Hellsing Estate, Equestria

10 Years Ago

A young filly bolted down the ancient hallways of her family's castle, her face frozen into a look of terror at thought of being caught by those who were seeking her. It had only been a hand full of hours since the young girl's father had been taken by a horrid illness, and yet her uncle was already attempting to take everything her father had left her, even if it meant having to kill the young Pegasus to do it. The Pegasus ran down a flight of stairs, reaching the lowest level of the castle. Dust clung to her usually clean light blonde fur and mane, and her glasses had fallen off a bit ago. She wished desperately that her young wings could lift her away from this horrid situation, but they weren't developed to the point of flight yet.

Her uncle had never been charmed with the idea of her father, a wealthy and powerful unicorn, marrying a simple weather working Pegasus like her mother. Oh he had bit back his distain if only to keep peace with his brother, but with him gone all of the ambition and hatred was flowing like toxin into a river. He had always been interested in the family fortune, and despite the young filly's father's generous and giving nature the handouts had never been enough.

"Come out now Integra, I just want to have a little chat with you." Her uncle's snake like voice rang out through the castle as the hoof beats of himself and his two lackeys made their way slowly toward her.

The filly bit back a noise of fear that threatened to make its way out of her throat. If she was really going to die she would do it as a true Hellsing, with honor and bravery in the face of danger. She finally stopped once she had found the door that her father had told her about.

If ever you find yourself in danger, go down to the oldest part of our home, find the cell with the symbol of our family and open it. Within you will find the key to your salvation. Our family's darkest secret.

Those were the words her father had spoken to her on his deathbed, minutes before passing into the afterlife.

The Pegasus took a deep breath before pushing the door opens, walking into the dark room quickly. The only light from within the room bled in from outside torchlight. Dust and cobwebs clung to every bit of the old room, showing that this place had not been entered in years. Sitting on the floor of the room was a very old looking corpse of a unicorn, black fur covering a body that looked like it was just bones covered by a thin layer of flesh that clung to it. "What…what is this?" the young Integra asked herself, not able to understand why her father would send her here to be protected. All that was in this room was a dead body that seemed to have worn down with age.

Before these questions could be answered however a knife flew from the door and slashed along her cheek, sending a small spray of blood onto the floor and the Unicorn's corpse. "Well it seems we finally found you my sweet Integra." her uncle and his goons walked into the room. Her uncle was dressed in a suit jacket and monocle, the very definition of high society on his flank sat a cutie mark with a bag of money, showing his ultimate desire was only to gain more. Behind him were two slightly larger Unicorn's, one of whom was holding a number of floating knives around him with his magic.

Integra swallowed her fear and turned to face her uncle with a blank look. "Are you so obsessed with the family fortune that you would kill your own niece just to obtain it?" she knew that her uncle was far beyond the point where he could feel guilt for his actions, but she wouldn't allow herself to die without speaking her piece on the mater.

He scoffed and shook his head. "By all rights this estate should belong to me. If not for your whore of a mother seducing my brother all of this would be mine by blood rights upon his death. A thief like you should not act so high and mighty, but I suppose somepony of a lower class just couldn't understand that," he tapped his hoof against the ground. "Hurry up and finish her boys, we need to report how my niece committed suicide in the wake of her father's death, if we move fast enough the bank might load up my own account with bits and move this place into my name before a fortnight passes," He waited for the next knife to fly, but nothing happened. "Well?!" he demanded, looking back at his thugs.

"S…sir the body!" one of the Unicorn's slowly backed up from the sight, and the one holding the knives seemed to be frozen in place.

Integra's Uncle looked past Integra and froze, moving back a few steps at the sight before him. The once dead looking Unicorn on the ground had moved forward, a long and serpent like tongue running along the floor and lapping up Integra's fallen blood like a dog drinking from a water bowl. Once the floor had been cleaned of the blood the creature turned his eyes toward Integra, than moved them toward the Unicorn's at the door. Its eyes glowed blood red, like the deepest burning fires of Tartarus itself. The creature opened its mouth and let out a roar, revealing rows of teeth that looked like they would find a better home in a sharks mouth.

"K…kill that thing!" the Uncle screamed out and the knife wielding Unicorn finally came to his senses, sending the weapons directly into the former corpses body. Each struck, but the creature didn't seem to even notice them, moving forward at speed that seemed to make him take the form of a shadow before slamming his hoof into the knife using Unicorn and slamming his head against the wall, letting out a primal roar as the Unicorn's skull was cracked open against the old stone, freeing its blood and leaving brain matter caked on the wall.

The other thug sent out a blast of magic into the black furred Unicorn, but like the knives it didn't seem to be hurt by it. The red eyed monster picked up the body of the now dead Unicorn and tossed it at the other thug, sending him into a wall, with a sickening crack. The thug's spin had been broken by the impact with the wall, leaving him a twitching mess on the floor until his body finally moved no more.

The Uncle attempted to run, but the creature simply turned and looked into her Uncle's eyes, freezing him in place.

Integra watched the scene in horror, having never seen or imagined this kind of violent display before. She should be horrified, trying to run away from this. But for some reason she didn't feel threatened by this monster that had seemingly risen from the dead to kill her Uncle's thugs. "W..who are you?" she finally asked, trying to hold back the shaking sound in her voice.

The black furred Unicorn made his way over to her and dipped his body in a bow. "I am a monster in service to the Hellsing family." He rose from his bow to walk over to one of the fallen knives, picking it up and carrying it before Integra, placing it in front of her. "How may I serve you, my Mistress?"

The young filly looked at the monster before her, unable to believe the turn of events that had occurred in what felt like only a number of seconds. She looked down at the knife, and then at her uncle, the man who would so easily betray his own family just for power.

The family name of Hellsing is important my dear, we are what stands in the night against all the monsters of this world. The blood in your veins carries with it a sacred duty to protect this world.

Her father's words. The young filly grabbed the knife and made her way over to her uncle. She saw fear in his eyes, yet he was still held in place by the power of the creature her blood had awakened. "Any last words, uncle?"

"I…you can't do this…we are family." the Unicorn finally managed to speak past the spell, each word layered with terror and pleading. He was scared for his life, not wanting to die.

"I am not family with a monster," the young Peagsus lifted the blade and prepared to strike. "I am a Hellsing, and this is what we do to monsters." she swung the blade down toward her uncle.

He gave a cry, and then there was silence.

Cheddar, Equestria

Present Day

The town of Cheddar has been known for being a quiet community building on the outskirts of a forest that provided a decent number of crops, managed to stay self-sufficient enough to be rated as one of the best producing communities in all of Equestria. They were also famous for their cheese, which is how it is said the town had gotten its name in the first place. It was rare to go a day without some of the farm ponies in the town to not travel out on their normal trade routes to deliver their supplies to the markets of other towns. Which was why after none of their usual vendors had heard from them for about a week they began to worry. At first some just assumed there was some minor trouble with the usual routes or a Parasprite infestation, but when a small ground from the traders union had been sent out and not heard from it was only natural that the royal guard would be called.

Despite Equestria being a mostly peaceful land there were small groups that were paid by the royals in Canterlot to act as first respond units. Most were staffed by a high ranking Guardpony who would train and lead the group to wherever they were called. Despite not having the same supplies that the normal guard had they were still well equipped to handle any of the normal troubles of their sectors, especially in a time of great peace like now. The worst things most of them had faced were the occasional wild animal that had wandered too far into a town and caused trouble.

When the small militia had received the call they had made quick progress to the town, calling in another group from a bit further away to aid them. After all an entire town going silent could be caused by a dragon or some other dangerous beast. By the time they had arrived it was already night, and group of the three highest ranking officers stayed back to form of a command post to coordinate the efforts of the rescue team. Three other ponies were asked to stay behind to act as guards for them, and the rest of the group, made up of a mixture of Earth pony, Peagsus, and Unicorn made their way down to the town in order to investigate. By the time they had finally made their way down Celestia's sun had made its full decent, and Luna's moon and the light from the horns of the Unicorns were the only things lighting up the otherwise pitch black town.

The houses and various shops within the town seemed untouched by beast or dragon, raising the suspicions of the various members of the militia. "Maybe the town got sick," A meek Earth pony with light brown fur and a blonde mane suggested, looking around at the empty streets. "If that's a possibility shouldn't we pull back and see if we can't get some doctors?"

A large Peagsus laughed a bit, rubbing the Earth ponies mane a bit. "Come on Seras, scared of a couple of germs?" a few of the militia members laughed nervously, still clutching their spears or bows in case it really was some monster.

"N…no sir." The Earth pony named Seras put on a brave face and shook her head, not wanting to look weak to the members of the militia. They had treated her like family ever since she had joined in, and she wanted to do her best.

"Good," the Pegasus looked back toward the rest of the ponies. "Stay calm, if it was a disease that caused this than the town ponies would have gotten together into a place that could hold them all until somepony sent for help, we should fan out and check the barns."

The ponies broke up into groups of three or four and began to move toward various destinations. Seras turned toward the leader and spoke up. "What about the church nearby, they might have gone there, right Horas?"

Despite not having an official religion in the kingdom many ponies choose to worship Celestia and Luna as if they were deities. Despite protests by the two sisters at having themselves be the focus of any sort of worship like that there were still communities that would form Churches were tales of the two sisters and various other beings were spoken of and prayed too.

"Hm, yeah that makes sense," the Horas gave the mare a smile. "Quick thinking there Seras, hey Phi!" he turned and shouted toward a nearby Unicorn. "We are going to go check the Church, come with us."

The Unicorn gave a mock salute and smiled, walking over toward them. "Sir yes Sir" he said with a wink toward Seras. Phil had always been known as a bit of a joker in the group, never really taking things to seriously. He always bemoaned their actually existence as a militia and always said they should be doing something more useful than training all day.

The three of them made their way toward the Church, a large building with a painted sun and moon on the front. It might have once been beautiful, but now the two were crossed out by two X's that appeared to be made of blood. "Form up" the Peagsus said, taking a firm hold of his spear as he moved toward the doors.

Phil lost his usual smile and set his horn to glow, ready to cast a shield or attack spell as needed. "Right"

"Roger" Seras took her bow and an arrow off her back, placing the fletching and string in her mouth and using a hoof to keep the body steady, moving forward steadily. She hadn't gotten her cutie mark in archery by accident, and she could run a mile holding this stance.

The Horas opened the door, ready for whatever lay on the other side.

"What's taking those other slackers so long." a Unicorn groaned from inside of the tent that had been set up to act as the base of operations. Ever since being forced to leave Canterlot guard duty to go train a bunch of thick headed ponies outside of the castle gates he had bemoaned his misfortune, wondering just what he had done to be forced to leave the luxury and comfort of the castle to be sent out into the ass backward towns outside of it.

"Sir, we have a large group of ponies approaching." one of the ponies from outside called in to him.

'About time'. He thought to himself before exiting the tent, expecting to see a group of tired ponies who had been marching all day.

However his expectations were proven wrong, as the group outside wasn't the militia at all. Instead it was a group of almost fifty ponies, all wearing red sashes and carrying finely crafted weapons and armors. On each sash an insignia of a shield with the name 'Hellsing' at the top of them. Arriving with the group of ponies was a small carriage pulled by two very strong and heavily armored stallions. The first to exit the carriage was an older Earth pony stallion who wore a neat suit over his silver fur, and a small monocle over his left eye and his mane was tied back in a small ponytail. He lowered the steps of the carriage and moved out of the way while another figure moved out.

The other pony that stepped out was a female Pegasus with blonde fur and a pair of glasses over her eyes. Her face held a deep frown as she starred down the militia leaders and their guards. "Where are the rest of your number?" she asked, almost as if she was commanding them.

"Why the rutting hell should I tell you?" the commander asked, walking over toward the Peagsus with a scowl that matched her own.

The older stallion began to step forward, but the Pegasus held up her hoof in order for him to pause. "I am Sir Integra Fairbrook Wingates Hellsing, leader of the Hellsing organization which works under the direct eyes of Queens of Equestria. I will ask again and you will answer me soldier, or I will have you thrown into the dungeons for insubordination. Where are your men?" each word she spoke had a cold intensity to it.

The commander froze at the sound of Integra's voice. The last time he had felt so much control and power in a voice had been his drill instructor, a man who had fought against dragons and lived to tell the tale about it with only the most minor of scars. And yet this Peagsus had managed to make his drill instructor sound like a scolding parent with the intensity of her words. "I sent them to investigate the town Sir!" he almost threw up a salute to the woman, only barely stopping himself from doing so.

"You damn bloody fools." she whispered under her breath before moving past him into the tent, followed close behind by the old stallion.

"Whats going on here?" the Unicorn asked after following them in. "What's Hellsing, why are you and your organization here?"

Integra walked over to the map on the ground, sitting only once the older stallion placed a soft pillow for her to rest upon. "Tell me Commander…" she waited for him to add his name.

"Wildbuck." The Unicorn added in.

"Commander Wildbuck, have you ever heard of a creature known as a vampire?" the Peagsus looked at the map, not bothering to look up at the expression on the other ponies face. The older stallion pulled out a small pipe from the pocket of his coat, loading it up with tobacco and offering it to the woman. She took it with a nod and the stallion struck a match to light it for her.

"Vampires?" the Unicorn shook his head. "You mean the old legends ponies tell to scare colts and fillys at campfires?"

The Peagsus looked up; a serious and dark look on her face. "I can assure you Commander that these creatures are no legend, they are a very real fact of life. And if your ponies are in that town" she sighed and took a long drag from the pipe. "Then they are already dead." The Pegasus sighed and looked back at the map. "Or worse"

A stallion slowly moved through the forest with a dark smile on his face, pausing for a moment to look up at the moon, which was full and casting its light onto the world with all its glory. The pony wore a wide brimmed red fedora and a black and red coat which rode loosely on his back. His eyes were covered by a pair of round orange glasses. Where he walked it seemed the darkness of the forest grew even deeper, and the shadows of the trees disappeared into the singular blackness that followed the pony around.

"A beautiful night like this makes me hungry…" he gave himself a self-satisfied grin before continuing down the forest path.

"…for a drink." He laughed and continued toward Cheddar. He did after all have orders to follow.

"What the buck!" Phil almost fell back as the door opened, revealing countless dead ponies lying in the Church, blood staining almost every wall and stone on the floor. Standing at the front of the Church was an Earth pony with a grin plastered on his face, white and grey fur pepper across his body and a scarf tied around his neck.

"Watch your language! Don't you know you are in a house of the Gods?" the stallion chuckled to himself under his breath, watching the group of three. "I see that more ponies have found their way to our little town, to join us" the stallion stomped and the bodies of the dead began to rise. Most of them had chunked ripped off their bodies, some even still bled from their wounds. However their blood was black as tar, and their eyes were glassed over.

The Peagsus was the first to act, stabbing one of the undead ponies that charged them, running it through. However the undead pony didn't stop its attack, instead it simply pushed its body forward through the spear and bit down hard on the flesh of the Peagsus, summoning a scream from the winged pony.

Seras quickly launched a volley of arrows, however the undead ponies didn't even seem to flinch as the bolts pierced their skin.

"Run!" Phil pushed Seras away and began to launch bolts of magic toward the creatures.

"But what about you?" Seras asked, feeling tears come to her eyes. She had already lost one family, she didn't want to lose another one.

"I will be fine, I didn't spend all those days training just to be taken down by some weird creatures" his voice was confident despite his body shaking.

Seras bit back a cry and nodded, running out of the town. Everywhere she ran seemed to have more of those creatures, attacking the other militia members who did their best to fight back. It was an absolute slaughter, blood and other gore littered the ground around her as the beasts ripping into and bit off chunks of her friends. What horrified her most through was those who weren't devoured utterly actually stood up and joined with the hoard, devouring any living pony around them.

"This has to be a nightmare, this is just a nightmare" Seras spoke to herself as she kept running, forcing the tears down so they wouldn't blind her as she ran. She wanted to wake up in the militia house with all her friends, hug Phil and tell him that he was amazing, joke around with the Commander Wildbuck and be with her friends. But she knew that this insanity wasn't a nightmare, and she kept running as fast as she could.

"Why a vampire kills another creature with high intelligence it will eventually become a ghoul, unless said creature is a virgin, in which case the vampire will create another one of its kind, though I have my doubts this one would make another of its kind" Integra let out a stream of smoke from her mouth and allowed the stallion next to her to take it to refill it. "Thank you Walter" the stallion nodded a bit. "As I was saying a ghoul is the body of a non-virgin killed by a vampire, you might think of them as zombies, it's a decent enough analogy for them. They are fast, strong, durable, and can't be killed by normal weapons or magic." Walter placed the pipe back down for Integra to place in her mouth. "The vampire is most likely trying to build an army of the dead, using this town as a starting point"

The Wildbuck had gone pale at the idea of all of the ponies under his command being slaughtered by the monster Integra had been describing to him, feeling the weight of each death on his back. "What do we do?" he asked, for the first time in his career he was unsure about what to do.

"You and your remaining ponies should stay here and wait it out with my forces, I already have a highly trained operative in the area that will take care of the problem" she blew out a thin stream of smoke.

The Wildbuck blinked. "Only a single pony to face that monster, are you insane?!" After the dire warnings the Peagsus had given he couldn't believe she would send a single pony in to fight the beast.

A small grin formed on Integra's face. "Did I ever say this agent was a pony?"

Seras continued to run through the forest, trying her best to avoid tripping or falling in the unfamiliar area. Eventually she reached a large clearing in the forest, an area that must have been chopped down to make materials for the houses. Before she could continue running however she saw the undead townfol,k some carrying weapons and others wielding farming equipment, start coming out of forest surroundings, trapping her in a circle of the undead.

"A valiant effort, you should be commended for managing to make it so far" the priest from the church in the town made his way past the living dead and toward her.

Seras quickly fired an arrow toward him. "Stay back!" she shouted.

The priest caught the arrow between his teeth, which looked to be pointed like dragons teeth rather than the usual flatness of a normal ponies teeth. The stallion bit down and broke the arrow with a laugh. "Honestly you mortals do amuse me so" he moved so quickly that Seras couldn't hope to keep up, moving behind her and putting a hoof around her neck. "You smell quite delicious you know" the priest ran his tongue along the Seras's neck. "Virgin blood always does taste the best, but I am afraid that I can't have you turning after I am done" he began to run his back hoof against hers with a chuckle. "I think I will rape you first, then drain you dry and turn you into a good little ghoul"

The young militia member tried to keep a brave face on, despite what this monster was suggesting he would do to her. She knew that none of the others would lose their nerve at this, and she wouldn't let herself. Celestia help me. She thought quietly to herself.

Suddenly a small group of the undead exploded into gysers of blood and guts as a pony dressed in a red coat and hat made his way into the clearing. "Well what do we have here?" he asked himself. "A halfcocked vampire and an army of ghouls." The pony shook his head. "It would be funny if it weren't so pathetic"

The priest glared at the newly arrived pony. "And just who the hell are you?" the vampire demanded.

The black furred pony tilted his head to the side. "I am your death"

The vampire priest laughed loudly and mockingly. "My death, really?" he shook his head. "Pathetic, kill him!" he demanded of his ghoul army.

The army obeyed, lobbing swords, spears, arrows, rocks, and anything they could find at the pony. Each one hit, the red covered stallion didn't even try to dodge. Each blow rang out a laugh, despite the blood pooling around him and the guts that spilled from his open wounds. His laughing was only silence when a spear went through his throat, and even then a sort of chocking noise could be heard. After almost a full minute of attack the pony finally fell over, not moving.

"Hm, who's pathetic now?" the preist said with a hint of satisfaction in his tone, breaking out into a loud laugh.

Seras looked at the dead body, horror at the brutal death shocking her to the very core. What had the pony even been trying to do?

The moon came over the clearing, filling the area with its light. It was under this light that the vampire and Seras both noticed the blood on the ground was starting to move. Both the blood of the fallen body and that dripping from the ghouls, and even blood that seemed to come straight from the city to mix together in a giant pool under the dead body, before flowing into it. The body exploded into thousands of bats, swirling around like a vortex before disappearing all at once, leaving the red suited pony with a grin on his face. "Where were we?"

"Your agent is a vampire?" Wildbuck asked, shocked by the very idea. She had just gone on explaining how vampires were the ultimate evil, and yet she had one under her employ? What sort of madness was going on here?

Integra nodded with a small laugh. "Yes, normal creatures make poor vampire hunters, after all they are frail, weak, corruptible on all levels, and they can't be turned into weapons by our enemies. The only real defense against a vampire is an even more powerful vampire" she allowed Walter to take the empty pipe out of her mouth. "The Hellsing organization employees one such creature, and I assure you, he has more power than any other vampire on this planet."

The red wearing pony removed his hat and tossed it to the side, revealing a white horn atop his head, once which glowed red as it slowly removed something under its coat. A long and beautiful crafted silver sword, a jewel at its hilt that glowed with the same color as the midday sun. Along its body the words 'Hellsing: Excalibur' on one side, and the other had the words 'Disgraced dead rest.' He pointed the blade toward the priest and from its tip a small orb of fire appeared, launching forth a beam that caused one of the ghouls to explode in a geyser of blood and bones. He continued this attacking, swinging the sword around him and aiming its shots to kill the army of ghouls the vampire had assembled without breaking a sweat. Whenever one got close he would slash through it with the actual blade, which caused the undead creature to explode into dust.

"How…" the vampire priest began to shake and tried to back away, bring Seras with him. "How can he be killing them…its…its that sword!" he looked at the weapon being used by the Unicorn with pure fear in his eyes.

The Unicorn looked toward the priest with a grin, revealing the same row of sharp teeth the priest had. "A sacred statue from the first castle of Equestria, melted in fire taken from the sun and forged into a blade blessed by Celestia, Luna, and a number of other powerful forces of light. At its base lies the core of a dragon, compressed and ever burning to provide it with even more power. Whatever is struck by this sword shall never rise again" he gave the vampire a mocking grin. "Care to find out first hand?"

The priest shook his head. "Why…why fight for these pathetic mortals when you are a God?" he pulled Seras up to shield himself. "Move another step and I will kill her, I swear I will!"

The Unicorn looked at Seras for a moment. "Tell me girl, are you a virgin?"

Seras's face turned a shade of deep red. "What!?" she asked. She might be in a horrid position but she still had some decency.

"You bastard!" the priest caught onto the other vampires plan immediately, his cold body shaking in terror.

"Answer the question!" he demanded.

"Yes, I am!" Seras answered, closing her eyes and feeling the blood flow to her face, still having the good grace to be embarrassed by such a question.

The Unicorn sent his blade flying forward and ran through Seras, striking the vampire in the heart and forcing him to let go. Before the priest could make any other action he moved forward and ran his horn into the vampire priests chest, sending out a burst of magic and destroying its entire body, reducing it to ash. "Hardly worth the effort" he muttered to himself before walking over to the fallen Seras.

"Help…me…" Seras felt her vision start to fade as blood slowly pooled spilled out of her body. "..I…I don't want to die"

The Unicorn leaned down to her level, putting a hood against her face and turning it to look at him. "Are you sure about that?" he asked in a kind tone.

Seras had enough strength left to nod her head before passing out.

"Very well" the vampire lowered his head to her neck and opened his mouth wide, sinking his fangs into her neck and slowly drinking in the blood that came out of it. He let go once he had taken enough and moved her onto his back, walking back toward the basecamp.

Integra waited at the edge of the woods with Walter standing next to her, a coat over her body to give her comfort from the nights chill.

Finally the vampire came into view, walking out of the forest with another pony on his back. "My Mistress" he said with a nod of his head, dropping the girl off before them.

Integra looked down at Seras, noticing the bite mark and the now sharpened teeth. "Is that…" she shook her head. "Alucard, why would you do something like this?"

He smiled gently and shook his head. "She wanted to live, it was her own choice"

Integra sighed and turned toward Walter. "Load her up and confirm identity with the Commander, I will start working on a cover story and maybe this debacle won't ruin years of hard work" she sighed and turned around to move toward her carriage, sparing a moment to look back at the now immortal girl. "Luna help you girl, for no one else can now" she moved into her carriage and gave her orders to return home.

There was still more work to be done.