Alucard opened his eyes and yawned, showing his fangs. He listed the lid of his coffin and climbed out, stumbling to the doorway until his sleep fuzzed mind finally regained it's sense of direction. He looked at his shoulder and saw that some blood had leaked through the bandages.
He growled in annoyance and went to the kitchen to grab a blood pack. He had forgotten last night.
Again.
And he would have to change the bandages again too. He felt better after drinking the blood and went to the med-bay to change the bandages on his shoulder.
Seras was there when he entered as she had taken up the job of helping any soldiers that had gotten injured during battle. She smiled at him.
"Hello master."
"Morning police girl." he smirked when Seras glared at him for the return of the dreaded nickname. She saw his shoulder and lost the glare.
"Do you need some help with that?"
"I'm sure I'll be fine."
"Oh shut up." Seras laughed, pulling him over to a table and making him sit on it so she could clean the wound and wrap it up again.
"Does that feel okay?"
"Hm, oh, yeah, it feels fine, thanks."
"What are you going to do today master?" Seras asked, turning around t pack new supplies away in the cabinets.
"I have to question Makasi. We need to find out who he works for."
"Are you sure that's safe?"
"For him or for me?"
"..."
"Seras, it'll be fine, I won't kill him." He walked out, leaving Seras staring after him, her red eyes worried.
"It wasn't him I was worried about."
-
Alucard sat at the table in the interrogation room, staring casually at Makasi. Now he's gotten a better look at the vampire, he saw that he was tall and muscular, had red eyes, and had short, scruffy brown hair.
"Who are you working for?"
"Oh you really get down to business don't you? I like that." He leant forwards, smirking at Alucard and licking his lips. The L.U.N.A.R commander wasn't phased in the slightest.
"Are you going to answer the question?"
"Why don't you figure it out? I bet you're smart. You have to be more than just a pretty face." He paused.
"Why did you...bite me?"
"I just couldn't resist." Makasi laughed. Alucard's patience started to waver and his glowing eyes narrowed.
"Look, I don't know who you're working for, but what you did was...completely unacceptable to say the least. If you won't help us, then we'll just get rid of the problem."
"What problem?"
"You." Alucard got up and turned to leave through the heavy metal door.
"Wait." He stopped, but didn't turn around.
"I'll help. The last thing I want to do right now is die." Alucard sat down again, gazing into his eyes with determination.
"Then who do you work for?"
"I don't know his name. And I don't know what he looks like. I think it might have been a human that asked me to try and take you out. He seems to have some...grudge against you."
"You're sure you have no idea who he was?"
"No idea. I didn't see him."
"Fine. Thank you. Think to see if you can remember anything else and someone will be back to interrogate you later. Don't eat them." Makasi laughed as the L.U.N.A.R leader walked out of the door.
"Oh, the only one I want to eat is you beautiful."
-
Alucard threw a file on his desk and sighed, rubbing the back of his neck. He stretched and winced when he heard the cracking noises his back made as it protested. "Ouch."
He looked at his computer screen with interest when a window popped up. It said another attack had been reported to the police in Chester Park. The police, sensing that it was out of their league, had sent the call through to them. The attacks were getting closer every night.
He put a notice up to let everyone know where he was so they wouldn't look for him in the HQ and drove off on his motorcycle to the location.
-
Alucard's red eyes scanned the forest, searching for any ghouls, vampires or even humans. It wasn't uncommon for the humans to work with vampires, begging for immortality, they were often tricked into helping and then killed.
The sound of the river flowing in the background made him slightly on edge. He couldn't hear much over the noise, and vampires couldn't swim. He pulled out his handguns and held them up, aiming them at the outskirts and breathing in, tasting the air for any signs of danger.
Humans.
He almost yelped in shock when a net was thrown through the air at him, but bit his lip, refusing to show them weakness.
He fell to the ground, struggling with the net. His eyes widened when he saw some humans approaching. He reads their minds to see why they were doing this and cursed himself for not being more careful.
They knew about L.U.N.A.R and the American army tat was approaching because they were members of MI5. They were going to try and kill him so that L.U.N.A.R would fall apart without their commander and the war wouldn't happen.
His struggled became more desperate and they dragged him towards the river. If they threw him in, he wouldn't be able to swim back to the surface.
-
Brandon jumped as his computer beeped as a window popped up on the screen. He clicked on it and saw that Alucard had gone on a mission to Chester Park.
Remembering what happened last time, he frowned and went outside, getting in one of the SUVs and heading to the location. He had to make sure that he wasn't in another Makasi or Nightmare situation. Of course, he wasn't stupid enough to go alone. He brought one of the more advanced new recruits with him. Call it a test of all he had learned,
He stopped the car by the forest edge and got out of the SUV, grabbing his weapons, ready for an attack. The recruit looked around nervously, but his hands holding the gun didn't shake.
Brandon nodded in approval and stepped into the forest, starting to maneuver through the thick trees.
He could hear the river flowing and tensed.
Vampires couldn't swim.
-
"Don't even try getting out of that net. It was designed to hold beasts like you."
"Why are you doing this!" Alucard yelled at one of the humans, disgusted at the way they were treating him after all the times he and his organisation had put heir lives on the line to save their pathetic lives.
"It's the only way to stop this war from happening. They want L.U.N.A.R to disband and without a leader, there's a strong chance that they will fall apart. Now say goodbye vampire."
They threw him into the river and he struggled with the net for a moment, snapping at it. The wire that made up the net burned his mouth and hands when he tried to use his fangs and claws to break it. He growled and stopped. He wasn't going to escape it.
The water started to take effect and his limbs suddenly felt like lead. He felt tired, unable to move and no matter how much he told himself to move, his limbs didn't move an inch. He didn't have the will or strength to panic as he fell deeper under the spell of the river and blackness starting eating away his vision.
He barely even heard the gunshots or the splash. Someone suddenly had him around the waist and was pulling him towards the surface. They broke above it and his mind spun, he didn't know which way was up and which was down anymore.
Whoever had hold of him dragged him to the side of the river. He looked up and saw Brandon hovering over him, brown eyes full with concern.
-
The recruit watched with wide eyes as his commander jumped into the river, attempting to save the leader of the organisation.
He waited nervously for the two to break the surface and sighed in relief when they did. Brandon's hair was sticking to his face, hanging in front of his eyes, but the recruit could still see the strong determination in them.
He dragged the vampire over to the side of the river and the recruit watched as the leader gasped for air before jerking to the side, coughing up water harshly. He fell back to the ground and looked around with dazed eyes. The red orbs paused on him and they flickered with curiosity before they moved back to Brandon.
"What happened?"
"MI5 was guarding the river after they threw you in so no one could try and save you. We had to kill them to get to you."
"Thanks."
"Hey, you don't have to thank me. It's what friends do."
"You are so sad I swear to God."
"You know it." Brandon grinned. "And its's not just me you should thank either."
"Who else do I thank?" The recruit cleared his throat and they focused on him. He held out a hand over the railing to the vampire and he grasped it, shaking.
"Name's Chris."
"I appreciate the help Chris. You just helped save my life." He laughed, almost hysterically.
"Your welcome." Chris smiled.
"I think it's time for a promotion for my good friend here don't you Al?" Brandon grinned mischievously.
"Fair enough. You're an official lieutenant. Welcome to L.U.N.A.R."
Chris grinned. He resisted the urge to punch the air. He had just been made a lieutenant for saving the leader of the organisation's life.
Oh hell yeah!
-
Brandon looked over to the passenger seat in the vehicle with a worried frown. Chris glanced at the vampire too, an uncertain look on his face. He wasn't sure if they had succeeded in saving Alucard's life or not now. Ever since they had loaded the motorcycle into the SUV and then gotten it, he had been asleep. He had gone out like a light, curled up in the seat.
He was getting attacked far too much on the battlefield lately. Like he was being targeted. It was becoming unsafe for him to be on missions alone rather quickly. Even if the vampire hated him for it, he thought that it would be better if he stayed off the battlefield until the attacks died down. Brandon didn't want to do that to him, he knew that Alucard loved going on the missions, but if it kept him safe, then that's all he care about currently.
Brandon skidded to the side with a curse when a car nearly hit him "FUCKING ASSHOLE! WHERE DID YOU LEARN TO DRIVE! PRISON!" Chris smirked as his commander yelled out the window.
Alucard stirred and looked up at him, still half asleep. "What's going on?" He mumbled.
"Nothing,. It's fine. Go back to sleep." He said in a gentle voice, like his mother used to use on him when he had a nightmare and couldn't sleep. The vampire curled back up, his black hair draping over the edge of the seat like a curtain, and went back to sleep.
Brandon glanced at Chris. Rain pattered off of the windows and the wipers moved back and forth furiously, trying to wipe off the rain like it was their duty. "No one except me and Seras have ever been able to do that. Usually he growls at anyone else who tried to speak to him like that."
"I don't know. Maybe it's because I helped save his life sort of."
"Hm." They stopped in front of the HQ and Brandon sat still for a minute, biting his lip while he tried to decide whether or not to wake Alucard up. He decided to let him sleep after what he had been through and gently lifted him up before running through the rain to the HQ, Chris right behind him.
He walked in and Walter looked up from where he was putting books back on a shelf. "What happened?"
"MI5 decided to try their hand at assassination. They suck at it I can tell you that much."
"He is...alright though?" Walter must have found it hard to break out of the old habit of arguing with Alucard. Brandon gave him a small smile.
"I'm sure he'll be fine. He just needs to rest. He did almost drown, I think that might just be a little tiring. Don't you?"
-
Alucard slowly woke up and his eyes made contact with a note on his pillow. He winced at the burning feeling in his throat as he picked up the piece of paper and rubbed at his neck, his thin black eyebrows pulled together in a frown.
"Alucard,
We had to go on a hunt, but I left you here to sleep. I put you in this room because...well...I didn't want to freeze taking you down to yours." Alucard snorted at this. "I hope you feel better when you wake up.
Brandon, Chris and Seras.
P.S. I think it's best if you don't go on any missions for now."
Alucard crumpled the note up. He knew that Brandon was probably right, but he liked going on the hunts. They stopped him from getting bored. He sat up and looked out of the window. Daylight.
He groaned and buried himself under the covers and went back to sleep. He hated sunlight.
-
Brandon quietly opened the door to Alucard's room and peered around. At first, it looked like it was empty, but then he saw the lump under the covers and laughed quietly. He walked over and poked it, making it growl grumpily at him.
"Hey, you've been sleeping all day. Wake up."
"what's the point? It's not like I'm doing anything." The muffled voice came through the covers.
"Look ,just because you're not hunting, doesn't mean you haven't got anything to do. We still have to figure out what to do with America." He pulled back the covers and saw that Alucard was staring blankly at the wall.
"Al?"
"I'm still not sure we're doing the right thing, staying operational."
"Al, it's like I said before, we're the last thing standing between the vampires and the world. If we go down, they'll take over."
"DAMN IT BRANDON! THIS ISN'T JUST SOME SOLDIERS THAT ARE GOING TO DIE! THESE ARE INNOCENT PEOPLE WHO ARE GOING TO GET KILLED! THEY DIDN'T SIGN UP FOR THIS JOB, WE DID! THEY DON'T DESERVE THIS!"
"And if we stop working, they'll die when the vampires attack them too."
Alucard turned away from him. "You upset?"
The vampire sighed heavily, but didn't move. "It's called stress Brandon."
He sat up and rested his head on his knees, closing his eyes. "For the first time since we went operational. I don't know what to do."
Brandon patted him on the shoulder and got up. "Get up when you're ready okay." He smiled gently and closed th door behind him, walking down the hallway and leaving the stressed vampire alone.