Chapter 3: First Mission
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Aside from the heavy revolver that he kept in his pocket, Brian carried the standard assault rifle used by the Hellsing organization with silver rounds. The blood pack that he had been given had been left unattended to because he couldn't drink the blood. He'd put the blood pack to his mouth, but every time it came to his lip he couldn't take a bite into it. He couldn't take a sip of the dark red liquid in the pack, couldn't partake of the blood no matter how much his inner being wanted the blood. It was a forbidden fruit that if tasted would have some consequence of unknown proportions and he would find that he had changed into something terrible. He hoped that Seras wouldn't see, he'd hate have to disappoint her after she looked out for him for so long and for some reason he felt something for her, a love that he couldn't categorize. Every single thing up until then had seem so unreal, but right there was something that seemed so real that it was hard to tell if everything else about his life had been some fabrication. A dream within a waking dream that he could never wake up from and he would be left with a hunger for something that was wanted and unwanted, allowed, but at the same time forbidden to him.
He didn't know how fast the transport vehicles moved, but they seemed to take so long as they moved towards the target or maybe it was just pre-mission jitters coming up to give him hell. It would be his first mission, but it wasn't that fact that made him annoying, it was the fact that this would be his first mission as a vampire. The vehicle stopped and was immediately unloaded of all the troops that were inside of it, one of them being Brian himself along with his master, who seemed to have something occupying her mind at the moment. The team made it's sweep of the outside, finding nothing there, but a few broken fences, meaning that the enemy was either more comfortable inside or were short in number. Either way the situation was favorable to Brian who was quickly being switched from different perspectives and abilities, like someone was pumping him with a steroid that lasted for a few seconds. Everything was confusing for the new fledgling and he was wondering which direction to choose when he was pulled in that direction by his own master, who seemed a bit frustrated with him for not getting to it.
Inside of the halls of the building, an abandoned factory, the pale moonlight lit up the walls with the most delicious visual bouquet that seemed so inviting to Seras. Much like his eyes that night, thought Seras as she walked on, but she stopped for a second. Why did I just think that? That was just another one of those stupid thoughts I've been having lately, most of them are about master now, but what can that mean? I can't actually be falling for master can I? It was then that she noticed the great detail at which her fledgling had stopped and looked around at, sometimes squinting other times his eyes were wide open. He must be having problems adjusting to his new powers or at least he seems to be doing terrible with his eye sight.
"Is there a problem, Brian," asked Seras as she looked at her confused fledgling and watched him turn around sheepishly to shake his head. "You're eye sight must be adjusting, you just need to realize that you don't see like a human, you see like you have a third eye in your head, nothing more and nothing less. Even I had to learn that so don't get all embarrassed about that."
"You have feelings for Lord Alucard, do you not, master," asked Brian as he looked at her, he seemed so obedient like a puppy dog.
"What makes you think that," asked Seras defensively as she stepped toward him and Brian, never being the best expert on women stood his ground, even if it was his master he had to help her clear her mind. It just would have been more comfortable for him to have cowered back when he said what he said.
"I've seen the way you look at him, when he just stands there waiting for something," replied Brian as he stood his ground firmly and said those words without hesitation, adding, "And you seem to be thinking about him so much since he offered the blood to you, master. You want to take it, deep down inside even though you may think you don't want it you really do. There is something in your eyes that lit up when he offered the blood to you and he knows that sooner or later you will accept the blood from him and you and he will walk the night forever. In truth, you love him, but at the same time you only see yourself as his toy and think that Integra could be his real lover, the queen on his arms. The thing that keeps you from taking the blood is the fear that it would be the end of his interest in you."
Seras slapped him across the hall, the fledgling taken aback by the strength his master had. After she had done that she didn't know why she had done it, but what was done was done and all she could do now was help Brian to his feet.
"I'm sorry about that, I guess you just got far to the truth," said Seras as she held herself and looked at her fledgling. "I don't even know how he feels about me and he has always been by her side, the side of Integra, offering her the blood just as much as he offers me and there are times when I wonder if he has taken us both for a ride. This must truly be Alucard's power, to unleash something inside us females that makes us weak against his charm and soon we find ourselves flocking to his side, just to be with him, even if it were for just a night. I just don't want to give in for one night, I can't control the way I feel, but there is a part of me that wants it just like that."
"I swear, it seems Hellsing does better with soap operas than it does with hunting," said a voice from above them that belonged to a very cocky vampire who was standing above them with guns pointed, but as soon as he fired his weapons, his targets were out of his sight.
"Target twenty centimeters from the chandelier," called out Brian as he started firing his assault rifle at the vampire and fired off a burst of three bullets to buy his master the right amount of time for her to take a shot and fire. "Wait, I have ghouls, dead ahead."
"Take out the vampire while I fire an incendiary round at the third rank," ordered Seras as she slammed the round into the cannon while her fledgling ran ahead of her firing at the dodging vampire until he had turned around a corner out of sight. "Damn it, Brian, don't leave my sight."
Once she had dealt with the ghoul problem, Seras picked up her cannon and ran into the corner that her fledgling had gone, only to find Brian running while gunning down a vampire with a wound on his right arm. Strangely he seemed weaker than he should be and she wondered if he was weaker because she wasn't a full vampire when she bit him. Then it hit her with all the force of a freight train. He's not consumed the blood that I gave him! She mentally kicked herself for not thinking about that possibility as she ran to assist him in his kill, her shots making sure to lure the vampire into his fire. As soon as the vampire jumped into his killzone, Brian lit up the creature of the night with a spray of bullets, all controlled despite the lack of pause during the spraying. It worked as the vampire had been turned into nothing but dust and Brian was able to sit down and relax before he felt the presence of something else. Jumping up, Brian was greeted by the sight of what seemed like a priest with what seemed like a priest.
'Iscariot," spat Seras as if it were some curse and that was all the indication that the priest was an enemy.
