WAR BEGINS WITH A RED FLASH

She could do nothing more but remain frozen in her spot in the arm of a chair. Alucard had his fill of blood bags and somehow fell asleep while clenching the back of her dress. So that's why she can't move.

Anna sighed deeply and looked over her shoulder at him but couldn't help to smile. She gently patted his head.

"Ah, there you are, Miss Anna." Seras and Walter walked up to them. Seras was ready to go with her Harkonnen in her hand. "We were looking for master and you. Ms. Integra is calling for us."

Anna gave a small laugh. "I can't move." She spoke with a weak smile.

"What?" Seras took a good look at Alucard and saw that he was asleep. "Sleeping..." She said grimly because this was the first time she saw it.

Walter leaned down and picked up an empty blood bag. "Really though. Ate his full and slept is full. Like a 'wild animal'."

Anna shook her head. "No, I more so think it's childish. A carefree child."

"Who can't sleep unless he has his favorite toy with him." Walter smirk.

Anna tried her best not to laugh and had to cover her mouth with her hand. "Now that you mention it." She giggled through her words. "Good heavens...with a mess like this, do you think he felt it? The smell of battle, perhaps."

Seras blinked. "Smell...?" She then noticed Alucard grinning very slightly. "Ah! He smiled. Master smiled."

Anna placed her hands over her lips. "Shh~ He's dreaming right now."

"Dreaming..." Seras then broke out in a cold sweat. "Now that you mention it, Miss Anna! I had a really weird dream on the way to South America!"

"Is that so?"

Anna would love to fall asleep though since being up for this long made her a bit faint and washed out, she found it hard. It was like a bell going off in her ears that give the signal that something was coming. It made her restless and worried because not only has all of London been swarmed with the smell of blood but so had the world.

They came quicker then anyone could have thought.

Integra, Walter, and Anna took inside of the English safety special headquarters where maps were placed all around the walls to monitor the threats the world has come to notice in the up and coming days.

The lady made herself at home despite the clear dislike that was spread across the room about her arrival. "What is the current situation, general." She asked Sir Penwood.

"18 hours ago, a new imperial aircraft carrier that was in the middle of the practice maneuvers on the Atlantic. The 'Eagle', reported that an unidentified helicopter was approaching. That was the last we heard from it. At the moment, it is staying on the Atlantic ocean at a point 300 kilometers off Polinton bay." He spoke grimly and slowly brought out papers from a folder. "We were to deal with it. However...these satellite photos were sent a few hours ago. Take a look."

Anna took the papers and looked over them. She felt her blood began to course through her veins and burn her skin a little. It was a swastika painted in blood on the deck of the vessel. "'Millenium', huh..." She mumbled in her gentle voice that seemed a bit off with an edge to it.

"Last Battalion." Integra clenched down on her cigarette.

The room erupted with words of disbelief and denial. The pictures were suddenly snatched from Anna's hands by the first lieutenant as these nonbelievers began to bark at her. Anna remained calm though as they belittled her and Integra, doubting the very existence of vampires and the remnants of Nazis.

Integra leaned back in her chair and waited for them to stop throwing a temper tantrum. "Fine. If you see it that way, I would like to see your skills."

They kept their mouth shut on that one and gave in a little to clear up the situation. "Since right after the incident, we have been trying to contact them, but there was no response whatsoever. We sent many spy planes, but there was no reaction at all. It's as if were an unmanned ship...a ghost ship. In order to gain control of the situation. Two small platoons are currently closing in via helicopter."

Anna tilted her head to the side and grabbed back the pictures to take a better look at them before they were snatched away. She could see it now though, looking closely at it. There was a person at the center of the evil symbol. Someone holding a parasol. "That's unfortunate...for the soldier," Anna spoke could already smell the gunsmoke and blood spilling that the sea breeze was carrying all the way to here.

They didn't send in soldiers. They sent in animals out to the slaughterhouse. 'Farewell, my trembling soul.'

"What do you think, Anna?" Integra spoke as she walked beside the vampire after leaving that fools place, knowing that they will get nowhere while sitting down in there.

Anna held her hands out across her chest. "We can't leave that ghost ship alone. These men that were sent out...were killed by a single musket bullet. It's a vampire." Her words carried a deep and meaning that hid the excitement in her voice.

Integra agreed. "Indeed. The ocean is both a rampant and an infinitely wide moat. And those 'magic bullets', there is nothing that we can get close to them. So..." She stopped. "How do we get you guys on to that steel fortress on the sea? An extra large warship?"

Walter shook his head. "No. That would take too long. And there's no telling when they began moving the warship. A small high-speed boat?"

"No there are large cannons to deal with. It wouldn't survive a storm of raining bullets. An aircraft decent from above?"

"No. They could use the anti-aircraft missiles. They wouldn't even get close. Use large quantities of decoy chaff and use an aircraft?"

"No. You could fool the missiles, but there is the 'magic bullet'."

Anna listened to idea after idea that got shot down. Destroying the people aboard the ship is one thing but actually getting to the warship was near to impossible without taking into the effect of the 'magic bullet' that could shoot down any aircraft.

"So in conclusion." Alucard's deep voice came from Anna's shadow as it began to rise up from the ground. "What we need is a way for us—no, for just myself to get on the deck of the carrier without interference from the missiles or rain of bullets or the magic bullets."

Anna sighed deeply. "So...it is impossible, yes?"

"No." Walter disagreed. "There is a way. There is one piece of equipment one fuselage, that can grant out wish."

So...there might be a chance, but Alucard's words from before stuck Integra as strange since it was quite unlike him. "Why just yourself?" He said he would go...but without Anna? Just the thought alone of them not doing anything together was strange to hear and they never did consider it to happen. Those two were that close and almost inseparable, but Anna's saddened smile said otherwise.

"It would appear that taking both of us would limit our manpower on land." Her own words were like a blade in her heart. Killing and bleeding to the ears and her own life. Despite her body shaking, she had to take it. "As much as it saddens me, we will have to be separated for the time being."

AUTHOR'S NOTE:

Ohh~ Anna's gonna be in London alone when the blimps come. I bet you thought she was gonna join Alucard in that ship slaughter. I wonder how that will turn out?

Anyway, sorry about the short chapter. I hate doing this to you but I rather you get you excited and leave things off on a cliffhanger instead of ruining the moment and Anna's last line with something else.