�So, yur the one whose lookin� fer the castle eh? Well, I can help ya there. The name�s Lorder, Tashagi Lorder. I�ve been huntin� that there vampire for a good twenty years now.� He motioned toward a picture on the wall. Underneath was a gold bar engraved, �Count Vladimir Costranela�, �Course, I haven�t been able to find the castle for over seven years now, but I know where its gonna be tonight, if ur interested that is?� Kynoto said nothing, he did not know that Lorder had been talking because he had been staring at the picture of Costranela, Kynoto thought that he kind of looked like Knifes; they had the same unpleasant eyes. Kynoto looked to Lorder, who was watching him closely, and said quickly,
�Of course, I am interested, very interested. But I am curious as to how much this little adventure is going to cost me,|� Kynoto said, still mystified as he looked at the picture. He thought that the count kind of resembled Knifes. They had the same unpleasant eyes. �How much is this little adventure going to cost me?� Said Kynoto nervously. Lorder replied less then half-heartedly,
�Ohhh, quite a bit I�d imagine, but you see that�s not how it works. Money isn�t good if your dead see. So I follow the strict rule of collecitn� money after the job is over. But I fancy that it�ll cost ya no less then fourty thousand Kintaris. Might be a bit steep, but considering the situation it should be higher.�
�I see. Well, the price is not a problem. Truthfully, I thought a fare price for this would have been eight hundred thousand Kintaris,� Lorder�s mouth fell open, �Now, down to business. Exactly who is this Count?� Kynoto asked curiously. Lorder shouted to the pub keeper,
�Were gona need 6 more ales over here please, this is gona be a long story. Ok, now, Costranela, he is the cruelest of all the vampires. He recruits half human half vampire minions known as Psyclopires. They are superior to humans, yet half as strong as Vampires. They are usually human hunters, but some are Vampire hunters. Such a man did exist. He was called Xoboto. He was one of the greatest Vampire hunters that ever lived and ironically he came from the most noble of all Vampires, yes that�s right, Count Vladimir Dracula. Costranela is a blood descendant of Count Dracula. He is said to be over tewnty thousand years old, but I estimate that he is at least fifty thousand years old. He is one of the remaining 3 Original Counts. Now, his castle is also a thing to be feared. There are all sorts of creatures and demons lurking in it. It is also the only known producer of the Lilac Potion. It is not known how, but the evil in this castle produces a miraculous potion. It keeps the drinker looking as though they were only about 30 years old. It is said that the Fates are in constant need of this potion and send wanderers to their dooms to get it for false information about the future. Now, if we really are going to do this, you will have to serve the Count for a few weeks and gain his trust. Then kill him and take the potion. The only person to have gotten the potion with out getting killed or having to kill the Count was a man by the name of Kynotoishi. Matter a fact; he looked a lot like you.� At hearing all of this, Kynoto finally understood what the Fates were doing, but he was going to play their game for now. He knew that if you kill a Vampire that its power will become yours. They got all the things that they needed and set off that very night.
Triasha, now bored, had begun to fiddle around with Trianchu again. He was planning to make a Fusion Trianchu next. This would be very difficult because it would have to fuse the two people yet be able to split them apart again. He worked on it for four days straight, not eating, sleeping, or drinking. At last on the fifth day, he had perfected it. He had successfully fused a grasshopper and a toad. �Haha, finally complete is it, eh? Good. Very good. Now, I think I will have a little nap,� Triasha said insanely as he passed out from exhaustion. Triasha awoke the next morning to see that the grasshopper and the toad had split apart to their original form perfectly. Triasha was happy. He went outside to use his new form of Trianchu on everything.
Kynoto and Lorder awoke to see that they had been visited by the Count during the night. The Count stood on top of a very tall rock, directly in the sunlight.
�Ahhhh. The sun feels good this morning. Oh. I see that you are awake, allow me to introduce myself. I am Count Vladimir Murdock Costranela. Now who might you be, trespassers on my land eh?� The Count said sinisterly. Kynoto replied hastily,
�I am Kynoto Haikashi, a ninja gone warrior, and this is my friend Porder, Lon Porder.� The Counts eyes widened in astonishment as he said,
�So, you�re Kynoto. I have heard a great deal about you, and of your clone, Kynotoishi, and of your student, what was his name�.ah yes, Knifes. But I am afraid that you will not live long enough to even scratch me,� he said as his face tightened, then he shouted, �Delnia, Felonio, Gromir, Galamgrithal get out here!� as he said this, four Psyclopires entered the clearing. They all looked the same, with tight, wrinkled skin that had holes in it, rotting teeth, bloodshot eyes with red pupils. They were armed with different things though. It looked as though Delnia and Galamgrithal were spell casters as they were armed with staffs. Gromir had light clothing and very little armor, but he did have four very deadly looking kitanas strapped to his back, indicating that he was a ninja. Now, the biggest one, Felonio, was truthfully fearsome. He had two very large swords, Kynoto guessed that they weighed hundred pounds each and were about ten feet in length, that glinted in the sun. He also had on very thick and heavy plated armor, this would mean that he was a slow, but very strong, warrior.
�Felonio, take your training weights off,� The Count issued to the warrior. Kynoto saw the gigantic Psyclopire take wraps with weight pouches in them off of his arms and ankles. As they hit the ground they left five feet by forty inch holes in the ground. Felonio jumped from tree to tree in the clearing with blazing speed. Kynoto was absolutely stunned. Lorder had not been lying when he said that the Psyclopires were very strong. Kynoto could see the Castle from the clearing, the eyes of the sculpted head on top glowing. It was a fearsome thing, just as Lorder had said. Come to think of it, everything that Lorder had said had been proved. Then Kynoto realized it, Lorder was a Familiar, a human who had sold himself to the Vampires.