The mysterious castle...

[Leo Nightmare]

In this dark place, covered by tree's and dark forest, there's a mysterious castle, and there's no any village near around this castle. Inside the castle is, lively a young (maybe I should consider as teen? ) king, that rules the dark zone, that contain dark creatures.

Nobody brave enough to discover this mysterious castle, even the forest that covering the castle. They believe there's a lot of aggressive dark creature that will harm them.

The king of darkness so lonely. He haven't any friend's to talk, play, and also share his happiness or sadness. He only have his loyal servant, Death, the skeleton ghost that will guard him from his traditional enemy, Belmont family.

It's true there's an aggressive dark creature live in his castle, but not at all. His castle gate still wait a visitor, that brave enough to fear the darkness to meet Nightmare, the owner of this castle.

[Syani]

"Hey wait...this isn't in my map.." A voice uttered right at the outskirts of the castle in confusion. Last time she checked, there was no castle in this place, she made the map herself. This map-maker, or cartographer, is named Syani. Ever since she discovered she can teleport from one place to another in the blink of an eye, she has been trying to construct a map of the whole domain.

The girl looks at the castle, then back to the map in her hands, then takes a second look at the castle again. "..This can't be right, this place is supposed to be a shower of meteors..." Scratching her head in confusion, she then figured it'd be best for her to explore this place.

If this place is real, then she'll just edit her hand-made map. "Huh. Might as well take a look see~" she sang, entering through the large arcs towards the entrance of the castle while folding back up her map and stores it in her large red cloak that she wears.

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Veyyard. One of the many places that Jean knew very well, like the back of his hand. However something was strange when he headed into the direction of Meteor Garden, it wasn’t the place he heard about. He didn’t see craters, or had to dodge meteors falling from the sky, not to mention it was a very dark place, then what was described to him, in his paper work. As a bounty hunter or head rather he gets new information daily especially when there are new places to check out.

For his own piece of mind he makes sure that each place has it’s own sense of safety and security, but if the place that you were expecting to go to leads to another place hidden within, Jean definitely has his guard up. It felt like a maze to him, each turn he made to try and see if he can get to the Meteor Garden but it always brought him back to this castle. And it wasn’t a castle that he had seen from Mitsuko’s storybooks, or imagined from her story telling sessions in which she creates the stories from her mind

With an eyebrow raised in utter confusion of how this castle came to be Jean sighed and just remained patient and began to do his duty. Checking a new place out. As he approached the castle he saw a young woman who was as confused as he was, and to top that all off she had a map. A map usually eases someone’s’ confusion and gets a person where they need to go to but, once he saw this woman with a confused look on her face, he was relieved to know that he wasn’t alone in the spiral of confusion, along with so many questions.

A few minutes later he heard the woman becoming enthusiastic in wanting to take a look, and that’s when the protectiveness of a bounty hunter came into play and he called out to her.

“You there.Yes you with the red cloak! Forgive my ignorance however you shouldn’t be going in there alone. It could be dangerous, although I do commend your sense of adventure, never let your guard down in a new place for one moment. Especially when you don’t know anything about it. Though….-"

He chuckled.

“My daughter is similar to you in regards to her sense of curiosity and adventure, she even begged to come along but… I told her to stay home. Where are my manners…. For a 29 year old you’d think I’d have more common sense to introduce myself right? Haha. My name is Jean. Jean cross. And you are?”

[Leo Nightmare]

The young king of Dracula, Leo Nightmare, just back from deep dark forest, and appear behind them. He shocked, and feel weird.

'' What are you human doing here?''

*Quickly hide something*

[Syani]

"Hmn?" Syani squeaked, darting her head left and right before spinning around completely to see someone calling her. "Huh?" It surprised her to see another living being in this place, because she expected something dead to pop up in all honesty.

Syani only blinked towards this man as he came closer and now in clear view. She only began speaking after the man introduced himself, "Oh. Hihi Mister Cross! Don't worry though, I'm just trying to complete my map here--" Just as she's bringing up a map from inside her red cloak, another voice could be heard from behind her.

"WAH!" The black-haired jumped, then pats her heart. There's a guy there, who looks just as shocked as she is. "Don't SCARE me like that!" Spontaneously, Syani smacked her rolled up map right on Leo Nightmare's head.

Right after she did so, she pouted and turned to look at her map, "Oh now look what you've done, your head made a wrinkle on my map.. .....Waaaiiit. What are you hiding there?"

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“That is what I would like to know as well, however I can assure you we don’t come here with cruel intentions, we are just both curious individuals as to how a castle such as this exists, in a hidden place. You see I was headed in the direction of Meteor Gardens however for some reason the directions lead me back to this castle like a maze if you will.

"There is no need to be scared if you are. We are just here out of pure curiosity, as well as it is my job to check out to a new place to make sure that it is safe for the civilians of Veyyard. Besides.. I wasn’t going to allow a young woman rush in by herself, anything can jump out and attack us if we don’t have our gaurds up in an area we don’t know very well.”

Jean smiled a little.

“If you live here, would you mind showing us around? With your consent of course, but if we didn’t meet you we would have no choice but to head inside, it’s either go inside or wait out here and be potential targets for wolves. Now I am sure that you wouldn’t want two innocent people to get hurt yes? I do apologize if I am being forward with you, it’s just that this place has me on edge for some reason, probably because the directions no longer takes me to the Meteor Garden. So please forgive my suspicion, but if you were in my position you would be too.”

“My name is Jean Cross, who might you be?”

The head bounty hunter asked with respect, and politeness.

[Leo Nightmare]

The young dracula got smashed at his head.

''Ouch! What are you think you do to me? Although it's not hurt"

Leo Nightmare still hide something, and after got greeted by Jean, he reply with this

"My apologize Mr. Jean, but there's nothing good to show you around. As you can see, there's only a dark forest around here.
It's seems rude if I not introduce my self, since I know your name. My name is Leo Nightmare, and I'm the owner of this castle. Would both of you like to come in into my castle? Wait, I still don't know your name, little young lady. May I know your name?"

Nightmare smile and still hiding something that give unpleasant smell.

[Syani]

Syani stared at her poor map meekly, quite disappointed to have even the slightest wrinkle in her work. All the while when Jean is explaining and introducing himself to this other person, the black-haired dejectedly sighed at her map, then rolled it back up and hid it in her red cloak.

"Of course it doesn't hurt you, I smacked you with a map. You should see what happens if I smack you with a brick," the young woman responded sourly. She smelt something strange out of nowhere when Leo Nightmare introduced himself next, so she intended to find out about that.

"Show me what you're hiding, and then I'll tell you my name." It's quite impressive how someone this young could own a castle that large, but Syani didn't compliment the lad just yet. She's still curious of what's he's hiding either way, so this better be a good trade.

[Leo Nightmare]

Nightmare smile, and hold his laugh.

"You're funny, young lady. I like to know you more, and that's also mean I really want know your name. But I pass your deal, since what's I hiding is more valuable then your name. My apologize."

Leo gently reply, and put the thing that he hiding into his backpack. He looking back at Jean and Syani, and little bit happy.

"This is first time my castle got a guest, and seems they are
not from Belmont family."

He look again at Syani, and say: "It's okay you not telling me your name, after all, you're also my guest." *Giggles*

"So, Mr. Jean, should we go now?"

Nightmare give a smile, and waiting they answer.

[Syani]

Syani rests her arms on her waist, now rather disappointed he won't show what that thing he's hiding to her, but sighed and accepted how precious that is to him anyway. "Okay, fine. If it's that valuable, then I won't ask and tell you who I am anyway."

She waved her hand as if to swat off something insignificant, "My name's Syani. Half-human, half-vampire, all badass. At your service~" She jokingly bowed towards him in a regal manner and pulled herself back, now excited to be invited to the castle. "Well, I don't know any Belmont family, but YAY!!" She clapped her hands childishly in glee before turning to the bespectacled man.

"Hey hey, Mister Cross, can we go in? Can we, can we? Pleeaaaaassseee?"

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"Yes, yes of course we can go now. As long as we are careful then there won't be any problems. Hahaha. Syani was it? Now forgive me if I am pronouncing your name wrong... But perhaps you can tell me? Is it pronounced PSY-AHH-NEE? ,or Sha-AHH-NEE as in the y sounds like an H?"

Jean chuckled a little but he wanted to make sure that he got her name right, and not pronouncing it wrong since some people get easily annoyed when their name is mis-pronounced.

[Leo Nightmare]

Seeing both of them ready, Nightmare smile. "Ok, seems all of us is ready now. But careful, my castle is not ordinary castle. I hope you can stand with it."

Nightmare might seem just smile, but actually he is happy. This is the first time he meet someone, and also having a guest for his castle, because he haven't make any friend before since he come to DDE country. And maybe this is chance to make a friend, he guess. Suddenly he remember something. Quickly he turn into Jean and Syani, and quickly he warning them. "If you saw a skeleton figure that wearing hood and holding scythe, please do not scared."

[Syani]

Syani laughed at Jean's question of pronouncing her name, so the half-vampire explained, "Sha-aah-nee! Hahah! Say it with me; SYA-NI~!" She emphasized her own name, amused. Her name is certainly a strange one, so she's used with all these confusions.

"Aye-aye, Captain Nightmare!" Syani saluted the castle's owner when he said that his castle wasn't really that ordinary. The girl clapped in glee, excited as it is to be visiting a castle. It's been a while since she's been inside one.

"Skeleton?" Syani repeated at Nightmare's warning, "Is it like the grim reaper they portrayed in books? Whuooo! Cool!" Now obviously pumped, Syani can't wait to start venturing in the mysterious castle.

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“It is once again a pleasure to meet you Leo and I am glad I got the name straight Syani, I don’t want to make it sound like I am calling you a psycho or something, or insult you in any way.”

Jean began following Leo nightmare into the castle and when he had mentioned about a monster with a scythe he nodded. He began to look at the interior of the castle as they all travelled within. Surprisingly however there was something friendly but whimsical about this place.

“So are there more creatures besides the one you told us about? Like ghosts, and spirits? You have piqued my curiosity as well as my interest Mr. Nightmare.”

[Jean]

[END THREAD- don't think this thread will be reopened]