School and work, the recipe for disaster and a very annoyed me. So much to write and so little time. Sorry for the long wait, life has been a downright pain for me. I hope you still care to read.
Pairing: Alucard/Seras
POV Characters: none, General pov
Genres: Horror/Romance/Alternate universe
Rating: T+
Chapter 8: War over Drumul Taberei
"Please, Master... Once more... Make love to me one more time." A pleased grin spread on his face as he observed the sweat-covered face of the little blonde laying underneath him. Pleading with him to have his way with her again. The grin was answered with a gentle smile as the little paladin stroked his cheek. Her face flustered red and passion-swollen lips slightly parted in exasperation. This was just too perfect to be true.
And it wasn't. For the next moment the image faded only to reveal a much less pleasing sight. The same girl lay before him, armor torn and broken showing equally broken skin. Deep gashes ran along her creamy torso spilling the girl's exquisite blood onto the red-stained dirt below her cold dead corpse, gray lifeless eyes stared into his as they begged to whatever creature had done this to her to stop, her mouth wide open in a cry of pain that would never come.
Alucard's eyes snapped open, upon feeling something warm trailing down his face he brought his right hand up, not expecting to see the crimson that had pooled in his palm.
"A dream?" He mumbled to himself, finding the idea bizarre. Vampires don't dream, or did they? He surely never had dreams before. "I have... been dreaming?" Grinding his teeth together and muttering a frustrated "How absurd" he dismissed the thought, It couldn't be a dream and therefore it had to be a vision. A vision for which only one could be responsible, and the one who was would die for threatening.. her.
That night the halls of castle Draculea had none of their usual calm, every last of the castle's inhabitants was making their way to either the armory or the meeting hall, while guns were being cleaned and loaded, claws and teeth polished and sharpened, others armed themselves with steel and mail. Tonight the forces of castle Draculea would pull out, tonight would be the night of the war that would bring an end the seemingly endless strings of conflict that had occurred over the last decades.
"The enemy will be fighting with everything they have, ghouls are none of your worries. You may and will have to fight those of your own kind, show no mercy, they will have none for you." Despite the chaos that ruled the hallways the meeting hall was all order and perfection, hundreds of vampires and werewolves stood in formation around their leader. The self-proclaimed No-Life-King, the nosferatu Alucard.
After the castle lord had finished his speech no questions were asked, neither were they needed. Everyone knew what they came for and what they would be doing. The pack of invaders, led by the captain Hans Gunche, otherwise known as "Fenrir" would be slaughtered upon the fields of Taberei. With the exception of one female wolf none of these brave warriors knew, or cared for, the reason for their lord's sudden decision.
"My lord, are you certain of this? I mean, even if this is a real "vision" we might just end up running into some trap of his. Are you sure you want to risk the lives of five hundred soldiers for.." Her breath was cut off as Alucard grabbed her throat and slammed her into one of the heavy stone pillars, glaring at her with blazing eyes.
"Do you doubt my judgement Kim?!" Kim could not reply, if Alucard's hand wouldn't be blocking her airways her fear for him at this point would be enough to silence her. "Even if what I saw would never happen, he has seen the paladin's power and more than anything would he want to possess it. They are already stronger in numbers than we are, how long do you think we would last if she would be helping them?" Kim had not thought of this option, had not considered it a possibility. Seras would never give in to that monster's will.
"Besides." Alucard added as he released her and turned away. "Don't you want to save her?"
Kim could not deny she wanted to save her friend, but was it really alright to risk the lives of so many soldiers for one single girl? No.. but Seras wasn't just a girl was she? Many of her pack had already accepted the idea of the young paladin being their future alpha-female. And to let the alpha female die without a fight would be a form of treason.. right? "Right!"
Alucard quirked an eyebrow at the lady-wolf's sudden shout, but his question about her in his eyes apparently diminishing sanity was quickly forgotten as she turned to her pack and in her most commanding voice yelled "Alright all, the night has come on which you're no longer worms and puppies, starting tonight you are warriors! So sharpen your claws and roar your lungs out, we're going to war! Tonight Fenrir will fall, United with the Wallachians we, the crimson fang tribe shall bring an end to the fenriswulf pack and reclaim the hunting grounds that were once our own!"
Alucard's lips turned upwards into a cruel smirk as he put on his helmet and drew his sword, using his shadows he parted the doors leading to the vast Wallachian swamplands that would soon host a battle that would decide the future of not only the two factions of undead, but also that of every human alive, for the fenriswulf pack was not known for their mercy to what they deemed to be lower races.
As Alucard led his forces to the enemy lines through the mist and foliage that seemed to stretch on for eternity he was soon joined by this two sub commanders. "Lord Vlad. Die soldiers want to know wenn we will arrive at our destination." Came the first question of Captain Rip von Wrinkle, although during peaceful times she worked as a maid she was not known as "The huntress" for no reason. No one in the Wallachian army except Alucard himself was as skilled with their rifles as she was.
"The members of the Fenriswulf pack outnumber us three to one. My men want to know what you plan to do to to even the odds, my lord." Kim, the commander of Alucard's Lycan allies added. For a few moments it was like Alucard was not going to reply, knowing better than to upset him the two females withdrew themselves, returning to their troops without any answers to give them.
"There may be many of them but they are nothing but cockroaches. What we lack in numbers we make up for in skill, while they are nothing but worthless, incomplete creatures reproducing wherever they see fit, they don't even know what they are, I can't stand their sort." The vampire finally replied with a chuckle as the entrance to the cave, the den of the Fenris wolves came into his view.
"We shall begin by luring the vermin out of their hiding place." Alucard spoke as he pointed his finger to one of the "Men" standing guard in front of the gate to their lair, effectively sentencing him to death. "Rip Von Wrinkle, it's your turn, have fun."
Kim observed the huntress as she leveled her gun at the unsuspecting guardsmen, a grin on her face that if the laws of nature still applied to her would have split her head in two, and she was suddenly grateful they were on the same side.
"Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor, my warhead shall punish all, without distinction!" The guards instantly looked up a they heard Rip's battle-cry but neither of them had the time to prepare themselves before the huntresses' bullet drilled it's way into the skull of the first guard and exited on the other side of his head. And as the second guard ran to assist his comrade he was too late to see the bullet glow up in a blue hue and change directions, He barely managed to make a surprised shriek as it tore through his chest.
As the bullet changed directions again it suddenly shattered, Kim clearly saw this surprised Rip. The look on her face let her know that never happened before. As she blinked and took off her glasses to wipe them clean with her glove a soft 'bang' was heard and the huntress flinched and grabbed her now bleeding shoulder.
There in the opening to the Fenriswulf lair stood a man, gun still smoking, eyes trained on the huntress, no emotions, no discouraging or threatening remarks, this man could only be the leader of their pack, mere seconds later he was no longer alone, the sound of low groans filled the air as swarms of rotting cadavers that somehow were still able to move came rushing out of the same opening, some running others dragging their bodies over the ground, their legs severed , At least Kim could understand those.
Then there were the little kids, some still clutching toys, some rusty meat cleavers and other sharp or hard objects, The wolf lady briefly wondered why Alucard and Rip were not disturbed by those. The mere sight of them made her shiver.
The first gun shots rang and those ghouls that were unfortunate enough to run in front fell down to the ground, although maybe they weren't as unfortunate as one would think.
"Once they become a ghoul there is no way for them to turn back, best you can do is put them out of their misery." Alucard stated dryly as his spear impaled the head of a ghoul that got too close.
Kim did not like to fight, it was why she became a spy in the first place, to sit and silently observe from the shadows. On the other hand there was Rip, her shoulder had apparently already healed itself and she was once again firing her rifle, smiling her crazy smile, and worst of all, she was singing! The crazed woman was enjoying herself!
Even on the chaotic battlefield there seemed to be a sort of system going on, Vampires appeared to seek out out ghouls and other vampires while her werewolf soldiers kept themselves to fighting the wolves of the Fenris pack. Alucard had already engaged in a duel with the captain who had shifted into his wolf form, and from what Kim could tell they were equally matched, a single error on either side would mean instant victory for the other. She suddenly blushed as she realized what she was doing.
"Kim if you're just standing there you might make yourself useful and look for the paladin, she is here, I can sense her." No sooner had Alucard said these words or the captain halted his movements and transformed back to his human form. To Alucard's surprise his troops followed his example and the battlefield quickly fell silent as everyone was confused as to what to do. No one had expected the Fenris tribe to surrender so easily.
The captain turned around and pointed to one of his underlings who had also reverted to her humanoid form. Nodding in understanding she ran into the cave and soon returned with a large clot sack hauled over her shoulder. Kim's stomach turned as she smelled the aroma emanating from the bag. Sure it smelled delicious but it was so frighteningly familiar.
The woman carrying the bag grinned slyly at Alucard before emptying it on the ground. The silence soon evaporated as many of the crimson fang wolves whined softly at the sight if it's contents while the Wallachian vampires just stood motionless, disbelief readable on their faces. Because staring at Alucard were the same cold lifeless eyes he saw in his vision, the blood coating the Paladin's skin had long coagulated, A pained wail came from his side as Kim rushed forwards to take the knight's frail broken body into her arms. Alucard just stood, staring, unable to comprehend what had happened, how this was possible. How could he be too late? How could she have been defeated by such trash?
And so his error was made, the captain took his chance to strike. And hit he did, As the captain's gun blasted a way through the castle lord's heart his scimitar took his head clean off.
Alucard was unable, and unwilling to react.
In his eyes, he had lost the moment he allowed the paladin to leave.
A wild "Writer's block" Appeared!
"Writer's block" uses "Homework overload"
It's super effective!
KawaiiiKittychan takes 621 damage
KawaiiiKittychan has fainted.
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Ehm, yes well there is that and the fact I now have both a boyfriend and a girlfriend, and said girlfriend isn't that much into computers and unlike my boyfriend, Does not have a full time job to give me some time to myself. So I don't have a lot of time to write. And I must say she is sucking my energy away. I feel tired almost all the time so I can't really see for myself if the chapter is any good, I myself kind of believe I started out okay but got worse every day.
Perhaps the last chapter will be better when I come around to writing it, If I do, I feel worse than I did just after my operation.. Thank you all for staying with me!
~Kitty
