RED PAINTED DECLARATION

"So it's my loss." The count spoke weakly through pained breaths as he laid dying at this hands of this human.

"That's right. It's your loss. This isn't some bad dream from which you won't awaken. Your castle and territory are gone. The servants of your followers are dead. You have nothing left, count. You poor 'No-life King', you have nothing left!"

The count knew that wasn't all true. He had lost so much, yet he hasn't lost everything. "...I don't care... Where is she? Where is my beloved?" If he had her, then he had everything and that was all he needed.

"The woman you love to curse?" He scoffed. "Do not ever forget! It was you who dragged her down from grace! It was you who damned her life!"

Alucard jolted up from his slumber and gasped with this pain in his chest, in his heart. He looked up through his fingers and found Anna standing in front of him with concern in her red eyes.

She gently slid her finger down his face that was riddled with bloody tears. "Why...are you crying, my beloved?"

Alucard said nothing but just held her hand tightly. Slowly, he came over the shock of his nightmare of the past and scoffed. "A dream? How ridiculous."

Anna stared solemnly at him and kneeled down. "It is not ridiculous...because I am cured with dreams of the past all the time."

Alucard clenched her hand tightly and tried to keep his expression neutral. "Anna...do you ever have regrets...from that day?"

The first day they met was the day Anna fell under a curse. A curse by loving this man far too much and had to go through some unimaginable trauma after their human life fell apart, which only lead to her downfall. He wondered throughout the long years if it could have been different. If he hadn't had met her, would she still be human?

"Whether I was human or vampire, it wouldn't matter, because every single individual on this planet had made mistakes, some more than others." Anna's red eyes felt like there were piercing his skin. "Now...do you regret meeting me?"

Was it mind-reading? The fact that she just knew this man far too much? Anna has always seemed to pick up on what he was thinking and if something was bothering him. She would address it right away. It threw him for a loop and found himself unable to think for a moment. Unlike this time where he already knew the answer since it was so simple.

"Never." Alucard reached his hands up and held the side of her face. "It is because of me that you became like this. It is because of me that you had to suffer. It is because of me that you fell from grace. But despite that...I would do it one hundred times—no, one thousand times. Just so you can be mine and only mine."

Anna held his hand, leaning into it with such a warm smile on her face. "I understand...I would suffer all over again...just so I can remain by your side. I am forever yours, as you are forever mine."

There was no such doubt that they ever had with each other. The devotion ran deeper than any kind of blood bond and will forever remain...

The air dropped in temperature and the doors leading into the conference room slammed open and the vampires walked through. Heads turned and some people even jumped when they saw them standing in the doorway.

"We have returned. My master." Alucard announced.

Integra smirked. "Good work. My servants. You are in the presence of the queen. remove your sunglasses."

Alucard removed his glasses as told.

Anna began to step towards the path to the queen. Her footsteps were light and it looked like she was gliding across the marble floor. No one dared stop her as her eyes seemed fixed on something and appeared to be in a trance. She stopped once she was in front of the throne where an elder woman sat upon, overshadows over by the darkness.

"It's been a long time, pretty vampire." Her voice shook with age but remained firm and graceful.

Anna's eyes crinkled when she smiled like a child. She kneeled in front of the queen. "So you have become queen..." Her voice was softer than usual.

The queen lifted her shaking and wrinkly hands and gently touche the side of her face. "You haven't changed a day, Anna. You're still as beautiful as the day I met you. I'm just a wrinkly old lady now."

Anna looked offended. "How ridiculous. I am not beautiful...because I am a monster. You though, no matter the years that have passed and will pass...I still see you as absolutely stunning in my eyes."

The queen gave a weak laugh as Anna rose from the ground. "Make your report. Vampires."

The thorn in our side. The thing that keeps us up at night. Yes, it is time to reveal what this whole war decoration was about.

Alucard grinned with glee and he slowly opened his mouth. "Once upon a time, there was an insane SS major who sooth to make an army of immortals. That reckless thought became reality, thanks to much blood and his insanity."

"so that's the Millenium project," Integra said,

"Right, but 55 years ago, that project was ruined by Anna, Walter and I. However, they never really gave up. Everyone forgot them, wanted to forget them. But they continued to live on tenaciously in the depths of darkness while they slowly, slowly grew. Now, they are frighteningly close to perfecting the vampire. A Kampf Gruppe of vampires, an army of immortal ones that are not human. This was the return of the mythical army of Siegfried. The remains of the Third Reich 'Lazte Battalion'."

Those words sent shivers down Anna's spine. Her mind flashed to an old image of a grueling monster who was so beautiful, yet drenched in blood with the biggest smile on her face. Somehow though, she was impressed that they were able to stand back up after witnessing her at her worse. Impressive at it was, she feared that it might be time...to put away the humanity.

"Ah...Tubalcain's blood let you know, huh? That's not good at all." A young looking boy said dressed in a Nazi's uniform. Raising panic soon rose up in the air as a frightening chill came over the small boy as he felt an ominous presence behind him. Anna leered over the boy with her red eye hidden by her longs bangs. "Wait, Miss Anna!" The boy held his hands up in defense and spun around to face to the woman who somehow got behind in a flash. "I'm just the messenger. I have no intention of fighting."

Anna tilted her head, her bangs split her one red eye pierced through innocently. "Messenger?" As quick as she was to sneak up behind him, it was still utterly impossible for this young boy to sneak into enemy territory without tripping the security. "Walter?" She looked.

Walter shook his head grimly. "Our defense is perfect. There are no signs of it having been breached."

"Don't bother." The young boy said. "I am everywhere and nowhere."

Seras looked over to Anna as she glided back over to her side. "Miss Anna?"

Anna looked troubled with a weak and defeated smile. "I didn't notice him at all until he spoke. That proved to me that he has no intention of fighting." She stood behind her and placed her hands on her shoulders. "I don't like this though..." Her eyes never left the young boy who seemed younger then Seras.

"We have an important message from our commander, the Major, so please listen carefully." The young boy set a small TV screen down on the table when his eyes glanced over to Seras. He stared at her for the longest time for some reason.

"What?" Seras questioned hesitantly.

"Hello." He bowed his head.

Seras blinked and looked to Anna for answers. She sighed and bowed her head. "Hello."

The young boy then went and brought out a controller and tried to turn the screen on but it remained black no matter the number of times he pressed it.

"Huh? What' going on?" A voice came from the screen as well as a distressed one in the background.

"Please stop it, Major!"

"Warrant Officer Schrodinger, it's not showing up!" Moments later the screen lit up and an old familiar face was seen, the Major. "Oh, now it's showing."

"Looks like you're having fun over there, Major." Schrodinger said in a gleeful voice.

"It's difficult to deal with the superiors who lose the strength to stand." The Major spoke as muffled cries were heard in the background. "But with this, it's finally all over. This feels great. Really great." The screen cut to the mess of blood and bodies that laid scattered around the floor.

Anna felt her throat close up as her stomach began to turn at the sight. Suddenly she felt a hand on her waist as she was slowly pulled over to the screen by Alucard.

"Hey there, Major." Alucard grinned.

The Major's eyes scanned over them before a maddened smile crept to his lips. "It's been a while, Alucard. I'm delighted to see you and your darling lover again."

Memories of gore and pain trampled upon each other one after another to morph into this gorgeous imagery of the old war. The man behind the madness, the leader that plunged this idea of an 'immortal army' into the world.

"So you're the leader of the enemy," Integra spoke firmly to the Major. Her eyes glared into the screen with a calm rage that could freeze hell over.

"Oh, it's you, the commanding officer of Hellsing. Sir Integra Hellsing, yes? This is my first time seeing you."

"What is your propose? To do such foolish things! Answer me!" She grit her teeth.

"Purpose? Fraulein, beautiful Fraulein, that is what is known as a foolish question." Madness radiated off this man's voice like it was natural. "To put it simply, Fraulein. We have no purpose. Listen, if you are in a position to start a war, you should know this. In this world, there are those that choose not to have a purpose. To get what they want. To put it simply."

The screen changed to one of the superiors who he was talking about, tied up and gagged against the wall. He had a sign around his neck that read 'I am one who did not change the rules.' He was surrounded by hungry looking vampires and stared down at him with waiting and glowing eyes.

The major held up his fingers and pressed them together. "There are those who are like us."

SNAP

The vampires rushed at the superior and dug their teeth into his neck. Blood poured out and splattered across their faces and the screen as he was devoured right in front of everyone. The muffled screams soon died out and the room was filled in this silent horror that made every stomach turn or drop.

"You bastards have lost it," Maxwell spoke coldly.

"Hm, you're one to talk, leader of the Vatican's 13th chapter." The Major said.

"Yeah, I am. You guys aren't normal."

"Fortunately, your God guarantees my madness. By may I ask?" He smirked with his twisted eyes. "Just who guarantees sanity of your God."

That struck Maxwell silent.

"Just who do you think you are speaking to? Perhaps I should have worn the black uniform of the SS. We are the SS of the Third Reich. Just how many people do you think we have killed? This ground lives and breaths war and violence, you know. Insane? You say this now!? It's a bit too late to say it after half a century? Very well! Splendid! Try to stop me! Unfortunately, my enemy is not your, please be quiet for a bit 13th chapter. My enemy is England! Knights of Religion! No! It is that beautiful vampire and that man standing happily over there."

There was a deep sigh that soon overlapped with a loud and cackling laugh. Anna shook her head and gave a worried glance over to Alucard who was laughing uncontrollably beside her.

Anna slowly opened her eyes as they glowed brightly. "My, what an interesting declaration of war."

Alucard swift pulled out his gun and pointed it right in the mouth of the messenger. He pulled the trigger and his face cracked and shattered into a mess of blood and flesh.

Anna began to walk up towards the screen and kneeled down to its level. "Yet again, I find the method absolutely...revolting." She slammed her fist down and shattered the screen. "Auf wiedersehen, dear Major."

If the world was a book then the final chapter would begin at this point with the words of her majesty, the war was on.

"Sir Hellsing. Alucard. Anna. This is an order. Defeat them."

Author's Note:

Did you like this chapter? I truly hope you did because let me tell you this. This chapter was BORING to write. I like the little moment Alucard and Anna had at the beginning of the chapter but after that was just so taxing and uneventful. I put it off for the longest time but I knew I still had to do it, so I bucked down and just did it! It is good? Must likey not? Is it bad? Who the hell knows. But now we're finally moving on to the fun part. IT'S WAR TIME, BABY! And that means action and violent! (Do I sound like a psychopath now?) I truly find that part more easy to write and there are some parts where I really, really got into the zone and was very actually proud of myself for writing (And a little concern for my well being.) You're still gonna have to wait for that chapter though because we got some more boring chapters next weak. Still, hell's gonna break loose when the time comes! So stay tuned, my lovelies!