It was a few days before we heard from the Iscariot Organization again,
another dreary night in the mansion. Abraham had left this morning and I
was walking towards my office, preparing for a long talk with Alucard, when
I was grabbed. I tried to scream, but these were cut short when a solid
object made contact with the back of my head. All I could think was what
Alucard would do, now that I was missing. He and I were the only ones in
the house, and he didn't seem to be a knight in shining armor who arrives
in time to save the princess. In fact, he would be the opposite, most
likely the fiend that took her in the first place.
There wasn't much time to think about anything, when I came out of my stupor, I found myself in a dark room that vaguely resembled a jail cell. I wanted to call out, but held back that urge, because of the figure that was now standing in front of me. Alexander Anderson.
"Welcome back to the land of the living."
"You will regret this you paladin. You call yourself a man of the church and yet there you stand with the keys to let me out and you refuse. What do you want with me? This can't be about the reopening of Hellsing.. God, you want Alucard don't you?"
"Smart girl, you learn fast. We have a score to settle. You think he'll come and I'm betting on it."
"He won't be tricked by you."
Above us was a loud clanging and what sounded like a hissing snake. Anderson laughed evilly and opened the door. I would have attacked him, but my hands were taped behind my back.
"It seems he already was."
He lead me upstairs to a large hall, in the middle of which were metal spikes jutting out of the floor. Alucard was standing in the middle of this contraption growling loudly. I called out to him and he looked at me, his face was indescribable.
"Anderson! Let her go and let me out."
"I can't do that. If I let you out you'll kill me."
"I may kill you anyway."
"And how will you do that, after all your powers are still sealed behind those symbols."
Alucard laughed then, and it occurred to me then that we had had this conversation a few days ago.
^ Flash Back ^
Alucard and I were talking as we always did, when I asked him about the gloves on his hands. He made a small noise and told me that they kept him sealed; Integra's father had put them on him when he began working with them.
"But now that the family is dead, aren't they void?"
"No, I can't take them off."
"There was something about lifting a seal on one of these disks.I can remove it if you like."
He never answered me, but I had done the chant and the seals had been broken, or at least I think they were. He still never took his gloves off.
^ End Flash Back ^
As I watched him I prayed the seals had really been broken. Anderson leapt from his place beside me and attacked Alucard with a flurry of purifying pages. They didn't really do much to the stance that Alucard had, and until the bars were lowered, his glare remained the same. Before he did much of anything, he removed his gloves and tossed them aside. Alexander made a noise, but attacked with his knives as he had done at the Organization.
Suddenly Alucard did something very strange, it surprised me, because he looked a bit like Jeanie from 'I Dream of Jeanie' from the way he was standing. He folds his hands, bowed his head and grinned evilly. The room went dark and a mist seemed to have set in indoors. Alexander pulled himself up and looked at the creature, but there is no longer a body there before him, only two eyes. A sinister laugh carried through the hall and the eyes glowed a bright red. The mist became thicker, almost like a black sheet in the air. It tightened; constricting the bodies within it as all oxygen is sucked out. The room was almost like a black hole, with no openings and no way out. Alexander was suffocating slowly I saw his chest heave as he gasped for air. The eyes appeared again and stared at him before a loud crashing noise was heard and the ceiling fell to the ground. The building was no longer there, only a pile of dust, and fire was all that remained as the blackness resided. A broken body of a man lay in the midst of the rubble, Anderson was dead, and none of his regeneration was going to save him. As the fire rained down I watched Alucard rematerialize and look at me. My eyes were blurry from the lack of oxygen, all I really saw was a hand reaching out to me and my body being lifted off the ground.
There wasn't much time to think about anything, when I came out of my stupor, I found myself in a dark room that vaguely resembled a jail cell. I wanted to call out, but held back that urge, because of the figure that was now standing in front of me. Alexander Anderson.
"Welcome back to the land of the living."
"You will regret this you paladin. You call yourself a man of the church and yet there you stand with the keys to let me out and you refuse. What do you want with me? This can't be about the reopening of Hellsing.. God, you want Alucard don't you?"
"Smart girl, you learn fast. We have a score to settle. You think he'll come and I'm betting on it."
"He won't be tricked by you."
Above us was a loud clanging and what sounded like a hissing snake. Anderson laughed evilly and opened the door. I would have attacked him, but my hands were taped behind my back.
"It seems he already was."
He lead me upstairs to a large hall, in the middle of which were metal spikes jutting out of the floor. Alucard was standing in the middle of this contraption growling loudly. I called out to him and he looked at me, his face was indescribable.
"Anderson! Let her go and let me out."
"I can't do that. If I let you out you'll kill me."
"I may kill you anyway."
"And how will you do that, after all your powers are still sealed behind those symbols."
Alucard laughed then, and it occurred to me then that we had had this conversation a few days ago.
^ Flash Back ^
Alucard and I were talking as we always did, when I asked him about the gloves on his hands. He made a small noise and told me that they kept him sealed; Integra's father had put them on him when he began working with them.
"But now that the family is dead, aren't they void?"
"No, I can't take them off."
"There was something about lifting a seal on one of these disks.I can remove it if you like."
He never answered me, but I had done the chant and the seals had been broken, or at least I think they were. He still never took his gloves off.
^ End Flash Back ^
As I watched him I prayed the seals had really been broken. Anderson leapt from his place beside me and attacked Alucard with a flurry of purifying pages. They didn't really do much to the stance that Alucard had, and until the bars were lowered, his glare remained the same. Before he did much of anything, he removed his gloves and tossed them aside. Alexander made a noise, but attacked with his knives as he had done at the Organization.
Suddenly Alucard did something very strange, it surprised me, because he looked a bit like Jeanie from 'I Dream of Jeanie' from the way he was standing. He folds his hands, bowed his head and grinned evilly. The room went dark and a mist seemed to have set in indoors. Alexander pulled himself up and looked at the creature, but there is no longer a body there before him, only two eyes. A sinister laugh carried through the hall and the eyes glowed a bright red. The mist became thicker, almost like a black sheet in the air. It tightened; constricting the bodies within it as all oxygen is sucked out. The room was almost like a black hole, with no openings and no way out. Alexander was suffocating slowly I saw his chest heave as he gasped for air. The eyes appeared again and stared at him before a loud crashing noise was heard and the ceiling fell to the ground. The building was no longer there, only a pile of dust, and fire was all that remained as the blackness resided. A broken body of a man lay in the midst of the rubble, Anderson was dead, and none of his regeneration was going to save him. As the fire rained down I watched Alucard rematerialize and look at me. My eyes were blurry from the lack of oxygen, all I really saw was a hand reaching out to me and my body being lifted off the ground.