Integra Hellsing was standing on a building, looking over that which was once London, now it was just a monument of the greed of one character. As she watched over the burning buildings, with Seras at her side, she felt remorse for all the lives lost in this mad quest of that insane major. So many people dead, just because he wanted to deal with Alucard.
And don't let her start on Maxwell; the power hungry idiot had only made matters worse. In a quest to convert the United Kingdom to Catholicism, he has killed innocents and done more damage than good. If she had a gun, she would see to it that his chopper crashed and he would be stopped. But sadly that wasn't the case.
She only looked up when Seras let out a cry of 'master'; it would seem that Alucard had arrived. With a smile she saw his ghost ship make its way into the Thames and towards the plain the crusaders of the 9th crusade had gathered. In his overly dramatic style he landed just before the men dressed in white, he was soon joined by Father Anderson and that werewolf from the Nazi's.
As she was distracted by the mental battle going on by the three males, she never noticed a third figure approaching her and Seras. Only when Alucard asked her to give the order and she opened her mouth, did a hand appear in her sight. A hand clad in black leather, followed by an arm clad in green. She raised her head and looking into pools of green.
Death had returned to her and his husband.
Hadrian Potter-Black, was a lot of things, since he was a small child he held the title of Boy-Who-Lived, in Muggle School he made a name for himself of being a loner and a strange kid, in Hogwarts he was the saviour and the genius. As it were, after school he became the man who concurred the worst Dark Lord of all. And not long after that, he became the Master Of Death.
IT had been a though life, a loner because of his cousin and his gang, the neighbourhood bully and his tormentor for the first eleven years of his life. The strange part, being his over intelligence, something he took with him at Hogwarts. Also in the Wizarding World he was their saviour, the prophecy child and a wonder for all who met him. He also stayed by the loner part at Hogwarts, only making friends with a pair of red haired twins in the middle of his second year at the magic school.
In his first few weeks at Hogwarts, it became clear he was a smart kid. He always got an 'O' on tests, brewed potions almost as perfect as professor Snape and had a knack of always being seen with a book in hand. It was not a surprise, because of that, that he got sorted into Ravenclaw.
At the end of his 7th year at Scotland, he ended the Second Lightning War, the one that began in 1994, when Lord Voldemort was resurrected. As it were, he handled it pretty quickly, using a self-invented spell, he summoned the remaining Horcruxes of Voldemort and destroyed them in front of the man himself. When said man yelled the killing curse in rage, it backfired, again, only this time because of the wand he had used.
The wand the Dark Lord stole from Dumbledore's tomb. The elder wand, a wand said to be given to the Perevell brothers by Death himself. Not the total story, but that is something for a different time.
As it were, the wand recognized Hadrian as its master and refused to kill him, resulting in Hadrian becoming the master of death.
In the aftermath of the war, a few of Dumbledore's minions tried to accuse him of being dark. But seeing as they didn't have any proof and didn't know him at all to give said prove, they were fiend with 2.000 galleons for harassment and were given a warning to leave him alone.
It was two years after the war, that he realised he just couldn't stay in the Wizarding World. The few friends he had, were precious to him, but they understood his reasons to leave, so they didn't make too big a fuss out of it. They just let him go; after he promised to write to them and call on them should he ever need them.
So in a fit of being spontaneous, he decided to travel the world, the Muggle one at that, keeping to that part of the world. But even there he wasn't totally safe, soon after he left Britain, he came across vampires and ghouls, in a little town in France, the whole town had been whipped out, being used as the vampire's feeding supply and to make a small army of ghouls, he dealt with them quickly.
But it had a rather strange side effect. In his battle with the vampire, the elder wand had begun buzzing and glowing, suddenly appearing in his hand. When he clenched his fingers around it, it changed into a scythe, like the one being shown in old pictures of death.
After the battle, when he was alone on the grave yard of the once lively town, a man appeared before him, he was dressed in black, with white eyes and black hair to his shoulders.
He introduced himself as Death. The Death, the same one who gave the Perevell brothers the Deathly Hollows, only after a short tale, Death confessed to them being descendents of himself, meaning he, Hadrian Potter-Black, was Death's sole heir. In a fit of desperation, Death confessed to being tired, he once was the human known as Ignotus Peverell. He had taken over from the previous Death, and now, after more than 750 years of service he was tired and wanted to accompany his wife and children in the afterlife.
Hadrian had agreed, taken the name Hadrian Ignotus Perevell when in the human world, but in the supernatural world he would be known as Death.
With that being said, Death, travelled around the world, getting acquainted with his reapers, learning of their past lives, even releasing a few into the hereafter. Of course that mend he also had to 'give birth' to a few new ones, but he soon found some.
Fred Weasley had died in the Final battle of the Lightning war, and George, his twin, had seen o other way out than commit suicide a few months ago when he just couldn't take it anymore. They always treated him like their little brother when they were alive, so he visited them and gave them the offer of becoming reapers, and with it his second in commands.
The twins were quick to agree, accompanying him everywhere, when on a late evening, a spike of energy lit up the air. Hadrian, being a curious little bugger, went to investigate.
What he found was, well, unexpected, he had learned from Ignotus that there were certain immortals on this planet, and not the new born vampires, but the ancient ones, leaders among their kind, monsters among humans.
The spike that had lit up the air that night, was the awakening of The No-Life King, after a slumber of 20 years.
When Hadrian appeared into the dungeon with a teen aged girl, an older man and an awakening corps in it, glee began to make itself known, Dracula had risen again, and this time, Death would be at his side.
Integra Hellsing still remembered the day she met him, it was the same day she met Alucard. The day her uncle tried to murder her, but was killed by Death instead.
Her uncle had gone mad with anger after her father, Arthur, had chosen her as new head of the Hellsing family, when she had hide in the airshafts, she heard him planning her murder, with her father's last worlds in mind, she had rushed to the dungeons, expecting something more than she found.
The corps that lay there, didn't look like it would give her much help, so she despaired when he uncle found her, even more when he aimed a gun at her and shot.
She was never so glad he missed and only grazed her arm, but it had started something, the blood that spattered from it, had been licked up by the corpse chained to the wall. Red eyes had focused on her and on her uncle, it had killed the 3 other man that had followed her uncle.
And just when he wanted to kill her uncle, another figure stepped out of the shadows, dressed in dark green and black, with long black hair and unnatural green eyes, the young man, because she had no other thoughts as to what he could be, had turned his eyes on her uncle, and apparently deemed him unworthy, in a ring of fire, the man was swallowed into the ground.
When she wondered where he had gone, the vampire next to her answered, "to hell."
It had taken her quite some time to take it all in, in a joint effort of the the males, she was lead to the office that was now hers. As she was seated, the Vampire introduced himself as Alucard, claiming she was his master from now on, as he served the Hellsing family. Had done so since Abraham Van Hellsing.
The other man had introduced himself as Hadrian Perevell. And he had smiled at her, and offered her his help, not knowing what else to do, she had accepted. When she had asked what exactly he was, it had been Alucard who answered, "Death."
That was how she had both met Alucard and Death, and now, she had never been happier to meet with them.
She turned to the man now standing to her left, her hand still in his grasp. His unnatural eyes staring into hers, a brush in her mind, told her she had to open herself up, he had to tell her something.
In his warm voice he told her of the Major's plan, involving Schrödinger; the cat-boy who could be anywhere and nowhere, in the destruction of Alucard. Well, not his destruction but as she saw how it could turn, she did not want to be the one to take away Death's husband for 30 years. She almost screamed with rage as she saw Walter with the enemy, but was soon calmed, when she saw his die on an operation's table, she would miss the man he was. So she stayed quiet. And nodded to the man who had been her best friend in the last 10 years.
She even gave a laugh at the evil smile on the man's face; oh the Major was in for something. She was sure he had already made sure the Major wouldn't leave the battle field alive; neither would his troops or any of his men. Same with the crusaders, they had killed without blame or worry, breaking the vow the first pope had made in presence of Hadrian's ancestor.
Those two men would paint London with blood tonight.
Alucard had cocked his head up to the side, wondering why Intergra hadn't given the command. The only conclusion he could come up with, would be... A smile appeared on his face, it looked like he would be able to feast together with his love tonight.
Hadrian smiled as he received a sliver of what his husband was thinking right now, a smile appeared on his face to. One that scared the shit out of the blond draculina next to Integra, who he guessed was Alucard's childe, he was having a word with the bastard, they had agreed not to add to their family just yet.
Maybe he could do that now, just to scare the shit out of the wannabe nosferatu and the violators of the holy act of St. Peter, the first pope.
With a grin to Integra he disappeared into the shadows, only to appear next to a grinning husband and some very shocked other people.
Up in his zeppelin, the Major could only watch in horror as an unknown man appeared next to Alucard. No! That was not supposed to happen, who was he, what was his purpose there, questions stayed unanswered, seeing as the only man on his side who would know, had died on the operation table.
He suddenly grinned, it did not matter, this man was human, no red eyes in sight, nor did he wear a cross or any other religious symbol, he would be dead in minutes if he stayed there. He pushed away his worry and focused on the victory ahead, he would beat Alucard, he would win over Dracula, and the ultimate victory would be his.
Alucard could only grin as he looked at his husband, even when said husband had the look of trouble in his eyes, even when said husband began scolding him over him turning Seras, because they hadn't discussed it. He just had to keep grinning, as the horror spread over the faces of those present, he loved the face Maxwell and Anderson pulled, they even turned green as he stopped the ranting his husband had started by kissing his little Death.
Oh yes, he loved this part.
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