad enough to kill her and Alucard before.
Alucard walked in first, with Scootaloo following behind... the sounds of bats nearby being clear. Not far into the room as the bats awoke and started circling into one spot forming a Giant Bat which Scootaloo attacked using Fatal Wind, greatly damaging it. "Woah, okay. Note to self: Never lose Fatal Wind," Scootaloo announced as she jumped to the side to avoid an attack from the Giant Bat who was prompted attacked by Alucard and yet this bat wasn't letting up the charge forcing Alucard to move to the side, "Yeah and this bat's relentless," Alucard added when the bat stopped it floated in place for a moment giving Scootaloo a chance to attack it followed by Alucard using Hellfire to damage the Giant Bat.
The Giant Bat screeched at that, seemingly getting mad before it started spinning like a drill over Scootaloo's head, Scootaloo was lucky enough to notice the shadow and dodge out of the way of the first part, the drilling debris however... hit her a bit. "Okay, how was I expected to know debris would fly everywhere?" Scootaloo asked before Alucard attacked the bat who didn't react as much as before as if it get a tougher defense all of a sudden. "You weren't, that was why it got you, next time though, you'll know that there is debris," Alucard said as he jumped over the bat as it drilled towards him from the front before hitting the wall and drilling into it which also launches debris around however it isn't as deadly this time because... it doesn't exactly go anywhere.
Scootaloo used Hellfire while the bat was drilling into the wall and that seemingly finished the bat off as the bat broke apart and eventually left just a container of rainbow-esch water which Alucard calls "Life ups" which was grabbed before they left the room to go to the next, seemingly leaving the Chemical Labs. There were many more paintings of ponies Scootaloo knew and she called this place the Memory Museum. Not long later and Scootaloo found a save point and saved yet again.