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Chapter 4: Waterfall.
Waterfall, Warakiya. The 22nd of October 1688 A.D.
As Simon cracked the Vampire Killer, taking out a weed, he thought they where lucky the frost-spell of the ice-lord still worked. If the entire waterfall had bean free, they would most likely bean dead from drowning right now. "Watch ou!" Christina shouted as a cluster of bats came flying at him. He threw a vial of holy water, burning them to nothingness in the process. Christina looked upon him, how the sweat on his forehead and hair made the red locks lay thight against his skull and how his heavy-build body did coordinate his movement with such effortless grace. Had it not bean for Issiac, she would most likely have fallen in love with him. She concentrated her mind back to where it belonged as some of the water formed into blobs who flew at them. Simon cracked his whip at the blobs. He'd tasted the water on his flesh and knew it was still to cold for humans to swim. "Where do you think this tunnel will end up?" Christina asked before she gathered the skirts of her dress and cloak around her. "Near the ruined town of Kordova I think." Simon said as he too jumped the abyss. As they worked their way upward, Simon cracked his whip as fishmen started to jump them. Christina used her rod to fire away fireballs which made the bats scatter and the bone-archers either die on post or dive into the water. "Nice work." Simon admired. Then they bought had to duck as a really pesky-placed pillar of bone did blast away with a trio of fireballs. Simon jumped upward and threw his axe at it, making it stop firing. "My turn." Christina said as she made an ice-crystal shoot at the pillar who this time burst into fire. "That looks like a safe gallery." She said as they'd jumped to the gallery on which the pillar of bones had stood. "It's a magnificent view from up here." Simon said as he looked outward. The cave was gigantic, reaching bought above and below them. The river ended in a pond which water was quickly rising and the waterfall itself began at a crack in the face of the cliff. "The water has stopped flooding." Christina suddenly said. "That's our least problem." Simon calmly said as he crossed himself. "Do not place your faith in such treacherous trickery." "God is whit all who believe in Him." Christina countered as Katrina rouse from the mist surrounding the platform. "Then the time has come to test that prashe." She snapped. "Don't think to good of yourself." Simon retorted. "Even with those fancy robes your still no more than a slave of the dark powers." "So that I am." Katrina mere breathed. "Then," She said as her eyes started shining an eerie red. "I think it is time to set it to the test. Feel the power of darkness!" From the air before her, a wave of fist-sized blue bat-inhabited fireballs shot. "In the name of the Father, the Son and of the Holy Ghost, let it be!" Simon cried as he threw a spread-shot of vials filled with holy water. "You took the words right out of my mouth, old friend." Christina grinned as she cast her own wave of fireballs. But Katrina was already ahead of them. She lifted her hands and blasted a quick blast of lightning. Simon screamed as his armour became electrified. "Simon!" Christina shouted as she reached out through her magic, drawing all the electric force away from his body. "You're going to pay for that!" She cried at Katrina. "Good." Katrina laughed. "It's so very good. Use your aggressive feelings Christina. I feel it. Concentrate your anger and it makes you stronger." Before she could continue her mockery, Christina threw her anger right outward. She gasped as she noticed the black fire who did flash outward. "Not bad." Katrina said. Having teleported she now stood upon nothing which she could see. "I did underestimate you. I promise that I shall never again take lightly upon your powers." "I quite agree." The two ladies wheeled around. "Gaibon!" Katrina shouted. "What are you doing here?" "I have come to watch how my apprentice are doing." The shrouded demon calmly remarked. "Then I might thell you that she's going down." Simon had used the laurels to heal himself and now he was back. "Thank you Lord!" Christina whispered as she saw how Simon cracked his whip at Katrina who did scream with pain, just as he threw the boomerang-cross at Gaibon. "I must again agree with my young friend here." Gaibon hissed as he breathed an outward wave of tiny fireballs. "You are not to be underestimated again." As Simon grasped the cross on its return, bought Katrina and Gaibon was gone. But that wasn't the end of their problem.

Waterfall, Warakiya. The 22nd of October 1688 A.D.
As the mist Katrina had manifested did clear, Simon and Christina nodded that a new enemy was about to attack. From the water far below, an imaginable tall water dragon lifted its head to face them. "A water dragon!" Christina screamed. "I thought they where mere legends." "Trevor Belmont faced one in 1496. Then it has to be true." Simon said. "But what really worries me, is the water has started rising again." Christina shook her head. "Tell me some more good news." She mumbled. "I did find a morning star." Simon rouse the Vampire Killer. "It's made out of metal-chains now." She smiled. "Does that means Petronella has the leather whip now?" Simon shook his head. "No. The Vampire Killer has many legendary powers. One thing bought Sonia, Trevor and Christopher discovered is that by brandishing the morning stars they might turn them into longer whip. Sonia and Christopher did even rediscovered some of the holy powers to morph it into a flame-whip." "I hope you discover it right away." Christina said as she prepared her staff. "Here the water dragon is coming." She was right. The water dragon opened its jaw and a huge wavy flame did come rocketing at them. "Might God help us in our plight!" Simon shouted as he threw the boomerang cross at the flame and did thereafter jump to one of the higher platforms. Christina was quick to join him as she threw a bolt of lightning down upon the water beast. It screamed with pain but didn't seam like it really became wounded. "The dragons, even their lesser cousins are in large immune to magic." Christina gaped. "That's no dragon. The dragons are super-inteligent and powerful magical creatures." Simon smiled without humour. "The dark lord stole their DNA to create some of his most powerful dark servants. The evil dragons where the most powerful. But even the Lindworm is nearly as powerful, there where some setback in the dark one's recreation of life. The snake-men and man-snake among the more powerful and intelligent ones, but the water dragons is really nothing more than beasts. But they share in the dragons basic powers." As they spoke, they continued to jump from platform to platform, taking out bats, pillar of bones and some strange form of plant-life. "Then how do you intend to take out the worm?" Christina asked as she sent some fireballs at the top-most skull of a pillar of bones blocking their way. "As we come to the place the water flood in, I want you to freeze the opening so that the water dragon don't have us sitting ducks." Christina shook her head. "How do you think that's going to help us? The water dragon would just smash the ice and continue the hunt." Simon cracked a smile. "Don't you see it? Inside the waterfall's source-chamber it might not drown us." "Clever." She smiled. "Watch out for the bats!" Simon warned.

Waterfall, Warakiya. The 22nd of October 1688 A.D.
Christina did kneel on the platform. She generated as much magic she could. Simon placed his hand on her shoulders. "Do it Christina." He just said. "Ice." Christina whispered and a clear blue colour started to embrace the crack. "You're a sorceress." Simon's hold around her shoulders fastened with joy. "It's working. You're freezing the waterfall." Just as he said so, the water dragon attacked. If this was only the head, Simon wondered, then how long was the rest of the creature? "Don't think of it." Christina said as she continued the freezing spell. "This is your battle, Simon. May God be with you." Simon did the sign of the cross. "It's in the hands of the Lord." He simply said before he threw his throwing-ace right at it. "You hit it!" Christina cheered as blood painted some of the water crimson. Simon didn't answered as he did crack his whip at some of the fireballs the water dragon did fire. "Simon!" She suddenly screamed. "I feel a shift in the power." Generate ice before us." Simon demanded. "Do it now!" Christina made a mirror-like barrage of frost appear before them as the water dragon opened its jaw and blasted away one long-lasting orb-shaped beam of energy. The blast destroyed the ice, but Christina continued to regenerate the shield until the water dragon stopped. "My turn." Simon said, rising a vial of holy water before him. He made a long-lasting rain of vials rain down on the water dragon. But where the water dragon had blasted one beam, Simon threw only three vials in a row. Never the less, the water dragon shot out a counter-strike of small fireballs and did actually manage to take out two of the vials. The third landed a hit right on its head. "Honour to God." Simon again did the sign of the cross before he threw the last vial, scoring another blow. The water dragon screamed and spat blood around. "You've wounded it." Christina shouted. "Yes." Simon said, but without any happiness in his hearth. "I just feel pity on it. It isn't its fault Dracula sent it to kill us. It only sees us as food, not enemies." "Simon!" Christina gasped, her eyes growing large. "Your whip is burning!" He looked upon it, then did the sign of the cross with awe. "To forgive your enemy," Simon softly said. "is the highest duty the Lord Christ put upon us." Then he straightened his pose. "Lord, let it be as You will." He cracked the Vampire Killer and hit the water dragon right in the head. The beast screamed as it became engulfed in fire and dived back down into the water. "I hope I didn't kill it." He whispered. "I hope it might heal and is able to find a way back to the oceans." Christina put her hand on his shoulder. "As you said. It's in the hands of God." Simon smiled, seemingly relaxed and reassured about he didn't had killed anyone who didn't deserve it. "Let's crack the ice and continue this haunt." He suggested. Christina nodded and made fire hammer into the ice she'd created.

(A.N: Another short chapter with yet another mid-boss battle. Sorry, but these two chapters, pluss the next ones, are parts of the same main-chapter and lv. 3 in the Super Castlevania IV. Merry Christmas to you all, might God bless you.)

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