Chaper 4, Prepare for an oncoming plot twist. This chapter might be a little filler but is needed non the less.
Pairing: Alucard/Seras
POV Characters: none, General pov
Genres: Horror/Romance/Alternate universe
Rating: T+ (Possible sexual references, hey, you know me!)
Chapter 4: Fenrir
A bright blue glow illuminated the young knight's face making her frown and turn in her sleep, her hand moving to her night stand looking for the knob of her little gas lantern. When she found herself unable to locate the little switch she let one sleepy eye crack open.
"Where am I?"
She murmured as she slowly came to conciousness, Only when she opened both her eyes and looked out the large windows revealing a bright moon in the otherwise dark sky the memories of the last night returned to her.
"Sie haf finally voke up, guten Abend mein fräulein"*
A high pitched voice with a thick German accent greeted her. The owner of the voice was a tall, slim, extremely pale woman with long raven hair and many freckles covering her face, judging from her clothing Seras could see this girl was either a strange sort of maid, or had a very odd taste when it came to garments.
"Good evening.. Could you please tell me how long I have been sleeping?"
She wondered as she studied the tall woman before her. Dressed in something that would have been an ordinary maid's uniform had the white not been replaced by red, and had the long red cleaning short not sported the same image of a dragon she had seen on the banners around the castle.
"Sie slept through the entire day, mein fräulein"
The maid answered with a gentle smile making Seras's eyes widen in shock, Had she really slept that long?
"My God.. I have to apologize to lord Alucard, how ungrateful I must appear not even showing up all day."
The maid's smile did not leave her face, making Seras wonder if she was even able to express any other emotions.
"Not to worry, mein fräulein, Lord Alucard is only awake during the night, I assume he just voke up a few minutes ago."
For some reason while this information did calm her fear of being disrespectful towards her host, also brought back some of her nervousness from the first night. Seras made certain not to show it though.
"Please, Just call me Seras, I don't feel comfortable being called by any honorific."
Seras addressed the maid with a kind smile of her own.
"As Sie wish, Lady Seras."
Honestly, Seras did not think, 'Lady Seras' was much better than 'mein fräulein' but she knew people would not understand she wanted everyone to see her as an equal, nothing more or less so she gave and settled for trying to learn the maid's name.
"My name is Rip Van Wrinkle If zat vas vat du vanted to ask, Lady Seras."
To say Seras was surprised would have been an understatement, It was clear the women had not tried to be rude, but apparently she had read her extremely well.
"Ehhm.. S.. Seras Victoria, Nice to meet you."
She stammered, Seras was starting to get seriously annoyed at how everyone in this castle seemed to be able to look into her mind. How did they do it anyway? The woman once again smiled warmly.
"An honour to serve, mein fräulein"
Rip finished with a bow before continuing in a more hurried tone.
"I vas to informe sie zat Lord Alucard vanted zu talk to du over dinner."
Seras, hating the thought of letting anyone wait for her quickly thanked the maid and ran towards one of the dressers, it just wouldn't do to attend any sort of dinner dressed in full plate armour!
As she threw the dresser open she could hear Rip humming a tune behind her back, her eyes were instantly drawn to the only article of clothing in the closet, it was red and looked smooth. But the most notable thing was it was small, small like if it were made for a child.
"Vhy not try it on Lady Seras? I'm sure it vould please Lord Alucard."
Seras looked at the maid wondering how long she had been observing her, surely she did not expect that small bundle to fit her. Sure Seras was petite herself, but this was just.. Tiny.
With a sigh Seras picked the bundle out of the dresser and held it up in front of her, she could see it was a sort of night dress, and she immediately realized why it was such a small bundle.
"Oh, come on Rip you can't be serious! Not even a prostitute would wear something this revealing!"
She could hear Rip giggling at how innocent her voice sounded as she exclaimed. As Seras turned to face the maid she was still smiling, her hands making a motion as if pulling something down her body.
"Al right, I'll put it on, but if it makes me look like a whore I'll take it off just as fast!"
The fabric was cool against her, the thin layer hugging her body closely like it were a second skin. Seras was amazed at how something that small still managed to reach halfway to her knees. Okay so the dress did not make her look like a whore, if anything it made her look classy. Still she felt so bare.
"Sie look vonderfull Lady Seras, I am sure Lord Alucard vill be pleased to see you in that dress."
Seras sighed inwardly, of course he would, he was a pervert, however it was her only option, she was pressed enough for time as it was, perverted or not, she would not let him wait. With a quick nod and a 'thanks' she left the maid alone to do her chores
True Seras was not quite familiar with the castle, but on her way to the gardens she had passed the dining room and she was fairly certain she would be able to find it again. She smiled as she closed the door and heard Rip burst into song. She had talent...
Seras was wrong when she had thought she would be able to find her way alone, after the fourth passageway Seras had come to the painful conclusion that she was indeed. Lost.
The corridors too seemed to be growing more dimly lit with every minute she kept walking, Soon she decided her best chance would be to turn back and try to ask Rip for directions.
As Seras turned to face the direction where she came from her breath halted, all that was behind her was darkness for as far as she could see, as if someone had extinguished all the torches as she passed by.
The air also had grown more chilly. A cold breeze brushed past her legs making her shiver, For a moment she swore she heard footsteps and then the last remaining torches burned out.
Seras froze in place as she felt a cold breath in her neck, her hand reaching out to try and grab her sword, only to realize that by abandoning her armour she had effectively disarmed herself. Had her position as a holy knight allowed it she would be cursing her own stupidity.
Only now, with all her weapons out of reach, and no source of light to hold on to for strength she really felt naked, her dress not helping to ease the feeling at all.
She was scared, frightened, but she was definitely not letting, whatever was after her get what it wanted without a fight. With a feral cry she twisted around and swung her fist at whoever was standing behind her, hoping that she would hit whoever sneaked up on her.
At that moment all torches seemed to ignite again and Kim stood a few feet away from her, dressed in a purple night shirt with a burning torch in her left hand, her other hand reaching out in her direction, clamped around Seras's fist, eyes half closed as if she had just woke up.
"Seras, what are you doing out here? You are acting weird.. And I was trying to sleep"
Seras blinked her eyes in confusion.
Blinked a second time.
A third time, followed by a frustrated cry.
"Great, now I am beginning to have these visions even while I'm awake!"
Seras screamed in annoyance. Only to be silenced by Kim's hand pressing against her mouth.
"Please Lady Seras, You're waking everyone up, what were you doing here anyway?"
Seras looked back over her shoulder, her eyes falling upon the wall she would have sworn was a passageway only minutes ago, she had to be losing her mind, surely the last few hours had taken a toll on her sanity.
Her gaze travelled to the large painting she had not noticed before, the image it depicted made a cold shiver travel down her spine.
It was a battlefield of some sort, but not a normal one. The portrait depicted a large bloody massacre, Two large wolves stood opposed of each other with many small ones in-between.
The smaller wolves were tearing each other apart without mercy but most of the battle was obscured by the great amounts of blood painted all over it.
What took her breath away though was the large black red-eyed wolf that was the leader of one of the two packs.
"That's him... That's the monster that almost killed me!"
Kim came closer to the portrait and trailed her hand over the image of the wolf.
"I doubt he would have, Seras, He's not the one you have to watch out for."
She glared at the other wolf shown on the painting, an even taller grey beast, this one only had one tail but looked every bit as menacing.
"That one is true evil, His name is Fenrir. At least, that's what the people call him, no one knows his real name."
Seras looked at the other wolf, it's expression seemed blank, for as far she could read expressions on wolves, but the way it was depicted with corpses and human bones lying all around it made her shudder even more than the image of the wolf she had met before.
It was then that Seras remembered why she had come here.
"Kim, could you please lead me to the dining room? I kind of lost my way."
Kim sighed and lazily pointed a finger into the direction she'd come from, As Seras's eyes followed the way she indicated she mentally slapped herself, there, less than twenty steps from her current position were the large double doors leading to the dining room, both wide open for her to enter.
"Thank.... You....."
Seras managed to get out as she had to resist sinking though her knees and crying over all that had happened in the short twenty minutes she had been awake.
As the young paladin passed through the double doors a shadow formed behind the lord's spy.
"My lord, don't you think you're pushing the girl a bit much? You'll break her if you keep pressing her like this, there's only so much a human can handle, you should be aware of that."
The soft chuckling behind her confirmed her fear that the man was not going to be easy on her new friend.
"I intend to break her spirit, pup, you probably already discovered that, you have a keen mind."
Kim looked down and bit her lip thinking of possibilities to help the paladin.
"A normal human would not survive what I have in mind for her. However..... She is not a normal human."
Before Kim could ask her lord Alucard what he meant he had already left her alone, she could just barely see his boot disappear around the corner as he too entered the dining room.
A quick and small update, not very action packed or interesting, but I hope there were still a few of you that enjoyed it, unlike the last two chapters, I'm really trying to improve my writing, and I hope that this one is a step up from the last ones. Please if there's still anything wrong or missing, tell me so in a review rather than ignoring the story completely.
Thank you for reading!
~Kitty
*"mein fräulein" Is a German honorific that kind of resembles "My Lady", And "Guten abend" would be German for "Good evening", "Sie" is formal German for "you", Since I am quite poor at writing accents I just threw in random German words, Now my knowledge of the German language is next to nothing so if anyone could give me pointers on anything I did wrong, thanks I'd appreciate it.
