Source of Food
Chptr 10
Duty
Pang! She blinked. And blinked again. She expected she was only going to smile, or even chuckled and said something like 'Hell will freeze before he's unbounded by a Hellsing', but found no word escaped her mouth. Walter and the staff looked at her, tried to find any sign of emotion, yet she stood still, collected as ever with cold air around her.
"We'll find out what's the matter, and fight those unholy creatures." She said coolly.
"Yes Sir! I'll inform the commanders to prepare the troops." The staff turned and was about starting to run in hurry when suddenly Integra called him.
"No need to, Thomas. Please just prepare a chopper and call Sergeant Victoria to come to me." She said.
Thomas the staff looked at her in disbelieves, and as she said nothing more, he left in hesitates. When the door was closed, Walter turned to Integra.
"May I assume that you are going to tell me everything about Alucard leaving the manor, Sir?" He asked her, trying to find any clue why had Alucard gone.
"Nothing unexpected, Walter. He's a monster. What should we expect from a monster but its unholy soul?" She said with undisturbed calmness, collecting the paper they had been discussing when Thomas had rushed in.
"I know who he is. I'd fought beside him years ago. I know what a monster he is clearly as a day. And that was what made me stunned when he… " He stopped there, looked hesitated. Should he say that? He thought. But there's an emergency, he had to. "How can a monster like him treat you like… like 'that'?"
Integra stared at him sharply, "Like 'that' what, Walter?" She demanded.
"Spare me for my rudeness, Integra, but I really have to tell you this." He had left the formal manner and addressed her as Integra, just like he had in times when he had acted as her father's figure.
"Please, do tell." She said sternly.
"He was a bastard, a jerk, maniac killer. He had been everything bad. He had no good side."
"Obviously. Correction, he is still a bastard and all, and he has no good side." She said in smug tone.
"I thought so too, until you unlocked him from that dungeon. He acted differently since then."
"Differently?"
"I know that he taunted you for countless time."
"Not a pleasant experience to have that coming from him."
"I should tell you this, he had tempted –er… taunted your father and your grandfather and his father with… less respect." He said this with a clear uneasiness.
"I'm not a little girl anymore, Walter. Just tell me everything necessary." She said lost her patient.
"Okay then. You know, for some times, he would take a feminine form. A beautiful one with long hair and big eyes. You should know that he would er… spend times with… his masters in… their bedroom. For him, sex and murder were just ways to hedonic lifestyle. But now, he acts differently. He never tempts you to lie down with him. He treats you like a lady, his true master. He does your every order willingly." He said quickly.
"And what then?" She demanded.
"I'm going to say that he loves you, and anything you have done makes him… hurt." He said matter-of-factly.
She was about to opened her mouth to reply when Ceras came in. Behind her, Thomas the staff stood silently, expected Integra to dismissed him first. Yet she didn't.
"Thomas, after you have prepared the chopper, prepare a ship in the closest point between the Thames with that building." She said firmly.
"Yes Sir!" And the staff left them.
"May I know what do you have in mind, Sir?" Asked Walter.
"There's no way to kill a mighty vampire like Dracula. Hellsing had made him more powerful then the first time Abraham captured him. But we can trap him. Vampire can't move across running water without its coffin. We will set a ploy to make him get in a ship and the ship will sail to the center of Atlantic. There, the ploy will explode the ship and cut any way for him to back to any land."
Ceras didn't really understand about the plan, but she knew for sure, the vampire they're going to kill was her master.
"What do we do?" Asked Ceras worry. Integra could see two trails of blood down from her eyes. She must have cried in fear. Integra knew that Alucard was just like a father or a big brother for her. And noe he's leaving. Integra wondered whether she will stay in Hellsing if she knows that Alucard was against Hellsing. Integra became silent. She had no intention to break Ceras' heart more than she had had. Walter caught her uneasiness and did this for her.
"Alucard, your master, is no longer under Hellsing's orders. He's a free vampire now, a mighty one. He's against us. Who will you choose? Hellsing –in this case is England, or him?" He asked her calmly.
Ceras' eyes widened in shock. She knew it would come. Who would she choose? Her master or Hellsing? Why did her master go then? It must be something about Sir Integra. He left right after he had saved her.
"I'm sorry, but let me know first, what had happened before he left?" She asked sternly, not to Walter, but to Integra. Integra closed her eyes before opened them and answered her calmly.
"He's sulking. He had seen Father Anderson fed me with his blood. And Alucard isn't a good sulking monster to deal with." Then silent.
"YOU'RE BLIND, SIR INTEGRA! HE ISN'T SULKING! HIS HEART IS BREAKING APART!" Ceras yelled suddenly. She had lost her manner. She realized this and lowered her tone.
"He –my master loves you, Sir." She muttered. Integra just snorted in an unlady-like manner (Walter glanced a warn at him, but she ignored him) before giving comment.
"Sergeant Victoria, your master is a monster. Monster. Doesn't. Love. Yet he does kill people. You really don't have any idea about who he is, or who he was. Believe me, he as a vampire isn't as bad as he as a human. He has done many things, and none of them can be categorized as good thing."
Ceras looked at her in hesiteate before muttered again.
"You're right, Sir Integra. I don't know him much. Yet, one of things that I know about him surely is… that he… he… enjoys his place as your servant. Sometime, I catch his thought –I don't mean to but it happens –when you're giving us orders. He doesn't really hear your orders. He just enjoys his every moment with you around. He also thinks about you a lot. When he isn't sleeping, I can catch his mind. I catch your image and your voice from him. In the night, when you're sleeping, he will be there." She didn't tell her that she had tried to stop him in doing so and had asked him to train her instead, " Of course, sometime when you're awaken you will shoot him. When you're training the troops, he will be there, hidden by the shadow, watching you. He has his eyes only for you, Sir." She said this with bitterness, and the keen Walter could catch it. Integra didn't say anything. She was too busy to manage the information.
"Sergeant Victoria, no matter what, I have to destroy anyone dead who is a threat to my country."
"But we don't have to kill him. Why don't we just convince him?" She pleaded.
"Do you think you can convince him?"
"Well, no, but you su –"
"There's no way I will convince him. He knows it, and he left anyway." With that, she moved away to her bedroom.
"Miss Victoria, I will save her no matter what. If she really has to face Alucard, I will be the one to die before your master touch her. If that the case, you have to save her no matter what too, Ceras. Can you promise me this one?" Walter asked her sternly. He had no other option but to lean on her. She's Alucard's fledgling after all. Alucard won't kill her. Maybe Integra's right. Maybe ALucard loves her. If he does, maybe he will spare her life on Ceras' wish. But he's famous for his evil habit, he won't do such a thing. But still, it's not that bad to wish.
"Yes, I will." Ceras said confidently.
While the two of them talking about promise, Integra stood in silent in her dark bedroom. With her vampiric eyes, she found her sword and baretta easily. She put the sword on her belt, and the baretta on her chest-belt. She opened one of the drawers at the corner and took two revolvers. She put them on her belt too. She knew those weapon won't kill him, but she felt more confident with them around. If she was to die, it would be better if she dead in a fight. A good one. To think that Alucard was the one she's going to fight made her shuddered. He always had saved her, had fought for her, had killed in her name, and now they would die as enemies. Ironic.
"It should be ready by now." She said as she made her way into her office. There's already Thomas waiting for her.
"Yes Sir. And… uh… I've prepared the troops anyway." He said.
"It's okay. Order them to clear the area between the ship and the building." And she gave Thomas the 'follow me' sign.
"I'm sorry, Walter, Ceras." And she got out of the room. She looked somehow full of thought. Walter's keen eyes caught this, and prepared his wires to stop her. Yet the new Integra was far more then just realize his moves. Suddenly, she had pinned him on the floor, and in one chop, he lost his consciousness. Then Integra could feel Ceras' arms around her waist, and easily, she pushed the young draculina across the office. Integra drew her sword and stabbed her at her chest.
"You'll soon loose your consciousness because of lack of blood. Listen to me, Ceras Victoria, I'm going on my plan, and if I success, you and Walter have to do your best for Hellsing." Ceras couldn't see her face; her sight was a blur, but she could hear her voice trembled slightly, "Please tell Walter, I always love her. Thanks, Ceras." Ceras couldn't hear anything more than that. Unconsciousness had fallen upon her.
Integra walked calmly after cleaned her sword with her jacket's sleeve which had been hanged loosely around her shoulder.
"You're not going to be the ploy, are you Sir?" Asked Thomas, ripped between amazement and worry.
"If you try to stop me, you'll end up just like them." She said. Thomas didn't say anything more. Silently, they went to the chop. Thomas watched Integra got in the chopper, and before the pilot took it off, he gave her his best salute.
"I wish you a very good luck, Sir!" He said gently. Integra just smiled to him before the chopper brought her higher. From the sky, the manor looked smaller and smaller. It brought back some memories to Integra; some are good, the others are bad. She remembered her father, how he had dead. How her uncle had tried to kill her. And… How she had met Alucard.
She shook her head. One shouldn't think about the person one has to kill. She told her self. And several minutes after, she could see the huge sky-scrapper building where Alucard was. Some press and police choppers were flying around. She ignored them; her troops would deal with them to leave. She glanced below and noticed some military forces were blocking the ways to get in the building. No, she wasn't going to get in through the entrance. She would land on the top, and make her way down to Alucard. To Alucard. Flashes of memories stroke her again. She could see his face, grinning madly to her, showing off his sharp white canines. My, is this his power? She asked her self. Again, she shook her head deeply to shoo the images away. The pilot caught this.
"We're here, Sir. Are you all right?" He added in worry. He didn't know the plan or who was the vampire they're going to fight in there. He just wondered why she had gone here all by her self. Shouldn't that Man in Red go with her? Or that little blondie vampire? And what about the butler? He was a trash man too, wasn't him? He asked him self.
"I'm okay. Go find your team and follow the order of Thomas or Redenhart. I'll attack from here." She said and she hopped from the chopper even before it completely touched the top of the building. The pilot watched her disappeared throught the door.
"Really, she's Sir Integra Hellsing. What would we do without her?" He chuckled a little and flied away, joined the rest of Hellsing troops, giving his back up from the air above.
In of the floors in that building, mass murder occurred. Bloody mutilated bodies were littering the floor. Flames could be found all over the place. Somehow the electricity was down, and darkness covered every corner.
Alucard was getting bored. He had sucked about… 25? 30? He lost his count. Shit, he didn't care all about those scum human. And the only one he cared about reject him and treat him as a spoiled enemy. Well, had to give her that, he was a spoiled man.
Suddenly a familiar scent stroked his nostrils. It made him dizzy and drove his body longed for its source.
"Integra has come." He purred darkly. In his fog form, he moved to higher floor, clearly ignoring the mess and the mutilated bodies around him.
"She's mine. Her ancestors had taken my precious thing away." He whispered to him self, and then louder, "I'll take my right. Yes, I'll take her." He paused and continued, "I'm definitely going to get her!" he was getting louder, "I'll get my right and my revenge as well." Louder, "I'll crush her!" Louder, "I'll rape her!" Louder, " I'll impale her!" And he roared menacingly, "SHE'S MIIIIIIIIIIINNNE!"
Integra heard that and stop. She didn't move. In front of her Alucard had appeared from below. They stared deeply for a silent moment. His tendrils danced around him, cheering him. His canines shined in that dark office room, where the electricity had broken. He had everything that was able to put every man drooped by their knees and whimper. Yet she stood there firmly. A single sword was in her grip. And she stood there, showed no sign of fear in front of the fearsome No Life King.
Hoshi ga nagareru (The stars are sparkling)
Tsuki ga kagayaku (The moon's shining)
You never say you love me too
"I'll kill you Hellsing." He growled dangerously. She kept silent. "Beg, little Hellsing, and I'll spare your life. Stay as my faithful whore, and you'll live." He mocked her. She stood unmoving and answered coolly, "Shut up, you vile demon! I would die before allowing a vampire to order me!" He just laughed after heard this; partially amused, and partially disappointed. Even death wasn't enough to convince her.
Hoshi ga nagareru (The stars are sparkling)
Tsuki ga kagayaku (The moon's shining)
I gotta say you love me too
Then, without any warn, the two of them came forward to each other. One with a sword, and the other with nothing but his brutality. She stabbed. He jerked she stabbed him again, and again, and again. He kept jerking. He caught her neck. She cut his arm. He regenerated his arm and with his sharp claws he cut her left leg. She regenerated it and stabbed his heart. He didn't jerk and pulled her sword. She refused to let her sword go. She left her self being pulled toward him. He raised his left dangerous hand to crush her head, her platinum head. Her long platinum hair danced around his long raven hair. So contrast. It caught his attention, and instead of crushed her head, he touched her hair. Not to pull it or whatsoever, it was just to know, to fulfill his long waited curiosity. How he had spent so many nights wondering how smooth her hair is! And now, so close with his own night-black hair, he found his fingers playing the long and smooth hair of her. Yes, it does feel smooth. Does it smelled nice too?
He pulled her hair in his grip slowly to his nose. Slowly and gently, as if he was scared that he might break that fragile hair. He closed his eyes and prepared his self to find how fragrant if could be. Yet she drew her hair away and cut his head off. It snapped him from his mind. Suddenly, hundreds of black bat flied from his body, and moved around the messy office room. The floor was littered by papers, wood pieces, documents, files, and blood.
All the bats came together across the room and united into Alucard in his straight jacket.
"I'll kill you, Hellsing." He whispered and came closer to Integra. She drew her sword before her, and a black tendril stroked it and broke it into two. Wasted no time in panic, she raised both her revolvers, and another tendril dropped them away from her. Cautiously, she raised her last weapon; her baretta. She had shot her first enemy with it. He was just five feet before her. She shot. He kept step toward her. She shot him, and shot him again. It's no use, it didn't harm him. He was right before her now.
"That gun is useless for me, Hellsing." He said and grinned so devilish that the devil himself wouldn't compare him. She stared at him without did something as much as blink.
"Beg, little Hellsing, so I'll spare your life." He said.
Alucard's POV
Bitch, she isn't scared. Blink! Blink, bitch! Your damn eyes are driving me crazy. Blink! So I can kill you! Why are you so enchanting? Is it a spell? Have you learned that Baobbhan Sith's technique? Please, close your eyes…
Hoshi ga nagareru (The stars are sparkling)
Tsuki ga kagayaku (The moon's shining)
You never say you love me too
I'm bored just to see you show your strength in front of my nose and never letting me taste them. Never allowing me to praise them. Then, please let me crush them. Please let me crush your strength. Perfect woman isn't real. Real woman isn't perfect. So, what are you Integra? What are you with that little physic power you have yet a powerful, merciless, fearsome beast on your feet?
Hoshi ga nagareru (The stars are sparkling)
Tsuki ga kagayaku (The moon's shining)
I gotta say you love me too
Damn it. God damn it. I damn it. The damn whole world damns it. You never let me touch you. I'll put it simply; no one touching you. I am going to kill you, my beloved one.
A/N: There we go. I know, it's a little sappy at the end. I'm trying to see everything from Alucard's point of view in case some of you readers are bored to have everything from Integra's POV. Okay, reviews are welcomed as always, so are flames and ideas. I'm sorry for my late update.
And, I'd like to say thanks to they who have added Source of Food into their favorite stories. They are; VladLover, Kyubi-female, Fallen Angel of Dreamz, Shuuwai, and SirIntegrity. I appreciate you guys for what you have done. And I will be more grateful if you leave something behind. LEAVE SOMETHING PLEASE…. Okay, have a nice day…
Also a special thanks for Dhanton, my editor… Sorry for have troubled you all this time…
Songfic: The song's called Shi Kuretto Karuma Serenade. It's one of the second Hellsing original soundtracks album; Ruins. (It has Integra's picture on the cover. The first soundtrack album of Hellsing has Alucard's picture on it. Sorry for AxS worshippers…)