DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN ANY OF THOSE CHARACTERS FROM HELLSING AND KINGDOM HEARTS SERIES.
Hearts of Vampires and Humans
Prologue I: The Foreshadowing (Hellsing Part)
Story by: Blue Salamander
The night sky in England was beautiful as always. Stars were twinkling along with the glowing full Moon, and clouds were floating in the sky, giving off some mystical feelings. Darkness was gently covering the sky, letting the tired ones to sleep. However, unfortunately, some were no longer able to rest comfortably. Contrast to the magnificent view in the sky, the ground held a very terrifying scene: a bloody town that had fallen into ruin not long ago.
This town, encompassed by a beautiful forest, was originally a nice, comfortable place. Although it was small, residents had maintained their peaceful rural life. Some visitors had stayed here, either to escape their busy urban life or rest their tired souls. Those warm-hearted people had always welcomed them, and loved to help each other. Happy enthusiastic laughters of children were heard everywhere. Farmers were all diligently working together for their families. It was like a miniature paradise. However, that was all in a past. A single night had been enough to turn this heaven into a hell.
Wooden houses were torn into pieces. The soil was soaked with a puddle of crimson liquid. Crops were all crippled, covered in red. The disgusting smell of blood and rotten fleshes, surrounded by black swarms of flies, were covering the whole area. Livestocks laid cold on the ground, dead. Some of their corpses were brutally ripped, as if they were bitten by a beast of some sort. The happy townspeople were no longer there. They were replaced by miserably ripped corpses and wondering undead dolls that had lost wills of their own, devouring the dead bodies out of their monstrous instinct.
Those monsters were ghouls, creatures turned from non-virgin humans. Other than their survival instincts and urge to eat, they were nothing but living puppets who could only act by their master's orders. Ironically, their master was the one who took their blood away, along with their life and humanity: a vampire, a monster that hides in the darkness to drink blood for sake of its own. Sadly, once humans were turned into ghouls, there was no turning back. The only way to save them was by killing them.
Thankfully, their salvation was coming near.
A crimson-black shadow zipped through the ghouls. As it passed by, it ripped one of the monsters' head off, before it could even notice it. Blood splattered from its severed head. The ghouls turned around, trying to locate their attacker. However, there was no way that mere corpse dolls could follow its movement, or even see its true form.
As the shadow continued its attack, the hideous cries of pain were heard everywhere. However, it didn't stop; it knew their death was its only option to help those miserable lifeforms. Knowing that, the shadow was only targeting either of their fatal spots: hearts and heads. Since ghouls were never turned into what they were by their own will, the shadow was trying to make them rest in peace with a least amount of pain.
As the head of the last ghoul flung in the air, the shadow stopped, finally showing its true form. Surprisingly, it was a girl, wearing a uniform red as blood. She had a appearance of a nineteen-year old girl. However, she was clearly not a human. Not only she had a pale skin, but she also had sharp, beast-like fangs. Also, contrast to her human-like right arm, her left arm was composed of crimson-black, chaotic shadow, dancing under the moonlight as if it had its own life. Her platinum-blond hair was covering her right eye, making her left eye, red as blood, more distinguishable; it was glowing in the darkness.
"Well, well, well, look what we have here: the infamous Draculina who serves as a underdog of Hellsing, Seras Victoria."
The girl, called by the name "Seras Victoria," turned. There was a skinny man, clapping his hands as he walked. There were several silhouettes of humanoid creatures following behind him. The man's glasses shined, along with his pair of glowing demonic red eyes.
"I was hoping for your master, No Life King, to come. He just came back, didn't he?"
He said with a smirk, revealing sharp fangs that only a vampire could have. However, Seras just scoffed at his arrogance.
"Do you think a lesser vampire like you is worthy of facing my master? I am enough to kill a trash like you."
True, Seras was a vampire, but she was far different from the normal ones. Not only she was siding with humans, refusing to suck blood out of living people and make ghouls to serve her, but she was also the servant of the greatest vampire in the history, the No Life King, or the infamous "Dracula." Thirty years ago, when Seras was on the verge of death, her master gave her choice to either to die as a human or to have a second life as a monster. As Seras gave her answer, the No Life King sucked her blood, making her reborn as his servant, a Draculina. Not long after, Nazis, forming a crazy, psychopathic group called Millennium, invaded London, making tremendous amount of casualties and death. The invasion was soon stopped, but her master experienced death, making him disappear for thirty years.
While he was away, Seras took his job of hunting down vampires and ghouls who dared to disrupt the peace of England. Contrast to her master, who didn't care about the living citizens and fought for his own entertainment, Seras was a strange monster who hadn't lost her humanity. She tried her best to save people without getting herself revealed; not only the existance of vampires and ghouls had to be kept as secret, but she also didn't want to scare people. As she did so, training her vampire skills and slaughtering those monsters, her combat skills sharpened day by day.
When her master returned from death recently, he was amazed by how much his servant had developed from a whining little girl to a True Vampire with a warm heart of human. Of course, she was still nothing compared to him, but her diligent effort to save people in the the past thirty years had made Seras one of the strongest vampires in the world. However, even so, the mad vampire did not show any fear facing against her.
"Is that so? You shouldn't be so full of yourself, lap dog of Hellsing!"
He shouted, giving out an evil laughter. However, Seras didn't bother to respond his taunt. Instead, her red eyes studied through the piles of dead bodies, mixed with the dead ghouls she had slain.
"Are you the one causing the sudden increase of ghouls and vampires?" She asked, clenching her fist as she gave him a terrifying glare. Her arms were shaking as she was repressing her anger crawling deep inside her heart. If he was, he was the culprit of current incident Seras was dying to find.
After the Nazi's invasion, except few incidents of vampires and ghouls, nothing strange had happened over these past thirty years. However, recently, the peace was beginning to fall apart as strange events were happening one by one. Ghouls showed sudden increase in numbers, with no sign of a single vampire around. This was impossible since humans couldn't turn into ghouls without a vampire sucking their blood. Also, strangely, even counting the number of ghouls found and slain, there were so many people reported missing. Finally, all the ghouls found were varied in age. Some were too young to be one: like young elementary children. Some were even not older than ten years old. Since only non-virgin humans could be turned into those mindless corpse dolls, this meant only one thing: the vampire was raping victims before sucking their blood.
Seras became extremely furious when she heard this, vowing herself to find and shred that bastard into pieces before the numbers of victims increased. Along with her master, she searched everywhere to find the culprit. However, they had no luck. Wherever they went, the two vampires could only spot ghouls. This was the first time she found a vampire in the attack site.
"A pathetic question just a lap dog of Hellsing would ask, just like your miserable master who serves a human!"
The vampire grinned as he spoke. Hearing the lunatic's disturbing laughter, Seras' eyebrows twitched. It was true that the No Life King was serving a human master, a woman to be precise. However, she had a strong will that never failed to amuse him. Even though she had gotten very old, she was still worthy enough for the two strongest vampires to serve. The woman's name was Integra Fairbrook Wingates Hellsing, the commander of an organization from her family, the Hellsing Organization, which had haunted down monsters like vampires and ghouls over centuries. Ironically, the organization used the King of Vampires and his servant to destroy them. Even so, the two showed no hesitation in following Integra's orders.
The vampire continued, still having that disturbing smug on his face. "Yes… We were the one who turned all the inhabitants of this town into ghouls… I have ordered the ghouls to rape every humans they see. Oh, but I did the honor to do the young ones. It was such a pleasing experience, seeing their despair and fear in their expressions… It was such an epic sight to see!"
"Why you… pig!"
Seras shouted, giving him a dangerous, threatening glare. Her red eyes glowed brighter, shaking violently in fury. Her shadow arm shivered violently, as if it wanted to tear that disgusting vampire into pieces. It was clearly reflecting Seras' own feelings. She clenched her teeth, revealing her sharp, vampiric teeth. Seeing her outrage, the vampire made the typical evil villain laughter that worsened her anger.
"Those ghouls you slaughtered could become a good guinea pig if you haven't showed up. Oh yes, but you are a perfect subject to test out my greatest creations. My master would be pleased if my ultimate creations ripped one of the dogs from Hellsing."
"Guinea pigs? That explains why there were so many missing people. You were doing some kind experiment to the victims, didn't you?" Seras asked with a growl, steadying herself. She was ready to charge at that disgusting vampire in any second. "You are going to tell me everything: your master, your group, and your true motive... Before I crush your body into piles of meat loaves!"
The vampire grinned evilly. "How scary, Seras Victoria. If you are so confident, how about you make me spill the beans by yourself!"
The vampire snapped his fingers. With that, his followers, who were standing behind him for the whole conversation, made their move. They leaped towards the Draculina, but she quickly jumped out of the way, making their attacks useless. As Seras landed, they stood under the the bright full moon. As she took a look at her attackers, Seras' eyes widened, transfixed at them. The silver moonlight revealed their true forms. They were nothing like what she had expected. Those creatures, staring her with pairs of blank, yellow eyes, were definitely not ghouls.
In fact, those looked far from monsters Seras had fought before. Even though they had humanoid figures, their whole bodies were covered in pitch-black darkness, having some crimson hue that resembled the color of blood. Not only that, but they also had sharp claws that no normal ghouls or vampires normally had. However, as the monsters growled, fixing their eyes on to their target, they revealed shark-like teeth, signature figures of vampires and ghouls.
"What's wrong? Fascinated by my ultimate creations?" The vampire man said with an annoying grin. Fixing his glasses, he pointed at Seras. "Now my slaves, rip that Draculina into pieces!"
As soon as the order was given, the creatures rushed towards their enemy. They were surprisingly agile, much more than those modified ghouls Nazis made in the past. The claws of darkness ripped through the air, but Seras made a smart move to retreat, quickly leaping backwards to get out of their attack range. As Seras made on to the ground, her eyes met their glowing yellow eyes.
'What the hell are those? They are surely not ghouls.' She thought, peering at her enemies. 'Are they artificially made beings? Is that man doing what Nazis did thirty years ago?'
Whoa, whoa mignonette, this is not the time to think.
Huh?
Suddenly, one of the creatures charged towards her. It clawed, aiming for her torso. Seras tried to dodge the attack by jumping backwards, but she wasn't fast enough. As the claw left a scratch on her stomach, Seras lightly groaned, but as her shadow momentarily covered her wound, her wound was completely healed—quickly—as if it was never there.
See? This is what you get for not concentrating on what's in front of you.
Seras rolled her eyes at the male's voice, heard from inside her head. I could dodged that attack if you didn't gave a sudden call there, captain. She repiled back by speaking inside her head.
I highly doubt that. The 'captain' replied with a naughty snicker.
Yeah right.
As another monster rushed towards her, trying to bite off her right arm, Seras gave it a nice kick before it could do that. However, the remaining ones were charging at her. With an annoyed growl, Seras transformed her shadow arm into series of whips and lashed against their torso. The monsters were flung away from her and landed with a loud crash. However, seeing them standing up quickly, as if they couldn't feel any pain, Seras swore.
What an earth are them? Seras clenched her teeth in frustration. Any ideas Mr. Bernadotte?
Seras could feel the man, called by the name "Bernadotte," giving a shrug inside her. If you don't know, why do you expect ME to know? I never believed in supernatural beings like vampires or ghouls until I saw you and your master that day.
A smile crept up on her. Ha… You are right.
The man's name was Pip Bernadotte, the only person she directly drunk blood from. Thirty years ago, Bernadotte was killed by a foul Nazi vampire who were specialized in digging into other's memories and showing hallucinations made from them. She showed Seras one of her most tragic memories in her life, making the Nazi vampire to corner her greatly. Seras almost died from her brutal attacks, but before she could get killed, Bernadotte managed to save her. However, in the process, he got fatally wounded. Before he die, he stole her lips and gave her final order: drink his blood so that she could kill that vampire together. Seras complied and drank his blood. With that, Seras, who had been rejecting her vampiric side, finally accepted what she was and was truly reborn as a vampire, giving her enough power to recover her wounds and crush not only the enemies' reinforcements, but also that disgusting Nazi vampire who dared to insult him.
That wasn't all. When a vampire drank blood directly from a human's neck, the soul of that person merge with the soul of the vampire. With that, the vampire could could make the souls of the people they drunk from into their familiar. However, since most vampires forcefully drink blood out of living people, they completely made the souls to become part of theirs. With that, the souls lost their identities and forgot who they were. This was to prevent any troublesome revolts. However, Seras did not want that, and made him to become part of her soul without taking his identity. Therefore, Bernadotte co-exist inside her mind.
Probably that was the reason why Seras had strong vampiric abilities even though she had only a single soul inside her. Seeing how Seras hated to harm people, she might not have drunken anyone's blood if those events hadn't happened. Even though thirty years had passed since Seras had became a true vampire, she had never sucked living human's blood other than him.
Anyway, going on, after that fateful day, Bernadotte gave her a lot of help when she needed one, even directly coming out from her shadows to assist her attacks. Since he was both a part of Seras and her familiar, he seemed to gained some superhuman strength helping him to take part in fights of monsters.
Oh, and the next one is coming from right.
As soon as she heard that, Seras looked up, locking her eyes against the attacker. As the monster tried to tackle her, she sidestepped, able to give her a moment to counter. However, before she could do that, another one jumped, swinging its claws. Her eyes quickly shifted to the next attacker. She grabbed one of its arm and threw it away.
Then, another one came from behind, tryiong to penetrate her torso. Seras just moved out of the way and gave it an uppercut. As she saw more were coming, she cursed again and made a momentary retreat to stay away from the creatures. Seras usually wasn't the one to plan and attack, but this time, she needed some time to recollect her thoughts.
Those creatures don't have any fixed patterns. Bernadotte commented. He was carefully observing the monsters' movement inside her mind. When they were attacking, it looked like they were solely acting by their instinct. Bernadotte groaned, giving out his quiet rage.That bastard… He must have done some kind an experiment to the ghouls he made.
Seras growled. I can't forgive a trash like him! Weren't raping people, devouring their blood, and turning them into ghouls not enough? She glared at the smirking vampire. Her eyes were filled with rage.
I can't agree more. We can't let piece of shit do whatever he wants.
Before she could reply, Seras saw them running towards her. Their claws swayed back and forth, as if they wanted to rip her apart. Seras continuously leaped backwards, effectively dodging their thoughtless attacks. In response, Seras merged her shadow whips together, making a giant one big enough to hit all of them at monster. She swung it on to them. They were sent flying. With that, Seras charged at the vampire, but the monsters quickly got up to their feet and blocked her way. Seras fell back before they could attack her again.
Shoot! What should I do? Seras thought, glaring both at the monsters and the vampire. I can't get close to that bastard, and I don't know a single thing about those creatures! Damn it! I should have brought my firearms with me!
Bernadotte gave a sigh. That's why you shouldn't let your guard down mignonette. Even though you are strong, strange things have been happening recently. You can't expect to face the same enemies you did before.
I thought I didn't need them since I thought I will only see ghouls again.
Bernadotte let out another sigh. Geez , Aren't you being too arrogant? I know you are one hell of a girl, but no, you shouldn't let arrogance take control of you. Bernadotte said, lighting a cigarette. It's true that they are nothing like what we faced so far. I can understand why you are hesitating, since you don't know a god damn thing about them. After blowing smoke of nicotine, he continued with a smirk. However, this isn't like you. The woman I know is far more reckless and spiteful then this. Show that swine what you've got.
Open hearing that, Seras smiled. Roger that.
She turned back to the monsters. One of them was already close to her. It lunged its claws towards her skull. Seras caught its attacking arm and rammed the monster against the ground, which was crumbled by her brutal force.
And how many times did I tell you not to smoke inside me Mr. Bernadotte?
Bernadotte grinned. Concentrate on your fight, idiot.
After giving a warm smile, her eyes shifted back to the monster, who was trying to stand up again. However, this time, Seras did not give it time to do so. She grabbed the monster by her shadow and pierced its left chest with her human-like arm. The monster loudly growled in pain, struggling for a moment, but its body soon went limp and scattered into tiny particles of darkness.
"What...?!" Seras exclaimed. She rapidally turned back at forth as she saw them drifting up in the sky. "What is this? Why did it-"
No idea, but we don't have time to be surprised. There are still more of them left. Bernadotte interrupted, taking out his extinguished cigar. Let's end their pain.
Seras nodded and turned to the remaining group. Her uncovered crimson eye glowed in the darkness as she made a threatening glare at the remaining ones.
Even though the monsters clearly saw their companion's terrible death, completely outclassed by her, they did not show any hesitation. Seras looked directly into their yellow eyes and studied what's inside those. There was nothing; their eyes were empty, portraying no emotions—not even fear that ghouls have for their survival instinct. They had nothing left to feel anything. Seras realized that those creatures had been reduced into killing machines, slaughtering everything in their path and merely following what their foul master ordered them to do.
Seras saw them leaping towards her, but she didn't move, merely locking her crimson eyes against their yellow eyes of void.
"Such a miserable state you are in..." Seras mumbled. She jumped backwards, making their attacks of them was following her. but before it could do anything, her whips spread out, tightly tying its body. It was unable to move. The monster struggled, trying to break out. Seras got close to their faces to have a closer look at their eyes "Don't worry. I will save you."
With that, Seras grabbed its neck. Her grip got tighter, finally breaking it like a toothpick. After a brief twitch, the monster's body was also reduced into tiny particles of darkness like the one she killed earlier. As those floated up to the sky, Seras looked up. Her demonic eyes were filled with sorrow and empathy.
"I don't know what kind of experiment that pig did, but it's a pain to see you turn like this... Not being able to leave any corpse behind." With that, she turned to the rest of the monsters. "I'm sorry to leave you in this state. The least I can do is to make you rest you peace. Come, I will end your suffering."
The monsters repiled a loud growl. They charged towards her, all at once. Seeing that, she sadly smiled.
"I see... So that's what you all wanted." Her shadow swirled in response. "As you wish."
The shadow slashed their necks with a clean, single swing. It didn't took long for all of their headless bodies to kneel on the ground. They collapsed on the ground as their heads landed on the floor. Seras watched them reducing into specks of black dusts as her shadow returned to its chaotic, shapless form.
I hope they can rest in peace now. Seras thought. Her eyes were grieving their tragic fate they had been in.
Bernadotte nodded. They will; thanks to you. Now, lets move on.
He didn't need to remind her. Seras turned to the man. Between the floating dark particles, she stood with dangerously glowing eyes. Her eyes no longer held any compassion she had before, now filled with wrath and disdain. On the other hand, the madman glowered, seeing her taking down his 'ultimate creations' so easily. His confidence and lunatic joy were gone from his face, replaced with frustration.
"So those stupid guinea pigs are failures huh…" The vampire mumbled. "How useless…"
"Guinea Pigs? So you really did some sort of experiment on them, didn't you?!" Seras shouted in rage, clearly revealing her sharp teeth. "I can't forgive you... Not only you raped innocent people and turned them into ghouls, but you also did some kind of experiment on them, turning them into mindless puppets?! What a trash! I will never forgive you! And your group!"
Before the vampire could react, Seras rushed towards at him. In a blink of an eye, she was standing right in front of him. Seras seized him by his throat as her eyes, shaking in fury, directly looked at his eyes.
"Tell me everything. What are you planning? How many are you with? Who is your disgusting master? And more importantly, what kind of experiment are you doing to those innocent people?! Tell me everything! NOW! BEFORE I MASH YOUR BODY INTO PILES OF MEAT LOAVES!"
The Draculina's demanded. As she yelled, she raised her volume, strengthening her grip. However, the vampire did not lose his smile of confidence. "Do you think I am going to tell you, lapdog of Hellsing?" He replied with a wide grin. "Besides, if I were you, I would be more careful, Draculina."
"What?!"
Seras!
Suddenly, something caught in her vampiric senses. Her mind was screaming like a warning sign. She quickly turned back, where her perilous sensation was coming from. Her eyes widened was they caught hordes of black creatures dashing towards her, with their twisted antennae, sprouting on the top of their circular head, rustled. They looked cute in some way, but Seras knew that their appearances were deceiving. Their yellow eyes, emotionless like the creatures she fought earlier, were locked on to her. Countless number of their claws was praying on her. Even with her vampiric reflex, it was too late for her to evade them. Seras tightly closed her eyes, fearing her approaching doom.
However, before the monsters could lacerate her body, darkness suddenly appeared around her. It wasn't from her arm. In fact, it was much more menacing, giving a dangerous feeling incomparable to the Draculina's. As a gunshot echoed in the air, bullets flew, puncturing countless holes in their small body. The eyes of the psychopath dilated, shaking in fear as he realized its true form.
"Not bad Seras Victoria." A soft, masculine voice came from the darkness as it reshaped to its true form.
Seras opened her eyes. She widely smiled in joy, recognizing it.
"Master!"
The darkness soon faded out, revealing its true form. There stood a man, fluttering his red coat and long hair peeking under his red hat, in the wind. His demonic red eyes were holding a vicious hue. The madman's eyes were nothing compared to his, even Seras' were no match for him. The man was the one who gave a second life as Draculina, the master of Sera Victoria. He was the king of all vampires, and the man who once made the world shook in fear as a count. The bird of Hermes who eats his own wings to get tamed. He was the No Life King, now known as Alucard, feared by every living creatures in this world.
"But you should keep your back watched," Alucard added, turning to his servant. After giving a flick on her forehead, he continued. "And fix that arrogance of yours idiot. It will kill you one day if you fail to erase it. Things would have gotten much easier if you brought your firearms."
"Aww... I understand master."
Alucard gave an understanding grin. "I will be expecting a better performance next time, police girl."
With that, he turned to the vampire. The psycho couldn't stop shaking as his eyes were locked to him. As his eyes looked straight into his, the soft light that was present when he was looking at his servant was replaced by his lunatic glow. As for the lunatic, being directly threatened by the lord of undead, his fear was uncontrollable; the confidence he showed when he facing Seras was no longer there. As the Alucard stepped closer to him, his trembled intensified.
"You sure have some interesting subordinates there." Alucard said with an evil grin. "Those black creatures… They are Heartless, aren't they?"
As he heard the word "Heartless," the man's eyes dilated, showing an apparent shock. Seeing that, Alucard grinned, showing his sharp, shark-like teeth.
"And it looks like I got it right."
"Heartless?" Seras asked with a confused look. She turned to her master. "Master, what is that?"
Alucard gave a quick glimpse at his servant. "I will explain when we get back Seras. From what I know, appearance of Heartless is something that must not be underestimated. Our master should hear the news too."
Seras nodded in understanding. Even though she was left puzzled, explanations could wait. It wasn't normal for her master to say anything grave. If he said so, it must be really something big. Seras could get the answers for her question while they report their finding to Integra. Besides, it was almost time for the sun to rise. Although the two had no problem standing in the sun, that wasn't case for this lesser vampire. They needed to squeeze out as many information as they can.
Seeing her understand, Alucard turned back to the vampire, still shaking in fear. He pointed one of his gun to his shoulder.
"Seras, hold him tightly."
With that, there was a sound of gunshot, followed by a painful scream of the vampire as a bullet penetrated his shoulder. His red blood rushed out from the hole. Seeing him shoutuing in pain, Alucard grinned, filled with insanity and madness as he took out his other gun. This time, it was pointing at his leg.
"Now tell me, how are you controlling Heartless? They are not a weakling like you can control. Only the ones with great power of darkness can do that. Who is behind all of this?"
"I... I..."
"Too slow."
Alucard pulled his trigger. Another gunshot, and the bullet was fired, puncturing a hole through the vampire's leg. Once again, the psychopath screamed in pain.
"If you don't answer me, you will have a very painful time with us, and the next one will be even worse than this." Alucard turned back to Seras. "My servant was very eager to show you to hell. Weren't you Seras?"
Seras nodded. "We are glad take the honor master, right Mr. Bernadotte?"
Do you even did to ask?
Hearing his voice, Seras had an evil grin which revealed her sharp vampiric teeth. She transformed her shadow arm into series of whips. However, it was different from the one she made while fighting those monsters. The whips had spiky thorns all over them, making them look very, very deadly. It would be extremely painful if those whips went through someone's body. Vampires would be no exception.
"Talk before I drill some holes in your body, you son of a bitch!" Seras shouted, tighting her grip.
The vampire looked in horror as the menacing thorns slowly approached the vampire's body. "I… I… Don't know! I got this power from the man in the black coat! They said that if I succeed making…!"
Before the psycho could finish, something penetrated his head. Alucard's and Seras' eyes dilated in shock as his red liquid splattered on their faces. The two vampires sharply turned and found a silver arrow, covered with the vampire's blood, proudly stuck on the ground. For a lesser vampire like him, anything made with silver or holy objects were fatal, especially when they could perfectly his one of his weak spots. There was no way he could survive this, nor prevent his upcoming death; not even the greatest No Life King could save him. As a proof, the vampire's body went limp. It was soon ignited with blue flame, a sign of the end for all vampires. The fire soon engulfed the man, completely ending his undead life.
Seras slammed the burning body against the ground with a loud curse. The heat from the fire scattered the fine ashes to the air, making it drift through the night sky. Seeing his remainings floating away in the air, Seras punched her fist hard on the ground. She growled, unable to suppress her of anger and regret. That pig shouldn't have died so easily. For sake of the unfortunate victims, she should have at least made him suffer with her shadow thorns, and more importantly, the crucial source of information was gone. Even though the two almost got the situation in hand, they never had a chance to squeeze any useful information out of him.
However, contrast to Seras' fury, Alucard's smile did not disappear. Although he too didn't expect that headshot, Alucard knew it wasn't over yet. He turned to the direction where the arrow flew. His eyes glowed, searching for the sniper. It didn't took long for him to find a person holding a strange-looking crossbow used to shut the psycho up. The person—wearing a long, black coat—was standing on one of the trees deep inside the forest encompassing the village. Alucard couldn't see the sniper's face, as a hood was completely covering his face. However, that didn't matter, as his outfit was the perfect match of the lesser vampire's description. With a wide grin, Alucard pulled the trigger of his two guns. The attacker was very far away, but the distance wasn't a problem for the No Life King.
Soon after, a cry of pain echoed through the night sky. Hearing it, Seras recovered from her rage. She sharply turned to the direction where the cry was heard.
"What was that?" With a small gasp of realization, Seras turned to Alucard. "Master, was that...?!"
"Feeling better now police girl? Yes, whatever you are thinking, you are right." Alucard said. Soon, he let himself covered with his own darkness, making him fading away. "I will go first. I will be expecting you later."
Seras nodded. "Yes master."
She saw her master grin before he was completely gone from her view. With a determined look, she leaped forward. Her shadow formed into giant bat wings and flew between the trees with a crimson blur.
The shooter groaned, tightly grasping his shoulder with one of his hand. The wound was from one of the bullet that Alucard had fired. When he saw the No Life King's expression, he felt strange as Alucard was still smiling even though the vampire died without giving off any useful information. A sudden fear crept over, followed by a feeling of danger. With that, he quickly jumped from the tree to leave this area as quickly as possible. However, one of Alucard's bullets had hit his shoulder, but he was lucky to realize what was coming. If he stayed on the tree, the bullets would have penetrated both of his legs, which would surely make him impossible to escape.
As he felt red liquid soaking his coat, along with his glove repressing the wound, he shouted, throwing his night goggles on the ground hard as he can. With a loud thud, it cracked.
"Shit, shit, SHIT! How the hell did he snipe me from that far distance? Even I can't hit targets far away with my naked eye!"
Being a sniper, the hooded figure knew how crazy it was to snipe an enemy from this far distance without any proper equipments. Even with his marksmanship, he needed to wear night goggles to perfectly snipe that foolish vampire to prevent leaking any important pieces of information to the two vampires. The man ground his teeth. Although he was denying it, he was feeling fear—following with nervousness he was feeling. As uneasiness crawled from deep inside him, he prepared to leave, trying to pick up his broken night goggles. His hand continuously slipped, portraying his anxiety and fear. After having a curse, he successfully picked up his goggles.
"FINALLY!" He shouted, wearing them. "Now I can leave."
"Going somewhere?"
The hooded one froze as he heard an unfamiliar voice behind his back. He slowly turned back in fear. He was horrified to see crimson darkness appearing right in front of him. He barely kept himself from collapsing down his knee. Even with his pride, he couldn't help himself, but to fully let out his fear by his shivering body, as he saw a pair of crimson eyes glowed—fixed at him—inside the darkness. As the No Life King revealed his true form, the man in the black coat held up his crossbow, loaded with silver arrows, and pointed it to the lord vampire.
"S-stay away if you want to live y-you monster!" The man shouted, trying to threaten him, but it wasn't going well, as his voice was trembling in fear. "H-how can you be here so quickly?"
"I am everywhere and nowhere." Alucard said, having his usual confident, but menacing grin up. "I aware of myself existing right here, in front of you, so I am here."
"Damn it! Die you monster!"
With his trembling hands, he fired his silver arrow. They flew towards No Life King, but Alucard took them with a smile, making any effort to dodge.
Since he just came back from the oblivion, Alucard no longer held countless lives inside his soul. However he had Schrödinger's soul, an artificially made werecat, inside him, enabling him to use the werecat's power. Thirty years ago, when Alucard had absorbed the blood—containing more than three million lives, Schrödinger, one of Nazi's creations, killed himself by letting his souls mix with the ones he was trying to absorb. Due to the cat's nature, Alucard could no longer recognize his own identity as there was too much souls being mixed with his. This made him to become nothing more than a set of imaginary numbers, which exists in theory, but not on the level of reality. To come back in the reality, Alucard had to be aware of himself and killed every lives he absorbed, leaving only Schrödinger's soul inside him. It took thirty years to come back from the boundary of void and existence.
With Schrödinger's ability, he could be anywhere and nowhere, or be dead or live. Whatever, and whenever he was aware of, it came to reality. Until he was aware of himself, he had truly became a monster who couldn't die, even though countless silver arrows were puncturing his body.
Those attacks were clearly no use against him. However, the man did not stop firing his arrows. Consumed by fear and despair, he could no longer make any rational decisions. Such a pitiful situation he was in, but it was his fault that he turned the worst into his enemy. He finally stopped when he heard a sound of click. With his shaking eyes hidden under his hood, he took a glimpse at his crossbow, which ran out of ammos. Without them, his attacks were much more useless against the King of Vampire.
"Is that all you've got?"
The man shrieked as the No Life King stepped closer towards him. He steeped backwards in fear, as his survival instict was trying to make him run. However, his fruitless effort to escape soon stopped as he hit something behind. He slowly turned back and noticed a tree blocking his path. What's more, soon after, another crimson shadow arrived at the scene. Alucard stopped, and briefly took a glimpse at the figure landing behind him. He grinned as he saw his trustworthy servant, Seras Victoria. Being confronted by two of the strongest vampire and realizing there was no way of escaping, the hooded figure felt his energy draining by his own despair.
Alucard pointed his gun
"How disappointing." Alucard said, pointing his gun to the hooded one's head. "You are nothing more than a dog. You are just a miserable little clown. You are not even worthy enough to be eaten."
Hearing insults which his pride could not allow, he quickly recovered from his fear. With his eyes hidden by the shade from his hood, he looked up at the worst monster and shouted. "You monsters! Don't think this is the end!"
Holding up his hand, he snapped. Soon after, a horde of silver creatures with overly flexible bodies surrounded the two. They were another kind of monsters that Seras, and even Alucard, had never fought before. The creatures possessed much more humanoid shapes than the ones which Alucard called "Heartless." Unlike Heartless and the creatures born from the experiment that the lesser vampire had mentioned, those ones seemed to have some intelligence left in them. They circled around their enemies and waited the vampires' moves. Knowing that their opponents were extremely fearful and dangerous beings, the creatures knew that they had to be cautious and tired not to make any hasty movements.
"Master!" Seras called, turning to her master. "This is...?"
"Oh? You sure have interesting pets with you." Alucard commented, amazed by those unknown creatures. He grinned, showing excitement and madness unlike few minutes ago. "Try to entertain me more, you little clown!"
The man ground his teeth. "You monster… I will surely erase that arrogant smug of you next time we meet!" He held up his arm, pointing towards them. "GO!" He shouted, soon followed by a snap.
With that, the sliver creatures charged towards them. They mainly targeted Seras, who was much weaker than their other target, but she wasn't weak as they thought, quickly overpowering them with her deadly shadow. Some tried to attack from the right, the opposite side of her shadow. However, her human arm possessed immense vampiric strength that crushed them with an ease. Very few of them weren't very smart, making an attempt to attack the No Life King. They soon met their demise as his bullets brutally assaulted their bodies.
Seras quickly turned to the hooded man. She saw a black portal—swirling with pure darkness—in front of the tree. The man was trying to run inside. Although she had no idea what that was, she knew he had to be stopped, as it was evident that the true culprit was trying to escape with it. Throwing the creatures blocking her path, she made a giant leap toward him.
"Don't think I will let you escape!" She shouted, turning her shadow into wing-like shape, accelerating her speed. However, even with that, she was too late.
As the man successfully jumped inside the portal, it closed in a blink of an eye. Seras was taken back by its sudden disappearance. Seeing that she was heading straight onto the tree, she tried to stop, but thanks to Newton's first law of inertia, her velocity had become too fast for her to stop. As a huge sound of crash echoed through the forest, Seras experienced an unpleasant crash.
"Aww… What the hell was that?" Seras complained, rubbing her head as a comical bump appeared on her head.
After shooting the last the silver creature, Alucard came close to examine the place where the strange portal just disappeared.
"That was an entertaining comedy you showed there police girl." Alucard jokingly said.
"Yeah right, thanks for that master." Seras said with an eyeroll, looking up to him as small tears were formed by the pain. "Anyway, master, do you know what that is?"
Alucard shrugged. "I am afraid not."
"I see..." Seras said, standing up as she brushed away the leaves and branches that fell onto her when she crashed on to the tree. "Then those silver creatures... What were they called... Heartless?"
Alucard shook his head. "No Seras, those silver creatures were definitely not Heartless."
Twitching her head, Seras looked at him with a puzzled look. Alucard widely grinned as feelings of ecstasy and excitement was tangling up inside him like a vine. His eyes glowed in overjoyed madness, unable to hide his feeling.
"So it was all true… Heartless, Keyblade, and the existence of other worlds…"
The No Life King laughed. He couldn't hold back his excitement. He just knew another interesting event was coming up, like thirty years ago. No, actually, this might be more fascinating than that. Involvement from other words dounded much more compelling than invasion of psychopathic group of vampires. Yes, this would surely be another entertainment to his boring, never-ending life.
And yes, Seras was still confused.
"Uh… Master?" She called, finally making her master to notice her. "Can you to explain what's happening?"
"You will find out soon Seras, very soon. Oh the joy, I never thought I would get another entertainment this fast!"
Another laughter, and that was enough to made Seras very nervous. She gulped, knowing her master's entertainment wasn't really a good sign. Without a doubt, there was a huge event coming up, and it wouldn't be a pleasant one. One of his "excitment," the invasion of Millennium, was more than enough to prove that.
Oh god.
I have a bad feeling about this mignonette. Mr. Alucard is laughing like a lunatic.
I can't agree more.
"Seras, let's go back." Alucard called, looking at the sky. The moon was starting to fall. "Our night is starting to end. Let's go. I will explain everything when we go back to our master."
"Ah… Yes master!"
As Seras followed her master, walking inside fading darkness of the forest, a wind blew, fluttering Alucard's red coat and Sera's hair. Before disappearing into the shade, the two vampires turned to the approaching dawn. They saw the sun slowly rising up. It felt like a foreshadowing of a new story, involving No Life King, his master and his servant…
And with characters from other worlds.
Alucard grinned before turning back to the darkness with his servant.
Ah, it was good to be back.
Author's note: I just feel like writing Hellsing X Kingdom Hearts crossover. This fanfic will be uploaded when I feel like writing.
Pairings… Uh… Except Bernadotte and Seras, there won't be so much. Seras and Alucard are like daughter and father; Integra and Alucard has master and servant relationship. Sora and Kairi... Yes their relationship will be here, but that's not the main focus. This fanfic is action and fantasy, not romance! And poor Riku. Nomura should throw in another character for him! And no, there won't be any romantic relationship between Kingdom Hearts and Hellsing characters. I don't really like pairing up with characters from different works.
Alucard have one of the hardest power to describe. F*** you Schrödinger! I had to search god damn college-level physics books just because of you! You can die or be alive (like he was shot in the head twice, but he returned alive), or be anywhere or nowhere! What the hell is this?! Come on! It might be easier to describe in comic books or animations, but this is fanfic! I need to describe in words!
Take a note that Alucard won't do too much fighting here. I mean, HE IS GOD DAMN TOO STRONG! Seriously, he could take on and whack Organization 13 and Xehanort by himself. Seriously, I don't want that to happen, but I don't want to make him weaker than manga/OVA. Therefore, I decided to make him step in only when he wants to, or when Integra orders him to do. As he said, this is just all an entertainment for him. Why so serious? He will be an observer and mentor for Seras and the characters he will meet later. (Yeah, the ones from the other world. Anyone care for a guess? Hint? Spiky brown hairs.)
And by the way, he will NOT release Level 0 in this fanfic. I don't think releasing just a single cat's soul will do any good. He just came back! He didn't have time to drink any blood!
Oh, but he WILL drink blood. You will see. Seras won't drink from living human creatures or vampires, unless she is forced like in OVA 3, where she had to lick Integra's blood by her order. Bernadotte is enough being inside of her. I don't think he will appreciate another soul being with him. Besides, that doesn't fit her character at all.
Well, that is it for today! See ya around!
Sincerely and best regards,
Blue Salamander.