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Chapter 4 : Darkness Rising

Seras made it to the first floor, and what she saw about made her have... well, almost kind of like a heart attack. She was carrying a huge, blessed, pitch black claymore that Walter made for her after her encounter with a vampire that was completely immune to all types of ammunition. The monsters she had seen were unbelievable. They were made of the shadows themselves. They WERE the shadows themselves. They had glowing yellow eyes, were pretty much 2 feet tall each, had 2 small antennas on their heads, had no mouths, feet and teeth were both claws, and no mouths.

Seras shook off her slight hint of fear and charged after the creatures and started swinging her sword with absolute grace. The creatures were rather easy to defeat. One hit and they dissipated. Seras kept plowing through the ranks of the creatures until she made it to a squadron of soldiers who were doing their best to hold off the creatures. Bullets were apparently having no effect on them.

"Sir, we aren't doing jack-shit to these guys!" The men were trying their best to keep them at bay, but half of them were scared half to death. Seras then ran up to the soldiers.

"Sir, it's Captain Victoria," one of the men exclaimed to their squad leader. They looked over and had then gave relieved looks on their faces.

"Report," she yelled as she sliced another one of the creatures.

"Sir, half of the front line soldiers have been decimated. Every time one of our guys falls, they turn into more of these damned creatures," a young-looking soldier had explained to Seras.

"Bullets are of no use here. You guys need to go and protect Sir Integra. Fall back to the 3rd floor. She should be within the conference room by now. Defend her with your lives," she ordered the men. They gave nods and started fanning out. The Heartless began marching quicker towards their goal.

"Damn, I'm not gonna be able to hold out much longer like this. Gonna have to start using my blood-powers." She then summoned her shadow arms similar to Alucard's and began attacking the Heartless relentlessly, but the more she took down; the more that came pouring through.

"Damnit," she exclaimed in hopelessness.

She then saw hundreds of eyes begin to appear on the walls and started destroying waves of the creatures.

"Talk about impeccable timing, Master," she teased. Alucard then materialized next to her holding his famed Jackel and a 7 foot-long sword in his right hand. The blade was thin, a bit curved at the end, was pitch black like Seras's, and was sharp enough to cut through just about anything.

"You really didn't think I was going to miss out on all the fun, did you," he teased with his trademark grin.

The 2nd floor hall was now pretty much clear. They quickly materialized to the end of the first floor. There were hordes upon hordes of Heartless there.

Alucard grinned and used his new sword to start slashing them all with glee as Seras did the same. However, same as what happened with the 2nd floor, they kept coming in swarms. The Heartless shadow soldiers kept pouncing on the two and was managing to stumble them both.

While Seras was getting a little agitated, Alucard was practically having the time of his un-life.

"YES! Keep swarming in! I haven't had this much fun in ages! Come on!" Alucard kept laughing as more and more kept swarming.

Just as Alucard was about to destroy another group of them, he and Seras saw an extremely blinding flash of light that caused them both to flinch. They then heard the sound of a very powerful sword slicing through all their enemies. When they opened their eyes; they saw Aqua with her Keyblade in the air as she slaughtered the entire wave of all the Heartless.

"Grr, you ruined my fun, girl," Alucard told Aqua angrily. She turned around and just glared at him.

"You think this is a game," she asked looking like she was ready to start slicing him.

Seras had answered that for him. "Everything is a game to him. You get used to it after a while," she said with an annoyed expression on her face. Alucard just grinned.

"If those things were to have defeated you, they would have likely found the Keyhole to this world," Aqua said with a stern expression.

"What's a Keyhole," Seras asked.

"It's where the very heart of each world lies. The heart is what keeps the world together. It stores the hearts of those that pass into it until they go to either Heaven or Hell. It records the happenings of that world. It's the very essence of your world. If the Heartless manage to reach the Keyhole, then this world would be extinguished," Aqua explained to the confused vampire.

"So everyone, including myself, would just cease to exist," Alucard asked with huge intrigue.

"Everyone and everything. Unless you were to transport yourselves to another world, which is extremely difficult to do," Aqua quoted.

Aqua then turned to look at the front door. "That appears to be the last of them. There is most definitely someone controlling these Heartless, and whoever it is, they are trying their best to look for the Keyhole and weaken any forces strong enough to stand against them," Aqua stated. She then retracted her Keyblade and began walking back to the conference room. Seras and Alucard decided to walk with them.

Looks like somebody intends to start a war. This will be fun, Alucard thought to himself.

Elsewhere...

"All is vell gentlemen. The first phase of our plan is complete. Ve can now move on vith ze next part of our plan," a man said in a German accent.

I know it was short and wasn't all that great, but I am still just trying to develop things here. So, the next phase in the war is about to begin. PLEASE READ AND REVIEW! I LIVE OFF REVIEWS!