Chapter 7
After a long seven hour flight from London to New York, the Hellsing agents have finally arrived in New York City. The time in New York was 5 AM, so the sun was starting to rise in this huge metropolitan city, the good thing about being a vampire in a huge metropolitan city was definitely the multiple towering skyscrapers blocking the sun's rays from shining down on the low levels of the city, so there was enough shadow and shade for Alucard's liking. The crew checked into the Carlyle Hotel that's on the upper east side of New York City, checking into the hotel with three covered up coffins wasn't a difficult task to do. It was easy when you had William to hack in and make fake documents from the museum and big bosses of the hotel to allow them to bring three large objects into a luxury hotel with no questions asked. When Alucard and Wolfwood walked into the suite, Alucard used his dark powers to quickly close all the curtains in the room, now with them being on the top floor sunlight can easily get in.
"Now, that we're in New York." Alucard looked up at Wolfwood with a bored expression, sitting on top of his coffin. "What are you going to do on this awful sunny day?"
"I'm going to the police department to check out some documents." said Wolfwood. "There could be some files that the police don't want the public to know.
"How are you going to get in there, without being caught?" asked Alucard.
"Simple, I have a New York police uniform and badge in my luggage." Wolfwood turned and smile at Alucard. "I sneaked in plenty of police departments without being caught yet." Wolfwood grabbed his bag and was really to go change, when he remembered that something else must be done as well. "Oh right, I have to wake up the kid, so he could contact that club." Wolfwood walked over to William's coffin and started banging on it."KID wake the hell up!" William's coffin wiggled a bit and then it opened. "WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?" shouted William glaring at Wolfwood. "You almost made me deaf!"
"Shut up and contact that club member, see if you could get in."
Will grumble a bit, but did what he was told, he opened his laptop, and went to the Black Rose webpage getting on their chat room site. "Ok, I'm on. I just told them that me and two friends have just made it to New York and are waiting for directions to go to the club." Will, waited for a bit until a new message popped up on screen. "Aright, their telling me that I will get a phone call and then I can meet with a guide."
"How long will that be?" asked Alucard.
"I don't know they have to contact me." William was becoming frustrated. "All this crap better be worth it. "You telling me." add Alucard.
"Well if you have to wait for a call, then I should go to the police station and find more inform on these disappearances. Wolfwood went to the other room and changed in to his police disguise. He said his good-byes to the vampires and walked out the door. With nothing to do Alucard went in to his coffin and fell asleep, with William going to sleep in his coffin as well.
A couple of hours have passed and Wolfwood have made it, into the police station. It was easy to get in and not being notice, when there are plenty of New York citizens arguing with the police, about not being able to find so many missing people in the pass month. Phones were ringing off the hook, people pushing and shouting, the whole office was in chaos. Wolfwood looked on the missing person's wall and notice more people of the age of sixteen through mid-twenties were missing. "So is this vampire only after young people?" thought Wolfwood. He walked through the station, finding the commissioner office, with ease he unlocked the door and snuck in. In the office, papers were scattered all over the desk and floor. Wolfwood picked up one of the papers realizing it was more missing person and homicides files. He then walked over to the commissioner's computer checking out all the files that weren't printed on paper. There he discovered that there been more arrests of young adults and teens, murders, and disappearances happening in just one month. "Can a vampire really do all this?" thought Wolfwood. "And why is it doing this?" Wolfwood took out a UBS flash drive and started copying files into it. "I don't know what this vampire could be planning, but it definitely has to be destroyed."
Back at the hotel, William's cell began to ring, waking him up from his slumber. Will quickly looked at his phone and noticing a new text message. 'Meet me at Times Square right now.'
William decided to text back. 'How are you going to find me in Times Square? What part of Times Square?' He waited for a few minutes until a new text popped in.
'Don't worry about that, I know your profile. I can easily find you. Now come on or you're not in.'
Will closed his phone, and then opens his coffin to look at the time; it was 11:25 a.m., so the sun was all way up. He then went to Seras knocking on her casket; she finally opened up and stared drowsily at him. "What's going on?" she asked daze and confused. "Are we in New York? What time is it?"
"It's 11:25 a.m. and yes we're in New York." said William. "I just got a text from the club to meet them a Times Square."
"It's the middle of the day you can't go out! You'll burn up!" Seras was concern, she knew William wasn't a full vampire yet; the sun could hurt him or even kill him. "Let me do it, I could look like you and meet with them."
"No Seras I have to go. They might ask you questions that I might only know.
"Then let me come along with you." Seras and William may bicker and seem like they want to kill each other, but Seras really cared about her young fledgling. "You can't come along ether, their only looking for me, alone."
Seras sighed and know William was a stubborn boy, so she couldn't talk him out of it. "Ok, but stay in the shade and make sure your whole body is covered up."
"Don't worry I have my hoodie on, I'll see you later ok." William put on his hood and walked out the door.
An easy bus ride later, William made it to Time Square. The busy streets were packed with millions of people New Yorkers and tourist. Cars and buses were honking in traffic, tourist taking pictures, people talking on cell phones, and sells men selling tourist crap all over the street.
"Don't worry about it, I can find you." William recap the text in his head. "Find me my ass. How on earth can anybody find anyone in this huge crowd of people?" William looked left and right people were everywhere. "I feel like Waldo, he could have told me to meet him in a certain spot in Times Square."
William was about to walk off when someone grabbed him by his shoulder, he quickly jolted and turned to the suspect. The guy that grabbed him was in his early twenties with spiky hair and piercings. "What's up, Will." he said with a smile. "You want to join the club?"
"Yeah, me and two friends want to join." Will looked at him, a bit confused. "How did this guy find me?"
"Oh, you're British." The guy started laughing. "Pip pip cheerio, huh." William gave him a hard glare. "Ok, ok, sorry just playing." The spiky hair young adult gave William a small phone chip. "This will tell you where the club is, the party starts tonight, I hope to see you and your friends there." The guy then disappeared into the crowd. William looked at the chip in his hand. "I got it." he said quietly, William turned and ran to a bus stop so he could go back to the hotel and tell Alucard and Seras that he got the location.
Later that night Alucard, Seras, and William walked to the slums of New York looking for abandon subway tunnel. Alucard changed his appearance to look like an eighteen year old with a red t-shirt and black jeans, Seras changed her clothes to a short skirt and pink tube top and Will kept the clothes he had on this morning. Alucard's eyes shifted back and forth noticing that they were being watched by none human eyes. Alucard could sense this area is filled with dark magic, so who ever this vampire is, she's around somewhere. When they made it to the tunnel they were greeted by a tall man with long black hair and a cowboy hat. "Hi there, so you're the new members." He said with a deep voice. "I'm Rick one of the heads around here." He whistled for a young teen. "This guy here will so you the way around the tunnels, it like a maze down there, people get lost all the time." He smiled a devilish grin. "I hope you'll have fun." The three vampires followed the teen guide down the tunnels. "This is really weird, is that big guy, a vampire?" asked Seras telepathically to Alucard. "He is one, but not a normal one, he has some type of power." said Alucard. Down the tunnel black rose markings were everywhere, the old tunnel was falling apart, steel beams were hanging, and the walls were leaking.
When they walked farther and farther in to the tunnel music could be heard, their guide then pushed open a door revealing a wild dance party. The music was blasting, kids jumping around smoking and drinking to their hearts desires. Alucard looked in disgust, the music was getting on his nerves, he couldn't see what was so interesting about this place and all these kids were acting like a bunch wild monkeys, he then looked at Seras and William who looked amaze with this garbage. "This place is like a rave party, I haven't been to a rave for awhile." said Seras. "This is so cool." added Will. Alucard rolled his eyes and sighed this century is going to hell. "You two split up." he said.
"Ok." Seras and William both went different directions dancing along with the crowd. Alucard walked around looking at the dancing kids, he then noticed that he was being watched. Three people were talking and looking directly at him, the one standing in the middle nodded, then pointed to him. One of the guys he was talking too walked over to Alucard. "Hey, your one of the luck few that gets to go to the V.I.P room up stairs."
"V.I.P why? I just got here." said Alucard suspiciously.
"I don't know one of the Heads said your special." The boy pointed to the stairs, so Alucard just followed his directions and went up the stairs. When he got to the top a closed door was in his view, he knocked at the door, until someone open it. Inside the room was a fancy looking sweet with a bar, luxurious chairs, flat screen, and light music playing. "Well this is new," Alucard looked around the fancy environment. "I didn't expect to see this in an old subway tunnel."
"This is the V.I.P sweet, what down stairs is just the party for the teens." said a blonde haired woman. "This here is only for special people; people that are choosing could come up here."
"So what is your name?" asked Alucard.
"My name is Nicole. I am one of the choosing eight, like you I am special." Nicole pushed her hair back and flirted with Alucard. "I know you're not human and the two you are with aren't humans' ether. Why don't you show your true form?"
Alucard grinned, changing back to his original form. The people in the room backed away from him seeing he looked more dangerous then that thought.
"Lovely, lovely, you're an ancient." Nicole stammered she looked at Alucard with a gleam in her eyes. "Just like mistress, you are quite a handsome man. So what's your name?"
"My name is Alucard." Alucard gave her a cocky smile. "And thank you for the comment."
"Our mistress would be pleased to see another ancient." Nicole moved closer to Alucard placing her hands on his chest, and started flirting with him. "You should really join us."
Alucard grabs the girl's hands pulling them off his chest. "Sorry I'm already with an organization and I already got woman as well." He then looked deep in to the girl's eyes with an evil gleam shining in them, revealing his fangs. "But I would love to meet your mistress; she and I could have a beautiful dance of death."
Nicole stared at him with fury in her eyes, she quickly moved away from Alucard. "Well if you don't want to join us, I guess you and your two youngsters most die." She then snapped her fingers, the people in the room started changing; their skins started peeling from their bodies, revealing deformed ghouls in human skins. Alucard smiled "Finally, some fun!" he shouted pulling out his guns and began shooting away.
Down stairs people were screaming, most of the teenagers that changed in to their ghoul forms began attacking everyone on the dance floor. With her dark powers Seras pulled out of the shadows William's and her weapons. The scene down stairs was growing bloody, teens that were caught by the ghouls were being eating alive, people pushing and fighting each other trying to escape out the doors. Seras and William shooting away every ghoul in sight, blasting heads and body parts, bullets scatting all over the floor. It was a complete blood bath, teens and ghouls blood was all over the walls and floors the smell of gun power filled the room. When the room was finally cleared Seras and William studied the dead ghouls. "These ghouls were in disguise, they looked like they were wearing human skins." said William picking up a piece of skin off the ground. "Seras can ghouls do this?"
"I don't know." Seras was confused herself, she have never seen anything like this before. It was like at the church back in England, the ghouls in the room were sitting around acting like humans cheering along with the human followers.
"This is really strang…." Before Will could even finish he was suddenly stabbed in the back multiple times. "WILL!" screamed Seras, as she watched William hit the ground. Seras quickly ran to William to see what hit him. In the boy's back were five roses with its stems growing in his back, the thorns tearing through his skin. William screamed in pain as the flower's thorns started ripping through him.
"Don't worry Will, I'll get them out!" Seras started tearing the flowers apart cutting her hands in the process; she made sure that all the stems and thorns were out of him, Williams's blood was pouring on to the floor. "Will you didn't lose a limb, so you could heal your body." William nodded and focused on healing himself. Seras looked down at her hands noticing that they were still bleeding.
"Are these magical roses, how come they hurt?" Seras sharply turned her head when she heard someone clapping. She looks towards the D.J. table a clean cut man in a pink vest was holding a flower.
"My, my you two are quite tuff, defeating all those ghouls." He said with a high pitch voice.
"Who are you?" asked Seras with fury in her eyes.
"Me, well my name is Michael." Michael's flower began to change and the petals around him started to float in the air. "I'm here to kill you." He said with a crooked smile.
