Chapter One

This takes place during the time after I take in Schrödinger during the battle with Anderson the Paladin. During the fight I realized something has changed in my being; I ignore it, this fight is amazing. The pain, the ecstasy, and the ripping of flesh from his bones and Anderson ripping the flesh from mine; it's been so long since I had a fight like this. I know I'm dying so many times but this is amazing I, the No Life King, the man who toppled entire empires and nations so many armies I have absorbed into myself is in a fight once again with a man who could kill a monster. Will this be the man of this century to end my life and reign again or will it be the true end that monster spoke of? Then the man I respected, the terror of the battle field the regenerator Alexander Anderson the Paladin himself crossed the line. And took in that awful thing that made him into nothing more than a monster like me it enrages me and then I lose interest in this and we finish the fight it ends in my victory.

Then it happens the major's plan takes affect; Schrödinger's blood takes effect and I feel myself falling, all I can see is darkness I hear the anguished cries of the countless souls I have murdered and absorbed into my being throughout the countless years of my life. Then I hear a voice saying 'fight them, find me, and set me free' it's a voice I know well but I can't place it, the voice was too far away. I then realize that all the souls I have absorbed are being ripped from me and reforming. I know what I must do; I must fight these beings that have now changed over the years of being a part of me. Some of the stronger beings have retained their human shapes just drawing power and fighting off the other souls that have clustered together with the other weaker souls out of either a want for power or a fear of losing themselves and fighting off that fate by trying to devour others. Very few of these things have realized that there dead others simply deny it thinking they have found a new way to gain the power they have always wanted. I'm not sure why or how but it seemed I had entered another dimension I couldn't tell if this was something I created or if this was because of Schrödinger's blood but all I knew is that I could fight the demons of my past again and rejoice in the fights that shook me to my core and defined the dark days of my past. That's when I started to wonder how many of them retained themselves in this odd world of pain, disaster, and whirling misery. I myself could see myself losing to madness here if I wasn't careful.

I set out with a few opponents in mind to find the ones that highlighted my lifespan. But the first thing I saw was a creature before me I hardly recognized but then he screamed 'do you remember me you trader' I realized it was the Cheddar Priest he was foul looking more like an ogre of sorts or maybe a chimera. I'm honestly not sure. His body was grotesque if you ask me it fit his personality perfectly, he was lopsided now his right arm and shoulder now three times too large for his body and his left leg had mutated to something resembling a claw of some form. He charged at me with surprising force pushing me back then he says 'it feels like it's been so long, it took forever to gain this much power now I'll show you the ally you passed up and break out of this place'. I then realized he believed he was imprisoned somehow. I started to wonder how he came to that conclusion.

"So priest what do you mean by that? Do you really think you've been imprisoned here? You're wrong you know. I've killed you a long time ago, there's no escaping death."

"I know I've died but if I kill you then I can absorb your power and become you and then there will truly be nothing to stop me. I will become the No Life King just as you were." This infuriated me.

"I told you as I tell everyone. I am a monster and a monster cannot kill a monster only a man can kill a monster." I let lose my familiar; it tears into him like he's nothing, I watch as my hell hound devours him, I then begin my search again and I hear a voice whisper to me beckoning me.

"Come to me." I spin around; this voice was a sharp voice, I hadn't heard in so long yet I hear it again.

"Please, I want to play again. I want out; I have waited for so long. Please master, I can't stand this world any more, these things are too weak. " I don't have long before my next opponent arrives though this time there is two of them.

"Well if it isn't the Valentine Brothers long time since I saw you two; would you like to become dog chow again Luke?" But it was amazing I could tell that they had absorbed many nameless souls from this place but retained their original forms; I guess I may have under estimated them.

"Hahaha very funny No Life King not this time you will see that my brother and I will kill you because we are a lot stronger and together this time." Then they separate, both splitting to two different sides. Jan attacking from a range with assault rifles, he has bad aim but these aren't normal rifles.

I can tell they are made from the power he has drawn from his familiar though I don't think he has even realized that yet the bullets are powerful, so I am taking damage just from them getting close. I see that Luke is getting closer with his blade almost piercing me; he's faster than the last time, that's saying something to say the least. They have my back against the wall then Luke says something odd.

"You see we are stronger; we were sent to kill you No Life King you are the only thing stopping us from being the strongest if we kill you, we can have your power and become you." It's the same thing that the priest said and it felt odd I couldn't say why but I felt like something odd was afoot and I wasn't just wondering aimlessly but being lead somewhere but I couldn't figure out where.

Yet I pushed the thoughts from my mind realizing that I could not win this fight without concentrating. I then released my power summoning my familiar and attacking with full force taking back the power from those two as I did from the priest. I hear it again, that small voice getting ever closer or was I just getting closer to it? Who could say for sure?

It said to me: "Good, I'm glad to see your well master but are you getting old? I really don't think it should have taken you that long to fight those two O' great No Life King, conquer of nations and kingdoms alike, the terror of the battle field, the one man army." I can tell he is mocking me but I still can't figure out who it is. I just can't remember.

The voice got quiet again and there was nothing for a long time as I walked. I tried hard to think and figure out who the voice belonged to when there was another voice smaller, softer this time, the voice of a young girl.

"You know he is leading you where he wants you to go, toying with you right?"

"What do you mean who are you and who is he? What do you two want?"

I respond. "Well I only want to rest peacefully and help the both of you. I miss the old days before everything went bad with him. Even now I follow you both even though you hate me and he didn't have time. I had no one else." It dawned on me that it had to be the two children that impacted my life the first in the years of the crusades.

I didn't have long before my next opponent was before me after she spoke the next was the Dandy Man himself.

Tubalcain Alhambra: "Well hello there Alucard. I hope you remember me or shall I reintroduce myself?"

Alucard: "No, there is no need Tubalcain Alhambra. I remember you, how could I forget the Dandy Man himself."

Tubalcain Alhambra: "How have you been Alucard? What exactly is this place I have been brought to and why do I feel my actions aren't my own?"

Alucard: "I don't know what you mean Dandy Man. You should tell me. I'm about as lost as you are, so far to be honest with you all I know is I have been given the chance to fight my greatest foes again."

Tubalcain Alhambra: "Oh really? That's interesting so I died at your hands as I thought even more curious…"

Alucard: "Well I'm sick of talking Dandy Man, shall we fight?"

Tubalcain Alhambra: "You're so impatient but I guess so, I don't think I have a choice anyway."

At that moment the Dandy Man reaches into his sleeve and pulls out a deck of cards, his favorite weapon, no surprise there at all. Then he flings them with such force I can barely avoid them. They are destroying the landscape that has been ever changing since I got here. I'm still not sure what to make of this place. I thought at first that this was my sub conscience where I kept the memories of those that I had killed but, as I thought about it I didn't kill Jan Seras so why would he appear here before me to fight? Then there's the land scape at first it was a dark void with nothing, but I have continued it has changed steadily at points resembling a meadow from some place distant in my memories, that I can't exactly remember why it's important. Then to the graveyard that my final battle with Abraham took place, and then back to that dark void almost resembling a forest. As I'm thinking I have begun just dodging on instinct the Dandy Man's attacks are fast and strong but have become predictable he runs out of cards only keeping two, one for each hand, he charges at me. This is where the real fight starts. We exchange furious blows tearing chunks from each other some missing and blowing holes through the land scape it seems my power has been increasing faster and faster here and I'm not sure why.

Tubalcain Alhambra: "This place is an odd one isn't it Alucard? I feel like we are nothing more than puppets in some plan leading you somewhere that could change everything we know."

Alucard: "The more I'm here the more I feel like I'm getting close to something important that I forgot but I just can't seem to remember it but I'm getting a bad feeling Dandy Man."

Tubalcain Alhambra: "Alucard, did you ever stop to think about the fact that if something can give you a bad feeling what exactly that thing could be and why exactly you forgot?"

Alucard: "Yes I have actually, but the two voices keep talking and I can't figure it out I have to know who they are, it seems like there important but I can't figure out why but I have to know Dandy Man."

Tubalcain Alhambra: "Very well let's end this then No Life King with this next attack ok?"

Just like that we gave everything we had into the next attack he did a lot of damage to me but I did even more to him, the battle was over. The young women's voice came to me again almost in tears this time it seemed.

"You don't remember us Alucard? I thought we had grown close over the time we spent together, even if it was only a short time for you it was the most important time of my life. I know it passed in but a blink of yours but still you and him saved me from so much, became my family, and found me a new one for the time we couldn't spend together after that. Do you really not remember?"