Chapter 9 : Damsel in the Basement part 3

The air was still, between the two remaining figures standing, the new Charles and Alucard. A small stare down between the two, before Charles acted first, vanishing in a flash of light and reappearing before Alucard. Alucard was surprised at the moment by his speed, but quickly smiled wickedly.

Seras was in her bed, closing her eyes and trying to gain some of her power back, by sleeping. Alas, her idea was not working the way she wanted it to. Suddenly, Seras felt a shock of electricity go through her, her eyes openned widely. She realized that something had sprung loose in the Hellsing grounds. This power, she knew was familiar, and distinguished it as Charles' power. A sinking feeling had been now driven into Seras, she remembered the first time that he had used this power.

Flashback

"You have to work harder if you want to get into the field, Charles!" Seras exclaimed. Charles was now only twelve, and was on has scrapped hands and knees in his vampire hunter uniform, heaving nutrients from his body. Seras and Charles were training together in the backyard, she wanted to push him to his limits to see what he could actually do. Charles looked at Seras with a determined look, and wiped the aftermath of the vomit off his face with the back of his hand. He got up and ran with all of his strength into his mother. Before he could reach the punch he wanted to throw, Seras back handed him, sending him into a swirling spiral into a tree. Charle's spinal cord made contact with the tree, knocking the tree off its roots. Instead of vomiting food, Charles had started to vomit continuing amounts of blood. Seras had now realized that this is his breaking point, after continuous hours of sparring. She turned her back to him, about to leave, but then she heard Charles start to scream. She turned around to see what was happening, Charles' form was bent over, vomiting huge amounts of blood, after a second his hands and legs had given up bringing him down to the ground. His hands grabbing onto his shirt, wrinkling it into his palm. He kept screaming and crying, until his shadows came from underneath him and devoured him. The shadows had then transformed into a portal of emptiness, until a foot had stepped out. The foot, lead to the full body of another boy who was slightly taller than Charles. The boy looked like an angel, with his long platinum hair, smooth- boyish face, big-doe eyes, and sweet demeanor on his face. The only thing that separated this boy from an angel, was the color of his eyes, which were a light, pleasant red. He was still wearing the same clothes as Charles. He smiled sweetly at Seras, and said ,"Hello." The boy had started to walk forward, towards Seras.

"Who are you?" Seras demanded. This boy was a lot stronger than her son. She was wondering what the boy would say in return.

"I am Charles," the boy exclaimed,"I am the Charles that he is meant to be, but his body is too weak to absorb this strong, powerful blood." Seras wasn't in quite a shock as she thought she was going to be in, she believed this to be true since Charles was with out a doubt weak and fragile for a vampire.

"I shall still call you Charles," Seras said with a snide smirk.," you are still him, after all." The boy simply smiled, while he bowed and stated," I am fine with whatever name you give me, master."

"Do not call me master, I am still your mother," Seras ordered," I believe we should test your strength against the regular Charles."

"With pleasure, mother," the young blood replied.

End Flashback

Seras was worried for Charles, becuase usually when he went into this state he would come back in a deep sleep or coma. Seras also worried about his night terrors, they would infiltrate his dreams and torture him near the brink of death, mentally and physically. The night terrors were brought out with his body trying to suppress the vampire blood out of his body so that the blood wouldn't kill him. Sometimes he was forced to open his eyes out of pain and give off a inhumane scream, but was then forced back into the coma. She didn't have any time to loose, she bolted, from the bed and out the door. She was only able to run and a human's jogging speed. She hope she got there in time to at least stop Charles from using his full potential, so that the other Charles night terrors did not worsen.

Charles ran forward in a sprint, with Alucard following in the same exact speed. Alucard held out his gun, while Charles held out his hand as a dagger notion. The two collided, heated bullets came out of empty shells, and fingers gripped red, orange-glistening blood. Alucard had a large wound on his collarbone, threatening to knock his head off of his shoulders; the only thing holding his head there was a strap of firm skin. Charles had five explosive rounds shot through him. One of the rounds of met with the center of his face, the top of the head was blown off, and the only thing on his shoulders was neck and his bottom jaw. The rest of the bullets had blown huge circles in his body: two holes overlapping on his stomach, and one bullet in each leg. Charles's body fell to the dirt blanketed ground.

"CHARLES!" screamed Vellisiana bringing herself to Charles's body. Vellisiana stood frozen by his body, before she felt to her knees, and pulled Charles's nonexistent head into her lap and wept. It took Alucard a minute to reattach his head to his body again. During that time he began to laugh, finally having his head back onto his shoulders. Vellisiana started to cease her crying and glare at Alucard's form.

"YOU DARE TO LAUGH AT A TIME LIKE THIS!" Vellisiana screeched. At this, he laughed even harder, throwing back his head in the process, started to chuckle," Take a look under you." As soon as she did, she saw that the only thing still being rejuvenated was his head. After a second, Charles brought his body off Vellisiana's thighs. Vellisiana stood shocked looking at Charles's form, the different question kept creeping back up into her thoughts,' How could he regenerate so fast?', ' How is he not dead?', and the biggest question was ,'Who is this?' As soon as Charles's came off the ground, his eyes looked down into the trembling, and grief stricken eyes of Vellisiana. He smiled with eyes filled with a soft, light texture of red, and crouched down in front of her. In a voice of silk, Charles comforted," Am sure you have many questions, but I fine, and I need you to stay clear of the battle." After saying that, Charles simply patted her head, as if he were her older brother. Vellisiana was still stunned as Charles stood up. Charles's faced Alucard with a look of indifference, and calmly said," I gravely apologize, but I must care to this one." Alucard was deeply maddened by what was happening, he was angry that the fight was stopping for the sake of comforting another. While thinking this, Charles had already been placing Vellisiana's body by a nearby tree. While Charles was standing in front of the Vellisiana, a bullet went into the air, hitting Charles square in the chest. Charles started to snicker, until it turned into a full out laugh. Vellisiana watched the hole close up in Charles's chest with fascination. Charles turned to Alucard, burning holes into his eyes. Charles moved quickly, reaching for Alucard's arm. Alucard dodged and the destination of Charles's arm changed. Charles smirked wide, bringing his lips to spread around almost his entire set of teeth. Alucard was stunned for a moment, smirked and let his body disintegrated into a deep red pulp on the ground. Charles sensed danger or a moment before jumping backward to observe what was happening. Alucard body turned into centipedes and monstrous black widows. The centipedes and spiders crawled on top of each other, creating a mountain like structure. The mountain of insects dissolved into each other to create to the insanity known as Alucard in his black leather strait jacket. Charles sensed the continuing overflow of power from Alucard surface. Charles realized that he had to up his game if he had any chance of beating this ancient nosferatu. Charles stood firm and then his body disappeared. Alucard eyes stood tracked on where Charles last was, as if he was still there, but invisible. A moment later the air shifted, and Alucard's eyes traveled at a side glance. Behind Alucard was a smoky, hazy portal that held the upper body of Charles, with his hand in mid-air. Alucard caught his hand, and in that instant, Charles disappeared with a black puff of smoke. Alucard was very impatient to see what Charles would do next. There was a still moment before eight portals appeared around Alucard's body, firing out an arm from each. Each hand missed, Charles was not prepared for this caliber of inhuman movements presented by Alucard. Alucard dodged each movement of the arms in a matter of seconds. Alucard only laughed at his attack," Why do you hide and attack in the dark, why not fight me face to face?" Charles then appeared right in front of Alucard, furious with the fact that he was mocking him. Charles curdled his lips over his canines before he rushed his hands toward Alucard. Alucard easily caught his hand and twisted his wrist and sent his backward. Charles caught himself, but skid across the ground for a few feet. With his head down, he looked though his hair with and his eyes burning with an astonishing intensity. Alucard advanced toward Charles at his leisure.

"Alucard, stop this now!" Charles and Alucard looked up to see Seras. Seras was leaning against the railing that connected to the stairs.

"Master!" cried out Charles. Charles automatically forgot about the fight and rushed to his master's aid. He helped Seras up, and let his master lean on him.

"Alucard you have gone TOO FAR!" Sears expressed. Alucard's smile faded, unhappy that the fight was over and he noticed the Charles wasn't even fighting at his full potential. Alucard walked passed Seras, sharing a glance and grin. Vellisiana was still by the tree; she had fainted during the fight, and was now awake. Vellisiana carried Fredrick into the house immediately, about to carrying him to his room.

"Charles I'll be fine on my own, please carry Melanie and Alexander to their room," Seras instructed.

I now that that was a strange ending but I would like to end into right now for the next chapter. Next chapter will be the end of the Damsel in the Basement chapters. I would like 10 reviews, if that is not too much to ask. Everyone have a beautiful summer. Also I am so sorry TT_TT; I hope you all will forgive me for ending with a slight cliff hanger, and for this chapter to be so short and everything! Right now, I might change the story rating, because as the story goes on the bloodshed will become more graphic.