The Runaway's Tale The Runaway's Tale

Part 10: Seras's Tears

Alucard had to make sure no one disturbed Nagi during his transformation, it was so much easier if it had been just him and Sir Integra, but Seras was going to have a large part to play. He had moved Nagi out of his coffin and into a new one, the sleek black lid moved only a little as he looked down at the boy, who seemed so unaware of who was touching him. He shivered only a little, almost as if his body was fighting the changes inside, the smallness was going to last a long time, but the power that was Nagi Naoe was surely something a vampire could want.

Telekinesis is a rare power, even for a vampire, Alucard thought as he shut the lid down on the coffin and shook his head. I must be fooling myself thinking that little Nagi can handle such a horrible momentary change. When he wakes, he's going to be thirsty, walking from the room, he sat down on his throne.

"So you made a vampire of him?" Walter walked in. "Those Nazis are becoming a problem, will Nagi be all right?"

"Of course, I have seen vampires as young as him fight with all their might to keep me away, he will be no different. Nagi though has one advantage, aside from me being his sire, his own powers before his untimely death as a human. Telekinesis even for a human is a rarity, there hasn't been a vampire with that power in a long time, so it is almost an honor to have Nagi joining my family," Alucard laughed a little. "He might even get the Police Girl to drink blood sooner or later."

He looked up to see the youngest vampire staring from a corner of the room. "There you are, I was wondering when you would decide to wake up," he walked up to the child. "Now, then, go up with Walter, and get something to drink."

Nodding slowly the boy followed the butler away. "It seems that my family gets stranger and stronger."

Nagi's eyes were large and red, he no longer looked like an innocent child, though it was clear that being a newly made vampire, the boy's face was somewhat different. His body seemed lean and there were some changes physically too.

A package of blood was held out by Walter who smiled at him. "I see you are hungry," he whispered. "Nagi, just don't expect everyone to treat you like they did when you were human. At least you're not as fragile in health anymore so I have no need to worry about you hurting your eyes or…"

Nagi's eyes moved up to him, then away, it was always as if he knew something that he was not willing to share about Walter. This made the butler wonder if it had something to do with how he was brought up, that trusting someone who tried to at least earn his trust was even possible.

Walking down the hall. "This is going to make things a lot more difficult, Nagi's fully aware."

Drinking from the package, Nagi walked toward his room, he sat down on the bed and then looked about it. He felt alien to this room, usually it was chilly in here and he had on a sweater that Sir Integra insisted that he wore when he was down here. "Just wear it," she told him bluntly. "If you get sick again, I won't hear the end of it from Seras."

"Ne-san!" Nagi smiled, his fangs felt strange to him, but he was becoming used to them, he looked into the hall. "Ne-san?"

That was when Seras turned to gaze at him, her eyes wide, she could not believe how he looked to her. "What is it?" He blinked at her.

"Nagi, er…nothing," she looked away, as if disappointed that the boy chose to be a vampire too. "I just thought you would at least tell me that you would do something like this."

"Ne-san, I just wanted to stop being in pain, it wasn't as if Alucardo-sama wanted to do it," Nagi finally spoke up, he suddenly saw Alucard watching them. "I wanted to be with you."

"There are other ways of going about this," she finally looked angry. "Nagi, do you have any idea what you have done?"

"I do know what I have done, everyone thinks I'm just a child, a helpless little kid who needs to be looked after. Alucardo-sama, he treated me like I could make my own decisions!" He suddenly was about to run back to his room, he was not prepared for her to be upset with him. "Why is it that people treat me like this?"

"Because you are a child!" He turned to see Schuldich walking down the hall. "For once, Nagi, consider your actions before you do zhem." The German Assassin sighed and looked down. "Zhis ist Tot all over again."

Nagi felt angry, he ran away from Schuldich and back to his room.

Alucard appeared beside the German Assassin who sighed. "Like I said before, Alucard, Nagi never considers who he hurts when he makes up his mind." The logic seemed sad enough. "He never told you vot really happened to Tot?"

Its like Tot all over again, Nagi walked into his room, he saw the bed being taken out and his new coffin being put in the middle. Walter noticed he was upset and left him alone, it was not wise to stick around if Nagi decided he was hungry. Sitting on the coffin lid, the boy vampire stared around this room, eyes moving and realized that he was stupid.

I gave up being with Schwarz just so I could run away with Tot, he thought to himself, then remembered what happened when Crawford found out. He remembered lying on the floor as he was slapped and kicked. "I don't like doing this," Crawford walked from the room. "But what you did was stupid."

I'm not stupid! He sat staring at his hands, his lips moving and trembling as he wondered if vampires could cry. He saw the door open slowly, Seras gazing in at him. "Nagi, I'm sorry," she saw him staring at him. "I know that you don't understand, but when you were human, I felt like I finally understood what life was. You can't possibly understand what that meant to me…knowing that…"

"I was going to die," Nagi finally looked at her. "They gave me a week or two, Dr. Rozette said that one more seizure would put me in a coma, if I had that coma, I would never wake up. Do you really think, Seras-ne that was what you would want if you were me?"

Seras blinked, she could not believe that he hid this from her, her arms went around him holding him to her. "Nagi, I would never want you to suffer, I would never want you in pain."

She feels like Tot, she doesn't act like her, but she feels like her, he relaxed, his first night as a vampire, he was scared, he was not sure what to do. The blood package lay on the floor, he finished at least two. He looked up at her, she moved her hands around his shoulder. "At least this time, I won't let anyone take you away from me," she kissed his forehead.

"Not only did you disobey a direct order, Alucard, you made another vampire without consulting me," Sir Integra gazed at Nagi who stood with Seras, his red eyes were sort of showing a little fear. "Nagi, just leave the room."

"No, let him stay," Alucard walked ahead and looked at the boy. "This is the result of his decision, he knew that turning into a vampire could save him. The medical proof is right there in front of you, my master."

Gazing at the desk, Sir Integra saw what had been given to her by Dr. Rozette. "Nagi, is this true?"

"Very true," the boy turned his eyes away and he bit his lip. "The next seizure I would have had would have put me in a bad position. I would be in a coma and all I would have is one seizure after the next until I finally do die."

Dr. Rozette's eyes were down as she walked in, she was hoping to tell the rest of the Hellsing about his condition, but being a vampire now, it was hardly the point to do so. She put her files down on the desk and walked from the room, that was when Seras blocked her way, Alucard turned her around. "You knew that he was dying!" Sir Integra growled at the doctor who was standing at attention. "Of all the…"

"Sir Integra, let me say this, Nagi was created by mistake, we were intending to make a new kind of telepath, but it failed. As a result we ended with Nagi, he was only…." She pulled her eyes away from the three vampires.

Alucard twisted her arm behind her. "Tell her about the other experiments you put him under, the ones that damaged his own mind! Tell my master how you and the rest of the doctors at Rozen Kreuz turned children into living machines, nothing more than weapons!"

She winced and gazed at Sir Integra who was suddenly staring at her in horror. "I was following orders, if the Major found out that we failed, he would have terminated everyone in the school, not just me, but the children. I had…ouch!" She suddenly was released. "Sir Integra, you have to understand, I was under the impression that we were doing something great, that we were looking at humans in a new evolutionary standpoint. I had no idea that we were hurting the children or even abusing them."

"Alucard, that's enough, Dr. Rozette, as of tomorrow, turn in your registration cards, all Hellsing organization materials, and report to the nearest police station, if you don't I will have Kritiker hunt you down," the head of Hellsing finally turned around. "Be lucky that I don't kill you myself."

Dr. Rozette finally said something. "Kritiker already knows about what I did, I work for them now, I gave you everything I know. I didn't do the experiments at all, I was only witness to them, Sir Integra. If it were not for me, Rozen Kreuz wouldn't have been destroyed, but really the real person who destroyed the school was Rip van Winkle!"

"Why would a member of their own staff destroy the place?" Integra finally turned her attention to Alucard who was telling Seras and Nagi to leave the room.

Dr. Rozette felt a little nervous. "Rip van Winkle found out that her son was being brainwashed, when we told her that Nagi wasn't her real child, she became furious. Nagi's name was Kasper, she had named him after her hero in a German Opera. When the child refused to call her mother and also stopped referring to himself as Kasper, she finally lost it. One day, she lost it, she finally decided she had enough, she was about to kill everyone in the building when Eszette smuggled the boy out. Schuldich, Bradley Crawford, and Jei Farfarello fled to Japan, they were looking for Nagi's paternal DNA donor."

"Why didn't you tell us this before?"

"I never thought that Nagi would come here," Dr. Rozette said softly. "We told Rip that her son was dead, we felt that if he was the Major and the rest of Millennium would leave us alone. It isn't just that, Nagi was the first successful transitioned telekinetic, the first to be created in cloning. We were not about to allow the first Epitaph to be used as Dok's test subject like many of the other transitioned empaths, telepaths, oracles, and pyrokentics."

Everything made a little more sense as Dr. Rozette went on with her story. "Nagi's existence was to be kept a secret, even from our own staff, we pretended not to know anything about his past. When it was discovered that Nagi was the first Epitaph, anyone who knew was silenced. We called him the First Epitaph because he had all the characteristics of an oracle, telepath, and empath. These abilities gave us enough insight on how we ran the labs afterward, but we were not going to inform anyone else in Millennium of our actions. When Kritiker finally destroyed the elders, the rest of Rozen Kreuz fell into ruin, we had no other choice, we started our massed extermination of anyone with psychic powers."

She took a breath as Alucard finally said something. "You truly are a monster, even when I am!" He pulled his gun out. "Give the word, and I will do it."

"Alucard put it away," Integra whispered.

"Nagi's own existence was soon brought to my attention, at first I was excited because I thought he was truly dead, but when he was found to be alive, I was shocked. Not only did I remove all the control mechanisms, I got to see the true First Epitaph. I reported to Kritiker that he made it here safely. Though now that he's a vampire, I am sure that there are some advantages to this."

There were and Integra was soon found that she could not ignore her intuition to report into Kritiker and bring in Crashers.

It had been six months since Dr. Rozette or Sir Integra reported in, Burman made her rounds in the office, soon she saw a message flashing on a screen of her computer. The familiar voice, "You got mail," pulled her down into her seat. She suddenly saw the report e-mail and then rushed to print it off, she ran toward the main office, the one the Manx was now sitting in acting as Persia until such time a new one would take her place.

Manx stared at the files. "WHAT? Hellsing, you sure?"

"Yeah, Omi's report wasn't a lie, Nagi is in London! Should we send Crashers to retrieve him?" Burman asked.

The woman with red hair shook her head. "Right now, I don't think it would be wise, we have enough problems. I will send Weiss in, they are in London anyway doing a retrieval mission with Crashers." She pulled up a file and then looked at it. "Siamese is with them, so I will have her give them report."

Nagi was watching as the plane lifted off, his eyes moved over the crowd of people watching, from the meeting, he spotted Father Maxwell leaving. "What's your rush?" Schuldich stood starting to move toward the priest. "The vampire is doing his mission."

"I er…have things I must attend to in the Vatican," he smiled getting on his plane.

Moving behind Schuldich, Nagi's eyes moved over the priest. "I don't trust him, do you?"

The German nodded. "I can tell he's up to something, but I can't place what," his Japanese was a little more accented than usual. "I would be careful around the house, I'm going to watch the attack."