just as an fyi, i have very little knowledge of other languages, so i really just picked a random language for the spells. hope you like, because i'm expecting at least one new review before i post the next chapter. i like hearing what people think about the story. oh, and if i'm going to be able to post another chapter of psycho truth or dare, i'm going to need a few reviews that actually contain questions or dares for the characters.

thanks to my one reviewer for the advice on my formatting.

CHAPTER 2: THE BRIDE IN BADRICK

Shadra is indeed awake when Integra enters Alucard's bedroom, sitting on the side of the coffin putting her shoes on as if she's not doing anything unusual, which for her, it isn't. When the door opens, she turns her eerie green eyes to look at who's coming in, her gaze going past Integra and straight to Alucard's sunglasses covered gaze. Integra sees this and sighs a little before saying, "Shadra, right? It's been a while since we last saw each other."

Shadra nods in agreement with Integra, still looking at Alucard when she answers, "Ten years, I believe. I don't suppose Papa actually sent any of the letters I asked him to, though."

Integra blushes at the mention of the letters. Itachi had indeed mailed them, but as they were all addressed to Alucard, she hadn't opened them. She hadn't even thought to give them to him. Alucard raises an eyebrow at the sight of Integra's blush, "What letters is she talking about? Were they perhaps for me?"

Before anything else can be said, one of Integra's employees comes in with a report of a vampire in Badrick, Ireland. Integra immediately has Alucard get "Police Girl" and head out to the site. Shadra insists on going with them, promising not to get in the way and help as much as she can. She's not all that thrilled when she sees that "Police Girl" is the woman she saw Alucard carry out of Cheddar, but she doesn't say anything about it as they move out.

On the way to Badrick, "Police Girl" suggests that Shadra stay out of the building, as she apparently has no weapons with her. In answer to this, Shadra sticks her hand into a shadow beside her and pulls out a bow and quiver of arrows. Alucard whistles a little when he sees that the weapons are inscribed with archaic runes, mostly endurance spells on the arrows, but near the head of each arrow is the rune for hellfire. The bow has the rune for fear inscribed in several places.

About an hour later, the three of them are inside a building near Badrick, systematically destroying the ghouls with ease. Shadra takes out three ghouls with each arrow, turning each one to ash almost as soon as the head makes contact. She's sitting beside Alucard, taking a break and watching "Police Girl" take out the last of the ghouls, when she hears the sound of fighting from upstairs. She's about to voice this to Alucard when a ghoul lands between them, though she simply takes an arrow and hits the ghoul with it before it can do anything, while Alucard admonishes his fledgling to aim for either the heart or head when killing ghouls. She feels the breeze as something passes between them just before a bayonet stabs the fledgling vampire through the neck. Both she and Alucard scramble to their feet as a volley of bayonets follows the first one, stabbing her through the torso. Shadra, feeling that she will need the element of surprise when she realizes that the bayonets have been blessed, flickers into invisibility and has a shadow swallow up her weapons. She quickly speaks to Alucard telepathically "I think this might be someone from Iscariot. He probably doesn't know that I'm with Hellsing yet, so I can surprise him with an arrow in the back if you need me."

Alucard smirks at this, heading over to his fledgling to try and remove the bayonets from her back. Shadra helps him until they hear footsteps coming down the stairs, and Alucard is quick to look that way as he hears Shadra pulling something out from somewhere on her body, nearly laughing when she says, "It's a silver dagger I keep sheathed on the back of my neck. Keep you head out of the gutter, cutie."

The priest from Iscariot reaches the bottom of the stairs, holding a blood-drenched bayonet in each hand as he and Alucard start talking and walking towards each other. When Shadra hears that the priest is none other than Father Alexander Anderson, the Paladin, she nearly stumbles backwards. Even the Kage family is wary of the regenerator, since Iscariot can't tell the difference between partial and full-fledged vampires. Alucard hears the small intake of breath from Shadra and whispers into her mind, "Don't worry, Princess, he won't be able to hurt you as long as I'm nearby." ,just before Anderson attacks him, earning bullets to the head from Alucard's Caswell before he goes back over to his fledgling to try and remove more of the bayonets from her back. Shadra positions herself silently between Alucard and the body of the priest, knowing that he's a regenerator. Sure enough, just as Alucard is about to reach for one of the bayonets, Anderson comes up behind him and tries to stab him in the back with two of the blessed blades. The attack goes through the invisible Shadra instead, though the ends of the blades go into Alucard's back just as Shadra becomes visible again and lets out a shriek of pain that shatters the windows nearby, as well as both Anderson's glasses and Alucard's sunglasses. Alucard is quick to pull off of the blades and pull Shadra free of them as well before emptying several more rounds into Anderson.

As Shadra lays on the ground next to the woman she sees as her rival for Alucard's undead heart, the sounds of the battle continue around her. She almost desperately opens a shadow near her hand, large enough to put half of her arm into, and grasps hold of a "leather" bag floating in the shadow world, pulling it free of the shadows with an almost nonexistent clink of crystal pieces hitting each other. She whispers into the other woman's mind then, "I can't get the bag open myself. It was all I could do to get it out of the shadows. Get out one of the black bottles marked with the letter P for me, will you? The contents will help to speed my healing so I can move again when the time comes." The fledgling quickly does as she's asked, noticing that there are several different colors, and the black bottles are all inscribed with an initial. She grabs the first one she finds with the initial P on it and helps Shadra drink the contents. The red liquid smells of blood, but a kind that the fledgling can't place. Almost as soon as the bottle has been emptied into Shadra's body, her wounds begin to visibly heal, and she's soon able to sit up on her own, looking more annoyed at the damage to her clothes than the wounds she received as she takes the bottle from the fledgling and puts it back into the bag, then returns the bag into the shadow world. They turn towards the fight just in time to see Alucard pinned to a window by a volley of Anderson's bayonets, but they're unable to move in time to save Alucard from a decapitation.

Shadra's green eyes turn the same shade of red as her hair in her anger as she gets to her feet with a growl of hatred directed at Anderson, "Seras, get your master's head and run for it. I'm going to have a few words with the human." The fledgling quickly moves to do as she's told when she faintly smells ozone radiating from the seething red head beside her.

Once Seras is out of sight, trying to find an exit with Alucard's head in her arms, Shadra walks towards Anderson in much the same way Alucard did just before the battle, only instead of trading insults with the priest, she's reciting a spell in Latin:

I call upon Prince Abadon,

I have need of thee,

Who are brother to the shadow three.

Grant me the powers of the Shadow of Nobility.

Let my enemy feel her electricity!

Hear me, fallen archangel,

Grant your daughter her desire.

Let my enemy be engulfed,

In the jet black

HELLFIRE!

With her last words, Shadra's left hand is covered in electrical sparks, while her entire right arm is engulfed in jet black flames. At the same time, her eyes change to match the colors of the elements she's using. She then takes off running towards Anderson, punching him in the gut with her electrified left hand, then in the face with the flaming right. The flames from her right hand quickly begin to engulf Anderson's body as the two elements fade from around Shadra, her eyes returning to their natural eerie green color as she stalks over to Alucard's body and removes the bayonets from it. She smiles with a psychotic twinkle to her eyes when she hears the sound of bats coming towards the building, turning to walk in the direction that Seras took, only to find that Anderson has already gone after her. She quickly takes off to try and catch up to them, stopping a bit away from the scene that she comes upon when she sees that Integra is present. Anderson is still burned from the flames she used on him, but the burns are visibly healing as he attacks Integra.

They all turn to look towards a nearby window when a flock of bats come in and Alucard reforms with his Caswell aimed at Anderson and his face stretched into his trademark insane smirk.