Author's Note: So here is my new story, I hope you like it :) It's insanely long compared to my previous chapters, almost 5000 words long! Also expect quite a few elements that were in the story Seras 2066. I read it a few weeks ago and it made a huge impact on me, but it was last updated 2 years ago, so I thought I may use stuff from it. As I said above, this is a really long chapter, at least for me, and I'll try to stick to this. Naturally this means that there is going to be less updates maybe one in 1 or 2 weeks.
Anyway, as I said, please enjoy! I hope to get at least 5 reviews before I post the next chapter :D
"The future starts today, not tomorrow."
― John Paul II
The room was dark since all the lamps were out. Of course they were out it was night after all. There was no sound to be heard, absolute silence. The walls, ceiling and floor were painted to perfect white, there were only a few colored lines on the floor which showed directions. The room was full with glass display cabinets. All of them hold one old piece from the Under-City.
One of the walls was a big window, you could see the starry sky. There wasn't a cloud.
Suddenly small footsteps broke the perfect silence of the room. They were hard to hear, but from their rate you could guess that whoever was making this noise was running. A little beep sound could be heard as the doors locks unlocked and the big metal door slid open. There was light flowing into the big room from the corridor. A small figure stood in the doorframe. For a few seconds it just stood there, probably letting it's eyes to adjust to the blackness of the room.
All of a sudden another pair of feet made their presence obvious. The strange little shadow turned it's head in the direction the noise of heavy boots came from, then in haste entered the room. The door closed behind the figure.
It was a girl. About the age of 9 with blonde hair. She wore a t-shirt and a pair of jeans. On her feet were a pair of sneakers. She also had a big pair of glasses on her nose. She ran uncertain in the darkness and she looked around. She was obviously searching for something. Then her eyes fixed on something.
There was one thing that just arrived a few days ago, and it still wasn't in it's correct cabinet. It was a heavy looking coffin. It's surface was pure black with only a cross on the top of it. There was no opening on it, it looked like it was made out from one piece of metal. However there was a corpse in it, thats was sure. The archeologists and the other science people made all kind of tests on it as far as she knew. They found out that this coffin had to be at least 1000 years old, and that there was a girl inside it. The corpse was in fairly good condition considering it's age. They didn't dare to open it, because from the new air rushing into the coffin could easily damage the girl's body inside it and make any more research impossible. So they just let it be like that. She heard that the last research team found it in the depths of the Hellsing mansion inside like a dungeon. It was inside a room with all kind of runes on the walls.
This coffin was lying on a table-like hovering plate. It looked like surfboard, and was covered with a cloth like material. The material's color was light silver and metal. The little girl crawled under the board and the material. She sat there in dead silence.
After a few seconds the doors lock could be heard again, and light flowed into the room again. She couldn't make anything out from the room, since the material on the table that covered here wasn't transparent. The sound of footsteps became louder and louder as the intruder got closer to her hiding spot.
"Come on out girl! There is no reason to hide! I'LL FIND YOU!" yelled the intruder, who was male. The girl couldn't see but this man had pretty bad clothing on him. He looked like a hobo. Normally he wouldn't be a treat but the machine gun in his hands helped in making him look dangerous. His black wet hair was in his eyes, which was going from left to right and back really quickly. There was a hint of madness in his eyes.
He was steadily coming closer to the girl's hiding spot, smashing every single cabinet that was near him. The ground was quickly covered with broken glass, a few even found it's way to the girl's legs.
The intruder stood now right next to the coffing. He wasn't moving for some reason.
"I'm going to die here. That's it.." - thought the little girl and a tear found it's way to her eyes and flowed down her cheeks.
"So you are hiding here, don't you?" said the man with a far too calm voice. He raised his machine gun and shot at the coffin.
The top of the coffin shattered where the bullets penetrated it's surface. The corpse could be seen through the holes now.
"Hm, I guess not. But have no doubt girl! I'LL FIND YOU!" - shouted the madman again with a laughter. And so he continued walking away from the girl's hiding spot and into the darkness of the room.
When the little girl couldn't hear his footsteps anymore, let out a sigh.- "Okay, it's time to get the hell out from here" she thought and climbed out from under the table. As she searched for something to grab to and help her stand up, she accidently grabbed the edge of one of the shattered glass cabinets. She hissed as she saw her blood run down her palm and then smash to the floor.
She stood up and wanted to go away from this crazy asshole, but couldn't help, she had to look into the coffin. She saw the girl, who could be about 20-23 maybe when she was living. Too bad right now she wasn't more than skin and little girl didn't notice but her accidently splattered on the corpse.
After a few seconds of admiring a dead woman, she turned around and began sneaking to the exit. However she forgot about the shattered glass on the floor. Her breath stopped when she stepped accidently on a piece glass. It shattered under her feet, and the usually quiet noise was like a cannon shot in the silence.
"THERE YOU ARE!" she heard and she knew that her life is just about to end. She turned around and saw the insane man running to her just 20 meters away.
Seras woke up. Well at least her mind did, since her body was still like a skeleton laying inside her coffin. She was sealed away a long time ago by Integra. The Council ordered her to do it, so Seras didn't blame her. There weren't any vampire sighting since years when this command came in. Seras was already a full vampire by that time since Alucard offered her his blood. With that she was able to survive almost anything and become the No-Life Queen. And now she was lying inside a piece of metal with a nonfunctional body. Pretty ironic.
"I wonder what woke me up..." she thought and tried to listen to her surroundings. She heard voices outside. This surprised her since the seals of her chamber should have been able to prevent anyone to enter. Well, the probably damaged it somehow. She listened to the voices more carefully and found out that there was at least one male and one female in her chamber. However she couldn't understand that they carried out the following discussion.
"Hey, Emma, look what I found!"
"What is it?"
"I think it's some kind of coffin. It has to be at least a 1000 years old!"
"Really? Let me see it." The woman kneeled next to the coffin and began to examine it. - "Hm, it looks to be stainless steel. Nobody uses that anymore. To be honest I didn't see any in use in my whole life. We learned about it only in school."
"There is some kind of writing on the top too. But I can't read it, it must be some kind of ancient curse or something." said the man with a chuckle. - "We found similar writings on other rock boards that were placed into the ground. I think they are called gravestones."
"Yeah...hey Nick I can't find any way to open this."
"What? Thats strange."
"Yep, it looks like it was made from one piece. I wonder if there is a corpse inside, and if there is, how did it get inside. The molecular soldering isn't as old as this coffin so they couldn't use it."
"Okay, then lets take it back to the labor." the woman nodded hearing this and both of them backed up letting the workers do their job.
Seras felt as her coffin lifted and was moved elsewhere. She heard as the coffin was placed on some kind of floor, and then the floor moved with her. It was probably some kind of vehicle, maybe a heli. She began to feel the thirst but couldn't do anything. She was too weak. So she just let her mind drift back to dreamland.
When she awoke again, she heard the same voices as before. But this time there was a loud buzzing too, like some kind of heavy machine. She still didn't understand a word what they said, so she let herself sleep again.
This time there was silence when she awoke. She wondered what woke her up, but then heard a hiss and then footsteps. She heard the rapid breathing, and it was unmistakable. It was a girl that was running. And she was running in her direction!
She heard her panting and then Seras was surprised when the source of the noise moved under her! Was she on some kind of table? That would explain it. The girl under her tried to remain silent as Seras heard the hiss again and other footsteps. These footsteps were heavy, probably a male.
Seras heard the man shout something that scared the girl under her. "This isn't right, the man is going to hurt her. I can't let that happen."- thought Seras and decided that if she gets the chance, she'll defend this girl from the man.
In the meantime the man got close to her coffin. He was standing right next to her and yelled out something. He was happy. And then he shot her! Seras felt as a few bullets pierced through her skin and almost hit the little girl below her! "Okay, thats it. I'm going to kill this guy."
After that the man left them, and the little girl crawled out from her hiding spot. Suddenly she cut herself! Seras could feel the drag of the blood. "Come to me girl! Help me!" she thought and tried to influence her. Surprisingly she managed doing it even in this weak body.
The girl leaned over her and unconsciously dropped a bit of blood inside her mouth. Seras felt as her body finally began to wake up. Life got back to that little muscles that she still had and her eyeballs began forming. Soon she could see the ceiling above her, which was plain white. She also saw the girl standing not far away from her. She had blond hair what she weared in a ponytail. The girl began walking away when she stepped on a piece of glass.
"Oh crap." - thought Seras and tried to hurry with her regeneration.
"Well Elita, it looks like I found you." said the man with a wide grin and took out a big machete. Elita closed her eyes and waited for the impact and her death. When it didn't come as expected she opened her eyes.
"What the fuck?!" - shouted the hobo. There was the corpse standing in front of him and was holding his hand. It's grab was like iron, there was no way he could move his hand. The corpse was completely nude and it's head was looking at it's feet.
Then it slowly lifted it's head and opened it's eyes. They were red and glowing in the darkness. He saw pure hunger in those eyes.
"Let me go you son of a bitch!"
Seras lifted her other hand and grabbed the man's neck. And lifted him! Both the man and Elita were shocked by this. Seras kept looking at the man, and slowly a grin creeped on her mouth. The man was terrified and began kicking her with all his strength but Seras didn't even react to that. She merely felt anything.
Then with untraceable speed she moved the man to her mouth and positioned his neck comfortable to her fangs. Then she bit down. The man cried out in pain as his blood shot into Seras mouth and down her throat. She felt the power rushing through her veins.
Elita couldn't move. She was petrified, but then luckily her instincts kicked in and began running away from that monster as quickly as she could.
"Why is she running away? I just saved her life..." - thought Seras while sucking out the guys soul. Then she just let it drop to the ground with a loud splat. - "Nice place. What is this a museum?" looked around Seras as she saw all the broken glass cabinets with the different things inside it. She saw a few familiar ones but others were unknown to her.
"Hm, I will need more blood. I'm feeling hungry already. Maybe that girl will get me more people..." thought Seras and hid in the shadows. And she was right.
"MARK! MARK!" cried out loudly Elita as she ran down the corridor. She knew her uncle was nearby, he was one of the soldiers here.
"ELITA! Whats wrong? Did you get hurt?" asked Mark when he found her around the corner shouting for him.
"No, but I saw a monster." said Elita as she held her tears. Her uncle barely understood what she said.
"A monster, my dear? Where?" asked Mark. He thought that she is speaking from one of the intruders. They attacked the building for no apparent reason, they just started to kill everybody. Unluckily Elita was on a school trip in the museum right now and they got attacked too. At the moment the Elita was the only survival.
"In that room!" answered Elita and pointed at a big door that led into one of the bigger rooms of the museum.
"I see. Okay Elita stay here please. Guys, lets go, and check out this monster!" said Mark and moved with his squad to the door. The door hissed again, the slid away to reveal the big and first of all dark room.
"People, flashlights on!"
They began moving into the room in a V formation and scanning the area. Soon they reached the body of the hobo. Elita's uncle kneeled down next to it and checked it out.
"He's dead. And all his blood is missing."
"Boss, where is Stanley?" asked one of the soldiers.
"He was right next to you, wasn't he?" spoke another soldier.
"Yeah, but he isn't anymore..." said the first soldier with fear in his voice.
Seras grinned when she heard the opening of the door again. She knew that dinner arrived. She was not far away from the opening next to a bigger, untouched display cabinet. There were old swords inside it. She watched as four men walked through. They were organised, and had some kind of teamplay between them.
"So they are actual soldiers not like that ass before." she thought and waited for the perfect possibility to attack one of them.
The soldiers wore a dark brown uniform which was padded. Looked a bit like the riot cop's uniform. They also had a white helmet what covered their whole face. In their hands were machine guns, but Seras couldn't tell what kind of. It looked pretty modern to say the least.
"They are going to the body. Good, their formation is going to break up." and it did indeed.
One of the soldiers was just a little bit more behind the others and so he was outside their vision. It was the perfect opportunity. Seras ran to him without making a noise. She stabbed his hand through the soldier's throat like some of spear. Because of this the soldier couldn't make any noise, so she could just simply pick him up and run away back into the shadows. That soldier met the same destiny as the hobo before him. Seras was already finished when his squadmates noticed his absence.
"Guys, get back to defensive formation! It looks like the intruder is still alive." said Mark. And so reformed all of them back-to-back to each other, forming a triangle. -"Come out, you have no chance!"
The soldiers repositioned themselves into a much less vulnerable formation.
"Clever"- she thought. Then she heard as one of the soldiers shout something into the darkness. Too bad she didn't understand a word.- "Well, there is no need to understand what the prey says, right?"
"Okay guys, we are going to start clearing this room out. Everybody start moving forward." and they did, creating a steadily growing free place between each other. They wouldn't have thought that someone can attack them from behind.
"Hm, they aren't that clever after all..." Seras thought as she got ready to jump up. She landed right in the middle of that free place that they just created. She considered the situation she was in. - "Okay, so there is three of them. But I have only two hands...Well, lets hope they aren't using any silver or blessed ammunition. I got to move quickly."
She turned to one of the soldiers and crouched a bit. Her hand went sideways right through the man's kneecaps. The soldier naturally cried out in pain and collapsed to the ground with a mixture of surprise and intense pain on his face. The captain turned around and began shooting blindly. It was a miracle that he didn't hit any of his men. Unfortunately for him neither Seras, who was much faster than them and grabbed the other soldier, who first spoke, and dragged him away into the darkness with her supernatural speed. She ran with the man to one of the corners of the room and bit down on his neck. His roaring quickly faded to moaning and then a faint sight was the last thing that left his mouth. Seras left him half-ways sitting next to the wall and began walking back to remaining soldiers.
Mark was horrified when he saw that that thing just grabbed one of his men and dragged it into the darkness with itself. He knew that it will come back for them, so he had to be ready, but there was his other still living squadmate who just lost his legs. He first had to take care of his injured squadmate before starting to search for his other one. So he kneeled besides him and started to heal the injury. He took out two syringes and injected one in each of his legs. The bleeding stopped shortly. He couldn't do anything else for him now.
That's when he heard his other squadmate roaring and then nothing more. He knew that he is dead, and the monster is coming for them now. He had nothing to lose so he started peppering the darkness with bullets.
Seras was half-way back to the remaining soldiers when the first bullets hit her. She was a bit surprised and jumped into cover. A strange feeling began creeping up her spine, and she knew exactly what it was. It was the thrill that she felt while fighting, the lust for violence and blood. She grinned madly and decided to get around this fool soldier. Not that the bullets could have done any harm to her, she just wanted to see the fear in his eyes when she appears next to him.
She crawled left, out of line of sight while remaining in the cover that the other cabinets provided. She passed a few old wallets that were lying on the ground and even a walking stick! It looked old, too old, but after all she was old too thought Seras with a smile.
She was now on the right side of the soldiers, between them and the only known exit. They didn't see her yet, she was the child of the night after all. She made herself upend and began walking to the standing soldier who was changing his clip at the moment. Seras glanced at the other soldier too, who won't walk for a long time now. He passed out, "no wonder" thought Seras "they aren't professional soldiers just some kind of security agency or something similar. I think..."
She went right to his ears while swaying her hips and leaned really close., and whispered:
"Hello, sweetheart." with a wide grin.
The soldier almost jumped out from his skin, but Seras had to admit that he reacted quite quickly. He planted his gun's shoulder support not too firmly into Seras firm face, smashing her jaw in the process. A big spurt of blood landed on the ground. But she didn't fall, but looked back at him! She should have almost passed out by such a hit, but she didn't even shake.
She tilted her head backwards a bit when she turned back at him and grinned insanely. Then said : "It's my turn!" of course Mark couldn't understand this, however he felt the fist that almost ripped through his stomach and sent him flying backwards. He lost his grip on his gun and so did he lost his only lightsource too.
Seras looked down at the footless and unconscious soldier and licked her lips.
Mark panicked. He met with one of the deadliest creatures he knew about and he even lost his flashlight! He looked around in hope of finding it, and indeed he did, but it lay far too close to that female monster. So he tried to call out for backup through his helmet which had a built-in radio in it. Then he heard the loud gulping from the direction of the monster and knew that he was alone. But he can't let that thing get to Elita, no way. He has to defend her with his last breath. He pulled out his handgun and loaded it with silver ammunition. If he has to go down, he won't give his life easy.
As Seras finished with her last meal, she felt lightheaded. All that blood at once made her a bit drunken. She searched for the so called captain of this pathetic team and found him right where she tossed him. A smile suffused her face again and walked to him.
Her bare foot was the only sound ,apart from Mark's wheezing, in the room as it touched the metal floor. Blood dropped from her petite hands and from her mouth.
She was, again, surprised when shots hit her from the captain's direction. And not even simple bullets but silver ones! This was the last straw. Luckily they went right through her, so it wasn't that bad after all, but they still burnt like hell. But then he was out.
Mark heard the footsteps of the monster coming ever so closer to him, he didn't have a choice so he risked everything and fired into the darkness. A growl told him that he indeed hit her, but the footsteps didn't die off! He panicked but he knew that he was out of options.
He heard a low hiss and saw light casted from behind the monster which was now standing right before him. It was a girl! She could be about 20 maybe 25. She reached down and grabbed his throat, he couldn't breath properly anymore. Her grip was like iron! The next interesting thing was when she casually lifted him off the ground and held him in the air above her. She was beautiful, too bad she was covered in blood and was about to kill him.
"Well, that's the end of my tale, isn't it?" he thought.
Then he heard gun shots behind the monster.
Seras was holding this foolish man high above him and examined him. Something was different about this one, but she couldn't really tell. Then bullets hit her back. It was silver again!
"FOR FUCKS SAKE!" she yelled and turned around with Mark still in her hand.
The little girl was standing there.
Elita didn't know what to do. She was behind the door and heard the screams and the shooting. She knew that fleeing would be the best choice but she couldn't leave without knowing that his uncle was alright. After all he was her only family left.
So when she heard no more shouting and shooting, she opened the door. What she saw inside, horrified her. Blood on the ground and one of Mark's man in the middle of it. She also saw other blood strains leading to some dark corner in the room with probably other soldiers. Then she saw the monster, the woman that saved her life before, walking towards Mark! She had to do something or she would lose him. This was certain.
She didn't have time to think, so she ran as quietly as she could to the fallen soldier with the destroyed legs, and grabbed the only weapon that she could hold, his pistol. When she looked up, she saw that that thing was holding his uncle up in the air by one hand. She didn't have more time, so she pulled the trigger. Elita was surprised by the knockback of the weapon and almost dropped it, but she had to keep shooting, and she did. Her clip was quickly empty.
She heard the monster yell out something that she didn't understand, but from the tone she knew that it definitely wasn't a 'Thank you'. She saw the red eyes of the monster staring at her and her knees began shaking. But she held the gun pointing at her, she couldn't let her know that she was empty.
"Let my...my...DAD GO!" Elita cried out in a high-pitched voice. She felt as a tear began it's journey down her cheek. The thing turned it's head sideways like some birds, it looked like it understood something.
"Dad?" asked the monster. It didn't sound like a monster, Elita thought, it was like any woman she ever met. Elita just nodded her head, it was an universal code.
The creature turned it's head back to Mark who was still hanging mid-air. Then she began lowering her hand, and held Mark close to her. Elita knew, she can't do anything, that she was watching the death of her uncle. Even after telling a lie, that Mark was her father, even this didn't stop this soulless monster from taking him away from her.
But the thing did something strange. She licked his cheek! She licked a bit of his blood with her long tongue what apparently came from a small wound on Mark's face. He didn't even realize that he was injured. The creature savored the blood, and then spoke out loud.
(I'm using hungarian to represent how Elita or Mark didn't understand Seras)
"Hm..egy Hellsing. Érdekes...de a lelked nem erős. Csupán egy halovány másolata az igazi Hellsingnek. Nem érdemled meg hogy éljél...de ez a kislány viszont igen. Az ő lelke erős, majdnem annyira mint Integráé. Azért hagylak életben hogy felneveld ezt a gyereket." - said the monster and put Mark on the ground.
(English translation since I suspect that not everybody speaks hungarian here: "Hm...a Hellsing. Interesting...but your soul isn't strong. You are just a pale copy of a true Hellsing. You don't deserve to live...but this girl does. Her soul is strong almost as much as Integra's. I'm leaving you alive to bring up this kid.")
Mark gasped for air and crawled to Elita. When he arrived he hugged her and turned his head towards Seras with a determined face. Seras knew that he would fight till his last breath to save the girl. Good. Seras looked at the girl, not grinning anymore and opened a mental link.
"I'm looking forward for the next meeting, Elita." said Seras through her mental link directly to Elita, who gasped at the sudden voice in her head. Seras chuckled, turned around and began walking away from them to the wall. When she reached it, she simply walked through it, like it wouldn't even be there. Too bad that nothing was on the other side of the wall either.
Seras began falling down with a surprised look on her face. She had to be at least several miles high in the air. She looked back up, and saw that till now she was in some kind of gigantic white ring that was connected to other white spheres in the air. The whole thing sat on huge pillars reaching to the ground. She saw several other pillars with miles away from each other, all of them holding parts of this gigantic structure that was above her. Below her was the familiar city of London, only with a lot more light and skyscrapers.
"Oh crap, this is going to hurt." thought Seras as she banged into the ground cutting a car in half and creating a little crater around herself. The only thing that was inside the crater was a pile of black goo.
