"A Different Heaven"
by istoleyourpeppers
Disclaimer: No ownership of Hellsing whatsoever.
Author's Note: Well, this is Chapter 3. So enjoy, try your best not to flame because this is my first Hellsing fic.
Chapter 3: Sounds of a Bell
Integra and Seras stayed hidden in the bushes behind a tree, spying on these shadows. They basically only took my sunglasses, they whispered some things, in an unintelligible way. Seras and Integra's curiosity only grew bigger, but they needed to keep distance in order to not be discovered.
"They must know something," Integra said in a low tone. "Though, how did they get into headquarters like that so fast and escape even faster?"
"I don't know, maybe they tried the window?" Seras replied.
"Even so"
With that, Integra focused her attention at the shadows until they quickly jumped away and escaped. They came to the conclusion that..
These shadows were not human...
"Will master be mad if his sunglasses were gone?" Seras pointed out with a sweat drop.
"That doesn't matter right now," Integra responded, "What matters is that whoever they are, they have entered private property and took something that were not theirs. Adding to that, they look highly suspicious about Alucard's disappearance"
Later, with no clues behind, they decided to go back. They arrived at the main entrance and discovered that the guards were still there. How did they really trespassed? What they do know though, that while they investigated by themselves, there was a dead animal on the floor somewhere near a lower window with blood everywhere, like if their primary victim was the blood, not the animal. Otherwise, it would've been eaten by now....
Work of another vampire?
Then again, do vampires really do this kind of thing? Integra picked up its body, despite the fact there was blood everywhere on it. Even if Seras hungered for blood once in a while, she was completely not hungry for this.
So maybe they got some evidence after all...
They assumed that whoever knew about where I was, was not human. Because sincerely, who would kill an animal when the task was simply to steal my sunglasses?..
"It seemed more as if Alucard needed his sunglasses and ordered someone to pick it up for him," Integra added, as if it were a really important evidence.
Practically, it was. It was their first and only evidence at the minute and even so, things were still unclear. A being who is not human would've killed it, but a human would've also killed it to make a misleading evidence. Yet, who needed my sunglasses? With a failure of catching up to these shadows and only one ambiguous evidence was obtained, they headed inside.
Three years had passed already. Don't you hate it when this happens? Time flies. No matter how fast or slow you repeat the same words, time will continue and will not stop when you get tired of repeating them. But three years had passed, Seras was less concerned. She might've remembered that I disappeared every time she looked at her coffin, remembered she was a draculina or looked at her years discouraged their priority of even trying to guess. Integra thought about sending troops to look around the whole planet, but, it would've been too much of an effort for little chances of finding me. Only one evidence was gained..
Only one.
Seras entered the room I spent most of the time in. She looked around at the completely empty walls. There was a coffin in the middle, my coffin. She then approached it with caution, as if it were to be something so dangerous and then slowly opened it. To end up finding it quite empty, with nothing to look at. Her eyes suddenly turned red for some empty reason and found something quite well hidden in the coffin. She snatched it from a corner of it, to discover that it was a ribbon.
A red ribbon.
Now what would this ribbon tell her? What kind of evidence was that? She soon discovered that there was a little bell tied to it. She rang it.
"This doesn't make sense at all," Seras said to herself, "His disappearance was so strange. But this bell is even stranger, why would Master keep this inside his coffin?"
She took it with her and headed to Integra's office. Stepping inside and calling, "Integra-sama?" Which completely called her attention to her, "Yes, Seras?" she responded.
"I went to look inside master's coffin and-" Seras unfinished.
"Yes?" Integra responded.
"I found this." Seras then raised the bell tied to a red ribbon.
Integra was silent.
She didn't speak a word, she considered this to be nothing then just simply what it was: a bell tied to a red ribbon. How was this evidence? Integra stood up and picked it up from Seras's hand. She looked at it closely and curiously with one hand on her back. She began to question herself for answers she didn't know.
"Why would Alucard obtain this in the first place, I don't remember him owning a kitten," thought Integra. "Or maybe... it isn't a kitten, but something stranger"
Far stranger...
Seras was playing Guitar Hero for large amounts of time overnight, trying to beat my highest score. When she finally broke it (psht baka), she celebrated and danced everywhere, singing her song of victory. Though she had stopped and thought for a second, looking at her TV through her TV screen. The same thought came to her mind, "Something must be done," over and over, haunting her. All she needed to know was relate my disappearance to the last possible clue she had already collected. It was really hard for her to, if she only came as far as becoming a police girl and then finally, a draculina. She hadn't studied anything far off what she had become. Though...
She did remember...
When they were chasing the shadows three years ago, it seemed as if a kitten was around as well. What? If the subjects were kittens, why would they kill an animal merely for its blood? That was interesting to think of. Kittens eat the animal, despite how badly the blood tastes for them. So no, it was impossible. Maybe a new a creature who enjoyed blood happened to wear this. If this were to be true, Seras and Integra needed to be careful. Whatever this creature was, if it was unknown, it would've been almost impossible to find out a way to catch up to it safely and obtain some information. She wondered if I would actually return and this trail looking adventure was unnecessary. If I were to return and everything would've returned back to normal. Yet, what did I mean by returning any time soon? Did I actually mean...
After three years or more?
She couldn't play this game anymore...
She knew that she can beat my highest score in other games! Time to use time wisely, what an idiot. I would buy these games merely because she asked me to, and I would also play them because she asked me to beat her score. Later Integra would become involved, she likes competition sometimes, I guess. My master, she would look at the window and deeply over think things. She even thought that Seras might've been right, I could be playing with their minds. But for three years? That raised more questions. I was a serious person, even if I played foolish games like Guitar Hero, I was so serious about many things.
Integra and Seras missed me so much, hm?
Seras came into Integra's office once again, silently. She saw Integra looking out from the window, with a cigar on her mouth. Has she ever thought about getting cancer with one of those? Moving on, Seras had a long face, knowing what might've troubled Integra. She sighed and told her,
"Ano, this may sound akward but," Seras started, "Want to do something different, Integra-sama?"
She looked back from the window..
"Something, different?" Integra finally responded.
"Yes! I think since Alucard is not around...How do I say this?" Seras sighed, "We should have some lady time?"
Integra looked at her strangely, "What?"
"You know... 'girl time'?"
Integra looked back at the window. It seemed like a try that quickly failed, but Integra turned around after a couple of minutes..
"Alright, we will..." Integra finally said. "But please, let's get an ice cream cone first"
Seras smiled, how often does this happen? They both dressed normally and went off to a city filled with many stores. The sun was not very bright, yet it was still there. They went everywhere, just to stop thinking about how worried they were in real.
Later, they both sat down on a table outside of a restaurant. Orders were not made yet, but something was heard...
A bell.
Seras blinked and thought about the bell she found earlier. Timed practically stopped, it was just her and the sounds of that bell. Her eyes widened and it concerned Integra, Integra was having a drink and reading some newspaper earlier. Seras, at first, thought she had gone insane. But she hasn't, she really hasn't. It was there alright, Seras looked everywhere around the people, but no one seemed to have had the bell.
"Seras, what's wrong?" Integra finally asked.
"That bell, can you hear it?" Seras questioned as a reply.
And the bell was at it closer..
"I hear it" Integra replied. "But, how are we so sure it's just an ordinary bell?"
Someone had passed, with a cape and hood, the bell seemed to be heard louder when he or she did. It seemed like a child, but then when the child walked away. Maybe it was just an ordinary child, many keep bells as a treasure, or do they? The strange fellow already disappeared. Seras seemed a bit troubled, it sounded the same as the bell she found, the exact same! Even so, she had to ignore it.
There was no telling if it had anything to do with it..
Later, a scream was heard. Yes, a scream. It alarmed both ladies and made them run into the situation, because it sounded the scream of a child. Everybody else was concerned too, but, they continued their lives, ignoring the situation. When Integra and Seras arrived, it was a man. He seemed to want something from her, the man opened the cape to do cruel things to her. Integra took out her gun as soon as she could and aimed at the man.
"Leave that child alone, at once" Integra ordered.
The man had turned around, grabbing the child by one hand and revealing her head. Black hair, pale skin. Seras blinked when she saw this and then shook her head. The man began to laugh, no words seemed to fall out of his lips.
He just laughed.
The girl began to cry, and then put her free hand in her cape, pulling out a gun she had on her own. But this was the most surprising fact: it was silver, with the name "Hellsing" over it and all those details Hellsing guns usually had.
She what?
Was carrying my gun?
A/N: I'll end it here, chapter 3. I wrote longer this time, and may continue this way. This chapter ain't so funny, but sure, go ahead. Read and Review, avoid flames and stay alert for chapter 4!