Among the Stars

by WaveMoonstone

D is tired of the monotonous life he's been living for the last millennial and on a impulse boards an old noble starship to take him somewhere else, anywere else. What will he do once the dhampire realizes he's been thrown into a whole different world, one with the Hellsing organization? Vampire Hunter D/Alucard.

1. Chapter 1

D was tired and bored of his monotonous existence. Hunting nobles for many would be exhilarating and frightening but after a couple thousand years, it offered no more adventure than chopping wood. The nobility were obnoxious at best and malicious at the worst but humans were no better. They wanted nothing to do with him short of sticking his head on a pike. Toleration for dhampires ended with their usefulness towards the townspeople on the Frontier, it was fine when they were doing the dirty work and hunting the Nobility for them, but once the offending vampires had been staked and all was said and done dhampires were all but chased out of town.

This world offered nothing else for him. The nobility were finally becoming eradicated and humans were filling the world to the brim. Small villages had grown three-fold in the last two hundred years, and the corners of the map were filling in. Nature shrunk as towns expanded and that left D with more and more interactions with humans, humans who did not appreciate seeing a live dunpeal. He had enough money to buy any weapons and trinkets he wanted, but he never had strong desires for material items and so a great deal of his wealth was untouched.

So when he found the rocketship in abandoned ruins of a noble castle, he didn't simply ignore it and move on as he would have merely a hundred years ago. But now, he was lost in thought as he stared up at the ship's delicate metal spires, wrought over the ship in an old fashioned style that mimicked the romantic period. The ships prime had obviously long passed- the sanguine paint of the ship was old and discolored in large, dark patches across the hull and the metallic bronze color of the axillary pieces had peeled off in most places.

Where could the ship take him? To a nearby planet or to all the way to another star system? The noble Carmilla mentioned something about a place among the stars where vampires and humans lived in harmony. What a ridiculous thought! Vampires and humans could live together as peacefully as wolves and sheep could.

That one noble and his human lover –Charlotte?- had seemed to think so. But that woman was dead and the noble had left the planet with her body in a rocketship. The ship seemed to fly away alright but just before it just escaped the atmosphere, something had gone wrong. The ship seemed to slow to a painful grind, trying to fight the g-forces in order to climb higher into the sky, and eventually it was unable to go any higher and proceeded into a downward arch where it exploded upon impact within a nearby forest.

D had a vague sense of regret that he had never been interested in learning much about interstellar travel, it had seemed at the time to be no more than a passing fad for Nobles to pass the time. In some ways it was but stellar travel was a lot more interesting now that D had seemingly nothing else to do to break the routine his life had become.

What would happen if he left on the rocketship? It was infuriating that he would not know unless he committed to the action of leaving. Excitement and fear gnawed at his insides for the first time in decades; his curiosity and sense of adventure had never been so alit. He already knew what was going to happen on this planet for next 10,000 years; the humans would continue to fight the remaining nobility until there was no more, start wars, expand towns. But he could not do more than vaguely guess as to what was at the other end of the rocketship. And that sent trails of excitement shooting from his spine.