Maximus Ride pulled her blond hair behind her head and looked back at her pursuers. Behind were the fat wings of the massive beastmen known as erasers. This time however, they couldn't drive them off. This was in a sence a dogfight between the small nimble flock, and a couple dozen fur clad bombers.
Crack...ZIP!
A projectile had just passed inches from Max's face, fired from a rifle that an eraser had slung from his shoulder. He barked an order and each eraser unloaded their own firearm.

Why me!

Max pulled back her wings and fell like a stone. This saved her from a fate of turning to swiss cheese, but now she was falling and the G-force was holding back her ingrown parachute. With a sudden burst of energy, she pushed her wings back out and leveled off at two hundred feet. This manuver not only saved her life, but left the opposing forces far behind. Well, most of them at least. A couple had maintained their flight pattern instead of shooting.
These two soared after max, intent on tearing her apart. She accelerated forward, trying to escape. Ahead was a cliftside that just beyond lead into a small valley. Trees obsured any caves where she could hide. Her worry stemmed from the fact that the Erasers might have been slower and easy to escape from, but the rest of the flock had shot off at the initial encounter, and she knew that they were still being hunted. She was afraid that a helicopter or more gunmen might show up. There would be no one to hear or see the attack up in the cold forrest. No human existed up in this forsaken land. Cold, numbing, and foggy.
The world went dark.
A chill decended down her back as a deep laugh coated her in fear. Ahead, standing out from the treeline, was a man bearing red clothing.

"The hell! Whats going on!"

The last words out of the erasers mouth as an unseen bullet pierced his heart.

"Brother!" The other yelled in horror.

He joined his sibling as another shot rung out and took his life.
Max just stopped dead. She hovered with widened eyes. But as scarred as she was, the man seemed to becon her twoards him.

"Who are-"

"Someone who can save you and your friends."

She felt as though she was spiralling.

Need to...height...falling.

She disappeared into the treeline.
_

She began to stir. Her body had gone limp, but she could still move her head and eyes. She looked up and locked her eyes on a pale face.

"Welcome back girl." The red man grinned.

Max realized then that she was being held by the man. She wondered how she had surrvived the fall.

"I caught you." He responed to the unasked question.

"How long-"

"Too long. Your friends are most definately on their last legs, or more likely dead."

This sent a shock through her nervous system and she bolted up and out of his arms. She began to run but collapsed. She looked at her leg and gasped at what she saw. A bullet had gone right through it and almost hit the bone. Standing wasn't an option.

"You! You did this!" She yelled at Alucard who was offering her a hand up.

"One of the freaks must've hit you, and you didn't even notice. Intresting."

But the aldrenaline rush had worn off. A rush of shear agony sent Max whimpering back into the ground.

"So. How does it feel? I forgot a long time ago."

Max opened her eyes just for a moment and saw a hulking shadow fall over her savior.

"LOOK OUT!" She yelled.

A clawed hand tore through the figure, shredding his coat and slicing deep into his back. Then he was tossed away like trash. The monsters attention was on Max, not some man. In a rage fed frenzy, the beast stomped on Max's stomach. She coughed up a lot of blood before finally getting a scream out. The beast retracted, and grabbed max by the throat. The eraser raised her in the air as she struggled to get free. But then a white hand burried into the shoulders fur and forced the wolf man to it's knees. Both the eraser and bird girl were astonished by the strength this person displayed.

"Throw me back. You dare pretend like you are better? You are mearly a vessle for my drink. Die."

His fangs cut through the rough canine skin with ease. Drawing his fill he kicked the carcass away.

"You tasted like shit anyway." He muttered, wiping his mouth.

She couldn't escape. This man, he was so powerfull. But it was strange, the one thing through her head wasn't anger, or even fear. It was envy, why couldn't she have that power? The flock depended on her to be the leader, and now all she could do was wait for them to find the bodies.

"You want to be able to save them. Very well, but I will let you make the choice." Alucard bent over and looked into her eyes. "Do you want to be enpowered."

I...I can't see. Too much blood gone. Just say yes.

Don't do it max.

I have to. I'm sorry.

"Yes!"

The vampire grinned and knelt to her side.

"I am Alucard. Tonight, you become one of us."