14: The Mystic

The Irish Sea was calm and level as a perfectly aligned table, the moon's reflection lit up a large section of the still water of the sea, accompanied only by a slight breeze and the sounds of the travelling Birds across the sky heading towards the south.

The fish and the mammals of the sea were scarce as most of them fled because of a malevolent presence in the sea, but those that remained steered clear about a mile away from the area of the sea where the presence was located.

That presence revealed himself as he surfaced, Hyden emerged from the sea surrounded by empty water and moonlight, and he was still wearing his cloths even though he was in the middle of the Irish Sea.

"I got to find myself a wee laundry shop when I arrive" said Hyden while scanning his surroundings to see how far he was from his target destination.

After he finished scanning his surroundings, Hyden suddenly had an annoyed expression on his face and let out a heavy grunt "Fuck sake, barely left the fecking Dublin coast, better get a move on!" he said shortly before diving back into the water to continue his swim across the sea.

His swimming propelled him through the water like a torpedo travelling at the speed of a speedboat despite his extremely large build.

Back underground at Hellsing Manor, Mr. Liang was performing some checkups on the Moritani and had one concern regarding the vehicle.

Mr. Liang thought to himself as he was studying the engine and the back of the Moritani "The Engine could be damaged if something crawls up the exhaust pipe, why didn't I see that before?"

Mr. Liang closed the engine hatch and shot the rear door before heading back out to call one of the Engineers that helped build the Moritani according to Liang's blueprints. He wanted to quickly call the Engineer to remedy the problem quickly before there was any needed use of the vehicle.

Mr. Liang seemed disappointed with himself "I became Immortal, just to make more mistakes?"

Before he could leave to contact the Engineer, he was blocked by a friend and fellow comrade. The Reaper-witch, Hei was standing at the entrance of the holding room for the Moritani with a warning for Mr. Liang.

Mr. Liang stopped as he saw Hei standing there with her right eye fixed at him while her left was slightly staring upwards to the left, she spoke in an assertive but eerie tone of voice to warn Mr. Liang "I feel the presence of a monster who is going to arrive here tonight"

Mr. Liang sighed with disappointment "It's too soon; there is a flaw in my machine that I wish to fix before I send it and Seras into battle"

Hei did not seem to care about his plight and continued to assert him "The tides of war never hold back for anyone!"

Mr. Liang looked to the floor and spoke in a humble voice "Ae Chun Hei, is there at least any time to spare for me to fix this problem before the monster arrives?"

Hei let out a short cackle and mocked Mr. Liang in a wicked voice "Liang Zhi: the monster who does not want to fight! No wonder Lord Alucard sees you for a paper tiger and not a real monster!"

Mr. Liang did not let her affect his resolve with her mocking words and continued to speak in his humble tone "Unlike most vampires, it is not blood or souls that I hunger for."

Hei softened her tone and returned to her soft innocent voice "Then what do you hunger for?"

Mr. Liang looked up to Hei and began to speak in a less humble and calmer voice "Knowledge"

Hei seemed to be slightly confused at the concept of a monster seeking knowledge and not war "A monster, of knowledge?"

Mr. Liang nodded his head and said "That is exactly why I chose to become a monster"

Hei remained confused and asked "Are you implying that only monsters seek Knowledge?"

Mr. Liang shook his head "Not at all, perhaps you should think about what I said in a different way."

Hei ceased trying to understand what Mr. Liang was telling her and just turned her back and marched back down the corridor towards the stairs that led up to the ground floor.

While Hei was heading back to the ground floor, Mr. Liang headed to his quarters which was two rooms away from Seras' quarters and contacted all of his Engineers via his room's personal telephone.

Despite the obvious fact that all the Engineers lived at different houses (only a few miles away from Hellsing Manor), Mr. Liang designed his quarter's Telephone to send a message to all of his Engineers at once.

The Engineers were trained to respond to an emergency call from Hellsing Manor even while they were asleep, they were fitted with disguised earpieces inside their ear canals which they wear 24/7, the earpieces were designed by Mr. Liang so that they would be able to listen to any messages given to them by Mr. Liang while still able to hear normally. However, there were not enough materials to give these earpieces to any other guard or worker employed by Hellsing.

Mr. Liang picked up the telephone with one hand and lifted the handle with the other hand, the telephone was a classic wood grain telephone with a golden circular dial and the transmitter and receiver had gold coatings on them.

He dialled in a three digit number to activate the signal to the earpieces of his Engineers, he held the receiver to his ear and began to speak his message to his fellow workers "I have received a warning from the reaper, she tells me that danger is approaching Hellsing Manor, for your safety you need to find a safe place inside your homes or otherwise in the case that danger ever spreads beyond Hellsing manor."

As soon as Mr. Liang began his transmission, the Engineers quickly emerged from their beds and went for the nearest safe place they could find, those who had families quickly gathered them and lead them to their safe area.

Mr. Liang paused for a second and said "That is all" he hung up his telephone and made his way towards Seras' quarters.

After Hei reached the ground floor, she made her way out of the front doors and called the attention of the guards patrolling outside the Manor in a loud commanding voice "Fellow soldiers of the Royal Order, we are about to be attacked!"

The guards immediately drew their attention to Hei while she looked around studying the reactions of the men as they all looked to her "Sceptical?" she smirked as she began to recall past events.

The guards listened as Hei was performing her speech "Nigeria, 2029! I sniffed out an ambush laid by Islamic vampire butchers; I warned your American brothers and sisters of that but my warnings were ignored because of 'protocol'. Good men and women were devoured that night and all that was left was vengeance!"

The guards gasped as they do recall hearing about that, one of the guards spoke up and said "Sir Integra was not too happy with the American president that day"

Hei smirked "Would you like more examples?"

The guards were conversing between themselves on what they should do, Hei detected fear among the ranks and she would do everything in her power to weed out fear amongst her comrades.

"Unless you are all willing to commit suicide right now before you become the vampire's meal tonight, you better conquer your fear right now and prepare for the attack" asserted Hei in a lower tone of voice before heading back inside the manor, leaving the guards to decide what to do next.

Mr. White overheard Hei speaking to the guards outside and he knew that he must warn his mistress

Sir Integra was in her bed with her pyjamas on, but she was awake, she spoke when Mr. White knocked on the door "Hei, she has the ability to sense incoming danger, but it seemed her senses did not work when our Los Angeles base was attacked, maybe she can only sense droves of vampires?"

Mr. White asked from the other side of the door without entering "Should I contact Mr Smith for backup?"

Sir Integra remained under the quilts of her bed "No need, we can handle a little ambush"

Mr. White was debating to himself wither or not that now was a good time to bring up the name that he heard from the mouth of a United IRA man at last night's raid.

Sir Integra knew that Mr. White was still standing next to her bedroom door "Something on you mind, Alexander?"

Mr. White shook his head "It's nothing, it can wait until later" he immediately walked away from the door whilst heading to prepare for Hei's predicted assault.

NOTE: Apologies for the long delay, I lost motivation to continue this story for a while but I think I have found that spark again for a while, expect more delays in the future though.