"So how are we to do this?" Said Integra, sitting once more behind her desk, everyone in there usual places in the room, Walter by her side, Seres and Maya sitting in chairs in front of her desk while Alacard lounged against the bookshelves and Drake stood close to Maya's chair.
"I have information that is relative to Maya's tale I believe," said Drake with a small bow, "I… obtained it from one of the chipped FREAKS." Integra nodded and looked over at Alacard and Seres, "mission report?"
"Oh! Um… 15 FREAK wolfs, all destroyed wanting nothing to do with there Real kind." She said keeping it brief, anxious to hear Maya's tale. "Lead by 3 FREAK'S, also, all killed. All civilians rescued, although the death toll inside was higher than police estimated, with totals of 28 dead, 34 injured and 274 rescued un-hurt. There were also another 96 people hiding in various shops and staff areas of the place, they didn't care, they didn't even search for them. Reasons why are with Drakes report." She finished.
Integra nodded and looked down at the full length version she had in front of her, Seres always wrote reports for her while Alacard never did, thinking it a waste of time. Drake still had to have reports explained to him, then shown that script that people used today or Alacard mentioned it might get wrote in sand script, ancient Latin or Old English.
When it came to Maya's turn, she looked up from where she had been looking at her hands, she was dressed in her usual clothes, t-shirt and jeans white on Denim blue. With a nod from Integra she began to tell her tale, with pauses and halts when her voice failed her from lack of use.
She told of her capture first while she was sleeping, of being experimented on and defending herself, of being trapped in her child form and her magic locking away her memories and knowledge for fear of what might be done with it.
One of those working on her was the man who turned into Incognito after five years of hard work and research and personal experimentation. He had used her blood to help power his rituals and his own growing power; she had been disgusted with his use of her, both for rituals and his own… perversions.
She had been placed in one of the main FREAK factories, used as a blood booster when they couldn't think of anymore tests to do with her. There favourite one had been putting her in a large vat of water and heating it up, freezing it, turning it deadly acidic or pure filthy; it would hurt her, but not kill her. They would set these test limits by throwing in one of there newly transformed FREAKS and call it a 'chip test', usually the new victim lasted at most for ten minuets while she could last whole hours in these tubs, with the bars across the top to stop her climbing out.
Her magic would protect her and help her adapt to keep her alive even if it was her subconscious doing it.
Then there was the subject of The Lady.
The Lady, she couldn't tell what she was but she now suspects that the Lady is also a Dragon. She would use magic often and freely, change shape in front of Maya and her other companions when punishment had to be dealt out.
The Lady knew of Maya, yet couldn't understand why a creature of my power would transform, hide myself in the small weak form, why I wouldn't use my powers to escape and be free again. It wouldn't work. I didn't know who I was.
"She tried to hurt me in various ways with the experiments to see if I would transform back. Even now it took… quiet a shock to awaken me again. It nearly happened when I saw you transform Drake, seeing you while transforming and knowing you're not The Lady helped weaken the barriers I think."
She looked over at Alacard who shook his head even so slightly and she sighed, still unable to speak of the power of the Hellsing family. Did he not understand his master had to train with the power, let it know she was its true wielder and master? Did he fear what would happen if she had it?
"That is all really until you rescued me. I am grateful though, they were planning open heart surgery while I was awake to see if this would either awaken me or kill me." Looking around for something to drink she waved her hand and a glass of water materialised in it, nicely cold.
"My turn," said Drake stepped forward slightly. "Although I don't have much to add, The Lady plans to own England and then move on to most of the other small islands in the world like Japan and Hawaii before she was going to move on Europe and America. She has no fear of the Vatican for she is not Un-Dead, she plays with Hellsing like it's a cat that you poke till it attacks you. She doesn't even think there are any other Dragons awake, let alone alive. I think that is why she was so interested in you Maya, she wanted to figure out how to make a FREAK version. Also, she can't transform into her Dragon form, it's ill advised right now as she would sense her, we'd like the Lady to think she's gone into hiding for now." He paused gathering his thoughts.
"I'm not quiet sure what else we can do Sir, we have very little identification of The Lady due to the shape shifting ability or even the locations of the FREAK factories. I'm sorry Ma'am, he just wouldn't tell me."
Integra sighed, "once again my hand is blocked. I won't be caught out again as we were with Incognito; which reminds me that the Queen has to be informed of all our work to prove that's she's keeping an eye on us after the mess up before. She was already kept perfectly up to date on affairs before, but this now means that Maya and Drake have to show themselves to her. With your true forms we may be able to skip Maya if we explain, she has met Alacard several times over the years and she knows of Seres, but you'll both be there anyway."
Seres managed to 'Eep' once more before she could stop herself, shock filling her system, 'The Queen!!' she thought as she realised how clumsy she could be and how should would probably say the wrong thing, or or or… her mind went on.
"We will be ready for the storm when it happens, but I fear the loss of life that will happen again." She said firmly, "for now all we can do it try and push our researchers to there limit, request help from the others of the Round Table. Warning them about such a thing to come will be expected of us and if any of them are turncoat, the Lady will know we are on to her and hopefully slip up." A smirk working its way on to her face.
"Our orders my Master?" Purred Alacard from where he was leaning.
"Search and Destroy!"