Area: Ponyville
Year: 1835

Scootaloo was trotting through Ponyville, 22 years having passed since she helped defeat Dracula and Sweetie Belle with Shanoa. Twilight, well, Princess Twilight had been hard at work trying to ensure Death couldn't steal Scootaloo's equipment but for now, she was getting used to the slowly advancing Equestria. Electricity getting more uses, more magic types being developed, and over all more types of convinence of course it'd still take a while before it could really be useful.

Scootaloo looked at the ponies nearby and all of them waved at her while she didn't wave back but everypony knew that was the norm...

How was Sweetie Belle able to swat me away? She shouldn't have been that powerful. Scootaloo thought to herself.

She opened her doodle book and started doodling again, this time she started doodling Shanoa and Alucard together as she found that the two were getting along pretty well. They would even train in the battle simulator frequently. An interesting effect of Shanoa having owned the Dominus glyphs, Shanoa no longer ages similiar to Dracula and has quite adamently taken to using Hasta and Falcis glyphs, even working to try and discover other glyphs of those types with Alucard going to be attempting to learn all he can about Castlevania and how it works to make certain plans Sweetie Belle could execute with her little "dark minions" much harder to execute.

Scootaloo put her doodle book up as she was through doodling for now. Scootaloo continued trotting around when a colt trotted up to her, "Can I help you?" Scootaloo asked as the colt nodded. "Could I get an autograph?" He asked as Scootaloo deadpanned but gave an autograph none-the-less. "There, don't tell anypony I give autographs because this time was an exception," Scootaloo exclaims as the colt nods and gallops away, "... I do not need fillies and colts looking up to me because I do some dangerous work and I want the mares and stallions of the future to, you know, not put themselves into dangerous situations," Scootaloo said with a sigh.

Area: Ponyville
Year: 1850

Princess Twilight was staring out the window of the castle, Rainbow Dash(who was the exact same as she was back in 1798) sitting in the room, looking over various reports of monsters and malicious ponies, "Twi, I trust you and all, but why the hell aren't we sending Scoots right now? This is giving some big Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle energy since I'm expecting an attack from them to arrive any day since the last one in Equestria was in 1798 and the last one in Europe was 37 years ago in 1813, there is no way that Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom aren't involved!" Rainbow Dash said as Twilight stared out.

"Scootaloo is not needed yet. Yes, I'm suspicious of the silence from Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom but we do not need to interfer with it, let Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle prepare, if they hurt towns at once or Castlemania returns then we interfere," Twilight spoke in the professional voice she'd gotten good at using and while Rainbow wasn't willing to go against what her friend said, she knew that letting Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle prepare for too long would be lifetimes of hell for Equestria and Europe.

"Twi, I do trust you, and I'll respect the decision... but we can't let them prepare forever. That's a recipe for disaster, you know?"

"I know. I really do. But pre-emptively attacking wouldn't feel satisifying, and thus make defeating Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom feel empty."

"You're worried about it being satisifying and not over? Eh, to be honest, I'd be the same way... technically nopony is the bearer of the element of honesty anymore so... uh... is the phrase "to be honest" kinda disrespectful?" Rainbow Dash put a hoof to her head in thought.

Twilight just sighed.

Area: Chaotic Realm
Year: 1914

Apple Bloom returned to the chaotic realm after paying Europe a visit, "Eupore's involved in a world-wide war. Ah wish ah was kiddin'," she said to Sweetie Belle and Dracula. "Uh... why?"

"Ah don't quite know, I saw a vampire named Elizabeth who told meh she planned ta use the sacrifices of the war as a way ta revive someone."

"Elizabeth Bartley. My niece is trying to revive me."

"... You have a niece?" Sweetie Belle asked as Dracula nodded, "Huh, you'd never guess just by looking at you."

"Anyways, ah say we don't interfere incase those Morris clan members are still around, plus, Sweetie, yer dark minions are growin' in number. Slowly, but they are."

"Perfect! Now we wait to see what happens,"

"Yes, I fear that Elizabeth will fail like I have many times so I hold not much hope for this. If she succeeds then I'll be impressed," Dracula stated, well aware of how futile it is as long as the holy whip is out there.

Dracula stared into the chaotic abyss of the Chaotic Realm, a place he'd grown used to over all his failures to rule over all of Europe. He saw the monsters, both of his castle and of Sweetie Belle's castle, roaming about, chatting amongst themselves. He saw Death failing to master the powers the last version did. And he saw the boss demons, all patiently waiting for Dracula to get his will to fight back but... he might never get it back, if he was honest with himself.

Dracula sighed as he teleported elsewhere. He knew it'd eventually be a matter of time before they'd find a way to be rid of him forever. So he stood in an area that nobody but him knew about, "Chaos... show me my restoration/revival cycle data," he said as a screen appeared with his data.

It showed everything you could think it'd need to show. The current status of whether or not it's active, how many times he's died, and most interesting of all... what power he would keep upon reincarmnating. That last one was still blank as he never thought he'd need that information... but now he does so he scrolls through the list... finding one he forgot he even had... The Power of Dominance and so he figured... what better power to keep than that? So selected it and returned to Sweetie Bell and the others.

Author's Note

Ooooooh, forshadowing for 1999 and the Sorrow games.

Expect Portrait to start next chapter for arc 4: "A Bloody Masterpiece."

Also, Dracula being aware that he'll fail, what a surprise.