Hellsing Ultimate – Trinity (Integra + Alucard; Seras cameo)
Soundtrack: Uriel (Darksiders OST) – Scott Morton
**AN: Insert standard disclaimer here – I own nada!
This was such a gorgeous scene, I find myself replaying it a lot (in subtitles, of course ~ nothing against Crispin, but Nakata is the only Alucard for me! :D )
I have a continuation of this little short in mind that ignores the pesky paladin interruption...
Trinity
She stood patiently in the Devil's forest, waiting for him as London burned.
It was surprisingly quiet; the screaming had stopped some time earlier. Now the wind only carried ash and smoke through the endless stand of wooden poles.
Is this what you feared, Father? She thought, gripping her family's sword tighter. Is this why you locked him away?
The impaled bodies surrounding her offered no counsel.
He is truly a monster, without morals or conscious.
Integra looked at the smoldering ruins around her, seeing but not seeing.
But what does that make me, she who holds the Fiend's leash?
Seras shifted, her attention drawn to a figure approaching them from the ruined street. "He's here."
Without a word, Integra stood up from her crouch and strode forward to meet her servant.
Alucard looked different: his true form stripped bare to reveal the imposing monarch he had been in life. Engraved steel and leather covered him from neck to foot, their black so dark she couldn't see the bloodstains she knew to be there. Over Alucard's shoulders wrapped a cloak that moved with a mind of its own, billowing with the demon familiars that were always at his side. The horse he rode was made from shadow and bone, its eyes glowing the same ruby color that haunted her every moment.
Ten feet from her, the devil dismounted and continued the rest of the way on foot. He towered over Integra, but she felt no fear. The plates of his armor grated against each other as the vampire king bowed, abasing himself on the blood soaked ground at her feet.
I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.*
"Welcome home, Count," she said softly.
Alucard raised his head, infernal scarlet eyes shining through his long hair. He gazed at her a moment, basking in the tender smile of his warrior angel.
The one he called Master.
The woman he loved.
"I am home, Countess," he answered, feeling truly complete for the first time in centuries.
AN: *I understand that this is actually mistranslated from the original Hindu text, but I'm using the paraphrased comment that Oppenheimer used as it fit better than the original.
"I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."
J. Robert Oppenheimer, Trinity 1945