Chapter 2
973 A.D.
Alucard stood on the hill, overlooking the small village. His eyes were vibrant with greed and hunger. His hands had a faint coat of red on them, dried blood from past attacks. The night was still, silent; as if it was waiting for a storm to come. His eyes were racing over every housetop. The straw covering of most of them made his snicker. This village was poor. Alucard licked his dried out lips. Lines of dried blood were all over his face. Caked blood made his clothes stiff. All he had was a pair of shaggy pants and a farmers' shirt on. There were sentries on the outskirts of the town. Word of him had reached this place.
Alucard had been raiding villages out of pure hunger. Each night, the moon would have a faint red tint in it. Alucard would pick out a village and drink the blood of all the villagers, killing them, absorbing their souls. He licked his lips again and started chuckling uncontrollably. He walked slowly, at first, towards the village. Then he began to jog, then sprinted. He leapt on top of the first sentry. He let out a short scream; Alucard ripped his throat out. The other four sentries heard him and let out an alarm.
The villagers immediately started getting out spears and swords, trying to protect themselves. Alucard laughed, blood fell from his mouth. He lunged at the closest sentry and bit his shoulder. The sentry screamed, it was cut off by Alucard; ripping his head off. He laughed and sucked the blood that squirted from the sentry's neck. The remaining three sentries charged at Alucard, spears pointed at him. Alucard laughed and let them stab them. They were silent for a moment, then Alucard grinned and grabbed two of the sentries by the heads and squeezed them until their heads exploded. The last sentry started to back away in fear. Alucard laughed and eyed his neck. He grabbed his arm and pushed him to the ground. Alucard bit his neck and sucked out his blood. He then grabbed the man's neck and ripped it in half. Alucard laughed and looked to the frightened villagers.
"What's the matter?! Haven't you ever seen a thirsty vampire before?!" He yelled. The villagers were frozen.
"I GUESS NOT!!" He flew into the village, killing the villagers in blind hunger.
In a short amount of time, Alucard was sitting on a pile of dried out corpses, biting into the arm of a woman with no head. His eyes were a little calmer than before. His clothes were soaked with blood. A shadow fell across the village. Alucard didn't notice it. A woman with a flowing red cape appeared behind him. Alucard's eyes widened, he snarled; showing his bloody red teeth.
"Oh my god, Alucard… you are such a messy asshole…" She said. Alucard growled.
"What you doing here Shizumo? I thought you went back him to your little daddy," He spat.
"Ha! 'Little Daddy?' Are you trying to make fun of me? Because you are so horrible at it." Shizumo looked around at the scene Alucard made again.
"God you are so sloppy. You can't even get rid of these bodies. I thought I've been hearing news of a bloody awful vampire. Never thought he'd be this damn awful." Alucard snarled at her. Shizumo chuckled.
"What are you doing here?"
"Oh… nothing… I just came here like I said 1000 years ago… to check up on you. Have you gotten stronger? You killing all these people, I can only hope you did." Alucard threw the woman's arm away. He stood up.
"Oh? So now you think you can kill me?? Pft! What a load of shit…" He said. Shizumo smiled slightly.
"And the game begins…" She muttered. Alucard stood up suddenly and lunged at Shizumo. She caught his arms and tossed him to the side. He stood up, brushed his arms for dirt and glared at her. Shizumo wiggled her finger, as if to say 'come here'. He slowly walked around her. He lunged at her again, this time; he bit her hand. Shizumo hissed and slapped his face. Alucard grinned and licked her blood from his lips. Shizumo examined her hand and growled.
"You little shit face!! You put poison in it!! I'm going to fucking pull your insides out! You'll shit through your mouth!" She appeared behind him and grabbed his neck; she dug her claws into his skin. Alucard grimaced and hissed. Shizumo pulled her hand back violently, causing Alucard's neck to start spurting blood. He growled and covered his wound with his hand. He and Shizumo faced each other, hatred in each other's eyes. Alucard grinned.
"I've been waiting to use this…" He muttered. Shizumo blinked.
"And just what is it?" She yelled. Alucard glanced up at her, one eye peering at her through his hair. A network of eyes sprouted up all over his body. Shizumo's eyes widened. Tendrils of darkness sprouted from his body, the branched out, eyes popping up all over them. They took the shape of dog's heads. Shizumo watched his power grow. The eyes all stared at her. Alucard grinned and lashed out his tongue. The dogs swarmed towards her. Shizumo smiled slightly and stood her ground. They enveloped her. Alucard laughed.
"Fool! Only an idiot would stay put when my dogs come out!! HAHA!" He stopped. His power was pulling back to him, like his dogs were afraid of something. The darkness retreated to show Shizumo with a hand over half of her face, as if hiding something. She was grinning wildly, eyes wide. She also had a series of eyes showing on her. Her hair was sprayed out to look like wings. Shizumo chuckled.
"Dogs are afraid of those that can kill easily… Heh…" she said. Alucard gasped.
"How… How?!" He yelled. Shizumo cleared her throat, the eyes disappeared and her hair returned to normal.
"I'm quite impressed at the fact that you learned that on your own in 1000 years, or even less since I'm just seeing this. It shows that you've grown. Your skin has toughened and your skills are getting sharper. But… why did you kill so many humans? You know it causes trouble," She said.
"I was thirsty!! How did you survive?!"
"Hmm? Oh… I'm the one who originally taught that to you, remember? In Hell? Don't you remember that? You went through it like it was nothing. So I'm not that surprised that you learned it." She walked towards him.
"I can now accept you as my student as I did back in Hell." Alucard froze. His eyes glued to Shizumo. There was a hint of surprise in them.
"Student? You accept me? If this is a joke, it is god awful…"
"Heh… Sure… it is a joke in his eyes but it's the real thing, Alucard. I'm giving you the honor of becoming my student. It's really quite a once in a millennium deal."
"I wouldn't want to become someone's student who hasn't defeated me!!" Alucard yelled. Shizumo laughed and shook her head.
"I haven't defeated you yet? Are you kidding me? What was that? What just happened? Your own pets… your own powers went on pure instinct and backed off of a more powerful being that could have easily destroyed it with a life of a clawed finger. Your powers know what to think better than you do. Such a fools decision Alucard," Shizumo explained. Alucard growled. He knew what she was talking about. Inside him, the souls he absorb were all cowering in fear. His pets that he fed with those souls were trembling with submissive fear. Alucard knew he was cornered, but that didn't mean he had to give up.
"Why would I even listen to you?! So what if you taught me a lot of things in Hell, I could care less! What matters is that I'm up here, I'm strong, and I've grown so much stronger than you!" He yelled. Shizumo snickered.
"Trying to save yourself through bluffs? Alucard… such foolish words. Maybe in about… 1500 years or so, you have a little chance of saying that truthfully and with confidence. Right now, your soul is trembling… those you ate are trembling. Even your pets are trembling. So just save your ass now and shut the fuck up," She growled. Alucard opened his mouth to say something, then bit down on his lip. Shizumo walked towards him slowly. She placed a hand on his shoulder.
"Your requirement for your training with me is at least 500 years… under stand?" She murmured in his ear. Alucard nodded, anger flaming in his eyes. Shizumo smiled and started walking slowly up the hill Alucard descended on the village from. Alucard turned around slowly and started walking behind her. Shizumo looked over her shoulder, examining him. In her eyes, he still looked like the same child-like vampire she raised and trained in Hell. He had the anger in his eyes he had when he never had his way. Shizumo chuckled softly and turned to look at the moon. It went back to its normal white color. She started to hum a toneless song and started to skip lightly. Alucard growled and rolled his eyes.
