With the lamps lit, the whole room was visible. Thousands of catwalks and stairs zig-zagged through the room, leading to different platforms and rooms. Hundreds of shelves lined with books and skulls lined the floors. Banners with the Belmont and Gelbėtojai crests lined the halls. Sypha looked in aw at the shelves filled with books and the immense space of the room.
"My God." She breathed. She handed her torch to Alucard, who rested it in a hold.
"The memory of our families," Trevor said. He ran his hand down the wooden railing. "All that's left of the Belmonts and the Gelbėtojais." He said. Meilė sighed as she touched the wooden pillars that held the amazing room up.
"All that's left of our parents." She said. Sypha raced down the steps, looking at Trevor.
"Is it organized? Is there a way to find things?" She asked.
"I imagine one sacrifices a chicken, and divines the location of the book you want from the intestines. Maybe Belmont has a crystal ball in here you could ask." Alucard said. Trevor glared at the half-vampire.
"Shut up." He growled. Ramybė raised an eyebrow at Alucard.
"You really do have a dark way of thinking, don't you." She said. The group continued down the stairs.
"There's an index on the lectern at the bottom. It contains both the history of the Belmonts and the Gelbėtojais and their language." He said. Sypha looked at the twins in shock.
"So this really is a managed collection." She said. Meilė looked around at the vast room.
"It's the work of generations. Both Savitvarda and Nuimti's generation, and our parent's generation." Meilė explained.
"An archive of everything our families found and learned since the days of Leon Belmont and Savitvarda and Nuimti Gelbėtojai." Ramybė said. Meilė, Trevor and Sypha turned down one side of the stairs, while Alucard and Ramybė turned down another section. Sypha walked ahead of the two, running her fingers gently along the spines of books and other collections.
"What were your Leon Belmont and Savitvarda and Nuimti Gelbėtojai doing in Wallachia?" She asked. Alucard looked at a sliding glass shelf that held the skulls of vampires.
"Hunting Dracula." Alucard said. Ramybė sighed and looked away slightly. She hoped that seeing this sort of stuff didn't change Alucard's view of her or her sister. Trevor looked at the books, running his fingers along the spines.
"Here it is then. The last of us." He said. Meilė approached an open book. She read the title of a page out loud.
"Gelbėtojų Istorija. Kalba ir žmonės," she read the original language. "The history of Gelbėtojai. The Language and People." She read out loud. Sypha stopped to read the pages. Trevor looked over at another shelf.
"Huh." He breathed. Meilė looked at him.
"What is it?" She asked. She walked towards Trevor, leaving Sypha to read the book. He walked over to a shelf that had fallen in, revealing a chest.
"Bloody hell," he whispered. Meilė's eyes widened.
"No way!" She said. She rushed over to Trevor's side. "Is that what I think it is?" She asked.
"Careful Trevor. You almost sounded excited about something." Sypha said, making Meilė snicker lightly. Trevor broke down the last of the broken shelves. His eyes widened.
"It couldn't be." He whispered. Grunting, he pulled the chest out of the shelves and set it on the ground. Trevor brushed the dust off of the chest that had accumulated over the years. Meilė knelt next to the box.
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Daughters of an Ancient Race: Book Two: The Search For Dracula's Castle
FanfictionNow that Alucard has found the four others he needs to defeat Dracula, the search is on. Dracula's Castle could appear anywhere at anytime, and that's the hard part. Ramybė and Meilė find out about their family and find out how powerful they are tog...
