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Chapter 4: Curiosity reveals the Cat! Part: 2
As Seras continues her investigations of the adbuctions by infiltrating the gang base, she discovers something alarming! Dancing and bedazzling lights! but she is not fool by this cover-up, a suave man attempts to charm her and curiousity reveals a very dangerous cat.
It's very dark out and not a single star or moon in the sky. A very quiet and misty night, its nights like this that you want to just stay at home but atlas Sera's has her orders and she must carry them out. Sera's wearing her black mini skirt, black boots and low cut black shirt, she takes in the sight of Montgomery building position north about 3 blocks away from her current position. The red brick building appeared to resemble a warehouse with a single door, the windows were dark and shady, there was construction tape around the west and south of the building, bricks and stone rested on the ground beside the building as if they were planning to renovate it.
Seras's field of vision is impeccable just like a night owl she can clearly see people moving about in their own way, moving into their own directions, night creatures scurrying along trying to use the mask of the night to hid themselves from human view. She glances down to her side at the large guitar shape case that secretly hid her Harkonnen 3 which was disassembled into the black box. With today's technology it is easy to store such large weapons and reassemble them quickly if need be.
Two other Hellsing operatives joined the investigation case, both men wearing civilian clothing stayed close to Seras. "Alright then, we will infiltrate the building, remember don't use your weapons unless provoked, we are only investigating the case, we want to limit the civilian causality and not exposed ourselves to the public" said Sera Victoria.
"Aye Ma'am" acknowledge by the two men.
Seras walks out towards the building; the two men followed closely behind her. She spots the kids from the convenience store the other day and watches as they walked up the stone stairs and knock on the door, a security guard opens the door and allow them in. Is that how the gang manages to keep their headquarters from the police? No one will suspect anything if a security guard is on watch? Seras and the two men behind her reached the stairs and walks up to the door. She knocks on the door as did the boys from earlier, a revolving click sound and the door opens, the security guard steps out. The guard makes a slight frown at the sight of Seras and her little gang.
"Whaddyah wont?" the guard spoke as if to sound as if they were an annoyance of some sort.
"I'm here for the Vjs" Seras said, having excellent hearing has come in handy for situation like this.
"Ah, go down the hall to your right." The guard steps aside allowing them to pass through, they walk down a white plastered hallway that leads to a silvered door elevator, there was only one button to the elevator that appears to only go downward. Seras presses the button and the elevator door opens revealing a purple cushion wall with blue marbled flooring. What an interesting interior for an elevator? So she thought. Seras and the operatives enter the elevator and proceed downward to the lower-level. The elevator door opens and a startling array of what it appears to look like a very large night club.
Lights dancing and blazing and dazzle about, it was very dark but the flashing of colors of the lights help guide them through the crowded area to the bar. This clubs had to almost be the height and size of an 8 to 10 story office building. There was a huge purplish 3 tiered balcony with a glass pink stair case in the center at of the balcony, two small tiered balconies made the left and right areas of the club. Half naked dancers swing and glide down on poles on the tiered glass floor platforms on the left and right tiered balconies, People dancing and drinking about almost appearing like drunken ballerinas at the center of the club.
The people all seemed human; she didn't sense anything unnatural about them, nothing out of the ordinary at least that's what it seemed. Seras' has never been in a night club before, so the overwhelming array of lights, music and people somewhat distracted her mind for the task at hand. Seras eyes drifted towards the center tier again, she notices the two boys again walking up the pink lighted stairs. This was her chance now to follow them and figure out what are their connections to the abduction and the gang. Seras turns around to the operatives to initiate the investigation of this mysterious night club.
"Jenkins try to get some information from the bartender, perhaps a local employee would know more than he should. Stewart sees if you can mingle with the crowd and grab some intel as well. I going to the tier 2 towards the VP Lounge Above that were I last saw those kids. Report anything that you find." commanded Seras.
"Aye Ma'am" said Jenkins and Stewart. Seras squeezes through the dancing crowd; it wasn't easy, there was a lot of maneuvering, some dodging of alcohol and of course the occasional creep who wants to dance with anything and everyone. Seras finally reaches the base of the pink lighted stairs and proceeds to walks up to tier 2, it was an open platform balcony that looked out down on the dance floor, Seras looked up above it almost as if the club was part of a different world, a different dimension somehow. It was otherworldly but real, big and infinite and dark, an infinite universe of some sort with twinkled stars shining below like a nebula.
"It's beautiful, isn't it?" Seras shocked by the Latin accent looks around to her right and saw a very well dress man. He had a black suit with a blue collar and gold cuff-links. His hair a honey blonde slicked backed, legs crossed and two beautiful ladies sitting beside him. The ladies attire weren't that of the dancers below but very elegant attire, very rich with fur coats long tight dresses with slits to the side exposing there well sculpture legs, hour glass curves and a low cut collar displayed their well-endowed cleavage, wonder why such high-class people doing in a place like this like? They didn't quite seem to match the appearances of the others on the dance floor or around the bar area.
The man motions the ladies to leave with a slight wave of his hand, the girls get up and moved down stair silently to the dance floor. There was this strange aurora about him, something unique but off-place about him like an open dream, it bordered around the world of fantasy and realism, his aurora seem different from the rest, no he stood out among the rest as if he was disturbing the normality of reality.
"I see….you're new here, you stand out like a mouse in a den field with cats, no?" the man made a slight chuckle. It sounded as if he was aware of whom she was but Seras couldn't understand the true meaning behind the phrase, it doesn't seem like her identity has been exposed, perhaps he was just joking. After all Seras was never suited for this types of night life, even though she has become a create of the night.
"Umm..AAh yes…I'm not a dancer" she made a soft laugh, she felt embarrassed by the statement. It's sounded worse than she realized, like she was some sort of mundane stuffy person, who bury themselves at home rather than joining the social life. Well at least she didn't revealed anything personal about herself, it would be a problem if her identity was found and that she works for Hellsing who was personally investing the gang, it might stare the gang members into hiding, or even worse they may purse action.
"It's very beautiful" sweetly spoken by Seras. The man gets up from the couch and walks up towards her.
"My name is Antonio Santiago Granoldiya but everyone calls me Santiago, I am the owner of this prestige night club, it is a pleasure Miss…." He gently reaches for Sera's hand that was position beside her and pulled Seras hand towards himself and bowed to kiss her hand.
"Ah, Seras I mean…ah Seras Victoria" she replied embarrassedly, she had slipped up and reveal her true name to this man, whom she didn't know nor wanted the leader of the gang to know her identity while she was investigating the abductions case.
"Such a lovely name for a lovely flower, Seras Victoria" Seras feeling a little agitated and uneasy about the situation scrambles to find words to escape this embarrassment, she quickly removes her hand from his grasp.
"Mi Casa, Su Casa, My castle is your castle. Enjoy yourself Miss Seras Victoria!" Santiago smirked, he walked up the steps to tier 1 where the VP lounge platform was, Sera's eyes followed his direction.
Seras has located the leader and follows him from a good distance behind him to tier 1, to her right was a large round couch area and another bar but no Santiago, the same to her left but straight in front of her was another flight of stairs which seems to be guarded by two very tall but slender boys, they both seem to look very similar to each other kind a like twins. Both of their hair was as white a snow as well as their skin, and their clothing looks like something from the 17 Century era both having a sabre on their sides. A drunkard fool stumbles up past Seras, she watches intuitively as the drunkard walks up to the twin.
"Lame'in, ah veed to speaaak to Santiago" the drunkard started to walk to the stairs and next thing you know, one of the twins grabs the man's arm and flunged him up in the air and the poor bastard landed on the other side of the platform.
"No one sees Santiago!" mentioned the other twin. Seras walks over to the drunkard and kneel beside him.
"Sir, are you all right?" Sera replied as she help lifted the man on his feet. His face was bloody, his nose was runny and as the man looked up towards Sera, and his eyes appeared to look like if he was high, it was glossy, his pupils were dilated, and there was this very strange red color ring around the pupil. Even stranger his wounds started to heal; Seras was shocked at what she has seen.
"La me go, ah need my Vjs!" said the stuttering man. Vjs this must be the drug that is circulating, it had to be vampire blood his wounds wouldn't have healed a quickly as that. Indeed this is a very interesting turn of events but how will she get up the stair with those two guarding it and they definitely didn't seem human. A human man would not be able to lift another 200 pounds man with just one arm and throws him across the room like a ball. Seras definitely has the strength to fight especially with her Harkonnen packed behind her in the black case but the people might get caught in the cross fire.
"Seras sir, Jenkins and I have gathered some very interesting intel" said Stewart.
"Roger that, I think I found out who maybe circulating the Vampire Blood, his name is Antonio Santiago Granoldiya" Sera radioed in from around the corner where no one could see her.
"Did you say Santiago Granoldiya? Oh Christ we have to scrape the mission!" said Jenkins.
"What do you mean scrape the mission, we have him!" Seras replied. What does this mean? The grand master of the circus is here and they want to scrape the mission, Seras thought to herself.
"Santiago Granoldiya belongs to a very noble family and their money is feeding the government and every other damn organization out there. We can't take him out as easily as you may think, Sir. Even if he may be a Vampire neither the local police nor the Convention of the Twelve have the power to oppose his family" replied Jenkins.
"What?!" Seras replied angrily, she couldn't believe in what she just heard. Does he really have that much power to stop the Britain's' forces?
"We are scraping the mission. We need to better assess the situation. Report back immediately, Seras" replied Stewart.
"Damn!" Seras stomp down the stairs she glances back at the VP lounge before continue down the stairs and exiting the night club.
The car pulls up to the mansion, the night was still early and the mission was a complete utter failure, not only could she not find and destroy the source of the abductions but she got side-tracked by some suave Spaniard who is definitely the leader in all of this. He maybe a vampire he was definitely not human, Seras sighed she has to report this to Sir Integra who won't be happy about this.
Seras gets out of the car and storms into the mansion and she heads towards Integras office. Seras makes a deep sigh as to brace for Integra's rage. Integra will surely have cow when she hears this, so she thought.
"Sir Integra, the mission.." Seras said as she walked through the door.
"Yes, I'm aware that the mission failed. Jenkins has reported first." replied Integra.
"Damn, I can't believe this. I have issued an emergency meeting with the other knights." spoke Integra. This is truly unacceptable; to think that man's family has that much power over Hellsing, over Great Britain is absurd. Attaining a meeting with the Convention of twelve may remove the restriction once they find out that he is a Vampire. For now there's nothing else that can be done.
"That is all Seras!" Integra replied.
"Yes, Sir" Seras walks out of her office and towards the basement. This night has been very exhausting to Seras but she could not get it out of her mind about Santiago and he's dealings. What type of power does he and his family?
Seras opens the door to her room and flops on her bed in a little fit of tantrum; she calms herself by making a deep sigh. She lifts her head slightly above the bed cushion; her eyes slowly darted left to right of the room. It was very quiet, normally Mina would have greeted her but she was nowhere to be found.
"Mina darling….where are you?" no sound it was quite in the room, not even a hiss or a whimper. There was no trace of the cat anywhere.
"Don't tell me, she got out again!" Seras runs out of the room and down the hallways.
"Mina…come here you stupid cat….If Integra find out you'll be sleeping with the fishes". She carefully called out the cats name; Seras didn't want anyone to know about the cat existence, especially Integra.
"Mina…there you are you silly puss. Let's go back to my room" The black cat seemed to almost come from the shadows of the corner of the walls. Normally, Sera's could sense her presence but it was as if there was nothing, like emptiness.
"I think not!" said the cat. Seras a bit shocked as to what was happening. Mina's blue eyes stared back at Seras and Seras stares back at the cat. The voice weird, it was high-pitch and childlike but sounded very clear.
"Am I dreaming?…Yes I am a bit exhausted because I don't believe this cat just started talking" she giggle to herself as if to comfort herself it believing that she imagining the cats voice.
"Unlikely" replied the cat. Its thick black tailed sways back and forth, the cat's blue eye stares back at Seras blue eyes.
"eh?!...Master if this is some strange joke you're pulling.." replied Seras grinding her teeth. This is not the first time master had pull something like this, he been able to change form on his own whelm so this is not new.
"Highly Unlikely, My dear girl….I am definitely not your master" Seras still staring at the cat, and the cat stares back and Seras. The voice was different now, it sounded deeper, softer, a bit louder in tone like and adult. The cat morphed its form grew taller and bigger, it paws got longer shaping into a human-like hand and fingers. The form stretches in a naked female form, her long chestnut blonde hair and red full lip, her arms folded around her
"Oooh….what's wrong did a cat get your tongue?" chuckled the figure.
"M..Mi…Mina you're bloody stark naked." Sera's still in shocked. The figure made a pity smile, a smile you give at a shameful child who has embarrassed herself in some way.
"My how naïve….I think you should be more worried about yourself." Seras is startled as two separate figure rises from the shadow, it appears to be a young girl, maybe about 16 or early 20s, black hair long bangs and a ponytail and a devils smirks, the other figure was a big heavy man looking between late 20 early 30 he was very fat. The young girl pulls out a semi-automatic and starts attacking Seras.
