Elaine and I have been friends for the LONGEST time. We both got into Sherlock Holmes in high school, then J.R.R. Tolkien. She even got me hooked on David Eddings’ Belgariad & Malloreon series. Besides books, we also loved to write. We were secretly doing fan fiction about Sherlock Holmes and Star Wars in the middle of Geometry class where the Force made more sense to me than a geometric theorem. So when the anime craze resurfaced in the Philippines, beginning with Dragon Ball Z, we both got hooked. She had dibs on Gohan, I thought Gokou was cute. And we both adore Kurama from Yu Yu Hakusho. Writing fan fiction about them was just a matter of course. Besides, the Internet had also come into vogue and we found out other people were also putting on sites devoted to these guys. And WRITING fan fiction about them too.

Finally, I thought, why not try the same thing too? Elaine also had the same idea. The result is the way COOL homepage you’re seeing now. Read her Kurama story "Home at Last"—it’s really good and my favorite.

I thought that was the last straw. I mean, this guy’s a video game character from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night—a game that’s so EFFING hard, I can’t even play it! Sure, Alucard was bloody gorgeous and sure, his backstory was cool but still, he’s a video game guy! Meanwhile, my brother was already screaming with frustration at the thought of finally finding a video game he couldn’t beat. So, he sent me off to surf the Net to find out how to survive the game. I found what he wanted and at the same time, I found out I wasn’t alone in my crush on Alucard. There were plenty of SHRINES to this guy too, with fan fiction as well.

Writing a fan fic on Alucard was loads of fun. I’d been doing my own original stories about vampires ever since I first picked up Bram Stoker’s Dracula (the book, not the movie). Al sort of decided to move into my imagination and demand attention. Off I went and finished one whole fanfic in a couple of days. I must’ve totally surprised Elaine when I asked her to look at the first fan fic I’ve actually managed to complete properly and be proud of. Can you put it up on your site, if you think it’s okay? I ask. Sure, she goes.

So here it is. The fanfics I’ve done here is a merging of the Castlevania universe and my own original world. Players of the Castlevania games may notice plenty of inconsistencies here. I don’t know everything about the Castlevania world so what I don’t know, I usually make up on my own. In fact, I’ve noticed some inconsistencies about how Castlevania does Dracula’s backstory—see "The Bargain" for these observations.

An infinite supply of THANK YOU’s to Elaine for putting up my stories on her website. And for being so patient with my raving about Al for the past couple of weeks.

Disclaimer: Castlevania belongs to Konami and the original character of Dracula belongs to Bram Stoker. The Revenants, Prince Kristoff and his cohorts are my original characters. No copyright infringement is intended, no money’s being made off this, it’s all just fun.