This is a crossover between Hellsing and Trinity Blood. Timeline-wise for Trinity Blood is a few months after the end of the anime where Abel and Ion go off on their own to hunt down Cane. In Hellsing it takes place shortly after the attack of the Valentine brothers, when they are just beginning to discover about Millennium.
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The young looking blond boy groaned softly, swaying in place. He very nearly fell right down on his rump but he managed somehow to retain his balance. He opened his eyes, and promptly shut the crimson orbs when everything swam quite disturbingly in front of him. He took a deep breath, and after slowly counting to ten, he opened them once again. Where the heck was he anyways? The last thing he could remember was investigating a chamber below the slums of Albion with Father Abel. There were some machines down there... lost technology. Abel seemed to think they might find some clues to Cain's whereabouts there.
But something had gone wrong.
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"Abel... I think I can hear someone," Ion turned his head to glance at the tall silver haired man who was pulling out and rearranging wires and unplugging and replugging others at an ancient terminal. The man shook his his head and sighed. It was hopeless.
"Then we'd better leave before they're close enough for us to tell whether or not they're friendly. I've done everything I can for this. It's just too far beyond repair, I can't even reconnect the power supply," the priest shook his head. It had been worth a shot. Even if he could get the wreck of a computer to work it's be an even longer shot that he might be able to garner some information from it about his elder 'brother'. But they didn't have any better leads anyways.
"Right, lets-" the young noble's words were cut off suddenly as nightmares literally crashed through the walls and ceilings.
Terrors who felt no pain and could not even think for themselves. They were garbed in long black coats and glossy black helms reminiscent of beetle shells. Not even an inch of skin showed, their faces sheathed in gas masks giving them a terrifying almost alien like look. They were the Auto-Jaggers. Disgusting monsters made from the reanimated corpses of Methuselah. Those who could not rest, even after death. They deserved pity more then anything else. Unfortunately pity, especially in the tight quarters they had, was not something Ion and Abel could afford.
With lightning speed the priest's gun was drawn, and shot of three rounds, downing two of the approximate half dozen Jaggers that had invaded. Unfortunately there were still four to go. Ion drew his sword (the sword itself was a beauty, he'd recently replaced his old steel one with a longer one, elegantly curved and edged in silver. It was a dangerous thing for him to wield, but likewise it was incredibly effective against their foes). The Earl's form blurred briefly, and seemed to disappear completely. He reappeared once more behind one of the black garbed monsters. The Jagger turned, raising it's ax high to strike the pretty lad down. Seconds later the head almost seemed to slide of center before dropping to the ground entirely.
Ion was sincerely glad that Father Abel insisted he practice his acceleration skill in the couple months they'd been hunting Cain. He was a lot better at it then he had been... which was a good thing else he might have been dead by now. Swallowing hard he accelerated again, downing two more Auto-Jaggers in the same fashion.
Though no matter how many heads rolled or bullets were shot there seemed to be no end to them. As soon as one fell it seemed like three more came to take it's place!
The blond sniffed the air... something smelled like it was burning...
"Ion! Get down!" the boy turned just quick enough to see Abel in a flurry of black robes tackle him to the ground just as ball of flame soared right through the very spot he'd just been standing.
"One of them was an Ifrit when they were alive?" Ion was shocked. He immediately thought of his Tovarish... but Radu was gone... there wouldn't have been enough of him left to reanimate anyways. Besides... the flame this one made was significantly weaker.
Abel removed his glasses and handed them to the young nobleman before standing up, an uncharacteristically dark expression on his face.
"Father?"
"Ion... get behind the terminals," Abel said softly, loosening the ribbon that held his hair back, "I'll have to take care of them all at once there's no other way."
"But-!" Ion protested, clutching the Father's glasses when he realized what he was about to do.
"Now Ion! Please!"
The Methuselah gave a little eep and dove behing the terminals, slicing another Auto-Jagger in two on the way. He hoped it's protect him enough.
"Crusnick 02... machines... requesting power output set to eighty percent."
Ion couldn't see Abel from his spot but he could feel the charged energy in the air. Right now the Father would be in his frightening other form. Crimson eyes and pearly fangs... and great black wings charged with electricity that almost burned the air.
"Approved."
The blond could hear the huge blood scythe cut through bodies like there were no more then mere paper dolls, and the shock waves that sent other dolls flying charged the air, making the little hairs on his arms stand on end. But that's not all the electricity did. Somehow the Crusnick must have shocked the power supply. All around them computer were lighting up, screens flashed and cooling fans whirled within ancient metal shells. Even the floor lit up, glowing a strange soft blue color.
Startled, Ion finally looked up when the sounds of battle died down. The last thing he saw was Abel before the blue light intensified, effectively blinding him as he whited out.
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Ion rubbed his head. The glowing lights still didn't explain where he was right now. He had been below the slums in Albion. That was quite a ways underground. And now that his vision was clear enough... he could tell he was most certainly NOT in the same place he'd whited out in. It seemed to be a small village of sorts. It was very quiet though... very very quite. Given that it was night that must have meant this was a Terran village. Though still... he couldn't even hear any animal sounds. It was more then a bit unsettling.
Standing in one place wouldn't do him any good, and it wouldn't help him find Abel any quicker either. They must have gotten separated in... whatever the hell had happened in the ancient little laboratory.
Ten minutes later he was still wandering around the quiet little village. He had his sword drawn however. This place, well... it was starting to freak out the little vampire. It was as is the place was dead. Usually even late at night there was some sort of tavern open, or lights in one or two houses, or even a dog barking! Here.. there was nothing. It was as if everyone had just disappeared.
Wait.
What was that? It sounded like.. a groan, and the shuffling of footsteps. It didn't quite sound normal either. The noise itself was coming from behind a stone wall. He was leery about investigating it, but it was the first sign of life he'd encountered here... really what was the harm.
He sheathed his sword behind him and made ready to scale the stone. It was old but not crumbling, and had plenty of good cracks for footholds. Though, just as he was about to mount it, a gloved hand covered his mouth, while another wrapped around his waist, pulling him back.
"Little girl what are you doing here?" a distinctively female voice whispered harshly, "It's dangerous here! There are ghouls everywhere!"
Surprised that someone had come up behind him so easily, Ion broke from the girl's grasp (he wasn't being held all that tightly), accelerating a few feet and spun around, drawing his sword in a swift motion. The girl was a little taller then he was, blond, and exceptionally well endowed (in another situation the Methuselah might have blushed). She was also wearing a uniform of some sort, though Ion didn't recognize it as one of Albion's
"You... You're not human are you?" the girl's eyes narrowed.
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Well that's all for Chapter 1! It was mostly Trinity Blood characters, but next chapter more from Hellsing shall turn up.
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muchluv,
DG