Hellsing: The Friend Of Old
Finally Integra sat in her office, not a singel Ghoul or Vampire attack for the past week. She was not worried, inteligence had it that she was very much feared now. But Alucard was the one, he was becoming bored of sitting and waiting for something to happen. Even if there had been no fights for the past week this didn't stop Intgra's work load, it seemed to double it. She sat with e-mails and papers to read, but she knew that the vampire king was in the room and watching the phone and the computer waiting for a call in to say there is trouble. The moon was hanging in the sky behind her, she wanted to tell Alucard to leave but his presence was not bothering her. Seris was in her room, she had gone out a couple of times during the week but every time came back asking if there was any work to be done.
Long ago there had been spells where it would take months for a good vampire to rise to the fight against Hellsing, but it seemed as if they didn't exsist. Alucard watched from the shadows, his eyes lit up as a e-mail came flashing up on the screen and Integra read it slowly. Another report from the coast, the only thing that kept them thinking there was a vampire out there was a steady rise in fights on the southern coast. A strange figure seemed to be going along killing Ghouls for them, Integra wondered if it was another vampire and she finally gave away to the silence
"It is another report from the coast, it seems that who or what ever is there had just dispatched a group of twelve ghouls"
"Maybe I should see if this creature is friend or foe" Alucard said from the shadows and Integra replied removing a cigar from it's tin
"More than likely a want to be vampire hunter getting the wrong prey. But if you are that bored I guess you can go and see, the e-mail says that they struck ten minutes ago on the cliff's of Dover"
Before she could finish the rest a wind swept through, the windows blew open and Alucard was gone. He longed for a new fight, it had been so long to him that even blasting some ghouls would do. Integra exited the e-mails, she pulled up a camera programme like Google Earth but this was exclusive and Live. Walter walked in with Integra's tea, he asked noticing that the window was open and moving to shut it
"I must say that is a crude way of leaving the premasis"
"He has gone to Dover" Integra said back looking at the tea that Walter had placed down and he asked closing the window
"An attack"
"Of sorts, a ghoul hunter with a very effective shotgun..."
Integra stopped in her sentence, she had spotted her unopened mail and a very familiar envlope was placed under two others. It was sealed with red wax, the seal within the wax was a lion face with a waving mane around it. She picked it up, sliced through the top of it and removed the letter. She read through it, Walter asked noticing Integra was no longer talking
"Sir Integra"
Her eyes filled with fear, she quickly stood and said walking over the mantle and lifting her sword
"We must go to Dover, prepair the chopper and have a spare room prepaired by the time I return"
"Yes ma'am"
In Dover, a ghoul was walking over the cliff by some trees and following the scent of blood. A young girl no more than five was running for her life, she was in her pyjama's and had a tears streaming down her face from the cold wind. She suddenly got caught in the bare brances of a low tree, her hair was tangleled and she let her ribbon off so that she could escape. Her crimson hair was now waving behind her, she wanted to scream but feared it would give away where she was. But the ghoul had caught her up, she turned to see it slowly catching her up and she tripped and landed at the feet of someone wearing cowboy boots. She slowly looked up, the boots had a lioness entwinned in battle with a vampire. The trousers were jeans, a large black belt was held with a sliver buckel with the same pattern of the boots on the front. By now a long white coat was billowing back in the winds, on a tight white top and a blood red cross hanging from the persons neck. The girl gave a gasp, she was sure it was a man infront of her but it was infact a woman, she had dark blond hair that was blowing back in the wind and watching the ghoul very closely. She was not pale, she looked as if she had been on holiday for a couple of months. Her eyes were a feirce green, her lips were curved into a smile and she lifted up a shotgun that made the girl cower and covered her head. She heard the shotgun blast, she covered her ears from the explosion sound it made. But she looked up, the shotgun had smoke just fading from the barrel and then she looked back to see the ghoul turn to dust. She was in shock, she looked up at the woman infront of her and she was shocked to see the woman was now facing down at her but her eyes were now in a black shadow. The woman spoke in a accent that almost matched Integra but with a hint of something else to it
"What's your name?"
"Sophie" the girl replied and the woman replied
"I am Angel Sancho"
"Thank you for saving me" the girl said back and Angel asked
"Why are you out here?"
"She brought me"
The girl pointed at a shape in the darkness, it emerged slowly to show it was a female vampire who was pale as the moonlight and had eyes pale as the sunlit ocean. She came out in a billowing red dress, she was a typical vampire but look a little odd with someone's head in her hand. She threw it to the side, Angel had her shotgun aimed at the heart of the vampire and Angel said to the girl
"Go home,it's just a bad dream"
The girl ran, the vampire turned to follow the girl but a blast of pellets made splinters come hurtleling off the tree next to her. She stopped, looked at Angel and said as her once hazel eyes turned red
"Sour blood"
"I like lemon drops, what can I say" Angel replied as the smoke once again faded from her gun barrel and the vampire replied
"Let's see what you can do mortal"
"Lets"
The vampire qucik was as lightning, but she felt a burning sensation that made her stop and she spotted her arm now had a hole through it. She looked to Angel, Angel took a triangle from her silver belt and threw it at the vampire. The vampire felt it go through her throat and she let out a bellow
"Enough"
But the vampire stopped dead as a another gun was fired, she turned into dust and Angel looked at her gun and realised she had not fired the shot.
She turned to see the vampire king himself, she had not lowered her gun and she asked as Alucard's red eyes watched her from the shadow of his hat
"Let me guess, you are Alucard?"
"It seems you know me, but who are you?" Alucard asked back and Angel replied
"Angel Sancho, pleasure to meet you"
Angel turned, she ripped out one silver triangle from the already splitered tree and took the other from the ground near the ghoul dust. She went to walk away from Alucard but he said materializing in front of her
"Leaving so soon"
"Yes, I have a message I want you to deliver. Tell Integra I said hello and read your mail" Angel replied and Alucard replied looking behind Angel
"I'm not a messenger, why don't you tell her yourself"
Angel turned and saw Integra wipe her blade off, she had killed many ghouls reaching the cliff top and she said with her eyes closed
"Angel Sancho (looks straight at her) after all these years you have surfaced"
"Hello Integra, just as formal as always" Angel said back and Integra said back
"Last I heard of you, you had found a werewolf and went in battle not to be heard of since"
"You have been checking on my endevoures, yes I found a werewolf and dropped forty feet into a rapid before landin in a village in spain with a broken leg" Angel admitted and Integra let out a little laugh and said back
"You killed the werewolf of course"
"Oh yes" Angel smiled back and Integra carried on
"You are going to return to the manor, escorted by Alucard and I take it you still have your transport"
"Yes"
"But before we part for the short time, lets see if you have gotten slow" Integra said back with her sword to the side
Integra bolted forward, she was quick but Angel seemed just as quick and the sword and gun were both letting out sparks as they were held together. Angel leaped back, she threw a triangle at Integra who hit it away with her sword and leaped back at Angel. Angel fired three shots all that missed by a singel pellet hit Integra, she stopped and rested from Integra's attack. But as Integra held her bleeding hand, Angel felt wet dripping down her cheek and she realised that Integra had actually hit the target.
"It seems nothing has changed" Angel stated and Integra said back turning to leave
"I'll see you in two hours, see that she gets there Alucard"
"Yes my master" Alucard said back as Integra vanished into the darkness and Angel said walking down the hill
"You can either ride with me or fly...up to you"
Angel ripped a old rug off her mode of transport, a Kawaski made motorbike but it was unique. It was wide at the front, painted a deep shade of midnight blue with stardust lioness heads on each side. Saddlebags on the back were hooked on, Angel then did something that made Alucard's face drop a little. She opened both saddlebags, in the right one put her shotgun in with out any problem and in the other the large rug. It seemed impossible, she then rummaged in the left one and removed a helemet, leather gloves and a phone headset. Angel spotted Alucard was starring at the bags and he asked now looking along the bike
"A curse"
"Egyptain, you didn't think they carried everything around on thier backs did you" Angel replied and Alucard said quickly reading this womans mind
"Integra's childhood best friend, that would explain why you are so welcome to the manor"
"Shae I missed you the last time I popped by, you would have seen a different person then" Angel said back putting on the helmet and Alucard said back
"I can't wait to hear this story"
With that he tok to the air, the motorbike thundered through the silent town and onto the motorway. Alucard watched, he followed through the night and wondered why Integra had never mentioned this person before. This was no vampire, but a mortal who could fight a vampire and almost win was strange too. After about an hour and a half she stopped for fuel, so Alucard waitied on the roof of the petrol station. They set off again, the interest was now really showing and answers would need to be told.