Me: (grins weakly) I'm sorry it took so long for this update, even though it is a short one... Work is kicking my ass and well, life has just been a 'blast' if you wanna say so. Thank you all for your reviews, I am pleased so many like my work, now here's a question to all my fans, I am currently writing a story of my original ideas, and would like to see if any who are wishing to, read and review what I have done already. If interested, then please by all means email me, now... onto the chapter!

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Kami, you are meddling to much with the affairs of the immortals Seras and Dracula.

I know.

You are not a meddler, you are a watcher of this living realm.

I know.

Continue what you are suppose to do and stop your interfering, for if you fail your oath once more, I will be forced to replace you and you'll have to face your punishment in full.

Understand?

Yes...

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Fog softly rolled over the glass surface of a massive lake, veiled by a cover of ancient furs with only a small portion of the orange evening sky expose, the only sounds heard here were the calls of the wildlife. No humans nor kin came to this lake, as beautiful as it was, and with a peaceful enchanting feel, it held an ancient past proven many times of truth.

The lake's glossy surface was broken with faint ripples as a lone loon who crooned for a mate, swam gently in the cool waters. A legend that came to truth with a human or kin, left alone the wildlife that thrived in this tranquil vista.

The loon's call subsided to a panicked squawk as above the bird whose eyes were turned upward above him, a black vortex appearing from thin air, formed.

With wings striking the waters rapidly as the black mass crashed into the waters, the loon near screaming his terror, slammed into the air as the vortex hanging above the disturbed waters, faded into nothingness.

A buck and his mate lifted their eyes to the rippling waters as the loon high above flew by cursing in the air of the bothersome disturbance.

The waters by the land broke apart letting droplets fly all around as with soggy boots struggling up the small rocky slope, a woman with a mop of sopping blond hair covering her eyes, held a large unconscious man over her shoulders, his left upper arm clutched in her hand. With a weak cry and limbs trembling from exertion, the young woman struggled up the slope. With rocks giving underneath her feet, with a loud painful cry, her knees buckled and smacked into the rocks as the man's dead weight crushing her, slammed her into the water bank. With blood slipping from her new scrapes and busted up bottom lip, there she laid, taking shallow breaths as she continued to cling to the man's arm.

Closing her concealed eyes tightly, Seras's body shook as the tears came on suddenly. That had been to close, everything... Aldhelm, Ryu... her very existence was near snuffed out, just like Integra's and her love. Integra and Walter... sniffing, Seras nuzzled her face into Alucard's wet arm she clung to. She remembered... it wasn't much, but it was there... she remember them, Hellsing falling, then the head and the former slayer, both vampires, fighting alongside her and Alucard... then Maxwell... turned into a feline... Kami, then it went fuzzy... she had no idea how many years has gone since Hellsing's fall, she couldn't remember why when it came to the very thought of losing Alucard, her heart would go beyond breaking. Has she lost him before?

"My head hurts..."

Seras whispered into Alucard's sleeve... one thing she did remember as clear as day, she loved this man... the man who had terrified her in the beginning was now her lover... and she... though a bit fuzzy, knew she was what Integra had called her. 'Queen of Darkness'.

"Seras..."

Seras jumped as she heard his voice whisper her name... "Alucard?"

Grunting Seras pushing up, catching his limp head in her right hand, gently pulling herself from underneath his dead weight having her left arm curled halfway around his body, rested Alucard on his back with her hand leading his head onto her lap as she finishing crossing her aching legs, looked to his slumbering face. With his guns glinting in the evening light from their holsters on his hips, the man's black suit was utterly drenched as was his red trench. Hat long since lost to who knew. Seras smiling weakly, tenderly lifting her left hand, brushed a few ebony strands from his pale face.

Alucard... Dracula...

Hearing a small rattle to her left, Seras, with hand still on his face, looked over her shoulder and blinking... went rigid.

With black beady eyes watching her, the ground squirrel went to cleaning his muzzle with his forepaws as he sat lazily atop a brown cracked skull of a werewolf. Seras fighting her fear, finally took in her surroundings... bones of all shades, sizes and conditions were scattered all around, both old and still very new still clinging to the remaining scraps of meat that were beginning or already decaying away. Shifting her weight, Seras biting her bottom lip from crying out saw what the lake's shore was made of, not rocks or pebbles, but bone fragments, long since crushed by who knew what. Looking up from what she sat upon, her crimson eyes fell to the tree trunks nearby, twisted faces filled with agony and terror clung in the bark as if whomever those faces belonged to were sucked into the trees and suffocated.

"what is this place?" Seras whispered as she trembling, clung to Alucard's unconscious body for comfort.

LEAVE MY DOMAIN!

Seras crying out from the mutated vicious voice that boomed all around, jumped hard as her eyes shot right to the lake as bubbles of great proportion erupted rapidly from the great lake's center.

Gripping his body tighter, Seras shaking horribly, looked halfway to Alucard. "Alucard... please... please wake up... something... is here... please, Alucard... I can't remember, I don't know if I can keep us safe! How can I be a Queen if I can't remember what I can do!" Seras wailed as the bubbles girth grew... a sticky black fog rolled over the lake as a haunting wind roared up through the tree making the echoing screams of many lives lost cry all around the already terrified Seras.

You will NOT take what is MINE!

Seras scooting back hard with Alucard's body, watched as in the dense black fog, three sets of massive glowing red orbs began to blaze, their haunting gazes locking solely onto Seras's one single set of crimson eyes.

"Take? What do you mean?! I'm not here to take anything!" Seras pleaded loudly as from the waters as great silhouettes, large objects of all sizes and mangled shapes rose and combined together.

LIES! ALL OF THEM LIES! LEAVE MY DOMAIN!

Feeling a faint golden touch, Seras panicky looked to her right as there, watching her in the deep shadows of the wailing trees...

"Kami! Please, what's going on?! Help me! I don't know what to do!!!"

Seras though blinking, watched him as that was all he was doing... his expression did not change... his eyes hard, his body stiff.

"Kami! Please! What's going on?!!!"

Kami blinking his eyes slowly, sighed deeply as he rising his left foot, took a step back.

Seras screamed as a massive talon as big as a minivan crashed to her left. Combined with rib cages, femurs, spines and skulls of many species, her wide trembling eyes watched the talon, and up the arm it was attached to, just as grossly mutated of many bones...

"KAMI!!!"

Taking a quick glance to where he was, saw nothing but darkness... he had left her.

LEAVE!

Seras turned her gaze above her, past the mangled talon as there, swaying side to side like a serpent ready to lunge, hung three massive necks that held three demonic heads, each worse then the last. One that looked like a wolf, one that looked human, and the other that looked like a horse. Each one created from many bones... flecks of bones feel from the constant grin ding of their swaying heads as their massive red eyes containing no iris stared down at Seras with loathing.

Uncontrollably shaking, with eyes wide and mouth ajar as white knuckles clung to the unconscious man... Seras was beyond terrified.

The black fog curling around the lake's edge, turned to many talons of black fog that reached eerily for Seras. With eyes locked to the monsters that towered above her... the woman swallowing weakly did not see the eyes of another monster... open.

Screaming, Seras hung her head as the heads bellowing, lunged right for her. Their eyes of fiery loathing burning into her very being... this was it! She was done! Alucard! I'm Sor- Huh?

Crimson light poured through Seras's shut eyelids making her weakly peer through them...

Not having even felt him move from her lap, the man told in all legends of old and darkness, stood there before her with his red coat bellowing behind him as he held his right hand forth to the three heads that have frozen in mid lunge, heir eyes now locked on the man before them.

"Alucard?" Seras whispered weakly gaining a very wicked chuckle from the man before her as the claws of black fog seemed to scream as red flecks appearing upon the fog, began to eat it away.

YOU WILL PERISH!

Hearing the monsters words, Seras scrabbling to her feet watched as all three pulling back... lunged.

ALUCARD!"

Seras screamed as with a loud crash... monsters to monster, made contact!

Yet...

Pulling her eyes open weakly, blinking, Seras startled, looked at the sight before her...

Stopped in their place, the skulls roaring their rage, struggled against the invisible wall the man in red put between him and them.

WHAT?

Like spiders webs, red light began to creep from Alucard's palm unto the three skulls of many bones mutated together. Slowly turning his wrist and parting his fingers to exposed a wide open palm, the continuing spreading webs of red light began to blaze violently as where they touched on the bones, the material began to bubble and burst like boils as steam bellowed forth.

LEAVE MY DOMAIN OR DIE!

"Not to intelligent are you? I'm already... Dead!" With his cruel laughter echoing all around, slicing through the wind, remaining fog and haunting wails, clenching his fist suddenly and bringing his arm down to his side in a swift motion, the skulls screaming in savage pain and agony, sloshed into the waters as nothing but a white pool of melted bone, leaving the red orbs that flickering, faded away into wisps of red steam, leaving nothing.

Seras blinking, looked all around as the once beautiful serene lake and forest turned to a muddy bog with dead and decaying trees. The once fidgety ground squirrel turned to a half decayed rat... the very last area of decaying land that hadn't receded nor released the souls and bodies that it had condemned from so long ago.

With a haunting call, Seras looking past Alucard's back, saw a Loon, or rather the skeleton that still retained its feathers, swimming in the boggy waters looking for its mate it had lost so long ago when landing in these waters and becoming condemned.

"What is this place?" Seras whispered... her mind ached, she should know what this land was! She should know a lot more then her mind was willing to let her.

"This is a decaying land, if I am correct, it is the last... all the others had receded many years ago..."

blinking as she heard his words, Seras looked to Alucard as he still kept his back to her as he seemed to just be staring straight ahead at nothing. "Just... how long ago..." Seras whispered as she standing up, watched him... even if this was Alucard again, it was he who erased her memories... she didn't know if she could trust either one of them.

"By about eight hundred years ago... Seras..."

Without even turning, he kept his back to her as his voice faltered. Once a vampire of immense power and wicked intentions, now with a ongoing battle within... between his demon side, and his human side... keeping the vampire king off balance. But no matter..

Seras fell back a few steps from this man as fear hung in her eyes. "E... Eight hundred years... I've... been a vampire... for that... long? I've survived for that long? Tell me Alucard... why... why did you make me forget?" Seras wailed those words as she gripped her hands tightly causing white knuckles. "Was it because of Aldhelm? Did you think it would protect me?" Seras cried as she hanging her head, closed her eyes tightly.

Alucard, drawing in a slow unneeded breath, exhaled softly. "You were to never see me again... I erased your memories with full intention to pass through the gateway to the Realm of Flame and seal myself there. So yes, I do believe it would have protected you, or at least enough to dull your pain when you knew you would never see me again, even as your master."

"Alucard... I would rather, have my heart torn... then to forget... even if it hurt, I would rather remember the happy times I had with you then not know why my heart ached so horribly... now please... can I... have my memories back?"

Seras jumped as without a single notion of his movement, Alucard's warm fingers found their way to her temples, and pressed gently. "Keep your eyes shut..." hearing his hushed words rumble from within his chest, Seras obliged and with her head hung down, the undead royal closed her eyes.

It came as a rush of sudden panic, joy, anger, sorrow, pain, laughter... all emotions seemed to collide within her very being as the memories returned. From when Hellsing fell she saw it all rush past her closed eyes as if her life of previous was on fast forward. The castle rising, his claiming her as his lover, his Queen... Yuki, Zuranna, Donovan, Alexial's birth, the wars, Maxwell defeated, Alucard's fall... and rebirth... everything... returned, and the world of current swirled and faded to black.

Seras pulled into consciousness with her head throbbing viciously as if claws were digging at her skull from within. Memories though foggy from the grogginess, came upon her... she had forgotten and now remembered all. Uncaring of whose bed she was laying in, Seras groaning, buried her face into one of many pillows, wishing for slumber to come once more. So much forgotten... why had he made her forget? Did he really think she'd be better off not knowing him no more then her master? Seras sighing, felt her heart ache, she would have wanted to remember all, the love they have for each other, the Hell they had both been through and all the misery that would have befallen Alucard if he had gone through with his plans of entrapment. She would never want to forget, never again... to lose her memory of her love was worse then remembering and losing her love to the flames of Hell's realm... she'd would have never gained an answer as to why her heart ached so horribly, to never know how Alucard's lips felt upon her own... his touch on her skin, his caress to her neck with his fangs.

You were to never see me again... I erased your memories with full intention to pass through the gateway to the Realm of Flame and seal myself there.

His words hurt... even if they were meant to be kind though as harsh as they were.

"Alucard..."

Seras whispered his name upon her soft lips as she felt the tender touch of slumber once more fog up her mind.

"Do you intend on sleeping for another week?"

Seras pulling her eyes open upon Alucard's tart words ringing in her mind... 'another week'. With a weak smile, Seras groaning, nuzzled further into the pillow. Now she knew how long she had been out... a week... a whole bloody week. "Hmm? You wish to slumber some more? Maybe I shouldn't let him live for much longer if your time with him is sleeping." The cold voice, though sent telepathically, chills ran down Seras's spine as she sitting up hard, saw no sign of Aldhelm in the dark room.

Blinking the sleep from her crimson eyes, Seras taking swift notion of her body bare as a new born, cloaked herself within the thick emerald bed sheets as she took in the room around her. Covered in dust and cobwebs, the chamber seemingly never used, still held a marvelous elegance. The carpets were black as a grey marble fireplace was to the left lathered in cobwebs while a large dark oak double door resided, long since used. A great mirror took up the wall in front of her, behind the dust and cobwebs, etchings of old castles, legendary creatures, demons, beings were all around it, a mural of old. In the center of that mirror though, one creature stuck out... a dragon looking phoenix breaking from chains that had held it down, its head to the sky in a silent defiant roar. Hearing the rustle of wind to her right, Seras saw two large picture windows covered by emerald cloth blinds, the window furthest from her was cracked and letting the breeze in.

Above her, a chandelier of old metal with the same familiar dusting of webs and dust like the rest of the room, it held in its metal, forms that looked to be talons from all assortments of creatures. With half melted black candles in the dusty holders, a empty holder held a bird nest that was long since abandoned.

"W- Where am I?" Seras whispered as she hearing a muffled noise, looked to her left by the massive king sized bed, the Queen saw a single near camouflaged door, matching the black walls, rested.

With the turn of a concealed doorknob, Sera skirting back from the opening door, brought the blankets to her chin as a man wearing tight leather slacks and a loose half buttoned up long sleeve white shirt. Tossing his braided black blond dyed hair behind him as the top of his head still held unruly black hair with dyed blond tips, a single golden red eye looked at her with surprised as within his pale hands, a red towel was held, halfway through drying his hands. Wearing leather bracers on his wrists, two black belts with silver buckles, crisscrossed over his lower body right above his groin. With a simple black choker around his neck baring a silver cross, he was a sight of beauty... yet Seras, with a weak groan, already knew this man from the last attempt of Maxwell's insane plans.

Clearing his throat, as he turning his side to Seras, went on drying his hands. "So I see you're awake, good... 'bout time." Hakuyaoshi grumbled as he headed to a dark corner in the bedroom and proceeded to dig through a dresser Seras hadn't seen earlier. "Haku... Why are you here? What is here anyway? Where's Alucard?" Seras squeaked as the man coming over with a bundle of clothes, came over to her and rather carelessly tossed them by her concealed feet as his single eye watched her, amused while a single dark blue shirt hung in his left arm. "well, I hardly ever come here, hell I think last time I was here was near a thousand years ago... but this is my domain, my castle. Seeing yours was taken into that black crater, I guess your dear Alucard thought to come to me... and Hell, I was hanging out with a fun gal... such a shame your man kidnapped me from the bar." Chuckled Haku as he running his fingers through the free mop of hair up top, turned his back to Seras as he unbuttoning the rest of his shirt, pulled it off exposing a pale back, yet as soon as it was exposed, it was swiftly concealed by the blue shirt.

"In any case Queen of all undead, you and that creepy vamp can use my domain as long as you'd like, I only took this castle for when it was decided I was a royal, I have no idea why that is either, but oh well." Shrugging as he buttoning the shirt halfway up, turned and smiled to Seras who blushing, tightened her grip on the blankets. Seeing this, Haku's grin just grew more broader. "you shouldn't be embarrassed, these are my chambers, yet I do have respect for women, believe it or not, and also if I did do anything, let alone think it, I'd not be so immortal like I am currently, but as for your 'love' you should be worried what he did to you when you slept." Haku outright began to laugh as Seras with a weak cry, became red as she hid her face under the blankets pulled up to beneath her eyes.

Fixing the sleeves and ties to his bracers, Haku heading for the door kept laughing as he brought his hand to one of the cold doorknobs. "Now, here's the question for you... Am I telling the truth, or am I just kidding?" giving Seras an amused sideways glance, Haku opening the door, disappeared to the hallway beyond leaving a very bothered Seras alone in his chambers, fearing he wasn't joking.

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Me: I know it's short, I am already in the process of making a new chapter, so patience please (weak laugh) I just pray it won't so bloody long like this one did... so apologies once more and hope to hear many reviews, till then!

- H.