Me: Hello to all! I have finally found enough time to one. Write, and two. the update, cheers for me! In any case, I do hope I still have some readers out there awaiting this new chapter, if not... oh well (shrugs) In any case, if a certain P.A. reads this... then blah, I hope they enjoy this as well...
To all, this chapter I feel a bit odd about, I believe that I am better with blood and gore, not... (shudders) lovey dovey crap, so I am trying my best and wish that all can keep the laughter to a small minimal volume...
So from here to then, enjoy the new chapter and pray it doesn't take four months again for another update. Oh yes, to all once more, thanks for the reviews, now lets get this chapter going!
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Ebony blinking, sat there in a odd crisscrossing with her legs as she looked down at her feet to a bundle of a thick wool cloak as there watching her... was once the most feared demon general who worked under the watchful eyes to the Lord of Flame. Yet now...
Still nothing but bones, yet no longer carrying the body of a man... Reign sat there, with a bony tail swaying behind him, carrying clear markings that he is a demon feline, even though of a skeleton, he was the size of a cougar. Ivory bones glinting in the early morning sunlight, his empty eye sockets, black as the night, shined orbs of hazel light.
Yawning, yet no sound emitted from his gaping jaws, Reign looked to Ebony who held a small smile towards him. "Well... I guess we head out..." She murmured softly as her eyes going from his face to his back, there, no longer large to be carried by a man, the coffin containing encased souls was chained over his shoulder blades and strapping the device onto his back. Kami... sighing, Ebony rising to her feet, looked around at the desolate land they had crossed to where they had camped. A borderline of young trees and plants with only insects and small rodents taking the bountiful amount of berries and fruit offered. Large animals did not even dare get close to the decay, even though no longer a threat to life, it had taken so much, it was still a terrifying place to be.
That man... he visited them, spoke in a odd way and then... he changed Reign to keep him from decomposing. Then disappeared as fast as he had appeared. Grumbling, Ebony turning her back to the decaying lands, began to walk off as Reign silently followed after her. Them both leaving behind a rumpled cloak.
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"So close... Kazul.. do not fail me."
A man cloaked in a black hooded cloak, stood there underneath the mountain containing the gaping maw to the former entrance for the throne of Light. Residing at his feet, a full grown buck with wide eyes filled with uncontrollable panic, laid there, his entire ribcage crushed in as three of his four legs were bent in the opposite directions they were not meant to turn. With blood trickling from the bucks jaws, his body twitched and convulsed as the terror his heart was taking was too much.
With a slow turn of his head, the cloaked man looked down at the bucks head the rested by his feet. Chuckled softly, he watched the dying deer. "You should be grateful your life ends here... or rather, I guess your soul's life in that body ends here... I have waited to long to get what I have forever rightfully deserved to let the deaths of many drag me down." Rising his right hand from the cloaks concealment... the bucks eyes which seemed impossible, grew even wider as instead of a human hand nor kin hand... it was black as if made from black metal and wielding very sharp hawk like claws.
The deer, though silent through most of its life, suddenly screeched as with violent convulsions, fell still as with the man's right palm, a glittering white orb began to gather and collect. With another soft laugh leaving his concealed lips, the man pulling his palm back to his body, turned the palm upward so his unseen eyes could fully examine the orb he so gently clutched. "So simple... a soul... nothing but an orb of light, yet so complex, filled with more then one lifetime, or like you, the very first... such a shame you will not feel what it is to be alive again... to keep my own soul thriving in this world of living, I need yours to sustain me... though pity you're so young, not a whole lot of energy, hence the reason, either gather more of you to live longer in this world, or gather myself up a single powerful soul and I then become one of the immortal living in this world..."
With a swift motion, near unseen with such speed, the soul with a loud scream, was crushed within his claws.
Taking in a shallow sigh as he felt the energy absorb and become his own, the man looked to his left as a doe raced from there with tail held erect. Looking back to the now empty body of the buck, the man gave the corpse a tap with his foot. "Apologies for ending your honeymoon... if my slave gives me what I have asked for, I will not have to keep consuming your small souls..."
With a startled growl, the man fell back as he was suddenly on full alert. Falling back, the man turning, headed on swift foot back to the mountain's side. He had overstayed his welcome outside with so few souls helping sustain his own soul.
Watching from the confinements of the sheltering trees, though brown and withered, a form standing on four slender yet strong legs, a tail of silver hair twitched gently as behind the towering creature, a doe hid behind. With golden eyes watching on a elongated muzzle covered in short silver fur with a main of silver hair hanging over a muscular neck, the nostrils flaring, snorted loudly as it turned, began to trot off as the doe crying out in fear of being left alone, raced after as both creature and deer faded into the concealing forest.
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"Alucard?"
the man groaning, pulled into consciousness as he felt his young queen beside him peering over him with a worried feel that near choked him. His stomach, seemingly pleased he was finally awake, growled as his lust for blood began to cause his mouth to water. Running his tongue gingerly over his fangs, Alucard's eyes snapped open making Seras cry out and fall back. staring straight up as to where the full moon hung in the cool night sky, a small cruel grin crept over his lips. Not worried by the anxious gaze he gained from Seras's crimson eyes, the man without a sound, slowly sat up then rose to his feet allowing his deep red trench coat to flail out behind him in a ominous bellow.
Upon looking around, his eyes; deep pools of crimson as dark as the blood he fed off of, fell onto the petite queen before him who with no where near the same color of red, her eyes blinking, watched him. "Something amiss?" he crooned softly making Seras blush, as she wringing her fingers together, smiled weakly at him. "n... no... ma- Alucard... I'm just glad... you're... all right." She whispered as he chuckling, lowered his face, leveling his gaze to her own as his fangs were exposed to a sadistic grin... the man watched her. He knew what had happened between her and his 'other side'. He was aware and conscious, yet unable to move the body, unable to talk, unable to do... anything.
"Seras..."
Seras blinking, closed her eyes as he having risen his hand... let it encase her left cheek ever so gently, allowing his body's warmth to seep into her chilled skin. Startled as if expecting more from him, Seras opening her eyes, looked to Alucard's crimson eyes as his smile, still remaining, softened. How much longer did he really have left to be among the living? That mere thought made the vampire chuckle, gaining a very worried look from Seras Victoria. To remain with the living... to remain among those he had looked at as only food, annoyances beyond food. Now his very existence was being threatened and he didn't... he didn't want to fade away.
Watching Seras's confused eyes, Alucard just stared at her, taking in her very form, features, being, spirit, soul... "I don't... want to lose her..."
Seras blinking, watched him as Alucard's voice rang in her mind, so faint, a thought not meant for her to hear. "Alucard? Is everything..." Seras's voice drifted away as she weakly watched his deep crimson pools suddenly bleed to the color of old blood; eyes that were meant for him so long ago when still a human... now resided in his face as he watched her, the fear in his eyes that rose and grew. Blinking slowly, the fear ebbed as he looking to her and her alone, the man, the vampire king of all undead, rising his other hand encased her right cheek as he slowly drew forward. "Alucard... what are you... what's wrong..." Seras's quiet voice shook, not from fear, but in general over whelming from the emotions her soul seemed unable to comprehend.
"Seras..."
the woman went limp in his hold as she felt his soft lips grace her left cheek, his warm breath tickling the smooth skin. Something was wrong, very wrong. She had only ever seen Alucard act like this before; when he was human and turning into a statue all so many years ago. He acted like this before for he believed that was the last he would have seen her... and now here he was once more, acting like it... again.
"You won't lose me..." Seras whispered, yet all she gained from her words, was Alucard's soft bitter laugh as his right hand slid to the back of her head, wringing his fingers roughly yet not enough to hurt her; in her blond locks. "I won't lose you... but you... will lose me." He spoke gently to her cheek as his eyes near hers, were closed near all the way; his gaze turned downward.
"Alucard... you're scaring me..."
"Good; tremble, fear me... soon all the living will fear me..."
Seras gave a loud cry as nails, turning to claws, slammed into her cheek and the back of her head as the man who was a fearful Alucard; was no more once again.
Laughing cruelly making Seras's own chest reverberate, the man's grip on her body, tightened. "Aldhelm..." Seras croaked the name as the hot blood began to trickle down both side and back of her head. Aldhelm laughing, opened his eyes near all the way, locking solely onto Seras's gaze... though filled with fear for being so close to him; her sadness drowned the fear. "I'm impressed, the small fanged one remembered the name I had given for myself... but, oh why the sadness, because your happy ending will not happen? I consume your lover's existence and make it all my own leaving you with nothing, I guess, be happy you have kept his being soft that it will be easy to tear him from inside out; you've helped me in my happy ending..." the man sneered as his grip on her face tightened while he drawing back his face, looked at her squarely; his fangs exposed in a cruel grin as his blazing eyes... no longer brown and sad, flared a fiery red, the eyes belonging to the king of flame.
The sadness just grew... Kami's words, the lack of a happy ending for a vampire; was it all true? was she and Alucard cursed to have their story end on a unhappy ending?
"Oh... you're crying... why? Because you've lost everything you've ever loved?" the man's dark laugh sent chills down Seras's spine as the crimson tears spilled from her eyes, intermixing with her blood caused from the inflicted wounds of Aldhelm's claws. Pulling her face closer to his own, their lips barely touching, he watched her with wickedly dancing eyes. "No one to love, everyone you care about dies, perishes, fades away... but you still have me, I can love you." The man chuckled as his smile grew. Seras sniffing, watched him, her gaze, though blurred and tear filled, did not waiver from his own eyes. His smiled just grew. "oh what? You don't think you could love me? I'm in the same body you've kissed and cherished, the same body you've made love to, I may not be the same man you've loved, but if not for me, he would have never been, give me a try little fanged one."
Seras's eyes went wide as he suddenly advanced. Hot lips pressed harshly onto her own, his claws dug deeper into her face, yet his lips on her own made her yell of pain become muffled. Fire burned through her veins, she could feel her blood begin to boil as she struggled profusely under this man's rough hold. Where she was touched by his claws, Seras's flesh began to bubble and burn as steam bellowed from the man's body.
As fast as it had happened... with a loud yell, Aldhelm fell back hard shoving Seras violently from his body. Skidding savagely into the ground, Seras crying out, came to a scraping stop upon her left side as she weakly opening her eyes, saw Aldhelm rising to his feet in a wobbly motion, stare at his clawed hands. For the first time she was aware of his existence within Alucard, she saw concern in his fiery eyes as steam that bellowed from his body began to lift.
Aldhelm was utterly baffled... he had kissed that vampire out of shear content of tearing apart her mentality, to make her aware just how truthful his words were of taking and consuming Alucard's being were. Yet his blood was racing through his veins, adrenaline made his heart pound. Clenching his slightly trembling hands tightly together, his eyes snapped over to Seras's fallen form as she remaining there on the ground in a crumpled heap, watched him with unemotional eyes. This woman... she... growling, Aldhelm walking swiftly right up to the fallen vampire, rose his left foot right above her head, all intention to crush her skull in.
"Aldhelm..."
the man froze as he watched her eyes, turned up and meeting his once more, still lacking any emotion as she spoke his name. no fear, no sadness, no regret... as her wounds upon her face began to ever so slowly mend, the woman watching him, the corner of her soft pale lips, curled into a weak timid smile as with the last of her energy ebbing away. Seras collapsed fully onto the ground in a deep unconscious state with her mouth slightly ajar.
Aldhelm lowering his foot, watched her... how easy he could kill anyone else... so why did he hesitate on killing this bitch before him? Growling deeply, baring his fangs, the man kneeling roughly onto his left knee, hung his head over this woman as he closed his eyes. Love... that was a concept he knew nothing off, his very being knew not of what it meant at all, yet his counterpart; Alucard, though a being of nightmares and blood, did.
So... for now, Aldhelm sighing deeply, gave into a small cruel grin. Let his other self deal with this woman for now, until when he wanted to take this world, he would; just not yet.
The air around the kneeling man's body, rippled. As he took in a slow breath, a small murmur was issued as his body wavering over Seras's, eyes didn't open as three small words with such meaning... were whispered, and the man, Alucard, collapsed on top of Seras's unconscious body.
I love you...
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"Kami!"
A woman dressed in a simple soft green dress standing out in the middle of a lush rippling field of wild grasses, looked all around. Her long near white hair danced in the gentle breeze as her emerald eyes upon such white skin, pulled to the left as in the borderline of thick forest, a entity took form within the shadows.
"You summoned me?"
Still wearing his grey cloak of thick wool, Kami stood there. With the hood down exposing his soft handsome face seemed to glow as his golden eyes watched the woman that stood before him with a deep sadness that seemed to ancient for words. A being who has seen to much. With his long silver locks tied back, the man gave into a faint smile... The crescent silver moon seemed to shimmer upon the center of his forehead as the woman facing him, returned his smile with her own that held a deep bitterness.
"I hear you are calling yourself a soothsayer now. Tell me, have you then given up your former position then?" as she spoke, Kami slowly emerged from the forests protective clutches with his soft hands tenderly plucking a few stray leaves from his silver hair.
"I have, it's yours if you so desire."
The woman, smirking, eyed him. "In your dreams, working under that... thing... is a bit harsh on me, besides, I already have a job." She chuckled as Kami stood there, looking all proud and elegant even though a single small leaf stuck out on the top of his glossy hair. The woman giving a bell like laugh, went over and timidly rising her left hand, plucked the leaf from his hair. "Even though in that form, you still are clearly not at all like who you prefer to mingle with." She chuckled as the woman falling back, fiddled with a snarl in her hair as Kami sighing watched her, his golden eyes dancing, yet still holding that old sadness.
"I know to badger me of my looks isn't why you called me Celest... tell me." He spoke as the woman's very form seemed to grow solemn as she letting the tangle intermix once more with her hair, looked weakly to the man before her. "It's... about Ryu... he's... destroyed the gateway to the realm of light... But I though he was... well... you know..." Kami closing his eyes, sighed heavily as he looked to her once more. "I know, I witnessed the gate being consumed. Hence the reason I left my 'former' position, I want to find out why Ryu is how he is. Guardian's don't just attack one another, and then turn against what they protected. That gateway was his duty to protect from all evil, and now, clearly."
Celest watching him wearily, grumbled as she itched the back of her head. "So then... you already knowing all that, I'll get down to my main concern... The awakening of the King of Flame, I'm already surprised he hasn't taken out his counterpart Dracula and consumed this world in flame. Any idea what has been our secret fortune?" the woman asked as she resting the back of her left hand to her lips, gave in to a deep yawn. Awake she may be, but it has been a long while since she had to ever be awoken.
Kami merely smiled, gaining a curious stare from Celest's emerald eyes.
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I need your help to get up from my knees
I can't even see the forest full of trees
As I wait here in my silent misery
All I ask from you is please, forget me.
Alucard pulled back to concessions as he heard her soft breaths beneath his body. Time was forgotten, uncaring of how many days if weeks had passed with them slumbering in that forest of lush life. With a low growl, the man putting his hands on either side of her slumbering face between the wild grasses and weeds, pulled himself up halfway. Allowing his lower body to press unto her own, the King of Darkness stared down at his Queen, so soft, so gentle, both her skin, and her heart... running the back of his right hand tenderly onto her cheek gaining a small murmur from Seras, his eyes half crimson half brown, constantly swirling, danced with happiness; and sorrow.
...Please forget me...
... Still she wants me
She needs me
She wants me
She loves me
She had helped him so much in his many years of life and long since death and rebirth of recent times. Always there, she was always waiting, watching, protecting even when many had forgotten who he was. Even now with his other side truly terrifying her, she remained beside him. Yet... his eyes seemed to dull as his palm encase her face, pulling her face to fully look right at him, though still in a deep slumber. How much longer until his existence was to be gone forever? She was always there, believing in him, praying, and gained back... but now, praying would not help, believing would not help. His time was nearing the end, his very consciousness was on death row.
"Alucard..."
Blinking, he watched her as a tender smile crossed his pale lips that had caused so many deaths in this world. Hearing her voice whisper his name, a soft caress to a heart he had thought long since lost. When he grew bored with the immortal life he gained, he didn't care of being killed, he faced every slayer and organization out there, destroying them all. He killed so many, blood was spilled from both guilty beings and innocence. Children, women, mothers, wives, sisters, sons, brothers, husbands, men, fathers... all had died, he was ruthless, a merciless sadistic ruler of darkness who gave up his emotions a long time ago. Now, awakening in a wild forest filled with the current night life, hunched over his undead Queen. Alucard, Lord Dracula, had something to live for... Her.
Pain he had loved causing others, yet for her, he wished it not unto her being. With a weak breath passing his lips as his eyes flared crimson once more like old, the King lowering his upper body upon her own, brushed his warm lips softly on Seras's left earlobe as his right fingers pressed to her forehead with a faint glow of his dark powers.
"Thank you... Seras... for everything. Now... please... forget me... I was your master, and as far as you'll ever remember, that was all I was to you... Your master..."
lifting his face from Seras's ear, Alucard, his lips not even an inch from hers... the crimson tears faintly brimmed his eyes as he drawing closer, closed his eyes as he felt her warm lips connect with his own. Removing his fingers from her forehead; his spell in place, the man greedily wrapped his arms hungrily around her upper body, lifting her off the ground, drawing Seras's lips closer unto his own as his grip on her petite body tightened. His kiss full of sadness, regret, hate, pain... a kiss from lover to lover; the final kiss he was to give her. Gripping her jacket's back tightly, making it tear loudly, blood trickled from his mouth as his forceful kiss had her fangs knick his bottom lips, yet uncaring, his grip just tightened. Oh how he didn't want to leave her, how he wanted to fade to dust with her after another thousand of years passing of them just being together, living. To enjoy each others company, to be there, forever in each others arms, bare bodies clutched together.
Aldhelm...
He would be the downfall of Alucard no matter what course was taken... to keep her heart from being shattered.
Alucard slowly pulling away from Seras's lips, looked down at her sleeping face as a drop of his blood rested on her bottom lip. He'd rather fade into the night and never be seen again, to find the gateway to the realm of fire and entrap both himself and his consuming counterpart for all eternity... to keep her safe.
"Seras Victoria..."
rising his hand to touch her face once more, stopped... and sighing, Alucard's lips twitching, turned to a sad smile as his body rippling, began to pull apart into many forms of fluttering bats. With his face remaining while the rest of him fluttered high above, the crimson eyes having given so many nightmares to all, cherished the final look of her slumbering body as a single blood tear slipped down his face.
"Farewell... Seras..."
A the droplet fell onto Seras's left cheek beneath her eye, Alucard's face faded as the rest of him, like a black cloud, drifted off into the night sky as Seras, unaware of the actions that had just taken place, continued to sleep.
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Me: Ugh! Work and life is a bitch! So I am off to go pack up my room and work my ass off, so hopefully you all enjoyed the chapter and yes, I know, the next chapter will Hopefully be ready in a few weeks, depends really on time and... well, writers block... all ijn all, keep up the reviews and as always promised, I shall keep up my updating! Till then though!
- H.