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Author's comments at the end.
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Hellsing headquarters had suffered another supernatural attack. As expected, only the key personnel survived. The regular human forces were not expected to be a threat to the enemy and therefore Hellsing hadn't really lost power in their absence, yet the pride of Hellsing was hurt. Despite Alucard's apparent invincibility and widespread reputation for the same, the Hellsing mansion was still on red alert just in case some uninformed and eager enemy would see the loss of troops as a vulnerability, and hasten an attack.
Marius was such an enemy to look out for these chances, although she still retained her sensibilities; there was no delusion that her task to destroy Hellsing would be any easier with no security personnel. Rather, it was simply more convenient since there would be less time-consuming human distractions in the way; her real challenge, and the only one worth her attention as far as she was concerned, was Alucard.
She licked her lips in anticipation of the oncoming fight, and motioned her subordinates into position. Through supernatural vision, she could see that that Seres was patrolling at the back of the building and that the butler Walter was in the kitchen making tea. She deployed some of her cannon fodder troops to distract those two while she calculated the best route to the room where Alucard and Integra were having an intense discussion. It couldn't be more perfect.
It did not take long for her to reach her goal. Bursting into the room, she found Integra with an expectant and uninterested look, sitting on a comfortable ornamented chair, and calmly smoking a cigar, and Alucard standing near with a delighted bloodthirsty grin on his face.
"It is highly annoying that my time is taken up teaching manners to unbred swine who don't even know how to knock", said Integra coldly. "Alucard, destroy this riffraff as you see fit."
Always grinning widely whenever Integra appeared to become a violence-loving monster like himself, he acknowledged the order with a "Yes, my master" and released a flurry of bullets. Immediately the frontline of Marius' minions turned to pieces, but she was left relatively unharmed due to her strong regenerative ability.
"Relying on human weapons, oh great Alucard… pathetic", Marius taunted. "Let me remind you of a monster's pride and strength… but I will leave your head intact so you can see your beloved master's last agonizing groans as I slowly tear her apart."
Alucard started laughing. "A monster's pride… I'll have you squealing like a pig, gasping for breath soon enough".
Marius snarled, and threw silver daggers at him. Alucard didn't bother to duck; he could still move easily with them stuck in him.
"Is that all you have, girl…" Alucard smirked, and started to take menacing steps towards her, intending to put on a bloody display.
Marius grinned and snapped her fingers, and suddenly the daggers turned to yellow powder. Alucard was surprised and had a pained expression as the mysterious diagrams on his gloves started smoking. He snarled and collected himself and started taking slow, painful steps towards her with his arms outstretched, but his body had slowed to the point he couldn't avoid the volley of large knives which ended up pinning him against the wall. Now his whole body was smoking, and he was starting to disintegrate into ashes.
Marius chuckled. "Too cocky, damn abomination… you who were uplifted through human incantations deserve this hell. Feel the pain as the effects of those incantations are slowly reversed."
Alucard gave a desperate gasp as his body melted to something unrecognizable.
Marius' laughter resounded down the hallway, and she turned to Integra. "What a pity he didn't survive for a bit longer… I was going to enjoy him powerlessly watching you slowly being tortured. Protestant scum, if you beg for your life, I might let you live for a little while, on display." She laughed loudly again.
Startled and fearful but never the one to give up pride, Integra responded coldly "Never will a member of the honourable Hellsing blood show any regard for the ramblings of monsters, especially those low enough to avoid Hellsing's scrutiny until now". Taking out her pistol, Integra fired at various possible weak points on Marius' body, but to no avail. Throwing her gun away, she gritted her teeth, took out her sword and readied herself to fight the gleeful monster advancing towards her.
Both were distracted as inhuman laughter resounded throughout the room. Slowly the ashes collected into Alucard's form again; first the predatory grin, then the numerous eyes, the red clothing… and pure white gloves.
Overcome by the moment, Marius gasped. "B…but how is this possible? It should have reversed the incantations!"
"It did," replied Alucard, walking menacingly towards her. "I am no longer bound to serve Hellsing."
He grabbed his frightened prey, and tore her to create rivers of blood in the air.
For a moment Integra was visibly surprised, but then collected herself to display a strong, disdainful expression.
Alucard turned to her with a grin, started taking steps in her direction, and said "I suppose we are enemies now."
Integra maintained her cold stare and kept her sword close to her but not in an offensive position. Her breathing had quickened, but she couldn't control it. Usually she could think of appropriate barbed words, but she was caught by conflicting emotions of fear, obligation to an old ally, and heaven knows what else, so nothing came to mind.
Maintaining constant steps, Alucard walked past her and headed to the open window beyond.
Integra breathed out. "Thank you for your hard work" she said, without turning around.
Alucard stopped, acknowledged her by grunting "hm!", and disappeared out the window.
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To be continued???
A/N: This has elements of Alucard x Integra – I really like the way their relationship (I'm referring to the manga). I believe Alucard respects and serves Integra because of her strength (shown in the way she treats enemies when she talks to them, even if she is feeling vulnerable [accidentally showing her shaky hands), which is like him – he's strong, talks down people/monsters. Also, Alucard delights in making Integra into a monster like himself (e.g. him saying he's the one killing but she's the one who orders it), because it shows some desire for unification. Maybe romantic, maybe not. But it involves the fact he accepts Integra as a worthy master, at the very least Alucard respects her.
I think it was mentioned in the manga that Hellsing increased Alucard's power and also bound him to servitude, so I thought it would be possible for only the servitude one to be changed (and I assumed it was connected to the marks on his gloves).
And it was kinda hard thinking up the taunts, since I don't really use them in my daily life. LOL
Well, in this story he didn't kill her Alucard x Integra. XD