Chap. 08 – The truth about the connected worlds

"Their methods and desires, are ingrate in my memory… my master."

"Well done, Alucard. Her majesty herself has called for a gathering of the Round Table." Alucard had finally contacted Integra after the chaos of Rio de Janeiro. It was a confrontation, which Integra wanted to evade wholeheartedly, however when Millennium decides to attack and use innocent, ignorant men as their protective pawns, she really had no choice but to answer. She knew that an all out slaughter was what they wanted, however she cannot look back on that now… she must move forward and prepare for her meeting with the Queen of England.

"Really? The Queen?" Alucard wondered, his deep voice echoing through Integra's ear from the phone.

"Return at once to make your report. Do not keep her waiting"

"I'm on my way. Integra… did you enjoy the thrill of declaring war?" Integra lightly gasped at Alucard's out-of-line words. "Did you feel your blood rush?" he hissed. "The warmth of hell's fire as you ordered the slaughter?!"

"Don't speak to me, you monster!" Integra snapped back. "Now return immediately!" She slammed the phone down. "Damnit!" There was no doubt in her mind that Alucard would be laughing right now… that little outburst would had amused him so. She took a few seconds to clam down and catch her breath. Walter decided to leave the office to make some tea for the just infuriated Integra, while Zelda just continued to stand by the window, watching Integra calm down. For just a servant, Alucard really got on Integra's nerves. Why does she let his taunting get to her so much?

"Sir Integra…" Zelda began. "Are you… are you blushing?" What did she say? Integra looked at her reflection in the small mirror on her large pine desk. She was rather pink in the cheeks than usual. Was she really blushing or just feeling flustered after Alucard's stunt?

"I'm going to wash my face," Integra then said. "You prepare for the Queen as well."

Integra, the Knights of the Round Table, Enrico representing Iscariot, Zelda and the sages all waited patiently for the return of Alucard, Pip and Seras. Anderson should have given them the release paper for the private jet hours ago, and so they should be here by now. The Queen waited on her throne patiently over looking the softly spoken meeting before her, as she waited for her black solder of England to walk through the doors. Ever since she was a teenage girl, she always had an interest with Alucard the first she met him… and always thought that he deserved more. However, it seemed that Integra was taking care of England's black solder rather well… even treating him better than her father did. Soon the doors swung open to reveal the No-Life King, his fledging, and the captain of the Wild Geese.

"We have returned to you, my master," Alucard greeted.

"Well executed, my servant," Integra replied. "The Queen awaits you… remove your glasses." Alucard did so and began to walk over to the Queen. Everyone stared at Alucard, intimated by his strong dark presence… under control or not, working for Hellsing or against it… a vampire was still a vampire. A couple of the Queen's body guards – for some stupid reason – went to block Alucard's path, only to be tossed aside like rag dolls. He stepped up to the alter, and was face-to-face with the Queen herself, his smirk not so twisted as he looked down at her, and she up at him.

"It's been a long time, vampire," she greeted. "Come closer… let me look at you." He kneeled before her, their eyes now levelled with one other. She reached out her aging hands and softly placed them on Alucard's cold colourless face. Feeling her touch made him sigh in ease. "Fifty years, and you haven't aged a day, Alucard. Unfortunately, time's march has not has been as kind to me… can you believe how quickly I became an old woman?"

"I still see the same spirited young girl that I met fifty year ago, your majesty," Alucard replied. "In fact, to my eyes, time has made you even more beautiful… your highness." The Queen smirked; still the same smooth talker he was fifty years ago.

"Proceed with your report, vampire."

Alucard continued to talk about Millennium and of their goals. They were nothing but a bunch of warmongering old men, looking to create chaos and destruction. They have no goal… well, no goal that they knew of. Millennium… the Last Battalion… solders forgotten over time, now wanting to make their existence heard. Soon a messenger, a boy named Schrodinger who came with a message from the major himself, interrupted their meeting. Soon battles of heated words were exchanged between the Hellsing Organization, the Iscariot, the Knights of the Round Table and Millennium. Finally, over the intercom the boy brought with him, the major voiced his reason for staring a new World War, his words as encoded as they sounded.

"My true enemy is England…" the Major continued. "The Helsing's, or really that man laughing in the back corner." The room fell silent, except for the booming laugher of Alucard, which echoed throughout the halls.

"A declaration of war…" Alucard hissed, finally calming down from his laughter. "Excellent! I cannot wait to destroy you again!"

"No matter what you do, we will never give up," the major replied, his voice crackling over the pixelated screen. "We will repeat this ridiculous scenario as many times as we need to."

"Alucard, Seras… kill him," Integra ordered. With that Alucard shot the messenger boy in the head in a matter of seconds, spraying his blood, brains, and what was left of his head all over the floor.

"Fine… shoot the messenger, if this is what you come to," the major sighed. "Auvidasen, my fraulien. I forward to meeting you, across the battlefield." With that Seras destroyed the intercom with a rifle. Everyone was left at a gasp when they noticed that the corpse of the dead boy had disappeared, along with his splattered remains.

"Alucard, Sir Helsing," Integra stood up from her seat, standing at attention before the Queen. Alucard just smirked. "Destroy them… you have your orders. Now let us attend to the other matter at hand. According to Sir Integra, you are princess Zelda, am I correct?"

"Yes, your highness," Zelda replied.

"You have the floor child."

Zelda began to speak, repeating herself about Hyrule's creation, the Hero of Time and the current troubles plaguing Hyrule, for the Queen and the Knights of the Round Table. Zelda then began to go into deeper depth on the matter of Twilight. Not only does Twilight connect two worlds together, it also works as a mirror, this world reflecting Hyrule's current state and Hyrule reflecting this world's current state. Both worlds work with one another… if one world was in peril, so was the other. She even went so far to say that this world's recent troubles with his Millennium Organization might have something to do with the troubles in her home world, and vis versa.

"Time is involved with both of our current troubles," Zelda continued. "Millennium… an organization, which disappeared over fifty years ago, only to remerge once again to rage an unjust war. Link… an ignored hero, who has turned back time on Hyrule's events to repeat the crisis during the rise of the Hero of Time, and the Evil King's reign. They may sound that they differ immensely, however it does not change the fact that these situations are happening in unison. Hyrule's current peril is reflecting this world's current peril. Both events are happening at the same time, and with the same goal… to inflict chaos."

"This is more dire than I imagined," Integra then said. "I wish Luke never found the damn Twilight. Your highness, what if we just took care of one of our predicaments? If we just dealt with Link and return Hyrule to the way it was, will that work in getting rid of Millennium as well?"

"To a certain extent, yes… however, you'd be a fool to only rely on one success, and ignore the other issue. What would happen to your people, if you put all your efforts in our plight and disregarded Millennium here? Many will die… you may experience destruction that you may never recover from. You need to deal with the issue here as well, if we are to keep the destruction as limited as possible."

"So you're saying, that we have our work cut out for us, either way we look at it?" Enrico asked.

"Yes. However, now that our worlds know each other, and we know of our reflecting matters, we can both work together in solving them as quickly as we can."

"You have a point there."

"So, what is the plan, then?" Sir Islands asked.

"The Hellsing Organization and Iscariot already have people stationed in Hyrule, taking care of the people in the village in our absence," Integra replied. "That's all we can do, until we can come up with a way of organising ourselves here and Hyrule. The main problem there is the curses within the temples, so how will we go about breaking these curses, as well as deal with Millennium, and Link as well?"

"Iscariot is already taking measures to go head-to-head with Millennium when the time comes," Enrico said. "We should be able to deal with those Nazi bastards, while the Hellsing Organization deals with the temples in Hyrule, as well and this Link heretic and what he has planned."

Soon a royal messenger burst through the doors looking for Sir Penwood, the knight behind weapons development for the British military. He had an urgent message of the British Naval battleship, The H.M.S. 'Eagle', being hijacked by Millennium. This was one more complication the newly allied forces of the royal hall did not need. They needed to think of a plan and fast. Maybe, while they deal with this hijacking, a group of agents can try cracking a curse in one of the temples.

"Princess Zelda, how do we appropriately go about defeating temple curses?" Integra then asked. "In what order to we need to crack them?"

"There are five temples that you need to clean, "Zelda replied. "The first one in the Forest Temple located within the Forest Meadow deep within the Lost Woods."

"And, what would be our best line of defence in effectively defeating the Forest Temple curse?"

"Some one who can attack from a distance," Zelda replied. "Someone who can catch magic attacks and effectively throw them back at the enemy."

Integra smirked. "Walter, I'll be sending you in to defeat the first curse."

Walter smirked back. "As you wish mam," Walter replied.

"Now, Sir Penwood, let us go to your headquarters and discuss this matter of yours. And Walter, before you leave, I would like you to settle a new agent in."

"Of course, Sir Integra."

Alhambra slowly opened his eyes, to see to a stone ceiling above him. Where was he? Was he alive? He slowly sat up from a rather luxurious bed and examined himself. Well… he could feel his clothes, see the dungeon room before him, hear the hallow howls of the emptiness of the stone room, smell the stench of death putrefying his senses, and taste the crisps chill of the room on his tongue. He was alive… but how? All he could remember was his blood being drained from Alucard and then being burnt to ashes by Millennium triggering the self-destruct mechanism they planted within his body. He could feel the presence of another around him. He looked to his side to see Walter looking down at him with a light smirk.

"Welcome, Mr. Tublaican Alhambra," Walter greeted. "My name is Walter, butler to the Helsing family, and an active agent of the Hellsing Organization."

"Hellsing Organization… what on earth am I doing here?" Alhambra wondered.

"We revived you, Mr. Alhambra. Alucard mercifully extracted what he feed from you, so we could revive you… so you can work for our own ends. Millennium still believes that you're dead, their self destruct mechanism no longer planted inside you. You will be working for us from now on Mr. Alhambra, as payment for our uncharacteristic mercy. And for your first assignment you will be partnered up with me. I do hope you have those magic cards handy."

Alhambra smirked. "I suppose this could prove to be interesting…"

"I must say, you are taking this rather well. Well, Luke Valentine was no trouble at all either… Jon however… we had to sedate him a couple of times before he accepted it."

"The Valentine brothers… they're alive and working for you?"

"And have proven to be one the best decisions we've made. Well, let's get a move on. We have work to do."

Integra stood around within an aircraft hangar watching aircraft engineers work like busy little bees, getting Alucard's aircraft ready for the planned assault on the captured naval battleship 'Eagle' now called 'Addler' by the Nazis, who have embezzled it. She lit up a cigar to ease her anxiety, as an engineer continued to paint the Hellsing logo on the side of the jet. It seemed that all has been in utter chaos ever since she stepped foot into that Hyrule place… she wondered if Walter had already started in the Forest Temple as she puffed out smoke. Alucard soon approached her, waiting for his aircraft to be completed.

"I know for certain that Walter will be having the time of his life by now," Alucard said. Integra just smirked. Yes… under that gentlemen-like demeanour, Walter possessed a demonic need for blood and destruction. Angel of Death indeed. "And soon I will be joining him, as I slaughter every single freak on that ship."

"I can trust you to be thorough when it comes to such things, can't I Alucard?" Integra replied. She continued to watch the engineer's work, the sounds of clashing tools and loud voices deafening her ears.

"I am a monster Integra… give me the order and I will slaughter our enemies, rip their limbs apart, grind their bones to dust, drink their blood dry… I will do all this for you. I am a monster and I will do what needs to be done." He approached closer to her, his cold breath running down her neck. He was doing it again… getting too close for her liking. She put on her emotionless face, showing no fear towards her manipulative pet. "So… does that turn you on… my master?" She just scowled, however something about his touch just made her feel comfortable, to be dangerously close to him as she was.

"…Yes…"

"There's no denying it Integra, I know that… wait… what?"

"I said yes. That turns me on." She turned around to she Alucard looking rather shocked by her answer… he was not expecting that! His look of vulnerability made her laugh, for this was something she rarely saw… Alucard looking dumbfounded… classic! "You are my monster Alucard, and I am your master. You kill on my command… slaughter our enemies and rip them to shreds my command… and you do it in a way that I rather enjoy." She then smirked. "You have corrupted me Alucard… I'm just a cold a killer as you are." Alucard then smirked and pulled her closer. She didn't mind to be within his embrace… after all… her words before gave him an opening to do this without being punished within good reason. Her and her big mouth… but his reaction before was worth it!

"How about a kiss for your dark knight, before I kill for you?" he purred. "My iron lady… it is only traditional that a maiden kisses her knight before he leaves to defend her honour…"

"A kiss from an iron maiden has to be earned, Alucard," she replied.

"I look forward to it… my master."